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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Wife used to swinging free
now feels one string attached
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: My husband and I
on her or her baby, blood kin or not. I
have been into swinging for 20 years.
feel no affinity for the child because
Everything has always been “no
I know my brother didn’t want it.
strings attached.” I was with one man
Maybe in time, I could find a way to
several times before he married his
know this child, but for now my anger
current wife. She’s very religious, not
prevents it. — Livid Sister In Texas
into swinging and doesn’t know he is.
Dear Livid: None of this is the
I’m so attracted to “Nick” that I
fault of the baby. No one forced
dream about him and have met him
your brother to sleep with the “town
Jeanne
outside our marriages. I know it’s Phillips tramp.” I respect him for living up to
wrong, but I can’t keep him out of
his responsibilities to his child.
Advice
my mind. My husband doesn’t know,
You have nothing to lose by being
and I know it would hurt him deeply.
kind to your nephew/niece and his/
Should I tell Nick, or quit writing him on our her mother. Frankly, it appears she could use
swinging site? — Despair Down South
befriending, and in the years ahead that baby
Dear Despair: And what have you to may need a stabilizing female influence.
gain by revealing your feelings? If you think
Dear Abby: My new father-in-law always
it would make Nick leave his wife, forget it. greets me with a hug and a kiss on the mouth.
Because you know it would hurt your husband I come from a family who doesn’t kiss on the
— although I’m having trouble understanding lips, and I find it extremely awkward. I’m not
why, because you’re swingers — I recom- sure how to handle the situation.
mend you refrain from causing him pain.
I don’t want to bring it up to him because
Dear Abby: My family has been put in I’m afraid it would be offensive. I have
a difficult position. Last year, a woman my mentioned it to my husband, who kind of
brother had a one-night-stand with became shrugged it off, saying his father is “old
pregnant. I have heard from more than one school.” I have started turning my head when
person that she’s known as the town tramp or we greet so that he hits my cheek instead of
“crazy.”
my mouth. Please advise me on how to deal
We’re sure she planned it because he with this. — Turning A Cheek In Michigan
makes a good living and can support the child
Dear Turning: I think you’re handling the
financially, and she insisted on keeping the situation well. If your father-in-law asks why
baby. My brother, God bless him, is doing you’re turning your head, all you have to do
what’s necessary, although having a child is smile and say you save kisses on the mouth
with a woman he has come to despise weighs for your husband.
heavily on him.
P.S. I don’t know what “old school” your
How should we, his family, handle this? father-in-law attended, but I wouldn’t set foot
At this point, I have no interest in laying eyes on that campus.
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
April 19, 1917
To carry on the work which the special
food preparedness train outlined here
yesterday, a campaign is to be undertaken at
once, under the direction of the Commercial
association, to make certain that every bit
of available ground in the city is utilized
for gardening purposes. The details of the
campaign have not yet been worked out but
a meeting has been called for 4 o’clock this
afternoon to lay definite plans to list all vacant
lots and tracts and secure someone who will
put these utilized spots to garden. The meet-
ings conducted by the members of the food
preparedness party here yesterday were well
attended both afternoon and evening and any
practical suggestions for beating the high cost
of living and for assisting the country to meet
the food demands imposed by the war were
given out.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 19, 1967
A protest demonstration planned by local
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
teenagers against the Pendleton Park-and-
Shop Mall on Main Street, scheduled for
Monday afternoon, failed to materialize.
Students had earlier informed news media
they were going to hold a protest demonstra-
tion on the mall after school. Teenagers have
expressed displeasure with the mall because
they claim it prevents them from dragging
Main Street. The mall does not permit block
to block through traffic.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 19, 1992
The mail came by train and stamps cost
3 cents when Eugene Berry began working
at the Echo Post Office almost 34 years ago.
He’s still there today, but not for long. Berry
is ready to turn his back on the two-room
building where he’s logged about 70,000
hours through the years, and greeted every
patron in the area by name for as long as most
people can remember. After May 1, Berry,
62, won’t be thinking about opening and
closing the post office doors. Instead, he’ll be
thinking about which hobby he wants to start
on — gardening or carpentry.
Today is the 109th day of
2017. There are 256 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlights in
History:
On April 19, 1967,
Kathrine Switzer became the
first woman to run the Boston
Marathon (at that time, a
men-only event) under an
official number by registering
without mentioning her
gender; by her own estimate,
she finished in 4 hours and
20 minutes. (Bobbi Gibb,
running unofficially for
the second time, finished
in 3:27:17.) Former West
German Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer died at age 91.
On this date:
In 1775, the American
Revolutionary War began
with the battles of Lexington
and Concord.
In 1897, the first Boston
Marathon was held; winner
John J. McDermott ran the
course in two hours, 55
minutes and 10 seconds.
In 1935, the Universal
Pictures horror film “Bride of
Frankenstein,” starring Boris
Karloff with Elsa Lanchester
in the title role, had its world
premiere in San Francisco.
In 1943, during World War
II, tens of thousands of Jews
in the Warsaw Ghetto began
a valiant but ultimately futile
battle against Nazi forces.
In 1951, Gen. Douglas
MacArthur, relieved of his Far
East command by President
Harry S. Truman, bade fare-
well in an address to Congress
in which he quoted a line from
a ballad: “Old soldiers never
die; they just fade away.”
In 1966, Bobbi Gibb, 23,
became the first woman to run
the Boston Marathon at a time
when only men were allowed
to participate. (Gibb jumped
into the middle of the pack
after the sound of the starting
pistol and finished in 3:21:40.)
In 1977, the Supreme
Court, in Ingraham v. Wright,
ruled 5-4 that even severe
spanking of schoolchildren
by faculty members did not
violate the Eighth Amend-
ment ban against cruel and
unusual punishment.
In 1993, the 51-day siege
at the Branch Davidian
compound near Waco, Texas,
ended as fire destroyed the
structure after federal agents
began smashing their way in;
dozens of people, including
sect leader David Koresh,
were killed.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actress Elinor Donahue is
80. Rock musician Alan
Price (The Animals) is 75.
Actor Tim Curry is 71. Pop
singer Mark “Flo” Volman
(The Turtles; Flo and Eddie)
is 70. Actor Tony Plana is
65. Former tennis player Sue
Barker is 61. Motorsports
Hall of Famer Al Unser Jr.
is 55. Actor Tom Wood is
54. Recording executive
Suge Knight is 52. Sing-
er-songwriter Dar Williams
is 50. Actress Ashley Judd
is 49. Singer Bekka Bram-
lett is 49. Latin pop singer
Luis Miguel is 47. Actress
Jennifer Taylor is 45. Actor
James Franco is 39. Actress
Kate Hudson is 38. Actor
Hayden Christensen is 36.
Actress Catalina Sandino
Moreno is 36 Roots rock
musician Steve Johnson
(Alabama Shakes) is 32.
Thought for Today:
“There is a Law that man
should love his neighbor as
himself. In a few hundred
years it should be as natural
to mankind as breathing or
the upright gait; but if he does
not learn it he must perish.”
— Alfred Adler, Austrian
psychoanalyst (1870-1937).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE