Page 8A East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, July 25, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Mixed messages from mom have teen looking for clarity FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER GARFIELD BLONDIE Dear Abby: I’m 17. My mom less than 20 feet between us and the and I often disagree on things. Don’t 18-wheel truck ahead. get me wrong — I don’t care what She read texts, answered her cell- she does in her free time, but lately I phone and made phone calls while have learned she’s talking to people she was driving. She’s very demon- about bisexuality. I don’t know how strative when she talks, so while she to handle this or how to talk to her drove, holding her cell with her left about it. hand, she’d take her other hand off I feel betrayed. When I told her I the wheel to gesture. More than once Jeanne was gay, she rejected my sexuality, Phillips she nearly hit a guardrail. and now she’s possibly wanting I was so frightened I broke into Advice relationships with other females? sobs. She responded by laughing at Even now, when we watch the news me! Can you give me a tactful way and something about the LGBT community to tell her how dangerous her driving really comes on, she still mutters about marriage is? — Terrified In Memphis being between one man and one woman. Dear Terrified: No, because it’s obvious I don’t want things to escalate into a big that your friend is in deep denial not only blowup over this because our relationship about how dangerous her driving is, but also is just being repaired. Please help me. Am I about how it affects her passengers and other wrong to be concerned, or do I have the right drivers around her. But I can suggest that to be? — Teen In Dayton, Ohio from now on, YOU provide the transporta- Dear Teen: I don’t think it would escalate tion if you’re going anyplace together. You into an argument if you were to tell your were lucky this time. The next time it could mother you are confused by the mixed cost you your life. messages you’re getting from her. It should Dear Abby: One day, I found two bottles be the opening of an interesting discussion, of wine under my husband’s bed. I told him as long as you don’t let it deteriorate into a I had found them and he didn’t have to hide fight. It seems odd to me, too, that she would wine from me. Yesterday, I found two bottles reject your sexual orientation if she’s leaning of beer in his underwear drawer. in both directions herself. This is unusual behavior for a 65-year-old As to her feelings about marriage equality, man. He is retired. I am still working. What you might be interested to know that not should I do? — Perplexed In The South everyone thinks the idea of marriage (LGBT Dear Perplexed: It’s important that you or otherwise) is appealing. If your mother is find out what’s causing your husband to interested in open relationships, she may be act this way. Notify your doctor there has part of that group. been a sudden change in his behavior and Dear Abby: I went on a road trip with a schedule physical and neurological exams friend who is normally kind and generous. for him. When seniors begin hiding items She insisted on driving the entire way. She for no reason, it could indicate the onset of often exceeded the speed limit and kept dementia. DAYS GONE BY BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 24-25, 1917 Fresh from winning the bulldogging championship of Montana, Frank Cable, well known Round-Up star, arrived back in Pendleton this morning to report for duty with Troop D, of which he was one of the first recruits. Scoop Martin, another well known cowboy who has been making the circuit with Dell Blancett, has also returned to go with the Pendleton cavalry. Dell Blancett, who staged the show, is expected back in Pendleton within a few days. He enlisted in the cavalry troop but is trying to secure his discharge. He was a candidate for captain of the troop and it is understood that he is not at all eager to serve under Captain Caldwell. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 24-25, 1967 A near-drowning of a Portland girl at Heppner municipal swimming pool recently has resulted in a telephone being installed in the bath house. Lifeguard Stuart Dick, who had just completed Red Cross lifeguard instruction less than three weeks before, had to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation the victim, Judy Devore, 17. When Dick pulled her from the pool there was no pulse, she was not breathing, and her face was a dark blue. Dick immediately started emergency treatment and she responded about five minutes later. It was some time before anyone reacted enough to give Dick assistance by calling the bath house attendant to go to a neighboring house to phone for an ambulance. It was the first near- drowning at the pool in more than 20 years. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 24-25, 1992 Umatilla County’s plan for the dust-control oil of its dreams could be all washed up. After a lengthy search for an environmentally safe dust oil, workers began the first application of the syrupy stuff earlier this week. But the county’s test run with tankers full of Lignosite — a new-fangled, natural wood product supposed to be on the cutting edge of environmental safeness — is proving to be water-soluble. Heavy rains that blanketed the area the last couple of days came just after the first applications of the oil. Hal Phillips, county roadmaster, said crews had about half of the subscribed roads covered before rain set in — and before all of the oil set up. 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 206th day of 2017. There are 159 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 25, 1967, a full-page ad in The Times (of London) called for the legal- ization of marijuana, saying the law against the drug was “immoral in principle and unworkable in practice”; among the signatories were all four of the Beatles, one of whom, Paul McCartney, paid for the ad. On this date: In 1593, France’s King Henry IV converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism. In 1866, Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army of the United States, the first officer to hold the rank. In 1917, Nikon Corp. had its beginnings with the merger of three optical manufacturers in Japan. In 1934, Austrian Chan- cellor Engelbert Dollfuss was assassinated by pro-Nazi Austrians in a failed coup attempt. In 1946, the United States detonated an atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in the first underwater test of the device. In 1952, Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the United States. In 1956, the Italian liner SS Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish passenger ship Stockholm off the New England coast late at night and began sinking; 51 people — 46 from the Andrea Doria, five from the Stockholm — were killed. (The Andrea Doria capsized and sank the following morning.) In 1984, Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space as she carried out more than three hours of experi- ments outside the orbiting space station Salyut 7. Today’s Birthdays: Actress Barbara Harris is 82. Folk-pop singer-musician Bruce Woodley (The Seekers) is 75. Rock musician Jim McCarty (The Yardbirds) is 74. Rock musician Verdine White (Earth, Wind & Fire) is 66. Singer-musician Jem Finer (The Pogues) is 62. Model-ac- tress Iman is 62. Cartoonist Ray Billingsley (“Curtis”) is 60. Rock musician Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) is 59. Celebrity chef/TV personality Geoffrey Zakarian is 58. Actress-singer Bobbie Eakes is 56. Actress Katherine Kelly Lang is 56. Actor Matt LeBlanc is 50. Rock musician Paavo Lotjonen (Apocalyp- tica) is 49. Actor D.B. Wood- side is 48. Thought for Today: “No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side.” — Jascha Heifetz, Russian-born Amer- ican violinist (1901-1987). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE