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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, November 4, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
A marriage sours as the
details spill out in public
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
you will be able to prevent him
Dear Abby: My husband of
from fleecing you. Please accept
16 years has been airing our
my sympathy.
dirty laundry to anyone who will
Dear Abby: I have a good
listen, including my 35-year-old
friend who wants to help every-
son. We live in a small town and
one. She has been in a relation-
have lots of ties here. People who
ship with a man for 25 years.
were once quick to come up and
She does not get along with his
say hi no longer do so. In fact,
J EANNE
40-something-year-old son, who
most are avoiding me by head-
P HILLIPS
lives with and mooches off his
ing in the opposite direction in
ADVICE
dad. He also has his 8-year-old
the stores or in parking lots.
grandson living there. Because
I have asked my husband to
her boyfriend has always prom-
keep our business between us
and not discuss our personal lives with ised marriage, she hangs on.
The son is a drug addict and not sup-
others, but he continues to do it anyway.
His mother is the go-to for him and she posed to be around the grandson, but
has now canceled our Saturday outings. everyone enables everyone. My friend
I’m so disgusted by all of this that I want finally moved out a few years ago, but
she is back again. The boyfriend is now
to end the marriage.
The home we live in is mine — I paid battling cancer and has her there to help
in full for it before I met him, and it is the grandson with online learning and to
all I have. I have asked him to leave, but take care of all three of them — clean-
he refuses, saying he’s going to “take me ing, laundry, grocery shopping, rides to
for everything and more.” Should I hire doctors and cooking.
Her boyfriend is retired now and has
an attorney at the risk of possibly mak-
ing things worse, or wait until things a lot of money, and his house is paid
calm down? — Afraid And Confused off. She’s 63 and thinks if he dies, she’ll
get a portion of his estate, but he won’t
In California
Dear Afraid: Do not wait for things put anything in writing. I keep telling
to “calm down.” In light of what your her she’s a fool and he won’t change. Is
husband has threatened, it is extremely she wasting the golden years of her life?
important that you start talking to law- — Involved Friend In Minnesota
Dear Involved: Yup! The “boyfriend”
yers about what’s going on and how to
protect yourself. Talk to several because has her exactly where he wants her — as a
you can gain a wider perspective. While source of free labor and with no guaran-
you may not be able to salvage your rep- tee about her future. If it is security she’s
utation in that community because of hoping for, I regretfully agree that she’s
what your husband has been spreading, wasting the golden years of her life.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
100 Years Ago
Nov. 4, 1921
War is on between the Umatilla county
court and the sheriff’s office. The newest
development is that E.B.F. Ridgeway, who
formerly served as deputy sheriff at $130
a month has been employed by the county,
though officially named by the governor, to
serve as special prohibition officer. He is to
be paid $325 a month and is provided by the
county with an automobile. When the car is
paid for it is to be the property of Ridgeway,
not the county. Sheriff Houser is wondering
why the sheriff gets but $2500 a year in salary
and is forced to pay all expenses connected
with criminal hunting while a former deputy
is to be presented with a new automobile.
Despite the fact there are many dealers in
Umatilla county, all anxious to sell cars and
offering very liberal terms and prices, the car
was purchased in Walla Walla. The members
of the court assert they saved $300 by buying
the car in Walla Walla, an assertion vigor-
ously denied in automobile row.
50 Years Ago
Nov. 4, 1971
A construction firm working on the Tiger
Creek Road in the Blue Mountains used bull-
dozers today to rescue a band of stranded elk
hunters. Plans had been forming for a heli-
copter rescue mission in the area but it was
grounded by dense fog. Snow was reported to
be two feet deep on the level with drifts five
to six feet in depth where the hunters were
marooned at an elevation of about 6,000 feet
north of Bone Springs, near the Skyline and
Tiger Creek Roads. The first distress calls
came through a CB radio. No one knows how
many hunters were marooned. Reports ranged
from 20 rigs to 150 persons. The ranger for the
Walla Walla District of the Umatilla National
Forest said the hunters themselves made
arrangements with the construction firm to
open about two miles of road.
25 Years Ago
Nov. 4, 1996
Inez Reves has a story to tell. But it’s
one that must be communicated one word
at a time and will take months, possibly
years, to fully explain. Settled into a round-
backed chair at the Cay-Uma-Wa Education
Center, a scarf pulled around her long gray
braid, Reves, 70, sounds out words from the
Umatilla language. Linguist Noel Rude is
there to listen and record, figuring out where
each accent is stressed, feeling every nuance
of the words. He has begun putting together a
Umatilla and Walla Walla dictionary.
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. 4, 1979, the
Iran hostage crisis began
as militants stormed the
United States Embassy in
Tehran, seizing its occu-
pants; for some of them, it
was the start of 444 days
of captivity.
In 1842, Abraham
Lincoln married Mary
Todd in Springfield, Illi-
nois.
In 1862, inventor Rich-
ard J. Gatling received a
U.S. patent for his rapid-
fire Gatling gun.
In 1942, during World
War II, Axis forces re-
treated from El Alamein
in North Africa in a major
victory for British forces
commanded by Lt. Gen.
Bernard Montgomery.
In 1955, Baseball Hall
of Fame pitcher Cy Young
died in Newcomerstown,
Ohio, at age 88.
In 1956, Soviet troops
moved in to crush the
Hungarian Revolution.
In 1980, Republican
Ronald Reagan won the
White House as he defeat-
ed President Jimmy Carter
by a strong margin.
In 1985, to the shock
and dismay of US offi-
cials, Soviet defector Vit-
aly Yurchenko announced
he was returning to the
Soviet Union, charging
he had been kidnapped by
the CIA.
In 1991, Ronald Rea-
gan opened his presiden-
tial library in Simi Valley,
California; attending were
President George H.W.
Bush and former Presi-
dents Jimmy Carter, Ger-
ald R. Ford and Richard
Nixon — the first-ever
gathering of five past and
present U.S. chief execu-
tives.
In 1995, Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin
was assassinated by a
right-wing Israeli minutes
after attending a festive
peace rally.
In 2008, Democrat Ba-
rack Obama was elected
the first Black president
of the United States, de-
feating Republican John
McCain. California voters
approved Proposition 8, a
constitutional amendment
outlawing same-sex mar-
riage, overturning a state
Supreme Court decision
that gave gay couples the
right to wed just months
earlier.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE