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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Wednesday, July 10, 2019
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Daughter in bedroom next door
frowns on mom’s relationship
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: I am a 54-year-old
with him. If he’s all for it, that
single woman who recently started
would be the way to deal with her
discomfort.
dating again after four years of
Dear Abby: I’ve been happily
total abstinence. My two daugh-
ters, ages 18 and 22, live at home
married for 13 years. Over the last
with me.
few years we have experienced our
brushes with the prospect of infi-
My dilemma: I am smitten, to
delity, but we remain committed to
say the least, with an attractive,
each other. While our marriage is
supportive and very loving man.
J eanne
a healthy and happy one, our com-
I have invited him over and intro-
P hilliPs
mitment to each other has recently
duced him to the girls, which went
ADVICE
come into question, and we have
well until the other night, when
been fighting more than usual.
my 22-year-old overheard us being
Recently, a good friend of
intimate (her bedroom is next to
mine since almost childhood — and brief
mine). There was no screaming or anything
lover in my early 20s — with whom I
lewd, no nudity or PDA, but I happen to
have maintained friendly contact over the
have a slightly noisy bed.
years, propositioned me. He said he has
She now refuses to sleep in her room and
never fallen out of love with me and will
sent me a text telling me she wants to live
continue to wait. I cut off my relationship
with her dad because she thinks it’s dis-
gusting. I’m not sure how to feel.
with him without agreeing to an affair (or
On one hand, I think she needs to grow
anything else) and have moved on with
my marriage.
up, but at the same time, I don’t want to be
My concern is, now I feel this urge to
the cause of her discomfort.
let my husband know about the exchange,
I explained to her that I’m happy after
mostly to reinforce my commitment to him
being alone for so long and perhaps she
and maintain transparency. But part of me
could be happy for me. My partner thinks
is afraid that bringing it up will cause more
she’s jealous of our new relationship. The
upset, and maybe I should keep it to myself.
18-year-old couldn’t care less.
What should I do? — Needing Some
My question is, am I behaving inappro-
priately? Don’t I have just as much right
Guidance
to enjoy my home as they do? — Getting
Dear Needing: Not all of our urges are
meant to be acted upon. Be honest about
Back To It in New York
your motive.
Dear Getting Back: I can see how your
What do you think telling your husband
young adult daughter might be uncomfort-
able being confronted with her mother’s
will accomplish? Will it bring you closer
sexual activity, to the musical accompani-
to each other, or remind him that you are
ment of squeaking bed springs.
attractive to other men and make him jeal-
ous? Will it anger him enough to want to
Most people have a hard time accepting
punch your old friend and former lover in
their parents as sexual beings. You didn’t
the nose? If this is a possibility, some things
mention whether your daughter’s father
are better left unsaid.
would welcome this daughter moving in
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 10, 1919
Eureka Lodge No. 32, with Integrity
Lodge No. 92, I.O.O.F., today purchased
from Mrs. J.P. Murphy a lot 75 by 100 feet
on the corner of Garden and Alta streets.
The consideration is not given. The prop-
erty, which has a 75 foot frontage on Gar-
den street and 100 feet on Alta street, will
be used as the location for the I.O.O.F. Tem-
ple which will probably be a reality next
year. No plans for the building have yet
been drawn, but tentative plans are for a
three story building. The lodge has already
received offers from Pendleton business
men who wish to rent the lower floor of the
building.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 10, 1969
Planning commission members entered
into a spirited discussion on the need for
community beautification in Milton-Free-
water Monday night. Dr. Bill Harstad intro-
duced the subject after concluding some
business with the commission. Each mem-
ber immediately came up with an area need-
ing attention plus ideas for implementing
renovation and improvement. Jim Busch
mentioned portions of S. Main Street that
“look like they called the hogs to feed ’em
and the hogs didn’t come.” He added that
“the city could well begin any beautification
with some of its own properties.”
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 10, 1994
Kidney donor Kristie Lemmon of Herm-
iston and her 10-year-old son and transplant
patient, Tyler, continue their recovery at
home. Surgery was performed in late March
at the Oregon Health Sciences University in
Portland.
After seven days in the hospital, they
moved into nearby one-bedroom apartment.
The Lemmons returned home May 10.
Most recently, Tyler was “bat boy” for his
13-year-old brother Jared’s Babe Ruth base-
ball team, the Hermiston Americans. Randy
Lemmon, husband and father, rounds out
the family. Tyler’s kidneys were damaged in
October 1993 by a falling tree in the woods
near Ukiah.
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 10, 1991, Boris
N. Yeltsin took the oath of
office as the first elected
president of the Russian
republic.
In 1509, theologian John
Calvin, a key figure of the
Protestant Reformation, was
born in France.
In
1919,
President
Woodrow Wilson person-
ally delivered the Treaty of
Versailles to the Senate and
urged its ratification. (How-
ever, the Senate rejected it.)
In 1925, jury selection
took place in Dayton, Ten-
nessee, in the trial of John T.
Scopes, charged with violat-
ing the law by teaching Dar-
win’s Theory of Evolution.
Scopes was convicted and
fined, but the verdict was
overturned on a technicality.
In 1929, American paper
currency was reduced in
size as the government
began issuing bills that were
approximately 25 percent
smaller.
In 1973, John Paul Getty
III, the teenage grandson of
the oil tycoon, was abducted
in Rome by kidnappers who
cut off his ear when his fam-
ily was slow to meet their
ransom demands; Getty was
released in December 1973
for nearly $3 million.
In 1979, conductor
Arthur Fiedler, who had led
the Boston Pops orchestra
for a half-century, died in
Brookline, Mass., at age 84.
In 1985, bowing to pres-
sure from irate custom-
ers, the Coca-Cola Co. said
it would resume selling
old-formula Coke, while
continuing to sell New
Coke.
In
2004,
President
George W. Bush said that
legalizing gay marriage
would redefine the most
fundamental institution of
civilization, and that a con-
stitutional amendment was
needed to protect traditional
marriage.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Singer Mavis Staples is 80.
Actor Mills Watson is 79.
Bluegrass singer-musician
Tim Surrett (Balsam Range)
is 56. Actor Adrian Gre-
nier is 43. Actor Chiwetel
Ejiofor is 42. Actor Thomas
Ian Nicholas is 39. Rapper/
singer Angel Haze is 28.
Thought for Today:
“The people I distrust
most are those who want
to improve our lives but
have only one course of
action in mind.” — Frank
Herbert, American author
(1920-1986).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE