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A10 East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, October 1, 2020 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Awkward online photos put in-laws on the outs FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER Dear Abby: I have been with my which is a total turn-off for me. For instance, when we go to a husband for 20 years, married for restaurant and the waitress walks eight of them. He thinks his mother up to assist us, as soon as she turns can do no wrong. She takes pictures around, he automatically glues his of me when I least expect it, and then eyes on her backside. I don’t say posts the worst ones on Facebook. anything about it, but it’s so annoy- She laughs and thinks it’s funny, but ing. Should I say anything or just I am really hurt by it. J eanne continue to pretend that I don’t see? To make it worse, his sister does P hilliPs — Bothered in Louisiana the same to me now. They con- ADVICE stantly have their phones pointed Dear Bothered: Many men ogle, but for most of them, it’s only their toward me, and when confronted, eye that wanders. Because it bothers they deny taking pictures or insist you so much, you may not want to move the all pictures have been deleted. relationship forward, by all means speak up. I have always supported my husband’s Pretending not to notice has changed noth- relationship with his family, but I don’t feel ing. After eight years of silence, I think it’s like they support us being together. I have time to set the father of your child straight, deleted his mother as a friend on Face- don’t you? book and no longer go to family functions. My husband agrees that what she’s doing Dear Abby: I have wonderful neigh- bors. They own a fish market in Chinatown. is wrong, but offers no support. His family Since they moved in three years ago, he has prides themselves on class, but this is any- thing but classy. — Caught Off Guard given me fish almost every other week. My Dear Caught: It isn’t classy to willfully dilemma is, he speaks almost no English, and hurt others, as your MIL and SIL have been she speaks only broken English. Some of the doing. Both appear to have a cruel streak, fish he gives me I don’t use, so I offer it to another neighbor or throw it out. and this is their way of needling you. I would like to tell him which fish I pre- What troubles me is that you have allowed fer, but don’t want to seem ungrateful or like them to drive you away from family func- tions, which I assume your husband is attend- it’s shopping from home. Any suggestions ing without you. Have another talk with him. on how to handle this? — Grateful in New York Go to another family gathering, and when Dear Grateful: You might “innocently” you see the cameras aimed at you, tell them mention which fish you especially appreciate to cut it out. Your spineless husband should when he brings it to you, but other than that, back you up on it, tell them that it isn’t funny, I think you should be grateful for your neigh- and if there are any shots of you on their FB bor’s generosity and forget about “placing an pages, he wants them deleted immediately. order” for something you’re not paying for. Dear Abby: I’m in an eight-year relation- ship, and we share a 3-year-old child together. You should also make an effort to reciprocate We talk about marriage, but truth be told, in some way so the man and his wife are not doing all the giving. I’m having doubts. He has a wandering eye, DAYS GONE BY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 YEARS AGO Oct. 1, 1920 Life imprisonment was the sentence imposed by Judge G. W. Phelps on Irvin LeRoy Stoop and Floyd L. Henderson, whom the jury after five hours deliberation pro- nounced guilty of first degree murder of Sheriff Till Taylor and recommened a life term. Testimony early in the trial did not tend strongly to prove the two defendants were in a conspiracy to break jail and kill Sheriff Taylor. The state, however, played its trump card when confessed murder of the sheriff, Emmett Bancroft, alias Neil Hart, testified that the whole affair was planned for more than a week before the fatal afternoon of July 25. Hart has been sentenced to hang for his crime and has been converted by the Salva- tion Army. Stoop and Henderson, mere boys in appearance, received their sentence bravely as the judge remarked that they had brought misery upon innocent people as well as upon themselves. “Your one chance of atonement,” said the judge, “is to be exemplary in your conduct at the state penitentiary. You may thus bring some comfort to your parents.” 50 YEARS AGO Oct. 1, 1970 The Umatilla County Board of Realtors has its first woman president. She is Charlotte L. Newman of Universal Realty Inc., Herm- 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 iston. Mrs. Newman has lived in Hermiston 15 years. She has operated Universal Realty since January 1965. Mrs. Newman says, “I am a country girl at heart.” She grew up on a farm in the prairie country of western South Dakota and rode a horse to attend a one-room school which had no lights, no water, no indoor plumbing. “The private ownership of property helped make our country great,” she says. “It is the foundation we must continue to build on.” 25 YEARS AGO Oct. 1, 1995 The way we treat the water in the next 20 years will have a difference on how we live was the message at the Cattlemen’s Conven- tion’s session on stream health. U.S. Bureau of Land Management riparian specialist Wayne Elmore told ranchers the focus should be on what practices can be done now to help the stream be its best today and in the future, with- out taking the cattle off it. The aim is to slow the water flow, recharge the aquifer and nar- row the channel. “A narrow channel creates a flood plain that nourishes the area with sedi- ment,” he said, calling creeks the best “mud managers.” “We can’t control how much water we get, but we can control how fast it goes off,” he said. The perception that a stream must be fixed “now” was eased when he said, “Time is something we put on creeks.” TODAY IN HISTORY On Oct. 1, 2017, a gun- man opened fire from a room at the Mandalay Bay casino hotel in Las Vegas on a crowd of 22,000 coun- try music fans at a con- cert below, leaving 58 peo- ple dead and more than 800 injured in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. his- tory; the gunman, 64-year- old Stephen Craig Paddock, killed himself before offi- cers arrived. In 1908, Henry Ford introduced his Model T automobile to the market. In 1937, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black deliv- ered a radio address in which he acknowledged being a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, but said he had dropped out of the organization before becom- ing a U.S. senator. In 1957, the motto “In God We Trust” began appearing on U.S. paper currency. In 1971, Walt Disney World opened near Orlando, Florida. In 1982, Sony began selling the first commer- cial compact disc player, the CDP-101, in Japan. In 1987, eight people were killed when an earth- quake measuring magnitude 5.9 struck the Los Angeles area. In 1996, a federal grand jury indicted Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski in the 1994 mail bomb slaying of advertising executive Thomas Mosser. (Kaczynski was later sen- tenced to four life terms plus 30 years.) Today’s Birthdays: For- mer President Jimmy Car- ter is 96. Actor-singer Julie Andrews is 85. Actor Stella Stevens is 82. Rock musi- cian Jerry Martini (Sly and the Family Stone) is 77. Singer Youssou N’Dour is 61. Actor-model Cindy Mar- golis is 55. Actor Zach Gal- ifianakis is 51. Actor Brie Larson is 31. PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
