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Thursday, August 26, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Mom plants thick roots
in married son’s home
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: Ten years ago,
intolerable, nothing will change.
Dear Abby: I recently had to say
my friend “Maureen” suffered a
breakup that emotionally and finan-
goodbye to my precious dog, Wendy
cially devastated her and moved in
Darling. She was a sweet old girl
with bad kidneys and severe joint
with her son and his young family.
Since then, she has recovered in
pain. During the last few weeks of
both areas.
her life, she could barely eat, and
Maureen inserts herself into
not at all in the last days. I know
Jeanne
every aspect of their lives — vaca-
in my head that ending her suffer-
Phillips
tions, entertaining, etc. When they
ing was the right thing to do. I have
ADVICE
go out to eat, she always joins them.
supported friends and family who
Her daughter-in-law, “Eve,” has
helped their pets this way.
routinely given her hints that it’s
It’s my heart that is having trou-
time to move on. Maureen then goes to her
ble. I keep thinking that I didn’t have the
son and tells him what Eve said, and it causes
right to make that decision; that life is too
problems in their marriage. After dinner
precious to deliberately steal even a single
each night, Eve goes into her room, closes
day. While her body was declining, her mind
the door and stays there.
and spirit danced, and she looked at me with
Maureen is capable of living on her
complete trust. I miss her so much and find
own, but she said she might get lonely and
myself crying throughout the day. Can you
that’s why she won’t leave. The grandkids
tell me how to reconcile my head and my
are pretty much grown now, and there’s no
heart? I have this huge weight on my chest
need for Maureen to stay. Her friends have
and more than a little bit of guilt. — Missing
been encouraging her to make a life of her
Wendy in Oregon
own. Eve and her husband plan to move out
Dear Missing Wendy: Please accept
of state in 10 years, and Maureen plans on
my sympathy for the loss of your precious
moving with them. I think she is putting her
canine companion. You gave Wendy Darling
son’s marriage at risk for her own selfish
a wonderful life, filled with love. Dogs were
reason. Maureen isn’t old and infirm. She
meant to run and play, to love and be loved,
could possibly meet a nice gentleman if she
not to suffer. I am sure you miss her, but
moved out. All her friends have suggested
please stop beating yourself up for making
this. What are your thoughts? — Bystander
a rational decision about what was best for
in Florida
her. If your grief continues to overwhelm
Dear Bystander: If Maureen were unwell
you, talk with your veterinarian about join-
or destitute, the situation would be differ-
ing a grief support group. I am sure he or she
ent. She is neither. My thoughts are that until
will reassure you. Your loss is recent. That
Eve is angry enough to assert herself and tell
you are emotional is understandable. Try to
her husband the current living conditions are
remember that tears are healing.
DAYS GONE BY FROM THE EAST OREGONIAN
100 Years Ago
Aug. 26, 1921
Jesse Brunn, or Jesse
Roberts as he is better
known, was exonerated from
all blame for shooting Louis
Ragains early last Sunday
morning at Wright’s cabin
in the mountains near Star-
key Prairie by the coroner’s
jury in the verdict brought in
this morning at the conclu-
sion of the testimony in the
inquest. The verdict finds
that “Louis Ragains came
to his death as the result of a
gunshot wound, the said shot
being fired by Jesse Roberts,
or Brunn, and we further find
that the said shot was so fired
by the said Jesse Roberts
or Brunn in self-defense.”
After hearing the testimony
of James Roach and Joseph
Cunha Jr., who were the only
witnesses examined this
morning, it required only a
few minutes for the jury to
draw up the verdict.
50 Years Ago
Aug. 26, 1971
Quick action by an older
sister may well have saved
the life of a Pendleton girl.
Linda Kay Brown, 13, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Char-
ley Brown, was cooking
breakfast Monday morning
when her blouse caught fire.
Linda’s 18-year-old stepsis-
ter, Joy, ripped off Linda’s
clothes and squelched the
fire, according to Brown.
Linda is recovering well
from first, second and third
degree burns. Mr. Brown
said she is doing well and is
in good spirits but will proba-
bly be in Pendleton Commu-
nity Hospital at least through
the week. Joy received minor
burns herself. While she was
putting out the fire, another
sister, 18-year-old Donna,
was calling Brown. He and
Mrs. Brown had already left
for work at Charley Brown
Rentals, which they own.
25 Years Ago
Aug. 26, 1996
The King rules Richard
Cunningham’s living room.
He’s on the wall croon-
ing, back hair slicked into a
pompadour. On another wall
he’s gyrating on stage in a
white jump suit. “There’s
stuff on my wall and every
place,” said Cunningham, 53,
of the Elvis Presley collec-
tion that’s grown to fill every
corner of his living quarters
at Oregon Trail Manor since
the early 1970s. Cunning-
ham’s collection has been
helped along by his single-
minded passion for support-
ing cerebral palsy. For close
to 15 years he’s helped attract
thousands of dollars in dona-
tions and put on an auction
for the birth defect caused by
a brain disorder that affects
motor skills and speech.
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 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment
to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing Amer-
ican women’s right to vote, was certified in
effect by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby.
In 1817, the University of Michigan was
founded.
In 1883, the island volcano Krakatoa
began cataclysmic eruptions, leading to a
massive explosion the following day.
In 1939, the first televised major league
baseball games were shown on experimental
station W2XBS: a double-header between the
Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at
Ebbets Field. (The Reds won the first game,
5-2, the Dodgers the second, 6-1.)
In 1944, French Gen. Charles de Gaulle
braved the threat of German snipers as he led
a victory march in Paris, which had just been
liberated by the Allies from Nazi occupation.
In 1957, the Soviet Union announced it
had successfully tested an intercontinental
ballistic missile.
In 1968, the Democratic National Conven-
tion opened in Chicago; the four-day event
that resulted in the nomination of Hubert H.
Humphrey for president was marked by a
bloody police crackdown on antiwar protest-
ers in the streets.
In 1972, the summer Olympics opened in
Munich, West Germany.
In 1985, 13-year-old AIDS patient Ryan
White began “attending” classes at Western
Middle School in Kokomo, Indiana, via a tele-
phone hook-up at his home — school officials
had barred Ryan from attending classes in
person.
In 2018, a gunman opened fire on fellow
gamers at a video game tournament in Jack-
sonville, Fla., killing two men and wounding
10 others before taking his own life. Play-
wright Neil Simon, whose comedies included
“The Odd Couple” and “Barefoot in the Park,”
died at the age of 91.
Today’s Birthdays: Pop singer Vic Dana
is 81. Former Homeland Security Secre-
tary Tom Ridge is 76. R&B singer Valerie
Simpson is 76. Pop singer Bob Cowsill is
72. Broadcast journalist Bill Whitaker is 70.
Actor Brett Cullen is 65. Former NBA coach
Stan Van Gundy is 62. Jazz musician Bran-
ford Marsalis is 61. Country musician Jimmy
Olander (Diamond Rio) is 60.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE