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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