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East Oregonian
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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