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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Friend constantly shares
details of big purchases
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: In about
Dear Abby: “Eileen” and I
three years, my wife and I
have been friends for 21 years.
will be able to comfortably re-
Abby, over the years, she has
tire. The problem is she’s 57
increasingly flaunted her spend-
and has smoked since she was
ing habits, bragging about how
in her teens. In addition to to-
much she spent on her son’s
bacco, she also smokes reefer
birthday or Christmas gifts or
and consumes alcohol three or
home renovations, and sending
J EANNE
four nights a week, and her fam-
me pictures of her brand-new
P HILLIPS
ily medical history is not great.
cars.
ADVICE
I indulge a little with her — on
I’m not jealous. I grew up in
weekends only — and I’m not a
an upscale neighborhood with
smoker.
career-driven, successful parents
Needless to say, I’m becoming in-
who loved and provided for us. Eileen
grew up in less fortunate circumstances. creasingly worried that our golden years
She never saw her mother much, and she will be difficult or cut short. I have tried
talking to her about it, but she doesn’t
found her father only recently.
I am finding Eileen’s behavior increas- want to hear it. She’s a great person and
ingly annoying. Would it be wrong to say the love of my life, and I don’t want to
something to her about this? I’m afraid lose her before we can enjoy retirement
if I open my mouth, it could potentially and grandkids. What can I do? — Wor-
destroy our friendship. What do you ad- ried Sick In New Jersey
Dear Worried Sick: Try this approach:
vise? — Annoyed In Kentucky
Dear Annoyed: When people behave Tell your wife she’s the love of your life
the way Eileen does, it usually reveals and you would like to spend your golden
more about their insecurity than their years celebrating them with her while you
success. Eileen did not grow up with the both take full advantage of everything
advantages that you enjoyed, and she you have worked so hard to accumulate.
may do this because she thinks it’s the Explain you’re worried that her vices will
shorten her life, which is why you “need”
only way to measure up.
Let your friend know you’re happy her to quit smoking cigarettes and cut
things are going well for her. Then, ask down on the drinking.
If she refuses, add that if her life ends
her why she does this. After she responds,
tell her that you have always loved her for prematurely, your life will NOT be over,
who she is, not for what she has — and and what a shame it would be if every-
in the future you wish she would not take thing you had worked and planned for
up space in your precious conversations couldn’t be enjoyed together. If that
doesn’t motivate her, nothing will.
with insignificant topics.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago — 1921
GARFIELD
BY JIM DAVIS
Pendleton’s Thanksgiving of 1921 is a day
sacred to home and fireside. Family ties are
strengthened during this autumn festival which
in its observance commemorates that hardy
spirit of 1621. Always a holiday of great signif-
icance, it is doubly so this year because of the
nation’s interest in the disarmament confer-
ence whose principles are typical of Ameri-
cans. Like the Pilgrims of old who worshiped
and gave thanks before the feast, Pendleton
people today attended municipal Thanksgiv-
ing services at the Methodist church. “Thanks-
giving Day,” said Rev. Gressman, “is one of
America’s institutions, its roots imbedded in the
soil of religious inspiration. Thanksgiving Day
finds its religious origin in spirit in the Jewish
Feast of Tabernacles, which was the Feast of
the Harvest, the annual Thanksgiving to God.”
50 years ago — 1971
BLONDIE
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
Ken Rogers, Executive Vice President
of the Inland Empire Bank, announced
two management personnel changes in the
Umatilla and Hermiston banks.
Jess Foster, former manager of the
Umatilla Bank, will be the new Hermiston
Office Loan Officer. He’s also been a member
of the Hermiston Elks Lodge (No. 1845),
Umatilla Chamber of Commerce, and direc-
tor and president of the McNary Golf Club
and Umatilla Development Cooperation.
Roger Bounds will be replacing Foster
at the Umatilla Bank, as the new manager.
Bounds moved from Washington, D.C. to
Umatilla at the age of 5.
25 years ago — 1996
Ralph (“Butch”) Parrish had a lot to be
thankful for this Thanksgiving. The 27-year-
old former Stanfield police officer was
confined to a wheelchair after being pinned
and dragged beneath a car driven by a burglary
suspect in 1994. Not only did he suffer physi-
cally, but also mentally and financially when
he was no longer offered a job at the Stanfield
Police Department. For nearly three years after
the accident, Parrish lived off of money from
worker’s compensation and with anxiety about
an uncertain future. Then, long-time friend
and Boardman Police Chief Greg Sayles had
an idea. The Boardman Police Department
was in need of an office manager, and someone
like Parrish would be ideal. Sayles contacted
Parrish, and Parrish is scheduled to start his
first post-accident job by July of next year.
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. 25, 1986, the
Iran-Contra affair erupt-
ed as President Ronald
Reagan and Attorney
General Edwin Meese re-
vealed that profits from
secret arms sales to Iran
had been diverted to Ni-
caraguan rebels.
In 1947, movie studio
executives meeting in New
York agreed to blacklist
the “Hollywood Ten”
who’d been cited for con-
tempt of Congress the day
before.
In 1957, President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
suffered a slight stroke.
In 1961, the first nucle-
ar-powered aircraft car-
rier, USS Enterprise, was
commissioned.
In 1963, the body of
President John F. Ken-
nedy was laid to rest at
Arlington National Cem-
etery; his widow, Jacque-
line, lighted an “eternal
flame” at the gravesite.
In 1987, Harold Wash-
ington, the first black
mayor of Chicago, died in
office at age 65.
In 1999, Elian Gonza-
lez, a 5-year-old Cuban
boy, was rescued by a pair
of sport fishermen off the
coast of Florida, setting
off an international cus-
tody battle.
In 2001, as the war in
Afghanistan entered its
eighth week, CIA officer
Johnny “Mike” Spann was
killed during a prison up-
rising in Mazar-e-Sharif,
becoming America’s first
combat casualty of the
conflict.
In
2002,
Presi-
dent George W. Bush
signed legislation creat-
ing the Department of
Homeland Security, and
appointed Tom Ridge to
be its head.
In 2009, Toyota said it
would replace the gas ped-
als on 4 million vehicles in
the United States because
the pedals could get stuck
in the floor mats and cause
sudden acceleration.
In 2014, President
Barack Obama sharply
rebuked protesters for ra-
cially charged violence in
Ferguson, Missouri, say-
ing there was no excuse for
burning buildings, torch-
ing cars and destroying
other property in response
to the police shooting
death of Michael Brown.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE