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A12 East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, January 27, 2022 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ Father is unsure about reuniting with his son FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE B.C. PICKLES BEETLE BAILEY BY LYNN JOHNSTON BY MASTROIANNI AND HART BY BRIAN CRANE cause she allowed him to be- Dear Abby: My 38-year-old lieve it, which would explain son is in jail for meth. He’s been his attitude toward you all these an addict for many years. I tried years. It might be of some ben- several times to help him, but he efit to him to be reminded that always relapsed. He has been in you love him and care about his rehab. His mother and I divorced well-being. Once he is clean, he when he was 7. He was a great may have a different attitude kid until the divorce. After that, J EANNE where you are concerned. If not, he became distant and wouldn’t P HILLIPS at least you tried. talk much to me. ADVICE Dear Abby: I have ended a His mother tried to make up four-year romantic relationship. for the divorce by doing every- When times were good, they thing for him. When I wanted him to do something, like his homework, were very good. I had some of the most he would just sit and stare. I couldn’t pun- joyful and wonderful experiences of my ish him because I was afraid he wouldn’t life with him, my children and his fam- want to come to my place when it was my ily. However, when the going got rough, weekend to have him. I did things with him and tried to show him I loved him, he started seeing other women and, later, but I think he blamed me for the divorce. was hateful to one of my tween children. I know in my head the relationship had (It was my wife who wanted it.) I don’t think he ever loved me like a to end, yet I continue to cry over the loss son normally loves his father. He rejected every day, and my sleep remains disrupt- any advice I tried to offer and paid no at- ed. What’s the matter with me that I’m tention when I tried to teach him some- pining over a man who turned so sour? thing. I feel like I have always had to do the How can I help myself move through heavy lifting to try to have a relation- this? — Too Many Tears Dear Tears: I sympathize with your ship with him. If I never heard from him again, I really wouldn’t miss him. All he disappointment. Now dry those tears has ever been is a taker. Should I bother and remind yourself that, had the ro- trying to get in contact with him while he mance continued, you might have mar- ried someone who would verbally abuse is in jail? — Frustrated Father In Texas Dear Father: Your son is sick — an your children and cheat on you. You addict. That he is in jail will hopefully aren’t crying over the loss of “him” as mean he can attain sobriety. Reach out much as grieving the loss of a dream that to him one more time. He may believe didn’t come to fruition. Stay busy and fo- you deserted him and his mother be- cus harder on looking ahead. BY MORT WALKER DAYS GONE BY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL 100 years ago — 1922 That Buddy Reed and Kid Brooks will meet again to compete for honors in the ring is assured, according to a statement made today by Herb Reed who is managing his brother. The boys were on last night in Pendleton in a four-round battle which the boxing commis- sion ordered discontinued at the end of the third round when Brooks had a pair of badly swollen peepers. The Pullman boy remonstrated at the decision of the referee which gave the battle to Reed, as a result the boys will mix again within the next 30 days in a six-round scrap. 50 years ago — 1972 The recent announcement by the Oregon Highway Commission that Stanfield will be by-passed by Highway 32 has raised the ire of some of the Main Street business people. Stanfield variety store owner-op- erator Willard Welch said that he is “pretty mad.” Welch was at the meeting in 1970 in the city council chambers when state high- way officials said the routing would remain down Stanfield’s Main Street. He says he was assured at the meeting that if any change in plans should develop that he and others on the street would be notified. “I am just sick about this,” he said in the wake of hearing the surprise announcement. Elton Frazier, who has operated a service station on the street for 12 years, said, “If they take us off the high- way, I am not going to be here.” 25 years ago — 1997 The skeletons of the Cold War — hundreds of thousands of rockets, bombs, land mines, artillery shells and sprayers loaded with deadly nerve gas — lie in concrete bunkers called igloos in the chemical weapons depot a couple miles west of Hermiston. Concerned that 103 of the weapons already have leaked, the U.S. Army is eager to build a high-tech incinerator, like ones already operating in Tooele, Utah, and Johnston Atoll in the South Pacific, to destroy the deadly agents. With the blessing of the state of Oregon, the Army will award a contract to build the incinerator at the Umatilla Chemical Depot. Barring a successful lawsuit from opponents, burning will begin in 2001 and be finished by 2004. Originally a conventional munitions storage facility, the Oregon depot was established in 1941 on 20,000 acres of sagebrush. Chemical weapons started coming in 1962 and now fill 89 igloos in a high-security area. 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. 27, 1967, astro- nauts Virgil I. “Gus” Gris- som, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo spacecraft. In 1880, Thomas Edi- son received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp. In 1888, the National Geographic Society was incorporated in Washing- ton, D.C. In 1944, during World War II, the Soviet Union announced the complete end of the deadly German siege of Leningrad, which had lasted for more than two years. In 1945, during World War II, Soviet troops lib- erated the Nazi concentra- tion camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland. In 1981, President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, greeted the 52 former American hos- tages released by Iran at the White House. In 2010, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad tablet computer dur- ing a presentation in San Francisco. J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of “The Catcher in the Rye,” died in Cornish, New Hampshire, at age 91. In 2013, Flames raced through a crowded night- club in southern Brazil, killing 242 people. In 2018, a suicide bombing in the Afghan capital of Kabul killed more than 100 people; the attacker was driving an ambulance full of explo- sives and raced through a security checkpoint after saying he was transferring a patient to a hospital. In 2020, China confirmed more than 2,700 cases of the new coronavirus with more than 80 deaths in that country; authorities post- poned the end of the Lu- nar New Year holiday to keep the public at home. U.S. health officials said they believed the risk to Americans remained low and that they had no evi- dence that the new virus was spreading in the Unit- ed States; they advised Americans to avoid non- essential travel to any part of China. PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE