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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