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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, July 28, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Guilt mingles with grief after boyfriend’s death FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My boyfriend died ordered us to stop talking because we unexpectedly a few months ago, and it “bother” her. She wears headphones has been a struggle to get through my while she watches TV, but she says sadness. We had been through a lot in she can still hear us. the year and a half we were dating, Abby, when I wear headphones including some infidelities on my part. (even on a very low volume), it tunes Aside from my sadness and guilt, out almost everything. By her strong I’m struggling with the fear that I’ll reaction, I am assuming this woman never live down my infidelities or be is unusually sensitive to noise, but Jeanne able to make it up to him. It is clouding Phillips this is a gym, not a library. We never the positive memories I have of him. I monopolize the machines. I don’t Advice don’t know how to stop my thoughts think I have ever been called rude from going all over the place. Please in any other situation, and I always help. — Sad In Sacramento try to be pleasant and accommodating, so I Dear Sad: Much as we might wish to, would appreciate your thoughts. — Cheryl none of us can change the past. I assume that In Houston Dear Cheryl: I do have a few. When you have now learned that it’s best to remain faithful in your romantic relationships. That’s people work out at a shared facility, they have a step in the right direction. The next step is to to expect there will be other people there. resolve that in future relationships you won’t Treadmills make noise, and sometimes it’s stray, and if you are tempted to, you will necessary to speak in a louder than normal discuss with your boyfriend what you feel is voice in order to be heard. If the woman missing in your relationship. complains again, suggest she move to a tread- As to how to disrupt the intrusive memo- mill farther away or increase the volume on ries that keep flooding back, a technique her headphones so your conversation won’t many people use is to REMIND themselves disturb her. However, if that doesn’t satisfy to stay in the moment each time an unwanted her, mention that she might be happier if she memory pops up. The technique is called worked out at a different time when the place “mindfulness,” and it works. isn’t as full. Dear Abby: I am wondering what the Dear Abby: Most everyone appears to be rule is for socializing at the gym. I work out fighting over politics these days, and there’s twice a week with a friend, and we usually do even in-fighting within each side. Will it ever part of our workout on the treadmill. While stop? — Baffled In The East we walk, we will chat. We don’t talk loudly, Dear Baffled: Perhaps. But it won’t and we never use offensive language. It’s just happen until people stop shouting (literally general chit-chat about kids, work, etc. and figuratively), decide to bring civility back Twice, one woman (the same woman) has and start listening respectfully to each other. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 28, 1917 The weather still remains extremely warm and all vegetation is burning up near Ukiah. It has threatened rain several times in the last few days, but blows over. Camas Prairie has never experienced such a drouth in the last 35 years, according to the recollection of some of the oldest settlers. There will not be hay enough raised here this year to meet one third of the local demand and stock of all kinds will be driven out toward Pilot Rock and Pendleton to winter. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 28, 1967 A tussle with a 35-pound chinook salmon ended with Dan Martindale the victor. He and Ray Silvander fished from the Wood- land, Wash., bar on the Columbia River. The Pendleton men often fish together, with Silvander serving as Martindale’s eyes, since he is blind. Martindale also caught several steelhead while Silvander had to be satisfied with a jack salmon. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian July 28, 1992 The 1249th Engineer Battalion of the Oregon National Guard declared “war” recently, transforming portions of the Umatilla and Wallowa-Whitman national forests into a battlefield. In the process of the friendly altercation, several construction projects were completed that will comple- ment northeast Oregon’s part in the Oregon Trail Sesquicentennial Celebration. “We like these projects because they’re the only time that we get to train,” said 1st Sgt. Scott Michaels, whose platoon spent part of last week clearing ground for a historic Whitman Overlook along Meacham Creek Canyon. While construction was under way, well out of reach from enemy forces, other platoons wee engaged with the enemy at the front line — armed with laser weapons and trying to avoid becoming listed as war casualties. 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 209th day of 2017. There are 156 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On July 28, 1945, a U.S. Army B-25 bomber flying in heavy fog crashed into the 79th floor of New York’s Empire State Building, killing all three people in the plane and 11 people in the building. The U.S. Senate ratified the United Nations Charter by a vote of 89-2. On this date: In 1540, King Henry VIII’s chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, was executed, the same day Henry married his fifth wife, Catherine Howard. In 1794, Maximilien Robespierre, a leading figure of the French Revolution, was sent to the guillotine. In 1821, Peru declared its independence from Spain. In 1914, World War I began as Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. In 1932, federal troops forcibly dispersed the so-called “Bonus Army” of World War I veterans who had gathered in Washington to demand payments they weren’t scheduled to receive until 1945. In 1959, in preparation for statehood, Hawaiians voted to send the first Chinese-Amer- ican, Republican Hiram L. Fong, to the U.S. Senate and the first Japanese-American, Democrat Daniel K. Inouye, to the U.S. House of Repre- sentatives. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced he was increasing the number of American troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000 “almost immedi- ately.” In 1976, an earthquake devastated northern China, killing at least 242,000 people, according to an offi- cial estimate. In 1977, Roy Wilkins turned over leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to Benjamin L. Hooks. In 1984, the Los Angeles Summer Olympics opened. In 1995, a jury in Union, South Carolina, rejected the death penalty for Susan Smith, sentencing her to life in prison for drowning her two young sons (Smith will be eligible for parole in 2024). Today’s Birthdays: Actor Darryl Hickman is 86. Ballet dancer-choreographer Jacques d’Amboise is 83. Musical conductor Riccardo Muti is 76. Former Senator and NBA Hall of Famer Bill Bradley is 74. “Garfield” creator Jim Davis is 72. Singer Jonathan Edwards is 71. Actress Linda Kelsey is 71. TV producer Dick Ebersol is 70. Actress Sally Struthers is 70. Actress Georgia Engel is 69. Rock musician Simon Kirke (Bad Company) is 68. Rock musician Steve Morse (Deep Purple) is 63. Former CBS anchorman Scott Pelley is 60. Alt-country-rock musician Marc Perlman is 56. Actor Michael Hayden is 54. Actress Lori Loughlin is 53. Jazz musician-producer Delfeayo Marsalis is 52. Former hockey player turned general manager Garth Snow is 48. Singer Afroman is 43. Rapper Soulja Boy is 27. Thought for Today: “All youth is bound to be ‘misspent’; there is some- thing in its very nature that makes it so, and that is why all men regret it.” — Thomas Wolfe, American author (1900-1938). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
