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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, June 30, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Husband manipulates
family living in shelter
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
untarily, his wages can be gar-
Dear Abby: I am the mother
nished. While you’re at it, reach
of two small children. I have
out to the National Domestic
separated from their verbally
Violence Hotline (800-799-
abusive, alcoholic father. I re-
7233) because they may have
turned to my grandmother, who
useful suggestions about how to
raised me, and tried to get a job.
rid yourself of your abusive, al-
I couldn’t find one quickly and
coholic husband.
my uncles made me move out.
J EANNE
Dear Abby: Our only son has
I currently live in a women’s
P HILLIPS
moved 2,000 miles away and
shelter with my children, and I
ADVICE
has no contact with his sisters
finally got a job. My problem is
or me. I know his street address
my husband still acts like we are
and still have his email address
getting back together. I want a
divorce, but he won’t talk about it, and and phone number. About 10 years ago,
threatens not to send money to support when I was separated from his father, we
were both expressing our angst, and I
me and the children.
He keeps telling me how much money more than likely negated his feelings in
he makes now and that he can get us a an email. I ran across it the other day,
nice place where he is, or he can come and now realize that it may have caused
stay a whole week with us when he’s off. the rift.
Should I bring that up in an apology
I don’t want him to come stay with us.
When I tell him this, he gets angry and now, hoping he will accept my most sin-
hangs up, but then calls back the next cere acknowledgment that I ignored his
day to say the same thing. I can’t get him pain? If so, what do I say? I am heart-
to understand that I don’t want to be broken and cannot sleep well with this
with him anymore, and I’m tired of his hanging over my head. — Heartbroken
abuse. He won’t admit he has a problem. Mom In Texas
Dear Mom: Write your son and tell
Any advice? — Done For Good
Dear Done: Your husband persists the him you are trying to understand what
way he has been because he’s trying to has caused the rift between you. Explain
wear you down to the point that you will that you have been going over things in
reunite with him. Perhaps you should ac- your mind and found the email from so
cept fewer of those phone calls. If there long ago. Tell him that if this is what
are social workers connected to the shel- caused it, you sincerely apologize, but
ter you’re staying in, consult them about that you were both going through a dif-
ficult time when the email was written,
your predicament.
Your husband cannot shirk paying that you love him and hope he will for-
child support. If he doesn’t do it vol- give you if it caused him pain.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago — 1922
GARFIELD
BY JIM DAVIS
The Thomas Shop, one of the niftiest ladies
ready-to-wear stores in the state of Oregon,
has changed hands, according to an announce-
ment made today. The store has been sold by
its chief owner, W. H. Thomas of Portland
to C. E. Hopf, proprietor of Hopf’s Upstairs
Shop. The deal will mean the elimination of
one of Pendleton’s stores, Mr. Hopf states.
Both stores will be closed tomorrow and the
stock of garments from the upstairs shop will
be merged with the stock of the first floor store.
Then a special sale will start Wednesday. The
Campbell millinery shop owned by Mr. Rose
Campbell and Mrs. Bertha Turner, will retain
its present floor space in the Thomas Shop.
50 years ago — 1972
BLONDIE
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
The Kiddie Korner drop-in day care center
at Hawthorne Court in Pendleton closed today
after receiving little use during its three weeks
of operation. Created to serve the needs of
parents who need a baby-sitter in the spur of
the moment, the drop-in center opened under
the supervision of the Blue Mountain Coordi-
nated Community Child Care Council (4-C).
Parents took advantage of the service only
seven times. Karen Gronquist, director of the
drop-in center, said that people may have had
a hard time finding the center. It was located
among the 4-C council and school district
administration offices and other buildings in
the Hawthorne area. Lois Wilson, director of
the 4-C council, said last week that part of the
reason for the lack of use of the center was the
cost. The cost was originally 50 cents per hour
per child, but was reduced to 25 cents if more
than one child was left by a parent.
25 years ago — 1997
The economic impacts of The Eastern
Oregon Regional Airport at Pendleton are
far and wide, according to a recently released
study. The Oregon Department of Trans-
portation’s study, based on data from 1995,
shows EORA contributes $29 million to the
local community. The study combines the
economic impact of direct and secondary
employment at airports, annual spending by
airport tenants and spending associated with
visitors traveling through airports. The docu-
ment provides beneficial information for the
airport. “We’ll use it in economic develop-
ing packages,” said Larry Dalrymple, airport
manager. EORA employs 197 people directly
and 210 in secondary jobs and carries a payroll
of $8,003,100, according to the study.
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 30, 1982, the
proposed Equal Rights
Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution expired, hav-
ing failed to receive the
required number of rati-
fications for its adoption,
despite having its seven-
year deadline extended by
three years.
In 1918, labor activ-
ist and socialist Eugene
V. Debs was arrested in
Cleveland, charged under
the Espionage Act of 1917
for a speech he’d made two
weeks earlier denouncing
U.S. involvement in World
War I.
In 1921, President
Warren G. Harding nomi-
nated former President
William Howard Taft
to be chief justice of the
United States, succeeding
the late Edward Douglass
White.
In 1971, the Supreme
Court ruled, 6-3, that the
government could not
prevent The New York
Times or The Washington
Post from publishing the
Pentagon Papers. A So-
viet space mission ended
in tragedy when three cos-
monauts aboard Soyuz
11 were found dead of
asphyxiation inside their
capsule after it had re-
turned to Earth.
In 1986, the Supreme
Court, in Bowers v. Hard-
wick, ruled 5-4 that states
could outlaw homosexual
acts between consenting
adults (however, the na-
tion’s highest court re-
versed this decision in 2003
in Lawrence v. Texas).
In 1994, the U.S. Fig-
ure Skating Association
stripped Tonya Harding
of the national champion-
ship and banned her for
life for her role in the at-
tack on rival Nancy Ker-
rigan.
In 2009, American
soldier Pfc. Bowe R. Berg-
dahl went missing from
his base in eastern Af-
ghanistan, and was later
confirmed to have been
captured by insurgents
after walking away from
his post. (Bergdahl was
released on May 31, 2014
in exchange for five Tali-
ban detainees; he pleaded
guilty to desertion and
misbehavior before the
enemy, but was spared a
prison sentence by a mili-
tary judge.)
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE