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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Friday, July 14, 2017
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Man answers wife’s hurt
feelings with angry shouts
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I have been married
disclosing beforehand that everyone
for two years, and my husband has
but you would be vacationing together.
three grown children. He was recently
During some of your counseling
planning a getaway with the youngest
sessions, consider discussing healthy
and included me in the plans. I didn’t
ways to disagree and the dynamics of
want to interfere and suggested that
“vacations with the kids” — both his
his child might want to spend some
and yours — in the future.
one-on-one time with him. I later
Dear Abby: Years before my dad
learned that not only were his other
passed away, he started keeping a
Jeanne
kids going, but their spouses were as Phillips notebook he called “Jack’s Doomsday
well. Everyone was included but me.
Book.” In it he listed account numbers
Advice
I felt very hurt to be excluded.
and balances, names of banks, pass-
When I shared with him how I
words, locations of documents and
felt, his response was that he couldn’t control other detailed instructions on how to take
his kids, but I feel he could have controlled over his responsibilities if he was incapac-
his response. To exclude me was deliberate. itated. He always told Mom and me that if
When I told him how hurt I was, he got something happened, to find that notebook in
less than an inch from my face and started which everything was written down.
screaming about MY kids (who love him like
Mom died first, so when Dad became ill
a father). It scared me because he was in my years later, he made sure I had the notebook. I
face. I have never had a man scream in my can’t tell you how much easier it made things.
face like that before. I don’t know what to do. I didn’t have to go searching through paper-
I was truly terrified. — Lost In The East
work to figure out what was what. I knew
Dear Lost: Your husband may have the banks I had to go to and what to bring.
reacted the way he did out of guilt. If you It was all there, down to the changes he had
haven’t already, tell him that no one has made after Mom passed. Even our financial
ever spoken to you the way he did and that adviser was impressed at how easy Dad made
it terrified you. Tell him that when someone everything for us. Everyone should have a
acts that way, the natural conclusion of the doomsday book. — Jack’s Girl In Louisiana
person being bullied (which is what he was
Dear Jack’s Girl: I couldn’t agree more.
doing) is to fear the verbal attack will escalate I admire your father’s pragmatism. Too many
to physical violence.
adults fail to plan ahead for this kind of inev-
If he can’t explain calmly why he overre- itability, which causes additional problems
acted when you said you were hurt, then the for survivors at a time when they are trying to
two of you could use some sessions with a cope with their grief. Readers, if you haven’t
marriage counselor. If he refuses to go, go already done something similar, you should
without him. He was less than honest in not consider it.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 14, 1917
A real glimpse of Indian life was afforded
the visiting newspapermen and women
yesterday when they were taken to the Cayuse
encampment in automobiles, and the glimpse
was not exactly that which was programmed
either. The committee had intended that their
guests should see the Indians in their tribal
dances and, while they did see dancing, they
also saw what was much more interesting, the
working of the Indian nature. The committee
was under the impression that it had so
arranged things that the newspaper people
would be welcome at the big celebration of
the tribesmen. However, it seems that negoti-
ations had been carried on through a channel
that was not effective. At least it became
evident very soon that the Indians were not
at all pleased at the intrusion of the whites at
their festivities. This eventually developed
into a pow-wow and much parleying and
speech-making before the leaders of the tribes
could be brought to the view the visit of the
editorial folk in a friendly light.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 14, 1967
Cindy Leonnig, 10-year-old organ player,
will not be playing for a while. She tripped
in a hole in the yard of the family home in
Heppner Monday and fell. She did not tell
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ron Leonnig, that
she was hurt, and only because her mother
heard her crying in the night was she taken
to a doctor Tuesday. X-rays showed she had
broken her lower left arm. It will be in a cast
for about three weeks.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 14, 1992
Tina Taylor started with an idea, several
cans of paint and the blank wall on Fern
Simmons’ carport. A couple of days later, the
14-year-old had created Pendleton’s newest
historical mural. The newest mural faces the
river and is easily spotted by pedestrians and
bike riders on the River Parkway. Taylor, an
aspiring cartoonist who spends “too much
time” doodling and drawing, received her
inspiration from Simmons, who wanted a
mural depicting a scene from an Indian’s
dream. “I wanted a mural that showed the way
it used to be before the white man messed it
all up,” Simmons said.
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 195th day of
2017. There are 170 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On July 14, 1789, in an
event symbolizing the start
of the French Revolution,
citizens of Paris stormed the
Bastille prison and released
the seven prisoners inside.
On this date:
In 1798, Congress passed
the Sedition Act, making it
a federal crime to publish
false, scandalous or malicious
writing about the United
States government.
In 1881, outlaw William
H. Bonney Jr., alias “Billy
the Kid,” was shot and killed
by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort
Sumner in present-day New
Mexico.
In 1913, Gerald Rudolph
Ford Jr., the 38th president
of the United States, was
born Leslie Lynch King Jr. in
Omaha, Nebraska.
In 1917, CBS newsman
Douglas Edwards, who
in 1948 became network
television’s first nightly news
anchor, was born in Ada,
Oklahoma.
In 1921, Italian-born
anarchists Nicola Sacco and
Bartolomeo Vanzetti were
convicted in Dedham, Massa-
chusetts, of murdering a shoe
company paymaster and his
guard. (Sacco and Vanzetti
were executed six years later.)
In 1933, all German polit-
ical parties, except the Nazi
Party, were outlawed. Cartoon
character Popeye the Sailor
made his movie debut in the
Fleischer Studios animated
short, “Popeye the Sailor.”
In 1945, Italy formally
declared war on Japan, its
former Axis partner during
World War II.
In 1958, the army of Iraq
overthrew the monarchy.
In 1966, the city of
Chicago awoke to the
shocking news that eight
student nurses had been
brutally slain during the night
in a South Side dormitory.
Drifter Richard Speck was
convicted of the mass killing
and condemned to death, but
had his sentence reduced to
life in prison, where he died
in 1991.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor
Harry Dean Stanton is 91.
Actress Nancy Olson is 89.
Former football player and
actor Rosey Grier is 85. Actor
Vincent Pastore is 71. Music
company executive Tommy
Mottola is 69. Rock musician
Chris Cross (Ultravox) is 65.
Actor Jerry Houser is 65.
Actor-director Eric Laneuville
is 65. Actor Stan Shaw is 65.
Movie producer Scott Rudin
is 59. Singer-guitarist Kyle
Gass is 57. Country musician
Ray Herndon (McBride and
the Ride) is 57. Actress Jane
Lynch is 57. Actor Jackie
Earle Haley is 56. Rock musi-
cian Ellen Reid (Crash Test
Dummies) is 51. Rock sing-
er-musician Tanya Donelly
is 51. Actress Missy Gold
is 47. Olympic gold medal
snowboarder Ross Rebagliati
is 46. Hip-hop musician taboo
(Black Eyed Peas) is 42.
Thought for Today: “If
the government is big enough
to give you everything you
want, it is big enough to take
away everything you have.”
— President Gerald R. Ford
(1913-2006).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE