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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, January 21, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Colleague refuses payment
for help above and beyond
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
Dear Abby: My colleagues and
Should I address this issue with the
I were recently notified that our
mother-in-law or continue to bite my
company is closing next month. My
tongue? — Dismissed in Texas
work partner and I have collabo-
Dear Dismissed: If you are smart,
rated closely for four years, and he’s
rather than address the issue with
an expert at the software I need to
your daughter’s mother-in-law, who
know to get a job in my field. When I
either has the emotional intelligence
asked if he would give me a couple of
of an oyster or really doesn’t care for
J eanne
lessons via Zoom, I was thinking it’d
your daughter, mention it to your
P hilliPs
be about a three-hour commitment
son-in-law and point out to him that
ADVICE
for him. But he was enthusiastic and
being slighted is hurtful. There may
designed a 20-plus-hour curriculum
be a better result if he brings it up to
his mother.
for me.
He keeps saying he doesn’t want me to pay
Dear Abby: I battle with a double chin,
him, but I want to find an appropriate way
and I loathe it. My chin hides itself only if I am
to express my gratitude. What would be an
under 126 pounds. Anything over that and it’s
appropriate amount to compensate him with-
there. I’m not overweight, but my double chin
out getting too steep (which is why I didn’t
makes me feel that way.
do the full-price software training in the first
I have read that dermal fillers in the chin
place. It was $2K)? Thanks for any advice. —
can discreetly get rid of this issue. The prob-
Thankful in Illinois
lem? My husband. He’s against any type of
plastic surgery. He doesn’t like my double
Dear Thankful: If you know of any inter-
ests, hobbies, a sport, etc., your partner has
chin either, but he wants me to only get rid of
outside the workplace, consider going online
it “naturally.” Normally, I would agree. I have
to see if you can find something connected
been exercising (running four times a week)
to that activity he would enjoy that’s within
without success. I don’t feel comfortable look-
your budget.
ing this way.
Dear Abby: Every year on Facebook’s
I think I deserve this shortcut. Should I get
“National Daughter’s Day,” my daughter’s
the filler without my husband’s blessing, or
mother-in-law professes her love, respect
should I continue this struggle? — Taking It
On The Chin
and admiration for her own daughter, but
never acknowledges her daughter-in-law (my
Dear Taking It: You are an adult, and it’s
daughter). Yet, on “National Son’s Day,” she
your body. You do not need permission to do
posts glowing tributes not only to her sons, but
something that will help you feel better about
also to her son-in-law.
yourself. If your husband is against any type
of plastic surgery (and by the way, fillers do
We all live within miles of each other, and
this recurring slight makes it difficult to act
not qualify as plastic surgery), he should forgo
like everything is fine when, in truth, this
having it when his frown lines begin to look
is hurtful to my daughter and to our family.
like tractor furrows and he develops a wattle.
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 21, 1921
Educational advantages offered in the
United States are to be enjoyed by Ung Gim
Poy, 14 year old adopted son of Ung D. Goey,
well known Chinese merchant of this city.
Ung Gim Poy arrived in Seattle and arrange-
ments are now being made to bring him to
Pendleton. Goey adopted the boy seven years
ago and he has been living in China with Mrs.
Goey and the eight year old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Goey. Ung Gim has attended schools
in China and speaks not a word of English.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 21, 1971
The sound of basketballs glancing off hard-
wood thumped overhead like raindrops on
the roof. Be we descended to the locker room
for a reason other than basketball. A shoul-
der pad was kicked under a bench, remnant
of a season past. We sat in a small, wrestling
gear-lined office with Pendleton High School
Coach Rollin Schimmel. Why, we asked,
should wrestling be included in the athletic
program? “It gives boys who couldn’t partici-
pate in another sport a chance to compete,” the
coach said. “It gives boys who weigh as little at
98 pounds a chance for recognition and mental
and physical development.” It takes three
things to be a winning wrestler, according to
Schimmel: mental attitude, physical desire and
dedication. “With these attributes a boy can
overcome shortness, lack of speed, or physi-
cal strength.” So far, he said, wrestling hasn’t
drawn large crowds, but it’s getting better now.
Why? “Winning!” he said. “This year we’ve
got a good team and more spectators.”
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Jan. 21, 1996
What’s in a name? A new committee
is about to find out. The Pendleton School
District recently formed a naming committee
made up of two board members, three junior
high teachers, three students and a parent
to seek opinions on what Pendleton Junior
High will be called this fall when it becomes
a middle school. The students will help elicit
opinions on the bright yellow school, which
already goes by another name — “the big
yellow banana.” The obvious choice, Pend-
leton Middle School, has already been at the
butt of several local jokes for its potential
acronym: PMS. The committee will choose
two possible names from those submitted
by community members, and the Pendleton
School Board will make the final decision.
A $200 savings bond will be awarded to the
person who suggested the name. So get out
a pen, put on your thinking cap and imag-
ine what kind of place, say, Mustard Bottle
Middle School could be.
TODAY IN HISTORY
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
On Jan. 21, 2020, the U.S.
reported its first known case
of the new virus circulating
in China, saying a Washing-
ton state resident who had
returned the previous week
from the outbreak’s epicenter
was hospitalized near Seat-
tle; U.S. officials stressed that
they believed the overall risk
of the virus to the American
public remained low.
In 1793, during the French
Revolution, King Louis XVI,
condemned for treason, was
executed on the guillotine.
In 1942, pinball machines
were banned in New York
City after a court ruled they
were gambling devices that
relied on chance rather than
skill (the ban was lifted in
1976).
In 1977, on his first full
day in office, President
Jimmy Carter pardoned
almost all Vietnam War draft
evaders.
In 1997, Speaker Newt
Gingrich was reprimanded
and fined as the House voted
for the first time in history to
discipline its leader for ethical
misconduct.
In 2003, the Census
Bureau announced that
Hispanics had surpassed
blacks as America’s largest
minority group.
In 2007, Lovie Smith
became the first Black head
coach to make it to the Super
Bowl when his Chicago
Bears won the NFC cham-
pionship, beating the New
Orleans Saints 39-14; Tony
Dungy became the second
when his Indianapolis Colts
took the AFC title over the
New England Patriots, 38-34.
In 2019, first-term senator
and former California attor-
ney general Kamala Harris
entered the Democratic pres-
idential race. (Harris would
withdraw from the race in
December; she would be
chosen the following August
as the party’s vice presiden-
tial nominee.)
Today’s Birthdays: World
Golf Hall of Famer Jack Nick-
laus is 81. Actor Jill Eiken-
berry is 74. Actor Geena
Davis is 65. Basketball Hall
of Famer Hakeem Olajuwon
is 58. Rock singer-songwriter
Cat Power is 49. Singer Emma
Bunton (Spice Girls) is 45.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE