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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, October 6, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Divorce stories cause woman to pause on path to marriage FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My boyfriend and I tattoo I have on my ankle and making have been dating for almost two years, fun of it. The tattoo is small and has my initials, or so I tell him. I think he although we have known each other knows I’m lying. A guy I dated had for almost seven years now. He is the same initials and we got matching sweet, compassionate, always puts me tattoos, but I have never admitted it to irst and is the best friend and romantic my husband. Am I lying? Should I tell partner I could ever wish for. him whose initials those really are? — My question is, is two years too soon Initially Confused to know that I want to spend my life Jeanne Dear Initially Confused: Many with him? We have discussed getting Phillips people today have tattoos, and some married and we would both like to, but Advice of them include the names or initials I have heard countless stories about of former boyfriends, girlfriends and couples divorcing because they didn’t wait long enough before getting married, and spouses. You should have fessed up at the I don’t want to be one of those people. Please time you were being married. The problem with lying about something as trivial as this is help. — Loving In California Dear Loving: In many cases, two years is that it makes one wonder what else you would long enough for a couple to meet, know they lie about. I see several possible solutions: First, tell are compatible, become engaged and marry. Having known this man for a total of seven your husband the truth. The second would be years, I would like to think that you have had a to have the tattoo removed. The third would be chance to observe him in many situations and to add your married initial to the ones already possibly in other relationships. I would hope on your ankle, at which point they WILL be that you have both dated others and gained your initials and yours alone — unless you’re still using your maiden name. some experience. Dear Abby: I have noticed that you often What concerns me is that you felt the need to write and ask me this question, because tell people to talk to a spiritual adviser. As it makes me wonder if you are completely an agnostic, I am curious whom you would convinced that your marriage would last recommend I speak to. — Rick In Denver Dear Rick: In a case like yours, talk to forever. Premarital counseling might put your someone who is not personally or emotion- mind at ease, and that’s what I recommend. Dear Abby: My husband and I have been ally involved with you, such as a licensed married for two years. He keeps asking about a counselor. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 6, 1916 Damage that will total around one hundred thousand dollars was done this morning by a basement ire in the Schmidt block on Main street. The heaviest losers are Bond Bros. and the Popular Cash Store, occupants of the lower loor of the building, and Douglas Betts, owner of the building. The ire, which was undoubtedly the most disastrous that Pendleton has experienced in many years, was of a nature that made it dificult in the extreme to ight. The lames were conined almost entirely to the basement and the smoke was so dense that the iremen found it impossible to get down where they could see it. All they could do was to pour water into the basement and drown out the ire and it took more than three hours of steady work to do this. The origin of the ire is unknown. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 6, 1966 The Pendleton Post Ofice will launch a campaign Monday to help all patrons in the city to use ZIP codes in their correspondence. Beginning Monday letter carriers throughout the Pendleton area will deliver cards to every residence, Postmaster Lynn Ranney reported. Each card will have spaces for the addresses THIS DAY IN HISTORY BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN the householder wishes ZIP coded. Ranney said after the addresses are written on the card, preferably printed, then they may be dropped into any letter box or returned to the letter carrier. “The Pendleton Post Ofice will add the appropriate ZIP codes and return the cards to the mailer,” Ranney said. The project is part of Postmaster General Lawrence F. O’Brien’s program to make ZIP codes more accessible to the mailing public. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 6, 1991 A 30-year-old Pilot Rock man was arrested Friday by police and charged with torching the old Grace Hospital on Pilot Rock’s Main Street last weekend. John W. Herald was taken into custody at 4:50 Friday afternoon by Pilot Rock police with assistance from the Umatilla County Sheriff’s Department, said Ron Layton, police chief in Pilot Rock. Herald was charged with two counts of second-degree arson and with possession of a destructive device used to start the ire at the vacant building, all felonies. Layton said police suspect Herald acted alone in starting the ire, which was detected at about 7:45 last Sunday night. It was the third ire in the last several years at the two-story building, which served the community as a hospital more than 80 years ago. Today is the 280th day of 2016. There are 86 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 6, 1976, Presi- dent Gerald R. Ford, in his second presidential debate with Democrat Jimmy Carter, asserted that there was “no Soviet domination of eastern Europe.” (Ford later conceded such was not the case.) On this date: In 1683, thirteen families from Krefeld, Germany, arrived in Philadelphia to begin Germantown, one of America’s oldest settle- ments. In 1884, the Naval War College was established in Newport, Rhode Island. In 1891, Charles Stewart Parnell, the “Uncrowned King of Ireland,” died in Brighton, Sussex, England. In 1927, the era of talking pictures arrived with the opening of “The Jazz Singer” starring Al Jolson, a movie featuring both silent and sound-synchronized sequences. In 1939, in a speech to the Reichstag, German Chan- cellor Adolf Hitler spoke of his plans to reorder the ethnic layout of Europe — a plan which would entail settling the “Jewish problem.” In 1949, U.S.-born Iva Toguri D’Aquino, convicted of treason for being Japanese wartime broadcaster “Tokyo Rose,” was sentenced in San Francisco to 10 years in prison (she ended up serving more than six). In 1958, the nuclear submarine USS Seawolf surfaced after spending 60 days submerged. In 1960, the historical drama “Spartacus,” starring Kirk Douglas and directed by Stanley Kubrick, had its world premiere in New York. In 1973, war erupted in the Middle East as Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel during the Yom Kippur holiday. (Israel, initially caught off-guard, suffered heavy losses before rebounding and pushing back the Arab forces before a cease-ire inally took hold in the nearly three-week conlict.) Today’s Birthdays: Broadcaster and writer Melvyn Bragg is 77. Actress Britt Ekland is 74. Singer Millie Small is 70. The president of Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams, is 68. Singer-mu- sician Thomas McClary is 67. Musician Sid McGinnis is 67. CBS chief executive oficer Les Moonves is 67. Rock singer Kevin Cronin (REO Speedwagon) is 65. Rock singer-musician David Hidalgo (Los Lobos) is 62. Pro Football Hall of Famer Tony Dungy is 61. Actress Elisabeth Shue is 53. Singer Matthew Sweet is 52. Actress Jacqueline Obradors is 50. Country singer Tim Rushlow is 50. Rock musician Tommy Stinson is 50. Actress Amy Jo Johnson is 46. Actress Emily Mortimer is 45. Actor Lamman Rucker is 45. Actor Ioan Gruffudd is 43. Actor Jeremy Sisto is 42. Rhythm- and-blues singer Melinda Doolittle is 39. Actor Wes Ramsey is 39. Singer-musi- cian Will Butler is 34. Thought for Today: “Talking comes by nature, silence by wisdom.” — Author unknown. PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
