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B6 East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, October 29, 2019 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Man’s dramatic weight loss causes gossip and concern FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My husband has lost afraid of what they will hear. You should be alarmed because your hus- a significant amount of weight over a band’s sudden, unexplained, pro- very short period of time. He isn’t on longed weight loss can be a symptom drugs and eats well. I have begged of a life-threatening illness. him to see a doctor. He has come This is not a question of how up with a variety of excuses and or how well you cook (bless those reasons why he has lost the weight. church ladies!), or whether your hus- First it was because he was stressed J eanne band is on drugs. It is a question of at work. Then it was because he was P hilliPs you alerting his doctor, explaining stressed at home. Now he says he ADVICE what’s going on and possibly sav- just needs to eat and exercise more, ing his life. If he won’t listen to rea- but he’s “sooo busy,” but he’ll start son, put it in terms of him being eventually. alive long enough to see his child/children It has become a problem for several rea- sons. One, all the church ladies have con- into adulthood. But if he still won’t listen to cluded that I don’t cook at home (which I do). reason, then all you can do is make sure his Two, he looks so ill and malnourished that affairs are in order in case the worst happens. Dear Abby: I am about to be shipped off to people are asking me if he is on drugs (he has basic training for the Army, and I have heard been tested at work, and this is not the case). many horror stories about military spouses Three, friends and family are deeply con- cerned but scared to approach him about his cheating while their significant other is away. Any advice on how to make sure my relation- health because he swears he feels fine and is ship doesn’t end up like that? Do you think actually doing wonderfully. she will cheat? — Wondering in Tennessee Abby, I love my husband. He’s a good man, Dear Wondering: Having never met your although he can sometimes be stubborn and significant other, I have no way of guessing closed-minded. I’m terrified that he’s dying whether she will cheat on you — just as I can’t of cancer and he’s going to leave me a single predict if the reverse will be true. But this I do mom. I can no longer discuss the subject of know: Communication is the key to overcom- weight with him because he gets extremely ing the physical distance. Writing and Skyp- defensive and says I should just give him time ing as often as you can to share what’s going to get back to how he was. How long do I give on will keep you from drifting apart. him? It has been 10 months. I’m afraid if this Will there be more temptations while goes on any longer, it will put a strain on our you’re separated? Probably. That’s true for relationship that won’t be easily fixed by just both of you. If you plan on spending the rest of talking it out. — Alarmed in Louisiana your life with this person — or anyone — you Dear Alarmed: Some people foolishly should be confident that she’s trustworthy. avoid going to the doctor because they are DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 29, 1919 The mayor of Pilot Rock, Levi Eldridge, brought down a 19 point buck, the largest buck killed in the mountains south of Pend- leton this year. The deer weighed 350 pounds dressed and was almost as large as an elk, said L.C. Scharpf, who was in the hunting party with Eldridge. Fred Moes, Helix banker, and George Done, of Pilot Rock, members of the same party, also killed a deer each. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 29, 1969 Brig. Gen. David C. Baum, commanding general of the Oregon National Guard, was in Pendleton Monday to speak before the Pend- leton Rotary Club. Gen. Baum expressed con- cern over the present state of American soci- ety and charged Rotarians to become lifters, not leaners. He said that objectivity in report- TODAY IN HISTORY BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN ing in newspapers, radio and TV have dis- appeared and blamed interpretive reporting for “instant riots and instant poverty.” Baum added that America’s youths have been given everything and have had to achieve nothing, resulting in their disassociation from society. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Oct. 29, 1994 The Main Street Cowboys are miss- ing several signs from the organization’s old-fashioned calliope. The Cowboys pro- mote Pendleton and the Round-Up through- out the year. The signs disappeared two weeks ago when the calliope was parked on the street. According to a Main Street Cow- boy board member, most years missing items are “usually ‘found’ somewhere in the area within a month or so” but they haven’t seen or heard anything about the signs. The Cow- boys are not looking to press charges. They just want their signs back. On Oct. 29, 2012, Super- storm Sandy slammed ashore in New Jersey and slowly marched inland, dev- astating coastal commu- nities and causing wide- spread power outages; the storm and its aftermath were blamed for at least 182 deaths in the U.S. In 1787, the opera “Don Giovanni” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had its world premiere in Prague. In 1901, President Wil- liam McKinley’s assas- sin, Leon Czolgosz, was electrocuted. In 1911, Hungarian-born American newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer, 64, died in Charleston, S.C. In 1923, the Republic of Turkey was proclaimed. In 1929, “Black Tuesday” descended upon the New York Stock Exchange. Prices collapsed amid panic selling and thousands of investors were wiped out as America’s “Great Depression” began. In 1956, during the Suez Canal crisis, Israel invaded Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. “The Huntley-Brinkley Report” premiered as NBC’s nightly television newscast. In 1960, a chartered plane carrying the Califor- nia Polytechnic State Uni- versity football team crashed on takeoff from Toledo, Ohio, killing 22 of the 48 people on board. In 1967, Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, closed after six months. In 1987, following the confirmation defeat of Rob- ert H. Bork to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, President Ronald Rea- gan announced his choice of Douglas H. Ginsburg, a nomination that fell apart over revelations of Gins- burg’s previous marijuana use. Jazz great Woody Her- man died in Los Angeles at age 74. In 1998, Sen. John Glenn, at age 77, roared back into space aboard the shuttle Discovery, retracing the trail he’d blazed for America’s astronauts 36 years earlier. In 2017, all but 10 mem- bers of the Houston Tex- ans took a knee during the national anthem, reacting to a remark from team owner Bob McNair to other NFL owners that “we can’t have the inmates running the prison.” Today’s Birthdays: Singer Melba Moore is 74. Musician Peter Green is 73. Actor Richard Dreyfuss is 72. Actress Kate Jackson is 71. Actor Dan Castellaneta (TV: “The Simpsons”) is 62. Comic strip artist Tom Wil- son (“Ziggy”) is 62. Actress Finola Hughes is 60. Rock musician Peter Timmins (Cowboy Junkies) is 54. Actress Joely Fisher is 52. Actress Winona Ryder is 48. Actress Tracee Ellis Ross is 47. Actress Gabrielle Union is 47. Actor Jon Abrahams is 42. Actor Brendan Fehr is 42. Thought for Today: “Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, pictur- esquely so they will remem- ber it and, above all, accu- rately so they will be guided by its light.”— Joseph Pulit- zer, American newspaper publisher (born 1847, died this date in 1911). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE