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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
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Thursday, February 14, 2019
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Lovers aren’t the only ones
who celebrate Valentine’s Day
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: Valentine’s Day
I have told him I’m worried
is here and, to be honest, I don’t
about her using him for his money,
know much about St. Valentine.
but he doesn’t want to hear it. How
can I get through to him? — Wise
So I wonder if he meant the day to
Sister in Pennsylvania
only be about lovers.
Dear Sister: You obviously
Is there any reason I shouldn’t
can’t. However, his lawyer might
send valentines to my friends? Why
be able to deliver that message
should anyone feel bad because
more effectively than you. This is
they’re not “with” someone? If
J eanne
why you should strongly encour-
you love and/or care about a per-
P hilliPs
son, can’t you send them a box of
age him to have a talk with his law-
ADVICE
yer before he sells his house or for-
chocolates, a card or some flowers?
malizes his arrangement with this
It seems to me this should be a time
lady, who has made her objectives
of year you can let a buddy know
crystal clear.
you appreciate him, or let your brother,
Dear Abby: My father passed away
cousin, sister, neighbor or co-worker know
after a long illness four months ago. I lived
you care.
in the same building as my parents, but a
It doesn’t have to be mushy. Happy
different apartment. (I still do.)
Valentine’s Day to you, Abby! — Tim in
Obviously, I encounter other tenants in
Syracuse
the public areas of the building. Since my
Dear Tim: Valentine’s Day may have
father’s death, most of them have asked me
started as a celebration of romance and
how my mother is doing. However, no one
romantic love, but it has broadened to
has ever asked me how I am doing.
acknowledge other kinds of love and affec-
tion. There’s absolutely no reason you can-
Frankly, it’s very hurtful. Dad was get-
not celebrate the way you described.
ting hospice care at home, so I experienced
Happy Valentine’s Day to you, Tim, and
his decline and finally the loss. Why does
no one care to offer me any words of sym-
to all my readers, for whom I have great
pathy? — Still Grieving
appreciation and affection.
Dear Still Grieving: When there is a
Dear Abby: My brother is a 59-year-
death, many people are uncomfortable.
old widower. He has dated a few women
They don’t mean to be insensitive; they
over the years, and he’s very afraid of being
simply don’t know what to say to the griev-
alone.
ing relatives.
The woman he is with now has made it
I assume that your mother and father
clear that she is with him because he can
are/were elderly. The death of a spouse
provide financial security for her. She’s
after many decades of marriage can be
pushing him to move in together and get
so traumatic that the partner goes into a
married, but only after he sells his house
decline. Your neighbors may assume that
and buys a new one. She said she could
because you are younger and stronger,
never live there because his deceased wife
that you are more resilient and therefore
lived there. However, she is unable to con-
tribute anything financially, so this would
are doing fine. Please don’t hold the fact
all be out of his pocket. He looks past all
that they haven’t asked how you are doing
against them.
of this.
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 14, 1919
In the “double-header” basketball game
held yesterday afternoon at the high school
the class honors were evenly divided, the
girls of the sophomore and senior classes
defeating those of the junior and freshman
classes by a score of 13 to 4, while the boys
of the two latter classes defeated the seniors
and sophomores with a score of 16 to 13.
The girls’ game was refereed by Miss Mar-
garet Crim and was an easy victory for the
seniors. The game was fast and Miss Mar-
jory Ireland of the senior class was the star
hooper. The first half of the boys’ game was
refereed by Mr. Crewes, head of the com-
mercial department, while during the sec-
ond half, Holman Ferrin acted in the same
office.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 14, 1969
Charles Kik, Hermiston, has announced
the sale of the Umatilla Speedway, Inc., to
Jim Anderson, owner of an auto race track
in Lewiston, Idaho, known as Banana Belt
Racing, Inc. Anderson said this week that
he plans to operate both facilities. The new
Umatilla Speedway owner is a former race
car driver, and he says he owned the first
race car in Lewiston, purchased in 1951.
He competed through 1958, and bought the
Lewiston quarter-mile track in 1966. Kik
opened the Umatilla Speedway in 1967,
which he rates as the finest and largest facil-
ity of this kind in Eastern Oregon.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 14, 1994
On the verge of retiring from a 23-year
career in law enforcement, Umatilla County
Sheriff Jim Carey looked back last week on
the improbable beginning of a career he dis-
covered late but loved completely. Carey,
58, is retiring on doctor’s orders before his
term expires in 1996. Two heart bypass
operations in 1991 failed to repair a clogged
artery in his heart, and recently he has felt
its effects again. A few weeks ago, his doc-
tor told him that under no circumstances can
his heart rate exceed 90 beats a minute — an
order that Carey knew would be impossible
to follow if he continued to live in a world of
jail escapes, bomb threats and fatal car acci-
dents at 2 a.m.
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. 14, 2018, a gun-
man identified as a former
student opened fire with a
semi-automatic rifle at Mar-
jory Stoneman Douglas
High School near Fort Lau-
derdale, Florida, killing 17
people in the nation’s dead-
liest school shooting since
the attack in Newtown,
Connecticut, more than five
years earlier.
In 1859, Oregon was
admitted to the Union as the
33rd state.
In 1912, Arizona became
the 48th state of the Union as
President William Howard
Taft signed a proclamation.
In 1913, labor leader
Jimmy Hoffa was born in
Brazil, Ind.; college football
coach Woody Hayes was
born in Clifton, Ohio; sports
broadcaster Mel Allen was
born in Birmingham, Ala.
In 1929, the “St. Valen-
tine’s Day Massacre” took
place in a Chicago garage as
seven rivals of Al Capone’s
gang were gunned down.
In 1876, inventors Alex-
ander Graham Bell and Eli-
sha Gray applied separately
for patents related to the tele-
phone. (The U.S. Supreme
Court eventually ruled Bell
the rightful inventor.)
In 1984, 6-year-old
Stormie Jones became the
world’s first heart-liver
transplant recipient at Chil-
dren’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
(she lived until 1990).
Today’s Birthdays: TV
personality Hugh Downs is
98. Actor Andrew Prine is
83. Former New York City
Mayor Michael Bloomberg
is 77. TV personality Pat
O’Brien is 71. Magician
Teller (Penn and Teller) is
71. Actress Meg Tilly is 59.
Pro Football Hall of Famer
Jim Kelly is 59. Singer-pro-
ducer Dwayne Wiggins is
58. Rock musician Ricky
Wolking (The Nixons) is 53.
Former NFL quarterback
Drew Bledsoe is 47. Actress
Danai Gurira is 41. Actor
Matt Barr is 35. Actress
Stephanie Leonidas is 35.
Actor Freddie Highmore is
27.
Thought for Today: “To
find a man’s true character,
play golf with him.” — P.G.
Wodehouse (1881-1975)
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE