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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Dad won’t accomodate
man’s food restriction
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
my values weren’t so strict, but
Dear Abby: My husband was
I have met someone who seems
instructed by his doctor to avoid
to respect my desire to wait until
dairy due to a chronic condition.
marriage.
Around the same time, his father
The problem is our relation-
and his girlfriend began imple-
ship has many negatives. We live
menting the keto diet into their
two hours apart. He loves to
lifestyle. We are often invited to
gamble. I am educated, and he
their home for game night. She
J EANNE
has a learning disability. Most of
takes pride in preparing a home-
P HILLIPS
the time, I feel like I am in fourth
cooked meal for everyone. We’ve
ADVICE
place in his life behind his fam-
been open about my husband’s
ily, his friends and his gambling.
dietary restrictions, but dairy re-
I don’t feel he really wants to be
mains a heavily used ingredient
in these dishes, and it is often hidden or with me. I sometimes wonder if it’s be-
cause of the sex thing. However, I don’t
disguised by a different name.
She seems to think that because my want a relationship based on sex. I want
husband isn’t “allergic” to dairy, it’s OK him to want to spend his time with me,
for him to consume it. However, because and I want us to become one and I don’t
we’ve both changed our diets to exclude see it happening. I also don’t believe he
dairy, these visits often end in stomach can budget for anything more than pay-
pains and, for him, other discomforts ing his bills and gambling the rest of his
that may last for days. We enjoy the game money.
It doesn’t seem like he would choose
nights, but fear a more direct approach
will hurt our newfound relationship with to be with me rather than with his friends
his father’s soon-to-be bride. What would and family. Am I wanting too much? I’m
afraid what he is after is security, not a
you suggest? — Restricted In Arizona
Dear Restricted: I suggest you be loving relationship where you become
VERY direct with your father-in-law and one in life. — Waiting For Mr. Right
Dear Waiting: I don’t think you want
his soon-to-be fiancee about the effect
that dairy products have on your hus- too much. What you are searching for is
band! And if your husband’s dietary re- what most people want — a life partner
strictions can’t be accommodated, either who is considerate, loving and whose val-
eat beforehand or bring your own food ues are close to their own. Because you
suspect this person is after financial se-
to the gathering.
Dear Abby: I am 55 and have waited curity, please listen to your gut. If you
for the right man. The only regret I have really believe you are four notches down
is that I didn’t find him earlier because I on his list of priorities, do not settle. End
went into early menopause at 33. I wish this “romance” now.
DAYS GONE BY FROM THE EAST OREGONIAN
100 Years Ago
Oct. 5, 1921
That the municipality of Pendleton will
forthwith start a campaign looking toward the
voting of bonds of approximately $400,000 was
presaged last night in the action taken by the
members of the Pendleton Commercial Asso-
ciation. Included is support of the increase of
the mill tax levy from 11 mills to 15 mills. The
mayor called attention to the fact that at present
Pendleton has the lowest millage rate of taxation
of any city in the state. He declared everyone
would agree one necessity which the city must
have is a septic tank to refine the sewage of the
city before it is emptied into the river. In doing so
Pendleton will be merely obeying the laws of the
state, which have been openly violated for many
years. The city has been promising to remedy the
situation as it now exists and the state board of
health has been put off innumerable times.
50 Years Ago
Oct. 5, 1971
One suitcase isn’t big enough to hold all the
blue ribbons Mrs. Jack Woodhall has won in
exhibits of her hobbies. There are ribbons for her
flowers, her flower arrangements, her cookies
and cakes and jams and jellies. Mrs. Woodhall
brought her suitcase full of ribbons, a flower
arrangement and a prize-winning decorated
cake to her husband’s dental office one day
recently for purposes of the interview. Bernice
Woodhall, a native of Milton-Freewater, takes
care of Dr. Jack Woodhall’s appointment book
every day, ushers in the next patient and answers
the telephone every five minutes or so. She main-
tains her cool in the busy office.
25 Years Ago
Oct. 5, 1996
Marlene Parsons doesn’t discuss politics
with her mother anymore. Parsons, the city of
Weston’s court clerk who is running for mayor,
avoids the topic. That’s because her mother, Opal
Barnett, is busy with her own mayoral campaign
just a few blocks away. The four-way race for
mayor, which also includes Richard Zellner
and Barbara Byerley, is a touchy subject when it
comes to Parsons, 45, and Barnett, 70. But hurt
feelings have been set aside as both duke it out
over such issues as enforcing the town’s codes
prohibiting livestock next to residential homes,
fixing the water tower and repairing the pock-
marked streets that twist through the city of 650.
Barnett, who has sat on the City Council for the
past 12 years, is a grandmotherly bulldog when it
comes to city politics, but she insists no bitterness
would come between her and Parsons, should
her daughter win. “I would be happy for her,”
she said. “I still have two years on the council.”
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 Oct. 5, 1989, a
jury in Charlotte, North
Carolina, convicted for-
mer PTL evangelist Jim
Bakker of using his televi-
sion show to defraud fol-
lowers. (Although initially
sentenced to 45 years in
prison, Bakker was freed
in December 1994 after
serving 4 1/2 years.)
In 1931, Clyde Pang-
born and Hugh Herndon
completed the first non-
stop flight across the Pa-
cific Ocean, arriving in
Washington state some 41
hours after leaving Japan.
In 1947, President Har-
ry S. Truman delivered the
first televised White House
address as he spoke on the
world food crisis.
In 1953, Earl Warren
was sworn in as the 14th
chief justice of the United
States, succeeding Fred
M. Vinson.
In 1958, racially-de-
segregated Clinton High
School in Clinton, Ten-
nessee, was mostly lev-
eled by an early morning
bombing.
In 2001, tabloid photo
editor Robert Stevens died
from inhaled anthrax, the
first of a series of anthrax
cases in Florida, New
York, New Jersey and
Washington.
In
2005,
defying
the White House, sena-
tors voted 90-9 to approve
an amendment sponsored
by Sen. John McCain,
R-Ariz.,
that
would
prohibit the use of “cru-
el, inhuman or degrad-
ing treatment or punish-
ment” against anyone in
U.S. government custody.
(A reluctant President
George W. Bush later
signed off on the amend-
ment.)
In 2015, the United
States, Japan and 10 other
nations in Asia and the
Americas reached agree-
ment on the landmark
Trans-Pacific Partnership
trade deal.
In 2017, California
Gov. Jerry Brown signed
legislation extending pro-
tections for immigrants
living in the United States
illegally; police in Cali-
fornia would be barred
from asking people about
their immigration status
or taking part in federal
immigration enforcement
activities.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE