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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, January 26, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Car of man’s dreams doesn’t pass muster with his wife FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I am a successful These are just two samples of his business professional in my mid-50s. I lack of support for me. I guess there is have put my children through college, no way to make someone care enough and they have no student loans. (My about you to put their conveniences wife did not help with any of the aside. When we moved out of state, college expenses. It was all on me.) he said if he didn’t find a job, he was I am finally at a point in my life that going back home. Well, where would I can pursue my passion of buying a that have left me? sports car. I have always been a car Roger wouldn’t have anything Jeanne guy, and my wife knows it. When I Phillips at all if it weren’t for me. I know I bring up the subject of purchasing the should dump him, but after 28 years, I Advice car of my dreams, which is not very can’t pull the rug out from under him. expensive, she tells me I will look like He cops an attitude and makes me feel an idiot. In her next breath she says it’s OK if bad if I press the subject. I only wish he would I buy a sports car if it is the one she wants, and do something for me from his heart, but I of course, the one she wants is very expensive. guess it isn’t there. Any advice, Abby? — His No matter how I broach the subject, she Last Priority In Florida does not “get” that it is not about her but about Dear Last Priority: Yes, because you my passion as a car guy. How do I get her to can’t bring yourself to pull the rug out from see my side? — Revving Up In New York under Roger, it might help you to memorize Dear Revving Up: If it’s your money the Serenity Prayer when he disappoints you paying for the car, you don’t have to get her in the future. It goes like this: “Lord, grant to see your side. It will be yours — not hers me the serenity to accept the things I cannot — and you should buy the one that gives you change, courage to change the things I can, pleasure and drive it to your heart’s content. and the wisdom to know the difference.” Dear Abby: I have been with “Roger” for Dear Abby: My mother was a stickler 28 years. He is basically a good, honest man, when it came to table manners. She had a little but he thinks only of himself. When I had 1-inch-long ceramic pink pig that she placed heart surgery, he left me alone at the hospital in front of me every time I did something that night, not knowing if I would live or Emily Post would frown on. I HATED that die. (Nothing would have kept me from HIS little pig. — Ralph In Arroyo Grande, Calif. bedside!) I’ll be having knee surgery soon, Dear Ralph: Now, now. You should have and he won’t take the day off or a sick day been grateful to that little pig, because it kept to take me. He wants a friend of ours to do it. you from becoming a BIG one. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 26, 1917 Right now there is a big daily inflow of spirituous, vinous and malt liquors into Pend- leton. With the floodgates, constituted by the bone-dry law, threatening to shut next week, every effort is being made by those who like their “likker” to let in as much as they can while they can. The express offices of the city are the receiving stations and the daily receipts at either of the two offices is enough to put the whole city on an awful jag. Almost every man in town, regardless of whether he is an habitual drinker, has been exercising his rights to a limited shipment of “booze” and it is said that a good many have been exercising rights other than their own. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 26, 1967 Somewhere in the vast reaches of the Oregon Highway Commission there must be a heart. Because of it, an area man won’t have to give up his home. The highway commission this week gave Umatilla County a deed to a triangular piece of land just south of Bucks Corner and west of Highway 207. That deed — for a one dollar consideration — makes good an earlier county deed and insures Fred (Fritz) Brandt of keeping his home that he built 15 years ago. Brandt discovered that the land he bought from Umatilla County for $75 in 1951 had been sold 15 years earlier — in 1936 — to the state. The 1936 sale slipped through a record book and the sale was never noted in the county tax office. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 26, 1992 Changing his plea to avoid the death penalty, Jon Q. Johnston on Friday admitted killing a Brownsville couple on Weston Mountain in June 1990. As a result of John- ston’s plea, authorities filed new aggravated murder charges against co-defendant David. L. Selders. Johnston and Selders were arrested in Milton-Freewater June 28, 1990, four days after the bodies of George E. and Charmaine L. Meyers were found on Lincton Mountain Road, about 17 miles east of Weston. 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 26th day of 2017. There are 339 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 26, 1942, the first American Expeditionary Force to head to Europe during World War II arrived in Belfast, Northern Ireland. On this date: In 1784, in a letter to his daughter Sarah, Benjamin Franklin expressed unhap- piness over the choice of the bald eagle as the symbol of America, and stated his own preference: the turkey. In 1788, the first Euro- pean settlers in Australia, led by Capt. Arthur Phillip, landed in present-day Sydney. In 1837, Michigan became the 26th state. In 1870, Virginia rejoined the Union. In 1915, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Rocky Mountain National Park Act, which created America’s 10th national park. In 1939, during the Spanish Civil War, rebel forces led by Gen. Francisco Franco captured Barcelona. In 1950, India officially proclaimed itself a republic as Rajendra Prasad took the oath of office as president. In 1962, the United States launched Ranger 3 to land scientific instruments on the moon — but the probe ended up missing its target by more than 22,000 miles. In 1979, former Vice President Nelson A. Rocke- feller died in New York at age 70. In 1988, Australians celebrated the 200th anni- versary of their country as a grand parade of tall ships re-enacted the voyage of the first European settlers. The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical “Phantom of the Opera” opened at Broad- way’s Majestic Theater. In 1992, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton, appearing with his wife, Hillary, on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” acknowl- edged “causing pain in my marriage,” but said past problems were not relevant to the campaign. In 1998, President Bill Clinton forcefully denied having an affair with a former White House intern, telling reporters, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.” Today’s Birthdays: Actress Anne Jeffreys is 94. Cartoonist Jules Feiffer is 88. Sportscaster-actor Bob Uecker is 82. Actor Scott Glenn is 78. Singer Jean Knight is 74. Activist Angela Davis is 73. Actor Richard Portnow is 70. Rock musician Corky Laing (Mountain) is 69. Actor David Strathairn is 68. Alt-country singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams is 64. Rock singer-musician Eddie Van Halen is 62. Reggae musician Norman Hassan (UB40) is 59. Actress-comedian-talk show host Ellen DeGeneres is 59. Hockey Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky is 56. Musi- cian Andrew Ridgeley is 54. Rhythm-and-blues singer Jazzie B. (Soul II Soul) is 54. Actor Paul Johansson is 53. Director Lenny Abra- hamson is 51. Actor Bryan Callen is 50. Rock musician Chris Hesse (Hoobastank) is 43. NBA player Vince Carter is 40. Thought for Today: “Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, dramatist and author (1749- 1832). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE