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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Wife wants out of husband’s
fling in swinging lifestyle
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
Dear Abby: My husband, to whom
I have known his family for as
I’ve been married since July of 2016,
long as I’ve known him, which is 20
has recently caved in to pressure from
years. He swore up and down to me
friends to participate in “swinger”
that he wouldn’t relapse again, but
behavior. He wants me to be included,
he did and died from an overdose.
but I really don’t want to.
Austin’s family blames me for his
The other female has lesbian tenden-
death because I didn’t answer his calls
cies that make me uncomfortable. Her
or messages. How can I explain to
boyfriend is juggling two partners at
them there was nothing I could do? —
Jeanne
once, alternating nights for each one. Phillips Fault Isn’t Mine
My husband has told him he can do
Dear Fault: You were under no
Advice
whatever he wants in front of us, which
ethical or moral obligation to answer
I find awkward and embarrassing.
Austin’s texts or messages after his
I don’t want to be a spoilsport, but I feel he relapses. Save yourself the frustration of
is being unfair to me. How do I put the genie trying to point out the truth to his family.
back in the bottle without ruining my marriage Austin’s relatives are in pain right now, and
and friendships? We’ve lived together since in denial as well. They are blaming you rather
2005, and the pressure is getting worse now than their son because the truth — that Austin
that we’re married. — Not To Swing In The was responsible for his own actions and his
USA
own death — may be too hard for them to
Dear Not To Swing: If your vision of face.
marriage is a union between two people only,
Dear Abby: I am a retired lady who often
then the man you married is not someone eats alone in restaurants. When I arrive, the
with whom you should spend a lifetime. Do host or hostess usually greets me and asks,
not allow yourself to be coerced into anything “How many?” When I reply, “One,” the
you are not comfortable with, and that includes invariable response is, “Just ONE?” I find the
threesomes. Much as you might wish it, you question demeaning and rude.
are not going to change your husband, which
I have responded with things like “Isn’t
is why it may be time for you to revisit this one enough?” or, “If you prefer groups, I
subject with him and the help of a licensed can go elsewhere.” I have even mentioned to
marriage and family therapist.
managers that it would be more appropriate
Dear Abby: I dated a longtime friend, if they trained their hosts not to say “just.”
“Austin,” for about four months. He had a Can you offer a better response I can give? —
history of drug use, but had been sober for Party Of One
about four years before he stopped attending
Dear Party Of One: I think you are
meetings.
handling the situation as well as it can be
I have two children from my previous handled. Sometimes people don’t stop to
marriage. He knew when we started dating that consider the implications of what they are
if he relapsed, the relationship was over. He saying. It’s impolite for a host to ask, “Just
did, so I ended it then and there. Austin begged one?” because in some cases the reply could
be depressing and cloud the dining experience.
me for a second chance and for my help.
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 10, 1918
Pendleton housewives may soon be able
to exchange a pound of fat for a large bar
of soap at the grocery stores if the Portland
“Save Fat and Get Soap” plan is adopted
here. The plan as outlined by A.B. Ayer,
state food administrator, has four definite
aims in view. To conserve the supply of fats
as a war measure, to recover the glycerine
from them for the manufacture of explo-
sives, to encourage home industries and to
save railroad shipping space. The Portland
plan which would probably be varied little
if adopted here would enable a pound of fat
rancid, burned or otherwise unfit for cooking
to be exchanged at a grocery store for a
10-ounce cake of brown laundry soap or
an 8-ounce of white laundry soap. Mr. Ayer
points out that in the home manufacture
of soap the glycerine which is an essential
component of nitro-glycerine and other
explosives is lost. Oregon manufacturers say
that from seven to nine pounds of glycerine
are recovered by their processes from every
100 pounds of fat converted into soap.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 10, 1968
Fire caused an estimated damage of more
than $70,000 to the Country Trader store
north of Milton-Freewater on Highway 11
Tuesday night. Whitney Miller, owner of
the business, made the estimate after the
fire, which he discovered about 9 p.m.,
destroyed all of his stock and the building. A
lion and bobcat were killed. One year ago a
building on the same location burned. Miller
thought the fire started near a deep freeze
near the bobcat and lion cages. He noticed
light flickering and found the store filled
with smoke. The Umapine Hudson Bay
Volunteer fire department and the District 4
fire department went to the scene.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 10, 1993
Local psychiatric services just got
smaller with the recent closure of St.
Anthony Hospital’s inpatient unit. But
Pendleton psychiatrists claim that the area
needs more mental health facilities and
personnel than ever before. The hospital’s
decision to close the unit — which opened
in 1983 — was largely the result of reim-
bursement policies set out by insurance
companies. Although the unit counted
over 200 admissions each year since 1988,
insurance companies became increasingly
unwilling to dole out dollars for mental
health.
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 10th day of
2018. There are 355 days
left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Jan. 10, 1776,
Thomas Paine anonymously
published his influential
pamphlet,
“Common
Sense,” which argued for
American
independence
from British rule.
On this date:
In 1861, Florida became
the third state to secede from
the Union.
In 1863, the London
Underground had its begin-
nings as the Metropolitan,
the world’s first under-
ground passenger railway,
opened to the public with
service between Paddington
and Farringdon Street.
In 1920, the League of
Nations was established as
the Treaty of Versailles went
into effect.
In 1946, the first General
Assembly of the United
Nations
convened
in
London. The first manmade
contact with the moon was
made as radar signals trans-
mitted by the U.S. Army
Signal Corps were bounced
off the lunar surface.
In 1948, future country
music star Loretta Lynn
(nee Webb) married Oliver
“Mooney” Lynn; she was 15
at the time, he was 21 (the
marriage lasted until Oliver
Lynn’s death in 1996).
In
1957,
Harold
Macmillan
became
prime minister of Britain,
following the resignation of
Anthony Eden.
In 1978, the Soviet Union
launched two cosmonauts
aboard the Soyuz 27 capsule
for a rendezvous with the
Salyut 6 space laboratory.
Today’s Birthdays: Blues
artist Eddy Clearwater is
83. Singer Rod Stewart is
73. Rock singer-musician
Donald Fagen (Steely Dan)
is 70. Boxing Hall of Famer
and entrepreneur George
Foreman is 69. Rock musi-
cian Scott Thurston (Tom
Petty and the Heartbreakers)
is 66. Singer Pat Benatar
is 65. Rock musician Rock
singer-musician Curt Kirk-
wood (Meat Puppets) is 59.
Rock singer Brad Roberts
(Crash Test Dummies) is 54.
Rapper Chris Smith (Kris
Kross) is 39. Presidential
adviser and son-in-law Jared
Kushner is 37.
Thought for Today:
“History must speak for
itself. A historian is content
if he has been able to shed
more light.” — William L.
Shirer, American author and
journalist (1904-1993).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE