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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Stepfather wants more
respect from daughters
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
some things I regret. What are
Dear Abby: I’ve been the
your thoughts on my revamping
stepfather of two girls for 18
and re-submitting another ver-
years. They are 22 and 24 now.
sion to the area newspaper his
My wife and her ex-husband ad-
obituary appeared in? — Redo
opted them at birth. When they
In The East
were 2 and 4, he had an affair
Dear Redo: Please accept my
and left them.
sympathy for your loss. Con-
Why do these two girls look
J EANNE
tact the newspaper and ask that
at HIM as their dad when I have
P
HILLIPS
question. I have seen “In Memo-
been the one who has always
ADVICE
riam” items published long after
been here for them? They have
the deceased has been buried. If
never shown me much respect,
you feel it would comfort you, it
yet the man who adopted them
and then left them and their mother for couldn’t hurt to ask.
Dear Abby: My sister’s job requires
another family they regard as their dad
and respect him. — Hurt And Frustrated her to make presentations to profession-
Dear Hurt: You have my sympathy. al groups. When she used the word “ir-
This may have happened because their regardless” in a conversation with me, I
mother never explained to them that the told her the correct word is “regardless.”
person who left them failed to fulfill the I genuinely did not want her to embar-
father role he had promised, and the man rass herself in a professional setting.
Yesterday, she used the word “irre-
who raised them — you — IS their dad.
She also failed to insist they treat you gardless” again when we were talking.
with the respect you deserved. If there is Should I correct her again, or let it go?
blame to be laid, I blame her for this, not This situation is complicated by the fact
that I have asked her to stop constantly
them.
Dear Abby: I am writing regarding correcting me, although her corrections
my husband’s obituary. He died sudden- don’t usually involve grammar or word
ly a year ago. Because of shock, anxi- usage. — Unsure In Florida
Dear Unsure: You told your sister
ety and pressure to get his obit into the
newspaper before the weekend, I rushed once that the word she used was incor-
it. I had never written an obituary before. rect. In light of your history with her, if
My dear sister-in-law helped me, and we you repeat it, she may think you are try-
finally finished it at 4 a.m. Since then, I ing to one-up her and resent it.
P.S. Many people make this mistake,
have been unhappy and uncomfortable
with it. It wasn’t thorough or personal or so hold a good thought. Perhaps the au-
loving. It was “just the facts,” and I have dience she’s making the presentation to
always wanted to redo it. I also included won’t notice.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago — 1922
GARFIELD
BY JIM DAVIS
An effort is being made by the county court
to get a contractor to take the contract for build-
ing the rest of the Old Oregon Trail highway at
the figures of the original estimate, according
to a statement of County Judge I. M. Schan-
nep today. This is held to be the one chance to
effect the construction of the gap which now
exists in the highway between Dead Man’s
Pass and the Union county line as a result of
the refusal of the state highway commission to
accept bids offered recently at Portland. The
Warren Construction Co. was low bidder, but
the bid was more than the engineer’s estimate.
A request was made of the highway commis-
sion that the Oregon-Washington highway be
extended another four miles beyond present
plans from Pilot Rock. This would make it
possible for Vinson to be reached this year by
a good road, according to Judge Schannep.
50 years ago — 1972
BLONDIE
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
Pendleton Woolen Mills has begun a new
service: trucks moving between its Portland
shipping facility and the company’s Omaha,
Neb., and Harrisburg, Pa., distribution centers.
Included in the schedule are stops at Pend-
leton, when needed. The 40-foot rigs carry
supplies for Pendleton’s mills and factories
and prepacked sportswear and blankets for
retailers across the country. Each of the trucks
is a “mobile billboard,” carrying the compa-
ny’s blue and gold label on both sides and the
rear door of the trailer as well as the Pendleton
name on the cab and tractor. It is estimated that
up to 600,000 people will see the trucks each
week, or over 30 million impressions a year.
25 years ago — 1997
An inch of rain in 30 minutes nearly
consumed John and Lea Van Houten’s home.
Thick, sticky mud made its way across fields
into their modest home, which sits a half a
mile north of Pilot Rock on Highway 395.
Rising water lifted the slate blue home from
its foundation and gushed through its walls.
Neighbors, friends and family members
converged on the mud-coated house within
the hour. Pick-up trucks, a horse trailer and
back hoe were all instrumental in the effort to
recover the Van Houten’s belongings. Three
of the Van Houten’s pets were missing. Taffy,
the goat, found her way into a floating dog
house. Skittles the puppy was found across
the highway and Scamper the puppy was
discovered in the lawn mower shed.
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 June 7, 1965,
the U.S. Supreme Court,
in Griswold v. Connecti-
cut, struck down, 7-2, a
Connecticut law used to
prosecute a Planned Par-
enthood clinic in New
Haven for providing con-
traceptives to married
couples.
In 1712, Pennsylvania’s
colonial assembly voted
to ban the further impor-
tation of slaves.
In 1776, Richard Hen-
ry Lee of Virginia offered
a resolution to the Con-
tinental Congress stat-
ing “That these United
Colonies are, and of right
ought to be, free and inde-
pendent States.”
In 1892, Homer Plessy,
a “Creole of color,” was
arrested for refusing to
leave a whites-only car of
the East Louisiana Rail-
road. (Ruling on his case,
the U.S. Supreme Court
upheld “separate but
equal” racial segregation,
a concept it renounced in
1954.)
In 1942, the Battle
of Midway ended in a
decisive victory for Amer-
ican naval forces over
Imperial Japan, marking
a turning point in the Pa-
cific War.
In 1993, the U.S. Su-
preme Court ruled that
religious groups could
sometimes meet on school
property after hours.
Ground was broken for
the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame in Cleveland.
In 1998, in a crime that
shocked the nation, James
Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old
Black man, was hooked
by a chain to a pickup
truck and dragged to his
death in Jasper, Texas.
(Two white men were later
sentenced to death; one
of them, Lawrence Rus-
sell Brewer, was executed
in 2011 and the other,
John William King, was
executed in April 2019. A
third defendant received
life with the possibility of
parole.)
In 2016, Democrat
Hillary Clinton and Re-
publican Donald Trump
claimed their parties’
presidential nominations
following contests in New
Jersey, California, Mon-
tana, New Mexico, North
Dakota and South Da-
kota.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE