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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Late-night surprise damages
father-daughter relationship
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: My 20-year-old
Then he began emailing and texting
daughter recently caught me “actively
me saying that if I filed a claim, he
engaged” in watching porn. I tried
would be banned by the hotel chain
to do it late at night when I thought
and lose his gold member points.
everyone was asleep. My daughter
Then he began blaming me and asked
now thinks I’m a pervert.
how I knew I didn’t get them from a
Her mother raised her with con-
movie theater or maybe the airplane
servative beliefs about any expres-
or even a well-known coffee chain I
sion of sexuality. I’m worried about
go to. Now he won’t return my phone
J eanne
her ability to make a future mar-
calls, emails or text messages. I am
P hilliPs
riage work, and I want the wonderful
shocked and feel hurt and confused.
ADVICE
— Bitten in California
relationship we shared back. Some
Dear Bitten: I understand why
people have suggested that as she
you are shocked and hurt, but please
matures and becomes more aware of
don’t be confused. Your former good friend
the real world, she’ll come around. But I’m a
values his gold membership status more than
relatively old 58 to have a child her age, and
he does your friendship, which speaks vol-
I don’t want to wait until I’m gone for her to
umes about his priorities. While he isn’t wrong
“come around.” What can I do? — Missing
that you could have picked up the bedbugs on
My Baby Girl
the plane or in a movie theater — bedbugs are
Dear Missing: Your baby girl isn’t a baby;
all over the place and hard to get rid of — if
she’s a young adult woman. Most individuals
he was a true friend, he wouldn’t be ghosting
are uncomfortable with the idea of their par-
you now.
ents as sexual beings despite the glaring evi-
Call the hotel and explain what happened.
dence to the contrary. She may have reacted
Give them the room number so they can inves-
the way she did because she was embarrassed
tigate and possibly prevent another guest from
by what she saw.
having the same experience you did.
Do not broach the subject of what her mar-
riage may be like if and when she marries,
Dear Abby: I am 70 years old. Because of
a combination of good luck, good genes and
because it’s really her affair, not yours. Apol-
ogize for the unfortunate turn of events, and
years of exercising and eating right, I look OK
use this as an opportunity to be more careful
for my age. Many of my friends have not been
so fortunate and haven’t aged well.
in the future.
When I see someone that I haven’t seen
Dear Abby: Recently, a good friend
in a long time, often they will say, “You look
invited me along on a six-night trip to Waikiki.
great.” Can you please give me a good reply?
We shared the same hotel room. He slept in the
I say, “Thank you,” but that doesn’t seem to
king-size bed; I slept on the pull-out sofa in the
be enough. “You look great, too” seems inap-
living room area.
propriate. Please help. — Good Response in
I ended up getting bed bugs and figured out
the South
where I got them from when I got back to my
Dear Good Response: Instead of “You
apartment in Los Angeles. When I told my
look great, too,” try this: “Oh, my. You’re a
friend what happened, he immediately said he
sight for sore eyes! How long has it been?”
didn’t want to be involved or be a part of this.
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Sept. 4, 1919
Repairs to the local gas plant were com-
pleted early this morning with an auxil-
iary exhauster from Walla Walla and gas
turned into the mains about 9 o’clock. No
further trouble is anticipated. The machine
from Walla Walla arrived by truck shortly
after midnight and was installed in quick
order. The new tank for the gas plant here
will be completed before Round-Up if no
bar to progress arises meanwhile. It will be
a storage tank with 10,000 cubic feet capac-
ity and will have a 4-inch pressure lead.
All gas will be generated at the main plant
but the new tank in the west end will store
an amount equal to half the capacity of the
present tank. With two storage tanks in
operation the company expects to be able
to furnish gas at an equal pressure all over
town at the maximum demand.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Sept. 4, 1969
A Boise, Idaho, man, Jay Hubbell, 46,
who escaped from Baker County jail a
year ago June, was picked up by the Ore-
gon State Police this morning. He is pres-
ently being held in the Umatilla County
jail, charged with escape from official
detention and being held for Baker County.
Police stopped Hubbell at 6:05 a.m. to
charge him for no vehicle license.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Sept. 4, 1994
It was like poking a stick in a hor-
net’s nest when Aaron Himes of Enter-
prise ran the opening kickoff back 87 yards
to the Mac-Hi one-yard line Friday. The
Mac-Hi Pioneers responded with a goal-
line stand and took over on downs. Three
plays later Pioneers fullback Heath Nel-
son pounded through a couple of would-be
tacklers and sprinted 78 yards for the
game’s first score. The Pioneers went on
to pound the Savages 44-0 in the first high
school football game of the season for
both teams.
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 Sept. 4, 1998, Inter-
net services company Goo-
gle filed for incorporation in
California.
In 1781, Los Angeles
was founded by Spanish set-
tlers under the leadership of
Governor Felipe de Neve.
In 1944, during World
War II, British troops liber-
ated Antwerp, Belgium.
In 1951, President Harry
S. Truman addressed the
nation from the Japanese
peace treaty conference in
San Francisco in the first
live, coast-to-coast televi-
sion broadcast.
In 1957, Arkansas Gov.
Orval Faubus used Arkan-
sas National Guardsmen to
prevent nine black students
from entering all-white Cen-
tral High School in Little
Rock. Ford Motor Co. began
selling its ill-fated Edsel.
In 1969, the Food and
Drug Administration issued
a report calling birth control
pills “safe,” despite a slight
risk of fatal blood-clotting
disorders linked to the pills.
In 1971, an Alaska
Airlines jet crashed near
Juneau, killing all 111 peo-
ple on board.
In 1987, a Soviet court
convicted
West
Ger-
man pilot Mathias Rust of
charges stemming from his
daring flight to Moscow’s
Red Square, and sentenced
him to four years in a labor
camp. (Rust was released in
August 1988.)
In 1999, Israeli Prime
Minister Ehud Barak and
Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat signed a break-
through land-for-security
agreement during a cere-
mony in Sharm El-Sheikh,
Egypt.
In 2006, “Crocodile
Hunter” Steve Irwin, 44,
died after a stingray’s barb
pierced his chest.
In 2017, Texas emer-
gency management offi-
cials said at least 60 deaths
were attributed to Hurricane
Harvey.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actress Mitzi Gaynor is 88.
Actress Jennifer Salt is 75.
World Golf Hall of Famer
Tom Watson is 70. Actress
Judith Ivey is 68. Rock musi-
cian Martin Chambers (The
Pretenders) is 68. Actor
Noah Taylor is 50. Singer
Beyonce Knowles is 38.
ctress-comedian Whitney
Cummings is 37. Actor-co-
median Kyle Mooney (TV:
“Saturday Night Live”) is
35. Pop-rock singer-song-
writer James Bay is 29.
Thought for Today:
“Yesterday
is
history,
tomorrow is a mystery,
today is God’s gift, that’s
why we call it the present.”
— Joan Rivers (1933-2014).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE