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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Unexpected parenthood keeps
mismatched couple together
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: Four years ago, I
Have people grown so self-cen-
tered and uncaring about other peo-
became friends with a co-worker
ple’s feelings that they think posts
and things took off too fast. Within
like this are appropriate without
a couple of months, I became preg-
nant. We were thrown together
asking the immediate family’s feel-
ings on the matter? It seems to me
without really even knowing each
it’s a self-serving grab for attention
other because, deep down, we
and sympathy without any respect
wanted a family and decided to
for the immediate family of the
stick it out.
J eanne
deceased. I really cannot find a way
Well, it’s been a hell of a ride. I
P hilliPs
to forgive her actions. — Hurt and
ended up having to leave because
ADVICE
Angry in the East
neither one of us was happy, and it
Dear Hurt: Please accept my
wasn’t the greatest environment to
sympathy for the loss of your
raise our daughter in. I came back a
mother. What happened is one of the regret-
few months later, and we have been trying
table aspects of living in the 21st century.
our best to get along and be great parents for
Your cousin may be part of the generation
her. But our past issues with each other con-
stantly raise their ugly heads and cause prob-
that thinks every detail of their lives must
be put online for consumption by an audi-
lems that make us want to split up.
ence waiting with bated breath. If my guess
I have suggested individual and couples
is accurate, then I agree doing it without
counseling, but he isn’t into it, and it’s always
first running it by the immediate family was
a blame game between us. I’m beyond tired
insensitive and thoughtless.
of it. My head says go, but my heart says stay.
Not knowing your cousin, I don’t know
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. —
whether it was a “self-serving grab for atten-
Weighing the Pros and Cons
tion.” However, what’s done is done. It’s over.
Dear Weighing: Your child’s father may
I hope you won’t allow this to ruin your rela-
prefer to play the blame game because he’s
tionship with this relative or your memories
unwilling to own up to his part in the prob-
lem. Dragging an unwilling partner to coun-
of your dear mother.
seling would be unproductive. However,
Dear Abby: I’ve always wondered when
it’s appropriate for a couple to start giving
that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t go without
gifts as a couple vs. individually. I’ve seen
him. If you do, you will have a clearer under-
standing about whether and why you should
couples who start early on in their relation-
ship and others who have been together for
continue living together. Keep in mind that
what feels like forever who still individually
a household where there is conflict is not a
give gifts. — Wondering in Texas
healthy environment for a child.
Dear Wondering: There are no hard and
Dear Abby: My mother passed away a
fast rules about something like this. It may
short time ago, and my cousin immediately
depend on all the circumstances involved,
posted about the funeral on social media
and also may have something to do with how
without even mentioning me in her post, or
independent from each other the couple is.
asking me how I felt about such a posting.
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 2, 1919
Pendleton employers who take back into
their service the boys and men who were in
their employ at the time of enlistment in the
army or navy will be presented with engraved
certificates issued by the war and navy depart-
ments, according to announcement made by
Colonel Arthur Woods, assistant to the sec-
retary of war. These honor certificates are to
be given to any employer in the United States
who notifies Colonel Woods that he has com-
plied with the requirements by re-employing
returned solders and sailors where were in his
service previous to the date of their enlistment
in the army and navy.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 2, 1969
Eastern Oregon will get another lake,
Kelly Prairie. The Oregon Board of For-
est Conservation opened the way Tuesday
by approving purchase of the site by the
U.S. Forest Service, the Associated Press
reported from Salem today. The lake site
now is mostly grassland. It is a 648-acre site
in Kelly Prairie on a tributary of Potamus
Creek in Morrow County. The creek runs
into the North Fork of the John Day River.
The Oregon Game Commission will partici-
pate in the project, building a dam across the
creek and creating a 516-acre lake that will
be stocked with fish. The forest service will
build a campground.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 2, 1994
Fire investigators have traced the cause of
an early-morning fire Thursday to an electri-
cal short in a freezer on the porch of a house
on Punkin Center Road in Hermiston. Three
men burned in the fire remained in critical
condition this morning at Emanuel Hospital
in Portland. But fire officials said it’s lucky
there weren’t a lot more injuries considering
27 people were living in the house. One of the
home’s residents spotted the fire as he came
home from work at about 1:30 a.m. Thursday
and he woke the people sleeping inside. Most
were able to escape without injury. The lone
injuries from the fire were the severe burns
suffered by Antonio Orta, 23, Jose Macias,
30, and Juan Orta, 22.
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 July 2, 1964, Pres-
ident Lyndon B. Johnson
signed into law a sweeping
civil rights bill passed by
Congress.
In 1776, the Continen-
tal Congress passed a res-
olution saying that “these
United Colonies are, and of
right ought to be, free and
independent States.”
In 1881, President James
A. Garfield was shot by
Charles J. Guiteau at the
Washington railroad sta-
tion; Garfield died the fol-
lowing September. (Guiteau
was hanged in June 1882.)
In 1892, the Populist
Party (also known as the
People’s Party) opened its
first national convention in
Omaha, Nebraska.
In 1917, rioting erupted
in East St. Louis, Illinois, as
white mobs attacked black
residents; nearly 50 people,
mostly blacks, are believed
to have died in the violence.
In 1937, aviator Ame-
lia Earhart and navigator
Fred Noonan disappeared
over the Pacific Ocean while
attempting to make the first
round-the-world flight along
the equator.
In 1961, author Ernest
Hemingway shot him-
self to death at his home in
Ketchum, Idaho.
In 1976, the U.S.
Supreme Court, in Gregg v.
Georgia, ruled 7-2 the death
penalty was not inherently
cruel or unusual.
In 1982, Larry Walters of
San Pedro, California, used
a lawn chair equipped with
45 helium-filled weather bal-
loons to rise to an altitude of
16,000 feet; he landed eight
miles away in Long Beach.
In 1987, 18 Mexican
immigrants were found
dead inside a locked boxcar
near Sierra Blanca, Texas,
in what authorities called a
botched smuggling attempt;
a 19th man survived.
Academy
In
1997,
Award-winning actor James
Stewart died in Beverly
Hills, California, at age 89.
Today’s Birthdays: Jazz
musician Ahmad Jamal is
89. Writer-director-come-
dian Larry David is 72.
Actor Jimmy McNichol is
58. Actor Owain Yeoman
is 41. Figure skater Johnny
Weir is 35. Actor Nelson
Franklin is 34. Actress-
singer Ashley Tisdale is 34.
Actress Lindsay Lohan is
33. Actress Margot Robbie
is 29.
Thought for Today:
“The best way to find out if
you can trust somebody is to
trust them.” — Ernest Hem-
ingway (1899-1961).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE