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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