Tuesday, March 2, 2021
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
East Oregonian
A13
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
‘Helpful’ husband is caught
twice with younger women
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: I have been married
that name. I said it’s just teaching
for 26 years. Five years ago, my
the children to respect their elders.
husband gave a young lady $5,000
When I grew up and when I raised
through credit card charges over
my son, we called older people
Aunty and Uncle. I’m not sure what
a six-month period. We are not
wealthy. When I found the charges
to do because we all live in the same
in our credit report, he took a second
house, and I would like all of us to
job to pay it off.
get along. — Wishing For Respect
J eanne
I don’t think their relationship
in Hawaii
P hilliPs
was sexual because he is impotent.
Dear Wishing: You may have
ADVICE
It was hurtful. While he was taking
taught your son to respect his
this young lady shopping, he told me
elders when he was growing up,
he was at work.
but it appears he has had a serious
Recently, I (accidentally) caught him
memory lapse. Shame on him.
going to another young lady’s apartment to
Because you foot all of the bills for the
help her with things like hanging a TV. I don’t
roof over his and his family’s heads as well
care if he helps people. What I do care about
as the food in their mouths, remind him that
is his sneaking around to do it. I have tried
you are the head of that household, and you
talking to him about why he feels he needs to
will not have anyone with whom you are
sneak. He has no answer. What makes men
involved disrespected. As it stands, you and
sneak? — Deceived in Kentucky
your boyfriend are being disrespected, so as
head of the household, please assert yourself.
Dear Deceived: Your husband may fear
your disapproval of his relationships —
Dear Abby: Our son, “Justin,” is getting
however platonic they may be — with these
married. He told his dad the other day that
younger women. What makes people of both
his fiancee would like for my husband to go
genders sneak, by the way, is usually a sense
with Justin to his salon to get his hair cut
of guilt.
and beard trimmed for the wedding. My
husband is upset about it because he feels
Dear Abby: My boyfriend, my 33-year-
old son, his girlfriend and their 4-year-old
his soon-to-be daughter-in-law is implying
son all live with me. They are expecting their
that his haircut isn’t good enough. As the
second child. I own the home and pay all the
wife and future mother-in-law, I’m unsure
how to handle this situation. Help, please. —
bills (utilities, phone, food, etc.).
The problem is, my kids don’t like my
Grooming Groom’s Dad in Georgia
boyfriend. His grandkids call me Grandma,
Dear G.G.D.I.G.: Try to get your
so I would like my grandkids to call him
offended spouse to laugh about it. Point out
Grandpa. My son and his girlfriend won’t
that everyone looks better with a fresh hair-
allow their son to do it. They insist on calling
cut and a trim. Even you and me. Most people
him by his first name.
want to spruce up and make themselves more
presentable for a special event. Why should
I asked for a compromise and to call him
your husband be any different?
Uncle. They refuse and say he didn’t “earn”
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 2, 1921
Original settlers of this district who
paid the double minimum fee of $2.50 per
acre to the government for their lands may
receive a refund of $1.25 in the near future
according to information received by Major
Lee Moorhouse. At the time the Northern
Pacific Railroad was built into this country
the government gave them a charter giving
them every odd section of land for 25 miles
on either side of the lines of the road. Before
the road was built the company secured all
the land in this district and as a result it was
sold to settlers for $2.50. When the line of the
road was settled it was found that a number of
settlers were living outside the 25 mile limit
of the railroad company and are now entitled
to a refund of $1.25 per acre from the govern-
ment. The matter has been in the courts for a
long term of years and is nearing settlement.
Major Moorhouse stated that the time for
filing claims to the refund was near at hand.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 2, 1971
Move the Umatilla County Boys Ranch out
of the Helix school district, asks a petition to
the Umatilla County Court signed by about
100 Helix area residents. A counter petition,
signed by all but nine of the 62 students at
Griswold High School, Helix, asks that the
boys ranch stay right where it is. Boys at the
ranch, which is located a few miles east of
Helix, attend classes at Griswold. The first
petition says the boys need more professional
counseling than is available at Griswold,
they need industrial arts courses which Gris-
wold doesn’t have and they disrupt classes
with offensive language and undisciplined
behavior. The petition also alleges thefts and
vandalism have increased at area farms since
the boys ranch moved in 2-1/2 years ago. Jim
Epley, director of the county juvenile depart-
ment, says this isn’t true, that only three such
incidents have occurred for which the boys at
the ranch have been responsible.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 2, 1996
When Hewlett-Packard Co. wants to talk
about computers, where does it turn for advice?
Bill Varady’s sixth-grade class at Hermiston’s
Sunset Elementary School. The students are
among a handful of children from Oregon
to Singapore helping Hewlett-Packard field
test a tiny computer that gives students wire-
less contact with the Internet. The company
donated 20 of the “palmtops,” valued at
$20,000, and other equipment to do market
research. The palmtops, known as the H-P
100LX, have just about everything a normal
computer does, but it’s packed into the size and
shape of a checkbook. To connect to the Inter-
net, students sit in a circle, with their comput-
ers in view of a computer server in the middle
of the room. Using a beam of infrared light,
they log onto the Internet through the server.
Sunset was chosen through its participation
in an Earth and Sea Investigators Program,
which also used computers for research. Herm-
iston far outpaces most districts in its use of
computer technology in the classroom.
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 March 2, 1932, the
20th Amendment to the
Constitution, which moved
the date of the presidential
inauguration from March 4
to January 20, was passed
by Congress and sent to the
states for ratification.
In 1867, Howard Univer-
sity, a historically Black
school of higher learning
in Washington, D.C., was
founded. Congress passed,
over President Andrew John-
son’s veto, the first of four
Reconstruction Acts.
In 1917, Puerto Ricans
were granted U.S. citizen-
ship as President Woodrow
Wilson signed the Jones-Sha-
froth Act.
In 1943, the three-day
Battle of the Bismarck
Sea began in the south-
west Pacific during World
War II; U.S. and Australian
warplanes were able to inflict
heavy damage on an Imperial
Japanese convoy.
In 1985, the government
approved a screening test
for AIDS that detected anti-
bodies to the virus, allowing
possibly contaminated blood
to be excluded from the blood
supply.
In 1995, the Internet
search engine website Yahoo!
was incorporated by found-
ers Jerry Yang and David
Filo.
Today’s Bir thdays:
Former Soviet President and
Nobel peace laureate Mikhail
S. Gorbachev is 90. Actor
Cassie Yates is 70. Actor
Laraine Newman is 69. Rock
singer Jon Bon Jovi is 59.
Actor Daniel Craig is 53. Actor
Rebel Wilson is 41. Sing-
er-rapper-actor Becky G is 24.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE