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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Connecting with teens will
impact new relationship
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: After I ended a
It’s funny. Although I can’t
20-year marriage, I took some time
remember her name, there’s no one
off from relationships and am now
from my past that I have thought
back in the dating world. My ex-hus-
about more than her. I would give
band and I never had children.
anything to find her and apologize.
I recently met a man with two
It haunts me. Any suggestions? —
teenagers. He says I am “detached”
Biggest Regret in the South
from children. I am not detached! I
Dear Biggest Regret: What you
Jeanne
just never had experience with them.
did to that girl was brutal. Because
Phillips
How do I proceed with this relation-
it’s not possible for you to directly
ADVICE
ship since his kids are very dear to
offer the apology she deserves,
him? — Not Detached
concentrate harder on the present
and always try to treat everyone with
Dear Not Detached: This man’s
offspring are no longer “children.” They are
kindness and sensitivity.
teenagers, and teens can be complicated.
Dear Abby: I’d like advice on how to
Reach out to them the way you would anyone
handle a problem that crops up every time
of any age. Be friendly and show them you are
family members invite me out to a dinner they
interested in them. If they have a mother in
are paying for.
the picture, do not try to “mother” them. See
I know the rule of etiquette is to order an
if you share any common interests (sports,
item that’s the same or less than what the host
music, fashion, etc.), resist the urge to lecture
is ordering, but I am often asked to order first.
This means I have no idea what the payer’s
them, and be a good listener.
Dear Abby: Back around 1987, a girl
meal will cost. If it means ordering something
asked me to take her to her high school prom.
on the menu other than what I’d rather have
I was several years older, didn’t know her
— a burger instead of a steak — in that case,
well and wanted to say no but couldn’t. In the
should I offer to pay for my own meal? What if
they won’t hear of taking any money from me?
end I stood her up. I don’t even remember her
Can I still order the steak since my offer to pay
name. She worked at a grocery store with my
was refused? — Likes To Follow The Rules
brother.
That was more than 30 years ago. I am
Dear Likes: A way to get around order-
married now and have two fine children. I
ing first might be to say, “I haven’t decided
was recently asked what my biggest regret
yet. I’d like to hear what the others are order-
is, and I said standing her up. Not one week
ing.” However, if you would be uncomfortable
has gone by in the last 30 years that I haven’t
doing that, and your hosts won’t let you have a
thought about her and wished I could find her
separate check, be a gracious guest and enjoy
and tell her how truly sorry I am.
every bite of your steak dinner.
DAYS GONE BY
From the East Oregonian
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
April 27, 1921
A dramatic feature of the G.A.R. conven-
tion to be held here in June is that it will be
the last time the Grand Army men will ever
assemble in Pendleton and quite likely they
will never meet again in Eastern Oregon. The
ranks of the G.A.R. grow thinner each year
and as even the youngest of the veterans are in
the seventies the hand of time will fall heav-
ily upon them during the next decade. The
G.A.R. last met here 27 years ago and at that
time the organization was in its prime. This
time they request that their parade be short
and that programs in their honor be closed at
9 p.m. or thereabouts.
50 Years Ago
April 27, 1971
Richard Schulberg, son of John A. Schul-
berg of Pendleton, has been accepted as a
graduate student in the Russian and East
European Institute at Yale University.
Schulgerg is a senior in Portland State Univer-
sity’s Zagreb Institute in Yugoslavia. A polit-
ical science major, Schulberg qualifies for a
$2,900 tuition grant as well as an $1,800 long
term loan, both of which are renewable every
year contingent upon his progress toward a
degree.
25 Years Ago
April 27, 1996
When Addison Schulberg came home
from Portland six weeks ago, he was sport-
ing a blue spot Band-Aid on his hand and a
big scar on his chest. The resilient 4-year-
old with flashing brown eyes shook his head
gently and said he couldn’t ride his bike at the
track because his scar “could break open.”
Nine hours of surgery on his heart and a
week at Emanuel Hospital gave the preco-
cious preschooler a lot to talk about. Addison
had two defective valves in his heart. He likes
to have his mom, Carol Hanks, and dad, Ken
Schulberg, read a book to him about a little
boy’s heart surgery. “Every time he reads it,
he has more questions,” Carol said.
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 27, 1978,
51 construction workers
plunged to their deaths when
a scaffold inside a cooling
tower at the Pleasants Power
Station site in West Virginia
fell 168 feet to the ground.
In 1521, Portuguese
explorer Ferdinand Magel-
lan was killed by natives in
the Philippines.
In 1791, the inventor of
the telegraph, Samuel Morse,
was born in Charlestown,
Massachusetts.
In 1810, Ludwig van
Beethoven wrote one of his
most famous piano composi-
tions, the Bagatelle in A-mi-
nor.
In 1822, the 18th president
of the United States, Ulysses
S. Grant, was born in Point
Pleasant, Ohio.
In 1865, the steamer
Sultana, carrying freed
Union prisoners of war,
exploded on the Mississippi
River near Memphis, Tennes-
see; death toll estimates vary
from 1,500 to 2,000.
In 1941, German forces
occupied Athens during
World War II.
In 1973, acting FBI Direc-
tor L. Patrick Gray resigned
after it was revealed that he’d
destroyed files removed from
the safe of Watergate conspir-
ator E. Howard Hunt.
In 1982, the trial of John
W. Hinckley Jr., who shot
four people, including Presi-
dent Ronald Reagan, began in
Washington. (The trial ended
with Hinckley’s acquittal by
reason of insanity.)
In 1994, former Presi-
dent Richard M. Nixon was
remembered at an outdoor
funeral service attended by
all five of his successors at
the Nixon presidential library
in Yorba Linda, California.
In 2009, a 23-month-old
Mexico City toddler died at
Texas Children’s Hospital in
Houston, becoming the first
swine-flu death on U.S. soil.
In 2010, former Pana-
manian dictator Manuel
Noriega was extradited
from the United States to
France, where he was later
convicted of laundering
drug money and received a
seven-year sentence.
In 2015, rioters plunged
part of Baltimore into chaos,
torching a pharmacy, setting
police cars ablaze and throw-
ing bricks at officers hours
after thousands attended a
funeral for Freddie Gray, a
Black man who died from
a severe spinal injury he’d
suffered in police custody;
the Baltimore Orioles’ home
game against the Chicago
White Sox was postponed
because of safety concerns.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor
Anouk Aimee is 89. Rock
singer Kate Pierson (The
B-52′s) is 73. Pop singer
Sheena Easton is 62. Actor
James Le Gros is 59. Rock
musician Rob Squires (Big
Head Todd and the Monsters)
is 56. Sen. Cory Booker,
D-N.J., is 52. Actor Francis
Capra is 38. Actor Ari Gray-
nor is 38. Rock singer-musi-
cian Patrick Stump (Fall Out
Boy) is 37. Actor Sheila Vand
is 36. Actor Jenna Coleman is
35. Actor William Moseley is
34. Singer Lizzo is 33. Actor
Emily Rios is 32.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE