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B6 East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, August 6, 2019 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Dad’s refusal to acknowledge illness puts nephews at risk FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My father is in his brother’s children is paramount. 70s and lives close by. My brother Your father does not have the right and his family live across the coun- to place them at risk, which he will try. Dad has smoked for more than because of his carelessness about his 60 years, and an incident with his health situation. Your father may not high blood pressure recently landed like it, but it is imperative that you him in the hospital. He’s supposed warn your brother so he can make to be on medication, but he refuses an informed decision about whether to take it. to allow an unsupervised camping J eanne He claims his hobby of playing trip with Grandpa. (The solution P hilliPs the trumpet keeps his lungs healthy may be that another adult will be ADVICE included to keep an eye on things.) and recent changes in his diet have Dear Abby: After I had emer- solved the blood pressure issues. gency surgery, I was moved to Neither of these things seem likely another location in my work department. I to me, and he has not been back to the doc- met a wonderful young man and, as we com- tor. Dad hides his condition from everyone. municated, we found we had a lot in com- I know only because I was the one who was mon. I never imagined I’d ever find a soul called when he went to the hospital. mate, but we fell in love. My brother recently told me Dad is plan- He is married; I am not. He is loving and ning to take my teenage nephews camping at considerate as much as he can be. I love him a fairly remote location. When I encouraged so much, but I feel terrible about our situa- Dad to tell my brother about his heart condi- tion. I feel it is unfair — especially to me. I tion so he could make an informed decision need more than he can give to me in terms of about the safety of the trip, or at least prepare a relationship. my nephews in case something happened, I know I have messed up. Again. I’d like Dad went through the roof! He insists he’s to remain friends, but that’s all. How do I tell not sick and I have no business sharing his him? I don’t want to have drama on the job. I medical information. More likely he doesn’t have been applying for other jobs away from want to admit he’s getting older or may have this place. I thought that it would solve the to cancel the trip. problem. — Unfair Situation I have to tell my brother if Dad won’t, but Dear Unfair: Remaining “just friends” if I do, I’m sure I’ll never get more informa- may not be realistic. Tell this wonder- tion, and Dad will quit talking to me alto- ful young man the affair is over because it gether. Is there any way around this that I’m wasn’t fair to you or his wife. Once you have not seeing? — Levelheaded Daughter in secured another job, give your employer two Detroit weeks notice and get out of there. Dear Daughter: The safety of your 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 Aug. 6, 1919 Hogs which neither chew the cud nor cleave the hoof disport themselves in the pen kept by John Russell, a farmer living at Yoakum. Russel’s swine, unlike their kin, have a solid hoof, not dissimilar to that of a mule. They are known as a mule foot hog. This vagary of nature has been doubted by several who have been told of the presence of such animals but to prove that it is no iso- lated case, Mr. Russell showed an East Ore- gonian man his animals last night. All have the solid hoof and seem none the worse for it. The only explanation which can be given for the peculiarity is that the animals are descended from a species of boar which lived in a swampy land and found a solid hoof evolving through several generations because of its necessity. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 6, 1969 Dan Morrison, court reporter for Uma- tilla County Circuit Court, has filed a $200 small claim against Umatilla County Dis- trict Attorney Joe Smith. Morrison said Smith was responsible for sending him to Salem April 1 ostensibly to a legislative hearing, but that the event was an April Fool’s joke. A hearing on Morrison’s claim is set for Aug. 13 before District Judge Rich- ard Courson. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 6, 1994 Can having a baby improve your golf game? The answer for Lisa Newman of Pendleton is, apparently, yes. Newman, the mother of 1-year-old Scott, highlighted what has become one of the most successful sum- mers of her golfing career with the cham- pionship of the Washington State Women’s Golf Association tournament at Bellevue last week. Newman stayed at the home of life-long friend Tarie Bennett of Bellevue during the week-long tournament — and beat her hostess in the match-play final. Her convincing 5-and-4 victory came despite the fact that Scott was up sick most of the night before after eating too much frosting at his first birthday party. Newman man- aged a couple hours sleep. 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 August 6, 1965, Pres- ident Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. In 1809, one of the lead- ing literary figures of the Victorian era, poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, England. In 1890, Cy Young gained the first of his 511 major league victories as he pitched the Cleveland Spiders to a win over the Chicago Colts (however, the score is a mat- ter of dispute, with some sources saying 6-1, and oth- ers saying 8-1). In 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war against Rus- sia and Serbia declared war against Germany. In 1926, Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Chan- nel, arriving in Kingsdown, England, from France in 14½ hours. In 1942, Queen Wil- hemina of the Netherlands became the first reign- ing queen to address a joint meeting of Congress, tell- ing lawmakers that despite Nazi occupation, her peo- ple’s motto remained “No surrender.” In 1945, during World War II, the U.S. B-29 Super- fortress Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb code-named “Little Boy” on Hiroshima, Japan, resulting in an esti- mated 140,000 deaths. (Three days later, the United States exploded a nuclear device over Nagasaki; five days after that, Imperial Japan surrendered.) In 1961, Soviet cosmo- naut Gherman Titov became the second man to orbit Earth as he flew aboard Vostok 2; his call sign, “Eagle,” prompted his famous decla- ration: “I am Eagle!” In 1991, the World Wide Web made its public debut as a means of accessing web- pages over the internet. In 2013, U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan went on trial at Fort Hood, Texas, charged with killing 13 peo- ple and wounding 32 oth- ers in a 2009 attack. (Hasan, who admitted carrying out the attack, was convicted and sentenced to death.) Today’s Birthdays: Chil- dren’s performer Ella Jen- kins is 95. Actor Dorian Harewood is 69. Actress Stepfanie Kramer is 63. Actress Michelle Yeoh is 57. Basketball Hall of Famer David Robinson is 54. Movie writer-director M. Night Shyamalan is 49. Singer Geri Halliwell Horner is 47. Actress Soleil Moon Frye is 43. Actress Melissa George is 43. Actor Leslie Odom Jr. is 38. Actress Romola Garai is 37. Thought for Today: “If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.” — Lucille Ball, American actress-co- median (born this date in 1911, died 1989). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
