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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Man often compares his
family to his partner’s
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
standard. If he doesn’t comply,
Dear Abby: My boyfriend of
end the relationship.
seven years is very competitive.
Dear Abby: Last year a friend
There is constantly this underly-
of mine had a baby shower,
ing contest about whose kid is
which I attended, and I bought
better, whose dog is better, etc.
her an expensive gift. Shortly af-
I suspect he likes to brag about
ter, her baby was, unfortunately,
his 11-year-old daughter just to
stillborn. Rather than return the
publicize that she’s “great.”
J EANNE
gifts or save them for a future
He often criticizes my son.
P HILLIPS
child, my friend sold them on
He also has “house rules” for
ADVICE
an online virtual yard sale. I was
us that he doesn’t hold himself
upset because I had spent a lot
or his daughter to, and becomes
of money and, had she returned
upset if I bring it up. I like doing
things with him and with his daughter, the item, I could’ve used it because I was
but not when they’re together because it’s pregnant. I didn’t tell her how I felt.
Now, one year later, she’s pregnant
always them against us. She also hangs
on him constantly and whines when I’m again. Honestly, I’m happy for her, but
she’s having another baby shower. What
around.
I realize I can’t change how he acts, would be the rule of etiquette here? I
but I feel like I constantly need to prove want to go, but I don’t feel I should
myself to him and stick up for my son. have to buy her another gift. — Upset
Sometimes I’m a little jealous because he In The East
Dear Upset: It’s regrettable that the
treats his daughter so differently than he
treats us. Can you help me come up with gifts from the first pregnancy weren’t re-
a different way of reacting to it? — Weary turned to the givers or kept for a future
pregnancy, but chances are that your
In Wisconsin
Dear Weary: Frankly, your question, friend was an emotional wreck after hav-
“Can you come up with a different way of ing lost her baby, and she wasn’t thinking
reacting to the way your boyfriend treats straight. If you plan to attend this show-
you and your son?” surprised me. The er, you should absolutely bring a gift.
I recalled that although the practice
traits you have described are obnoxious. I
find it hard to believe that for seven years is well-entrenched here, not all cultures
you’ve tolerated the double standard he have baby showers before a child is born.
exhibits and his constant criticism of In China, Egypt and France, the celebra-
your son — who by now probably thinks tion is held after the birth. And in Ire-
there is something wrong with himself — land, Russia and Japan, it’s considered
because of it. Insist that he stop criticiz- bad luck to have a baby shower before
ing your boy and displaying the double the baby arrives.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago
in the East Oregonian
GARFIELD
BY JIM DAVIS
Along with having all the fun they could
find, Pendleton boy scouts also found time to
do a little sleuthing while they were in their
summer camp at Emigrant Springs, according
to H.J. Kirby, scoutmaster, who was in charge
of the two patrols. The first day out two of the
boys located some old moonshine mash in a
dugout not more than a mile from the springs.
News of the find was immediately commu-
nicated to Mr. Kirby, and he sent word to the
sheriff’s office. By the time representatives
from the office reached the field there was no
sill to be found, but the boys’ had plenty of
excitement over their discovery.
50 years ago
in the East Oregonian
BLONDIE
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
The opening of schools in Helix have been
postponed due to inclement weather delaying
completion of harvest.
The school board decided at a special meet-
ing Wednesday night that school would not
begin until Sept. 5, Supt. Pat Martin reported.
It had been scheduled to begin Aug. 29.
Harvest was late starting in this area, and the
wet weather this week has allowed only about
an hour and a half in the fields each day.
Many farmers only have four to eight days
of harvest left, but Martin said the school
board decided not to count on good weather
and then have to delay the opening of school
at the last moment.
25 years ago
in the East Oregonian
While many young adults are delivering
pizza or serving burgers for their summer job,
members of the Northwest Youth Corps are
making a difference in their environment and
in themselves.
For the past three weeks, 10 members of
the corps, ages 16-19, have been planting
trees, piling slash and building trails, fences
and bridges in wilderness areas throughout the
Northwest. This week they built hiking, biking
and horse trails in the woods of Emigrant
Springs State Park, about 23 miles east of
Pendleton off Interstate 84.
Crew leader Jason Allen said the Bureau
of Land Management and the Forest Service
contact the NYC to do “anything that they need
done for the environment, within reason.” The
organization has similar groups working in the
Wenatchee, Wash., area and in Idaho.
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 Aug. 16, 1977, Elvis
Presley died at his Grace-
land estate in Memphis,
Tennessee, at age 42.
In 1777, American forc-
es won the Battle of Ben-
nington in what was con-
sidered a turning point of
the Revolutionary War.
In 1812, Detroit fell to
British and Native Ameri-
can forces in the War of
1812.
In 1861, President
Abraham Lincoln issued
Proclamation 86, which
prohibited the states of
the Union from engaging
in commercial trade with
states that were in rebel-
lion — i.e., the Confed-
eracy.
In 1948, baseball leg-
end Babe Ruth died in
New York at age 53.
In 1962, the Beatles
fired their original drum-
mer, Pete Best, replacing
him with Ringo Starr.
In
1978,
James
Earl Ray, convicted assas-
sin of Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr., told a Capitol
Hill hearing he did not
commit the crime, say-
ing he’d been set up by
a mysterious man called
“Raoul.”
In 1987, people world-
wide began a two-day cel-
ebration of the “harmonic
convergence,” which her-
alded what believers called
the start of a new, purer
age of humankind.
In 2003, Idi Amin, the
former dictator of Ugan-
da, died in Jiddah, Saudi
Arabia; he was believed to
have been about 80.
In 2014, Missouri
Gov. Jay Nixon declared
a state of emergency and
imposed a curfew in the
St. Louis suburb of Fer-
guson, where police and
protesters
repeatedly
clashed in the week since
a Black 18-year-old, Mi-
chael Brown, was shot to
death by a white police of-
ficer.
In
2018,
Aretha
Franklin, the undisputed
“Queen of Soul,” died of
pancreatic cancer at the
age of 76.
In
2020,
Cali-
fornia’s Death Valley
recorded
a
tempera-
ture of 130 degrees
amid a blistering heat
wave, the third-highest
temperature ever mea-
sured.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE