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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Friday, August 10, 2018
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
One-way friendship ends,
but feelings of guilt remain
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: My “friend” from
not rubbing Camille’s feet, con-
sider getting a pedicure for yourself.
childhood, “Camille,” has never had
Although it might seem expensive, it
my back. I have done the heavy lift-
ing in our friendship our whole lives.
would be cheaper than talking to a
therapist.
While I was on vacation two years
Dear Abby: My siblings and I,
ago, she was diagnosed with cancer.
all born in the ’50s in a small town,
I came home immediately and drove
have fond memories of our child-
to the hospital at 1 a.m. to be by her
Jeanne
hood. After our mother died in 1989,
side. I’ve always been by Camille’s
side for everything, even though she Phillips our father married “Sylvia,” a new
Advice
arrival in town. They lived together
hasn’t been there for me. I told her
in our childhood home until his
that several times, to no avail.
death in 2016.
I went to EVERY chemo and doc-
tor appointment, and was there every day to
We “kids” wanted to honor our par-
rub her feet to make her feel better. I threw ents and our fond childhood memories. We
her a party for 100 people to “kick cancer’s endowed a plaque for the town park dedi-
butt,” took her on a vacation — it goes on cated to their memory and noting they had
raised a family in that community. Sylvia is
and on.
I ended the one-sided friendship last year. now grievously offended and furious that
My problem is, I feel guilty for doing it. I she was not included.
Abby, Sylvia came on the scene long
feel I left her with cancer. But I also feel that
because someone is sick doesn’t give them after we were raised and gone. She’s not
the right to be abusive or inconsiderate. our parent and played no part in the mem-
Camille hasn’t tried to contact me, either. In ories we wanted to honor. Although Syl-
fact, she has told others that she will never via was a good wife to our dad, she did her
best to erase all traces of our mother from
speak to me again.
I bent over backward for her, but if some Dad’s memory and from his home. Were
other person sent a card, she would make a we wrong? She has rebuffed our attempts
big deal out of it. I’m deeply hurt and don’t to explain our benign motivations. — Con-
know how to move on. Help! — Wounded fused In Pennsylvania
Dear Confused: You weren’t wrong, but
On The East Coast
Dear Wounded: One way to stop feel- it would have been better had you discussed
ing guilty and get on with your life would your plans for the plaque with Sylvia before
be to acknowledge in your head AND your donating it. That way, you would have been
heart that the relationship with Camille was able to explain to her the reason why she
not a healthy one for YOU. In fact, from the wouldn’t be on it. She may still be grieving
way you have described it, it was more like the loss of your father, so try to understand
her feelings.
a bad habit.
And by the way, it is not unusual — or
Bad habits can be difficult to break, but
many people have been able to accom- out of line — for a second wife to make her
plish it by replacing a bad habit with a good husband’s home “her own,” so don’t hold it
one. Example: Instead of feeling guilty for against her.
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Aug. 10, 1918
Although she has a husband who is a
lieutenant in France, Mrs. Gladys Bannister
McFadden of Weston wishes to enter the ser-
vice also and has given to the recruiting offi-
cer there her application for entrance into the
United States Nurses Reserve. The applica-
tion which was forwarded today to Miss Vir-
ginia Tod, secretary for the Woman’s divi-
sion of the Patriotic Service League, says
that she will enter the preferred class and if
service in France is denied her she will be
glad to serve here. Three other women have
asked to be considered, which brings Uma-
tilla within one of being over the top, as the
quota is 10 and nine girls have applied.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Aug. 10, 1968
The literary and religious collection of
the Rev. H.P. Sconce, originator of Christian
Celebrity Time, has been preserved in the
acquisition library at the University of Ore-
gon. This is a high honor for the work which
began in Hermiston in 1954. This collec-
tion includes personal letters received over a
period of 30 years of his ministry, telegrams,
manuscripts, sermon notes and personal
notes, and copies of his taped interviews
with Christian celebrities. It was because of
a desire to reach more people with the gos-
pel that Mr. Sconce started a program that
has continued to grow and is heard over 100
stations in America and abroad. Mr. Sconce
was pastor of the First Baptist Church from
January 1954 until September 1959. Since
his death in December 1959, a few months
after he left Eastern Oregon, his widow, Mil-
dred, has continued as director of the work.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Aug. 10, 1993
Ranita Jones of Pilot Rock has many
names. Her great-grandmothers Ada Patrick
of Pendleton and Lucy Minthorn of Tutu-
illa Flats named her “Kilwaht.” Her friends
at the Living History Demonstration call
her “Nimble Fingers.” And Thursday she
will live up to her newest name, “Miss Ore-
gon Trail,” when she officially welcomes
the Sesquicentennial Wagon Train when
it arrives in Mission. Ranita, the daughter
of Charlie and Hattie Jones, represents the
Confederated Tribes as Miss Oregon Trail,
a title that will be bestowed only this year.
She earned the title through an essay contest.
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
On August 10, 1792,
during the French Revolu-
tion, mobs in Paris attacked
the Tuileries Palace, where
King Louis XVI resided.
(The king was later arrested,
put on trial for treason, and
executed.)
In 1861, Confederate
forces routed Union troops
in the Battle of Wilson’s
Creek in Missouri, the first
major engagement of the
Civil War west of the Mis-
sissippi River.
In 1921, Franklin D.
Roosevelt was stricken with
polio at his summer home
on the Canadian island of
Campobello.
In
1975,
television
personality David Frost
announced he had purchased
the exclusive rights to inter-
view former President Rich-
ard Nixon.
In 1977, postal employee
David
Berkowitz
was
arrested in Yonkers, New
York, accused of being
“Son of Sam,” the gunman
who killed six people and
wounded seven others in the
New York City area. (Ber-
kowitz is serving six con-
secutive
25-years-to-life
sentences.)
In 1988, President Ron-
ald Reagan signed a mea-
sure providing $20,000
payments to still-living Jap-
anese-Americans who were
interned by their govern-
ment during World War II.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Rock singer-musician Ian
Anderson (Jethro Tull) is
71. Country musician Gene
Johnson (Diamond Rio)
is 69. Actress Rosanna
Arquette is 59. Actor Anto-
nio Banderas is 58. Rock
musician Jon Farriss (INXS)
is 57. Singer Julia Ford-
ham is 56. Journalist-blog-
ger Andrew Sullivan is 55.
Actor Sean Blakemore is 51.
Rhythm-and-blues singer
Lorraine Pearson (Five
Star) is 51. Singer-producer
Michael Bivins is 50. Actor
Aaron Staton is 38. Actor
Ryan Eggold is 34. Actor
Charley Koontz is 31. Actor
Lucas Till is 28. Reality TV
star Kylie Jenner is 21.
Thought for Today: “It
is easier to make a saint out
of a libertine than out of a
prig.” — George Santayana,
Spanish-born philosopher
(1863-1952).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE