Tuesday, April 6, 2021
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
East Oregonian
A15
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Unguarded comment may cause
brothers to break permanently
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 senior male.
you. He is doing what emotionally
I understand I may have some
healthy people do, erasing a nega-
tive influence from his life. You
beliefs that others find old-fash-
ioned. However, I consciously try
can continue trying to apologize by
to be tolerant of others’ feelings
penning a heartfelt letter of apology
and beliefs. That said, my problem
and remorse, promising to never use
is with my younger brother, who is
those words again, and sending it
a homosexual. I have always tried
to your brother. But if he continues
to ignore that side of his life and,
to be unreceptive, you will have to
Jeanne
consequently, we have always had
live with it.
Phillips
a good relationship. He lives in
Dear Abby: I met a man online
ADVICE
another state, so we only talk on the
seven months ago. We hit it off right
away. I checked to make sure he
telephone.
A couple of months ago while we
wasn’t a “catfisher” and everything
were talking, the subject of sexuality came
checked out. We talk on the phone at least
up, and I told him I find the fact that he is gay
twice a day, Facebook Messenger and video
“disgusting.” I know it was a poor choice of
chat. He sent me a card for my birthday along
with some money.
words. I merely meant to say that I, myself,
I have developed strong feelings for him,
am and always have been totally heterosex-
ual. I have never had any sexual interest in
and he has told me he loves me. He has told
members of my own sex. I never meant my
me many times he wants to meet, but we
couldn’t do it because of the pandemic. He’s
comment to be judgmental of my brother or
a jewelry designer trying to get his business
anyone else.
I left several messages apologizing for
back up before he loses it. He’s afraid to lose
anything I said that he found objectionable.
everything.
Now, when I try to contact him, he doesn’t
I don’t know what to do. Should I keep
answer my phone calls.
waiting or just stay friends with him? We
Abby, I miss my brother. I truly love him,
really care about each other, but circum-
and I don’t want to lose all contact with him.
stances prevent us from meeting. — Broken-
hearted in New York
If you have any advice for me, please give it
to me. I’m desperate and can think of nothing
Dear Brokenhearted: Because “circum-
I might be able to do to restore our relation-
stances” prevent you from meeting this man
ship. Please help me. — Feels Like A Fool in
in person, try hard to regain your balance
Washington
and stay friends. Although you think you
Dear Feels Like: I have never understood
know him, until you finally meet in person,
why so many straight people spend so much
you really don’t. Even if you confirmed he
time obsessing about what gay people might
works in jewelry design, he may still be
be doing behind closed doors. That, to me,
hiding something from you. Often when a
is disgusting.
significant other keeps making excuses not
to meet, there’s a good reason for it and not
I’ll be frank. After what you said to your
brother, he would have to be a saint to forgive
always what you want to hear.
DAYS GONE BY
From the East Oregonian
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
April 6, 1921
Whether work on the Cold Springs road, in
Umatilla county, should start at the river or at
the Pendleton end is a subject for controversy.
Farmers want the road started from the river, so
that they can truck their wheat to the boats and
ship by water to the markets. Pendleton people
want the work started from Pendleton, as this
will bring business into the town. There isn’t
enough money in sight at this time to complete
the road, so one end or the other is bound to be
disappointed.
50 Years Ago
April 6, 1971
Approximately 80 Safeway employes in
Baker, Enterprise and La Grande went on
strike today, joining 60 Safeway employes who
struck stores in Hermiston and Pendleton last
Thursday. The employes are all members of
Retail Clerks Union Local 1612, which seeks
parity with wages paid to Safeway employes
in the Tri-Cities area of Eastern Washing-
ton. Other major grocery stores in Pendleton,
Hermiston and Umatilla have locked out union
clerks. All stores are continuing operation with
supervisory personnel and nonunion workers.
25 Years Ago
April 6, 1996
Next school year, Renae Schuening’s
students will learn about depths of man’s
inhumanity to man from someone who has
seen the evidence first hand. Schuening, who
teaches social studies to sixth, seventh and
eighth graders at the Helix School, is one of
45 American teachers who received a teaching
fellowship from the New York-based Jewish
Labor Committee. The fellowship is to study
Jewish history with an emphasis on the Zionist
Movement of the late 19th and 20th centuries,
the Holocaust, and the founding of the State
of Israel.
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
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 April 6, 1909, Ameri-
can explorers Robert E. Peary
and Matthew A. Henson and
four Inuits became the first
men to reach the North Pole.
In 1862, the Civil War
Battle of Shiloh began in
Tennessee as Confederate
forces launched a surprise
attack against Union troops,
who beat back the Confeder-
ates the next day.
In 1886, the Canadian city
of Vancouver, British Colum-
bia, was incorporated.
In 1896, the first modern
Olympic games formally
opened in Athens, Greece.
In 1917, the United States
entered World War I as the
House joined the Senate in
approving a declaration of
war against Germany that
was then signed by President
Woodrow Wilson.
In 1945, during World
War II, the Japanese warship
Yamato and nine other
vessels sailed on a suicide
mission to attack the U.S.
fleet off Okinawa; the fleet
was intercepted the next day.
In 1954, Sen. Joseph R.
McCarthy, R-Wis., respond-
ing to CBS newsman Edward
R. Murrow’s broadside
against him on “See It Now,”
said in remarks filmed for
the program that Murrow
had, in the past, “engaged in
propaganda for Communist
causes.”
In 1968, 41 people were
killed by two consecutive
natural gas explosions at
a sporting goods store in
downtown Richmond, Indi-
ana.
In 1974, Swedish pop
group ABBA won the Euro-
vision Song Contest held
in Brighton, England, with
a performance of the song
“Waterloo.”
In 1985, William J.
Schroeder became the first
artificial heart recipient
to be discharged from the
hospital as he moved into
an apartment in Louisville,
Kentucky.
In 2008, Democratic pres-
idential candidate Barack
Obama, speaking at a private
fundraiser in San Francisco,
spoke of voters in Pennsylva-
nia’s Rust Belt communities
who “cling to guns or reli-
gion” because of bitterness
about their economic lot;
Democratic rival Hillary
Rodham Clinton seized on
the comment, calling it “elit-
ist.”
In 2017, Don Rickles, the
big-mouthed, bald-headed
“Mr. Warmth” whose verbal
assaults endeared him to
audiences and peers and
made him the acknowl-
edged grandmaster of insult
comedy, died at his Beverly
Hills home at age 90.
Today’s Bir thdays:
Nobel Prize-winning scien-
tist James D. Watson is 93.
Actor Billy Dee Williams
is 84. Movie director Barry
Levinson is 79. Olympic
bronze medal figure skater
Janet Lynn is 68. Actor Paul
Rudd is 52. Actor Zach Braff
is 46. Jazz and R&B musician
Robert Glasper is 43. Actor
Eliza Coupe is 40. Actor
Charlie McDermott is 31.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE