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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Wednesday, July 5, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Widow reconsiders romantic overture from an old friend FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER GARFIELD BLONDIE BY JIM DAVIS Dear Abby: This is something I for them. He pays no attention to me can’t talk about in my grief support unless he has something to complain group. I’m a 70-year-old widow. I about. When he does, he says hurtful lost my dear husband of 35 years 17 things that make me cry and then he months ago. I always was more sexual tells the kids to call me a crybaby. It’s than he was. Since the funeral, I have almost as if he is trying to turn them had a one-night stand with a nice against me. younger man, but it was a failure for I want a relationship with him. I me physically. Since then, I am leery. want love and attention, but I don’t Jeanne Last night, a dear friend visited. Phillips know how to get it. Please help! — He knew both of us for years. I had Not Wanted In The East Advice flirted with him last year, but nothing Dear Not Wanted: What your happened. Last night he came on to partner is doing is unhealthy not only me. I was upset about my failure to perform for you, but also for your children. He is with the nice young man, so I turned him emotionally abusing you, while at the same down. Now I don’t know what to do. time encouraging those children to disrespect If I sleep with him, will it destroy our you and minimize your feelings. friendship? Will I be able to keep him from For your sake — and theirs — you must becoming a major presence in my home? — not allow this to continue. If you do, they will think the abuse is normal behavior and Wondering Widow Dear Widow: Please accept my condo- perpetuate it in their own relationships when lences for the loss of your husband. That your they are older. first experience after your husband’s death Offer your partner the option of couples wasn’t all that you fantasized it would be isn’t counseling to repair your relationship. If he unusual. Good sex is all about communica- refuses, go without him. If you do, I promise tion. It takes time for couples to adjust to each you will find it enlightening. Please do not other and feel comfortable enough to talk procrastinate, because his verbal abuse could frankly about their individual needs. escalate. If you sleep with this old friend, I can’t see Dear Abby: Is there a way to respond to why it would destroy your friendship. You are individuals who use swear words often and both adults and, I assume, available. Sex with loudly in a public place such as a restaurant? him may — or may not — bring you closer Hearing the F-word used by people at the for a variety of reasons. next table ruins my enjoyment of my meal. However, if you would not welcome — Offended In The West someone becoming “a major presence in Dear Offended: I don’t advise you your home,” allow me to point out that it to approach the “offenders.” If you have might be better not to go to bed with him. a complaint, direct it to the manager of Once a door is opened, it’s not unusual for a the restaurant, who can then inform the guest to become comfortable and crave more “F-worders” they are disturbing other patrons “hospitality.” and to please keep it down. And if they don’t, Dear Abby: I am a mother of two, and ask to change tables and sit in a quieter section I’m afraid the baby’s dad is with me only of the restaurant. DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 5, 1917 Preston DeWitt, employed upon the D.W. Dupuis ranch, last week was showing his skill at jerking the head from a live rattlesnake by grabbing it by the tail and popping it whip fashion. He got Mr. Rattler’s head but when it flew off the fangs struck the back of his hand. He lost no time at sucking the poison out and now says “never again.” 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 5, 1967 Mike Gray, owner of Gray’s Repair Shop and service station in Heppner, went to the doctor for a shot. He fainted, waited 15 minutes, then sat in his pickup another five minutes before attempting to drive. He only made it two blocks north of Gale Street before he started to faint again. He turned off the igni- tion and headed for the curb before passing out a second time. But the truck did not stop before it had struck a parked car, veered across the street and into the house of Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose Chapin. A window and the outside of the house were damaged. Gray had extensive lacerations to his chin, requiring 12 stitches to close. His five-year-old daughter, who with her mother had gone to the doctor’s office on learning of the accident, also passed out while watching her father being stitched up. She cut her chin in an identical place and had five stitches to close her wound. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 5, 1992 Eastern Oregon Psychiatric Center, the state’s 60-bed mental health facility in Pendleton, is no longer being considered for expansion or downsizing, says Superinten- dent Steve Feinstein. At one point this spring, state officials considered closing EOPC. Later, a proposal to expand operations was considered. Both ideas have been scrapped and the facility will continue in a stable mode. However, EOPC “did not come through this (budget cuts) unscathed,” Feinstein said. BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE THIS DAY IN HISTORY DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN Today is the 186th day of 2017. There are 179 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 5, 1947, Larry Doby made his debut with the Cleveland Indians, becoming the first black player in the American League three months after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in the National League. In the game against the Chicago White Sox at Comiskey Park, Doby, pinch-hitting for Bryan Stephens, struck out in his first at-bat during the seventh inning; Chicago won 6-5. On this date: In 1687, Isaac Newton first published his Principia Mathematica, a three-volume work setting out his mathe- matical principles of natural philosophy. In 1811, Venezuela became the first South American country to declare independence from Spain. In 1865, the Secret Service Division of the U.S. Treasury Department was founded in Washington, D.C., with the mission of suppressing coun- terfeit currency. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act. In 1940, during World War II, Britain and the Vichy government in France broke off diplomatic relations. In 1946, the bikini, created by Louis Reard, was modeled by Micheline Bernardini during a poolside fashion show in Paris. In 1954, Elvis Presley’s first commercial recording session took place at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee; the song he recorded was “That’s All Right.” In 1962, independence took effect in Algeria; the same day, civilians of Euro- pean descent, mostly French, came under attack by extrem- ists in the port city of Oran. In 1984, the Supreme Court weakened the 70-year-old “exclusionary rule,” deciding that evidence seized in good faith with defective court warrants could be used against defendants in criminal trials. Today’s Birthdays: Actress Katherine Helmond is 88. Actress Shirley Knight is 81. Singer-musician Robbie Robertson is 74. Julie Nixon Eisenhower is 69. Rock star Huey Lewis is 67. Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Rich “Goose” Gossage is 66. Country musician Charles Ventre is 65. Singer-songwriter Marc Cohn is 58. Actor John Marshall Jones is 55. Actor Dorien Wilson is 55. Actress Edie Falco is 54. Actress Jillian Armenante is 53. Actress Kathryn Erbe is 52. Actor Michael Stuhlbarg is 49. Rapper RZA is 48. Country musi- cian Dave Haywood (Lady Antebellum) is 35. Rock musician Nick O’Malley (Arctic Monkeys) is 32. Thought for Today: “The real drawback to ‘the simple life’ is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.” — Katharine Fullerton Gerould, American writer (1879-1944). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
