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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Teenager wants to join
parents on trip abroad
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
are milestone birthdays such as
Dear Abby: I’m a senior in
the one that’s approaching for
high school, and I come from a
your dad. Your mother should
family that is financially stable
be forgiven for ensuring it will
but unable to travel often. We
be “extra special.” If you feel
usually travel only once a year
an itch to travel, if you don’t
in the summer, and for the most
already have one, consider get-
part, we’re not able to travel very
ting a part-time job so you can
far or stay for long.
J EANNE
afford a getaway with friends or
For the past three years, our
P HILLIPS
a student or church group.
vacation plans have been on
ADVICE
Dear Abby: My adult son
hold due to the pandemic and
got so furious with me that he
other concerns. My parents
called me, yelled vicious things
have been on two trips across
the country in the past 12 months. I ac- and threatened to cut me out of his life.
cept that they’re a married couple and I’ve never been spoken to that way be-
occasionally want to travel without the fore.
What made him so angry was that
rest of their family. However, recently it
came to my attention that Mom bought I didn’t thank his mother-in-law for an
two tickets to Europe for her and Dad as email she sent wishing me happy birth-
a birthday gift. She used the money she day. I had received 30 email birthday
had been saving for a family vacation to wishes that day and didn’t acknowledge
any of them. I would have thanked some-
pay for them.
I feel betrayed. I was under the impres- one who’d gone to the trouble of calling
sion that we couldn’t afford a vacation at or sending an actual card. I don’t think
this time, or that we were still waiting for I behaved improperly, but maybe there’s
the chaos of the pandemic to settle be- some rule that slipped by me. Your
fore traveling, but my mother was happy thoughts? — Unhappy Birthday In Texas
Dear Unhappy: The polite way to
to spend the money on a vacation for her
deal with email special occasion wishes
and Dad.
My dad is turning 50, and I under- is to either acknowledge them individu-
stand it’s a very special occasion. Howev- ally or do an email “blast” thanking
er, I can’t help but wonder why I haven’t everyone for remembering you. To have
received so much as a dinner after being remained stone silent was ungracious.
accepted into my top college and earning HOWEVER, for your son to have gone
two scholarships. Am I overreacting? — off the deep end, yelled “vicious things”
and threatened to cut you out of his life
Wanting A Getaway In New York
Dear Wanting: While family vaca- was uncalled for, and whether or not you
tions are wonderful and memorable, so receive one, you deserve an apology.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago — 1922
GARFIELD
BY JIM DAVIS
Wanted — a buckaroo who can ride Look-
out, the r’aring horse out Ukiah way! This is
the appeal and the challenge which has been
sent out to the men who tame wild horses by
boosters of the Cowboys’ Convention which
will be held at Ukiah July 3 and 4. Lookout
is touted as a second No-name by the south-
ern end horse lovers and they are so strong
for the merits of their “find” that they would
welcome an opportunity to see the two horses
in competition. Lookout is a native to the south
end of the county and as long as he has an even
chance he has always succeeded in getting out
from under the best riders that have tried to
tame him. He has been ridden a time or two,
but only after the riders took advantage of him.
He was ridden once in a deep snow when it
was impossible for him to get into action.
50 years ago — 1972
BLONDIE
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
Central Elementary School has been
involved this year in a Title I program called
CRAFTS which is designed to improve
reading skills of pupils. CRAFTS means
“Creative Resources Assembled For Teach-
ing Students,” said Lou Morello, principal of
the Milton-Freewater school. “Using crafts
as a catalyst,” Morello said, “the student is
forced to improve his reading. He has to make
out a job sheet, read instructions and labels on
the materials, write and verbalize — in other
words, he develops his basic skills.” More than
100 children choose their own projects, such
as woodworking, macrame or bottle cutting.
25 years ago — 1997
Farmers and ranchers in this area have long
understood the nuisance of yellow starthistle,
a noxious plant that spreads quickly on farm
and ranch land. Now they have a new weapon
to combat the pesky weed: sheep — and lots of
them. The sheep recently proved their ability
to clear infestations of the thistle at the East-
ern Oregon Regional Airport in Pendleton.
Ron Edmondson, airport operations super-
visor, said 400 head of sheep were brought in
to munch star thistle on 640 acres of airport
property. In six weeks the sheep scoured the
acreage and nipped the noxious plant to the
ground. Although the sheep eat the thistle,
they do not completely destroy the plants. In
the fall, the sheep will be brought back. Using
the sheep to control the thistle is saving thou-
sands of dollars, said Edmondson. In the last
few years, his budget to combat the plant has
skyrocketed from $800 to $8,500 due to the
cost of using aerial spray planes.
TODAY IN HISTORY
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY PARKER AND HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
On May 31, 1889,
some 2,200 people in
Johnstown, Pennsylvania,
perished when the South
Fork Dam collapsed,
sending 20 million tons of
water rushing through the
town.
In 1790, President
George
Washington
signed into law the first
U.S. copyright act.
In 1921, a riot erupted
in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as
white mobs began looting
and leveling the affluent
Black district of Green-
wood; hundreds are be-
lieved to have died.
In 1949, former State
Department official and
accused spy Alger Hiss
went on trial in New York,
charged with perjury (the
jury deadlocked, but Hiss
was convicted in a second
trial).
In 1977, the Trans-
Alaska oil pipeline, three
years in the making de-
spite objections from envi-
ronmentalists and Alaska
Natives, was completed.
(The first oil began flow-
ing through the pipeline
20 days later.)
In
1989,
House
Speaker Jim Wright,
dogged by questions
about his ethics, an-
nounced he would resign.
(Tom Foley later succeed-
ed him.)
In 2009, Dr. George
Tiller, a provider of abor-
tions, was shot and killed
in a Wichita, Kansas,
church. (the gunman was
later convicted of first-de-
gree murder and sentenced
to life in prison with no
possibility of parole for 50
years.) Millvina Dean, the
last survivor of the 1912
sinking of the RMS Ti-
tanic, died in Southamp-
ton, England at 97.
In 2014, Sgt. Bowe
Bergdahl, the only Ameri-
can soldier held prisoner
in Afghanistan, was freed
by the Taliban in exchange
for five Afghan detainees
from the U.S. prison at
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
(Bergdahl, who’d gone
missing in June 2009, later
pleaded guilty to endan-
gering his comrades by
walking away from his
post in Afghanistan; his
sentence included a dis-
honorable discharge, a re-
duction in rank and a fine,
but no prison time.)
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE