Tuesday, December 29, 2020
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
East Oregonian
A9
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Discussing sex life with ex
is the final straw for wife
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: I have been mar-
one will work hardest to protect your
interests and proceed from there.
ried for 19 years now. A few years
Dear Abby: Due to COVID shut-
back, I came to know about my hus-
ting schools down, my employer is
band’s platonic relationship with his
now allowing staff to bring their
old girlfriend. She lives in a differ-
ent state and is married.
kids to work if they don’t have
My husband has long chats with
alternative child care. I bring my
her every day about everything,
8-year-old, and I have seen many
J eanne
including our sex life. I confronted
other kids around. Most of them are
P hilliPs
him and asked him to end their rela-
well behaved and don’t cause any
ADVICE
tionship because knowing that he
problems.
However, we have a new
wants me to do something in bed
employee, “Michelle,” who has
because his friend does it bothers
started bringing her 4-year-old with her. The
me a lot. He promised at the time that he
child, I’ll call her Autumn, is in her mother’s
wouldn’t talk or chat with her anymore, and
office, but she’s so loud, she can be heard all
I trusted him.
the way across the building! I thought surely
A few weeks ago, I discovered that he still
Michelle would close her office door and con-
chats with her every day, and he changed
tain Autumn’s “jolly” voice inside her own
her name in his contact list to hide his rela-
tionship. I feel cheated on, and I want to end
area, but she seems perfectly happy to let her
daughter make as much noise as she wants.
this marriage. Please help me. I don’t want to
I don’t understand this. Other parents
make a wrong step. — Betrayed in Florida
make sure their kids behave and act appro-
Dear Betrayed: A couple’s sex life is
priately. What can I do to let Michelle and
supposed to be private. Your husband and
my supervisor know that while yes, she can
his supposedly platonic “friend” have both
bring her child with her, it’s still her respon-
betrayed the trust of their spouses. That he
sibility to make sure the kid isn’t creating a
would expect you to do something in bed
distraction? — Tired Of The Noise
that he knows she is doing is substituting
Dear Tired Of The Noise: I do not think
your body for hers, and frankly, it strikes me
it would be prudent to talk about this with
as another form of cheating. Obscuring her
Michelle, which is sure to make her defen-
name in his contact file illustrates that he has
sive. You should, however, inform your
no intention of ending their relationship.
supervisor that because Michelle’s door is
You feel cheated on because you have
left open, her daughter’s “jolly” voice is cre-
been cheated on. It will continue as long as
ating a distraction. If it has been causing a
you allow it. Because you’re afraid you will
problem for you, the chances are it is doing
take a wrong step, start quietly gathering all
the same for other employees and reducing
the financial information you can and talk
productivity.
with several lawyers before deciding which
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 29, 1920
George Bennett, who says he is a bucka-
roo and has broken broncs for the Round-Up
association, is leading a man hunt through
Umatilla county today, with officers in his
pursuit. He broke away from Deputy Sheriff
Parker, of Wenatchee, at Rieth early Sunday
morning and has not been overtaken. Ben-
nett was arrested several days ago at Burns
on a warrant from Wenatchee, charging him
with cattle rustling. Deputy Parker was sent
to return him to the Washington city and
he was taking the prisoner to Umatilla on a
night train. When the train stopped at Rieth
to change engines, the prisoner asked a favor
of the guard and, walking to the vestibule of
the coach, swung off the train through the
open door. Parker notified local officials and
the trail was picked up at Rieth and the man
traced to Adams. He is reported to be armed.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 29, 1970
A 40-year-old Hermiston father and his
teenage daughter, both students at Blue
Mountain Community College, have been
locked in a serious “scholastic battle” in
the fall term of school. Both are winners
and were included on the school’s scholas-
tic honor roll with grades of 3.5 and bet-
ter. When Harold “Deke” Stensrud and his
daughter, Elaine, registered at BMCC in the
fall, the competition for grades became evi-
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
dent in the family. The mother, Teresa Sten-
srud, says now that both members of her
family are winners, she feels it is time to call
a halt to the competition. She says she did
not have a favorite in the struggle. Stensrud,
a wire chief at the Hinkle depot of Union
Pacific Railroad, is majoring in electronics.
His wife says he is a gifted electrician, car-
penter and builder. He attends classes from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and then reports to his job
at 4 p.m. and works until midnight. Elaine,
18, the oldest of the five children, is major-
ing in accounting.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 29, 1995
An unexpected snowfall caused a flurry
of accidents this morning along Interstate
84 from Boardman to Pendleton. The snow
compacted on roads and highways caus-
ing fender benders and roll-overs from the
slippery conditions. The biggest accident
occurred around 9 a.m. when an eastbound
gas tanker flipped onto the shoulder of I-84,
about nine miles west of Pendleton, spilling
about 2,000 gallons of unleaded gasoline.
Cars and trucks were sliding off the road
left and right because of icy conditions in
the Hermiston area, but there were no major
injuries. The sun peeked through the clouds
and the snow in local areas was gone by
mid-morning. But worse weather is on the
way. Snow is expected to begin falling again
by early evening and will turn into freezing
rain, coating roadways in ice by morning.
TODAY IN HISTORY
On Dec. 29, 1890, the
Wounded Knee massacre
took place in South Dakota
as an estimated 300 Sioux
Indians were killed by U.S.
troops sent to disarm them.
In 1845, Texas was
admitted as the 28th state.
In 1939, “The Hunch-
back of Notre Dame,” star-
ring Charles Laughton
and Maureen O’Hara, was
released by RKO Radio
Pictures.
In 1972, Eastern Air
Lines Flight 401, a Lock-
heed L-1011 Tristar, crashed
into the Florida Everglades
near Miami International
Airport, killing 101 of the
176 people aboard.
In 1975, a bomb exploded
in the main terminal of New
York’s LaGuardia Airport,
killing 11 people (it’s never
been determined who was
responsible).
In 1989, dissident and
playwright Vaclav Havel
assumed the presidency of
Czechoslovakia.
In 2006, word reached
the United States of the exe-
cution of former Iraqi leader
Saddam Hussein (because
of the time difference, it
was the morning of Dec. 30
in Iraq when the hanging
took place). In a statement,
President George W. Bush
called Saddam’s execution
an important milestone on
Iraq’s road to democracy.
In 2017, Puerto Rico
authorities said nearly half
of the power customers in
the U.S. territory still lacked
electricity, more than three
months after Hurricane
Maria.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Actor Inga Swenson is 88.
Singer Marianne Faithfull
is 74. Actor Ted Danson is
73. Actor Patricia Clark-
son is 61. Comedian Paula
Poundstone is 61. Rock
singer-musician Jim Reid
(The Jesus and Mary Chain)
is 59. Movie director Lilly
Wachowski is 53. Actor
Jude Law is 48. Actor Maria
Dizzia is 46.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE