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B6 East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Friday, February 21, 2020 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Daughter plans a wedding without a marriage license FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER GARFIELD BLONDIE DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE Dear Abby: My daughter, are expected. If it’s a production “Heidi,” is 39. She is successful, that’s only for show, the couple is committing fraud and taking advan- owns her own business and lives tage of the generosity of their guests. with her boyfriend of five years. I’ll When couples marry, they must call him Rick. They have two beau- tiful boys, 3 and 18 months. She has first take out a marriage license, decided to tie the knot with Rick which both must sign. No license, with a nice, somewhat big wedding. no marriage. Unless your daughter’s J eanne As Heidi has gotten older, she has boyfriend is completely clueless, she P hilliPs been changing into a different per- won’t be able to slip this by him. ADVICE Although people do have commit- son. She has become self-centered ment ceremonies these days, guests and controlling, and she puts Rick should be told that is what they will down cruelly at times. I think he’s a be witnessing, and both partners should good guy, but maybe just not for her. I really agree on it. don’t know because I stay out of their lives. Dear Abby: I have been married to a won- What’s making me uncomfortable is, my derful man for 20 years. It has been a pretty daughter has told only me that she’s doing all good marriage. I have tolerated a few of his this wedding stuff without getting an actual family members’ rudeness to me, although I marriage license. I don’t even know if Rick have no problem speaking up when I need to, is aware. I looked this up and saw that some and my husband always defends me as well. people are now having what’s called “com- My father-in-law recently passed, and I mitment ceremonies.” When I tried to talk adored him. For his wake, my two sisters-in- to her about it, she became defensive, cut me law made a slide show of his life with hun- off, and then sent me a long, nasty email. So dreds of family photos. There was not one now I just step back. single photo of my father-in-law and me. I feel When I think of the guests (100 to 150), I it was the final straw. I have no more room in feel she should be honest and call it what it is. my heart and life for them. Am I being too We are presently not communicating because sensitive? My husband hasn’t spoken to them I won’t respond to that kind of email. I won’t since the funeral. I really need your advice on argue with her. But I don’t know where to go this. — Picturing It Over in Texas at this point. I’m worried about her state of Dear Picturing It: I’m glad you asked. mind. She is supposedly seeing a therapist, Please accept my sympathy for the loss of and a few weeks back I suggested she and someone so close to your heart. But as close Rick get marriage counseling. I would love as you felt to him, your sisters-in-law had just to hear your thoughts. — Traditional Mom lost their father. I’m sure they were (and are) in the East grieving and didn’t use his death as an oppor- Dear Traditional Mom: Your daughter is tunity to slight you. I sincerely hope you and an adult, and if you refuse to have anything your husband won’t allow their oversight to to do with this charade, I would understand. cause a permanent rift in the family. When guests are invited to a “wedding,” gifts DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Feb. 21, 1920 Leap year and a dozen maids last eve- ning featured a merry affair for which Miss Lois Swaggart was hostess as a courtesy to her house guest, Miss Fay Price, of Milton. A progressive “rook” party given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Wheeler was shared by a dozen “beaux” whom the maidens asked and escorted to the affair in strict accordance with leap year dictates. The party enjoyed a group of solos by the honored guest, who is an accomplished harpist. Adjourning from the supper tables the guests gathered for dancing. A feature of the evening was a Turkish solo dance given by Archibald Blakley in costume. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Feb. 21, 1970 A delegation of 12 people including County Judge J. O. Burns and Condon Mayor Floyd LaRue were in Heppner Thursday to meet the Board of Directors of the Columbia Basin Electric Co-op, Inc. The meeting was an aftermath of a public meeting held in Con- don last Sunday to protest the firing of Vernon Wilson, lineman-agent in Condon for the past four and one-half years. A number of ques- tions and statements were made concerning the less than 30-hour notice given Wilson. The firing seemed to be the straw that broke TODAY IN HISTORY BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN the camel’s back. It brought to light a number of problems affecting consumers of the elec- tric co-op. Among the complaints: low voltage blowing out television sets and other appli- ances, not enough personnel in the Condon area, and the fact that Gilliam and Wheeler counties combined only have four directors on the board while Morrow County has eight. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Feb. 21, 1995 Morrow County schools used to have more than enough. From teachers to textbooks, the rural one-country school district could count on the regular approval of levies that paid for it all. Now it has too little. Almost every- thing is on the line — teachers, entire aca- demic programs — as the district struggles to keep itself financially afloat. To many it looks like the piece-by-piece dismantling of what they’ve worked for decades to build: a prosperous, productive school system. Mor- row County has felt the state’s budget knife slice through programs and personnel since the 1990 passage of Oregon’s property tax limitation, Measure 5. “Our community likes our school. They want a comprehensive high school with the same opportunities and they’ve been willing to pay for that through property taxes,” said Steve Dickenson, Hep- pner High School principal. ”Now the state says we can’t do that anymore.” On Feb. 21, 1975, former Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H.R. Halde- man and John D. Ehrlichman were sentenced to 2½ to 8 years in prison for their roles in the Watergate cover-up (each ended up serving a year and a-half). In 1945, during the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima, the escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea was sunk by kamikazes with the loss of 318 men. In 1964, the first shipment of U.S. wheat purchased by the Soviet Union arrived in the port of Odessa. In 1965, black Muslim leader and civil rights activ- ist Malcolm X, 39, was shot to death inside Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom in New York by assassins identified as members of the Nation of Islam. (Three men were con- victed of murder and impris- oned; all were eventually paroled.) In 2013, Drew Peter- son, the Chicago-area police officer who gained notori- ety after his much-younger fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, vanished in 2007, was sen- tenced to 38 years in prison for murdering his third wife, Kathleen Savio. In 2018, A week after the Florida school shooting, President Donald Trump met with teen survivors of school violence and parents of slain children; Trump promised to be “very strong on background checks” and suggested he supported let- ting some teachers and other school employees carry weapons. Today’s Birthdays: Actor Peter McEnery is 80. U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., is 80. Actress Christine Eber- sole is 67. Actor Kim Coates is 62. Actress Aunjanue Ellis is 51. Comedian-actor Jor- dan Peele is 41. Actress Ellen Page is 33. Thought for Today: “There is nothing more hor- rifying than stupidity in action.” — Adlai E. Steven- son, American politician and diplomat (1900-65). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE