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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Couple’s wedding can wait
until fiancé finds a job
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: My fiancé and I have
Dear Abby: I am a gay man.
been engaged for two years. Our
Recently, I rekindled a relationship I
wedding is set for a year from now.
had with a guy I was close with many
I’m thinking about calling off our
years ago. We have a lot of the same
wedding, not because I don’t love
interests.
him, or because I don’t want to spend
When he asked what it would take
the rest of my life with him. I know
for us to be permanent, I asked that he
I want that. It’s because I’m the only
stop smoking pot. He responded that
one with a decent job. He has a job,
he does it only “two or three times
Jeanne
but doesn’t earn enough to support us. Phillips a year” and that for me to make that
I can’t be the only one earning
request was “controlling.” I asked him
Advice
an income. How are we supposed
for no other changes.
to move out of our parents’ houses
I hate the smell of smoke, and pot
and start a life together if I’m the one doing is illegal in our state, so I broke it off because
everything? What will happen when things he wouldn’t agree. Did I do the right thing? —
need to start getting paid for, and there’s no Tony In Florida
guarantee he’ll find something? I have talked
Dear Tony: Yes, because his response to
to him about it, and he’s angry. He knows it’s your simple request indicates that any accom-
time to change his life around and get serious. modation you asked of him would likely be
Should I keep the date and keep my met with the same reaction.
fingers crossed he’ll find a job by then, or
Dear Abby: My 63-year-old husband
postpone our wedding, which has a venue refuses to cut his hair. It is gray and thinning
but nothing else planned? I don’t need to get and is now longer than mine. Even when it’s
married anytime soon, and I’d prefer to wait clean it looks dirty.
until he can support himself and we are in a
I was raised to take pride in my appearance.
better place financially. Then I feel like we If I say anything about it, he thinks it’s funny,
could move forward. Am I making the right or the other extreme, that I am picking on him.
decision? — Cautious In New Jersey
He’s not a rock star or a young lad. Please
Dear Cautious: Yes, you are. You are help. — Neat And Clean In California
thinking with your head instead of being
Dear Neat And Clean: I’ll try. Your
swept away by your emotions, and I applaud mistake is making his problem (poor
you for it. I have said for many years that grooming) your problem. Continue to take
before a woman marries she should be able pride in your appearance, and if he prefers to
to support herself, in case future circum- look like an old hippie, let him. Neither you
stances require it. Well, the same is true for nor I can change him, and because his tresses
a man.
are thinning, the problem may resolve itself.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 20-21, 1917
With three feet of snow and more all over
the southern part of the country, zero weather
prevailing, no indications of an immediate
break of winter’s grip and a hay famine
staring them in the face, stockmen of the
Camas Prairie country have begun driving
out their cattle to lower valleys, according to
reports brought down from that section. One
band of 700 and one band of 500 is now being
driven down to the Butter Creek meadows
where there is hay, according to reports. The
moving of cattle any distance during this time
of the year is a step all cattlemen take only as
a last resort owing to the extreme likelihood
of losses. The animals are weakened from the
feed shortage.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 20-21, 1967
A Washington State Penitentiary escapee
who is wanted in two countries for crimes
ranging from armed robbery to rape was
arrested near Meacham Saturday by Oregon
state police following a high speed chase that
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
began in Baker. Wayne Norman Riddall, who
escaped from the WSP Dec. 10, gave up to
local state police without a fight at 11:30 p.m.
Saturday. He was returned to Baker County
where he faces auto theft charges. He is also
wanted by Portland police for rape, robbery
and kidnapping; by Vancouver, B.C. police
for armed robbery; and by Umatilla County
for auto theft.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 20-21, 1992
Spring has just arrived, but the spring
runoff already has made a hasty retreat from
many areas of northeast Oregon’s Blue
Mountains. The absence of snow cover this
early is a warning sign for parched conditions
later this summer, leaving some farmers
and ranchers in the all too familiar position
of praying for rain. Of the nine sites where
measurements are taken, five are already
showing no snow cover. The nine sites are in
drainages that supply water to the Umatilla,
John Day, Walla Walla and Grande Ronde
rivers. The watersheds without measurable
snow are Emigrant Springs, Lucky Strike,
Madison Butte, Meacham, and County Line.
Today is the 80th day of
2017. There are 285 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On March 21, 1952, the
Moondog Coronation Ball,
considered the first rock and
roll concert, took place at
Cleveland Arena.
On this date:
In
1556,
Thomas
Cranmer, the former Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, was
burned at the stake for heresy.
In
1685,
composer
Johann Sebastian Bach was
born in Eisenach, Germany.
In 1804, the French civil
code, or the “Code Napo-
leon” as it was later called,
was adopted.
In 1925, Tennessee Gov.
Austin Peay signed the
Butler Act, which prohibited
the teaching of the Theory of
Evolution in public schools.
(Tennessee repealed the law
in 1967.)
In 1935, Persia officially
changed its name to Iran.
In 1946, the recently
created United Nations
Security Council set up
temporary
headquarters
at Hunter College in The
Bronx, New York.
In 1957, President Dwight
D. Eisenhower and British
Prime Minister Harold
Macmillan began a four-day
conference in Bermuda.
In 1963, the Alcatraz
federal prison island in San
Francisco Bay was emptied
of its last inmates and closed
at the order of Attorney
General Robert F. Kennedy.
In 1981, Michael Donald,
a black teenager in Mobile,
Alabama, was abducted,
tortured and killed by
members of the Ku Klux
Klan. (A lawsuit brought by
Donald’s mother, Beulah Mae
Donald, later resulted in a
landmark judgment that bank-
rupted one Klan organization.)
In 1997, President Bill
Clinton and Russian Presi-
dent Boris Yeltsin wrapped
up their summit in Helsinki,
Finland, still deadlocked
over NATO expansion, but
able to agree on slashing
nuclear weapons arsenals.
In 2006, the social media
website Twitter was estab-
lished with the sending of the
first “tweet” by co-founder
Jack Dorsey, who wrote:
“just setting up my twttr.”
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actress Kathleen Widdoes
is 78. Songwriter Chip
Taylor (“Wild Thing”) is 77.
Folk-pop
singer/musician
Keith Potger (The Seekers) is
76. Actress Marie-Christine
Barrault is 73. Singer-musi-
cian Rose Stone (Sly and the
Family Stone) is 72. Actor
Timothy Dalton is 71. Singer
Ray Dorset (Mungo Jerry) is
71.Singer Eddie Money is 68.
Rock singer-musician Roger
Hodgson (Supertramp) is 67.
Rhythm-and-blues
singer
Russell Thompkins Jr. (The
Stylistics) is 66. Comedy
writer-performer Brad Hall
is 59. Actor Gary Oldman is
59. Actor Matthew Broderick
is 55. Comedian-talk show
host Rosie O’Donnell is 55.
Rock musician Jonas “Joker”
Berggren (Ace of Base) is 50.
Rock MC Maxim (Prodigy)
is 50. Rock musician Andrew
Copeland (Sister Hazel) is
49.
Thought for Today:
“History is principally the
inaccurate narration of
events which ought not to
have happened.” — Ernest
Albert Hooten, American
anthropologist (1887-1954).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE