Page 14A East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Wednesday, November 22, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Fiancé refuses to vacate house for girls’ weekend FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER Dear Abby: I live with my fiancé, conversation, it was clear there is real and we are being married in eight feeling between them. He says she’s months. When I asked him if he “just so nice.” She continues to send would go and stay with his parents or emails addressed to both of us and some friends on a weekend when my asks me (since he is not computer girlfriend comes into town so we can savvy) to relay that she misses have girl time, he got highly offended him greatly and he was her “ray of and said he isn’t leaving “his” house. sunshine” every day when he would I pay more than he does in rent, and walk in the office. Jeanne I don’t feel I should have to rent a Phillips Should I be worried, jealous or separate place. envious? It is only now I have become Advice He doesn’t understand girl time: aware that she was so important to my drinking wine, watching chick-flicks husband at work. I had no knowledge and talking about our lives. I want to dedicate about their relationship before. — Uncertain all my time that weekend to being a good In New Jersey friend, but he doesn’t get it. I have told him Dear Uncertain: I don’t think you have that if he ever wanted me to go stay with anything to worry about. That the conversa- friends or visit my parents so he could have tion at dinner revolved around the office is a guys’ weekend, I would have no problem not surprising. The office and the job were with it. Am I asking for too much? — Needs the basis of their relationship. Because she’s Girl Time In North Carolina sending emails addressed to both of you, I Dear Needs: Yes. I think expecting your doubt she’s trying to slip anything past you fiancé to leave when your girlfriend comes to or make a play for your husband. Be patient, visit is a bit much. Do you plan to make the and with time, I suspect she will adjust to the same request after you are married? Regard- loss of her “ray of sunshine.” less of who pays more rent, the house is home Dear Readers: Tomorrow is Thanks- to both of you. giving, and no Thanksgiving would be I would think that the idea of being complete without sharing the traditional subjected to one of your “girls’ weekends” prayer penned by my dear late mother: — the wine, the chick-flicks, the gossip — Oh, Heavenly Father, would motivate him to make other plans. We thank Thee for food and remember the However, because he is unwilling, you and hungry. your girlfriend should consider splitting the We thank Thee for health and remember cost of a hotel room for the weekend, which the sick. might be more enjoyable for all three of you. We thank Thee for friends and remember Dear Abby: Over the last 13 years in his the friendless. job, my husband developed a “very friendly” We thank Thee for freedom and remember relationship with a clerical person. Now that the enslaved. he has retired, she wants to continue it by May these remembrances stir us to service. That Thy gifts to us may be used for others. meeting with him (and me) for dinner. We Amen. have had dinner together once, and when they Have a safe and happy celebration, began to talk shop, I became the odd one out. Although I interjected myself into the everyone! — Love, Abby DAYS GONE BY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 22, 1917 So difficult has it become to get orders through for Ford cars without delay that the Simpson Auto Co. has adopted the method of making prospective buyers take their turn. Only signed orders are recognized and these are numbered in proper order. As new shipments arrive the orders are filled according to the list. Another carload of Fords will arrive Monday and all are now sold. Just what effect the offer of Henry Ford to turn over his factories to the government will have upon the output of the cars is now unknown but it has caused many people who wish new Fords next spring to place their orders now. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 22, 1967 Twenty-six tracts of Bureau of Land Management grazing land in the area south of Irrigon to the Boardman community goes on the auction block at 1 p.m. Friday at the Boardman Grange Hall. The raw sage brush land, if it sells, will mark the end of a long controversy on how to dispose of the land. The 26 tracts comprise approximately 12,000 acres in sizes from approximately 60 to 640 acres. Out of the 26 tracts, 12 are full sections of 640 acres or more. Each tract will be sold separately. The land sale is drawing interest because of the possibility of high lift irrigation in the area by pumping water from the Columbia River. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 22, 1992 Basketball players, dancers and roller skaters have all taken their turn at the Weston gym. Yet the shiny floorboards of the 1930s era gymnasium have held up under the strain. And according to Athena-Weston superinten- dent Lynn Harris, the historical facility has a few good years left. “We do not intend to modernize it,” he said. But the school district does intend to refurbish it. Steel columns and beams will reinforce the walls and ceiling of the aging wooden gym. Contractors are set to begin renovation in December and will probably complete the project in March at a cost of $63,131. The relatively inexpensive price tag helped save the gym from being demolished. It would cost half as much just to dismantle it, Harris said. 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 326th day of 2017. There are 39 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas; Texas Gov. John B. Connally, in the same car as Kennedy, was seriously wounded; a suspect, Lee Harvey Oswald, was arrested; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as president. On this date: In 1718, English pirate Edward Teach — better known as “Blackbeard” — was killed during a battle off present-day North Carolina. In 1890, French president Charles de Gaulle was born in Lille, France. In 1914, the First Battle of Ypres during World War I ended with an Allied victory against Germany. In 1928, “Bolero” by Maurice Ravel had its premiere at the Paris Opera. In 1935, a flying boat, the China Clipper, took off from Alameda, California, carrying more than 100,000 pieces of mail on the first trans-Pacific airmail flight. In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss measures for defeating Japan. Lyricist Lorenz Hart died in New York at age 48. In 1954, the Humane Society of the United States was incorporated as the National Humane Society. In 1975, Juan Carlos was proclaimed King of Spain. In 1977, regular passenger service between New York and Europe on the supersonic Concorde began on a trial basis. Today’s Birthdays: Actor Michael Callan is 82. Actor Allen Garfield is 78. Animator and movie director Terry Gilliam is 77. Actor Tom Conti is 76. Singer Jesse Colin Young is 76. Astronaut Guion Bluford is 75. Interna- tional Tennis Hall of Famer Billie Jean King is 74. Rock musician Tina Weymouth (The Heads; Talking Heads; The Tom Tom Club) is 67. Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is 59. Actor Mark Ruffalo is 50. International Tennis Hall of Famer Boris Becker is 50. Country musician Chris Fryar (Zac Brown Band) is 47. Actress Scarlett Johansson is 33. Thought for Today: “If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be no help.” — From the address President Kennedy never got to deliver in Dallas on November 22, 1963. PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE