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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Man keeps wife in the dark
about new ‘business partner’
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: My husband met
front, with a 3-inch gap from top to
a gal 33 years younger than he is
bottom and no bra.
at a doctor’s office. It seems they
My first reaction was to ask her to
“became close,” so they went off and
change, thinking it was highly inap-
bought real estate together in another
propriate. Her grandfather thought
state. They spend weeks at a time
we should just let it go, so we went
together there alone.
out for the evening. Nothing was
When they are both here in town,
mentioned regarding her attire, but I
they have “business” meetings
was extremely uncomfortable. What
Jeanne
several times a week. I am not Phillips is your opinion? — Buttoned Up In
allowed to attend, know when they
Indiana
Advice
take place or even ask what was
Dear Buttoned Up: Your grand-
discussed. They never have phone
daughter is an adult. For you to have
conversations while I’m near, and their texts asked her to change clothes would have been
to each other are “none of my business.”
awkward for everyone concerned. While her
My husband’s words: “I don’t know why choice of outfit may have been revealing, if
you’re so mad; you’re just jealous.” Your there was any embarrassment, it should not
thoughts, please? — Peeved In California
have been yours. If you prefer she dress
Dear Peeved: You live in a community more modestly when she’s with you, the
property state. Half of your husband’s share next time you invite her to go someplace,
of whatever property he and this woman say so.
bought together belongs to you.
Dear Abby: Allow me to offer a tip for
My first thought is your husband is those men about to pop the “big question”
having a fling and lying about not knowing to their girlfriends: Let your fiancée pick out
why you are angry. He’s right that you are the ring style she will be wearing for the rest
jealous. You have every right to be.
of her life. Arrange with a jeweler to have a
My second thought is that you should tray of rings in different styles in your price
consult an attorney ASAP. I don’t know range. Then present a ring with the proposal
how much you know about your husband’s with the understanding it can be exchanged.
finances, but a forensic accountant can help — Wise Southerner
you unearth any assets he may be hiding or
Dear Southerner: This is a subject that
has already buried. After that, it will be up to has been addressed in my column several
you to decide whether you want to continue times. A practical way to handle it is for the
in a marriage with someone who would treat man to talk to the jeweler about what he can
you so shabbily.
afford to spend beforehand, so the stones
Dear Abby: My husband and I treated will be available to display to his fiancée, as
our 24-year-old granddaughter to dinner and well as a variety of settings from which she
a historical city tour. When we stopped by can choose. And, if none are to her liking,
to pick her up, she came out of the house she might prefer the option of designing her
wearing a skin-tight top that laced up the own setting. Many brides do.
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 13, 1917
Giving fresh evidence of Pendleton’s
location as a hub for inland empire activities
is the announcement that the biological survey
of the department of agriculture has decided
to establish the headquarters of Luther J.
Goldman, predatory animal inspector for
Idaho, in this city after the first of the year.
Because of the fact that Mr. Goldman’s work
takes him into both northern and southern
Idaho he is forced to jump from one end of
the state to the other, passing through both
Oregon and Washington en route, as there
is no railway connecting the two parts of
Idaho. Pendleton’s location adapts itself to his
requirements as headquarters and his superiors
decided it would be more economical and
more convenient for him to be located here.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 13, 1967
One man was killed and two other people
hospitalized as the result of a two-car head-on
collision on Highway 11 near Adams early
Tuesday morning. Dead on arrival to St.
Anthony Hospital was James Ross Simonton,
24, of Pendleton. Simonton was the driver of
a southbound vehicle that crossed the center
line into the path of a car driven by Gail Ann
Taber, 21, Long Creek. She suffered a broken
elbow and leg. Simonton’s passenger, Everett
D. Pennington, 25, Pendleton, was in critical
condition Tuesday morning at St. Anthony
Hospital.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 13, 1992
Entrepreneur Anne Beard of Heppner
spends many hours painstakingly creating
exquisite, one-of-a-kind fashions from tiny
pieces of silk. Her work is drawing praise. A
long, reversible coat sporting brilliant colors
recently was acclaimed winner of the “Fabrics
at Their Best” division during a juried Art to
Wear show in Yakima, Wash. Beard said
she was influenced by her mother’s sewing
talents. The skills helped her become “one of
the best dressed kids in school.” Beard and
her mother, Florence Bayless, decided to try
to break into the competitive fashion world
about nine years ago. Their first juried show
was in Savanna, Fla., the state where Bayless
lives. They sold everything they brought to
the show.
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 347th day of
2017. There are 18 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Dec. 13, 1937, the
Chinese city of Nanjing
fell to Japanese forces
during the Sino-Japanese
War; what followed was a
massacre of war prisoners,
soldiers and citizens. (China
maintains that up to 300,000
people were killed; Japanese
nationalists say the death
toll was far lower, and some
maintain the massacre never
happened.)
On this date:
In 1642, Dutch navigator
Abel Tasman sighted pres-
ent-day New Zealand.
In 1769, Dartmouth
College in New Hampshire
received its charter.
In 1862, Union forces
led by Maj. Gen. Ambrose
Burnside launched futile
attacks against entrenched
Confederate soldiers during
the Civil War Battle of
Fredericksburg; the soundly
defeated Northern troops
withdrew two days later.
In
1918,
President
Woodrow Wilson arrived
in France, becoming the
first chief executive to visit
Europe while in office.
In 1944, during World
War II, the light cruiser
USS Nashville was badly
damaged in a Japanese
kamikaze attack off Negros
Island in the Philippines that
claimed 133 lives.
In 1962, the United States
launched Relay 1, a commu-
nications satellite which
retransmitted
television,
telephone and digital signals.
In 1981, authorities in
Poland imposed martial
law in a crackdown on the
Solidarity labor movement.
(Martial law formally ended
in 1983.)
In 2003, Saddam Hussein
was captured by U.S. forces
while hiding in a hole under
a farmhouse in Adwar, Iraq,
near his hometown of Tikrit.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Former Secretary of State
George P. Shultz is 97.
Actor-comedian Dick Van
Dyke is 92. Actor Christopher
Plummer is 88. Country singer
Buck White is 87. Music/
film producer Lou Adler is
84. Singer John Davidson
is 76. Actress Kathy Garver
(TV: “Family Affair”) is 72.
Singer Ted Nugent is 69. Rock
musician Jeff “Skunk” Baxter
is 69. Country musician Ron
Getman is 69. Actor Robert
Lindsay is 68. Singer-actor
Morris Day is 61. Actor Steve
Buscemi is 60. Actor-come-
dian Jamie Foxx is 50. Rock
singer-musician
Thomas
Delonge is 42. Rock singer
Amy Lee (Evanescence) is 36.
Thought for Today:
“A society in which men
recognize no check upon
their freedom soon becomes
a society where freedom
is the possession of only
a savage few.” — Judge
Learned Hand, American
jurist (1872-1961).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE