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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, April 14, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Family’s intolerance irks
accepting grandmother
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
for eight), and I have never been
Dear Abby: My adult grand-
invited to his mother’s home or
daughter, “Kaia,” is in a rela-
some of his siblings’ homes.
tionship with “Jenny.” Jenny’s
We love to entertain, so they
stepmom doesn’t believe in gay
attend our holiday parties, where
marriage or homosexuality.
they literally walk in without
Kaia is excluded from all holi-
greeting me. They eat all our
days and family functions.
food and leave without saying
They are getting married in
J EANNE
goodbye or even helping with
two months, and Jenny’s family
P HILLIPS
the cleanup. It’s “pack behav-
is still shunning her. How do I
ADVICE
ior.” They do this all together.
deal with these “holy rollers”?
I have reached the point that
— Supportive In California
I no longer want to host these
Dear Supportive: If Jenny’s
family are truly good Christians, they events. I feel uncomfortable in my own
may not dislike your granddaughter. home. Jonah and I have started cutting
They may be following a misguided di- back on the number of parties we host,
rective to love the “sinner” but hate the and now they are making rude comments
about it. My husband acknowledges that
“sin.”
I cannot advise strongly enough that they’re a bunch of miserable, rude peo-
Kaia and Jenny discuss the ramifications ple, but that doesn’t help the situation.
I don’t want anything to do with
of that family’s stance BEFORE they
marry. I am surprised Jenny would at- them, and I don’t want to be forced to
tend family gatherings from which Kaia keep inviting a bunch of ungrateful indi-
is excluded. If this continues after the viduals who don’t have even the common
marriage, it could damage their relation- courtesy to speak to me. How can I make
ship. A counselor at the nearest LGBTQ Jonah understand how I feel? Please help.
center would be helpful in facilitating — Annoyed In New Jersey
Dear Annoyed: If you have expressed
this discussion.
Be as supportive to your granddaugh- to your husband what you have written
ter and Jenny as you can so they know in your letter, he DOES understand, but
you’re always in their corner. Encourage doesn’t want to acknowledge it. If you
them to cultivate their own “chosen fam- don’t wish to entertain them, let your
husband buy and prepare the food and
ily” as they move into their future.
Dear Abby: My husband, “Jonah,” do the cleanup with no help from them
comes from a large family. They are rude afterward, while you go and do some-
people who live in a small, rural town, thing alone or with people whose com-
and they don’t like outsiders. Jonah and pany you enjoy. He can also visit his rela-
I have been together 15 years (married tives without you if he wishes.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago — 1922
GARFIELD
BY JIM DAVIS
Rev. Alfred Lockwood, for the past five
years pastor of the Church of the Redeemer,
has been asked by Bishop Walter Taylor
Sumner, bishop of the Episcopal diocese of
Oregon, to succeed Dean R. T. Hicks as dean
of St. Stephens’ Cathedral in Portland. The
position is left vacant by Dean Hicks’ recent
resignation. Rev. Lockwood, in a statement
this morning, said that he is as yet undecided
whether or not to accept the offer, but that he
will decide within the next few days. The offer
is an important one, the Cathedral being one
of the largest churches in Portland.
50 years — 1972
BLONDIE
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
Eight years ago, Esther Parks, Hermiston,
told a few of her friends they should do some-
thing for someone besides themselves. Since
then nine Hermiston women, calling them-
selves the Ragpickers, have been doing volun-
teer work for Eastern Oregon Hospital and
Training Center in Pendleton. The women
have made 3,383 bibs, 537 lap robes and
seven coverlets. How do they get the money
to make all these things? Each Monday they
quilt. “Since 1964 we have done 50 quilts,”
said Julia Penney, treasurer of the group. “It
takes us four to five weeks to do a quilt. We
charge by the spool. I figured out once that
we get 10-cents an hour for our work. If we
charged by the hour no one could afford us,”
said Mrs. Harold Keane. When the women
finish their 50th quilt, they have 14 more wait-
ing for them.
25 years ago — 1997
Bucky, the Pendleton High School mascot,
is not headed to the glue factory or out to
pasture. However, Bucky will have to bow to
a new groomer. Bucky became the focus of
controversy earlier this year when PHS Prin-
cipal Jim Krout deemed the horse “a mangy
nag” that “doesn’t represent what we are all
about.” Krout, who felt that a more appropri-
ate mascot would be a cowboy, not a horse,
refused to sign a purchase order for a new
mascot — even though the needed money
had been donated by the Buck Booster’s club.
The student body, having grown fond of the
faithful nag and objecting to the suggested
change, collected 622 petition signatures to
keep a horse as their school mascot. Principal
Krout has relinquished the reins on a mascot
change and sketches are under way on a refur-
bished Bucky, whose new groom job should
be completed in time for an appearance at
Round-Up next September.
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 14, 1865, Pres-
ident Abraham Lincoln
was shot and mortally
wounded by John Wilkes
Booth during a perfor-
mance of “Our American
Cousin” at Ford’s Theater
in Washington.
In 1828, the first edi-
tion of Noah Webster’s
“American Dictionary of
the English Language”
was published.
In 1912, the British
liner RMS Titanic collid-
ed with an iceberg in the
North Atlantic at 11:40
p.m. ship’s time and began
sinking. (The ship went
under two hours and 40
minutes later with the loss
of 1,514 lives.)
In 1910, President
William Howard Taft be-
came the first U.S. chief
executive to throw the
ceremonial first pitch at
a baseball game as the
Washington Senators beat
the Philadelphia Athletics
3-0.
In 1935, the “Black
Sunday” dust storm de-
scended upon the central
Plains, turning a sunny
afternoon into total dark-
ness.
In
1960,
Tamla
Records and Motown Re-
cords, founded by Berry
Gordy Jr., were incorpo-
rated as Motown Record
Corp.
In 1981, the first test
flight of America’s first
operational space shuttle,
the Columbia, ended suc-
cessfully with a landing at
Edwards Air Force Base
in California.
In 1994, two U.S. Air
Force F-15 warplanes
mistakenly shot down two
U.S. Army Black Hawk
helicopters over northern
Iraq, killing 26 people, in-
cluding 15 Americans.
In 2007, riot police
beat and detained protest-
ers as thousands defied an
official ban and attempted
to stage a rally in Moscow
against Russian President
Vladimir Putin’s govern-
ment.
In 2020, President
Donald
Trump
an-
nounced that he was cut-
ting off U.S. payments to
the U.N. health agency,
the World Health Orga-
nization; Trump said it
had not done enough to
stop the coronavirus from
spreading.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE