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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, December 2, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Woman tired of couple’s
constant marital drama
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I’ve been mar-
Dear Abby: My husband has
ried for six years. When I met
a “best friend” from childhood
my wife, we decided she’d move
I’ll call “Artie.” Finding things
into my home with her teenaged
to do with him and his wife is
boys. I told them upfront how
a struggle. We like to travel, so
important it is to me to keep a
we always invite them along, but
clean home. When they come
Artie says “no” to everything.
home from college, they leave a
His wife, “Ann,” and I are pretty
J EANNE
mess in the kitchen, and it drives
close.
P HILLIPS
me crazy. This has been going on
We all spend a lot of time to-
ADVICE
since we married, and I’m ready
gether and they fight constantly!
to tell my wife they are not al-
Ann shows up at our house in
lowed back into my home.
the middle of the night needing
I have reminded them many times
a place to sleep. Their fighting has ruined
more gatherings than I have fingers and about cleaning up after themselves, but
toes to count. I feel like our life is con- their mess continues. I’m close to losing
sumed by their toxic relationship. My my temper over it. It angers me to see
husband tells me I should just “ignore grown men in my home do this. It feels
it.” But he’s not the one who has to tend like they are blatantly disrespecting me.
to his friend’s wife EVERY day. Help! — When I was away for a year, my wife
constantly complained to me about their
Exhausted In Alabama
Dear Exhausted: What you do is draw lack of cleanliness as well. Am I in the
the line. Tell your husband the unrelent- wrong? — Taskmaster In California
Dear Taskmaster: You are not wrong.
ing warfare in his friend’s marriage is
more than you care to handle. Tell Ann Remind the “boys” — without exploding
the same thing, and that if she can’t sleep — that you have asked them repeatedly
under her own roof, she’ll have to find not to leave the kitchen in a mess after
other accommodations than your house they use it. Then tell them — without ex-
in the middle of the night. Urge her to get ploding — that if it happens again, they
counseling and to contact the National will have to arrange for other accommo-
Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799- dations when they visit.
It goes without saying that your wife
7233) or a local domestic violence shelter
if Artie is violent. As to socializing with should back you up on this. They should
them as a couple — on trips, yet (!) — ex- also ask their mother if there is anything
plain to your husband that you have lost else they can do to be helpful when they
your appetite for it, and if he wants to visit — like wash the towels they have
see his childhood friend, he should do it used and make up the beds with fresh
linens before they return to school.
without you.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
100 years ago — 1921
Another accident, said by Traffic Officer R.
E. Turner, to have been caused by a violation
of the law, resulted last night in painful inju-
ries to E. W. Gillaspy. The accident occurred
near the state hospital on the highway when
Mr. Gillaspy and a boy, whose identity is
unknown to the police, clashed. Both were
riding bicycles, according to the information
secured by the traffic officers, and neither
bicycle was equipped with a headlight.
Gillaspy was rendered temporarily uncon-
scious when he crashed to the pavement after
the collision, and he was painfully injured
about the head. In the future, according to
Turner, cyclists who ride after dark without
lights will be prosecuted for violating the law.
50 years ago — 1971
A guitar is easier to move around than an
organ. This is the reason Tracey Fordice, who
sings at the Skyroom at Pendleton Municipal
Airport, is learning how to play the guitar.
She uses her own organ for performances and
her father transports it between home and her
job. The Pendleton High School junior has
been playing at the Skyroom for six months.
During the school year, she works two week-
ends a month. Tracey sings and plays about
250 songs a night. She knows most of them
from memory. She sings contemporary music
and likes “Carole King stuff best.” While she
has had piano lessons, she plays by ear instead
of using music. She is saving the money she
earns for college and to go to Europe with a
folk singing group. Tracey says her grades
haven’t suffered. Her parents won’t let her
work unless she maintains a 3.5 grade point
average. “That means I’m studying more than
I ever did before,” she said.
25 years ago — 1996
Sen.-elect Gordon Smith said he’s
resigned his management posts in Smith
Frozen Foods in preparation for his full-
time job as Oregon’s newest senator. State
Senate president the past two years, Smith
said he and his wife still own the major-
ity of stock in the family company and he
plans to keep that stock unless he’s required
to divest it under ethics rules. The Senate
Ethics Committee helped bounce former
Sen. Bob Packwood and caused some politi-
cal heartburn for retiring Sen. Mark Hatfield
when he forgot to report some gifts from
friends. So Smith isn’t taking any chances.
In addition to resigning as president of his
company, he plans to ask the Senate Ethics
Committee for guidance on handling his
fortune to avoid any conflicts of interest.
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 Dec. 2, 1859, mili-
tant abolitionist John
Brown was hanged for his
raid on Harpers Ferry the
previous October.
In 1823, President
James Monroe outlined
his doctrine opposing Eu-
ropean expansion in the
Western Hemisphere.
In 1942, an artificially
created,
self-sustaining
nuclear chain reaction
was demonstrated for the
first time at the University
of Chicago.
In 1954, the U.S. Sen-
ate passed, 67-22, a reso-
lution condemning Sen.
Joseph R. McCarthy, R-
Wis., saying he had “acted
contrary to senatorial eth-
ics and tended to bring the
Senate into dishonor and
disrepute.”
In 1957, the Shipping-
port Atomic Power Sta-
tion in Pennsylvania, the
first full-scale commercial
nuclear facility in the U.S.,
began operations. (The re-
actor ceased operating in
1982.)
In 1970, the newly cre-
ated Environmental Pro-
tection Agency opened
its doors under its first di-
rector, William D. Ruck-
elshaus.
In 1982, in the first op-
eration of its kind, doc-
tors at the University of
Utah Medical Center im-
planted a permanent arti-
ficial heart in the chest of
retired dentist Dr. Barney
Clark, who lived 112 days
with the device.
In 1993, Colombian
drug lord Pablo Escobar
was shot to death by secu-
rity forces in Medellin.
In
2000,
Al
Gore sought a recount
in South Florida, while
George W. Bush flatly as-
serted, “I’m soon to be the
president” and met with
GOP congressional lead-
ers.
In 2001, in one of the
largest corporate bank-
ruptcies in U.S. history,
Enron filed for Chapter 11
protection.
In 2015, a couple
loyal to the Islamic State
group opened fire at a
holiday
banquet
for
public employees in San
Bernardino, California,
killing 14 people and
wounding 21 others be-
fore dying in a shootout
with police.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
Days gone by: Dec. 2, 2021