Tuesday, March 7, 2017
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
East Oregonian
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DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Face-to-face meeting threatens
to nip new romance in the bud
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I recently enrolled
My daughter caught on and told me if
in an internet dating site, and have
I gave up my current relationship she
been cyber-chatting with a very sweet
would never forgive me, so I ended
gentleman. I am also 62 years young.
the relationship with my old friend,
My problem is I’m borderline obese,
which left him with bitter feelings.
have gray hair, a few wrinkles and
Did I do the right thing? — Bitter
some dental problems. It’s the reason
Feelings
I don’t post photos of myself.
Dear Bitter: Because you felt
Someday, he may want to meet
it
was appropriate to allow an
Jeanne
face-to-face, and I am more petrified Phillips 11-year-old to dictate your future,
than 2,000-year-old wood! He sounds
then yes, I suppose you did the right
Advice
and speaks so well — soft and gentle.
thing. In any case, it’s a little late to
My heart has butterfly-wing feelings,
second guess yourself now.
not the head-over-heels emotions I had when
Dear Abby: This year I have the oppor-
I first met my late husband. Should I keep tunity to travel to Europe with some friends.
texting this gentleman, or just fade away One of them, however, has the tendency to
from him? — Is Beauty More Than Skin burp loudly when we are in public. She often
Deep?
does it at restaurants or other sit-down areas.
Dear Skin Deep: Keep texting him, of I have tried telling her it’s rude and disre-
course! Nothing ventured, nothing gained, spectful, but she doesn’t care.
and remember, beauty is in the eye of the
I don’t want to go to Europe and have
beholder. That said, if your weight and dental her burping in front of other people. I don’t
problems are affecting your self-esteem, want to be labeled as a disrespectful tourist
perhaps it’s time you dealt with them rather because of her. Is there anything I can say to
than use them as an excuse to cut and run.
her? Or is this a problem that I shouldn’t get
Dear Abby: I have been in a relationship involved with? — Embarrassed Friend
with a wonderful man for the last year and
Dear Friend: Could your friend have
a half. He is good to me and good to my a medical problem that causes her to burp?
11-year-old daughter.
If so, that may be why it happens and you
Recently, a man I have known for 40 shouldn’t criticize her for it. However, if that’s
years — but have been in and out of touch not the case, because her behavior causes you
with — appeared back in my life. He was embarrassment, either rethink traveling with
my first kiss at 6, and there were many unre- her or make sure you sit far away from her in
solved feelings that I felt needed exploring. public places.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 6-7, 1917
Recently there have been a number of
printed stories of black wolves killed in
Baker county. Two of the skins of the slain
animals arrived this morning at the office of
the biological survey for examination and in
the opinion of Messrs. Averill and Jewett,
they are not from wolves at all. They believe
the animals from which they were taken were
a cross between a coyote and a dog. The hides
belong to the Hellmers Co. of Baker.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 6-7, 1967
A light airplane crashed at the edge of a
wheat field on Cabbage Hill Monday, but the
two men aboard managed to come out of it
without a scratch. Carl Leathers of Gresham
was the pilot of a 1966 Mooney four-place
plane that lost a piece of its prop while flying
over Cabbage Hill about 16 miles southeast
of Pendleton. Melvin McIntosh of Sandy was
a passenger in the aircraft. Leathers called
the Pendleton tower at 12:10 p.m. saying he
was going to take his plane down for a crash
landing. Leathers pancaked the plane on
the edge of a wheat field on Poverty Ridge.
“Those fields look big until you come in at 70
miles an hour,” Sheriff’s Deputy Paul Jones
said the pilot told him.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 6-7, 1992
Boardman’s police chief is tired, and he’s
not expecting much rest for at least four or
five months. The city’s police department has
used up all the money budgeted for overtime
pay, leaving the two-man department in
a bind, especially since crime cases have
doubled since last year. More overtime
money can’t be budgeted until the new fiscal
year begins July 1. To compensate, Chief
Greg Sayles is pulling 24-hour on-call shifts
to ensure Boardman residents have round-
the-clock emergency service. Officer Roy
Harrell puts in his share of overtime, too. But
since the overtime coffer is depleted, Harrell
must take time off in lieu of pay. When he’s
gone, there’s only the chief to pick up the
slack.
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 66th day of
2017. There are 299 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On March 7, 1967, the
musical “You’re a Good
Man, Charlie Brown,” based
on the “Peanuts” comic strips
by Charles M. Schulz with
Gary Burghoff in the title
role, opened in New York’s
Greenwich Village, begin-
ning an off-Broadway run of
1,597 performances.
On this date:
In 1793, during the French
Revolutionary Wars, France
declared war on Spain.
In 1850, in a three-hour
speech to the U.S. Senate,
Daniel Webster of Massachu-
setts endorsed the Compro-
mise of 1850 as a means of
preserving the Union.
In 1876, Alexander
Graham Bell received a U.S.
patent for his telephone.
In 1916, Bavarian Motor
Works (BMW) had its begin-
nings in Munich, Germany,
as an airplane engine manu-
facturer.
In 1926, the first
successful
trans-Atlantic
radio-telephone conversa-
tions took place between
New York and London.
In 1936, Adolf Hitler
ordered his troops to march
into the Rhineland, thereby
breaking the Treaty of
Versailles and the Locarno
Pact.
In 1945, during World
War II, U.S. forces crossed
the Rhine at Remagen,
Germany, using the damaged
but still usable Ludendorff
Bridge.
In 1965, a march by civil
rights demonstrators was
violently broken up at the
Edmund Pettus Bridge in
Selma, Alabama, by state
troopers and a sheriff’s posse
in what came to be known as
“Bloody Sunday.”
In 1975, the U.S. Senate
revised its filibuster rule,
allowing 60 senators to limit
debate in most cases, instead
of the previously required
two-thirds
of
senators
present.
In 1981, anti-government
guerrillas in Colombia
executed kidnapped Amer-
ican Bible translator Chester
Bitterman, whom they’d
accused of being a CIA agent.
In 1994, the U.S. Supreme
Court unanimously ruled
that a parody that pokes fun
at an original work can be
considered “fair use.” (The
ruling concerned a parody of
the Roy Orbison song “Oh,
Pretty Woman” by the rap
group 2 Live Crew.)
Today’s Birthdays: TV
personality Willard Scott is
83. International Motorsports
Hall of Famer Janet Guthrie is
79. Actor Daniel J. Travanti is
77. Entertainment executive
Michael Eisner is 75. Rock
musician Chris White (The
Zombies) is 74. Actor John
Heard is 71. Rock singer
Peter Wolf is 71. Rock musi-
cian Matthew Fisher (Procol
Harum) is 71. Pro Football
Hall-of-Famer Franco Harris
is 67. Pro and College Football
Hall-of-Famer Lynn Swann is
65. Rhythm-and-blues sing-
er-musician Ernie Isley (The
Isley Brothers) is 65. Rock
musician Kenny Aronoff
(BoDeans, John Mellencamp)
is 64. Actor Bryan Cranston is
61. Actress Donna Murphy
is 58. Actor Nick Searcy
is 58. Golfer Tom Lehman
is 58. International Tennis
Hall-of-Famer Ivan Lendl
is 57. Actress Mary Beth
Evans is 56. Singer-actress
Taylor Dayne is 55. Author
Bret Easton Ellis (“American
Psycho”) is 53. Comedian
Wanda Sykes is 53. Actress
Rachel Weisz is 47.
Thought for Today:
“All you need is love. But a
little chocolate now and then
doesn’t hurt.” — Charles M.
Schulz, American cartoonist
(1922-2000).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE