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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, March 11, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Former nanny tires of keeping
lesbian marriage under wraps
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
B.C.
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY JOHNNY HART
Dear Abby: I am an out-and-
else in my life. But I have lost rela-
tionships before because, no matter
proud lesbian who recently cele-
how respectful I tried to be, honesty
brated 10 years as a couple and
three years of marriage to my wife.
can sometimes be hard to hear. How
I worked as a professional nanny for
can I be honest without angering this
many years, and I’m still extremely
couple, and what’s the best way to
close to the first family I worked
start this conversation? — Outspo-
for. Although we have known each
ken Nanny
Dear Nanny: If your former
other for years, they still ask me not
J eanne
P hilliPs
to mention my marriage when I’m
employers think they can censor
ADVICE
around their kids. They refer to my
their children’s world to omit the fact
wife as my “roommate.” It’s all I can
that perfectly nice people, includ-
do to bite my tongue. I have ignored
ing one they love, are gay, they’re
this for too long.
dreaming. Kids today are very worldly.
I recently invited them over to see my new
When the parents started calling your wife
home. Because of their conservative views, I
your roommate, you should have corrected
warned them in advance about the wedding
them then and told them it was offensive and
photos I have displayed. I’m not ashamed
hurtful.
of my life. I am extremely proud of myself
Invite them to your home and leave your
and my wife. I am hurt and offended by their
wedding photos displayed. Why you are
requests. I feel they only accept certain parts
terrified that your relationship with them
of me. I realize it’s unhealthy to continue this
will end because you’re living your authen-
way, but I’m terrified of losing them. I’m
tic life mystifies me. If they can’t handle the
usually a straightforward person. I feel open
truth, you and your wife are better off with-
communication is important with everyone
out them.
DAYS GONE BY
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 11, 1921
The ground-hog, that well known Ameri-
can institution accredited with being as good
a weather prophet as Noah, failed miserably
this year in his prognostications. The ground-
hog, be it known, saw his shadow February
2 and with the disgruntled grunt common
to all hogs, retired to seclusion, vowing to
remain hidden during six weeks of threatened
storm. Now comes Major Moorhouse with
a bona fide weather report showing weeks
of sunshine and balmy breezes and putting
the would-be prophet completely to rout.
Umatilla county farmers, while welcoming
the spring days have lost faith in the ground-
hog and their disillusionment is as great as
when they discovered there really is no Santa
Claus.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 11, 1971
Edith Elaine Hoptowit, 18, of Cayuse has
been named Miss Indian Oregon and she will
represent all Indian tribes in this state at the
Miss Indian American pageant this summer
at Sheridan, Wyo. Miss Hoptowit, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Antone Hoptowit, won the
Miss Indian Oregon title over twelve contes-
tants at the United Indian Action Center in
Portland. She traveled to Portland from Stew-
art, Nev., where she and her sister Valerie are
attending an Indian boarding school. Elaine
received an honor last year that resulted in a
TODAY IN HISTORY
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
trip to Europe for the young tribal member.
She was named a member of the People to
People Citizen Ambassadors for 4-H. The
tour included Great Britain and the western
European countries, also some areas behind
the Iron Curtain. The Miss Indian Oregon
title is new this year. Sponsored by the Port-
land Indian Action Center, the contestants
were observed for a year by the judges before
the contest.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
March 11, 1996
Speeders beware! Tod Keppinger is going
to be on the lookout for traffic violators as the
Hermiston Police Department’s new motor-
cycle officer. Keppinger will receive intense
training in May to learn proper police motor-
cycle procedures, then he’ll be on the road
— probably by June — doing mostly traf-
fic patrol. Motorcycles are not unfamiliar to
Keppinger, who has owned and rode a bike
off duty for years. That love of motorcycles
prompted him to apply for the new position.
Chief Andy Anderson feels the motorcycle
will be more effective for doing traffic patrols
along the busy Highway 395 corridor. The
bike will be more maneuverable in heavy traf-
fic, allowing the officer to catch violators that
a patrol car could not get to. The used motor-
cycle, which came from the Salem Police
Department, is white with black markings
and will match well with Hermiston’s new
white patrol cars. The department currently
has patrol cars in four different colors.
On March 11, 1918,
what were believed to be the
first confirmed U.S. cases of
a deadly global flu pandemic
were reported among U.S.
Army soldiers stationed
at Fort Riley, Kansas; 46
would die. (The world-
wide outbreak of influenza
claimed an estimated 20 to
40 million lives.)
In 1862, during the
Civil War, President Abra-
ham Lincol n removed
Gen. George B. McClellan
as general-in-chief of the
Union armies, leaving him
in command of the Army of
the Potomac, a post McClel-
lan also ended up losing.
In 1942, as Japanese
forces continued to advance
in the Pacific during World
War II, U.S. Army Gen.
Douglas MacArthur left the
Philippines for Australia,
where he vowed on March
20, “I shall return” — a
promise he kept more than
2½ years later.
In 1954, the U.S. Army
charged that Sen. Joseph R.
McCarthy, R-Wis., and his
subcommittee’s chief coun-
sel, Roy Cohn, had exerted
pressure to obtain favored
treatment for Pvt. G. David
Schine, a former consul-
tant to the subcommittee.
(The confrontation culmi-
nated in the famous Senate
Army-McCarthy hearings.)
In 1985, Mikhail S.
Gorbachev was chosen to
succeed the late Konstantin
U. Chernenko as general
secretary of the Soviet
Communist Party.
In 2006, former Serb
leader Slobodan Milosevic
was found dead of a heart
attack in his prison cell in
the Netherlands, abruptly
ending his four-year U.N.
war crimes trial; he was 64.
Today’s Bi r thdays:
Me d ia mog u l Rup e r t
Murdoch is 90. Former ABC
News correspondent Sam
Donaldson is 87. Musician
Flaco Jimenez is 82. Actor
Tricia O’Neil is 76. Actor
Mark Metcalf is 75. Rock
singer-musician Mark Stein
(Vanilla Fudge) is 74. Singer
Bobby McFerrin is 71.
Movie director Jerry Zucker
is 71. Singer Cheryl Lynn is
70. Actor Susan Richardson
is 69. Recording executive
Jimmy Iovine is 68. Singer
Nina Hagen is 66. Coun-
try singer Jimmy Fortune
(The Statler Brothers) is 66.
Actor Elias Koteas is 60.
Actor-director Peter Berg
is 59. Singer Mary Gauthier
is 59. Actor Jeffrey Nordling
is 59. Actor Alex Kings-
ton is 58. Actor Wallace
Langham is 56. Former
U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson
Jr., D-Ill., is 56. Actor John
Barrowman is 54. Singer
Lisa Loeb is 53. Neo-soul
musician Al Gamble (St.
Paul & the Broken Bones)
is 52. Singer Pete Droge is
52. Actor Terrence Howard
is 52. Rock musician Rami
Jaffee is 52. Actor Johnny
Knoxville is 50. Rock sing-
er-musicians Benji and Joel
Madden (Good Charlotte;
The Madden Brothers) are
42. Actor David Anders is
40. Singer LeToya Luckett
is 40. Actor Thora Birch is
39. TV personality Melissa
Rycroft is 38. Actor Rob
Brown is 37. Actor Jodie
Comer is 28.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE