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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