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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Wednesday, August 2, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Wife decries kissing cousin’s return to family gatherings FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: When my husband and fine, except for one problem. He never I were dating, he told me that he’d had washes his hands after going to the a consensual sexual relationship with bathroom. To make matters worse, he his cousin, “Irma.” He said they were does most of the cooking, and he often in their early 20s and very immature. goes right from the bathroom straight They parted ways because they both into the kitchen. knew it was wrong, and Irma moved to I know that if I comment on his another state. He told me so one day I lack of hygiene, he will get angry and wouldn’t be blindsided should we ever defensive. How do I get him to be Jeanne be married. Phillips sanitary at his age? — Hungry No Well, we got married, and this More Advice cousin has kept her distance until Dear Hungry No More: I don’t recently. Irma has now started to attend blame you for having lost your appe- their family events. We live too far away to tite. After reading your letter, mine is gone, go, but I dread the day when we do and she’s too. there. Should I act like I don’t know what went You say your father lives with you and not on before I was in the picture? Nobody in his the reverse. In your home, you get to make the family knows this ever happened between rules. If this makes your father “defensive and them. angry,” so be it. I have told my husband it makes me very There’s a reason employees of restaurants uncomfortable and that it almost seems she are required to wash their hands after using the attends hoping to run into him. Why else would bathroom. It’s to prevent the spread of disease. she? I would be very ashamed of having done It may mean watching your father like a hawk, this and would continue to keep my distance. but you will have to enforce this. And if at all My husband says I have nothing to worry possible, do the cooking yourself. about because Irma means nothing to him. Dear Abby: I like this girl “Jayne” who What do I do if I run into this woman at one I work with that I wouldn’t mind dating. of these family gatherings? — Not Happy In Problem is, her mother also works there and The USA has sent out signals that she “likes” me, too. Dear Not Happy: I know it may be So how do I get Jayne without breaking her uncomfortable, but when your paths finally mother’s heart or creating waves at work for cross, be polite. You don’t have to do anything me? — Trouble In Albany, N.Y. but exchange the basic social amenities, and Dear Trouble: Workplace romances are spend your time socializing with the other strongly discouraged because if they end — relatives. and most do — it could be a recipe for disaster. Dear Abby: I’m a middle-aged, single Your situation sounds like DOUBLE-trouble. woman. My 76-year-old father lives with me. If I were you, I’d find a job where there is less We get along well and the arrangement works electricity in the air. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 2, 1917 Art “Skipper” Hicks seems to have a penchant for picking trouble with the wrong man. On the morning of July 3 he entered the home of Dr. I.U. Temple while drunk and was vanquished by the physician in a fistic combat. With that charge still hanging over him last night he and Ed Herrin attacked Roy McAfee, guard at the Eastern Oregon State Hospital. McAfee bested them in the encounter and delivered both to the police. Each paid a $25 fine this morning in police court. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 2, 1967 Maj. Gen. Patrick F. Cassidy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Pat Cassidy of Pilot Rock, received the Luxembourg Military Medal for his work with the Luxembourg Army. Maj. Gen. Cassidy, commanding general of the 8th Infantry Division in Germany, is the sixth foreign recipient of Luxembourg’s highest military decoration. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 2, 1992 The Hanford Fire Department’s mobile training vehicle arrived Wednesday in Pend- leton to give firefighters from city, tribal and volunteer departments hands-on experience in dealing with an emergency. The traveling semi-trailer has been making the rounds in Eastern Oregon for the past week. The facility includes movable panels that can be placed in seemingly unlimited positions to create mazes, tunnels, confined spaces, dead ends, climbing obstructions and stairs. Firefighters were besieged by heat, actual fire and simu- lated radio traffic to make the situation as realistic as possible. 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 214th day of 2017. There are 151 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On August 2, 1776, members of the Second Continental Congress began attaching their signatures to the Declaration of Indepen- dence. On this date: In 216 B.C., during the Second Punic War, Carthag- inian forces led by Hannibal defeated the Roman army in the Battle of Cannae. In 1876, frontiersman “Wild Bill” Hickok was shot and killed while playing poker at a saloon in Dead- wood, Dakota Territory, by Jack McCall, who was later hanged. In 1892, movie producer Jack L. Warner was born in London, Ontario, Canada. In 1923, the 29th president of the United States, Warren G. Harding, died in San Fran- cisco; Vice President Calvin Coolidge became president. In 1927, President Calvin Coolidge issued a written statement to reporters: “I do not choose to run for President in nineteen twenty-eight.” In 1939, Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt urging creation of an atomic weapons research program. President Roosevelt signed the Hatch Act, which prohibited civil service employees from taking an active part in polit- ical campaigns. In 1943, during World War II, U.S. Navy boat PT-109, commanded by Lt. (jg) John F. Kennedy, sank after being rammed in the middle of the night by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri off the Solomon Islands. Two crew members were killed. In 1967, the crime drama “In the Heat of the Night,” starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger, premiered in New York. In 1974, former White House counsel John W. Dean III was sentenced to one to four years in prison for obstruction of justice in the Watergate cover-up. (Dean ended up serving four months.) In 1985, 137 people were killed when Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 Tristar, crashed while attempting to land at Dallas- Fort Worth International Airport. In 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait, seizing control of the oil-rich emirate. (The Iraqis were later driven out in Oper- ation Desert Storm.) Today’s Birthdays: Actor Nehemiah Persoff is 98. Former Sen. Paul Laxalt, R-Nev., is 95. Rock musician Garth Hudson (The Band) is 80. Singer Kathy Lennon (The Lennon Sisters) is 74. Actor Max Wright is 74. Actress Joanna Cassidy is 72. Actress Kathryn Harrold is 67. Actor Butch Patrick (TV: “The Munsters”) is 64. Rock music producer/drummer Butch Vig (Garbage) is 62. Singer Mojo Nixon is 60. Actress Victoria Jackson is 58. Actress Apollonia is 58. Actress Cynthia Stevenson is 55. Actress Mary-Louise Parker is 53. Rock musician John Stanier is 49. Writer-ac- tor-director Kevin Smith is 47. Actress Jacinda Barrett is 45. Actor Sam Worthington is 41. Figure skater Michael Weiss is 41. Actor Edward Furlong is 40. Rock musician Devon Glenn is 37. TV mete- orologist Dylan Dreyer (TV: “Today”) is 36. Singer Charli XCX is 25. Actress Hallie Eisenberg is 25. Thought for Today: “The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, ‘The trouble with this country is...’” — Sinclair Lewis, American author (1885-1951). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
