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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, January 21, 2016
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Couple’s future grows murkier
after man has seconG thoughts
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: My boyfriend,
will hurt your feelings.
“Jimmy,” and I have been together for
For your own sake, have an honest
two years. After about four months,
conversation with him about this. It
out of necessity we moved in together
may be painful, but it will be better
and it was great.
than living in limbo the way you are.
Not long afterward I got a job two
As the saying goes, “When a door
hours away. Since I moved, we get to
closes, another one opens.”
see each other only every two or three
Dear Abby: Last Friday was
weeks. The separation has been tough,
Grandparents’ Day at my kids’
Jeanne
but when we’re together, everything is Phillips preschool. My parents attended and
perfect and all is right with the world. I
were well-behaved for the most part,
Advice
feel we were fated to be together.
but then my mother made a faux pas.
Before the move, Jimmy and I
She asked one of the directors when
often talked about marriage, and although I her baby was due. Well, Abby, the woman
am not crazy about it, I knew it meant a lot to isn’t pregnant.
him, so I proposed (ring and all). He initially
When I picked up my kids, I had no idea
said yes, then sort of asked me to take back what had happened. The director was having
my proposal. Since then, he has been avoiding a conversation with one of the teachers when
all discussions about our future, and I don’t I walked in, so as usual I smiled and waved
know what to do.
as I walked by. I did sense something was off
I’m willing to quit my job and go back when she didn’t respond, but I ¿gured she
to be with him, but I’m scared he’s going to was preoccupied. When we met my parents
get cold feet. Obviously, I’m hopelessly in for dinner, my mother told me what happened.
I am morti¿ed. I managed to make it out of
love with him, but now I’m feeling lost and
the preschool this morning without crossing
confused. — Hours Apart In The South
Dear Hours Apart: Please allow me paths with the director, but I’ll be seeing this
to offer some clarity. Do not quit your job woman for the next couple of years. What,
because if you do, you may ¿nd yourself not if anything, do I say to her? — HorrL¿eG In
only without a job but also without a place to Michigan
Dear Horri¿eG: You did nothing wrong,
stay.
When someone (man or woman) asks so stop avoiding the woman and behave as
that a proposal be rescinded, it usually you usually do. IF you notice that she treats
means the person feels he or she may have you differently, all you should say is: “I heard
jumped the gun by saying yes. Jimmy is what happened with my mother, and I’d like
avoiding all discussion about your future to apologize for her behavior. As you can see,
because he doesn’t want one, and he’s she sometimes puts her foot in her mouth, but
afraid to say it directly because he knows it we love her anyway.”
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 21, 1916
Bert Johnson, who Monday stabbed Ray
Hicks twice during an altercation, yesterday
afternoon gave himself up to the of¿cers.
Johnson declared to the of¿cers that he
used the knife in self defense after he had
been beaten up by Hicks’ ¿sts. He did not
go into explanations regarding the cause
of the dispute, probably through a desire to
protect the lady over whom it is said to have
arisen. He stated that he met Hicks on Main
street during the noon hour and that, after a
few words, the latter told him he intended
to have it out with him. Accordingly he said
they decided to go to some place where they
would escape arrest. He said he did not know
that he had stabbed Hicks until the latter told
him of it, and that he drew his knife to keep
Hicks away from him.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 21, 1966
Former Hermiston Police Chief William
A. Silvey testi¿ed here Wednesday that he
was ¿red Nov. 1, 16, because of defam-
atory statements made by Mrs. Gerald C.
McCoy, Hermiston. The testimony came as
trial opened in Umatilla County Circuit Court
of a ,000 suit Silvey ¿led against Mrs.
McCoy. He has ¿led a similar suit against
Marjorie Bartlett, publisher of the Hermiston
Herald. Silvey charges that Mrs. McCoy said
Silvey “had been living with another man’s
wife for two weeks.” She denied using those
words and claims in addition that she had
the right to report what she considered poor
conduct by the chief.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 21, 1991
Winter again has driven hundreds of
Rocky Mountain elk off public lands and
onto private property at lower elevations
in the McKay Creek drainage. For the elk,
the migration means the difference between
foraging for food in deep and crusted snow
or on a more plentiful food source elsewhere.
But the presence of the herd on private lands
is at the core of a debate that has slowly
grown in complexity and urgency over the
past decade. Ranchers, fee-hunting operators,
wheat growers, the Indian community and
wildlife biologists all are local players in
the debate. Each group has its own explicit
opinion concerning the presence of elk, while
the elk itself is an innocent bystander.
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
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 21st day of
2016. There are days left
in the year.
ToGay’s Highlight in
History:
On Jan. 21, 1976, British
Airways and Air France inau-
gurated scheduled passenger
service on the supersonic
Concorde jet.
On this Gate:
In 1793, during the French
Revolution, King Louis XVI,
condemned for treason, was
executed on the guillotine.
In 1861, Jefferson Davis
of Mississippi and four other
Southerners whose states
had seceded from the Union
resigned from the U.S.
Senate.
In 1908, New York City’s
Board of Aldermen passed
an ordinance prohibiting
women from smoking in
public establishments (the
measure was vetoed by
Mayor George B. McClellan
Jr., but not before one woman,
Katie Mulcahey, was jailed
overnight for refusing to pay
a ¿ne).
In 1915, the ¿rst Kiwanis
Club, dedicated to commu-
nity service, was founded in
Detroit.
In 1924, Russian revolu-
tionary Vladimir Lenin died
at age 53.
In 1954, the ¿rst atomic
submarine, the USS Nautilus,
was launched at Groton,
Connecticut (however, the
Nautilus did not make its ¿rst
nuclear-powered run until
nearly a year later).
In 1977, President Jimmy
Carter pardoned almost all
Vietnam War draft evaders.
In 1994, a jury in
Manassas, Virginia, found
Lorena Bobbitt not guilty by
reason of temporary insanity
of maliciously wounding
her husband John, whom
she’d accused of sexually
assaulting her.
In 2010, a bitterly divided
U.S. Supreme Court, in
Citizens United v. Federal
Election Commission, vastly
increased the power of big
business and labor unions
to inÀuence government
decisions by freeing them to
spend their millions directly
to sway elections for presi-
dent and Congress.
ToGay’s
BirthGays:
Actress Ann Wedgeworth is
2. World Golf Hall of Famer
Jack Nicklaus is 76. Opera
singer-conductor
Placido
Domingo is 75. Singer Mac
Davis is 7. Actress Jill Eiken-
berry is 6. Country musician
Jim Ibbotson is 6. Sing-
er-songwriter Billy Ocean is
66. Former U.S. Ambassador
to China Gary Locke is 66.
Former U.S. Attorney General
Eric Holder is 65. Microsoft
co-founder Paul Allen is 63.
Actor-director Robby Benson
is 60. Actress Geena Davis
is 60. Basketball Hall of
Famer Hakeem Olajuwon is
53. Rapper Levirt (B-Rock
and the Bizz) is 6. Rock
musician Mark Trojanowski
(Sister Hazel) is 6. Rock
singer-songwriter Cat Power
is . Rock DJ Chris Kilmore
(Incubus) is 3. Singer Emma
Bunton (Spice Girls) is 0.
Thought for ToGay: “I
honestly think it is better
to be a failure at something
you love than to be a success
at something you hate.” —
George Burns, American
comedian (1896-1996).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE