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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, May 23, 2019
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Man tells wife his travel plans
on need-to-know basis
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: I could use your
ing will create a huge rift. I adore
advice on training my husband.
the patients, and I know they will
He refuses to enter his work travel
ask him what happened. I don’t
want to seem ungrateful.
schedule on the household calen-
dar. He snapped at me this week
I know it’s my fault for not
when he finally revealed that he
demanding more earlier. I get
was leaving Sunday. It took three
depressed when patients tell me
about their retirement plans, or I
more days to get the date he was
hear about his. I will be working
coming back. It was like pulling
J eanne
until I die. I’m afraid he will take
teeth. It left me with only two days
P hilliPs
the staff out for a nice lunch to cel-
to decide how to enjoy the time
ADVICE
ebrate my 30 years, and I will be
alone. I suspect that he’s withhold-
ing his travel data to keep me from
so sad or bitter that I won’t be able
to hide it. — Living Paycheck To
enjoying myself too much while
Paycheck
he’s gone.
Dear Living: Talk to your boss about
I think it’s disrespectful to keep your
your dilemma now. In light of the fact that
wife in the dark until just a day or two
you have worked for him for so long, per-
before you leave. I need a way to moti-
haps he will consider instituting a retire-
vate my man to share his travel dates ear-
ment plan now. If he is unwilling, then it’s
lier. I’m at the point where I’m tempted to
time to look for other employment with
ignore him and his travel since he is acting
better compensation and hope you can
more like a child than a husband. I’m not
find a match even if it means missing the
his mommy, and I need to break his mean
luncheon.
streak. Advice? — Kept in the Dark in
Dear Abby: Please enlighten me on eti-
Louisiana
quette. My friend and I were out to lunch.
Dear Kept: Stop putting yourself at
While we were sitting there, she got on
your husband’s mercy. You are both adults.
Facebook and posted about it. I think it was
If you need a break and would like to sched-
ule appointments, see a play, visit with
rude of her not to ask if I minded. It’s not a
friends, go on a trip, whatever — schedule
secret, but why put it on Facebook? I don’t
it regardless of when your husband will be
understand why people think they have to
traveling. And enjoy yourself.
advertise everything they do. Do they do
Dear Abby: I have worked for the same
it because they want to feel important? —
Old-Fashioned Woman
doctor for 29 years. My 30-year anniversary
Dear Old-Fashioned: I am sure some
is approaching. People think I should be
of them do. Others may do it because they
ready to retire when he does. The problem
want to memorialize the occasion or think
is, I live paycheck to paycheck, and there
others are actually interested. If you pre-
is no retirement plan. What little money I
ferred that she not do it, you should have
had saved went out the window when I got
spoken up, told her you are a private person
a divorce a few years ago.
and asked her to please not mention your
I know I need to quit and go somewhere
name or post your image in the future.
that offers real benefits, but I feel like leav-
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 23, 1919
Nickels thrown into the ranks of the
band, where small boys might scramble for
them between the legs of the hard working
musicians, nearly broke up the weekly con-
cert of the Pendleton Round-Up band last
evening in the east end of the city. Through-
out the whole hour the youngsters bumped
into the musicians and the condition was
aggravated by men throwing coins into the
group to be fought for by the lads. Major
Lee Moorhouse, who was present and in
possession of a police badge, was appealed
to by Director C.O. Breach to restore order,
and did so in a measure.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 23, 1969
Mayor Victor Stockard and Stanfield’s
city councilmen will donate their city pay
for three months to help firemen stage the
4th of July fireworks display again this year.
The action followed a plea by fireman Rob-
ert Smith at Wednesday’s night’s council
meeting. Smith also is a councilman. He
told the council each of the city’s volun-
teer firemen donated three months’ city pay
to the fund for a total of $157.50. When he
finished, businessman Amos Harris volun-
teered a $20 donation, and then the mayor
and council members followed suit. That
added another $48 to the fund. Council
members are paid $4 per month.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
May 23, 1994
Leonard Brittner of Heppner was the
only area winner at the second day of the
state class 2-A track and field champion-
ships Saturday in Monmouth. Brittner
turned in a leap of 44 feet, 11½ inches for
a repeat title in the triple jump. He added
to his Friday places in the high jump and
long jump.
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 May 23, 1934, bank
robbers Clyde Barrow and
Bonnie Parker were shot to
death in a police ambush in
Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
In 1788, South Caro-
lina became the eighth state
to ratify the United States
Constitution.
In 1814, a third version
of Beethoven’s only opera,
“Fidelio,” had its world pre-
miere in Vienna.
In 1915, Italy declared
war on Austria-Hungary
during World War I.
In 1944, during World
War II, Allied forces bogged
down in Anzio began a
major breakout offensive.
In 1945, Nazi official
Heinrich Himmler commit-
ted suicide by biting into a
cyanide capsule while in
British custody in Lune-
burg, Germany.
In 1967, Egypt closed
the Straits of Tiran to Israeli
shipping, an action which
helped precipitate war
between Israel and its Arab
neighbors the following
month.
In 1977, Moluccan
extremists seized a train
and a primary school in
the Netherlands; the hos-
tage drama ended June 11
as Dutch marines stormed
the train, resulting in the
deaths of six out of nine
hijackers and two hostages,
while the school siege ended
peacefully.
In 1984, Surgeon Gen-
eral C. Everett Koop issued
a report saying there was
“very solid” evidence link-
ing cigarette smoke to lung
disease in non-smokers.
In 1993, a jury in Baton
Rouge, Louisiana, acquit-
ted Rodney Peairs of man-
slaughter in the shooting
death of Yoshi Hattori, a Jap-
anese exchange student he’d
mistaken for an intruder.
(Peairs was later found lia-
ble in a civil suit brought by
Hattori’s parents.)
In 1994, funeral ser-
vices were held at Arling-
ton National Cemetery for
former first lady Jacqueline
Kennedy Onassis.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actress Joan Collins is 86.
Actress Lauren Chapin is
74. Chess grandmaster Ana-
toly Karpov is 68. Actor-co-
median-game show host
Drew Carey is 61. Actor
Linden Ashby is 59. Actress
Melissa McBride is 54.
Rock musician Phil Selway
(Radiohead) is 52. Actor
John Pollono is 47. Singer
Maxwell is 46. Singer Jewel
is 45. Actor LaMonica Gar-
rett is 44. Actor Lane Garri-
son is 39. Actor Adam Wylie
is 35. Movie writer-direc-
tor Ryan Coogler is 33.
Golfer Morgan Pressel is 31
Thought for Today: “Life
is like a game of poker: If
you don’t put any in the pot,
there won’t be any to take
out.” — Jackie “Moms”
Mabley (1894-1975).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE