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Friday, March 2, 2018 PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK East Oregonian Page 7A DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Happy couple seeks best way to support troubled friends FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: Occasionally, married of place. friends will come to my husband and/ There’s a restaurant like this in my or me venting about their marital town — the only one with a piano. On problems. We have been through one special occasion when we were a few rough patches during our 12 there, the piano player was playing years of marriage, and during those “Misty” and a woman sitting nearby times, we sought help from family, with her party wanted to make herself friends and counselors. Today I can heard over him. She began talking honestly say we are happier than ever very loudly to her group while he Jeanne and willing to stick through the ups Phillips was playing the song. I thought it was and downs. tacky, and if I had been sitting near Advice We try to pass along the things that her, I would have shushed her up. helped us, but a lot of times we’ll see Isn’t it polite to wait until the piano one spouse wanting to work on improving player is finished before talking loudly at the marriage and the other one oblivious or your table? Whatever happened to behaving unwilling to do anything about it. I think our with a little class in restaurants? — Deanna experience could help the spouses of our In Oklahoma Dear Deanna: The musician in that restau- troubled friends see that things can work out by doing something about it, but I never know rant was there to provide mood music for the if or how to approach the subject with them. diners. If they chose to talk while he was Should we keep our mouths shut and just playing, it was their privilege. The woman be there for the unhappy friend, or is there a may have raised her voice because someone proper way to reach out to their spouse with in her party had a hearing problem. For you to an offer of support in situations like this? — have taken it upon yourself to “shush her up” Truly Wanting To Help would have been rude, and for your sake, I’m Dear Truly Wanting: My advice would glad you refrained from doing it. be to stay out of the line of fire. If you reach Dear Abby: Am I overreacting to my out to the unhappy spouse, who may be husband’s request that I take down photos unaware that his or her marital problems of my mom and grandparents when his were revealed to you, it will be regarded as mom visits? They are displayed in our guest intrusive. By all means tell the person asking bedroom. I think his request was rude. I your advice what worked for you, but leave wonder if his mother even cares or if he just it up to that person to convey it to his or her feels guilty. It’s my house, too. — Reluctant spouse. In Texas Dear Abby: What is the etiquette when Dear Reluctant: Rather than remove eating at a restaurant where a piano player your family photos, why not compromise by is performing? I don’t mean the “bar scene”- adding a couple of pictures of your husband’s type piano player who wants the crowd to mother, too? I’m sure she would be pleased to sing along, but more of a mid- to upscale type see them. Problem solved. 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 March 2, 1918 George Tonkin, district warden of Umatilla county, is just now engaged in a campaign against deer hunters in southern Oregon where “shooting game wardens is considered a legitimate business.” From reports coming back to this city, he has made good with a vengeance and is in a fair way to clean out a gang of lawbreakers even though he has had several narrow escapes. Tonkin was sent into southern Oregon because he was unknown and because he had established a reputation for fearlessness. He has already arrested one organized gang of four men and seized a great quantity of deer hides which they had accumulated. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 2, 1968 A tasty cake, complete with decorations showing a well drilling rig and streets where the new city well is located, was served to THIS DAY IN HISTORY BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN the Hermiston City Council Wednesday night by City Recorder Mathilda Russell in celebration of the successful drilling opera- tion. City Manager Tom Harper said tests on the new well in northeast Hermiston show a capacity of 3,300 gallons per minute. He said it is expected the well will be operated at the 2,500 gallon level. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 2, 1993 After viewing the actual U.S. Constitution last month in Washington, D.C., Paula Bell’s desire to become a lawyer is stronger than before. “I wasn’t a big history fan before this, but now I’m thinking of majoring in political science or law,” Bell said. Bell, 16, was one of four Oregon high schoolers and among 350 students throughout the country selected for the National Young Leaders Conference in the nation’s capital. A junior at Echo High School, Bell was nominated for the trip based on her grades and activities. Today is the 61st day of 2018. There are 304 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 2, 1943, the three-day Battle of the Bismarck Sea began in the southwest Pacific during World War II; U.S. and Australian warplanes were able to inflict heavy damage on an Imperial Japanese convoy. On this date: In 1793, the first (and third) president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, was born near Lexington, Virginia. In 1836, the Republic of Texas formally declared its independence from Mexico. In 1867, Howard Univer- sity, a historically black school of higher learning in Washington, D.C., was founded. Congress passed, over President Andrew John- son’s veto, the first of four Reconstruction Acts. In 1877, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, even though Tilden had won the popular vote. In 1917, Puerto Ricans were granted U.S. citizenship as President Wilson signed the Jones-Shafroth Act. In 1939, Roman Catholic Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli was elected pope on his 63rd birthday; he took the name Pius XII. The Massachusetts legislature voted to ratify the Bill of Rights, 147 years after the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution had gone into effect. In 1958, an expedition led by British explorer Vivian Fuchs completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica by way of the South Pole in 99 days. In 1965, the movie version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “The Sound of Music” had its world premiere in New York. In 1978, the remains of comedian Charles Chaplin were stolen by extortionists from his grave in Cosier-sur- Vevey, Switzerland. (The body was recovered near Lake Geneva 11 weeks later.) In 1989, representatives from the 12 European Community nations agreed to ban all production of CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons), the synthetic compounds blamed for destroying the Earth’s ozone layer, by the end of the 20th century. In 1995, the Internet search engine website Yahoo! was incorporated by Jerry Yang and David Filo. Today’s Birthdays: Author Tom Wolfe is 88. Former Soviet President and Nobel peace laureate Mikhail S. Gorbachev is 87. Author John Irving is 76. Former Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., is 65. Former Interior Secre- tary Ken Salazar is 63. Rock singer Jon Bon Jovi is 56. Actor Daniel Craig is 50. Rock singer Chris Martin (Coldplay) is 41. . Actress Rebel Wilson is 38. Musician Mike Olson is 35. Thought for Today: “Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It’s more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.” — Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Dr Seuss,” (born this date in 1904, died 1991). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE