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Tuesday, September 6, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Birthday dinner is more
than reader can afford
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I am in my ear-
Dear Abby: Every year my
ly 40s. I have reconnected with
girlfriend and I take each other
a girl I dated in high school.
out for dinner on our birthdays
Things are wonderful. I have
and bring a gift. I am currently
come to understand that she was
experiencing financial hardship.
“wronged” by other men. But
At the restaurant, she ordered
I have also learned it was hap-
the largest portion of what she
pening during our relationship
wanted. She stated it’s what she
J EANNE
as teens. I cannot stop ripping
always orders. I responded that
P HILLIPS
myself in half for not realizing it
she always takes half of it home,
ADVICE
was happening and doing noth-
and that I had offered to buy
ing to stop it.
her dinner for that night, not
I am hesitant to do anything
for two days. She got very angry
that makes her revisit her pain, but it is
and said I was ruining her birthday.
She then said she’d pay for her own something I can’t let go of. I am not sure
meal. I declined her offer and paid, but how I should proceed in the present, so
now I’m wondering if I was wrong. She that I don’t let the past damage a future
did pay for half the appetizer, which I that seems so bright. Could you please
didn’t want or eat, and she left the tip. give me a woman’s point of view? —
Should I have told her before we went out Cautious In Michigan
Dear Cautious: Understand that you
to dinner that I was on a tighter budget?
Can our relationship be saved? — Losing and this woman were very different peo-
ple when you dated more than 20 years
In Las Vegas
Dear Losing: Strong relationships ago. I suspect my point of view is simi-
thrive when there is honest communi- lar to what you would get from a man: If
cation. You and the Birthday Girl have you plan to proceed with this romance,
been seeing each other for an extended the two of you should get at least six
period of time. If money is tight, you months of couples counseling from a li-
should have mentioned it long before her censed professional.
A lot has happened to you both in
birthday rolled around. Yes, she should
have been aware of it before you invited the intervening years since high school.
her to dinner. Because she wasn’t, I can There was nothing you could do to
understand why she might have been put stop anything that happened. She was
off by what she may have interpreted as a a willing participant in those failed re-
snide comment rather than a cry for help. lationships. Your future with her will be
Can your relationship be saved? Yes, as brighter once you know each other better
long as you two REALLY start talking as adults, which will involve frank com-
munication on both of your parts.
to each other.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago in the East Oregonian
GARFIELD
BY JIM DAVIS
History repeated itself this morning when
J.J. Hamley, long the first buyer of tickets when
the window opened at the box office on Alta
street. Next in line was his son, John Hamley,
with the Smythe-Lonergan Co. Third.
George Baer, business manager, and Ernest
Boylen, who is in charge of the office, state
that today’s sales exceed the first day totals of
1921. Up to noon, $4000 had been taken in.
Many people are buying the limit of twelve
seats. There are still some good second row
boxes and some small end boxes left.
Both Mr. Baer and Mr. Boylen commented
upon the spirit shown by the ticket purchasers.
The controversy for tickets was most goodna-
tured and there were absolutely no complaints
regarding the sale.
50 years ago in the East Oregonian
BLONDIE
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
Pendleton City Police are looking this week
for a seriously ill person, following a burglary
over the weekend at Hill’s Furniture Co., while
the building was being fumigated.
Dobyns-Hart Pest Control sealed the build-
ing Saturday morning after flooding it with
cyanide gas. When Dobyns-Hart workers
returned Monday morning, they discovered
that the building had been entered.
A camera, two rolls of eight cent stamps and
a company seal were reported missing. Total
value of the stolen items is about $148.
Police Chief Ernest Gallaher said he was told
by Bob Hart of Dobyns-Hart that inhalation of
the cyanide could be fatal.
“If they did it Saturday night, there is a good
chance that they’re dead,” Gallaher said. “If they
did it Sunday night, they’d at least be very sick.”
Pendleton area doctors and hospitals have
been asked by city police to report any victims
of gas poisoning.
25 years ago in the East Oregonian
Pendletonian Benn Fosnaugh claims that
every man has his hobby.
“Some like to collect old cars; some like to
collect women. I just got interested in stamps,”
he said. “I’m a nut.”
This past spring, Fosnaugh made a purchase
that includes the now-cherished Princess Diana
collection. Originally worth about $100, the
7-stamp collection that chronicles her early
life will certainly be worth much more due to
Diana’s recent untimely death. Small countries
such as Anguilla, which produced the Diana
collection, do so as a way to raise quick revenue,
Fosnaugh said.
The hobby helps keep the retiree occupied.
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 Sept. 6, 1901,
President
William
McKinley was shot and
mortally wounded by
anarchist Leon Czolgo-
sz at the Pan-American
Exposition in Buffalo,
New York. (McKinley
died eight days later; Czol-
gosz was executed on Oct.
29.)
In 1909, American ex-
plorer Robert Peary sent
a telegram from Indian
Harbor, Labrador, an-
nouncing that he had
reached the North Pole
five months earlier.
In 1972, the Summer
Olympics resumed in Mu-
nich, West Germany, a
day after the deadly hos-
tage crisis that left eleven
Israelis and five Arab ab-
ductors dead.
In 1975, 18-year-old
tennis star Martina Navra-
tilova of Czechoslovakia,
in New York for the U.S.
Open, requested politi-
cal asylum in the United
States.
In 1991, the Soviet
Union recognized the in-
dependence of Lithuania,
Latvia and Estonia.
In 1997, a public funer-
al was held for Princess Di-
ana at Westminster Abbey
in London, six days after
her death in a car crash in
Paris. In Calcutta, India,
weeping masses gathered
to pay homage to Mother
Teresa, who had died the
day before at age 87.
In 2001, the Bush ad-
ministration abandoned
the Clinton-era effort to
break up Microsoft.
In 2002, meeting out-
side Washington, D.C. for
only the second time since
1800, Congress convened
in New York to pay hom-
age to the victims and he-
roes of September 11.
In
2006,
Presi-
dent George W. Bush ac-
knowledged for the first
time that the CIA was
running secret prisons
overseas.
In 2007, opera star
Luciano Pavarotti died in
Modena, Italy, at the age
of 71.
In 2018, the agent for
actor Burt Reynolds con-
firmed that Reynolds,
known for his roles in “De-
liverance,” “The Cannon-
ball Run” and “Smokey
and the Bandit,” had died
at the age of 82.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE