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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Kiss shared with a co-worker
puts marriage on shakier ground
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 may be having
The crush didn’t work out. Now,
a midlife crisis. I’m not happy in
more than a year later, Mike and
my marriage and haven’t been for
I are close friends. I visited him
quite some time. I pray every night
recently and realized I still have
that my husband will find someone
feelings for him. I want to get back
else so he will leave our marriage. I
together, but I don’t think I should
tried to leave him before, but finan-
say it unless I am 100 percent
cially I couldn’t make it. I’m now at
certain I won’t break up with him
again.
the point where I don’t care about
J eanne
P hilliPs
Abby, I wonder if I might be
the financial side of it.
ADVICE
gay. I don’t know what to do. I
I recently kissed a co-worker. It
love Mike, but I’m paranoid that
was really hot, heavy and I want
I’ll eventually regret getting back
more. I haven’t felt this alive in
together with him. I couldn’t betray his
years. My co-worker is not the reason I
trust again. What should I do? — Confused
want a divorce, but now, feeling desired by
20-Something
someone makes me want out even more.
Dear Confused: You may be gay; you
But I’m a coward. I don’t know how to tell
might also be bisexual or simply curious.
my husband I’m no longer in love with him.
You owe it to yourself and to Mike to talk
— Coward in the South
to a counselor and explore what your sexual
Dear Coward: Not knowing you, I can’t
orientation is. If you and Mike have worked
determine whether you may be having a
through your other differences, only the
midlife crisis. However, you definitely do
two of you can decide whether to resume
need to talk to your husband, if only to ask
your relationship or just be friends. (Friend-
if he feels the same emptiness that you do. It
ships have been known to sometimes last
would be better for both of you if you tried
longer than romantic relationships.)
counseling to see if it’s possible to heal
Dear Abby: My question is, is it ethical
your marriage before you run out the door.
to “try” the fruit at the grocery store? I am
I caution you about involving yourself in
amazed at the number of shoppers who
a workplace romance while you are feeling
open the bags of grapes and help them-
this needy. If it doesn’t work out — and
selves to a snack. Shouldn’t they buy
most of them don’t — you could find your-
self not only without a husband but also a
without sampling? — Craig in Florida
job.
Dear Craig: Theoretically, shoppers
should buy without sampling. Talk to the
Dear Abby: I dated a man I’ll call Mike
manager of the grocery store about it.
for several years. We eventually broke up
Some establishments leave a bag of grapes,
because of distance and a difference of
cherries, etc. open for shoppers to sample
opinion about where we wanted to live.
to see if they would like to buy. If that’s
I also had developed a crush on a female
not happening in the store you patronize,
friend, which contributed to my decision to
consider suggesting it.
break off with him.
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 23, 1919
Pendleton suffered one of the most severe
windstorms on record this morning, the
wind blowing with terrific fury between
5 and 6 o’clock, leaving the town in dark-
ness. With the exception of the subsequent
disastrous fire at The Peoples Warehouse,
caused indirectly by the failure of the elec-
tric current, little actual damage occurred in
Pendleton. The heavy wind blew an electric
power line pole near the Riverside end of
the Wild Horse cut clear out of the ground,
brace pole included. The uprooting of the
pole threw the wires to the ground and the
current was shut off at Athena because of
the mishap. It was after 11 o’clock before the
current came on again.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 23, 1969
The one man in the West End district of
Umatilla County who really knows his town
and its people is R.D. “Tex” Wilson, Echo
Police Chief and city employee on several
jobs over a span of 18 years. Recently he was
reappointed to his job for the 10th time. He
was first appointed in 1950 after serving a
few years as a relief police officer to help
police at Friday and Saturday night dances
in Echo. When for 18 years you have been
the police officer in a town of 450, and added
to the police work the duties of maintaining
the water and street departments, taking
care of the cemetery, plus driving the city’s
ambulance and working with the youth of
the community in baseball and basketball,
you “come to know” your folks.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 23, 1994
Nellie Pennington says there are two
important traits for anyone taking care of
babies all day — the ability to cope with a
room full of crying children and a dimin-
ished sense of smell. “I can’t smell anything
any more,” the 15-year veteran of the infant
and toddler room at the Hermiston Day Care
Center says after countless diaper changes.
“It’s going to be really hard to leave,”
Pennington said. Next week will be her last.
“I tried not to take them home with me too
often, but sometimes I did.” Her husband
didn’t mind Pennington bringing her work
home, because he loves babies too and often
visited the center during the day to play with
the children, she said.
TODAY 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 Jan. 23, 1845, Con-
gress decided all national
elections would be held on
the first Tuesday after the
first Monday in November.
In 1368, China’s Ming
dynasty, which lasted nearly
three centuries, began as
Zhu Yuanzhang was for-
mally acclaimed emperor
following the collapse of the
Yuan dynasty.
In 1789, Georgetown
University was established
in present-day Washington,
D.C.
In 1932, New York
Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt
announced his candidacy
for the Democratic presi-
dential nomination.
In 1933, the 20th
Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution, the so-called
“Lame Duck Amendment,”
was ratified as Missouri
approved it.
In 1950, the Israeli Knes-
set approved a resolution
affirming Jerusalem as the
capital of Israel.
In 1962, Jackie Robinson
was elected to the Baseball
Hall of Fame in his first year
of eligibility.
In 1964, the 24th
Amendment to the United
States Constitution, elim-
inating the poll tax in fed-
eral elections, was ratified
as South Dakota became the
38th state to endorse it.
In 1968, North Korea
seized the U.S. Navy intel-
ligence ship USS Pueblo,
commanded
by
Lloyd
“Pete” Bucher, charging its
crew with being on a spy-
ing mission; one sailor was
killed and 82 were taken
prisoner. (Cmdr. Bucher and
his crew were released the
following December after
enduring 11 months of bru-
tal captivity at the hands of
the North Koreans.)
In 1998, a judge in Fair-
fax, Virginia, sentenced
Aimal Khan Kasi to death
for an assault rifle attack
outside CIA headquarters
in 1993 that killed two men
and wounded three other
people. (Kasi was executed
in November 2002.)
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actress Chita Rivera is 86.
Actor-director Lou Antonio is
85. Rhythm-and-blues singer
Jerry Lawson is 75. Singer
Anita Pointer is 71. Actor
Richard Dean Anderson is 69.
Thought for Today:
“The trouble is that hardly
anybody in America goes
to bed angry at night.” —
George J. Stigler, American
economist (1911-1991).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE