Friday, March 2, 2018
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
East Oregonian
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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