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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, March 17, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Man is insulted only wife
is asked to be godparent
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I’m worried my
Dear Abby: I have a girlfriend,
23-year-old son may be in serious
“Dawn,” who is one of my old-
financial trouble. He has always
est friends. I married a man who
made clear that he wants to run
I think is the love of my life. He’s
a business instead of working at
very macho and proud. We have
a 9-to-5 job. He has been work-
built a life together, and through
ing hard trying to start a consul-
stepchildren, exes and family —
tation business for the last four
through thick and thin — our
J EANNE
or five years, which sometimes
love has endured.
P HILLIPS
works and sometimes does not.
Well, my husband is also
ADVICE
He’s dependent on my credit
possessive. Dawn recently asked
card, which he was only sup-
me to be the godmother of her
posed to use for emergencies,
second child. My husband is of-
fended that I was asked and he wasn’t. but he sometimes uses it for more than
He has never made an effort to have a that. I pay off the credit card bills and
friendship with Dawn and her husband, he owes me all the money he has charged
or even met her son since his birth many on it. He promises to pay it back, and
months ago. He wants no part in the pro- comes up with the weirdest excuses when
he can’t.
cess, which I am very upset about.
On a number of occasions I have tried
What do I do? Should I ignore my
husband’s feelings, be a good friend and to sit him down and get out of him if he’s
godmother to Dawn’s baby and deal in trouble, but he keeps insisting that he’s
with the aftermath with my husband? “working on things and everything will
be OK soon.” I want to be supportive,
— Potential Godmother In Arizona
Dear Potential Godmother: Your hus- but I see the debt rising and number
band appears to be not only possessive, of lies piling higher. I am worried sick
but also somewhat self-centered and con- about him. Please help. — Anxious Mom
trolling. It would be interesting to know In Pennsylvania
Dear Mom: Turn off the spigot. You
why he’s pouting, since he’s not close to
your friend nor particularly interested in have been your son’s “angel” long enough.
her baby. Because one spouse is asked to A business that cannot support itself is a
be a godparent does NOT automatically failure. That your son would abuse your
mean the other must be. Some children generosity and compound it by lying to
have only one godparent; others have you is very sad. The way to stop this cycle
them in multiples. If you wish to be god- is to remove him from your credit card
mother to Dawn’s baby boy, go ahead and let the chips fall where they may. If
and do it — and do not feel you have to he needs a business partner, it should not
be you any longer.
apologize for it.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago — 1922
GARFIELD
BY JIM DAVIS
“Early Days in Pendleton” was the subject
of a talk of extreme interest by Col. J. H.
Raley at the Commercial association forum
luncheon. Col. Raney said he first came to
this section with his parents in 1862 and they
returned two years later. At that time the flat
where Pendleton is located was covered with
cottonwoods and a thorn thicket. But one
house stood near here, then known as Swift’s
crossing. Later the site where Pendleton stands
today was sold by Abe Miller to Mose Good-
win for a consideration of a team of horses
and a cow. In those days, said the colonel, the
entire district was covered with bunchgrass
two feet high and there were well worn trails
in various directions made by the Indians
or by animals. The first few houses erected
along the river were covered with grass and
dirt roofs, the houses being made out of logs.
50 years ago — 1972
BLONDIE
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
When the Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office
received several telephone calls about a big
white dog that was foaming at the mouth and
was feared to be rabid, Deputy Russell Bart-
lett was armed with dog-catching equipment
and sent to the rescue. After he caught the
dog, he found out that its owners had been
feeding powdered milk to a batch of kittens.
The greedy dog had been raiding the kittens’
lunch and coming away with his muzzle
covered with harmless white foam.
25 years ago — 1997
When Bruce Anglin came to the rescue
of a fellow guard being attacked by a pris-
oner at Eastern Oregon Correctional Insti-
tution, he didn’t realize the fight would last
more than three years and pit him against his
employer, the Oregon Department of Correc-
tions. Anglin recently won that battle and a
jury awarded him $402,000 in a civil trial. In
1993 when an inmate attacked a guard with
a weight lifting bar, Anglin ran 100 yards,
dodged a punch from the inmate and then
struck the attacker on the forehead, breaking
his hand. For his actions, Anglin was awarded
the Department of Corrections’ highest honor
— the medal of valor. The damage to his hand
left him disabled and after nine months he
returned to work in the EOCI mail room. A
few months later he met with prison officials
to find a permanent job at the prison. They
denied his request because of his disability
and in 1994 he was put on leave without pay.
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 17, 1969,
Golda Meir became prime
minister of Israel.
In 1762, New York
held its first St. Patrick’s
Day parade.
In 1941, the National
Gallery of Art opened in
Washington, D.C.
In 1942, six days after
departing the Philippines
during World War II,
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
arrived in Australia to be-
come supreme command-
er of Allied forces in the
southwest Pacific theater.
In 1950, scientists at
the University of Califor-
nia at Berkeley announced
they had created a new ra-
dioactive element, “cali-
fornium.”
In 1966, a U.S.
Navy midget subma-
rine located a missing
hydrogen bomb that had
fallen from a U.S. Air
Force B-52 bomber into
the Mediterranean off
Spain. (It took several
more weeks to actually re-
cover the bomb.)
In 1970, the United
States cast its first veto in
the U.N. Security Council,
killing a resolution that
would have condemned
Britain for failing to use
force to overthrow the
white-ruled government
of Rhodesia.
In 2003, edging to the
brink of war, President
George W. Bush gave
Saddam Hussein 48 hours
to leave his country. Iraq
rejected Bush’s ultima-
tum, saying that a U.S.
attack to force Saddam
from power would be “a
grave mistake.”
In 2010, Michael Jor-
dan became the first ex-
player to become a ma-
jority owner in the NBA
as the league’s Board of
Governors unanimously
approved Jordan’s $275
million bid to buy the
Charlotte Bobcats from
Bob Johnson.
In 2016, finally bowing
to years of public pres-
sure, SeaWorld Enter-
tainment said it would no
longer breed killer whales
or make them perform
crowd-pleasing tricks.
In 2020, the Kentucky
Derby and the French
Open were each post-
poned from May to Sep-
tember because of the
coronavirus.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE