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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, July 13, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Wedding date forces difficult decision for maid of honor FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My best friend is “mother-in-law” treatment of their getting married next year and I am spouses and collectively wish I’d supposed to be the maid of honor. I check my tongue. I meant well, but am Jewish, and she scheduled her my kids are right. The problem is, I’m wedding on the first day of Passover. afraid I can’t stop. Trying to hold my This also means her rehearsal dinner opinions back leaves me anxious and will be during my family’s first Seder. depressed. How do I explain to her that for the My family is pretty normal, and first time in my life, she has broken I don’t want to alienate anyone. But Jeanne my heart? It seems her family doesn’t Phillips I am having difficulty dialing back understand that Jewish holidays are these habits and don’t know where to Advice as important as theirs. She is asking turn. — Critical Matriarch In Utah me to choose between my beliefs, my Dear Matriarch: When the urge family and our friendship. to criticize becomes overwhelming, bite your What do I say to her, or should I just decline tongue or leave the room. The only exception to be in her wedding? With 52 weekends in a would be if you see an impending disaster. year, I feel like she could have found another I’ll share with you some advice my mother day. — Brokenhearted In Boston gave me years ago: The most unwelcome Dear Brokenhearted: Your friend was advice in the world is that which is unasked under no obligation to time her wedding date for. Take it to heart and your relationship with to avoid conflicting with your religious ritual. your adult children and their spouses may If you are wise, you will put aside the tempta- improve. tion to lay a guilt trip on her. Explain that you Dear Abby: I’m planning to travel to will be unable to be part of her wedding party another state in September and trying to save the same way you explained it to me. Because up for the plane ticket. The issue is, I’m going you are strictly observant, you should make during my birthday. I’d like my family to clear to her why this religious observance help me with the cost of the trip, even if it’s takes precedence over her wedding. only $5 to $10, instead of buying me gifts. Dear Abby: As my children have grown How do I go about telling them that, instead older, I have regarded myself as matriarch of gifts, I’d prefer money without sounding of the family, giving advice and help where ungrateful or pushy? I just would really like I think it’s needed. Lately, though, I’m afraid help paying for my trip. — Family Help my relationship with them may have taken Dear Family Help: Because you would a turn for the worse. I can’t seem to stop prefer cash to tangible gifts, a way to approach criticizing. this would be to confide your preference in Recently they sat down with me and told your mother or another close relative and let me they dread coming to visit, are sick of my that person spread the word. Good luck! DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 13, 1917 Following a conference last night between the governor, fire marshal and adjutant general White over the I.W.W. conditions in eastern Oregon, White announced that a battalion of soldiers was being organized throughout the state for home defense. The men in the battalion all have had previous military expe- rience. A hundred have already enlisted. The battalion will be ready for service by July 25. The governor instructed the sheriffs to select a certain number of deputies in each county who would be prepared to act as a supple- mentary force for the battalion. White said the troops will be stationed in eastern Oregon to protect the grain fields. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 13, 1967 Pendleton gave Chris Beach, the new Miss Oregon, a warm welcome Wednesday, about 106 degrees warm. Chris appeared cool and refreshed despite the heat as she rode triumphantly down Main Street waving to the crowds that lined the street. It was her first trip home since being crowned Miss Oregon at Seaside Saturday and everyone from mayor to high school chum turned out to greet the lovely miss. The parade, which was put together in a hurry by the Pendleton Jaycees, was a dandy in spite of the short notice. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 13, 1992 When a lightning bust unleashed its fury two weeks ago over the Umatilla National Forest, it touched off some 50 forest fires. That’s when Ruta Glinski and Jodi Mattison, dispatchers for the Umatilla National Forest, went to work. Their office instantly became the hub between the first reports of smoke and the initial ground attack. “We’re the ones who have to find the people who can come in on a moment’s notice,” Mattison said. Coinciding with the lightning bust, the dispatch office went on a 24-hour schedule and spent much of the next week leading firefighters to “smokes” all across the forest. But radio operators also occupy their time by confirming reports of new fires, pinning down locations, monitoring efforts to control fires and doing the leg work when requests come in for additional equipment and staffing. 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 194th day of 2017. There are 171 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 13, 1977, a blackout hit New York City in the mid-evening as lightning strikes on electrical equipment caused power to fail; widespread looting broke out. (The electricity was restored about 25 hours later.) On this date: In 1787, the Congress of the Confederation adopted the Northwest Ordinance, which established a govern- ment in the Northwest Terri- tory, an area corresponding to the eastern half of the present-day Midwest. In 1793, French revo- lutionary writer Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday, who was executed four days later. In 1863, deadly rioting against the Civil War military draft erupted in New York City. (The insurrection was put down three days later.) In 1939, Frank Sinatra made his first commercial recording, “From the Bottom of My Heart” and “Melan- choly Mood,” with Harry James and his Orchestra for the Brunswick label. In 1955, Britain hanged Ruth Ellis, a 28-year-old former model convicted of killing her boyfriend, David Blakely (to date, Ellis is the last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom). In 1960, John F. Kennedy won the Democratic pres- idential nomination on the first ballot at his party’s convention in Los Angeles. In 2013, a jury in Sanford, Florida, acquitted neighborhood watch volun- teer George Zimmerman of all charges in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teen- ager; news of the verdict prompted Alicia Garza, an African-American activist in Oakland, California, to declare on Facebook that “black lives matter,” a phrase that gave rise to the Black Lives Matter movement. Today’s Birthdays: Game show announcer Johnny Gilbert (TV: “Jeop- ardy!”) is 93. Actor Patrick Stewart is 77. Actor Robert Forster is 76. Actor Harrison Ford is 75. Singer-guitarist Roger McGuinn (The Byrds) is 75. Actor-comedian Cheech Marin is 71. Actress Daphne Maxwell Reid is 69. Actress Didi Conn is 66. Singer Louise Mandrell is 63. Rock musician Mark “The Animal” Mendoza (Twisted Sister) is 61. Actor-director Cameron Crowe is 60. Tennis player Anders Jarryd is 56. Rock musician Gonzalo Martinez De La Cotera (Marcy Playground) is 55. Comedian Tom Kenny is 55. Country singer-songwriter Victoria Shaw is 55. Blue- grass singer Rhonda Vincent is 55. Actor Kenny Johnson is 54. Actor Ken Jeong is 48. Rock musician Will Cham- pion (Coldplay) is 39. Thought for Today: “Individuality is freedom lived.” — John Dos Passos, American author (1896- 1970). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
