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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Recent revelation of affair
threatens to break up family
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: I just found out
better off and less complicated
that my boyfriend of 12 years slept
without your needy sibling, and
that you have no desire to contact
with my stepmother last year. She
her. OK.
doesn’t know I know, and now that
So what exactly is your ques-
I do, I struggle with it. Should I tell
tion? Are you waiting for me to
my dad what I found out, confront
“order” you to call her and apol-
her or let sleeping dogs lie? I am
ogize? The price for that will be
deeply hurt. I feel like my heart
J eanne
shouldering again the burden of
has been torn out. How can I for-
P hilliPs
give and forget this? — Wounded
her neediness. If you’re worried
ADVICE
about how she’s doing, ask some-
in Utah
one who is in touch with her. But
Dear Wounded: How did you
hold a good thought. If you have
happen upon this news? Did your
heard nothing, she’s probably fine. Bad
boyfriend tell you? Unless you are abso-
news has a way of traveling fast.
lutely certain it’s true, do nothing. If you
Dear Abby: When we got married, I
are certain, get rid of this poor excuse for a
thought even though he told “everyone”
“boyfriend.” And tell your father and step-
mother what you know and how hurt you
he did it because he had to, that he truly
are.
did love me. But as the years have passed,
Dear Abby: You always tell us to con-
I have realized that maybe he was telling
the truth and he did marry me for that rea-
sider whether we would be better off with
son rather than for love. I feel unloved most
or without somebody. What if it’s your sis-
ter? My sister and I are of retirement age
of the time. Lately, I have been thinking
and had a falling out. I felt she had become
maybe it’s time to just move on. What’s
your advice? — Feeling Torn
too needy, and she was very hurt when I
Dear Feeling Torn: Rather than dwell
told her so. She is awaiting my apology,
on something your husband said in the past,
which has been the pattern of our lives.
raise the subject again. And when you do,
Although we live 30 miles apart, I have no
tell him you are doing it because you feel
desire to contact her.
unloved most of the time. If he tells you he
Because I was usually the one she went
meant it then and still feels that way, my
to for advice and companionship, I feel
advice is to ask yourself if this is the kind of
guilty for “abandoning” her and often won-
der if she’s OK. We are both healthy and
marriage you want for the rest of your life.
self-sufficient. I love her because she’s my
Some women are so afraid of the unknown
that they would stay in this kind of mar-
sister, but I can truly say my life is eas-
ier and less complicated without her. The
riage, regardless of the pain. Because I
assume you have a child, you and your hus-
thought of contacting her is too much to
band need to figure out if you can improve
bear. On the other hand, she’s my sister. —
your relationship. If not, then it may be time
Better Off in Colorado
to move on.
Dear Better Off: You say your life is
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 24, 1919
Wool grown in Umatilla county, cleaned
and woven by Pendleton Woolen Mills and
made into men’s clothing in the east is now
being placed on the market in Pendleton
with Bond Bros. agents for the goods here.
The finished product is known as Bish-
op’s Fabrics and is pronounced the finest
of clothing fabrics now manufactured. The
Pendleton Woolen Mills has woven suiting
goods in small quantities for some little time
but only this year has it gone into the busi-
ness on a large scale. Contracts have been
made with some of the east’s leading cloth-
ing manufacturers it is said, for quantities of
Bishop’s Fabrics.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 24, 1969
Herbert R. Hilde paid the final install-
ment last week on a costly curve his car
missed taking near Adams last March 3.
Hilde, who pleaded innocent to a charge
of reckless driving in Justice of the Peace
Sam K. Dodds’ court July 6, was fined $255.
Dodds commented Hilde was lucky to be
alive to pay it. One of three witnesses testi-
fied Hilde’s car was traveling about 90 mph
when they saw it touch a guard rail near Ath-
ena. Minutes later the car went out of control
at the curve on Highway 11 at Adams, left
the road, swerved across the highway and
crossed a railroad track before spinning to a
stop, another witness said. Hilde was injured
but able to walk away from the wrecked car,
said arresting officer Frank C. Gardner.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 24, 1994
From a distance, the pond nestled among
the Boardman region’s irrigation cir-
cles looks inviting, especially during the
recent hot spell. But would-be swimmers
are warded off quickly by the smell. The
42-acre pond at the Port of Morrow is filled
with effluent from neighboring food pro-
cessors. The Port built the pond to reduce
the smell of the effluent used to irrigate the
fields. To dispose of the effluent, it’s used as
irrigation water rather than simply flushed
away. Neighbors living near some of the
Port’s effluent-irrigated fields had com-
plained about the smell the irrigation gen-
erated. The pond will help reduce the prob-
lem by letting solids settle before it’s used
on the fields.
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 24, 1969, the
Apollo 11 astronauts — two
of whom had been the first
men to set foot on the moon
— splashed down safely in
the Pacific.
In 1862, Martin Van
Buren, the eighth president
of the United States, and
the first to have been born a
U.S. citizen, died at age 79
in New York.
In 1866, Tennessee
became the first state to be
readmitted to the Union
after the Civil War.
In 1937, the state of
Alabama dropped charges
against four of the nine
young black men accused of
raping two white women in
the “Scottsboro Case.”
In 1959, during a visit
to Moscow, Vice President
Richard Nixon engaged
in his famous “Kitchen
Debate” with Soviet leader
Nikita Khrushchev.
In 1974, the U.S. Supreme
Court unanimously ruled
that President Richard
Nixon had to turn over sub-
poenaed White House tape
recordings to the Watergate
special prosecutor.
In 1975, an Apollo
spacecraft splashed down
in the Pacific, completing
a mission which included
the first-ever docking with
a Soyuz capsule from the
Soviet Union.
In 2002, nine coal min-
ers became trapped in a
flooded tunnel of the Quec-
reek Mine in western Penn-
sylvania; the story ended
happily 77 hours later with
the rescue of all nine.
In 2005, Lance Arm-
strong won his seventh con-
secutive Tour de France.
(Those wins were stripped
away after Armstrong’s
2013 confession to using ste-
roids and other banned per-
formance-enhancing drugs
and methods.)
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actor John Aniston is 86.
Political cartoonist Pat Oli-
phant is 84. Comedian Ruth
Buzzi is 83. Movie direc-
tor Gus Van Sant is 67. Bas-
ketball Hall of Famer Karl
Malone is 56. Retired MLB
All-Star Barry Bonds is
55. Actress-singer Jennifer
Lopez is 50. NHL center
Patrice Bergeron is 34.
Thought for Today:
“People who jump to con-
clusions rarely alight on
them.” — Philip Guedalla,
British writer (1889-1944).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE