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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Good deed for daughter
has turned into disaster
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
working if her husband is inca-
Dear Abby: I have a daughter
pable of doing it. Most impor-
who married a less-than-capable
tant, make sure your grandchild
provider because she was preg-
is properly cared for.
nant. She’s sloppy, hasn’t seen a
Dear Abby: When I was in
dentist in five years, barely keeps
high school, I stopped going
her room clean and is very over-
by my short nickname and be-
weight. She lives with us now
gan going by my more formal
because she decided, finally, to
J EANNE
given name. Everyone has been
go back to school.
P HILLIPS
respectful, except my significant
We let her live in an apart-
ADVICE
other. When he met me 20 years
ment we own, and it became so
ago, the change had already oc-
full of roaches that we left it “as-
curred. Yet he continues to call
is.” We are afraid to buy any-
thing for them to live in again, because me by the nickname. He does it whenever
they have no regard for their things, he talks about me to others, and it often
their child’s things or any place they live. leads to my being in a social situation
What should we do when she finally gets and having to correct people.
When I have tried to impress upon
a job, if that happens? Do we move her
someplace and let her mess it up? Must him how important this is to me, he
we take care of everything? — Raising A says I am being “trivial.” Abby, it is my
NAME, and I think I have the right to
Child-Adult
Dear Raising: It’s a hopeful sign that be called what I want. I consider his re-
your daughter has finally decided to re- fusal to understand how I feel a sign of
turn to school. However, from your de- disrespect. Am I wrong? — Call Me By
scription, she may be severely depressed My Name
Dear Call: No, you are not wrong.
and need to be seen by a doctor.
Be a little more patient with your Your significant other should have made
daughter and encourage her to follow more of an effort to call you by your pre-
through with her schooling. If the apart- ferred name 20 years ago. Had he done
ment still belongs to you, have it profes- that, by now it would have become habit.
sionally cleaned and permit her to stay in Correct him every time he uses the wrong
it AS LONG AS IT IS KEPT CLEAN name.
For many people, this would not be a
ENOUGH THAT THE BABY CAN
deal-breaker. However, because it is for
SAFELY LIVE THERE.
Once she graduates and finds employ- you, it may be time to consider replac-
ment, give her enough money for a down ing him with someone who wants to help
payment or a deposit on an apartment. you be the person you want to be, rather
Look after your grandchild while she’s than put a stumbling block in your way.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago — 1922
GARFIELD
BY JIM DAVIS
The Oregon cooperative hay growers’ asso-
ciation will meet tonight at Hermiston to close
up the business for the year. The association
has a membership of 240 farmers in the west-
ern part of the county. This year 15,000 tons of
alfalfa were handled by the organization. The
price secured by the association this year was
$1 to $3 a ton greater than that received by the
Washington growers. Before the cooperative
was formed the reverse was true, according
to Fred Bennion, county agricultural agent.
Members also saved 50 cents a ton on baling
by contracting in large quantities.
50 years ago — 1972
BLONDIE
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
A pair of life-long Umatilla County broth-
ers figured heavily in the recent location of the
Lamb-Weston potato processing plant in the
Hermiston area. Randy Dorran, Helix, and a
Cold Spring area rancher, is president of the
Port of Umatilla. His younger brother, Russell,
Hermiston, is manager of the Umatilla Electric
Cooperative, and is an active member of the
Hermiston Development Corp. that worked
with the port in assisting Lamb-Weston in
its location of the plant in the area. Tues-
day’s ground-breaking ceremony for the new
multi-million dollar plant was the second time
each of the Dorran brothers have had a prom-
inent part in establishing a major industry in
the Hermiston area. Randy Dorran was presi-
dent of Pendleton Grain Growers in 1961 when
PGG established the $1.25 million Feedville
plant south of Hermiston.
25 years ago — 1997
In studies published today, scientists
report on the composition and character of
the dust and gas that are jetting out of Hale-
Bopp as the comet hurtles away from sun in
its long journey back into deep space. “Most
of what we’re seeing is water ice, but there
are also plenty of hydrocarbons and organic
molecules that you would need for the genesis
of life,” said Harold Weaver, a Johns Hopkins
University astrophysicist. What makes Hale-
Bopp different from other comets, Weaver
said, is its size, 19 miles to 25 miles in diam-
eter. A four-minute time exposure photograph
was taken this week a few miles northwest
of Pendleton, showing the Hale-Bopp comet
above a windmill and trees, with stars streak-
ing the sky. The comet will be in its prime
viewing stage for the next two weeks, in good
view in the northwest sky up to an hour after
the end of twilight.
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 29, 2004,
President George W. Bush
welcomed seven former
Soviet-bloc nations (Ro-
mania, Bulgaria, Slova-
kia, Lithuania, Slovenia,
Latvia and Estonia) into
NATO during a White
House ceremony.
In 1861, President
Abraham Lincoln ordered
plans for a relief expedi-
tion to sail to South Caro-
lina’s Fort Sumter, which
was still in the hands of
Union forces despite re-
peated demands by the
Confederacy that it be
turned over.
In
1867,
Britain’s
Parliament passed, and
Queen Victoria signed,
the British North Amer-
ica Act creating the Do-
minion of Canada, which
came into being the fol-
lowing July.
In 1943, World War
II rationing of meat, fats
and cheese began, limiting
consumers to store pur-
chases of an average of
about two pounds a week
for beef, pork, lamb and
mutton using a coupon
system.
In 1951, Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg were
convicted in New York
of conspiracy to commit
espionage for the Soviet
Union. (They were ex-
ecuted in June 1953.)
In 1971, Army Lt.
William L. Calley Jr. was
convicted of murdering
22 Vietnamese civilians
in the 1968 My Lai mas-
sacre. (Calley ended up
serving three years un-
der house arrest.) A jury
in Los Angeles recom-
mended the death penalty
for Charles Manson and
three female followers for
the 1969 Tate-La Bianca
murders. (The sentences
were commuted when the
California state Supreme
Court struck down the
death penalty in 1972.)
In 1973, the last United
States combat troops left
South Vietnam, ending
America’s direct military
involvement in the Viet-
nam War.
In 1974, eight Ohio
National
Guardsmen
were indicted on federal
charges stemming from
the shooting deaths of
four students at Kent State
University. (The charges
were later dismissed.)
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE