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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