Wednesday, April 15, 2015
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
East Oregonian
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DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Sexually active women must
be vigilant about protection
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I’m writing to warn
That said, I can’t help but wonder
as many other young women as I can
how you intended to avoid infection if
about the dangers of unprotected sex.
you and the man of your dreams were
I thought I had met the man of my
having unprotected sex.
dreams. I knew from the beginning he
Please take this sad experience as
had a girlfriend in his hometown, but
a wake-up call, and schedule an ap-
he assured me he was breaking it off,
pointment with your doctor to discuss
so I didn’t think twice about starting a
all of the consequences that may re-
relationship.
sult from unprotected sex in the 21st
Jeanne
Well, she moved here and found Phillips century. There are many — and an
out about us. He swore to me that
inability to trust is among the least
Advice
there was no one else besides her and
of them. If a man doesn’t protect his
me. We have now discovered a third
partner, then it’s up to her to protect
girl — his roommate — with whom he was herself — both from pregnancy and from sex-
involved.
ually transmitted diseases, which are rampant.
Abby, he used no protection with any of
Dear Abby: I recently bought a new cell-
us. He swore to us all that he always used it phone and was assigned a number by the
and was regularly tested for STDs. Another company that sold it to me. I have been re-
lie.
ceiving calls and messages for the person
Now his former girlfriend thinks she may who had the number before it was given to
have picked up an STD from him, and we all me. While the number of the person calling
have to be tested to ensure we don’t have one. or texting comes up, I do not know the num-
I now know you can’t trust anything you’re bers of all my friends and associates, so I have
being told unless there’s proof. Go with the been accepting the calls or texts.
guy to get tested and demand to be there for
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the results. If you suspect (or know) he’s see- know that the person he/she was trying to
ing someone else, always use protection and reach no longer had this number. However, it
insist he be tested regularly.
takes up my expensive minutes to make those
All three of us could have saved our hearts, replies. Am I under any obligation to contact
our bodies and a lot of turmoil if we hadn’t these folks, or can I just ignore their contacts?
been so trusting. This has left a lasting impres- — Polite In Pennsylvania
sion, and now we wonder whether we will be
Dear Polite: No rule of etiquette “com-
able to trust another man again. — Awaiting pels” you to respond to these callers and tex-
The Results
ters, so consider yourself off the hook.
Dear Awaiting: Your “boyfriend” was dis-
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Bu-
honest and irresponsible. You can’t be blamed ren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was
for feeling bitter. Now might be a good time founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.
to re-evaluate whether premarital sex is worth Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com
the headache and the heartache.
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
April 15, 1915
Pinkerton and Company, a detective com-
pany whose collection agents are said to have
separated several Pendleton business men
from some good money, appear to have been
put out of business by an order issued by Post-
master General Burleson, a copy of which was
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is not the original Pinkerton company, which
is known as the National Detective Agency,
but is said to have adopted its name to confuse
the public. By a clever joker in its contract
with businessmen as well as by misrepresenta-
tion, the company is said to have been reaping
$90,000 a month at the time the government
stepped in and it is claimed that it had secured
$1,000,000 through its fake scheme.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 15, 1965
Morrow County residents were warned
today that a lawsuit over location of the new
Riverside High School could result in a loss
to the county. The county school board in a
statement said, “We have been warned by the
Corps of Engineers that we must have plans
for the new school in Boardman immediately.
It is conceived that the result of this suit will
be the loss of approximately $650,000 ... The
corps is presently committed to a replacement
in kind on Riverside High. It will spend in
excess of $800,000 (for a new school) but it
could pay the district the value of the present
Boardman building … about $150,000, and
allow the people of Morrow to settle their
school location problems while the corps
completes its work on the John Day dam.”
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 15, 1990
A 25-year-old medical student from New
Jersey thinks Eastern Oregon’s wide open
spaces are the prescription for healthy living.
David Knowlton, a student at Robert Wood
Johnson Medical School (formerly Rutgers
University Medical School), came to that con-
clusion soon after arriving here for a month of
work at Yellowhawk Community Health Cen-
ter on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Med-
ical school and the Indian Health Service, a
department of the U.S. Public Health Service,
afforded him the opportunity to expand his
horizons. Rutgers allows graduating students
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term with the IHS. Knowlton wanted to learn
about Native Americans, and he wanted to see
Oregon. His only complaint, other than sore
muscles after his bike ride, are the stiff thorns
that have punctured three tires.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
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BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
Today is the 105th day of
2015. There are 260 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in His-
tory:
On April 15, 1865, Pres-
ident Abraham Lincoln died
nine hours after being shot the
night before by John Wilkes
Booth at Ford’s Theater in
Washington; Andrew John-
son became the nation’s 17th
president.
On this date:
In 1850, the city of San
Francisco was incorporated.
In 1912, the British luxury
liner RMS Titanic foundered
in the North Atlantic off New-
foundland more than 2 1/2
hours after hitting an iceberg;
1,514 people died, while less
than half as many survived.
In 1945, during World War
II, British and Canadian troops
liberated the Nazi concentra-
tion camp Bergen-Belsen.
In 1955, Ray Kroc opened
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Plaines, Illinois.
In 1985, South Africa said
it would repeal laws prohibit-
ing sex and marriage between
whites and non-whites.
In 1986, the United States
launched an air raid against
Libya in response to the
bombing of a discotheque in
Berlin on April 5; Libya said
37 people, mostly civilians,
were killed.
In 1989, Students in Bei-
jing launched a series of
pro-democracy protests; the
demonstrations culminated in
a government crackdown at
Tiananmen Square.
In 2013, two bombs
packed with nails and oth-
er metal shards exploded at
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line, killing two women and
an 8-year-old boy and injur-
ing more than 260. (Suspect
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is on
trial; his brother and alleged
accomplice, Tamerlan Tsar-
naev, died in a shootout with
police.)
Today’s
Birthdays:
Country singer Roy Clark is
82. Author and politician Jef-
frey Archer is 75. Rock sing-
er-guitarist Dave Edmunds
is 72. Actor Michael Tucci
is 69. Actress Lois Chiles
is 68. Writer-producer Lin-
da Bloodworth-Thomason
is 68. Actress Amy Wright
is 65. Columnist Heloise is
64. Actor Sam McMurray
is 63. Rock musician Ed
O’Brien (Radiohead) is 47.
Rock musician Patrick Car-
ney (The Black Keys) is 35.
Actor-writer Seth Rogen is
33. Rock musician De’Mar
Hamilton (Plain White T’s)
is 31. Actress Emma Wat-
son is 25. Actress Maisie
Williams (TV: “Game of
Thrones”) is 18.
Thought for Today: “We
do not know what we want
and yet we are responsible
for what we are — that is the
fact.” — Jean-Paul Sartre,
French philosopher (born
1905, died this date in 1980).
BY JAN ELLIOT
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE