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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, September 2, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Boyfriend sets ‘do not disturb’
policy for visit to ex-girlfriend
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I’ve been dating a great
that he send you a text confirming he has
arrived safely, and another telling you when
guy for a year and a half. For eight years
before we met, he dated a woman with teen-
he has started back and expects to be home.
age daughters. He never had chil-
The way to “get past this” is
dren, so they are as close to his own
to stay very busy in his absence.
kids as he will ever have. He was
Make plans with friends during the
evenings so you won’t be sitting
recently invited to the graduation
party of one of the daughters. It
alone at home, stewing. And when
will be a weeklong trip, since they
he returns, do not give him the third
have moved across the country. He
degree.
intends to stay awhile and visit with
Dear Abby: I am a 41-year-old
the girls and his old girlfriend. I’m
mother of three, married less than
Jeanne
two years. I now realize what a self-
grudgingly OK with that.
Phillips
ish lover my husband is. He expects
The part I’m having real trouble
ADVICE
things from me and refuses to recip-
with is that he told me he won’t call
or text me the entire week that he
rocate, which leaves me unhappy
is gone. He has apologized in advance but
and unsatisfied. When I ask him to change
says he wants to concentrate on the girls and
things up or return the same foreplay, it
have a break from everything. We usually
results in us not connecting at all. How do I
talk every day, and this seems extreme, espe-
get him to be less selfish without hurting his
cially since he will be spending a week with
feelings? I’m on the verge of cheating. — It’s
Stale in the Midwest
the woman who broke up with him and left
him heartbroken (his words). He realizes his
Dear It’s Stale: Cheating won’t help your
behavior isn’t normal and assures me we are
situation. It will likely make it worse. Instead
OK, but I’m so hurt. Am I right to be this
of dealing with a selfish or sexually repressed
upset, and how do I get past this? — Silent
husband, you will have, in addition, one who
is outraged when he discovers your infidelity.
Treatment in Illinois
Dear Silent Treatment: I understand
Find a time when you are both calm to talk
why you would find it upsetting that your
to him. Tell him you love him, but your sex
boyfriend of a year and a half has unilaterally
life is unsatisfactory, and if he loves you, he
decided to go radio silent under these circum-
will agree to talk things out with a licensed
stances. It is a radical change of his behavior
marriage and family therapist. If he refuses
pattern, and I’m sure most women would be
or things don’t improve, you may want to
at least taken aback. Before he leaves, request
consult a lawyer.
DAYS GONE BY FROM THE EAST OREGONIAN
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
Sept. 2, 1921
Sam Oliver, a member of this year’s grad-
uating class of the Pendleton High School,
and former U.S. Navy man, has invented
a device for the saving of grain ordinarily
wasted through the sack dump during
harvest operations. The device, for which
Mr. Oliver has applied for a patent, can be
made for $4 or $5 and is fastened to the sack
dump. It was used on the O. Vlassenroot
farm and on 1000 acres 15 sacks were saved.
The appliance consists of a box beneath the
sack dump, and extending beyond it. Any
grain which goes beyond the sack dump is
caught in the box. Mr. Oliver, who will enter
University of Oregon this fall, will either
manufacture the invention or sell the patent
right to a combine company. Pictures and
a working model will be shown here at the
Northwest Grain and Hay Show, September
22, 23 and 24.
50 Years Ago
Sept. 2, 1971
Rain Wednesday and this morning sent
Heppner residents scurrying to high ground,
closed a road, led to a car accident and, in
Pendleton in less than 24 hours, exceeded the
month’s average rainfall. At Heppner, nearly
two inches fell in less than 15 minutes. Weath-
erman Don Gilliam said the amount equaled
that which fell on May 25, when Shobe Creek
flooded Heppner. A lower portion the South
Cold Spring Road north of Pendleton was
closed by a mud slide at 3:30 a.m. today. It was
reopened by 10 a.m. No one was injured in the
accident caused by the mud shortly before the
road was closed.
25 Years Ago
Sept. 2, 1996
Cooler weather over the Labor Day week-
end allowed firefighters to make progress on
three fires that have burned through more
than 89,000 acres of timber in the Blue Moun-
tains of northeastern Oregon. “The freezing
level on Tuesday or Wednesday should come
down to 6,000 feet, so that would really help.
We might get some precipitation,” Dolly
Davis, spokeswoman for the Northwest Inter-
agency Coordination Center in Portland, said
today. The largest of the three fires, the Tower
Fire, has burned 47,800 acres, and was 84
percent contained. Estimated containment for
the Bull blaze is Thursday. The Summit Fire
has burned 37,000 acres and was 65 percent
contained.
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 Sept. 2, 1969, in what
some regard as the birth of
the internet, two connected
computers at the University
of California, Los Angeles,
passed test data through a
15-foot cable.
In 1666, the Great Fire of
London broke out.
In 1789, the United States
Treasury Department was
established.
In 1864, during the Civil
War, Union Gen. William T.
Sherman’s forces occupied
Atlanta.
In 1944, during World
War II, Navy pilot Lt. (jg)
George Herbert Walker Bush
was shot down by Japanese
forces as he completed a
bombing run over the Bonin
Islands. (Bush was rescued
by the crew of the submarine
USS Finback; his two crew
members, however, died.)
In 1945, Japan formally
surrendered in ceremonies
aboard the USS Missouri in
Tokyo Bay, ending World
War II.
In 1960, Wilma Rudolph
of the United States won
the first of her three gold
medals at the Rome Summer
Olympics as she finished
the 100-meter dash in 11
seconds.
In 1963, Alabama Gov.
George C. Wallace prevented
the integration of Tuske-
gee High School by encir-
cling the building with state
troopers. “The CBS Evening
News” with Walter Cronkite
was lengthened from 15 to 30
minutes, becoming network
television’s first half-hour
nightly newscast.
In 1998, a Swissair
MD-11 jetliner crashed off
Nova Scotia, killing all 229
people aboard.
In 2005, a National Guard
convoy packed with food,
water and medicine rolled
into New Orleans four days
after Hurricane Katrina.
In 2019, a fire swept a boat
carrying recreational scuba
divers that was anchored
near an island off the South-
ern California coast; the
captain and four other crew
members were able to escape
the flames, but 34 people who
were trapped below died.
Today’s Bir thdays:
Former Sen. Alan K. Simp-
son, R-Wyo., is 90. Former
United States Olympic
Committee Chairman Peter
Ueberroth is 84. Singer
Jimmy Clanton is 83. R&B
singer Sam Gooden (The
Impressions) is 82. R&B
singer Rosalind Ashford
(Martha & the Vandellas) is
78. Singer Joe Simon is 78.
Pro and College Football
Hall of Famer Terry Brad-
shaw is 73. Basketball Hall
of Famer Nate Archibald is
73. Actor Mark Harmon is
70. Former Sen. Jim DeMint,
R-S.C., is 70. International
Tennis Hall of Famer Jimmy
Connors is 69. Actor Linda
Purl is 66. Rock musician
Jerry Augustyniak (10,000
Maniacs) is 63. Country
musician Paul Deakin (The
Mavericks) is 62. Pro Foot-
ball Hall of Famer Eric Dick-
erson is 61. Actor Keanu
Reeves is 57.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE