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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, April 22, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Stress of pandemic changes
beloved sister’s personality
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: My sister and I are
It goes without saying that when you
best friends. She has always been
can make other living arrangements
caring, empathetic and passionate
— perhaps in the fall — you find
about helping others. Now, however,
a roommate more compatible than
COVID has turned her into a real
your sister. If you do, your relation-
piece of work.
ship with her may improve because
Since the pandemic began,
you will be exposed to her less often.
Dear Abby: My husband and I
she has become increasingly self-
Jeanne
have two children. We have been
ish. She interrupts other people’s
Phillips
conversations to talk about herself
married for 14 years, the last six of
ADVICE
and complains nonstop about how
which have been sexless and love-
COVID has ruined her life, as if the
less. We tried counseling, and I have
rest of us weren’t experiencing this
threatened divorce, but nothing has
too.
changed.
She shouts hysterically at me when the
After I finally realized that I couldn’t
Wi-Fi stops working and refuses to volun-
change him, I changed myself. I started step-
teer for the most basic household tasks. At
ping out and having sexual relations with
first I tried to be patient because I understand
other men. He recently found out about my
it’s a reaction to an incredibly stressful time
affairs, but hasn’t said a word about it to me.
in her life. However, after 10 monster months
I’m to the point that I wish he would confront
of this, I’m at my wits’ end.
me and divorce me, but he acts like nothing is
We live together, go to college together
wrong in our marriage! I’m confused. What
and share the same friends. How can I toler-
do you recommend I do next? — Looking
Ahead in Kansas
ate her self-centeredness until the pandemic
Dear Looking Ahead: It’s time to decide
is finally over? And what if this new version
what you want to happen. Do you want a
of her never goes away? — Irked in Idaho
Dear Irked: I wonder if the friends you
divorce? Is the status quo acceptable to you?
share with your sister are having the same
If it’s the latter, do nothing different than what
reaction as you are to being interrupted and
you have been doing. However, if it isn’t, talk
having their conversations hijacked. If the
to your husband about what you are thinking.
answer is yes, a group intervention may jolt
You need to figure out why the change in
her back to reality and help her recognize how
your marriage happened and if it can be fixed.
obnoxious it is.
He may have become impotent or have some-
As to the rest of your complaints about her
one he is seeing on the side. If it’s possible to
behavior, the next time she comes scream-
repair your marriage, counseling would be
ing to you about the Wi-Fi failing, tell her
an option. However, if it’s not, it might be
you’ll be glad to help if she agrees to pull her
healthier for both of you to talk to a lawyer
and arrange an amicable divorce.
share of the workload around the apartment.
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
From the East Oregonian
100 Years Ago
April 22, 1921
Articles for the formation the Oregon
Co-operative Hay Growers Corporation were
drawn up last night at a meeting in Hermis-
ton ad signed by Arthur L. Larsen, Charles
Powell, George Beddow, Adolf Skoubo, John-
Campbell, Eli Winesett and Hawley Bean,
directors of the Columbia Basin Hay Grow-
ers’ Association which will be absorbed by
the new organization. About 100 hay grow-
ers from Umatilla and Morrow counties are
members of the Columbia Basin associa-
tion and it is probably that the majority will
join the new body. The pooling will be on
the 100 percent basis. The farmers of the hay
growing sections realize that the successful
marketing of hay depends much on the local
consumption and it will be the policy of the
hay growers to encourage the feeding of hay
in the county.
50 Years Ago
April 22, 1971
Ukiah wants to incorporate as a city. The
community, a pioneer settlement in southern
Umatilla County, has taken on new vitality
during the last few years with the comple-
tion of a modern water system and increased
demand for recreational land. The Umatilla
County Court said Wednesday that petitions
asking for incorporation are being processed.
Next will come a hearing, and then an elec-
tion. Dates have not been set but are expected
to fall within the next three months. Four
other communities in the county remain
unincorporated. They are Meacham, Rieth,
Umapine and Mission.
25 Years Ago
April 22, 1996
To Donald Freepons, Umatilla is the right
place at the right time for a canola process-
ing plant. Umatilla is centrally located to the
Northwest’s canola crop production and to
markets that buy canola oil and related prod-
ucts, he said. Freepons, of Kennewick, has
asked the Port of Umatilla for permission
to seek grant funding for a business plan to
build such a plant in the port district. He esti-
mated the plant could be built for less than
$25 million. Port commissioners suggested
he seek funds through Regional Strategies or
related rural investment programs.
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 22, 2005,
Zacarias Moussaoui pleaded
guilty in a federal courtroom
outside Washington, D.C., to
conspiring with the Sept. 11
hijackers to kill Americans.
(Moussaoui is serving a life
prison sentence.)
In 1864, Congress autho-
rized the use of the phrase “In
God We Trust” on U.S. coins.
In 1889, the Oklahoma
Land Rush began at noon as
thousands of homesteaders
staked claims.
In 1898, with the United
States and Spain on the verge
of war, the U.S. Navy began
blockading Cuban ports.
Congress authorized creation
of the 1st U.S. Volunteer
Cavalry, also known as the
“Rough Riders.”
In 1915, the first full-
scale use of deadly chem-
icals in warfare took place
as German forces unleashed
chlorine gas against Allied
troops at the start of the
Second Battle of Ypres in
Belgium during World War
I; thousands of soldiers are
believed to have died.
In 1937, thousands of
college students in New York
City staged a “peace strike”
opposing American entry
into another possible world
conflict.
In 1952, an atomic test
in Nevada became the first
nuclear explosion shown
on live network television
as a 31-kiloton bomb was
dropped from a B-50 Super-
fortress.
In 1954, the publicly tele-
vised sessions of the Senate
Army-McCarthy hearings
began.
In 1970, millions of
Americans concerned about
the environment observed
the first “Earth Day.”
In 1994, Richard M.
Nixon, the 37th president of
the United States, died at a
New York hospital four days
after suffering a stroke; he
was 81.
In 2000, in a dramatic
pre-dawn raid, armed immi-
gration agents seized Elian
Gonzalez, the Cuban boy
at the center of a custody
dispute, from his relatives’
home in Miami; Elian was
reunited with his father at
Andrews Air Force Base near
Washington.
In 2004, Army Ranger
Pat Tillman, who’d traded in
a multimillion-dollar NFL
contract to serve in Afghan-
istan, was killed by friendly
fire; he was 27.
Today’s Bir thdays:
Actor Estelle Harris is 93.
Actor Jack Nicholson is 84.
Author Janet Evanovich is 78.
Movie director John Waters
is 75. Singer Peter Frampton
is 71. Actor Sheryl Lee is 54.
Rock musician Shavo Odad-
jian (System of a Down) is
47. Actor Michelle Ryan is
37. Actor Amber Heard is 35.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE