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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Schedules collide when mother
and daughter share a vehicle
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I am a 16-year-old
are times when family has to pull
girl, and I’m having a conflict with
together.
my mom over my car. Her car broke
On the grand scale of things at
down and she needed to use mine,
this point, your mom’s responsibil-
ities as an adult are more important
which is completely understand-
able, and I agreed. However, I have
than your love life. If your boyfriend
a work schedule I have to stick to,
thinks so little of you that your being
and I need my car to get to and from.
carless on a special occasion will
I pay all the bills for it, and the title
destroy your relationship, then that
Jeanne
relationship isn’t destined to last
is in my grandfather’s name.
Phillips
I asked her to let me use my car to
forever.
ADVICE
get to and from work and for Valen-
If lacking access to your car
tine’s Day with my boyfriend. She
means you would have to trudge 5
seemed extremely upset by it, and
miles in bad weather to and from
now she and my stepdad continually tell me
work, ask your stepdad or your grandfather
that should she ever need the car, I have to
if — in an emergency — one of them can
give it to her.
transport you. But do not attempt to lay down
the law to your mother, or I guarantee you
While I understand she needs it to get to
will not like the consequences.
and from work, and I’m willing to be flexi-
ble so she can, her demand that I not use it
Dear Abby: There is this guy that I like a
the entire time hers is in the shop (majority
lot. I want to ask him out, but it recently came
to my attention that we have a mutual ex-boy-
of this time is on a weekend when she’s not
working) is completely unacceptable because
friend. Should I bring it up or let it go? He is
I also have responsibilities.
friends with our shared ex on Facebook, and
I don’t know what to do. — Guy With A
How do I help her understand that while
she can use it for work because that is import-
Crush in Pennsylvania
ant, when I need it after her work hours, I
Dear Guy: Once the quarantine and social
should be able to use it because I pay for it?
distancing are lifted, ask him out. When you
Must I just suck it up and let her continue
do, I think it would be wise to disclose this
using it (putting my relationship with my
information to your crush because it will
boyfriend at risk and possibly having to walk
become apparent soon enough. If things
5 miles to work in bad weather) or tell her
move forward, there will likely be pictures
the days I need it are absolute, and since it
posted on Facebook. If you try to sweep it
is my car, I will be using it? — Confused
under the carpet, he will think you are doing
in Missouri
it because you have something to hide. Intro-
Dear Confused: While I agree with
duce the subject this way: “Small world, isn’t
it?”
the concept of “yours” and “mine,” there
DAYS GONE BY
From the East Oregonian
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
April 20, 1921
Gentlemen credited with being engaged in
the business of peddling moonshine let the story
gain circulation in Walla Walla yesterday morn-
ing that two cars loaded with “juice” with a kick
it in would be shipped overland immediately to
Portland by way of Pendleton. The same rumor
has it that the local authorities were warned to
be on the lookout for the booze. Other officers
along the proposed route were also warned, it
is said, including Athena men. A special guard
was kept on roads north of Pendleton. But the
booze never got this far. Instead, the two cars are
said to have come as far as the Warren Construc-
tion Company’s camp where a halt was called,
the booze was disposed of, and work on the
construction job is said to have been badly crip-
pled the rest of the day as a result.
50 Years Ago
April 20, 1971
A 10-year dispute over the location of
proposed Interstate 82 between Oregon and
Washington appeared to be moving toward
an end today, The Washington Highway
Commission approved Tuesday a proposal
that would drop I-82 into Oregon south of
Wallula. It would follow the route of High-
way 730 along the Columbia River to a point
between Hat Rock and Umatilla, then south
to Interstate 80 North, making a connect-
ing about Bucks Corner. A reliable source
indicated approval of the Oregon Highway
Commission is likely.
25 Years Ago
April 20, 1996
Some kids, no matter how you implore
them or how low their grades go, just won’t
do their homework. And, in years past, they
would have been passed from one grade to the
next — promoted in spite of their poor perfor-
mance. Not at Weston Middle School. At the
end of this school year, kids who have failed
in two or more core subject areas will remain
in the same grade next fall. That means eighth
graders who have frittered their time away
in English, math, social studies and science
won’t be heading to Weston-McEwen High
School just yet. They’ll have to wait — and
work — a year to get their grades up.
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 20, 1999, the
Columbine High School
massacre took place in Colo-
rado as two students shot and
killed 12 classmates and one
teacher before taking their
own lives.
In 1812, the fourth vice
president of the United
States, George Clinton, died
in Washington at age 72,
becoming the first vice pres-
ident to die while in office.
In 1863, President Abra-
ham Lincoln signed a proc-
lamation admitting West
Virginia to the Union, effec-
tive in 60 days (on June 20,
1863).
In 1914, the Ludlow
Massacre took place when
the Colorado National Guard
opened fire on a tent colony
of striking miners; about
20 (accounts vary) strikers,
women and children died.
In 1916, the Chicago
Cubs played their first game
at Wrigley Field (then known
as Weeghman Park); the
Cubs defeated the Cincinnati
Reds 7-6.
In 1938, “Olympia,” Leni
Riefenstahl’s documentary
about the 1936 Berlin Olym-
pic games, was first shown in
Nazi Germany.
In 1971, the Supreme
Court unanimously upheld
the use of busing to achieve
racial desegregation in
schools.
In 1972, Apollo 16′s lunar
module, carrying astronauts
John W. Young and Charles
M. Duke Jr., landed on the
moon.
In 1986, following an
absence of six decades,
Russian-born pianist Vladi-
mir Horowitz performed in
the Soviet Union to a packed
audience at the Grand Hall of
the Tchaikovsky Conserva-
tory in Moscow.
In 1988, gunmen who had
hijacked a Kuwait Airways
jumbo jet were allowed safe
passage out of Algeria under
an agreement that freed
the remaining 31 hostages
and ended a 15-day siege in
which two passengers were
slain.
In 2003, U.S. Army forces
took control of Baghdad from
the Marines in a changing of
the guard that thinned the
military presence in the capi-
tal.
In 2010, an explosion
on the Deepwater Horizon
oil platform, leased by BP,
killed 11 workers and caused
a blowout that began spew-
ing an estimated 200 million
gallons of crude into the Gulf
of Mexico. (The well was
finally capped nearly three
months later.)
Today’s Birthdays: Actor
George Takei is 84. Actor
Judith O’Dea is 76. Actor
Jessica Lange is 72. Actor
Veronica Cartwright is 72.
Actor Crispin Glover is 57.
Actor Andy Serkis is 57.
Olympic silver medal figure
skater Rosalynn Sumners is
57. Reggae singer Stephen
Marley is 49. Rock musician
Marty Crandall is 46. Actor
Joey Lawrence is 45.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE