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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