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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Surprise revelation of twins’
paternity is a family bombshell
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
DILBERT
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
BY SCOTT ADAMS
Dear Abby: My son’s new wife —
times — nothing sexual. Now she’s
who has a daughter — insisted that
moving away, and I feel heartbroken.
his two children are not biologically
How should I deal? I’m fighting back
his. After a DNA test, it turns out she
tears for someone I’m not even with.
was right. They aren’t. My son, my
What do I do? — Heartbroken in
husband and I are heartbroken. His
the East
twins are 10, and they don’t under-
Dear Heartbroken: A relation-
stand what’s going on.
ship does not have to be sexual to be
My husband and I are trying to
meaningful, and your co-worker was
J eanne
gently remain in their lives with phone
filling a space in your life that was
P hilliPs
calls and limited visits. My son’s wife
empty. That you feel a sense of loss
ADVICE
refuses to visit with us until we stop
and sadness that she is moving is not
communicating with the children,
surprising.
promise never to talk about them and
Not knowing the unfortunate
display no pictures in our home. She’s trying
circumstances that caused the separation
between you and your wife, I can only advise
to convince our son to stop seeing us, as well.
you to start looking for a way to mend fences
What to do? — Disappointed in Texas
Dear Disappointed: Those children,
or change those circumstances so you can live
regardless of who their birth father is, were
together again, because clearly, you’re not
raised believing you and your husband are
doing well on your own. If that’s not possible,
their grandparents. If you love them, do not
start giving serious thought to how you plan
knuckle under to your son’s new wife or it will
to live the rest of your life, because this way
be only the beginning of how she will attempt
isn’t working.
Dear Abby: The other day I was on a
to control you.
video conference call with our boss and two
She does not have the right to dictate who
you (or your son, for that matter) see and
colleagues. When “Joan” came on the call,
communicate with. She also does not have the
“something” was hanging from one of her
right to order you to remove any object from
nostrils. She may have had a cold. I scratched
your home.
my nose and mustache a few times, trying to
If your son opts to turn his back on those
alert her of what was happening, to no avail.
children, that’s a decision only he can make. If
She didn’t react. No one else said anything.
he also chooses to turn his back on you, then
What would the correct protocol have been?
Should I have left it alone or was I right to try
you raised a milquetoast instead of a man.
Dear Abby: I’m a married man, and I
to let her know? I did what I would have done
love my wife. We’re not living together at the
in person. Should I have privately texted her?
Please advise. — Telecommuting Woes
moment due to unfortunate circumstances.
Being far away from her, I get extremely
Dear Telecommuting: If the person with
lonely. I have a co-worker who became a good
the leaky nose had been you, wouldn’t you
friend, and I have feelings for her. I have told
have wanted to know? Yes, you should have
her how I feel, and we have hung out a few
texted her.
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 16, 1921
Sister Mary Ludovica, aged 75, the first
sister to enter the field of service at St. Andrews
Mission, died yesterday after 30 years of active
work among the Indians. Her death, which was
due to heart disease, occurred at St. Antho-
ny’s hospital. When Sister Ludovica went from
Pendleton to St. Andrews, her primitive quar-
ters were on a barren hillside, flanked with
mountains and fronting on the wide and deso-
late prairie. The surroundings were made even
more weird by the shrieks of roving coyotes.
Here the sister’s work among the Umatillas
and Cayuses began, and so successful was she
in her endeavor that she received the special
blessing of the Holy Father in a written testi-
monial. Associated with her in the pioneer
work was Sister Lucretia, who is still active in
the field. Three of the first group sleep in the
little Mission cemetery.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 16, 1971
The Port of Arlington threw its hat into the
nuclear siting arena in a meeting of the Feder-
al-State Task Force on Nuclear Plant Sitings
during a day-long nuclear power educational
conference in Hermiston. Arlington joins the
ports of Umatilla and Morrow in the nuclear
plant race, with all three seeking evalua-
tion and approval. According to Chi Wang,
director of the Institute of Nuclear Science
and Engineering at Oregon State Univer-
sity, “Considerations in choosing plant sites
should not treat rural America as a place
of refuge from environmental controls, but
should emphasize the opportunities that a
power plant can contribute to the full devel-
opment of the nation.” Wang told about 350 at
the conference that economic development in
the state must be maintained to improve the
quality of life. “In order to do this, controlled
industrial growth is of primary importance
to preserve environmental quality. Siting of
a giant nuclear power plant appears to be one
of the means to achieve these goals.”
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 16, 1996
For a decade now, dryland wheat farmer
Larry Winn has let a portion of his land sit
idle under a federal program that pays him
to protect sensitive ground from erosion by
not farming it. It’s a program that has worked
well, stabilizing his steep ground with a
dense cover of grass, and providing a spinoff
benefit for the deer and upland game birds
that live along remote Juniper Canyon. But
partisan politics in Washington, D.C., have
stymied Winn’s efforts to plan for the future.
He needs to decide whether to keep his land in
the Conservation Reserve Program or return
it to production, but like so many others in the
region, he’s waiting for passage of the federal
farm bill. That should shed light on both
what’s best for the land and what’s best for
his farm income. A new farm bill could elimi-
nate price-support subsidies and expose farm-
ers to a free market system. “I really don’t
know what I’m going to do because I don’t
know what the government is going to do,”
said Winn, who has 160 acres of CRP land.
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. 16, 1959, Fidel
Castro became premier of
Cuba after the overthrow of
Fulgencio Batista.
In 1945, A mer ican
troops landed on the island
of Corregidor in the Philip-
pines during World War II.
In 1961, the United States
launched the Explorer 9
satellite.
In 1998, a China Airlines
Airbus A300 trying to land
in fog near Taipei, Taiwan,
crashed, killing all 196
people on board, plus seven
on the ground.
In 2001, the United States
and Britain staged air strikes
against radar stations and air
defense command centers in
Iraq.
In 2006, Russia’s Evgeni
Plushenko beat world cham-
pion Stephane Lambiel of
Switzerland by 27.12 points
to win the gold medal in
men’s figure skating at the
Winter Games in Turin,
Italy.
In 2019, the Vatican
announced that former
Cardinal Theodore McCa-
rrick, who served as arch-
bishop of Washington, D.C.,
had been found guilty by
the Vatican of sex abuse and
had been defrocked; McCa-
rrick was the highest-rank-
ing churchman and the first
cardinal to face that punish-
ment as the church dealt with
clerical sex abuse.
Today’s Birthdays: Jazz/
pop singer-actor Peggy King
is 91. Actor William Katt is
70. Actor-rapper Ice-T is 63.
Actor Sarah Clarke is 50.
Olympic gold medal runner
Cathy Freeman is 48. Actor
Chloe Wepper is 35.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE