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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Many reach out to offer
help to grieving widower
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: Your advice to
lifestyle. You might like doing
the grieving widower “In Need of
something you never thought you
would see yourself doing before.
Someone” (June 22) was spot on.
You are not going to know unless
I met my husband when I was 14.
you try. Do not look for a Band-
We married at 18, and he died when
Aid to fix the emptiness. Look for
he was 44. After his death, I had no
a seed to plant and nurture, and be
idea how to be a person because I
prepared to be amazed at the beauty
had always been a partner.
J eanne
that will be opened up to you. —
In the early years, I cried every
P hilliPs
Shelly in Illinois
day and was searching, like “In
ADVICE
Dear Shelly: Thank you for
Need,” to fill that empty spot in my
sharing the important life lessons
life. Then one day, I started figur-
ing out what to do about the other
you have learned. Other caring
holes in my life.
readers also responded to encourage “In
Need” as he moves forward:
I had not been the breadwinner, so my
Dear Abby: I lost my husband after 30
income was poverty-level. I had no college
years together. I’m still working on get-
and not a lot of work experience. I knew
ting “from hollow to whole,” as “In Need”
if I was going to be able to keep my house
wrote. Your advice that he should “figure
and put my kids in college, I had to work on
out the boundary between where you left
these other holes. In the process of school,
off and your wife began” is an important
working three jobs and keeping up with life,
insight. I’ve never heard this from a grief
I realized I had never thought about what
counselor, but it’s exactly what I’ve been
was important to me.
trying to do for the past three months. You
Over the years, I have seen several close
can’t live with someone else if you can’t live
friends lose partners and go through exactly
with yourself.
what “In Need” and I have experienced.
I’m working on becoming whole again,
Your advice is so true. Volunteer. Get a part-
and it’s happening slowly. “In Need” should
time job doing something you like or a job
do the same. It may take longer, but it works
that will just give you someone to talk to.
better. — Tammy in Oregon
Go to a support group, go to a church,
Dear Abby: “In Need” should get some
but do not get into a serious relationship,
hobbies. If I met a nice person and was con-
because if you do, you will go from one
sidering pursuing a relationship and I found
dependent situation to another. Every per-
son I know who went right into another rela-
out he had no hobbies, no outside interests
tionship later regretted it. The new person
or friends beyond his late spouse, I would be
gone. Among my friends, I don’t know a sin-
is not your lost partner, never will be and
gle one who would want a relationship with
will never measure up. Go into a relation-
ship only if you are willing to let the past go
someone whose life was totally wrapped up
and are willing to change you.
in his spouse and “needed” a replacement.
— Nancy in New Mexico
Be open to another opinion and a new
DAYS GONE BY
100 YEARS AGO
Sept. 29, 1920
Winnemucca Jack, the Indian who was
killed at Saturday’s Round-Up in the wild
horse race, met his death from a broken neck
and not from the kick of a horse, according
to eye witnesses. Jack, who for the past 11
years has assisted in the arena, was lead-
ing out an outlaw horse for the race when
the animal became tangled with the rope
attached to the saddle on the Indian’s horse.
The rope threw Jack’s horse upon him and
the Indian died almost instantly. Jack was
a Bannock Indian and 52 years of age. His
wife, a Umatilla, survives him. She was
the widow of the late Cash Cash. The trag-
edy is the first directly resulting from the
Round-Up, as the death of Jenkins, which
occurred two years ago, was caused by his
setting fire to his clothes.
50 YEARS AGO
Sept. 29, 1970
Henry Molstrom of Pendleton attended
his 58th Round-Up this year. The only one
of the 59 Round-Ups there have been that he
missed was in 1957 when his wife, Fannie,
broke her foot. Molstrom also saw the first
Happy Canyon performance, staged in a hole
in the ground on Main Street. He recalls that
Bertha Blancett rode a bull in that show. Mr.
and Mrs. Molstrom don’t attend the Happy
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
25 YEARS AGO
Sept. 29, 1995
Plant workers escaped injury Sunday in
a coal-dust explosion that caused $450,000
damage to Portland Electric’s coal-fired
plant in Boardman. Fine coal dust exploded
about 1:30 p.m in one of the plant’s four
storage silos. It heavily damaged an over-
head “conveyor gallery” that feeds coal to
the silos. “It was a serious explosion,” plant
manager Tom Kingston said. “It was lucky
no one was in the vicinity.” The plant has
been receiving some especially dusty coal,
and workers will be taking precautions to
insure the conditions aren’t repeated. This
is the first coal-dust explosion at Board-
man since the plant opened 18 years ago.
The plant has been producing about 360
megawatts of electricity since Monday and
will return to normal operating load of 540
megawatts probably on Wednesday.
TODAY IN HISTORY
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
Canyon dances any more, but for 20 years
“no one danced any more than we did,” says
Mrs. Molstrom. Molstrom, who will be 80 in
a few months, found it difficult to bring to
mind immediately some Round-Up incidents
that stood out. That’s understandable when
you’ve seen the best in rodeo for so many
years. He did recall the time in the Round-Up
of 1918 or 1919 when a stunt man’s perfor-
mance backfired and he was fatally burned.
On Sept. 29, 2005, John
G. Roberts Jr. was sworn in
as the natioan’s 17th chief
justice after winning Senate
confirmation.
In 1910, the National
Urban League had its begin-
nings in New York as The
Committee on Urban Condi-
tions Among Negroes.
In 1943, General Dwight
D. Eisenhower and Italian
Marshal Pietro Badoglio
signed an armistice aboard
the British ship HMS Nelson
off Malta.
In 1962, Canada joined
the space age as it launched
the Alouette 1 satellite from
Vandenberg Air Force Base
in California. The musi-
cal “My Fair Lady” closed
on Broadway after 2,717
performances.
In 1978, Pope John Paul
I was found dead in his Vat-
ican apartment just over
a month after becoming
head of the Roman Catholic
Church.
In 1982, Extra strength
Tylenol capsules, laced with
deadly cyanide, claimed the
first of seven victims in the
Chicago area. (To date, the
case remains unsolved.)
In 1999, The Associated
Press reported on the kill-
ing of hundreds of South
Korean refugees by U.S.
soldiers in the early days of
the Korean War, beneath a
bridge at a hamlet called No
Gun Ri. (In 2001, after its
own investigation, the U.S.
Army affirmed that killings
had occurred, but said they
were not deliberate.)
In 2000, Israeli riot police
stormed a major Jerusalem
shrine and opened fire on
stone-throwing Muslim wor-
shippers, killing four Pales-
tinians and wounding 175.
Today’s Birthdays: Con-
ductor Richard Bonynge is
90. Jazz musician Jean-Luc
Ponty is 78. Comedian-actor
Andrew “Dice” Clay is 63.
Singer-musician Les Clay-
pool is 57. Actor Jill Whelan
is 54. Actor Rachel Cronin
is 49. Actor Kelly McCreary
(TV: “Grey’s Anatomy”)
is 39. NBA All-Star Kevin
Durant is 32.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE