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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, August 9, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Parent misses teenager’s
ex-boyfriend, his parents
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
life a living hell. I have grown to
Dear Abby: A couple of
despise him.
weeks ago, my 17-year-old
I need to be respectful of his
daughter broke up with “Matt,”
children and friends. Only a few
her boyfriend of a year and seven
close women friends know the
months. My husband and I are
situation. I want to have a prop-
sad because Matt had become a
er remembrance for them that
part of our family. We included
won’t involve too much of my
him in vacations and holidays
J EANNE
presence. He will be cremated
with us. We also became friends
P HILLIPS
per his request. Can you sug-
with his parents and shared a
ADVICE
gest how I should handle this?
couple of holidays with them.
— Careful In California
I have not communicated
Dear Careful: Discuss this
with them since the breakup,
and I feel horrible. I’m not sure what’s with the person who will officiate at the
proper etiquette in this situation. Should memorial service when the time comes.
I reach out to Matt’s mom or just leave it Be as active a participant as you would
alone? I don’t have hard feelings toward like. Leaving the eulogizing to the people
them, but then again, my daughter broke who loved him — his friends and chil-
up with Matt and not vice versa. Let me dren — is your privilege.
Dear Abby: My daughter is 38 and
know what you think. — Broken Up Over
still can’t forgive me for being an alco-
Breakup
Dear Broken Up: Young love doesn’t holic when she was young. Will I never
always last forever, which can be a good be forgiven? I have had my drinking un-
thing. I see no harm in waiting a few der control for six years now. What else
more weeks until things cool down and can I do? I don’t want to leave this world
then reaching out to Matt’s mother. Tell and not be good with her. It’s killing me.
her you are sorry about the breakup and I need my baby girl back. — Sober Mom
hope it doesn’t spell the end of your re- In Kentucky
Dear Mom: You didn’t mention what
lationship with her, which you have very
much enjoyed. Her response will tell you personality changes you experienced
when your daughter was young. Whether
if she feels the same.
Dear Abby: We are a couple, married you were abusive or emotionally absent,
for 46 years. Of course, one of us will be the truth is she “lost” her mother during
passing on in the future. If my husband that period. You may need your baby
goes first, I’m unsure about how to han- girl back, but that baby is long gone. If
dle any services for him. He has narcis- you are not in AA, you should definitely
sistic personality disorder and, over the attend some meetings to see how other
course of our marriage, he has made my parents cope with their loss.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago
in the East Oregonian
GARFIELD
BY JIM DAVIS
John F. Hill, who came to the west in April,
1886 from Kentucky, died this morning at 6
o’clock at St. Anthony’s hospital. Mr. Hill,
while not being bed fast, has been in the
hospital for years.
At the age of 16 John Hill enlisted in the
Union army and for four years fought for his
country. He was the father of ten children,
nine of whom survived him. His wife was
taken from him in 1909 and since that time
he has gradually declined in strength. Death
came as the result of old age.
50 years ago
in the East Oregonian
BLONDIE
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
Lightning storms moved from south
central Oregon into the northeast portion
during the night, touching off more than 120
fires on federally protected land.
Forestry agencies braced for another series
of lightning storms today as cooler air moved
into the state, ending a hot spell that left the
forests extremely dry. Clarence Edgington,
U.S. Forest Service fire control officer said
fire danger in the forests ranged from high to
very high throughout the state.
Eighty of the fires were on national forest
land and firefighting crews moved quickly to
control them. The largest was 50 acres north-
east of Burns. A lightning storm was blamed
for a fire which destroyed a $50,000 boat-
house and marina on Wizard Island at Crater
Lake National Park Tuesday night.
25 years ago
in the East Oregonian
“Never!” said Jim Stearns, when he was
asked to share his winning technique.
Hermiston Fire Chief Stearns, with a
winning spit of 24 feet, 6 inches, won in the
Emergency Services category of the Hermis-
ton Watermelon Seed Spitting contest.
Earlier, in a practice session, he shot out a
33-foot shot.
“I want that first shot,” he was heard to say,
“but I don’ think they’ll buy it.
They didn’t.
It was close there, for a minute, between
Stearns and Umatilla Police Chief Travis Eynon.
But Eynon said he didn’t mind.
“I don’t feel too bad (about losing) as long as
I didn’t lose to Roberts,” he said, referring to Lt.
Jerry Roberts of the Hermiston Police Depart-
ment.
“I overslept,” Roberts said about his no-show.
TODAY
IN HISTORY
HISTORY
TODAY IN
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY PARKER AND HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
On Aug. 9, 1974, Vice
In 1854,
Henry R. David
President
Gerald
Ford
Thoreau’s
“Walden,”
became the
nation’s which
38th
described
Thoreau’s
expe-
chief executive
as Presi-
riences while living near
dent Richard Nixon’s res-
Walden Pond in Massachu-
ignation
effect.
setts,
was took
first published.
In
1934,
President
In 1934, President
Frank-
Franklin
D.
Roosevelt
lin D. Roosevelt signed an
signed an order
executive
order
executive
nationaliz-
nationalizing
silver.
ing
silver.
In 1936,
In
1944, Jesse
258 Owens
Af ri-
won his fourth sailors
gold medal
can-American
based
at Port
the Berlin
Olympics
as
Chicago,
California,
the United
took
refused
to load States
a munitions
ship
cargo
vessel
first following
place in a the
400-me-
explosion
ter relay. that killed 320
men,
them days
Black.
In many
1945, of
three
af-
(Fifty
the sailors
were
ter the of atomic
bombing
convicted
of mutiny,
fined a
of Hiroshima,
Japan,
and
imprisoned.)
U.S. B-29 Superfortress
In 1945, three days
after
code-named
Bockscar
the
atomic a bombing
Hiro-
dropped
nuclear of device
shima,
Japan, over
a U.S. Naga-
B-29
(“Fat Man”)
Superfortress code-named
saki, killing an estimated
Bockscar dropped a nuclear
74,000 people.
device
(“Fat Man”) over
In 1969, actor Sharon
Nagasaki,
killing
an peo-
esti-
Tate and four
other
mated
74,000
people.
ple were
found
brutally
In at 1969,
Sharon
slain
Tate’s actor
Los Angeles
Tate and four other people
home.
were found brutally slain at
In 1982,
a federal home;
judge
Tate’s
Los Angeles
in
Washington
ordered
cult leader Charles Manson
John a group
W. of
Hinckley
Jr.,
and
his followers
who’d
been
acquitted
of
were later convicted of the
shooting President Ron-
crime.
ald In Reagan
and three
oth-
1988, President
Ronald
ers by reason
of insanity,
Reagan
nominated
Lauro
committed
to secretary
a mental
Cavazos
to be
of
hospital. Cavazos became
education;
the In
first Hispanic
serve in
1988, to
President
the
Cabinet.
Ronald
Reagan nomi-
In 1995,
Garcia,
nated
Lauro Jerry
Cavazos
to
lead
singer of of the
Grateful
be secretary
education;
Dead,
died became
in Forest the
Knolls,
Cavazos
first
California,
of
a
heart
attack
Hispanic to serve in
the
at
age 53.
Cabinet.
In
In 2004,
2014, Oklahoma
Michael
City
bombing
Brown Jr., a conspirator
Black 18-
Terry Nichols, addressing
year-old, was shot to death
a court for the first time,
by a police
officer
follow-
asked
victims
of the
blast
ing an altercation in Fer-
for
forgiveness
as Brown’s
a judge
guson,
Missouri;
sentenced
161 consec-
death led him
to to sometimes-
utive
life protests
sentences. in Fer-
violent
In 2014, Michael Brown
guson and other U.S. cit-
Jr., a Black 18-year-old, was
ies, to
spawning
national
shot
death by a a police
offi-
“Black
Lives
Matter”
cer following an altercation
in
movement.
Ferguson,
Missouri; Brown’s
In led 2016,
at the
death
to sometimes-vio-
Rio protests
Games, in Ferguson
Michael
lent
Phelps
the spawn-
20th
and
other earned
U.S. cities,
and a national
21st Olympic
gold
ing
“Black Lives
medals
of
his
career
as
Matter” movement.
he Today’s
won the Birthdays:
200-meter
Comedian-director
David
butterfly and anchored
Steinberg
is 80.
Singer
the United
States
to
Barbara
Mason
is 75. Actor
victory in
the 4x200
free-
Melanie
Griffith
is 65.
Actor
style relay.
Katie
Ledecky
Amanda
Bearse
is
64.
Hockey
earned her second gold
Hall
of Famer
Hull is the
58.
in Rio
by Brett
winning
Pro
and
College
Football
Hall
200-meter freestyle. The
of
Famer
Deion Sanders
is 55.
U.S.
women’s
gymnastics
Actor
Gillian
Anderson
is
54.
team won gold for a sec-
Actor Eric Bana is 54. Actor
ond consecutive Olym-
Liz Vassey is 50. Actor Anna
pics.
Kendrick
is 37.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE