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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