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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