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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Expectant mother hasn’t told
husband he’s not the father
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I am a mother of three
a family meeting to discuss the possi-
and happily married to my kids’ father.
bility. We’re all in our 50s or older, and
I am now seven months pregnant with
some of us have health issues.
my fourth baby, but this child is not
There has always been a lot
my husband’s. My husband is a loving
of bickering between some of us
man and a good father. My problem is,
because of control issues. I explained
I don’t know how to tell him I’m not
to everyone that we can make our
carrying his baby. The man I slept with
requests for locations, activities, etc.,
is married and always saying he wants
but we all need to be willing to give a
Jeanne
to marry me. He has one son with his Phillips little. The bickering is continuing, and
wife. I love my kids, and I still love my
some unkind things were said about
Advice
husband. How can I tell him the truth
others.
without tearing my family apart? —
I just want to plan a fun vacation
Big Mistake
and have a good time, but I’m worried the
Dear Big Mistake: Not knowing your negativity will carry over to the vacation. We
husband, I can’t guess at how he will react are all we have left in this world. Our parents
when you break the news. I’m sure he won’t died years ago, and since then, one of our
be pleased to hear it. Regardless, he must be siblings has passed away, too. I worry that
told, so do it at a time when it’s calm and quiet this may be a last chance for all of us to be
and you can discuss it without your children together. All but one live within 10 miles of
running in and out. I am sure he will have each other, and I’m sad to say we get together
many questions — among them, whether you only a few times a year. Any suggestions on
plan to continue a relationship with the child’s how to handle this sticky situation? — In
father. (Does the man plan to be part of the Vacation Mode
baby’s life in years to come?)
Dear Vacation Mode: Taking into
Because this may have legal ramifications, consideration the family dynamics you have
discuss this with an attorney, who can guide described, it’s wishful thinking to believe you
you in case there may be visitation issues, can control the way your siblings relate to
custody problems, etc. lurking just beyond the each other. The reason they see each other so
horizon.
infrequently may have something to do with
Dear Abby: I talked with one of my siblings the fact that some of them are petty, immature
about having a joint vacation. He suggested all and nasty. My suggestion would be to invite
of us get together with our spouses and go on only those siblings who can get along with
one together. We discussed locations and had each other and see the other ones separately.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Sept. 6, 1917
Did some mystic power give J.C. Hoskins
warning of the wreck Sunday night in which
Brakeman Walter Fuller of Train No. 255
was killed and then cremated? Though the
run down the mountain was made at night-
time and it was very cold Hoskins refused to
go into the caboose to rest nor would he let
his men do so. Instead they remained out on
top of the train all night, getting down and
watching the sheep when the train stopped.
According to Hoskins he had a sense of
impending danger and at times tried to look
back up the track but owing to the curves he
could see nothing. Owing to the coldness of
the night the other men were at first disposed
to criticize their employer for keeping them
up but after the wreck they were free in
thanking him for having saved their lives
because if they had been in the caboose at
the time of the smash they would doubtless
have been killed as was Fuller.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Sept. 6, 1967
Pendleton’s all-time drought record
reached 75 consecutive days without
measurable rain Monday midnight, and was
working on the 76th this morning — but
the local station of the U.S. Weather Bureau
figured it had only a 50-50 chance of making
it. The forecast is for light showers today and
tonight with isolated thunderstorm over the
Blues, and the chance of rain is 50 percent
today dropping to 20 percent tonight and
Wednesday.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Sept. 6, 1992
Alfred L. Lovgren, an 81-year-old
Heppner man accused of trying to kill his
son over a water-rights dispute, pleaded
not guilty Friday morning in district court.
Lovgren was given permission by the court
to return to his home. However, he was
ordered to stay away from his son, Stacey
Lovgren, 56, and daughter-in-law Darlene
Lovgren, 52, who live a few hundred yards
away from him on a rural route south of
Heppner. The charges stem from an incident
July 18 in which Lovgren allegedly drove to
his son’s home and fired three shots from a
.30-caliber rifle at his son and his son’s wife.
Alfred Lovgen allegedly commented about
the long-standing water rights dispute when
he pointed the rifle at his son.
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 249th day of
2017. There are 116 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On September 6, 1901,
President William McKinley
was shot and mortally
wounded by anarchist Leon
Czolgosz at the Pan-Amer-
ican Exposition in Buffalo,
New York. (McKinley died
eight days later; Czolgosz
was executed on October 29.)
On this date:
In 1861, Union forces led
by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
occupied Paducah, Kentucky,
during the Civil War.
In 1916, the first self-
serve grocery store, Piggly
Wiggly, was opened in
Memphis, Tennessee, by
Clarence Saunders.
In 1925, the silent film
horror classic “The Phantom
of the Opera,” starring
Lon Chaney, had its world
premiere at the Astor Theater
in New York.
In 1939, the Union of
South Africa declared war on
Germany.
In 1943, 79 people were
killed when a New York-
bound Pennsylvania Railroad
train derailed and crashed in
Philadelphia.
In 1954, groundbreaking
took place for the Shipping-
port Atomic Power Station in
western Pennsylvania.
In 1966, birth control
advocate Margaret Sanger
died in Tucson, Arizona, at
age 86, eight days before
her birthday. South African
Prime Minister Hendrik
Verwoerd was stabbed to
death by an apparently
deranged page during a
parliamentary session in
Cape Town.
In 1970, Palestinian
guerrillas seized control of
three U.S.-bound jetliners.
(Two were later blown up
on the ground in Jordan,
along with a London-bound
plane hijacked on Sept. 9; the
fourth plane was destroyed
on the ground in Egypt. No
hostages were harmed.)
In 1975, 18-year-old
tennis star Martina Navrati-
lova of Czechoslovakia, in
New York for the U.S. Open,
requested political asylum in
the United States.
In 1997, a public funeral
was held for Princess Diana
at Westminster Abbey in
London, six days after her
death in a car crash in Paris.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Comedian JoAnne Worley
is 82. Country singer David
Allan Coe is 78. Rock
singer-musician
Roger
Waters (Pink Floyd) is 74.
Actress Swoosie Kurtz is
73. Comedian-actress Jane
Curtin is 70. Rock musician
Mick Mashbir is 69. Country
singer-songwriter
Buddy
Miller is 65. Actor James
Martin Kelly is 63. Country
musician Joe Smyth (Sawyer
Brown) is 60. Actor-come-
dian Jeff Foxworthy is 59.
Actor-comedian
Michael
Winslow is 59. Rock musi-
cian Perry Bamonte is 57.
Actor Steven Eckholdt is 56.
Rock musician Scott Travis
(Judas Priest) is 56. Pop
musician Pal Waaktaar (a-ha)
is 56. New Jersey Gov. Chris
Christie is 55. Rock musician
Kevin Miller is 55. Actress
Rosie Perez is 53. Rock
singer Dolores O’Riordan
(The Cranberries) is 46.
Actor Idris Elba is 45.
Thought for Today: “We
live in a fantasy world, a
world of illusion. The great
task in life is to find reality.”
— Iris Murdoch, Anglo-Irish
author and philosopher
(1919-1999).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE