Friday, March 17, 2017
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
East Oregonian
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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