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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
COFFEE BREAK
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY JIM DAVIS
DEAR ABBY
Daughter plays second fiddle to
brother with grandchild
Dear Abby: My mother has
recently confided that for the last
always had a horrible habit of mak-
few years of his marriage he has
ing plans and canceling at the last
been involved in an on-again, off-
again affair.
minute. When I make plans with
He also told me that for most of
her, she invariably cancels the day
his marriage his wife has been put-
of. Lately she has started mak-
ing me feel guilty for not coming
ting him down, blaming him for all
their problems, constantly accus-
around more.
ing him of cheating (they have
I lost my license two years
J eanne
been married far longer than the
ago, so I can’t drive, and I work
P hilliPs
affair has been going on) and not
full time. She has no job and sev-
ADVICE
eral vehicles. I’m not saying she
letting him see his friends. Abby, I
have witnessed some of her behav-
doesn’t have things going on, but I
ior myself, and it explains why he
can’t help but feel she’s just going
seemed to drop off the earth after he signed
through the motions and making it seem
his marriage certificate.
like she cares.
I don’t know how to help him. He has
My younger brother had a baby girl last
tried to get his wife to agree to marriage
year, and Mom constantly has her or is try-
ing to get her. To top it off, my brother lives
counseling, but she refuses. He has young
in the same town I do. It makes me feel
children, and he’s afraid that if he tries to
invisible.
divorce her, she’ll make sure he never sees
them again.
I know when parents say they don’t have
She has spent years wearing him
a favorite child, they are lying through their
down and won. He’s no longer the outgo-
teeth, but this is blatant. I’m in my 30s and
ing, happy person I used to know. He was
shouldn’t still be feeling like this. Please
always ready to help anyone who needed
help. I feel like my parents would be better
him, and I want to return the favor. How?
off with one less child to make fake plans
— Supportive Friend in Vermont
with. — Invisible in Ohio
Dear Friend: Suggest to your friend that
Dear Invisible: Whether your brother is
because his wife refuses to go to marriage
the favored child, I can’t opine. However,
counseling does not mean he shouldn’t go
it makes no sense that your mother would
for individual counseling without her. If
guilt you for not seeing her more often and
he does, it may be life-changing for him in
then stand you up when you try.
a positive way because he may be able to
Because you feel slighted, tell her how
reconnect with the person he was before he
hurtful it is. If the situation doesn’t improve,
entered his emotionally abusive marriage.
plan fewer visits with her and concentrate
I can’t promise his future will be prob-
on spending your time with people who do
lem-free after that, but he will be stronger
make you feel appreciated and loved.
and more able to cope with whatever his
Dear Abby: I have been friends with
wife (or ex-wife) throws his way.
a guy, “Derrick,” since high school. He
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
June 20, 1919
Charles J. Russell of Pendleton has been
chosen as one of the 42 members of the
Reserve Officers Training Corps of the
O.A.C. regiment and left Corvallis last night
to attend the annual six weeks encampment
at the Presidio, beginning Saturday, June 21,
and extending until August 1. The encamp-
ment is an annual affair and is attended by
members of the Reserve Officers Training
Crops units in every land-grant college in
the west.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
June 20, 1969
The Senate Judiciary Committee took
no action Wednesday on the nomination of
Judge John F. Kilkenny to the 9th U.S. Cir-
cuit Court of Appeals. Sen. Hiram Fong,
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
R-Hawaii, requested the postponement.
An aide of Fong’s office confirmed the
request, but said, “We have nothing against
Kilkenny. We think he’s a good man.” Fong
had said earlier he would object to all fur-
ther nominations to the court until a judge
from Hawaii was nominated.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
June 20, 1994
Denele DeCius of Pendleton tap danced
her way to the Miss Umatilla County title
on Saturday. She also scored highest in her
interview. Twenty-year-old DeCius will rep-
resent the area in the Miss Oregon Pageant
at Seaside in July 1995. She also received
a $1,100 scholarship and crown. Andrea
Beaty, 17, of Umatilla, received $650 as first
runner-up. Maisie Smith, 19, finished sec-
ond runner-up for $350 and also earned the
Director’s Award for congeniality.
TODAY IN HISTORY
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
BY SCOTT ADAMS
Thursday, June 20, 2019
On June 20, 1921, U.S.
Rep. Alice Mary Robert-
son, R-Okla., became the
first woman to preside over
a session of the House of
Representatives.
In
1782,
Congress
approved the Great Seal of
the United States, featur-
ing the emblem of the bald
eagle.
In 1863, West Virginia
became the 35th state.
In 1893, a jury in New
Bedford,
Massachusetts,
found Lizzie Borden not
guilty of the ax murders of
her father and stepmother.
In 1943, race-related
rioting erupted in Detroit;
federal troops were sent in
two days later to quell the
violence that resulted in
more than 30 deaths.
In 1967, boxer Muham-
mad Ali was convicted in
Houston of violating Selec-
tive Service laws by refus-
ing to be drafted and was
sentenced to five years in
prison. (Ali’s conviction was
ultimately overturned by the
U.S. Supreme Court).
In 1975, Steven Spiel-
berg’s shark thriller “Jaws,”
starring Roy Scheider,
Robert Shaw and Rich-
ard Dreyfuss (not to men-
tion a mechanical shark
nicknamed “Bruce”) was
released
by
Universal
Pictures.
In 1988, the U.S.
Supreme Court unani-
mously upheld a New York
City law making it illegal for
private clubs with more than
400 members to exclude
women and minorities.
In 1990, South African
black nationalist Nelson
Mandela and his wife, Win-
nie, arrived in New York
City for a ticker-tape parade
in their honor as they began
an eight-city U.S. tour.
In 1994, O.J. Simpson
pleaded not guilty in Los
Angeles to the killings of
his ex-wife, Nicole, and
her friend, Ronald Gold-
man. Former airman Dean
Allen Mellberg went on a
shooting rampage at Fair-
child Air Force Base near
Spokane, Washington, kill-
ing four people and wound-
ing 22 others before being
killed by a military police
sharpshooter.
In 2001, Houston resi-
dent Andrea Yates drowned
her five children in the fam-
ily bathtub, then called
police. (Yates was later con-
victed of murder, but had
her conviction overturned;
she was acquitted by reason
of insanity in a retrial.)
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actress Olympia Dukakis
is 88. Singer Anne Murray
is 74. TV personality Bob
Vila is 73. Rhythm and blues
singer Lionel Richie is 70.
Actor John Goodman is 67.
Actress Nicole Kidman is 52.
Movie director Robert Rodri-
guez is 51. Rock musician
Jeordie White (AKA Twiggy
Ramirez) is 48. Actress-
singer Alisan Porter is 38.
Actress Dreama Walker is
33. Actress Maria Lark is 22.
Thought for Today:
“The art of progress is to
preserve order amid change
and to preserve change amid
order.” — Alfred North
Whitehead, English philos-
opher and mathematician
(1861-1947).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE