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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