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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
COFFEE BREAK
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Friday, November 29, 2019
DEAR ABBY
Despondency intensifies as
cold weather approaches
Dear Abby: I’ve been think-
who works full-time and a 17-year-
ing about suicide a lot lately, more
old who is graduating from high
school in the spring.
than usual. I’m not angry about any-
thing, just in pain. I keep getting
I have been offered a transfer
knocked down after I try so hard
to Australia by my employer — a
to pick myself up. I tried calling a
transfer I had asked for. When we
hotline, gave up on that. (I guess
discussed it in the past, everyone
they’re busy.) I can’t afford doctors
was all for it. My oldest can likely
J eanne
and psychiatrists.
stay with the multinational hotel
P hilliPs
The weather’s changing, and I
chain he works for now, and I can
ADVICE
don’t do well in the cold. I always get
get my youngest a decent career in
my field of work as there is a tre-
down when the temperatures drop.
mendous shortage of skilled labor in
I love my home, but sometimes I
Australia.
wonder if I’m really happy here. I can’t imag-
Now my wife tells me she can’t leave her
ine leaving.
family, especially her father, who has Parkin-
My kids live within a couple hours’ drive.
son’s. I have told her she can expect to return
They have beautiful kids of their own. I’m
every summer to our condo on the beach and
going to miss them dearly. I no longer feel I
an additional two trips per year.
have anything to offer in other aspects of my
Abby, I thought our vows meant we would
life. I wonder why I have to just exist. I’ve
be together forever, wherever. My employer
heard people say when someone dies “at least
will soon begin the process of opening the
they’re not in pain anymore.” That sounds
Australian office, a process I will be part of
pretty good to me.
and likely train the new hire. I am bitter and
I guess I just really wanted to get this off
resentful toward my wife, and it is affecting
my chest. I don’t expect a miracle, but thanks
my attitude toward her. I love her, but I am
for listening. — Anonymous in Arkansas
struggling to get over the fact she is denying
Dear Anonymous: You’re welcome.
me a very lucrative opportunity. Advice? —
I’m glad you shared your feelings. You are
Losing Out in Canada
not alone, and there is help for you. Pick up
Dear Losing Out: It’s time for you and
the phone and call 800-273-8255. It’s the
your wife to put your heads together and
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, and it
work out a solution. By that I mean you
is staffed 24 hours a day by people who can
should accept the lucrative business oppor-
help you to form coping strategies for your
tunity you have been offered, and your wife
depression. I don’t know what number you
can take care of her father as long as she
called the first time — you may have misdi-
aled — but there is help available, and no one
needs to. Unless his condition is critical, she
is “too busy” to provide it. You simply have
can visit you and your sons periodically so it
shouldn’t put too much strain on your mar-
to reach out for it. Please don’t wait.
riage. I hope you will consider it because the
Dear Abby: My wife and I have been
kind of resentment you are feeling now can
together for 30 years, married for 20. We
destroy a marriage.
have two sons living at home, a 20-year-old
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 29, 1919
Pendleton men who have raised $13,000 of
the $18,500 reward up for the capture and con-
viction of the murderers of George E. Peringer
and J. N. Burgess should have the chief say in
the distribution of this reward. Such is the sen-
timent expressed in a meeting this afternoon
of the committee which, last week, raised
$7,000 here by subscription. That Portland’s
mayor should not be the one to preside over a
meeting in which little or no Portland money
is involved was the sense of today’s meeting.
The amount which Umatilla County Sheriff
Taylor, who was a leader in the capture of the
bandits, should receive was being discussed
by the committee. It is understood that they
will see that he is amply rewarded.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 29, 1969
Oscar McCarty, Butter Creek rancher,
played a major role in setting records for both
the sale average and top price for an individ-
ual during the 12th annual Bred Ewe Sale
conducted by the Oregon Purebred Sheep-
breeders Association in Rickreall. The widely
known Suffolk breeder topped the sale with
a yearling ewe going for $220. Operating the
McCarty ranch in the fertile Butter Creek
country is a family affair. Oscar spends his
time with the sheep, and his son, Mike, car-
ries on the farming operation. Mike is the
fifth generation of McCartys on the 640-acre
farm.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Nov. 29, 1994
Hermiston High School’s Future Farm-
ers of America chapter won a national award
for its work to improve livestock buildings at
the Umatilla County Fair. Students Damon
Locke and R.J. Francis represented the chap-
ter in accepting a “Building Our Commu-
nities Award” at the national convention in
Kansas City earlier this month. The local
chapter has worked several years to improve
the swine and sheep fitting area and rebuild
numerous livestock panels.
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 Nov. 29, 1963, Presi-
dent Johnson named a com-
mission headed by Earl
Warren to investigate the
assassination of President
Kennedy.
In 1890, the first Army-
Navy football game was
played at West Point, New
York; Navy defeated Army,
24-0.
In 1929, Navy Lt. Cmdr.
Richard E. Byrd, pilot Bernt
Balchen, radio operator Har-
old June and photographer
Ashley McKinney made the
first airplane flight over the
South Pole.
In 1952, President-elect
Dwight D. Eisenhower
secretly left on a trip to
Korea, keeping his campaign
promise to assess the ongoing
conflict first-hand.
In 1961, Enos the chimp
was launched from Cape
Canaveral aboard the Mercu-
ry-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which
orbited earth twice before
returning.
In 1981, actress Natalie
Wood drowned in a boating
accident off Santa Catalina
Island, California, at age 43.
In 1987, a Korean Air
707 jetliner en route from
Abu Dhabi to Bangkok was
destroyed by a bomb planted
by North Korean agents with
the loss of all 115 people
aboard.
In 2000, bracing the pub-
lic for more legal wrangling,
Vice President Al Gore said
in a series of TV interviews
that he was prepared to con-
test the Florida presiden-
tial vote until “the middle of
December.”
In 2001, George Harri-
son, the “quiet Beatle,” died
in Los Angeles following a
battle with cancer; he was 58.
In 2008, Indian comman-
dos killed the last remaining
gunmen holed up at a lux-
ury Mumbai hotel, ending
a 60-hour rampage through
India’s financial capital by
suspected Pakistani-based
militants that killed 166
people.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actress Diane Ladd is 84.
Former Olympic skier Suzy
Chaffee is 73. Former Chi-
cago Mayor Rahm Emanuel
is 60. Actress Kim Delaney is
58. Actress Jennifer Elise Cox
is 50. Actress Paola Turbay is
49. Actress Gena Lee Nolin is
48. Actor Brian Baumgartner
is 47. Actress Anna Faris is
43. Actress Janina Gavankar
is 39. Actor Lucas Black is
37. Actor Diego Boneta is 29.
Actress Lovie Simone (TV:
“Greenleaf”) is 21.
Thought for Today:
“When you’ve seen beyond
yourself, then you may find,
peace of mind is waiting
there.” — George Harrison
(1943-2001).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE