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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, December 21, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Dog-walking habit raises
big stink with readers
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
plicitly sharing the messy, smelly
Dear Abby: I’m responding
details of their experiences.
to your request for comments
Some areas require trash be
about your answer to “Doggy
placed in a large, sealed plastic
Business” (Oct. 28). Please IM-
bag in the receptacle. When gar-
PLORE your readers not to put
bage collectors pull the bag out,
their dog’s poop in their neigh-
the small poop bags can spill out
bor’s garbage cans. I live near a
and the contents disperse onto
park and daily dog walkers use
J EANNE
the street. Worse, if the bags are
my trash can like it’s a public
P HILLIPS
thrown into a neighbor’s gar-
service.
ADvICe
bage container AFTER collec-
My garbage quickly fills with
tion, those bags remain at the
endless poop bags, sometimes
bottom and smell for days.
between five and 10 a day. Gar-
Readers, encourage dog walkers to
bage is collected only every other week in
my community. Then I end up having to take a larger bag with them or wear a
work around all this poop, and not only fanny pack with multiple compartments
does my garbage can perpetually stink to to transport their pets’ “souvenirs” back
high heaven, but I have to be judicious to their own home.
Dear Abby: Our nosy children have
with what I throw away myself.
Rough materials will rupture those been pressuring us to explain their in-
bags and poop gets all over the inside heritance. I’m appalled. I was taught that
of the can. I’m currently saving up to this is something for the parents to tell,
modify my property’s retaining wall so I not the kids to ask. Several friends of
can keep the receptacles away from the ours who are executors for their parents
are now being questioned by siblings
street.
Please, if you have a dog, be respon- while the parent is sick and fighting for
sible for its waste. If you don’t want to life. Please explain to readers what is the
carry it, get your dog a harness or pack best etiquette with regard to inheritance.
with a pocket, and dispose of it in your — Unsure In California
Dear Unsure: Too often money is
own can when you get home. — Peeved
used to manipulate and control family
In The Pacific Northwest
Dear Peeved: I advised “Doggy Busi- members. If adult children are going to
ness” that disposing of his dog’s waste in inherit, they need to learn early how to
neighbors’ garbage cans is a big no-no. wisely and responsibly handle money.
After asking for readers’ thoughts, an And, if circumstances change and the es-
AVALANCHE of responses descended. tate is affected, the heirs should be given
The vast majority agreed with me, ex- as much forewarning as possible so they
pressing disdain at the practice and ex- are prepared and not shocked.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
100 years ago — 1921
The United School Band of Pendleton has
been organized a little more than one year,
and to give account of its efforts during the
more than 12 months which its members
have spent working together, the band is
planning to present a concert some time in
January. Practices are being held now by the
membership under the direction of A. W.
Lundell to get the program in readiness. The
band consists of about 50 pieces. The play-
ers have been taken from all of the schools
of the city, and the organization is now play-
ing a medium grade of music, according to
Director Lundell. Some of the boys are also
practicing with the Round-Up band. There
is some slight indebtedness to be met by the
boys’ organization, and they have chosen the
concert method as a good way to raise the
funds they need to pay the amount they are
now owing.
50 years ago — 1971
Steelhead are moving and if the Umatilla
River doesn’t muddy up, fishing could be
good this weekend. Don Brandt, Stanfield,
caught the first Pendleton steelhead of the
season Thursday, while fishing near Main
Street during the noon hour. He estimated its
weight at six pounds. Fresh eggs were the bait.
The Umatilla’s steelhead run won’t peak for
more than two months, however, according
to Game Commission records. The electronic
fish counter that in past years gave anglers
some indication of the number of steelhead
in the stream is out of action, so the only way
to find out if the steelhead are present is to
try to catch them. The Umatilla is open to
steelheading from the mouth upstream to the
Mission bridge
25 years ago — 1996
Gas prices average 20 cents less per gallon
in Hermiston than in Pendleton, although the
towns are just 30 miles apart. But local fuel
distributors and station managers say there
are several factors contributing to price differ-
ences. “In Hermiston, you have more compe-
tition. You have the AM-PM and the truck
stop in Stanfield,” said Rudy Olbrich, general
manager of Bonbright Oil, a fuel distributing
company. AM-PM at the south edge of Herm-
iston on Highway 195, which often prices its
fuel more than a dime lower than any other
station in the area, sends many Hermiston
gas merchants scrambling to set their prices
as low as profitably possible. Today’s prices
at the station were $1.05 for regular unleaded,
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. 21, 1988, 270
people were killed when a
terrorist bomb exploded
aboard a Pam Am Boeing
747 over Lockerbie, Scot-
land, sending wreckage
crashing to the ground.
In
1620,
Pilgrims
aboard the Mayflower
went ashore for the first
time at present-day Plym-
outh, Massachusetts.
In 1864, during the
Civil War, Union forces
led by Maj. Gen. William
T. Sherman concluded
their “March to the Sea”
as they captured Savan-
nah, Georgia.
In 1891, the first bas-
ketball game, devised by
James Naismith, is be-
lieved to have been played
at
the
International
YMCA Training School
in Springfield, Massachu-
setts.
In 1914, the U.S. gov-
ernment began requiring
passport applicants to
provide photographs of
themselves.
In 1945, U.S. Army
Gen. George S. Patton,
60, died in Heidelberg,
Germany, 12 days after
being seriously injured in
a car accident.
In 1968, Apollo 8 was
launched on a mission to
orbit the moon.
In 1976, the Liberian-
registered tanker Argo
Merchant broke apart
near Nantucket Island
off Massachusetts al-
most a week after running
aground, spilling 7.5 mil-
lion gallons of oil into the
North Atlantic.
In 1991, eleven of the
12 former Soviet repub-
lics proclaimed the birth
of the Commonwealth of
Independent States and
the death of the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics.
In 1995, the city of
Bethlehem passed from
Israeli to Palestinian con-
trol.
In 2012, the National
Rifle Association said
guns and police offi-
cers were needed in all
American schools to stop
the next killer “waiting in
the wings,” taking a no-
retreat stance in the face
of growing calls for gun
control after the New-
town, Connecticut, shoot-
ings that claimed the lives
of 26 children and school
staff.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
Days gone by: Dec. 21, 2021