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Page 10A East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, August 17, 2018 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Woman’s old sweetheart still can’t win her dad’s approval FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I’m dating my gram- There are self-help groups for the mar school and high school sweet- friends and family of addicts. Join heart, “Gary.” We’ve known each one of them. (Visit Nar-Anon.org to find the nearest meeting.) If you do, other since I was 6. (I’m 33 now.) you will meet other individuals who In high school we dated for nine are involved with people who have months and were in love, but he told a drug addiction and learn about the lies to my dad, so Dad ordered him to challenges that will face both of you. stay away. Now, 16 years later, after Jeanne Dear Abby: A longtime friend of being only friends all this time, we finally both became single and got Phillips mine, “Jenny,” and I reunited after Advice years of not speaking. Our pregnan- back together. cies brought us back together, and Gary is and always has been the love of my life, as I am his. He would do since the births of our children we have had anything for me. He says he wants to marry playdates, shared baby stories, advice, etc. My problem is, Jenny tries to pass down me and have kids, and he’s never said that to stained, out-of-season clothes from her child any other woman. Since we broke up at 16, Gary has done to mine. (She gets free handouts from orga- some bad things (drugs, prison). Because of nizations that help moms and families who it, my dad hates him. Dad was finally get- aren’t financially well off.) She and her ting used to Gary being back in my life until child’s father drive brand-new cars with a few months ago, when Gary crashed my hefty car payments, and they are paying car after relapsing. Gary is getting me a new a big mortgage — all the while collecting car and trying to get my dad to like him, but assistance. It bothers me because, while we struggle, Dad is stubborn. I know he’s just worried my family doesn’t use assistance. We feel about me. I want to bring Gary to my parents’ to it should be used only for those who really visit because enough time has gone by since need it. Am I silly for letting something like the accident. Is there any way to get my dad this get to me? I find myself making excuses to cancel playdates and avoid her. — Mak- used to him? — Torn In New Jersey Dear Torn: I think the chances of your ing My Own Way In Virginia Dear Making: Your problem isn’t the father “getting used” to his beloved daugh- ter being married to a convicted felon and baby clothes. It’s that you disapprove of Jen- drug user who can’t quite kick the habit are ny’s values. While you have some things in somewhere between a snowflake and hell. common, you also have major differences. Gary may have been the love of your life Among them, your choice to work for what since childhood, but if you plan to marry you get and her willingness to game the sys- him, it’s important you get a glimpse of tem. That’s a big difference, and you’re not being silly. what you may be in for. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 17, 1918 An unusually interesting visitor in Pendle- ton is Miss Genevieve Gilbert, who has been the guest of Mrs. Rena Addams at Hillside Home. Miss Gilbert is a singer whose accom- plishments have won praise not only on the Pacific coast but throughout the country. She is the possessor of a dramatic soprano voice and has sung at no less than forty concerts for the Red Cross or at cantonments. Immediately after America’s declaration of war, Miss Gil- bert sang during Vesper services on recruiting day at Vancouver Barracks, winning the dis- tinction of being the first soloist called upon as well as the first to respond. Since then she has devoted much time to concerts at Camp Lewis, Vancouver and Bremerton and has just returned from singing in Salt Lake City for the National Council of Defense. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian THIS DAY IN HISTORY BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN Aug. 17, 1968 Adrian Gill said there for a while Mon- day, just like magic, everybody’s washing was coming out in different colors at Magic Valley Laundry in Milton-Freewater. Some- body had put a different color dye in each of the seven washing machines. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 17, 1993 Somebody reached down at 2 a.m. Mon- day and pulled the plug on the brief summer of 1993 and in just a few hours it had com- pletely washed out. The storm, which started dumping rain on Pendleton at about 2 a.m. Monday, set a record here for rainfall in a 24-hour period with 2.19 inches collected at the airport from 2 a.m. to 2 a.m. The old record of 1.4 inches in 24 hours, set Oct. 28, 1982, is positively paltry by comparison. Average rainfall for the month is 0.53 inches and last year’s total for the month was 0.43 inches. On August 17, 1943, the Allied conquest of Sic- ily during World War II was completed as U.S. and Brit- ish forces entered Messina. In 1807, Robert Ful- ton’s North River Steamboat began heading up the Hud- son River on its success- ful round trip between New York and Albany. In 1942, during World War II, U.S. 8th Air Force bombers attacked German forces in Rouen, France. U.S. Marines raided a Japa- nese seaplane base on Makin Island. In 1969, Hurricane Camille slammed into the Mississippi coast as a Cat- egory 5 storm that was blamed for 256 U.S. deaths, three in Cuba. In 1978, the first suc- cessful trans-Atlantic bal- loon flight ended as Maxie Anderson, Ben Abruzzo and Larry Newman landed their Double Eagle II out- side Paris. In 1982, the first com- mercially produced compact discs, a recording of ABBA’s “The Visitors,” were pressed at a Philips factory near Hanover, West Germany. In 1983, lyricist Ira Ger- shwin died in Beverly Hills, Calif., at age 86. In 1985, more than 1,400 meatpackers walked off the job at the Geo. A. Hormel and Co.’s main plant in Aus- tin, Minnesota, in a bitter strike that lasted just over a year. In 1987, Rudolf Hess, the last member of Adolf Hitler’s inner circle, died at Spandau Prison at age 93, an apparent suicide. The musi- cal drama “Dirty Dancing,” starring Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze, premiered in New York. In 1988, Pakistani Presi- dent Mohammad Zia ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel were killed in a mysterious plane crash. In 1996, the Reform Party announced Ross Perot had been selected to be its first-ever presidential nomi- nee, opting for the third-par- ty’s founder over challenger Richard Lamm. In 1999, more than 17,000 people were killed when a magnitude 7.4 earth- quake struck Turkey. Today’s Birthdays: Author V.S. Naipaul is 86. Former MLB All-Star Boog Powell is 77. Actor Robert DeNiro is 75. Rock singer Kevin Rowland (Dexy’s Midnight Runners) is 65. Singer Belinda Carlisle is 60. Actor Sean Penn is 58. Rock musician Steve Gor- man (The Black Crowes) is 53. Rock musician Jill Cun- niff is 52. Singer/actor Don- nie Wahlberg is 49. College Basketball Hall of Famer and retired NBA All-Star Christian Laettner is 49. International Tennis Hall of Famer Jim Courier is 48. Retired MLB All-Star Jorge Posada is 47. TV personality Giuliana Rancic is 44. Actor Brady Corbet is 30. Olympic bronze medal figure skater Gracie Gold is 23. Thought for Today: “It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.” — Lawrence Durrell, British-born author (1912-1990). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE