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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Stepmom feels squeezed out
by father-daughter relationship
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I think my step-
of all this? If she’s living, she must be
daughter “Caroline” has an unhealthy
beside herself. If she’s dead, she must
relationship with my husband. Caro-
be spinning in her grave.
line calls him several times a day and
Frankly, I’m not sure what you
gets tattoos just like his. When she
should “do.” If it were me, I’d remove
got a boob job, she wanted to show
myself from the equation.
him. She doesn’t talk to me much,
Dear Abby: Can you be stalked
although I have tried to be close to
by your spouse? My husband checks
her.
my phone for messages, checks the
Jeanne
Caroline knows I don’t approve of Phillips mileage in my car, opens all the
the way she gets money. She has a job
mail and listens in on all my phone
Advice
at a local store, but wants things she
conversations. If I’m late from work,
can’t afford, so she sleeps with men
I call to let him know, but he returns
for money. Her dad seems fine with it.
my call to make sure I am where I said I was.
They seem to have a closeness that he
He accuses strange cars that drive down
doesn’t share with me. We are fine until she our street of belonging to my boyfriends. He
gets involved. She does things to keep her even went into the exam room with me while
dad doing things for her so he doesn’t have I was having a physical. The doctor asked
time for me. What should I do? I’ve talked him to leave for my privacy.
to him about this, but he thinks I’m crazy. —
He says this shows his “concern” for
Disgusted Stepmom In Georgia
me. I’m being smothered. Please help. —
Dear Stepmom: You are not crazy. Your Stalked By Spouse
husband and his daughter have a relationship
Dear Stalked: What your husband is
it would be an understatement to call “inap- doing is not a demonstration of concern for
propriate.”
you. All the checking and accusations that
Caroline appears to be unusually emotion- there are other men in your life are symp-
ally dependent upon her father. That she toms of his insatiable insecurity and his need
would show him her newly acquired “boobs” to possess and control you.
may seem strange, but it’s not shocking to
His behavior is not normal. He is sick,
me. Many women who get implants show and he could possibly be dangerous. Please
them off to anyone who will look until the contact the National Domestic Violence
novelty wears off.
Hotline and talk to a counselor. The toll-free
What I do find appalling is a father who phone number is 800-799-7233. You may
would approve of his daughter prostituting need to create an escape plan, and someone
herself. What does Caroline’s mother think there can help you do it.
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. 23, 1917
When the residents of the new little town
of Boardman in Morrow County voted, 19 to
1, to build a $12,000 school house, they failed
to take into consideration that the O.-W. R.
& N. is a taxpayer there. Now they have to
fight for their right to build. An injunction
suit brought by the O.-W. R & N. against the
Boardman district is being tried in Pendleton
today before Judge Phelps. The company
contends there is no justification for such
an expensive school and it has a half dozen
attorneys and officials here to try to prove it.
Half the population of Boardman is here to
tend to their end of the scrap and there are
many witnesses to be examined.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Aug. 23, 1967
His day aboard the carrier begins during
the pre-dawn hours. Before the bustling
activity of flight deck operations start, he is
moving over his aircraft, checking every inch
of it for the mission it will fly that day. The
life of a pilot depends on this man’s checklist
and the careful inspection of planes. Who is
he? He is a “plane captain,” a special breed
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
of man who takes care of an aircraft as a
mother hen does her chicks. One of these
men is Aviation Machinist Mate 3 C. Edward
L. Morlan, 21, son of Mrs. Alden Morlan of
Echo, a 1965 graduate of Pendleton High
School, who is off the coast of North Vietnam
aboard the attack aircraft carrier Bon Homme
Richard, now on “Yankee Station” in the Gulf
of Tonkin.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Aug. 23, 1992
Some men’s dreams are bigger than
others. Mike Monroe’s dream — a houseboat
built from salvaged materials — is bigger
than most. The houseboat, 30 months in the
making, is 15 feet wide, 50 feet long and
weighs close to 22,000 pounds. It looks more
like a mobile home but cuts through the water
like a cabin cruiser, hitting a peak speed of 15
knots along the Columbia River. Monroe and
his wife, Linda, operate Bert’s Auto Salvage,
a business conducive to the project that
started as a much smaller idea in November
1989. Monroe recruited Linda’s father, Jim
Langdon — already notorious in these parts
for his amphicar — to help him construct
the pontoon foundation, an engine room, the
decking and cabin.
Today is the 235th day
of 2017. There are 130 days
left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On August 23, 1927,
amid worldwide protests,
Italian-born
anarchists
Nicola
Sacco
and
Bartolomeo Vanzetti were
executed in Boston for the
murders of two men during
a 1920 robbery.
On this date:
In 1305I, Scottish rebel
leader Sir William Wallace
was executed by the English
for treason.
In 1775, Britain’s King
George III proclaimed the
American colonies to be in
a state of “open and avowed
rebellion.”
In 1858, “Ten Nights
in a Bar-room,” a play by
Timothy Shay Arthur about
the perils of alcohol, opened
in New York.
In 1913, Copenhagen’s
Little Mermaid statue,
inspired by the Hans Chris-
tian Andersen story, was
unveiled in the harbor of the
Danish capital.
In 1914, Japan declared
war against Germany in
World War I.
In 1926, silent film star
Rudolph Valentino died in
New York at age 31.
In 1939, Nazi Germany
and the Soviet Union agreed
to a non-aggression treaty,
the
Molotov-Ribbentrop
Pact, in Moscow.
In 1947, an audience at
the Hollywood Bowl heard
President Harry S. Truman’s
daughter, Margaret, give
her first public concert as a
singer (she had previously
performed on the radio).
In 1960, Broadway
librettist Oscar Hammer-
stein II, 65, died in
Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
In 1973, a bank robbery-
turned-hostage-taking
began
in
Stockholm,
Sweden; the four hostages
ended up empathizing with
their captors, a psycho-
logical condition now
referred to as “Stockholm
Syndrome.”
In 1982, Lebanon’s
parliament
elected
Christian militia leader
Bashir Gemayel president.
(However, Gemayel was
assassinated some three
weeks later.)
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actress Vera Miles is 87.
Actress Barbara Eden is
86. Political satirist Mark
Russell is 85. Pro Football
Hall of Famer Sonny
Jurgensen is 83. Actor
Richard Sanders is 77. Ballet
dancer Patricia McBride is
75. Former Surgeon General
Antonia Novello is 73. Pro
Football Hall of Famer
Rayfield Wright is 72.
Country singer Rex Allen Jr.
is 70. Actor David Robb is
70. Singer Linda Thompson
is 70. Actress Shelley Long
is 68. Actor-singer Rick
Springfield is 68. Country
singer-musician
Woody
Paul (Riders in the Sky) is
68. Queen Noor of Jordan
is 66. Rock musician Dean
DeLeo (Army of Anyone;
Stone Temple Pilots) is 56.
Rock singer Julian Casa-
blancas (The Strokes) is 39.
Retired NBA player Kobe
Bryant is 39. NBA player
Jeremy Lin is 29.
Thought for Today: “The
chains which cramp us most
are those which weigh on
us least.” — Anne Sophie
Swetchine, Russian-French
author (1782-1857).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE