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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, April 25, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ New house responsibilities put wife down in the dumps FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My husband decided spend your own money to obtain to buy a house. I never wanted one the supplies you need to do the job. and now I’m depressed. I could be spending my time — and I am thankful that my husband resources — doing things like shop- provides for the family and puts a roof ping or getting my nails done. over our heads, but now that we are Volunteers don’t want to do all in our house, my days are spent doing of that only to hear how we’re not chores, yard work, and cleaning, doing the job right, suggestions on cleaning and cleaning. This is why I how to do it better or complaints that Jeanne never wanted the responsibility of a Phillips we didn’t do enough. I am so sick of house. I don’t have time for my family people who delight in telling you that Advice because I’m so busy maintaining this you’re not doing enough. I can’t save house I never wanted. the world, but I can help one person I have been distant from my husband each day. Thanks for letting me get this off because I secretly despise him for putting me my chest. — Sounding Off In Texas in this position when he knew it wasn’t what Dear Sounding Off: You’re welcome. I wanted. Am I being selfish? — Don’t Want That’s what I’m here for. I hope writing this The Responsibility has made you feel better. Now get back to Dear Don’t: Selfish? No. Passive-ag- work, because what you do is IMPORTANT. gressive, yes. The problem with passive Dear Abby: I am tattooed. I started getting aggression is that the problem never gets inked when I was 22. I am now 31. resolved. If you feel you have too much on Recently, I decided to get an extensive your shoulders, tell your husband how you design on my left arm. It will take four are feeling so he can either help you with the sessions to complete. The first session is chores, or hire someone to do the yard work scheduled on a Tuesday, not normally my and some of the cleaning. day off. I can use PTO hours to cover it, but Dear Abby: I love helping others, but I’m what do I say when — and if — management ready to quit every volunteer job I have. I’m notices my ink, puts two and two together, tired of people who are not volunteers telling and realizes I took time off for this? — Inked me I am doing my job wrong. In Indiana When you volunteer, you are given Dear Inked: If that happens, you should training on how to do your job. You drive tell the truth — that you took PTO for a to the site using your own gas, spend your personal errand. That’s what personal/paid time helping others, and a lot of times you time off is for. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 24-25, 1917 More than a hundred men of all ages, shapes and sizes turned out yesterday morning at 10 o’clock at the Moose Hall in answer to the call for the formation of three military units. Enthusiasm was rampant and as a result regular drills will be held and Pend- leton streets may soon resound to the tramp of marching feet. The men who reported yesterday were divided into three divisions. The single men between the ages of 18 and 45 were organized into the first reserve, the married men of military age were formed into the second reserve and the men of 45 to 65 into the third reserve. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 24-25, 1967 William Rex Lankford, 38, Pendleton, was listed in critical condition today at a Portland hospital after his modified hardtop racer sailed over the northeast bank at the Rocket Speedway in Pilot Rock Sunday before scores of horrified spectators. Lankford, who was out on the track before race time warming up his auto, apparently had his attention diverted and his machine climbed a bank and rolled over, down into a 20 foot hole on the other side. Witnesses at the track said Lankford was making some test laps and had stepped out to adjust his engine. When he stepped back in for another lap he apparently was looking at something inside the auto when it failed to make the curve. Lankford suffered a fractured skull and shoulder. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 24-25, 1992 An environmental group threatened this week to sue the government if it goes ahead with plans to spray the spruce budworm in northeastern Oregon forests. The U.S. Forest Service plans to spray 185,000 acres in northeast Oregon and southeast Washington in June to combat the insect, which has devastated forests in the region. The threat is another example of the increasingly political nature of forest management. Wendell Wood of the Oregon Natural Resources Council said budworm studies thus far have been too narrow, and that his group might go to court if no expanded study is conducted. THIS DAY IN HISTORY BLONDIE DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN Today is the 115th day of 2017. There are 250 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 25, 1507, a world map produced by German cartographer Martin Waldseemueller contained the first recorded use of the term “America,” in honor of Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci. On this date: In 404 B.C., the Pelopon- nesian War ended as Athens surrendered to Sparta. In 1862, during the Civil War, a Union fleet commanded by Flag Officer David G. Farragut captured the city of New Orleans. In 1915, during World War I, Allied soldiers invaded the Gallipoli Peninsula in an unsuccessful attempt to take the Ottoman Empire out of the war. In 1917, legendary jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald was born in Newport News, Virginia. In 1945, delegates from some 50 countries gathered in San Francisco to organize the United Nations. In 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was deployed in orbit from the space shuttle Discovery. (It was later discovered that the telescope’s primary mirror was flawed, requiring the installation of corrective components to achieve optimal focus.) Ten years ago: Brushing off a presidential veto threat, the House passed, 218-208, a $124.2 billion supplemental spending bill ordering U.S. troops to begin coming home from Iraq in the fall of 2007. The Dow Jones industrial average topped 13,000 for the first time, ending the day at 13,089.89. Singer-songwriter Bobby “Boris” Pickett of “Monster Mash” fame died in Los Angeles at age 69. Five years ago: The U.S. Supreme Court heard argu- ments on Arizona’s tough immigration law. (A divided court later threw out major parts of the law.) One year ago: The city of Cleveland reached a $6 million settlement in a lawsuit over the death of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black boy shot by a white police officer while playing with a pellet gun outside a recreation center. A panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan ruled 2-to-1 that New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady had to serve a four- game “Deflategate” suspen- sion imposed by the NFL, overturning a lower judge and siding with the league in a battle with the players union. Today’s Birthdays: Actor Al Pacino is 77. Ballroom dance judge Len Goodman (TV: “Dancing with the Stars”) is 73. Rock musician Stu Cook (Creedence Clear- water Revival) is 72. Singer Bjorn Ulvaeus (ABBA) is 72. Actress Talia Shire is 72. Actor Hank Azaria is 53. Actress Renee Zellweger is 48. Actor Jason Lee is 47. Thought for Today: “There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less an exception to the general rule.” — Samuel Butler, English author (1835- 1902). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE