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