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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, April 15, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Long marriage becomes verbally,
physically abusive over time
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: My husband’s dad,
encouragement, he can receive it
“Adam,” is very mellow and can
because there are programs avail-
talk to anyone. His mom, “Eve,” is
able for male victims of domestic
friendly, but a little more reserved.
violence. Stop Abuse for Every-
Early in their marriage, Adam
one (SAFE) is an organization that
helps abused individuals of all ages,
was a drinker, and my mother-in-
law has never forgiven him for the
genders, races and sexual orienta-
way he treated her during that time.
tions. The website is stopabusefor-
Jeanne
She has always treated him disre-
everyone.org.
Phillips
spectfully, but as they get older, it’s
Dear Abby: I met a nice friend.
ADVICE
He’s a widower whose wife has been
becoming worse.
She has hit Adam when we had
gone for three years. My husband
people over because he didn’t do
died 10 years ago.
what she told him to do. I told her to stop, and
He makes me laugh, something I haven’t
my husband told her she embarrassed him,
done in a while. I really like this guy, but he
but Eve forgets or doesn’t care and continues
is still grieving. Some days he’s good, but
others he’s a mess.
to do it. She talks down to him constantly. If
I want us to be in a relationship, and I think
that’s how she acts when people are around,
I hate to think what happens behind closed
he could be “the one.” We’ve only been court-
doors.
ing for a month, but he has been pursuing
When she hits him, Adam sits there
me for a year. Should I give it more time,
expressionless and doesn’t react. He’s not the
or should I move on with my life? I haven’t
man he once was, and he is adored by many
been intimate with him, but he still makes me
feel like a woman, which is something I’ve
people. What can we do to help my FIL and
make her stop doing this in front of her grand-
missed. — Thinking It’s Him in Maryland
kids and company? Eve claims to be a Chris-
Dear Thinking: As you know, the process
tian, but isn’t acting like one. — Frustrated
of grieving isn’t a straight line. When a loved
one dies, the survivors have good periods and
in Michigan
Dear Frustrated: Your father-in-law may
ones that are less so. You are further along
have had a drinking problem years ago, but he
in this grieving process than your friend
has a different problem now. He is a victim of
because his loss is more recent.
verbal and physical abuse. He may have toler-
If a relationship (or more) is what you
ated it all these years out of guilt for what he
want, allow him more time to work through
put his wife through when he was drinking.
his feelings. However, if the bad spells don’t
He may also have become so beaten down
become less frequent, suggest he talk with his
that he can no longer protect himself.
doctor about joining a grief support group in
He does need help. With your and his son’s
which he can safely vent his feelings.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
From the East Oregonian
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
April 15, 1921
Great interest was displayed in the Indian
pageant “Seeking the White Man’s Book of
Heaven,” which was given by Mr. and Mrs.
Parsons Motanic and young people of Park-
dale under the direction of Rev. J.M. Cornel-
ison at the Presbytery of Pendleton which
has just been concluded at Parkdale. Pastors
of the churches at Bend and Redmond have
expressed a desire to have the pageant put on in
their churches to arouse interest in missionary
work. The Home Mission board in New York
has also inquired as to the probable cost of
having a party of Indians coming east with the
missionary in the near future to stage the same
pageant in a number of the large churches.
50 Years Ago
April 15, 1971
The accuracy of U.S. Air Force pilots
was effectively demonstrated at the Navy
Bombing Range near Boardman Monday in
a competitive heavy equipment drop demon-
stration. The occasion was part of the continu-
ing training in the Military Airlift Command,
22nd Air Force. Taking part were planes from
Norton Air Force Base at San Bernardino,
Calif., the Norton Reserve, Travis AFB
near San Francisco, and McChord AFB at
Tacoma. As each plane came in ground crews
set smoke signals for the C41s to hit with their
two-ton dead weight pellets, simulating heavy
equipment. The 100-foot parachutes brought
their cargo to the exact target in three out of
four drops.
25 Years Ago
April 15, 1996
Everybody knows Hermiston has lots
of potatoes; but would you believe classi-
cal musicians? The town counts two natives
playing with major orchestras — Tim
Morrison, a trumpet player with the Boston
Symphony, and Ron Blessinger, a violinist
with the Oregon Symphony. “Per capita, we
may have the highest rate in classical musi-
cians in the world,” says Blessinger, 30, who
will appear in Hermiston April 24 when the
Oregon Symphony hits the road to celebrate
its 100th anniversary. Asked how he earned
a spot in the Oregon Symphony having been
raised in a town too small for an orchestra
program, Blessinger gives a one-word reply.
“Parents,” he says. “If a child shows talent
for a classical instrument, parents have to be
prepared to drive a long ways, which is what
my parents did with me.”
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 15, 1947, Jackie
Robinson, baseball’s first
Black major league player,
made his official debut with
the Brooklyn Dodgers on
opening day at Ebbets Field.
(The Dodgers defeated the
Boston Braves, 5-3.)
In 1452, artist and inven-
tor Leonardo da Vinci was
born in or near the Tuscan
town of Vinci.
In 1850, the city of San
Francisco was incorporated.
In 1865, President Abra-
ham Lincoln died nine
hours after being shot the
night before by John Wilkes
Booth at Ford’s Theater in
Washington; Andrew John-
son became the nation’s 17th
president.
In 1912, the British luxury
liner RMS Titanic foun-
dered in the North Atlantic
off Newfoundland more than
2 1/2 hours after hitting an
iceberg; 1,514 people died,
while less than half as many
survived.
In 1945, during World
War II, British and Canadian
troops liberated the Nazi
concentration camp Bergen-
Belsen. President Franklin D.
Roosevelt, who died on April
12, was buried at the Roos-
evelt family home in Hyde
Park, New York.
In 1989, 96 people died in
a crush of soccer fans at Hill-
sborough Stadium in Shef-
field, England. Students in
Beijing launched a series of
pro-democracy protests; the
demonstrations culminated
in a government crackdown
at Tiananmen Square.
In 1998, Pol Pot, the noto-
rious leader of the Khmer
Rouge, died at age 72, evad-
ing prosecution for the deaths
of two million Cambodians.
In 2009, whipped up by
conservative commentators
and bloggers, tens of thou-
sands of protesters staged
“tea parties” around the
country to tap into the collec-
tive angst stirred up by a bad
economy, government spend-
ing and bailouts.
In 2013, two bombs
made from pressure cook-
ers exploded at the Boston
Marathon finish line, killing
two women and an 8-year-
old boy and injuring more
than 260. Suspected bomber
Tamerlan Tsarnaev died in
a shootout with police; his
brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,
was tried, convicted and
sentenced to death.
Today’s Bir thdays:
Actor Claudia Cardinale is
83. Writer-producer Linda
Bloodworth-Thomason is
74. Columnist Heloise is 70.
Actor-screenwriter Emma
Thompson is 62. Rock musi-
cian Ed O’Brien (Radio-
head) is 53. Actor-writer Seth
Rogen is 39.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE