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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Friday, August 11, 2017
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Spouse can’t fix what’s broken
between wife and her mother
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: My wife and I met
that what I’m doing is littering and
four years ago, have been married for
helping neither the furry friends nor
two and I still haven’t met her mother.
the environment. Can you help solve
My mother-in-law, a homophobic,
the debate — to toss or not to toss?
self-proclaimed “evangelist prophet,”
Thanks! — An Apple A Day
refuses to acknowledge our union.
Dear A.A.A.D.: I, too, love our
Her behavior upsets my wife, which
furry and feathered creatures, but I
angers me to the point that I have no
agree with your friends. What you are
desire to ever cross paths with her. My
doing is littering, regardless of how
Jeanne
wife sometimes cries about this wedge Phillips you’re rationalizing it. If you truly
in their relationship, which only makes
want to support the Earth, keep a small
Advice
me resent my mother-in-law more. Is
container in your vehicle for the apple
there something I should do or say to
core and dispose of it when you get
either of them that might possibly help all of us home.
deal with this turmoil a little better? — Frus-
Dear Abby: I just got together with a guy
trated Lesbian-In-Law
I really like. We have been dating for about
Dear Frustrated: If the wedge in your a week, but now I realize I’m just not ready
wife’s relationship with her evangelist to start dating. I’m 15 and I don’t feel I’m
prophet mother is that she is a lesbian and mature enough. Also, I don’t want a boyfriend
married, there is nothing you can do. Your because I’m moving in a month. Help! I don’t
mother-in-law will either, with time, come know if I should break up with him. What do I
to accept it (don’t hold your breath), or your do? — California Teen
wife will learn through counseling that it is
Dear California Teen: Because you are
not her responsibility to sacrifice her happi- moving in about a month, I don’t think breaking
ness to please her mother. I hope you will up in the formal sense is necessary. It couldn’t
encourage your wife to do that.
hurt to tell him you think you may have gotten
Dear Abby: I have been a daily reader of serious too quickly, because getting serious
your column since I was a little girl, so your after a week of dating IS too quickly. I have a
answer to my question will be valued.
hunch that once you have moved, distance will
I eat an apple every day on my drive home solve your problem for you.
from work, and when I’m done, I toss the core
P.S. Now that you realize you’re not ready
out the window. I try my best to support the to date, when you have made the move, take a
Earth, and I believe I am feeding the rabbits break from romance and concentrate on your
and birds with my apple a day. Friends insist studies. You won’t be sorry.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Aug. 11, 1917
Of the men drawn on the first draft in this
county, 24 are ready to be certified to the
district board at La Grande. That number are
shown by the records of the local board not
to have filed exemption claims, been rejected
for physical disability, to have enlisted or
to have been transferred to other boards for
examination. While there were 45 claims for
exemption filed with the local board, only 40
were from this county, the others being trans-
fers. In addition the board today filed exemp-
tion claims for two others, Martin Conrad
and Onto Bihoglo of Pendleton. Conrad
had registered as a citizen of Germany and
Bihoglo as a citizen of Austria. They are not,
therefore, eligible for service.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Aug. 11, 1967
The Pendleton Retail Merchants Associ-
ation has abandoned any idea of a mall for
downtown Pendleton. The retail merchants
met Wednesday with the mayor’s committee
on traffic and parking to discuss the future
of a mall, parking and traffic in Pendleton.
“The mall idea has been abandoned and this
committee will give to the public the parking
and traffic facilities that the public approved
in their answers in a recent mall question-
naire, conducted by the East Oregonian,”
said William Stram, chairman of the mayor’s
committee.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Aug. 11, 1992
After 135 issues of the Columbia Valley
Chronicle, the progressive little river town of
Boardman again finds itself without a home-
town weekly. The Glenn family published
its last edition of the tabloid newspaper last
week after 2 1/2 years of financial struggles.
“After much struggle, it’s just a recognition
that there’s just not enough interest in print
advertising in the Boardman-Irrigon-North
Morrow County market to financially support
a newspaper,” said publisher Ed Glenn, who
happens to be the president of the Boardman
Chamber of Commerce and a candidate for
Morrow County commissioner. The Chron-
icle, Glenn said, went the route of three other
preceding Boardman papers, including the
Boardman Beacon and the Boardman Enter-
prise, which were tried unsuccessfully in the
1970s, and another paper that was published
in the 1930s.
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 223rd day of
2017. There are 142 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On August 11, 1997,
President Bill Clinton made
the first use of the historic
line-item veto, rejecting
three items in spending and
tax bills. (However, the U.S.
Supreme Court later struck
down the veto as unconstitu-
tional.)
On this date:
In 1860, the nation’s first
successful silver mill began
operation near Virginia City,
Nevada.
In 1909, the steamship
SS Arapahoe became the
first ship in North America
to issue an S.O.S. distress
signal, off North Carolina’s
Cape Hatteras.
In 1934, the first federal
prisoners arrived at Alcatraz
Island (a former military
prison) in San Francisco Bay.
In 1942, during World
War II, Pierre Laval, prime
minister of Vichy France,
publicly declared that “the
hour of liberation for France
is the hour when Germany
wins the war.”
In 1954, a formal peace
took hold in Indochina,
ending more than seven
years of fighting between the
French and Communist Viet
Minh.
In 1956, abstract painter
Jackson Pollock, 44, died in
an automobile accident on
Long Island, New York.
In 1962, Andrian Niko-
layev became the Soviet
Union’s third cosmonaut in
space as he was launched on
a 94-hour flight.
In 1965, rioting and
looting that claimed 34 lives
broke out in the predomi-
nantly black Watts section of
Los Angeles.
In 1975, the United
States vetoed the proposed
admission of North and
South Vietnam to the United
Nations, following the
Security Council’s refusal
to consider South Korea’s
application.
In 1992, the Mall of
America, the nation’s largest
shopping-entertainment
center, opened in Bloom-
ington, Minnesota.
In
2014,
Academy
Award-winning actor and
comedian Robin Williams,
63, died in Tiburon, Cali-
fornia, a suicide.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actress Arlene Dahl is 92.
Songwriter-producer Kenny
Gamble is 74. Rock musi-
cian Jim Kale (Guess Who)
is 74. Magazine columnist
Marilyn Vos Savant is 71.
Country singer John Conlee
is 71. Singer Eric Carmen
is 68. Computer scientist
and Apple co-founder Steve
Wozniak is 67. Wrestler-actor
Hulk Hogan is 64. Singer Joe
Jackson is 63. Playwright
David Henry Hwang is 60.
Actor Miguel A. Nunez Jr. is
58. Actress Viola Davis is 52.
Actor Duane Martin is 52.
Actor-host Joe Rogan is 50.
Rhythm-and-blues musician
Chris Dave is 49. Actress
Anna Gunn is 49. Actress
Ashley Jensen is 49. Actress
Sophie Okonedo is 49. Rock
guitarist Charlie Sexton is
49. Actor Chris Hemsworth
is 34. Rock musician Heath
Fogg (Alabama Shakes)
is 33.
Thought for Today:
“A pessimist is a man who
looks both ways when he’s
crossing a one-way street.”
— Laurence J. Peter,
Canadian-born educator
and author of “The Peter
Principle” (1919-1990).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE