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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Old boyfriend who stole item
years ago turns up on Facebook
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I recently located a
The perpetrator is most likely jeal-
ous because of the relationship you
person I knew a long time ago who
have with your boyfriend and other
stole an expensive gold bracelet from
guy friends. Not everyone makes
me. I’d dated this guy for a while.
friends easily. It’s nothing to be
He wore my bracelet, and I wore his.
ashamed of; it’s just a fact of life.
My bracelet was a gift from a rela-
tive I cared for deeply. His bracelet
That’s why you should treasure the
was a piece of junk, but I was a teen-
ones you do have — because old
ager with no brains and allowed him
friends are some of the best friends,
J eanne
to wear mine. Well, we split up and
and high school and its cliques won’t
P hilliPs
last forever.
he just disappeared. I tried getting
ADVICE
Dear Abby: Two years ago my
my bracelet back but couldn’t find
family had a run of bad luck, which
him. As I mentioned, I found him
landed us in a homeless shelter. I got
on Facebook, married with children,
an apartment fairly quickly, and it’s mine and
and I felt this anger come over me. Should
my daughter’s.
I contact him and ask what happened to my
My mother was supposed to move in rent-
jewelry? — Golden Girl in Mississippi
free, but she brought her boyfriend, who I
Dear Golden Girl: No, you should con-
tact him and tell him you would like the item
didn’t want here. He’s still here and barely
returned or be compensated for it. What
contributes to the expenses. I recently lost my
job and he promised to help out more finan-
“happened” to the bracelet was that he stole
cially, but he hasn’t. He continues to mooch.
it. Because many years have passed since you
This has caused so much stress between my
two dated, the odds that he still has the brace-
let are slim. But it’s worth a try.
mother and me. “Hate” is a strong word, but I
Dear Abby: I am 16 and have a hard time
hate him and want him out. He knows it, but
making friends. I have more guy friends than
makes no effort to leave. What can I do? —
Wanting My Own Space
girl friends, which causes me problems. I got
Dear Wanting: You are not helpless, and
called a slut again the other day because of
you shouldn’t be held hostage because of
it. I’m a virgin and only have a crush on one
your mother’s feelings for her deadbeat boy-
of the guys I hang out with (my boyfriend). I
friend. Contact your state bar association to
have tried finding more female friends, but
see what your legal rights are. Then tell your
the drama is really hard to put up with. I have
mother you want him out, give her a dead-
tried ignoring the comments, but after a while
line to see that it happens, and suggest that
it gets hard to ignore. I’m not sure what else
she go with him if she can’t bear to be sepa-
to do. Please help me out. I would be really
rated from him. If he doesn’t meet the dead-
grateful. — Misunderstood in Oklahoma
line, put his belongings in a box, place them
Dear Misunderstood: I wish I could
outside and change your locks.
make the name-calling go away, but I can’t.
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
July 23, 1919
The body of Claud Wallace, aged 37 years,
was discovered by campers several hundred
yards above the dam in the Walla Walla river
southeast of Milton Sunday afternoon. It is
thought that the young man slipped from
the footlog across the river in attempting to
cross Friday afternoon and that the body lay
in the river from then until found Sunday.
The deceased was well known throughout
the community of Milton having lived here
practically all his life. He was of a peculiar
disposition and frequently took trips away
from home which consumed several days at
a time. The last seen of Mr. Wallace was Fri-
day morning at the Stark place on the moun-
tain above the Omar Olinger place. He left
there intending to come down the mountain
to his home on the Walla Walla river.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 23, 1969
Horse flesh has been a big part of Floyd
“Jake” Jacobs’ life for 55 years. Now at the
70-year mark, he is pondering retirement
from the horse training business and get-
ting some strong arguments for the move
from his wife and valuable assistant, Leona.
The only sure sign that the Hermiston horse
trainer is retiring will come in the winter
when the campaign starts in training horses
for the track. if he is is sitting by his fireside
in his comfortable Diagonal Road home, or
is hanging over the rail watching the horses
train on the local track, then Jake will have
retired. But don’t bank on it … horses and
training them are a part of his life.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 23, 1994
Carolyn Servi used to mind her own busi-
ness. A stay-at-home mom, she busied her-
self with two young children, barely ventur-
ing beyond her quiet street in the tiny town
of Pilot Rock. Loosened lug nuts changed all
that. “We all have our own domain. Unless
somebody encroaches on it you don’t notice
it,” says Servi. “It made me mad.” Servi
still seems peeved that a couple of teens
wrenched the nuts from her silver Chevy’s
wheels out of boredom. She’s taken it upon
herself to fight the rising tide of teen-age
vandalism and crime by editing the town’s
first newsletter on the subject. Begun in late
March, the one-page newsletter reports on
everything from tipped tombstones to bur-
glarized businesses. Crime statistics are also
tucked into the bi-weekly — an eye-shock-
ing sheet of neon pink or green that comes
complete with cute computer graphics.
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 23, 1999, space
shuttle Columbia blasted
off with the world’s most
powerful X-ray telescope
and Eileen Collins, the first
woman to command a U.S.
space flight.
In 1829, William Austin
Burt received a patent for his
“typographer,” a forerunner
of the typewriter.
In 1962, the first public
TV transmissions over Tel-
star 1 took place during a
special program featuring
live shots beamed from the
United States to Europe, and
vice versa.
In 1967, five days of
deadly rioting erupted in
Detroit as an early morning
police raid on an unlicensed
bar resulted in a confronta-
tion with local residents that
escalated into violence that
spread into other parts of
the city; 43 people, mostly
blacks, were killed.
In 1996, at the Atlanta
Olympics, Kerri Strug made
a heroic final vault despite
torn ligaments in her left
ankle as the U.S. women
gymnasts clinched their
first-ever Olympic team gold
medal.
In 1997, the search for
Andrew Cunanan, the sus-
pected killer of designer
Gianni Versace and oth-
ers, ended as police found
his body on a houseboat in
Miami Beach, an apparent
suicide.
In 2003, a new audiotape
purported to be from top-
pled dictator Saddam Hus-
sein called on Iraqis to resist
the U.S. occupation. Mas-
sachusetts’ attorney general
issued a report saying clergy
members and others in the
Boston Archdiocese prob-
ably had sexually abused
more than 1,000 people over
a period of six decades.
In 2011, singer Amy
Winehouse, 27, was found
dead in her London home
from accidental alcohol
poisoning.
Today’s Birthdays: Con-
cert pianist Leon Fleisher
is 91. Actor Larry Manetti
is 76. Actress-writer Lydia
Cornell is 66. Actor Woody
Harrelson is 58. Model-ac-
tress Stephanie Seymour is
51. Actor-comedian Marlon
Wayans is 47. Former White
House intern Monica Lew-
insky is 46. Rhythm-and-
blues singer Michelle Wil-
liams is 39. Actor Daniel
Radcliffe is 30. Actress Lili
Simmons is 26.
Thought for Today: “To
be proud and inaccessible is to
be timid and weak.” — Jean
Baptiste Massillon, French
clergyman (1663-1742).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE