Tuesday, November 2, 2021
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
East Oregonian
A15
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Friend keeps the finances
secret from her husband
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
to be postponed if what you are
Dear Abby: I am friends with
concerned about is true.
“Pete” and “Pam,” a couple I
Dear Abby: I’m a 37-year-old
have known for more than 20
woman who has had to move
years.
back to my mother’s home after
I need a way to address my
ending a long-term relationship.
concerns to Pete. He works full
I love her dearly and appreci-
time in a great job, and his salary
ate her letting me stay with her.
goes into a joint bank account.
J EANNE
The problem is, I never have any
Pam handles all the finances and
P HILLIPS
alone time at home or even out
pays the bills. When Pete and I
ADvIce
when I socialize. She’s close with
hang out and he asks Pam (for
all my friends and frequently
small amounts of money, she
goes to the same bars and res-
says, “Sorry, we don’t have it.” I
understand that might be the case some- taurants I do.
When I go out, she invariably asks me
times, but it happens ALL THE TIME.
Pam also secretly borrows cash from where I’m going and then shows up and
me. She pays it back late sometimes, but sits with me and my group. I love her,
not always. I talked with Pam and told but I really need some space. I’m single.
her to tell Pete she borrows. I don’t think I want to meet people when I’m out, and
she did, and it concerns me. I’m putting I can’t do it with her there. When I try to
my foot down and not doing it anymore. talk to her about it, she gets upset and
I’m worried because Pete thinks they thinks I don’t “ever” want her around.
have all this money saved for a house. Please help. — Needing Space In New
I’m starting to think Pam has spent it, Jersey
Dear Needing Space: Explain that
or most of it. How can I tell Pete as a
friend to check the finances without you enjoy her company but need some
starting World War III? I’d hate to lose time by yourself — whether it’s at home
my friends over this. — In Danger Of or with your friends. If you don’t want
her beside you all the time when you’re
Losing Friends
Dear In Danger: Tell Pete everything home, agree on a place you can retreat to
you have written to me. If he is so finan- for some solitude — like your bedroom.
When you’re going out with friends,
cially ignorant that he doesn’t know how
to check his balances and his credit rat- be clear that you want SOME time with
ing, he should talk with a CPA. Whether them without her being present because
Pam has a spending problem or some it inhibits you. This does not mean she’s
other type of addiction, he needs to not ever welcome, but maybe HALF the
know. He also needs to know how long time. Encourage her to spend more time
his dreams of homeownership may need with her own friends.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
100 years ago
Nov. 2, 1921
Umatilla County and Mr. John Jones have
some common experiences right now in
matters of finance, according to facts which
have been brought out by a statement on the
financial standing of the county. The county
is now back just $69,058.36 to the state on its
second half of the state tax money, and the
money is past due. In addition to this indebted-
ness there are $110,000 in road warrants which
are registered and unpaid. The total amount of
taxes now delinquent goes to about $200,000.
From 1915 to 1921, the county was on a cash
basis on all of its business, but prior to that
time, warrants had to be carried at different
times. The present indebtedness is thought
to be the heaviest the county has ever had,
although no record of this has been compiled.
The biggest part of the delinquency is thought
to be caused by the inability of some farmers
to pay their taxes.
50 years ago
Nov. 2, 1971
Not all ex-Marines are big, tough and
mean. Judy Blackwell, a blonde housewife
and student from Helix, used to be a Marine.
Mrs. Blackwell joined the Marines when she
was 18 because she wanted to do something
different. She also “liked the uniform.” While
in the Marine Corp., Mrs. Blackwell met her
husband, Bob, and was married. They now
have a three-year-old child. “I did office work
while I was a Marine — accounting. I never
got to go overseas,” she said. “I’m glad I joined.
I got to meet a lot of people. It’s amazing all the
different kinds of people there are.” A student
at Blue Mountain Community College, Mrs.
Blackman is going to school on the G.I. Bill,
majoring in accounting. “The Marine Corp
was a worthwhile experience,” she said.
25 years ago
Nov. 2, 1996
All 56 employees at Gilroy Foods onion
processing plant will be unemployed as of
March 1997. Company headquarters in Gilroy,
Calif., announced the plant’s closure Thurs-
day. The company said the facility is being
closed because of “excess onion production
capacity in the Gilroy group of plants.” Gilroy
was recently purchased by ConAgra, Inc., an
international food company based in Omaha,
Neb.The decision to close the plant was a
surprise to employees in Umatilla, said office
manager Cathy Murray. “People are going to
take a little time to adjust and have it sink in.”
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 Nov. 2, 2000, Amer-
ican astronaut Bill Shep-
herd and two Russian cos-
monauts, Yuri Gidzenko
and Sergei Krikalev, be-
came the first residents
of the international space
station.
In
1783,
General
George Washington is-
sued his Farewell Address
to the Army near Princ-
eton, New Jersey.
In
1889,
North
Dakota
and
South
Dakota became the 39th
and 40th states with the
signing of proclamations
by President Benjamin
Harrison.
In 1920, white mobs
rampaged through the
Florida citrus town of
Ocoee, setting fire to
Black-owned homes and
businesses, after a Black
man, Mose Norman,
showed up at the polls
to vote on Election Day;
some historians estimate
as many as 60 people were
killed.
In
1963,
South
Vietnamese
President
Ngo Dihn Diem was as-
sassinated in a military
coup.
In 1976, former Geor-
gia Gov. Jimmy Carter
became the first candi-
date from the Deep South
since the Civil War to be
elected president as he de-
feated incumbent Gerald
R. Ford.
In 1994, a jury in Pen-
sacola, Florida, convicted
Paul Hill of murder for
the shotgun slayings of an
abortion provider and his
escort; Hill was executed
in September 2003.
In 2003, in Iraq, insur-
gents shot down a Chi-
nook helicopter carrying
dozens of U.S. soldiers,
killing 16. In Durham,
New Hampshire, V. Gene
Robinson was consecrat-
ed as the first openly gay
bishop in the Episcopal
Church.
In 2004, President
George W. Bush was
elected to a second term
as Republicans strength-
ened their grip on Con-
gress. Dutch filmmaker
Theo van Gogh was slain
in Amsterdam after re-
ceiving death threats over
his movie “Submission,”
which criticized the treat-
ment of women under Is-
lam.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE