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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Friendship mysteriously ends
after 30-year relationship
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
DILBERT
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
Dear Abby: I need help moving
Think back. Did she contact you
past the end of a longtime friend-
only when she needed emotional
support? If that’s the case, recog-
ship. I don’t know what happened.
nize the relationship for what it
My friend, my former college
was. Now that she is doing well,
roommate, just drifted away.
she may be firmly focused on the
After school we continued to
present rather than the past, and
be friends — not besties, but we
frankly, although it may sting, I
would meet for coffee or dinner a
think you should do the same.
few times a year. Fast-forward 25
J eanne
Dear Abby: I have a family
years. She called me the day she
P hilliPs
friend who at one time I consid-
left her husband, 10 years ago, to
ADVICE
ered to be like a sister. The issue is,
tell me the news. I was her emo-
tional lifeline for a few days, and it
my family hosts her family every
was intense. We continued to be in
Thanksgiving. They are never
touch a few times a year.
invited. They just say they are coming over.
Then, a few years ago, I sent a message
They bring drinks, more for themselves
suggesting we meet soon. She replied that
than for us. Their kids run around, break
she was busy but would get back to me
things and behave disrespectfully, while
about a date, but she never did. I waited six
the parents seem to regard the behavior as
amusing. They also bring along Tupper-
months and again suggested we meet. She
ware for leftovers but don’t bother staying
replied that she had a conflict but would let
around to help clean up.
me know a date that would work. She didn’t
When my family told them we weren’t
do it. I didn’t reach out again and haven’t
cooking for Thanksgiving last year, her
heard from her since. It has been three
response was that they’d do something just
years, and I know through other sources
for their immediate family. I was shocked,
she is doing well.
because my family has hosted them for
I’m having difficulty dealing with being
more than 15 years. I have kept my distance
dropped after a 30-year friendship. I can’t
since, but I’m still upset about it. How do
think of anything I did to cause it, and I
I bring up the subject without anyone get-
don’t understand how a friendship like that
ting their feelings hurt? — Returning the
can just be kaput. What do you think? —
Favor
Disappointed in Washington
Dear Returning the Favor: Why are
Dear Disappointed: I find it interesting
you worried about bruising the feelings of
that when this woman was in turmoil, she
these self-entitled people? They haven’t
reached out to you. However, after her mar-
shown they are concerned about your fami-
riage and the emotional dust-up that sur-
ly’s feelings. Be glad to be rid of them. If the
rounded it, I suspect she may have decided
subject comes up, tell her that your family
to close that chapter of her life.
has again made “other plans” for Thanks-
You stated that the two of you didn’t stay
giving — just your immediate family.
in contact other than “a few times a year.”
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Oct. 6, 1920
A representative of the U. S. reclamation
service is here organizing a crew to make a
topographic survey of the McKay Creek res-
ervoir site. This work will include a subsur-
face investigation and will be supplemen-
tary to work already accomplished by the
government. The site has been approved by
the reclamation engineers but they have not
yet acquired all the data desired. This infor-
mation will be obtained by the topographic
survey. It is expected the surveying work
will require two months. West end people
have strong hopes of getting actual work on
the reservoir started soon through an appro-
priation by congress providing for starting
the project.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Oct. 6, 1970
The streets of Hermiston are becom-
ing unsafe for junior high students to walk
in broad daylight in fear of getting a beat-
ing for being suspected of being “narcs,”
John Cermak, director of elementary edu-
cation and junior high principal, said. An
older youth delivers narcotics in Hermis-
ton on Tuesdays and Fridays and his identity
is known by city police, according to Cer-
mak, but they have not been able to catch
the youth in the act of pushing the drugs. In
recent weeks three Hermiston Junior High
students have been beaten by older boys.
One boy suffered a double fracture of the
jaw. The junior high has an enrollment of
650. Cermak said approximately 25 of the
students have admitted to him the use of
narcotics. In several cases he has called in
the parents. “Students have asked us not to
be called to the office because they will be
suspected by the pushers and will be beaten
up,” Cermak said. “I am greatly concerned
about the youth of the community.”
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Oct. 6, 1995
Huddled around televisions and radios,
people in all parts of Umatilla and Mor-
row counties took a collective coffee break
to hear the verdict of American’s most-
watched trial. The silence was shattered
several minutes later with sighs, shouts and
a few I-told-you-sos as northeast Orego-
nians handed down their own appraisal of
the guilt or innocence of football star O.J.
Simpson, who was acquitted of killing his
wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend
Ronald Goldman. People running errands
downtown found themselves gathered out-
side of M.J.’s Hallmark, where an outdoor
speaker broadcasting spooky Halloween
sounds stopped long enough to bring news
of the verdict. Some saw the verdict as a
statement on the state of the judicial system,
which has been in question since the Rod-
ney King trial — which sparked riots in Los
Angeles following the acquittal of police
officers who were videotaped beating him.
BY SCOTT ADAMS
TODAY IN HISTORY
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
On Oct. 6, 1973, war
erupted in the Middle East
as Egypt and Syria launched
a surprise attack on Israel
during the Yom Kippur hol-
iday. (Israel, initially caught
off guard, managed to push
back the Arab forces before
a cease-fire finally took hold
in the nearly three-week
conflict.)
In 1884, the Naval War
College was established in
Newport, Rhode Island.
In 1928, Chiang Kai-
shek became president of
China.
In 1939, in a speech to the
Reichstag, German Chan-
cellor Adolf Hitler spoke of
his plans to reorder the eth-
nic layout of Europe — a
plan that would entail set-
tling the “Jewish problem.”
In 1949, President Harry
S. Truman signed the Mutual
Defense Assistance Act,
providing $1.3 billion in mil-
itary aid to NATO countries.
In 2004, the top U.S. arms
inspector in Iraq, Charles
Duelfer, reported finding no
evidence Saddam Hussein’s
regime had produced weap-
ons of mass destruction after
1991.
In 2014, the Supreme
Court unexpectedly cleared
the way for a dramatic
expansion of gay marriage
in the United States as it
rejected appeals from five
states seeking to preserve
their bans, effectively mak-
ing such marriages legal in
30 states.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Broadcaster and writer
Melvyn Bragg is 81. Musi-
cian Sid McGinnis is 71.
Actor Elisabeth Shue is 57.
Actor Jacqueline Obradors
is 54. Actor Emily Mortimer
is 49. Rhythm-and-blues
singer Melinda Doolittle is
43. Actor Stefanie Martini
is 30.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE