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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