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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Lengthy marriage now
includes threats, ill will
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
won’t have to worry about what
Dear Abby: I am a 50-year-
he’s doing? — Two-Timed In
old man, married for 25 years. In
California
the beginning, it was great, but
Dear Two-Timed: As you stat-
our relationship slowly started
ed, you have been deeply hurt by
failing. I feel like I’m trapped in
your boyfriend’s dishonesty. He
a cage.
is who he is, and he isn’t going to
I want a happy life with or
change. Obviously, one woman
without her, but I see nothing
J EANNE
isn’t enough for him. You have
but darkness around me. When
P HILLIPS
now wasted four precious years
I ask for divorce, I get accused
ADVICE
of your life on a cheater who lies
of cheating and threatened with
consistently. Isn’t that enough?
paying her spousal support for
Dear Abby: I am a fourth
the rest of my life. Marriage
counseling doesn’t seem to be an option. grade student who is, let’s say, good at
What should I do? — Wants To Be Free math. I usually finish my math home-
work easily, but lately it’s been piling up.
In Oregon
Dear Wants: If marriage counseling The problem is, my classmates ask me
“isn’t an option,” it doesn’t mean you for help a lot. I enjoy helping them, but
can’t get psychological counseling to help sometimes it’s hard to explain things, or
you become emotionally stronger. While I can’t find the time to get my own work
you’re at it, it is important that you talk done.
The teacher is usually doing a math
with an attorney about the divorce laws
in your state. Once you have done that, group with other students, so my friends
you will be better able to decide if you can’t ask her. Should I fall behind by
want to “live in darkness” for the rest of helping my friends or focus on my own
your life, or what you may have to sacri- work and risk hurting their feelings?
— Stressed In Idaho
fice in order to be finally free.
Dear Stressed: You shouldn’t be help-
Dear Abby: My boyfriend of four
years refuses to come clean to me about ing your friends to the exclusion of your
his infidelity and cheating. I’ve given him own work. It is important for your sake
countless chances to come forward, but and your friends’ that you discuss this
he always denies it. I caught him with a with your math teacher. She needs to
girl who has been following us around know she should be devoting more at-
tention to the students outside her math
the whole time we’ve been together.
Abby, I have done everything I could group who need further instruction in-
to get him to own up, but he doesn’t! stead of relying on you to do it. After
What should I have done or what can your work is finished, lend a hand to the
I do so my life can move forward and I other students if you wish.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago — 1922
GARFIELD
BY JIM DAVIS
Should you pass up the main thorough-
fare which connects to overlapping towns
of Milton and Freewater as you struck the
tract known as “the debatable land,” you
would suddenly be confronted by a series of
buildings under construction, surrounded by
acres of material ready for use. It is the new
plant of the new union high district which
will cost in excess of $200,000 and will be
the finest and best equipped building in the
state outside of the city of Portland. Mr. E. R.
Goodwin, formerly of Gresham, is the direct-
ing genius and G. L. Jessup, now in his third
year as instructor, is metaphorically guiding
the plow.
50 years ago — 1972
BLONDIE
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
The history of Umatilla and Morrow coun-
ties is a saga of courage, enterprise and bold-
ness. Settlement of the far reaches of Eastern
Oregon in the latter half of the 19th century
required the coming together of hard men —
men who could defeat adversity with sheer
strength, men with the humor to shrug off
disaster with a laugh, and men with the vision
to build an empire for their descendants.
This history has come to life in a new book
written by Mildred Searcey of Athena, and
published by The East Oregonian Publishing
Co. of Pendleton. Titled “Way Back When,”
the book gives the history of all the cities in
this area, with the names of the founders.
25 years ago — 1997
The Oregon Employment Department
has released data showing the JOBS Plus
Program, better known as the welfare-reform
effort, has had a dramatic impact in helping
the unemployed return to work. Statistics
show 585 unemployed people successfully
have used JOBS Plus during the past eight
months, earning paychecks rather than
receiving unemployment payments from the
state. Including welfare recipients, a total of
1,914 people had found work through JOBS
Plus since the program went statewide in
1996. Employers hiring JOBS Plus workers
are reimbursed by the state at the minimum
wage for up to six months. Program partic-
ipants receive paychecks rather than public
assistance checks. They are hired into train-
ing positions and learn job skills, develop job
references and employer contacts designed to
keep them permanently employed.
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 April 5, 1951, Ju-
lius and Ethel Rosenberg
were sentenced to death
following their conviction
in New York on charges
of conspiring to commit
espionage for the Soviet
Union.
In 1621, the Mayflower
sailed from Plymouth Col-
ony in present-day Massa-
chusetts on a monthlong
return trip to England.
In 1887, in Tuscumbia,
Alabama, teacher Anne
Sullivan achieved a break-
through as her 6-year-old
deaf-blind pupil, Helen
Keller, learned the mean-
ing of the word “water” as
spelled out in the Manual
Alphabet.
In 1986, two American
servicemen and a Turkish
woman were killed in the
bombing of a West Berlin
discotheque, an incident
that prompted a U.S. air
raid on Libya more than a
week later.
In 1987, Fox Broad-
casting Co. made its
prime-time TV debut by
airing the situation com-
edy “Married with Chil-
dren” followed by “The
Tracey Ullman Show,”
then repeating both pre-
miere episodes two more
times in the same evening.
In 1991, former Sen.
John Tower, R-Texas, his
daughter Marian and 21
other people were killed in
a commuter plane crash
near Brunswick, Georgia.
In 2008, actor Charlton
Heston, big-screen hero
and later leader of the
National Rifle Associa-
tion, died in Beverly Hills,
California, at age 84.
In 2010, an explosion
at the Upper Big Branch
mine near Charleston,
West Virginia, killed 29
workers. In a televised res-
cue, 115 Chinese coal min-
ers were freed after spend-
ing eight days trapped in a
flooded mine.
In 2016, UConn won
an unprecedented fourth
straight women’s national
championship, capping
another perfect season by
routing Syracuse 82-51.
In 2019, inspecting a re-
furbished section of fenc-
ing at the Mexican border
in California, President
Donald Trump declared
that “our country is full,”
and that illegal crossings
must be stopped.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE