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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, July 19, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Woman fantasizes about
husband’s friend for years
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I have a huge
drome after he graduated from
crush on my husband’s friend,
high school. He was first diag-
“Shane.” I think about him dai-
nosed with ADHD when he
ly and fantasize about him every
was young, then, years later, as
night.
bipolar. Since high school, he
Abby, I have felt this way for
spends his time in his bedroom
two years. My husband and I
playing video games. He has no
have been married for seven.
social interactions and doesn’t
J EANNE
When I’m driving home from
engage much, if at all, with his
P HILLIPS
work, I fantasize about Shane
two younger brothers. He also
ADVICE
riding in the car with me. I hurry
doesn’t get along well with his
to get to town hoping I’ll see him
stepfather.
at the gas station or passing by.
My daughter, his mother, is
I’m considering contacting him on Mes- desperate for help but has been unable to
senger. I have never thought about my find it. Most programs are designed for
husband this way. Please give me some children or are too far away. Even trying
advice on what to do. — Over The Moon to find a counselor locally who special-
In Missouri
izes in Asperger’s has led to blind alleys.
Dear Over: Nowhere in your letter did
Where do we go to find help for him?
you mention whether your feelings for He’s very functional but somewhat naive
Shane are reciprocated. If you contact socially, and my daughter is fearful of
him, what exactly do you plan on tell- him falling in with the wrong crowd. He
ing him — that you love him? That you has become depressed, and after years
lust for him? Your efforts would be better of turning his nose up at getting help, he
spent trying to figure out what happened actually wants it now. What do we do?
to the excitement in your marriage rather — Seeking Help In Texas
than starting a romance with your hus-
Dear Seeking: Forcing help on a per-
band’s friend.
son who isn’t ready usually accomplishes
If you do what you have in mind and little. That your grandson is finally will-
Shane doesn’t feel the same way, it will ing to accept that he needs help is hope-
be enormously embarrassing. If he does ful. Suggest that your daughter reach
have similar feelings, your husband will out to an organization called AANE, the
be devastated. The next time you have a Asperger/Autism Network, and ask for
fantasy about Shane, I urge you to switch guidance for her son. To have questions
to another channel.
and concerns addressed and to receive
Dear Abby: My grandson is 24. He information and resources, she should
was diagnosed with Asperger’s syn- visit aane.org.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago
in the East Oregonian
GARFIELD
BY JIM DAVIS
A gradual growth in the number of tour-
ists who are seeking road information in
Pendleton has been recorded during the
past three weeks, according to Miss Mellie
Parker, who is in charge of the office
details of the work of the Oregon Tourist
and Information bureau. During the week
which closed Saturday there were persons
from 890 cars who sought information as
to the best roads to take in various direc-
tions from Pendleton. During the week
before that the number was 810, while
the week previous to that was 695 called.
These tourists are served by the service
stations and from the office of the Pendleton
Commercial Association.
50 years ago
in the East Oregonian
BLONDIE
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
How do you house 7,000 convention dele-
gates in a city the size of Pendleton? Obvi-
ously you don’t. But you house as many as
you can in the Round-Up City. Many are
housed at Hermiston and Milton-Freewa-
ter, and some at Walla Walla. Seven thou-
sand delegates from Oregon, Washington
and Idaho are expected here this week for
the “Divine Rulership” district convention
of Jehovah’s Witnesses. The convention
begins Thursday and runs through Sunday.
Five hundred will commute daily from as far
away as the Tri-Cities. Fifteen hundred will
be accommodated at the Round-Up grounds
in trailers, tents, etc.
25 years ago
in the East Oregonian
What began as puppy love has turned
into “dogs, dogs, dogs,” according to Evelyn
Larson, area coordinator of puppy raising for
Guide Dogs for the Blind. “About 21 years
ago, our youngest son raised a guide dog
puppy,” Larsen recalled. At that time, guide
dog puppy raising was strictly a 4-H project.
Now it is open to all young people (9 or older)
and adults. Larsen had to do a good amount
of attitude adjustment to make Pendleton a
good place to raise the pups. She went into
various businesses and persuaded propri-
etors to allow the puppies in their green
jackets to mix and mingle with the shop-
pers. What does a guide dog puppy raiser
do? “Basic obedience, socializing and good
house manners,” Larsen said.
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 July 19, 2005,
President George W. Bush
announced his choice
of federal appeals court
judge John G. Roberts
Jr. to replace Supreme
Court Justice Sandra Day
O’Connor. (Roberts end-
ed up succeeding Chief
Justice William H. Reh-
nquist, who died in Sept.
2005; Samuel Alito fol-
lowed O’Connor.)
In 1812, during the
War of 1812, the First
Battle of Sackets Harbor
in Lake Ontario resulted
in an American victory as
U.S. naval forces repelled
a British attack.
In 1969, Apollo 11 and
its astronauts, Neil Arm-
strong, Edwin “Buzz”
Aldrin
and
Michael
Collins, went into orbit
around the moon.
In 1975, the Apollo
and Soyuz space capsules
that were linked in orbit
for two days separated.
In 1979, the Nicara-
guan capital of Managua
fell to Sandinista guerril-
las, two days after Presi-
dent Anastasio Somoza
fled the country.
In 1980, the Moscow
Summer Olympics began,
minus dozens of nations
that were boycotting the
games because of the So-
viet military intervention
in Afghanistan.
In 1989, 111 people
were killed when United
Air Lines Flight 232, a
DC-10 which sustained
the uncontained failure
of its tail engine and the
loss of hydraulic systems,
crashed while making
an emergency landing at
Sioux City, Iowa; 185 oth-
er people survived.
In 1990, baseball’s
all-time hits leader, Pete
Rose,
was
sentenced
in Cincinnati to five
months in prison for tax
evasion.
In 1993, President Bill
Clinton announced a pol-
icy allowing homosexuals
to serve in the military un-
der a compromise dubbed
“don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t
pursue.”
In 2006, prosecutors re-
ported that Chicago police
beat, kicked, shocked or
otherwise tortured scores
of Black suspects from the
1970s to the early 1990s to
try to extract confessions
from them.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE