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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, October 20, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Wife tires of long marriage to a resentful curmudgeon FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE in their activities or pickups and drop- Dear Abby: I will soon be married 48 years, but it is not much of a offs, but never hesitates to interject her marriage. There is no sex, no touching, opinions about what I should do with no kind and compassionate words, their time. It causes communication only bickering and arguing. I can’t problems between their father and me. figure out why I’m still here. I have I don’t want to be rude to her. Where thought about leaving many times. does the line need to be drawn? — I have written three books, and Momma Knows Best because of it, my husband has ridi- Dear Momma Knows Best: Give Jeanne culed me. I have also owned and oper- Phillips your ex’s current wife the benefit of ated two businesses. I’m active in the the doubt. She may be trying to be Advice community, which he resents. He is an helpful. Then, for the sake of your own introvert, while I am an extrovert. He sanity, simply ignore her comments no longer accompanies me to activities, but and continue communicating with your ex in when he did, he would make snide remarks parenting matters. to people who stopped to chat with us. So I no Dear Abby: Many years ago, as I was longer invite him. Help me, please! — Sad, about to graduate from college and begin Lonely Wife looking for a job, I read a book called “Dress Dear Wife: I will try. If you are asking for Success.” One of the things I remember my permission to divorce your husband, I from it is that a man’s tie should be tied to a can’t give it to you. Instead, I suggest you length that is between the last button of his ask yourself why you have tolerated such a shirt and the top of his belt buckle. lonely marriage for 48 years and what you Since the last election I have noticed that feel you would have to gain by leaving. As many politicians, our new president included, an intelligent woman, once you answer that, wear their ties several inches below their I think you will know what to do. belt. Is this a fashion trend or just them being Dear Abby: I am a mother of two. I share unique? — Chris In Washington 50 percent custody of my children with their Dear Chris: I brought your question to father. My children also have two stepparents. the attention of the Brooks Brothers corporate How involved in decision-making should office and was told that what you read in the stepparents be? I value their opinions, but “Dress for Success” was correct. That some I think I know what is best for my children. people wear their ties longer is an individual Their stepmother isn’t particularly involved style decision, and not a fashion trend. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 20, 1917 It is rumored that a new $8000 building is to be built at Rieth. It is to be a hotel, restau- rant and barber shop and confectionery store combined. Excavation for the building has been started and if it is completed will make quite an addition to Rieth. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 20, 1967 Jubilee Lake is filling today. The 24-inch gate in the bottom of the new dam was closed Wednesday and began backing up the waters of Motet Creek. Flow in the creek and in two other trickles of water into the lake basin are low now and Jubilee won’t fill noticeably until fall rains come. The spring runoff will complete the job. The manmade, 100-acre lake is about 10 miles north of Tollgate in the Blue Mountains. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 20, 1992 Deepika Sharma of Hermiston says a summer working at a national research laboratory was the most enlightening experience of her life. “I thought I was going to be a ‘gofer,’ but it turned out I had my own office, telephone, computer and mailstop, and an assignment waiting for me to work on.” Sharma, a high school junior, had been selected for an apprenticeship program at the Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories in Richland, one of the nation’s five national energy research laboratories. Sharma worked with scientists J.V. Ramsdell, Ken Burk and Chris Simonen in the Atmospheric Science Department. One of her assignments was to help translate a complex Fortran computer program known as “Ratchet” from a Sun computer version to an IBM PC version. The work allowed staff members access to the Sun software on their personal computers. 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 293rd day of 2017. There are 72 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 20, 1967, a jury in Meridian, Mississippi, convicted seven men of violating the civil rights of slain civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner; the seven received prison terms ranging from 3 to 10 years. On this date: In 1714, the coronation of Britain’s King George I took place in Westminster Abbey. In 1803, the U.S. Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase. In 1936, Helen Keller’s teacher, Anne Sullivan Macy, died in Forest Hills, New York, at age 70. In 1947, the House Un-American Activities Committee opened hearings into alleged Communist influence and infiltration in the U.S. motion picture industry. In 1964, the 31st president of the United States, Herbert C. Hoover, died in New York at age 90. In 1968, former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. In 1973, in the so-called “Saturday Night Massacre,” special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox was dismissed and Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William B. Ruckelshaus resigned. In 1976, 78 people were killed when the Norwegian tanker Frosta rammed the commuter ferry George Prince on the Mississippi River near New Orleans. In 1977, three members of the rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd, including lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, were killed along with three others in the crash of a char- tered plane near McComb, Mississippi. In 1987, 10 people were killed when an Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn hotel near Indianapolis International Airport after the pilot, who was trying to make an emergency landing, ejected safely. In 1994, actor Burt Lancaster died in Los Angeles at age 80. In 2007: Republican Congressman Bobby Jindal, the U.S.-born son of Indian immigrants, was elected governor of Louisiana; he became the first non-white to hold the job since Recon- struction. Former Green Bay Packers receiver Max McGee died in Deephaven, Minnesota, at age 75. Peg Bracken, author of the “I Hate to Cook Book,” died in Portland, Oregon, at age 89. Today’s Birthdays: Japan’s Empress Michiko is 83. Rockabilly singer Wanda Jackson is 80. Former actress Rev. Mother Dolores Hart is 79. Actor William “Rusty” Russ is 67. Actress Melanie Mayron is 65. Retired MLB All-Star Keith Hernandez is 64. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., is 62. Movie director Danny Boyle is 61. Former Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is 60. Actor Viggo Mortensen is 59. Rock musician Jim Sonefeld (Hootie & The Blowfish) is 53. Rock musician David Ryan is 53. Rock musician Doug Eldridge (Oleander) is 50. Journalist Sunny Hostin (TV: “The View”) is 49. Political commentator and blogger Michelle Malkin is 47. Actor Kenneth Choi is 46. Rapper Snoop Dogg is 46. Singer Dannii Minogue is 46. Singer Jimi Westbrook (country group Little Big Town) is 46. Country musi- cian Jeff Loberg is 41. Actor Sam Witwer is 40. Actor John Krasinski is 38. Rock musician Daniel Tichenor (Cage the Elephant) is 38. Actress Katie Featherston is 35. Actress Jennifer Nicole Freeman is 32. Thought for Today: “Everybody’s private motto: It’s better to be popular than right.” — Mark Twain (1835-1910). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
