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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Reader is not ready to
marry child’s mother
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
unsupervised, and standing on
Dear Abby: My girlfriend,
and climbing on the gravestones.
“Dyanne,” and I recently had a
Cemeteries are sacred places in
baby conceived not long after we
which the dead should be re-
started dating. While I love my
membered and honored.
child with all my heart, Dyanne
When parents or caretakers
is constantly dropping hints that
allow children to use the cem-
she wants an engagement ring or
etery as a play area, they fail to
a “promise ring.” But she’s pres-
J EANNE
teach them respect for the dead
suring me to provide something
P HILLIPS
or for the survivors who are vis-
I believe should come when I
ADVICE
iting the graves of their loved
feel comfortable doing it.
ones. They also place their chil-
I believe that when I give
dren in danger. Gravestones can
someone a ring, it should be be-
cause I plan to marry her. I don’t consid- fall or tip over. Children have been killed
er marriage the way most do, and think I or seriously injured by toppling stones.
can just get divorced and it’s no big deal. Flat grave markers can be tripping haz-
I think Dyanne puts too much emphasis ards. When we caution parents about
on what others think and that’s one of these dangers, we are often met with in-
difference.
the reasons she wants a ring.
Please urge your readers to take our
Am I wrong to stall until I feel ready
to propose and not just say, “Sure. One concern for their children’s safety seri-
day we will, and here’s a ring in the mean- ously and control their children’s ac-
tivities in cemeteries. — Concerned Tour
time”? — Unengaged In California
Dear Unengaged: Nowhere in your Guide
Dear Concerned: I’m pleased to pass
letter did you mention that you love
Dyanne. You should not give her a ring along your message because it is an
and keep her in a holding pattern if you important one. Cemetery etiquette is
aren’t sure you want to follow through simple: Treat the graves as you would
with the commitment. Tell her you care the graves of your own cherished loved
about her and love your child and intend ones, or as you would like your own to
to responsibly co-parent with her, but be treated. This includes no loud chatter,
you are not ready for marriage and don’t and because there are people in mourn-
know when you will be. That’s the truth. ing there, not walking on the graves, not
Dear Abby: I’m a volunteer tour guide leaving chewing gum on the gravestones,
for several historic sites. one of them is keeping pets leashed — if they are
a cemetery. My fellow guides and I are brought there at all — and teaching chil-
concerned — not to mention saddened dren the difference between a cemetery
— when we see children running around and a playground.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
100 years ago — 1922
Pendleton shivered, shoveled coal, hugged
the fire and thawed out water pipes as a result of
a cold wave which swept over eastern Oregon
last night. The official figures show that the
minimum for the 24 hours was 21 degrees
below zero early this morning and 2 above
zero shortly after noon. The barometer tells
a story that indicates continued cold weather
tonight. The chances are good, too, that it will
be colder tonight than it was last night. “There
are no vacant houses in Pendleton, so people
had better not get burned out during this sort
of weather,” remarked Fire Chief Bill Ringold
this morning. The fire chief is a worried man
these days because he knows frozen pipes are
being thawed out and sometimes open flame
torches are used.
50 years ago — 1972
Evangelist Erick Kaiser came to Pendleton
this week to teach a seminar in Bible history.
The Bible he brought included a historical
lineage that dates back to John Day, the man for
whom so many Eastern Oregon sites are named.
The Bible was passed down to Mr. Kaiser’s
wife, Joyce, from her grandfather, Sylvanius
Day Hudiburgh. The Kaisers had a study of their
family tree that confirmed their ancestry, said
Kaiser. He expressed pride to be a descendant,
by marriage, of a man who left his name in much
of Eastern Oregon even though he admits his
wife’s great-great-grandfather was more noto-
rious than famous for his deeds. John Day came
from the east coast in 1811 with the Astor-Hunt
overland party. He and another man, Ramsay
Crooks, fell behind and became stranded in the
Blue Mountains during the winter. The two
were also attacked and robbed near the mouth
of what is now called the John Day River.
25 years ago — 1997
Freezing rain made travel treacherous in
northeast Oregon this morning, forcing the
closure of schools across Umatilla County. The
Eastern Oregon Regional Airport also was
closed due to this ice on the runways. “You can’t
stop a plane on that,” said airport manager Larry
Dalrymple, adding that airports in Pasco, Walla
Walla and Yakima were also closed. Walking
often proved more dangerous than driving,
although there had been a host of fender bend-
ers and cars off roads by mid morning. High
school basketball games across the county were
canceled due to the weather. The predictions
for freezing rain took school administrators by
surprise this morning. The original forecast was
for the storm to arrive this evening.
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. 18, 1943, dur-
ing World War II, Jewish
insurgents in the Warsaw
Ghetto launched their
initial armed resistance
against Nazi troops, who
eventually succeeded in
crushing the rebellion.
In 1778, English navi-
gator Captain James Cook
reached the present-day
Hawaiian Islands, which
he named the “Sandwich
Islands.”
In 1911, the first land-
ing of an aircraft on a ship
took place as pilot Eugene
B. Ely brought his Curtiss
biplane in for a safe land-
ing on the deck of the ar-
mored cruiser USS Penn-
sylvania in San Francisco
Harbor.
In 1913, entertainer
Danny Kaye was born
David Daniel Kaminsky
in New York City.
In 1957, a trio of B-52s
completed the first non-
stop,
round-the-world
flight by jet planes, land-
ing at March Air Force
Base in California after
more than 45 hours aloft.
In 1975, the situation
comedy “The Jeffersons,”
a spin-off from “All in
the Family,” premiered on
CBS-TV.
In 1990, a jury in Los
Angeles acquitted for-
mer preschool operators
Raymond Buckey and his
mother, Peggy McMartin
Buckey, of 52 child moles-
tation charges.
In 1991, financially
strapped Eastern Airlines
shut down after more than
six decades in business.
In 1993, the Martin Lu-
ther King Jr. holiday was
observed in all 50 states
for the first time.
In 2005, the world’s
largest commercial jet,
the Airbus A380 “super-
jumbo” capable of fly-
ing up to 800 passengers,
was unveiled in Toulouse,
France.
Chinese
In
2011,
President Hu Jintao ar-
rived at Andrews Air
Force Base outside Wash-
ington for a four-day
state visit; President Ba-
rack Obama welcomed
him with a private dinner
in the White House resi-
dence. The first director
of the Peace Corps, R.
Sargent Shriver, died in
Bethesda, Maryland, at
age 95.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE