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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, July 7, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Bluesman’s wife feels no love after festival incident FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My husband, “Ray,” what to think or what to do. Any and I have been together for 10 years advice you could give me would be and, like most couples, we have had greatly appreciated. — Face In The our ups and downs. Ray is a profes- Crowd sional musician, so a lot of my time Dear Face: You are neither alone is spent supporting this, either by nor unloved, and I seriously doubt promoting his endeavors or accepting your husband’s response to your the fact that I will always come second hypothetical question was an indi- to his first love — the blues. cation that he doesn’t love you. It’s Jeanne A couple of gigs ago, Ray played Phillips possible that he was afraid he would at an outdoor festival. So there I sat, not be able to adequately protect you, Advice in the rain, in the dark, watching the and that Security could deal with the show. Three men approached where I three men more effectively than he was sitting and stood in a circle around me could. Bear in mind that if the real thing were watching the show. Attendance was sparse to happen, he might react very differently. due to the weather, so it seemed strange they Because you are fearful, plan ahead. Carry stood so close to me. It made me uneasy, but pepper spray when you attend his perfor- I have been in similar situations since being mances. with Ray, so I didn’t think much about it. Dear Abby: My daughter graduated more At home later that night, while I was than two years ago. I offered to help her with unwinding and listening to Ray complain her thank-you notes, but I dropped the ball about his fingers, I mentioned the three men. and never got them completed and sent out. I He said he had witnessed it and thought it was feel terrible and guilty. a little odd, too. This led me to ask, hypothet- Would it be wrong to send out letters to ically, what he would do if he were on stage everyone and explain what happened? Or and I was being attacked in front of him. He how else can I resolve this mess and put my said he would put his guitar in its stand, go conscience to rest? — Proud Mama In Ohio to the microphone and ask for assistance for Dear Proud Mama: The task of writing me. He wouldn’t throw the guitar down and thank-you letters was your daughter’s respon- rush to my aid! sibility from the start. She should send them I couldn’t believe his response. I feel out right away, with her apologies. Better late completely alone and unloved. I don’t know than never. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 7, 1917 Night patrolman Elmer Turner is just a wee bit peeved today and he has good reason for nursing a grouch. Sometime between 12 and 1 this morning, Turner was walking his beat near the Roesch bottling works when he saw a man coming from the direction of the levee with a sack on his shoulder. Turner questioned the man and could feel some glassware within the sack, and ordered the man to accompany him to the police station. Just as he got him to the city hall corner, the man suddenly dropped the sack and “beat it.” Turner tried to overtake him but the other was the fleeter of foot. Then the officer drew his revolver and fired a couple of shots. These evidently scared the man so badly that he outran the bullets. Anyway he got away. The sack was found to contain two glass gallon containers full of brown liquor. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 7, 1967 It was hot Monday on Butter Creek, says rancher Mike Kilkenny. In the afternoon Kilkenny held a thermometer in the palm of his hand, shaded from the sun, while he was in the alfalfa field. The mercury soared up to a sizzling 123 degrees. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 7, 1992 The Weston-McEwen High School Band and Pipes and Drums returned from the National Independence Day Parade with the Salute to Liberty Award. Director Steve Pyle led the group to Washington, D.C., where 76 local musicians marched down Constitution Avenue on Saturday. Nearly 500,000 people watched Saturday’s parade. At Arlington National Cemetery, fellow travelers asked Pyle to play “Amazing Grace” in the marble amphitheater. The bagpipe tune was dedi- cated to Jake Bebb, a band member who died last summer in a grain elevator accident. Max Bebb carried his brother’s trumpet in the parade. 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 188th day of 2017. There are 177 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 7, 1865, four people were hanged in Wash- ington, D.C. for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln: Lewis Powell (aka Lewis Payne), David Herold, George Atze- rodt and Mary Surratt, the first woman to be executed by the federal government. On this date: In 1846, U.S. annexation of California was proclaimed at Monterey after the surrender of a Mexican garrison. In 1898, the United States annexed Hawaii. In 1919, the first Trans- continental Motor Convoy, in which a U.S. Army convoy of motorized vehicles crossed the United States, departed Washington, D.C. (The trip ended in San Francisco on Sept. 6, 1919.) In 1937, the Second Sino-Japanese War erupted into full-scale conflict as Imperial Japanese forces attacked the Marco Polo Bridge in Beijing. In 1946, Italian-born Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was canonized as the first American saint by Pope Pius XII. Jimmy Carter, 21, married Rosalynn Smith, 18, in Plains, Georgia. In 1948, six female U.S. Navy reservists became the first women to be sworn in to the regular Navy. In 1954, Elvis Presley made his radio debut as Memphis, Tennessee, station WHBQ played his first recording for Sun Records, “That’s All Right.” In 1969, Canada’s House of Commons gave final approval to the Official Languages Act, making French equal to English throughout the national government. In 1976, President and Mrs. Gerald R. Ford hosted a White House dinner for Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. The United States Military Academy at West Point included female cadets for the first time as 119 women joined the Class of 1980. In 1981, President Ronald Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O’Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1987, Lt. Col. Oliver North began his long-awaited public testimony at the Iran-Contra hearing, telling Congress that he had “never carried out a single act, not one,” without authorization. Today’s Birthdays: Musician-conductor Doc Severinsen is 90. Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough is 84. Rock star Ringo Starr is 77. Rock musician Jim Rodford is 76. Comedian Bill Oddie is 76. Singer-musician Warren Entner (The Grass Roots) is 74. Actor Joe Spano is 71. Pop singer David Hodo (The Village People) is 70. Country singer Linda Williams is 70. Actress Shelley Duvall is 68. Actress Roz Ryan is 66. Actor Billy Campbell is 58. Actor Robert Taylor is 57. Rock musician Mark White (Spin Doctors) is 55. Sing- er-songwriter Vonda Shepard is 54. Actor-comedian Jim Gaffigan is 51. Rhythm- and-blues musician Ricky Kinchen (Mint Condition) is 51. Actress Amy Carlson is 49. Actress Jorja Fox is 49. Actress Cree Summer is 48. Actress Robin Weigert is 48. Actress Kirsten Vangsness is 45. Actor Troy Garity is 44. Actress Berenice Bejo is 41. Actor Hamish Linklater is 41. Olympic silver and bronze medal figure skater Michelle Kwan is 37. Thought for Today: “Only a mediocre person is always at his best.” — W. Somerset Maugham, English author and dramatist (1874- 1965). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
