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East Oregonian
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
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
DEAR ABBY
Young adult struggling
as a full-time caregiver
Dear Abby: I’m 23 years old and
with my 5- and 8-year-old daugh-
caring for my two grandparents. My
ters. When the older one was 6, my
dad, their only son, lives with them,
wife taught her not to let me see her
but avoids them at all costs, no
naked when using the bathroom and
matter how much I beg him to help.
bathing. That broke my heart. I’m
He causes more problems than he
OK with it now, but my wife is now
solves. I graduated from college last
discouraging them from sitting on
year, but because of all the doctor
my lap. I’m a loving and responsible
Jeanne
appointments, nurse visits and the
dad, and I would never do any harm
Phillips
attention they need, there’s no way
to my kids, or do the things my wife
ADVICE
I can work. My life is completely
thinks I will do. What should I do?
absorbed in caring for them.
— Not Trusted in California
I’m going crazy! They don’t want to leave
Dear Not Trusted: What you should do
their home and won’t pay me or anyone else
is discuss with her the reasons for her fears
to care for them, but they need round-the-
about the safety of your daughters. The
clock care. I’m not asking for help with them,
answer may be that when she was small, she
I’m asking for help with balance. How can I
was molested by a male relative she trusted.
be a young adult and full-time caregiver? —
There is nothing wrong with 5-year-old and
In Difficult Circumstances
8-year-old girls sitting on their father’s lap.
Dear I.D.C.: You can’t. The longer you
What is troubling is your wife’s reaction to it.
allow this to continue, the more trapped you
Dear Abby: My husband of six months
will become. Contact senior services and
(whom I do not live with) refuses to agree
inform them about what’s going on with your
not to contact his ex-girlfriends. He refuses
dad and your grandparents. Then find a job.
to send me copies of emails or texts from
I am sure there are many available openings
them, and won’t agree to allow me to send a
right now. You may have to continue living
polite, but firm, email requesting they stop
with your grandparents for a while, but as
contacting him, even though his therapist
soon as you can manage it, you should live
said it was OK to send. What should I do?
— Distrustful in New York
independently.
As to your father, tell him that if he
Dear Distrustful: The person you
doesn’t accept at least some of the respon-
married clearly isn’t ready for the responsi-
bilities of being a husband. Ask him if he’s
sibility for his parents’ care, you will report
willing to meet with a licensed marriage
him to adult protective services for neglect.
It may not make you popular, but if you
and family therapist. If he is unwilling, talk
don’t assume control of your future, you will
to a lawyer about an annulment. If you do,
become increasingly isolated.
you may save yourself years of frustration
Dear Abby: I have a strong, healthy bond
and heartache.
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
From the East Oregonian
100 Years Ago
July 27, 1921
Steaks, roasts and chops of juicy buffalo
meat will be available for the Christmas
dinner of Pendleton people, for the Pendle-
ton Trading Co. today ordered for holiday
delivery a half-ton buffalo from the famous
“Scotty” Philip buffalo herd of genuine North
American bison at Fort Pierre, South Dakota.
The animal will be shipped here with the
head and hide on it, both of which are very
valuable and which will be mounted by the
Pendleton Trading Co. The meat will be sold
at cost and a large demand is anticipated.
50 Years Ago
July 27, 1971
Fire destroyed part of the Western
Farmers Association complex at Adams
Monday. Several other fires broke out in
nearby areas and sheriff’s deputies said
arson was suspected in some of the blazes.
Loss at Adams was estimated at $150,000-
$200,000 by Bob Ver Burg, WFA manager
at Adams. The fire leveled a grain storage
bin and a warehouse. He said the loss was
insured. The fire cut five telephone lines and
disrupted service to Adams, Athena, Weston
and Milton-Freewater. Cause of the fire prob-
ably was an overheated bearing, Ver Burg
said. Adams firemen, all volunteers, said
the fire started so high in the grain storage
bin that it was out of reach of their small fire
truck’s little pump.
25 Years Ago
July 27, 1996
A high-speed chase was almost stalled
before it started Friday when a bank robber
tried to flee the crime scene but locked the
keys inside his getaway car. The robber had
to bust the driver’s-side window of his car
with the gun he used in the apparent robbery
before he could flee the U.S. Bank in La
Grande, police said. The gaffe was the lucky
break police needed. A suspect, Tom Omar
Doty, 23, of Spokane, was arrested near
the Wildhorse casino near Pendleton after
a 35-mile chase that reached speeds of 115
mph. He was being held in the Union County
Jail in La Grande, said Oregon State Police
Sgt. John Collins. In addition to a charge
of first-degree robbery, Doty may also face
additional federal bank robbery charges and
a charge of attempted murder in connection
with trying to run over an OSP trooper.
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 July 27, 1996, terror
struck the Atlanta Olympics
as a pipe bomb exploded at
Centennial Olympic Park,
directly killing one person
and injuring 111. (Anti-gov-
ernment extremist Eric
Rudolph later pleaded guilty
to the bombing, exonerat-
ing security guard Rich-
ard Jewell, who had been
wrongly suspected.)
In 1866, Cyrus W. Field
finished laying out the first
successful underwater tele-
graph cable between North
America and Europe (a previ-
ous cable in 1858 burned out
after only a few weeks’ use).
In 1909, during the
first official test of the U.S.
Army’s first airplane, Orville
Wright flew himself and a
passenger, Lt. Frank Lahm,
above Fort Myer, Virginia,
for one hour and 12 minutes.
In 1919, race-related riot-
ing erupted in Chicago; the
violence, which claimed the
lives of 23 Blacks and 15
whites, lasted until Aug. 3.
In 1921, Ca nad ia n
researcher Frederick Banting
and his assistant, Charles
Best, succeeded in isolating
the hormone insulin at the
University of Toronto.
In 1953, the Korean War
armistice was signed at
Panmunjom, ending three
years of fighting.
In 1960, Vice Presi-
dent Richard M. Nixon was
nominated for president on
the first ballot at the Repub-
lican National Convention in
Chicago.
In 1967, President Lyndon
B. Johnson appointed the
Kerner Commission to assess
the causes of urban rioting,
the same day Black militant
H. Rap Brown told a press
conference in Washington
that violence was “as Ameri-
can as cherry pie.”
In 1974, the House Judi-
ciary Committee voted 27-11
to adopt the first of three arti-
cles of impeachment against
President Richard Nixon,
charging he had person-
ally engaged in a course of
conduct designed to obstruct
justice in the Watergate case.
In 1980, on day 267 of the
Iranian hostage crisis, the
deposed Shah of Iran died at
a military hospital outside
Cairo, Egypt, at age 60.
In 1981, 6 -year-old
Adam Walsh was abducted
from a department store in
Hollywood, Fla., and was
later murdered. (His father,
John Walsh, became a well-
known crime victims’ advo-
cate.)
In 1995, the Korean War
Veterans Memorial was
dedicated in Washington by
President Bill Clinton and
South Korean President Kim
Young-sam.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE