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A12 East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, January 12, 2021 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Mom threatens divorce after teens find their dad’s stash FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My husband and I on this, but it is very important that are going on 19 years of marriage your daughters be disabused of the idea that what they did was OK with and have three teenage girls. We have had multiple rounds of marriage either of you. It’s time you and your counseling, mostly with good results, husband form a united front, and he although the benefits seem to be needs to find a better place to keep his stash. short-lived. Most of our problems have stemmed from my husband’s Dear Abby: Because of the recent J eanne drinking or smoking pot. He’s not COVID-19 crisis, my wife and I, like P hilliPs abusive, he’s a good provider, but he so many others, have been stuck at ADVICE home. I have asked her questions just likes to get high. Thank God it’s about former boyfriends and lovers. not often, but I’m not nor have I ever She told me some things, but when I been OK with it. bring it up now, she gets defensive and accuses Our girls recently found his pot stash and me of belittling her and bringing back memo- helped themselves. When I questioned them about where they got it, they admitted they ries she has asked God to help her forget. I feel found their dad’s stash. For me, this is the last I am owed an explanation since they all took straw. How can I teach my kids this is not OK place while we were dating (including with when their dad’s actions say otherwise? I’m my best friend) and with a house sitter after now made out to be the prude since apparently we were married. Am I wrong to bring it up I’m “no fun.” after many years and a great marriage? I’m a nurse, and even if it were legal in our P.S. It’s eating at me, and her stonewalling state, I wouldn’t use it. I told my husband that by saying “I can’t remember” is frustrating, I’m done and I’m ready for a divorce. He says especially because all her friends talk about I’m being ridiculous. Do I need to lighten up? her great memory. — Depressed in Texas I think I already know your answer, but I just Dear Depressed: Yes, you are wrong need to see it to validate my feelings. — Anti- because this isn’t getting you anywhere posi- Drug Wife and Mom tive. In fact, it’s the opposite. If you are look- Dear Anti-Drug: Although marijuana ing for a divorce after “many years and a great marriage,” keep digging. may be legal in an increasing number of states, “supplying” drugs to minors is against While your wife’s poor judgment and infi- the law in all of them. What happened cannot delity are deeply regrettable, the two of you and should not be ignored, but ending a good managed to build a life together and move marriage because your husband likes to use beyond it. Sometimes people forget what they pot occasionally seems extreme. need to forget in order to function. Accept it and use your quarantine time to do something It may take more visits to a marriage and more positive than playing “20 Questions.” family therapist for you to agree to disagree DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 12, 1921 A cleaner Pendleton is being sought by the street committee of the city council. Manuel Friedly, chairman, has started to obtain the cooperation of the citizens, the street depart- ment and the police, to bring about cleaner and healthier conditions, especially along Main street. Educating the public and the merchants to use the numerous galvanized iron rubbish containers along the streets is one of the first steps to be taken. Paper boxes, cigarette containers and other material which is carelessly thrown to the street by pedestri- ans and by some store keepers should go into the containers, Mr. Friedly declares. The city ordinances cover that request, he says, and the police will be asked to enforce the ordinances. “We cannot keep Main street clean with the flusher alone,” Mr. Friedly says. “We must have cooperation from the public.” 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 12, 1971 Loren “Red” Caldwell, 54, Hermiston, is a laborer who has run the gauntlet from the days of beef and brawn on the end of a 10-pound sledge to the current era of high-powered automated machinery. When he left high school in Umatilla to support himself as a gandy dancer on the railroad at 38 cents an hour (with 90 cents deducted daily for room and board), Red had what was considered a good job in those depression days. Caldwell commented that he and others on his crew BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN drove spikes on 400 railroad ties a day. “You had to be swinging that sledge all the time because there were plenty of men waiting for your job,” he said. By today’s standards his starting salary was meager. Red has had many better days. He recalls in the 1965 flood as a heavy equipment foreman in the Blue Moun- tains east of Pendleton, he grossed $1,100 in five days. Today’s laborer hiring out of the Pendleton office of Local 682 earns $5.15 an hour plus the fringe benefits paid by the employee like health and welfare. Caldwell likes his union, and he can see that eventually he may retire with a liveable income. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Jan. 12, 1996 Two and a half minutes into the game, it happened. A drive down the court with just one thing on her mind, her shoes stop just behind the 3-point line. The ball left her hands in a high arc over the court, spun toward the basket and dropped through, touching nothing but net. And just like that, Mac-Hi forward Nicole Christian scored the 1,000th point of her varsity career. Christain said she didn’t realize how close she was until she read in the paper in the preseason that she had 965 points. Saturday she went into the game against Ontario with 997 points, ready for that one shot that would put her over the top. “It came a lot sooner than I thought it would. ... Coach (Lori) Webb wanted me to break it at home, and it happened,” she said. Of getting exactly 1,000 points on the 3-point shot, she said, “That put an exclamation point on it.” TODAY IN HISTORY On Jan. 12, 2000, in a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Illinois v. Wardlow, gave police broad authority to stop and question people who run at the sight of an officer. In 1915, the U.S. House of Representatives rejected, 204-174, a proposed consti- tutional amendment to give women nationwide the right to vote. In 1948, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Sipuel v. Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma, unanimously ruled that state law schools could not discriminate against applicants on the basis of race. In 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. founded Motown Records (originally Tamla Records) in Detroit. In 1971, the groundbreak- ing situation comedy “All in the Family” premiered on CBS television. In 1976, mystery writer Dame Agatha Christie died in Wallingford, England, at age 85. I n 19 9 5, Q u bi l a h Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, was arrested in Minneapolis on charges she’d tried to hire a hitman to kill Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan (the charges were later dropped in a settlement with the government). In 2006, Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, was released from an Istanbul prison after serv- ing more than 25 years in Italy and Turkey for the plot against the pontiff and the slaying of a Turkish journal- ist. Today’s Birthdays: The Amazing Kreskin is 86. Country singer William Lee Golden (The Oak Ridge Boys) is 82. Writer Walter Mosley is 69. Broadcast journalist Christiane Aman- pour is 63. Rock singer Rob Zombie is 56. Rock singer Zack de la Rocha is 51. Rapper Raekwon (Wu Tang Clan) is 51 PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE