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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Sunny personality turns dark
in the wake of a miscarriage
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: My husband and I
these feelings, because the doctor
suffered a miscarriage five months
can refer you to someone who can
ago, in the 12th week. I’m still not
help you work through this. It will
doing well. I have put on a facade to
take time, but I assure you it is
get by, but I’m just starting to realize
doable.
how deeply this is affecting my life.
Dear Abby: My boyfriend and
I used to be a happy, friendly
I have been together for close to a
person. Always a smile on my face
year now. In the beginning, we were
J eanne
crazy about each other and every-
and laughter to be shared and hugs
P hilliPs
for my loved ones. Since the miscar-
thing was great.
ADVICE
riage, I put on a fake smile and try
Our hometowns are two hours
to be who I once was, but I can’t
apart so, to make it work, he bought
keep doing it. Every day there is a
us a house right in between. It was
moment from that day or the aftermath that
an hour each way to our parents’ houses. I
floods my mind. I’m angry, bitter, mad at the
thought it was the perfect compromise. But
unfairness, and I no longer have compassion
now he’s telling me he isn’t happy here in our
or sympathy for others.
new town, and he needs to sell the house and
move back home.
This isn’t me. I don’t want to be this way.
He says he still wants to be with me and
My happiness has been replaced with tears
and sadness. The hopefulness is replaced by
that we are going to make it work, but I can’t
emptiness. I’m very lost, and I don’t know
help but be scared that this is gonna be the
how to get out of this funk.
end of our relationship. Should I tough it out
I no longer want to try to get pregnant
and see if we can actually make it work? Or
again because the fear of the physical and
do I call it quits and let go because maybe
emotional pain of another miscarriage has
it is just not meant to be? — Mixed Up in
me paralyzed. Any advice you might give
Massachusetts
would be greatly appreciated. — Broken in
Dear Mixed Up: You left out one import-
ant fact in your letter to me. Why does your
Missouri
boyfriend need to sell the house you share
Dear Broken: Please accept my sympa-
thy for the loss of your child. Your depression
and move back home? Is he so closely tied
and the fear you have about another preg-
to his parents that being an hour away is too
nancy are not unusual after a tragedy like the
far? Is it work-related? Is he dissatisfied with
one you have experienced. You are grieving,
your relationship? Ask him these questions
and the emotions you are feeling are to be
because the answers will tell you what you
expected.
can expect. My advice is to let things play out
Please schedule an appointment with your
a bit more before making any decision other
OB/GYN and tell your doctor about all of
than to put the house on the market.
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
Feb. 23, 1921
Sheriff Houser was the host for a large
gutter party at 10 o’clock this morning.
Approximately 15 gallons of booze were sacri-
ficed to satisfy the demands of the law and
the curiosity of a large and thirsty audience.
The intoxicating liquors of many colors were
poured in the gutter. It was brought from the
court house vaults in the original containers.
These varied from small bottles to gallon jars.
The amateur distillers had even made use of
glass tobacco jars to hold their products. Judg-
ing from the odors that arose from the gutter,
some of the liquor contained little more than
one half of one per cent while other contain-
ers gave forth odors that suggested a regular
kick. In color it ranged from pure white to a
deep red and the odors varied as greatly. All of
the liquor destroyed had been collected in the
several raids conducted on moonshine places.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 23, 1971
Unemployment in Umatilla County rose
significantly last month due to seasonal
factors and a sluggish economy, reported G.
S. Clutter, manager of the Pendleton office
of the Oregon Employment Service, from
8 percent in December to 10.5 percent in
January. Employment in the manufacturing
segment of the economy varied little from
December, Clutter noted, but all nonmanu-
facturing industries recorded losses. The end
of the holiday and inventory periods brought
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
employment in trade down 120. Government
employment fell 40. Rogers Construction,
the prime contractor on the freeway bypass
of Pendleton, terminated employment of
approximately 40 during the month. The
civilian labor force contracted as the total
number of occupied jobs in Umatilla County
dropped to 17,290.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 23, 1996
Pendleton’s economic future is set to soar
in the coming years thanks to new business
and industry, increased tourism and rising
real estate values. That was the conclusion
of speakers addressing the Pendleton Cham-
ber of Commerce’s 11th annual Economic
Outlook Breakfast held at the Red Lion Inn.
The early morning meeting drew an audience
of close to 150. Paul Gerola, city of Pendleton
economic development specialist, said the
city’s assessed value, which takes in land and
the buildings within the city limits, rose from
$325 million in fiscal year 1991-92 to $454
million in 1995-96. Building permit valua-
tions for private development jumped from
$3.5 million in 1992 to $12.2 million in 1995.
The city also is benefiting from the economic
expansion of the Confederated Tribes of the
Umatilla Indian Reservation, whose casino
draws visitors to the local area each day. The
tribes’ Wildhorse Hotel, scheduled to open
in March, and its planned cultural center will
contribute even more to the city’s overall tour-
ism strategy and add to the diversification of
the region’s economy.
TODAY IN HISTORY
On Feb. 23, 1836, the
siege of the Alamo began in
San Antonio, Texas.
In 1861, President-elect
Abraham Lincoln arrived
secretly in Washington to
take office, following word
of a possible assassination
plot in Baltimore.
In 1942, the first shelling
of the U.S. mainland during
World War II occurred as a
Japanese submarine fired
on an oil refinery near Santa
Barbara, California, causing
little damage.
In 1954, the first mass
inoculation of schoolchil-
dren against polio using the
Salk vaccine began in Pitts-
burgh as some 5,000 students
were vaccinated.
In 1965, film comedian
Stan Laurel, 74, died in Santa
Monica, California.
In 1981, an attempted
coup began in Spain as
200 members of the Civil
Guard invaded Parliament,
taking lawmakers hostage.
(However, the attempt
collapsed 18 hours later.)
In 1995, the Dow Jones
industrial average closed
above the 4,000 mark for the
first time, ending the day at
4,003.33.
In 1998, 42 people were
killed, some 2,600 homes
and businesses damaged or
destroyed, by tornadoes in
central Florida.
In 2007, a Mississippi
grand jury refused to bring
any new charges in the 1955
slaying of Emmett Till, the
Black teenager who was
beaten and shot after being
accused of whistling at a
white woman, declining to
indict the woman, Caro-
lyn Bryant Donham, for
manslaughter.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor
Patricia Richardson is 70.
Former NFL player Ed “Too
Tall” Jones is 70. Rock musi-
cian Brad Whitford (Aero-
smith) is 69. Actor Kristin
Davis is 56. Rock musician
Jeff Beres (Sister Hazel) is
50. Actor Emily Blunt is 38.
Actor Dakota Fanning is 27.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE