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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, May 30, 2019
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Maintaining friend’s website
becomes unwelcome burden
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: Around 12 years
each other. He is also a narcissist.
Innocent people have been victim-
ago, I helped out an old friend I’ll
ized by all of this.
call Patty by creating an author
Now he is moving on to the
website for her. I have maintained
elderly neighbors and lying to them
it for her ever since. She is grateful
about family members. Confront-
and gives me a gift every once in a
ing him will do no good. We have
while to show her appreciation.
tried. How do we get him to stop
Over time, her requests for revi-
sions and updates have increased
the bullying and lying? His wife is
J eanne
no help because she has been brain-
to the point that I dread receiving
P hilliPs
washed and can no longer think for
them. I’m very busy with a busi-
ADVICE
herself. Please help. Maybe by pub-
ness I own, and I really don’t want
lishing this letter it will turn on a
to do this for her anymore.
lightbulb. — Desperate in New
The problem is, I created the
England
website using an obscure program she has
Dear Desperate: Because your broth-
no idea how to use (she’s tech-unsavvy to
er-in-law is now spreading misinforma-
begin with), so if I stop, I would be leav-
tion among the elderly neighbors, explain
ing her high and dry. Oh, and she has no
to them that he has a “personality disorder”
money, so I don’t think hiring someone
and a problem with the truth. Then give
to take over would be an option. The only
them some examples and, with luck, you
thing I could recommend to her is that she
can nip this in the bud.
start making a new webpage from scratch,
Dear Abby: I have depression and anx-
using a free site.
iety problems. My dad sometimes forgets
I’m dying to let this go, but I think she’ll
that I have it. I tried to kill myself a couple
be crushed, and I hate to hurt her. Any
of times. I asked him if I can have a service
advice? — Overworked Friend
dog for my mental health problems. He says
Dear Overworked: Explain to your
I can’t have one. I understand his reasons,
friend that you have a business to run and
but I think it would help me. I really need
you will no longer be able to give her the
help. — Going Insane in Washington
free services you have been. Then, if you
Dear Going Insane: I cannot fathom
want to keep the friendship, rebuild her a
how the parent of a child who has attempted
website on a platform that will be easier for
to commit suicide would “forget” it. I will
her — or someone else — to manage in the
assume that you are under the care of a men-
future.
tal health professional for your depression
Dear Abby: My brother-in-law has
and anxiety. If you aren’t, you should be.
always been a bully and a chronic liar. It has
Your father may be more open to accepting
torn our family apart. He’ll tell one family
the concept of a therapy dog if he hears it
member one thing, and the other another
from your therapist.
story for the purpose of getting them mad at
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 30, 1919
Charged with blackmail, Carrie Hill, 34,
of Portland was arrested Wednesday after-
noon by Inspectors Snow and Tackaberry
on a warrant sworn out by A.L. Demaris
of Milton. Mr. Demaris alleges that he was
visiting Miss Hall when an unknown man
entered the room and, drawing a gun on
him, threatened to kill him. The woman
objected to violence, he says, and suggested
he pay them to keep quiet. He claims he paid
the stranger $500 and promised to give the
woman $5000. Police authorities are search-
ing for the woman’s accomplice.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 30, 1969
Pendleton city police were search-
ing today for a con artist, who Wednesday
obtained $3,800 from a Pendleton woman.
Similar situations have occurred within the
last few days at Ogden, Utah, Pocatello and
Boise, Idaho. The victim has always been a
woman. The suspect poses as a bank offi-
cial and asks the subject to withdraw her
money. He tells her a bank employe is under
investigation and offers a reward if she will
withdraw her money so he can check the
employe. He asks her to turn the money
over to his “auditor.” Within the last few
days in similar situations women have been
conned out of $2,800 at Pocatello and $3,100
at Boise.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 30, 1994
Jodi Severe’s dramatic stretch run in the
300-meter low hurdles capped the best day
ever for the Pendleton Bucks at the state
high school Class 4A track and field cham-
pionships in Eugene Saturday. To the delight
of Pendleton hurdles coach Eldon Lilly, the
rest of the Bucks coaches and her team-
mates, Severe blasted from sixth place to
third place in the final 120 meters of the 300
hurdles. She finished in a dead heat with sec-
ond-place Wanjeria Washington of Benson
in an electronically timed 46.35 seconds.
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 30, 1911, the
first Indy 500 took place
at the Indianapolis Motor
Speedway; the winner was
Ray Harroun, who drove
a Marmon Wasp for more
than 6½ hours at an average
speed of 74.6 mph and col-
lected a prize of $10,000.
In 1381, the Peasants’
Revolt against economic
injustice erupted in England
during the reign of King
Richard II; the king and his
men, initially caught off-
guard, were able to crush
the rebellion several weeks
later.
In 1431, Joan of Arc,
condemned as a heretic,
was burned at the stake in
Rouen, France.
In 1883, 12 people were
trampled to death in a stam-
pede sparked by a rumor that
the recently opened Brook-
lyn Bridge was in danger of
collapsing.
In 1935, Babe Ruth
played in his last major
league baseball game for the
Boston Braves, leaving after
the first inning of the first
game of a double-header
against the Philadelphia
Phillies, who won both
games (Ruth announced his
retirement three days later).
In 1937, ten people were
killed when police fired on
steelworkers demonstrating
near the Republic Steel plant
in South Chicago.
In 1958, unidentified
American service mem-
bers killed in World War II
and the Korean War were
interred in the Tomb of the
Unknowns at Arlington
National Cemetery.
In 1989, student pro-
testers in Beijing erected a
“Goddess of Democracy”
statue in Tiananmen Square
(the statue was destroyed in
the Chinese government’s
crackdown).
In 2008, diplomats from
111 nations meeting in
Dublin, Ireland, formally
adopted a landmark treaty
banning cluster bombs.
(The United States and other
leading cluster bomb mak-
ers — Russia, China, Israel,
India and Pakistan — boy-
cotted the talks.)
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actress Ruta Lee is 84. Pro
and College Football Hall
of Famer Gale Sayers is
76. Actor Ralph Carter is
58. Actress Tonya Pinkins
is 57. Country singer Wyn-
onna Judd is 55. Rock musi-
cian Tom Morello (Audio-
slave; Rage Against The
Machine) is 55. Movie
director Antoine Fuqua is
54. Actress Idina Menzel is
48. Actor Trey Parker is 47.
Rapper Cee Lo Green is 44.
Actor Blake Bashoff is 38.
37. Actress Javicia Leslie is
32. Actor Sean Giambrone
is 20.
Thought for Today:
“For happiness one needs
security, but joy can spring
like a flower even from the
cliffs of despair.” — Anne
Morrow Lindbergh, Ameri-
can writer (1906-2001).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE