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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, March 15, 2018
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Son throws a tantrum after
wedding gift is cut in half
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I was working out
apparent they’re having an affair. It
of town in a position that paid a good
made me so uncomfortable I quit
salary. When my adult son proposed
working there.
to his girlfriend, I told him I would try
We still live in the same community.
and give him $10,000 for the wedding.
He has a beautiful, kind and very preg-
Well, things changed. I had to return
nant wife. Should I tell her? Should I
home for good, and my salary was cut.
tell anyone, or stay quiet and let him
When I told my son I wouldn’t be able
get away with it? It makes me sick, and
to give him $10,000, but could give
I don’t know what to do at this point.
Jeanne
him only $5,000 instead, he became Phillips — Uncomfortable In The West
very upset and said, “You promised
Dear Uncomfortable: Allow me
Advice
that amount and we were counting on
to suggest that what you do is remain
that money!”
silent, at least for now. The kind and
I feel a gift is a gift, and they should be very pregnant wife does not need to be told that
happy with whatever I can manage. After her husband is cheating with an employee at
talking it over with several friends, they all this juncture. After the baby is born, perhaps
agreed that he is behaving inappropriately. I am she should be told — if she doesn’t know
single and trying to retire in 10 years. Please already — but NOT NOW.
help. — Salary Cut In Pennsylvania
Dear Abby: Please help! How do I politely
Dear Salary Cut: Your son’s reaction was tell my partner — without hurting his feelings
immature. He should understand that some- — that I don’t like his cooking and I should
times circumstances can change. If you haven’t be the one doing the cooking because I’m
already explained why you need to cut back on more “seasoned” in the kitchen than he is? I
the sum you planned to give him, do it now. am usually the “chef” and he is the “second-
How he reacts to your explanation will tell you in-command,” which in the past has worked.
whether you want to give him even $5,000.
— Seasoned In California
Dear Abby: I recently took a job working
Dear Seasoned: Here’s how: Skip the part
for someone I knew. He was a neighbor and about not liking his cooking, which could be
attended my church for several years, but we hurtful. Ease into it by telling him you consider
were never more than acquaintances.
cooking together to be a bonding experience.
After I began working there, I saw things Then say how much you enjoy taking the lead
going on with other girls in the office that were when the two of you do it, how meaningful it
very inappropriate. Then I stumbled across a is when he helps you, and how much you’d
sexual online chat he was having with one of appreciate it if he would continue to let you be
them. As I scrolled through the feed, it became the chef.
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
March 15, 1918
Because he expressed pro-German inclina-
tions and was likewise affiliated with the Bible
Students, a transitman named Zimmerman,
working with the state highway party at Spray,
was unceremoniously fired today by M.O.
Bennett, assistant state engineer in charge of
the work in eastern Oregon. It appears that the
disloyal talk of Zimmerman so incensed one of
the other members of the crew, named Short, that
he fought with him. Without fully learning the
cause of the trouble the foreman then discharged
Short. Mr. Bennett’s order reverses that ruling
and ousts the pro-German from the state employ.
Young Short has since enlisted in the army but
by action of the assistant engineer his record
is cleared and he is given a mark of merit for
having resented an apparent act of disloyalty.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 15, 1968
The County Court and the Hermiston City
Council talked over an hour Wednesday night
about the roadside appearance between Herm-
iston and north to the Highway 730 junction,
but nothing developed that indicates any
immediate action toward cleaning up the area.
Recently Mayor Walter Pearson described this
stretch of Highway 32 as “Oregon’s ugliest five
miles.” Judge D.R. “Sam” Cook came up with
a suggestion that the initiative be taken through
the Oregon Association of Counties to bring the
proposal up to the state legislature that would
curb unsightly conditions along state highways.
The County Court chairman made this proposal
after the court’s legal counsel, Arthur Barrows,
told the council and court members “after a trip
through the area to look at the problem there is
little help that the county can offer.” He added
that the sanitation and sheriff’s departments
may be able to help.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 15, 1993
A two-year-old’s birthday card was torn in
half and a gift made by his grandfather was
damaged by whoever broke in and ransacked
the Adams Post Office early Friday morning.
The post office, which serves about 150
families on mail routes and another 130 with
boxes in town, is back to some semblance of
order today, said Postmaster Carolyn Skoubo.
However, Skoubo said she’ll have to ask folks if
they were expecting items, since the contents of
many packages were removed from their boxes
and scattered about the place. Federal postal
inspectors, the Oregon State Police and the
Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office are involved
in the investigation. Police have identified a
suspect in the post office break-in as well as the
burglary the same night at the Adams Store, in
which more than $600 in groceries was taken.
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
On March 15, 1493,
Italian explorer Christopher
Columbus arrived back in the
Spanish harbor of Palos de la
Frontera, two months after
concluding his first voyage to
the Western Hemisphere.
In 44 B.C., Roman dictator
Julius Caesar was assassinated
by a group of nobles that
included Brutus and Cassius.
In 1767, the seventh
president of the United States,
Andrew Jackson, was born in
the Waxhaw settlement along
the North Carolina-South
Carolina border.
In 1820, Maine became the
23rd state.
In 1917, Czar Nicholas
II abdicated in favor of his
brother, Grand Duke Mikhail
Alexandrovich, who declined
the crown, marking the end of
imperial rule in Russia.
In 1922, Sultan Fuad I
proclaimed himself the first
king of modern Egypt.
In 1937, America’s first
hospital blood bank was
opened at Cook County
Hospital in Illinois.
In 1944, during World War
II, Allied bombers again raided
German-held Monte Cassino.
In 1956, the Lerner and
Loewe musical play “My
Fair Lady,” based on Bernard
Shaw’s “Pygmalion,” opened
on Broadway.
In 1964, actress Elizabeth
Taylor married actor Richard
Burton in Montreal; it was
her fifth marriage, his second.
(They divorced in 1974,
remarried in 1975, then
divorced again in 1976.)
In 1977, the U.S. House
of Representatives began a
90-day closed-circuit test to
determine the feasibility of
showing its sessions on tele-
vision. The situation comedy
“Three’s Company,” starring
John Ritter, Joyce DeWitt and
Suzanne Somers, premiered
on ABC-TV.
In 1985, the first internet
domain name, symbolics.
com, was registered by the
Symbolics Computer Corp. of
Massachusetts.
In 1998, CBS’ “60
Minutes” aired an interview
with former White House
employee Kathleen Willey,
who said President Bill Clinton
had made unwelcome sexual
advances toward her in the
Oval Office in 1993, a charge
denied by the president. Dr.
Benjamin Spock, whose child
care guidance spanned half a
century, died in San Diego at
94.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Supreme Court Justice Ruth
Bader Ginsburg is 85. Actor
Judd Hirsch is 83. Jazz
musician Charles Lloyd is 80.
Rock musician Phil Lesh is
78. Singer Mike Love (The
Beach Boys) is 77. Rock
singer-musician Sly Stone is
75. Rock singer Dee Snider
(Twisted Sister) is 63. Actress
Eva Longoria is 43. Rapper
Young Buck is 37. Actor
Sean Biggerstaff is 35. Rock
musician Ethan Mentzer is
35. Actor Kellan Lutz is 33.
Actress Caitlin Wachs is 29.
Thought for Today:
“Life’s meaning has always
eluded me and I guess it
always will. But I love it just
the same.” — E.B. White,
American author and humorist
(1899-1985).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE