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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Friend takes offense at never
being asked about her past
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: Six months ago,
was staring, winking and flash-
ing peace signs at me. This is not
I got back in touch with a child-
hood friend who married at 17 and
friendly banter; it is very creepy.
moved away. She has lots of fam-
My sister isn’t aware of it, and I’m
ily drama, much of it caused by
sure she wouldn’t approve.
I have been married four times,
her alcoholism (which she says is a
and I’m currently single. If his
result of PTSD).
behavior continues, which I’m sure
Recently, she told me I have
it will since I am a very desirable
hurt her and I’m a terrible friend
J eanne
woman, I will have to skip family
because since we’ve reconnected,
P hilliPs
events entirely. Any thoughts? —
I have never once asked her about
ADVICE
Hard To Resist Out West
her past and the ordeals she’s been
Dear Hard To Resist: Your let-
through. Abby, she talks about her-
self constantly. I never thought
ter is unique. I rarely hear from
it was necessary to ask her about the past
people with as “healthy” an ego as yours.
because she never shuts up about it. I have
Because you feel your brother-in-law is out
tried to be a good listener, but I don’t think
of line, try this: Tell him to cut it out the
she has made the best life choices, and I
next time he does it because it is making
don’t want to confront her with my opin-
you uncomfortable. And if that doesn’t do
ions on how she has messed up her life.
the trick, tell his wife.
I don’t question people about their past,
Dear Abby: I’m a male who recently
started dating a great guy, “Jake.” I deal
truthfully. I feel if they want to discuss it,
with the public in my job every day, and
they’ll bring it up themselves. Was I wrong
I’m often asked things like, “Do you have
for not asking her to dredge it up? Now she
a girlfriend?” and, “When will you find a
won’t even talk to me. — Friendless in
wife?” Even my co-workers are inquiring
Florida
when I’ll find a “lucky girl.” I’m happy in
Dear Friendless: Be grateful the woman
my relationship and would like to express
no longer speaks to you. You have done
that. Is there a tactful, succinct, non-awk-
nothing wrong. The person you describe
ward way to let people know I’m in a happy
needs to feel wronged and be the focus of
relationship with another male? — In a
your conversations, which to me seems
Happy Place in Georgia
self-centered. Consider yourself fortunate
Dear Happy: Absolutely! When asked
that this troubled individual has moved on,
if you have a girlfriend, say, “No, I have
and concentrate on relationships that are
a boyfriend.” And when your co-workers
healthy — and mutual.
ask when you are going to find a wife or a
Dear Abby: My family is very close,
“lucky girl,” be upfront and tell them you
and we see each other often. Lately I have
are dating a great guy named Jake. That
been avoiding most of our family gather-
ings because of my brother-in-law “Jared.”
should answer the questions and put the
subject to rest.
At the most recent family occasion, he
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 30, 1919
Work is now under way for a $10,000 res-
idence for Herman Suhl, well known Uma-
tilla county farmer, on his property at 116
Monroe street. The house will be of hollow
tile and concrete and will be a Swiss chalet
type, adapted to the location which is above
the river. T.L. Rees of Los Angeles is the
architect and builder. The house will be built
with a full basement, and two stories. There
will be eight rooms, including a sun par-
lor, sleeping porch and breakfast room. The
house is to have hardwood floors through-
out, and all woodwork is to be Phillipino rib-
bon-grain mahogany. The residence will be
equipped with a hot water heating system.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 30, 1969
More than $16 million in gold was taken
from the hills around John Day during the gold
rush days. Plans for a new boom — this time in
fossils — brought state officials and the board
of directors of the Oregon Historical Society to
a weekend meeting in John Day with Wheeler
and Grant County officials. They met for a tour
of the famed John Day fossil beds to study a
proposal that the beds be made a national mon-
ument, administered by the National Park Ser-
vice. The Oregon Historical Society, which
organized the tour, has already voted support
of the measure just as in earlier years it led
drives for national status of Crater Lake, Fort
Vancouver and Fort Clatsop.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
July 30, 1994
The city wanted its streets back. Prop-
erty owner Dan Clark wanted fair compensa-
tion. Neither got what they wanted Thursday
night at a special Athena City Council meet-
ing packed with interested onlookers. Instead
the city will press ahead with a lawsuit, claim-
ing adverse possession, to regain ownership of
several streets. “I think we have a very good
chance of winning an adverse suit,” said Mayor
Kim Clark, no relation, adding that townspeo-
ple regularly travel over Garfield, Fourth and
Fifth streets. Clark’s attorney, Jackie Hag-
gerty-Foster, did not agree, saying “you’ve
made a significant assumption that may not be
correct.” She insisted that it will cost the city
more money in legal costs than it would to pay
Clark what he has asked for: water and sewer
hook-up to his property in exchange for deed-
ing portions of the three streets.
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 30, 1956, Presi-
dent Dwight D. Eisenhower
signed a measure mak-
ing “In God We Trust” the
national motto, replacing
“E Pluribus Unum” (Out of
many, one).
In 1619, the first repre-
sentative assembly in Amer-
ica convened in Jamestown
in the Virginia Colony.
In 1792, the French
national anthem “La Mar-
seillaise,” by Claude Joseph
Rouget de Lisle, was first
sung in Paris by troops
arriving from Marseille.
In 1942, President Frank-
lin D. Roosevelt signed a bill
creating a women’s auxiliary
agency in the Navy known
as “Women Accepted for
Volunteer Emergency Ser-
vice” — WAVES for short.
In 1965, President Lyn-
don B. Johnson signed a
measure creating Medicare,
which began operating the
following year.
In 1980, Israel’s Knesset
passed a law reaffirming all
of Jerusalem as the capital
of the Jewish state.
In 2001, Robert Muel-
ler, President George W.
Bush’s choice to head the
FBI, promised the Sen-
ate Judiciary Committee
that if confirmed, he would
move forcefully to fix prob-
lems at the agency. (Muel-
ler became FBI director on
Sept. 4, 2001, a week before
the 9/11 attacks.)
In 2002, WNBA player
Lisa Leslie of the Los Ange-
les Sparks became the first
woman to dunk in a profes-
sional game, jamming on a
breakaway in the first half of
the Sparks’ 82-73 loss to the
Miami Sol.
President
In
2003,
George W. Bush took per-
sonal responsibility for the
first time for using discred-
ited intelligence in his State
of the Union address, but
predicted he would be vin-
dicated for going to war
against Iraq.
Today’s Birthdays: Fem-
inist activist Eleanor Smeal
is 80. Former California
Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneg-
ger is 72. Singer-songwriter
Kate Bush is 61. Actor Don-
nie Keshawarz is 50. Movie
director Christopher Nolan
is 49. Actor-comedian Dean
Edwards is 46. Actress Hil-
ary Swank is 45. Soccer
player Hope Solo is 38.
Thought for Today: “An
efficient bureaucracy is the
greatest threat to liberty.”
— Sen. Eugene McCarthy
(1916-2005).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE