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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Beau shows no desire to
progress the relationship
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
at lunch and during our break.
Dear Abby: I have been dat-
All of a sudden, she stopped
ing “Brent” for four years. Prior
sitting with me during the first
to meeting him, I was divorced
break but she still ate with me at
with two children. Brent shows
lunch. Then she stopped!
little interest in my kids’ lives.
I asked her if I said or did
He doesn’t want us to live to-
anything wrong and she said
gether before the kids are out of
no. I asked her if she was avoid-
the house, and he never plans to
J EANNE
ing me or had found something
get married.
P HILLIPS
wrong, and she insisted there
Even if he would agree to
ADVICE
was nothing wrong and I worry
move in now, I don’t want to
too much. So now I sit alone
move to his city because my kids
and she sits somewhere else by
need to be close to their school,
their friends and their father. Brent herself with her phone. I was nice to her.
We talked about our day and sometimes
doesn’t want to relocate.
I really would like to take our re- shared snacks during the break. All that
lationship to the next level, but he ig- is gone now.
I know people grow apart, but it
nores my subtle hints. I can’t imagine
life without him. I have even considered stings. Being an adult means moving on,
getting pregnant to make this relation- but when something happens for no ap-
ship go further, in spite of knowing he parent reason, there has to be an expla-
doesn’t want a baby. Advice? — Getting nation. Can you share your insight on
this dilemma? — Lunching Alone
Desperate In The Heartland
Dear Lunching Alone: There is always
Dear Getting Desperate: Brent is cen-
tered on himself and would be a nega- a reason. Perhaps you should believe
tive, disruptive influence in your chil- your co-worker when she says you didn’t
dren’s lives. Your first responsibility must do or say anything wrong. What may
have changed are her circumstances. You
be to them.
As to the idea of “trapping” him by mentioned that rather than sit with you,
becoming pregnant in spite of the fact she now sits alone with her cellphone. It’s
that he doesn’t want to be a father — I possible that something is going on with
DON’T RECOMMEND IT! You could her family — or her personal life that re-
get a rude awakening and end up parent- quires her attention. I know it stings, but
ing a child you didn’t really want all by you have to let it go. Find someone else
to socialize with during breaks. It would
yourself.
Dear Abby: I have a co-worker I en- be less painful if she explained it to you,
joyed talking to and being around. I’m but your co-worker may be a private per-
27, and she is 41. We used to sit together son.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago — 1922
Andy T. Barrett mail carrier on Route 2 out
of Weston, thinks he has used more varieties
of locomotion now than any other mail carrier
in the United States. He encounters washouts
and muddy roads in the lowlands and deep
snow drifts in the mountains. The result is
that he makes ten miles with a car, two miles
with a buggy and eight miles with a sleigh.
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
50 years ago — 1972
Until three or so years ago, the Future
Farmers of America was strictly a male
organization. Then along came the women’s
liberation movement. Women’s lib may not
be the reason, but FFA no longer is confined
to boys and men. Back East, some FFA offi-
cers are girls. And at least two girls will seek
state offices during the Oregon FFA conven-
tion in Pendleton this week. What do boys
think about girls as FFA members? “It’s sort
of hard to be beaten by a girl,” said one, refer-
ring to Romana Music of Hermiston, who
won a district FFA contest recently. It’s been
necessary to change some by-laws to accom-
modate the fairer sex. In many cases, invi-
tations to local FFA banquets no longer can
designate the events as parent-son affairs. But
it’s not been a fad on the girls’ part, the boys
admit. “They’ve really taken part,” said one
of the youths.
25 years ago — 1997
Eighteen at-risk newborns in Umatilla
County will snuggle into cozier cribs this
year. Future Family and Community Lead-
ers (FFCL) students at Umatilla High School
donated 18 quilts to the county Department
of Human Resources. Thirty of the students,
some enrolled in teacher Nancy Iveson’s
home economics class, crafted the quilts
during their spare time in January and Febru-
ary. Rosemarie Atfield, volunteer program
manager for the human resource department,
explained that the soft blankets will cover
babies placed into foster care, or born into
homes with a history of drug abuse or domes-
tic violence. Home economics students began
the quilting program in 1992, which FFCL
has since adopted. “They didn’t like to sew
for themselves,” Iveson said, recalling how
the quilting donations began. Quilting was
more difficult than Troy Johnson, a junior at
UHS, expected. “Actually, it’s kind of hard
work if you don’t know your way around a
sewing machine,” he said.
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 22, 1894,
hockey’s first Stanley Cup
championship game was
played; home team Mon-
treal defeated Ottawa,
3-1.
In 1765, the British Par-
liament passed the Stamp
Act to raise money from
the American colonies,
which fiercely resisted the
tax. (The Stamp Act was
repealed a year later.)
In 1882, President
Chester Alan Arthur
signed a measure outlaw-
ing polygamy.
In 1941, the Grand
Coulee hydroelectric dam
in Washington state of-
ficially went into opera-
tion.
In 1978, Karl Wallenda,
the 73-year-old patriarch
of “The Flying Wallen-
das” high-wire act, fell to
his death while attempting
to walk a cable strung be-
tween two hotel towers in
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
In 1988, both houses of
Congress overrode Presi-
dent Ronald Reagan’s
veto of the Civil Rights
Restoration Act.
In
1993,
Intel
Corp. unveiled the origin-
al Pentium computer
chip.
In 2010, Google Inc.
stopped censoring the in-
ternet for China by shift-
ing its search engine off
the mainland to Hong
Kong.
In
2019,
special
counsel Robert Mueller
closed his Russia investi-
gation with no new charg-
es, delivering his final
report to Justice Depart-
ment officials. Former
President Jimmy Carter
became the longest-living
chief executive in Ameri-
can history; at 94 years
and 172 days, he exceeded
the lifespan of the late
former President George
H.W. Bush.
In 2020, New York
Gov. Andrew Cuomo
ordered all nonessential
businesses in the state to
close and nonessential
workers to stay home.
Kentucky
Republican
Rand Paul became the
first member of the U.S.
Senate to report testing
positive for the coronavi-
rus; his announcement led
Utah senators Mike Lee
and Mitt Romney to place
themselves in quarantine.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE