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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Friday, June 23, 2017
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Serial father keeps chummy
relationships with his exes
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
as this young man appears to be.
Dear Abby: I recently met a
Dear Abby: I recently attended a
28-year-old father of three I’m
interested in. He seems wonderful.
wedding after which the bride chose
He’s a hard worker, takes care of his
not to adopt her husband’s last name.
responsibilities and is an amazing
After the wedding we met them for
father to his children. They’re all still
dinner. When they strolled up to
very little, but they’re great kids.
the restaurant to meet us, I happily
The only thing that’s been on my
exclaimed, “Oh, here come Mr.
mind lately is he has a lot of baggage.
and Mrs. Smith!” after which I was
Jeanne
Those kids are from three different Phillips quickly informed that I was wrong
women. He gets along with all of
because the bride was keeping her
Advice
them very well, to the point that they
maiden name.
sometimes do stuff together with the
Abby, even if a woman goes by
children. They go out to places, or sometimes her maiden name, is it so wrong to refer to
he invites them over to his place to swim in her as “the Mrs.”? — Stepped In It
the pool.
Dear Stepped: Your mistake was an
I understand that he has to maintain a innocent one. Now that you know this couple
healthy relationship with his exes for the sake is sensitive about their individual identities,
of the children, but I never thought it would address them by their names (“Linda” and
be this “healthy.” I have never experienced “Robert”) if you wish to maintain a social
something like this. I appreciate him being relationship.
upfront about everything, but I can’t stop
Dear Abby: You and your mother have
thinking about it. Am I overreacting? — answered many sexual questions in your
Three’s Company
column over the years. Editors back in the
Dear Three’s Company: I don’t think so. ’50s were more prudish about what could be
While I admire the man’s devotion to his chil- published in family papers. Did your mother
dren — not to mention his skilled diplomatic have to battle with dragons to print sexual
ability — it does appear that he has a problem questions from her readers? — Sonny In
making a lasting commitment to a woman. Alabama
Unless you would seriously consider joining
Dear Sonny: If she did, she didn’t mention
this “harem,” I urge you to religiously prac- it to me. While I agree that editors back then
tice contraception. If you would like children — and even now — tend to be conservative,
in the future, it would be better to approach it if they disapprove of a letter, they are free not
with someone who isn’t as marriage-phobic to print it.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
June 23, 1917
That Edward Terney of the Oregon Motor
Garage knows how to war dance is testified
to by fellow workers who yesterday saw him
performing after a bucket of burning gasoline
had been thrown upon him by accident. The
gas was set afire by a short circuit in an old car.
An employee grasped the bucket and rushed
to the back alley with the same. In trying to
throw the burning stuff upon the ground some
of it went on Terney instead with the result
his life might have been endangered had it not
been for the quick work of Oliver Leslie who
rolled Terney in the dirt, thus extinguishing
the blaze. Turney was unhurt and suffered
no damage save a small hole burned in his
trousers.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
June 23, 1967
A union member who crossed the picket
line at Kerns Co. in Pilot Rock two weeks ago
to return to work was charged Wednesday
with assault. Don Williams, Pendleton, is
accused of striking Harley Wagoner, Pilot
Rock. Witnesses said Williams stopped his
car as he crossed the picket line Tuesday,
got out, and hit Wagoner three times, twice
in the head and once in the stomach. Roland
Faircloth, president of Local 3-8 of the
International Woodworkers of America, said
a doctor declared Wagoner suffered a slight
concussion from the blows. Union officials
said Wagoner had been calling Williams a
“scab.”
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
June 23, 1992
Randy Melton of Pendleton is a year away
from high school graduation, but he already
feels at home on the Whitman College
campus. Melton, 16, spent the past two
summers as a student at the Whitman Insti-
tute for Scholastic Enrichment program. This
year he was invited back to Walla Walla as a
counselor in a program aimed at encouraging
minority students to attend college. Before
the program, “I hadn’t ever heard of Whitman
College and I didn’t think about college,”
Melton said.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
BLONDIE
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
Today is Friday, June 23,
the 174th day of 2017. There
are 191 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlights in
History:
On June 23, 1967, Pres-
ident Lyndon B. Johnson,
Soviet
Premier
Alexei
Kosygin
(ah-LEK’-say
koh-SEE’-gihn) and their
advisers opened a three-day
summit at Glassboro State
College in New Jersey. The
U.S. Senate voted 92-5 to
censure Democrat Thomas
J. Dodd of Connecticut for
diverting campaign money to
his personal use.
On this date:
In 1314, during the First
War of Scottish Indepen-
dence, the two-day Battle of
Bannockburn, resulting in
victory for the forces of Robert
the Bruce over the army of
King Edward II, began near
Stirling.
In 1537, Spanish explorer
Pedro de Mendoza, the
founder of Buenos Aires, died
aboard his ship while heading
back to Spain.
In 1757, forces of the
East India Company led by
Robert Clive won the Battle
of Plassey, which effectively
marked the beginning of
British colonial rule in India.
In 1892, the Democratic
national
convention
in
Chicago nominated former
President Grover Cleveland
on the first ballot.
In 1904, President Theo-
dore Roosevelt was nominated
for a second term of office
at the Republican national
convention in Chicago.
In 1931, aviators Wiley
Post and Harold Gatty took
off from New York on a
round-the-world flight that
lasted eight days and 15 hours.
In 1947, the Senate joined
the House in overriding
President Harry S. Truman’s
veto of the Taft-Hartley Act,
designed to limit the power of
organized labor.
In 1950, Northwest Orient
Airlines Flight 2501, a DC-4,
crashed into Lake Michigan
with the loss of all 58 people
on board.
In 1972, President Richard
Nixon and White House
chief of staff H.R. Haldeman
discussed using the CIA to
obstruct the FBI’s Watergate
investigation.
(Revelation
of the tape recording of this
conversation sparked Nixon’s
resignation in 1974.) Presi-
dent Nixon signed Title IX
barring discrimination on the
basis of sex for “any education
program or activity receiving
federal financial assistance.”
Today’s
Birthdays:
Singer Diana Trask is 77.
Musical conductor James
Levine is 74. Actor Ted
Shackelford is 71. Actor
Bryan Brown is 70. Supreme
Court Justice Clarence
Thomas is 69. Actor Jim
Metzler is 66. “American
Idol”
ex-judge
Randy
Jackson is 61. Actress
Frances McDormand is 60.
Rock musician Steve Shelley
(Sonic Youth) is 55. Actor
Paul La Greca is 55. Writ-
er-director Joss Whedon is
53. Rhythm-and-blues singer
Chico DeBarge is 47. Actress
Selma Blair is 45. Actor Joel
Edgerton (“Loving”) is 43.
Rock singer KT Tunstall is
42. Rhythm-and-blues singer
Virgo Williams (Ghostowns
DJs) is 42. Actress Emman-
uelle Vaugier is 41. Sing-
er-songwriter Jason Mraz is
40. Football Hall of Fame
electee LaDainian Tomlinson
is 38. Actress Melissa Rauch
is 37. Church singer Anna
Wattenburger is 6.
Thought for Today:
“Suffering without under-
standing in this life is a heap
worse than suffering when
you have at least the grain of
an idea what it’s all for.” —
Mary Ellen Chase, American
author (1887-1973).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE