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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
Friday, June 28, 2019
DEAR ABBY
Couple does battle over who
handles household bill-paying
Dear Abby: My newly retired
system works so you can assume
the task seamlessly.
husband and I lead a nice life and
Dear Abby: I met my husband
are in good health. Our two girls
22 years ago and decided to move
are grown and established. Our
in with him. I was 21. My mother
battle is over my husband “taking
has never approved of him. He is
back” some of the duties I have per-
formed for years, like paying and
a blue-collar, hardworking, huge-
mailing out our monthly bills, some
hearted man. We fell hard for each
of which I pay in person.
other, and I didn’t care that he
J eanne
wasn’t rich. I know Mom was dis-
This task is easy for me and
P hilliPs
appointed that I didn’t marry a doc-
never a hardship. We have excellent
ADVICE
tor or a lawyer. Instead, I married
credit. He now wants all the bills to
the man I fell in love with.
come to him online, and he’ll pay
The last 22 years haven’t been
them online, leaving me out of the
easy. She acts like she accepts him, but then
process. He knows I enjoyed doing it and
she says horrible things about him. We both
considered it my purview.
have helped my parents during some diffi-
I want to continue to handle bill pay-
ing as I always have, occasionally taking
cult times, but she still says things that hurt
like, “I’m glad you two never had kids.”
a statement to a department store or what-
Well, lo and behold, I ended up getting
ever. Paying for checks is not a problem for
pregnant at 40, and we have an amazing
us. I use a debit card for regular shopping
son together. I keep trying to start over with
and a credit card in certain stores. I am not
Mom, especially since my son was born, but
a spend-a-holic.
she has continued her evil ways.
My husband paying bills online cuts me
I’m finally done with her, and my hus-
out of the process, and I don’t like it. I prefer
band and I have decided to move to another
the method I have used for decades. Is this
state where my husband’s family lives so
more of a control issue than anything else?
our son can grow up surrounded by loving
Any ideas? — Stifled in Washington
people. I feel sad, but my mother is not will-
Dear Stifled: Yes, it is a control issue. It is
ing to accept us. Am I doing the right thing
also an indication that your husband doesn’t
by moving? (My father passed away, and
have enough to do. Because the bill paying
we hung in through her verbal abuse just to
is partly a social outlet for you, you should
make sure Dad was well taken care of.) —
not allow the task to be taken over. Tell your
Anxious in Arizona
husband he needs to find something else to
Dear Anxious: I’m sorry for what you
do — mow the lawn, paint the garage, vol-
unteer his time — but not the bill paying
and your husband have been put through.
You have clearly tried to make the relation-
because it makes you uncomfortable.
ship with your mother work. Because you
A compromise might be for him to pay
are a mother now, focus on creating a happy
some of the bills online and you pay the rest.
life for your son, your husband and yourself.
However, if something unexpected happens
You are doing the right thing for the right
to your husband (illness, death, murder?),
reasons. Your mother is toxic. Bon voyage!
you absolutely must know how the online
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
June 28, 1919
Election and the inaugural meeting of
the newly organized local No. 364, union
of cooks, waiters, waitresses and soda dis-
pensers, will be held in Moose hall at 8:30
Monday evening. The charter from the
International Alliance of Hotel and Restau-
rant Employees, which is affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor, arrived last
night. There are 30 charter members here.
The meeting will take up the schedule of
working hours and pay.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
June 28, 1969
An outbreak among horses in the area
of a type of sleeping sickness caused some
concern today. Dr. Norden Stefanides of the
Hermiston Veterinary Clinic has diagnosed
six cases of equine encephalitis, consid-
erably more than usual, he said. The virus
disease is transmitted by the common mos-
quito. Dr. Alton Alderman, Umatilla County
health officer, said most people are immune
to the disease. He said chances of infection
of humans are “small, but possible. There is
no cause for great alarm.” While a vaccine
has been developed to protect horses, there
is no vaccine for humans against this virus.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
June 28, 1994
Two 17-year-old Pendleton boys who
allegedly fired shots into the Hansell Hog
Ranch office in Hermiston were arrested
Monday in Pendleton after citizens chased
them down the freeway to get a license num-
ber. Michael T. Peden and Joseph W. Hayes
drove by the office on Route 1 in Hermis-
ton and fired 7-10 rounds from a .22 caliber
gun into the windows on the west side of the
building, according to the Umatilla County
Sheriff’s Office. John Hansell and some farm
workers who witnessed the shooting then
chased the boys down Interstate 84 at speeds
up to 90 mph to get a license plate number.
Later in the day, police arrested Peden and
Hayes on charges of second-degree criminal
mischief, recklessly endangering and crim-
inal trespass while in possession a firearm.
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 28, 1978, the
Supreme Court ordered the
University of California-Da-
vis Medical School to admit
Allan Bakke, a white man who
argued he’d been a victim of
reverse racial discrimination.
In 1838, Britain’s Queen
Victoria was crowned in
Westminster Abbey.
In 1914, Archduke Franz
Ferdinand of Austria and
his wife, Sophie, were shot
to death in Sarajevo by Serb
nationalist Gavrilo Princip
— an act that sparked World
War I.
In 1919, the Treaty of Ver-
sailles was signed in France,
ending the First World War.
In 1939, Pan Ameri-
can Airways began regular
trans-Atlantic air service with
a flight that departed New
York for Marseilles, France.
In 1940, President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
signed the Alien Registra-
tion Act, also known as the
Smith Act, which required
adult foreigners residing
in the U.S. to be registered
and fingerprinted.
In 1997, in a wild
rematch, Evander Holyfield
retained the WBA heavy-
weight boxing champion-
ship after his opponent,
Mike Tyson, was disqual-
ified for biting Holyfield’s
ear during the third round
of their fight in Las Vegas.
In 2013, The four plain-
tiffs in the U.S. Supreme
Court case that overturned
California’s same-sex mar-
riage ban tied the knot,
just hours after a federal
appeals court freed gay
couples to obtain marriage
licenses in the state for the
first time in 4 1/2 years.
In 2017, ABC and a
South Dakota meat pro-
ducer announced a settle-
ment in a $1.9 billion law-
suit against the network
over its reports on a beef
product that critics dubbed
“pink slime.”
Today’s
Birthdays:
Comedian-movie director
Mel Brooks is 93. Actress
Kathy Bates is 71. Col-
lege and Pro Football Hall
of Famer John Elway is
59. Rock musician Saul
Davies (James) is 54. Actor
John Cusack is 53. Entre-
preneur Elon Musk is 48.
Actor Alessandro Nivola is
47. Actress Camille Guaty
is 43. Rock musician Tim
Nordwind (OK Go) is 43.
Thought for Today:
“The glory of each gen-
eration is to make its own
precedents.” — Belva
Ann Bennett Lockwood,
American social reformer
(1830-1917).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE