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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, August 4, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Mom struggles to adjust
to new living arrangement
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
has now, but she may have too
Dear Abby: My elderly
much idle time on her hands. If
mother spent her entire adult
she can’t find things in common
life spending her men’s money,
with her neighbors, perhaps she
and now she has morphed into
could make friends volunteer-
an entitled, self-absorbed and
ing for some of the charities or
vapid woman. She blew through
activities in the community. You
her inheritance years ago with
would be doing her a favor to
no regard for future needs. I
J EANNE
suggest it. However, if her cry-
have now moved her into senior
P HILLIPS
ing spells increase, she might
housing near me. She wants to
ADVICE
benefit from being screened for
make friends, but the problem
depression by a medical profes-
is that she thinks she’s better
sional.
than everyone. She criticizes
Dear Abby: I have been in a mostly
people’s dress and perceived social sta-
tus. Although she looks like a frail old online relationship with a man for years.
lady, she’s in denial. She also has bouts He is a musician, and we met after one
of crying and irrational concerns and of his shows. We live a thousand miles
apart and, since COVID shut the world
demands.
Abby, my mother has a roof over her down, we have seen each other only
head she can afford, food, access to health twice. We love each other very much and
care and family nearby. She’s just used have developed our relationship via tex-
to the constant go-go-go of her former ting constantly. My problem is I’m not a
country club life (which she never paid wealthy woman, but I have been sending
for). I’m recently retired, and her manip- him more than $1,000 a month all this
ulations and the effect she could have on time so he can post his music on various
my marriage have me stressed-out. Please websites. I’m not entirely comfortable
with this. I have a strong aversion to be-
advise. — Stuck In The Muck
Dear Stuck: You are a caring, if frus- ing used, which is what it sometimes feels
trated, son. You mentioned that your like. What do you think I should do?
mother has spent her entire adult life in- — Out Of Tune In Delaware
Dear Out Of Tune: Listen to your in-
dulging herself and living the “country
club life.” Change at any age can be dif- tuition. Tell the musician you love him
ficult, but as people age, they can become very much, but you will have to stop send-
less resilient, which is more of a challenge. ing him money because you can no lon-
I can understand why your mother might ger afford it. It happens to be the truth.
sometimes shed tears over her changed How he behaves in the months that fol-
status and even be in denial about it. You low your announcement will show if he
didn’t mention how much freedom she is on the level or if you have been used.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago
in the East Oregonian
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
The scouts were up at 5:00 a.m. Norris
Graham, Geo. Summerville, Raymond
Rugg, Ed Hale and Gordon Keane cooked
breakfast. V. Archie Twitchwell, Louis
Hartrong, Red and Alfred Downs. M. Kirby
hiked to Meachem for supplies and mail with
Russel Lovell, Norris Graham and Donald
Swainbnak. Dinner at 12:00; macaroni and
cheese, pork and beans, bread and butter,
stewed raisins and cocoa. In the afternoon
the boys took little hikes around camp and
played baseball and horseshoe. Some of the
boys picked huckleberries. Allen Cardon,
Alfred Downs, Elmer Warren, Clarence Thim
and Willie Laing cooked supper. At 10 o9clock
Scoutmaster Kirby arrived from town with a
case of cantaloupes from Mr. Cardon and ten
dozen doughnuts from Mrs. Swainbank. All
gifts gratefully received.
The oïcers also grabbed horses and tried
to track him on horseback over the ridge. A
helicopter was called to help in the search but
this was given up when Archer got into the
timber and brush.
Sherif Bob Oliver said today that the Pine
Creek country where Archer eluded the oï-
cers is extremely rugged and nearly impos-
sible to walk.
25 years ago
in the East Oregonian
Adam Guenther, serving as First Citi-
zen for Oregon Boys State, recently had the
opportunity to meet President Clinton, sit in
on Senate proceedings and stop by for a chat
with Oregon9s own senators while at Boys
Nation in Washington, D.C.
Guenther also had the chase to run for vice
president of Boys Nation. He made it to the
fourth round before losing his bid.
<It was a disappointment until we heard
50 years ago
Bill Clinton. He told us that when he was
in the East Oregonian
at Boys Nation, he got put out in the fourth
Kenneth Brumit Archer led police oïcers round,= Guenther said with a smile.
on a horseback chase into the Blue Mountains
However, Guenther denies that politics are
and escaped Thursday.
in the stars for him.
<I don9t know if I9m quite shallow enough
Archer was wanted on a charge of negoti-
ating a bad check. When a Umatilla County for politics,= Guenther said.
Sherif9s deputy and a state police oïcer
Instead, Guether, a senior at Pendleton
approached a ranch near Weston, to serve the High School, hopes that his involvement
warrant, Archer jumped out a back window. at Boys Nation will garner dollars for this
Archer
on a horse and
north
college
education.
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is to George
attend law
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school
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Frank was arrested with the second of his four prison in 2007).
her sister, parents and four gold medals at the Berlin
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others
by the
af- earthen
Olympics
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my Carter
signed a nitrate
mea-
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U.S. Coast
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Mississippi.
of ammonium
ter
hiding
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jump over
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establishing
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beginnings
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been improperly
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man Luz
Long, a who
was stored
partment
of Energy.
President
George Washing-
signed
measure
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a measure
autho-
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sterdam.
and
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the first to the congratulate
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the exploded,
Federal
rizing Margot,
a group died
of revenue
killing
more than 200 people,
Energy.
sister,
at the of
him.
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cutters to enforce
tarif and
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1987, the
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and
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mission more
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nearby Doctrine,
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1830,
plans
for
the
city
Guard had its begin- Andrew Goodman and television stations to pres-
required radio and television ever recorded.
of Chicago were laid out.
nings as President George James Chaney were found ent balanced coverage of
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signed a mea-
buried in of
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issues.
reached agreement
with coverage
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sure
authorizing
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group
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Mississippi.
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1993,
a
federal
judge
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1972,
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life of ess
rights.
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