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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, April 29, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Receptionist hears doctor
and staff ridicule patients
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I work as a recep-
reason, we no longer allow friends
tionist in a small medical office. I
into our children’s rooms.
love my job, but I cannot tolerate
Recently, another item went
when my co-workers make fun of
missing, and my daughter spotted
our patients. Sometimes it happens
it at Wendy’s house. I told her she
while the patients are still in the
should say something and take it
exam rooms, maybe within earshot.
back, but she is shy. I want to say
Even the doctor contributes to this
something to the parents, but I’m
Jeanne
crudeness.
afraid it will ruin our friendship. I
Phillips
Some examples: “Did you see the
don’t think the mother knows her
ADVICE
size of that guy’s nose?” or, “What’s
daughter does these things. Any
with the color of her hair?” or, “He
ideas? — Sticky Fingers
smells like he hasn’t had a bath in
Dear Sticky Fingers: If the shoe
weeks.” This goes on throughout the day
was on the other foot and your daughter was
every day. Is there anything I can do or say to
stealing things from her friends’ homes,
change this mindset? We have great patients.
wouldn’t you want to know what was going
— At A Loss For Words
on so you could deal with it? Talk to Wendy’s
Dear At A Loss: The person who’s
mother! Tell her you don’t want to spoil a
friendship you treasure, but Wendy has a
responsible for the lack of respect for the
patients is your employer, the doctor. If this
problem she needs to know about. If you
is happening sometimes within earshot of the
ignore it, the problem will only escalate.
patients, I am, frankly, shocked that he or she
Dear Abby: Would you please settle an
has a medical practice.
argument between my husband and me?
There is nothing you can do to change
One of us thinks it’s OK to dry our every-
the culture in that environment. Because it
day dishes with the same dish towel we clean
upsets you — and I can certainly see why it
our dog’s bowl with. The bowl is first rinsed
with soap and water then wiped with the dish
would — you might be happier working for
towel. One of us thinks it’s disgusting. The
another doctor.
Dear Abby: My daughter “Tiffany” is
other disagrees. Would you wash your dishes
12. Her best friend, “Wendy,” lives down the
with said towel? — Curious in Kettering,
block. We are good friends with her parents.
Ohio
How do I put this: Wendy is a thief. She
Dear Curious: Although the dish may
has no impulse control. When she comes
be perfectly clean after being washed with
over, she helps herself to whatever is lying
soap and water, because of the “ick” factor,
around, mostly candy and trinkets. For this
I sure wouldn’t.
DAYS GONE BY
From the East Oregonian
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
April 29, 1921
Mrs. Eula Ingles, a native of Pendleton, is
held in the city jail in Astoria and may face a
murder charge as the result of the shooting last
night in a local rooming house. A.J. Burns,
her victim, is lying in the hospital in a criti-
cal condition, the bullet having perforated his
intestines. He is not expected to live. The two
had been living together for several years as
man and wife, the woman says, and came to
Astoria a month ago. The shooting was the
result of a moonshine party during which
Burns is said to have beaten the woman. Mrs.
Ingles says her maiden name was Eula Cox and
that she was born in Pendleton in 1891, and is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Cox, and left
that city after finishing the grade school.
50 Years Ago
April 29, 1971
When an era of railroading ends here
Friday with the last runs of passenger trains
through Pendleton, three jobs go with it.
Three Union Pacific telegraphers will be
transferred to other jobs within the UP
system. The door to the Pendleton passenger
depot will be locked. Not that it will make
much difference. Except for the last couple
of weeks, the depot for years has been about
as empty at midday as at midnight. “But it’s
a shame,” said Vern Bryant, car desk clerk
at the Pendleton depot. He’s worked here 30
years. “You’d think that at least one passenger
train could have been left on the line.”
25 Years Ago
April 29, 1996
The Crook County Cowgirls never got
word that there softball doubleheader agains
the Bucks Saturday was moved up an hour
to accommodate Pendleton’s prom. Conse-
quently, the cowgirls were an hour late. After
what the Bucks did to them, though, the
Cowgirls will probably never be late again,
especially on such an important date Pendle-
ton crushed the tardy Cowgirls 24-1 and 13-0
to move to 5-1 in the Intermountain Confer-
ence standings, just a game back in the loss
column to La Grande. On Saturday, just about
every Buck who might have been in a slump
got out of one.
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 29, 1992, a jury
in Simi Valley, California,
acquitted four Los Angeles
police officers of almost all
state charges in the video-
taped beating of motorist
Rodney King; the verdicts
were followed by rioting in
Los Angeles resulting in 55
deaths.
In 1913, Swedish-born
engineer Gideon Sundback
of Hoboken, New Jersey,
received a U.S. patent for a
“separable fastener” — later
known as the zipper.
In 1945, during World
War II, American soldiers
liberated the Dachau concen-
tration camp. Adolf Hitler
married Eva Braun inside his
“Fuhrerbunker” and desig-
nated Adm. Karl Doenitz
president.
In 1946, 28 former Japa-
nese officials went on trial
in Tokyo as war crimi-
nals; seven ended up being
sentenced to death.
In 1957, the SM-1, the first
military nuclear power plant,
was dedicated at Fort Belvoir,
Virginia.
In 1967, Aretha Frank-
lin’s cover of Otis Redding’s
“Respect” was released as a
single by Atlantic Records.
In 1961, “ABC’s Wide
World of Sports” premiered,
with Jim McKay as host.
In 1983, Harold Washing-
ton was sworn in as the first
Black mayor of Chicago.
In 1991, a cyclone began
striking the South Asian
country of Bangladesh; it
ended up killing more than
138,000 people, according
to the U.S. National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Adminis-
tration.
In 1997, Staff Sgt. Delmar
Simpson, a drill instructor at
Aberdeen Proving Ground
in Maryland, was convicted
of raping six female train-
ees (he was sentenced to 25
years in prison and dishon-
orably discharged). A world-
wide treaty to ban chemical
weapons went into effect.
In 2000, tens of thousands
of angry Cuban-Americans
marched peacefully through
Miami’s Little Havana,
protesting the raid in which
armed federal agents yanked
6-year-old Elian Gonzalez
from the home of relatives.
In 2008, Democratic
presidential hopeful Barack
Obama denounced his former
pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah
Wright, for what he termed
“divisive and destructive”
remarks on race.
In 2010, the U.S. Navy
officially ended a ban on
women serving on subma-
rines, saying the first women
would be reporting for duty
by 2012. The NCAA’s Board
of Directors approved a
68-team format for the men’s
basketball tournament begin-
ning the next season.
Today’s Bir thdays:
Conductor Zubin Mehta is
85. Sen. Debbie Stabenow,
D-Mich., is 71. Comedian
Jerry Seinfeld is 67. Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis is 64.
Actor Michelle Pfeiffer is
63. Singer Carnie Wilson
(Wilson Phillips) is 53. Actor
Uma Thurman is 51. Rapper
Master P is 51. Rock musi-
cian Mike Hogan (The Cran-
berries) is 48.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE