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A16 East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, April 12, 2022 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ Man’s stance on vaccines causes end of friendship FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE B.C. PICKLES BEETLE BAILEY BY LYNN JOHNSTON BY MASTROIANNI AND HART BY BRIAN CRANE When I’ve tried to demur with Dear Abby: Last year, I lost “unavailability” excuses, she in- my best friend of 40 years over sists we are a trio and we simply the COVID vaccines. This friend will wait a few weeks until I can decided he and his family would find an open date. I don’t want not take the jab. He quit his job to be rude, but I can’t figure out rather than get vaccinated. This how to politely tell her that I have caused a rift so wide that, in his no interest in accepting her sug- eyes, he and his family could not J EANNE gestions for an extended slumber continue being friends with our P HILLIPS party. How should I handle this? family. I’m sad about it. ADVICE — Reluctant Alumna The big problem my wife and In The West I are contending with concerns Dear Alumna: Handle it by our 8-year-old daughter. She has been best friends with my (former) being frank with this needy individual. best friend’s daughter since birth. We Tell her, “This isn’t going to happen. I can’t keep telling our daughter the pan- do not wish to leave my husband for a demic is the reason she can’t see her best weekend. I don’t mind helping with the friend. What do I tell my daughter about reunion, but your demands on my time her best friend? — Victim Of The Times have increased to the point where they Dear Victim: Tell your daughter the are too much for me.” Dear Abby: The season of pleasant truth — that her friend’s parents will no longer allow it. Then explain why. That weather and outdoor concerts is ap- way she won’t think that this is in any proaching. Invariably, we end up sitting by the chatterboxes. These folks seem way her fault. Dear Abby: I was recently contacted oblivious to anyone else, including the by my graduating class to help organize a performers and the rest of us who want reunion. Since then, one of the organiz- to enjoy the performance. I realize these ers has decided that our committee is an are free concerts, but I don’t want to have to listen to these rude people. Any inseparable trio. We were not in touch before the re- suggestions for silencing them so we union and we have little in common, but can hear what the rest of us came for? I can tell she’s lonely, so I’ve indulged her — Disgusted In South Carolina Dear Disgusted: Keep your tone civil. so far. However, she now wants to con- vene periodically for long weekends at You might ask, “Would you please talk a nearby inn. I do not want to leave my more quietly? We are trying to enjoy the spouse for long weekends or spend mon- performance.” However, if they aren’t re- ey and time on a person whom I don’t ceptive to your suggestion, consider mov- ing as far away from them as possible. care to befriend. BY MORT WALKER DAYS GONE BY 100 years ago — 1922 GARFIELD BY JIM DAVIS The definite organization of a county coun- cil representing the various posts of the Amer- ican Legion in the county will be undertaken Friday evening when a meeting will be held in the office of the Pendleton Commercial Asso- ciation. A meeting was held in March to initiate the move, and several of the posts showed enthu- siastic desire to see the organization underway. At present the posts, from Weston-Athena, Pilot Rock, Echo and Pendleton are pledged to the organization. The idea of the body is to bind the posts together more closely and give ex-ser- vice men a common meeting ground where the problems of the various posts may be aired and suggestions made by other comrades 50 years ago — 1972 BLONDIE BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL Hermiston High School’s 22-member stage band will participate in an international jazz workshop in London and Paris this summer for two weeks, if it can raise some money. At a meeting Monday evening, John Sheeley, band director, told the parents of the band members that the stage band’s audition for the 1972 Jazz Internationale had been accepted. The jazz internationale brings together outstand- ing student jazz groups from this country in an atmosphere of learning and competition, according to Sheeley. He said invitations were sent only to top groups throughout the country. 25 years ago — 1997 With little more than the press of a button, tons of rock were sent skyward Tuesday afternoon when a Pilot Rock construction company blasted a hillside in Reith. Hatley Construction used 10,000 pounds of ANFO, the same explosive used in the Oklahoma City bombing, to produce more rock for Blue Mountain Lumber Products’ log yard in Reith. The explosive agent is a common, stable mixture used on many construction sites. More than 10,000 cubic yards of rock were blasted. Holes are drilled into the rock and then loaded with explosive. The holes are then filled in with leftover rock material so when the blast begins, the power generated is used to fracture the rock and not shoot back out of the hole. After timed delays are set between rows of holes, primer cord, which burns at about 22,000-feet-per-second, is tied between the holes and walked away from the blast site to a safe distance. Within a second of pressing the button, the explosion is over and what’s left is fractured rock. 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 12, 1861, the Civil War began as Con- federate forces opened fire on Fort Sumter in South Carolina. In 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemor- rhage in Warm Springs, Georgia, at age 63; he was succeeded by Vice Presi- dent Harry S. Truman. In 1955, the Salk vac- cine against polio was de- clared safe and effective. In 1963, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and jailed in Birmingham, Alabama, charged with contempt of court and parading with- out a permit. (During his time behind bars, King wrote his “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”) In 1985, Sen. Jake Garn, R-Utah, became the first sitting member of Congress to fly in space as the shuttle Discovery lifted off. In 1988, the U.S. Pat- ent and Trademark Office issued a patent to Harvard University for a geneti- cally engineered mouse, the first time a patent was granted for an animal life form. In 2015, Hillary Rod- ham Clinton jumped back into presidential politics, announcing in a video her much-awaited second campaign for the White House. In 2018, police in Philadelphia arrested two black men at a Star- bucks; the men had been asked to leave after one of them was denied access to the restroom. (Starbucks apologized and, weeks later, closed thousands of stores for part of the day to conduct anti-bias train- ing.) In 2020, Chris- tians around the world celebrated Easter Sun- day isolated in their homes by the corona- virus. St. Peter’s Square was barricaded to keep out crowds. Pope Francis celebrated Easter Mass inside the largely vacant basilica, calling for global solidarity in the face of the pandemic and urging political leaders to give hope and opportuni- ty to people who had lost jobs. PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE