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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, December 28, 2017
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Husband loses desire for wife
after witnessing her overdose
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I have been married
parents both live 20 minutes from
for three years to a woman who is
us. Both sets of parents purposely
very beautiful inside and out. (We
moved to be close to us. The problem
have been together for six years.)
is both sets of parents tell people the
Recently, I found out she is addicted
few times we are together how often
to pain meds — and two months
they see their grandkids — which is
ago she confided that she had gotten
simply not true.
hooked on heroin.
Mom talks as if she sees them
I set up an intervention to get her
multiple times a week, although she
Jeanne
into rehab. But when the time came Phillips generally sees them less than once
to go, she kept putting it off. She said
a month. She does watch my niece
Advice
she wanted to get high “one more
three days a week, but to hear her
time,” so I told her OK, as long as
tell it, all her grandkids fall into that
she did it at home, so I’d know she was safe. category. My wife’s parents see me, my wife
After she injected herself, she went limp, so I and our two kids about twice a month, but
called 911 and got her into the hospital.
also tell others it’s “all the time.” Then, when
It is now two months later, and she is back. we do meet, they ignore the kids!
I love her dearly, but I no longer desire to be
I am bothered about it for two reasons:
intimate with her. How do I tell her I will They are taking undue credit for “helping us
always stand by her, but no longer want to be out,” and second, I’m sick of having heard for
intimate? She’s younger and still has a strong the last 12 years how “lucky” my kids are to
sex drive. — Lost That Part In The East
have such wonderful grandparents. It caused
Dear Lost: The news should be conveyed us to miss out on help from extended family
in the office of a licensed marriage and family because they thought my wife and I were
therapist. While your sexual problem may already receiving so much.
result from the shock of seeing your wife
Is there a nice way to say to my parents/
nearly die in front of you, there may be more in-laws that the story they are selling is
to it. You say she is “younger and STILL has fiction? We do love them. All we would like
a strong sex drive.” This suggests that you are is for them to help out the way they claim
older and your lack of desire might to some to. — Sick Of The Fiction
extent be age- or hormone-related.
Dear Sick Of The Fiction: I find it strange
The two of you have a lot of talking to do that both sets of in-laws would relocate to be
about your feelings and your future. It would close, and then not follow through on trying to
be better if it’s done with the help of a trained BE close. I also don’t know why your parents
moderator.
would loudly take credit for the things they
Also, if your wife was sharing needles, haven’t been doing. If you want to end the
you both need to be tested for any diseases fiction, tell the extended family the truth and
she may have contracted.
explain that you really do need their help and
Dear Abby: My parents and my wife’s why. You should have done it years ago.
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
Dec. 28, 1917
Bishop Bros., managers of the Pendleton
and Washougal woolen mills, this morning
received a telegram from the divisional head
of the quartermaster corps of the army asking
them to increase if possible the output of
blankets for the army from their mills and
to furnish an estimate of the contracts they
can fill for the government for the year 1918.
Ever since war was declared, the mills of
the local men have been running to capacity
and have been turning part of their output
to the government. To increase the output of
army blankets, the mills will have to curtail
on civilian lines. Because of the fact that the
government is taking steps to establish a price
on wool and has decided to exempt skilled
mill workers, two elements of uncertainty
in the wool manufacture business have been
removed and will enable the mill operators to
make government contracts with reasonable
assurance of being able to fill them.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 28, 1967
His neighbors in the Mission area were
unhappy when Wayne Eng decided to move
some pigs next door. Six neighbors, living
within a 40-acre area, signed a petition several
months ago asking the Umatilla County
Planning Commission to zone their land to
residential. But they later learned they were
too late to prevent Eng’s going into the pig
business on his three acres. The petitioners
decided to ask for interim zoning anyway.
Nov. 20 the Umatilla County Court ordered
interim zoning on the 40 acres. (Interim
zoning is temporary, three years maximum,
and permanent planning would require
detailed planning and public hearings.) The
pig and people conflict might be the beginning
of zoning at Mission.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 28, 1992
A federal judge is expected to approve an
order submitted earlier this month that will
require the Department of Corrections to hire
a full-time physician and a full-time nurse
practitioner to help provide medical services
to inmates at Eastern Oregon Correctional
Institution. The order is based on an evaluation
by Dr. Ronald Shansky, an impartial expert
on prison medical care who was appointed
in December of 1991 to inspect health care
programs at the medium-security prison as
part of an ongoing civil rights class action
lawsuit filed by inmates in August 1987.
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 362nd day
of 2017. There are three
days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Dec. 28, 1917, the
New York Evening Mail
published “A Neglected
Anniversary,” a facetious
essay by H.L. Mencken
supposedly
recounting
the history of bathtubs in
America, starting with the
“first” one in Cincinnati in
1842. Among the spoof’s
other straight-faced claims:
that Millard Fillmore was
the first president to have
a bathtub installed in the
White House. (Mencken
was astonished when people
took his “tissue of absurdi-
ties” seriously.)
On this date:
In 1612, Italian astron-
omer
Galileo
Galilei
observed
the
planet
Neptune, but mistook it for
a star. (Neptune wasn’t offi-
cially discovered until 1846
by Johann Gottfried Galle.)
In 1832, John C. Calhoun
became the first vice pres-
ident of the United States
to resign, stepping down
because of differences with
President Andrew Jackson.
In 1846, Iowa became
the 29th state to be admitted
to the Union.
In 1856, the 28th pres-
ident of the United States,
Thomas Woodrow Wilson,
was born in Staunton,
Virginia.
In 1895, the Lumiere
brothers, Auguste and
Louis, held the first public
showing of their movies in
Paris.
In 1937, composer
Maurice Ravel died in Paris
at age 62.
In 1945, Congress offi-
cially recognized the Pledge
of Allegiance.
In 1981, Elizabeth Jordan
Carr, the first American
“test-tube” baby, was born
in Norfolk, Virginia.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Comic book creator Stan Lee
is 95. Former United Auto
Workers union president
Owen Bieber is 88. Actress
Nichelle Nichols is 85. Actress
Dame Maggie Smith is 83.
Rock singer-musician Charles
Neville is 79. Sen. Johnny
Isakson, R-Ga., is 73. Former
Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D.,
is 71. Rock singer-musician
Edgar Winter is 71. Funk
musician Joseph “Zigaboo”
Modeliste (The Meters) is 69.
Actor Denzel Washington is
63. Country singer Joe Diffie
is 59. Country musician Mike
McGuire (Shenandoah) is 59.
Actor Chad McQueen is 57.
Country Talk show host Seth
Meyers is 44. Rhythm-and-
blues singer John Legend is
39.
Thought for Today:
“Extraordinary
claims
require
extraordinary
evidence.” — Carl Sagan,
American
astronomer
(1934-1996).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE