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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, July 20, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Mistress seeking solace still mourns years after man’s death FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I don’t know what We just opened their last gift, to do. I was having an affair with Abby, and it is so awful I won’t use the most wonderful (married) man. it even in cooking. My husband and I’m sure that he and I were the only I are now having a disagreement: He ones who knew. He passed away says, “Dump it and return the bottle unexpectedly a few years ago. I still with a thank-you.” I say, “Return the go to the place where we met and leftover wine (minus a 1/4 glass), hung out together. In my mind, I see and say how much we appreciate the him walking in and speaking his last thought, but that it just wasn’t the Jeanne words to me. Phillips flavor we drink.” I just don’t want How do I mourn for him without them to waste their wine on us and Advice giving it away? He was cremated, so give us any more, as they work hard there’s no grave to visit. I end up in to make it. Please advise. — Not A tears when I visit “our” place. I need all the Liar In Colorado advice you have to offer. — Needs Help In Dear Not A Liar: It might be kinder to Massachusetts return the empty bottle with a note thanking Dear Needs Help: Please accept my them and asking them to please not send you sympathy for your clearly heartfelt loss. more because you are trying to cut back on Ordinarily I’d suggest you join a grief support your alcohol consumption. It’s the truth. The group, but I’m afraid if you do, you might run alcohol you’re trying to cut back on is theirs. into his widow if you live in the same area. Dear Abby: My daughter “Maria’s” It might help you to visit the place you met quinceanera is next year. We invited her less often. Surely there are less painful places half-siblings to come. But her father’s current you can go to quietly reflect on your rela- wife, “Elena,” refuses to allow it because tionship. You might also consider discussing Elena is a Jehovah’s Witness. Maria will be your feelings with a therapist or a trusted, heartbroken that they won’t be there. Is there nonjudgmental friend, because keeping these anything I can do to persuade Elena to let feelings bottled up is not healthy. them come, or would it be overstepping my Dear Abby: There is a nice couple we place? — Proud Mama In Kentucky know who make their own wine. They give Dear Proud Mama: If your daughter’s us a couple of bottles a year and ask us to half-siblings are being raised as Jehovah’s return the empties, which we are happy to do. Witnesses, it would be against their religious We love good wine of all kinds. In years beliefs to attend her quinceanera. While I past, we have appreciated their wine gifts, don’t think it would be overstepping to talk although, to be honest, they have been of with your ex and his wife and ask if their marginal quality. I usually end up using it for girls can come, do not be surprised or take it cooking. personally if the answer is still no. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 20, 1917 Gunner Peterson, local concrete worker and former Tri-State League player, has just demonstrated that he is in a big league class when it comes to pegging a coyote between the eyes with a rock. A few days ago Peterson and William McGarrigle were fishing on upper McKay creek where the incident happened. The men had built a fire to cook supper in the evening when they heard a disturbance among some cattle nearby. A coyote was after the stock and a few minutes later he appeared at the camp making straight toward Peterson. Picking up a large rock the latter gave the intruder the once over and with all his force slammed the coyote directly between the eyes. The coyote dropped to the ground and a few more blows put him out of existence. The actions of the coyote convinced the two men the animal had rabies and hence they are rejoicing at the fact Peterson’s baseball arm was in good shape for defensive work. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 20, 1967 Jill Hodgen, a vivacious, outgoing senior at Pendleton High School, is a dedicated musician who finds everything about it fun. Jill attended her first summer camp at Wash- ington State University and broke a long- standing tradition by winning the all-around girl student trophy. In other years students who have won the coveted award have been second- or third-year students. There were four floors of girls and two and a half floors of boys in the dormitory on the WSU campus where the summer students were housed. Jill said they were treated like college students, and they really worked. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 20, 1992 A stray spark from a cutting torch apparently started the grass fire that burned hundreds of tires at an auto wrecking yard on the northeast edge of Pendleton Monday. The fire sent a column of noxious black smoke billowing over Pendleton early in the afternoon, which concerned officials and led to a temporary shutdown of air conditioners at nearby St. Anthony Hospital. Wind pushed the fire from a starting point near Wildhorse Road through a gully formed by Wildhorse Creek and directly toward Lindell’s Auto Salvage yard. The Oregon State Police arson unit was continuing its investigation this morning into the cause of the fire, but were reasonably certain it was an accident caused by crews demolishing an abandoned railroad line. 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 201st day of 2017. There are 164 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On July 20, 1917, America’s World War I draft lottery began as Secretary of War Newton Baker, wearing a blindfold, reached into a glass bowl and pulled out a capsule containing the number 258 during a ceremony inside the Senate office building. (The drawing of numbers by various officials continued until shortly after 2:00 a.m. the next day.) The Corfu Declaration called for creation of a unified Yugo- slav state. On this date: In 1861, the Congress of the Confederate States convened in Richmond, Virginia. In 1871, British Columbia entered Confederation as a Canadian province. In 1923, Mexican revolu- tionary leader Pancho Villa was assassinated by gunmen in Parral. In 1944, an attempt by a group of German officials to assassinate Adolf Hitler with a bomb failed as the explo- sion only wounded the Nazi leader. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for a fourth term of office at the Democratic convention in Chicago. In 1954, the Geneva Accords divided Vietnam into northern and southern entities. In 1968, the first Inter- national Special Olympics Summer Games, organized by Eunice Kennedy Shriver, were held at Soldier Field in Chicago. In 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon after reaching the surface in their Apollo 11 lunar module. In 1976, America’s Viking 1 robot spacecraft made a successful, first-ever landing on Mars. Today’s Birthdays: Actress-singer Sally Ann Howes is 87. Author Cormac McCarthy is 84. Rockabilly singer Sleepy LaBeef is 82. Former Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, D-Md., is 81. Actress Diana Rigg is 79. Artist Judy Chicago is 78. Rock musician John Lodge (The Moody Blues) is 74. Country singer T.G. Sheppard is 73. Rock musician Carlos Santana is 70. Rock musician Jay Jay French (Twisted Sister) is 65. Rock musician Paul Cook (The Sex Pistols, Man Raze) is 61. Rock musi- cian Stone Gossard (Pearl Jam) is 51. Singer Vitamin C is 48. Actress Judy Greer is 42. Supermodel Gisele Bundchen is 37. Rock musician Mike Kennerty (The All-American Rejects) is 37. Actor John Francis Daley is 32. Thought for Today: “Common sense is the collec- tion of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” — Albert Einstein, German-American physicist (1879-1955). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
