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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Man fed up with
proselytizing in-laws
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
Dear Abby: My ex-husband
Dear Abby: I am having trouble
dealing with my wife’s extended
had an affair with a woman named
family, who are mostly evangel-
“Lily” that lasted for the entire
icals. My family isn’t overly reli-
year we were separated. Although
gious and some are atheists. Her
we tried to work on things, he con-
tinued to sleep with both of us. I
family doesn’t think twice about
got PTSD because of how bad it
asking me if I have a relationship
messed with my head. I wanted to
with God, and have even declared
Jeanne
keep my family together, but I was
that they are praying for me and
Phillips
tired of being hurt.
my children.
ADVICE
When I finally let go, so did
I chafe at these comments
Lily. She got engaged not long after
because I feel they do not respect
meeting her new boyfriend, but she
our religious beliefs, as I do theirs.
and my ex still slept together. He had four
This has been going on for all of the 40
relationships after her and kept trying to
years we’ve been married, and I’m ready
pursue me, but I didn’t give him any more
to disassociate from them altogether. I do
chances and met my now-husband.
not want to be negative about their beliefs,
After cheating in their subsequent rela-
but I should be entitled to mutual respect.
tionships, my ex and Lily got back together.
Can you help, please? — Losing Patience
(She moved in because her fiance kicked
in California
her out.) Eight months later they are now
Dear Losing: I can try. One of the tenets
engaged. I don’t feel safe with my son
of the faith of evangelicals is evangeliz-
ing — in other words, spreading the word
around them because they are so toxic.
Am I wrong for wishing they would sepa-
about their beliefs. They feel that by doing
rate again and both stay out of my life? It’s
this they are following their religion. When
affecting me emotionally again, as well as
you are asked whether you have a relation-
ship with God, your response should be that
making it hard for me to love. — Almost
Destroyed in Illinois
your relationship with God is as close as
Dear Almost Destroyed: You are
you need it to be, thank you — and please
spending too much time focused on your ex
do not ask again.
and his fiancee. They are birds of a feather
When they tell you they are praying for
and meant for each other. Because you are
you and your children, say thank you again.
unable to eliminate your ex from your life
A little prayer on our behalf hurts no one,
— I presume because of the child you share
and may make them feel better about their
— and the stress is affecting your mental
own lives. Limit your exposure if you must,
health, it’s time to consult a licensed men-
but shunning your in-laws isn’t the answer
tal health professional for help in insulating
if your wife wants to maintain a relation-
ship with them.
yourself from this toxic twosome.
DAYS GONE BY FROM THE EAST OREGONIAN
100 Years Ago
June 8, 1921
The more conservative element of the
population of Echo is not unduly excited
over the reported strike of gold and silver in
paying quantities on a homestead about 12
miles west of here. A good many claims have
been staked, but so far as could be learned
here today, no one has seen the mine from
which specimens of ore were take where the
rich strike is supposed to have been made.
It is rumored that one of the principals in
the present rush figured in an episode of
the same kind a few years ago when on the
strength of samples taken he secured quite
a sum of money for development purposes.
The mine never showed any profit.
50 Years Ago
June 8, 1971
Mayor A.L. Draper of Umatilla escalated
himself into the mayorality hall of fame in
recent years by banning the sale of Playboy
magazine within his city. Then he tangled
head-on with state officials on the city’s role
in dog control. Monday night in the Uma-
tilla City Council meeting he opened a new
can of worms. Stray cattle wandering into
Umatilla will be herded into a city-built cat-
tle corral near the cemetery on the southwest
edge of town. Ownership of cattle will have
to be proven to the city’s police department
before the cattle will be released. Accord-
ing to the city, the owners of the cattle will
sweeten the city’s coffers with cash for vio-
lating the city’s stray livestock ordinance.
25 Years Ago
June 8, 1996
With the sun beating down, build-
ing a playground is real work. But build-
ing the Funland Community Playgrounds
has its unique attractions, like a visit from
“The Cool Off Committee.” That would be
Carol Clupny, who comes around periodi-
cally to blast you in the face or neck with a
squirt gun, with your permission of course.
Another woman offered sun block, and Rose
Stephens, 11, walked around with a tray of
cold drinks. Building a 13,000-square-foot
playground in five days, using volunteers,
takes much local planning and the expertise
of Leathers & Associates, a firm that has
built more than 1,000 of them around the
world in the style of old-fashioned barn rais-
ings. But even the construction supervisors
say Hermiston’s project is a whopper com-
pared to most others they’ve built.
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 8, 1968, author-
ities announced the capture
in London of James Earl
Ray, the suspected assas-
sin of civil rights leader Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
In 1864, Abraham Lin-
coln was nominated for
another term as president
during the National Union
(Republican) Party’s con-
vention in Baltimore.
In 1953, the U.S.
Supreme Court ruled unan-
imously that restaurants in
the District of Columbia
could not refuse to serve
Blacks.
In 1962, 20th Century
Fox fired Marilyn Monroe
from its production “Some-
thing’s Got to Give,” say-
ing she was unreliable. (Fox
later changed its mind, but
Monroe died before filming
could resume, and the movie
was abandoned.)
In 1972, during the Viet-
nam War, an Associated
Press photographer took
a picture of a screaming
9-year-old girl, Phan Thi
Kim Phuc, as she ran naked
and severely burned from
the scene of a South Viet-
namese napalm attack.
In 1978, a jury in Clark
County, Nevada, ruled the
so-called “Mormon will,”
purportedly written by the
late billionaire Howard
Hughes, was a forgery.
In 1995, U.S. Marines
rescued
Capt.
Scott
O’Grady, whose F-16C
fighter jet had been shot
down by Bosnian Serbs
on June 2. Mickey Mantle
received a liver transplant at
a Dallas hospital; however,
the baseball great died two
months later.
In 2015, siding with
the White House in a for-
eign-policy power struggle
with Congress, the Supreme
Court ruled 6-3 that Amer-
icans born in the disputed
city of Jerusalem could not
list Israel as their birthplace
on passports.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actor Millicent Martin is
87. Musician Boz Scaggs is
77. Author Sara Paretsky is
74. Actor Griffin Dunne is
66. “Dilbert” creator Scott
Adams is 64. Actor-di-
rector Keenen Ivory Way-
ans is 63. Musician Nick
Rhodes (Duran Duran) is
59. R&B singer Doris Pear-
son (Five Star) is 55. Actor
Julianna Margulies is 54.
Actor Dan Futterman is 54.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE