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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, July 29, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
New living arrangement
includes a proposition
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: Six months into
sition has already made things weird,
but let it go — for now. I doubt this
the pandemic I was furloughed,
is something Josie is “too chicken”
then laid off a few months later.
to ask you. If he raises the subject
Because of the loss of income, I
could no longer afford my rent and
again, make it plain that you are not
was forced to move. It was tough
into threesomes and not to ask again.
finding anything affordable in the
If he presses further, inform your old
area. A good friend from college
college chum, pack your bags and go
(“Josie”) and her husband own a big
to your parents’.
Jeanne
Phillips
home with a detached guest house,
Dear Abby: My husband’s
ADVICE
and offered me the opportunity to
daughter “Crystal” is married to
rent for next to nothing until I found
“Jeremy,” who is a racist. I know
a new job. I was super happy about
this because of comments he has
it because we are very close friends from
made over the past five years. At our only
college.
granddaughter’s first birthday celebration,
Josie, her husband and I often BBQ
my husband and Jeremy got into a heated
together and hang out watching movies. One
argument (a little politics, a little racism).
night recently, Josie had to work late, and her
Since we live out of state, we were supposed
husband and I had dinner and wine. We got
to stay with them, but we had to leave. Jeremy
started screaming at my husband, calling him
pretty drunk, and I decided to turn in early.
a pedophile and some other awful names.
Before I went to bed, Josie’s husband asked
me to have a threesome. He said Josie was
Crystal is demanding an apology from us
going to ask me, but she was nervous about
and refuses to communicate or send photos of
the baby until he does. My husband feels that
it, so she chickened out. I think my jaw must
have hit the ground. I didn’t know what to say,
Crystal’s mind is made up and she will defend
so I told him I’d “think about it.”
her husband no matter what, so there’s no
A week has passed and Josie hasn’t
point. I hate that we’re at an impasse. She has
cut me off as well. Do you have any sugges-
mentioned anything about the threesome,
but I’m scared to bring it up. I don’t know if
tions? — Cut Off in the South
Dear Cut Off: Crystal, whose views on
her husband was telling the truth. They may
race seem to coincide with her husband’s, has
want a threesome, but I’m not into it. If I say
you sidelined already. When your husband
“no” it might make things weird between us.
What should I do? Should I ask Josie about it,
craves contact with his daughter and his
or move out back home with my parents until
grandchild, he will hold his nose, reach out
I find a new job? — Not What I Bargained
and offer to mend fences. Until that happens,
listen to what he is telling you and stay out
For
Dear Not: The husband’s drunken propo-
of this mess.
DAYS GONE BY
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BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
July 29, 1921
Besides being the oldest town in Umatilla
County, Umatilla has another distinction
that belongs here, and no sister town in the
broad expanse of the county can take it away
from her or hope to compete with her. This
distinction is the best bathing beach in the
Northwest. Only recently has the beach been
capitalized for what it is worth, but now it is
growing so rapidly in popularity that it prom-
ises to become one of the best places in the
county to spend a pleasant holiday. The beach
is not a long one, but it is sand, and the slope
is gradual, and those two conditions are very
necessary. Then the business men here have
helped Mother Nature by anchoring a heavy
scow just off the beach. There is a swing
suspended from the top of the scow, and two
springboards for those who enjoy diving.
50 Years Ago
July 29, 1971
The 100,000-acre Boardman Industrial
Park under lease to the Boeing Co. has several
plus factors that would be required for its use
as a space shuttle base, but a major minus on
the site is its northern location comparison
to other sites. On this score, sites closer to
the equator would have an advantage, it was
pointed out by a National Aeronautics and
Space Administration team here Wednes-
day. Four of the six-member site inspection
team from NASA and the Air Force spoke
to Morrow County public officials and staff
members of the Oregon Economic Develop-
ment Division. It was significant in the Board-
man meeting that the only visible “pitch”
made to bring the space shuttle base to Board-
man came from Gov. Tom McCall’s office and
the economic development division.
25 Years Ago
July 29, 1996
It’s back home. After 86 years in Port-
land, a basalt boulder that may be as many
as 15,000 years old has been returned to the
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian
Reservation. A 60-ton crane from Shockman
Brothers of Hermiston was used to place the
10-ton rock in its final resting place Saturday
morning. It’s now in the center of the Warriors
Memorial adjacent to the tribal offices in
Mission. The Wallula Stone is covered with
petroglyphs. The CTUIR claimed the stone
under the 1990 federal Native American
Graves Protection and Repatriation Act,
which allows tribes to reclaim ancient arti-
facts that belonged to their ancestors. Accord-
ing to the tribal elders who examined the
petroglyph in 1916, the stone was instrumen-
tal in promoting sacred rituals and served as
a landmark for a gathering place of Columbia
River tribes.
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 29, 1958, Pres-
ident Dwight D. Eisen-
hower signed the National
Aeronautics and Space Act,
creating NASA.
I n 18 5 6 , G e r m a n
composer Robert Schumann
died in Endenich at age 46.
In 1890, artist Vincent
van Gogh, 37, died of an
apparently self-inf licted
gunshot wound in Auvers-
sur-Oise, France.
In 1914, transcontinental
telephone service in the U.S.
became operational with
the first test conversation
between New York and San
Francisco. Massachusetts’
Cape Cod Canal, offering a
shortcut across the base of
the peninsula, was officially
opened to shipping traffic.
In 1965, The Beatles’
second feature film, “Help!,”
had its world premiere in
London.
In 1967, an accidental
rocket launch on the deck of
the supercarrier USS Forr-
estal in the Gulf of Tonkin
resulted in a fire and explo-
sions that killed 134 service-
men. (Among the survivors
was future Arizona senator
John McCain, a U.S. Navy
lieutenant commander who
narrowly escaped with his
life.)
In 1968, Pope Paul the
Sixth reaffirmed the Roman
Catholic Church’s stance
against artificial methods
of birth control.
In 1974, singer Cass
Elliot died in a London hotel
room at age 32.
I n 1975, P resident
Gerald R. Ford became the
first U.S. president to visit
the site of the Nazi concen-
tration camp Auschwitz in
Poland.
In 1980, a state funeral
was held in Cairo, Egypt,
for the deposed Shah of
Iran, who had died two days
earlier at age 60.
In 1981, Britain’s Prince
Charles married Lady Diana
Spencer in a glittering cere-
mony at St. Paul’s Cathedral
in London. (The couple
divorced in 1996.)
In 1986, a federal jury
in New York found that the
National Football League
had committed an anti-
trust violation against the
rival United States Football
League. But in a hollow
victory for the USFL, the
jury ordered the NFL to
pay token damages of only
three dollars.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE