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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, June 13, 2019
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Boyfriend confesses being
attracted to woman’s brother
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: I am a gay male.
age. When Kevin finally leaves,
am I obligated to plan a retire-
My sister, “Cate,” is in what
ment party for him? He has never
appears outwardly to be a commit-
ted relationship, but I know for a
lifted a finger for anybody, and he
sure doesn’t deserve a party honor-
fact it isn’t.
ing the fact that he sat in a chair for
Her
boyfriend,
“Darren,”
30 years. Or should I not help plan
invited me out for coffee a few days
either party? — Stuck Supervisor
ago, and while he was discussing
Dear Stuck: Unless party-plan-
some of their relationship troubles,
J eanne
ning is part of your job designation,
he told me he isn’t sure that he’s
P hilliPs
you are not obligated to arrange
straight. He then proceeded to say
ADVICE
one for Kevin if you prefer not to,
he could easily see himself dating
considering what a problem he has
me!
been for your unit. A party later
I don’t know what to do. I want
celebrating the welcoming of “new staff”
to tell Cate, but I don’t want to wreck her
would probably go over better.
relationship. The other problem is, I also
Dear Abby: I’ve been invited to go away
feel attracted to Darren, but it’s not my place
with my son’s family, and I don’t want to do
to pursue him. Any advice would be help-
ful. — In a Bind in New York
it. I have done it before, and it never goes
Dear In a Bind: Your sister’s relation-
well because of my son’s mouth. I think he
ship with Darren was “wrecked” the min-
may have an anger issue, but if I say any-
ute he told you that he isn’t certain he’s het-
thing to him about it, he gets angry. I can’t
erosexual and that he has his eye on you. If
tolerate his language, and he says he can’t
change.
you and Darren were to become involved,
I want to be with my grandchildren, but
it would likely devastate Cate, and I don’t
his mouth and his attitude make me timid
recommend it. Talk to Darren and tell him
and uncomfortable, and I end up wishing I
it’s time to come clean with Cate. Then, if
were home. I told him I was sorry I couldn’t
he doesn’t, a loyal sibling should tell his sis-
ter before she wastes any more time on this
go and why. He says his family is happy, and
boyfriend.
I should just let it roll off, but I feel I have a
right not to be subjected to a week of con-
Dear Abby: I supervise someone I’ll
stant cursing. It feels abusive. Am I wrong?
call “Kevin.” He is lazy, and his work is so
— Wishing It Were Different
sloppy he should have been fired long ago. I
Dear Wishing: If the bad language
and many supervisors before me have tried
is directed at another person, it is abusive
to no avail to motivate him, but we work in
and disrespectful. If it is used as an adjec-
government, and he knows how to game the
tive, it is “merely” grating and unpleasant.
system. Our unit’s reputation has suffered
A vacation is supposed to be a time to relax
because of Kevin. For reasons beyond my
and enjoy oneself. Because you feel your
control, we are stuck working together.
son’s language is so bad it would prevent
I supervise another person who is retiring
you from doing that, you should not subject
soon, and I would like to help plan his retire-
ment party. Kevin is also nearing retirement
yourself to it.
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
June 14, 1919
“I was pretty securely strapped in but
my arms were tired when I got out, just the
same,” Manuel Friedley, councilman and
school director, said this morning regarding
his flight above Portland yesterday in an army
biplane. Mr. Friedley was one of three Orego-
nians from outside of Portland to be honored
by an invitation to fly. Going up on Friday the
Thirteenth didn’t faze him, Mr. Friedley said
today, and once in the air things seemed as
smooth as though the plane were balanced on
a cloud and all below was swiftly moving.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
June 14, 1969
A vacationing Bellevue, Wash., family
escaped with their lives but lost everything
else Thursday afternoon when their car and
travel trailer were destroyed by fire on Cab-
bage Hill. The car, driven by Shirley Elane
Keating, 30, was eastbound up the hill when a
propane bottle fell between the car and trailer
and stared to burn. The family escaped from
the car before the gasoline tank exploded.
Patrick Keating, 36, was treated for second
degree burns on both feet at St. Anthony Hos-
pital and released. Mrs. Keating and four chil-
dren were not hurt.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
June 14, 1994
Two 11-year-old boys playing with
matches started a fire Monday that engulfed
three buildings in a ball of intense flame at a
farm west of Pendleton. No one was injured
and most equipment was spared, but the
Tucker Farms buildings were a total loss. The
mid-day blaze burned the three wooden farm
buildings to the ground. The boys were play-
ing in a grain elevator at Tucker Farms on
Despain Gulch Road when they dropped a lit
match, catching some debris on fire, accord-
ing to the Umatilla County Sheriff’s Depart-
ment. The boys — from Pendleton and Pilot
Rock — stomped out the fire and went inside
a house, but when they came back outside
they noticed smoke coming from the eleva-
tor, police said. The boys then called the older
brother and father, who were working on the
ranch, but there was nothing they could do to
stop the blaze.
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 13, 1966, the
In 1993, Canada’s Pro-
Supreme Court ruled in gressive Conservative Party
Miranda v. Arizona that chose Defense Minister Kim
criminal suspects had to be Campbell to succeed Brian
informed of their constitu- Mulroney as prime minis-
tional right to consult with ter; she was the first woman
an attorney and to remain to hold the post. Astronaut
silent.
Donald K. “Deke” Slayton
In 1842, Queen Victo- died in League City, Texas,
ria became the first British at age 69.
monarch to ride on a train,
In 1997, a jury voted
traveling from Slough Rail- unanimously to give Timo-
way Station to Paddington in thy McVeigh the death pen-
alty for his role in the Okla-
25 minutes.
In 1977, James Earl Ray, homa City bombing. The
the convicted assassin of Chicago Bulls captured their
civil rights leader Martin fifth professional basketball
Luther King Jr., was recap- championship in seven years
tured following his escape with a 90-to-86 victory over
three days earlier from a the Utah Jazz in game six.
Tennessee prison.
In 2005, A jury in Santa
In 1983, the U.S. space Maria, California, acquitted
probe Pioneer 10, launched Michael Jackson of molest-
in 1972, became the first ing a 13-year-old cancer sur-
spacecraft to leave the solar vivor at his Neverland ranch.
system as it crossed the orbit The Supreme Court warned
prosecutors to use care in
of Neptune.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BIG NATE
striking minorities from
juries, siding with black
murder defendants in Texas
and California who con-
tended their juries had been
unfairly stacked with whites.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actor Malcolm McDowell
is 76. Former U.N. Secre-
tary-General Ban Ki-moon
is 75. North Carolina Gov.
Roy Cooper is 62. Actress
Ally Sheedy is 57. Actor
Jamie Walters is 50. Sing-
er-musician Rivers Cuomo
(Weezer) is 49. Country
singer Susan Haynes is 47.
Actress Sarah Schaub is 36.
Singer Raz B is 34. Actress
Kat Dennings is 33. Actress
Ashley Olsen is 33. Actress
Mary-Kate Olsen is 33.
Thought for Today:
“There are no strangers here,
only friends you have not
yet met.” — William Butler
Yeats (1865-1939).
BY DANA SIMPSON
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE