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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, November 13, 2018 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Cheating husband bad-mouths wife who left him for another 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: I am ashamed to other people who, for whatever rea- admit this, but years ago I had an son, couldn’t spend it with family. It worked for years, and my chil- affair with a married man. His wife dren now continue the tradition. — had no idea, but all of his friends Happy Holidays Without Conflict knew about it. She recently left him Dear H.H.: You came up with because she met someone else, and an excellent solution. Thinking out- he’s not only bad-mouthing her, side the box is a trait that can be but also using it against her in their Jeanne extremely helpful in ensuring the divorce. Would it be wrong of me to help Phillips success of the holiday celebrations. Advice For many reasons, not every- her by letting her know he was a one celebrates the holidays on their big cheater? I don’t want to cause her any more hurt than she’s already expe- designated calendar days, and that includes riencing. I no longer have any interest in Thanksgiving. If more families took a page him, but I think the information might help out of your book, it could eliminate much her. I genuinely feel for her. — Karma of the holiday stress regular readers of my column suffer. Thank you for taking the Out East Dear Karma: I genuinely feel for her, time to write. Dear Abby: I enjoy going to movies, too. By all means volunteer the informa- tion. And when you do, do not do it anon- especially to the theater in town where I can ymously because if you do, her almost-ex reserve my seat ahead of time. I recently reserved my seat two days in advance to a can claim the information isn’t credible. Dear Abby: With the holidays approach- movie I had been wanting to see. When I ing, I want to share with you the solution to arrived at the theater, a woman was sitting a holiday problem. When our kids grew up in my seat. I politely pointed out to her that and started their own families, I had read she was in my seat, and she glared at me many letters from young couples caught in and said rudely, “Really?” Granted, the row was empty at the time, the middle of a battle over where to spend Christmas. So I decided to start a new fam- but it was still early. I knew more people ily tradition. We celebrated Christmas at would show up, and I didn’t want to take Thanksgiving. We put up the tree and had someone else’s seat. So I replied, “Yes, all the family presents wrapped and ready really. I reserved this seat days ago.” Was I right asking her to move? More people did to exchange underneath. It was a win-win! We got to share Christ- show up, and the theater was full. — My mas with family, watch our grandkids open Seat In New Mexico Dear My Seat: Yes, you were right. their presents and enjoyed the holiday tur- key with all the trimmings. The grandkids And if the woman had refused to move, got two Christmases, and our kids enjoyed you should have asked an usher to “clar- ify” your seat assignment for her and a guilt-free Christmas with their in-laws. As for us — we spent Christmas with ensure she complied. DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 12-13, 1918 Joe Despain of this city, who has been in the thick of the big fight in France for two years as a member of the Canadian forces, and who has had many miraculous escapes, was wounded in the left foot November 1, and is now in a hospital. Grover Despain, Joe’s brother, and F.W. Griggs, brother- in-law, received a letter from him recently which was dated October 18. In this Joe said he was getting along nicely. The news of his wound does not say how badly he was hurt. Despain has the record in his company for being the first man over the top. Up to the time he received the wound, he had suffered no injury beyond a slight attack of “trench feet” and some deafness in one ear because of shell fire. This is unusual, because of the five men who enlisted with him, he is the only one living. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 12-13, 1968 A flash flood, created when heavy rains built up on a hilltop then burst down the hill- side, poured mud and water into and around the home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Stanhope Monday. A depression in the top of the hill collected the water until it could hold no more, with results much like a flash flood. Suddenly mud and water made their way down the slope to the Stanhope home on upper McKay Creek, about six miles south- east of Pilot Rock. “It came in the front and back,” said Mrs. Stanhope. ”It was four, six, eight inches deep, but came up to your knees, wading in it.” 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 12-13, 1993 Len Reese of Pendleton gave an Arme- nian woman 5,000 rubles so she could afford to spray her potatoes and protect her crop from damaging insects. To the Armenian, the gift was a godsend. To Reese, it equaled about $3 and change in American currency. That experience defines the plight of Arme- nian farmers, who like many other producers throughout Eastern Europe are struggling to farm in a free-market system after the col- lapse of communism. “This went on place after place,” Reese said. “They all said we don’t have money for machinery, seed, cul- tivating, for anything. They’ve already gone through a couple years of this and sold most of their valuables.” 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 Today is the 317th day of 2018. There are 48 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 13, 1942, Pres- ident Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure lowering the minimum draft age from 21 to 18. On this date: In 1789, Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter to a friend, Jean-Baptiste Leroy: “In this world noth- ing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” In 1956, the Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segrega- tion on public buses. In 1974, Karen Silk- wood, a 28-year-old tech- nician and union activist at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron plutonium plant near Cres- cent, Oklahoma, died in a car crash while on her way to meet a reporter. In 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. In 2000, lawyers for George W. Bush failed to win a court order barring manual recounts of ballots in Florida. Florida Secre- tary of State Katherine Har- ris announced she would end the recounting at 5 p.m. Eastern time the next day — prompting an immedi- ate appeal by lawyers for Al Gore. Today’s Birthdays: Journalist-author Peter Arnett is 84. Country sing- er-songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard is 72. Musi- cian Andrew Ranken (The Pogues) is 65. Actress Tracy Scoggins is 65. Actor Chris Noth (nohth) is 64. Actress-comedian Whoopi Goldberg is 63. Actor Rex Linn is 62. Actress Caro- line Goodall is 59. Actor Neil Flynn is 58. For- mer NFL quarterback and College Football Hall of Famer Vinny Testaverde is 55. Rock musician Wal- ter Kibby (Fishbone) is 54. Comedian and talk show host Jimmy Kimmel is 51. Actor Jordan Bridges is 45. Actress Aisha Hinds is 43. Rock musician Nikolai Fraiture is 40. Former NBA All-Star Metta World Peace (formerly Ron Artest) is 39. Actress Monique Coleman is 38. Actor Rahul Kohli is 33.Thought for Today: “If we like a man’s dream, we call him a reformer; if we don’t like his dream, we call him a crank.” — William Dean Howells, American author (1837-1920). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE