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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Wife dreads year two of
the pandemic with man
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
erful form of birth control you
Dear Abby: My husband and
possibly can so you don’t find
I got married during the pan-
yourself pregnant and trapped.
demic in a short ceremony. Our
Dear Abby: My mom is in a
first year of marriage has been
home for dementia patients, and
less a honeymoon than a night-
Dad was living in their big house
mare. He tends to be hotheaded.
by himself. He couldn’t sell it
He fights dirty with name-call-
until everything was settled with
ing.
J EANNE
my mom. Because he was very
We are trying marriage coun-
P HILLIPS
lonely, I decided to let him move
seling, but all of his temper tan-
ADVICE
in with me. We agreed he would
trums and antics have made me
pay $320 a month.
see him in a different, negative
When my sister found out,
light. He’s now talking about
growing our family. He can be very sweet she was very upset that I was charging
and thoughtful, but I don’t even know if Dad. She had him move out that day.
When I turned 18 and lived at home
I still like him at this point.
I’m also wondering if I’m just better I paid rent, so I saw nothing wrong with
alone because I like my space and time to it. Now I am an outcast. No one talks to
myself. Maybe I’m settling with the cur- me except my dad, by phone. I am very
rent situation when there could be some- depressed about this and feel suicidal. I
one better out there. Is this something I suffer from anxiety and depression, see
need to give some time to see how it plays a therapist and have been on meds for
out, or should I end it, the sooner the bet- years. Am I wrong, and how do I fix this?
— Good Son In Pennsylvania
ter? — Honeymoon-Less In New Jersey
Dear Good Son: If you haven’t done
Dear Honeymoon-Less: The pandem-
ic has stressed many marriages, but with so already, talk about this with your ther-
the quarantines relaxing there should apist. It is very important that he or she
be less pressure and confinement. Has it knows you are having suicidal thoughts
helped? Whether your hot-tempered hus- and that they persist. You did NOTH-
band is capable of changing his behavior ING “wrong.” Your father agreed to the
is something that may be revealed during arrangement, and he should have made
that clear to your sister. She was wrong
the counseling.
You didn’t mention how long the two to interfere, and she seems to wield a
of you have been seeing a therapist, but if disproportionate amount of power in
it has been more than six months with no your family. I can’t fix that and neither
improvement, it’s fair to assume he isn’t can you, so you will have to find ways of
likely to change, and the marriage should coping not only with your depression but
end. In the meantime, use the most pow- also with her. You have my sympathy.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
100 years ago — 1922
The state highway commission has
received an offer from the Umatilla County
court to grade the Dead Man’s Pass-Kamela
section of the Old Oregon Trail if the state
will lend the county $80,000 to do the work.
The section covers 12 miles and is one of the
most difficult parts of the state for road build-
ing, said Commissioner Barratt. The county
would pay the money back out of the general
road fund as collected. No action will be taken
by the commission until Chairman Booth,
who is ill in Eugene, sits with the commission.
50 years ago — 1972
“I thought about pushing him over the
steep, high cliff, but I didn’t want to kill him,”
said Everett McKenzie. Friday night was
terrifying for the 18-year-old recent Umatilla
High School graduate who was kidnapped at
gunpoint by Johnny Dean Chadwick, 18, La
Grande. The experience started on a bus near
the Woelpern exit west of Arlington about
7:30 p.m. and ended about four hours later
after McKenzie eluded his kidnapper in the
hills near Interstate 80 North and ran into
Arlington where he found a police officer.
McKenzie was sitting alone at the back of
the bus when Chadwick approached him and
drew a revolver. The hjacker demanded the
bus driver stop the bus and then took McKen-
zie with him at gunpoint.
25 years ago — 1997
Hermiston High School juniors Stephanie
Smelser and Tori Fordice are accustomed to
being in front of a crowd. As varsity cheer-
leaders, they regularly perform before school-
mates and fans at games and pep assemblies.
But when the two packed their Bulldog spirit
and headed to Orlando, Fla., to perform in the
Citrus Bowl’s half-time show with 1,200 other
cheerleaders, the experience of being in front
of more than 16,000 people was electrifying.
The two-minute Dr. Seuss-inspired routine,
which required the mega-squad to wear red
sweat suits while dancing in 100 degree heat,
was the culmination of six months’ prepa-
ration. Eight HHS varsity and junior varsity
cheerleaders were nominated to try out for
All-American status. After Smelser and Ford-
ice earned a place on the national squad in
July, they began soliciting sponsors to cover
the $1,400 cost of the trip. While in Orlando
from Dec. 28 to Jan. 2, they practiced and
visited attractions. Cheerleading coach Susan
Dick said the HHS squad is one of the stron-
gest she’s seen in a long time.
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 Jan. 11, 1908, Pres-
ident Theodore Roosevelt
proclaimed the Grand
Canyon National Monu-
ment (it became a national
park in 1919).
In 1861, Alabama be-
came the fourth state
to withdraw from the
Union.
In 1913, the first en-
closed sedan-type auto-
mobile, a Hudson, went
on display at the 13th Na-
tional Automobile Show
in New York.
In 1927, the creation of
the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences
was proposed during a
dinner of Hollywood lu-
minaries at the Ambassa-
dor Hotel in Los Angeles.
In 1935, aviator Amelia
Earhart began an 18-hour
trip from Honolulu to
Oakland, California, that
made her the first person
to fly solo across any part
of the Pacific Ocean.
In 1964, U.S. Surgeon
General Luther Terry
issued “Smoking and
Health,” a report that
concluded that “cigarette
smoking contributes sub-
stantially to mortality
from certain specific dis-
eases and to the overall
death rate.”
In 1989, nine days be-
fore leaving the White
House, President Ronald
Reagan bade the nation
farewell in a prime-time
address, saying of his
eight years in office: “We
meant to change a nation
and instead we changed a
world.”
In 2003, calling the
death penalty process “ar-
bitrary and capricious,
and therefore immoral,”
Illinois Gov. George Ryan
commuted the sentences
of 167 condemned in-
mates, clearing his state’s
death row two days before
leaving office.
In 2010, Mark McG-
wire admitted to The As-
sociated Press that he’d
used steroids and human
growth hormone when he
broke baseball’s home run
record in 1998.
In 2020, health author-
ities in the central Chinese
city of Wuhan reported
the first death from what
had been identified as a
new type of coronavirus;
the patient was a 61-year-
old man.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE