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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Costs quickly adding up
for wedding participant
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Anxious Attendant: Yes,
Dear Abby: I couldn’t be
you should have asked the bride
happier for my friends who are
before accepting her invitation
embarking on the next chapter
to join the wedding party. And
of their lives with their part-
it is not too late to speak up.
ners, but I’m becoming increas-
Bachelorette parties and wed-
ingly anxious about their bach-
dings do NOT “go together like
elorette parties. When did the
a horse and carriage.” Explain
bachelorette party become such
J EANNE
that all of the costs are more
a big production? While I have
P HILLIPS
than you can afford. If you do,
attended my fair share, I think
ADVICE
she may tell you it’s enough that
they are getting increasingly ex-
you travel to and participate in
travagant and pricey.
the wedding. However, if she
I’m trying to prioritize my
own next step in life, which is buying a doesn’t, back out so she can replace you.
Dear Abby: My husband, who is in
home, and it feels like I’m being “invit-
ed” to spend a significant chunk of my his 60s, wears a baseball cap all day, ev-
savings over the course of a few months. ery day, to hide a bald spot. He has worn
The bachelorette party I’m most con- that same dirty cap for two years and
cerned about is for a wedding in which I even wears it to work. He only removes it
have been asked to be a bridesmaid. For when he is sleeping. I have suggested he
this reason, I feel obligated to attend. wash it or replace it, but he refuses and
The cost associated with the weekend is he makes a tsk-tsk noise when I tell him
$2,500 per person and will total $20,000 I don’t think it’s healthy to wear some-
for three days. This equals three months thing filthy on your head for two years.
of rent for me, and I’m finding it hard to — Disgusted In Florida
Dear Disgusted: You are correct. Ac-
justify this kind of expense. I get anxious
thinking about the other expenses and cording to the Cleveland Clinic, moder-
ate exposure to sunlight increases vita-
time-off requests from work.
My first instinct is to say “No,” but min D levels in the body, which is not
it’s hard to refuse a bride who is so im- only beneficial to good health, but it also
portant to me. I want to be supportive encourages hair growth. Your husband
and involved during this exciting time for is doing himself no favors by constantly
her. How much is too much? What is the wearing that (dirty) baseball cap, espe-
proper etiquette for being in the wedding cially indoors. If he does it because he’s
party and attending the bachelorette self-conscious about his bald spot, there
party? Should I have asked about this be- are products that can minimize it, and
fore accepting to be in the bridal party? effective surgical options if he would be
willing to spend the money.
— Anxious Attendant
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago — 1922
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
The old Woodward tollgate which is in
operation on the Weston-Elgin road stands
an excellent chance to be done away with if a
decision of the court of Umatilla county can
be realized. The county thinks the tollgate is
a thing of antiquity, a remnant of other times
and has no place in the lives and activities of
the people of Umatilla county in the days of
1922. No state records have been found and a
search is now being made by the county clerk
to ascertain whether the operators of the toll-
gate have legal permission to exact payment
from travelers over the road. The Woodward
family has been sent formal notice request-
ing they show cause why the privilege of
charging toll should not be denied them.
Not only do owners of vehicles of various
kinds have to pay, but owners of livestock
also have to pay for the privilege of driving
flocks and herds over the private road.
50 years ago — 1972
A confused series of traffic accidents
occurred in a blinding dust storm about
2:30 p.m. on Interstate 80 North between
Rew Elevator and Stanfield Junction. Winds
of up to 45 miles an hour churned dust out
of plowed fields and left visibility near zero.
Seven separate collisions occurred. One
five-vehicle crackup of two big trucks and
three cars injured several members of the Vale
basketball team. The players were en route
home from The Dalles, where the team had
upset Wahtonka High School.
25 years ago — 1997
It’s not uncommon for jail officials to
receive letters from inmates, most of them
complaining about the conditions or service
during their time behind bars. But it is uncom-
mon to receive a letter thanking the staff for
their efforts. One such letter was sent to the
Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office last month
from an inmate who spent a week in the coun-
ty-run jail. While imprisoned on a second-de-
gree robbery charge, the inmate “was coming
down off heroin and to say I was feeling terri-
ble and incredibly ashamed would be an under-
statement,” he wrote. “I’m an addict and I’ve
been in several different jails, but I’ve never
been treated with the respect and concern that
you all showed me.” It was the first letter of its
kind that Sheriff John Trumbo could remember
receiving. The inmate ended his letter with a
warning against drugs — “Drugs are a terrible
thing and its grip is mighty.”
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 March 1, 1974, sev-
en people, including for-
mer Nixon White House
aides H.R. Haldeman
and John D. Ehrlichman,
former Attorney General
John Mitchell and for-
mer assistant Attorney
General Robert Mardian,
were indicted on charges
of conspiring to obstruct
justice in connection with
the Watergate break-in.
(These four defendants
were convicted in January
1975, although Mardian’s
conviction was later re-
versed.)
In 1867, Nebraska be-
came the 37th state as
President Andrew John-
son signed a proclama-
tion.
In 1893, inventor Niko-
la Tesla first publicly dem-
onstrated radio during a
meeting of the National
Electric Light Association
in St. Louis by transmit-
ting electromagnetic en-
ergy without wires.
In
1932,
Charles
A. Lindbergh Jr., the
20-month-old son of
Charles and Anne Lind-
bergh, was kidnapped
from the family home
near Hopewell, New Jer-
sey. (Remains identified
as those of the child were
found the following May.)
In 1945, President
Franklin D. Roosevelt,
back from the Yalta Con-
ference, proclaimed the
meeting a success as he
addressed a joint session
of Congress.
In 1966, the Soviet
space probe Venera 3 im-
pacted the surface of Ve-
nus, becoming the first
spacecraft to reach anoth-
er planet; however, Venera
was unable to transmit any
data, its communications
system having failed.
In 1971, a bomb went
off inside a men’s room at
the U.S. Capitol; the radi-
cal group Weather Under-
ground claimed respon-
sibility for the pre-dawn
blast.
Dennis
In
2005,
Rader, the churchgoing
family man accused of
leading a double life as
the BTK serial killer, was
charged in Wichita, Kan-
sas, with 10 counts of
first-degree murder. (Rad-
er later pleaded guilty and
received multiple life sen-
tences.)
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE