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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, June 4, 2019
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Escalating violence is signal for
wife to leave relationship
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: My husband has
house because of it. She made me
always had anger issues. Recently,
promise not to tell her father why.
they have progressed from target-
When I told him privately about
ing inanimate objects to targeting
our conversation, he rolled his eyes
and accused our daughter of hav-
me.
ing a “weak” mentality. Is he being
A few weeks ago, when he got
unreasonable or is it just me? —
upset, he punched the naviga-
tion screen in my car out. Then
Phrustrated in Philly
Your
he proceeded to grab my hair and
Dear
Phrustrated:
J eanne
daughter doesn’t have a “weak
slammed my head into the car win-
P hilliPs
dow (it didn’t break, but my head
mentality.” She’s afraid of dogs,
ADVICE
hurt for more than a week).
and possibly with good reason.
Find an animal rescue organiza-
He apologized later, but I can’t
tion or shelter that encourages the
forgive him. Maybe I never will.
public to spend time socializing with the
What’s worse, I haven’t been able to bring
dogs and cats. It may help to get her past
myself to leave and don’t really know how
her aversion. It has helped other children,
to. Is this behavior a deal breaker? — Stuck
and it’s also good for the animals. Give it a
in Minnesota
try and let me know what happens.
Dear Stuck: Yes, this is absolutely a
Dear Abby: I am a 49-year-old divor-
deal breaker. Do not minimize what he did
cee. A younger man (31) at work is show-
to you. I’m sorry you didn’t go to the emer-
gency room after it happened.
ing an interest in me. We have talked sev-
eral times about seeing each other outside
Each time your husband attacks will be
of work. Also he is African American. I
worse — increasingly so — until he maims
would like to go out with him, but I’m not
or kills you. For your safety you must get
sure how my family and friends would
out of there, and the sooner the better. For
react. What do you think? — Betwixt and
directions on how to safely make your exit,
Between
contact the National Domestic Violence
Dear Betwixt: What are you con-
Hotline. The toll-free phone number to call
cerned about? Is it that you would be dat-
is 800-799-7233 or visit thehotline.org and
ing a younger man, one of a different race
a counselor there will direct you.
or that he’s a co-worker? If it’s the latter,
Dear Abby: My 5-year-old daughter,
and things don’t work out, it could be dicey.
“Maude,” is afraid of large dogs. In the
However, if at this stage of your life you
past, my husband has publicly scolded her
still need approval from friends and family
when she cowered away from them.
about dating someone you like, it appears
A friend of our family has a dog that
you are not ready for a relationship.
Maude is especially hesitant around, and
To My Muslim Readers: A happy Eid-
my daughter recently confided that she
al-Fitr, one and all!
no longer wants to go over to this friend’s
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
June 3-4, 1919
Trouble looms large for John Christian
Zoller, of Duncan, married Saturday night
at North Forks, to little Miss Katy Muriel
Thurston, who, her father, Frank Thurston,
says is not yet 15 years of age. Mr. Thurston
is in Pendleton today to take action against
Zoller, who is 40, and a man named James
Snyder. Zoller, accompanied by a man giv-
ing the name of Tom Mooney and his home
as Arlington, procured a marriage license
Saturday afternoon at the county court
house. Zoller produced a note, signed with
Mr. Thurston’s name, saying the girl is of
age and had his consent to marry. Mooney
signed the affidavit that he personally knew
the girl to be of legal age. Mr. Thurston
declared today that Katy is but 14 years of
age and that she was spirited away for the
ceremony after Zoller and Snyder returned
with the license. The order was branded by
Mr. Thurston as a forgery.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
June 3-4, 1969
The Odd Fellows Building at NE Main
and NE 6th, in the heart of the north Mil-
ton-Freewater business district, was virtu-
ally destroyed by fire of undetermined ori-
gin Monday afternoon. Firemen and all
trucks and equipment, including three man
lifts, fought the dense clouds of smoke and
intermittent bursts of flame more than three
hours before the fire in the two-story build-
ing of wood and tin covered with stucco
showed signs of abatement. Damage was
confined, however, to the building, erected
by IOOF Lodge in 1907 and used continu-
ously by the lodge since then.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
June 3-4, 1994
A Hermiston environmental group has
collected 500 signatures and organized
a postcard-writing campaign against the
Army’s plan to destroy chemical weapons.
On the other hand, eight members of the
Hermiston City Council have written Con-
gress in favor of the Army’s plan to inciner-
ate chemical weapons at the Umatilla Army
Depot. Susan Jones, a member of Citizens
for Environmental Quality, gave the local
Chemical Demilitarization Citizens Advi-
sory Commission what she said were nearly
500 signatures against incineration. The
petition will be forwarded to Congress. As
of Wednesday, 98 of 101 comments received
by the Department of Environmental Qual-
ity came from DEQ’s pre-printed postcards,
signed by residents.
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 June 4, 1942, the
World War II Battle of Mid-
way began, resulting in a
decisive American victory
against Japan and marking
the turning point of the war
in the Pacific.
In
1919,
Congress
approved the 19th Amend-
ment to the U.S. Constitu-
tion, guaranteeing citizens
the right to vote regardless
of their gender, and sent it to
the states for ratification.
In 1939, the German
ocean liner MS St. Louis,
carrying more than 900
Jewish refugees from Ger-
many, was turned away
from the Florida coast by
U.S. officials.
In 1943, the president of
Argentina, Ramon Castillo,
was overthrown in a mili-
tary coup.
In 1954, French Premier
Joseph Laniel and Vietnam-
ese Premier Buu Loc signed
treaties in Paris according
“complete independence” to
Vietnam.
In 1990, Dr. Jack Kev-
orkian carried out his first
publicly assisted suicide,
helping Janet Adkins, a
54-year-old
Alzheimer’s
patient from Portland, Ore-
gon, end her life in Oakland
County, Michigan.
In 1998, a federal judge
sentenced Terry Nichols
to life in prison for his role
in the 1995 bombing of the
Alfred P. Murrah Federal
Building in Oklahoma City.
Today’s Birthdays: Sex
therapist and media person-
ality Dr. Ruth Westheimer
is 91. azz musician Anthony
Braxton is 74. Actor Parker
Stevenson is 67. Singer-mu-
sician El DeBarge is 58.
Actress Julie White is 58.
Comedian Horatio Sanz
is 50. Actor Noah Wyle is
48. Actress Angelina Jolie
is 44. Rock musician JoJo
Garza (Los Lonely Boys) is
39. Country musician Dean
Berner (Edens Edge) is 38.
Olympic gold medal figure
skater Evan Lysacek is 34.
Americana singer Shakey
Graves is 32. Rock musician
Zac Farro is 29.
Thought for Today:
“When you betray some-
body else, you also betray
yourself.” — Isaac Bashevis
Singer, Polish-born Amer-
ican Nobel Prize-winning
author (1904-1991).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE