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