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B6 East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, June 14, 2019 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Wealthy man’s companion is shut out of family holidays 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 platonic cultivate relationships with people who won’t ignore you during hol- friend and part-time caregiver of idays. It’s important that you not a wealthy gentleman. I now reside become more isolated and discon- in his residence out of necessity. nected than you are. If you are reli- We respect each other, and neither gious, your own church might be a of us intends to be anything more place to start. than friends. Dear Abby: My husband is the My problem is his family. biggest procrastinator I have ever They know I exist, but refuse J eanne known. He has piles of things lying to get to know me. They do not P hilliPs around that need his attention and allow me to accompany him to ADVICE projects that need to be finished holiday events at their homes, but get put off day after day. even at his request. His sister, When I remind him of what the matriarch and a devout Cath- needs doing, he accuses me of nagging, olic, has been verbally and emotionally so I have stopped reminding him. But it’s abusive to me. My friend believes it’s all boiling inside of me. It has gotten worse about his money, and they consider me a since he retired. Also, there are the hours threat. he spends on his iPad. I always feel hurt and rejected on these If I handled things the way he does, special occasions. I have no family of my nothing would get done, and our house own, and I’m alone on holidays most of the would be a pig pen. I’m frustrated and need time. How can I overcome this hurtful sit- some advice on how to handle this without uation? His nieces and nephews never call being a nag. I’m ready to go on strike. — him or invite him to dinner in between hol- Beyond Frustrated in Ohio idays. Neither of us has children, so he is Dear Beyond: What’s going on is loyal to his relatives above all else. How do unfair to you. If this is your husband’s pat- I get past the rejection? — More Than a tern, then he needs to know how angry you Caregiver are about it. That isn’t nagging; it is vent- Dear More: Unless your friend has ing. Because he has gotten worse since his made a point of remembering you in retirement, he may need to be seen by his his will, I hope you realize that when he doctor to ensure it isn’t caused by a health passes, all you will receive from his family problem. is a wave goodbye — if that. The disrespect I’m sorry you didn’t mention what kinds and lack of empathy “the matriarch” has of projects your husband is procrastinating shown you is shameful. That your friend/ about finishing. If they are minor repairs or patient lacks the backbone to insist you be handyman things, consider hiring someone included suggests to me that your relation- to finish them. If they are financial, your ship appears to be a one-way street. accountant may be able to recommend The way to get past this would be to someone. make sure you are saving enough money Please consider what I am telling you. (if you haven’t) to tide you over until you The only thing you shouldn’t do is continue find a job after his death. In the meantime, to tolerate this. allow yourself enough personal time to DAYS GONE BY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 14, 1919 No more faithful picture of early Oregon has ever been painted than that which was presented by the students of Willamette university and assisted by Indians from the Chemawa school, Major Lee Moorhouse, of the city, said today upon his return from Salem where he assisted in the production of the pageant. The part the major played in the 75 year history was the dressing of the young natives in the garb of their illus- trious ancestors and coaching them in their work. He was for many years chief of the Indian service here, and among the young Indians who took part in the pageant were seven from the Umatilla reservation. Thirty in all were directed by him. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 14, 1969 While Milton-Freewater city police were hunting down some suspects M.O. Lewis thought had stolen his new 50-foot hose from his pickup truck while it was parked downtown, Mrs. Lewis was at home placidly watering her lawn with the hose. She told police she was sorry for all the trouble, but she knew her husband would be late getting home so when she saw the hose in the pickup she copped it. “I wanted to get started on my watering,” she said. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 14, 1994 Heppner’s volunteer firefighters will no longer have to fire up “Old Dobyn” to fight the city’s fires. The town’s 33-year-old fire truck has been replaced by a shiny new 1994 midship pumper packing 750 gal- lons of water. The new truck is capable of pumping 1,250 gallons a minute. A capi- tal improvement bond approved by voters in 1992 made the purchase of the $165,000 truck possible. It also paid for construction of the new fire hall and brought the depart- ment up to code. 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 14, 1954, Presi- dent Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a measure adding the phrase “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance. In 1777, the Second Con- tinental Congress approved the design of the original American flag. In 1940, German troops entered Paris during World War II; the same day, the Nazis began transporting prisoners to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Ger- man-occupied Poland. In 1943, the U.S. Supreme Court, in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Bar- nette, ruled 6-3 that public school students could not be forced to salute the flag of the United States. In 1985, the 17-day hijack ordeal of TWA Flight 847 began as a pair of Leba- nese Shiite Muslim extrem- ists seized the jetliner shortly after takeoff from Athens, Greece. In 1993, President Bill Clinton nominated Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1999, About 15,000 NATO peacekeepers spread out across Kosovo, including a convoy of about 1,200 U.S. Marines. In 2017, a rifle-wield- ing gunman opened fire on Republican lawmakers at a congressional baseball prac- tice in Alexandria, Virginia, wounding House Whip Steve Scalise and several others; the assailant died in a bat- tle with police. Fire ripped through the 24-story Gren- fell Tower in West London, killing 71 people. Today’s Birthdays: Actress Marla Gibbs is 88. Actor Eddie Mekka is 67. Singer Boy George is 58. Actor Faizon Love is 51. International Tennis Hall of Famer Steffi Graf is 50. Actor Sullivan Stapleton is 42. Screenwriter Diablo Cody is 41. Actor Torrance Coombs is 36. Actor J.R. Martinez is 36. Actor-singer Kevin McHale is 31. Actress Lucy Hale is 30. Actor Daryl Sabara is 27. Thought for Today: “The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetori- cal sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is writ- ten upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sen- timent, but of a history.” — President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), in an address delivered on June 14, 1915. PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
