Tuesday, June 1, 2021
PEANUTS
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
COFFEE BREAK
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
East Oregonian
A17
DEAR ABBY
Friend deflects unwanted
questions by lying
Dear Abby: I went to lunch
healthier lifestyle. The bottom line
with “Anita,” who proceeded to
is, you do not have to answer every
question me about how I know my
question that’s asked of you.
friend “Gail.” It seems like an inno-
Dear Abby: When my husband
cent question, but Gail and I met in
of 19 years died suddenly 15 months
Alcoholics Anonymous. I didn’t
ago (we had no children), my finan-
tell Anita we met in AA because it
cial situation changed considerably.
would’ve destroyed Gail’s anonym-
I have had trouble paying bills, and
Jeanne
ity, so I said we met through mutual
my water was turned off this morn-
Phillips
ing. When I told my siblings and
friends.
ADVICE
I didn’t mind one question, but
their families, their answers ranged
Anita kept probing about “mutual
from “I can’t help you” to “Gee, that
friends.” I wound up fibbing and
sucks!” to “Come have meatloaf for
saying, “folks at my church.” It managed to
dinner.”
change the direction of the conversation, but
My niece, who is financially well-off,
I wish people wouldn’t pry like that. This
commented that it sucked. I told them all that
also happens when I’m at a party and some-
I have no water. I do have a five-day-a-week
one asks me why I’m not drinking. It’s easy
job. I just don’t have a lot of money because
to respond to one question with a general
of so many things that have happened. I’ll
answer, but a lot of times I encounter folks
have the money in a week or so, but I can’t
who keep pushing.
live without water for that long.
Is it wrong to want them to offer to help
I would like to encourage your readers to
be sensitive to these kinds of situations and to
me? Am I expecting too much? If the situa-
allow people their privacy. Thanks, Abby. —
tion were reversed, I would offer help imme-
Anonymous and Sober in the South
diately. — In A Tough Spot in Kentucky
Dear Anonymous: So would I, and you’re
Dear Tough Spot: Please accept my deep-
welcome. There is no shortage of nosy ques-
est sympathy for the loss of your husband.
tions that people don’t hesitate to ask these
No, it’s not wrong to want your relatives
days, as anyone who has read this column is
to offer to help you out with a bridge loan
aware. However, to many people, member-
until the money you’re expecting arrives.
ship in AA is a badge of honor. When
However, because they didn’t offer, ask them
“pushed” to answer why they are not drink-
for one, and be willing to sign a note if they
ing alcohol they are upfront about the fact
wish. Then cross your fingers that one of
they are in AA. Of course, one does not have
them agrees. If none of them do, approach
to have a drinking problem to avoid alcohol.
your employer and ask for an advance on
your salary, or contact the water company
Some people refrain because they don’t feel
well when they drink; others do it because
and ask if you can strike a deal. I wish you
they are taking antibiotics or want to live a
luck.
DAYS GONE BY
From the East Oregonian
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
June 1, 1921
And now it is the porcupines that have
joined the ranks of the Knights of the Road.
It seems that a travel-stained porcupine, quills
and all, rode the breaks to Pendleton on the
Spokane train recently. He seemed to be a
novice at the ancient game of beating the rail-
road and was suffering from carsickness to
such an extent that the railroad boys took him
over to Section Foreman Nordeen’s yards and
gave him every care. The porc showed every
sign of adopting Pendleton as his home city
until a train from the east arrived. The animal,
without so much as a word of farewell, saun-
tered out to the train, climbed beneath the cars
and was off for parts unknown.
50 Years Ago
June 1, 1971
The Raymond Brown family of Coman-
che, Okla., visited in Pendleton Monday
night and Tuesday as guests of the Oregon
Travel Industry Conference and the State
Travel Information Section. Mr. and Mrs.
Brown, their 11-year-old daughter and two
teenage sons received their 12-day Oregon
vacation as winners in the “10 Perfect Vaca-
tions” program organized by Discover Amer-
ica Travel Organizations Inc. Through this
nationwide travel promotion program, two
vacations are awarded in each of the 50 states.
Brown, a cattleman in Oklahoma, was partic-
ularly interested in some of Oregon’s cattle
operations.
25 Years Ago
June 1, 1996
For the last four years, the tribes and the
federal and state governments have been at
odds about salmon restoration in the Grande
Ronde Basin. The crux of the argument
surrounds a composite, hatchery-raised stock
of spring chinook labeled “Rapid River,”
whose origins are the Powder River Basin
north of Baker. Basically, without a stream
to call home for some 40 years, the geneti-
cally mixed stock is returning in abundant
numbers to Lookingglass Hatchery near
Elgin. The Confederated Umatilla Tribes,
with the support of the three other Columbia
River Tribes, want to use these fish to supple-
ment the natural, but limited, Grande Ronde
Basin spring chinook.
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 June 1, 2009, General
Motors filed for Chapter 11,
becoming the largest U.S.
industrial company to enter
bankruptcy protection.
In 1792, Kent uck y
became the 15th state.
In 1796, Ten nessee
became the 16th state.
In 1812, President James
Madison, in a message to
Congress, recounted what he
called Britain’s “series of acts
hostile to the United States as
an independent and neutral
nation”; Congress ended up
declaring war.
In 1813, the mortally
wounded commander of
the USS Chesapeake, Capt.
James Lawrence, gave the
order “Don’t give up the
ship” during a losing battle
with the British frigate HMS
Shannon in the War of 1812.
In 1916, Louis Brandeis
took his seat as an associate
justice of the U.S. Supreme
Court, the first Jewish Amer-
ican to serve on the nation’s
highest bench.
In 1943, a civilian flight
from Portugal to England
was shot down by Germany
during World War II, killing
all 17 people aboard, includ-
ing actor Leslie Howard.
In 1958, Charles de
Gaulle became premier of
France, marking the begin-
ning of the end of the Fourth
Republic.
In 1980, Cable News
Network made its debut.
In 2003, leaders of the
world’s seven wealthiest
nations and Russia pledged
billions of dollars to fight
AIDS and hunger on the
opening day of their summit
in Evian, France.
In 2009, Air France Flight
447, an Airbus A330 carry-
ing 228 people from Rio de
Janeiro to Paris, crashed into
the Atlantic Ocean with the
loss of everyone on board.
In 2017, President Donald
Trump declared he would
pull the U.S. from the land-
mark Paris climate agree-
ment. (President Joe Biden
signed an order returning the
U.S. to that accord on his first
day in office.)
Today’s Bir thdays:
Singer Pat Boone is 87.
Actor Morgan Freeman is 84.
Opera singer Frederica von
Stade is 76. Actor John M.
Jackson (TV: “JAG,” “NCIS:
Los Angeles”) is 71. Blues-
rock musician Tom Princi-
pato is 69. Rock musician
Simon Gallup (The Cure) is
61. Actor-comedian Mark
Curry is 60. Comedian Link
Neal (Rhett & Link) is 43.
Americana singer-songwriter
Brandi Carlile is 40. Actor
Johnny Pemberton is 40.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE