Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, May 4, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Sister can’t watch as brother’s bullying wife calls the shots FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My brother has been experience of a wedding, but have married for 11 years to a woman who you considered what responsibilities is very controlling. She’s 32, he’s 38, may come afterward? Weddings are and they have two kids. expensive, but divorce can be even She has all the traits of a bully. She more so. decided if, when and how they got I find it interesting that you would married, whether to have kids, when ask this question without mentioning and how many. She also decides what that you had a particular love interest he wears and what friends he has. She in mind. Until you figure out why you Jeanne doesn’t allow him to socialize with his Phillips have a history of failed relationships, friends, controls his work schedule, I do not think you should rush to the Advice home schedule, etc. When things don’t altar. Throw a nice party instead. go her way, she yells and screams. Dear Abby: I am a 35-year-old I’m afraid this unhealthy relationship is woman who is returning to community beginning to affect their kids. I hate to see him college after a 10-year absence. I’m disturbed taken advantage of. What can I do or say to by the lack of respect that some of my class- him to help him be more assertive? Or should mates show. Many times they show up 30 to 45 minutes late. (The classes are only an hour I talk to her instead? — Concerned Sister Dear Concerned Sister: You can’t wave and 15 minutes long.) Also, some of them a magic wand and make someone who isn’t constantly talk during the lectures, forcing the assertive be assertive. Nowhere in your teachers to talk over them. letter did you mention that your brother has When I was in college the first time, confided that he’s unhappy with his wife teachers were allowed to deny a student entry running things. If he does, suggest he talk to to class if they arrived late and to kick students a psychologist for tips on how to change the out if they were causing a disturbance. These dynamic in his marriage. If not, you should students are robbing us of our class time stay out of it. because the teacher must make time to let Dear Abby: I am a man in my 70s. I want them in, wait for them to stop talking, etc. to be married. I have never been, but I have Is this just me being too serious, or is this a always wanted the experience of a wedding. generational problem of parents not raising The bulk of my life has been spent children to respect others? — Cranky acquiring five graduate degrees beyond high College Lady school. I have terminated several long-term Dear Cranky: Neither one. It’s a case relationships and had two failed engagements. of a teacher not being in control of his/her Is there any hope for a wedding for me classroom. Talk to the teacher about how you before my Maker calls? — Forlorn In The feel, and to the head of the department if you U.S.A. think new rules should be put in place. Your Dear Forlorn: You may yearn for the point is valid. 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 May 4, 1917 The Pendleton Woolen Mills as well as all other mills in the country will be required by the government to help equip the big army being raised, and all mill employees will be expected to remain in their positions rather than enlist. This much was made plain in a letter received this morning by C.M. Bishop of the Pendleton and Washougal mills from Colonel John T. Knight, who has charge of the quartermaster corps of the western division. It is a grave mistake, he writes, for mill employees to enlist in the army, navy or marine corps as they are needed much more in their present positions. He adds that it is just as much the part of patriotism for them to remain a part of the army of production which must supply the army at the front as it is to bear a gun. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 4, 1967 Pendleton’s teen-agers are valuable members of the community but some of BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN them create problems for all, city councilman Robert McKellar said Tuesday after he was criticized in a long letter from the Pendleton High School student body. The letter objected to McKellar’s recent comment that “if the teen- agers are against the mall, it must be a step in the right direction,” to the mall itself and to the East Oregonian’s reporting of students trying to organize a march on the mall. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 4, 1992 Water was released from KcKay Reservoir this morning — a full month earlier than normal — to help downstream irrigators quench crops wilting under the stress of summer-like heat. Ron Morris, the Bureau of Reclamation’s new irrigation operator and Umatilla River manager, said small releases of 25 cubic feet per second were released at 8:30 this morning. That amount was to increase to 50 cfs this afternoon and will be up to about 100 cfs by Wednesday. The water will be available to farmers downstream in three irri- gation districts who have contracts for stored water owned by the Bureau of Reclamation. THIS DAY IN HISTORY Today is the 124th day of 2017. There are 241 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 4, 1942, the Battle of the Coral Sea, the first naval clash fought entirely with carrier aircraft, began in the Pacific during World War II. (The outcome was considered a tactical victory for Imperial Japan, but ultimately a stra- tegic one for the Allies.) On this date: In 1776, Rhode Island declared its freedom from England, two months before the Declaration of Indepen- dence was adopted. In 1830, the Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel “Paul Clifford,” with its famous opening, “It was a dark and stormy night...,” was first published in London. In 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago, a labor demonstration for an 8-hour work day turned into a deadly riot when a bomb exploded. In 1904, the United States took over construction of the Panama Canal from the French. In 1916, Germany, responding to an ultimatum from President Woodrow Wilson, agreed to limit its submarine warfare. (However, Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare the following year.) In 1932, mobster Al Capone, convicted of income-tax evasion, entered the federal penitentiary in Atlanta. (Capone was later transferred to Alcatraz Island.) In 1959, the first Grammy Awards ceremony was held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Domenico Modugno won Record of the Year and Song of the Year for “Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare)”; Henry Mancini won Album of the Year for “The Music from Peter Gunn.” In 1961, the first group of “Freedom Riders” left Wash- ington, D.C., to challenge racial segregation on interstate buses and in bus terminals. In 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire during an anti-war protest at Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine others. Today’s Birthdays: The former president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, is 89. Kath- erine Jackson, matriarch of the Jackson musical family, is 87. Jazz musician Ron Carter is 80. Rock musician Dick Dale is 80. Pulitzer Prize-winning political commentator George Will is 76. Pop singer Peggy Santi- glia Davison (The Angels) is 73. Actor Richard Jenkins is 70. Country singer Stella Parton is 68. Actor-turned- clergyman Hilly Hicks is 67. Irish musician Darryl Hunt (The Pogues) is 67. Singer Jackie Jackson (The Jack- sons) is 66. Singer-actress Pia Zadora is 65. Rhythm-and- blues singer Oleta Adams is 64. Violinist Soozie Tyrell (Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band) is 60. Country singer Randy Travis is 58. Actor Will Arnett is 47. Rock musician Mike Dirnt (Green Day) is 45. Singer Lance Bass (‘N Sync) is 38. Thought for Today: “When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.” — Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (1882-1967). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE