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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, April 1, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
New wife can’t stop thinking
about husband’s old girlfriend
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: I’m a young wife.
Dear Inbox Full: Your friend
I married after three months of
may be sending these items because,
dating my military husband. He was
as a retiree, he has little to do but
previously in an on-again/off-again
cruise the internet for entertain-
relationship that lasted about eight
ment. It would not be rude to tell this
years, during which she had a baby
not-so-close friend you don’t have
time to review all of the emails he
with another man, etc. I believe my
husband is still in love with her.
has been sending and ask him to
send fewer. It’s the truth. However,
After constantly asking him, he
Jeanne
says he just wishes her well and he
if he doesn’t comply and the barrage
Phillips
continues, feel free to block them or
doesn’t have any romantic feelings.
ADVICE
I’m not sure what to do, and I just
create a filter for these emails that
keep overthinking it. Any thoughts?
sends them to a folder where they
— Hate’s Husband’s History
can be easily scanned and deleted.
Dear H.H.H.: Stop torturing your
Dear Abby: My husband of 32 years often
husband — and yourself — by constantly
tells me women compliment him on his looks
asking him about his feelings for his unfaith-
or the way he dresses. I compliment him
ful ex-girlfriend. Get to work building your
often, but I think it’s his way of telling me
that he’s still “got it” and I should be proud to
self-esteem, and you will have less to worry
about. Your husband’s history (baggage) is
have a husband who’s hot and good-looking.
his own. You are making a mistake by drag-
Am I crazy for not enjoying hearing
ging it into your marriage. If you concen-
what other women think? If anything, it has
trate on the positive, you will have a happier
caused some insecurity on my part. I have
asked him to stop sharing these comments
marriage, and so will your husband.
Dear Abby: Shortly after a retired,
and told him I’m tired of hearing them —
not-so-close friend moved to another city,
especially since I have told him repeatedly
he began sending emails about events he had
what I think of him, his looks and his way of
read about in social media, news outlets and
dressing. Am I wrong? — Loves Him Inside
magazines. At first there were only a few
And Out
a day, but as the days increased, so did his
Dear Loves Him: I don’t think you’re
emails. I responded to some of them, but he
wrong. But has it occurred to you that
never commented on them. He just sent more
your husband may do this not out of ego
and more to the point that his daily emails
but because he is insecure? People who are
are more than I can — or want to — read. I
secure within themselves do not feel the need
am spending too much time deleting them.
to continually toot their own horns the way
What should I do? Should I ask him not to
your handsome, stylish husband does. Try
send them anymore, or should I stay quiet
this: The next time he does it, smile, nod in
so as not to hurt his feelings? — Inbox Full
agreement and tell him you agree with his
admirer. And repeat as necessary.
in Missouri
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
From the East Oregonian
100 Years Ago
April 1, 1921
A $15,000 pipe organ, a Wurlitzer Hope-
Jones of the same type as that installed in
Gramman’s million dollar theatre in Los
Angeles, has been contracted for the new
motion picture theatre which will be built
on Main street for occupancy about Septem-
ber 1. Excavation of the building has already
begun and later the two buildings which now
house the Gem shop, cigar store and meat
market will be torn down in preparation for
the construction work. The building will
have a 50 foot frontage, a full basement and
a balcony. The structure of brick will cost
about $40,000 and will have a seating capac-
ity of 800. While primarily a motion picture
theatre, the building will be equipped for
vaudeville performances also. There will be
a 20 foot tiled entrance, with a store building
on either side. A large lobby and rostrum will
be features, and the heating and ventilating
systems will be strictly modern.
50 Years Ago
April 1, 1971
Steer busting is “a brutal exploitation
of animals for profit,” a Heppner woman
told the Fish and Game Committee of the
Oregon House today. Forty-four other states
have outlawed the practice. At present it is
conducted in Oregon only at the Pendle-
ton Round-Up. In steer busting, a rodeo
performer tosses a rope around the horns of
TODAY IN HISTORY
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
a running animal, loops the rope around the
flanks of the steer and trips it. Representatives
of the Round-Up testified that injury is rare
and that the animals are well cared for. Jiggs
Fisk, livestock director of the show, said out of
250 rides in the event by cowboys, five horns
were broken and one steer suffered a broken
leg. A representative of the Animal Defenders
League at the hearing produced a letter from
Gov. Tom McCall in which he said he would
work to ban the “brutal and offensive” sport.
25 Years Ago
April 1, 1996
It’s the end of an era. The Burger Barn,
that bastion of ‘50s-style car hop hep, milk
shakes and bite-size hamburgers, has closed.
“Kids used to get out of their cars and mill
around,” said Erlaine Hajek, 57, who bought
the restaurant with her husband, Frank, in
1967 when it was an A&W. Hajek unex-
pectedly received an offer from the owner
of Courtesy Appliance and with hesitation
decided to sell the property. And so furni-
ture, freezers and dishwashers will take the
place of french fry baskets, root beer vats and
milk shake mixers. Hajek continued the A&W
tradition of mixing her own root beer even
after the restaurant went independent in 1985,
and customers still waited in their cars for car
hops to deliver their food. Some things had
changed with the time, however. A double
burger zoomed from 60 cents to $2.45 during
the past 30 years.
On April 1, 1954, the
United States Air Force
Academy was established by
President Dwight D. Eisen-
hower.
In 1945, American forces
launched the amphibious
invasion of Okinawa during
World War II. (U.S. forces
succeeded in capturing the
Japanese island on June 22.)
In 1970, President Rich-
ard M. Nixon signed a
measure banning cigarette
advertising on radio and tele-
vision, to take effect after Jan.
1, 1971.
In 1972, the first Major
League Baseball players’
strike began; it lasted 12
days.
In 1975, with Khmer
Rouge guerrillas closing in,
Cambodian President Lon
Nol resigned and fled into
exile, spending the rest of his
life in the United States.
In 1976, Apple Computer
was founded by Steve Jobs,
Steve Wozniak and Ronald
Wayne.
In 1977, the U.S. Senate
followed the example of the
House of Representatives
by adopting, 86-9, a strin-
gent code of ethics requiring
full financial disclosure and
limits on outside income.
In 1984, Marvin Gaye
was shot to death by his
father, Marvin Gay Sr. in
Los Angeles, the day before
the recording star’s 45th
birthday. (The elder Gay
pleaded guilty to voluntary
manslaughter and received
probation.)
In 1987, in his first speech
on the AIDS epidemic, Pres-
ident Ronald Reagan told
doctors in Philadelphia,
“We’ve declared AIDS
public health enemy no. 1.”
In 1992, the National
Hockey League Players’
Association went on its first-
ever strike, which lasted 10
days.
Today’s Bir thdays:
Actor Jane Powell is 92.
Actor Annette O’Toole is
69. Singer Susan Boyle is 60.
Rapper-actor Method Man
is 50. Political commentator
Rachel Maddow is 48. Singer
Bijou Phillips is 41.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE