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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Couple fallen out of love
should fall out of marriage
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: Is it possible that
counseling won’t ix the dysfunction
people can just fall out of love with
in your relationship, then the logical
each other? We have been married
next step would be an amicable sepa-
ration or divorce.
for 21 years and have three kids who
Dear Abby: I have the most
are older. Over the last ive years, my
amazing husband. He helps with the
wife and I have stopped communi-
housework, provides for us and loves
cating. We don’t do anything together
me unconditionally. Not a day goes
and have little desire to be with each
by that I don’t hear how precious I am
other anymore.
Jeanne
We are good parents, but as far Phillips to him. It’s like a fairy tale. Except —
we never had a formal wedding, just
as being husband and wife, we have
Advice
a courthouse ceremony with nobody
pretty much neglected each other
there but us two. You see, we had to
emotionally and physically. Neither
get the paperwork done so I wouldn’t have
of us has strayed.
We haven’t been to a marriage counselor to keep renewing my visa status every few
because I just don’t love my wife anymore, months.
Now we can be together in the U.S.
and I’m not saying this to be mean. It’s just
how I feel. We have failed each other miser- with no issues. But I feel like we skipped
ably as husband and wife, and she deserves an important life milestone, and a wedding
better. She has been a great mom to our three would be the perfect opportunity to unite
kids, and I would never take that away from both of our families from around the world.
The problem is my husband is happy
her.
Can people stay in a loveless marriage? with the way things are. He refuses to spend
We have talked it over, and we both agree money on a party and says, “If we ever have
there’s nothing left here for each other. I have one, it will be when we are rich, stable, and
already told her she needs to do whatever it able to afford it by ourselves.” (My parents
takes to make herself happy because I can no are more than willing to pay!) I feel like a
longer be here for her emotionally or physi- lifelong dream was taken away from me.
Your thoughts? — Missing Out In Virginia
cally. — Fell Out Of Love
Dear Missing Out: My thoughts are
Dear Fell Out Of Love: People some-
times remain in loveless marriages for you have a stellar husband AND your visa
religious or inancial reasons, because they problem is solved. I’d say you have done
are afraid a divorce would traumatize the quite well. If your husband prefers to post-
children, or because they are afraid of being pone the fancy celebration until you are more
alone. If you and your wife agree that there inancially stable and foot the bill himself,
is nothing left for either of you, and marriage you should respect him for it. I know I do.
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
Sept. 12-13, 1916
Stanield had a disastrous ire early this
morning. It destroyed the building in which
was located the creamery, cheese factory, ice
plant and ice cream factory. The origin of the
ire is unknown. It was discovered about 2 this
morning and was then burning so iercely that
it was impossible to save any of the building.
The building was owned by E.W. McComas
and W.J. Clarke of Pendleton and their loss
is covered by insurance. The machinery was
owned and operated by A. Sahli and he, too,
carried insurance. The combined factories,
located near the depot, was one of Stanield’s
chief industries.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Sept. 12-13, 1966
The Wheeler County Fair and Rodeo ended
with the third and inal running of the Interna-
tional Porcupine Race. The race, which almost
didn’t come off at all, because of a lack of
porcupines, was inally held after a desperate
plea was made over the loud speaker asking
if anyone in the audience had any porkys
they would make available to the mayors
attending. State Treasurer Bob Straub was the
only contestant who had come prepared with
a porcupine. Mayors in the race were Jack
Steiwer, Fossil; Bruce Mercer, Condon, and
Les Grant, Arlington, who was represented by
Don Barnes of Arlington. It was a foregone
conclusion that Steiwer’s entry would win as he
had already won the two previous races held in
Fossil and Condon. One could tell that Steiwer,
a leading Wheeler County Republican, was
eager to have his entry win over the Democratic
candidate’s. But Steiwer’s entry found a hole
in the grandstand and made a quick exit from
the race track. Arlington’s entry was the winner
with Straub’s entry running a close second.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Sept. 12-13, 1991
Pendleton-born Elaine Miles is pleased
with her television role, Marilyn on the CBS
television series “Northern Exposure.” Her
part will be expanded this season, which will
open on Sept. 23. “She’s doing, like, sentences
now instead of two or three words,” Miles said,
with a wide, characteristic smile. Marilyn is
a Native Alaskan who serves as the doctor’s
assistant on the show. She represents Miles’
irst acting experience. But the actress has
appeared in Pendleton’s annual Happy Canyon
Pageant since she was carried on in a cradle
board. Miles, who is Cayuse and Nez Perce,
is registered with Umatilla Indian Reservation
tribes. Her family moved from Pendleton when
she was 2 ½.
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 257th day of
2016. There are 109 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Sept. 13, 1971, a
four-day inmates’ rebellion
at the Attica Correctional
Facility in western New York
ended as police and guards
stormed the prison; the ordeal
and inal assault claimed the
lives of 32 inmates and 11
hostages.
On this date:
In 1515, during the Italian
Wars, the two-day Battle of
Marignano began as forces
led by Francis I of France
clashed with troops from
the Old Swiss Confederacy.
(The French succeeded in
forcing the Swiss to abandon
nearby Milan.)
In 1788, the Congress of
the Confederation authorized
the irst national election, and
declared New York City the
temporary national capital.
In 1814, during the War
of 1812, British naval forces
began bombarding Fort
McHenry in Baltimore but
were driven back by American
defenders in a battle that lasted
until the following morning.
In 1911, the song “Oh,
You Beautiful Doll,” a
romantic rag by Nat D. Ayer
and Seymour Brown, was
irst published by Jerome H.
Remick & Co.
In 1923, Miguel Primo de
Rivera, the captain general
of Catalonia, seized power in
Spain.
In 1948, Republican
Margaret Chase Smith of
Maine was elected to the
U.S. Senate; she became the
irst woman to serve in both
houses of Congress.
In 1959, Elvis Presley
irst met his future wife,
14-year-old Priscilla Beau-
lieu, while stationed in West
Germany with the U.S.
Army. (They married in
1967, but divorced in 1973.)
In 1996, rapper Tupac
Shakur died at a Las Vegas
hospital six days after he
was wounded in a drive-by
shooting; he was 25.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actress Barbara Bain is 85.
Actress Eileen Fulton (TV:
“As the World Turns”) is
83. Actor Joe E. Tata is 80.
TV producer Fred Silverman
is 79. Singer Randy Jones
(The Village People) is 64.
Rock singer-musician Dave
Mustaine (Megadeth) is
55. Radio-TV personality
Tavis Smiley is 52. Olympic
gold medal runner Michael
Johnson is 49. Country
musician Joe Don Rooney
(Rascal Flatts) is 41. Singer
Fiona Apple is 39. Actor Ben
Savage is 36. Rock singer
Niall Horan (One Direction)
is 23.
Thought for Today:
“Injustice, poverty, slavery,
ignorance — these may be
cured by reform or revolution.
But men do not live only by
ighting evils. They live by
positive goals, individual and
collective, a vast variety of
them, seldom predictable, at
times incompatible.” — Isaiah
Berlin, Russian-born British
philosopher (1909-1997).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE