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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Texts rock the foundation
of relationship built on trust
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: I have been seeing
better learn to control it.
a woman for a year, and everything
Dear Abby: My stepfather,
“Ron,” and my mother finalized
seemed pretty sweet. She told me
their divorce a month ago. He has
when we met that trust is import-
ant to her as she has had issues in
been part of my life for 19 years,
since I was 10. He was a grandfa-
past relationships, including with
ther to my two boys, and because
her ex-husband, who was seeing an
he adopted me when I was 17, I
ex without disclosing it to her.
J eanne
took his last name.
This week I saw a series of texts
P hilliPs
My problem is that two years
pop up on her phone from someone
ADVICE
ago, when Ron left Mom, he cut off
I have never heard her mention.
all contact with me and my boys.
When I asked about it, she said
No calls, texts, messages. Nothing!
they were from an “old friend.”
I am still coming to terms with all of it, and
I found it troubling and asked her more
it’s hard to explain to my 7-year-old where
about it. She then mentioned she had been
his grandfather is.
in a romantic relationship with him many
Ron was a father to me after my biologi-
years ago. She also disclosed that the text
cal father passed away. It’s painful to think
exchange was started because she told him
that he may not have loved me or my boys
(via text) that she had dreamed about him
like I thought he did.
the night before.
How can a father/grandfather do that so
She assured me her dream was not
easily? What’s worse is his children (my
romantic or of a sexual nature, and her
step-siblings) have also cut us off. I have no
intent in reaching out wasn’t romantic.
idea why.
Despite this, my suspicion meter has gone
My husband thinks I should contact him,
through the roof, and I’m having a hard
but I don’t think I should have to beg some-
time trusting her story. I find this especially
one to be in my life, especially if it’s a par-
baffling given her history. Am I overreact-
ent/child situation. What are your thoughts?
ing? — Less Trustful Now
Any guidance would be appreciated. —
Dear Less Trustful: If everything has
Left in the Dark in North Carolina
been going well in your relationship with
Dear Left: Ron may think that because
this woman for a year, why are you look-
he and your mother are no longer married,
ing at text messages that pop up on her
your loyalties lie with her and you don’t
phone? Although not all people would text
want him in your life. I agree with your hus-
an ex about his/her appearance in a dream,
band. Reach out to him and your step-sib-
she can text whomever she wishes, and she
lings. Tell them you and your children love
shouldn’t have to account to you for it.
them and still want them to be part of your
The two of you need to have a serious
lives. They may need the reassurance. And
conversation about the parameters of your
if they still prefer to have no contact, you
relationship. The problem may be your
will know you did everything possible to
insecurity, and if you are going to have a
keep the relationships intact.
successful outcome with anyone, you had
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 8-9, 1919
Easter isn’t so far away and the
Smythe-Lonergan creamery has seen to it
that the butter which is the creamery’s chief
product has an appropriate bonnet in the
form of three-color cartons and wrappers,
bearing the words “Golden West,” with a
blowing western sun in the background,
as well as a picture of a contented herd
knee deep in clover. The design, which has
been copyrighted, was originated by Dan
Smythe, and executed by Charles Leben-
good, Portland artist who is famous for the
“Round-Up Girl” on O.-W. R. & N. posters.
The “Golden West” design will be used also
on letterheads and as a trade mark for the
ice cream which is another product of the
company,
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 8-9, 1969
Umatilla Army Depot’s Delmar Van Ars-
dale, 36, and Marvin Carpenter, 39, left Fri-
day for temporary civilian duty in South
Vietnam as members of a Quick Reaction
Team. Made up principally of volunteer
civilian Department of Army employes,
quick reaction teams are organized on short
notice by the Army Materiel Command,
Washington, D.C., from skills registers
maintained there. Team members provide
assistance to meeting unforeseen short-term
requirements in connection with supply and
maintenance of military equipment. The
UAD employes will help identify and clas-
sify supply items, and they expect to be gone
from their jobs for at least three months.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 8-9, 1994
The Oregon State University Experiment
Station in Hermiston showed off its new
weather station Wednesday. The facility
uses satellite transmission get information
about water to farmers. The systems helps
conserve water for irrigators by providing
more accurate information about how much
water is needed to area crops, based on cur-
rent weather conditions. The weather station
is next to a potato field, north of the exper-
iment station, where sensors will be placed
to measure the moisture in both the soil and
plants. “The information will be relayed to
the station, then transmitted by satellite to
Boise,” said Gary Reed, superintendent of
the OSU Extension Service.
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 April 9, 1968,
funeral services, private and
public, were held for Mar-
tin Luther King Jr. at the
Ebenezer Baptist Church
and Morehouse College
in Atlanta, five days after
the civil rights leader was
assassinated in Memphis,
Tennessee.
In 1865, Confederate
Gen. Robert E. Lee surren-
dered his army to Union Lt.
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at
Appomattox Court House in
Virginia.
In 1940, during World
War II, Germany invaded
Denmark and Norway.
In 1959, NASA pre-
sented its first seven astro-
nauts:
Scott
Carpen-
ter, Gordon Cooper, John
Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally
Schirra, Alan Shepard and
Donald Slayton.
In 1965, the newly built
Astrodome in Houston fea-
tured its first baseball game,
an exhibition between the
Astros and the New York
Yankees, with President
Lyndon B. Johnson in atten-
dance. (The Astros won,
2-1, in 12 innings.)
In 1979, officials declared
an end to the crisis involving
the Three Mile Island Unit 2
nuclear reactor in Pennsyl-
vania, 12 days after a partial
core meltdown.
In 1984, “Terms of
Endearment” won five
Academy Awards, including
best picture, best actress for
Shirley MacLaine and best
supporting actor for Jack
Nicholson.
In 1992, former Panama-
nian ruler Manuel Noriega
was convicted in Miami of
eight drug and racketeering
charges; he served a 17-year
U.S. prison sentence.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Satirical songwriter and
mathematician Tom Lehrer
is 91. Naturalist Jim Fowler
is 89. Country singer Hal
Ketchum is 66. Actor Den-
nis Quaid is 65. Actress
Annie Funke is 34. Actor
Jordan Masterson is 33.
Actress Leighton Meester
is 33. Classical crossover
singer Jackie Evancho is 19.
Thought for Today:
“The ultimate test of a moral
society is the kind of world
that it leaves to its children.”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(1906-1945).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE