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Wednesday, November 21, 2018 PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK East Oregonian Page 11A DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Student earns failing grade as a vacation house-sitter FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER GARFIELD BLONDIE DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY JIM DAVIS Dear Abby: Our family went I suppose the omission could be away for a two-week vacation. One chalked up to immaturity, but I do think it should be mentioned. of my co-workers suggested I hire Dear Abby: I have been dating her daughter to stay in our home this guy for 2 1/2 years. We started and take care of our pets and plants dating when he was separated and in in our absence. The daughter is 20 the process of getting divorced. My years old and a student. We agreed friends and family have met him, upon a generous payment and paid Jeanne but he has introduced me only to his her as soon as we got home. Everything was fine, except our Phillips friends. He didn’t want me to meet Advice his family until now. (I don’t know stockpile of Costco items (granola why.) He has a 3-year-old daughter. bars and juice boxes) out in the One day I sent him an article garage was nearly depleted. When I asked her about it, she texted me back about “your kids shouldn’t be the most almost in a joking way that she had helped important.” Well, he became upset because herself and meant to replenish the supply, he thought I was trying to separate him and but it had slipped her mind. She had also his daughter. I tried to explain that the arti- “borrowed” a couple of items from our cle says you should love yourself first, but home she forgot to return (blow-dryer, a he still misunderstood me. I told him I’m game and our wine glasses), but returned tired of him doubting us and my love. He isn’t sure if we are going to get married in them once it was brought to her attention. I was happy just to come home to my two years. What should I do? I want this relation- plants and animals being alive and our house in one piece. My husband, on the ship to work, but at the same time I feel like other hand, was not. He suggested I inform he is dragging me nowhere. — Very Inse- my co-worker that I won’t be hiring her cure In California Dear Very Insecure: You say that daughter again because she was very unpro- fessional. What is your opinion on the mat- although you have met this man’s friends, ter? — House-Sitting In The East you still have yet to meet any members of Dear House-Sitting: I agree with your his family. Why not? After 2 1/2 years, this husband. Although the daughter isn’t a pro- is a red flag. That after all this time he says fessional house-sitter, she should not have he isn’t sure he wants to marry you is an taken items from your home without per- even bigger one. mission or without informing you about Put your cards on the table with him as what she had “borrowed.” And if she was you have with me, and tell him you think it not given permission to help herself to the would be better for both of you to start see- goodies in your garage, she should have left ing others because even after 2 1/2 years he them where they were or offered to com- still isn’t ready for a commitment and you pensate you for them upon your return. are. DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 22, 1918 Miss Grace Allen of Pendleton, who is employed by the Simpson auto company, is the first girl in this county to act as demon- strator for the Fordson tractor. Miss Allen drove a tractor and plow yesterday to a five acre field on the L.L. Mann ranch 13 miles east of town and although it was her first experience, she had little difficulty in plow- ing the field. The field, according to Mr. Mann, has not been plowed for many years and is covered with a short growth of alfalfa, while the soil is cumbered by the roots. A plow drawn by 12 mules recently was unable to make any headway in the soil and two plows were broken in the attempt. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 22, 1968 It just doesn’t pay to play the part of a Good Samaritan. Or maybe it was just one of those days for Bill Britt, Spray, Wednes- day. Britt ran into some hunters at Tamarack Mountain who were cleaning an elk just before dark. He stopped to assist them in the job, and stabbed himself in the left thigh, severing a large vein. He was brought to Pio- neer Memorial Hospital in Heppner by his father, where the vein was sewed back and the wound treated. Britt told the attendants he didn’t even know the names of those he had tried to help. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Nov. 22, 1993 Pendleton teen-ager Angela Pilmer is bound for Disney World and the Ameri- can Coed Pageant. She will visit Florida from Tuesday through Sunday. Pilmer, 15, was runner-up to the pageant’s Miss Ore- gon Teen in May. About 80 contestants were included in her division, ages 13-15. Since the winner couldn’t travel to Florida, Pilmer received the title. BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE THIS DAY IN HISTORY BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN On Nov. 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas; Texas Gov. John B. Connally, in the same car as Kennedy, was seriously wounded; a sus- pect, Lee Harvey Oswald, was arrested; Vice Presi- dent Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as president. In 1906, the “S-O-S” distress signal was adopted at the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin. In 1914, the First Battle of Ypres) during World War I ended with an Allied vic- tory against Germany. In 1943, President Frank- lin D. Roosevelt, Brit- ish Prime Minister Win- ston Churchill and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss measures for defeating Japan. Lyricist Lorenz Hart died in New York at age 48. In 1954, the Humane Society of the United States was incorporated as the National Humane Society. In 1955, comic Shemp Howard of “Three Stooges” fame died in Hollywood at age 60. In 1965, the musi- cal “Man of La Mancha” opened on Broadway. In 1975, Juan Carlos was proclaimed King of Spain. In 1977, regular passen- ger service between New York and Europe on the supersonic Concorde began on a trial basis. In 1990, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, having failed to win re-elec- tion of the Conservative Party leadership on the first ballot, announced she would resign. In 1995, acting swiftly to boost the Balkan peace accord, the U-N Security Council suspended eco- nomic sanctions against Serbia and eased the arms embargo against the states of the former Yugoslavia. Today’s Birthdays: Ani- mator and movie director Terry Gilliam is 78. Actor Tom Conti is 77. Singer Jesse Colin Young is 77. Astronaut Guion Bluford is 76. International Tennis Hall of Famer Billie Jean King is 75. Rock musician-actor Steve Van Zandt (a.k.a. Lit- tle Steven) is 68. Rock musi- cian Tina Weymouth (The Heads; Talking Heads; The Tom Tom Club) is 68. Actor Richard Kind is 62. Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is 60. Actor Michael K. Williams is 52. Actor Mark Ruffalo is 51. International Tennis Hall of Famer Boris Becker is 51. Actress Sidse Babett Knud- sen is 50. Country musician Chris Fryar (Zac Brown Band) is 48. Actress Scar- lett Johansson is 34. Actor Jamie Campbell Bower is 30. Singer Candice Glover (TV: “American Idol”) is 29. Thought for Today: “Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.” — Charles de Gaulle (born this date in 1890, died 1970). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
