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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Wife’s outdoor activities
exclude disabled husband
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
it — so he can have some fresh
Dear Abby: My husband is
air and a change of scenery? If
in his 40s and permanently dis-
you must go out to preserve your
abled from injuries received in a
sanity, it would be compassion-
recent automobile accident. He
ate to arrange for someone to
is in pain, on pain medicine 24
stay with him so he’s not alone.
hours a day and basically sleeps
Dear Abby: I’m a woman of
his days away. His pain and im-
28. I have started falling in love
mobility make intimacy impos-
J EANNE
with a girl I met recently. We
sible.
P
HILLIPS
talked for a while, expressed feel-
He doesn’t object when I go
ADVICE
ings for each other and decided
out with friends or participate in
to start dating. She lives in Min-
activities he is unable to do, like
nesota and I’m in Texas. She’s
hiking, biking or kayaking, yet
I feel guilty for leaving him home alone also in college. I think she’s 18 or 19.
Things were going OK, but recently
five days a week, and sometimes the en-
tire weekend. His mother thinks I’m a she’s gone quiet and hasn’t been talking
terrible person for doing this, but I can’t to me as often. She said she just needs
just sit home with him after I get home some time to herself and that she’s hav-
from work because he falls asleep watch- ing some second thoughts about all of
this. I talked with her about it, and she
ing TV.
We both know this will be the situ- told me she still loves me and wants me
ation for the rest of our lives. This self- to come visit her, which I’m planning to
care is very important to my well-being. do soon. It feels like she’s got cold feet,
How do I continue to live an active life and I’m not sure what to do. I love her. I
and still be the wife he needs? — Sad want to make this work between us, but I
feel unwanted and unloved. What should
Fate In Pennsylvania
Dear Sad Fate: If the situation were I do? — Starting To Lose Faith
Dear Starting: What you should do is
reversed, is this the way you would like
your husband to treat you? This is an recognize that you and this young woman
honest discussion you should be having are in very different places in your lives.
with him. I will be frank. Leaving a dis- You are ready for a serious commitment
abled spouse five days (nights?) a week or to someone. She’s a college student who
for an entire weekend on a regular basis isn’t yet out of her teens. If she needs time
to herself so she can figure out whether
seems excessive.
You promised to love, honor and cher- she is ready for the kind of relationship
ish this man in sickness and in health. you have in mind, give it to her. Do not
Would it be possible to include him on force it. If that means postponing your
an occasional outing — if he can handle visit, so be it.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
100 years ago — 1921
That Eastern Oregon should attempt the
formation of a new state if justice cannot be
secured from Portland is the suggestion of the
Baker Herald in a story published December
12 over the signature of the publisher, George
H. Currey. It begins: “Recent actions on the
part of the Portland Chamber of Commerce
can be construed in no other light than insults
to the intelligence of the people of Eastern
Oregon.” The story continues to list several
facts as evidence of this strong statement.
“Portland seems to think the people of East-
ern Oregon are perfect damphools,” he writes.
“Portland holds out the hand of friendship
and coolly asks for a million dollars for the
purpose of holding a Portland fair in 1925,
while in the other hand concealing a freight
rate dagger, distracting our attention from
the building of extravagant scenic wonder
highways near Portland, with state bonds
payable by the people of Eastern Oregon.”
Mr. Currey concludes: “I personally pray for
the day when Eastern Oregon can be orga-
nized under some plan, can unite upon some
program, can successfully combat the play of
one section against another, and say to Port-
land in terms that provide no surrender, either
give us a square deal or give us a new state.”
50 years ago — 1971
Union Pacific Railroad has offered to sell
its depot at Hermiston to the Oregon Trail
Council of Camp Fire Girls, Rondi O’Gara,
executive director of the council, reported.
Mrs. O’Gara said that should the offer be
accepted — and it appeared it would —
the depot would be moved to the council’s
40-acre campground 15 miles east of Pend-
leton in the Blue Mountains. The site, near
Deadman’s Pass, has water and electricity but
has been without a building where Camp Fire
Girls could hold functions. Union Pacific said
it would sell the depot to the council for $110.
25 years ago — 1996
A log cabin is a special creation. It resem-
bles the forests from which it sprung. It has the
uncanny knack of blending in with the land.
It suggests privacy bordering on seclusion. It
brings out the history in all of us. It’s highly
likely that none of that was a consideration
for students at Weston-McEwen High School
in Athena when they expressed an interest in
building a log cabin. To them, it was a project
with an exciting end result. “I thought if they
were willing to try it, why not?” said shop
teacher David Lange.
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. 14, 2020, the
Electoral College con-
firmed Joe Biden as the
nation’s president, rati-
fying his November vic-
tory in a state-by-state
repudiation of President
Donald Trump’s refusal
to concede he had lost;
electors gave Biden 306
votes to Trump’s 232.
Speaking from Delaware,
Biden accused Trump of
threatening
principles
of democracy, but told
Americans that their form
of self-government had
“prevailed.” A Wisconsin
Supreme Court rejected
Trump’s lawsuit seeking
to overturn his loss in the
battleground state about
an hour before the Elec-
toral College cast Wiscon-
sin’s 10 votes for Biden.
In 1799, the first
president of the United
States, George Washing-
ton, died at his Mount
Vernon, Virginia, home at
age 67.
In 1819, Alabama
joined the Union as the
22nd state.
In 1861, Prince Albert,
husband of Queen Victo-
ria, died at Windsor Cas-
tle at age 42.
In 1911, Norwegian
explorer Roald Amund-
sen and his team became
the first men to reach the
South Pole, beating out a
British expedition led by
Robert F. Scott.
In 1916, President
Woodrow Wilson vetoed
an immigration measure
aimed at preventing “un-
desirables” and anyone
born in the “Asiatic Barred
Zone” from entering the
U.S. (Congress overrode
Wilson’s veto in February
1917.)
In 1939, the Soviet
Union was expelled from
the League of Nations for
invading Finland.
In 1961, a school bus
was hit by a passenger
train at a crossing near
Greeley, Colorado, killing
20 students.
In 1964, the U.S. Su-
preme Court, in Heart of
Atlanta Motel v. United
States, ruled that Congress
was within its authority to
enforce the Civil Rights
Act of 1964 against racial
discrimination by private
businesses (in this case, a
motel that refused to cater
to Blacks).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
Days gone by: Dec. 14, 2021