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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Wife punished for infidelity
must insist on counseling
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I have been with my
address this concern without hurting
husband for 12 years, married for
her? I would like her to reciprocate
three. I had an affair a little over a
somewhat. — Dominant In Cali-
year ago that he found out about. He
fornia
has let me back into the house, but he
Dear Dominant: Address the
demeans my character at every oppor-
imbalance in your relationship by
tunity. I don’t fight back because I
being straightforward about it. Good
know I am the cause of his pain.
manners dictate that when someone
We have a 3-year-old daughter, and
has been asked out, treated, etc., that
Jeanne
I am now six weeks pregnant with his Phillips person should reciprocate. Because
child. I do not want to argue with him,
that’s not happening, you need to
Advice
because if I had been a better wife, he
discuss it with her. To do so isn’t
would not be so angry. But the hurt I
hurtful; it’s common sense, because
feel from his words over the past months is unless you do, this pattern will continue.
weighing heavy on me, especially with my
Dear Abby: I have been with the same
new hormones. I’m holding it in, but should man for six months. He has been separated
I leave? Become a single mother? How can I from his wife for 10 years — but not legally.
get him to a counselor? — Needs Counseling When he finally decided to tell her there is
Dear Needs: I do not mean to minimize someone else and he’s moving on, she went
your infidelity, but you had better take a stand crazy. She said she wants alimony and half
and give your husband an ultimatum: Heal of everything, plus the house will have to
the marriage through marriage counseling, be sold because she will not allow “the new
or you leave. Be prepared to follow through, woman” to live in “her” house.
because without professional intervention
It’s been a month since he told her. We
nothing will change. The situation you talked to a lawyer about a divorce, but all
describe is unhealthy not only for you and he is worried about is paying alimony and
your unborn child, but also for your little girl. losing the house. I am getting sick of hearing
Your daughter should not be raised to think about it. All he keeps saying is, “I love you,
that this toxic environment is normal.
but I don’t want to lose my house or pay her
Dear Abby: I’m a lesbian and have been in money.” What should I do? — Fight Or
a relationship with a woman for two months Flight In Massachusetts
now. She never offers to pay for our dates,
Dear Fight Or Flight: Your boyfriend
and she hasn’t planned or executed one, appears to be unwilling to pay the price for
either. We’re both very feminine, although a divorce. So what you should do is flee. The
she would be considered slightly more so longer you stick around, the deeper you will
than I am. I feel this is important because I’m become enmeshed in his drama, and the more
somehow the more dominant one. How can I complicated it will become.
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 12, 1917
Under orders received this morning by
Postmaster T.J. Tweedy from the postmaster
general, no mail matter will be permitted to
leave the local office for Germany, Austria,
Hungary, Luxembourg, Bulgaria or Turkey
during the period of war with Germany. The
order directs that no mail be sent to these
countries while the war lasts but permits mail
to be received from all of those above-named
countries except Germany. The reason mail
will not be allowed to go out to the other
countries lies in the fact that it must be trans-
ported through Germany. Packages addressed
to any of these countries will be returned to
the senders. The same order applies to postal
money orders. Mail matter of foreign origin
destined for Germany will not be seized or
detained in they country but the facility of
the United States will not be used to forward
it. As yet the government has established no
censorship on mail after leaving the country.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 12, 1967
Members of local 3-8 of the International
Woodworkers of America struck the Kerns
Lumber Co. in Pilot Rock today. Approxi-
mately 100 workers are affected by the strike
at the Pilot Rock mill, which manufactures
pine furniture parts. Pickets appeared at the
gates leading into the plant this morning. The
strike was a bit of a surprise because Tuesday
union officials said they would wait a week
to see if Kerns would meet their demands.
The local union is seeking an agency or union
shop contract in its bargaining sessions with
Kerns.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 12, 1992
Circuit Court Judge Jack Olsen declared
a mistrial Friday in the case of a former
Hermiston man charged with multiple sex
abuse offenses against a girl under the age of
12. Assistant District Attorney Steve Fogelson
was questioning a witness in the fourth day of
proceedings against Daniel E. Kelley when the
witness became uncooperative and answered
a question in a manner the judge considered
to be inappropriate, District Attorney Dave
Gallaher said. Fogelson said Olsen viewed the
answer given by Rodney Taylor, of Boardman,
as being prejudicial against the defendant,
so he granted Eugene defense attorney Ken
Morrow’s motion for mistrial.
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 102nd day of
2017. There are 263 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On April 12, 1945, Pres-
ident Franklin D. Roosevelt
died of a cerebral hemorrhage
in Warm Springs, Georgia,
at age 63; he was succeeded
by Vice President Harry S.
Truman.
On this date:
In 1606, England’s King
James I decreed the design
of the original Union Flag,
which combined the flags of
England and Scotland.
In 1776, North Carolina’s
Fourth Provincial Congress
authorized the colony’s
delegates to the Continental
Congress to support indepen-
dence from Britain.
In 1861, the American
Civil War began as Confed-
erate forces opened fire on
Fort Sumter in South Carolina.
In 1934, “Tender Is the
Night,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald,
was first published in book
form after being serialized in
Scribner’s Magazine.
In 1955, the Salk vaccine
against polio was declared
safe and effective.
In 1961, Soviet cosmo-
naut Yuri Gagarin became
the first man to fly in space,
orbiting the earth once before
making a safe landing.
In 1963, civil rights
leader Martin Luther King,
Jr. was arrested and jailed
in Birmingham, Alabama,
charged with contempt of
court and parading without
a permit. (During his time
behind bars, King wrote his
“Letter from Birmingham
Jail.”)
In 1975, singer, dancer
and civil rights activist Jose-
phine Baker, 68, died in Paris.
In 1981, the space shuttle
Columbia blasted off from
Cape Canaveral on its first
test flight. Former world
heavyweight boxing cham-
pion Joe Louis, 66, died in
Las Vegas, Nevada.
In 1985, Sen. Jake Garn,
R-Utah, became the first
sitting member of Congress
to fly in space as the shuttle
Discovery lifted off.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Children’s author Beverly
Cleary is 101. Actress Jane
Withers is 91. Jazz musician
Herbie Hancock is 77. Rock
singer John Kay (Steppen-
wolf) is 73. Actor Ed O’Neill
is 71. Actor Dan Lauria is
70. Former talk show host
David Letterman is 70.
Author Scott Turow is 68.
Singer David Cassidy is 67.
Rhythm-and-blues singer JD
Nicholas (The Commodores)
is 65. Singer Pat Travers is
63. Actor Andy Garcia is 61.
Movie director Walter Salles
is 61. Country singer Vince
Gill is 60. Actress Suzzanne
Douglas is 60. Rock singer
Art Alexakis (Everclear) is
55. Actress Alicia Coppola
is 49. Rock singer Nicholas
Hexum (311) is 47. Rock
musician Guy Berryman
(Coldplay) is 39. Rock sing-
er-musician Brendon Urie
(Panic! at the Disco) is 30.
Thought for Today:
“Rules are not necessarily
sacred, principles are.” —
President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt (1882-1945).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE