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Thursday, February 17, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Cousin desperate to help
with an abusive romance
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
through constant criticizing and
Dear Abby: I have always
belittling. Say you realize she
been extremely close to my
has invested 10 years of her life
cousins. The problem I’m hav-
in that relationship, but if she
ing is with the boyfriend of one
ever has doubts or changes her
of them. They have been dating
mind about living away from
for almost 10 years.
the family, you will be there for
For the first few years we
her. Then give her the contact
were all close. The past three
J EANNE
information of the National
years, however, have been heart-
P HILLIPS
Domestic Violence Hotline
breaking. He’s rude to her and
ADVICE
(800-799-7233; thehotline.org)
her mother and belittles and
if there have been and instances
ridicules everything she says and
in which he has hit or threatened
does. We all walk on eggshells
her — or the dog — when he’s angry.
when he’s around.
Dear Abby: My husband will not do
They recently moved hours away for
his job. I feel he has purposely isolated things unless I “remind” him. He has a
her from all of us, and is mentally and medical issue and experiences painful
emotionally abusing her. She used to symptoms if he forgets to take the medi-
want to get married and have a family cation his doctor prescribed. He’ll then
with him, but now she is calling me self- have a flare-up, take his medicine and
ish for being pregnant. He’s dragging her not take it again until another flare-up
down and has bought himself more time happens.
Also, he’ll need to have an important
by getting her a dog.
Even if they did get engaged, I’d feel doctor’s appointment for a procedure
sad she’s spending her life with this man. and he won’t even think about making
If he treats her like this in front of all of the call to schedule it. I’m not his moth-
us, what is he doing behind closed doors? er. I’m his wife. Please help. — Not His
My cousin is very prideful and shuts Mother
Dear Not His Mother: It’s hard to be-
down any criticism. How can I explain to
her that I’m worried about her without lieve someone who has a chronic condi-
risking our relationship? — Scared For tion that brings painful flare-ups would
forget to take a medication that would
Her In The East
Dear Scared: Tell your cousin you avert them, which makes me wonder
love her dearly and will be saying this about your husband’s mentation. Doc-
only once, so you want her to remem- tor visits can sometimes be uncomfort-
ber it. Then repeat to her what you have able, which may be why he hesitates to
written to me. Explain that abusers erode schedule them. If you love him, please
the self-esteem of their “love object” shoulder that responsibility.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago — 1922
GARFIELD
BY JIM DAVIS
“You stepped on my toes the last time
we played together so I’m not coming over
to your house!” That is the pouty, little-boy
attitude of the Walla Walla high school toward
Pendleton in regard to a return basketball
game. Defeated to a nice brown turn earlier
in the season by a score of 23 to 13, Walla
Walla has been hedging ever since. The return
game on the Pendleton floor, originally sched-
uled for Wednesday night, which was post-
poned until tonight was cancelled early this
afternoon. On the surface, the cause of the
rupture came over selection of a referee, but
local sport followers are laughing up their
sleeves at what they call Walla Walla’s lack
of courage.
50 years ago — 1972
BLONDIE
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
J. Joseph Barnes pleaded guilty in Umatilla
County Circuit Court to nine felony counts
involving his fraudulent operation of Skyview
Memorial Park. Judge Henry Kaye gave
him a suspended five-year prison sentence
and ordered him to pay back $15,000 to the
business. No provision was made for repay-
ment of money to any individual. Skyview,
a cemetery a few miles south of Pendleton
near McKay Reservoir, is now in the hands
of a bankruptcy trustee. Judge Kaye said “the
desirable thing to do that’s most beneficial to
the community and investors” is to salvage
the Memorial Park so that it can be sold and
redeveloped. According to Deputy Dist. Atty.
Dennis Doherty, Barnes’ sales scheme “was
based on pure misrepresentation of almost
every conceivable fact.”
25 years ago — 1997
This is how it should end every year — the
top two teams in the Columbia River Basin
Conference meeting in the final game of the
season to decide the championship. At least
that’s how the Umatilla Vikings liked it this
year. The Vikings trounced Weston-McEwen
71-56 to win the CBC boys championship.
Umatilla finished with an 11-1 record and the
TigerScots ended 10-2. It was a close game
through three quarters. In the final quarter,
the Vikings went off for 29 points, breaking
the game open with a 13-2 run in the first
two-and-a-half minutes to gain a dominat-
ing lead. The streak started and ended with
Lee Lafferty draining two from long range.
First, he popped a 17-footer and 30 seconds
later nailed a 3-pointer from the right corner.
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. 17, 1801, the
U.S. House of Represen-
tatives broke an electoral
tie between Thomas Jef-
ferson and Aaron Burr,
electing Jefferson presi-
dent; Burr became vice
president.
In 1815, the United
States and Britain ex-
changed the instruments
of ratification for the
Treaty of Ghent, ending
the War of 1812.
In 1863, the Inter-
national Red Cross was
founded in Geneva.
In 1864, during the Civil
War, the Union ship USS
Housatonic was rammed
and sunk in Charleston
Harbor, South Carolina,
by the Confederate hand-
cranked submarine HL
Hunley in the first naval
attack of its kind; the
Hunley also sank.
In 1944, during World
War II, U.S. forces in-
vaded Eniwetok Atoll,
encountering little ini-
tial resistance from Im-
perial Japanese troops.
(The Americans secured
the atoll less than a week
later.)
In 1959, the United
States launched Vanguard
2, a satellite that carried
meteorological
equip-
ment.
In 1964, the Supreme
Court, in Wesberry v.
Sanders, ruled that con-
gressional districts within
each state had to be rough-
ly equal in population.
In 1972, President
Richard M. Nixon de-
parted the White House
with his wife, Pat, on a
historic trip to China.
In 1988, Lt. Col. Wil-
liam Higgins, a Marine
Corps officer serving
with a United Nations
truce monitoring group,
was kidnapped in south-
ern Lebanon by Iranian-
backed terrorists.
In 2014, Jimmy Fallon
made his debut as host of
NBC’s “Tonight Show.”
In 2015, Vice Presi-
dent Joe Biden opened a
White House summit on
countering extremism and
radicalization, saying the
United States needed to
ensure that immigrants
were fully included in the
fabric of American soci-
ety to prevent violent ide-
ologies from taking root
at home.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE