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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Wife discovers digital trail
left by man having affair
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: My husband went
closure and hard work to rebuild
to his 45th class reunion a state
trust. It will happen more quickly
with professional help. If it doesn’t
away and hooked up with a class-
mate. Over the next few months it
work, then may be the time to “cut
went from talking and texting to
your losses.” Only you can decide
her sending him nude pictures of
whether your marriage has been
irretrievably broken.
herself.
Dear Abby: I was diagnosed
I found her emails professing her
J eanne
with cancer two years ago. I had
love to him. When I asked him, he
P hilliPs
surgery and radiation treatment,
swore nothing happened between
ADVICE
and although my recovery was
them during the two weeks he was
slow, I am doing well now.
there other than a lunch date. After
About a year ago, a co-worker
further investigation, I have dis-
covered they had more than 30 hours of
was diagnosed with breast cancer. Our
phone conversations, exchanged 4,000-plus
other co-workers raised a large sum of
texts and who knows the number of emails.
money for her to be used at a spa. They
Not only that, he bought another phone so I
have also offered her emotional support via
could no longer see the interactions on our
phone calls, texts, visits and cards. While
shared cell account.
I don’t begrudge her the gifts and support,
I’m very hurt that all I received was a hand-
He finally admitted they did have a sex-
ful of cards, an occasional phone call or
ual encounter. He has now agreed to end all
text and one visit from one person. Only
contact with her and work on our marriage.
one of my co-workers stuck by me through
He has apologized, but I’m struggling to
everything.
believe him because every time I found
I see these people all the time, and I’m
damning evidence, he would make up
having a hard time with my hurt feelings.
another excuse or blame it all on her. How-
ever, he never told her to stop or blocked
Any thoughts on how I can move on? As
her.
a sidebar, these people are always the first
Is it time to cut my losses, or should I
ones to ask me for help and support at work.
— Hurt in the East
wait to see if he does this again? Why do
Dear Hurt: There is nothing to be
people think having affairs is a good thing?
gained by nursing this disappointment.
— Confused in Montana
You and this woman are different peo-
Dear Confused: People who think an
ple and likely have different relationships
affair is a good thing for a marriage are
with these co-workers. If you don’t want
deluding themselves. An affair only adds
to help the people you feel gave you short
to the problems the couple was trying to
shrift by comparison, you are free not to.
ignore.
But if you intend to continue working at
It’s time for you and your husband to
the place you now do, recognize that it
make an appointment with a licensed mar-
riage and family therapist. Marriages can
is time to put this behind you and move
forward.
survive infidelity, but it takes time, full dis-
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 17, 1919
Do you know that Pendleton, Ore., and
Cheyenne, Wyo., and Amarillo, Tex., are
leading fashion centers? Not one yip does
the cowboy dandy care for the fashion arbi-
ters of New York, Paris and London. Not
one whoop does he care whether tweeds or
cheviots will be the rage in men’s fashions
this season. Frock coats and malacca sticks,
silk hats and dress suits, silk hose, foulard
ties, cashmere trousers and patent leather
shoes, pongee and panama — mean abso-
lutely nothing in his life. William S. Hart,
Beau Brummel of the west, cavalier of the
range, is the joy of the Western fashion dic-
tators. Boots and spurs, horses and saddles,
chaps and Stetsons, shirt and neckerchief,
leather and corduroy, rope and six shooter,
interest him far more than the styles in
“store clothes” this season.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 17, 1969
Lee Abney, an aircraft mechanic who
builds small planes as a hobby, told the
Stanfield City Council Wednesday night
that in addition to the plane in his yard at
his residence, he has a plane in the attic of
his home. Abney appeared before the coun-
cil to tell them that he did not appreci-
ate the publicity he received recently when
the city launched its clean-up campaign.
Abney’s plane in the yard, without wings,
was recently cited by the council as one of
the more than 50 spots in town that should
have some attention from home owners in
the city’s move to improve the appearance
of the town. Abney told the council Wednes-
day that he first learned about the complaint
in the press and since then he has smoothed
off “some of the rough edges” of the plane.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
April 17, 1994
A member of the Eugene investment
group that on Friday completed its contro-
versial purchase of the Kinzua mill in Hep-
pner said Friday his “personal preference” is
to keep the mill running. “I think the peo-
ple of Heppner will be happily surprised”
when the investors decide the mill’s fate,
said Ed King, one of four men who bought
the Kinzua Corp. mill and 180,000 acres of
timberland in Eastern Oregon. However,
the investors have not yet decided what to
do with the mill, said King. They will meet
with mill managers next week and settle on
a plan within several weeks, King added.
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 17, 1972, the
Boston Marathon allowed
women to compete for the
first time; Nina Kuscsik was
the first officially recog-
nized women’s champion,
with a time of 3:10:26.
In 1492, a contract was
signed by Christopher
Columbus and a represen-
tative of Spain’s King Fer-
dinand and Queen Isabella,
giving Columbus a com-
mission to seek a westward
ocean passage to Asia.
In 1924, the motion pic-
ture studio Metro-Gold-
wyn-Mayer was founded by
a merger of Metro Pictures,
Goldwyn Pictures and the
Louis B. Mayer Co.
In 1961, some 1,500
CIA-trained Cuban exiles
launched the disastrous Bay
of Pigs invasion of Cuba
in an attempt to topple
Fidel Castro, whose forces
crushed the incursion.
In 1969, a jury in Los
Angeles convicted Sirhan
Sirhan of assassinating Sen.
Robert F. Kennedy.
In 1973, Federal Express
(later FedEx) began opera-
tions as 14 planes carrying
186 packages took off from
Memphis International Air-
port, bound for 25 U.S.
cities.
In 1991, the Dow Jones
industrial average closed
above 3,000 for the first
time, ending the day at
3,004.46, up 17.58.
In 1993, a federal jury
in Los Angeles convicted
two former police officers
of violating the civil rights
of beaten motorist Rodney
King; two other officers
were acquitted. T
Today’s
Birthdays:
Composer-musician
Jan
Hammer is 71. Actress
Olivia Hussey is 68. Actor
Sean Bean is 60. Former
NFL quarterback Boomer
Esiason is 58. Country
musician Craig Anderson is
46. Actor Paulie Litt is 24.
Thought for Today: “I
think America is richer in
intelligence than any other
country in the world; and
that its intelligence is more
scattered than in any coun-
try of the world.” — Will
Durant, American historian
(1885-1981).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE