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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, May 6, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Boyfriend makes a grab for
woman’s child tax credit
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: My daughter
stance is troubling. Because he is the
received her tax refund recently. It
father doesn’t mean he has a right to
amounted to $8,700. Approximately
any portion of the child tax credit.
$5,000 is for overpaying on taxes.
If he needs reimbursement for the
Approximately $3,000 is the child
items he picks up for his children
tax credit she receives for her two
at the grocery store, your daughter
children. Her boyfriend, the father
should repay him out of her salary,
of the two boys, thinks he’s entitled
not by forking over half of her tax
Jeanne
credit. That money is intended for
to some of her money.
Phillips
Now, I understand the child tax
the kids, not for any one parent. If
ADVICE
credit is given for financial help
things aren’t clear enough, consider
for the children. My daughter and
putting the tax credit money in a
I agree that the $5,000 is hers exclu-
separate account.
sively as she is the one who paid those taxes.
Dear Abby: My brother “Frank” passed
As far as the child tax credit is concerned, her
away last month. He didn’t have any under-
lying medical conditions, so it was a shock.
boyfriend thinks that he should be entitled
to at least half of that because he’s the father.
My problem is, when I was 9 and he was 14,
We think because she is the one paying for
he used to molest me while my mother was
the year’s health insurance, doctor copays,
working.
prescriptions and most of the diapers, wipes,
For years, I never told anyone, but when I
pull-ups and other incidentals, it should all
was 40, I told my mom and big brother. Both
be hers.
of them believed me. For the past five years,
Don’t get me wrong. Her boyfriend does
I had been there for Frank and his daughter,
contribute to the household and is a great
but I was always waiting for an apology from
guy. They split most of the bills. After five
him that never came. Now it’s all I dwell on.
years, this is their first big disagreement.
How can I move past this and try to remem-
ber the good times? — Perplexed in Cali-
He chooses to get money during the year,
fornia
so of course he gets a lower tax refund at the
end of the year. FYI, she pays less for the
Dear Perplexed: Your religious adviser
baby supplies because she works at a well-
may be able to help you with that. However,
known warehouse. He contributes when they
if you are not religious, it may take some
are low by picking some up at the grocery
sessions with a licensed mental health profes-
store. What advice do you have? — Money
sional. Your niece, Frank’s daughter, should
Woes in the East
be asked if her father ever did anything that
Dear Money Woes: Watch your daugh-
made her uncomfortable because, if he did,
ter’s “great” boyfriend closely because his
she may need professional help.
DAYS GONE BY
From the East Oregonian
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
May 6, 1921
An orchestra has recently been organized
by the musicians of Pendleton and is holding
rehearsals every Sunday morning in the audi-
torium of the library. It is under the direction
of George E. McElroy who came here recently
from Seattle where he played first violin with
the Seattle Symphony Orchestra during the
past six seasons. The orchestra is composed
of the best musicians in Pendleton and has
shown wonderful progress and the plans are
to give a series of concerts in the near future.
50 Years Ago
May 6, 1971
Stuart Roosa, the man who orbited the
moon while his fellow astronauts walked
on it, said today that the Boardman Indus-
trial Park in Eastern Oregon is being consid-
ered for use as a giant spaceport. Roosa said
the space program is interested in using the
Boardman site, now leased to Boeing, for a
launch site for a space shuttle program. Roosa
say he expects the program to be under way
by 1973.
25 Years Ago
May 6, 1996
Robert Bynum has been star struck since
about the fourth grade. So landing a summer
internship with the Goddard Space Flight
Center in Greenbelt, Md., one of NASA’s
main research facilities, is a dream come
true. Goddard is the home base of the Hubble
Space Station and one of the largest research
facilities in the field. Bynum, who commutes
from Pendleton to La Grande to attend East-
ern Oregon State College, applied with about
10 summer research programs. About three
weeks ago, he received an email message at
Eastern from a researcher at a Goddard who
asked if Bynum would be interested in help-
ing with a study of the sun’s solar flares. In
a word: Yes! Bynum will head to Maryland
soon after completing his finals at Eastern
the second week of June. His wife, Susan, a
sixth grade teacher at McKay School in Pend-
leton, plans to join him there for most of the
summer.
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
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 May 6, 1954, medi-
cal student Roger Bannis-
ter broke the four-minute
mile during a track meet in
Oxford, England, in 3:59.40.
In 1527, unpaid troops
loyal to Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V attacked Rome,
forcing Pope Clement VII to
flee to safety; some scholars
mark the ensuing sack of the
city as the end of the Renais-
sance in Italy.
In 1882, President Ches-
ter Alan Arthur signed the
Chinese Exclusion Act, which
barred Chinese immigrants
from the U.S. for 10 years
(Arthur had opposed an
earlier version with a 20-year
ban).
In 1910, Britain’s Edward-
ian era ended with the death
of King Edward VII; he was
succeeded by George V.
In 1915, Babe Ruth hit his
first major-league home run
as a player for the Boston Red
Sox.
In 1937, the hydro-
gen-filled German airship
Hindenburg caught fire and
crashed while attempting
to dock at Lakehurst, New
Jersey; 35 of the 97 people on
board were killed along with
a crewman on the ground.
In 1941, Josef Stalin
assumed the Soviet premier-
ship, replacing Vyacheslav
M. Molotov. Comedian Bob
Hope did his first USO show
before an audience of service-
men as he broadcast his radio
program from March Field in
Riverside, California.
In 1942, during World
War II, some 15,000 Amer-
ican and Filipino troops on
Corregidor island surren-
dered to Japanese forces.
In 1957, Eugene O’Neill’s
play “Long Day’s Journey
into Night” won the Pulit-
zer Prize for drama; John F.
Kennedy’s “Profiles in Cour-
age” won the Pulitzer for
biography or autobiography.
In 2010, a computerized
sell order triggered a “flash
crash” on Wall Street, send-
ing the Dow Jones industrials
to a loss of nearly 1,000 points
in less than half an hour.
In 2013, kidnap-rape
victims Amanda Berry,
Gina DeJesus and Michelle
Knight, who went missing
separately about a decade
earlier while in their teens
or early 20s, were rescued
from a house just south of
downtown Cleveland. (Their
captor, Ariel Castro, hanged
himself in prison in Septem-
ber 2013 at the beginning
of a life sentence plus 1,000
years.)
In 2015, the NFL released
a 243-page repor t on
“Deflategate” that stopped
short of calling Patriots quar-
terback Tom Brady a cheater,
but did call some of his claims
“implausible” and left little
doubt that he’d had a role
in having footballs deflated
before New England’s AFC
title game against Indianap-
olis and probably in previous
games.
Today’s Birthdays: Base-
ball Hall of Famer Willie
Mays is 90. Rock singer Bob
Seger is 76. Gospel singer-co-
median Lulu Roman is 75.
Rock singer John Flansburgh
(They Might Be Giants) is 61.
Actor Clay O’Brien is 60.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE