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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Friday, May 17, 2019
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Guests glued to cellphones
can wear out their welcome
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: My husband and
sidering rolling up the welcome
I live in a nice home in the desert
mat, explain to your guests that you
have given them an open invita-
Southwest with an in-ground pool
tion so you can enjoy each other’s
and guesthouse. Our friends and
company, and you are hurt that they
relatives from back east have an
spend so much time on their elec-
open invitation to visit whenever
tronic devices. Nobody gets some-
they please. We enjoyed these visits
thing for nothing, and it seems the
until recently.
J eanne
“quid” has gone missing from the
The problem is their ever-pres-
P hilliPs
“pro quo” you have been offering.
ent compulsion to be connected to
ADVICE
Dear Abby: I am a male who
an electronic device. We are not
was molested 30 years ago. It
yet retired, but in the past we didn’t
has troubled me into adulthood.
mind taking a few days off work to
Recently, my boss informed my crew that
spend time with folks who came all the way
a convicted pedophile will be working on a
out here to spend a few days with us. But it
trial basis on our shift. The moment he said
seems like nowadays our guests have their
it, it started setting off triggers in my head,
noses pointed at a phone or computer most
and I am very angry about it.
of the time they are here. They have actually
When I told my boss about my childhood
missed the beauty of our area, which we are
experience, he acted like he didn’t want to
missing work to show them, because they
hear it. Do I have any rights in this mat-
are otherwise engaged.
ter? I really can’t work with a man who has
Is there a pleasant way to ask them to dis-
connect for a bit while we are enjoying their
hurt another child like I was. — Troubled
Victim
visit, or should I just get in the grumpy old
Dear Troubled Victim: You absolutely
lady line? I want our visitors to have a good
do have rights. You have the right to request
time, but I find this behavior especially rude.
a different shift, if that’s possible. If it isn’t,
— Almost Done in the Southwest
you also have the right to look for another
Dear Almost Done: It’s possible that your
job. If that’s the case, it will be interesting to
guests don’t realize how much time they’re
know how many of the other employees will
spending on their computers and cellphones.
follow you out the door.
Because you are so turned off you are con-
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 17, 1919
Birds of a feather flock together? No, not
always. A staid, old Plymouth Rock hen strut-
ted proudly into the front yard of her home at
Mrs. J.E. Troxell’s dairy ranch near Havana
this morning with a pair of tiny China pheas-
ant chicks. She clucked and she chided, just
as mother-lovingly as any hen to her chirping
offspring, for she had raised them from eggs
she found in the field. Mrs. Troxell is feeding
the hen and her adopted young ones in hopes
that the little pheasants may be domesticated.
So far there is complete domestic tranquility
in the peculiar little family and Mrs. Troxell
is wondering if the birds will return to their
natural haunts when they grow older.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 17, 1969
The Pendleton Buckaroos will go into the
district 7-A-1 best of three baseball playoff with
the Redmond Panthers here at 8 tonight with-
out the services of one of its top pitchers and its
leadoff batter. After walloping La Grande 11-1
and 11-0 Tuesday to clinch the subdistrict title
and with everyone in good condition, Lady
Luck made an unwanted appearance Wednes-
day. David Michael, junior pitcher, became ill
and won’t be available for action tonight, and
Victor Gehling, who usually is top man in the
batting order, injured his shoulder in a fall
during a physical education class.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 17, 1994
From the look of things, the Umatilla
Army Depot’s 53-year-old mission to store
ammunition is coming to an end. In a burst of
flame and smoke, thousands of pounds of old
rocket propellant vanished Monday as part
of the depot’s stepped-up efforts to clear out
the conventional ammunition. Already, about
700 of the 911 concrete bunkers known as
“igloos” that store conventional ammunition
have been emptied of their contents, thanks
to the Base Closure Act of 1988. By Sept. 1,
the depot’s conventional ammunition will be
gone for good.
TODAY IN HISTORY
BLONDIE
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
On May 17, 2004, Massa-
chusetts became the first state
to allow same-sex marriages.
In 1536, Archbishop of
Canterbury Thomas Cran-
mer declared the marriage of
England’s King Henry VIII to
Anne Boleyn invalid after she
failed to produce a male heir;
Boleyn, already condemned
for high treason, was exe-
cuted two days later.
In 1792, the New York
Stock Exchange had its
beginnings as a group of bro-
kers met under a tree on Wall
Street and signed the Button-
wood Agreement.
In 1946, President Harry
S. Truman seized control of
the nation’s railroads, delay-
ing — but not preventing —
a threatened strike by engi-
neers and trainmen.
In 1954, a unanimous
U.S. Supreme Court handed
down its Brown v. Board of
Education of Topeka deci-
sion which held that racially
segregated public schools
were inherently unequal, and
therefore unconstitutional.
In 1968, nine men and
women, including brothers
Daniel and Philip Berrigan,
entered the Selective Service
office in Catonsville, Mary-
land, seized several hun-
dred draft files and burned
them outside to protest the
Vietnam War before being
arrested. (The “Catons-
ville Nine,” as they came to
be known, received federal
prison sentences ranging
from 24 to 42 months.)
In 1973, a special com-
mittee convened by the U.S.
Senate began its televised
hearings into the Watergate
scandal.
In 1980, rioting that
claimed 18 lives erupted in
Miami’s Liberty City after
an all-white jury in Tampa
acquitted four former Miami
police officers of fatally
beating black insurance
executive Arthur McDuffie.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor
Peter Gerety is 79. Singer
Taj Mahal is 77. Rock musi-
cian Bill Bruford is 70. Sing-
er-musician George Johnson
(The Brothers Johnson) is
66. TV personality Kathleen
Sullivan is 66. Boxing Hall
of Famer Sugar Ray Leonard
is 63. Actor-comedian Bob
Saget is 63. Sports announcer
Jim Nantz is 60. Producer
Simon Fuller (TV: “Ameri-
can Idol”) is 59. Singer Enya
is 58. Actor-comedian Craig
Ferguson is 57. Rock sing-
er-musician Page McConnell
is 56. Actor David Eigenberg
is 55. Singer-musician Trent
Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) is
54. Actress Paige Turco is
54. Rhythm-and-blues musi-
cian O’Dell (Mint Condition)
is 54. Actor Hill Harper is
53. TV personality/interior
designer Thom Filicia is 50.
Singer Jordan Knight is 49.
Rhythm-and-blues
singer
Darnell Van Rensalier (Shai)
is 49. Actress Sasha Alexan-
der is 46. Rock singer-mu-
sician Josh Homme is 46.
Rock singer Andrea Corr
(The Corrs) is 45. Actor
Sendhil Ramamurthy is
45. Actress Rochelle Aytes
is 43. Singer Kandi Bur-
russ is 43. Actress Kat Fos-
ter is 41. Actress Ayda Field
is 40. Actress Ginger Gon-
zaga is 36. Folk-rock singer/
songwriter Passenger is
35. Dancer-choreographer
Derek Hough is 34. Actor
Tahj Mowry is 33. Actress
Nikki Reed is 31. Singer
Kree Harrison (TV: “Amer-
ican Idol”) is 29. Actress
Leven Rambin is 29. Actress
Samantha Browne-Walters is
28. Actor Justin Martin is 25.
Thought for Today:
“Always dream and shoot
higher than you know you can
do. Don’t bother just to be bet-
ter than your contemporaries
or predecessors. Try to be bet-
ter than yourself.” — William
Faulkner, American author
(1897-1962).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE