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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, September 16, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Wife of nearly three decades
has never initiated intimacy
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: After 28 years of marriage,
don’t want to hurt his feelings. What should
is it strange that I would like my wife to
I do? — Big Sis in California
initiate sex? I would like to know that she
Dear Big Sis: Ask your brother if his
is interested, not just me. When I
offer still stands, since it has been
brought it up three weeks ago, her
some time since he extended his
response again was, “We can when-
“generous invitation.” Listen care-
ever you want to,” which wasn’t
fully to his reaction. If you sense
that he may have forgotten or the
true because I have been turned
down before. Any suggestions? She
situation has changed because of
stays home all day and wants for
COVID, tell him it would not be a
nothing. Do you think she’s getting
problem for you to book accommo-
it somewhere else? — Frustrated
dations at a hotel if it’s more conve-
in the Bedrood
nient. Doing this should not cause
Jeanne
Dear Frustrated: I hope your
hurt feelings.
Phillips
wife is intelligent enough to recog-
Dear Abby: My wife and I have
ADVICE
nize a red flag when it’s waved in
been married 32 years. We are still
front of her. I have a strong hunch
in love and consider each other
that she isn’t “getting it somewhere else.”
our best friend. We survived some rough
It’s more likely she no longer has a strong
patches and learned how to make things
sex drive at this point in her life, or she may
right. I have one concern at this point in
never have. Also, she may not know HOW
our journey. My wife constantly says, “I
to initiate and need coaching. If you can’t
hate myself.” The more she says it out loud,
teach her, enlist the aid of a sex therapist.
the more I see the impact on her emotion-
(Your doctor may be able to refer you to
ally. What can a partner do to help? I’m
one.) If you do, it may not only spice up but
100% supportive of all she does and totally
attracted to her, yet I can’t see this being
save your marriage.
healthy. Please help and thanks. — Dirty
Dear Abby: I live on the opposite coast
Words in Connecticut
from my family. During the pandemic, my
youngest brother and his wife bought a new,
Dear Dirty Words: The next time your
very large house. He told me they had plenty
wife tells you she hates herself, ask her
of room and, the next time we come for a
why she is being so hard on herself and
visit, they want us to stay with them. Well,
ask her to be specific about what it is she
hates. Explain that you love her exactly as
that visit will be in November, but no invi-
tation to stay has been extended. Should I
she is and worry that what she’s doing isn’t
remind my brother about his invitation, or
emotionally healthy. (I agree, by the way.) If
should we just book a hotel? My gut instinct
she persists after that, suggest she make an
is to book the hotel, but my brother is very
appointment with a licensed mental health
sensitive to how the family treats him, and I
professional to discuss it.
DAYS GONE BY FROM THE EAST OREGONIAN
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
Sept. 16, 1921
“Where did you get those clothes?” When
an 18-year-old youth, who says he is Charlie
Clifford, told John Hamley this morning that
he had “bought them from a fellow,” John
disagreed with him and escorted the young
man to the police station, because the clothes
that Clifford was wearing were stolen from
the Hamley residence a few days since. Clif-
ford is said to have confessed to the whole
thing, and a search made by the police of his
rooms disclosed nearly all of the things that
John Hamley was missing. Clifford was wear-
ing Hamley’s hat, and it was this that caused
his undoing because Starling Livermore, who
is employed at Hamley’s, saw the stranger in
the post office this morning and he recognized
the headgear. He telephoned Hamley to get
on the youth’s trail. Clifford’s arrest followed
shortly afterward.
50 Years Ago
Sept. 16, 1971
The former Mabel Strickland, now Mrs.
Sam Woodward of Buckeye, Ariz., “is
undoubtedly the greatest cowgirl there ever
was,” said E. N. “Pink” Boylen of Pendle-
ton, who was a Round-Up official when Mrs.
Woodward was queen of the Pendleton show
in 1927, one of the years in which she also
performed at the Round-Up. The first woman
elected to the Pendleton Round-Up Hall of
Fame, Mrs. Woodward is called by some the
greatest flat race and relay race rider ever.
She credits Allen Drumheller, another elected
this year to the Hall of Fame. “He taught me
everything I knew about race horses.” She
was 13 when she made her first trick riding
appearance. “My folks didn’t think very much
of my performing,” she remembers. “In those
days, they thought just bad people took part
in rodeos.”
25 Years Ago
Sept. 16, 1996
A crowd never cheers louder than when a
hometown star wins. That’s what it was like
Saturday at the finals of the 1996 Pendleton
Round-Up when Pendleton’s Tom Sorey won
the steer roping title. “It’s something every-
body dreams about and I’ve been hearing
about it all my life,” Sorey said after his 17.5-
second run for a 45.5 average to win the title.
“My uncle, Joe Bergevin, won it in ‘59 and
our family’s kinda had this thing about the
Round-Up ever since.” Sorey was also the
recipient of the Mike Currin Memorial Award
for the high point Columbia River Circuit
timed-event cowboy at the Round-Up. He
was joined on his victory lap by his 2-year-
old son, Pake.
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. 16, 1974,
President Gerald R. Ford
announced a conditional
amnesty program for Viet-
nam war deserters and
draft-evaders.
In 1630, the Massachu-
setts village of Shawmut
changed its name to Boston.
In 1908, General Motors
was founded in Flint, Mich-
igan, by William C. Durant.
In 1982, the massacre
of between 1,200 and 1,400
Palestinian men, women and
children at the hands of Israe-
li-allied Christian Phalange
militiamen began in west
Beirut’s Sabra and Shatila
refugee camps.
In 1987, two dozen coun-
tries signed the Montreal
Protocol, a treaty designed
to save the Earth’s ozone
layer by calling on nations to
reduce emissions of harmful
chemicals by the year 2000.
In 2001, President George
W. Bush, speaking on the
South Lawn of the White
House, said there was “no
question” Osama bin Laden
and his followers were the
prime suspects in the Sept.
11 attacks; Bush pledged
the government would “find
them, get them running and
hunt them down.”
In 2007, contractors for the
U.S. security firm Blackwa-
ter USA guarding a U.S. State
Department convoy in Bagh-
dad opened fire on civilian
vehicles, mistakenly believ-
ing they were under attack; 14
Iraqis died. O.J. Simpson was
arrested in the alleged armed
robbery of sports memorabilia
collectors in Las Vegas.
In 2012, in appearances on
Sunday news shows, the U.S.
ambassador to the United
Nations, Susan Rice, said
there was no evidence that
the attack on the U.S. diplo-
matic outpost in Benghazi,
Libya, was premeditated.
But Libya’s interim president,
Mohammed el-Megarif, told
CBS he had no doubt attack-
ers spent months planning the
assault and purposely chose
the date, Sept. 11.
Today’s Bir thdays:
Actor Janis Paige is 99. Actor
George Chakiris is 89. Blues-
man Billy Boy Arnold is 86.
Movie director Jim McBride
is 80. Actor Linda Miller is
79. R&B singer Betty Kelley
(Martha & the Vandellas) is
77. Musician Kenney Jones
(Small Faces; Faces; The
Who) is 73. Rock musician
Ron Blair (Tom Petty & the
Heartbreakers; Mudcrutch)
is 73. Actor Ed Begley Jr. is
72. Country singer David
Bellamy (The Bellamy
Brothers) is 71. Actor Mickey
Rourke is 69.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE