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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, August 31, 2018 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Man won’t budge on having surgery to quiet his snoring FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER Dear Abby: My husband and I macy bed” does not always have to are happily married, but have one be the “sleeping bed.” Good sleep serious problem. Our sleeping habits quality is necessary for us to func- tion properly. are incompatible. I am an extremely Dear Abby: I have five grown light sleeper; he is a horrendous children and three grandchildren. snorer. They have always come first, espe- He sees a snoring specialist and cially my grandchildren. When I tried several medical treatments, Jeanne began the relationship with my hus- none of which worked. The only solution is a minor surgical proce- Phillips band, I told him how important both Advice dure. He doesn’t want to have the were to me and that, no matter what, surgery. He insists he “sleeps fine,” my grandchildren always came first. He agreed and said he felt the same way. and says I’m the one with the problem. Now, two years into our marriage, my I have tried earplugs, white noise machines, sleep medications and more, but I daughter and grandchildren want to come cannot get a decent sleep with the obnoxious live with us for nine months while her hus- snoring. He stays up much later than I do, band is deployed. My husband is freak- and I enjoy sleeping in our master bedroom ing out and keeps complaining every day until he comes to bed. I usually get driven even though they aren’t even here yet. He has pushed me to my breaking point, and I out of the room by the noise. We agree we don’t want to sleep in sep- am not sure what to do. I would never tell arate rooms and lose the intimacy, but it’s him that or act that way toward his chil- the only option for me to sleep well. Neither dren or grandchildren. I’m now considering of us wants to give up the master bedroom divorce. What should I do? — Family First because it’s the only one with an attached In The South Dear Family First: I can’t help but won- bathroom. Am I wrong for asking him to have sur- der how you would REALLY feel if the gery so we can share a bed? And if he won’t, shoe was on the other foot. Would you be as who should get the master bedroom? — accommodating as you expect him to be, or would you be panicking, too? Sleepless In Louisiana Remind your husband that this is what he Dear Sleepless: Let’s be honest. By now your husband knows full well he doesn’t agreed to before your marriage, and point “sleep fine.” The reason for his reluctance out that this isn’t forever. It will be for only is fear of the surgery. It wasn’t wrong of you nine months. Tell him it will be an oppor- to ask, and out of consideration for you and tunity for him to get to know the grandkids the intimacy in your marriage he shouldn’t and vice versa. Who knows? He might even enjoy it. have refused. If he’s still unhappy after a reasonable However, because he insists on coming into the master bedroom, which he knows period of time after they arrive, then it may wakes you, for the sake of your health, take be time to discuss separating. But don’t the other bedroom. Understand, the “inti- jump the gun. DAYS GONE BY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 31, 1918 All families are requested by the food administration hereafter to make all of their sugar purchases during a given month from one store. This will not only make it easier on the store clerks but will be more conve- nient for the purchaser and may save them from unjust suspicion. Beginning Sept. 1 all merchants will install the individual cards. Each purchaser will be required to sign a card at each store where sugar purchases are made during the month. Second, third and fourth purchases during the month can be made at the same store without any addi- tional signature. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 31, 1968 Grand marshal of the Westward Ho! parade Sept. 13 will be Clarence Burke, 79-year-old Cayuse who is Round-Up co-chief. Chief Burke, whose Indian name means Son-Who-Sits-On-The-Mountain, is the eldest son of the last chief of the Walla Walla tribe, Poker Jim, and a descendant of Peo Peo Mox Mox of the Walla Wallas. He succeeded his father as co-chief of the Round-Up in 1936. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Aug. 31, 1993 McKay Reservoir, which virtually dried up last year, holds more water today than it has on any Aug. 31 since 1943. By mid- night tonight, the storage level is expected to be just under 38,000 acre feet of water, said Ron Morris, the Bureau of Reclama- tion’s Umatilla River manager. On this day a year ago, the level had dropped to 4,000 acre feet. The average water level on Aug. 31 over the last five decades was 18,900 acre feet. 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 August 31, 1972, at the Munich Summer Olym- pics, American swimmer Mark Spitz won his fourth and fifth gold medals in the 100-meter butterfly and 800- meter freestyle relay; Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut won gold medals in floor exercise and the balance beam. In 1886, an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.3 devastated Charles- ton, South Carolina, killing at least 60 people, accord- ing to the U.S. Geological Survey. In 1939, the first issue of Marvel Comics, featuring the Human Torch, was pub- lished by Timely Publica- tions in New York. In 1969, boxer Rocky Marciano died in a light air- plane crash in Iowa, a day before his 46th birthday. In 1987, the Michael Jackson album “Bad” was released by Epic Records. In 1991, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan declared their independence, raising to ten the number of republics seeking to secede from the Soviet Union. In 1992, white sepa- ratist Randy Weaver sur- rendered to authorities in Naples, Idaho, ending an 11-day siege by federal agents that had claimed the lives of Weaver’s wife, son and a deputy U.S. marshal. (Weaver was acquitted of murder and all other charges in connection with the con- frontation; he was convicted of failing to appear for trial on firearms charges and was sentenced to 18 months in prison but given credit for 14 months he’d already served.) In 1997, Prince Charles brought Princess Diana home for the last time, escorting the body of his for- mer wife to a Britain that was shocked, grief-stricken and angered by her death in a Paris traffic accident ear- lier that day. Today’s Birthdays: Japanese monster movie actor Katsumi Tezuka (“Godzilla”) is 106. Baseball Hall of Famer Frank Robin- son is 83. Actor Warren Ber- linger is 81. Rock musician Jerry Allison (Buddy Holly and the Crickets) is 79. Vio- linist Itzhak Perlman is 73. Singer Van Morrison is 73. Actor Richard Gere is 69. Actor Stephen Henderson is 69. Olympic gold medal track and field athlete Edwin Moses is 63. Rock singer Glenn Tilbrook (Squeeze) is 61. Rock musician Gina Schock (The Go-Go’s) is 61. Singer-composer Deborah Gibson is 48. Rock musician Greg Richling (Wallflowers) is 48. Actor Zack Ward is 48. Golfer Padraig Harrington is 47. Actor Chris Tucker is 46. Thought for Today: “Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.” — William Saroyan, Amer- ican author and playwright (born this date in 1908, died 1981). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE