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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, September 1, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Black sheep sister won’t
enable siblings’ behavior
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Right Or Wrong: Allow
Dear Abby: I am the oldest of
me to offer my sympathy for the
three. We grew up in an abusive
loss of your dad. Considering
alcoholic family. I’m considered
the recent changes in your life,
the “failure” of the family be-
that you “need” your mother is
cause I don’t drink. I graduated
understandable. However, your
from college, work full time, got
mother needing a break at this
married and have a pretty stable
point is also understandable, so
life.
J EANNE
please let her go.
Both of my younger siblings
P HILLIPS
As you should know, your
drink and use drugs, and their
ADVICE
baby blues may be happening
lives are in constant turmoil.
because of the abrupt hormonal
The youngest sibling has men-
changes your body is experienc-
tioned they will need to move
by the end of this month. I dread that ing after the birth of your child. Discuss
they will ask to stay at my house soon, your emotions with your doctor.
Dear Abby: Please don’t think I’m
which I cannot allow. I know they will
be upset that they can’t stay with me. misogynistic, but whenever I see fe-
How do I protect my peace without feel- males, they’re CONSTANTLY talking
ing like I’m making my sibling homeless? or scrolling on their cellphones. It seems
like it is all they do! They don’t seem to
— Bad Sister In California
Dear Bad Sister: State it kindly and be interested in anything except their
clearly and do NOT feel guilty about it. damned phones. They have no personali-
You won’t be making your sibling home- ties. They have no sex drive. They’re not
less. Unless your sibling is friendless, they even interested in men! Some even seem
to lose their interest in shopping, which
will find another place to crash.
Dear Abby: My father recently passed we know is a female addiction. It’s not
from cancer. He was divorced from Mom, cute. It’s not normal, and it’s not socia-
but she helped take care of him and ble. In fact, it’s bizarre and weird. Is there
made him happy in his last year of life. one “halfway” normal female left on this
I’m having the baby blues (a 2- month- earth, or should I move to another plan-
et? — Ready To Bail In New Jersey
old) and grieving at the same time.
Dear Ready: Have you heard that
My mother has now announced that
she plans to take a vacation with her best men are from Mars? Your space shuttle
friend. I think it’s too soon and I told her departs in 20 minutes. It’s a one-way trip.
that. Am I wrong for feeling this way and Safe travels ...
P.S. I am not calling you misogynistic,
trying to stop her from going? But at the
same time, I know she deserves this vaca- but it will be interesting to see what my
readers call you. Stay tuned.
tion. — Right Or Wrong In Arizona
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago
in the East Oregonian
GARFIELD
BY JIM DAVIS
Mail orders for the Round-Up are heavier
this year than last, says George Baer, direc-
tor who is in charge of the seat sale. Mr. Baer
states that each day sees more orders arriving.
It is probable that the Chamber of
Commerce party from Spokane will be days
as was originally planned. Another delegation
expected is that made up of 125 Portland busi-
ness men, aboard the 1925 special. They have
announced their intention to be here both for
one day’s show and for Happy Canyon.
James Sturgis and Roy W. Ritne are in
charge of the plans for welcoming the George
Palmer Putnam party from New York. The
party will be met at Huntington with a special
car, and will be entertained here during their
pre-Round-Up visit.
50 years ago
in the East Oregonian
BLONDIE
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
Round-Up beer drinkers may have to go
easy on their favorite beer if they are going
to have anything to drink when Round-Up
is over.
The so-called bottle bill, which goes into
effect Oct. 1, is creating some problems for
local beer distributors. Marion County Circuit
Court Judge Val Sloper found the bottle bill
constitutional in a decision handed down
Friday in Salem.
“We can only sell glass bottles and cans
without flip-top lids. Plus there will be a
5-cent deposit on all cans and a 2-cent deposit
on glass bottles that can be used by all the
breweries,” said Pete Hodgen, local-distrib-
utor for Budweiser and Lucky Lager.
25 years ago
in the East Oregonian
Princess Diana’s driver had a blood-al-
cohol content three times the legal limit, a
French judicial source said today, while Buck-
ingham Palace prepared for a funeral befitting
the princess’s status as the mother of Britain’s
future king.
In another development, a source close to
the investigation said the car was going about
120 miles an hour through the Seine River
tunnel, where it crashed. The speed limit is
30 mph.
The speedometer was frozen in that posi-
tion by the crash, the police source said.
TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY
IN HISTORY
Bobby Fischer
won the gay couples again in direct
In 1715, following a reign
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY PARKER AND HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
of 72
King
On years,
Sept.
1, Louis
1983, XIV
269
of
France
died
four
days a
people were killed
when
before
77th Lines
birthday.
Korean his Air
Boeing
In
1897,
the
first section
747 was shot down
by a
of Boston’s new subway
Soviet fighter jet after the
system was opened.
airliner
entered
Soviet
air-
In 1942,
U.S.
District
space.
Court Judge Martin I. Welsh,
In 1897,
first sec-
ruling
from the
Sacramento,
tion
of
Boston’s
new
sub-
California, on a lawsuit
way system
opened.
brought
by was
the American
In Liberties
1942, U.S. Union
District
Civil
on
Court of Judge
Martin I.
behalf
Fred Korematsu,
Welsh, the
ruling
from deten-
Sac-
upheld
wartime
ramento,
California, on
tion
of Japanese-Americans
as
well as Japanese
a lawsuit
brought nationals.
by the
In 1945,
Americans
American
Civil
Liberties
received
of of
Japan’s
Union on word
behalf
Fred
formal
surrender
that ended
Korematsu,
upheld
the
World
War
II. (Because
of
wartime
detention
of Jap-
the
time
difference,
it
was
anese-Americans as well
Sept.
2 in Tokyo
Bay, where
as Japanese
nationals.
the In
ceremony
place.)
1945, took
Americans
In
1969,
a
coup
Libya
received word of in Japan’s
brought Moammar Gadhafi
formal surrender that end-
to power.
ed In
World
War , II.
(Because
1972
A mer
ican
international
crown in
of the time chess
difference,
it
Reykjavik,
Iceland,
as Boris
was Sept. 2 in Tokyo
Bay,
Spassky
of the
Soviet Union
where the
ceremony
took
resigned
before
the resump-
place.)
tion of Game 21. An arson
In 1969, a coup in
fire at the Blue Bird Cafe in
Libya
brought
Moammar
Montreal,
Canada,
claimed
Gadhafi
to
power.
37 lives.
In 1983,
1972,
Ameri-
In
269 people
were
can
Bobby
Fischer
killed when a Korean won
Air
the international
Lines
Boeing 747 was chess
shot
crown by in a Soviet
Reykjavik,
Ice-
down
jet fighter
land, the
as Boris
Spassky
of
after
airliner
entered
the Soviet
Union resigned
Soviet
airspace.
before
the a U.S.-French
resumption
In 1985,
expedition
the
of Game 21. located
An arson
wreckage
of the
Titanic
fire at the Blue
Bird
Cafe
on
floor of the Canada,
Atlantic
in the
Montreal,
Ocean
roughly
400 miles off
claimed
37 lives.
Newfoundland.
In 1985, a U.S.-
In 2009,
Vermont’s
law
French
expedition
locat-
allowing
same-sex
marriage
ed the wreckage of the Ti-
went
tanic into
on effect.
the floor of the
In
2015,
invoking roughly
“God’s
Atlantic Ocean
authority,” Rowan County,
400 miles off Newfound-
Kentucky, Clerk Kim Davis
land. marriage licenses to
denied
defiance
the Orleans
federal
In 2005, of New
courts,
and
vowed
not to
Mayor Ray Nagin issued
resign,
even under
the as pres-
a “desperate
SOS”
his
sure
of steep fines
jail.
city descended
into or anar-
(Davis would spend five
chy amid the flooding left
days in jail; she was released
by Hurricane
Katrina.
only
after her staff
issued the
In
2009,
Vermont’s
licenses on her behalf law
but
allowing her
same-sex
mar-
removed
name from
the
riage went into effect.
form.)
In 2015, Bir invoking
Today’s
thdays:
“God’s authority,”
Rowan
Conductor
Seiji Ozawa
is 87.
County, Kentucky,
Clerk
Comedian-actor
Lily Tomlin
Kim
denied
mar-
is
83. Davis
Conductor
Leonard
riage licenses
to gay Gloria
cou-
Slatkin
is 78. Singer
Estefan
is 65. in Jazz
musician
ples again
direct
defi-
Boney
is 61. Country
ance of James
the federal
courts,
singer-songwriter
and vowed not to Charlie
resign,
Robison
is 58.
NBA
even under
the Retired
pressure
of
All-Star
Tim
Hardaway
is
steep fines or jail. (Davis
56.
Actor
Ricardo
Antonio
would spend five days in
Chavira
51. released
Actor Maury
jail; she is
was
only
Sterling
51. Actor
after her is staff
issued Scott
the
Speedman
47. behalf
Actor Zoe
licenses on is her
but
Lister-Jones is 40. Rock
removed her name from
musician Joe Trohman is 38.
the form.)
Actor
Aisling Loftus is 32.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE