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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, March 31, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Incarcerated man fears
girlfriend is missing out
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
please help me try to save our
Dear Abby: I am a 26-year-
marriage? — Hanging In There
old man, and I’m currently
Out West
incarcerated. My girlfriend,
Dear Hanging: Tell your wife
“Diana,” and I have been to-
you love her and are willing to
gether for four years. She has a
work on your communication
6-year-old daughter, and I have
skills with her help, if she is will-
a 7-year-old son.
ing. If her response is affirma-
I may be locked up for some
J EANNE
tive, the two of you should seek
time. I have given Diana the op-
P HILLIPS
a referral to a licensed clinical
tion of moving on without me,
ADVICE
social worker or a licensed mar-
but she says she doesn’t want to
riage and family therapist to
do that. She is going to stay with
help you learn to communicate
me no matter what. That’s great,
but everyone around her is pregnant and with each other more effectively.
Dear Abby: I love trains. I can imi-
having babies, and Diana tells me how
much she wants another baby. Is it selfish tate a train whistle, and I like doing it. I
of me to allow her to stick it out with me, learned how to do it about 10 years ago
knowing I can’t give her what she wants? by listening to trains whistle for many
years. I’m in my 30s now. I know there
— Inside In California
Dear Inside: Diana is a grown woman are places I shouldn’t do it. Some people
and capable of making this decision for I know like to hear me do it anywhere.
herself. Just because “everyone around Others say I should do it only outside.
her” is having babies doesn’t mean she Still others say don’t do it at all.
When I see and hear a train, I will
has to. If she wants to wait for your re-
lease, she can have a child with you at sometimes automatically whistle. It’s not
that time, and this is what I am advising. the best thing to do, I suppose, but it’s
Dear Abby: I need some help trying not the worst either. I don’t drink, smoke
to save my marriage. I don’t talk a lot in or do drugs, and I’m fairly healthy. What
a relationship or with other people. I am do you think of my imitating a train
aware that communication is important whistle? Have you ever heard of anyone
in a relationship, but I never realized doing this? — Whistling In Wisconsin
Dear Whistling: Congratulations.
how important it was until my wife told
me I don’t communicate enough and we Your letter is a first. I have never heard
of someone imitating a train whistle who
started talking about divorce.
We have a 4-year-old, who I think is was over the age of 8. I see no harm in
the glue to our marriage. I would like our doing it as long as it doesn’t annoy the
marriage to last, but I’m afraid ours is people around you by startling them or
so far gone it can’t be fixed. Could you putting their hearing at risk.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago — 1922
GARFIELD
BY JIM DAVIS
To drive from Pendleton to Portland or vice
versa in a day is a common thing, but it is not
often anyone drives from Salem to this city in a
single day. Yesterday morning W. H. McCorm-
mach left the capital city at 5 o’clock and arrived
in Pendleton at 4:20 in the afternoon, having
stopped en route for lunch and breakfast. Mr.
and Mrs. McCormmach were returning from
Long Beach, California, where they had spent
the winter. They drove home in their Franklin
car and had no chains on the trip.
50 years — 1972
BLONDIE
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
With phase one of a modernization
program for the Umatilla Housing Author-
ity in final stages of completion, the author-
ity and Department of Housing and Urban
Development officials from the Portland area
office are mapping plans for the second phase
of the program. Floyd E. Lewis, Hermiston,
county housing authority executive director,
said this week that phase one of the program
amounts to $189,000 for approximately 40
units at Orchard and Bliss homes in Herm-
iston and McEwen Homes in Athena. Phase
two calls for new floor tile, street paving on
the Athena project, replacing windows and
trim. Orchard Homes, Hermiston, will have
an exterior beautification project.
25 years ago — 1997
Construction of the Umatilla Chemical
Agent Disposal Facility is expected to begin
soon, and local communities are turning their
attention to emergency preparedness. While
federal, state, and local agencies are charged
with making sure residents around the depot
are safe, an important entity responsible for
insuring individual safety is the person in
the mirror. If the sirens go off, officials want
people to go inside and turn on the radio. The
announcer may tell them to “shelter in place.”
When using “expedient” sheltering techniques,
which means sealing off a room with duct tape
and plastic sheeting, those inside are protected
from a plume present for 10 minutes as much
as 100 times more than they would be were
they not protected at all, Geoff Tyree, spokes-
man for Morrow County Chemical Stockpile
Emergency Preparedness Program, said. If the
plume lasts an hour, such sheltering still offers
as much as 17 times the protection of not seal-
ing a room, he said. Evacuating, on the other
hand, is a gamble of the highest stakes, he said.
If one stays out of the plume, one will not be
exposed. However, driving through the plume
would result in a full dose of the fatal agent.
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 31, 1991, the
Warsaw Pact military alli-
ance came to an end.
In 1492, King Ferdi-
nand and Queen Isabella
of Spain issued an edict
expelling Jews from Span-
ish soil.
In 1917, the United
States took formal posses-
sion of the Virgin Islands
from Denmark.
In 1931, Notre Dame
college football coach
Knute Rockne, 43, was
killed in the crash of a
TWA plane in Bazaar,
Kansas.
In 1968, at the con-
clusion of a nationally
broadcast address on Viet-
nam, President Lyndon B.
Johnson stunned listeners
by declaring, “I shall not
seek, and I will not ac-
cept, the nomination of
my party for another term
as your President.”
In 1993, actor Bran-
don Lee, 28, was acciden-
tally shot to death during
the filming of a movie in
Wilmington, North Caro-
lina, when he was hit by a
bullet fragment that had
become lodged inside a
prop gun.
In 1995, baseball play-
ers agreed to end their
232-day strike after a
judge granted a prelimi-
nary injunction against
club owners.
In 2004, four American
civilian contractors were
killed in Fallujah, Iraq;
frenzied crowds dragged
the burned, mutilated
bodies and strung two of
them from a bridge.
In 2005, Terri Schiavo,
41, died at a hospice in
Pinellas Park, Florida, 13
days after her feeding tube
was removed in a wrench-
ing right-to-die court
fight.
In
2009,
Benja-
min Netanyahu took
office as Israel’s new
prime minister after the
Knesset approved his gov-
ernment.
In 2019, rapper Nipsey
Hussle was fatally shot
outside the clothing store
he had founded to help
rebuild his troubled South
Los Angeles neighbor-
hood; he was 33.
In
2020,
Britain’s
Prince Harry and his wife
Meghan officially stepped
down from duties as mem-
bers of the royal family.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE