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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, August 8, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Gym client vents her anger at bad-mouthing by trainer FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My boyfriend and I Then she expects me to wrap them. work out at the same gym. Over the The icing on the cake? She’s now past several months it has gotten back saying I need to add bows to these to me that one of the trainers, “Bob,” gifts, but she doesn’t send any money has been talking negatively about me for the wrapping paper or bows. to some of the other members. I think this is very rude. My My boyfriend works out with daughter thinks her aunt takes the another trainer there, and during his time to purchase these gifts, when workout, I approached him and his she’s only pressing a button and that Jeanne trainer and expressed my anger about Phillips is it. With everyone shopping online what Bob was doing. I said I was fed more and more, is this a new trend, Advice up and that I wanted to confront him. to have the parents wrap gifts instead My boyfriend told me to keep of the person giving them? — Online my mouth shut and say nothing. He said I Gift Giving shouldn’t take it personally, that Bob is just Dear Online: It’s only a trend if you being a hater. He also said the person who decide to let it become one. Feeling as you told me shouldn’t have. I disagree. I don’t do, it’s time you had a discussion with your think it matters how it got back to me — it sister-in-law concerning how you feel about did! this arrangement and what you expect from Last week, while his regular trainer was her. away, my boyfriend trained with Bob! I feel Dear Abby: My wife of 55 years passed it was disloyal, but he disagrees. He thinks I away five months ago and I am lonely. How should just let it go. What do you think? — long should I wait before establishing a rela- Gym Dilemma tionship with another woman? Dear Gym Dilemma: Because the A certain lady and I go to church together, bad-mouthing has happened more than once, so we are well acquainted. I never thought talk to the manager of the gym about what’s about being with her until my wife died. She going on. Bob may not like you, but that and my wife were friendly acquaintances. doesn’t give him the right to make the gym What is the right time to wait? Six months? an unpleasant place for clients to visit. If your A year? I never thought I could be lonely. boyfriend were loyal, he would have told Well, think again! — Ready For The Future Bob to knock it off. And he would not have Dear Ready: There’s no timetable for worked out with him when his regular trainer grieving. If you feel you are ready for was away; he would have chosen someone companionship, all you need to do is pick else. up the phone and call the lady you have in Dear Abby: My sister-in-law lives in mind. To do that is not disrespectful to your another state, so she often mails my daugh- late wife. It’s a tribute to the happiness you ter’s gifts to us after she buys the items online. experienced being part of a couple. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 7-8, 1917 Billie McMillan, 11 years old and rather small for his age, was cast adrift by his parents in this city yesterday and told to make his own living. According to his story told this morning to Juvenile Officer John Hailey, they brought him to Pendleton yesterday from Adams in the horse-drawn rig in which they are traveling through the county, set him down here, and drove away without him, telling him he was big enough to look out for himself. Fortunately he fell into the hands of Mr. Hailey this morning. The juvenile officer will care for him while he makes a search for the unnatural father and mother. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 7-8, 1967 State police suspected arson in a fire Monday morning inside an abandoned service station on Highway 30 near Barnhart. Pendleton Grain Growers sent one truck to the scene. Firemen were able to save part of the building. Residents in the Sherwood Heights area, six miles from the fire, smelled the smoke. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 7-8, 1992 Thomas Maletta, the New Jersey long-dis- tance truck driver who earlier this year pleaded guilty in the murder of his ex-girlfriend, was sentenced Thursday to spend at least 25 years in prison. Maletta, 30, will be 55 years old when he becomes eligible for parole in 2017, Judge Jack Olsen said in announcing his judg- ment. The sentence came after more than three hours of testimony from the victim’s mother, father and 10-year-old son, from a New Jersey woman who claimed she was raped by Maletta in 1987, and from Maletta himself, who other- wise sat quietly throughout the proceeding. 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 220th day of 2017. There are 145 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On August 8, 1974, Pres- ident Richard Nixon, facing damaging new revelations in the Watergate scandal, announced he would resign the following day. On this date: In 1815, Napoleon Bona- parte set sail for St. Helena to spend the remainder of his days in exile. In 1911, President William Howard Taft signed a measure raising the number of U.S. representatives from 391 to 433, effective with the next Congress, with a proviso to add two more when New Mexico and Arizona became states. In 1937, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, Japan completed its occupa- tion of Beijing. In 1942, during World War II, six Nazi saboteurs who were captured after landing in the U.S. were executed in Washington, D.C.; two others who coop- erated with authorities were spared. In 1945, President Harry S. Truman signed the U.S. instrument of ratification for the United Nations Charter. The Soviet Union declared war against Japan during World War II. In 1953, the United States and South Korea initialed a mutual security pact. In 1963, Britain’s “Great Train Robbery” took place as thieves made off with 2.6 million pounds in banknotes. In 1968, the Republican national convention in Miami Beach nominated Richard Nixon for president on the first ballot. In 1973, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew branded as “damned lies” reports he had taken kickbacks from government contracts in Maryland, and vowed not to resign — which he ended up doing. In 1992, AIDS activist Alison Gertz died in Westhampton Beach, Long Island, New York, at age 26. In 1994, Israel and Jordan opened the first road link between the two once-warring countries. In 2009, Sonia Soto- mayor was sworn in as the U.S. Supreme Court’s first Hispanic and third female justice. Today’s Birthdays: Actor Richard Anderson is 91. Actress Nita Talbot is 87. Singer Mel Tillis is 85. Actor Dustin Hoffman is 80. Actress Connie Stevens is 79. Country singer Phil Balsley (The Statler Brothers) is 78. Actor Larry Wilcox is 70. Actor Keith Carradine is 68. Movie director Martin Brest is 66. Radio-TV person- ality Robin Quivers is 65. Percussionist Anton Fig is 64. Actor Donny Most is 64. Rock musician Dennis Drew (10,000 Maniacs) is 60. TV personality Deborah Norville is 59. Rock musician The Edge (U2) is 56. Rock musi- cian Rikki Rockett (Poison) is 56. Middle distance runner Suzy Favor Hamilton is 49. Rock musician Tom Linton (Jimmy Eat World) is 42. Singer JC Chasez (‘N Sync) is 41. Rhythm-and-blues singer Drew Lachey (98 Degrees) is 41. Actress Jackie Cruz (TV: “Orange is the New Black”) is 33. Britain’s Princess Beatrice of York is 29. Actress Bebe Wood (TV: “The Real O’Neals”) is 16. Thought for Today: “The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.” — Sydney J. Harris, American journalist (1917-1986). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
