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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Friday, February 8, 2019
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Bathroom Peeping Tom stuns
retirement home employee
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: Something hap-
I’m curious about how your
pened at work that has me trauma-
supervisor reacted when you told
tized. I work at a retirement house
her what happened. If you cannot
for a convent. The nuns are sweet,
move beyond the trauma, talk to
kind and easy to get along with.
the director of the home and ask for
But last week while I was using
counseling so you can regain some
the bathroom, a nun decided to
perspective. Filing a police report
may not be the way to go.
be a Peeping Tom while I was on
Dear Abby: My wife and I are
the toilet. She laughed at me in a
J eanne
getting
ready to retire. We are both
taunting manner saying, “I can see
P hilliPs
employed and will have continued
you!” I screamed at her to stop, but
ADVICE
access to health insurance through
she just kept looking and laughing
our employers in retirement. My
at me. When she finally left, I was
insurance covers her even if I predecease
in shock.
her, unless she remarries.
I reported the nun to my supervisor as
My wife now says she wants to carry
soon as I could, but later in the day I was
her own health insurance because she feels
still so humiliated and upset that I ended up
she might want to remarry sometime after
having an anxiety attack. I can’t stop think-
my death. Her new interest about remarry-
ing about it. It left me feeling disgusted
ing bothers me, and I feel somewhat guilty
with the nun and with myself.
about that.
I want to report her to the police, but I
What has me depressed is the question of
don’t want drama at work. This is my only
who she would want to be buried beside —
source of income. I need my job in order
her new husband or me. We have been mar-
to provide for my kids, but I no longer feel
ried for 38 years, and the possibility of hav-
comfortable working in a place where there
ing a final resting place without her seems
are perverted nuns who don’t respect peo-
ple’s privacy.
very lonely and like I am being rejected.
What do I do? I’m confused and angry,
It almost feels like a divorce. These are
spending my days in my home crying and
thoughts and feelings I can neither shake
off nor rationalize. Your thoughts? — Life
contemplating whether to file a police
Goes On
report. Please give me some advice. —
Dear Life Goes On: Your wife is trying
Traumatized in the East
to keep her options open, which, although
Dear Traumatized: I hope you realize
it isn’t sentimental, makes sense. There are
that the behavior the retired nun exhibited
no guarantees that if you predecease her,
is that of a 4-year-old. She may suffer from
she will be swept off her feet, so you may
dementia. While the woman may have had
be worrying needlessly. If you haven’t told
good judgment in her younger years, clearly
her how you feel, it might put your mind at
she does not now. It may be the reason she
ease if you do.
is living in that retirement community.
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 8, 1919
Judson Bowdre, Pendleton sheepherder,
en route here from Hornbrook with a suitcase
filled with 20 half-pint bottles of whiskey,
was taken off the train at Medford by Deputy
Sheriff McDonald and arrested on the charge
of importing liquor into Oregon. He pleaded
guilty to the charge before Judge Taylor and
was fined $100. Bowdre claimed he was trans-
porting the liquor for his own use but the fact
that on him was found an expense book item-
izing his expenses since he left Pendleton
made the arresting officer and county prose-
cutor think he was representing someone else
and might be a professional bootlegger.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 8, 1969
Gusty winds are creating havoc in Eastern
Oregon today. Some roads are nearly closed.
A trailer house toppled and disintegrated in
high winds about half-way up Cabbage Hill.
The accident occurred about 8:08 a.m. and by
mid-morning police were still leading traffic
around the accident. Drifting snow has cut vis-
ibility on some highways and caused a four- to
six-car pileup on Highway 204 near the top
of Weston Mountain. State police said drifts
were so deep they were having some trouble
getting to the accident. Highway 74, from Nye
Junction to Heppner, was closed because of
snowdrifts. A snow plow sent out to clear the
stretch couldn’t get through. It turned around
and returned to Heppner.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 8, 1994
Father Paco hopes an apparition of the Vir-
gin Mary brings more believers back to church.
But the priest from Our Lady of Angels Catho-
lic Church in Hermiston remains unconvinced
that a vision viewed by hundreds of faithful at
a Boardman trailer park is the real thing. “It
happens all the time,” said Paco, stepping out
of the single-wide trailer where Irma Munoz
first caught sight of the virgin hovering in a
landscape painting last Thursday. “It’s natural
things that are thought to be supernatural. But
God is always present — He’s here now.” Paco
drove to Boardman Tuesday afternoon to talk
with the Munoz family about the painting,
which has drawn Catholics from all over the
region, cramping their tiny home with people,
flowers and candles.
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 Feb. 8, 1587, Mary,
Queen of Scots was beheaded
at Fotheringhay Castle in
England after she was impli-
cated in a plot to murder her
cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
In 1693, a charter was
granted for the College of Wil-
liam and Mary in Williams-
burg in the Virginia Colony.
In 1904, the Russo-Japa-
nese War, a conflict over con-
trol of Manchuria and Korea,
began as Japanese forces
attacked Port Arthur.
In 1910, the Boy Scouts of
America was incorporated.
In 1922, President War-
ren G. Harding had a radio
installed in the White House.
In 1924, the first execution
by gas in the United States
took place at the Nevada State
Prison in Carson City as Gee
Jon, a Chinese immigrant
convicted of murder, was put
to death.
In 1952, Queen Elizabeth
II proclaimed her accession
to the British throne following
the death of her father, King
George VI.
In 1965, Eastern Air Lines
Flight 663, a DC-7, crashed
shortly after takeoff from
New York’s John F. Kennedy
International Airport; all 84
people on board were killed.
The Supremes’ record “Stop!
In the Name of Love!” was
released by Motown.
In 1968, three college stu-
dents were killed in a confron-
tation between demonstra-
tors and highway patrolmen
at South Carolina State Uni-
versity in Orangeburg in the
wake of protests over a whites-
only bowling alley. The sci-
ence-fiction film “Planet of the
Apes,” starring Charlton Hes-
ton, had its world premiere in
New York (it went into general
release the following April.)
In 1989, 144 people
were killed when an Amer-
ican-chartered Boeing 707
filled with Italian tourists
slammed into a fog-covered
mountain in the Azores.
Today’s Birthdays: Com-
poser-conductor John Wil-
liams is 87. Newscaster Ted
Koppel is 79. Actor Nick
Nolte is 78. Comedian Rob-
ert Klein is 77. Actor-rock
musician Creed Bratton is 76.
Actress Mary Steenburgen is
66. Author John Grisham is
64.
Thought for Today: “If
each man or woman could
understand that every other
human life is as full of sor-
rows, or joys, or base temp-
tations, of heartaches and of
remorse as his own... how
much kinder, how much gen-
tler he would be.” — William
Allen White, American jour-
nalist (1868-1944).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE