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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Husband refuses to discuss
wife’s important questions
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: My husband and I
behaves the way he does. You may
have been married for three years.
have better luck getting answers
from her.
He’s 26, and I’m 28. We have a
Although you say you have a
good life, and he loves my 9-year-
“good life” with this man, if noth-
old daughter like his own child.
ing changes, will you feel that way
My husband is originally
in years to come as your biologi-
from Turkey and comes from a
cal clock ticks away? From where
good family. However, I have yet
J eanne
I sit, your description of the man
to meet my in-laws. He avoids
P hilliPs
you’re living with seems more like
talking about my meeting them. I
ADVICE
a houseman than a husband. Coun-
have talked to his younger sister
seling might help you to improve
and things are well and his fam-
ily knows about us. But anytime I
the level of communication in your
try to talk to him about money, meeting his
marriage, if you can get him to agree to it.
Something is very wrong here.
family or starting a family, he refuses to
Dear Abby: I recently took a friend
discuss it.
out to dinner as a thank-you. We are both
I have spoken to him calmly and ratio-
retired, and she knows my budget is lim-
nally. We have a lot in common, but any-
ited. At lunch she ordered a very expen-
thing stressful he avoids like the plague.
sive glass of wine, two full meals, the most
If we get into an argument, he shuts down
expensive dessert on the menu and coffee.
and walks out of the house. Recently, we
I ordered my meal and a glass of water.
got into a fight and he threw his phone at
Of course, no one could consume that
me because I shut our bedroom door. I
much food for lunch. She left with three
don’t yell at him.
bags of leftovers, and I was left with an
Every other subject we talk about —
extremely large bill and a bad taste in my
hobbies, music, dates, etc. — is fine, but
mouth. Is it just me or do you agree this is
the important ones are in the back of my
bad manners? If I truly thought she needed
mind constantly. He cooks, cleans, helps
this food to get through the week, there’d
with anything I ask and is a great husband.
be no problem. But this person is wealthy.
Please give me some advice on what to do.
— Ticked Off in Texas
— Clueless in Iowa
Dear Ticked Off: Your wealthy
Dear Clueless: That your husband
acquaintance took advantage of you. What
refuses to discuss meeting his family,
happened proves the truth of the adage that
won’t talk about money with you, throws
because people have money doesn’t guar-
his phone at you when he’s angry and
antee they have class. The next time she
clams up when you try to talk about start-
ing a family are serious red flags. Because
does you a favor and you want to repay her,
you have established a relationship with
buy her a nice card. And if you have a meal
together, ask for separate checks.
his sister, start asking her why her brother
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 16, 1919
A few crops of wheat have already been
sold by the growers, it is gained from brokers
row along Court street, but just what has been
paid is as hard to ascertain as how much the
yield will be. Indications are, however, that
the government guarantee and then a bit is
being offered for the choice crops, although
no confirmation of the rumor is forthcoming
from buyers. The great bulk of wheat, how-
ever, is not yet sold, farmers being content to
harvest and haul their sacks to the warehouse
to await the opening of the market.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 16, 1969
Dr. Shinichi Suzuki, famed violin teacher
of Matsumoto, Japan, and his party stepped
from a plane at Pendleton Airport Sunday
evening to be greeted by 300 children, their
parents, and members of the Pendleton Pub-
lic Schools faculty. Signs held by the chil-
dren read “Kombone wa Suzuki-San,” a
welcome to the Round-Up city in the visi-
tors’ native tongue. Dr. Suzuki is in Pend-
leton to conduct a workshop on his revolu-
tionary teaching method for violin teachers
and students from all over the Northwest.
The three-day seminar is being held at Vert
Auditorium.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 16, 1994
Milton-Freewater Police Chief Don Witt,
who was suspended with pay by the city a
little more than two weeks ago pending an
investigation of misconduct, presented his
resignation to City Manager Jim Swayne
this morning. A one-paragraph news release,
signed by both Witt and Swayne following
an executive session closed to the public,
said: “Witt feels that in light of recent events,
including the handling of a prolonged inves-
tigation of allegations of misconduct, that
he can no longer be effective as an admin-
istrator in the police department.” The news
release noted that Witt resigned before the
investigation was completed.
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 16, 1969,
Apollo 11 blasted off from
Cape Kennedy on the first
manned mission to the sur-
face of the moon.
In 1790, a site along the
Potomac River was desig-
nated the permanent seat
of the United States gov-
ernment; the area became
Washington, D.C.
In 1945, the United
States exploded its first
experimental atomic bomb
in the desert of Alamogordo,
New Mexico; the same day,
the heavy cruiser USS Indi-
anapolis left Mare Island
Naval Shipyard in Califor-
nia on a secret mission to
deliver atomic bomb com-
ponents to Tinian Island in
the Marianas.
In 1957, Marine Corps
Maj. John Glenn set a trans-
continental speed record by
flying a Vought F8U Cru-
sader jet from California
to New York in 3 hours, 23
minutes and 8.4 seconds.
In 1964, as he accepted
the Republican presiden-
tial nomination in San Fran-
cisco, Barry M. Goldwater
declared that “extremism in
the defense of liberty is no
vice” and that “moderation
in the pursuit of justice is no
virtue.”
In 1999, John F. Kennedy
Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and her
sister, Lauren Bessette, died
when their single-engine
plane, piloted by Kennedy,
plunged into the Atlantic
Ocean near Martha’s Vine-
yard, Massachusetts.
In 2004, Martha Stew-
art was sentenced to five
months in prison and five
months of home confine-
ment by a federal judge in
New York for lying about a
stock sale.
In 2008, Florida resi-
dent Casey Anthony, whose
2-year-old daughter, Caylee,
had been missing a month,
was arrested on charges
of child neglect, making
false official statements and
obstructing a criminal inves-
tigation. (Casey Anthony
was later acquitted at trial
of murdering Caylee, whose
skeletal remains were found
in December 2008; she was
convicted of lying to police.)
Today’s Birthdays: Soul
singer William Bell is 80.
Violinist Pinchas Zuker-
man is 71. Actress Phoebe
Cates is 56. Actor-comedian
Will Ferrell is 52. Actress
Jayma Mays is 40. Actress
AnnaLynne McCord is 32.
Actor-singer James Maslow
is 29. Actor Mark Indelicato
is 25. Pop singer-musician
Luke Hemmings (5 Seconds
to Summer) is 23.
Thought for Today:
“Any life, however long
and complicated it may be,
actually consists of a single
moment: the moment when
a man knows forever more
who he is.” — Jorge Luis
Borges, Argentine author
(1899-1986).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE