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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