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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, December 5, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Woman is ready to hang up on constantly calling husband FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My husband and I isn’t your husband’s talking; it’s his argue more than I’d like. I am pretty neediness, insecurity and insensitivity. easygoing and passive; he likes his Frankly, what you have described feelings to be known. Over time I have strikes me as controlling rather than become worn down, and my patience loving behavior. After the struggles has worn thin. you have described, you have already We are starting to rebound from proven your love for him. Being at what I call “the year from hell.” His his beck and call during the workday drinking and poor choices nearly put should not be an additional require- Jeanne us on the street, and I was ready to Phillips ment. walk. Things are starting to get better, Dear Abby: My sister-in-law is Advice but what we can’t seem to agree on is extremely allergic to cats. We have six communication during the day. cats, but live 1,000 miles away from Abby, I am on the phone for a living. I her. When her 8-year-old son comes to visit, cannot stand being on it more than I must be. he has a Ziploc bag full of clean clothes that He calls and/or texts me up to 12 times a day. he puts on before he goes home. The clothes I can’t stand it. Even when I’m busy or give he wore here are sealed up at the end of his trip him a time certain when I will call him back, to be washed. he beeps in before I have the chance. I’m OK with this. But I need some advice I am now at the end of my rope. With all for an upcoming big family holiday gathering. that I have dealt with, worked through and put We have all been courteously asked to wash up with, this is something I will not compro- our clothes before coming, to vacuum our mise on. vehicles and to limit our contact with cats I feel it’s more than sufficient to talk on my before arriving. Am I wrong to feel like it’s her way in to work, maybe check in around lunch, problem, not ours? — Whose Problem Is It then on the way home. He feels that because I Dear Whose Problem: Yes, you are don’t feel the need to call or talk that much that wrong. When a family member has a health I don’t love him. I can’t stand listening to the problem that can be triggered by the others, dead air or breathing because there is nothing it becomes everyone’s problem. If the steps to talk about. Am I being petty for letting this needed to keep her safe are too much for you, be the thing that will break us? — Talks Too you should stay home. Much In Texas Dear Abby: Is it cheating to proofread Dear Talks Too Much: If you want to your college-aged child’s final before he/she save your marriage after everything you have turns it in? — Wondering In Orange, Calif. been through, make the time for marriage Dear Wondering: To read it? No. To counseling. What may destroy your marriage correct it, yes. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 4-5, 1917 Bedfast though he has been for eight months as a result of an accident, Charles Mowry, a well known high school boy and son of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Mowry, is still “doing his bit.” Robbed of the chance of assisting his country as his companions do, he has learned to knit and is now finishing his fourth woolen muffler for Red Cross. When he completes that he intends knitting a sweater. The young man sustained a badly fractured leg in April when his motorcycle collided with an automobile on East Court street opposite the Domestic Laundry. His condition was precarious for a time and he has been in bed ever since. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 4-5, 1967 Simulated nuclear and natural disasters will be enacted this week in Pendleton. Members of the Civil Defense, the Division of Continuing Education at the University of Oregon and Umatilla County courthouse employes will test emergency operations. Closed circuit television will record the BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN activity which will be presented to invited people Friday night at the Vert Auditorium. Workers began setting up the operation Monday morning in the Umatilla County courthouse. The exercise has been in planning several months. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 4-5, 1992 It started as a simple request to build a farm house in the woods. But Louisiana-Pa- cific’s plan for a parcel of prime Eastern Oregon forest land came to a grinding halt Thursday night. After three and a half hours of testimony and discussion, the Umatilla County Planning Commission delayed a decision whether or not to issue the lumber company a permit to build a house outside of Pilot Rock. Although the company owns the land, opposition to the request has surfaced on several sides. Tribal representatives say the ground holds historical artifacts, and that L-P has already cut off a gateway to traditional Indian land. Land owners also accused L-P of poorly managing nearby parcels, and rumors have circulated that the house isn’t intended for farming but to serve as a hunting lodge for corporate executives. THIS DAY IN HISTORY Today is the 339th day of 2017. There are 26 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 5, 1952, the Great Smog of London descended on the British capital; the unusually thick fog, which contained toxic pollutants, lasted five days and was blamed for causing thousands of deaths. On this date: In 1782, the eighth pres- ident of the United States, Martin Van Buren, was born in Kinderhook, New York; he was the first chief executive to be born after American independence. In 1791, composer Wolf- gang Amadeus Mozart died in Vienna, Austria, at age 35. In 1792, George Washington was re-elected president; John Adams was re-elected vice president. In 1831, former President John Quincy Adams took his seat as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1916, British Prime Minister Herbert H. Asquith resigned (he was succeeded by David Lloyd George). In 1933, national Prohibi- tion came to an end as Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, repealing the 18th Amendment. In 1945, five U.S. Navy torpedo bombers mysteriously disappeared after taking off from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on a training mission with the loss of all 14 crew members; “The Lost Squadron” contrib- uted to the legend of the Bermuda Triangle. In 1967, pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock and poet Allen Ginsberg were among more than 260 people arrested during an anti-Vietnam War protest outside an armed forces induction center in lower Manhattan. In 1977, Egypt broke diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and South Yemen in the wake of criticism that followed Pres- ident Anwar Sadat’s peace overtures to Israel. In 2013, Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who became South Africa’s first black president, died at age 95. Today’s Birthdays: Singer Little Richard is 85. Author Joan Didion is 83. Author Calvin Trillin is 82. Actor Jeroen Krabbe is 73. Opera singer Jose Carreras is 71. Pop singer Jim Messina is 70. College Football Hall of Famer and former NFL quarterback Jim Plunkett is 70. World Golf Hall of Famer Lanny Wadkins is 68. Actress Morgan Brittany is 66. Actor Brian Backer is 61. Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Art Monk is 60. Country singer Ty England is 54. Rock singer-musician John Rzeznik (The Goo Goo Dolls) is 52. Country singer Gary Allan is 50. Comedi- an-actress Margaret Cho is 49. Writer-director Morgan J. Freeman is 48. Actress Alex Kapp Horner is 48. Rock musician Regina Zernay (Cowboy Mouth) is 45. Actor Frankie Muniz is 32. Thought for Today: “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” — Walt Disney, American movie producer (born this date in 1901, died 1966). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE