Tuesday, July 4, 2017
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
East Oregonian
Page 7A
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Family cycle of abuse is
legacy of sexual predator
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I recently moved to
Dear Abby: I have a great-paying
Texas and met my teenage niece for
job telecommuting. I know the idea
the first time. After I got there I learned
of sitting around in pajamas all day
she had been molested by her mother’s
seems wonderful, but I’m going stir
father at the age of 3. He had also
crazy.
molested her mother when she was a
I live in a very small town with
child. “Grandpa” is currently serving a
no fancy co-share offices or trendy
life sentence in prison.
coffee shops. There’s one fast-food
Abby, my niece has some issues.
place that allows 20 minutes of
Jeanne
Her parents caught her sexting twice Phillips internet use, but that’s about it. How
that I know of and took her phone
can I stay productive and motivated
Advice
away for a period of time. She was also
and not feel so much like a hermit
accused of touching her 8-year-old
crab? By Friday, I don’t want to be at
niece and was ordered to knock it off.
home anymore. — Going Crazy At Home
She told me she showers with her mother
Dear Going Crazy: If there is another
and asked to shower with me. When I refused, telecommuter in your town, perhaps you
she became abusive. When I tried to tell my could compare notes with him or her. If your
brother she needs professional help, he told problem is getting an internet connection
me to mind my own business.
or finding Wi-Fi, consider using the public
If I report this, I risk never seeing anyone in library as an additional site from which to
my family again, but I love my niece and I’m work. That way, you wouldn’t be trapped in
afraid for her. Her mother has already limited your home feeling so isolated. If there isn’t
my contact with her, and I’m afraid Mom one in your community, ask your boss if
needs help as much as my niece. Please help. you can change your schedule occasionally.
None of this makes sense to me. Why won’t This might allow you to take breaks and do
they get her help? — Desperately Needs Help something like take a powerwalk, which
Dear Desperately: They won’t get help would put you in contact with other human
because it appears that in their lives inappro- beings.
priate sexual behavior may have become an
For most people, work involves more
ingrained family affair. You are right that the than labor — there is also a social compo-
mother needs as much help as your niece, nent involved. If that kind of stimulation/
and your brother should not be covering for interaction is what you’re craving, you may
his wife. You should report what’s going on to have to change jobs.
child protective services. While you probably
Dear Readers: Have a very happy,
won’t be thanked for it, you may be able to healthy and safe Fourth of July, everyone!
interrupt the cycle of incest and molestation.
— Love, Abby
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 3-4, 1917
With one fistic punch, Dr. I.U. Temple frus-
trated the plans, burglarious or otherwise, of
Art Hicks, former bartender, who entered the
Temple home on West Court street at an early
hour this morning. When mere words would
not avail to get rid of the intruder, the doctor
turned pugilist and landed one blow that laid
open Hicks’ face and put him in a state of
helplessness.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 3-4, 1967
The doors were opened to the public
Saturday by a new Umatilla industry that has
prospect of developing into a major agricul-
tural operation in Umatilla County. The Spada
Distributing Co. held open house at its new
$160,000 fresh-packing plant that is designed
to handle large-scale potato production in the
area. Potato production on tracts of several
hundred acres is new in the local area, and an
official of Spada said Saturday that the cash
outlay of the plant, growing this year’s crop
in the area, the investment and harvesting the
spuds represents $1 million invested in the
area this year.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 3-4, 1992
Plans for $8 million in improvements
are underway for the Court Avenue viaduct,
which could be replaced by a shorter, but
wider, three-lane bridge. To accommodate
the structure, preliminary designs call for
the removal of eight houses, the addition of
a traffic signal at the viaduct’s west end, the
creation of new through streets and the closure
of others. Although it’s only the beginning
design stage, transportation officials and
project consultants have already met with
local residents to discuss the possible changes.
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 the 185th day
of 2017. There are 180 days
left in the year. This is Inde-
pendence Day.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On July 4, 1776, the
Declaration of Indepen-
dence was adopted by
delegates to the Second
Continental Congress in
Philadelphia.
On this date:
In 1802, the United
States Military Academy
officially opened at West
Point, New York.
In 1817, ground was
broken for the Erie Canal
in Rome, New York. The
middle section of the
waterway took three years
to complete; the entire canal
was finished in 1825.
In 1826, 50 years to the
day after the Declaration
of
Independence
was
adopted, former presidents
John Adams and Thomas
Jefferson both died.
In 1831, the fifth pres-
ident of the United States,
James Monroe, died in New
York City at age 73.
In 1872, the 30th pres-
ident of the United States,
Calvin Coolidge, was born
in Plymouth, Vermont.
In 1917, during a cere-
mony in Paris honoring the
French hero of the Amer-
ican Revolution, U.S. Army
Lt. Col. Charles E. Stanton,
an aide to Maj. Gen. John J.
Pershing, declared: “Lafay-
ette, we are here!”
In 1939, Lou Gehrig
of the New York Yankees
delivered his famous fare-
well speech in which he
called himself “the luckiest
man on the face of the
earth.”
In 1942, Irving Berlin’s
musical revue “This Is
the Army” opened at the
Broadway Theater in New
York.
In 1947, the small central
California town of Hollister
was overrun by thousands
of motorcycling enthusiasts,
dozens of whom ended up
being arrested, most for
drunkenness, in what came
to be called the “Hollister
Riot.”
In
1966,
President
Lyndon B. Johnson signed
the Freedom of Information
Act, which went into effect
the following year.
In 1987, Klaus Barbie,
the former Gestapo chief
known as the “Butcher of
Lyon,” was convicted by
a French court of crimes
against
humanity
and
sentenced to life in prison
(he died in Sept. 1991).
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actress Eva Marie Saint
is 93. Actress Gina Lollo-
brigida is 90. Playwright
Neil Simon is 90. Country
singer Ray Pillow is 80.
Singer Bill Withers is 79.
Actor Ed Bernard is 78.
Actress Karolyn Grimes is
77. Rhythm and blues singer
Annette Beard (Martha and
the Vandellas) is 74. Broad-
cast journalist Geraldo
Rivera is 74. Vietnam War
veteran and peace activist
Ron Kovic is 71. Rhythm-
and-blues musician Ralph
Johnson (Earth, Wind and
Fire) is 66. Rock musician
Domingo Ortiz (Widespread
Panic) is 65. Singer John
Waite is 62. Rock musician
Kirk Pengilly (INXS) is 59.
Country musician Teddy
Carr is 57. Rock DJ Zonka
is 55. International Tennis
Hall of Famer Pam Shriver
is 55. Rock musician Matt
Malley is 54. Actor-play-
wright-screenwriter Tracy
Letts is 52. Malia Obama is
19.
Thought for Today: “If
the American Revolution
had produced nothing but
the Declaration of Indepen-
dence, it would have been
worthwhile.” — Samuel
Eliot Morison, American
historian (1887-1976).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE