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Thursday, July 6, 2017 PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK East Oregonian Page 7A DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Man faces choosing between job and his dream lifestyle FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I’m a 47-year-old while I’m working to ask what time man. I live alone in a small city in one of our children needs to be picked New York. I have a good job. I have up. been with the company for years Abby, it drives me crazy! At any and my bosses take good care of me. hour of any day he is one click away However, I want to live a semi-home- from all this information. It makes me steading-type life on my own prop- feel like I’m his secretary. I have told erty, providing myself with my basic him how it makes me feel numerous needs. I cannot do this in the area times to no avail. How can I get him Jeanne where I live because of strict zoning. Phillips to use the calendar and stop treating I’m torn between leaving my job to me like his personal secretary? — Advice move and live the life I dream of, or Fed Up In The South staying where I am and trying to get Dear Fed Up: Here’s how: Do not as close as I can to that lifestyle. Can you help react in anger. When he asks these questions, me? — Torn In New York your response should be: “I don’t know, Dear Torn: The questions you need to Honey. I’m sure it’s on the calendar. Why answer are can you AFFORD to live your don’t you look it up?” Dear Abby: My son is 29. He has no dream right now and, if not, how long will you have to wait until you can achieve it? vanity at all and does not care how he dresses Your next move should be to talk to your or looks. He has always been this way. He CPA or to a certified financial planner and see just got married, and his wife is a darling what it will take to make your dream a reality. girl. How can I make him understand how Unless you are sure about that, you should important this is, not only to him but also to stay where you are until you have enough his wife? — Concerned Mom money for a comfortable retirement off the Dear Concerned Mom: It’s my obser- grid. vation that people who make the effort to Dear Abby: I am a working mother of two, “put themselves together” usually feel better married for 20 years. I go to great lengths to for having done so. However, if your son is keep a Google calendar updated, which my doing well at his job, happy in his relation- husband has access to any time he wishes to ships and in his marriage, then perhaps you see it. The problem is, he rarely looks at it. shouldn’t second-guess him. The time to have Instead, he asks me daily, “What have we got impressed the importance of good grooming going on today?” or, “What time is (blank)?” on your son was while he was still a minor or, “Do we have anything happening the and living with you. Now that he’s 29, face it, weekend of (blank)?” Sometimes he texts me that horse left the barn years ago. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 6, 1917 Arthur G. Means, Rieth merchant, under- took Tuesday evening to give his young son, Arthur Jr., his first glimpse of fireworks and as a result he is nursing a few burns. He had two fire ball bombs, and while lighting one, held the other under his arm. The fuse of the one was so short that the first of the firebombs shot up into Means’ face and exploded as it struck his cheek. In some way sparks fell upon the fuse of the other bomb and it exploded under his arm. His face and arm were rather painfully burned. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 6, 1967 Pendleton firemen, who have been besieged by grass fires the past few days, had their busiest day yet Wednesday when they were called out five times. One of the fires covered several acres in and out of the city limits near 834 S.W. 14th and at one time threatened to get into a wheat field. Pendleton Grain Growers was called out to stop it from spreading outside the city limits. While firemen were there another call came in reporting a fire in a sawdust corral at the Round-Up Grounds. Earlier in the day firemen were called to stop a grass fire near the Hilltop Manor Motel in Pend-Air and while there were told that another grass fire was burning between Farmco and Hill Furniture Company. The firemen aided by the Pend-Air volunteers managed to take care of both blazes. Firemen were called out Wednesday evening for the fifth grass fire near the Babe Ruth ball field. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 6, 1992 A new Paterson Ferry freeway interchange on Interstate 84 south of Boardman will open at 2 p.m. Wednesday. A semi-tractor-trailer, hauling agricultural products, will tear through a ribbon barrier, officially opening the new interchange. The interchange is near the location of a historic ferry location on the Columbia River. The site is called Paterson Ferry after the ferry that operated during the late days of the Oregon Trail. 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 187th day of 2017. There are 178 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On July 6, 1957, Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to win a Wimbledon singles title as she defeated fellow American Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2. The Harry S. Truman Library, the nation’s first presidential library, was dedicated in Independence, Missouri. Sixteen-year-old John Lennon first met 15-year-old Paul McCartney when Lennon’s band, the Quarrymen skiffle group, performed a gig at St. Peter’s Church in Woolton, Liver- pool. On this date: In 1535, Sir Thomas More was executed in England for high treason. In 1777, during the American Revolution, British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga. In 1885, French scien- tist Louis Pasteur tested an anti-rabies vaccine on 9-year-old Joseph Meister, who had been bitten by an infected dog; the boy did not develop rabies. In 1917, during World War I, Arab forces led by T.E. Lawrence and Auda Abu Tayi captured the port of Aqaba from the Ottoman Turks. In 1933, the first All-Star baseball game was played at Chicago’s Comiskey Park; the American League defeated the National League, 4-2. In 1942, Anne Frank, her parents and sister entered a “secret annex” in an Amsterdam building where they were later joined by four other people; they hid from Nazi occupiers for two years before being discovered and arrested. In 1944, an estimated 168 people died in a fire that broke out during a perfor- mance in the main tent of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1964, the movie “A Hard Day’s Night,” starring The Beatles, had its world premiere in London. British colony Nyasaland became the independent country of Malawi. In 1971, jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong died in New York at age 69. Today’s Birthdays: Sing- er-actress Della Reese is 86. The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is 82. Actor Ned Beatty is 80. Singer Gene Chandler is 77. Country singer Jeannie Seely is 77. Actor Burt Ward is 72. Former President George W. Bush is 71. Actor-director Sylvester Stallone is 71. Actor Fred Dryer is 71. Actress Shelley Hack is 70. Actress Nathalie Baye is 69. Actor Geoffrey Rush is 66. Actress Allyce Beasley is 66. Rock musician John Bazz (The Blasters) is 65. Actor Grant Goodeve is 65. Country singer Nanci Griffith is 64. Retired MLB All-Star Willie Randolph is 63. Former first daughter Susan Ford Bales is 60. Actor Brian Posehn is 51. Rapper Inspectah Deck (Wu-Tang Clan) is 47. Rapper 50 Cent is 42. Comedian-actor Kevin Hart is 38. Actress Eva Green is 37. Thought for Today: “Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.” — Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (born this date in 1907, died 1954). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
