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East Oregonian
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Friday, July 26, 2019
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Small wedding at courthouse
makes big waves among family
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I recently got mar-
in Texas
ried at the courthouse. We had
Dear Not Pregnant: Not every
couple wants a large, formal wed-
been considering it for months. (A
ding. Many people — like you and
courthouse wedding doesn’t take
your husband — prefer to put the
a lot of planning.) We decided it
money toward a down payment
was best for us and went for it. We
on a house, paying off credit card
didn’t want to spend thousands of
debt or travel. If your grandmother
dollars on a wedding, and I’m not
thought you might be pregnant,
one for tradition. We invited imme-
J eanne
diate family and two of our friends.
she should have asked you. If you
P hilliPs
My grandmother made excuses
would like to tell her you were hurt
ADVICE
not to come, saying, “Not enough
that she wasn’t with you when you
space,” and, “I’m taking care of
pledged your vows, feel free to do
my grandchildren.” It hurt my feel-
so. And while you’re at it, point out
ings that she didn’t want to be there. Both
that you have “heard through the grape-
vine” that she has been telling people you
my parents have passed away, and I wanted
are pregnant, which you’re not. (She should
what family I have left around me. How-
ever, I now know that my grandmother
be ashamed of herself.) And explain to any-
one who feels hurt not to have been invited
didn’t want to come because she’s “tradi-
tional.” She assumed I’m pregnant. (I’m
that you kept your wedding small for finan-
cial reasons, not because you had to rush
not.) Many other people are also assum-
ing that I’m pregnant because we didn’t
into anything.
announce it and did it at the courthouse.
Dear Abby: I have an etiquette question
about differences in time zones. My son
I’m a private person and don’t feel the
is currently serving in the military over-
need to tell everyone everything that’s
seas, and there is a 14-hour time difference.
going on in my life. My grandmother is
My question is: When we talk to him on
currently not speaking to me. Should I tell
the phone before we go to bed, do we tell
her I know she was talking to our family
him good night, even though it is morning
behind my back? How do I tell her how
or early afternoon for him? — Different
much she hurt my feelings by staying
Time Zones
away, assuming something and spreading
Dear Different Time Zones: Because
rumors? What should I say to my family
you are in a zone in which it is night, it’s
who are hurt because I didn’t invite them?
only natural that you would say good night
What should I tell people who think I’m
before signing off. If it bothers your son,
pregnant? Should I just leave it alone, and
which I doubt, ask him what he would pre-
in nine months they’ll realize how stupid
fer that you say.
they were for assuming? — Not Pregnant
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 26, 1919
Pilot Rock is serving electric lights to its
customers and on the streets until midnight
at present and finding the plant very satis-
factory, according to Mayor J.L. Vaughan.
Power is turned on about an hour before
sundown and is on for about five hours now.
Later it will be operated longer hours. The
city has not decided how to charge for its
juice but is working on a system of rates.
Whether the officials will settle the charges
or call in expert advice is not known. Mean-
while patrons are taking the service on
faith.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 26, 1969
Being in a movie isn’t all a bed of roses.
Ask Tammy Thorne or Dianne Lovelin of
Pendleton. They’ve got bruises. The two
girls landed small parts in a movie being
filmed by Columbia Pictures at Lane Com-
munity College at Eugene. The film is enti-
tled “Getting Straight” and concerns college
campus life, accentuating the unrest and
riots. Tammy and Dianne will be in a scene
portraying college coeds caught up in a riot.
They get doused by a fire hose, dragged by
their hair, beaten with clubs, and have to fall
from a 15-foot concrete wall to a sidewalk
below. Practicing with a professional stunt
man for the past week, the girls go before
the camera on location beginning Monday.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 26, 1994
A gravel road running along the edge
of Dan Clark’s newly purchased property
has the city of Athena and Clark in a quan-
dary about who really owns it. Clark con-
tends he does. The Athena Elementary
School principal purchased property located
along Fourth, Fifth and Garfield streets
from Union Pacific Railroad — which has
included the gravel and paved roads as part
of its property since 1887. But city officials
say they were unaware that the roads were
owned privately and now have their attor-
ney, Chris Wallace, poring over property
titles. “It kind of caught us by surprise,”
said Athena Mayor Kim Clark. “We want to
be amicable and fair about everything, but
by the same token we have to look out for
what’s best for the city.”
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 26, 2016, Hil-
lary Clinton became the first
woman to be nominated for
president by a major politi-
cal party at the Democratic
National Convention in
Philadelphia.
In 1775, the Continen-
tal Congress established a
Post Office and appointed
Benjamin Franklin its
Postmaster-General.
In 1908, U.S. Attorney
General Charles J. Bona-
parte ordered creation of a
force of special agents that
was a forerunner of the Fed-
eral Bureau of Investigation.
In 1925, five days after
the end of the Scopes Trial
in Dayton, Tennessee,
prosecutor William Jen-
nings Bryan died at age 65.
(Although Bryan had won
a conviction against John
T. Scopes for teaching Dar-
win’s Theory of Evolu-
tion, the verdict was later
overturned.)
In 2002, the Republi-
can-led House voted, 295-
132, to create an enormous
Homeland Security Depart-
ment in the biggest gov-
ernment reorganization in
decades.
In 2006, in a dramatic
turnaround from her first
murder trial, Andrea Yates
was found not guilty by rea-
son of insanity by a Houston
jury in the bathtub drown-
ings of her five children; she
was committed to a state
mental hospital. (Yates had
initially been found guilty
of murder, but had her con-
viction overturned.)
In 2013, Ariel Castro,
the man who’d imprisoned
three women in his Cleve-
land home, subjecting them
to a decade of rapes and
beatings, pleaded guilty to
937 counts in a deal to avoid
the death penalty. (Castro
later committed suicide in
prison.)
In 2017, President Don-
ald Trump announced on
Twitter that he would not
“accept or allow” transgen-
der people to serve in the
U.S. military. (After a legal
battle, the Defense Depart-
ment approved a new pol-
icy requiring most individ-
uals to serve in their birth
gender.)
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actress Helen Mirren is 74.
Actress Nana Visitor is 62.
Actor Kevin Spacey is 60.
Actress Sandra Bullock is
55. Rock singer Jim Lindberg
(Pennywise) is 54. Actor Jer-
emy Piven is 54. Actress Kate
Beckinsale is 46. Actress Eve
Myles is 41. Actress Juliet
Rylance is 40. Actress Mon-
ica Raymund is 33. Actress
Caitlin Gerard is 31. Actress
Francia Raisa is 31.
Thought for Today:
“Most human beings have an
almost infinite capacity for
taking things for granted.”
— Aldous Huxley, English
author (born this date in
1894, died in 1963).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE