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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Girlfriend competes for time
with man still living with ex
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
short or hide the fact that he is tex-
Dear Abby: I have been dat-
ing my boyfriend for two years. He
ting you. Unless he rearranges his
is 10 years older, in his mid-40s.
priorities, you should not only not
He is wonderful, kind, smart, and
move in with him, you should find
treats me well. There is only one
a boyfriend with whom you’re No.
1.
issue: He still lives with his ex-girl-
friend from 10 years ago.
Dear Abby: My wife, “Riley,”
She and I do not get along. She
and I got married three months
infringes on my time with him —
ago. I’m a corporate pilot and have
J eanne
been for most of our two-year rela-
has him run her errands, drive her
P hilliPs
tionship. Now she’s telling me if I
around, etc. when I am at his (their)
ADVICE
don’t quit my dream job, she will
house. He also ends calls with me
leave me.
at night to talk with her, and his
I signed a yearlong contract with
texts abruptly stop. Later I’ll find
this company, so it will cost me well over
out she was in his bedroom talking/venting
$10,000 to get out of it early. She hates my
to him about her current boyfriend or some
schedule, even though I work only about
other subject.
11 days a month. Riley thinks I have to be
She recently put in an offer to buy a
home every night, even though I warned
house that was accepted. After she moves
her that because of my career, I would be
out of the house they are renting, he plans to
gone a lot of nights. She knew what she was
remain there and would like me to move in
getting into, yet she’s trying to force me
with him. Here’s the catch: He says he will
into giving up this dream job or lose her.
be going over to her (new) house to mow
Please help. — Torn in the South
the lawn, rake leaves, take care of her car,
Dear Torn: Riley knew you were a pilot
etc. He says he runs these errands for her
when she married you. You explained to her
because she pays him. I have told him how
what that meant. That she would threaten
much it bothers me. I feel he is placing her
to leave you because she doesn’t like the
above me. Am I crazy for being upset over
responsibilities your career carries with it
this? — Second Best in Virginia
is immature and controlling.
Dear Second Best: You’re not crazy.
If she was serious when she made the
Unless your boyfriend is hard up for
ultimatum, I think you should take her up
money, it appears there may be more to his
on it. And before you marry anyone else, be
relationship with his ex-girlfriend than he
sure the woman is independent. Then have
has revealed to you. If he was disconnected
premarital counseling to ensure something
from her emotionally — and possibly sexu-
ally — he wouldn’t cut your conversations
like this doesn’t happen again.
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
May 29, 1919
Determination to continue plans for
their new church was made last evening by
the building committee of the First Presby-
terian church, at a meeting in the offices of
Dr. F.E. Boyden. The body decided to take
up plans where they left off by the declara-
tion of war, in 1917, and to open a campaign
for crystallization of sentiment favoring
the new edifice in the near future. While
specifications for the proposed new home
at the corner of Alta and Willow streets
called for a cost of $32,000 before the war,
it is estimated that the same class of struc-
ture would now cost close to $70,000. This
amount can hardly be raised before fall, the
committee believes, but holds hope that
within six months ground may be broken.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 29, 1969
Maybe it’s the long distance between
Eastern Oregon waterholes that makes
them hustle … or maybe it’s because they
were afraid of the metro life and conflict
among men in the city that spooked them.
At any rate the wives of Hermiston Jay-
cees had two of the state’s fastest turtles
in the turtle race at the Jaycee convention
in Portland over the weekend. Linda Tolles
and Inez Frost each took a turtle to the
race. McMinnville Jaycee wives needed an
entry and Mrs. Frost loaned them her tur-
tle for the competition. “Frosty” came in
second as the McMinnville entry behind
the Hermiston entry of Linda Tolles. Jay-
cee Bill Tolles said Hermiston now can lay
claim to the “turtle capital” title as well as
the state’s leading livestock feeding cen-
ter and the home of the “world’s tastiest
watermelons.”
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 29, 1994
When Glen Guenther looks at a math
problem, all the pieces of the puzzle pres-
ent themselves at once. Speeding trains,
triangles and trigonometry — nothing
gets past the 17-year-old Pendleton High
School junior. Guenther put his mathemat-
ical mind to work once again at the Oregon
Invitational Mathematics Examination, a
competitive contest that poses problems
to the state’s best math students. Guenther
took home the second place award, adding
it to his collection of other top finishes —
including a first place prize that took him
to Washington, D.C., as an eighth grader.
TODAY 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 May 29, 1953, Mount
Everest was conquered as
Edmund Hillary of New
Zealand and Tensing Nor-
gay of Nepal became the
first climbers to reach the
summit.
In 1790, Rhode Island
became the 13th original
colony to ratify the United
States Constitution.
In 1917, the 35th pres-
ident of the United States,
John Fitzgerald Kennedy,
was born in Brookline,
Massachusetts.
In 1932, World War I
veterans began arriving in
Washington to demand cash
bonuses they weren’t sched-
uled to receive until 1945.
In 1954, English run-
ner Diane Leather became
the first woman to run a
sub-five-minute mile, fin-
ishing in 4:59.6 during the
Midland Championships in
Birmingham.
In 1977, Janet Guthrie
became the first woman to
race in the Indianapolis 500,
finishing in 29th place (the
winner was A.J. Foyt).
In 1985, 39 people were
killed at the European Cup
Final in Brussels, Belgium,
when rioting broke out and
a wall separating British and
Italian soccer fans collapsed.
In 1988, President Ron-
ald Reagan and Soviet
leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev
opened their historic summit
in Moscow.
In 2008, the Vatican
issued a decree stating that
anyone trying to ordain a
woman as a priest and any
woman who attempted to
receive the ordination would
incur automatic excommuni-
cation. Actor-comedian Har-
vey Korman, Emmy win-
ner for “The Carol Burnett
Show,” died in Los Angeles
at age 81.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor
Kevin Conway is 77. Actor
Helmut Berger is 75. Rock
singer Gary Brooker (Procol
Harum) is 74. Actor Anthony
Geary is 72. Actor Cot-
ter Smith is 70. Movie com-
poser Danny Elfman is 66.
Actress Annette Bening is
61. Singer Melissa Etheridge
is 58. Actor Anthony Azizi
is 50. Actress Laverne Cox
is 47. Singer Melanie Brown
(Spice Girls) is 44. Rapper
Playa Poncho is 44. Latin
singer Fonseca is 40. Actor
Billy Flynn is 34. Actress
Lorelei Linklater is 26.
Thought for Today:
“When we recall the past, we
usually find that it is the sim-
plest things — not the great
occasions — that in retro-
spect give off the greatest
glow of happiness.” — Brit-
ish-born American comedian
Bob Hope (born this date in
1903, died 2003).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE