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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, February 15, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Woman anxious to avoid
making same mistakes
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
does NOT agree to the “joint”
Dear Abby: My boyfriend,
sessions, it might be worth your
“Aaron,” and I have been to-
while to discuss couples counsel-
gether almost 10 years. We are
ing with another therapist.
both divorced from narcissistic
Dear Abby: I’ve been seeing
spouses. We have discussed a
a married man for more than
future together and are working
30 years. Everything was fine
toward it. It’s taking so long be-
between us until recently. I have
cause Aaron’s children are quite
J EANNE
begun to suspect one of my fe-
a bit younger than mine. I am
P HILLIPS
male neighbors is seeing him as
also working on getting my ca-
ADVICE
well. I’m contemplating getting
reer established.
in touch with his wife and my
Aaron can be passive-aggres-
neighbor’s husband and telling
sive. It isn’t often and it gener-
ally isn’t just over petty stuff, but when it them about my suspicions.
I need to know what to do so this re-
happens it is very hurtful.
I’ve been going to counseling to re- lationship with the neighbor will stop. I
solve some issues from my childhood know by telling on him, I’ll lose him, but
and first marriage, and recently realized if the neighbor is after him because of
I have some toxic traits I need to work his money, I don’t want his wife think-
on and heal. Unfortunately, some of that ing I’m the one taking it from him. What
toxicity has spilled into my relationship should I do? — Nervous In Texas
Dear Nervous: Despite the odds, you
with Aaron and hurt him. When it hap-
pens, he reacts passive-aggressively for a have been fortunate in having had a dra-
bit, then things seem to go back to nor- ma-free affair for 30 years. Because you
have no proof that your lover is involved
mal.
What can I do to get over the hurt I with someone else, it would cause less
feel when he acts this way? I don’t want damage to everyone if you shared your
to repay hurt for hurt. I want to break suspicions with HIM. I guarantee that if
you reveal your three-decade affair to his
the cycle. — Healing In The Midwest
Dear Healing: If your “toxicity” is wife, you can kiss this romance goodbye.
what causes Aaron to react with what If the neighbor couple finds out you ac-
you interpret as passive-aggression, he cused her, you will make enemies — par-
could simply be nursing his wounds. Talk ticularly if your suspicions are not true.
I find it ironic that after helping your
with your therapist about including Aar-
on in some of your sessions. If the thera- lover cheat for decades, you are now an-
pist agrees, tell Aaron you think your gry at him for cheating. I see nothing to
relationship could be improved if he’s be gained by creating a scandal to save
willing to go with you. If the therapist your injured pride.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago — 1922
GARFIELD
BY JIM DAVIS
A statement recently published here that
the East Oregonian will soon be using foreign
newsprint is entirely untrue. At the present
time and for a great many years past the East
Oregonian has secured its newsprint from the
Crown-Willamette Paper company which has
mills at Oregon City and at Camas, Wash. At
no time has this paper considered using Euro-
pean newsprint. However, importations of
foreign print during the past year have been
very effective in breaking the backbone of
war time high prices and therefore have been
generally welcomed by publishers. As to price
there is at present some advantage in favor
of European newsprint but with reference to
certain other points there is a distinct advan-
tage to patronizing a home paper mill.
50 years ago — 1972
BLONDIE
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
Ward Otis of Stanfield, is not opposed to
people living in mobile homes or trailers, but
he doesn’t want mobile homes located in his
“general residential area” and he is trying to
do something about it at city hall. Otis and
some of his neighbors appeared at the Stan-
field City Council’s meeting to protest their
area on South Dunne being included in an R-2
or residential and trailers zone. He would like
to have mobile homes restricted to parks or
located in designated areas in the city. “I’ve
seen it happen after McNary Dam construc-
tion and again after the freeway construc-
tion,” he said. “They move away and leave
a pad of cement and a utility pole standing,
and the rest of us with homes pay the tax bill.”
25 years ago — 1997
Fifteen acres donated in November for the
future site of a 32-foot stainless steel replica
of the Virgin Mary may instead offer the less
holy sight of a gaping gravel pit to motorists
passing in Interstate 84. The land’s donors,
Mary Elizabeth Hansell and her son, John,
own the surface rights to the land one mile
west of the junction of I-84 and I-82. But
the land’s deed specifies that mineral rights
take precedence over surface rights, and the
mineral rights were purchased by Jeddie
Aylett of Hermiston with plans to expand his
gravel business there. He later learned about
the plans to put a statue on the same land.
“It’s just a tragic situation,” said his attorney,
Sam Tucker. “We feel really bad about it.”
The proposed gravel pit is the latest obstacle
in Lake Oswego developer Joe Locke’s efforts
to site a shrine to pay tribute to his deceased
mother.
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. 15, 1879, Pres-
ident Rutherford B. Hayes
signed a bill allowing fe-
male attorneys to argue
cases before the Supreme
Court.
In 1764, the site of
present-day St. Louis was
established by Pierre La-
clede and Auguste Chou-
teau.
In 1933, President-elect
Franklin D. Roosevelt es-
caped an assassination at-
tempt in Miami that mor-
tally wounded Chicago
Mayor Anton J. Cermak;
gunman Giuseppe Zanga-
ra was executed more than
four weeks later.
In 1961, 73 people, in-
cluding an 18-member
U.S. figure skating team en
route to the World Cham-
pionships in Czechoslo-
vakia, were killed in the
crash of a Sabena Airlines
Boeing 707 in Belgium.
In 1967, the rock band
Chicago was founded by
Walter Parazaider, Terry
Kath, Danny Seraphine,
Lee Loughnane, James
Pankow
and
Robert
Lamm; the group origi-
nally called itself The Big
Thing.
In 1992, a Milwaukee
jury found that Jeffrey
Dahmer was sane when
he killed and mutilated 15
men and boys. (The deci-
sion meant that Dahmer,
who had already pleaded
guilty to the murders,
would receive a manda-
tory life sentence for each
count; Dahmer was beat-
en to death in prison in
1994.)
In 2003, millions of
protesters around the
world
demonstrated
against the prospect of a
U.S. attack on Iraq.
In
2005,
defrock-
ed priest Paul Shanley
was
sentenced
in
Boston to 12 to 15 years
in prison on child rape
charges.
In 2020, the U.S.
government said Ameri-
cans who were on board
a cruise ship under
quarantine in Japan be-
cause of the corona-
virus would be flown
back home on a charter-
ed flight, but that they
would face another two-
week quarantine; about
380
Americans
were
aboard the Diamond
Princess.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE