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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, June 1, 2018 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Rescinded vacation invitation causes bad blood in family FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My son “Jeff” is in “How are you today, young lady?” I find it condescending. Why is it wealthy and lives in another state necessary to make reference to my with his wife and family. His wife has age? Obviously, they don’t think I’m now moved her mother to where they young at all. What would you say in live and she works for my son. Jeff these situations? — Irritated In San and his family take vacations several Diego times a year in the U.S. and out of it, Dear Irritated: You are ask- and always include her mother or her Jeanne ing a question I receive often. Older father and his wife. Two months ago, he invited his Phillips women not only resent being called Advice “young lady,” they also dislike sister and niece to go with them. being called “honey” and “sweetie” They were very excited, but a few days later he called them and said his wife by someone who doesn’t know them well. wanted her mother to go, so the invitation Because it bothers you, tell the person, “I know you’re trying to be nice, but in was withdrawn. My son and his wife don’t think they did the future, please use my name or call me anything wrong, but there have been bad ‘ma’am.’” This is something you might also feelings ever since, and they continue to take mention to the store manager, so he or she her family everywhere. How would you han- can remind the staff that not everyone appre- dle this? Would you keep silent or speak to ciates the over-familiarity. them? — Not Invited In Oklahoma Dear Abby: Recently, on an airline flight, Dear Not Invited: It appears your son’s the passenger next to me put her feet (with wife rules the roost. I don’t blame your shoes on) onto the headrest in front of her. daughter for feeling hurt, because what your No one was in the seat. Since she had her headphones on, I tapped her on the shoul- son did was insensitive and rude. The problem with keeping silent is that der and indicated that it was unsanitary to put hurt feelings fester and grow. If it were me, one’s feet where normally a passenger’s head I wouldn’t fume in silence. Your daughter should be. I got a dirty look for my efforts, should talk to her brother about what hap- and the young woman made quite a scene. pened, and point out how hurtful rescind- Should I have ignored the situation, or ing the invitation was to her and her daugh- said something to the flight attendants? What ter. Getting it off her chest may make her feel do you recommend? — Unsanitary In The East better. Dear Unsanitary: If you had quietly Dear Abby: I’m a 69-year-old woman. I look my age because, unlike most of my alerted the flight attendants and let them han- friends, I don’t color my hair. Sometimes dle it, you would have spared yourself the when I’m shopping — such as in a grocery unpleasantness you experienced. That’s what store — employees call me “young lady,” as I would recommend. 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 June 1, 1918 William Giesie, former resident of Hermis- ton and now farming in Morrow county, went with a team and wagon over a 500 foot cliff last week and still lives to tell the tale. The accident occurred on the Wyland ranch on Rock creek, a week ago Friday. Mr. Wyland and Mr. Giesie were building fence and had driven to the edge of the cliff to get some wire. Near the cliff’s edge something hap- pened to the wagon and the horses becoming frightened, went over the cliff. Mr. Wyland was thrown from the wagon at the start and lay unconscious. The horses and Giesie went down 500 feet to the bottom of the cliff. When found Mr. Giesie was unconscious and terri- bly cut about the head. He did not regain con- sciousness for 24 hours. It is believed he will recover. The horses also came out alive. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 1, 1968 Stealing gasoline from a city police car is just about as daring as driving into the rear end of a state police automobile on the high- way — either way, it doesn’t pay. Today Doyle Clifford Medley, 22, and Richard Phil- lip Courteau, 39, were in the city jail in lieu of bail charged with larceny, and in addition Medley is charged with carrying a concealed weapon. City police officer Ron Williams arrested them at SE Court and 18th at 1:44 a.m. today, accusing them of stealing five gal- lons of gasoline from an unmarked city police car customarily driven by Police Chief Ernest Gallaher, and which was parked in front of his residence at 619 S.E. 3rd when the incident occurred. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 1, 1993 A guard at Eastern Oregon Correc- tional Institution in Pendleton escaped seri- ous injury Monday when he was struck by a weight-training bar wielded by a inmate. The guard, Louis Michael, 26, of Pendleton, was hit in the head, arms and leg by the bar. He was transported by Pendleton Ambulance to St. Anthony Hospital, where he was treated and released. Sharon Jackson, executive assistant to the superintendent at EOCI, said the suspect has been placed in segregation. His name is being withheld pending com- pletion of an investigation by Oregon State Police, which has legal authority for crimes committed at the prison. 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 152nd day of 2018. There are 213 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On June 1, 1968, the cult British television series “The Prisoner,” starring Pat- rick McGoohan as an ex-se- cret agent who finds himself trapped in a sinister, Orwel- lian village, had its Amer- ican premiere on CBS. Author-lecturer Helen Keller, who earned a college degree despite being blind and deaf almost her entire life, died in Westport, Connecticut, at age 87. On this date: In 1813, the mortally wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence, gave the order, “Don’t give up the ship” during a losing battle with the British frigate HMS Shannon in the War of 1812. In 1868, James Buchanan, the 15th president of the United States, died near Lan- caster, Pennsylvania, at age 77. In 1927, Lizzie Borden, accused but acquitted of the 1892 ax murders of her father, Andrew, and her step- mother, Abby, died in Fall River, Massachusetts, at age 66. In 1958, Charles de Gaulle became premier of France, marking the beginning of the end of the Fourth Republic. In 1977, the Soviet Union formally charged Jewish human rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason. (Shcharansky was impris- oned, then released in 1986; he’s now known as Natan Sharansky.) In 1980, Cable News Net- work made its debut. Today’s Birthdays: Singer Pat Boone is 84. Actor-writer-director Peter Masterson is 84. Actor Mor- gan Freeman is 81. Actor Rene Auberjonois is 78. Opera singer Frederica von Stade is 73. Country musi- cian Richard Comeaux (River Road) is 57. Actor- singer Jason Donovan is 50. Actress Teri Polo is 49. Bas- ketball player-turned-coach Tony Bennett is 49. Actor Rick Gomez is 46. Singer Alanis Morissette is 44. Actress Sarah Wayne Callies is 41. TV personality Damien Fahey is 38. Actress-writer Amy Schumer is 37. Thought for Today: “To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fight- ing.” — E.E. Cummings, American poet, (1894-1962). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
