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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Wednesday, June 13, 2018 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Couple’s plans hit a snag over detour to a strip club FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER Dear Abby: My boyfriend and possible to control the actions of another adult. I have been dating for a year and a Dear Abby: My 33-year-old half. We are planning on moving to daughter recently moved back home California together in a few months. after failing to finish a graduate pro- I flew to Monterey to job hunt, gram. I discovered she was an alco- and he is supposed to be flying in holic a few years ago and encour- soon. However, last night I found out aged her to get treatment. She was he and his buddy went to a strip club. Jeanne My boyfriend knows I’m uncomfort- Phillips in an outpatient recovery program able with him going to strip clubs, and making progress, but recently Advice relapsed. and he assured me that they would Before her relapse, her dad and I not be going when we spoke on the helped her to buy a business, which is not phone earlier in the evening. He says I’m controlling and childish for doing well. Her employees quit, and she being angry at him. I told him it’s either me lost a lot of income. She started going to AA or the strip clubs — mostly just to see how meetings, and hired some people she met who attend and live in a halfway house. he would react. I regret helping her, and I now realize I His response was that freedom of choice is very important to him. I even went as far must stop all interactions with her. She has as to say if he feels the need to go to strip a huge sense of entitlement and does not clubs, then I would start stripping on the appreciate my help. I feel I have failed as a parent and hope I can move past this and side to spite him. I’m tempted to cancel his ticket to Cali- work through my depression. Any advice fornia. I don’t want him flying here if we are you can offer is welcome. — Best Mom I just going to fight. Is this situation worth the Can Be Dear Best Mom: You have not “failed” cost of a relationship? How do I deal with someone so stubborn to the point he can’t as a parent. Your daughter has an addic- see when he’s in the wrong? Abby, he is in tion. Her addiction is not your fault. Sub- stance abusers have been known to fall off the wrong, isn’t he? — Choice Is Clear Dear Choice: A wise woman chooses the wagon on their road to sobriety, and this her battles carefully. If your boyfriend spent is what happened to your daughter. It would be helpful for you to talk about more than an occasional evening hanging out in strip clubs, I can see why it would your depression with a licensed mental be a deal breaker. But unless you left some- health professional who is familiar with thing important out of your letter — like the addictions, and to attend some Al-Anon fact that he did more than look — it doesn’t meetings. Because you feel your relation- ship with your daughter has reached the appear that he does. You escalated the situation and you point that she can no longer live with you, shouldn’t have. However, if you feel so tell her she must make other living arrange- strongly about strip clubs, perhaps you ments and set a date for her to move out. Do should consider finding another man to not do it in anger. In fact, it may be better for spend your life with because it really isn’t both of you. DAYS GONE BY GARFIELD BLONDIE DILBERT BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE BY SCOTT ADAMS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 13, 1918 Captain H.E. Williams of the Oregon Military Police is spending the week in Pendleton, making arrangements to bring his company of 59 men here to help protect grain during harvest. Captain Williams will return to Portland the end of the week, and come back to Pendleton with his men about June 25. Most of the men are from east- ern Oregon, and many are from Pendleton and vicinity, he says. He will keep his com- pany here for about two weeks of special training, after which the men will be scat- tered through the wheat district for duty until after the crop is shipped, and longer, if any need exists for troops. The primary object of bringing his company of military police to this section is to make sure Uncle Sam gets the wheat crop, Captain Williams said. His company’s specific duties include helping to prevent grain or warehouse fires, and in tak- ing care of I.W.W. or any pro-Germanism. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 13, 1968 Several pea truck drivers, a couple of young women driving home to Milton-Free- water from work at Walla Walla, Unit 12 of the Walla Walla County Sheriff’s Depart- ment and personnel at the Walla Walla Sher- iff’s Office watched a “large orange-color, luminous object as big as a house” float round the area north of Milton-Freewater on Ore. 11 for quite some time early Sun- day morning. Unit 12 took off after it, fol- lowed it almost as far as Touchet, where, they reported, it seemed to be “going slowly up.” Last they saw of it, the big what’s-it was heading toward Pasco. “Probably pea gas or something,” Joe Strasser, Milton-Freewa- ter city policeman, observed unofficially. “They always come up with some every- day explanation, like that coal gas episode in Michigan.” 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 13, 1993 Nine-year-old Scott Hernandez of Pend- leton happened upon a business bank bag containing two checkbooks. The valuable items were found in the middle of Court Avenue on Monday afternoon. Like any respectable member of the community, Scott figured he had to do what anyone would do under the circumstances — return it to the rightful owner. So his mom, Marilea Her- nandez, looked inside, found the name of the business and called to report the bag had been found. Not much later, someone from the company showed up to claim the bag. And without so much as a thank you, he was gone. Mom and Dad were disappointed. They wanted Scott to learn that a good deed at least deserves a “thank you.” The couple plans to reward their Good Samaritan so this one-good-turn won’t be his last. THIS DAY IN HISTORY THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN On June 13, 1978, the movie musical “Grease,” star- ring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, had its world premiere in New York. In 1942, a four-man Nazi sabotage team arrived on Long Island, New York, three days before a second four- man team landed in Florida. (All eight men were arrested after two members of the first group defected.) President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Office of Strategic Ser- vices and the Office of War Information. In 1957, the Mayflower II, a replica of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to Amer- ica in 1620, arrived at Plym- outh, Massachusetts, after a nearly two-month journey from England. In 1966, the Supreme Court ruled in Miranda v. Ari- zona that criminal suspects had to be informed of their constitutional right to consult with an attorney and to remain silent. In 1977, James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., was recaptured fol- lowing his escape three days earlier from a Tennessee prison. Today’s Birthdays: Artist Christo is 83. Magician Sieg- fried (Siegfried & Roy) is 79. TV anchor Hannah Storm is 56. Actress Ashley and Mary- Kate Olsen are 32. Thought for Today: “What intellectual snobs we have become! Virtue is now in the number of degrees you have — not in the kind of person you are or what you can accomplish in real- life situations.” — Eda J. LeShan, American educator (1922-2002). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
