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B6 East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, March 8, 2019 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Wife is at breaking point with out-of-work attorney FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My husband and I find employment, he could be doing moved from another state four years volunteer work and making contacts that could be valuable. Rather than ago. He went a year and a half before show the anger you understandably getting a job after we moved. Now feel, continue to encourage him. he’s out of a job again. Consider this: Could he be having a It has been seven months. He sits midlife crisis or a severe depression? on the sofa and lounges around the Before divorce, I urge you to see that house. He looks briefly for alerts J eanne your husband is medically and psy- on new job postings. He does a few P hilliPs chologically evaluated to determine chores — not many. ADVICE what’s going on. If he refuses, it may He was an attorney, but he doesn’t then be time to review your options. want to go back into the area of law Dear Abby: I was recently hired he was in. He is getting no inter- views, we’re blowing through our savings as a chauffeur in New York City. There was and my job doesn’t cover all of our expenses. never any mention of how people should address me. I think he is unmotivated and lazy. At this We are given information about the client point, I don’t have much to say to him any- more except, “Did you look for a job today?” we will be meeting. Some clients prefer not It’s sad what he has done to himself and to be addressed as “Sir” or “Ms. X.” I was his family. He won’t discuss his career. I have told to always address my passenger using formal introductions such as “Good morn- told him just to get any job at this point, but ing, Ms. X,” unless otherwise instructed. I then he gets very angry. I’m sure our children have noticed that all of my clients address me wonder why he is not working. I am afraid by my first name (the name given to them by of the impact this will have on them and the dispatch). example it sets. I find it odd that it appears to be accept- I am close to hiring a divorce attorney. able for the client to be informal with me, but This is not the life I want. I’m emotionally I must be formal with them. Is this common? and physically drained, and disgusted and Should I ask the front office to give only my embarrassed by his behavior. I have no one surname? — Informal in New York to talk to about this. We live in an expensive Dear Informal: It is very common. How- area with many educated professionals who ever, since it bothers you to be addressed by don’t behave like this. I’m sure if my friends your first name, by all means ask the dis- and family knew, they would tell me to leave patcher to inform the clients that “Mr. Jones” him. Help! — Crushed in California will be their driver that day. Dear Crushed: Even if your husband can’t DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 8, 1919 The three cent stamp for first class mail will be no more after July 1, 1919, for on that date the use of the two cent stamp will be resumed and letters can be sent at the old postage rate. However, while the use of the present three cent stamp will be discontin- ued, the three cent denomination will not disappear, for the postal authorities have provided for the manufacture of three cent “Victory stamps” to commemorate the out- come of the war. The stamps will be laven- der in color, and will bear a picture of victo- rious Liberty, with a background formed by the flags of the five allies. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 8, 1969 A knock-down-drag-out battle left Hep- pner edging Vale 49-47 in an overtime thriller. The game belonged to anybody all the way. Tied at halftime 25-25, the Mus- tangs gained slightly in the third, but the Vikings came back in the fourth to lead 45-44 with seconds left. The game was placed in Jon O’Donnell’s hands, being awarded a free throw and chance to tie up the game. He made it. O’Donnell was the hero again, dumping in the deciding bas- ket with two seconds left in the overtime period. He racked up a total of 21 points to lead the Mustangs’ scoring. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 8, 1994 Three youths who apparently dressed up a tree root in a T-shirt and placed it on the railroad tracks near West Coe Street in Stanfield forced a train engineer to put on the emergency brakes, according to a report in the Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office pub- lic safety log. The engineer thought he was about to hit a child, the log says, and tried to stop the train. He couldn’t stop in time, how- ever, and ran over the tree root. Three juve- nile boys were seen running from the area toward South Main Street, the log says. The incident reportedly happened on Feb. 5 at 10:15 a.m., but a report didn’t appear on the sheriff’s log until this morning. BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 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 March 8, 1702, England’s Queen Anne acceded to the throne upon the death of King William III. In 1618, German astron- omer Johannes Kepler devised his third law of plan- etary motion. In 1854, U.S. Commo- dore Matthew C. Perry made his second landing in Japan; within a month, he concluded a treaty with the Japanese. In 1948, the Supreme Court, in McCollum v. Board of Education, struck down voluntary religious educa- tion classes in Champaign, Illinois, public schools, say- ing the program violated sep- aration of church and state. In 1965, the United States landed its first combat troops in South Vietnam as 3,500 Marines arrived to defend the U.S. air base at Da Nang. In 1971, Joe Frazier defeated Muhammad Ali by decision in what was billed as “The Fight of the Cen- tury” at Madison Square Garden in New York. Silent film comedian Harold Lloyd died in Beverly Hills, Cali- fornia, at age 77. In 1975, the first Inter- national Women’s Day was celebrated. In 1979, technology firm Philips demonstrated a pro- totype compact disc player during a press conference in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. In 1983, in a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals convention in Orlando, Florida, President Ronald Reagan referred to the Soviet Union as an “evil empire.” In 1988, 17 soldiers were killed when two Army heli- copters from Fort Camp- bell, Kentucky, collided in mid-flight. In 1999, baseball Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio died in Hollywood, Florida, at age 84. In 2004, Abul Abbas, the Palestinian guerrilla leader who’d planned the hijacking of the Achille Lauro passen- ger ship, died while in U.S. custody in Baghdad, Iraq; he was 56. Actor Robert Pas- torelli was found dead in his Hollywood Hills, Calif., home; he was 49. President In 2008, George W. Bush vetoed a bill that would have banned the CIA from using simulated drowning and other coercive interrogation methods to gain information from sus- pected terrorists. Today’s Birthdays: Jazz musician George Coleman is 84. Actress Sue Ane Lang- don is 83. College Football Hall of Famer Pete Daw- kins is 81. Baseball play- er-turned-author Jim Bou- ton is 80. Songwriter Carole Bayer Sager is 75. Actor-di- rector Micky Dolenz (The Monkees) is 74. Thought for Today: “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” — Ald- ous Huxley, English author (1894-1963). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE