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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Wife devastated to learn of
husband’s prior conquests
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: I met my husband on
haven’t, please consider talking
the job when we were one year out of
with a licensed marriage and family
school. We are both 36. We dated for
therapist until you have worked it
three years and were compatible in
through. The resentment you feel
could destroy your marriage. Please
every way. Ten years later, we have
do not let that happen.
two kids (7 and 5), own a home and
Dear Abby: My husband and I
are financially secure.
When we dated, we discussed
recently moved in with my grand-
Jeanne
our “history,” and he told me that
mother, partly to help out and partly
Phillips
he’d had five prior girlfriends. I had
because I lost my job due to under-
ADVICE
three boyfriends in college. Well,
lying health conditions that made
I learned a few months ago — at
dealing with COVID incredibly
his reunion — that he completely
difficult. Now that we’re close to
“forgot” the part about his competitive frat-
family again, some of them think they need
boy past with hook-ups and one-night stands.
to dictate what we do. The biggest topic is
He now estimates that he was with over 50
whether I should try going back to work now.
different girls during college, but says it
My husband is adamant that he wants me
“shouldn’t bother me” because it was mean-
home until it’s safer for me to go out again,
ingless sex and in the past. He said he told me
but my father thinks it’s not a good idea, and
“five” because they were the ones he counted
insists that my husband doesn’t understand
as relationships.
“everything.” I don’t want to make either of
Now I see women on his social media
them angry, but I feel like I need to stick with
who went to the same school and I obsess
my husband, and I don’t know how to get my
about how they fit into his past. It’s driving
father to understand because he’s stubborn.
Any advice? — Torn, And Tired Of It
me crazy, and I feel like just a number now.
I know if this situation were reversed, he’d
Dear Torn: Your husband is protective,
flip out about it.
and for that I applaud him. If you can’t work
because an underlying health condition
I wish I had never found this out because
I see him differently now, and no longer want
makes you more vulnerable to COVID, then
to be close to him. He’s a good father and
as much as your father would like you out of
husband, but I’m struggling with how to
the house and working during the day, you
accept this new information, and I need some
cannot do it. Your life could be at risk. What
guidance. — Wish I Didn’t Know
does your doctor have to say about this?
Dear Wish: People usually lie because
You are no longer a little girl. It’s time for
they aren’t proud of the truth. You say he
a family discussion to iron this out, including
has been a good husband and father. This
what your father meant when he said your
is why you need to find it in your heart to
husband doesn’t “understand.” If it can’t be
forgive him. If you have caught him in lies
resolved in a mature and respectful manner,
since then, you have a reason to be react-
you and your husband may need to make
ing the way you have. However, if you
other living arrangements.
DAYS GONE BY
From the East Oregonian
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
June 15, 1921
Men who fought on the bloody fields of
Gettysburg; men who were with General
Wheaton at the Battle of Malabon, and men
who felt the deadly peril of the Argonne fight
made up the three generations of America’s
defenders who marched today in the great
G.A.R. parade. The fitful sunlight gleamed on
scores of G.A.R. men marching with a firm-
ness which belied their years and on members
of the Veterans’ Drum Corps, some of whom
played at Lincoln’s funeral, and all of them
brave in uniforms of blue. The clear notes
of the fife and the roll of the drum mingled
with the music of the Pendleton band and
furnished cadence for the scores of veter-
ans who marched or rode. Over a thousand
flags in the hands of the crowds who lined the
streets waved in salute and again and again
ripples of applause from the sidelines caused
the old fellows to bow in acknowledgement.
50 Years Ago
June 15, 1971
One of the most colorful, distinctive
personalities to come to Condon in a long
time entertained at the Roundup Room a
while back. He is not the type of entertainer
that one would expect to find in a cocktail
lounge or tavern, but he is certainly an enter-
tainer in his own right. He is billed as the
world’s fastest artist and Joe Breckenridge
can paint a picture while other artists are
putting on their smocks. He has been known
to paint a picture in 45 seconds, but it usually
takes him, when he is not in a hurry, three to
four minutes. Breckenridge, 75, is a cowboy
artist, painting pictures typifying the west,
and he is the old west personified.
25 Years Ago
June 15, 1996
As far as Chance Bissinger is concerned,
the jubilant June 14 Flag Day celebration
is a backdrop to his personal celebration
of life. The third grader turned 8 on Friday
and despite dealing with a medical problem
since birth, nothing seems to slow him down.
Bissinger was born with a condition called
tracheal mylasia in which the cartilage rings
that normally keep the windpipe open are
instead soft and collapsible. That means the
tube entering his trachea at his throat filters
the air he breathes, and also needs some main-
tenance, much like a nose does. But Chance,
the “self-manager,” has learned, with the
support and direction of his mom, to mechan-
ically suction mucous that could block his
airway.
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 June 15, 1215,
England’s King John put his
seal to Magna Carta (“the
Great Charter”) at Runny-
mede.
In 1775, the Second Conti-
nental Congress voted unan-
imously to appoint George
Washington head of the Conti-
nental Army.
In 1902, the 20th Century
Limited, an express passenger
train between New York and
Chicago, began service. (The
Limited made its last run in
December 1967.)
In 1904, more than 1,000
people died when fire erupted
aboard the steamboat General
Slocum in New York’s East
River.
In 1934, President Frank-
lin D. Roosevelt signed an act
making the National Guard
part of the U.S. Army in the
event of war or national emer-
gency.
In 1944, American forces
began their successful inva-
sion of Saipan during World
War II. B-29 Superfortresses
carried out their first raids on
Japan.
In 1955, the United States
and Britain signed a coop-
eration agreement concern-
ing atomic information for
“mutual defence purposes.”
In 1988, the baseball
romantic comedy “Bull
Durham,” starring Kevin
Costner and Susan Saran-
don, was released by Orion
Pictures.
In 1991, Mount Pinatubo
in the northern Philippines
exploded in one of the biggest
volcanic eruptions of the 20th
century, killing about 800
people.
In 1996, Ella Fitzgerald,
the “first lady of song,” died
in Beverly Hills, California,
at age 79.
In 2003, with a deadline
passed for Iraqis to hand in
heavy weapons, U.S. forces
fanned out across Iraq to seize
arms and put down potential
foes.
Today’s Birthdays: Funk
musician Leo Nocentelli (The
Meters) is 75. Actor Polly
Draper is 66. Actor Helen Hunt
is 58. Actor-rapper Ice Cube is
52. Actor Neil Patrick Harris
is 48. Olympic gold medal
gymnast Madison Kocian is
24. Actor Sterling Jerins is 17.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE