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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Relationships collide in
affair at the workplace
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
gaging from this office romance,
Dear Abby: I’m a supervisor
so please continue to do that.
at my job and have feelings for
Because of the unique cir-
a married man who also works
cumstances of your marriage,
here. He’s lonely and looks to me
you have some serious decisions
for attention, companionship,
to make. Do not drag your co-
sex and to listen to his troubles.
worker into it. IF there is the
We have only had sex once, but I
possibility of a future with him,
know I cannot continue this “re-
J EANNE
he also needs to decide if he is
lationship.”
P HILLIPS
satisfied with the status quo be-
It breaks my heart because
ADVICE
fore making any other commit-
IF he was single, this is some-
ments.
one I could have a relationship
Dear Abby: My husband of
with. I have already told him I
won’t accept any more of his offers to more than 20 years has taken to hiding
walk me home, and to quit texting me. decorative accessories that he doesn’t like.
He’s open with his wife regarding dating An example: A designer bowl set pack-
aged in a box suddenly disappeared from
other people.
Am I delusional to think he will leave the cupboard. The plug-in air freshener
her for me? Would he have the same from my home office also went missing.
problems with me that he has with her? A lamp I moved from the living room to
He has difficulty expressing his emotions, the foyer appeared on my bookcase two
but I think he still loves his wife. I know hours later. My complaints fall on deaf
their marriage is broken, and it’s not my ears. His favorite coffee mug and iPad
job to fix it for them or to push him to are about to mysteriously vanish. Can
you talk some sense into him? — Hide
choose me over her.
By the way, I’m also married, but my And Seek In Georgia
Dear Hide: Is this recent behavior, or
husband lives 7,000 miles away. After
seven years, his immigration status still has your husband been hiding things all
needs to be resolved. I’ll probably ask during your marriage? If it’s recent, your
him for a divorce because I’m no longer husband may need a medical checkup,
in love with the man I married. He knows because what you are describing can be
I have been dating someone because I a symptom of dementia. If he’s mentally
fit, you two need to work on sharpening
told him. — In Knots In New York
Dear In Knots: You didn’t mention your communication skills and, perhaps,
whether there are policies in your busi- agree that before any more items are
ness about fraternizing, but if there are, brought into the home the TWO of you
then what you have been doing could get share, they’re not something either of
you fired. You have already started disen- you will hate.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago — 1922
GARFIELD
BY JIM DAVIS
That local help will be needed in order
to furnish and equip the new wing for St.
Anthony’s hospital was made clear yester-
day afternoon when the subject was presented
at a meeting of the board of manager of the
Commercial association. It will require
$31,000 to equip the new wing, according to
plans made by the Sisters of St. Francis. To
erect the new wing has cost a total of $220,000
and there is no money left for furnishing the
hospital, it was explained by Mother Solano,
head of the institution. Therefore local people
will be asked to contribute to a fund for this
purpose. The value of the hospital to the city
was strongly commended by Dr. F. E. Boyden
and Dr. H. H. Hattery who accompanied the
delegation of sisters at the meeting.
50 years ago — 1972
BLONDIE
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
It’s Frazer, not Frazier. That’s the way offi-
cial city records spell the name of the Pend-
leton avenue and Umatilla County pioneer
Uncle Jake Frazer. City records show that
on Dec. 8, 1939, a street naming committee
had incorporated in the official minutes this
report: “Frazer Avenue. Jacob Frazer, affec-
tionately known as Uncle Jake, born in Ohio,
at an early day drove bands of horses into the
West. Came to Willamette Valley in 1868,
driving large bands of sheep; he very soon
came to Umatilla County, becoming one of
the big sheep owners of the time. First brick
building in Pendleton was built by Uncle Jake
Frazer in 1881.” The city’s street names were
adopted by an ordinance on Feb. 23, 1940. “No
man did more for Pendleton or stood higher
in the estimation of Pendletonians than Jacob
Frazer,” the report concluded.
25 years ago — 1997
The Tamastslikt Cultural Institute under
construction in Mission is growing by artis-
tic leaps and cultural bounds, thanks to
$435,000 in grant and commission money.
The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla
Indian Reservation recently received a
$415,000 two-year staffing grant to cover
salaries and support staff at Tamastslikt,
which translates from the Walla Walla dialect
as “interpreter.” The grant was received
from the Administration for Native Amer-
icans. And the Wildhorse Gaming Resort
has donated $20,000 to commission a tribal
artist to create a 40-foot by 15-foot piece of
artwork for the facility’s entrance foyer into
the permanent exhibit area.
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 8, 1965,
the United States landed
its first combat troops in
South Vietnam as 3,500
Marines arrived to defend
the U.S. air base at Da
Nang.
In 1618, German as-
tronomer Johannes Ke-
pler devised his third law
of planetary motion.
In 1817, the New York
Stock & Exchange Board,
which had its beginnings
in 1792, was formally or-
ganized; it later became
known as the New York
Stock Exchange.
In 1948, the Supreme
Court, in McCollum v.
Board of Education,
struck down voluntary re-
ligious education classes
in Champaign, Illinois,
public schools, saying the
program violated separa-
tion of church and state.
In 1971, Joe Frazier
defeated Muhammad Ali
by decision in what was
billed as “The Fight of
the Century” at Madison
Square Garden in New
York. Silent film come-
dian Harold Lloyd died in
Beverly Hills, California,
at age 77.
In 1983, in a speech to
the National Association
of Evangelicals conven-
tion in Orlando, Florida,
President Ronald Rea-
gan referred to the Soviet
Union as an “evil em-
pire.”
In 1988, 17 soldiers
were killed when two
Army helicopters from
Fort Campbell, Kentucky,
collided in mid-flight.
In 1999, baseball Hall
of Famer Joe DiMaggio
died in Hollywood, Flor-
ida, at age 84.
In 2000, President
Bill Clinton submitted to
Congress legislation to es-
tablish permanent normal
trade relations with Chi-
na. (The U.S. and China
signed a trade pact in No-
vember 2000.)
In 2004, Iraq’s Gov-
erning Council signed a
landmark interim consti-
tution.
In 2008, President
George W. Bush vetoed
a bill that would have
banned the CIA from us-
ing simulated drowning
and other coercive inter-
rogation methods to gain
information from suspect-
ed terrorists.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE