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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, August 18, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Grandma wants to avoid
her rude teen grandson
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Trying: The next time
Dear Abby: I do not like my
it happens, “remind” her that
grandson. He’s 16, rude, disre-
although your proportions are
spectful, has no manners and his
similar, they are not identical.
hygiene is almost nonexistent.
Then suggest she store some of
When I mention my concerns
her own clothes at your place so
to my son, he says, “I’m work-
she’ll have more choices the next
ing on it.” My daughter-in-law
time she’s back in town.
refuses to discuss it.
J EANNE
Dear Abby: My wife and
We live in different states, so
P HILLIPS
I have wonderful friends and
I don’t have a lot of interaction
ADVICE
neighbors. We go out to dinner
with the boy. But when I must, I
and concerts, and vacation to-
don’t enjoy it. Any suggestions?
gether. They are smart, funny,
— Bad Grandma In Colorado
Dear Grandma: If you visit, display charming folks. But there’s one problem.
your own good manners when dealing When we go out to dinner, we always
with your grandson and impart whatever agree to split the check regardless of who
advice you can. His behavior may im- had what to eat. On more than one occa-
prove by the time he is out of his teens. sion, I put in 50% of the bill but they of-
However, if it doesn’t by the time he’s 21, ten bring a coupon or discount card they
apply only to their half.
at least you’ll know you tried.
If I had a coupon, I would share it
Dear Abby: I need help navigating
a situation that usually leaves my sister with them so we would all benefit, so I
in tears. She has a very small wardrobe find it kind of irksome that they don’t.
because she travels all the time, so when We are all on fixed incomes but no one
she’s in town, she’ll often ask to borrow is desperate for money. My wife says
my clothes. She’s similar in proportions I should let it go and just focus on the
to me and in good shape, but she’s 4 enjoyable evening. I wish I could, but it
inches taller than I am. That means a lot bugs me. Any advice on how to view this
without letting it annoy me? — Friends
of my clothes are too tight on her.
If I refuse when she asks to borrow Should Share
Dear F.S.S.: Your friend appears to
my things, she gets upset and says I don’t
trust her. If I say yes and she tries some- be a bit selfish, and I can’t blame you for
thing on that’s a little small, she gets up- feeling annoyed. The way to deal with it
set about being “too fat.” I do trust her, would be to ask for separate checks when
and I don’t want her to have a negative the server takes your order. But be pre-
image of her body. What should I do the pared for the conversation that is sure to
next time she asks to borrow something? ensue about why you are breaking with
“tradition.”
— Trying To Be A Good Sister
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BY JIM DAVIS
100 years ago
in the East Oregonian
pede, Chief Joseph Days, the Penticton, B.C.,
Peach Festival and the Umatilla County Fair.
There will be sufficient outside help
in addition to the local policing force to
provide ample protection for visitors to the
Round-Up, September 21, 22 and 23, the
management of the big show thinks. Recently
a letter was received from E.B. Wood, chief
special agent of the O.-W. R. & N. by H.W.
Collings in which the O.-W. man declares
he will be able to attend the show again this
year. He also expects to bring a number of
special men with him, according to the letter.
He expresses the opinion that there will be a
sufficient number of the sleuths here to balk
any designs that light-fingered gentry may
entertain against the safety of unsuspecting
visitors’ pocketbooks.
25 years ago
in the East Oregonian
50 years ago
in the East Oregonian
BLONDIE
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
The Milton-Freewater Pea Festival
Court and the prize-winning Chamber of
Commerce float will be competing in two
events in Washington this weekend. The
local entry left today for Grandview, then will
appear in a parade at Moses Lake on Satur-
day. Since May, the float and its pretty riders,
Queen Gwyn Wise and princesses Sally Key
and Debby Long, have won sweepstakes or
grand sweepstakes at the Spokane Lilac Festi-
val, the tri-City Water Follies, the Elgin Stam-
Fire crews have contained a 1,110-acre fire
on the edge of the Umatilla National Forest.
Earle Rother, a public affairs officer with
the Forest Service in Pendleton, said the
fire was officially designated “contained” at
6 p.m. Sunday. He said fire crews expected
the fire would be out by 6 p.m. this evening.
The fire grew from 870 acres Saturday
as crews set strategic “burnouts” to control
the blaze, which has burned mostly grassy
slopes about six miles from Meacham, along
Meacham Creek.
Rother said 485 firefighters had been
mobilized to fight the fire this weekend. Now
that the fire is contained, several fire fighting
crews have been sent home. Currently, nine
fire engines, one bulldozer and four helicop-
ters are being used to fight the fire.
Firefighters used infrared light to detect
hot spots as the fireline was widened and
secured Sunday.
“We had an infrared flight last night. The
film that’s used is sensitive to heat. We found a
lot of little hot spots and a larger one,” Rother
said, adding that fire crews will spend most of
today putting out the hot spots. He estimated
there were between 12 to 20 hot spots.
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. 18, 1587, Vir-
ginia Dare became the first
child of English parents
to be born in present-day
America, on what is now
In 1587, Virginia Dare
Roanoke the
Island
North
became
first in child
of
Carolina.
(However,
the
English parents to be born
Roanoke
colony
ended up
in
present-day
America,
on
failing.)
what is now Roanoke Island
In 1894,
Congress
es-
in North
Carolina.
(However,
tablished
Bureau
the
Roanoke the
colony
ended of
up
Immigration. disappearing.)
mysteriously
In 1963,
1914, James
President
In
Mere-
Woodrow
dith
became Wilson
the first issued
Black
student
to graduate of
from
the
his Proclamation
Neu-
University
of Mississippi.
trality, aimed
at keeping
1983, Hurricane
Alicia
the In United
States out
of
slammed
World War into
I. the Texas
coast,
dead 19th
and
In leaving
1920, 21 the
causing
more
than
a
billion
Amendment to the Con-
dollars’
worth guaranteeing
of damage.
stitution,
In 2004, women’s
in Athens, right
Paul
American
Hamm
(hahm)
won
the
men’s
to vote, was ratified as
gymnastics all-around Olym-
Tennessee became the
pic gold medal by the closest
36th state
to approve
it.
margin
ever
in the event;
In 1963, James Mer-
edith became the first
Black student to gradu-
ate from the University of
Mississippi.
controversy followed after
In 1969,
the Woodstock
it was
discovered
a scoring
Music
and
Fair in
error cost Yang Art
Tae-young
of
Bethel,
New
York,
South Korea the title. wound
to a In close
after
three
2005,
a judge
in nights
Wich-
with Kansas,
a mid-morning
by
ita,
sentenced set
BTK
Jimi Hendrix.
serial
killer Dennis Rader
In consecutive
1993, a life
judge
in
to 10
terms,
Sarasota,
Florida,
ruled
the
maximum
the law would
that Kimberly Mays, the
allow.
In 2014, Missouri
14-year-old
girl who Gov.
had
Jay
the
been Nixon
switched ordered
at birth with
National
Guard need
to Fergu-
another baby,
never
son,
St. Louis
again a suburb
see her of biological
convulsed
by
protests
parents, Ernest and over
Re-
the
shooting
of a Black
gina fatal
Twigg,
in accordance
18-year-old,
Michael
Brown.
with her stated
wishes.
In
Democrats
In 2020,
2004, in
Athens,
formally
made
Paul Hamm
won Joe
the Biden
men’s
their 2020 presidential
gymnastics
all-around
nominee at their all-vir-
Olympic
gold convention.
medal by
tual
national
the closest margin ever in
the event; controversy fol-
lowed after it was discov-
ered a scoring error cost
Yang Tae-young of South
The Republican-led Senate
Korea the title. committee
intelligence
In 2005,
in
concluded
that a the judge
Kremlin
Wichita,
Kansas,
sen-
had launched an aggressive
tenced to interfere
BTK serial
effort
in the killer
2016
Dennis Rader
to on
10 behalf
con-
presidential
contest
secutive
terms,
the
of
Donald life
Trump,
and that
maximum
the law would
the
Trump campaign’s
inter-
allow. with Russian intelli-
actions
In services
2011, Vice
Presi- a
gence
had posed
“grave”
dent Joe counterintelligence
Biden met with
threat.
Chinese Vice President Xi
Today’s
Bir thdays:
Jinping
in Beijing.
Former
first
lady Rosa-
In 2014,
Missouri
Gov.
lynn
Carter
is
95. the
Come-
Jay Nixon ordered
Na-
dian
is 70.
tional Elayne
Guard Boosler
to Ferguson,
Actor
Madeleine
Stowe
a suburb
of St. Louis
un-
is
64. Rapper
Masta
dergoing
protests
over Killa
the
(Wu-Tang
Clan) of
is 53.
Actor
fatal shooting
a Black
Christian Slater is 53. Actor
18-year-old,
Michael
Kaitlin Olson is 47. Actor
Brown.
Parker McKenna Posey is 27.
TODAY IN HISTORY
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE