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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Single man falls off friends’
radar after they get married
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
Dear Abby: I’m a 26-year-
explanation or apology. My hus-
band is supportive, so our house-
old single man. Most of my good
hold is calm and reassuring. He
friends are getting married, and
says I should stop communicat-
when they do, they stop speak-
ing with these relatives because
ing to me. I have a hard time not
the negativity is depressing and
resenting them for it. It makes me
demoralizing. How can I get them
feel my company was a place-
holder until they got married, and
to accept me as I am? — Anony-
mous in America
I’m not worth keeping around now
J eanne
Dear Anonymous: You can’t
that they have what they really
P hilliPs
force people who have no empathy
want. It makes me feel like a sec-
ADVICE
ond-class citizen.
to have it. For whatever reason, it
isn’t in their DNA. You can, how-
Is this typical behavior or am I
ever, take care of yourself. If see-
right to feel slighted? If you have
ing or talking with your relatives leaves
any advice for someone in my situation, I’d
you feeling worse, it would make sense to
appreciate it. — Placeholder in the East
follow your husband’s advice.
Dear Placeholder: You may be taking
Dear Abby: I’m a woman with a situa-
this too personally. When people marry,
tion I’ve never seen addressed in your col-
their interests and their social schedules
umn. Most adult identical twins do not go
change. They tend to socialize with other
out of their way to look 100% alike. They’ll
newlyweds, which may be why you see
style their hair differently, groom facial
less of them.
hair differently or dress differently.
There could be many reasons why you
I attend a church where two mid-
are no longer included — among them that
dle-aged women appear to have missed
they don’t want you to feel like the odd
that memo. They wear the same hair-
man out. Make sure they know that won’t
style, the same glasses and nearly identi-
be the case, you still value their friendship
cal clothes. This makes me tend to avoid
and you would love to get together with
them because I’m embarrassed to admit I
them. That may prompt them to include
have no clue as to which one I’m talking to.
you more often. Also, make a point of stay-
Please give me your input. — Seeing Dou-
ing active and putting yourself in social sit-
uations where you can meet some new sin-
ble in California
gle friends.
Dear Seeing Double: Rather than allow
Dear Abby: I have had a chronic illness
the inability to distinguish between the
for 15 years. It has a myriad of symptoms
twins cause you to shun them, why not
that are very painful. While some of them
explain your problem? If you do, perhaps
are fleeting, others last for weeks.
they can suggest a way you can identify
My family is angry with me because
them as individuals. As you interact with
they say I am not dependable. It seems like
them, you may also notice characteristics
that will help you tell who’s who.
every conversation requires some sort of
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
June 18, 1919
“You should have heard Jock Coleman
sing!” says a letter from Will Warren, Port-
land man who is in welfare work in France,
and who was present at Le Mans, France,
when the Pendleton Scotch comedian sang at
an entertainment given for General Pershing.
Jock is appearing in a soldier show known as
“Hello, Broadway,” which is said to be one
of the best ever produced by the A.E.F. It
formed one of the main features of Pershing’s
entertainment when he visited Le Mans.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
June 18, 1969
No objections to establishment of sce-
nic areas along state highways in five East-
ern Oregon counties was voiced in Heppner
Monday. Request for the creation the new
scenic areas was made earlier to the Scenic
Area Board of the State of Oregon by the
Oregon Roadside Council. Monday’s meet-
ing at the courthouse was the formal hear-
ing on these requests. Possibly because of
last week’s flood, the hearing drew little local
interest, with only Morrow County Judge
Paul Jones and reporters attending from
Morrow County.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
June 18, 1994
A state audit of the Umatilla/Morrow pub-
lic defender’s office uncovered improper use
of public funds and sloppy or non-existent
record keeping. The audit recommends the
public defender’s office repay the state more
than $80,000 and that a team of state attor-
neys investigate the quality of legal counsel
given to clients. The financial audit, dated
June 10, 1994, was conducted by the office
of the State Court Administrator. It exam-
ines a 16-month period from July 1, 1992,
through last October. It was initiated by alle-
gations made last fall of misuse of UMPDS
contract funds. It does not say who made
the allegations.
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 18, 1979, Pres-
ident Jimmy Carter and
Soviet President Leonid I.
Brezhnev signed the SALT
II strategic arms limitation
treaty in Vienna.
In 1778, American forces
entered Philadelphia as the
British withdrew during the
Revolutionary War.
In 1812, the War of 1812
began as the United States
Congress approved, and
President James Madison
signed, a declaration of war
against Britain.
In 1815, Napoleon Bona-
parte met defeat at Water-
loo as British and Prussian
troops defeated the French in
Belgium.
In 1945, William Joyce,
known as “Lord Haw-
Haw,” was charged in Lon-
don with high treason for his
English-language wartime
broadcasts on German radio.
(He was hanged in January
1946.)
In
1948,
Columbia
Records publicly unveiled
its new long-playing phono-
graph record in New York.
In 1953, a U.S. Air Force
Douglas C-124 Globemas-
ter II crashed near Tokyo,
killing all 129 people on
board. Egypt’s 148-year-old
Muhammad Ali Dynasty
came to an end with the
overthrow of the monarchy
and the proclamation of a
republic.
In 1964, President Lyn-
don B. Johnson and Japanese
Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda
spoke to each other by tele-
phone as they inaugurated
the first trans-Pacific cable
completed by AT&T between
Japan and Hawaii.
In 1983, astronaut Sally
K. Ride became America’s
first woman in space as she
and four colleagues blasted
off aboard the space shut-
tle Challenger on a six-day
mission.
In 1992, the U.S. Supreme
Court, in Georgia v. McCol-
lum, ruled that criminal
defendants could not use
race as a basis for excluding
potential jurors from their
trials.
In 1996, Richard Allen
Davis was convicted in San
Jose, California, of the 1993
kidnap-murder of 12-year-
old Polly Klaas of Petaluma.
(Davis remains on death row.)
Today’s
Birthdays:
Sir Paul McCartney is 77.
Actress Isabella Rossellini
is 67. Actress Carol Kane
is 67. Rock musician Dizzy
Reed (Guns N’ Roses) is 56.
Figure skater Kurt Brown-
ing is 53. Rhythm and blues
singer Nathan Morris (Boyz
II Men) is 48. Actress Alana
de la Garza is 43. Country
singer Blake Shelton is 43.
Rock musician Steven Chen
(Airborne Toxic Event) is 41.
Actor David Giuntoli is 39.
Actor Jacob Anderson is 29.
Actress Willa Holland is 28.
Thought for Today:
“Frailty, thy name is no lon-
ger woman.” — Victor Rie-
sel, American labor journal-
ist (1913-1995).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE