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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Woman who fled from love
now regrets her hasty retreat
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: A few years ago I met
similar procedures successfully.
a wonderful person. I spent roughly
(But might that set expectations that
three months with him in a budding
can’t be met, since not all procedures
relationship. My issue is that one
and physical circumstances are the
night he said those three little words,
same?) Or is it best to keep comments
and I panicked and disappeared from
general? For example: “You will be
his life. I know it was a horrible and
in my thoughts/prayers/heart,” or
cowardly thing to do. I just didn’t
“I hope it goes even better than you
know how to handle it other than ask
hope it will.” What’s the most helpful
Jeanne
him why and saying, “You can’t mean Phillips way to express concern? — Sensitive
me, right?”
Subject
Advice
I have felt horrible that I vanished
Dear S.S.: Unless the surgery is
without any explanation and most
for something life-threatening — in
likely hurt him. I really would like to apolo- which case the thoughts, prayers and heart
gize for my actions and immaturity. He didn’t are necessary — keep the message upbeat
deserve that type of treatment. I recently and positive. Example: “Is there anything I
found his address and wonder if it would be can do for you while you’re recuperating?”
all right to send an apology, or if it would be And if the answer is no, say, “I’ll give you
best not to open potential wounds. — Disap- a call in a couple of days to see how you’re
peared In Illinois
doing, and we’ll visit when you’re up for
Dear Disappeared: Because you feel an company.”
apology and an explanation are in order, I see
Dear Abby: If you give a wedding shower
no harm in offering them. However, before gift, is it proper to also give a wedding gift? I
you do, think this through. Is there more to have done both for many years, but recently
this than a guilty conscience? Because years was questioned about why I do it. I told the
have passed, you both may be at different person that’s the way my mother raised me.
places in your lives than you were then. One Was she correct? — Gift Giver In Conroe,
or both of you may be married or involved Texas
with others. So before you do this, be abso-
Dear Gift Giver: Your mother raised
lutely sure not only of your motivations, but you right. Weddings and showers are sepa-
also of your expectations.
rate events. When attending a shower, it is
Dear Abby: I have recently had discus- customary to give the honoree a gift. The
sions with friends and family about the best same is true for a wedding. That someone has
way to express concern for someone who is given the bride a shower gift does not mean
facing major surgery. Some say they’d prefer the person is not supposed to give the couple
hearing about others who have undergone a wedding gift.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 10-11, 1917
Government hunters and trappers must
stay on their present job despite the call of
Uncle Sam for more soldiers and sailors.
They are needed there more than at the front
as they are considered a factor in increasing
the food supply inasmuch as they kill off the
animals who prey upon stock. This is the
substance of a letter received this morning by
District Inspector E.F. Averill from his chief
in response to the latter’s request to form his
hunters into a detachment of scouts.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 10-11, 1967
A giant bird kite designed in South
America, a fish-shaped kite from Japan and
a tetrahedron-shaped kite designed in a local
back yard were among the prize winners at
the annual Pendleton Lions Club kite flying
contest Saturday. Kites of every description
filled the air at the Sherwood Grade School
where a brisk wind kept the kite flyers on
their toes. A seven-year-old girl walked off
with the largest trophy. Pamela Jo Berg, a
second grader at Sherwood, got her kite up
the highest and won the trophy for the highest
flying kite. Cynthia McCoy, 3, of Pendleton
was judged the youngest kite flyer, and Jerry
Pickerd, 14, an eighth grader at Pilot Rock,
was the oldest flyer.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 10-11, 1992
Two Oregon Trail sites — including the
grave of a man who died as his family came
west by covered wagon in 1852 — will be
improved, and a railroad museum established
with grants totaling more than $75,000,
city of Echo and state officials announced
today. Most of the money will be used to
construct an interpretive facility, including
signs, shelter, parking area, foot trails and
fencing, plus revegetation of disturbed areas
around a half-mile stretch of the old Oregon
Trail on a sagebrush-covered parcel about
five miles west of Echo. The project was
initiated by the Community Action Program
East Central Oregon in Pendleton, which
requested $13,911 from the Oregon Youth
Conservation Corps, for a coordinated effort
with the Bureau of Land Management — the
property owner — and the city of Echo.
BLM will contribute $51,600 toward the
Echo Meadows project and the city of Echo
will provide about $4,000 in materials and a
supervisor’s salary, said Suzan Eskenazi at the
Oregon Trail Coordinating Council in Salem.
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 101st day of
2017. There are 264 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlights in
History:
On April 11, 1947,
Jackie Robinson of the
Brooklyn Dodgers played
in an exhibition against the
New York Yankees at Ebbets
Field, four days before his
regular-season debut that
broke baseball’s color line.
(The Dodgers won, 14-6.)
“Monsieur Verdoux,” Charlie
Chaplin’s dark comedy about
a Bluebeard-like figure,
received a hostile reception at
its premiere in New York.
On this date:
In 1689, William III and
Mary II were crowned as joint
sovereigns of Britain.
In 1713, the Treaty of
Utrecht was signed, ending
the War of the Spanish
Succession.
In
1865,
President
Abraham Lincoln spoke to
a crowd outside the White
House, saying, “We meet this
evening, not in sorrow, but in
gladness of heart.” (It was the
last public address Lincoln
would deliver.)
In 1921, Iowa became the
first state to impose a cigarette
tax, at 2 cents a package.
In 1945, during World War
II, American soldiers liberated
the Nazi concentration camp
Buchenwald in Germany.
In 1951, President Harry
S. Truman relieved Gen.
Douglas MacArthur of his
commands in the Far East.
In 1965, dozens of torna-
does raked six Midwestern
states on Palm Sunday, killing
271 people.
In 1970, Apollo 13, with
astronauts James A. Lovell,
Fred W. Haise and Jack
Swigert, blasted off on its
ill-fated mission to the moon.
In 1979, Idi Amin was
deposed as president of
Uganda as rebels and exiles
backed by Tanzanian forces
seized control.
In 1980, the Equal
Employment
Opportunity
Commission issued regula-
tions specifically prohibiting
sexual harassment of workers
by supervisors.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Ethel Kennedy is 89. Actor
Joel Grey is 85. Actress
Louise Lasser is 78. Pulitzer
Prize-winning
columnist
Ellen Goodman is 76. Movie
writer-director John Milius is
73. Actor Peter Riegert is 70.
Movie director Carl Franklin
is 68. Actor Bill Irwin is 67.
Country singer-songwriter
Jim Lauderdale is 60.
Songwriter-producer Daryl
Simmons is 60. Rock musi-
cian Nigel Pulsford is 56.
Actor Lucky Vanous is 56.
Country singer Steve Azar
is 53. Singer Lisa Stansfield
is 51. Rock musician Dylan
Keefe (Marcy Playground) is
47. Actor Johnny Messner is
47. Actor Vicellous Shannon
is 46. Rapper David Banner
is 43. Actress Tricia Helfer
is 43. Rock musician Chris
Gaylor (The All-American
Rejects) is 38. Actress Kelli
Garner is 33.
Thought for Today: “We
think in generalities, but
we live in detail.” — Alfred
North Whitehead, British
philosopher (1861-1947).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE