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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
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
DEAR ABBY
In his fiancee’s eyes, man’s
secret life online is cheating
Dear Abby: After a long rela-
hearing about it. She also announced
tionship, “Eric” and I plan on get-
her engagement on my wedding day,
ting married very soon. My problem
which diverted attention away from
me on my special day.
is, Eric is secretive. He keeps his
I went through a difficult time
phone right next to him, and before
because several family members
he walks into the house, he sits in
passed away, and Gwen was neither
his car, clearing his history. I know
supportive nor particularly sympa-
he looks at porn, and I’m not happy
J eanne
thetic. Her lack of response made
about it, but it’s the other things I’m
P hilliPs
things even harder for me. I no lon-
angry and confused about.
ADVICE
ger feel like I can share my suc-
He secretly has social media. I
cesses about saving money or get-
know he’s been sending pictures of
ting raises, because this “friend”
himself to women, and they send
would be threatened by it. I almost felt Gwen
pictures to him. Isn’t that cheating? I think
was happy when I was struggling, because it
secret phone and video calls to women is
made her better than I was.
cheating. I saw an image of a woman’s pri-
Is it OK to let people go? Is this a real
vate parts on his phone, and he told me lies
friend? — Friend Or Foe in California
about it. When I have confronted him about
Dear F. Or F.: Gwen appears to have nei-
chatting with the other women, he gets angry
ther good judgment nor empathy. If those are
and withdraws. One woman even sent me
qualities you value in a friend, my advice
their chat history, and he lied about that, too.
is to look elsewhere. Friends celebrate their
Abby, I love my man, but I feel he’s cheat-
ing. I don’t know what else to do as there’s a
friends’ successes and reach out to offer
wedding soon. — Desperate For Answers
comfort when they suffer losses. It is not only
Dear Desperate: I have sad news for you.
OK to let people like Gwen drift away, but it
is also healthy.
Eric isn’t “your” man. From your descrip-
tion, you are sharing him with heaven only
Dear Abby: My neighbor has a 17-year-
old daughter. Fifteen weekdays a month she
knows how many others. You already know
and a boy from school come home for 30 to
he has a problem with the truth. When you
50 minutes during the noon hour. (Five days
tried to do something about it, he became
a month she comes home by herself.) Her
emotionally abusive. This is what your future
mom and dad are both at work. Do you think
will be if you marry him.
her parents should know about the “nooners”
I have only three words of advice for you,
at their house? — Nosy Neighbor in North
and I sincerely hope you will take them to
Carolina
heart: Cancel the wedding!
Dear Neighbor: Yes, I do think you
Dear Abby: How do you know if a friend
should casually ask if they are aware of it.
is actually a “frenemy”? I think my friend
However, when you do, make sure not to
“Gwen” may be one.
sound accusatory or judgmental — just
I successfully started a second career and
“curious.”
was doing well, but Gwen had no interest in
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 29, 1920
Membership in any Sunday school in the
city, and a membership card in the Y.M.C.A.,
will entitle any Pendleton boy to the privileges
of the local Y.M.C.A., according to plans com-
pleted at Tuesday’s meeting of the board. Bona
fide membership in a Sunday school is secured
by enrollment and successive attendance for
two Sundays. Absence for two successive
Sundays thereafter cancels the eligibility. The
membership card costs 25 cents. This gives
free admission to scheduled games as well
as the right to participate in other activities of
the association. There will be indoor baseball
and basketball leagues for different age groups
with scheduled evening practices and match
games. Supervision of the gymnasium will be
required of the Sunday school making use of
it on the evening in question. The gymnasium
recently secured is being rapidly fitted up and
members of the boys’ classes have been work-
ing feverishly to get things installed in prepa-
ration for the “jump off.”
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 29, 1970
Bitter winter weather in the Midwest and
on the East Coast plus a recession in the
building industry have taken a toll here. Lack
of orders has caused reduced production
at Heppner Lumber Co. Thirty-three mill
workers have been laid off at Heppner and
Spray, said Bruce Malcom, company man-
ager. Counting chip and lumber haulers and
loggers, some 60 workers will be affected by
the slowdown. Heppner Lumber normally
provides employment for 90 men. It har-
vests salvage type lumber which previously
was waste and makes mostly building studs
used in home construction. It ships mainly
to the Midwest, East and South. The work-
ers laid off may have only a two-week vaca-
tion, as “we’ll take another look at the situa-
tion then,” Malcom said.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 29, 1995
Pendleton Chamber of Commerce Presi-
dent Hal Bennett will consider 1995 a suc-
cessful year if the chamber develops a strong
marketing plan for Pendleton in light of the
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla’s Wild-
horse Gaming Facility just east of town, and
if the chamber gets a new home. In that order.
Regina Troupe, the Chamber’s executive
director, will be starting work in earnest on
that project next month, Bennett said. A com-
mittee is already working on finding a a new
home for the Chamber of Commerce with
more room and more parking.
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 Jan. 29, 2002, in
his first State of the Union
address, President George
W. Bush said terrorists were
still threatening America —
and he warned of “an axis
of evil” consisting of North
Korea, Iran and Iraq.
In 1936, the first induct-
ees of baseball’s Hall of
Fame, including Ty Cobb
and Babe Ruth, were named
in Cooperstown, New York.
In 1963, the first charter
members of the Pro Football
Hall of Fame were named
in Canton, Ohio (they were
enshrined when the Hall
opened in September 1963).
Poet Robert Frost died in
Boston at age 88.
In 1975, a bomb exploded
inside the U.S. State Depart-
ment in Washington, causing
considerable damage, but
injuring no one; the radical
group Weather Underground
claimed responsibility.
In
1979,
President
Jimmy Carter formally wel-
comed Chinese Vice Pre-
mier Deng Xiaoping to the
White House, following the
establishment of diplomatic
relations.
In 1995, the San Fran-
cisco 49ers became the first
team in NFL history to win
five Super Bowl titles, beat-
ing the San Diego Chargers,
49-26, in Super Bowl XXIX.
In 1998, a bomb rocked
an abortion clinic in Bir-
mingham, Alabama, killing
security guard Robert Sand-
erson and critically injur-
ing nurse Emily Lyons. (The
bomber, Eric Rudolph, was
captured in May 2003 and is
serving a life sentence.)
Today’s Birthdays: Fem-
inist author Germaine Greer
is 81. Feminist author Robin
Morgan is 79. Actor Tom
Selleck is 75. Talk show host
Oprah Winfrey is 66. Olym-
pic gold-medal diver Greg
Louganis is 60. Actress
Heather Graham is 50.
Actress Sara Gilbert is 45.
Pop-rock singer Adam Lam-
bert (TV: “American Idol”)
is 38.
Thought for Today:
“Misquotations are the only
quotations that are never
misquoted.” — Hesketh
Pearson, British biographer
(1887-1964).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE