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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, February 3, 2015 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Stepmother wishes others wouldn’t devalue her role FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I’m a 42-year-old di- I see no reason why you shouldn’t vorced woman with no children. My simply tell the truth about why you ex-husband has a son whose life I was are child-free. Not having (or want- a part of for 18 years. When people ing) children is nothing to be ashamed ask if I have kids, my reply is, “Yes, I of — it’s a personal choice that an in- have a stepson.” creasing number of couples have opt- Why do people think it’s OK to say ed for without regret. things like, “That’s not the same as Dear Abby: My boyfriend and having your own,” or, “That doesn’t I have been together for 18 months. Jeanne count”? Then they usually go on to Phillips Last night we were talking about do- ask why I don’t have children of my ing more in the bedroom, and he told Advice own. me that he is bisexual. My response is a big fat lie. I say, I have nothing against the LGBT “It just never happened.” The truth is my ex FRPPXQLW\EXW¿QGLQJWKLVRXWDIWHUVRORQJ didn’t want any more children. What can shocked me. I’m worried now, and I can’t I say to these people to let them know that seem to wrap my head around the fact that he they need to stop and think about what they has sex with guys. I just can’t quite look at or say and ask, because their word choice in this think of him the same way. circumstance is hurtful to the point of tears? I really do love him and can still see a fu- — Stepmom In California ture with him. I just don’t know how to han- Dear Stepmom: A person who would dle this BIG news. Please, Abby, you’re my downplay your role as a parent is rude, only hope. — Liz In Texas thoughtless and not worth your time. As Dear Liz: I would be curious about why to asking why someone is childless, I have your boyfriend waited so long to tell you. Be- addressed this subject in my column before. cause someone is bisexual does not mean the While many folks start conversations by ask- person is unfaithful and sleeping with both ing whether someone has children, it can be a sexes at the same time. It simply means the dangerous question. person is attracted to members of both sex- I learned my lesson and stopped asking es. You need to have further discussion with after having received an answer from one your boyfriend regarding his attitude about man that his son was doing life in prison as his COMMITMENT TO YOU before decid- an accomplice to murder. Another man told ing what to do about his “big” news. me he had two children, a daughter and an Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Bu- estranged son who was also serving a long ren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was sentence — for selling narcotics. Neither per- founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. son was happy to have been asked. After that, Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com I stopped asking. or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Feb. 2-3, 1915 3HQGOHWRQKDVDQHZFKLHIRIWKH¿UHGH- partment in the person of Sam Morrow, a for- PHUPHPEHURIWKH3RUWODQG¿UHGHSDUWPHQW He relieved Cliff Bellinger, who has been chief since the new department was orga- nized, on Sunday, and is now in full charge. Bellinger’s dismissal came as a surprise, al- WKRXJK PHPEHUV RI WKH ¿UH FRPPLWWHH VWDWH it has been under contemplation for some time. It resulted from friction between him and some of the members of the committee but the formal request for his resignation is said to have resulted from his leaving town Sunday without permission. The new chief has been in Pendleton for the past six or eight months and for the past two or three months has been in the employ of Acting Mayor John Dyer. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Feb. 2-3, 1965 The mammoth job of cleaning up is un- derway, along with the task of surveying the damage caused by rampaging rivers and creeks. Umatilla County, faced with a major repair job to its roads and bridges, is planning an aerial survey today to see what must be done. Others whose property was damaged by the rushing waters begin the job of pick- ing up the pieces and carrying on. This will EHDGLI¿FXOWWDVNIRUVRPHZKRVHKRPHVDQG buildings were badly damaged or whose land was turned into a sea of mud. It will be some time before those areas along Birch, McKay and Butter Creek return to normal and the same is true along the Umatilla River where LW EURNH IURP LWV EDQNV ÀRRGLQJ KRPHV DQG farm lands. County Judge D.R. (Sam) Cook VDLGURDGDQGEULGJHGDPDJHIURPWKLVÀRRG will probably be a million dollars more than WKHGDPDJHIURPWKH&KULVWPDVZHHNÀRRGV 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Feb. 2-3, 1990 Umatilla River steelhead could be con- sidered the most unusual hitchhikers in the VWDWH7KH¿VKDUHDFFHSWLQJIUHHULGHVXSULYHU in Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife trailers — not because they want to, but be- cause there’s no other way for them to reach QDWXUDOVSDZQLQJJURXQGV&XUUHQWORZÀRZV present barriers to migrating adult steelhead at several diversions along the Umatilla Riv- HU ³:LWKRXW VXI¿FLHQW ÀRZV VWHHOKHDG FDQ become stranded in shallow areas and die before they get the opportunity to spawn,” -RKQ *HUPRQG 2'): ¿VKHULHV ELRORJLVW said. Adult steelhead are being trapped at Threemile Dam and transported upstream past the barriers. Since the inception of the hauling project in September, 500 fall chi- nook, 4,500 coho and 700 steelhead have mi- grated upstream along Umatilla County roads and I-84. The steelhead are being released in YDULRXVORFDWHVDERYH6WDQ¿HOG THIS DAY IN HISTORY DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN Today is the 34th day of 2015. There are 331 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 3, 1865, Presi- dent Abraham Lincoln and Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens held a shipboard peace conference off the Virginia coast; the talks deadlocked over the issue of Southern autonomy. On this date: In 1783, Spain formally recognized American inde- pendence. In 1913, the 16th Amend- ment to the U.S. Constitution, providing for a federal income WD[ZDVUDWL¿HG In 1930, the chief justice of the United States, William Howard Taft, resigned for health reasons. (He died just over a month later.) In 1943, during World War II, the U.S. transport STONE SOUP BIG NATE ship Dorchester, which was carrying troops to Green- land, sank after being hit by a German torpedo; of the more than 900 men aboard, only some 230 survived. In 1959, rock-and-roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson died in a small plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa. In 1969, “Candid Camera” creator Allen Funt and his fam- ily were aboard an Eastern Air- OLQHVÀLJKWWKDWZDVKLMDFNHGWR Cuba. (Fellow passengers who recognized Funt thought the whole thing was a stunt for his TV show; in an article writ- ten for The Associated Press, Funt said the whole episode “looked like a bad movie.”) In 1994, the space shuttle Discovery lifted off, carrying 6HUJHL.ULNDOHYWKH¿UVW5XV- VLDQFRVPRQDXWWRÀ\DERDUGD U.S. spacecraft. Today’s Birthdays: Co- median Shelley Berman is 90. Former Sen. Paul Sar- banes, D-Md., is 82. Football Hall-of-Famer Fran Tarken- ton is 75. Actress Bridget Hanley is 74. Actress Blythe Danner is 72. Singer Den- nis Edwards is 72. Football Hall-of-Famer Bob Griese is 70. Singer-guitarist Dave Davies (The Kinks) is 68. Singer Melanie is 68. Actress Morgan Fairchild is 65. Rock musician Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) is 59. Actress Maura Tierney is 50. Actor Warwick Davis is 45. Actress Rebel Wilson is 29. Rapper Sean Kingston is 25. Thought for Today: “Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing en- dures and that is character.” — Horace Greeley, American newspaper editor (born this date in 1811, died in 1872). BY JAN ELLIOT BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
