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A12 East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, August 9, 2019 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Woman happy to be alone attracts unwanted sympathy FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER Dear Abby: I’m a middle-aged cleaning, and I’m realizing my house woman who has survived a 30-year is filled with useless knickknacks. toxic relationship with a covert nar- When I get rid of an unneeded item, I cissist. I am now blessed to be able remember who gave it to me and the to divorce him and get therapy for special occasion associated with the his emotional abuse. I have six amaz- gift. Then I start feeling guilty and ing grown children. I’m also a sopho- wonder if I will later regret my deci- more in college and have a part-time sion to discard it. My other issue is, I live in a small job. This is the first time in my life J eanne town. I’m afraid if I donate some- I am able to actually do things by P hilliPs thing to a local charity, friends or myself. To say the least, I am busy. ADVICE neighbors may see it at the thrift Most of the time, I enjoy it — store, and I’ll seem ungrateful for shopping, movies and even dining their thoughtfulness. How can I get out. However, for some reason (espe- cially while dining out), I get unwanted expres- over these feelings of guilt as I declutter? — Cramped in the Carolinas sions of sympathy for being alone. Strangers Dear Cramped: Once a gift (or tchotchke) comment about how sad it is to see me eating is given, it is the recipient’s to do with as she all alone. One woman offered to introduce me chooses. If someone challenges your deci- to her brother. She went so far as to ask for sion to donate an item, do not become defen- my phone number so she could pass it along to sive. Calmly explain that you are downsizing him, so that way I would have company. and decided to “share the pleasure” the item I have friends and family, and if I had brought you with someone else. wanted company at that time, I would have Dear Abby: I was invited to a professional invited someone. Sometimes I want to be ballgame by my landlord, who has season alone to enjoy my “me” time. How can I tickets. He asked that I remind him to give me respond to these unwanted comments and the ticket because he sells the ones he doesn’t nip the conversations in the bud so they don’t use. I have “reminded” him three times now, disrupt my entire meal? — Alone But Not but I still haven’t made it to a game. Lonely in Louisiana When you invite someone somewhere, is it Dear Alone: Here’s how. Smile and thank polite to make them do the work? He brought these kind people for their thoughtfulness. Say it up to me; I didn’t ask. Am I wrong? — that at this point in your life you are enjoying Annoyed in Pennsylvania freedom and comfortable solitude. And the Dear Annoyed: Asking someone to next time you enter a restaurant, ask the host remind you of something makes sense if the to seat you farther back, so you are not the first person is more organized than you are. How- person these individuals encounter on the way ever, it is inconsiderate to extend an invitation to their table. and not follow through. I don’t blame you for As to the sweet lady who tried to fix you feeling annoyed because, after three remind- up with her brother, I hope in the future you ers and no follow-through, it appears your might be open to whatever possibilities come landlord may not have been sincere in inviting your way. you, or has sold the tickets to someone else. Dear Abby: I just started seasonal house- DAYS GONE BY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 9, 1919 Roy E. Taylor, held at Olympia as a sus- pect in the murder mystery which has baf- fled officers for nearly two months, formerly lived in Pendleton. While here Taylor worked as a switchman for the O.-W. R. & N. Co., and later drove a wagon for the American Express Co. The mystery of the teeth identi- fication slips sent to the local sheriff’s office a month ago is cleared up with the announce- ment of Taylor’s arrest. It is believed that the murdered woman is Taylor’s wife and the teeth are said to have been identified as hers by a dentist at Yakima. Taylor, his wife and three children lived here for a time, later going to La Grande. Taylor’s departure was due partly to his arrest for gambling and a fine of $40 in police court for the offense. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 9, 1969 A newly installed “chatter box” at the Morrow County Courthouse is creating quite an interest among employes and the visiting public. It is the first teletype machine in the area and still quite a novelty. It was installed on a rental basis from Pacific Northwest Bell on Tuesday. Morrow County Sheriff John Mollahan said it was a state of Oregon law enforcement agency teletype. It is connected with the relay center at the Department of Motor Vehicles in Salem and operates on a 24-hour basis. Information on the comput- er-operated machine can be read on the tape hours after it is received or picked up and acted on at once when necessary. Informa- tion received can then be relayed from the courthouse to law enforcement officers and other emergency officials in the area through the two-way radio maintained by the Emer- gency Defense office of the county. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 9, 1994 Three drivers had their windows shot out over the weekend on Tollgate Road, near Elgin. No one was injured, but Umatilla County sher- iff’s deputies are still investigating the shoot- ings. In all three cases, drivers reported gun- fire from the side of the road, according to the sheriff’s department. The driver’s side window was shot out of one car and the passenger win- dows on the other two cars were hit. One driver reported his car was hit at 12:30 a.m. Satur- day. The other two cars were reportedly hit at 3:30 p.m. and 8:25 p.m. Sunday. 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 9, 1945, three days after the atomic bomb- ing of Hiroshima, Japan, a U.S. B-29 Superfortress code- named Bockscar dropped a nuclear device (“Fat Man”) over Nagasaki, killing an estimated 74,000 people. In 1854, Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden,” which described Thoreau’s expe- riences while living near Walden Pond in Massachu- setts, was first published. In 1944, 258 Afri- can-American sailors based at Port Chicago, California, refused to load a munitions ship following a cargo ves- sel explosion that killed 320 men, many of them black. (Fifty of the sailors were convicted of mutiny, fined and imprisoned.) In 1969, actress Sha- ron Tate and four other peo- ple were found brutally slain at Tate’s Los Angeles home; cult leader Charles Manson and a group of his followers were later convicted of the crime. In 1985, a federal judge in Norfolk, Virginia, found retired Navy officer Arthur J. Walker guilty of seven counts of spying for the Soviet Union. (Walker, who was sentenced to life, died in prison in 2014 at the age of 79.) In 2004, Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols, addressing a court for the first time, asked vic- tims of the blast for forgive- ness as a judge sentenced him to 161 consecutive life sentences. Today’s Birthdays: Jazz musician Jack DeJohnette is 77. Actress Melanie Griffith is 62. Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders is 52. Actress Gillian Ander- son is 51. TV anchor Chris Cuomo is 49. Actor Thomas Lennon is 49. Rapper Mack 10 is 48. Latin rock singer Juanes is 47. Actress Rhona Mitra is 44. Actress Jessica Capshaw is 43. Actress Ash- ley Johnson is 36. Actress Anna Kendrick is 34. Thought for Today: “Education is a private mat- ter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.” — Lillian Smith, American writ- er-social critic (1897-1966). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
