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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Plans to attend bachelor party
cause man’s girlfriend angst
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY JIM DAVIS
Dear Abby: My boyfriend of two
to delete my account. The argument
years will be attending a bachelor
always ends with her saying, “You
party in Las Vegas. We’ve never had
will delete it because I hate it!”
any issues of infidelity, yet I can’t help
I don’t want to delete my Facebook
but feel anxious about his upcoming
page, and I hate arguing with my
trip. I know the scene that exists in
wife. What should I do? — “Likes”
Vegas — I’m in my mid-20s and I
Facebook In Raleigh, N.C.
enjoyed my trips there when I was
Dear “Likes” Facebook: Try to
younger and single.
get
to the bottom of why she finds
Jeanne
I’m worried about him and his Phillips your staying in touch with these
friends going to strip clubs, topless
people threatening, because it appears
Advice
pool parties, etc. I don’t mind him
you married someone who is very
enjoying a trip and going out with
controlling. She is your spouse, not
the boys, but I think attending an event with your jailer. If you want to participate in social
nudity is disrespectful to the other person media, continue to do so.
when you’re in a long-term, serious relation-
Although you didn’t mention it, I can’t
ship. I don’t want him to feel he has to tell his help but wonder if her jealousy and posses-
friends he can’t go to those things. What are siveness have affected other areas of your
your thoughts on this? — What Happens In life. If that’s the case, talk about it with a
Vegas ...
licensed marriage and family therapist before
Dear What Happens In Vegas: You it drives the two of you apart. If she won’t go
and your boyfriend are both adults. Viewing with you, go alone.
topless entertainment or attending a topless
Dear Abby: I’m a doctor. I give free
pool party is not infidelity. If he hasn’t given medical advice to my cousin and her mother
you any reason to worry so far, give him the several times a month, and have for quite
benefit of the doubt.
some time now. I do it free of charge because
P.S. By the way, I have heard that some we are family and there’s a close bond
bachelorette parties can be equally wild. Do between us.
you plan to swear off them yourself?
My cousin works in marketing, so I
Dear Abby: My wife hates Facebook. asked her if she could help me design my
She has always hated it and never signed up. presentation card. She replied that she would
I have had an account since the site began give me three designs to choose from, and it
and maintain many connections with friends, would cost roughly $100. I feel it’s wrong for
family members who live far away, old her to charge me for her service since I’ve
teachers — even my in-laws. I don’t discuss never charged her. — Free Of Charge In
it with my wife much because it makes her California
angry.
Dear Free Of Charge: It’s possible your
I’m not constantly on it, and it’s not like cousin was asking to be reimbursed for the
I’m doing anything bad. But if she hears from cost of the MATERIALS involved in creating
a friend about a funny or insightful comment the cards for you. Before you allow yourself
I made on Facebook, we end up getting into to get into a snit, perhaps you should clarify
a huge argument because she insists I have exactly what you would be paying for.
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Oct. 18, 1917
The audience at the O.A.C.-Idaho football
game Saturday will see the college contest
from the grandstand. There will be too many
people present to permit of turning the crowd
loose along the sidelines such as is done at
high school games, and all people except
substitutes and officials will be kept off the
south sidelines in order not to obstruct the
view from the grandstand. The playing field
will be placed as near the grandstand as
possible for the benefit of the spectators.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Oct. 18, 1967
Col. Charles Wellington Furlong (U.S.A.
Ret.), F.R.G.S., author of “Let ’er Buck,” and
grand marshal of the Westward Ho! parade
in 1966, died recently in Hanover, N.H., two
months short of his 94th birthday. Explorer,
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
author, soldier, artist, ethnologist, lecturer,
world citizen who still claimed Pendleton as
his home town, he was also a top cowboy and
in 1914 won the world’s championship bull
riding at the Round-Up, riding the notorious
Sharkey, staying 12 1/2 seconds, a record
never beaten.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Oct. 18, 1992
Ralph and Katie Low of Pilot Rock were
recent hosts for author Patrick McManus,
who visited the area for a book signing. His
humorous books about the outdoors include
“Real Ponies Don’t Go Oink” and “The
Good Samaritan Strikes Again.” Ralph and
Pat met in June 1991 during the writer’s last
stop at Armchair Books in Pendleton. Pat was
interested in chukar hunting, and Ralph knew
just the property. Bird rights are owned by Dr.
Richard Koch, father-in-law to the Lows’ son,
Wayne, both of Pilot Rock.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Today is the 291st day of
2017. There are 74 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Oct. 18, 1767, the
Mason-Dixon line, the
boundary between colonial
Pennsylvania, Maryland and
Delaware, was set as astron-
omers Charles Mason and
Jeremiah Dixon completed
their survey.
On this date:
In 1685, King Louis XIV
signed the Edict of Fontaine-
bleau, revoking the Edict of
Nantes that had established
legal toleration of France’s
Protestant population, the
Huguenots.
In 1867, the United States
took formal possession of
Alaska from Russia. The
cornerstone was laid for
Baltimore City Hall.
In 1892, the first long-dis-
tance telephone line between
New York and Chicago was
officially opened (it could
only handle one call at a
time).
In 1922, the British
Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (later
the British Broadcasting
Corp.) was founded.
In 1931, inventor Thomas
Alva Edison died in West
Orange, New Jersey, at age
84.
In 1954, Texas Instru-
ments unveiled the Regency
TR-1, the first commercially
produced transistor radio.
In 1967, the first issue
of Rolling Stone magazine
(which carried a cover date
of Nov. 9) was published.
In 1969, the federal
government banned artificial
sweeteners known as cycla-
mates because of evidence
they caused cancer in labora-
tory rats.
In 1977, West German
commandos stormed a
hijacked Lufthansa jetliner
on the ground in Mogadishu,
Somalia, freeing all 86
hostages and killing three of
the four hijackers.
In 1982, former first
lady Bess Truman died at
her home in Independence,
Missouri, at age 97.
In 1997, a monument
honoring American service-
women, past and present,
was dedicated at Arlington
National Cemetery.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Sportscaster Keith Jackson
is 89. Actress Dawn Wells is
79. College and Pro Football
Hall of Famer Mike Ditka
is 78. Singer-musician Russ
Giguere is 74. Actor Joe
Morton is 70. Actress Pam
Dawber is 67. Author Terry
McMillan is 66. Writer-pro-
ducer Chuck Lorre is 65.
Gospel singer Vickie Winans
is 64. Director-screenwriter
David Twohy is 62. Interna-
tional Tennis Hall of Famer
Martina Navratilova is 61.
International Hall of Fame
boxer Thomas Hearns is
59. Actor Jean-Claude Van
Damme is 57. Jazz musician
Wynton Marsalis is 56.
Country singer Josh Gracin
is 37. Jazz singer-musician
Esperanza Spalding is 33.
Actor Zac Efron is 30.
Thought for Today: “I do
not prize the word cheap. It
is not a badge of honor ... it
is a symbol of despair. Cheap
prices make for cheap goods;
cheap goods make for cheap
men; and cheap men make
for a cheap country!” —
President William McKinley
(1843-1901).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE