Thursday, July 6, 2017
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
East Oregonian
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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