Wednesday, March 15, 2017
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East Oregonian
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DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
One way to measure success
is how your kids describe you
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: My son and his wife
Morris, IL 61054-0447. Shipping and
just gave us the news that they are
handling are included in the price.
expecting their first child. They have
Filled with down-to-earth nuggets of
waited five years for this wonderful
wisdom, both witty and philosoph-
milestone, and I am delighted. I know
ical, “Keepers” is a quick and easy
they will be excellent parents.
read, and an inexpensive, welcome
I remember seeing a short poem in
gift for newly married couples, pet
your column called “Success.” Could
lovers, new parents or anyone recov-
you reprint it? I’d like to clip it and
ering from an illness.
Jeanne
give it to the parents-to-be. — Marie Phillips
Dear Abby: My husband wants to
In Dayton, Ohio
be with other women. He has spent
Advice
Dear Marie: I’m glad to oblige,
the last 12 years asking for a three-
and I hope your son and daugh-
some. I love him and don’t want to
ter-in-law will enjoy it. It was penned by share him with the world, but he doesn’t love
Martin Buxbaum, a noted poet from Maryland me the same.
who passed away in 1991. It’s included in my
We have been together more than 29
“Keepers” booklet, which is a collection of years. He says he just wants to have fun.
often-requested gems that have appeared in Since I’m not interested in swinging with
this column. Because so many readers asked him and others, should I just get a divorce?
for copies of them, they were turned into a I believe he won’t be complete until he gets
to enjoy his life the way he wants, and I’m
booklet. Read on:
SUCCESS
tired of having my feelings hurt each time he
You can use any measure
meets someone he wants to be with.
When you’re speaking of success.
I’m a 51-year-old woman who is still very
You can measure it in fancy home,
sexually active, yet I am not enough for him.
Expensive car or dress.
I have tried everything. I’m tired. Dear Abby,
But the measure of your real success
please help. — Doesn’t Want To Share Him
Is the one you cannot spend.
Dear Doesn’t Want To Share Him:
It’s the way your kids describe you
Because your husband wants an open
When they’re talking to a friend.
marriage and you don’t, it appears the two of
“Keepers” covers subjects ranging from you have reached an impasse. Your husband
temptation to forgiveness, animals, children craves the one thing no one woman can give
and human nature. It can be ordered by him — variety. It has nothing to do with
sending your name and mailing address, plus your not being “enough.” For this reason
check or money order for $7 in U.S. funds you should consult an attorney about your
to: Dear Abby Keepers, P.O. Box 447, Mount options. I am truly sorry for your pain.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 15, 1917
Tong gunmen this morning about 11
o’clock chased Billy Eng, president of the
Chinese Young Men’s Association, down
Adams avenue in La Grande and murdered
him in front of the postoffice. A stray bullet
hit Mrs. C.E. George on the ankle. The
murderer escaped. Billy Eng, the victim of
the tong warfare, is a cousin of Ung D. Goey,
prominent Pendleton Chinese merchant and
restaurant keeper. Goey received a message
telling of the tragic death of his kinsman soon
after the shooting and notified Sheriff Taylor
and his deputies who will watch for the
murderer should he come this way.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 15, 1967
The Umatilla County District Attorney’s
office disclosed today that Robert H. Medley,
44, who died early Tuesday after an alleged
attempted murder and kidnapping of Mrs.
Robert Lavonne Thomas, 39, had been warned
last summer by the sheriff’s department not
to bother her after her husband complained.
State police said that Medley broke into the
Thomas house on Wildhorse Creek Road early
Tuesday and forced Mrs. Thomas from the
home in front of her children. A 16-year-old
son called the police. Police found Medley
and Mrs. Thomas unconscious in Medley’s
car on a county road a short distance from the
home. A pipe had been rigged to bring exhaust
fumes inside the car. State police revived Mrs.
Thomas, but Medley was dead on arrival at St.
Anthony Hospital. Mrs. Thomas was reported
to be in improved condition today after being
listed in critical condition Tuesday.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 15, 1992
Umatilla County employees, by a 2-to-1
margin, think condoms should be made
available in the courthouse and in high
schools, according to a survey conducted by
the county’s Wellness Committee. About 35
employees responded to the survey, which
was inserted in paycheck envelopes in
February. Mary Alice Ridgway, county trea-
surer, has made condoms available free in her
office for more than a year, and County Clerk
Tom Groat recently made condoms available
in his office on the first floor of the court-
house. Distribution of condoms apparently is
a decision of department directors, and not an
overall county government issue.
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
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 74th day of
2017. There are 291 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On March 15, 1767,
the seventh president of
the United States, Andrew
Jackson, was born in the
Waxhaw settlement along the
North Carolina-South Caro-
lina border.
On this date:
In 44 B.C., Roman dictator
Julius Caesar was assassinated
by a group of nobles that
included Brutus and Cassius.
In 1820, Maine became
the 23rd state.
In 1917, Czar Nicholas
II abdicated in favor of his
brother, Grand Duke Mikhail
Alexandrovich, who declined
the crown, marking the end of
imperial rule in Russia.
In 1922, Sultan Fuad I
proclaimed himself the first
king of modern Egypt.
In 1937, America’s first
hospital blood bank was
opened at Cook County
Hospital in Illinois.
In 1944, during World
War II, Allied bombers again
raided German-held Monte
Cassino.
In 1956, the Lerner and
Loewe musical play “My
Fair Lady,” based on Bernard
Shaw’s “Pygmalion,” opened
on Broadway.
In 1964, actress Elizabeth
Taylor married actor Richard
Burton in Montreal; it was
her fifth marriage, his second.
(They divorced in 1974,
remarried in 1975, then
divorced again in 1976.)
In 1977, the U.S. House
of Representatives began a
90-day closed-circuit test to
determine the feasibility of
showing its sessions on tele-
vision. The situation comedy
“Three’s Company,” starring
John Ritter, Joyce DeWitt and
Suzanne Somers, premiered
on ABC-TV.
In 1985, the first internet
domain name, symbolics.
com, was registered by the
Symbolics Computer Corp. of
Massachusetts.
In 1999, an Amtrak train
slammed into a steel-filled
truck at a crossing in Bour-
bonnais, Illinois, killing 11
people.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Musician DJ Fontana is 86.
Former astronaut Alan L.
Bean is 85. Supreme Court
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
is 84. Actor Judd Hirsch is
82. Jazz musician Charles
Lloyd is 79. Rock musician
Phil Lesh is 77. Singer Mike
Love (The Beach Boys) is
76. Rock singer-musician
Sly Stone is 74. Rock sing-
er-musician Howard Scott
(War; Lowrider Band) is
71. Rock singer Dee Snider
(Twisted Sister) is 62. Model
Fabio is 56. Rock singer Bret
Michaels (Poison) is 54.
Rock singer Mark McGrath
(Sugar Ray) is 49. Rock
musician Mark Hoppus is
45. Actress Eva Longoria
is 42. Rapper-musician
will.i.am (Black Eyed Peas)
is 42. Rock DJ Joseph Hahn
(Linkin Park) is 40. Rapper
Young Buck is 36.
Thought for Today:
“The wisdom of man never
yet contrived a system of
taxation that would operate
with perfect equality.” —
President Andrew Jackson
(1767-1845).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE