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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, May 27, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Forgetfulness in everyday
life leads to much anxiety
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: While I am excited
in the present may help. If none of
for new opportunities in my life, I
these techniques works for you,
cannot shake the feeling I am losing
discuss your fears with a licensed
something. I am always losing
psychotherapist, who can help you
something, whether it be my phone,
determine what’s at the root of your
my keys or my wallet. Once I lost
problem and help lessen your anxi-
my retainers and had to pay $300
ety about the future.
for new ones.
Dear Abby: I have been with my
Jeanne
I have trouble keeping track of
boyfriend/best friend for about six
Phillips
things. I’m afraid it will create seri-
years now. We moved in together
ADVICE
ous problems when I begin a career
a little over a year ago and have
and lose something, which could
discussed marriage. The issue
cost me my job. I’m also worried
is, one of his sisters has an alco-
that I’ll inherit important items from my
hol problem. She becomes rude and tries
to bully others when she drinks. When she
family and lose them. I’m nervous about
being in charge of my own life when I can’t
does that to me, I return the treatment, and
even keep track of the $5 in my pocket. I
she turns to her brother and attempts to
urgently need this bad habit to change. Is
make him side with her.
there anything that will help me? — Losing
I know how important family is. Because
It in Georgia
I’m not related, I am left feeling vulnera-
Dear Losing It: Your problem may not
ble — like she may disrupt my relationship
be as uncommon as you fear. Have you ever
with her brother. I love him, and I really try
heard the adage, “A place for everything and
with her. I think she would be happy if her
everything in its place”? It’s good advice.
brother were more available to hang out with
Choose one location to place your phone,
her. She’s a tomboy and often hung out with
your keys and your wallet when you come
him prior to us moving in together. Please
home. Once you form that habit, you will
help me figure out a solution. — Competing
always know where your things are. (There
in California
is an app, Find My Device, that may help you
Dear Competing: One option might be
locate your electronic devices if you have a
for you and your boyfriend to leave when his
sister starts drinking. Discuss this with your
computer. There are also companies — like
Tile — that can help you locate lost items,
boyfriend/best friend. If you haven’t done
such as your keys or wallet.)
that, please do. His sister may be trying to
divide and conquer, but enlisting him to her
Some people with attention deficit disor-
der lose track of items because they are
side will be much more difficult if he simply
responds by telling her, “I don’t want to be
easily distracted and focus on more than
one task at once. When you are holding your
involved in this, Sis. Leave me out of it, and
phone, keys, etc., reminding yourself to stay
stop picking on my girlfriend.”
DAYS GONE BY
From the East Oregonian
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
May 27, 1921
A telegram received this morning by J.T.
Brown from Hoboken notifying him that
the body of Fred Kees will not be started on
its journey across the continent until after
midnight tonight caused a change to be
made in the arrangements to have his funeral
services held in conjunction with the Deco-
ration Day services at the cemetery Monday
morning. The parade which will be formed at
the court house square at 8:30 will start wend-
ing its way to the cemetery at 9 o’clock sharp.
Every ex-service man is requested to be in his
uniform, if it is at all possible. Those who for
any reason can’t wear a uniform are expected
to be there in “civvies.”
50 Years Ago
May 27, 1971
Rob Roy of Pendleton isn’t sure that the
name he bears has anything to do with an
invitation he received to teach school in Scot-
land next year. “But it caused a lot of comment
when I was there last summer with the folk
singers,” he grinned. Rob and his wife, Anita,
are making preparations for their year in
Arbroath, Scotland, a town about the size of
Pendleton on the North Sea. The city, north
of Dundee, is the ancient site of the signing of
Scotland’s declaration of independence, said
Rob. Rob will take a year’s leave of absence
from Pendleton High School, where he has
been choral director for more than 10 years,
to work in the music department of two high
schools in Arbroath.
25 Years Ago
May 27, 1996
In sports, it’s not always such a bad thing
to get greedy every once in a while. Instead
of winning just one state title like he did
last year, Mac-Hi’s Craig Douglas got both
hurdle titles at the Oregon Class 3A Track
and Field Championships Saturday after-
noon. His performance topped several high
places by athletes from Umatilla County. In
the Class 4A meet, four Hermiston Bulldogs
scored points and three of the four Pendleton
Bucks who qualified for state finished in the
top eight as well. Douglas defended his 300
intermediate hurdles title with a state-re-
cord time of 38.65 seconds. Earlier in the
day, he edged out Taft’s Damien Davis with
a wind-aided 14.72 performance in the 110
high hurdles.
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 27, 1941, the
British Royal Navy sank the
German battleship Bismarck
off France with a loss of
some 2,000 lives, three days
after the Bismarck sank the
HMS Hood with the loss of
more than 1,400 lives. Amid
rising world tensions, Pres-
ident Franklin D. Roosevelt
proclaimed an “unlimited
national emergency” during
a radio address from the
White House.
In 1861, Chief Justice
Roger Taney, sitting as a
federal circuit court judge
in Baltimore, ruled that
President Abraham Lincoln
lacked the authority to
suspend the writ of habeas
corpus (Lincoln disregarded
the ruling).
In 1896, 255 people were
killed when a tornado struck
St. Louis, Missouri, and East
St. Louis, Illinois.
In 1933, the Chicago
World’s Fair, celebrating “A
Century of Progress,” offi-
cially opened. Walt Disney’s
Academy Award-winning
animated short “The Three
Little Pigs” was first released.
In 1935, the U.S. Supreme
Court, in Schechter Poultry
Corp. v. United States, unan-
imously struck down the
National Industrial Recov-
ery Act, a key component of
President Franklin D. Roos-
evelt’s “New Deal” legisla-
tive program.
In 1937, the newly
completed Golden Gate
Bridge connecting San Fran-
cisco and Marin County,
California, was opened to
pedestrian traffic (vehicles
began crossing the next day).
In 1942, Doris “Dorie”
Miller, a cook aboard the
USS West Virginia, became
the first African-American
to receive the Navy Cross
for displaying “extraordi-
nary courage and disregard
for his own personal safety”
during Japan’s attack on
Pearl Harbor.
In 1993, five people
were killed in a bombing at
the Uffizi museum of art in
Florence, Italy; some three
dozen paintings were ruined
or damaged.
In 1994, Nobel Prize-win-
ning author Alexander Solz-
henitsyn returned to Russia
to the emotional cheers of
thousands after spending two
decades in exile.
Today’s Bir thdays:
Former Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger is 98. Actor
Bruce Weitz is 78. Singer
Siouxsie Sioux (The Crea-
tures, Siouxsie and the
Banshees) is 64. Rapper
Andre 3000 (Outkast) is 46.
Rapper Jadakiss is 46.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE