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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Man’s announced engagement
surprises his wife of 17 years
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: My husband and I
and annoying. When I ask him to
have been together 21 years, married
stop, he says it’s normal and I should
for 17. We recently did a short sale on
be glad he’s still interested in me.
our home and moved to Texas. It was
He says it’s my job to “take care of
a professional move for my husband.
my man,” even if it means being
At first I was wowed; then I grew
awakened in the middle of the night.
homesick for my family, my job and
Is this normal? — Manhandled In
my friends. My husband was not
Georgia
supportive of my emotional needs.
Dear Manhandled: When a man
Jeanne
Three years later, my husband has Phillips approaches a woman in a sexual way,
announced his engagement to another
it is supposed to be pleasurable for
Advice
woman via the internet. He has been
both parties. If one of them asks the
seeing her all this time, while finan-
other to stop and the person doesn’t,
cially supporting my household and saying, it becomes more of an assault than foreplay.
“Goodbye, I love you,” at the end of our It is not your “job” to have sex with your
phone calls and texts.
husband when he wakes you up in the middle
Needless to say, I have filed for divorce. of the night demanding it. That borders on
His “cupcake” doesn’t know he’s still married coercion, and it is not “normal.”
and has large debts from our relationship as
Dear Abby: My younger brother smokes,
well as this new one, so she’s in for a big but not cigarettes. Recently, he has been
financial surprise.
taking a pipe to school. I’m the one who
In the meantime, we’ll communicate drives him to the bus stop every morning,
amicably. I still love him. I want to expose and I’ve told him to leave it at home, but
him to her. I don’t think she’d be making he refuses to listen to me. I’m worried he’s
wedding plans if she knew he was still going to get caught by the campus police,
married. Should I let them figure it out for get kicked out of our very nice school and
themselves or maybe spend my lifetime with develop a criminal record. I can’t tell our
regrets? — Heavy Heart, No Regrets
parents because that will do more harm than
Dear Heavy Heart: If you want to do the good, and I can’t make him listen to me. What
cupcake a “favor” and expose your almost-ex, do I do? — Smoking Mad Older Sister
I can’t stop you. But if you do, you can bet
Dear Sister: Ask yourself which will
your divorce will be anything but amicable, do your brother more good — telling your
and I have serious doubts that you’ll achieve parents what he has been up to so they can
your goal.
intervene, or remaining silent and letting him
Dear Abby: My husband is always grab- get kicked out of school for being stoned in
bing me in a sexual way. I find it demeaning class? Tell your parents!
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 1, 1917
With over half of the football team
“posted” by the faculty today on account of
poor grades, and the gradual fizzling out of
the season ticket campaign which so far has
not netted the student body more than $50, a
warning was sounded to high school students
this morning as to the condition of their team
and student body finances by Principal Drill.
Debt amounting to over $200 hangs over the
students, he said, since Pendleton guarantees
Baker high $160 for the game here Friday.
The Waitsburg game was a loss also. Mr. Drill
said that no more games would be contracted
except the two now certain, with Baker and
Walla Walla, unless the financial and scholar-
ship matters could be adjusted.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 1, 1967
Tools found in the auto driven by a Pend-
leton man, Fred Sanders, who shot and killed
himself as he was being pursued by police in
Walla Walla have cleared up two Pendleton
burglaries. Ernest Gallaher, Pendleton police
chief, said today the state crime laboratory
matched tools found in Sanders’ car with
marks made during burglaries in September
at Smith Canning and Freezing and Suburban
Gas Company Goods lost in the burglaries
have not been recovered.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 1, 1992
Despite being confined to a wheelchair
because of muscular dystrophy, fifth grader
Eric Rollis manages to get around the
multi-level middle school in Heppner. But
in order to access the different levels in one
of the oldest buildings in the county-wide
school district, Rollis and his wheelchair are
strapped to a machine called Stair Trac II.
When maneuvered by a strong-armed assis-
tant, the machine climbs up and down stairs.
However, a less labor-intensive chair lift is
being installed at Heppner Middle School,
in part to meet current regulations regarding
handicapped access. The $35,000 wheelchair
lift will transport Rollis and his wheelchair on
a platform at the touch of a button.
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 305th day of
2017. There are 60 days left
in the year. This is All Saints
Day.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Nov. 1, 1512, Michel-
angelo’s
just-completed
paintings on the ceiling of
the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel
were publicly unveiled by the
artist’s patron, Pope Julius II.
On this date:
In 1478, the Spanish
Inquisition was established.
In 1604, William Shake-
speare’s tragedy “Othello”
was presented at Whitehall
Palace in London.
In 1765, the Stamp
Act, passed by the British
Parliament, went into effect,
prompting stiff resistance
from American colonists.
In 1861, during the Civil
War, President Abraham
Lincoln named Maj. Gen.
George B. McClellan Gener-
al-in-Chief of the Union
armies, succeeding Lt. Gen.
Winfield Scott.
In 1936, in a speech in
Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini
described
the
alliance
between his country and Nazi
Germany as an “axis” running
between Rome and Berlin.
In 1949, an Eastern
Airlines DC-4 collided in
midair with a Lockheed P-38
fighter plane near Washington
National Airport, killing all
55 people aboard the DC-4
and seriously injuring the
pilot of the P-38.
In 1950, two Puerto Rican
nationalists tried to force
their way into Blair House in
Washington, D.C., in a failed
attempt to assassinate Presi-
dent Harry S. Truman. (One
of the pair was killed, along
with a White House police
officer.)
In 1952, the United States
exploded the first hydrogen
bomb, code-named “Ivy
Mike,” at Enewetak Atoll in
the Marshall Islands.
In 1967, the prison drama
“Cool Hand Luke,” starring
Paul Newman, was released
by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.
In 1979, former first lady
Mamie Eisenhower died in
Washington, D.C., at age 82.
In 1989, East Germany
reopened its border with
Czechoslovakia, prompting
tens of thousands of refugees
to flee to the West.
In 1991, Clarence Thomas
took his place as the newest
justice on the Supreme Court.
Today’s
Birthdays:
World Golf Hall of Famer
Gary Player is 82. Country
singer Bill Anderson is 80.
Actress Barbara Bosson is
78. Actor Robert Foxworth
is 76. Magazine publisher
Larry Flynt is 75. Country
singer-humorist
Kinky
Friedman is 73. Actress
Jeannie Berlin is 68. Music
producer David Foster is 68.
Actress Belita Moreno is 68.
Rhythm-and-blues musician
Ronald Khalis Bell (Kool
and the Gang) is 66. Country
singer-songwriter-producer
Keith Stegall is 63. Country
singer Lyle Lovett is 60. Rock
musician Eddie MacDonald
(The Alarm) is 58. Apple
CEO Tim Cook is 57. Rock
singer Anthony Kiedis (Red
Hot Chili Peppers) is 55.
Pop singer-musician Mags
Furuholmen (a-ha) is 55.
Rock musician Rick Allen
(Def Leppard) is 54. Country
singer “Big Kenny” Alphin
(Big and Rich) is 54. Country
musician Dale Wallace
(Emerson Drive) is 48.
Thought for Today:
“God give me strength to
face a fact though it slay me.”
— Thomas Huxley, English
biologist (1825-1895).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE