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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Ex doesn’t know reader’s
rape destroyed marriage
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
er mentions my name on Face-
Dear Abby: Thirty-five years
book. Should I bring this up?
ago I was raped by a stranger.
— Current Wife In Texas
He told me he would kill me if
Dear Current Wife: By all
I ever told anyone. I never told
means bring it up — all of it —
my husband (now ex-), mostly
and tell him how it makes you
because I was afraid if I did he
feel. He may be trying to keep
would never touch me again. So
his late wife’s memory alive by
I lived with the secret. It eventu-
J EANNE
wishing her happy birthday on
ally tore our marriage apart and
P HILLIPS
Facebook, but as far as Face-
we divorced.
ADVICE
book’s reach may be, I’m pretty
Although we have both
sure the messages don’t reach
moved on and remarried, we
the great beyond. That he would
have remained in touch. I am 60
now and he is 64. I yearn to tell him the mention her birthday and not yours is in-
story before one of us leaves this Earth. sensitive. And comparing you to her, un-
Please advise me on this. — Still Not less the comparison is favorable, is more
of the same.
Over It In Maryland
Dear Abby: We invited friends over to
Dear Still Not Over: If it will bring
you comfort, reveal the secret you hid enjoy our bounty from a successful fish-
from your ex-husband. However, before ing trip. They live about an hour away.
you do, I urge you to first disclose it to They accepted our invitation, then fol-
someone trained to help victims of rape. lowed up with, “Can you put us and our
If there’s a rape treatment center near two dogs up overnight if we drink too
you, please make an appointment. If much?” I replied that we meant the in-
there isn’t one, a referral from your doc- vitation for humans only this time. They
tor to a licensed mental health profes- replied, “We’re sorry you don’t want our
well-behaved ‘girls’ in your newly remod-
sional would also be beneficial.
Dear Abby: My husband and I have eled home.” And, Abby, they didn’t come!
been married a year and a half, although Was I wrong? Should I have handled this
we’ve been together off and on for more better? I’m kind of feeling like they were
than 13 years. I sometimes get the feeling wrong. — Animal Lover, But ...
Dear Lover: I’m also kind of feeling
that he married me only because he was
tired of being alone. He often compares they overreacted. If you preferred they
me to his late wife, and he always com- not bring uninvited guests, whether of
memorates both her birthday and the the two-footed or four-footed variety,
you were within your rights to refuse to
day she passed away.
Every year he posts happy birthday, have them. Please stop second-guessing
and her name, on Facebook, but he nev- yourself.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
100 Years Ago
Oct. 19, 1921
It’s possible, unless there is some inter-
ference with the course of present events,
that Pendletonians may have the privilege
of looking at a beaver dam built within city
limits. E. A. Averill vouches for the truth
of the statement. There has been one soli-
tary beaver operating along the Walters
mill race and river since last February
and Sunday night the little animal felled a
cottonwood tree on the mill race. The tree
is about 100 yards below the Main street
bridge, and the beaver has been gnaw-
ing away on it at intervals since early last
spring. There are some obstacles to the
realization of the beaver’s plans for a dam,
however, because the first tree has lodged
against another smaller tree, and Averill
is watching with a great deal of interest to
see what action the “engineer” will take to
overcome the obstacle.
50 Years Ago
Oct. 19, 1971
How do Pendleton’s barbers feel about
the current long hair fashion among young
men and boys? Do they hate it, and are they
trying to influence a change back to the close-
cropped haircut? No, said several shop owners
interviewed in a two-day survey of the tonso-
rial situation here. “We simply don’t see the
long-haired kids,” said Tony Svetich, owner
of the Town and Country barber shop next to
Stewart’s Market, “They chop off their own
hair, or have their girl friends do it.” Kenny
McKowen of the Western Barber Shop of SE
1st, across from the Tapadera, said he has no
idea how long the long-hair fashion will last.
“I’ve never seen hair so long,” he said, as he
clipped away the fuzz on the neck of busi-
nessman Jim Hartley. Hartley was getting a
standard American haircut — short on the top
and in back, no sideburns.
25 Years Ago
Oct. 19, 1996
The City Council of Pendleton voted
unanimously Tuesday to shut off the old air
raid siren atop City Hall that has announced
noon in piercing decibels for about four
decades. The downtown City Hall siren will
be formally disconnected Nov. 1. Margaret
Sams, who own and operates Cut It Again
Sams next to City Hall, says she hates the
idea of losing the lunch whistle. “It’s been
a real part of Pendleton since after the war,”
Sams said. “It’s a Pendleton tradition.”
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. 19, 2001, U.S.
special forces began op-
erations on the ground
in Afghanistan, opening
a significant new phase
of the assault against the
Taliban and al-Qaida.
In 1781, British troops
under Gen. Lord Corn-
wallis surrendered at
Yorktown, Virginia, as
the American Revolution
neared its end.
In 1789, John Jay was
sworn in as the first Chief
Justice of the United
States.
In 1944, the U.S. Navy
began accepting Black
women into WAVES
(Women Accepted for
Volunteer Emergency Ser-
vice).
In 1953, the Ray Brad-
bury novel “Fahrenheit
451,” set in a dystopian
future where books are
banned and burned by
the government, was first
published by Ballantine
Books.
In 1960, the Rev. Mar-
tin Luther King Jr. was
arrested during a sit-down
protest at a lunch counter
in Atlanta. (Sent to prison
for a parole violation over
a traffic offense, King was
released after three days
following an appeal by
Robert F. Kennedy.)
In 1977, the supersonic
Concorde made its first
landing in New York City.
In 1987, the stock mar-
ket crashed as the Dow
Jones Industrial Average
plunged 508 points, or
22.6 percent in value, to
close at 1,738.74 in what
came to be known as
“Black Monday.”
In 2002, in York, Pa.,
former mayor Charlie
Robertson was acquitted
and two other men were
convicted in the shotgun
slaying of Lillie Belle Al-
len, a young Black wom-
an, during riots that tore
the city apart in 1969.
In 2010, the Pentagon
directed the military to
accept openly gay recruits
for the first time.
In 2015, Canadians
voted for a sharp change
in their government as
the Liberals led by Jus-
tin Trudeau, the son of
a former prime minister,
won a landslide victory to
end Conservative Stephen
Harper’s near decade in
office.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE