Tuesday, November 9, 2021
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
East Oregonian
B13
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
A wife takes over whole
home with remote work
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
ance despises my father, but I
Dear Abby: My wife works
forgave Dad and feel neutral
from home, and we are having
about his presence. My mom
a disagreement about the home
has voiced — begged, actually
workspace. She says I interrupt
— that I allow her and Dad to
her too much and shouldn’t talk
give me away since she didn’t
to her so often. While I agree
have either parent there for her
with that, I don’t agree with her
wedding.
roaming around the house with
J EANNE
I don’t have an opinion on
her laptop while she’s in meet-
P HILLIPS
the subject. My mom for senti-
ings. If I turn on the TV, listen
ADVICE
mental reasons does. But my fu-
to music or talk on the phone,
ture husband can’t bear the sight
she gets upset.
of my dad. I have thought about
I have been digging my heels
in saying I’m entitled to enjoy my own calling the whole thing off on more than
home and she should either stay in her one occasion.
If I oblige my mom, my fiance will be
home office or go to a coffee shop.
Am I unrealistic to expect her not unhappy (to say the least), and if I oblige
to make our entire house her office? my fiance, I’ll break Mom’s heart. I can
find no middle ground here. Any advice
— Walking On Eggshells
Dear Walking: People create home on how to proceed? — Torn Bride-To-Be
Dear Torn: This is your and your fian-
offices for a reason. It’s a dedicated, or-
ganized place to work. Your wife should ce’s wedding. It should not be influenced
not be “roaming the house” with her lap- by your mother’s history. Walk yourself
top and insisting you maintain complete down the aisle. Many modern brides do
silence. Ideally, some physical boundar- it these days. Your mother could give
ies should be set that equitably divide the a reading or sit with your father in the
house between her “office” and the “rest front row and cheer you on. Who escorts
you down the aisle should not be decided
of the house.”
Another suggestion might be for you by her.
P.S. Have you thought about how your
to find some activity away your home a
couple of mornings or afternoons a week fiance’s antipathy for your father may af-
while she’s busy in meetings. This might fect your marriage? What’s happening
provide you with more social contact. now isn’t conducive to a happy marriage.
The two of you should have a (calm) dis- Before you step foot on that trip down
the aisle, it needs to be resolved. Family
cussion and see what works for you.
Dear Abby: In the midst of wedding counseling might help the four of you,
planning, the question of who will walk because once you tie the knot, your fi-
me down the aisle has come up. My fi- ance will be part of the family.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
100 Years Ago
Nov. 9, 1921
Spectators at the Pendleton-Baker high
school football game on Armistice Day are
to be kept in the grandstand, as the field has
been wired off to keep the crowds off the
grounds. For the fans who must see the play
at close range, additional bleachers have been
provided near the bleachers reserved for high
school rooters, on the north side of the field.
Dick Hanley, high school coach, says that the
matter of patrolling the wires will be in the
hand of members of the American Legion
Post. Officials for the game will be Homer
Angel, of Baker, former University of Oregon
football player, referee; and Tracey Baker, of
Pendleton, former University of Washington
captain, umpire.
50 Years Ago
Nov. 9, 1971
The new marina in Umatilla will be known
in the future as the Umatilla Marina. The Port
of Umatilla commission Monday voted to
rename the facility after the name Wanahla
Marina apparently presented several prob-
lems. The vote brought unanimous approval
in favor of the change. In 1968, when the
Wanahla name was adopted, Commis-
sioner Randy Dorran was the lone dissenter.
The name change came after the Umatilla
City Council and the Umatilla Chamber of
Commerce were critical of the name Wanahla
in meetings last week.
25 Years Ago
Nov. 9, 1996
Fulfilling a boyhood dream, Republi-
can Gordon Smith won his race Friday to
succeed GOP Sen. Mark Hatfield and became
the first Oregon senator elected from east
of the Cascades since the 1920s. A count of
absentee ballots from Tuesday’s election gave
Smith the victory over Democrat Tom Brug-
gere, a computer software company founder
making his first bid for office. Smith, 44, a
frozen-food tycoon whose father worked for
President Dwight D. Eisenhower as assistant
agriculture secretary, grew up in a household
where politics was a main topic of conversa-
tion at the dinner table. Smith’s long-standing
ambition to serve in the Senate, coupled with
his narrow loss in a January special election
to replace the disgraced Bob Packwood,
made Friday’s victory all the more sweet.
The last U.S. senator from Eastern Oregon
was Robert Stanfield of Umatilla, who
was elected in 1920.
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. 9, 1938, Nazis
looted and burned syna-
gogues as well as Jewish-
owned stores and houses
in Germany and Austria
in a pogrom or deliber-
ate persecution that be-
came known as “Kristall-
nacht.”
In 1620, the passengers
and crew of the Mayflow-
er sighted Cape Cod.
In 1872, fire destroyed
nearly 800 buildings in
Boston.
In 1935, United Mine
Workers president John
L. Lewis and other labor
leaders formed the Com-
mittee for Industrial Or-
ganization (later renamed
the Congress of Industrial
Organizations).
In 1965, the great
Northeast blackout began
as a series of power fail-
ures lasting up to 13 1/2
hours, leaving 30 million
people in seven states and
part of Canada without
electricity.
In 1970, former French
President Charles de
Gaulle died at age 79.
In 1976, the U.N. Gen-
eral Assembly approved
resolutions condemning
apartheid in South Africa,
including one character-
izing the white-ruled gov-
ernment as “illegitimate.”
In 1989, communist
East Germany threw open
its borders, allowing citi-
zens to travel freely to the
West; joyous Germans
danced atop the Berlin
Wall.
In 2000, George W.
Bush’s lead over Al Gore
in all-or-nothing Florida
slipped beneath 300 votes
in a suspense-filled re-
count, as Democrats threw
the presidential election to
the courts, claiming “an
injustice unparalleled in
our history.”
In 2005, three suicide
bombers carried out near-
ly simultaneous attacks
on three U.S.-based hotels
in Amman, Jordan, killing
60 victims and wounding
hundreds.
In 2007, President
Gen. Pervez Musharraf
of Pakistan placed op-
position leader Benazir
Bhutto under house arrest
for a day, and rounded up
thousands of her support-
ers to block a mass rally
against his emergency
rule.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE