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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