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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, August 17, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ With twins on the way, man still refuses to buy a ring FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I have been with my Dear Abby: My sister “Marcie” boyfriend for three years. I am preg- is very attached to her dog, nant with twins, and we already have “Doodles.” She had two. They were a son together. His daughter lives with quite old, and one passed last year. us as well. It was traumatic for the entire family With this pregnancy coming to because we were concerned about term, I keep throwing hints to him Marcie’s mental state. Now Doodles about us becoming engaged, but he looks close to the end, and she’s in a brushes them off. I know he’s the constant state of distress. Jeanne person I want to spend the rest of Phillips Marcie takes the dog with her my life with. I don’t want to pressure everywhere, whether it’s appropriate Advice him into an engagement, but it’s been or not. When her in-laws invited her three years, three kids and a stepchild, and her husband on a cruise next and I still don’t have my ring! spring, she burst into tears at the thought of I wouldn’t even mind a long engagement. leaving Doodles for a week. I just want to know we’re headed in the direc- I’m beside myself with worry over my tion of marriage. I want to know he wants the sister’s mental state and afraid of what same things I want. An engagement is the her dog’s passing will bring. It’s not just only way I’ll feel sure he plans on spending Doodles’ age and declining health; Marcie his future with me. Can you help? — Very has always let her animals run/ruin her life. Thousands of dollars have been spent Pregnant In New Jersey Dear Very Pregnant: It should be replacing carpeting, wood floors, urine- dawning on you by now that a man who stained curtains, rugs and furniture. brushes off hints about becoming engaged Any thoughts? How can she be prepared isn’t interested in a formal arrangement. I for what we all know is coming? — Too wish you had asked for my advice 10 months Attached In Tennessee ago, because I would have urged you not to Dear Too Attached: If you think there is become pregnant again unless you were sure anything the family can do to prepare your where the relationship was going. sister, forget it. She will go through a period From where I sit, it is going nowhere. There of grieving for the animal companion she is no way anyone can help you push someone has grown to love. To her, Doodles is a full- who is unwilling into marriage. What I CAN fledged family member. do is stress that should anything happen to When the inevitable happens, be him, you and the little ones will be left with patient, be understanding, be prepared to nothing unless he makes a will that names you listen when she pours out her grief and, if as beneficiary. When you discuss THAT with necessary, go online to help her find a grief him, do not hint or allow him to brush you off, support group for people who are mourning because the implications are very serious. the loss of a pet. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 17, 1917 George Hackathorne, the Pendleton boy who left here for Los Angeles and entered the moving picture game, plays a prominent minor part in the film play “Wild and Woolly,” starring Douglas Fairbanks, which appears at the Pastime Sunday and Monday. He is cast in the character of “The Simp.” 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 17, 1967 Mrs. John S. Bauer of Pendleton received a phone call from a Mission ham radio operator Wednesday evening. The operator, Jim Armstrong, told them he had received a message from their son-in-law in Alaska. Robert E. Carter, a radar technician on a radio wave unit for RCA on Distant Early Warning line, had evacuated his wife Dorthea and two of their children, Kim, 5, and Sean, 4 months, from Nenana, along the flooded Yukon river, and sent them via airplane about 200 miles to Anchorage. Their son, Robert, THIS DAY IN HISTORY BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN 9, stayed behind with his father at the radar station. Mrs. Bauer said that the Chena river had flooded into the Tanana and Yukon rivers, forcing the evacuation. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 17, 1992 A Hermiston man suffered a broken leg and head injuries when he was hit while walking across a freeway exit at the intersec- tion of Interstate 84 and Highway 730 early this morning. It was the third I-84 pedestrian accident in the area in the past month. Dennis J. Graham, 40, was struck about 2:05 a.m. while walking eastbound on the freeway and crossing exit 168. A car driven by Heather J. Lusco, 22, of Colfax, Wash., struck Graham as it exited the freeway the same time Graham was crossing the ramp a couple miles east of Boardman. Graham was transported to Good Shepherd Hospital by Boardman ambulance with a broken lower leg, injury to the side of his head and cuts and abrasions. Lusco also suffered cuts from broken glass from the windshield. Today is the 229th day of 2017. There are 136 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On August 17, 1807, Robert Fulton’s North River Steamboat began heading up the Hudson River on its successful round trip between New York and Albany. On this date: In 1863, Federal batteries and ships began bombarding Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor during the Civil War, but the Confederates managed to hold on despite several days of pounding. In 1915, a mob in Cobb County, Georgia, lynched Jewish businessman Leo Frank, 31, whose death sentence for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan had been commuted to life imprisonment. (Frank, who’d maintained his inno- cence, was pardoned by the state of Georgia in 1986.) In 1943, the Allied conquest of Sicily during World War II was completed as U.S. and British forces entered Messina. In 1945, Indonesian nationalists declared their independence from the Netherlands. The George Orwell novel “Animal Farm,” an allegorical satire of Soviet Communism, was first published in London by Martin Secker & Warburg. In 1962, East German border guards shot and killed 18-year-old Peter Fechter, who had attempted to cross the Berlin Wall into the western sector. In 1969, Hurricane Camille slammed into the Mississippi coast as a Category 5 storm that was blamed for 256 U.S. deaths, three in Cuba. In 1978, the first successful trans-Atlantic balloon flight ended as Maxie Anderson, Ben Abruzzo and Larry Newman landed their Double Eagle II outside Paris. In 1982, the first commercially produced compact discs, a recording of ABBA’s “The Visitors,” were pressed at a Philips factory near Hanover, West Germany. Today’s Birthdays: Former Chinese president Jiang Zemin is 91. Author V.S. Naipaul is 85. Former MLB All-Star Boog Powell is 76. Actor Robert DeNiro is 74. Movie director Martha Coolidge is 71. Rock musi- cian Gary Talley (The Box Tops) is 70. Actor-screenwrit- er-producer Julian Fellowes is 68. Actor Robert Joy is 66. International Tennis Hall of Famer Guillermo Vilas is 65. Rock singer Kevin Rowland (Dexy’s Midnight Runners) is 64. Rock musician Colin Moulding (XTC) is 62. Country singer-songwriter Kevin Welch is 62. Olympic gold medal figure skater Robin Cousins is 60. Singer Belinda Carlisle is 59. Author Jonathan Franzen is 58. Actor Sean Penn is 57. Jazz musician Everette Harp is 56. Rock musician Steve Gorman (The Black Crowes) is 52. Thought for Today: “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.” — Edith Wharton, American author (1862-1937). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
