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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, July 27, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Dad suspects he’s judged for his stay-at-home status FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I’m at my wits’ end. 6 miles from me. They have a I have been unemployed for almost 4-year-old daughter and a 2-year-old two years. My wife has been working son. The only time I am guaranteed to during that time. We have two girls see my son and his family is on my I take care of as a stay-at-home birthday. The most I have ever seen dad. Although I have consistently my grandkids is four or five times a searched for work, I haven’t found year. anything, and it’s driving me crazy. I Last year, I saw them on my have edited and re-edited my resume, birthday and on my grandson’s Jeanne but nothing has happened. Phillips birthday. They never initiate any My question is, do women (and other interactions. I occasionally see Advice men) think stay-at-home dads are lazy my son if he needs to come by to pick people who leech off their wives? I up personal items still at my house. I have to admit negative thoughts have crossed have the impression that they see her family my mind, and I sometimes worry that people members frequently. — relatives — think I’m a low life or incom- My son works two jobs and drives 70-plus petent. Is this true? — Stay-At-Home Dad miles to work four days a week. The only Dear Dad: I know you are frustrated, but time they really have together is on Sunday. I you are being needlessly hard on yourself. realize my son is very busy, but I would like While some people still think that way, to see them more often. an increasing number no longer do. The Do you have any suggestions about traditional roles of the woman staying home approaching him about more contact? In and the man being the breadwinner have, of the past when I’ve mentioned it he became necessity as well as choice, become increas- defensive, as if I were trying to put a guilt trip ingly reversed since the beginning of the new on him. — Hoping For More millennium. Dear Hoping: Your mistake may be in The realities of today are far different than waiting for your son and daughter-in-law to they were 10, 20, 30 years ago. I don’t know do the inviting. You might have better luck if if your relatives feel the way you suspect they you offered to stop by for a visit, or to watch do, but if you think that’s what’s happening, the grandkids so their mother can have a little talk to them and straighten them out. This time for herself. Clearly, your son is on a truism isn’t original, but it applies to much tight schedule, and he does need to have time that’s happening in the world today: The only alone with his wife and kids. Granted, you thing that’s constant is change. would not be seeing your son, but half a loaf Dear Abby: My son and his wife live is better than none. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 27, 1917 Pendleton made such a hit with the editors by the entertainment given and incidentally gained such wide-spread publicity that there seems to be a desire on the part of other organizations to partake of this city’s hospi- tality. Yesterday the local jewelers received a telegram from the president of the Oregon Retail Jewelers’ association to the effect that Pendleton has a fine chance of landing the 1918 convention. At the same time Gene Goode of the Hotel Pendleton brought back word from the convention of the Oregon Hotelmen that all eyes are being turned to Pendleton as the place for the next meeting place of the innkeepers. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 27, 1967 A Round-Up great, Sammy Garrett, now 75, who won the bulldogging and all-around championship at the 1914 show, and who won the world championship trick roping title seven times at the Cheyenne Frontier celebra- tion, will return to Pendleton in September to serve as grand marshal of the historic Westward Ho! parade. The Round-Up was in its fifth year when Garrett captured the world championship here, with its symbolic Police Gazette belt. This was in the days when the Round-Up concluded the “counting” shows and when world cowboy champions actually were crowned in the arena. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 27, 1992 Robert Bonham, a 9-year-old Boardman boy, was seriously injured by a falling tree Saturday in south Morrow County. According to his other, Marie Bonham, her son was assisting his father, Ralph Bonham, and a friend load lumber into the back of a pickup truck near Penland Lake on the Umatilla National Forest about 25 miles from Heppner. A tree felled by one of the men struck the boy at about 6:15 p.m., she said. Robert was taken to Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Heppner before being transferred to St. Mary Medical Center in Walla Walla. He was listed in crit- ical and unstable condition this morning. THIS DAY IN HISTORY BLONDIE DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN Today is the 208th day of 2017. There are 157 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 27, 1967, Pres- ident Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to assess the causes of urban rioting, the same day black militant H. Rap Brown told a press conference in Washington that violence was “as Amer- ican as cherry pie. Ameri- cans taught the black people to be violent. We will use that violence to rid ourselves of oppression if necessary.” On this date: In 1789, President George Washington signed a measure establishing the Department of Foreign Affairs, forerunner of the Department of State. In 1866, Cyrus W. Field finished laying out the first successful underwater telegraph cable between North America and Europe (a previous cable in 1858 burned out after only a few weeks’ use). In 1880, British and Indian troops suffered a major defeat to Afghan forces during the Second Anglo-Afghan War. In 1921, Canadian researcher Frederick Banting and his assistant, Charles Best, succeeded in isolating the hormone insulin at the University of Toronto. In 1942, during World War II, the First Battle of El Alamein in Egypt ended in a draw as Allied forces stalled the progress of Axis invaders. (The Allies went on to win a clear victory over the Axis in the Second Battle of El Alamein later that year.) In 1953, the Korean War armistice was signed at Panmunjom, ending three years of fighting. In 1960, Vice President Richard M. Nixon was nominated for president on the first ballot at the Repub- lican national convention in Chicago. In 1974, the House Judiciary Committee voted 27-11 to adopt the first of three articles of impeach- ment against President Richard Nixon. In 1980, on day 267 of the Iranian hostage crisis, the deposed Shah of Iran died at a military hospital outside Cairo, Egypt, at age 60. Today’s Birthdays: TV producer Norman Lear is 95. Actor Jerry Van Dyke is 86. Sportscaster Irv Cross is 78. Actor John Pleshette is 75. Actress-director Betty Thomas is 70. Olympic gold medal figure skater Peggy Fleming is 69. Singer Maureen McGovern is 68. Actress Janet Eilber is 66. Rock musician Tris Imboden (Chicago) is 66. Actress Roxanne Hart is 63. Country musician Duncan Cameron is 61. Comedian-actress-writer Carol Leifer is 61. Comedian Bill Engvall is 60. Jazz singer Karrin Allyson is 55. Country singer Stacy Dean Campbell is 50. Rock singer Juliana Hatfield is 50. Actor Julian McMahon is 49. Actor Nikolaj Coster- Waldau is 47. Comedian Maya Rudolph is 45. Rock musician Abe Cunningham is 44. Singer-songwriter Pete Yorn is 43. MLB All-Star Alex Rodriguez is 42. Actor Seamus Dever is 41. Golfer Jordan Spieth is 24. Thought for Today: “Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Nice doggie’ until you can find a rock.” — Will Rogers, American humorist (1879-1935). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
