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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