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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, May 16, 2019
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Man’s gender transition jolts
couples’ longtime friendship
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: My longtime
world? — Fantasy vs. Reality in
Florida
friend of 30 years, “Charlotte,”
Dear F. vs. R.: Watching
lives across the country. I have just
romantic movies with guaranteed
learned that her husband, “Har-
old,” is transgender and is now
happy endings (if only life were
transitioning to become “Helen.”
really like that!) is your sister’s
When they come, they always
“safe” way of vicariously enjoying
stay with us for several days
idealized relationships. Continue
J eanne
because they can’t afford a hotel.
encouraging her to take some risk
P hilliPs
My husband is now very uncom-
and join the real world by inviting
ADVICE
fortable with them staying here or
her to join you in social groups. But
being seen out in public with them.
until she realizes for herself that
Is there a way to tell Charlotte to
she needs to do it, it won’t happen.
come alone and still save the friendship?
Counseling could help her, but she won’t
Or should I let them come and deal with
accept it until she admits to herself that she
my husband’s feelings, which I think are
needs help to develop the social skills she
lacks and is willing to reach out for it.
unjust? — Unjust in the West
Dear Abby: I have been dating my boy-
Dear Unjust: Talk to your husband
friend for six months, and in many ways
and explain that he doesn’t have to social-
ize more than he is comfortable with if
he’s a great guy. One thing that irks me,
though, is his tardiness.
your friends visit. If he still refuses, why
This man can’t show up on time to save
don’t you and he visit them this year? You
his life. I have arrived at his house for a date
could stay in a hotel while you adjust to the
only to find he has not even arrived at his
adjustment Harold is making.
own home yet. He is usually 30-plus min-
I assume that your husband and Harold
utes late for our get-togethers.
were friendly before. Perhaps if he and Har-
I have brought this up many times, and
old have a chance to talk, your husband can
at this point I feel like a nag, but it’s so dis-
get past his discomfort. It could be a valu-
able learning experience for him. Your sup-
respectful and rude to treat others this way.
port at this time would be a tremendous gift
I’m annoyed to the point that I may break
up with him for this reason only. Is my reac-
to this couple.
tion well-founded? — Early in Oregon
Dear Abby: My 22-year-old sister is
Dear Early: Your boyfriend is either
unhealthily fixated on a particular cable
extremely disorganized or just plain rude.
TV channel. She will only watch this chan-
nel and is obsessed with the love stories and
If he hasn’t been able to change his pattern
relationship movies. This goes far beyond a
in six months, he isn’t likely to do it. You
simple “like” for something, and I’m afraid
can, however, change the way you react to
it.
she’s using it as a way to avoid developing
Because you know he runs late, make
real relationships. She has few friends and
your plans accordingly so you won’t be kept
has never been in a relationship. I have tried
waiting. However, if you can’t do that, then
to get her to stop watching it, but it never
rather than let it continue to stress you out,
ends well. How can I help her move away
end the romance.
from the television set and into the real
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 16, 1919
In a letter received lately from Mrs. S.J.
Bower of Santa Monica, Cal., the Umatilla
schools have been informed that they will
probably receive a portion of the valuable
collection left by Mrs. Kunzie, a former res-
ident and old timer of Umatilla. Mrs. Bower
is a sister of Mrs. Isaac, a resident of Pend-
leton. Both have expressed their desire to
honor the Umatilla schools with a portion
of the collection. As soon as the matter has
been decided, the high school will place a
memorial tablet in the building in honor of
Mrs. Kunzie who collected the rare exhibit
of Indian relics. The collection of the entire
exhibit required the efforts of a lifetime
and may be somewhat appreciated when
it is known that the Smithsonian Institute
offered $8000 for the famous exhibition.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 16, 1969
Bill Mobley, 16-year-old Mac Hi Future
Farmer, who lives with his aunt and uncle,
the Dale Woods, on Tum-A-Lum Road, lost
two project sows and their litters of pigs in
a high school agriculture farm buildings fire
TODAY IN HISTORY
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
in January, the only boy to lose any live-
stock. Then his registered Angus cow got
out of the pasture and was killed when hit
by a truck. But then, in the Pea Festival
Junior Show, Bill was handed the champi-
onship trophy for his Angus yearling heifer
in the breed division. Then during transpor-
tation from the FFA pen to the Junior Show
Sale arena, his 188-pound York Cross pig
keeled over and died from the unseasonable
heat. Auctioneer John Thrasher, city schools
superintendent, told the sale crowd what
had happened and the hat began to circulate,
with everybody digging deep. When the
result was counted, Bill had ended up with
$77.13 — or 41 cents a pound for his lost pig.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 16, 1994
Sunday morning thunderstorms and
heavy rain showers temporarily saved area
crops from being ruined, but wheat and pea
farmers caution that unless they get more
rain before harvest, it could be a bleak year.
Even so, few are complaining about the
storm that brought at least a half inch of rain
to most areas of Umatilla County. Much of
west Umatilla County and Morrow County
saw an inch or more.
In 1770, Marie Antoi-
nette, age 14, married the
future King Louis XVI of
France, who was 15.
In 1868, at the U.S. Sen-
ate impeachment trial of
President Andrew Johnson,
35 out of 54 senators voted to
find Johnson guilty of “high
crimes and misdemeanors”
over his attempted dismissal
of Secretary of War Edwin
M. Stanton, falling one
vote short of the two-thirds
majority needed to convict;
the trial ended 10 days later
after two other articles of
impeachment went down to
defeat as well.
In 1939, the federal gov-
ernment began its first food
stamp program in Roches-
ter, New York.
In
1975,
Japanese
climber Junko Tabei became
the first woman to reach the
summit of Mount Everest.
In 1988, Surgeon Gen-
eral C. Everett Koop
released a report declaring
nicotine was addictive in
ways similar to heroin and
cocaine.
In 1991, Queen Eliz-
abeth II became the first
British monarch to address
the United States Congress
as she lauded U.S.-British
cooperation in the Persian
Gulf War.
In 1997, President Bill
Clinton publicly apologized
for the Tuskegee experiment,
in which government sci-
entists deliberately allowed
black men to weaken and die
of treatable syphilis.
Today’s Birthdays: For-
mer U.S. Rep John Conyers,
D-Mich., is 90. Actor
Danny Trejo is 75. Actor
Pierce Brosnan is 66. Olym-
pic gold medal gymnast
Olga Korbut is 64. Actress
Lynn Collins is 42. Actress
Melanie Lynskey is 42.
Thought for Today:
“The enemy of the conven-
tional wisdom is not ideas
but the march of events.”
— John Kenneth Galbraith,
American economist, diplo-
mat and author (1908-2006).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE