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Tuesday, May 16, 2017 PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK East Oregonian Page 7A DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ When man is ready to talk, his wife can’t stay awake FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER Dear Abby: As the only income are well-behaved, but they have a lot earner in our household of five, I work of energy. I have two kids and limited long hours. Sometimes I would enjoy free time, and my husband no longer talking about my day with my wife of walks them. I refuse to do it because 18 years. While she has no problem the dogs are very strong. They have staying awake to watch TV or going knocked me over on a couple of out with her friends on the weekend, occasions. Because the dogs have no she usually falls asleep right in the release, we have come home several middle of what I’m saying. It also times to find they have destroyed one Jeanne happens in the car while I’m driving. Phillips thing or another in the house (chewed Contrast this to a recent trip she up walls, furniture, carpet). Advice took with her friends where they I suggested dog training and/or a talked and yucked it up for five hours dog walker, but my husband refuses straight. No matter how tired I am at the end and promises to start walking them again of a long work week, I will do everything in (which usually lasts a couple of weeks, at my power to stay awake if there’s something most). He was raised to believe that dogs are she needs to talk about. I can’t figure out why part of the family, while I was not, so when I she’s not doing the same for me. suggest that we “rehome” the dogs to someone When I tell her it hurts my feelings that who can devote more time to them, he won’t she doesn’t think I’m important enough to consider it, saying he could never do that to a make the effort to stay awake, or at least tell family member. me she’s too tired to talk, I get criticized for I’m at my wit’s end. The situation is not being sympathetic to how tired she is. At affecting our marriage in a number of ways. first I thought it was true. But now I think her Any advice you can offer would be greatly behavior is self-centered. Am I crazy to think appreciated. — Lots Of Energy In California this way? — Unheard In Illinois Dear Lots Of Energy: Gladly. Enlist your Dear Unheard: You’re not crazy. You husband’s help once again in walking those seem perfectly rational to me. What your wife “family members” and suggest he take the is doing when you try to tell her that you are kids along. They might enjoy the “family” hurt is accuse you of doing exactly what she outing, and it would give you some time to has been doing. To prevent your anger from yourself. Your reason for not doing it is valid. building over this, discuss it with her when You should not risk physical injury. she’s wide awake — in a marriage counselor’s When he stops walking the dogs again office, if necessary. Please do it before you in a few weeks — as he will — hire the dog encounter a lady who IS sympathetic and walker. If he objects, ask him which is more willing to listen, because there are plenty of expensive, this or fixing the damage the them out there. dogs invariably cause when they haven’t had Dear Abby: My husband and I have had enough exercise to tire them out. I’m sure he two big dogs for several years. In general, they will see your reasoning. DAYS GONE BY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 15-16, 1917 A thriving business in lemon extract was broken up yesterday afternoon with the arrest of George DeMott, proprietor of a Main street cigar store, who was charged with selling intoxicating liquor to Indians. He pleaded guilty in police court this morning and was assessed $25 by Judge Fitz Gerald. Lemon extract, be it said, is about 95 per cent alcohol and anyone whose insides are plated enough to stand this “liquid hellfire” can acquire a most thorough “jag” on a small part of a bottle. DeMott’s attorney raised the question as to whether the particular lemon extract sold contained more than one half of one per cent of alcohol. Judge Fitz Gerald took the bottle and let the liquid touch his tongue. After he had got his breath and spat and whistled, he gave his opinion thusly, “That stuff would make a white rabbit fight a bulldog.” 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 15-16, 1967 Sections of the John Day River in central Oregon will run red on June 12 when the Department of the Interior’s Geological Survey begins a second series of dye injections. The harmless bright-red dye will be poured into the river and several of its tributaries and observed as it moves down- stream. Purpose of these injections is to more accurately determine the travel time of water in the basin. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian May 15-16, 1992 The Pendleton Fire Department, faced with a revolving door that empties into western Oregon, is introducing a program it hopes will keep experienced firefighters east of the Cascades. The Pendleton Fire Depart- ment and Ambulance Service has initiated a Student Resident Firefighter/Emergency Medical Technician program it hopes will give a boost to students interested in a career in public safety. The department expects to benefit from the program with additional workers and a pool of qualified candidates from northeast Oregon who are more likely to remain as satisfied employees. BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 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 136th day of 2017. There are 229 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 16, 1868, the U.S. Senate failed by one vote to convict President Andrew Johnson as it took its first ballot on the eleven articles of impeachment against him. On this date: In 1770, Marie Antoi- nette, age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15. In 1866, Congress autho- rized minting of the first five-cent piece, also known as the “Shield nickel.” In 1920, Joan of Arc was canonized by Pope Benedict XV. In 1939, the federal government began its first food stamp program in Roch- ester, New York. In 1946, the Irving Berlin musical “Annie Get Your Gun,” starring Ethel Merman as Annie Oakley, opened on Broadway. In 1957, federal agent Eliot Ness, who organized “The Untouchables” team that took on gangster Al Capone, died in Coudersport, Pennsylvania, at age 54. In 1966, China launched the Cultural Revolution, a radical as well as deadly reform movement aimed at purging the country of “counter-revolutionaries.” In 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. In 1977, a New York Airways helicopter idling atop the Pan Am Building in midtown Manhattan toppled over, killing four passengers who were waiting to board and sending debris falling to the street below, killing a fifth person. In 1988, the U.S. Supreme Court, in California v. Greenwood, ruled that police can search discarded garbage without a search warrant. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop released a report declaring nicotine was addictive in ways similar to heroin and cocaine. Today’s Birthdays: U.S. Rep John Conyers, D-Mich., is 88. Former U.S. Senator and Connecticut Governor Lowell Weicker is 86. Jazz musician Billy Cobham is 73. Actor Danny Trejo is 73. Actor Bill Smitrovich is 70. Actor Pierce Brosnan is 64. Actress Debra Winger is 62. Olympic gold medal gymnast Olga Korbut is 62. Olympic gold medal marathon runner Joan Benoit Samuelson is 60. Actress Mare Winningham is 58. Rock musician Boyd Tinsley (The Dave Matthews Band) is 53. Rock musician Krist Novoselic is 52. Singer Janet Jackson is 51. Country singer Scott Reeves (Blue County) is 51. Rhythm-and- blues singer Ralph Tresvant (New Edition) is 49. Actor David Boreanaz is 48. Polit- ical correspondent Tucker Carlson is 48. Actress Tracey Gold is 48. . Actress Tori Spelling is 44. Thought for Today: “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” — Roald Dahl, British author (1916-1990). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
