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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, September 10, 2020
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Man who threatened suicide
demands his guns be returned
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: My wife and I have
who all live within 50 miles, we
been friends with another couple
haven’t heard a word from any of
for more than 50 years. The four of
them, whether via phone, email
us have shared lots of good times
or text, all of which we do. How
bad is that? — Disconnected in
together.
California
After recent open heart sur-
gery, the husband became very
Dear Disconnected: If you
have reached out to your grand-
depressed and talked to his wife
children and been ignored, shame
about “ending it all.” She asked me
J eanne
on them. If you haven’t, it’s time
to take the few handguns (all legal)
P hilliPs
you did. Sometimes young peo-
they had in their home to be safe.
ADVICE
ple become so engrossed in their
I didn’t feel I could say no. I’m not
daily lives they forget about any-
interested in guns, but it seemed
thing else. But that’s what par-
a simple request. So she “snuck”
ents are for, to “remind” them that reach-
them out to me during our last visit.
ing out to someone who needs a kind word
When the husband discovered what his
(or an errand run during a pandemic) can
wife had done, she told him about my role
be rewarding not only for the receiver but
in it. He now demands I return his guns
also for the giver. Parents should remind
and says he no longer wants anything to do
them to take five minutes occasionally to
with me. His wife wants me to hold onto
text Grandma.
them for now.
Dear Abby: I started and completed a
What should I do? — Torn Over This
college fund for my two daughters. Only
Dear Torn: From what I have been
one of them used it. The other joined the
told, depression after heart surgery is not
military and used the GI Bill for college
unusual. Hang onto the guns and urge the
instead of the money from the college fund
wife to report her husband’s threat to harm
($10,000). Am I obligated to give her that
himself to his doctors and let them guide
money? I did pull it out of the fund and
her. She should also call the National Sui-
cide Prevention Lifeline, which is 800-
have it in a certificate. I figure when she
273-8255. Someone who has talked about
buys a house, I’ll give it to her then. —
Wondering in Florida
suicide should not have easy access to the
Dear Wondering: Check with the bank
means to do it.
to make sure there won’t be a problem if
Dear Abby: Since this coronavirus pan-
demic started, I have seen lots of articles
the college fund money isn’t used for your
stressing the importance of staying con-
daughter’s education. If you can apply it
nected to elderly family members, friends
elsewhere in a way that will benefit her
and those living alone. My husband and
— and part of a down payment on a house
I have each other, so we are sheltering in
would definitely qualify — I think it would
be wonderful. But check first.
place. Although we have eight grandkids
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Sept. 10, 1920
Two complete moonshine stills, 60 gal-
lons of mash and a gallon of “mountain dew”
which had not yet cooled, were taken at 11
o’clock this morning in a raid on Roy Sams’
place on Dry creek, about eight miles from
Weston. Early this afternoon Sams was tried
before Justice B. B. Richards at Athena and
fined $250. One of the stills was in operation
when Sheriff Jinks Taylor and three depu-
ties walked in on the outfit. About a gallon of
whisky had been distilled at the time. The 60
gallons of mash were destroyed and the para-
phernalia brought to the county jail in Pend-
leton this afternoon. The raid was made as a
complete surprise to the operators and a com-
plete clean-up of the plant resulted. It is con-
sidered one of the largest hauls made in the
liquor line in several months and the largest
made by Sheriff Taylor since taking office.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Sept. 10, 1970
Umatilla and Morrow counties are noted
for their broad versatility in farm crop pro-
duction, and the door is being opened this year
on a large scale for a new crop — dry beans
of the red and pinto variety. Eight growers in
the region have started cutting operations on
more than 2,000 acres of the new crop. Glenn
Campbell, Butter Creek area wheat farmer,
harvested 2,200 acres of wheat and barley
and is raising 480 acres of dry beans. Plagued
by declining wheat prices and increasing farm
costs Campbell, like many other wheat farm-
ers, is searching for means of increasing per
acre income at a profit. His dry bean crop,
like other growers in the area, is a lush one.
The hazards at this stage of the game are rain
and high winds. Campbell decided to go for
a large acreage on his first try at a row crop.
Large wheat farmers generally think big, and
this was the case on Campbell’s ranch.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Sept. 10, 1995
For more than 100 years the Pendleton
Elks Lodge has been all male but that exclu-
sivity may be coming to an end. Members
voted Thursday evening to allow women into
the fraternal club, part of a national network
that numbers 2,300 lodges. The 1,100-mem-
ber Pendleton lodge is just one of many
across the country holding votes on whether
to allow women through the clubhouse door.
A national convention of the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks in New Orleans voted
to drop the word “male” from the member-
ship qualifications, and local lodges are being
asked to ratify the change in the national con-
stitution. A majority of Elks Lodge members
in Milton-Freewater and Walla Walla voted
to allow women in their clubs but Hermiston
Elks gave a thumbs down to that idea.
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On Sept. 10, 1962, the
U.S. Supreme Court ordered
the University of Mississippi
to admit James Meredith, a
Black student.
In 1919, New York City
welcomed home Gen. John J.
Pershing and 25,000 soldiers
who’d served in the U.S. First
Division during World War I.
In 1935, Sen. Huey P.
Long died in Baton Rouge
two days after being shot in
the Louisiana state Capitol,
allegedly by Dr. Carl Weiss.
In 1960, Hurricane
Donna, a dangerous Cat-
egory 4 storm eventu-
ally blamed for 364 deaths,
struck the Florida Keys.
In 1963, 20 Black stu-
dents entered Alabama
public schools following a
standoff between federal
authorities and Gov. George
C. Wallace.
In 1991, the Senate Judi-
ciary Committee opened
hearings on the nomination
of Clarence Thomas to the
U.S. Supreme Court.
In 2006, Peyton Manning
and the Indianapolis Colts
defeated Eli Manning and
the New York Giants 26-21
in the first NFL game to fea-
ture two brothers starting at
quarterback.
In 2016, John Hinck-
ley Jr., the man who tried to
assassinate President Ronald
Reagan in 1981, was released
from a Washington mental
hospital for good.
In
2018,
Florence
exploded into a potentially
catastrophic Category 4
hurricane as it closed in on
North and South Carolina
with winds up to 140 mph.
The Trump administration
ordered the closure of the
Palestinian diplomatic mis-
sion in Washington, citing
the refusal of Palestinian
leaders to enter into peace
talks with Israel.
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