Tuesday, June 29, 2021
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
East Oregonian
A11
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Wedding plans reveal
deep divide for couple
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: Against my better
than I am. We had a relationship for
judgment, I agreed to allow my
about a year, which ended six years
ago. Since then, we have remained
parents to pay for our upcoming
friends and occasionally hooked
wedding. It was something they
up a few times. The short relation-
pretty much insisted upon. My
ship we had was close to perfect. He
fiance was upset by my decision
broke it off with me because he said
because he fears I’m in collusion
with them to make a big show of it.
he couldn’t give me the relationship
For the last 10 months he has
I really wanted and I would end up
Jeanne
been suggesting we nix the religious
resenting him or even hating him
Phillips
ceremony and get married privately.
for it.
ADVICE
I am hurt because while I don’t want
Although I didn’t understand that
a big party, I have always wanted a
when he said it, I understand now he
was right. The problem is, I cannot
full ceremony with my friends and
family. I have been trying to assuage his
seem to get over him. I’ve had two unsuc-
fears because I know he will appreciate the
cessful relationships since. They weren’t the
wedding on the day of, but he feels neglected.
same as it was with him. I don’t know what
How can we compromise so that neither of us
to do.
feels resentful? — Party Of Two
A few months ago, I cut off everything
Dear Party: If you and your fiance
with him, and we haven’t talked in many
haven’t had premarital counseling — and
months. It’s not working! I’m still in love
it’s apparent from your letter that you haven’t
with him and can’t get him out of my head. I
— I urge you to get some right away. The two
mentioned the age difference because I had a
of you are encountering serious issues that
hard time with it, but he didn’t. What else can
need to be resolved before your wedding.
I do? I’m afraid to start anything with some-
That he doesn’t trust you and feels you might
one new. — Hopeless in New York
be conspiring with your parents against him
Dear Hopeless: What you are describ-
ing is painful, but it’s happening because
is a huge red flag.
When he says he wants to “nix the reli-
you haven’t accepted the reason the two of
gious ceremony,” is he talking about the reli-
you broke up. He said he couldn’t give you
gious aspect of it — or what he perceives to
the relationship you really wanted — what-
ever that was. You are not in love with this
be a circus surrounding it? If it’s the former,
it could affect the way you raise your chil-
man. You are in love with the fantasy of the
dren. If a compromise can be reached, coun-
person you wanted him to be. Once that fact
seling will help you to determine what you
is firmly in place in your head, you’ll be able
may need to do next. Please don’t wait. Start
to move forward, although it may take help
from a licensed psychotherapist to accom-
now.
plish it. Whatever it takes, please do it, so
Dear Abby: For a long time, I have been
you can start living your life.
in love with a man who is 15 years younger
DAYS GONE BY
From the East Oregonian
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
June 29, 1921
Damage to the extent of approximately
$165,500 was done last night when a fire,
which started from a grass blaze destroyed
four grain warehouses, an elevator and many
thousand bushels of grain at Myrick’s station,
northeast of Pendleton. The elevator was the
property of the Myrick Elevator Co. and this
company also lost one warehouse. Two ware-
houses were lost by the Pacific Coast Grain
Elevator Co. and H.W. Collins had one ware-
house destroyed. Othie Reeder was one of the
heaviest losers by the fire. He had 9,000 bush-
els of wheat in the elevator, and it is reported
that he had no insurance. Another 9,000 was
stored in the Collins warehouse, and this lot
was also not insured.
50 Years Ago
June 29, 1971
Tom L. Smith of Pendleton has received
research fellowship award from the depart-
ment of Health, Education and Welfare’s
National Institute of Mental Health to support
his continued work in the area of psychol-
ogy. The NIMH fellowship award will cover
Smith’s last two years as a graduate student
in social psychology at the University of
Oregon. The particular research projects to be
covered by this award examine the resulting
social role of the aging individual, the type of
interpersonal interactions and relationships
to which such an individual is subjected and
the resulting self-feelings, depression, and
many of the characteristics which are said to
be caused by old age.
25 Years Ago
June 29, 1996
Bankruptcy has knocked the wind from
the sails of Kenetech Windpower’s proposed
Helix-area energy project. The San Francisco
company’s Chapter 11 reorganization has left
its projects in limbo, including a 25-megawatt
Vansycle Ridge Windplant that would string
about 65-70 wind machines across Umatilla
and Walla Walla counties. Randy Dorran,
a wheat farmer in the project areas, says he
hasn’t been contacted by the company since its
Chapter 11 announcement. But he is hopeful
the company may be able to carry through with
the project. “I think it’s really feasible,” Dorran
said. “Our tests showed adequate wind.”
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 29, 1927, the first
trans-Pacific airplane flight
was completed as U.S. Army
Air Corps Lt. Lester J. Mait-
land and Lt. Albert F. Hege-
nberger arrived at Wheeler
Field in Hawaii aboard the
Bird of Paradise, an Atlan-
tic-Fokker C-2, after flying
2,400 miles from Oakland,
California, in 25 hours, 50
minutes.
In 1520, Montezuma II,
the ninth and last emperor of
the Aztecs, died in Tenoch-
titlan under unclear circum-
stances (some say he was
killed by his own subjects;
others, by the Spanish).
In 1613, London’s original
Globe Theatre, where many
of Shakespeare’s plays were
performed, was destroyed
by a fire sparked by a cannon
shot during a performance of
“Henry VIII.”
In 1946, authorities
in British-ruled Palestine
arrested more than 2,700
Jews in an attempt to stamp
out extremists.
In 1956, film star Marilyn
Monroe married playwright
Arthur Miller in a civil cere-
mony in White Plains, New
York. (The couple also wed in
a Jewish ceremony on July 1;
the marriage lasted 4½ years).
In 1967, Jerusalem was
reunified as Israel removed
barricades separating the Old
City from the Israeli sector.
In 1970, the United States
ended a two-month military
offensive into Cambodia.
In 1995, the space shuttle
Atlantis and the Russian Mir
space station linked in orbit,
beginning a historic five-
day voyage as a single ship.
A department store in Seoul,
South Korea, collapsed, kill-
ing at least 500 people. Actor
Lana Turner died in Century
City, California, at age 74.
In 2006, the Supreme
Court ruled, 5-3, that Presi-
dent George W. Bush’s plan
to try Guantanamo Bay
detainees in military tribu-
nals violated U.S. and inter-
national law.
In 2009, disgraced finan-
cier Bernard Madoff received
a 150-year sentence for his
multibillion-dollar fraud.
(Madoff died in prison in
April 2021.)
Today’s Birthdays: Song-
writer L. Russell Brown is
81. Rock singer Colin Hay
(Men At Work) is 68. Actor
Maria Conchita Alonso is
66. Violinist Anne-Sophie
Mutter is 58. Actor Chris-
tina Chang is 50. Rap DJ and
record producer DJ Shadow
is 49.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE