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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, July 25, 2019
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
A career in law enforcement
is likely to upset former cop
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: How should I tell
But I see no reason why you should
my father that I have chosen a career
upset him before finding out if you
qualify for a job in law enforce-
he never wanted me to consider?
ment. If you do pass the exams,
I plan to become a police officer.
give him the news then.
Abby, all my life I have felt the call
Dear Abby: My sister-in-law
to help people. I know a career in
recently asked me for parenting
law enforcement brings with it the
advice. Our kids are about the same
possibility of danger, especially in
age, and she has been having issues
today’s climate. But I have always
J eanne
with her preschooler’s behavior that
known I would be the person run-
P hilliPs
I don’t have with my son.
ning toward danger while everyone
ADVICE
Abby, the reason her kid is out
else is running away from it. I am
of control is she and her husband
passionate about this, and my wife
don’t give him any limits. They
fully supports it.
don’t believe in saying “no” and try instead
The issue is, my father was a police offi-
cer. He hated every minute of it. He has
to “guide him to positive choices.” They
always said he never wanted me to take that
never discipline him, even when he hits or
path. I understand all he wants is keep me
screams at them, and as a result, he’s mean
and disrespectful. Little kids are uncomfort-
safe. At the same time, I don’t want to miss
able with that much freedom.
out on this career. I don’t want to spend the
Even though she asked, I don’t think
rest of my life regretting that I didn’t follow
my sister-in-law really wants my advice,
my heart and do something I know I would
at least not the advice I would like to give
have success with. Should I go through with
her. So what do I say when she asks? It’s
the testing and, if I am selected, tell him
clear they need help, but I’m judgmental
then? Please help, because this is keeping
and probably not a good messenger. I tried
me up at night. — Following My Heart
loaning her a parenting book I’ve used,
Dear Following: Your father loves you,
but it didn’t take. — Parenting Advice in
but he cannot — and should not — dic-
tate how you live your life. A career in law
Canada
enforcement is not for everyone for the rea-
Dear P.A.: Your sister-in-law may simply
son you mentioned. It would have been help-
be venting her frustration when she dumps
ful if you had explained exactly what it was
on you. When she asks for advice again,
about policing that made him hate it, assum-
tell her that because you haven’t faced the
ing that he told you.
problems she’s encountering, you don’t feel
When he finds out, expect him to be very
“qualified” to advise her. Then suggest she
ask her pediatrician for guidance.
upset and possibly angry about your choice.
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 25, 1919
Ray Spangle, Pendleton man who will
represent the Pendleton Rod and Gun Club
at the Grand American Handicap in Chi-
cago in August, will show the world how a
real Round-Up cowboy looks, for the local
sportsman is to be dressed in all the trap-
pings of a broncho buster. From head to heel,
Spangle will be a walking advertisement
for the big show, according to plans made
by the local club. Hat, boots, spurs, etc., all
will be typical of the western city Spangle
represents. Even the rifle with which Span-
gle hopes to win a place among the highest
10, and thus be chosen for a trip to Europe,
will show upon the gun stock a replica of
a bucking horse that might be “Long Tom”
himself.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 25, 1969
If you see that light atop a police car
blinking at you, you’d better stop even if
the light is blue. Police say there has been
some confusion about the blue lights. Pend-
leton police cars, sheriff’s department vehi-
cles and some state police cars switched
this month to the blue lights. The action fol-
lowed enabling legislation by the legislature
this year that permits police cars to use blue
lights. Studies revealed the blue lights can
be seen better and are not so easily confused
with other blinking red lights.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 25, 1994
Hot weather and high winds frustrated
area firefighters Sunday who spent the
entire day battling a blaze that burned thou-
sands of acres of wheat and range land west
of Pilot Rock. Several other fires through-
out the county kept volunteer and profes-
sional firefighters busy as well. Crews from
the state Forestry Department battled a
blaze about 10 miles south of McKay Reser-
voir while firefighters from Echo responded
to at least two fires. Near Hermiston, fires
were reported along Highway 395 by Race
City U.S.A. and along the Columbia River
between Sand Station and the McNary Yacht
Club. The high winds that fanned the flames
also blew down tree limbs in Pendleton and
Hermiston and ripped the roof off the Sev-
enth-day Adventist Church in Hermiston.
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 25, 1960,
a Woolworth’s store in
Greensboro, North Caro-
lina, that had been the scene
of a sit-in protest against its
whites-only lunch counter
dropped its segregation
policy.
In 1866, Ulysses S. Grant
was named General of the
Army of the United States,
the first officer to hold the
rank.
In 1946, the United
States detonated an atomic
bomb near Bikini Atoll in
the Pacific in the first under-
water test of the device.
In 1952, Puerto Rico
became a self-govern-
ing commonwealth of the
United States.
In 1972, the notorious
Tuskegee syphilis experi-
ment came to light as The
Associated Press reported
that for the previous four
decades, the U.S. Public
Health Service, in conjunc-
tion with the Tuskegee Insti-
tute in Alabama, had been
allowing poor, rural black
male patients with syphi-
lis to go without treatment,
even allowing them to die,
as a way of studying the
disease.
In 1978, Louise Joy
Brown, the first “test tube
baby,” was born in Oldham,
England; she’d been con-
ceived through the technique
of in-vitro fertilization.
In 1984, Soviet cosmonaut
Svetlana Savitskaya became
the first woman to walk in
space as she carried out more
than three hours of exper-
iments outside the orbiting
space station Salyut 7.
In 1985, a spokeswoman
for Rock Hudson confirmed
that the actor, hospital-
ized in Paris, was suffering
from AIDS. (Hudson died in
October 1985.)
In 1994, Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin
and Jordan’s King Hussein
signed a declaration at the
White House ending their
countries’ 46-year-old for-
mal state of war.
In 2002, Zacarias Mous-
saoui declared he was guilty
of conspiracy in the Septem-
ber 11 attacks, then dramat-
ically withdrew his plea at
his arraignment in Alexan-
dria, Va.
Today’s Birthdays: Rock
musician Jim McCarty (The
Yardbirds) is 76. Singer-musi-
cian Jem Finer (The Pogues)
is 64. Rock musician Thur-
ston Moore (Sonic Youth) is
61. Actress Katherine Kelly
Lang is 58. Actress Ille-
ana Douglas is 54. Country
singer Marty Brown is 54.
Actor Matt LeBlanc is 52.
Actress Miriam Shor is 48.
Actor David Denman is 46.
Actor Michael Welch is 32.
Actress Linsey (cq) Godfrey
is 31. Classical singer Faryl
Smith is 24. Actor Pierce
Gagnon is 14.
Thought for Today:
“Life is not a matter of mile-
stones, but of moments.” —
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
(1890-1995).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE