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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Wednesday, February 15, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Husband’s affair could be more about money than love FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I am 68 and my mother about it, and now she will husband is 80. I just found out he is not let my daughter play with Laurie. involved with a 40-year-old woman. She believes Jessie made it all up. He says it is not an affair because My daughter is inconsolable because they haven’t actually had sex! I don’t she no longer has a playmate. She know what to do. Can you help me? believes it is her fault that Laurie — Heartbroken In New Mexico can’t play with her because she told Dear Heartbroken: Your husband me. I don’t know what to do so the may not be having an affair in the girls can play together. — Needs A Jeanne physical sense, but he IS having an Phillips Playmate emotional affair. He may be flattered Dear Needs: It is important that Advice by the attention he’s receiving from a you make Jessie understand that younger woman, or he may think he’s none of this was her fault — it was actually in love with her. Whether she is in JASON’S fault — and that she did the right love with HIM is open to question. thing by telling you. What you need to do now However, if your husband is giving her is help your daughter find other playmates, money, you might have an argument that preferably some whose parents supervise he is being manipulated into it, which could when children play in their home. qualify as elder abuse. Remember, too, if you While Jason’s mother may not want to are a longtime wife in a community property believe what her son did, it’s highly unlikely state, half of the assets acquired during your your daughter made it up. Dealing with a marriage are yours. If he doesn’t agree to end problem like that by putting her head in the the relationship, this is something you might sand will only invite more trouble, because want to discuss with a lawyer. Jason is sure to repeat it with some other little Dear Abby: My 7-year-old daughter, girl. “Jessie,” has a best friend who lives next Dear Abby: Today I called my church door. The neighbor, “Laurie,” has an older to cancel my attendance at a retreat a month brother, “Jason,” who is 13. from now. I had paid $25 to hold my spot. Recently, Jessie played at Laurie’s house, When I stated my reason for calling, the and when she came home she told me Jason church secretary said, “Do you want a refund had said some nasty things to her. When I or would you like to donate toward tithes?” asked what they were, she told me that one I thought this was nervy. I told her to refund time Jason told her to pull down her under- the money. What is your thought on this? — wear, and another time he told her to pull Wants A Refund In Brentwood, Calif. down his pants and do something that can’t Dear Wants: Just this: You were offered be mentioned in a family newspaper. an option, and you chose the one you When I heard it, I was livid. I told his preferred. Let it go. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Feb. 15, 1917 There was more or less of a smouldering indignation manifest in the demeanor of certain members of the high school faculty this morning and, from the best advices obtainable, it resulted from what they interpreted as an eleventh hour edict of Supt. A.T. Park barring them from attending the dancing party given at Assembly Hall last evening by the Bachelors’ Club. Supt. Park denies that he issued any edict at all, stating that he had merely suggested to one of the teachers the inadvisability of encouraging high school dances on week nights by the attendance of faculty members. He declares that he told them to use their own judgment and that their attendance would not be held against them in any way, shape or form. The teachers’ version of the affair differs from this materially. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Feb. 15, 1967 The Oregon Supreme Court ruled today against Betty M. Hamilton, Heppner, who had brought a $150,000 suit against Crown Life Insurance Co. on grounds it invaded her privacy. Mrs. Hamilton’s husband committed suicide on Sept. 20, 1965. The company showed her insurance check to several persons in order to sell more life insurance. The high court said there was no invasion of privacy, even though the company might have exhib- ited bad taste. “There are some shocks, incon- veniences, and annoyances which members of society in the nature of things must absorb without right of redress,” the opinion, by Justice A.T. Goodwin, said. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Feb. 15, 1992 Bonneville Power Administration’s new direction on wildlife mitigation has drawn fire from an environmental group promoting the federal purchase of the Conforth Ranch. BPA’s decision amounts to “passing the buck” on whether to acquire the Conforth Ranch for wildlife, said Roy Elicker, counsel for the National Wildlife Federation at Portland. “They have bought breathing room and spent ratepayer money to appease a political problem they have,” he said. BPA sidestepped a decision on the controversial Conforth Ranch purchase by announcing Thursday it wouldn’t acquire the 2,860-acre cattle ranch near Umatilla as a wildlife preserve. Instead, BPA will negotiate a trust agreement with the state for the purpose of developing wildlife mitigation throughout Oregon, at the Conforth Ranch or elsewhere. THIS DAY IN HISTORY DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN Today is the 46th day of 2017. There are 319 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 15, 1867, “On the Beautiful Blue Danube,” a waltz by Johann Strauss (the Younger), was publicly performed for the first time by the Vienna Men’s Choral Society, garnering a polite, if decidedly less than enthu- siastic, audience response. (A revised orchestral version proved much more successful.) On this date: In 1764, the site of pres- ent-day St. Louis was estab- lished by Pierre Laclede and Auguste Chouteau. In 1898, the U.S. battle- ship Maine mysteriously blew up in Havana Harbor, killing more than 260 crew members and bringing the United States closer to war with Spain. In 1933, President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt escaped an assassination attempt in Miami that mortally wounded Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak; gunman Giuseppe Zangara was executed more than four weeks later. In 1952, a funeral was held at Windsor Castle for Britain’s King George VI, who had died nine days earlier. In 1961, 73 people, including an 18-member U.S. figure skating team en route to the World Champi- onships in Czechoslovakia, were killed in the crash of a Sabena Airlines Boeing 707 in Belgium. In 1992, a Milwaukee jury found that Jeffrey Dahmer was sane when he killed and mutilated 15 men and boys. (The decision meant that Dahmer, who had already pleaded guilty to the murders, would receive a mandatory life sentence for each count; Dahmer was beaten to death in prison in 1994.) Today’s Birthdays: Former Illinois Congressman John Anderson is 95. Actress Claire Bloom is 86. Author Susan Brownmiller is 82. Songwriter Brian Holland is 76. Rock musician Mick Avory (The Kinks) is 73. Jazz musician Henry Threadgill is 73. Actress-model Marisa Berenson is 70. Actress Jane Seymour is 66. Singer Melissa Manchester is 66. Actress Lynn Whitfield is 64. “Simpsons” creator Matt Groening (GREE’-ning) is 63. College and Pro Football Hall of Famer Darrell Green is 57. Rock singer Brandon Boyd (Incubus) is 41. Rock musician Ronnie Vannucci (The Killers) is 41. Sing- er-songwriter-musician Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes) is 37. Thought for Today: “Nothing is mine, I have only nothing but it is enough, it is beautiful and it is all mine.” — Katherine Anne Porter, American author (1894-1980). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
