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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Friday, September 7, 2018
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Friend can’t hold tongue about
woman’s pattern of bad choices
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I have a friend who’s
is to stop trying to save her from
them.
22 and has two children, which I
You can’t fix what’s wrong in
helped her to deliver. She is also my
her life — only she can do that —
neighbor. Since she moved in and
so step back. If you really think her
divorced her husband, my husband
children are going hungry, contact
and I have watched her make bad
child protective services, so those
choices over and over again, starting
kids can get the help they need.
with the derelict men she dates to the
Dear Abby: My fiancé and I are
way she gets drunk, then drives her
Jeanne
paper route at night. She blows her Phillips both 68. We have been engaged for
Advice
a year now. When we shopped for
money on tattoos and then asks us
an engagement ring, we also pur-
for food. It’s become exhausting.
chased wedding bands because the
She’s now dating another man
who’s obviously using her. I have a hard jewelry store was having a sale.
Because of our ages, I have come to
time not telling him off when I see him. He
won’t get a job and he keeps her in perpet- feel that there is no compelling reason to
ual relationship limbo, which forces her to get married. It would be a big legal hassle,
focus all her attention on him and neglect and there’s no reason why we just cannot
live together. He agrees. However, we have
her children and home.
What can I do? I value her so much I lose made a commitment to each other, and I call
sleep. She constantly posts on social media him my husband and he calls me his wife.
My question is, would it be OK for us to
that she’s lonely and everyone always
leaves her, but she gets mad at me for tell- wear the wedding bands, even though we
ing her where she keeps going wrong. Why are not legally married? I wonder if other
can’t she understand that she’s doing this to couples have done this having made that
herself? How can I help her see her errors, commitment to each other. Your thoughts?
so she can move on from this awful phase? — Happily Together
Dear Happily: No law forbids the two of
— Caring Friend In Florida
Dear Caring Friend: Your friend has a you from wearing wedding rings and call-
job. If she weren’t supporting her boyfriend, ing yourselves married. Others have done
she would be able to support herself and her it. In some states, after a period of time,
children. The more you give her, the more the arrangement would become a com-
mon-law marriage. However, before mak-
reliant she will become on your handouts.
Take it from a professional: The most ing a final decision to do this, you and your
unwelcome advice is that which is unasked fiancé should discuss it with a lawyer. There
for, which is why she gets angry when you are certain guarantees and benefits to being
try to tell her what she’s doing wrong. She legally wed, because spouses have rights of
doesn’t want to hear it. The way to get inheritance and decision-making in case of
someone like this to recognize her “errors” illness that unwed couples do not enjoy.
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
Sept. 7, 1918
Of more than usual local interest to Pend-
leton people will be the western drama,
“Unclaimed Goods,” on the screen at the
Alta theater this evening, owing to the
fact Broncho Bob Hall, the well-known
Round-Up rider, is one of the characters pic-
tured in the play. Broncho Bob appears as
one of the outlaws, being one of the ban-
dits who disarm the citizens and the man
who carries the guns out of the dance hall.
Broncho Bob Hall is well known in Pendle-
ton, having been a rider at the Round-Up for
the last three years. Two years ago he was
winner of third prize in the bucking contest.
He was injured in the tryouts last year and
was using crutches when the finals came,
but despite this handicap succeeded in get-
ting second place. This year he has his eye
on first place and the championship of the
world.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Sept. 7, 1968
Richard Lehman Megy, 19, escaped
injury but his car was heavily damaged
when he changed his mind in the middle of
an intersection and didn’t quite make the
right turn he wanted. Megy told police he
was traveling “over the limit” in a 25-mile
zone about 8:15 p.m. Tuesday when he
“decided to turn right” at SE 8th Ave., “was
going too fast” and his car slid to the right,
left the road, crossed an irrigation ditch, tore
into a rock and earth embankment and went
87 feet farther before stopping.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Sept. 7, 1993
Friends and fans of Gina Meengs will
want to set the video cassette recorder for
her appearance on The Nashville Network’s
“You Can Be a Star.” The daughter of Don
and Betty Meengs of Pendleton grew up here
and graduated from Blue Mountain Com-
munity College and Eastern Oregon State
College. She taught at McKay Elementary
School before moving to Nashville, Tenn.
Gina’s performance was videotaped this
spring and marks her first television appear-
ance. Gina performed her own composition,
“Diamond in the Rough.” She accompanied
herself, joined by the studio backup band.
She loves to sing country music. She also
teaches special education and reading while
hoping for a recording contract.
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 Sept. 7, 1940, Nazi
Germany began its eight-
month blitz of Britain during
World War II with the first
air attack on London.
In 1936, rock-and-roll
legend Buddy Holly was
born Charles Hardin Holley
in Lubbock, Texas.
In 1963, the National
Professional Football Hall
of Fame was dedicated in
Canton, Ohio.
In 1977, the Panama
Canal treaties, calling for
the U.S. to eventually turn
over control of the water-
way to Panama, were
signed in Washington by
President Jimmy Carter and
Panamanian leader Omar
Torrijos. Convicted Water-
gate conspirator G. Gordon
Liddy was released from
prison after more than four
years.
In 1979, the Entertain-
ment and Sports Program-
ming Network (ESPN)
made its cable TV debut.
In 1996, rapper Tupac
Shakur was shot and mor-
tally wounded on the Las
Vegas Strip; he died six days
later.
In
2002,
President
George W. Bush and British
Prime Minister Tony Blair,
meeting at Camp David, said
the world had to act against
Saddam Hussein, argu-
ing that the Iraqi leader had
defied the United Nations
and reneged on promises to
destroy weapons of mass
destruction.
In 2007, Osama bin
Laden appeared in a video
for the first time in three
years, telling Americans
they should convert to Islam
if they wanted the war in
Iraq to end.
Today’s Birthdays: Jazz
musician Sonny Rollins is
88. Singer Gloria Gaynor is
75. Actress Julie Kavner is
68 (voice of Marge Simp-
son). Rock singer Chrissie
Hynde (The Pretenders) is
67. Actor Corbin Bernsen is
64. Singer/songwriter Diane
Warren is 62. Actress-come-
dian Leslie Jones (TV: “Sat-
urday Night Live”) is 51.
Model-actress Angie Ever-
hart is 49. Actress Diane
Farr is 49. Country singer
Butter (Trailer Choir) is 48.
Actress Monique Gabri-
ela Curnen is 48. Actor JD
Pardo is 39. Actor Benjamin
Hollingsworth (TV: “Code
Black”) is 34. Actress
Alyssa Diaz (TV: “Ray
Donovan”; “Zoo”) is 33.
Singer-musician Wes Willis
(Rush of Fools) is 32.
Thought for Today:
“Nothing is more unpleas-
ant than a virtuous person
with a mean mind.” — Wal-
ter Bagehot, English editor
and economist (1826-1877).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE