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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Man’s devotion to his family
leaves girlfriend feeling lonely
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: My boyfriend and I
Dear Abby: I am single, 33, and
just moved in together. We have been
have two kids. I have dipped my toe in
a couple for seven years. Until now,
the dating pool without success. I am
we have lived with our parents.
not lonely, but I find myself wanting a
I knew moving in would be a
relationship.
struggle for him because he’s very
When I tried dating websites, I got
close to his four siblings. Now that
a mixed bag of colorful characters.
we’ve moved in, he calls and video
When I do find someone I’m inter-
chats with them every day, visits twice
ested in, it fizzles out quickly.
Jeanne
a week or more and has sleepovers. Phillips
We start out by messaging on the
He also leaves work early to take his
site,
then we text each other. The
Advice
siblings on field trips or attend their
problem I am having is that these men
sports events.
don’t ask “get to know you questions”
I’m finding it very frustrating being or keep up a conversation at all. If I don’t text
alone all the time. I have talked to him and first or keep the conversation going, there’s no
expressed my feelings about the amount of communication at all. All of them state they
time he spends with his family. In my opinion, want a relationship, but they don’t put forth
it’s excessive, especially since neither of his the effort. I’m not sure what the problem is.
parents works.
Every time this happens, I forget about
He asked me to give him time to adjust, but dating for a while, but it happens again and
it has already been a month. This is the man again. Have any sage advice for me? —
I want to marry one day, but I can’t help but Looking In Nebraska
feel like I’m never put first. Please help! —
Dear Looking: You say you are messaging
Confounded In California
back and forth. After a few days of conversa-
Dear Confounded: You and your tion, have you suggested getting together for
boyfriend have been living together a grand a coffee date? It might provide an opportunity
total of one month. This is a period of adjust- to find out more about these men. If you have
ment for BOTH of you. It’s unrealistic to done that and encountered resistance, it might
expect your boyfriend — who appears to be suggest you are coming on too strong or they
tightly bound to his parents and siblings — to aren’t quite as ready as they have advertised.
instantly focus all his attention on you.
Because there is so much distraction and
My advice, and I hope you will heed it, is so much choice in online dating, perhaps you
to devote time to your own interests and activ- should consider meeting men the old-fash-
ities so you won’t be so dependent on him. ioned way — through friends, relatives or
Give it six months. If things haven’t resolved social groups. Meeting someone special when
in that amount of time, write me again.
one least expects it has been known to happen.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Oct. 9-10, 1917
On orders from the war department, Major
Richard Parks of the United States army is
now here for the purpose of inspecting a local
site for another proposed national army camp
site. The site recommended to the department
is in the triangle south of the Columbia river
and west of the Umatilla, about three miles
from Hermiston. The location was first
suggested to the war department by the Herm-
iston Commercial Club last spring and now
further data as to the availability of the place
is being submitted. The site consists of many
thousands of acres of level, unused land, with
good drainage, ample water abundant in the
Columbia or from Minnehaha springs and on
top of this the winter season is such that open
air drilling may be carried on most of the time.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Oct. 9-10, 1967
A Pendleton man shot and killed himself
Saturday night as police closed in on him in
connection with the theft of a Walla Walla coin
collection. The victim was Fred E. Sanders,
45. Inspector Don Woods of the Walla Walla
police said Sanders had carried out about 20
boxes of coins from the home of Mr. and
Mrs. David Mitchell and was bringing out
more, when the Mitchells returned home
and surprised him. Sanders fled in his car. A
nearby patrolman pursued him in his squad
car and trapped him on a dead-end street. As
officer Ronald Brookshore was making the
arrest, Sanders took the gun from under the
seat of his car and shot himself. He died one
hour and 20 minutes later.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Oct. 9-10, 1992
Leon Reese says founders of Peace
Lutheran Church — Germans who settled
about 10 miles north of Pendleton — must
have been tenacious people. Or just plain
stubborn, he adds, with a smile. Reese
and Leeroy Ehlers are co-chairmen for
the Pendleton church’s centennial this
weekend, which will feature an open house,
banquet and worship. The church today is
located at Northwest Ninth and Carden.
Farmers near Myrick Station wanted to
establish a German Lutheran church and
met to consider organizing on Oct. 9,
1892. They returned two weeks later and
adopted a constitution. Twenty men signed
the charter for “Evangelisch Lutherische
Frieden-Kirche.” The exact translation is
Evangelical Lutheran Peace Church.
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
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 283rd day of
2017. There are 82 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Oct. 10, 1967, the
Outer Space Treaty, prohib-
iting the placing of weapons
of mass destruction on the
moon or elsewhere in space,
entered into force.
On this date:
In A.D. 19, Roman general
Germanicus Julius Caesar,
33, died in Antioch under
mysterious circumstances,
possibly from poisoning.
In 1845, the U.S. Naval
Academy was established in
Annapolis, Maryland.
In 1913, the Panama Canal
was effectively completed as
President Woodrow Wilson
sent a signal from the White
House by telegraph, setting
off explosives that destroyed
a section of the Gamboa dike.
In
1917,
legendary
jazz composer and pianist
Thelonious Monk was born
in Rocky Mount, North
Carolina.
In 1935, the George
Gershwin opera “Porgy and
Bess,” featuring an all-black
cast, opened on Broadway,
beginning a run of 124
performances.
In 1938, Nazi Germany
completed its annexation of
Czechoslovakia’s Sudeten-
land.
In
1957,
President
Dwight D. Eisenhower apol-
ogized to the finance minister
of Ghana, Komla Agbeli
Gbdemah, after the official
was refused seating in a
Howard Johnson’s restaurant
near Dover, Delaware. The
Milwaukee Braves won the
World Series, defeating the
New York Yankees in Game
7, 5-0. The TV series “Zorro,”
starring Guy Williams as the
masked hero, debuted on
ABC.
In 1966, the Beach Boys’
single “Good Vibrations”
by Brian Wilson and Mike
Love was released by Capitol
Records.
In 1973, Vice President
Spiro T. Agnew, accused of
accepting bribes, pleaded
no contest to one count of
federal income tax evasion,
and resigned his office.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Former Illinois Sen. Adlai
Stevenson III is 87. Actor
Peter Coyote is 76. Enter-
tainer Ben Vereen is 71.
Singer John Prine is 71.
Actor Charles Dance is
71. Rock singer-musician
Cyril Neville (The Neville
Brothers) is 69. Actress
Jessica Harper is 68. Author
Nora Roberts (aka “J.D.
Robb”) is 67. Singer-musi-
cian Midge Ure is 64. Rock
singer David Lee Roth is 63.
Country singer Tanya Tucker
is 59. Rock musician Mike
Malinin (Goo Goo Dolls)
is 50. Pro Football Hall of
Famer Brett Favre is 48.
Actor/TV host Mario Lopez
is 44. Race driver Dale Earn-
hardt Jr. is 43.
Thought for Today: “The
imperceptible process of
age has a point which, once
passed, cannot be retraced. I
knew I had passed that point
and was getting old the day
I noticed that all the cops
looked so young.” — Harry
Lewis Golden, American
author, editor and publisher
(1903-1981).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE