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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, October 3, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Millionaire boyfriend proves stingy with airline rewards FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I am in a long-distance wasn’t able to swing it. I work part- relationship with a man who lives time, so I have been helping them halfway across the country. Because when I can. he’s very wealthy, he arranges for all When we get together for dinner the airfare. I am a single mother and I once a month, most of their conver- have limited finances. sation focuses on their business. But “Bruce” owns a successful busi- recently they discussed a shopping ness and, through his business, racks trip they took together. They went on up millions of credit card points. a day I could have gone, but I was Jeanne He never pays out of pocket for any Phillips not invited. Should I take this — and vacation expenses — hotels, car, other similar incidents — as a hint Advice airfare, cruises, etc. that our friendship has run its course? Because I have been flying so — Feeling Left Out often to see him, I have been bumped several Dear Feeling Left Out: Talking about the times from my flights and received travel shopping trip in front of you was insensitive. credits on the airlines, which I was excited to However, you may not have been invited get because now I have the ability to fly with because your friends were afraid you might my children somewhere. be embarrassed if you could not participate The problem is, Bruce insists I use the in the shopping. You mentioned that their vouchers only to see him since they were business arrangement is recent. They may be obtained on his points. I argued that they discussing business because that’s what is on were my vouchers for giving up my seats. their minds. He says, yes, the seats HE “bought.” Don’t write them off or withdraw just Getting airfare is absolutely no skin off yet. You can always do that. Wait to see how his nose — he has millions of dollars and things play out. millions of points! Am I out of line here? — Dear Abby: Help! I’m a 67-year-old man Bumped In Kansas being relentlessly chased by a 68-year-old Dear Bumped: I don’t think so. However, woman. I have told her I want to date other you are getting an insight into Bruce — who women and will be moving out of the appears to be unwilling to subsidize any country at the end of the year. Despite this, travel that includes your children. If you she is constantly trying to maneuver me into haven’t already noticed, that should be a big an exclusive relationship, probably ending red flag if you’re considering a future with in living together. I don’t want to hurt her, this millionaire. but I’m at a loss as to how to get her to back Dear Abby: My three best friends over off. — Happily Uncommitted the last four years recently decided to start Dear Uncommitted: Here’s how. Tell her a business together. They said I was more you can’t handle the pressure she’s putting than welcome to join them, but financially I on you and end the relationship NOW. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 2-3, 1917 With one $25,000 local subscription made for the new liberty bonds and many smaller purchases or requests coming in the sale of the second series of liberty bonds is on in good shape in Pendleton, despite the fact there has been no organized effort made to get the campaign going. The $25,000 subscription was made through the First National Bank and the name of the purchaser is not announced. The bonds were purchased as an investment and according to G.M. Rice, head of the First National, many of the inquiries are from men who desire to secure the bonds on a strictly investment basis. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 2-3, 1967 Happiness is taking off your shoes, walking barefoot in straw and mud that you later mold with your hands into bricks for an adobe house just like Mexican Indians live in. That’s what the Washington Elementary sixth grade students in Nancy Schwindt’s and Bob King’s classes have been doing the last three weeks as part of their studies of Latin America. The mixture bakes in the sun. Then student carry the bricks to the four walls, about four feet high, and pack mud around cracks to cement the pieces together. They plan to put a straw roof on the house which they hope will stand awhile, perhaps to be used as a playhouse for kindergarten students. When they first started the house, and had it almost half completed, vandals tore it down. “They were one hundred percent in favor or rebuilding it,” said King. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 2-3, 1992 Stanley Bernson, convicted Thursday for killing 15-year-old Sharon Weber of Umatilla, will spend the rest of his life in prison following his second murder convic- tion. Bernson will remain in the Umatilla County Jail until he is sentenced at 9 a.m. Monday. Umatilla County District Attorney Dave Gallaher said he will be sentenced according to the laws in effect Dec. 22, 1978, when Weber was murdered. Gallaher believes his term will be a “virtually automatic life sentence.” Although the time Bernson serves will be subject to the parole board, he still has years to go on a previous murder conviction in Washington and an escape attempt from jail in Umatilla County. THIS DAY IN HISTORY DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN Today is the 276th day of 2017. There are 89 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 3, 1967, folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie, the Dust Bowl Trou- badour best known for “This Land Is Your Land,” died in New York of complications from Huntington’s disease; he was 55. On this date: In 1789, President George Washington declared Nov. 26, 1789, a day of Thanks- giving to express gratitude for the creation of the United States of America. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day. In 1922, Rebecca L. Felton, D-Ga., became the first woman to be appointed to the U.S. Senate (however, she served only a day). In 1932, Iraq became independent of British administration. In 1941, Adolf Hitler declared in a speech in Berlin that Russia had been “broken” and would “never rise again.” ‘’The Maltese Falcon” — the version star- ring Humphrey Bogart and directed by John Huston — premiered in New York. In 1951, the New York Giants captured the National League pennant by a score of 5-4 as Bobby Thomson hit a three-run homer off Ralph Branca of the Brooklyn Dodgers in the “shot heard ‘round the world.” In 1992, Barack Obama married Michelle Robinson at the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. In 1995, the jury in the O.J. Simpson murder trial in Los Angeles found the former football star not guilty of the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman (however, Simpson was later found liable for damages in a civil trial). In 2008, O.J. Simpson was found guilty of robbing two sports-memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel room. (Simpson was later sentenced to nine to 33 years in prison; he was granted parole in July 2017.) Today’s Birthdays: Composer Steve Reich is 81. Rock and roll star Chubby Checker is 76. Singer Lindsey Buckingham is 68. Baseball Hall of Famer Dave Winfield is 66. Civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton is 63. Actor Clive Owen is 53. Singer Gwen Stefani (No Doubt) is 48. Thought for Today: “I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose... Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling. I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood.” — Woody Guthrie (1912-1967). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
