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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Second wife-to-be wants
man’s name all to herself
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: My boyfriend and
Please keep in mind that after
I both got divorced about the same
your wedding you will — if you
time, but his took much longer to
wish — become “Mrs. John
become final. It is finally over, so
Smith.” The ex can use the last
we have begun talking seriously
name, but will have to use her own
about marriage and starting a
first name with it (Ms. Jane Smith)
family.
without reference to your husband.
During one of our conversa-
Of course, if you wish to keep
J eanne
tions, he mentioned that his ex-wife
your maiden name, you are free
P hilliPs
doesn’t intend to change back to
to do it — many women do. But if
ADVICE
her maiden name. I was shocked
you make that decision, please do it
because she took advantage of
for any other reason than because
him financially and was emotion-
of the one you put in your letter to
me.
ally abusive all during their marriage. They
Dear Abby: My mother used to go nuts
had no kids, so it has nothing to do with her
anytime the cameras came out. No matter
wanting to share the same name with them.
the setting, the celebration or how lovely
They were married only a few years, so
she looked, Mom would fling her hand up
she isn’t well established under that name,
and yell, “Get that thing out of my face!”
either.
even when other family members were in
When I asked him why she wasn’t
the shot.
changing it, he told me she said his fam-
One day, in exasperation, I finally told
ily was always nicer to her than her own. I
her, “Ya know, Mom, someday the only
suggested he ask her to adopt another last
pictures your descendants will have of you
name of her choosing if she doesn’t want
will be of an angry, scowling woman.”
to go back to her maiden name rather than
Abby, please remind your readers we
be falsely associated with a family she is
aren’t trying to persecute them when we
no longer a part of (or welcome in). He
want a picture. We just want to hold, share
won’t consider taking on my last name,
and save photos of the people we love the
so I’m thinking about keeping my own
most, and the kindness and love in their
maiden name after our marriage until she
eyes shouldn’t be obscured by their hands.
changes hers. Am I overreacting, or are two
— Finally Got Through to Mom
“Mrs.” too many? — Soon To Marry in
Dear Finally: Although we live in a
California
self-promoting and selfie culture, many
Dear Soon To Marry: You are overre-
acting. When a man has divorced, his ex
individuals feel the way your mother does
— like a deer in the headlights when a cam-
can retain his last name if she wishes. Some
era is aimed their way. That said, the point
do it because they think it may be to their
you made was valid, and I am pleased that
advantage socially to be associated with
she listened. It is for that reason I’m print-
the family. I have heard of others doing it
ing your letter.
because they didn’t like their maiden name.
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 11-12, 1919
M.B. Moon, a brakeman of The Dalles,
and Mrs. W.F. Wedekind, wife of an
O.-W.R.& N. fireman of The Dalles, were
arrested early this morning by Chief Al
Roberts, and Policeman Charles Myers in a
room of Hotel St. George, where they reg-
istered early Monday morning as man and
wife, having arrived on train No. 4. The cou-
ple were followed here by W. F. Wedekind,
husband of the woman, who made complaint
to the officers, with the result that both were
placed under arrest. Wedekind later swore
to a complaint before F. E. Schmidt, deputy
district attorney, and the prisoners have been
turned over to the custody of Sheriff Taylor,
charged with adultery. Moon is reported to
have a wife and child at The Dalles.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 11-12, 1969
The Port of Umatilla added 640 acres, a
section of land, to its industrial park east of
its present site, by accepting an offer from
the Bureau of Land Management at the
Port’s monthly meeting Monday. The Port
Commission gave approval to a purchase
price of $19,200 for section 18. This is $30
an acre for the land that has no waterfront on
the Columbia River, and its terrain is dotted
with rock outcroppings. The tract has High-
way 730 frontage. The Port Commission has
been negotiating with BLM for the land for
several years.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 11-12, 1994
Marty Campbell makes his car payments
from the money he earns as a public speaker.
So it wasn’t a surprise when the 20-year-
old sophomore switched his major at Blue
Mountain Community College from agri-
culture education to communications. And
now Campbell has an extra nudge in the
direction of fulfilling his new goal to put his
voice to work in television or radio — a pos-
sible $2,500 award for being named BMCC
Scholar. With a 3.3 grade point average and
a seat in the college’s student government as
vice president, Campbell has been included
among a group of scholars from other com-
munity colleges and technical schools
throughout Oregon — and the rest of the
U.S. One or two scholars are picked from
every school so Campbell acknowledges the
competition is stiff.
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. 12, 1999, the
Senate voted to acquit Pres-
ident Bill Clinton of perjury
and obstruction of justice.
In 1809, Abraham Lin-
coln, the 16th president of
the United States, was born
in a log cabin in Kentucky.
In 1909, the National
Association
for
the
Advancement of Colored
People was founded.
In 1912, Pu Yi, the last
emperor of China, abdi-
cated, marking the end of
the Qing Dynasty.
In 1924, George Gersh-
win’s “Rhapsody in Blue”
premiered in New York.
In 1959, the redesigned
Lincoln penny — with an
image of the Lincoln Memo-
rial replacing two ears of
wheat on the reverse side —
went into circulation.
In 1963, a Northwest
Orient Airlines Boeing 720
broke up during severe tur-
bulence and crashed into the
Florida Everglades, killing
all 43 people aboard.
In 1980, the FBI
announced that about $5,800
of the $200,000 ransom paid
to hijacker “D.B. Cooper”
before he parachuted from
a Northwest Orient jetliner
in 1971 had been found by
an 8-year-old boy on a river-
bank of the Columbia River
in Washington state.
In 1993, in a crime that
shocked and outraged Brit-
ons, two 10-year-old boys
lured James Bulger, 2, from
his mother at a mall near
Liverpool, England, and
beat him to death.
In 2000, Charles M.
Schulz, creator of the “Pea-
nuts” comic strip, died in
Santa Rosa, Calif. at age 77.
In 2008, General Motors
reported losing $38.7 billion
in 2007, a record annual loss
in automotive history, and
offered buyouts to 74,000
hourly workers.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Movie director Franco Zef-
firelli is 96. Movie director
Costa-Gavras is 86. Bas-
ketball Hall of Famer Bill
Russell is 85. Author Judy
Blume is 81. Actor-talk
show host Arsenio Hall is
63. Actress Christina Ricci
is 39. NFL quarterback Rob-
ert Griffin III is 29.
Thought for Today:
“Determine that the thing
can and shall be done,
and then we shall find the
way.” — Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE