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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, August 19, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Beau’s female friend send a
‘hands-off’ signal to his paramour
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: I have been seeing
gifts. I am unsure whether I should
plan a shower for her now. I don’t
a wonderful man for seven months
and spend every weekend with
want to offend her by not doing so.
Everyone in our circle is fully vacci-
him. We live 45 miles apart, but
it works for us. He has a group of
nated for COVID so that would not
friends, five ladies, that he spends
be a concern. Please advise. —
Well-Meaning in New Mexico
a lot of time with. He dated one of
them for a year before he broke it
Dear Well-Meaning: Your
off, but they remain friends. I have
daughter’s behavior is rude, insen-
Jeanne
met the group and, while they
sitive and ungrateful. You are under
Phillips
no obligation to give her another
act friendly, I get a proprietary
ADVICE
vibe from them. It makes me feel
baby shower. If she approaches you
extremely uncomfortable around
for another one, suggest she ask
them and I have told him so. Am I
some of her friends to give her the
looking for trouble where there isn’t any?
“shower of her dreams.”
Should I just ignore the fact that his friends
P.S. This is just an FYI, but if you care
are women? He has men friends, too, but
about the rules of etiquette, it is considered
it’s the girls he is closer to. — Threatened
a breach for a mother to throw her daughter
in Arizona
a shower. You have already done more than
Dear Threatened: Some men relate
enough for her.
Dear Abby: Why, in social situations,
better to women than they do to men —
which may be why your gentleman friend
do women with long hair feel the need to
is closer to these women than to his male
constantly change their hairstyle from an
friends. They may be emitting a “propri-
updo to letting it fall to their shoulders and
etary vibe” because they feel threatened
vice versa? This lets hair — and dander —
and fear you will steal him away.
fly around, and it’s especially offensive at
I don’t know where this relationship is
the dinner table. It’s like bringing in a collie
headed, and neither do you at this point. So
and having it shake all over three or four
for now, ignore the “vibes.” Be warm and
times. We have noticed this especially in
friendly to the women and concentrate on
middle-aged women. Does anyone else find
what you have going with him. And please,
this offensive? My neighbor thinks they are
write me again in six months so I and my
trying to draw attention to themselves. —
readers know what happens.
Hairy Situation in Washington
Dear Abby: My daughter is expecting
Dear Hairy Situation: This is a habit I
her second child. I threw a baby shower for
have observed among women of every age.
her when she was expecting her first and she
Switching from an updo to down and vice
complained that it “felt cheap” and wasn’t
versa could also be temperature-related.
the celebration she envisioned. I was deeply
(Could the middle-aged women be meno-
hurt, but the shower was for her, and I did
pausal?) It may also be a nervous habit. But
not want to focus on my feelings. I apol-
in most cases, I agree with your neighbor. It
ogized and tried to make it up with extra
screams “Look at me!”
DAYS GONE BY FROM THE EAST OREGONIAN
100 Years Ago
Aug. 19, 1921
Fred Patterson, alias Pat Anderson and
also known as Andy Anderson, was arrested
about daylight this morning on a charge of
complicity in the murder of Matt Jepson, aged
rancher whose body was found in a well last
Saturday on his ranch 16 miles east of Milton.
The arrest of Patterson was made by Sheriff
Houser, who with Deputy E.B.F. Ridgeway
and A. Van Orsdale, a Walla Walla officer,
comprised a posse that had sought the man for
many hours. Patterson was arrested at Glass-
by’s mill, 25 miles southeast of Walla Walla.
In the search for Patterson the officers made
use of three automobiles and the bloodhounds
from the Walla Walla penitentiary.
50 Years Ago
Aug. 19, 1971
John M. McElligott, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles McElligott, Pendleton, was promoted
to captain at the Army Primary Helicopter
School, where he is assigned as a check pilot
with Flight Evaluation. McElligott came to
Ft. Wolters in September 1969 from Viet-
nam where he served with the 101st Airborne
Division as a helicopter pilot. His decorations
include the Bronze Star Medal, 19 awards of
the Air Medal (each medal signifies a mini-
mum 25 missions flown over hostile terri-
tory) and the Army Commendation Medal.
The 22-year-old infantry officer and Army
aviator, a 1966 graduate of Ione High School,
entered the Army in June 1967. He and his
wife, Cherry, and daughter, Stephanie, reside
in Mineral Wells, Texas.
25 Years Ago
Aug. 19, 1996
A newly formed 4-H club out of Pilot Rock
struck it big at the Umatilla County Fair, but
not without plenty of hard work and a streak
of good luck. The 4-H members, who came
together in November 1995, showed up at
this year’s fair with their sheep, ready as they
were going to be, and no idea of what was
about to happen. To their surprise, eight of the
nine members placed in the top 15 and 4-H
member Eric Howard walked away with the
champion market lamb and Rena Christensen
won the reserve champion market lamb.
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 August 19, 1934,
a plebiscite in Germany
approved the vesting of sole
executive power in Adolf
Hitler.
In 1807, Robert Fulton’s
North River Steamboat
arrived in Albany, two days
after leaving New York.
In 1812, the USS Consti-
tution defeated the British
frigate HMS Guerriere off
Nova Scotia during the War
of 1812, earning the nick-
name “Old Ironsides.”
In 1814, during the
War of 1812, British forces
landed at Benedict, Mary-
land, with the objective of
capturing Washington D.C.
In 1848, the New York
Herald reported the discov-
ery of gold in California.
In 1909, the first auto-
mobile races were run at
the just-opened Indianap-
olis Motor Speedway; the
winner of the first event was
auto engineer Louis Schwit-
zer, who drove a Stod-
dard-Dayton touring car
twice around the 2.5-mile
track at an average speed of
57.4 mph.
In 1942, during World
War II, about 6,000 Cana-
dian and British soldiers
launched a disastrous raid
against the Germans at
Dieppe, France, suffering
more than 50% casualties.
In 1955, torrential rains
caused by Hurricane Diane
resulted in severe flooding
in the northeastern U.S.,
claiming some 200 lives.
In 1960, a tribunal in
Moscow convicted Amer-
ican U2 pilot Francis Gary
Power s of espionage.
(Although sentenced to
10 years’ imprisonment,
Powers was returned to the
United States in 1962 as part
of a prisoner exchange.)
In 1974, U.S. Ambassa-
dor Rodger P. Davies was
fatally wounded by a bullet
that penetrated the Amer-
ican embassy in Nicosia,
Cyprus, during a protest by
Greek Cypriots.
In 1980, 301 people
aboard a Saudi Arabian
L-1011 died as the jetliner
made a fiery emergency
return to the Riyadh airport.
In 1991, rioting erupted
in the Brooklyn, New York,
Crown Heights neighbor-
hood after a Black 7-year-
old, Gavin Cato, was struck
and killed by a Jewish driver
from the ultra-Orthodox
Lubavitch community; three
hours later, a mob of Black
youth fatally stabbed Yankel
Rosenbaum, a rabbinical
student.
In 2010, the last Amer-
ican combat brigade exited
Iraq, seven years and five
months after the U.S.-led
invasion began.
Today’s Bi r thdays:
Actor L.Q. Jones is 94.
Actor Debra Paget is 88.
USTA Eastern Tennis Hall
of Famer Renee Richards is
87. Former MLB All-Star
Bobby Richardson is 86.
Actor Diana Muldaur is 83.
Actor Jill St. John is 81.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE