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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Wednesday, March 8, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Gab session with gal pal leaves wife feeling hurt FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER Dear Abby: I read your column all love. The only thing missing in my the time. My husband and I have been life is a child. married for 35 years. My husband has I have the opportunity to adopt good friends who are women, and I a newborn baby from a family who have never objected when he stayed is unable to care for her. She will be with them when he traveled from our born in the next few months. When I home to Michigan. speak to my friends and family about One of the women he stays with it, even though they would love for called and they talked for hours. me to have a child, they say they don’t Jeanne That’s not right is it? My husband Phillips think this is the right path for me. says she’s just a good friend and it’s Although I want a child and always Advice only conversation. have, I’m now having concerns about Like I said, I didn’t mind him it, too. Any advice you could share staying with her because I trusted him. But would be greatly appreciated. — Motherly now I’m leery and suspicious. I don’t believe Instinct In Georgia it’s a sexual thing, but a long conversation Dear Instinct: I wish you had been clearer hurts me more because I thought I was his about why your family doesn’t feel that adopting the baby would be the right path for best friend. I told him, “Let’s get counseling. If it you. However, since you weren’t, let me offer doesn’t work, we can divorce.” He said, this: “You’re not going to stop me from talking to Many single parents — whether single my friends.” because of divorce, widowhood or by Abby, I need your opinion. — Leery In choice — successfully raise children. At 39, Florida with a home and a good job, you appear to Dear Leery: Whatever is going on, you be financially secure enough to provide for a and your husband are having a communica- child. Unless you have an emotional problem tion problem. Instead of raising the subject of you didn’t mention, or lack the patience to divorce with him, it may be time for you to be a good mother, I see no reason why you get marriage counseling, alone if he won’t go shouldn’t become one. However, because with you. your friends and family have created doubt, Your husband should be able to talk to his discuss this with a counselor to clarify your friends — male and female — if he wishes. thinking. For you to tell him otherwise makes you look Dear Abby: What should I say to someone more like his jailer than his wife. Some medi- who expects an invitation to a wedding but ation may help you feel less threatened and will not be receiving one and they ask why help you both to get back on the same page. they didn’t get one? — Where’s My Invi- Dear Abby: I am a 39-year-old female tation? who hasn’t been able to conceive. My sister Dear Where’s: If someone is nervy has two children and one on the way. I love enough to ask why he or she was not invited being an aunt, but I do want to be a mom to the wedding, all you have to say is that for myself. I’m recently divorced and have a nice logistical reasons you had to limit your guest home, a dependable vehicle and a job that I list. DAYS GONE BY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 8, 1917 Packed in 203-pound heavy drilled sacks a shipment of 5,000 sacks of flour is being sent out today from the Pend- leton Roller Mills to Cuba. The unusual feature of the transaction is that the flour should be shipped in such unusual sacks. The sacks are called Osneberg sacks and are of material sufficient in weight to do for clothing. It is said such material is used with the end in view of making the flour sacks into clothing after the contents have been used by Cuban purchasers. However the mill people here say they have no knowledge of any such intentions. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 8, 1967 A McKay Creek family, including one of this year’s Happy Canyon princesses, had to flee for their lives from a burning two-story dwelling early this morning. Jesse Jones Sr., who lives south of Pilot Rock on Upper McKay Creek, told Harold Duck of the Umatilla Indian Agency that they were aroused shortly after midnight to find the entire lower half of the two-story frame house on fire. James, his wife and seven children crawled out through a window onto a porch and jumped down on a pickup parked nearby. Mildred Nanegus, who was chosen as Happy Canyon Princess last week, was one of the seven youths sleeping in the house. The Joneses lost all their clothing and household effects in the fire. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 8, 1992 A three-fold increase in the net gain in out-of-county prison inmates being paroled here has city leaders questioning a 1985 intergovernmental agreement that left the impression parolees would return to the county from whence they came. However, the trend may be the result of inmates from other counties serving time in prisons other than Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution who are, for some reason, requesting release to Umatilla County, said Orlin “Cub” Culb- ertson, manager of the state’s Parole and Probation field office here. Culbertson, who is compiling additional figures at the request of city officials, said the preliminary numbers are “surprising.” He hopes further research will show why inmates from other counties are choosing to relocate here. 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 67th day of 2017. There are 298 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On March 8, 1917, Russia’s “February Revo- lution” (referring to the Old Style calendar) began in Petrograd; the result was the abdication of the Russian monarchy in favor of a provisional government that was overthrown later the same year by the Bolshe- viks. Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, 78, creator of the rigid airships bearing his name, died in Berlin. The U.S. Senate voted to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule. On this date: In 1817, the New York Stock & Exchange Board, which had its beginnings in 1792, was formally orga- nized; it later became known as the New York Stock Exchange. In 1983, in a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals convention in Orlando, Florida, President Ronald Reagan referred to the Soviet Union as an “evil empire.” Ten years ago: President George W. Bush arrived in Sao Paulo, Brazil, as he began a 6-day tour of Latin America. House Democrats unveiled legislation to require the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the fall of 2008; the White House said President Bush would veto it. Five years ago: Syria’s deputy oil minister (Abdo Husameddine) announced in a video that he had defected from President Bashar Assad’s regime. One year ago: Democrat Bernie Sanders breathed new life into his longshot White House bid with a crucial win in Michigan’s primary while Hillary Clinton breezed to an easy victory in Mississippi; Republican Donald Trump swept to victory in Michigan, Mississippi and Hawaii, while Ted Cruz carried Idaho. Today’s Birthdays: Peggy March is 69. Baseball Hall of Famer Jim Rice is 64. NBC News anchor Lester Holt is 58. Actor Aidan Quinn is 58. Actor Freddie Prinze Jr. is 41. Actor James Van Der Beek is 40. Rhythm- and-blues singer Kristinia DeBarge is 27. Thought for Today: “Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.” — Dodie Smith, English playwright (1896-1990). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
