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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