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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
May-December romance trips
on question of having children
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: I’m a 67-year-old
He’s a lot older than she is, emo-
tionally manipulative and abusive.
single white man. My girlfriend
Before they got together — a cou-
is 21 and African-American. We
ple of months after his previous
have been together a year and a
fiancee broke their engagement —
half and are deeply in love. We
she talked constantly about how
have lots of fun together and go out
desperate she was for a boyfriend.
and do things.
Long story short, she was looking
When we are out together, peo-
for love, and he appeared.
ple often stare at us. She’s very
J eanne
We’re not the only ones worried
attractive and turns heads. I tell her
P hilliPs
for her. We have spoken with sev-
everyone is looking at her because
ADVICE
eral mutual friends. We all have
she is so beautiful, but that’s prob-
ably not totally true.
the same concerns but are afraid
We want to be together, but I’m
to approach her about them. He
reluctant. The love feels good and true, but
has damaged her professional and personal
the rest is scary.
relationships and essentially clipped her
wings.
We would like to have children, but she
She was a bright, kind and ambitious
wonders if there is any risk in having a
person with wonderful dreams before she
child with me. We have tried to break up,
settled for him. She has lost herself in this
but we missed each other so much we got
relationship, and we don’t know what to
back together. We have a very active sex
say to her, if we should say anything at all.
life. Do you have any advice? — Uncer-
tain in Ohio
Help! — Nervous in the Northwest
Dear Uncertain: People may stare
Dear Nervous: While it may be tempt-
ing, resist the urge to drift away from her
because of the large discrepancy in your
because of him. Rather than remain silent,
ages or because they aren’t used to seeing
you and the others should point out the
interracial couples. Because you are con-
impact her fiance has had on her profes-
cerned about how things will play out if the
sional relationships. If he is as you describe,
two of you decide to start a family, it would
she may eventually learn for herself why
be wise to get genetic counseling because
his previous fiancee didn’t marry him. And
of your age. While 67 isn’t over the hill,
when that happens, she may need all the
the decision to embark on starting a fam-
ily at that age may depend upon your over-
support you all can give her.
all health and the life expectancy in your
Dear Abby: Five years ago, my 26-year
marriage ended in divorce. I am now in a
family.
wonderful new relationship. Do I have an
Dear Abby: Our friend recently got
obligation to inform my ex of my new sta-
engaged to someone who is, well, terri-
ble! This is her first real relationship. They
tus? — Debbie in the East
moved in together and got a dog within six
Dear Debbie: Heck no! Let your chil-
dren do it for you.
months.
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 13, 1919
Mrs. Charles F. Daniels, wife of the well
known Pendleton farmer, probably holds
the record for correspondence with soldier
and sailor boys.
During the war she has kept up cor-
respondence with 98 different Umatilla
county boys in the service and has writ-
ten more than 1700 letters to them. During
the past 12 months she has written an even
thousand letters and sent 898 packages.
Mrs. Daniels was prompted to take up
this form of service through the fact that her
own son, Francis Daniels, is in the service
and had written of how letters were appre-
ciated and of how some the boys had no one
to write to them.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 13, 1969
Plans for much needed additional park-
ing space in the north business district
of Milton-Freewater came to a halt with
receipt of a letter from the State Traffic Con-
trol Board refusing to approve the proposal,
city manager Henry Schneider told the city
council Monday night. In refusing permis-
sion to make Robbins Street two-way and
N. Main one-way, the board said the streets
were too narrow and the condition of pav-
ing was poor on both these and intersecting
streets. The letter also pointed to 15 daily
train movements in summer along Robbins
Street.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 13, 1994
The five-year-old daughter of a missing
Pendleton woman saw her father kill her
mother, according to police testimony last
month in a child custody hearing.
Phil Arnold, an Oregon State Police
detective, testified the the girl told investi-
gators: “Daddy shooted Vickie in the ditch,
Vickie’s dead. He put her in the ground.”
Authorities have confirmed that the girl’s
father — LuRay Batterton — is the chief
suspect in the disappearance and possible
murder of his wife, Vickie Batterton, who
has been missing since October of 1992.
The girl told officials her father threatened
to spank her if she talked about it.
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. 13, 2016, Justice
Antonin Scalia, the influen-
tial conservative and most
provocative member of the
U.S. Supreme Court, was
found dead at a private res-
idence in the Big Bend area
of West Texas; he was 79.
In 1633, Italian astrono-
mer Galileo Galilei arrived
in Rome for trial before
the Inquisition, accused of
defending Copernican the-
ory that the Earth revolved
around the sun instead of
the other way around. (Gal-
ileo was found vehemently
suspect of heresy, and ended
up being sentenced to a form
of house arrest.)
In 1861, Abraham Lin-
coln was officially declared
winner of the 1860 presiden-
tial election as electors cast
their ballots.
In 1935, a jury in Flem-
ington, New Jersey, found
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
guilty of first-degree mur-
der in the kidnap-slaying
of Charles A. Lindbergh
Jr., the 20-month-old son
of Charles and Anne Lind-
bergh. (Hauptmann was
later executed.)
In
1974,
Nobel
Prize-winning
Russian
author Alexander Solz-
henitsyn was expelled from
the Soviet Union.
In 1984, Konstantin
Chernenko was chosen to
be general secretary of the
Soviet Communist Par-
ty’s Central Committee,
succeeding the late Yuri
Andropov.
In 1996, the rock musical
“Rent,” by Jonathan Larson,
opened off-Broadway.
In 2013, beginning a
long farewell to his flock, a
weary Pope Benedict XVI
celebrated his final pub-
lic Mass as pontiff, presid-
ing over Ash Wednesday
services inside St. Peter’s
Basilica at the Vatican.
In 2017, President Donald
Trump’s embattled national
security adviser, Michael
Flynn, resigned following
reports he had misled Vice
President Mike Pence and
other officials about his con-
tacts with Russia.
Today’s Birthdays: U.S.
Air Force Maj. Gen. Charles
E. “Chuck” Yeager (ret.) is
96. Actress Kim Novak is
86. Actor George Segal is 85.
Singer-musician Peter Tork
(The Monkees) is 77. Talk
show host Jerry Springer is
75. Rock singer Matt Ber-
ninger (The National) is 48.
Thought for Today:
“The world has no sympathy
with any but positive griefs;
it will pity you for what
you lose, but never for what
you lack.” — Anne Sophie
Swetchine, Russian-French
author (1782-1857).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE