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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, March 21, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Couple’s wedding can wait until fiancé finds a job FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My fiancé and I have Dear Abby: I am a gay man. been engaged for two years. Our Recently, I rekindled a relationship I wedding is set for a year from now. had with a guy I was close with many I’m thinking about calling off our years ago. We have a lot of the same wedding, not because I don’t love interests. him, or because I don’t want to spend When he asked what it would take the rest of my life with him. I know for us to be permanent, I asked that he I want that. It’s because I’m the only stop smoking pot. He responded that one with a decent job. He has a job, he does it only “two or three times Jeanne but doesn’t earn enough to support us. Phillips a year” and that for me to make that I can’t be the only one earning request was “controlling.” I asked him Advice an income. How are we supposed for no other changes. to move out of our parents’ houses I hate the smell of smoke, and pot and start a life together if I’m the one doing is illegal in our state, so I broke it off because everything? What will happen when things he wouldn’t agree. Did I do the right thing? — need to start getting paid for, and there’s no Tony In Florida guarantee he’ll find something? I have talked Dear Tony: Yes, because his response to to him about it, and he’s angry. He knows it’s your simple request indicates that any accom- time to change his life around and get serious. modation you asked of him would likely be Should I keep the date and keep my met with the same reaction. fingers crossed he’ll find a job by then, or Dear Abby: My 63-year-old husband postpone our wedding, which has a venue refuses to cut his hair. It is gray and thinning but nothing else planned? I don’t need to get and is now longer than mine. Even when it’s married anytime soon, and I’d prefer to wait clean it looks dirty. until he can support himself and we are in a I was raised to take pride in my appearance. better place financially. Then I feel like we If I say anything about it, he thinks it’s funny, could move forward. Am I making the right or the other extreme, that I am picking on him. decision? — Cautious In New Jersey He’s not a rock star or a young lad. Please Dear Cautious: Yes, you are. You are help. — Neat And Clean In California thinking with your head instead of being Dear Neat And Clean: I’ll try. Your swept away by your emotions, and I applaud mistake is making his problem (poor you for it. I have said for many years that grooming) your problem. Continue to take before a woman marries she should be able pride in your appearance, and if he prefers to to support herself, in case future circum- look like an old hippie, let him. Neither you stances require it. Well, the same is true for nor I can change him, and because his tresses a man. are thinning, the problem may resolve itself. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 20-21, 1917 With three feet of snow and more all over the southern part of the country, zero weather prevailing, no indications of an immediate break of winter’s grip and a hay famine staring them in the face, stockmen of the Camas Prairie country have begun driving out their cattle to lower valleys, according to reports brought down from that section. One band of 700 and one band of 500 is now being driven down to the Butter Creek meadows where there is hay, according to reports. The moving of cattle any distance during this time of the year is a step all cattlemen take only as a last resort owing to the extreme likelihood of losses. The animals are weakened from the feed shortage. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 20-21, 1967 A Washington State Penitentiary escapee who is wanted in two countries for crimes ranging from armed robbery to rape was arrested near Meacham Saturday by Oregon state police following a high speed chase that THIS DAY IN HISTORY BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN began in Baker. Wayne Norman Riddall, who escaped from the WSP Dec. 10, gave up to local state police without a fight at 11:30 p.m. Saturday. He was returned to Baker County where he faces auto theft charges. He is also wanted by Portland police for rape, robbery and kidnapping; by Vancouver, B.C. police for armed robbery; and by Umatilla County for auto theft. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 20-21, 1992 Spring has just arrived, but the spring runoff already has made a hasty retreat from many areas of northeast Oregon’s Blue Mountains. The absence of snow cover this early is a warning sign for parched conditions later this summer, leaving some farmers and ranchers in the all too familiar position of praying for rain. Of the nine sites where measurements are taken, five are already showing no snow cover. The nine sites are in drainages that supply water to the Umatilla, John Day, Walla Walla and Grande Ronde rivers. The watersheds without measurable snow are Emigrant Springs, Lucky Strike, Madison Butte, Meacham, and County Line. Today is the 80th day of 2017. There are 285 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 21, 1952, the Moondog Coronation Ball, considered the first rock and roll concert, took place at Cleveland Arena. On this date: In 1556, Thomas Cranmer, the former Arch- bishop of Canterbury, was burned at the stake for heresy. In 1685, composer Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany. In 1804, the French civil code, or the “Code Napo- leon” as it was later called, was adopted. In 1925, Tennessee Gov. Austin Peay signed the Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of the Theory of Evolution in public schools. (Tennessee repealed the law in 1967.) In 1935, Persia officially changed its name to Iran. In 1946, the recently created United Nations Security Council set up temporary headquarters at Hunter College in The Bronx, New York. In 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan began a four-day conference in Bermuda. In 1963, the Alcatraz federal prison island in San Francisco Bay was emptied of its last inmates and closed at the order of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. In 1981, Michael Donald, a black teenager in Mobile, Alabama, was abducted, tortured and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan. (A lawsuit brought by Donald’s mother, Beulah Mae Donald, later resulted in a landmark judgment that bank- rupted one Klan organization.) In 1997, President Bill Clinton and Russian Presi- dent Boris Yeltsin wrapped up their summit in Helsinki, Finland, still deadlocked over NATO expansion, but able to agree on slashing nuclear weapons arsenals. In 2006, the social media website Twitter was estab- lished with the sending of the first “tweet” by co-founder Jack Dorsey, who wrote: “just setting up my twttr.” Today’s Birthdays: Actress Kathleen Widdoes is 78. Songwriter Chip Taylor (“Wild Thing”) is 77. Folk-pop singer/musician Keith Potger (The Seekers) is 76. Actress Marie-Christine Barrault is 73. Singer-musi- cian Rose Stone (Sly and the Family Stone) is 72. Actor Timothy Dalton is 71. Singer Ray Dorset (Mungo Jerry) is 71.Singer Eddie Money is 68. Rock singer-musician Roger Hodgson (Supertramp) is 67. Rhythm-and-blues singer Russell Thompkins Jr. (The Stylistics) is 66. Comedy writer-performer Brad Hall is 59. Actor Gary Oldman is 59. Actor Matthew Broderick is 55. Comedian-talk show host Rosie O’Donnell is 55. Rock musician Jonas “Joker” Berggren (Ace of Base) is 50. Rock MC Maxim (Prodigy) is 50. Rock musician Andrew Copeland (Sister Hazel) is 49. Thought for Today: “History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened.” — Ernest Albert Hooten, American anthropologist (1887-1954). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE