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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Wednesday, December 14, 2016 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Alcoholic husband’s cruelty extends even to family cat FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My husband drinks date other people and allowed each a lot. When he does, his personality other the freedom to do so over the changes to the point that I don’t want years, but we would always come to be around him. He’s aware of this, back together. but he continues to drink. This year on my birthday I was Recently I caught him sneaking shocked to find out through social alcohol, so I hid the bottle. When he media that Grant has been in a realized what I had done, he retaliated relationship with another woman the by letting our cat out after dark, which whole time I have known him. In Jeanne we don’t do because of the coyotes in Phillips fact, he married her and had a baby our area. (We recently lost a cat to with her! He has been lying to me Advice them after dark.) After he did it, “Joe” since the day we met. nonchalantly let me know the cat was I feel terrible not only for myself, outside. He didn’t say why he did it, but I but also for Grant’s wife. I consider him a figured it out. scumbag at this point. My gut reaction was to I know he’s an alcoholic, but isn’t this evil? contact his wife and spill the beans. But after It feels evil. Or is it the stunted, vindictive I cooled down, I’m not sure if it makes sense mind of an alcoholic? — Let The Cat Out to ruin three more lives. I just feel he should Dear Let The Cat Out: Whether your be responsible for his actions and shouldn’t husband’s mind is stunted, I can’t say. But get away with it. What would you do in this what he did was, indeed, vindictive. It was situation? — Burnt To A Crisp also cruel. As your letter shows, alcoholism Dear Burnt: Honestly? I’d move on. is a disease that affects not only the alcoholic, Dear Abby: I work in a large medical but also the people who are close to them. facility that relies on nurses to attend every Whether you can continue living this way shift they are assigned. Last Christmas a is for you to decide, but before making up nurse I know called in saying her father had your mind, you would be wise to visit some died. The thing is, I have known her for years, Al-Anon meetings. To find one near you, and her father has been dead as long as I have visit al-anon.alateen.org or call 1-888-4- known her. Would it be snitching to tell my ALANON. Please don’t wait. supervisor what I know? — Shorthanded In Dear Abby: I’ve been involved with a New England younger man for 15 years. “Grant” and I Dear Shorthanded: Yes, it would. But were great friends, but always kept things it wouldn’t be snitching to inform the nurse casual — bars, hotels, sports events. We that lying to get out of work is not only unfair agreed we would discuss it if we wanted to to the rest of you, but also unprofessional. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 14, 1916 In order to put an end to the vandalism and petty thievery which has been going at the high school, the student body officers have organized a police force. Miss Alta Mentzer, secretary of the student body, is the chief of police and she has twenty detectives, ten of either sex. None of the twenty knows the iden- tity of any of the others. Recently a number of students have lost personal property at the high school and the only theory that explains the loss is the presence of a cleptomaniac in the school. Several students have lost money, a total of over $4.00 having been reported stolen in the past week, one student has lost two pairs of overshoes and a girl yesterday lost a mackinaw. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 14, 1966 Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Osborn were already “old married folks” when that historic battle cry “Remember the Maine!” rang across the United States in 1898. Sunday the Osborns will celebrate their 80th wedding anniversary in Milton-Freewater. Mayor Bill York has proclaimed Sunday “Annie and Robert Osborn Day.” Telegrams are expected from Gov. Mark Hatfield and President Lyndon B. Johnson. Hundreds of well-wishers are expected at a reception. The Osborns were married Dec. 18, 1886, in Gaylord, Mich., and came West in 1909. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 14, 1991 Winds gusting up to 49 mph in Pendleton and 58 mph on the Umatilla Army Depot near Hermiston caused only light damage in Northeast Oregon, but the same storm injured a construction worker in Bend and cut power to more than 8,000 customers in Central Oregon. The worst damage locally occurred on the Tollgate Highway, which connects Weston and Elgin. At least 20 trees were toppled by the wind, closing Oregon 204 for a short time. But it was nothing like the storm in January of 1990, when winds gusting near 80 mph knocked over hundreds of trees and closed the road for days. THIS DAY IN HISTORY BLONDIE DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN Today is the 349th day of 2016. There are 17 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 14, 1916, Presi- dent Woodrow Wilson vetoed an immigration measure aimed at preventing “undesir- ables” and anyone born in the “Asiatic Barred Zone” from entering the U.S. (Congress overrode Wilson’s veto in Feb. 1917.) On this date: In 1799, the first president of the United States, George Washington, died at his Mount Vernon, Virginia, home at age 67. In 1819, Alabama joined the Union as the 22nd state. In 1911, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team became the first men to reach the South Pole, beating out a British expedi- tion led by Robert F. Scott. In 1918, “Il Trittico,” a trio of one-act operas by Giacomo Puccini, premiered at New York’s Metropolitan Opera House. (The third opera, “Gianni Schicchi,” featured the aria “O Mio Babbino Caro,” which was an instant hit.) In 1936, the comedy “You Can’t Take It With You” by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart opened on Broadway. In 1946, the United Nations General Assembly voted to establish the U.N.’s headquarters in New York. In 1964, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States, ruled that Congress was within its authority to enforce the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against racial discrimination by private businesses (in this case, a motel that refused to cater to blacks). In 1972, Apollo 17 astro- nauts Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan concluded their third and final moon- walk and blasted off for their rendezvous with the command module. In 1981, Israel annexed the Golan Heights, which it had seized from Syria in 1967. In 2012, a gunman with a semi-automatic rifle killed 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elemen- tary School in Newtown, Connecticut, then committed suicide as police arrived; 20-year-old Adam Lanza had also fatally shot his mother at their home before carrying out the attack on the school. Today’s Birthdays: Singer-actress Abbe Lane is 85. Actor Hal Williams is 82. Actress-singer Jane Birkin is 70. Pop singer Joyce Vincent- Wilson (Tony Orlando and Dawn) is 70. Entertainment executive Michael Ovitz is 70. Actress Dee Wallace is 68. Rhythm-and-blues singer Ronnie McNeir (The Four Tops) is 67. Rock musi- cian Cliff Williams is 67. Actor-comedian T.K. Carter is 60. Rock singer-musician Mike Scott (The Waterboys) is 58. Singer-musician Peter “Spider” Stacy (The Pogues) is 58. Actress Cynthia Gibb is 53. Actress Nancy Valen (TV: “Baywatch”) is 51. Actor Archie Kao is 47. Actress Natascha McElhone is 47. Actress-comedian Michaela Watkins is 45. Actress-comedian Miranda Hart is 44. Rhythm-and-blues singer Brian Dalyrimple (Soul For Real) is 41. Actress KaDee Strickland is 41. Actress Tammy Blanchard is 40. Actress Vanessa Hudgens is 28. Thought for Today: “You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.” — Stanislaw J. Lec, Polish author (1909-1966). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE