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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