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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, March 30, 2018 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Man waiting in the wings tires of one-way romance FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I have been communi- sense. She tints her hair every color cating with this girl I work with who under the sun and dresses straight is currently seeing a guy she’s been from the sale bin at the thrift store. She with for four years. We have a strong mismatches any and everything she connection and physical attraction, and puts on, and she’s doing it to her chil- we have both disclosed our feelings to dren, too. Their clothes are dingy and each other. outdated. I have bought them stylish We communicate rarely by text but clothing. She returns them and gets the never through phone calls, for obvious ugliest clothes. Jeanne reasons. Her man works for the same Phillips She also gives the kids hideous company we do but in a different haircuts. If I take them to a stylist, she Advice building. It’s clear to me that he doesn’t will buzz the entire cut into a Mohawk. complement her being or lifestyle and My granddaughter had the most beau- will never rise to her level. tiful long hair, and my daughter just cut it into I let her know that if she were to break things a mullet with short bangs. off with him, I would want to give it a try, and Why does she want her kids looking ratty? she said the same. She contacts me only when She keeps a clean house and is an involved, she wants and flirts with me whenever we are loving mother. It drives me crazy. I try to keep my mouth shut because a gift is a gift. But in contact, but it’s always at her convenience. We have known each other for a year and it really annoys me that she will take back a a half now, and she claims she cares for me. top-label shirt and exchange it for an ugly one, My question, Abby, is how should I go about or a pretty, sparkly dress for my granddaughter moving this situation forward? — In Line For for a trashy-looking blue velvet dress with Her In New York yellow rubber boots. Why? — Stylish Gran Dear In Line: From where I sit, the ball is In Arizona in her court, not yours. Because nothing has Dear Stylish Gran: You are asking the happened in the last year and a half, you appear wrong person that question. This is something to be a diversion rather than the main event. you should ask your daughter. The answer may She has been with her boyfriend for four be as simple as her taste — and her children’s years. If she were willing to sacrifice the time — is different from yours. Or, these style she has put in with him for a chance to see choices are something her kids are OK with if things work out with you, it would have because this is what their friends are wearing. happened by now. Because you want a real To My Jewish Readers: Why is tonight relationship with someone, my advice is to different from every other night? Because look elsewhere for one. Passover begins at sundown. Happy Passover, Dear Abby: My daughter has zero style everyone. May your celebration be sweet! 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 30, 1918 “Well, there’s one thing sure. The United States will never be able to put down the I.W.W.” The remark was made by a sheep- herder at one of the Smythe camps Thursday morning while the crew was eating breakfast. The remark changed the nature of the argu- ment over the war from verbal to fistic. One of the other herders jumped across the table and landed on top of the man with I.W.W. sympathies. The breakfast ended in a free for all melee and it is safe to say that there will be no other anti-government talk in that camp. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 30, 1968 An alert city police officer on a routine security check at the fairgrounds in Hermiston Thursday night apprehended two boys, 15 and 17 years old, and as a result, fourteen larceny cases and two burglaries have been cleared up. Police officer Joe Wilson heard voices in a warehouse building and when the two boys were questioned at the police station they confessed to the thefts. The boys told the police BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN that the thefts primarily involved auto parts and boat equipment. The youths were turned over to Umatilla County Juvenile authorities. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 30, 1993 A Hillsboro man was sentenced to more than three years in prison Monday for stabbing a Hermiston man in April of 1992. Terry L. Ross, 20, and his uncle, Duane A. Kennedy, 32, also from Hillsboro, were initially charged with attempted murder in connection with the April 24, 1992, stabbing of Kenneth Fanning. Both men eventually pleaded guilty to the lesser crime of assault. Kennedy nego- tiated a guilty plea to second-degree assault in September of 1992. In exchange for the lesser charge, he was to testify against Ross at trial. Kennedy was sentenced in January to 16 months in prison and three years of post- prison supervision. He has since appealed his case, according to court documents. Police reports indicate that Ross stabbed Fanning in the abdomen during a fracas that also involved Kennedy. The trouble centered on Kennedy’s wife, Lori, who was Fanning’s girlfriend at the time of the incident. THIS DAY IN HISTORY Today is Good Friday, the 89th day of 2018. There are 276 days left in the year. The Jewish holiday Passover begins at sunset. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 30, 1981, Pres- ident Ronald Reagan was shot and seriously injured outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John W. Hinckley, Jr.; also wounded were White House press secretary James Brady, Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy and a District of Columbia police officer, Thomas Delahanty. On this date: In 1822, Florida became a United States territory. In 1842, Dr. Crawford W. Long of Jefferson, Georgia, first used ether as an anesthetic during an operation to remove a patient’s neck tumor. In 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward reached agreement with Russia to purchase the territory of Alaska for $7.2 million, a deal ridiculed by critics as “Seward’s Folly.” In 1870, the 15th Amend- ment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited denying citi- zens the right to vote and hold office on the basis of race, was declared in effect by Secretary of State Hamilton Fish. Texas was readmitted to the Union. In 1923, the Cunard liner RMS Laconia became the first passenger ship to circle the globe as it arrived in New York. In 1945, during World War II, the Soviet Union invaded Austria with the goal of taking Vienna, which it accom- plished two weeks later. In 1959, a narrowly divided U.S. Supreme Court, in Bartkus v. Illinois, ruled that a conviction in state court following an acquittal in federal court for the same crime did not constitute double jeopardy. In 1964, John Glenn withdrew from the Ohio race for the U.S. Senate because of injuries suffered in a fall. The original version of the TV game show “Jeopardy!,” hosted by Art Fleming, premiered on NBC. In 1975, as the Vietnam War neared its end, Commu- nist forces occupied the city of Da Nang. In 1991, Patricia Bowman of Jupiter, Florida, told author- ities she’d been raped hours earlier by William Kennedy Smith, the nephew of Sen. Edward Kennedy, at the fami- ly’s Palm Beach estate. (Smith was acquitted at trial.) In 2002, Britain’s Queen Mother Elizabeth died at Royal Lodge, Windsor, outside London; she was 101 years old. In 2006, American reporter Jill Carroll, a freelancer for The Christian Science Monitor, was released after 82 days as a hostage in Iraq. Thought for Today: “In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those things for which we were designed in the first place: the opportunity to do good work, to enjoy friends, to fall in love, to hit a ball, and to bounce a baby.” — Alistair Cooke, British-born American broadcaster (born 1908, died this date in 2004). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE