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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, March 25, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Widower fears impotence
will kill new relationship
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: I am a faithful male
of people because I’m afraid of big
reader of your column. I lost my
groups, but I still want to be friends
beautiful wife of 40 years last year.
with her. When I told her I’d think
During our marriage, I had pros-
about it, she suddenly turned cold.
tate cancer and decided to have the
I’m confused. I don’t know what
surgery to remove it. I was told by
I should do. She was there for me
my doctor that there was a chance I
since third grade, and I was there for
her, and now she seems to be fading
would never again be intimate with
Jeanne
my wife, and she was OK with it.
really fast — six years of friendship
Phillips
Now that she’s gone, I have grown
just forgotten. Please give me some
ADVICE
close to her childhood best friend. I
advice. — Friend Drama in Mich-
don’t know whether a relationship
igan
is in the making, but I’m afraid once
Dear Friend Drama: Some-
she finds out I’m unable to perform, the rela-
times when a person says “I’ll think about
tionship will die.
it,” it comes across as a negative reply. Your
I have tried every pill on the market,
friend’s feelings may have been hurt because
pump, etc. Is it possible to have a good rela-
she interpreted it as a rejection. It would have
been better if you had explained that you are
tionship with someone without intercourse?
Or do you think I’m doomed? — Going
uncomfortable in large groups and would
forward in Virginia
prefer to see her one-on-one if she was will-
Dear Going: I do not think you are
ing. It may not be too late to get that message
“doomed.” If you are under the impression
across to her. If the price of her company is
that all women your age (and younger) would
that you will have to learn to be more social,
reject you because you can no longer have
you will then have to decide which is more
sexual intercourse, allow me to reassure you.
important.
Many women would value warmth, affection,
Dear Abby: I have a co-worker who
compatible ethics and morals, and an intel-
just built a house. When I asked her what
lectual equal to share their life with. So be
she would like for a housewarming gift, she
honest, and you may be pleasantly surprised
told me a nice wine carafe with a stopper. So
to discover that not only are you eligible, but
that’s exactly what I got her.
that you are also in demand.
I recently found out she had a housewarm-
ing party, and I wasn’t invited. I had asked
Dear Abby: I have a friend who is really
popular. We have been best friends since
her when it was going to be, and she didn’t
third grade, but when we started ninth grade,
mention a word about it. Am I still obligated
she really changed. She started hanging out
to give her the gift I got for her? Or should I
with the “cool” kids and acting weird. She
write her off and give it to someone else? —
told me that because I was her friend, I had
Excluded in Corpus Christi
the automatic right to hang out with them.
Dear Excluded: Ouch! Write her off and
regift it.
I don’t like to hang out with large groups
DAYS GONE BY
From the East Oregonian
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
March 25, 1921
Frank Branch Riley, who has been able to
break into very exclusive organizations in the
East and tell millionaire bank presidents and
habitual world travelers the story of Oregon
and the northwest was the chief speaker at the
Pendleton Commercial Association banquet.
Mr. Riley spoke for an hour or longer and his
listeners did a strange thing. They applauded
vigorously for several minutes and gave
him a “curtain call,” an honor never before
accorded a speaker in this city during the last
16 years. In a straight from the shoulder talk
on community cooperation Mr. Riley made
it clear that to hold membership in the local
commercial organization is not merely a duty
but a privilege every clear thinking business-
man, professional man and farmer will enjoy
without much urging. The speaker extolled
Secretary Claud Barr as a man who went to
Astoria when the town was asleep and inside
of four years had made it a community that
is now knocking chips off both shoulders of
Portland and getting away with it.
50 Years Ago
March 25, 1971
Several Mac Hi girls are sporting, or soon
will be wearing, a simple bracelet with the
name of a serviceman and a date inscribed
on it. To the average onlooker it looks like
a “going-steady” bracelet given them by a
boyfriend. In fact, however, the name of the
serviceman and the corresponding date refer
to an individual who is either a prisoner of
war in North Vietnam or missing in action.
The date tells the wearer when the service-
man was last seen or heard from by the allies.
The amulets are sold by a Los Angeles firm,
Voices in Vital America, which is dedicated
to determining the status of America’s POWs
and its missing men in action. The girls pledge
to VIVA they will not remove the bracelet
until the Red Cross is allowed into Hanoi and
can assure the prisoner’s family of his status
and that he receives humane treatment.
25 Years Ago
March 25, 1996
Spring is almost a week old, but the
temperature didn’t reflect that this morning.
This morning’s low of 17 in downtown Pend-
leton was a record for the date. The previ-
ous low for March 25 was 19 in 1927. The
normal Pendleton low for the date is 36. It
was also a record-breaking morning at the
Pendleton airport, where 19 degrees broke
the previous record low of 22 in 1955. Other
lows in Eastern Oregon included 13 in Bend
and Redmond, 14 in Burns, and just 9 in
Prineville. But that was downright toasty
compared to this morning’s national low:
minus 21 at Butte, Mont.
TODAY IN HISTORY
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
On March 25, 1911, 146
people, mostly young female
immigrants, were killed
when fire broke out at the
Triangle Shirtwaist Co. in
New York.
In 1634, English colo-
nists sent by Lord Baltimore
arrived in present-day Mary-
land.
In 1931, in the so-called
“Scottsboro Boys” case,
nine young Black men were
taken off a train in Alabama,
accused of raping two white
women; after years of convic-
tions, death sentences and
imprisonment, the nine were
eventually vindicated.
In 1965, the Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr. led 25,000
people to the Alabama state
capitol in Montgomery
after a five-day march from
Selma to protest the denial of
voting rights to Blacks. Later
that day, civil rights activist
Viola Liuzzo, a white Detroit
homemaker, was shot and
killed by Ku Klux Klansmen.
In 1985, “Amadeus” won
eight Academy Awards,
including best picture, best
director for Milos Forman
and best actor for F. Murray
Abraham.
In 1987, the Supreme
Court, in Johnson v. Trans-
portation Agency, ruled
6-3 that an employer could
promote a woman over an
arguably more-qualified man
to help get women into high-
er-ranking jobs.
In 1988, in New York
City’s so-called “Preppie
Killer” case, Robert Cham-
bers Jr. pleaded guilty to
first-degree manslaughter
in the death of 18-year-old
Jennifer Levin. (Chambers
received 5 to 15 years in
prison; he was released in
2003 after serving the full
sentence.)
In 1990, 87 people, most
of them Honduran and
Dominican immigrants,
were killed when fire raced
through an illegal social club
in New York City.
Today’s Bir thdays:
Feminist activist and author
Gloria Steinem is 87. Singer
Sir Elton John is 74. Actor
Brenda Strong is 61. Author
Kate DiCamillo is 57. Olym-
pic bronze medal figure
skater Debi Thomas is 54.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE