A12
East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, March 24, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Fiance’s aversion to pets
plants the seed of doubt
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: My boyfriend
near children on airplanes. I
and I have gotten engaged and
can’t blame kids for becoming a
we are being married in a year
little bit fussy. Often, they seem
or so. Everything about him is
miserably bored. My sad obser-
wonderful, and I’m excited to
vation is their parents seem to
share my life with him — except
be unprepared to engage their
for one worry. I have been an
kids.
animal lover my entire life. Af-
When I traveled by plane
J EANNE
ter living with him this past year
with my children, I always
P HILLIPS
with my two cats, I have slowly
planned ahead. I packed plenty
ADVICE
come to the realization that he
of healthy snacks, a few surprise
absolutely loathes the idea of
treats and games, books and art
pets.
supplies to engage them. I also
Besides my inability to understand talked to them in advance about the trip,
this (he has never had a bad past experi- the plane, who we were going to visit and
ence with an animal), it makes me ques- what we were going to do after we ar-
tion his compassion (or lack thereof) for rived. Strangers would thank me at the
all things living. Should this be a red flag, end of the flight for my children’s good
worthy of reconsidering our engage- behavior.
ment? — Critter Lover In New England
Time on a plane is a perfect oppor-
Dear Lover: Perhaps. Not everyone is tunity to forgo the hustle and bustle of
an animal lover, but it’s usually because a typical day. Use the downtime to have
they haven’t had pets or been exposed fun and enjoy special bonding time with
to them. This does not mean they lack your kids and, hopefully, give the other
compassion for all things living. It sim- passengers a break. — Mile-High Play
ply means they haven’t interacted with Time
different species.
Dear Mile-High: I’m printing
However, you say your fiance abso- your intelligent suggestions in the
lutely “LOATHES” pets. If you plan to hope that as families travel in the com-
have animals in your household in the ing months, they will be taken to
future, you MUST have some serious heart. I’m not doing this for the bene-
discussions about it and lay your cards fit of airline passengers, but rather the
on the table. If you don’t deal with this comfort of the children involved. Thank
NOW, it could be a deal-breaker in the you for sharing your thoughts with my
future.
readers and me. You may not be an an-
Dear Abby: As a frequent traveler, gel, but today you have earned your
there is the inevitability of being seated “wings.”
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago — 1922
GARFIELD
BY JIM DAVIS
A six team league with three Oregon teams
and three Washington teams will be proposed
by the Pendleton baseball club at the meeting
of the Walla Walla club this week. This was
decided at a meeting yesterday at the Commer-
cial Association rooms. It is proposed to have
Hermiston, Pendleton and Milton-Freewater
from Oregon and Walla Walla, Dayton and
one other Washington team probably Watts-
burg. This combination would represent the
entire of Umatilla county as Hermiston is
from the west end, Milton-Freewater from the
east end and Pendleton in the middle. It is the
plan of the club to provide games this year that
will be more interesting than those in the last
few years. The ball fans can expect plenty of
competition if the proposed league is formed.
50 years — 1972
BLONDIE
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
“There is a definite potential for an outbreak
of grasshoppers within a five-mile radius of
Heppner this spring,” Don Stengel, Morrow
County agent, said Wednesday. He said an
unusually large number of grasshoppers were
found late last summer. “If all their eggs hatch
we could have a real problem,” he said. The
infestation seems to be all around the town,
with Heppner as the center of a circle. “Our
hope,” Stengel said, “is that the weather will
be such that they do not survive.” This would
consist of a warming trend in late May, then a
cold snap. “They cannot live through the cold
while they are still young, but seem to survive
anything when they get older.” There is, Sten-
gel said, a control cooperative association that
was formed several years ago between Morrow
and Gilliam counties and some funds could be
available from this source immediately. He also
said there was, he thought, emergency money
available on the state level.
25 years ago — 1997
Blue Mountain Community College will
raise tuition next school year by $3 per credit
hour. The board approved an increase from
the current $32 per credit hour for the first 15
credits to $35. However, a $25 technology fee
assessed to students using the computer lab
will be dropped. Board member Phil Houk
verbally expressed “regrets” but joined fellow
board members in unanimously approving
the fee increase. The rationale for dropping
the technology fee was that while only those
students taking a computer lab were assessed
the fee, all students benefit from increased
technology on campus. The increase in tuition
for all students will help cover the cost of tech-
nology in a more equitable fashion.
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 24, 1989, the
supertanker Exxon Valdez
ran aground on a reef in
Alaska’s Prince William
Sound and began leaking
an estimated 11 million
gallons of crude oil.
In 1765, Britain en-
acted the Quartering
Act, requiring American
colonists to provide tem-
porary housing to British
soldiers.
In 1934, President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
signed a bill granting fu-
ture independence to the
Philippines.
In 1980, one of El Sal-
vador’s most respected
Roman Catholic Church
leaders, Archbishop Oscar
Arnulfo Romero, was shot
to death as he celebrated
Mass in San Salvador.
In 1995, after 20 years,
British soldiers stopped
routine patrols in Belfast,
Northern Ireland.
In
1999,
NATO
launched airstrikes against
Yugoslavia, marking the
first time in its 50-year ex-
istence that it had ever at-
tacked a sovereign country.
Thirty-nine people were
killed when fire erupted
in the Mont Blanc tunnel
in France and burned for
two days.
In
2010,
keeping
a promise he’d made
to anti-abortion Demo-
cratic lawmakers to assure
passage of his historic
health care legislation,
President Barack Obama
signed an executive or-
der against using federal
funds to pay for elective
abortions covered by pri-
vate insurance.
In 2015, Germanwings
Flight 9525, an Airbus
A320, crashed into the
French Alps, killing all
150 people on board; in-
vestigators said the jetliner
was deliberately downed
by the 27-year-old co-pi-
lot, Andreas Lubitz.
In 2016, a U.N. war
crimes court convicted
former Bosnian Serb lead-
er Radovan Karadzic of
genocide and nine other
charges for orchestrating
a campaign of terror that
left 100,000 people dead
during the 1992-95 war
in Bosnia; Karadzic was
sentenced to 40 years in
prison. (The sentence was
later increased to life in
prison.)
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE