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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, April 10, 2018 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Couple separates after acting class causes domestic drama FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: When I was 70, I and burdened person compared to his started taking drama classes twice early teenage years, even his 20s. He a week (I still do). My wife was has always had two serious interests, against it and insisted that because science and poetry. Although he none of our friends or relatives were loved them while he attended school, doing it, neither should I. As a result, he no longer has the same fire in his I suggested we live apart. I bought a belly. In fact, there’s no pep in his step small apartment and live alone. We about anything, just frustration. How see each other regularly, go to the can I lift his spirits without pressuring Jeanne cinema, the theater, visiting friends, Phillips him? — Lighting The Fire vacation, etc. Dear Lighting: Could it be your Advice Every now and then she raises the brother’s behavior is simply that of topic again, saying she feels “betrayed, a man who has reached his 30s, has offended, abandoned” and suggests we stop matured and is more of a realist than he was seeing each other for two to three days “so in his early teens? Consider telling him you she can recover from the pain I inflict on her.” have noticed his personality has changed from I don’t think I am doing anything wrong when he was younger — that he seems angry, here. I’m not cheating on her, and she knows burdened and frustrated. Then LISTEN. He that and doesn’t accuse me explicitly. I think may or may not be depressed. If, after hearing she is jealous and distrustful because the him out, you are still concerned, suggest he women taking the classes are beautiful and do something about what’s bothering him by not because of anything I have done. What talking with a counselor, preferably one who do you think? — Frustrated In Bulgaria is licensed. Dear Frustrated: What I think is, not Dear Abby: I just found out my married having heard your wife’s side of it from her, son had an affair, and the woman may be your insight may be correct. However, before pregnant. If she is, do we acknowledge the accepting the guilt trip she is laying on you, baby as our grandchild? And what’s the remember that since you moved out she right thing to do if my son and his wife stay hasn’t invited you to move back in. together? — Complicated In The North Dear Abby: My older brother and I are Dear Complicated: If a paternity test eight years apart. I am in my mid-20s, and proves the baby is your son’s, he will have a he is in his early 30s. Our personalities and legal obligation to support the child until he outlook on life are completely opposite. We or she is no longer a minor. If your son and have different fathers but grew up in the same his wife remain together — and many couples household, so naturally, we went to the same do — his wife may prefer he have as little outings together until he was a teenager and to do with the mother and child as possible. we took different paths. However, if you would like to be part of your Looking at him now, I see he is an angry grandchild’s life, it is your privilege to do so. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 9-10, 1918 Umatilla county, usually one of the strongest in the legislature, will not have any delegation at all at Salem next winter from present indica- tions. Though the time for filing is up on Friday, not a man has yet filed for either representative from this county, on either ticket. No Umatilla county man has filed for the joint senatorship, nor for the joint representative position. In fact, the only man filing for a legislative office from this county is R.W. Ritner, who is out for state senator. However, Ritner has gone to France, and though he plans to be back for the session, if elected, there is a possibility he may not do so. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 9-10, 1968 Did you know that the Umatilla County Public Library has over 2,500 record albums available to borrowers? The attractive music room at the rear of the circulation area holds the albums. And recently Librarian Dick Joder and his staff have installed new, easy to scan record racks that work on ball bearings. Each rack holds 85 long-play albums. Joder said the 1969 budget will contain a request for funds for the purchase of two library, singleplay turntables and headsets for the use of patrons who would like to listen to records in the music room. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 9-10, 1993 Hermiston policeman Jim Littlefield went through a lot last year, but his struggles and dedication didn’t go unnoticed. His fellow officers recently voted him policeman of the year. Littlefield was shot in the shoulder last August after police were called about a man firing guns in a residential area. The suspect shot through the windshield of Littlefield’s patrol car while he was trying to talk to the man over the car’s loudspeaker. After being shot, Littlefield managed to put the car in reverse and drive back down the street out of range, where he was taken by ambulance to the hospital. Littlefield spent most of autumn recovering from the gunshot wound and several surgeries that followed to repair his shoulder. After recovering and spending time with his family, Littlefield was back on the job last December. 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 10, 1968, “In the Heat of the Night” won best picture of 1967 at the 40th Academy Awards; one of its stars, Rod Steiger, was named best actor while Katharine Hepburn was honored as best actress for “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.” In 1790, President George Washington signed the first United States Patent Act. In 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was incorporated. In 1912, the British liner RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, on its ill-fated maiden voyage. In 1925, the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel “The Great Gatsby” was first published by Scribner’s of New York. In 1932, German President Paul Von Hindenburg was re-elected in a runoff, with Adolf Hitler coming in second. In 1947, Brooklyn Dodgers President Branch Rickey purchased the contract of Jackie Robinson from the Montreal Royals. In 1953, the 3-D horror movie “House of Wax,” produced by Warner Bros. and starring Vincent Price, premiered in New York. In 1971, a table tennis team from the United States arrived in China at the invitation of the communist government for a goodwill visit that came to be known as “ping-pong diplomacy.” In 1978, Arkady Shevchenko, a high-ranking Soviet citizen employed by the United Nations, sought political asylum in the United States. In 1981, imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands was declared the winner of a by-election to the British Parliament. In 1998, the Northern Ireland peace talks concluded as negotiators reached a landmark settlement to end 30 years of bitter rivalries and bloody attacks. In 2010, Polish President Lech Kaczynski, 60, was killed in a plane crash in western Russia that also claimed the lives of his wife and top Polish political, military and church officials. Today’s Birthdays: Actor Max von Sydow is 89. Actress Liz Sheridan is 89. Football Hall of Famer John Madden is 82. Actor Steven Seagal is 66. Rock singer-musician Brian Setzer is 59. Actor-comedian Orlando Jones is 50. Rapper Q-Tip (AKA Kamaal) is 48. Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens is 44. Actor David Harbour is 43. Blues singer Shemekia Copeland is 39. Actress Laura Bell Bundy is 37. Actor Harry Hadden-Paton is 37. Singer Mandy Moore is 34. Actor Barkhad Abdi is 33. Actress Shay Mitchell is 31. Actor Haley Joel Osment is 30. Country singer Maren Morris is 28. Actor Alex Pettyfer is 28. Actress-singer AJ (AKA Amanda) Michalka is 27. Actress Daisy Ridley is 26. Singer-actress Sofia Carson is 25. Actress Audrey Whitby is 22. Actress Ruby Jerins is 20. Thought for Today: “What is more unwise than to mistake uncertainty for certainty, false- hood for truth?” — Cicero, Roman orator, statesman and philosopher (106-43 B.C.) PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE