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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, November 28, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Young couple seems to click better when they’re apart FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I have been with Sometimes, I can see the number on my boyfriend for two years. When the curb. But many times, it’s impos- I’m with him, I often find him sible to spot — and I deliver during annoying and think we have nothing the day. I can only begin to imagine in common. But when we are apart, I how hard it is for couriers who deliver miss him a lot — especially when one at night. So do us a favor. Make sure of us travels for work. your house number is visible from the When we’re apart and talk on the street. — Wendy In California phone, we have amazing conversa- Dear Wendy: I’m glad you Jeanne tions and discuss a future together. But Phillips wrote. People in your profession when we’re together, we don’t talk as are not the only ones who struggle Advice much, and he never mentions a future with this problem. I have also heard together. from fire and emergency personnel I’m confused. Is this normal for relation- complaining about the same issue when ships? I don’t want to stay in a relationship the situation wasn’t just inconvenient, but that isn’t going anywhere, and it has been like life-threatening. Readers, please take a this since pretty early on. How can I know moment to walk to the curb and see if your if I should invest more of my time or if I street address is visible. Fixing the problem should end it and move on? — Perplexed In could be as simple as trimming some bushes. Virginia Dear Abby: My husband and I have been Dear Perplexed: If neither of you is arguing over whether food must be covered particularly talkative and there are a lot of while it’s being heated in the microwave. I distractions when you are together, then it’s always cover it because it takes little effort normal. When you are apart, it’s possible that and prevents splatters. He refuses, unless the you miss — and idealize — each other, which food is very saucy or greasy. When I ask why is why those conversations about a future he won’t do it, he has no answer. happen. The way to determine whether you It would be one thing if he routinely should invest more time in this relationship cleaned the microwave, but he never does, would be to ASK him, and just as plainly as leaving me to do it. This has caused shouting you addressed that question to me. matches between us. How can we settle this, Dear Abby: Could you please print this on short of throwing away the microwave? — behalf of delivery people everywhere? Folks: Uncovered Out West Please make sure your address is visible from Dear Uncovered: Do not toss out a the street. perfectly good microwave over this issue. I can’t tell you how many times I have had Praise your husband when he covers the to drive up and down a street trying to figure saucy/greasy foods, and remember to throw a out which house I’m supposed to deliver to. paper towel over his dinner when he “forgets.” DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 27-28, 1917 Because he made threats against the life of the President and expressed his sympathy for his fatherland in other seditious utterances, Karl Lees, well known German farmer who lives near Nolin, is under arrest today and will in all probability be interned for the duration of the war. Lees, it is said, has been making himself generally obnoxious to good Americans around Nolin ever since the United States declared war. He is alleged to have made hostile demonstrations against the railroad bridge guards and to have threatened to shoot them. Last September he is alleged to have made the statement that President Wilson ought to be killed and should be placed on the first line trenches so that he would be the first to be shot. Eventually his pro-German utterances reached the ears of the federal officers. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 27-28, 1967 These are busy days for Christine Beach, Miss Oregon. The pretty Pendleton miss has been invited to go to Hawaii and the Johnson Islands after Christmas with the New Oregon Singers, a non-professional group directed by Bruce Kelly, Portland. The 70 singers, men and women, will leave Portland Dec. 26 for Honolulu. From there they will fly the thousand miles to the Johnson Islands to do a show for the U.S. servicemen, then back to Hawaii until Jan. 2. Last weekend, Chris had her first appearance with the singing group, at the Christmas opening of Lloyd Center and the selection of a Lucia Queen. She had another official duty in Portland last weekend — an appearance at the Portland Auto Show. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 27-28, 1992 Jon Wagner, a former Harris Pine Mills employee, traded the comforts of home in Pendleton for rigorous work in Magadan, a chilly city in the Soviet Far East, where he spent more than five weeks this fall building a Seventh-day Adventist church. Wagner and his father-in-law, Willard Beck of Chewelah, Wash., left Pendleton Sept. 30. He returned on Nov. 6, after waiting 41 hours for his flight to leave the Magadan airport. The church construction at Magadan, a Russian seaport, is port of Operation Bearhug, affiliated with the denomination’s North Pacific Union in five Western states. 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 332nd day of 2017. There are 33 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 28, 1942, fire engulfed the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston, killing 492 people in the deadliest nightclub blaze ever. (The cause of the rapidly spreading fire, which began in the base- ment, is in dispute; one theory is that a busboy accidentally ignited an artificial palm tree while using a lighted match to fix a light bulb.) On this date: In 1520, Portuguese navi- gator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait that now bears his name. In 1861, the Confederate Congress admitted Missouri as the 12th state of the Confederacy after Missouri’s disputed secession from the Union. In 1905, Sinn Fein was founded in Dublin. In 1912, Albania proclaimed its independence from the Ottoman Empire. In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin began conferring in Tehran during World War II. In 1958, Chad, Gabon and Middle Congo became autonomous republics within the French community. In 1964, the United States launched the space probe Mariner 4 on a course toward Mars, which it flew past in July 1965, sending back pictures of the red planet. In 1967, actress-model Anna Nicole Smith was born Vickie Lynn Hogan in Houston. In 1979, an Air New Zealand DC-10 en route to the South Pole crashed into a mountain in Antarctica, killing all 257 people aboard. In 1987, a South African Airways Boeing 747 crashed into the Indian Ocean with the loss of all 159 people aboard. Today’s Birthdays: Recording executive Berry Gordy Jr. is 88. Former Sen. Gary Hart, D-Colo., is 81. U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is 80. Sing- er-songwriter Bruce Channel is 77. Singer Randy Newman is 74. CBS News correspon- dent Susan Spencer is 71. Movie director Joe Dante is 70. Former “Late Show” orchestra leader Paul Shaffer is 68. Actor Ed Harris is 67. Former NASA astronaut Barbara Morgan is 66. Former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is 64. Country singer Kris- tine Arnold (Sweethearts of the Rodeo) is 61. Actor Judd Nelson is 58. Movie director Alfonso Cuaron is 56. Comedian Jon Stewart is 55. Hip-hop musician apl. de.ap (Black Eyed Peas) is 43. Rapper Chamillionaire is 38. Thought for Today: “Journalism is literature in a hurry.” — Matthew Arnold, English poet and critic (1822-1888). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE