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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
COFFEE BREAK
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
DEAR ABBY
Man’s tattoos draw fire
from disapproving wife
Dear Abby: My tattoos are
feelings about it, it came across to her
destroying my marriage, and I just
as disrespectful of her feelings. As
don’t understand why. I’m a 56-year-
you have acquired more and more,
old elementary art teacher and the
it may have felt to her like one insult
father of three grown children. Since
piled on another.
I was young, I have loved the artistic
Having never spoken with your
expression of tattoos, and I always
wife, I can’t guess her reason for
envisioned having them, lots of them.
talking about leaving you, but it’s
Jeanne
It had been about 10 years since
important you ask why those roses
Phillips
my last one, but I decided to get
were the last straw. (Am I correct in
ADVICE
another one. Telling my wife about
assuming there’s no place else on
wanting another one was awful. My
your “canvas” that hasn’t been illus-
wife of 28 years hates tattoos. We
trated?)
have terrible arguments every time I get one.
Dear Abby: My husband and I have been
I have covered my entire upper body. (Other
married 20-plus years. His mother has never
than my hands, none of them are visible while
liked me. I have never done anything to her
I’m wearing my work clothes.) I love them.
or her husband.
I just returned home with roses tattooed
My father-in-law passed away two years
on my hands, and my wife is ready to leave
back, and my mother-in-law is older. If some-
me. She says I have gone too far with all my
thing happens to her, how am I supposed
ink. I’m a responsible and respectful person.
to react? I know I have to be there for my
I don’t drink, smoke, gamble or have any
husband. My husband and I get along wonder-
destructive vices. I’m highly regarded as a
fully, but at the same time, I would feel like a
leader and role model at my school.
hypocrite if I went to her funeral. We haven’t
Friends, colleagues — even strangers —
spoken in over a year.
compliment me on my tattoos. However, you
Other family members have repeated
would think my tattoos and I are the devil
things she has said about me as well as my
in my wife’s eyes. Am I the problem, or is
family. I put up with her behavior for years. I
her perception of tattoos the issue? Please,
only quit talking to her or going around her a
any advice would be greatly accepted. I can’t
year ago. — Hates Hypocrisy in Michigan
Dear Hates: Funerals are for the living.
understand her stance on this. — Art in Las
Do not succumb to the temptation to use your
Vegas
Dear Art: It is your body, and you have the
mother-in-law’s as a platform to demonstrate
right to do what you want with it. While not
your dislike of her. Attend the funeral and
everyone is a fan of body art, I assume that you
comfort your husband, who likely will be
had tattoos before you and your wife married.
hurting and need your support. And when you
It is possible that over the years, when you told
do, above all, refrain from humming, “Ding,
your wife you were getting more, knowing her
Dong, the Witch is Dead.”
DAYS GONE BY
From the East Oregonian
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
April 13, 1921
That a trainload of farmers from the
Middle West may be expected to pay Oregon
a visit during July with the intention of buying
land and settling is the information carried
in a letter that has been received at the office
of the Commercial Association from the
secretary of the Oregon State Chamber of
Commerce. An interesting itinerary is being
arranged for the visitors, and the Pendleton
organization has been asked to assist in the
work. Owing to the diversity of interests that
Umatilla county has to offer for farmers in
the way of wheat land, fruit land and irrigated
land, an effort will be made to secure a share
of the immigrants for this county.
50 Years Ago
April 13, 1971
A boarding home request will be consid-
ered again when the Pendleton Planning
Commission meets in the council chambers
at 4 p.m. Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jones
operate the boarding home at 704 S. Main
St., for former patients of Eastern Oregon
Hospital and Training Center. They applied
earlier for permission to increase the number
of boarders at the halfway house from six to
11. A petition opposing the location of the
halfway house was presented at last Tuesday’s
Pendleton City Council meeting. Fear was
expressed that residents of the house might
harm children.
25 Years Ago
April 13, 1996
Third grader Jessica Royal knows the
President of the United States is a busy man.
But that didn’t stop the 9-year-old Lincoln
Elementary School student from penning
Bill Clinton a letter and sending it to his
White House address. “I told him I wanted
to become President,” said Royal. “I asked
him to write back and give me some tips.”
The next thing you know Royal found herself
toting to school a personal, decidedly pres-
idential, reply. Royal’s third grade teacher,
Andrea Anderson, had hear Royal say she was
writing Clinton a letter. Still, it surprised her
when she showed up for class with a personal
reply for a Thursday morning show-and-tell
session. “She stood and read the whole thing,”
Anderson said.
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 13, 1970,
Apollo 13, four-fifths of the
way to the moon, was crip-
pled when a tank containing
liquid oxygen burst. (The
astronauts managed to return
safely.)
In 1743, the third pres-
ident of the United States,
Thomas Jefferson, was born
in Shadwell in the Virginia
Colony.
In 1861, at the start of
the Civil War, Fort Sumter
in South Carolina fell to
Confederate forces.
In 1870, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art was incor-
porated in New York. (The
original museum opened in
1872.)
In 1964, Sidney Poitier
became the first Black
performer in a leading role to
win an Academy Award for
his performance in “Lilies of
the Field.”
In 1992, the Great
Chicago Flood took place as
the city’s century-old tunnel
system and adjacent base-
ments filled with water from
the Chicago River. “The
Bridges of Madison County,”
a romance novel by Robert
James Waller, was published
by Warner Books.
In 1997, Tiger Woods
became the youngest person
to win the Masters Tourna-
ment and the first player of
partly African heritage to
claim a major golf title.
In 1999, right-to-die
advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian
was sentenced in Pontiac,
Michigan, to 10 to 25 years
in prison for second-degree
murder in the lethal injection
of a Lou Gehrig’s disease
patient. (Kevorkian ended
up serving eight years.)
In 2005, a defiant Eric
Rudolph pleaded guilty
to carrying out the deadly
bombing at the 1996 Atlanta
Olympics and three other
attacks in back-to-back court
appearances in Birmingham,
Alabama, and Atlanta.
In 2015, a federal judge
in Washington sentenced
former Blackwater security
guard Nicholas Slatten to life
in prison and three others to
30-year terms for their roles
in a 2007 shooting in Bagh-
dad’s Nisoor Square that
killed 14 Iraqi civilians and
wounded 17 others.
Today’s Bir thdays:
Singer Al Green is 75. Actor
Ron Perlman is 71. Band-
leader/rock musician Max
Weinberg is 70. Actor Saun-
dra Santiago is 64. Actor Page
Hannah is 57. Reggae singer
Capleton is 54. Singer Lou
Bega is 46. Actor-producer
Glenn Howerton is 45. Actor
Kyle Howard is 43. Actor
Kelli Giddish is 41. Actor
Courtney Peldon is 40. Pop
singer Nellie McKay is 39.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE