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East Oregonian
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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