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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, December 1, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Wife’s job at the gym has husband in a sweat FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My wife and I have suspicions from your mind, some been married for almost 11 years and sessions with a licensed mental health have three children. About four years professional might help you to put ago my wife cheated on me and left. them into perspective. It may save After a six-week split, we decided we your marriage. However, if it doesn’t wanted to work things out. Everything ease your mind, you can always talk was great — until recently, when she to a lawyer. got a job working at a busy gym. Dear Abby: I take a maintenance Several of the guys from the gym pain pill for arthritis. I count them Jeanne have added her on Facebook and send Phillips every other day to make sure that I’m her messages. They like all her posts not taking too many. Advice and pictures. I work out there and My daughter has been coming to when I go in, I see her laughing and my house a lot lately, and — not every joking with them. This has all started to bring time, but off and on — I’ll count my pills me flashbacks to when she cheated. after she leaves, and my count doesn’t match I tried talking to her about how I feel, but the one from the day before. Sometimes I’m she just says they are my insecurity issues and missing almost all of them, but when I talk I need to deal with them. At this point, I’m to my daughter and ask if she took them, she contemplating divorce so I won’t go through always says she didn’t. If I ask nicely, “Are the same pain I went through last time. I check you sure?” she accuses me of calling her a liar. her Facebook page constantly to see if she has I know she’s taking them, but I don’t know added any new guys and see what comments what to do about her lying to me about it. I they are leaving. I know it’s not healthy, and it really need the pills for myself. The doctor makes me constantly depressed. prescribes them only once a month, and I My wife has no interest in marriage coun- know I’m going to run out. seling, but tells me I should seek professional What should I do? I don’t want to hurt help for my issues. Is there any saving this my daughter’s feelings, but she needs to stop marriage, or is it time to move on? — Threat- taking my pills. — In Pain In Kansas ened In Texas Dear In Pain: Your daughter may have Dear Threatened: Part of your wife’s become addicted to your pain medication or job is to be friendly to the members of that be selling them to people who are. It’s time gym. It doesn’t mean that she’s involved with to start keeping your pills under lock and key. any of them outside of work. The problem Once you do, your daughter may be forced with jealousy and insecurity is that unless to come clean about the lying — or you may they are managed, they tend to feed on each find you’re seeing a lot less of her than you other and grow. While I can’t banish the presently do. 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 Dec. 1, 1916 A $2000 addition is soon to be built to the Presbyterian church in this city and the finance committee of the church is out today raising funds for the improvement. The addi- tion is to be built on the southern end of the church. It will about double the capacity of the Sunday school room which can be thrown into the main auditorium and in addition will provide a kitchen and banquet room for social gatherings. For some time past, the congregation has felt the need of more room. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 1, 1966 A Pendleton man escaped serious injury when his car collided with a large house trailer on fog shrouded Highway 30 this morning. Floyd Matheson of Pendleton was treated at St. Anthony Hospital for facial and arm lacerations. He was cited for improper passing when his eastbound auto crashed into a westbound tractor and house trailer rig near the Rew Elevator. Matheson was attempting 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 to pass a slow moving hay truck in the fog. Charlie Smith of Boise, Idaho, who was pulling the 10-foot wide trailer, was cited for violation of the oversize permit. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 1, 1991 Four people were hurt Friday afternoon in a spectacular two-vehicle crash north of Hermiston. Two pickups collided in the outside southbound lane of Highway 395 at the Bensel Road intersection shortly after 4 p.m. The crash demolished both vehicles and scattered engine and transmission parts, glass, straw, goose decoys and empty beer cans over the roadway, and debris was scat- tered over the High Desert Marine parking lot and shattered a glass door at the store. The impact from the crash ripped the box off an older Ford pickup and scattered its contents for more than 100 feet. Three people in the Ford were injured. The older truck apparently hit a newer Ford diesel pickup broadside, tearing a canopy off the diesel. The driver of the diesel pickup may have been ejected during the collision. Today is the 336th day of 2016. There are 30 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On Dec. 1, 1941, Japan’s Emperor Hirohito approved waging war against the United States, Britain and the Netherlands after his govern- ment rejected U.S. demands contained in the Hull Note. British-born journalist and broadcaster Alistair Cooke became a naturalized Amer- ican citizen. On this date: In 1824, the presidential election was turned over to the U.S. House of Repre- sentatives when a deadlock developed between John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William H. Craw- ford and Henry Clay. (Adams ended up the winner.) In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln sent his Second Annual Message to Congress, in which he called for the abolition of slavery, and went on to say, “Fellow-citizens, we can not escape history. We of this Congress and this Adminis- tration will be remembered in spite of ourselves.” In 1866, Welsh surveyor Sir George Everest, 79, whose name had been conferred upon the mountain in Nepal by the Royal Geographical Society over his objections, died in London. In 1921, the Navy flew the first non-rigid dirigible to use helium; the C-7 traveled from Hampton Roads, Virginia, to Washington, D.C. In 1934, Soviet commu- nist official Sergei M. Kirov, an associate of Josef Stalin, was assassinated in Lenin- grad, resulting in a massive purge. In 1942, nationwide gaso- line rationing went into effect in the United States. In 1955, Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus; the incident sparked a year-long boycott of the buses by blacks. In 1965, an airlift of refugees from Cuba to the United States began in which thousands of Cubans were allowed to leave their homeland. Today’s Birthdays: Former CIA director Stans- field Turner is 93. Actor-di- rector Woody Allen is 81. World Golf Hall of Famer Lee Trevino is 77. Singer Dianne Lennon (The Lennon Sisters) is 77. Country musi- cian Casey Van Beek (The Tractors) is 74. Television producer David Salzman is 73. Rock singer-musician Eric Bloom (Blue Oyster Cult) is 72. Rock musician John Densmore (The Doors) is 72. Actress-singer Bette Midler is 71. Singer Gilbert O’Sullivan is 70. Former child actor Keith Thibodeaux (TV: “I Love Lucy”) is 66. Actor Treat Williams is 65. Country singer Kim Richey is 60. Actress Charlene Tilton is 58. Actress-model Carol Alt is 56. Actress-comedian Sarah Silverman is 46. R&B singer Janelle Monae is 31. Actress Zoe Kravitz is 28. Thought for Today: “People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agree- able feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.” — Alistair Cooke (1908-2004). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
