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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Man seeking commitment
finds casual sex instead
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: What are your
shave and wax jobs. They say their
boyfriends and nearly all guys pre-
thoughts about having a sex-only
fer it.
arrangement with an ex? Most of
I have a boyfriend, but we aren’t
the women I’ve dated have con-
tacted me after the relationship was
to that point. However, someday
over hoping to have “no-strings-at-
that day will come. Does it really
tached” sex on a regular basis. I
matter to guys if a girl shaves and
have always refused because I fig-
waxes? Also, how do I deal with
J eanne
my stepsisters? — Natural in the
ured it would make it more difficult
P hilliPs
West
to move on and to meet someone
ADVICE
Dear Natural: Deal with your
new.
stepsisters by continuing to ignore
That said, I’m an attractive guy
their advice and following your
in my early 30s, and I’d hate to
own path. The idea that women should be
continue to waste my prime sexual years.
hairless from the eyelids down is one that
I’d love to be married and have a family, but
Madison Avenue and the porn industry
I’m struggling to find a woman who is hon-
est, loyal, a good communicator and inde-
have foisted on the public. I can’t predict
pendent. That leaves me with either having
how “guys” will react to you in your natural
no sex while hoping for a miracle, or a lot
state, but I can say this: A man who cares
of sex with women I don’t really like. —
about you will be only too glad to accept
the entire package — fur and all.
Searching in Oregon
Dear Abby: I have a close friend who
Dear Searching: Dating may look like
visits me often. Recently I discovered that
fun, but at a certain point it becomes seri-
ous business. You have reached an age at
in addition to eating snacks I put out, he has
which you know what you are looking for.
been sneaking food and things like canned
However, you will never find it as long as
beverages from my home when I’m not
looking.
you tie yourself to women who don’t fit
He has money. In fact, he is a very gen-
the bill. This does not mean you must live
erous person. I can’t get over his behavior.
like a monk, only that you direct your sex-
ual (and emotional) energies forward rather
Is it right that this bothers me, and if so,
what should I say? — Missing My Food
than backward if your goal is marriage and
in California
a family.
Dear Missing: It should bother you,
Dear Abby: I’m 16 and unlike most girls
because as petty as it is, it’s still theft. What
I know, I prefer to be natural. I don’t shave
you should say is, “Why are you taking food
or wax my body hair. My friends accept this
from my home without asking me first?”
as my business. But my stepsisters, whom
It’s a legitimate question. If he denies it,
I share a room with every other weekend,
your buddy may be a bit of a kleptomaniac.
say I look gross and proudly display their
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 30, 1919
As a result of negotiations completed
last evening the newly incorporated Inland
Empire Bank of Pendleton secures as a
location the Miller building, occupied by
the Leader store, at the corner of Main and
Court streets. The stock of the Leader store
has been purchased by Bond Bros. and will
be disposed of on sale. It was announced
today by men in charge of the new bank that
the bank has a 20 year lease on the property
and that as soon as the store stock can be
disposed of will begin the remodeling of the
building. The bank will use the entire first
floor, excepting a certain space in the rear
which, with a frontage on Court street, will
be rented for office purposes.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 30, 1969
If you have been using the excuse of
“no shovel” to put off the job of clearing
walks and driveway, you can retreat to your
easy chair and stay there. You couldn’t buy
a show shovel today in Pendleton if you
wanted to. Not a store in town has a snow
shovel left. Shovels that had for years col-
lected dust in basements and store rooms
went like hotcakes. “I sold more snow shov-
els this winter than in five years,” said Ted
Johnson at Coast-to-Coast. No used shov-
els are available, either. Barnum’s Trading
Post reported they couldn’t even help out
two men down on their luck who planned
to buy a shovel and make a grubstake shov-
eling snow.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 30, 1994
Pendleton musician Rob Roy doesn’t
hide his enthusiasm for area history, espe-
cially when it comes to the heyday of gold
mining in the Blue Mountains. This zeal has
blossomed into “The Ghosts of Granite,” an
original musical production that soon will be
ready to tour. Roy assumes the role of play-
wright, lyricist and composer. Eighty-five
volunteer researchers helped base the script
on historical fact, Roy says. He assembled a
preview cast to build support. The full pro-
duction will involve 35 actors and 15 musi-
cians. Eight to 12 performances are planned
on a fifth-wheel trailer that folds out into a
mobile stage.
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. 30, 1948, Indian
political and spiritual leader
Mohandas K. Gandhi, 78,
was shot and killed in New
Delhi by a Hindu extremist
who was later executed.
In 1933, Adolf Hitler
became chancellor of Ger-
many. The first episode of
the “Lone Ranger” radio
program was broadcast on
station WXYZ in Detroit.
In 1945, during World
War II, a Soviet submarine
torpedoed the German ship
MV Wilhelm Gustloff in
the Baltic Sea with the loss
of more than 9,000 lives,
most of them war refugees;
roughly 1,000 people sur-
vived. Adolf Hitler marked
the 12th anniversary of his
appointment as Germany’s
chancellor with his last pub-
lic speech in which he called
on Germans to keep resist-
ing until victory.
In 1948, aviation pioneer
Orville Wright, 76, died in
Dayton, Ohio.
In 1962, two members
of “The Flying Wallendas”
high-wire act were killed
when their seven-person
pyramid collapsed during a
performance in Detroit.
In 1968, the Tet Offen-
sive began during the Viet-
nam War as Communist
forces launched surprise
attacks against South Viet-
namese towns and cities;
although the Communists
were beaten back, the offen-
sive was seen as a major
setback for the U.S. and its
allies.
In 1972, 13 Roman Cath-
olic civil rights marchers
were shot to death by Brit-
ish soldiers in Northern Ire-
land on what became known
as “Bloody Sunday.”
In 1981, an estimated 2
million New Yorkers turned
out for a ticker-tape parade
honoring the American hos-
tages freed from Iran.
In 2006, Coretta Scott
King, widow of the Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr., died
in Mexico at age 78.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Producer-director Harold
Prince is 91. Actor Gene
Hackman is 89. Actress
Vanessa Redgrave is 82.
Country singer Jeanne Pru-
ett is 82. Chess grandmaster
Boris Spassky is 82. Coun-
try singer Norma Jean is 81.
Former Vice President Dick
Cheney is 78. Singer Phil
Collins is 68. Actor Charles
S. Dutton is 68. Actor Chris-
tian Bale is 45.
Thought for Today:
“Only when we are no lon-
ger afraid do we begin to
live.” — Dorothy Thomp-
son, American author, jour-
nalist and radio commen-
tator (born 1893, died this
date in 1961).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE