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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
New neighbors quickly
establish property lines
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
some other barrier to shelter
Dear Abby: When the house
you from their view. It is im-
next door sold, we were de-
portant for your own sake that
lighted to have new neighbors.
you teach yourself to accept this
My husband and I greeted them
couple for who they are.
with a welcome gift. They asked
Dear Abby: I’ve been mar-
us three times about the proper-
ried for 38 years and have three
ty line, and we showed them the
grown kids and three grandkids.
marker. They asked the people
J EANNE
MY wife is a teacher, and my
on the other side, as well as those
P HILLIPS
kids are doing well. I have al-
in the back of them. Shortly af-
ADVICE
ways been unfaithful through-
ter, they put a barrier between us
out the marriage. My wife and
and a fence at the other proper-
kids suspect it but none of them
ty line. Now they have installed
stakes and a string so everyone will know say anything about it. I can’t live like this
anymore. I feel very guilty, and I want to
where their property is.
When my husband mows the lawn, move to another country — my home
they stand outdoors watching to make country. Should I tell my wife about all
sure he stays on our property. It’s very my affairs, that I’m seeing someone else
uncomfortable to be outside when they and that I don’t want to be with her? —
are. When they are on their deck, I feel Ready In New Jersey
Dear Ready: And what’s the alterna-
like an intruder, so I don’t go out on that
my deck anymore. We have no children tive? Would it be that you will change
your ways, forgo the philandering you
and mind our own business.
It’s sad having such standoffish have engaged in for the last 38 years of
neighbors. They treat everyone in the your marriage, and remain in the U.S.?
neighborhood this way. I love our neigh- Somehow, I doubt it.
Yes, you should level with your wife.
borhood. However, it’s uncomfortable
having semi-friendly people next door. And when you do, do not delude your-
Abby, what say you about such friendly self into thinking she’ll be pleased to
yet unfriendly neighbors? — Unhappy hear her marriage has been a lie from the
beginning. And don’t expect your chil-
Next Door
Dear Unhappy: Your new neighbors dren to respect you for the choices you
are antisocial. When they come out to have made — and are making. You owe
watch your husband mow the lawn, he it to your wife to ensure that she will be
should give them a friendly wave and financially secure after you go galloping
concentrate on what he’s doing. If you off. Considering what you are planning,
feel that by using YOUR deck you are it may be the only way you’ll be able to
“intruding” on them, install plants or look yourself in the eye.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
100 Years Ago
Oct. 12, 1921
What is the name of the man who lost
a good sheep dog and told Jinks Taylor to
find the canine and then collect $5 for his
trouble? This is a question which the chief
of police is asking the whole world, and he is
serious about it, too. The reason for it is that
he has found the dog, a crossbreed shepherd
and collie, but he has forgotten the name of
the owner. “Shep” is taking life easy at the
police station. He is quiet and well behaved
and apparently is well satisfied with his
quarters, but Chief Taylor would rather have
$5 than the good dog.
50 Years Ago
Oct. 12, 1971
Proposed nuclear-agriculture develop-
ments in the Boardman area were hailed
Monday as possibly the nation’s first commer-
cial-scale, nuclear-age complex. Speaking at
Riverside High School following a dinner,
Wyatt M. Rogers Jr, associate director of
the Western Interstate Nuclear Board, said:
“With the great agricultural firms such as the
Boeing Co., electrical utilities, farmers and
other community leaders, you have the basis
for planning and developing what might well
become the nation’s first truly commercial-ag-
ricultural-residential center with a high stan-
dard of living and a healthy environment. The
advent of the breeder reactor, new hybrid field
crops and new uses for radioisotopes are just a
few innovations which will provide impetus to
nuclear-agri-industrial development.”
25 Years Ago
Oct. 12, 1996
A quick glance at Ross Phillips proba-
bly wouldn’t reveal anything out of the ordi-
nary. The 65-year-old small business owner
looks just like who he is: the hard working
owner of Up Front Auto Service. But his real
love — his hobby, he says — is in the gym,
where he is definitely out of the ordinary.
The Pendleton powerlifter owns seven world
and national records for his weight class and
age group. Phillips owns four dead-lift world
records, including a 520-pound lift in 1993
in New York. At that same meet, he earned
his lone world title in the combination dead
lift, squat and bench press for a ground total
1,215 pounds. Impressive numbers especially
for someone who has been lifting less than
eight years. “I found out there were very few
people who could beat me,” he said. Phillips
said it takes a lot of preparation and training.
He figured it out one day that in a three-hour
span he moved more than 47,000 pounds.
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. 12, 2000, 17
sailors were killed in a sui-
cide bomb attack on the
destroyer USS Cole in Ye-
men.
In 1933, bank robber
John Dillinger escaped
from a jail in Allen Coun-
ty, Ohio, with the help of
his gang, who killed the
sheriff, Jess Sarber.
In
1942,
during
World War II, American
naval forces defeated
the Japanese in the Bat-
tle of Cape Esperance.
Attorney General Fran-
cis Biddle announced
during a Columbus Day
celebration at Carnegie
Hall in New York that
Italian nationals in the
United States would no
longer be considered en-
emy aliens.
In 1973, President
Richard Nixon nominat-
ed House minority leader
Gerald R. Ford of Michi-
gan to succeed Spiro T.
Agnew as vice president.
In 1986, the super-
power meeting in Reyk-
javik, Iceland, ended in
stalemate, with President
Ronald Reagan and Sovi-
et leader Mikhail S. Gor-
bachev unable to agree on
arms control or a date for
a full-fledged summit in
the United States.
In 2007, former Vice
President Al Gore and the
U.N.’s Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change
won the Nobel Peace Prize
for sounding the alarm
over global warming.
In 2017, President
Donald Trump lashed out
at hurricane-devastated
Puerto Rico, saying the
federal government can’t
keep sending help “for-
ever” and suggesting that
the U.S. territory was to
blame for its financial
struggles.
In 2019, a Black wom-
an, Atatiana Jefferson,
was fatally shot by a white
Fort Worth, Texas, police
officer inside her home
after police were called to
the residence by a neigh-
bor who reported that the
front door was open. (Of-
ficer Aaron Dean, who
shot Jefferson through a
back window, resigned in
the days after the shooting
and is charged with mur-
der; he has pleaded not
guilty and is scheduled to
go to trial in November.)
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE