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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, May 17, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Wife eager to get pregnant must face stalling husband FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER GARFIELD BLONDIE BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE Dear Abby: My husband and I through with the marriage because have been together for eight years, but his grandparents did it. I thought I would ask for some advice on what I married only a few months. It took should do. — Miss Confused him a long time to inally marry me, Dear Miss Confused: Are you and it ended up that I was the one to sure this person is who he has repre- propose. sented himself to be? “Because his I am 30 and he’s 39. I know he grandparents did it” is not a good loves me. I have always expressed that reason to go through with a marriage I want children and he did, too. I have Jeanne been off birth control and keeping Phillips to a stranger. If his story is true, it appears this young man’s family has track of my cycle, but now he doesn’t Advice his future mapped out for him, and want to make love. When I try to get he isn’t independent enough to resist. him in the mood, he always inds an If you continue this Skype romance, I excuse. I told him he has had plenty of time to see nothing but sadness ahead for you. You let me know if he doesn’t want children. I love him more than anything, but I do not would be happier if you found someone want to miss out on being a parent. This is a closer to home, someone whom you can deal-breaker. I am getting older and I don’t meet in person. Dear Abby: I don’t know what’s wrong know what to do. — Future Mommy In with me. I say yes to everything! I say yes to Wisconsin Dear Future Mommy: Settle this now people I don’t even want to. I agree to plans by asking your husband directly why he is that override those I have already made. either unwilling or unable to perform in the Then I have to lie my way out of events and bedroom. You are entitled to an explanation, other stuff I don’t want to do, or never had because he may be having second thoughts any intention of ever doing. I need help. not only about starting a family, but also the It’s ruining my life. Please, please help. — marriage. If he has changed his mind about Can’t Say No Dear Can’t Say No: What’s wrong is having children, talk to a lawyer because you that you are trying to be a people-pleaser. may be able to get an annulment. Dear Abby: I have a friend who is in the The problem with making promises you Navy. We have been friends for a year and a can’t keep is that eventually you will become half, but have never met in person. He’s 19 labeled as a lake when you don’t follow through. and I’m 17. We Skype at least once a week. If you’re afraid you won’t be liked if He has fallen for me and doesn’t know what to do because he’s in an arranged you take the risk of just saying no, you marriage he doesn’t want to be in. He doesn’t are mistaken. People will respect you for know the girl, doesn’t know what she looks standing up for yourself and drawing the like or even know her name. All he knows is line, as long as it’s done politely. An example would be, “I’d love to, but I already have she lives in Russia. I have fallen for him, too. He is only going plans.” DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 16-17, 1916 Though the Pendleton team of the Blue Mountain League advanced to irst place in the percentage column by the victory Sunday over Pilot Rock it was disbanded yesterday by Manager McGarrigle and there will be no more team from this city in the league unless some one takes the initiative in providing proper inancial support. Manager McGarrigle has been running the team on a “shoestring” all season due to the fact that no organized effort was made to inance the club. It is estimated that about $200 will be needed to inish the schedule and this amount would be comparatively easy to raise if any effort were made at all. The team that played Sunday is the best amateur team Pendleton has ever had and would make a strong bid for the pennant. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 16-17, 1966 The inaugural ball never got started. But the Oregon Junior Chamber of Commerce convention here went into the books as the biggest ever. The hotly contested election for state president blocked the inaugural ball. The band, after waiting for two hours, went home without ever unpacking their instruments. The election inally ended in the wee hours of Sunday morning ive hours after the irst ballot was taken. Campaign positions and scraps of paper littered the loor of the Armory. Harris Hansen, Tigard, is the new state president, succeeding Mel Campbell of Eugene. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 16-17, 1991 A train derailment that spilled thousands of gallons of phosphoric acid about 14 miles northwest of Pendleton last month has been blamed on human error, a spokesman for Union Paciic Railroad reported. About 13,000 gallons of the acid spilled when 18 cars left the tracks on April 12 near the Homly siding. John Bromley, a spokesman at UP’s Omaha, Neb., ofice, said an investigation revealed the train’s loaded and unloaded cars were improperly distributed in the train. It also showed that the engineer used the brakes excessively, he added. The 86-car train included 36 loaded cars, 50 empty cars and the locomotives. Bromley said the derailment was partly caused by having heavily loaded cars lined up behind empty cars. When the engineer applied the brakes, the heavier cars pushed the empty cars off the track. 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 138th day of 2016. There are 228 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 17, 1954, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court handed down its Brown v. Board of Educa- tion of Topeka decision which held that racially segregated public schools were inherently unequal, and therefore unconstitu- tional. On this date: In 1792, the New York Stock Exchange had its origins as a group of brokers met under a tree on Wall Street. In 1875, the irst Kentucky Derby was run; the winner was Aristides, ridden by Oliver Lewis. In 1912, the Socialist Party of America nominated Eugene V. Debs for pres- ident at its convention in Indianapolis. In 1961, Cuban leader Fidel Castro offered to release prisoners captured in the Bay of Pigs invasion in exchange for 500 bull- dozers. (The prisoners were eventually freed in exchange for medical supplies.) In 1980, rioting that claimed 18 lives erupted in Miami’s Liberty City after an all-white jury in Tampa acquitted four former Miami police oficers of fatally beating black insurance executive Arthur McDufie. In 1996, President Bill Clinton signed a measure requiring neighborhood noti- ication when sex offenders move in. (“Megan’s Law,” as it’s known, was named for Megan Kanka, a seven-year-old New Jersey girl who was raped and murdered in 1994.) In 2004, Massachusetts became the irst state to allow legal same-sex marriages. Today’s Birthdays: Actor Peter Gerety is 76. Singer Taj Mahal is 74. Rock musician Bill Bruford is 67. Sing- er-musician George Johnson (The Brothers Johnson) is 63. TV personality Kathleen Sullivan is 63. Actor Bill Paxton is 61. Boxing Hall- of-Famer Sugar Ray Leonard is 60. Actor-comedian Bob Saget is 60. Sports announcer Jim Nantz is 57. Singer Enya is 55. Talk show host-actor Craig Ferguson is 54. Rock singer-musician Page McCo- nnell is 53. Actor David Eigenberg is 52. Singer-mu- sician Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) is 51. Actress Paige Turco is 51. Actor Singer Jordan Knight is 46. Thought for Today: “If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they’ll stop making it tomorrow; if it’s all three, they stopped making it yesterday.” — Mignon McLaughlin, American jour- nalist (1913-1983). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE