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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Wednesday, April 4, 2018 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Marriage threatened by wife’s online relationship with ex FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My wife of 20 years like her that much. I told him it was has been electronically unfaithful. unusual and said it was a good thing There have been covert telephone he had moved. calls and late-night text messages A month later she showed up, to a boyfriend from long ago. He’s uninvited, to visit him. I think she divorced and found her on Facebook, came here to get pregnant, which she telling her he needed “advice on did. Her family now expects him to dating.” move back to Oklahoma, quit school She admits to the phone calls and and work to support the family. He’s Jeanne messages and nothing more. I believe Phillips a smart kid with the potential to do her. They haven’t met — just these well in college. His father is dead, Advice covert exchanges, which are frequent the mother is clueless, and I am and sometimes lengthy, over the concerned about this boy. The girl’s course of several months. The “whys” behind father and brother are in prison. How can I her behavior are not important. We know advise him? — Caring Tutor In California our marriage is damaged, and we will work Dear Tutor: Your student is a minor. The on that. She says she knows she was wrong “girl” is an adult. The young man should not to let it go on as long as it did, and further move ANYwhere without first insisting that a communication will stop. Should it include paternity test be taken to be certain he is the unfriending him on Facebook? I’m perplexed father of the child she’s expecting — if she is, by the new paradigm of relationships. — indeed, pregnant. Because of the difference in their ages, she may be guilty of statutory Covert Exchanges In The South Dear Covert: I disagree that the reasons rape, and he may be a victim. that led to your wife’s behavior aren’t Dear Abby: After decades of sucking it important. I hope you two will work out up, should I send a letter to the individuals your disconnect with licensed professional who bullied me incessantly and made my life help, because it will make the process faster. a living hell in high school? Should I let them As to whether she should unfriend her old know all has not been forgiven or forgotten? boyfriend on Facebook, the answer is an — Former Victim In Montana unequivocal “yes.” Dear Former Victim: No. Why would Dear Abby: I tutor a 16-year-old boy. His you want more contact with the cruel and family moved to our city five months ago. thoughtless individuals who made you miser- They live in a crowded apartment with other able? Live your life fully and happily in the relatives. One day, he told me a 20-year-old present and don’t look back. THAT is the best girl was obsessed with him, and he didn’t revenge. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 4, 1918 The neatness of the approach to Pendleton was a subject considered to some extent by the Commercial Association last evening. Atten- tion was paid to the habit of the city employees and of junk men to use the old Happy Canyon grounds near the depot as a storage place, thus making the vacant ground, which is so situated that it is the first to meet the eye of the person arriving by train, extremely unsightly. The Commercial Association holds a lease on the grounds and last evening instructed the city affairs committee to see that the grounds are kept clean. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 4, 1968 Farmers crowded county tax offices the last few days, meeting the April 1 deadline for filing of papers they hope will reduce their share of the property tax load and shift it onto other classes of property, such as residential, commercial and utility. Assessor Lloyd Stafford said today he had received about 400 applications from farmers, with each application averaging about five tax lots. Included in the 400 applications were 107,000 acres owned by Cunningham Sheep Company. Stafford estimated that all but 160 acres of land within the Ukiah School District was included under the new assessment procedure in which farm land will be taxed on its productivity and not its selling price. Nearly one-third of Morrow County area will be re-appraised under the new method of taxing agricultural lands, Bill Johnson, Morrow appraiser, announced Tuesday. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 4, 1993 When Pam Severe-McKay agreed to an interview with a freelance writer, she had no idea what influence the publicity would have on her Working Girls Hotel in downtown Pend- leton. The hotel — actually a bed-and-breakfast — was featured in the March edition of Pacific Northwest magazine. “A soon as the article hit — the day after — I had people calling me,” said McKay. “They started booking into the summer. I was surprised at the immediate response.” The article explains the connec- tion between the bed-and-breakfast and the Pendleton Underground Tours, both located in the same block along Emigrant Avenue. The downtown bed-and-breakfast once was part of Pendleton’s naughty past — a brothel, McKay said. BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 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 April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot and killed while standing on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee; his slaying was followed by a wave of rioting (Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Chicago were among cities particularly hard hit). Suspected gunman James Earl Ray later pleaded guilty to assassinating King, then spent the rest of his life claiming he’d been the victim of a setup. In 1818, Congress decided the flag of the United States would consist of 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars, with a new star to be added for every new state of the Union. In 1841, President William Henry Harrison succumbed to pneumonia one month after his inaugural, becoming the first U.S. chief executive to die in office. In 1859, “Dixie” was performed publicly for the first time by Bryant’s Minstrels at Mechanics’ Hall in New York. In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Kentucky newspaper editor Albert G. Hodges, wrote: “I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.” In 1917, the U.S. Senate voted 82-6 in favor of declaring war against Germany (the House followed suit two days later by a vote of 373-50). In 1933, the Navy airship USS Akron crashed in severe weather off the New Jersey coast with the loss of 73 lives. In 1949, 12 nations, including the United States, signed the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington, D.C. In 1958, Johnny Stom- panato, an enforcer for crime boss Mickey Cohen and the boyfriend of actress Lana Turner, was stabbed to death by Turner’s teenage daughter, Cheryl Crane, who said Stompanato had attacked her mother. In 1975, more than 130 people, most of them children, were killed when a U.S. Air Force transport plane evacuating Vietnamese orphans crash-landed shortly after takeoff from Saigon. Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In 1983, the space shuttle Challenger roared into orbit on its maiden voyage. (It was destroyed in the disaster of January 1986.) Today’s Birthdays: Former Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., is 86. Recording executive Clive Davis is 86. Author Kitty Kelley is 76. Actor Craig T. Nelson is 74. Country singer Steve Gatlin (The Gatlin Brothers) is 67. Actress Lorraine Toussaint is 58. Actor Hugo Weaving is 58. Rock musician Craig Adams (The Cult) is 56. Talk show host/comic Graham Norton is 55. Actor David Cross is 54. Actor Robert Downey Jr. is 53. Thought for Today: “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige and even his life for the welfare of others.” — Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE