A14
East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, December 3, 2020
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Friends are short on sympathy
after possible COVID exposure
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: My husband came
ensure that you are not a symptom-
less carrier. If it turns out that you
down with COVID and has been
are positive, tell your friends.
having a hard time getting over it.
If you test negative, your first
When he first started showing the
priority should be to help your hus-
symptoms, I took him to a drive-
band get well and protect your-
thru medical clinic and got him
self from getting the virus. As to
tested for COVID. The results were
whether you should end your rela-
negative, so a couple of days later, I
tionship with these “distanced”
carpooled with a friend to another
J eanne
friends, from the way they are
friend’s house where seven other
P hilliPs
behaving, it appears they may have
friends had gathered. Several days
ADVICE
ended their relationship with you,
later, when my husband still wasn’t
and for that you have my sympathy.
improving, I took him to an ER
Dear Abby: I recently had my
where they did another COVID
hair dyed by my brother-in-law, who is a
test. This time it came out positive.
great hairstylist. I have seen his work on
I thought I owed it to whomever I was
other clients, and he knows what he’s doing.
around at the get-together to tell them about
I have received a lot of compliments on my
my husband. At this get-together, we all
new “do.”
wore masks. We took them off only to eat,
Problem is, I didn’t get what I asked for.
and then put them back on. It has been more
I was a coward at the time and didn’t speak
than 14 days since my husband got sick, and
up. Now my roots are starting to show, and
although he is not yet over the virus, I hav-
en’t come down with it.
I’ll be needing a touch-up soon. How do I go
I thought my friends would be support-
about going to another salon for what I want
ive of me and what my husband is going
without hurting his feelings or causing hard
feelings with my sister-in-law? — Coward
through. However, I learned from one of
in Kansas
these “friends” of more than 20 years that
Dear Coward in Kansas: Make the
they formed a private Facebook group to
appointment and have your hair done the
discuss how each one has been doing on
way you prefer. If your sister- or brother-in-
a daily basis, and I was not invited to par-
ticipate. I feel betrayed by these paranoid
law asks about it, say you know he is ter-
rific and how busy he is and didn’t want to
friends. At this point, I don’t think I can ever
“impose” further. If he’s as good as you say
look at any of them the same way. I have
he is, he will notice that the color is different
been contemplating ending my friendship
from what he used on you.
with all of them. What do you think? —
You’re not a coward for wanting to spare
Kicked When Down in Oklahoma
your brother-in-law’s feelings. You do a dis-
Dear Kicked: I think you should ask the
service to him, however, as a professional
friend who told you about the private Face-
book group whether any of the women got
for not being truthful about your opinion of
sick after that get-together. If the answer is
his work on you. If he mentions it, explain
yes, make an appointment and have yourself
that this is a color you are more comfortable
with. Your head, your choice.
COVID-tested — twice, if necessary — to
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
DILBERT
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
BY SCOTT ADAMS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 3, 1920
Captors of Neil Hart and Jim Owens
who reside in Union county are getting ner-
vous over the failure of the officials of Uma-
tilla county and the City of Pendleton to pro-
vide the $6000 reward promised to those who
brought in the men whose jail breakout took
the life of Sheriff Til Taylor, according to a
story in the La Grande Observer last eve-
ning. After preliminary hearings, the city and
county decided to do the matter up properly
by having a hearing before the circuit court.
Most of the rewards are contested and in order
to prevent against possible lawsuits and other
trouble, the officials decided to leave the mat-
ter in the hands of the district and city attor-
neys. Officials here today when questioned
about the trial for the reward division were
unable to say at what time final disposition
will be made.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 3, 1970
Windy! Believe it or not, that is the fore-
cast through Friday. Wind which belted the
area today from the south at 20-30 miles an
hour, with gusts up to 50 miles an hour, and
created blizzard conditions in the moun-
tains, is expected to continue. A Kenne-
wick, Wash., man got out of his truck before
it and the attached empty cattle trailer were
blown over at 5:20 a.m. today nine miles
east of Pendleton on Highway 30. James
Roy Sharp, 30, said he was able to stop the
truck before the wind tipped the trailer.
The accident smashed 30 feet of guard rail.
Power lines were down in Pilot Rock, Mis-
sion and Weston, and the roof was blown off
a trailer house at Rieth. Trees were toppled,
including on SW 6th at the top of Pend-
leton’s South Hill. Don Gilliam, federal
weather observer, estimated winds reached
more than 40 m.p.h. in Morrow and Gilliam
counties, where several power lines were
blown down in rural areas.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 3, 1995
The wintry breeze that whips off the
Columbia River brings an extra chill to the
floating freezer known as the “Esther L.” The
Esther L. is the first barge on the Columbia
built specifically to haul refrigerated contain-
ers. Leased to the J.R. Simplot Co., it holds
80 40-foot containers, each holding 24 tons
of product. Each week, the 288-foot-long
barge arrives at the Port of Umatilla above
McNary Dam for its load of refrigerated
goods for shipment to Asian markets, Tai-
pei, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Osaka, Inchon. To
port manager Kim Puzey, it’s a measure of
the power of “value added” agriculture. “We
expect to ship nearly three-quarters of a bil-
lion dollars in agricultural products from the
dock this year,” Puzey said. “Value added”
agriculture means keeping bulk farm prod-
ucts at home for processing, keeping jobs
and money circulating in the community.
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 Dec. 3, 1984, thou-
sands of people died after a
cloud of methyl isocyanate
gas escaped from a pesticide
plant operated by a Union
Carbide subsidiary in Bho-
pal, India.
In 1833, Oberlin Col-
lege in Ohio — the first
truly coeducational school
of higher learning in the
United States — began
holding classes.
In 1960, the Lerner and
Loewe musical “Camelot,”
starring Julie Andrews as
Guenevere, Richard Burton
as King Arthur and Robert
Goulet as Lancelot, opened
on Broadway.
In 1964, police arrested
some 800 students at the
University of California at
Berkeley, one day after the
students stormed the admin-
istration building and staged
a massive sit-in.
In 1979, 11 people were
killed in a crush of fans at
Cincinnati’s Riverfront Col-
iseum, where the British
rock group The Who was
performing.
In 1992, the Greek
tanker Aegean Sea spilled
more than 21 million gal-
lons of crude oil when it ran
aground off northwestern
Spain.
In 1994, AIDS activist
Elizabeth Glaser, who along
with her two children were
infected with HIV because
of a blood transfusion, died
in Santa Monica, California,
at age 47.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Movie director Jean-Luc
Godard is 90. Rock singer
Ozzy Osbourne is 72. Actor
Daryl Hannah is 60. Olym-
pic gold medal figure skater
Katarina Witt is 55. Actor
Anna Chlumsky is 40.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE