Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Wednesday, July 19, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Man is ready to shop around for new source of ‘lattes’ FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My wife and I have few weeks before he left me. I am been married for 17 years. For the having a hard time deciding whether first 16 years, my wife would make to throw them away or keep them. I me lattes without being asked. Last know there’s no perfect answer, but year, she announced she would no any advice you could offer to help longer make any more lattes for me. me make that decision would be When I asked her if she expected me appreciated. It’s a sensitive topic for to go the rest of my life without one, me. — Love Letters In Texas she said yes! Dear L.L.: I’ll bet it is. How does Jeanne Do you think it would be OK if I Phillips reading those touching love letters found another female to make lattes make you feel? Be honest. If they Advice for me? Wouldn’t that woman be bring back warm memories, hang doing my wife a favor? Hint: I am onto them. However, if they have the not really talking about lattes. — No More opposite effect, do yourself a favor, dispose Lattes In Kokomo of them and continue looking forward into Dear No More Lattes: Before outsourcing your next chapter. your latte business, it is important that you Dear Abby: I live in a mobile park, and find out from your wife why her attitude has in the park is a group that collects money changed so drastically. Has she lost interest and runs fundraisers to help the low-income in that kind of beverage preparation? Has people who live here. They deliver one bag of making lattes become painful for her? Could food to about 10 families once a month. there be other issues in your relationship that This group does not disclose how much have made her less interested in giving you money was collected — ever — and are very your favorite treat? secretive about how much they have in their If the answer to these questions is yes, fund. Some of us who live here have raised perhaps she should discuss them with her the question as to how much money they are doctor — or the two of you talk about them holding, but they refuse to give us any infor- with a licensed marriage counselor. Hint: I’m mation. They say they are not a nonprofit, so really not advising you about lattes, either. they don’t have to report to the IRS. Is there Dear Abby: After 33 years of what I anything we can do to make them tell us how thought was a near-perfect marriage, my much is in there? — Money Matters husband walked out and filed for divorce. Dear Money Matters: There absolutely That was 12 years ago. Since then, I’ve is. Poll how many of your neighbors feel done my best to move on and find my “next the way you do, and then, as a group, stop chapter.” contributing money. If enough residents do I’m now in the process of downsizing that, the money will dry up and the fund will to move into a smaller house. While going close. Because only 10 families need this through my filing cabinet, I ran across some kind of help, you and your neighbors should very sweet and touching love letters my ex consider selecting families to help and do it had written to me — some of them just a directly. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 19, 1917 Small I.W.W. posters of radical and inflammatory order were posted on bulletin boards, telephone poles and elsewhere about Pendleton last evening and during the night. Some of the posters carried statements on sabotage by W.D. Haywood, others are reported to have carried pictures of red flags with words of semi-threatening character. The police and sheriff’s force are watching the situation today. However, no arrests had been made up to 2 p.m. It is said that anyone committing such a nuisance may be held under any one of a number of charges. There is a new state law making it a felony to threaten to burn property. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 19, 1967 “Zero Defects” pins and certificates were awarded to 40 Umatilla Army Depot employes in recent ceremonies at the installation. Of the total recipients, 24 were BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN cited for identifying and causing removal of potential sources of error in their work areas. The remainder were lauded for consistent production of error-free work, and one employe scored in both categories. Receiving a silver pin for submitting three usable error cause removal (ECR) suggestions was Lois Wattenburger, Civilian Personnel Division. She is the first employe to receive the second highest award of the program. To be eligible for a third award, a gold pin, she must submit three more acceptable suggestions. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 19, 1992 It doesn’t take a literary genius to realize the Weston City Library is a lot different from most city libraries today. For starters, the fine for an overdue book is a penny a day for children, two pennies for adults. “The fines are the same as when I started here,” librarian Margaret Sutherland says with a smile that has greeted patrons for 37 years. “People are pretty good about getting their books back. I think they appreciate it.” THIS DAY IN HISTORY Today is the 200th day of 2017. There are 165 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 19, 1961, TWA became the first airline to begin showing in-flight movies on a regular basis as it presented “By Love Possessed” to first-class passengers on a flight from New York to Los Angeles. On this date: In 1553, King Henry VIII’s daughter Mary was proclaimed Queen of England after pretender Lady Jane Grey was deposed. In 1848, a pioneering women’s rights convention convened in Seneca Falls, New York. In 1903, the first Tour de France was won by Maurice Garin. In 1941, Britain launched its “V for Victory” campaign during World War II. In 1944, the Demo- cratic national convention convened in Chicago with the nomination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt considered a certainty. In 1952, the Summer Olympics opened in Helsinki, Finland. In 1967, the movie “Up the Down Staircase,” an adaptation of the Bel Kaufman novel starring Sandy Dennis as an ideal- istic schoolteacher, opened in Los Angeles. In 1979, the Nicaraguan capital of Managua fell to Sandinista guerrillas, two days after President Anastasio Somoza fled the country. In 1980, the Moscow Summer Olympics began, minus dozens of nations that were boycotting the games because of the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan. In 1990, President George H.W. Bush joined former presidents Ronald Reagan, Gerald R. Ford and Richard M. Nixon at ceremonies dedicating the Nixon Library and Birth- place (since redesignated the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum) in Yorba Linda, California. Today’s Birthdays: Actress Helen Gallagher is 91. Country singer Sue Thompson is 91. Singer Vikki Carr is 77. Blues singer-mu- sician Little Freddie King is 77. Country singer-musician Commander Cody is 73. Actor George Dzundza is 72. Rock singer-musician Alan Gorrie (Average White Band) is 71. International Tennis Hall of Famer Ilie Nastase is 71. Rock musician Brian May is 70. Rock musician Bernie Leadon is 70. Actress Beverly Archer is 69. Movie director Abel Ferrara is 66. Rock musician Kevin Haskins (Love and Rockets; Bauhaus) is 57. Movie director Atom Egoyan is 57. Actor Campbell Scott is 56. Actor Anthony Edwards is 55. Country singer Kelly Shiver is 54. Country musician Jeremy Patterson is 47. Rock musician Jason McGerr (Death Cab for Cutie) is 43. Actor Benedict Cumberbatch is 41. Thought for Today: “I want to live my life, not record it.” — Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American first lady (1929-1994). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE