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A18 East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, February 8, 2022 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ Sister is not the same after removal of tumor FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE B.C. PICKLES BEETLE BAILEY BY LYNN JOHNSTON BY MASTROIANNI AND HART BY BRIAN CRANE to his family and they embraced Dear Abby: My sister, who me, inviting me to holidays and was a bright and cheerful star birthday parties, etc. for everyone and anyone, was Four years went by and we diagnosed with a brain tumor. It started talking about marriage. was removed with almost 100% We made plans to have our wed- margins several years ago. Our ding at our favorite beach with family feels unbelievably blessed family and a couple of friends. that she’s OK, but she knows J EANNE There were several people we she’s not the same. This is ig- P HILLIPS would have loved to take part, nored by some close relatives, ADVICE but who couldn’t due to the pan- but not by me. demic. I will forever be grateful for Before the ceremony, my the fact that she’s alive and OK, but she is not the sister I once knew no husband and I came up with the idea of matter how hard she may try. I sym- wearing white face masks to take a group pathize with her, I listen, I know she picture. As the masks were being distrib- struggles because she’s missing her old uted, his family got angry and said they self. I try with heartfelt messages, but ul- weren’t going to do anything they didn’t timately, I feel useless. And, selfish as it want to do. They then stomped off and sounds, I miss my sister, my TRUE sister, wouldn’t participate in the vows or any of the pictures. terribly. They’re angry with me, and I am hurt. I know this isn’t what she wants, and I will be there for her no matter what the And the hateful things they said also hurt future brings. But what else can I do for my husband. I don’t know how to handle this. — Bad Idea In Florida her? — Supportive Sis In Virginia Dear Bad Idea: What happened was Dear Sis: While some of her capac- ity may be diminished, what your sister terrible, and I can’t blame you for feel- needs is you to be her stalwart sister and ing hurt at the treatment you and your love her for the person she is NOW. Sup- husband received on your wedding day. port her, love her, appreciate that she’s However, this is the tribe you married still with you and quit focusing on those into. Your husband’s family may have reacted strongly because they objected aspects of her personality that are lost. Dear Abby: I divorced my husband of to having their faces covered in a photo 12 years after catching him cheating with or to face masks in general. If it was the multiple women. I took time for myself latter, it’s a shame they felt they had to and wasn’t in a hurry to meet anyone. take a political stance while you were cel- However, about a year after the divorce, I ebrating your nuptials. Try to be forgiving. met a great guy. I was quickly introduced BY MORT WALKER DAYS GONE BY 100 years ago — 1922 GARFIELD BY JIM DAVIS His teacher sees him as a pale-faced little fellow who found learning all too tedious, but who was ever-ready to “play like” in any role whatsoever. A local bookstore owner remem- bers a youngster who was so ardently fond of theatrical magazines that he was permitted to stand at the counter and read copies which he was too poor to buy. A theater manager recalls a “thin-looking kid” who used to usher at the Alta and who watched for every opportunity to appear in amateur theatricals. All these are kindly reminiscences of George Hack- athorne, native of Pendleton, now co-star with Betty Compson in the film play “The Little Minister,” which will be shown here Friday and Saturday. Young Hackatorne has many friends here who admire him very much for his loyalty to his invalid mother who is a patient at the Eastern Oregon state hospital. 50 years ago — 1972 BLONDIE BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL For the second time in three Stone Here- ford Ranch production sales, a bull has sold for $10,000 to top the sale. A. D. Clark, a rancher from Buhl, Idaho, paid $10,000 for Dr Mck Dhu E135. Clark also bought the second-high- est bull at $7,800. Stone cattle manager Doug Bennett said he was “very happy” and labeled the auction “a real good sale.” The auction was held at the Stone Hereford Ranch on Butler Creek, five miles south of Hermiston. Owned by Howard and Verna Stone, Walla Walla, it is one of the largest registered Hereford oper- ations in the United States with approximately 600 head of registered cattle plus a 550-cow commercial division. 25 years ago — 1997 A protest by a handful of Umatilla High School students over a dress code provision that prohibits hats culminated in the suspension of two students and a teacher. Two students filed a complaint against a physical education teacher after the incident. Four boys donned hats and sat on the school’s gym bleachers instead of attending morning classes. According to one of the students, a teacher at the school encouraged them to protest the rule. When the physical education teacher discovered the protestors in the gym, the students said he told them to leave then pushed them on their backs and chests toward the exit. Two of the boys received a three-day suspension for insubordination. The superintendent also suspended one teacher, but she would not confirm which teacher it was. 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. 8, 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots was be- headed at Fotheringhay Castle in England after she was implicated in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. In 1693, a charter was granted for the College of William and Mary in Wil- liamsburg in the Virginia Colony. In 1910, the Boy Scouts of America was incorpo- rated. In 1922, President War- ren G. Harding had a ra- dio installed in the White House. In 1924, the first execu- tion by gas in the United States took place at the Nevada State Prison in Carson City as Gee Jon, a Chinese immigrant con- victed of murder, was put to death. In 1952, Queen Eliza- beth II proclaimed her accession to the British throne following the death of her father, King George VI. In 1960, work began on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located on Holly- wood Boulevard and Vine Street in Los Angeles. In 1965, Eastern Air Lines Flight 663, a DC-7, crashed shortly after take- off from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport; all 84 people on board were killed. The Su- premes’ record “Stop! In the Name of Love!” was released by Motown. In 1968, three Black students were killed in a confrontation between demonstrators and high- way patrolmen at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg in the wake of protests over a whites- only bowling alley. In 1971, NASDAQ, the world’s first electronic stock exchange, held its first trading day. In 1973, Senate lead- ers named seven members of a select committee to investigate the Watergate scandal, including its chairman, Democrat Sam J. Ervin of North Caro- lina. In 2007, model, ac- tor and tabloid sensation Anna Nicole Smith died in Hollywood, Florida, at age 39 of an accidental drug overdose. PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
