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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, September 30, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
A spiteful ex causes legal
nightmares for boyfriend
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I’ve had a male
Dear Abby: My boyfriend
friend, “Herb,” for more than
and I have been together for five
35 years. He has helped me a lot
years. We share a daughter, who
with things such as repairs at my
is a toddler. I have a son with my
home. Many years ago, I became
abusive ex as well. Although we
pregnant, but the baby’s father
are financially stable, we qualify
and I didn’t end up together.
as low-income.
When Herb offered to marry me
My boyfriend has a crimi-
J EANNE
and raise my child as his own,
nal history. He’s a wonderful
P HILLIPS
that’s when I realized he had
father and has changed his life,
ADVICE
feelings for me. I explained that
but we have experienced many
this was a kind offer, but I could
hardships because of his past.
not reciprocate his feelings.
Because of a phone call from
Over the past 10 years, Herb has be-
my ex, the state picked up his most re-
cent charge from four years ago, and he come touchy-feely, and it makes me very
is now facing prison time for a crime he uncomfortable. He will kiss me on my
forehead or come from behind me and
did not commit.
We are both devastated. He has be- hold me or hug me while rubbing my
come withdrawn and is now at a para- back. I have told him how it makes me
noid level of distrusting. I know he has feel and he laughs it off. He also makes
every right to be upset. But after six remarks like, “Oh, I’ve never been in
months of urging him to seek profes- your bedroom,” or while we’re on the
sional help and fearing he regrets being phone he tells me he is in bed and we are
with me, I’m wondering if I’m doing my- having pillow talk. What can I do? I hate
self a disservice by not seeking happiness to lose his friendship, but I really don’t
elsewhere. I know I should be there for know what else I can say to him to make
him because he needs me. But he won’t him understand how he makes me feel.
make future plans or seek better job op- — Too Friendly In Ohio
Dear Too Friendly: When Herb gives
portunities because of his fear of prison
time. What should I do? — In A Corner you an unwanted kiss or hug, tell him
you do not enjoy it when he invades your
In Wisconsin
Dear In A Corner: Advise your boy- personal space and you don’t want it to
friend that reclaiming his future may re- happen again. If he brings up the sub-
quire the help of a criminal defense at- ject of your bedroom or alludes to pil-
torney. Then help him find one who will low talk during a phone call, get off the
take his case and defend him if the need phone immediately. If it continues, you
arises. And maintain as much distance as will have to end the relationship and hire
a handyman.
you can from your vindictive ex.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY FROM THE EAST OREGONIAN
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
100 Years Ago
Sept. 30, 1921
Anyone wanting to start a home for snakes
can get a start in the game at small cost right
now. Glenn Bushee who is the official keeper
and handler of the rattlesnakes used by Chief
Tall Pine in the snake dance staged every year
at Happy Canyon has several specimens of the
reptiles on hand now. They are fat and lazy,
he declares, and are not particularly vicious
— for rattlers. He had quite a lot of trouble in
getting his collection together, and he is now
having the same kind of experience in getting
rid of his “pets.”
50 Years Ago
Sept. 30, 1971
President Nixon is reported to be seri-
ously considering nominating a woman for
the U.S. Supreme Court. A random survey
was taken of shoppers on Pendleton’s Main
Street, asking “Should there be a woman on
the Supreme Court?” Ester Winnester said,
“I don’t think a woman should be appointed.
It would upset the men that are already there
— it would make them nervous.” Lorene
Malone said, “Definitely. There should be a
woman giving her opinion. I think it would
have a great effect on voters. Now’s the time.”
Margaret McCarthy said, “Any woman but
Martha Mitchell should be appointed to the
Supreme Court.”
25 Years Ago
Sept. 30, 1996
Last year, a junior high teacher found an
elaborate rendering of “Sunridge Middle
School” on a classroom chalkboard. Others
admired the professional lettering. A search
for the artist led to Jason Hogge, one of the
school’s custodians. Upon being found out,
he designed a sweatshirt for the school. That
was just the beginning. Now there is a hall-
way at Sundridge that takes students on a
mystical journey as they walk to the music
rooms. Look to the right and you’re under the
sea. A glance to the left and you’re in a forest
of drumstick trees with a keyboard high-
way stretching around the woods. Sunridge
Middle School is a special place to Hogge. It’s
where he met his wife, Lisa. He is studying
to be a teacher and hopes to work in the very
district where he was first a student, then a
custodian. He said, “I believe God has given
me a talent that I’d rather share than try to
sell.”
TODAY IN HISTORY
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY PARKER AND HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
On Sept. 30, 1962,
James Meredith, a Black
student, was escorted by
federal marshals to the
campus of the University
of Mississippi, where he
enrolled for classes the
next day; Meredith’s pres-
ence sparked rioting that
claimed two lives.
In 1777, the Continen-
tal Congress — forced to
flee in the face of advanc-
ing British forces — moved
to York, Pennsylvania.
In 1938, after co-sign-
ing the Munich Agreement
allowing Nazi annexation
of Czechoslovakia’s Su-
detenland, British Prime
Minister Neville Cham-
berlain said, “I believe it is
peace for our time.”
In 1947, the World Se-
ries was broadcast on tele-
vision for the first time;
the New York Yankees
defeated the Brooklyn
Dodgers 5-3 in Game 1.
In 1954, the first nu-
clear-powered submarine,
the USS Nautilus, was
commissioned by the U.S.
Navy.
In 1955, actor James
Dean, 24, was killed in
a two-car collision near
Cholame, California.
In 1984, the mystery se-
ries “Murder, She Wrote,”
starring Angela Lansbury,
premiered on CBS.
In 1986, the U.S. re-
leased accused Soviet spy
Gennadiy Zakharov, one
day after the Soviets re-
leased American journal-
ist Nicholas Daniloff.
In 2001, under threat
of U.S. military strikes,
Afghanistan’s hard-line
Taliban rulers said ex-
plicitly for the first time
that Osama bin Laden
was still in the coun-
try and that they knew
where his hideout was lo-
cated.
In 2014, the first case
of Ebola diagnosed in the
U.S. was confirmed in a
patient who had recently
traveled from Liberia to
Dallas. California Gov.
Jerry Brown signed the
nation’s first statewide
ban on single-use plastic
bags at grocery and con-
venience stores.
In 2017, Monty Hall,
the long-running host of
TV’s “Let’s Make a Deal,”
died of heart failure at his
home in Beverly Hills at
the age of 96.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE