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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, January 13, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
A partner is cast aside
amid a man’s struggles
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
to relationships. Whatever his
Dear Abby: For the past
plans for the future may be, he
three years I’ve been with a man
does not want a committed re-
I believe is the love of my life.
lationship with you, nor does he
Early on, he admitted to a porn
want the financial responsibility
addiction that has plagued him
and the tie to you that the house
his entire life and sabotaged past
represents. It is now time for you
relationships. With my support,
to start looking after your own
he began his first real attempt at
J EANNE
needs and goals. If you stay busy
recovery, which included a team
P HILLIPS
and don’t isolate yourself, it will
of mental health practitioners.
ADVICE
lessen the pain you are feeling.
His progress over the past
Dear Abby: My brother di-
three years, while not linear, has
vorced his first wife 10 years ago.
been tremendous. He’s an entire-
ly different person. I would describe our Since then, he has married a wonderful
relationship as 90% joyful, 10% agony. I woman my family adores. The problem
agree the cycle must be broken, and only is, my ex-sister-in-law insists on showing
up for family events, which makes these
he can do it.
A week ago, he had a difficult relapse celebrations extremely awkward. Even
and ended our relationship. His therapist her children recognize how uncomfort-
feels he needs to be on his own to focus able her presence makes everyone.
I don’t mind being the “bad guy” and
on recovery. While I am devastated, I
agree. But I can’t understand why he’s telling her that she’s no longer welcome
giving up on us forever and making big at family events, but I don’t want to
decisions like getting off the mortgage cause an ugly scene. How can I diplomat-
on the house we bought less than two ically (but firmly) tell her to stay away?
years ago. He swears it has nothing to do Any suggestions would be appreciated.
with me, and that if it weren’t for this ad- — Flummoxed In Philadelphia
Dear Flummoxed: What a sad situa-
diction, he would spend the rest of his
tion. Your BROTHER, not you, should
life with me.
If his plan is to live alone, be single deliver the message to his ex, well before
or celibate, and focus on recovery, why she shows up at your next family event.
wouldn’t he also pause on major financial He should inform her that when she
decisions? Why is he done when there is shows up uninvited, her presence makes
clearly hope for recovery and reconcilia- everyone uncomfortable, and it would
be best that she not impose again. You
tion? — Broken-Hearted In Oregon
Dear Broken-Hearted: You have in- could lessen the hurt by occasionally see-
volved yourself with someone who has ing her separately, depending upon the
a terrible track record when it comes circumstances of the divorce.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
100 years ago — 1922
The machinery has been oiled for a quick
snappy program at Eagle-Woodman hall
tonight when Ted Thye of Portland and Ray
McCarroll meet in a wrestling bout. Thye has
agreed to throw McCarroll twice within one
hour or forfeit the match, and whether he can do
this is what local fans are interested in seeing.
Good preliminaries have been arranged. The
bill will start at 8 o’clock and the offerings will
be pushed through with quickness, accord-
ing to McCarroll. At the first meet held here
when Basanta Singh and McCarroll grappled,
there were some delays between events which
made the fans nervous, and this defeat will be
remedied tonight. The platform in the hall has
been finished and everything is in readiness
for the go.
50 years ago — 1972
An experiment in coyote birth control failed
last year in Morrow County. But scientists
haven’t given up hope of finding some method
of coyote damage control. “We want a repel-
lent” that will protect sheep, Morrow rancher
Henry Krebs said during a panel discussion
of predator control presented at a meeting of
the regional chapter of the Society for Range
Management. Bill Nelson, state supervisor
of the U.S. Division of Wildlife Services,
said coyote repellents that have been devel-
oped appear to be effective for only about six
months. “The coyote population in Oregon
has increased steadily since 1955 and it is still
going up,” he said. Trends in coyote popula-
tion are determined through two methods —
coyote use of scent posts and coyote reaction
to a siren. The regular police siren is sounded
along an annual route at the same time each
year under similar conditions. Coyotes howl
when they hear it. Nelson said, “We count the
number of coyotes that answer the siren.”
25 years ago — 1997
Some of the scholarship money handed out
to criminal justice students at Blue Mountain
Community College this week came from a
very simple source. It represents a lifetime of
hard work and simple living, explained a long-
time friend of Red and Florence Wishart, who
bequeathed a $114,587 estate to the school.
Red Wishart worked for the city water depart-
ment “for a long, long time,” said family
friend Lyle Earlley. “That’s what impressed
the heck out of me. Here you’ve got people
working for everyday wages, maybe even low
wages, and they’re big-hearted enough to give
it away.” The couple had no children.
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. 13, 2021,
President Donald Trump
was impeached by the
U.S. House over the
violent Jan. 6 siege of
the United States Capi-
tol, becoming the only
president to be twice im-
peached; ten Republicans
joined Democrats in vot-
ing to impeach Trump on
a charge of “incitement of
insurrection.”
In 1794, President
George Washington ap-
proved a measure adding
two stars and two stripes
to the American flag, fol-
lowing the admission of
Vermont and Kentucky
to the Union. (The num-
ber of stripes was later re-
duced to the original 13.)
In 1941, a new
law went into effect
granting Puerto Ricans
U.S. birthright citizen-
ship. Novelist and poet
James Joyce died in Zur-
ich, Switzerland, less than
a month before his 59th
birthday.
In 1982, an Air Florida
737 crashed into Wash-
ington, D.C.’s 14th Street
Bridge and fell into the
Potomac River while try-
ing to take off during a
snowstorm, killing a to-
tal of 78 people, includ-
ing four motorists on the
bridge; four passengers
and a flight attendant sur-
vived.
In 1987, West German
police arrested Moham-
med Ali Hamadi, a sus-
pect in the 1985 hijacking
of a TWA jetliner and
the killing of a U.S. Navy
diver who was on board.
(Although convicted and
sentenced to life, Hamadi
was paroled by Germany
in December 2005 and
returned home to Leba-
non.)
In 1990, L. Douglas
Wilder of Virginia became
the nation’s first elected
Black governor as he took
the oath of office in Rich-
mond.
In 1992, Japan apolo-
gized for forcing tens
of thousands of Ko-
rean women to serve as
sex slaves for its soldiers
during World War II,
citing newly uncovered
documents that showed
the Japanese army had
had a role in abducting
the so-called “comfort
women.”
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE