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Friday, March 17, 2017 PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK East Oregonian Page 9A DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Widow fears that wearing a wig is false advertising FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER Dear Abby: I’m a 57-year-old lady. ex-girlfriend in spite of the fact that I have been a widow 23 years and chose he knew it hurt his wife. And then I’d not to date while raising my daughter, suggest she ask herself whether she who is now 26. I would now like to thought the three of you were better meet a nice man to spend time with, off with him or without him. but I suffer from an affliction many Dear Abby: I don’t like people. I older women deal with — alopecia. live alone and hardly leave my apart- My hair is very thin, but with wigs and ment. I have one friend I talk to on the makeup, I look attractive enough. phone every day, and sometimes my Jeanne I’m afraid I’m being deceptive Phillips siblings who live out of town, but not when I meet a man like that. When is often. The core of my issue may be my Advice the right time to tell a man what he sees secret. I am gay and a foreigner. is not what he gets? — Embarrassed I like to surf the net, read historical In Ohio books, and enjoy classic literature novels. Dear Embarrassed: The logical time to For some reason, I feel like hiding myself tell someone would be at the point you are away from people is making me miss out. becoming intimate enough that he would be Am I abnormal? Do I need a therapist? I have running his hands through your hair. internal peace in my life and I think I’m happy. Dear Abby: My mother married my father — Intellectual Loner in 1960 when she was barely 16. She was the Dear Intellectual Loner: Your status as mother of two children before age 18. My a gay, foreign loner who is hiding himself father was older, controlling, abusive and away must be troubling you on some level or unkind to her. you wouldn’t have written to me. If you feel She wrote to your mother for advice in the you could be getting more out of life than 1960s, saying he still carried a photo of his old you currently are, then it would be worth girlfriend in his wallet and how much it hurt your while to schedule some sessions with her. Your mother’s advice to her was to “grow a licensed mental health professional and do up.” In light of how the times have changed, I some exploring. am wondering what your advice to her would Confidential To My Irish Friends: be in 2017? Both parents are now deceased. May you always have — Curious Daughter A sunbeam to warm you Dear Curious: Although there were fewer Good luck to charm you options available for women in 1960 than And a sheltering angel there are today, I’m shocked that your mom So nothing can harm you. received the advice she did over my mother’s Laughter to cheer you signature. My response today would be to Faithful friends near you ask her why she had chosen to stay with a And whenever you pray, controlling, emotionally abusive man who Heaven to hear you. persisted in carrying around a photo of his Happy St. Patrick’s Day! DAYS GONE BY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 17, 1917 A household cat played the part of hero and martyr in an early morning fire in this city. At the cost of its own life it gave the warning that enabled Mrs. H.B. Meyers and eight children to escape from their burning dwelling at 314 Tustin street. The fire, caused by a defective flue presumably, by 3 o’clock had gained considerable headway. The cat jumped upon the bed of Mrs. Meyers and aroused her by mewing. The woman hurriedly aroused her sleeping children but, so close was their escape, two of the older boys had their hair singed in bursting though the flames. The alarm was turned in and when the firemen had extinguished the blaze they found the dead body of the cat beneath the dining room table. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 17, 1967 Pendleton Seventh-day Adventists learned recently that the special mission offering to which they contributed in December will transform Solusi College near Bulawayo, Rhodesia, from a parched mission station into an oasis. Pastor Tucker of the Pendleton Adventist Church told his congregation that last January the school was gripped in a three-year drought that had dried up four of the school’s five wells and emptied the small reservoir the school had built on a nearby creek. The situation was so critical that another mission station in the area did not accept students for 1966. The Adventist faculty and church members in Rhodesia, however, held special prayer sessions the day before school. During the next 15 days, 19 inches of rain fell, flooding both the reservoir and the mission station. The Rhodesian government is now building a dam which will create a four-billion gallon reservoir only seven miles from Solusi. School officials will use the special funds contributed by Adventists around the world to lay the seven miles of five- and seven-inch pipe, linking the reservoir and the school. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 17, 1992 A victory dance and celebration honoring World War II veterans on the Umatilla Indian Reservation Saturday was termed a “tremendous success” by tribal leaders. Chief Bill Burke said 15 WWII veterans from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation took part, along with some 30 veterans representing the Colville, Warm Springs and Yakima tribes. The honor dance was part of the annual George St. Denis Post No. 140 American Legion birthday celebra- tion. It featured a dinner, religious drumming and singing, speeches, a reading of a veterans’ honor role, a traditional give-away, plus honor dances by young warriors, women and the veterans. 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 76th day of 2017. There are 289 days left in the year. This is St. Patrick’s Day. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 17, 1942, six days after departing the Phil- ippines during World War II, Gen. Douglas MacArthur arrived in Australia to become supreme commander of Allied forces in the south- west Pacific theater. On this date: In 1776, the Revolu- tionary War Siege of Boston ended as British forces evac- uated the city. In 1861, Victor Emmanuel II was proclaimed the first king of a united Italy. In 1906, President Theo- dore Roosevelt first likened crusading journalists to a man with “the muckrake in his hand” in a speech to the Gridiron Club in Washington. In 1912, the Camp Fire Girls organization was incor- porated in Washington, D.C., two years to the day after it was founded in Thetford, Vermont. In 1936, Pittsburgh’s Great St. Patrick’s Day Flood began as the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers and their tributaries, swollen by rain and melted snow, started exceeding flood stage; the high water was blamed for more than 60 deaths. In 1941, the National Gallery of Art opened in Washington, D.C. In 1956, comedian Fred Allen, 61, died in New York. In 1966, a U.S. Navy midget submarine located a missing hydrogen bomb which had fallen from a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber into the Mediterranean off Spain. Today’s Birthdays: The former national chairwoman of the NAACP, Myrlie Evers-Williams, is 84. Former NASA astronaut Ken Mattingly is 81. Sing- er-songwriter Jim Weatherly is 74. Singer-songwriter John Sebastian (The Lovin’ Spoonful) is 73. Former NSA Director and former CIA Director Michael Hayden is 72. Rock musician Harold Brown (War; Lowrider Band) is 71. Actor Patrick Duffy is 68. Actor Kurt Russell is 66. Actor Rob Lowe is 53. Rock singer Billy Corgan is 50. Pop/rock singer/songwriter Hozier is 27. Thought for Today: “History is not life. But since only life makes history, the union of the two is obvious.” — Louis D. Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1856-1941). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
