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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, July 26, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Living with sister means
following all of her rules
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
dominant twin, but what you
Dear Abby: When my hus-
are experiencing now is abuse,
band died two months ago, my
and for the sake of your mental
identical twin helped me move
health, you cannot allow it to
in with her. She never married.
continue.
I do all the chores — clean six
Dear Abby: I had a man as
litter boxes, load and unload the
a roommate for a year while he
dishwasher, etc. I don’t know
worked in town. “Rodney” was
how to operate her washer/dryer,
J EANNE
a wonderful roommate. After
as she has shown me only once.
P HILLIPS
his lease ran out and he was
She doesn’t like the way I use my
ADVICE
transferred elsewhere, he came
phone, set up files, nothing. She
clean about his feelings for me.
also drinks a lot, uses marijuana
Then the pandemic happened,
and is on a starvation diet. If I
eat any carbohydrates at dinner, she ac- and he disappeared for two years.
Rodney is now back and wants to live
cuses me of being a “glutton.”
At first, she was happy I was here. I with me part time again. This time he
don’t usually care much about eating, wants more intimacy. He’s kind and help-
since my sense of taste is poor. Last ful around the house. He’s divorced, very
night, because I could taste the dinner, I smooth and has a residence 1,000 miles
ate more. She accused me of being a glut- from here. I don’t want to be “friends
ton and a parasite. She has, as far back as with benefits.” I don’t know him well
I can remember, always been “MY way enough to know if I want more. But I en-
joy his company a lot. I am in my 60s and
or the highway.”
I’m tempted to go live in my truck young-looking — so why not just have a
to avoid her constant sniping. I have no good time? I still don’t want to be hurt.
money, YET. She loaned me $4,500, and Any advice? — Roommate Romance In
feels that any money I receive from now California
Dear Roommate: Sex with you should
on must go directly to her. Please help
not be part of Rodney’s lease agreement.
me. — Unhappy Twin In Michigan
Dear Unhappy: Please accept my What he is proposing seems more like a
sympathy for the loss of your husband. business deal than an attempt to court
Unless you want to be her maid for the you. If you are looking for a relationship
rest of your days, make other living ar- that could lead to “something more,”
rangements. You are being treated like do not jump into this without carefully
weighing the pros and cons, including
Cinderella.
Repay the loan in installments after the emotional risk involved. If you were
you find a job or the estate is settled. willing to settle for a “good time,” you
Your sister may have always been the wouldn’t be writing to me.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago
in the East Oregonian
GARFIELD
BY JIM DAVIS
Milton-Freewater brought its baseball
team across the state line Sunday, strength-
ened by players from several other teams, and
chalked up their first victory of the season
over the Walla Walla Bears by a score of 7-2.
The visitors won the game through timely
hitting and because of the ability of Harstad,
ex-big league pitcher to keep the Bears’ hits
well scattered. There was much argument
over the fact that the visitors insisted upon
playing King, former W. S. C. player, on third
base after having promised to play their regu-
lar third basemen. The use of rosin by Harstad
was also protested and the elongated pitcher
of the Strawberry hunters finally received
the umpire’s order to stop using the sticky
substance.
50 years ago
in the East Oregonian
BLONDIE
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
The family of Janic Wagner, 24, 855 W.
Madrona, Hermiston, is receiving a $5,000
financial gift from the Becky Howland Fund
to aid in paying the cost of kidney trans-
plant surgery for Janice that is scheduled for
Aug. 21. Russell Dorran, chairman of the
Becky Howland Fund, said the formal request
for the funds came from the Good Shepherd
Auxiliary, and was backed up by a statement
from the University Oregon School of Medi-
cine. Recently, Dorran said the fund stands at
$27,000. He said the corporation is restrictive
and the money may go only to research or the
transplant of a human organ. Pat Wagner Parris,
28, 747 E. Ridgeway, Hermiston, is scheduled
to be the donor of a kidney for her sister.
25 years ago
in the East Oregonian
A Union Pacific train jumped the tracks
Friday afternoon, delaying traffic and creating
a bottleneck for trains passing through Pendle-
ton. Union Pacific officials declined to comment
Friday evening on why the train derailed. No
one was injured in the accident. The train
was on Track 1 and was traveling west when
it derailed new Coury and Emigrant avenues.
That forced Pendleton police to close many of
the city’s busiest streets. Sgt. Bill Caldera of the
Pendleton Police Department said police were
called in to help direct traffic around the derail-
ment. Railroad crossings at Frazer, Emigrant
and Court avenues were blocked, as well as the
railroad crossing at Southwest Fourth Street.
The crossings at Main and Southeast Third
streets remained opened, he 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 26, 2016, Hil-
lary Clinton became the
first woman to be nomi-
nated for president by a
major political party at
the Democratic National
Convention in Philadel-
phia.
In 1775, the Continen-
tal Congress established a
Post Office and appointed
Benjamin Franklin its
Postmaster-General.
In 1847, the western
African country of Li-
beria, founded by freed
American slaves, declared
its independence.
In 1863, Sam Houston,
former president of the
Republic of Texas, died in
Huntsville at age 70.
In 1945, the Potsdam
Declaration warned Im-
perial Japan to uncon-
ditionally surrender, or
face “prompt and utter
destruction.”
Winston
Churchill resigned as Brit-
ain’s prime minister after
his Conservatives were
soundly defeated by the
Labour Party; Clement
Attlee succeeded him.
In 1947, President
Harry S. Truman signed
the National Security
Act, which reorganized
America’s armed forces as
the National Military Es-
tablishment and created
the Central Intelligence
Agency.
In 1953, Fidel Castro
began his revolt against
Fulgencio Batista with an
unsuccessful attack on an
army barracks in eastern
Cuba. (Castro ousted Ba-
tista in 1959.)
In 1956, the Italian
liner
Andrea
Doria
sank off New England,
some 11 hours after col-
liding with the Swedish
liner Stockholm; at least
51 people died, from both
vessels.
In 1971, Apollo 15 was
launched from Cape Ken-
nedy on America’s fourth
successful manned mis-
sion to the moon.
In 1990, President
George H.W. Bush signed
the Americans with Dis-
abilities Act.
In 2002, the Re-
publican-led
House
voted, 295-132, to cre-
ate an enormous Home-
land Security Depart-
ment in the biggest gov-
ernment reorganization in
decades.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE