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East Oregonian
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COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Deserted sister doubly angry
after brother abandons wife
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: When my children
help each other out, but I do most of
were small, my husband left me. He
the carpooling because of “Kathy’s”
married the other woman the day after
work schedule.
our divorce was final. It was the worst
Because my daughter “Chris”
thing that has ever happened to me,
turned 16, she will be driving to school
and I suffered greatly in the years that
once the weather improves. I told
followed.
Kathy we have to discuss the carpool
Recently my brother did the same
situation. By law, Chris will be allowed
thing to his wife of many years. I find
to have only one non-family member
Jeanne
myself feeling very angry and hurt that Phillips in the car. She cannot take Kathy’s
he would do this. He said it was wrong
daughter to and from school because
Advice
when it happened to me, but now he
Chris will be taking her best friend.
expects me to support his decision
I feel terrible about it. I am a rule
to abandon his wife. He also expects me to follower and don’t want to put my daughter
befriend his new wife.
in an illegal situation. I believe I have given
I can’t help but identify with his ex. My Kathy plenty of time to figure another way
heart goes out to her, and I’m furious with home for her daughter. I’m not sure why I feel
my brother and his new wife. Am I wrong so bad and am losing sleep over this. Am I
for feeling this way? Must my loyalty to my wrong? — Carpooling In Ohio
family override my principles? — Loyal To A
Dear Carpooling: You have been a good
Point In Mississippi
friend to Kathy, but her daughter is her respon-
Dear Loyal: That you would identify sibility, not yours. You are making Kathy’s
strongly with your former sister-in-law isn’t problem your problem, and that IS wrong.
wrong; it is normal under the circumstances. Now turn over, go back to sleep and let her
Not knowing how close your relationship solve it.
is with your brother, I can’t decide for you
Dear Abby: I’ve often wondered what
whether blood is thicker than water. But I can happens to people with an immediate
certainly understand your distaste at the idea of problem that you are unable to answer in print
befriending the woman he cheated with.
in a timely manner. For example, a bride with
Whichever you decide to do, continue an upcoming wedding, or someone trying
to be kind to your ex-SIL. She needs all the to decide where to spend Thanksgiving
emotional support she can get now that your or Christmas. Do you write them outside
brother is cozily ensconced in his new love of your column? — Just Wondering In
nest.
Harrisburg, Pa.
Dear Abby: I have been carpooling with
Dear Just Wondering: Yes. Time-sensitive
another mom for about a year. I pick her kids questions are often dealt with separately, apart
up from the bus stop and take them home. We from my column.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 30-31, 1917
Having read in a Portland paper that Chief
of Police Lou Rayburn of La Grande, formerly
police officer here, and Fire Chief Claude
McKay of La Grande have issued a defi to meet
any other such officers in the country in a blue
rock contest, Chief of Police Gurdane of Pend-
leton is hurling a challenge to the La Grande
chiefs to meet him and Officer Billy Scheer in
a revolver contest. “I known Lou is a champion
with the shotgun,” said Chief Gurdane this
morning, “and McKay may be as good, but
what does that buy them? An officer doesn’t go
around with a shotgun on his shoulder. … Tell
him to cut out blowing about his marksmanship
with a scatter-gun and meet me with the only
weapon a man in his occupation should use.”
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 30-31, 1967
Heppner volunteer firemen were called out
at 10 a.m. Tuesday when an alarm was turned
in that a hay truck was burning on Highway 207
one mile south of town. The truck, owned by
Jack Glavey, was being driven by Pat O’Brien
when flames shot up from the floorboards.
The vehicle had burned up before the firemen
arrived. Tires were not burned and the frame
was towed to a local garage.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 30-31, 1992
Owner Jim Sewell hopes to have the Circle
S Barbecue restaurant open again by Tuesday,
but he admits that may be “a lot of wishful
thinking.” A fire Wednesday night heavily
damaged the kitchen of the popular Pend-
leton restaurant and caused smoke damage
throughout the rest of the building. The fire
started in the flue of the smoker, according to
fire marshal Ron Campbell. All told, 19 fire-
fighters and four pieces of equipment — two
pumper trucks, an aerial ladder truck and an
ambulance — were on the scene until 1 a.m.
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 31st day of
2017. There are 334 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Jan. 31, 1917, during
World War I, Germany
served notice that it was
beginning a policy of unre-
stricted submarine warfare.
On this date:
In 1606, Guy Fawkes,
convicted of treason for
his part in the “Gunpowder
Plot” against the English
Parliament and King James
I, was executed.
In 1797, composer Franz
Schubert was born in Vienna.
In 1865, the U.S. House
of Representatives joined
the Senate in passing the
13th Amendment to the
United States Constitution
abolishing slavery, sending it
to states for ratification. (The
amendment was adopted
in Dec. 1865.) Gen. Robert
E. Lee was named general-
in-chief of the Confederate
States Army by President
Jefferson Davis.
In 1929, revolutionary
Leon Trotsky and his family
were expelled from the
Soviet Union.
In
1934,
President
Franklin D. Roosevelt signed
the Gold Reserve Act.
In 1945, Pvt. Eddie
Slovik, 24, became the first
U.S. soldier since the Civil
War to be executed for
desertion as he was shot by
an American firing squad in
France.
In 1958, the United States
entered the Space Age with
its first successful launch of
a satellite into orbit, Explorer
I.
In 1961, NASA launched
Ham the Chimp aboard a
Mercury-Redstone
rocket
from Cape Canaveral; Ham
was recovered safely from
the Atlantic Ocean following
his 16 1/2-minute suborbital
flight.
In 1971, astronauts Alan
Shepard, Edgar Mitchell
and Stuart Roosa blasted
off aboard Apollo 14 on a
mission to the moon.
In 1980, Queen Juliana of
the Netherlands announced
she would abdicate on her
birthday the following April,
to be succeeded by her
daughter, Princess Beatrix.
In 1990, McDonald’s
Corp. opened its first fast-
food restaurant in Moscow.
In 2000, an Alaska
Airlines MD-83 jet crashed
into the Pacific Ocean off
Port Hueneme, California,
killing all 88 people aboard.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actress Carol Channing is
96. Composer Philip Glass is
80. Former Interior Secretary
James Watt is 79. Princess
Beatrix of the Netherlands,
the former queen regent, is
79. Actor Stuart Margolin
is 77. Actress Jessica Walter
is 76. Former U.S. Rep.
Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., is
76. Blues singer-musician
Charlie Musselwhite is
73. Actor Glynn Turman
is 71. Baseball Hall-of-
Famer Nolan Ryan is 70.
Actor Jonathan Banks is
70. Singer-musician Harry
Wayne Casey (KC and the
Sunshine Band) is 66. Rock
singer Johnny Rotten is 61.
Actress Kelly Lynch is 58.
Actress Minnie Driver is 47.
Actress Portia de Rossi is
44. Actor-comedian Bobby
Moynihan is 40. Singer Justin
Timberlake is 36. Country
singer
Tyler
Hubbard
(Florida Georgia Line) is 30.
Folk-rock singer-musician
Marcus Mumford (Mumford
and Sons) is 30.
Thought for Today:
“Happiness is not having
what you want, but wanting
what you have.” — Rabbi
Hyman Judah Schachtel,
American theologian, author
and educator (1907-1990).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE