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B6 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 Tuesday, June 25, 2019 DEAR ABBY Slide phone user is irritated by the pressure to upgrade Dear Abby: My friends and in the practice. While it may frus- trate those who want immediate family constantly ask me when I gratification, it will allow you to plan to get a new phone. I have a manage your time without unwel- slide phone. I used to have a flip come interruptions. phone, which also drew the same Dear Abby: Last night my questions. I am not a phone per- son. I have a land line at home with wife and I, both retired M.D.s, met answering/messaging in place. our daughter “Jackie,” her wife, I am sick of the questions about “Kelly,” and Jackie’s daughter for J eanne my phone. I don’t want a smart- dinner at a restaurant to celebrate P hilliPs phone. I have my little phone for Jackie’s 50th birthday. Kelly had ADVICE emergencies, not so everyone I called a couple of weeks ago to invite us. know can reach me immediately. My wife and I pay the check I wouldn’t dream of asking peo- ple when they are going to get a better TV, when we meet Jackie and her family to eat, newer shoes, a more expensive car, a bigger which is usually brunch on Sunday, but house, a more expensive handbag. Why is it because Kelly invited us, we were unsure that people feel the need to shame me about whether we should last night. (Our son gets upset if we offer to pay in similar circum- my phone? stances.) My wife asked Kelly at the table It is to the point now that I may turn it off if we could pay for our dinners. We had and turn it on only when I want to use it. It already presented Jackie with a birthday is becoming difficult for me to remain civil card with a check for $1,000 enclosed. about this subject. I envision myself throw- ing it in the trash can next time someone Jackie texted us today, incensed that we asks. — Like the Old Days did not pick up the check. Should we have? Dear Like the Old Days: Some peo- Jackie is a Ph.D. and makes a comfortable ple view having the latest model of cell- living. Her wife is an Ivy League graduate. phone as a status symbol, which is why so — Baffled in the South many feel compelled to buy one as soon as Dear Baffled: Your daughter’s manners are appalling. Her wife invited you and a new one is released. However, while that your wife to the dinner, which made you dreaded question may be posed in terms of her guests. It was sweet (and generous) of when you plan to buy a new phone, I sus- pect what the askers really mean is, “When your wife to ask if the two of you could pay are you going to make it easier for us to for your meals — in addition to the very communicate with you?” generous gift you had given your daughter. If you shut your phone off and use it only If apologies are in order, the people who when you wish to use it, you won’t be alone should receive them are you and your wife. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 25, 1919 The plugliest, ugliest plug ugly parade Pendleton has ever been privileged to peep at will writhe and wriggle its way along the line of march of the Fourth of July proces- sion. Originality will be present in such large quantities that the judges will have to roll the bones to decide who shall carry off the prizes offered for the best plugs in the line. There is no limit to the grotesque, the supernatural, the farcical or the terrible. Bolshewhiskers, Hun-dressed monsters or any other species of rare bird will be wel- comed and persons who are trying to figure out some prize winning costume are urged to eat a picnic dinner of cold meats, salads, sandwiches, beans, cucumbers, cherries, milk, mustard and persimmons some eve- ning before retiring and then register their impressions. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 25, 1969 Flood-weary Heppner residents watched Shobe Creek Monday afternoon as word quickly spread of “another flood is on its way.” The scare came after about three hours of heavy rain over the area, follow- ing a general rain Sunday night. Swirling water, mud and debris came within a cou- ple of feet of going over the banks in sev- eral low areas, but receded without spill- ing over. No alert was sounded. Residents up the stream phoned that a head of water was coming about 3:30 p.m. As word flashed around town people who live in the area flooded just two weeks ago left their jobs and offices to go home to close up for another flood. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian June 25, 1994 Delbert Durfee moved up from youth minister to senior pastor — and much closer to his hometown of Elgin — with new duties at Athena Christian Church. Durfee, 36, spent about seven years at the Church of Christ in Cottage Grove, a bed- room community just south of Eugene. He graduated in 1987 from Boise Bible Col- lege, affiliated with the Christian Church/ Church of Christ denomination. Coinciden- tally, Durfee attended fourth and fifth grade in Athena and attended the church where he now serves as pastor. His parents are Dale and Shirley Durfee. 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 25, 1950, war broke out in Korea as forces from the communist North invaded the South. In 1788, Virginia ratified the U.S. Constitution. In 1876, Lt. Col. Colonel George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry were wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indi- ans in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana. In 1947, “The Diary of a Young Girl,” the personal journal of Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl hiding with her family from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II, was first published. In 1962, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that recitation of a state-spon- sored prayer in New York State public schools was unconstitutional. In 1967, the Beatles per- formed and recorded their new song “All You Need Is Love” during the closing segment of “Our World,” the first-ever live interna- tional telecast which was carried by satellite from 14 countries. In 1973, former White House Counsel John W. Dean began testifying before the Senate Water- gate Committee, implicating top administration officials, including President Richard Nixon as well as himself, in the Watergate scandal and cover-up. In 1998, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a line-item veto law as uncon- stitutional, and ruled that HIV-infected people were protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act. In 2013, Democratic Texas State Senator Wendy Davis began a one-woman filibuster to block a GOP- led effort to impose strin- gent new abortion restric- tions across the nation’s second-most populous state. (Republicans voted to end the filibuster minutes before midnight, sparking a chaotic scene with demonstrators who succeeded in forcing lawmakers to miss the dead- line for passing the bill.) Today’s Birthdays: Civil rights activist James Meredith is 86. Rock musi- cian Ian McDonald (For- eigner; King Crimson) is 73. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is 65. Rap- per-producer Richie Rich is 52. Actress Angela Kinsey is 48. Rock musician Mike Kroeger (Nickelback) is 47. Rock musician Mario Calire is 45. Actress Linda Car- dellini is 44. Actress Busy Philipps is 40. Thought for Today: “A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.” — Maria Edgeworth, Anglo- Irish novelist (1767-1849). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
