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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, February 4, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Disconnect regarding faith
may herald couple’s demise
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I have been dating
deleted your account because you
this guy seriously for a year. We have
were shocked when you saw people
talked about marriage and we were
with differing political opinions
even looking at rings. Due to certain
being bullied and demeaned, which
recent events, I have come to real-
you found shocking and offensive.
ize that my hope for his Christianity
If she’s foolish enough to push you
to grow stronger is probably never
for more detail, tell her how her
going to happen. I love this man
post affected you. It’s shameful that
J eanne
adults in this day and age cannot
with all my heart, but I also need
P hilliPs
a husband who will pray with me,
calmly discuss their differences
ADVICE
have a heart for God, who will want
without resorting to those tactics.
Dear Abby: I am torn between
to go to church and make decisions
two guys. I have known the first guy
by praying and leaning on God.
We have talked about this and what my
for a year, and we had some ups and downs.
needs are, but he’s not sure if he will get there.
Six months ago he had a heart attack, but he
Do I hold on and hope through my actions and
pulled through, thank God. But since then,
life, he will learn how to walk with God fully,
things have been very hard. Our relationship
or should I let him go and try to find someone
went sour and we broke up.
else? — Brokenhearted Believer
I met the second guy online a month ago.
Dear Believer: If you can’t accept this man
He seems very sweet and down to earth and
just the way he is, let him go. You shouldn’t
treats me like a princess. The first guy and I
marry anyone hoping to change him because
ended up talking again, and the problem is,
it wouldn’t be fair to either of you. If faith is
I’m still in love with him. I think both of them
your No. 1 priority, it would be better for both
are wonderful and I don’t know what decision
of you if you look further for a life partner.
to make. Please help me. — Choices, Choices
in Delaware
Dear Abby: My friend “Gina” and I have
Dear Choices: Before making any deci-
known each other for many years. The other
sion, it’s important you fully understand why
day she got into a heated discussion on Face-
book with several other people we’ve known
your relationship with Guy No. 1 went sour
after his heart attack. Could it be related to his
for years. It was about politics. When I read
her post, I was shocked. She belittled and
near-death experience? You need to have all
bullied those who didn’t share her opinion. I
the facts before jumping back into a romance
with him.
have since deleted my FB account because I
You haven’t known Guy No. 2 long enough
don’t want to see such hatred. What do I tell
her when she asks why I’m no longer on social
to really know who he is yet. Do not pull the
media? — Social Media Distanced
plug on this one until you have more answers
than you were able to put in your letter to me.
Dear Social: Tell Gina the truth. Say you
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
DILBERT
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 4, 1921
Charles Hascall is in St. Anthony’s hospi-
tal and Emos Adeff is in the county jail as
the result of an argument over the boundary
of their respective sheep ranges, followed by
two fights. Deputy Sheriff E. F. B. Ridgeway,
who arrested Adeff at the John Ross ranch
on Butter Creek said it has not been proved
whether either man used any weapon in their
two rounds of battle. Adeff, he says, main-
tains that he broke Hascall’s nose and injured
his eye merely by blows from his fist. Other
reports are that the men picked up what-
ever implements at hand that were conve-
nient and would serve the purpose. One of
the combatants herds sheep for K. G. Warner
and the other for John Ross. An argument
is alleged to have ensued over the boundar-
ies of the respective ranges, which led to a
fight. Hascall, the story goes, was worsted
in the first encounter, which was stopped by
Mr. Warner. Later Hascall returned to settle
accounts with Adeff with the result that he
was in need of hospital treatment when the
contestants were separated.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 4, 1971
From now on when you call the Umatilla
County Courthouse on a holiday or a week-
end the telephone will be answered, not by
the stern voice of a sheriff’s deputy, but by the
tinny sound of a recording. Why? Because on
Monday, the first observance of a new holiday,
“the sheriff’s department spent all day answer-
ing the phone,” said County Commissioner
Raymond Rees. Many people apparently did
not know about the new holiday — Lincoln’s
Birthday was observed Feb. 1 instead of Feb.
12 to provide a three-day weekend for state
and county employees. Another such occasion
arises Feb. 15, a Monday, when George Wash-
ington’s birthday will be observed to provide
another three-day weekend. The traditional
Washington’s Birthday observance has been
Feb. 22. The recording will be plugged into
the courthouse switchboard, Rees said. And
the sheriff’s phone will ring only when some-
body wants that department, not other offices
in the courthouse.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 4, 1996
The nation’s first mail election for a
congressional seat was a tremendous success
based on the nearly 66 percent voter participa-
tion. It’s not clear if the mail ballot was a boost
to either candidate. But voter turnout in the
recently concluded election set a record for a
special election in Oregon this century. Some
Gordon Smith proponents have surmised that
had the election been conducted at the polls,
Ron Wyden would have stood to lose votes
because seniors and urban residents — seen
as generally supportive of Wyden — would
have been less likely to go to the polls in cold
and snowy conditions, particularly in the
Portland-metro area where Wyden won some
80,000 votes. Rural voters on the other hand
are seen as less likely to be turned from the
polls by bad weather, which seemingly would
have helped Smith.
BY SCOTT ADAMS
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 Feb. 4, 1945, President
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Brit-
ish Prime Minister Winston
Churchill and Soviet leader
Josef Stalin began a wartime
conference at Yalta.
In 1783, Britain’s King
George III proclaimed a
formal cessation of hostili-
ties in the American Revolu-
tionary War.
In 1913, Rosa Parks, a
Black woman whose 1955
refusal to give up her seat
on a Montgomery, Ala., city
bus to a white man sparked
a civil rights revolution, was
born Rosa Louise McCauley
in Tuskegee.
In 1962, St. Jude Chil-
dren’s Research Hospital
was founded in Memphis,
Tennessee, by entertainer
Danny Thomas.
In 1974, newspaper heir-
ess Patricia Hearst, 19, was
kidnapped in Berkeley, Cali-
fornia, by the radical Symbi-
onese Liberation Army.
In 1976, more than 23,000
people died when a severe
earthquake struck Guate-
mala with a magnitude of 7.5,
according to the U.S. Geolog-
ical Survey.
In 1983, pop singer-mu-
sician Karen Carpenter died
in Downey, California, at age
32.
In 1997, a civil jury in
Santa Monica, California,
found O.J. Simpson liable
for the deaths of his ex-wife,
Nicole Brown Simpson, and
her friend, Ronald Goldman.
In 2004, the Massachu-
setts high court declared that
gay couples were entitled to
nothing less than marriage,
and that Vermont-style civil
unions would not suffice.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor
Jerry Adler is 92. Rock
musician John Steel (The
Animals) is 80. Actor Lisa
Eichhorn is 69. Actor Gabri-
elle Anwar is 51. Olympic
gold medal boxer Oscar De
La Hoya is 48. Singer Natalie
Imbruglia is 46.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE