Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current | View Entire Issue (March 7, 2018)
Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Wednesday, March 7, 2018 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Memories of long-ago assault revived by #MeToo movement FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: Years ago, my husband include your husband in some of the and I hosted a St. Patrick Day’s party sessions. in our apartment for friends. There Dear Abby: I’m a 55-year-old gay was a lot of drinking going on. I had man with a problem. My 22-year-old son to be at work early the next morning, doesn’t know I’m gay. It was after my so I went to bed while the party went divorce that I started seeing men again. on. I awoke a short while later to one I married my life partner of 13 of the men attempting to rape me. He years last year. My husband thinks I stopped and attempted an apology by should sit my son down and tell him. I Jeanne saying, “But you are just so pretty.” Phillips want to tell my son and be honest with My husband and I graduated from him about my relationship with my Advice high school with this person, and he is/ husband, but my son is very religious was part of the same circle of friends. and I’m afraid this will drive a wedge I have not told many people, but the few who between us. Plus, I’m afraid of what ideas my do know have maintained a friendship with ex would fill his head with about me. Please him, including my husband. advise. — Confused In The South Because of the #MeToo campaign, all the Dear Confused: You say your son is 22 emotions have come to a head for me now. I and you have been with your now-husband think about this assault daily. The worst thing for 13 years. Haven’t you had regular visita- for me is that even though he knows about tion with your son all this time? Doesn’t he it, my husband has chosen to remain friends like your husband? If the answers to those with him for 35 years. How can I get past questions are yes, then what makes you think this? — Can’t Forget In Virginia he isn’t already aware of your sexual orienta- Dear Can’t Forget: I can only imagine tion? On the other hand, if the answers to my how traumatic the assault was, and for that you questions are no, then I doubt that telling your have my sympathy. The friends you confided son what’s what will drive him any further in may feel that because your attacker was away from you than he already is. drunk, what he did was somehow excusable. Dear Abby: What would you say about a That your husband would be so forgiving is, man who still keeps a photo of himself with frankly, shocking. his late wife as his computer background It may take the help of a licensed mental picture two years after he remarried? — health professional to put this behind you, if Second-Fiddle Second Wife that’s possible. I sincerely hope you will reach Dear Wife: I’d say he may be too lazy or out to a therapist who treats post-traumatic computer-inept to update it. If it were me, I’d stress as well as victims of sexual assault, and “volunteer” to help him change it. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 7, 1918 The mystery of the cache of explosives found at Rieth wasn’t any mystery at all. An investigation proved that county roadmakers had cached the box of dynamite and can of powder there while working on the road last year and the water in the river had risen to a point making it difficult to get to the cache. Therefore, it was left there for the time being. Members of the crew knew of its presence there. Two boys discovered it the other day and at once the theory that German agents had plans for destroying the terminal yards or bridges was advanced. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 7, 1968 Recreation along the Columbia River is due for a giant forward thrust by the Corps of Engineers as the result of the formation of Lake Umatilla behind John Day Dam, now in its final stages of construction. The pool that will stretch for a distance of 77 miles between John Day and McNary dams will have 11 recreation sites on which the Corps of Engi- neers has awarded $2,071,971 in construction contracts. Six of the sites are on the south shore of the river and five on the north side of the Columbia. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 7, 1993 Oregon’s first approved fire science class for high school students began meeting this winter at Stanfield. The 13 students from Stan- field, Echo and Hermiston meet three times a week at the Stanfield Fire Department. The school received a “Serve Oregon” grant of $8,500 from the Department of Education last fall to start the class, Stanfield High School principal Ivan Ritchie said. He requested the grant because of a lack of firefighters avail- able to small towns. Each student must be a junior firefighter in his district to be eligible for the class. At the end of the one-semester class, students will have a first-aid card and a basic firefighting certificate, the same as needed for the adult volunteer department. THIS DAY IN HISTORY BLONDIE DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN On March 7, 1965, a march by civil rights demon- strators was violently broken up at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, by state troopers and a sher- iff’s posse in what came to be known as “Bloody Sunday.” On this date: In 1530, Pope Clement VII threatened to excommu- nicate England’s King Henry VIII if he went through with plans to marry Anne Boleyn, who became Henry’s second wife after Catherine of Aragon. (The pope made good on his excommunica- tion threat in 1533.) In 1793, during the French Revolutionary Wars, France declared war on Spain. In 1850, in a three-hour speech to the U.S. Senate, Daniel Webster of Massachu- setts endorsed the Compro- mise of 1850 as a means of preserving the Union. In 1918, Japanese corporation Panasonic had its beginnings as Konosuke Matsushita founded Matsu- shita Electric Housewares Manufacturing Works in Osaka. The musical comedy “Oh, Look!” featuring the song “I’m Always Chasing Rainbows” opened on Broadway. In 1926, the first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversa- tions took place between New York and London. In 1936, Adolf Hitler ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact. In 1945, during World War II, U.S. forces crossed the Rhine at Remagen, Germany, using the damaged but still usable Ludendorff Bridge. In 1955, the first TV production of the musical “Peter Pan” starring Mary Martin aired on NBC. In 1967, the musical “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” based on the “Peanuts” comic strips by Charles M. Schulz, opened in New York’s Greenwich Village, beginning an off-Broadway run of 1,597 performances. In 1975, the U.S. Senate revised its filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required two-thirds of senators present. In 1981, anti-government guerrillas in Colombia executed kidnapped American Bible translator Chester Bitterman, whom they accused of being a CIA agent. In 1994, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a parody that pokes fun at an original work can be considered “fair use.” (The ruling concerned a parody of the Roy Orbison song “Oh, Pretty Woman” by the rap group 2 Live Crew.) Today’s Birthdays: TV personality Willard Scott is 84. Entertainment executive Michael Eisner is 76. Pro Football Hall of Famer Franco Harris is 68. Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Lynn Swann is 66. Rhythm-and-blues singer-musician Ernie Isley (The Isley Brothers) is 66. Actor Bryan Cranston is 62. Golfer Tom Lehman is 59. Singer-actress Taylor Dayne is 56. Author E.L. James is 55. Author Bret Easton Ellis is 54. Comedian Wanda Sykes is 54. Actress Rachel Weisz is 48. Actor Peter Sarsgaard is 47. Actor Jay Duplass is 45. Actress Jenna Fischer is 44. Thought for Today: “Caveat actor.” (Let the doer beware.) — Latin proverb. PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE