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A14 East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, February 3, 2022 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ Food fight results in a friendship’s bitter end FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE B.C. PICKLES BEETLE BAILEY BY LYNN JOHNSTON BY MASTROIANNI AND HART BY BRIAN CRANE tunate you have no regrets that Dear Abby: When a friend your relationship with your for- of mine “makes dinner” for mer host has ended. I’m pretty invited guests, it’s either take- sure the feelings are mutual. out Chinese food or delivered Dear Abby: On Sunday eve- pizza. Frankly, I am sick of it. ning, a much older woman I’d Last Thanksgiving, they invited never met came to my door say- me and several others over for ing she was a neighbor and was dinner. You guessed it! Chinese J EANNE there to recruit me to participate food. I told my friend I was sur- P HILLIPS in a political lobbying event her ADvIce prised and not in the mood for church was sponsoring. This is Chinese food, offered my apolo- not something I wish to do. gies and left. We didn’t talk for I tried to refuse nicely. But four months. This past year I was again invited then she said several times she required to Thanksgiving dinner. I declined my name, email address and phone num- and, when asked why, said, “I’m sick and ber so she could send me more informa- tired of what is being offered.” The re- tion as well as opportunities to pass the sponse was, “Then I guess I’ll stop invit- information to other people. I asked for ing you. And I don’t need your friend- her information instead, but saying “no, ship.” I replied, “Glad we are on the thank you” and trying to excuse myself to get back to my children didn’t lessen same page!” Abby, this “friend” knows how to her persistence. Eventually, I apologized cook and could certainly order some- and closed the door on her. People should not be harassed in their thing different. Was I out of line? I have no regrets the friendship has ended. home, even though she may very well be a neighbor in this small neighborhood. — Fed Up In The West Dear Fed Up: When someone accepts How could I have handled this better? an invitation to someone’s home, rather — No Soliciting Dear No Soliciting: The person who than criticize the menu, they should be grateful for the hospitality being ex- came to your door had an agenda; it tended. Were you out of line? The way wasn’t a social call. In a situation like you phrased your reason for declining the one that was thrust upon you, good was rude. You could have inquired about manners did not require you to offer an the menu and asked if you could bring apology. Frankly, you should have closed something more “traditional.” It’s for- your front door SOONER. BY MORT WALKER DAYS GONE BY 100 years ago — 1922 GARFIELD BY JIM DAVIS Archie McCampbell, government trap- per, shot and killed the “Wild Man” of Little Butter Creek six miles west of Gurdane when he resisted arrest by a posse consisting of ranchers and McCampbell, who had traced the man from the Joe Hayes sheep camp after his theft of a gun and food. Dressed in non-de- script clothing, speaking broken English and coming into the haunts of men only infre- quently, the “Wild Man” had been a mystery and something of a terror to residents of the district the past three years. He had no camp of his own, but lived in deserted cabins or camped in the open. When found by the posse, the “Wild Man” turned the stolen rifle upon his pursuers, but before he could shoot he received a bullet from McCampbell’s gun in his forehead. 50 years ago — 1972 BLONDIE BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL Has women’s liberation entered the Pend- leton Round-Up Total Performance Angus Sale? “Any woman who wants to can learn cattle judging,” says Carol Thompson. She’s a rarity — a woman in the field of cattle judg- ing. There may be others, Mrs. Thompson said, “but I don’t know about them.” She grew up on the Deep Creek Angus Ranch at Potlach, Idaho, and she and her husband operate a 100-head Angus ranch in Northern Idaho, between Moscow and Coeur d’Alene. 25 years ago — 1997 It might not have been a Wild West rescue, but two Pendleton men whose car was swept away in a flooded ditch Friday night aren’t complaining. And while Umatilla County Sheriff John Trumbo has been portrayed as a cowboy sheriff who roped the men out of the water, the truth isn’t quite as colorful, he said. The adventure began when the car occupied by Mike McAllister, 33, and Jon White, 34, was swept off Stage Gulch Road at a curve flooded by a rain-swollen drainage ditch. The two men bailed out — to opposite sides of the bank. White made it to a nearby house and called the sheriff’s office. Trumbo was patrolling flooded areas in a four-wheel drive and responded. White tied a piece of rope around his waist and threw it across to McAl- lister, who did the same. White began back- ing up while Trumbo pulled on the rope and McAllister eventually made it out of the water. 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 Feb. 3, 1943, dur- ing World War II, the U.S. transport ship SS Dorchester, which was carrying troops to Green- land, sank after being hit by a German torpedo in the Labrador Sea; of the more than 900 men aboard, only some 230 survived. In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln and Confederate Vice Presi- dent Alexander H. Ste- phens held a shipboard peace conference off the Virginia coast; the talks deadlocked over the issue of Southern autonomy. In 1913, the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, providing for a federal income tax, was ratified. In 1917, the United States broke off diplomat- ic relations with Germany, the same day an American cargo ship, the SS Housa- tonic, was sunk by a U- boat off Britain after the crew was allowed to board lifeboats. In 1988, the U.S. House of Representatives handed President Ronald Reagan a major defeat, reject- ing his request for $36.2 million in new aid to the Nicaraguan Contras by a vote of 219-211. In 1994, the space shut- tle Discovery lifted off, carrying Sergei Krikalev, the first Russian cosmo- naut to fly aboard a U.S. spacecraft. In 1995, the space shut- tle Discovery blasted off with a woman, Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Eileen Collins, in the pilot’s seat for the first time in NASA history. In 2009, Eric Holder became the first black U.S. attorney general as he was sworn in by Vice President Joe Biden. In 2020, in closing argu- ments at President Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial, Democratic prosecu- tors urged senators to stop a “runaway presidency” and recognize Trump’s ac- tions in Ukraine as part of a pattern of behavior that would allow him to “cheat” in the 2020 elec- tion; Trump’s defenders accused Democrats of trying to undo the 2016 election. PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE