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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