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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Wife on the verge of divorce
calls for a one-year reprieve
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
Dear Abby: My husband has less
Dear Abby: New neighbors
and less interest in me. It started with
moved in a few doors down from
the last presidential election. Since
us. A few weeks later, they hosted
then, I have cut way back on poli-
an open house and invited about 15
tics because he doesn’t want to hear
families from the homes closest to
any of it. Being an activist on sev-
theirs. They served food and gave
eral fronts, including politics and
everyone a tour of the home, which
had been completely renovated.
other areas, this is a big, emotional
Jeanne
My husband and I arrived about
part of who I am. I get so upset by
his silences that I stop talking to him Phillips the same time as another neighbor,
Advice
and the three of us visited with our
completely.
hostess. As she rolled out the red
I’m spent from feeling so lonely,
carpet, the other neighbor proceeded
so unworthy of love, helpless, hope-
less and powerless. I can’t take this much to talk about the history of the home. She
longer. He says he wants to be with me, and then announced that the man who owned the
he has just started private therapy. I, too, am home years ago had committed suicide — in
in therapy.
the home. The hostess maintained a gracious
I was ready to draw up divorce papers stance, but my husband and I were horrified.
Should the neighbor be told that her com-
when I suddenly changed my mind. I told
him I’d wait a year for him to have his ther- ment was inappropriate? — Horrified
apy, and then we’d review everything we
Dear Horrified: Because the comment
may have cast a pall over the housewarm-
had learned and proceed from there.
Have I made a mistake? Right now, I ing, it was inappropriate. However, it may
can’t stand to be around him. He can be the not have come as a surprise to the new own-
world’s greatest giver, but other times he’s ers. In the state where I reside, real estate
a selfish, insensitive, arrogant know-it-all. agents are required by law to disclose that
I don’t know if I’m still in love with him. there had been a death in the house (suicide,
Does this proposed one-year respite have murder), which might affect the value of the
any chance of working? — Sad Wife In property. If you feel the need to say some-
thing to the neighbor who made that taste-
Buffalo
Dear Wife: Yes, it does. It appears that less comment, by all means do so.
To My Jewish Readers: Yom Kippur,
in the midst of your pain and turmoil you
experienced a brief moment of clarity. Your the day of atonement, begins at sundown.
decision to give your husband — and your- During this 24-hour period, observant Jew-
self — a year of therapy and then revisit the ish people fast, engage in reflection and
issue of divorce was both wise and brilliant. prayer, and repent for any sin that might
You married each other for a reason; now have been committed during the previous
give yourselves a chance to remember what Hebrew year. To all of you - may your fast
be an easy, but meaningful, one.
it was.
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Sept. 17-18, 1918
C.W. Stewart, a member of the same
regiment as Captain Lee Caldwell, passed
through Pendleton today on his way from
France to his home in Portland and said that
Captain Caldwell is in the best of health at
present but was slightly wounded recently.
The injury was not great enough to be
reported in the casualties.
Stewart is recovering from the effects
of mustard gas and was sent home to
recuperate.
He is of the opinion that the war will last
for another year, and says that this opinion is
general among the allies.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Sept. 17-18, 1968
Marine Corps Pfc. Bruce Carter, 18, was
killed in action Sept. 11 at Quang Nam Prov-
ince in Vietnam. He was married to Glenda
Aichele in June and had been in Vietnam
for just one month. The death was reported
Monday by the Defense Department.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Sept. 17-18, 1993
A herd of cowboys rode into town this
week. They came in “dualie” pickups,
sedans and vans. They came for the Pendle-
ton Round-Up, and to a man they wear boots
and a big ol’ hat.
It’s unlikely, however, that there is a cow-
boy in town wearing more hats this week
that Paul Rice Jr. President of the Round-Up
Association and father of 1993 Round-Up
Queen Jodi Rice, he’s still managed to find
time to compete in steer roping. Rice was
ranked 15th in the world last year in steer
roping; he’s gone to the national finals four
times. But his presidential duties this year
have prevented him from traveling to as
many events as he has in other years. That’s
just fine with Rice, who says he was ready
for a break from non-stop travel that comes
with a full season of rodeo competition.
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 Sept. 18, 1975, news-
paper heiress Patricia Hearst
was captured by the FBI in
San Francisco, 19 months
after being kidnapped by
the Symbionese Liberation
Army.
In 1759, the French for-
mally surrendered Quebec to
the British.
In 1793, President George
Washington laid the corner-
stone of the U.S. Capitol.
In 1850, Congress passed
the Fugitive Slave Act,
which created a force of fed-
eral commissioners charged
with returning escaped
slaves to their owners.
In 1851, the first edition
of The New York Times was
published.
In 1959, during his U.S.
tour, Soviet leader Nikita
Khrushchev visited Wall
Street, the Empire State
Building and the grave of
President Franklin D. Roo-
sevelt; in a speech at the
U.N., Khrushchev called on
all countries to disarm.
In 1970, rock star Jimi
Hendrix died in London at
age 27.
In 1987, the psycholog-
ical thriller “Fatal Attrac-
tion,” starring Michael
Douglas and Glenn Close,
was released by Paramount
Pictures.
In 1994, tennis star Vitas
Gerulaitis, 40, was found
dead in the guest cottage of a
friend’s home in Southamp-
ton, New York, of accidental
carbon monoxide poisoning.
In 2001, a week after the-
Sept. 11 attack, President
George W. Bush said he
hoped to “rally the world”
in the battle against ter-
rorism and predicted that
all “people who love free-
dom” would join. Letters
postmarked Trenton, N.J.,
that later tested positive for
anthrax were sent to the New
York Post and NBC anchor-
man Tom Brokaw.
In 2007, O.J. Simpson
was charged with seven fel-
onies, including kidnapping,
in the alleged armed robbery
of sports memorabilia col-
lectors in a Las Vegas casi-
no-hotel room.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Singer Jimmie Rodgers is
85. Actor Robert Blake is
85. Singer Frankie Avalon is
78. Basketball Hall of Fame
coach Rick Pitino is 66. Col-
lege Football Hall of Famer
and retired NFL player Billy
Sims is 63. Singer Joanne
Catherall (Human League) is
56. Actress Aisha Tyler is 48.
Former racing cyclist Lance
Armstrong is 47. Comedi-
an-actor Jason Sudeikis is 43.
Thought for Today: “We
want the facts to fit the pre-
conceptions. When they
don’t it is easier to ignore the
facts than to change the pre-
conceptions.” — Jessamyn
West, author (1902-1984).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE