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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, July 28, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Couple’s future depends
on approval of mother
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
ing our divorce and his subse-
Dear Abby: My adult
quent marriage to someone I’d
granddaughter, “Lola,” is in a
known for many years. They
two-year relationship with a
have happily gone on with their
wonderful young man and has
lives.
been anticipating a proposal.
I am a widow now. My second
During a conversation, he men-
husband was like me, dumped
tioned he would not propose to
J EANNE
by his first wife, and we cobbled
her until he has introduced her
P HILLIPS
a life together as best we could.
to his parents, who live in an-
ADVICE
My problem is that I can’t stop
other state.
longing for my first husband.
He says his mother wants
Logically, I know we’ll never be
him to marry a woman who has
never been married or divorced and who together, even if he were free from his
has not had a child. Lola is divorced (due marriage to the “other woman.”
How does one ever get beyond the
to her ex-husband’s infidelity) and has a
young son. This seems to her to be a no- grief from a marriage that made me feel
win situation if he won’t propose until happy, safe and loved? Do others suf-
she’s met his parents, but he lacks the fer for decades? I can’t seem to move
courage to introduce her to them. What past the sadness, but would like to be
is my granddaughter to do? She’s so un- free of these feelings before I pass away.
happy and disappointed. — Impossible — Missing That Life
Dear Missing: You are stuck in a rut
In Texas
Dear Impossible: Your granddaugh- of your own making, grieving the loss of
ter’s boyfriend is a mama’s boy. The de- your first marriage because there’s noth-
cision of whom to marry should be his, ing else going on in your life to distract
not his mother’s. If, after two years, he you. If you want to get beyond this, start
cannot summon up the courage to intro- finding other things to occupy your time
duce her PROUDLY to his parents, she and your thoughts. Explore special inter-
should quit wasting her time with him est groups you can join and activities that
because this romance will go no further will take you out into the community so
you have less time alone to brood. And
than it already has.
Dear Abby: I cannot seem to get over if that isn’t enough, consider asking your
the loss of my first husband decades ago. doctor to refer you to a licensed mental
I still think of him often. I am still griev- health professional.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago
in the East Oregonian
Sixteen carloads of cattle were shipped
from Pilot Rock Saturday. Among the stock-
men who shipped were Henry Lazinka, Allen
Porter of Long Creek, J. D. Wilmot, Arthur
Ashorne, Rollin McBroom, Hans Neilsen,
Arthur Geinger and Nate Rhodes.
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
50 years ago
in the East Oregonian
Many Pendleton drivers have been star-
tled this summer when they have pulled into
service stations and heard a feminine voice
say, “Fill ‘er up?” Some Pendleton service
station owners have hired girls this summer
and are glad they did. Dale Garner who
operates Garner Chevron service on South-
gate claims Susan Palm, 19, is his favorite
employee. Gurney Walters of Walters Chev-
ron Service Station said “The girls’ touch
is much better for some things, especially
clean up.” Bev Ewing, 20, and Tracy Ford-
ice, 17, both work for Walters. Garner and
Walter said hiring girls was not a directive
from Chevron, but their own choice. Why
did these girls go to work in service stations?
“We needed a summer job. This is a lot better
than driving truck during harvest,” said
Beverly.
25 years ago
in the East Oregonian
Union Pacific has blamed last Friday’s trail
derailment in downtown Pendleton on the
weather. Mike Furtney, Union Pacific spokes-
man out of San Francisco, said the derail-
ment near Court and Emigrant avenues was
caused by a phenomenon known as thermal
misalignment. It occurs when hot tempera-
tures cause rail tracks to expand. If the track
expands to a point that is wider than a train
wheels are gauged for, a derailment can occur.
It was about 85 degrees outside when the trail
derailed at approximately 2:30 p.m. Though
the temperature was not extremely hot, Furt-
ney theorized that it may have been hotter
earlier in the day, resulting in the rail’s expan-
sion. “To say this is a common occurrence
would be tricky. But derailments do tend
to occur in extremely hot or extremely cold
weather,” he said.
TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY
IN floor
HISTORY
In 1609, the English ship
into the 79th
of New others before taking his own
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY PARKER AND HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
Sea On
Venture,
by
July commanded
28, 1945, the
Adm.
Sir
George
Somers,
ran
U.S. Senate ratified the
ashore
Bermuda,
where
United on Nations
Charter
the
passengers
and
by a vote of 89-2. A crew
U.S.
founded a colony.
Army
bomber
crashed
In 1914, World War I
into the as 79th
floor of New
began
Austria-Hungary
York’s
Empire
Build-
declared war on State
Serbia.
ing, In killing
14
people.
1932, federal troops
In 1609,
the English
forcibly
dispersed
the
ship Sea “Bonus
Venture,
com-
so-called
Army”
of
manded
Adm. who
Sir
World
War by
I veterans
George
ran
had
gathered Somers,
in Washington
ashore
Bermuda,
to
demand on
payments
they
where the
passengers
and
weren’t
scheduled
to receive
until
crew 1945.
founded a colony.
In
Frank-
In 1943,
1932, President
federal troops
lin
D. Roosevelt
announced
forcibly
dispersed
the so-
the
end “Bonus
of coffee Army”
rationing,
called
of
which
had
limited
people
to
World War I veterans
who
one
pound
of
coffee
every
had gathered in Washing-
five
since it payments
began in
ton weeks
to demand
Nov.
they 1942.
weren’t scheduled to
In 1945,
U.S. Senate
receive
until the
1945.
ratified the United Nations
In 1943, President
Charter by a vote of 89-2. A
Franklin
Roosevelt
an-
U.S. Army D. bomber
crashed
York’s
Empire
State
nounced
the end
of Build-
coffee
ing,
killing
14
people.
rationing, which had lim-
1965, President
ited In people
to one Lyndon
pound
B.
Johnson
announced
he
of coffee every five weeks
was increasing the number
since it began in Nov.
of American troops in South
1942.
Vietnam
from 75,000 to
In 1965,
125,000
“almost President
immedi-
Lyndon B. Johnson an-
ately.”
nounced
he was
increasing
In 1976,
an earthquake
the number northern
of American
devastated
China,
troops in at South
killing
least Vietnam
242,000
from 75,000
to to 125,000
people,
according
an offi-
“almost
immediately.”
cial
estimate.
In 2015,
2015,
it announced
was an-
In
it was
that
Jonathan
the
nounced
that Pollard,
Jonathan
former
Pollard, U.S.
the Naval
former intel-
U.S.
ligence
analyst who ana-
had
Naval intelligence
spent
nearly
three
decades
in
lyst who
had
spent
nearly
prison
for
spying
for
Israel,
three decades in prison for
had
been
granted
spying
for
Israel, parole.
had been
In
2019,
a gunman opened
granted parole.
fire In
at a popular
festi-
2016, garlic
Hillary
val
in
Gilroy,
California,
Clinton accepted kill-
the
ing three people, including a
Democratic presidential
6-year-old boy and a 13-year-
nomination
the party’s
old
girl, and at
wounding
17
life.
convention in Philadel-
In 2020,
President
Donald
phia,
where
she cast
her-
Trump
issued
a
stout
defense
self as a unifier for divided
of
the as disproved
of a
times
well as an use
experi-
malaria drug, hydroxychlo-
enced leader steeled for a
roquine, to treat COVID-19,
volatile after
world
while
ag-
hours
social
media
gressively
challenging
Re-
companies took down videos
publican
shared
by Donald
Trump, Trump’s
his son
ability
to
lead.
and others promoting its use;
In also
2020,
President
Trump
retweeted
several
Donald on Trump
issued of a
attacks
the credibility
stout
defense
of a the
dis-
Dr.
Anthony
Fauci,
leading
proved use
a malaria
member
of the of White
House
drug, hydroxychloroquine,
coronavirus
task force.
Bir thdays:
to Today’s
treat COVID-19,
hours
Musical
conductor
Riccardo
after social
media
com-
Muti
is 81.
“Garfield”
panies
took
down creator
videos
Jim
Davis
77. Actor
shared
by is Trump,
his Sally
son
Struthers
is
75.
Rock
musi-
and others promoting
its
cian
Steve Morse
(Deep
use; Trump
also retweet-
Purple)
is 68.
Jazz on
musi-
ed several
attacks
the
cian-producer
credibility of Dr. Delfeayo
Anthony
Marsalis
57. Actor
Eliz-
Fauci, a is
leading
member
abeth Berkley is 50. Singer
of the White House coro-
Afroman is 48. Rapper
navirus Boy
task
force.
Soulja
is 32.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE