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A12 East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, July 21, 2022 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ Daughter’s friendship is not meant to last forever FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE B.C. PICKLES BEETLE BAILEY BY LYNN JOHNSTON BY MASTROIANNI AND HART BY BRIAN CRANE that the girls’ friendship seems Dear Abby: My 15-year-old to have run its course. daughter, “Nadia,” has been Dear Abby: My ex-husband friends with another girl, “Kel- has been incarcerated off and ly,” since they were 8. Over the on for the last several years. The years, I have had my concerns kids adore him and want noth- about Kelly because she lies. She ing more than to spend time can also be very manipulative, with him, even though I am the and she hasn’t always treated J EANNE responsible parent. Nadia well. P HILLIPS I’m glad the kids are not an- Nadia and I have had numer- ADVICE gry with him, and I’m trying to ous conversations about this be understanding about their friend over the years. Sometimes need for love and acceptance Nadia would acknowledge Kel- ly’s wrongdoings; other times she’d get from him (even though they are no lon- ger young children). However, I can’t upset and insist I was wrong. Over the years, Kelly’s mother, “Brit- help feeling anxious, angry and jealous tany,” and I became friends and, over because, in spite of his many poor choic- the last two or three, we have grown very es, they prefer spending time with him close. I allowed it to happen because I more than with me. He has always been an irresponsible thought Kelly had matured. Unfortu- nately, I was wrong. Meanwhile, Nadia parent, and it crushes them each time has been seeing more clearly what a dif- he goes back to jail. No matter what, ficult person Kelly is and is pulling away they run to his rescue whenever he needs something, be it money, transportation, from her. While I’m happy Nadia has found etc. How can I handle this in the best way healthier friendships, I am worried about for the sake of my children without caus- how this may affect my friendship with ing stress on them and our relationship? Brittany. Advice? — Mom Problem — Stable Parent In California Dear Parent: Please accept my sympa- In Massachusetts Dear Mom: STAY OUT OF IT. It’s thy. You have been forced into the role common for childhood friendships to of the authoritarian parent, while your wane. By now you should have realized husband has adopted the role of loosey- friendships cannot be forced. All it does goosey fun parent, which is how your is breed resentment. Unless Brittany rais- children still regard him. It isn’t fair, and es the subject, avoid discussing it. Cross I feel for you. But until they wise up on your fingers and hope that Kelly might their own, there’s nothing you can do not even realize Nadia is less available. about it. So try not to spend too much However, if Brittany asks, simply say time dwelling on it. Live your life. BY MORT WALKER DAYS GONE BY 100 years ago in the East Oregonian GARFIELD BY JIM DAVIS More general use of the motion picture in the schools as a means of instruction in current event, geography, astronomy, and other subjects, was urged by Earl Kilpatrick, director of the extension division, in an address before the audience largely made up of teach- ers in the summer session (in Eugene). Fields in which film can be of the greatest assistance in education ... are the tracing of movements that are too fast for the human eye; the check- ing up and recording of movements that are too slow, such as the growth of plants; the presen- tation of things that are too small, in which the camera cooperates with the microscope; and the projection of objects seen with X-rays. 50 years ago in the East Oregonian BLONDIE BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL Whitman Mission got a whopping .65 of an inch of rain Thursday and Pendleton .32, to make it the wettest spot in Oregon. Normally dry Eastern Oregon got the rain, normally wet Western Oregon got the warm temperatures. The high at Pendleton Thursday was just 67. Eugene and Salem were the warmest spots on the state with 88 while Medford and Portland each recorded 87. Meacham and Walla Walla each got .18 of an inch of rain yesterday and Hermiston got just .05. The temperate range at Hermiston was 75-57. 25 years ago in the East Oregonian Four people were injured this weekend in two separate accidents that occurred on Interstate 84 near Hermiston. Troy D. Potter, 26, of Irrigon was listed in stable condition today after he was involved in a roll-over accident Sunday morning. According to the Oregon State Police, Potter was driving west on I-84 at 4:10 a.m. Sunday in a 1997 Chevy Silverado when the vehicle drove off the north shoulder of the road and into the median near mile marker 172. The vehicle rolled and came to a stop in the eastbound passing lane. Potter was ejected from the vehicle and landed in the same lane. He was taken to Good Shepherd Community Hospi- tal with head injuries. Three more people were injured Friday afternoon when the driver of a 1990 Oldsmobile Silhouette mini- van apparently fell asleep and lost control of the vehicle. OSP officers said the accident happened on I-84 near mile marker 101. 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 21, 1925, the so-called “Monkey Trial” ended in Dayton, Tennes- see, with John T. Scopes found guilty of violat- ing state law for teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evo- lution. In 1861, during the Civil War, the first Battle of Bull Run was fought at Manassas, Virginia, re- sulting in a Confederate victory. In 1944, American forces landed on Guam during World War II, cap- turing it from the Japanese some three weeks later. In 1954, the Geneva Conference concluded with accords dividing Vietnam into northern and southern entities. In 1969, Apollo 11 as- tronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin blasted off from the moon aboard the ascent stage of the lunar module for docking with the com- mand module. In 1972, the Irish Re- publican Army carried out 22 bombings in Bel- fast, Northern Ireland, killing nine people and injuring 130 in what be- came known as “Bloody Friday.” In 1998, astronaut Alan Shepard died in Monterey, California, at age 74; ac- tor Robert Young died in Westlake Village, Califor- nia, at age 91. In 1999, Navy divers found and recovered the bodies of John F. Kenne- dy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette, in the wreckage of Kennedy’s plane in the Atlantic Ocean off Mar- tha’s Vineyard. In 2002, Ernie Els won the British Open in the first sudden-death finish in the 142-year history of the tournament. In 2008, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, one of the world’s top war crimes fugitives, was arrested in a Bel- grade suburb by Serbian security forces. (He was sentenced by a U.N. court in 2019 to life imprison- ment after being con- victed of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.) PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
