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A12 East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Thursday, April 21, 2022 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ Husband wants to play matchmaker for his wife FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE B.C. PICKLES BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY LYNN JOHNSTON BY MASTROIANNI AND HART BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Thankful: You are a car- Dear Abby: I am an old man, ing and protective husband who married to a wonderful woman is deeply in love with and con- who does everything for me. I’m cerned for his wife. However, as in poor health and don’t expect much as you would like to screen to live much longer. My wife is the applicants to fill the vacancy a youthful 80. She’s trim, pretty, that your death would create, active, hardworking, loving and there are some things a person sexy. She enjoys skiing, fishing, J EANNE must do for themself. When you gardening, board games, puzzles P HILLIPS pass on, your wife may not feel etc. She is the most organized AD ICE ADV ready to move on according to person I have ever known. She your timetable. Please let her likes to cook and entertain and make this decision for herself is excellent at both. Although she has quite a few friends when the time is right. P.S. I am sorry you are not in better — widowed and otherwise — we don’t know any men who would be acceptable health, because it seems you and your as a future mate after I’m gone. She’s fi- wife have a strong and loving relation- nancially independent and meticulous ship that will not be easy to replace. Dear Abby: My grandson is in a re- about keeping track of expenses. Neither lationship with a girl who manipulates of us is formally religious. To be blunt, I can’t imagine a better him and abuses him emotionally. I told wife for someone special. I would like my grandson what she is doing, but he us to meet a man, probably in his 70s, doesn’t see it. Because of that, neither preferably widowed, physically active, one of them is speaking to me. My grandson was a caring, happy romantically inclined, energetic, capable with tools and household projects, not person until he met her. Now he’s with- addicted to drugs or alcohol, financially drawn. He is working, but she is not. independent and preferably politically They are struggling to make a life for conservative who would be a potential themselves. When I ask how he’s doing, he just says OK. Is there anything I can mate for her after I am gone. We have discussed this to a limited ex- do to make him see what she is doing to tent, but she has expressed little interest him? — It’s Obvious In Iowa Dear Obvious: No. You have done ev- in the subject. I can’t imagine she won’t experience a renaissance after this alba- erything you can by trying to enlighten tross is off of her neck. She has more than your grandson, who, it appears, “love” earned it. If you have any suggestions, I has blinded. Now it’s time for you to ac- would appreciate them. — Thankful In cept that nothing will change until he wakes up and smells the coffee. Washington BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL DAYS GONE BY 100 years ago — 1922 When it comes to lawlessness, men are usually given credit with being the worst off end- ers, but R. E. Turner, city traffi c offi cer, says that he has a lot more trouble with members of the fair sex refusing to observe the signals than with men. “Conditions are better than they were, but there are some drivers who fail to make the arm signals at intersections,” Turner said today, “and from now on, those who fail to observe the regu- lations will make all excuses to the police judge. It might be interesting to the public to know that a state traffi c offi cer will make his headquarters in Pendleton during the summer. He arrived yesterday. Observance of traffi c laws undoubt- edly will be good practice in the future.” the health department spokesman, Evan Dillon, county sanitarian, to fi nd out why. He said the U.S. Forest Service “has cooperated beauti- fully” with rules set out by the county’s new solid waste control ordinance. Dillon said the refuse dumped at the old Ukiah dump on the Log Springs road south of Battle Mountain came from Battle Mountain State Park. “And Hat Rock State Park is trying to dispose of its own refuse” instead of hauling it to the Herm- iston area landfi ll a few miles away, Dillon said. Harry Oswald, Pendleton, district engineer for the highway department, said the open pit burning had been sanctioned by a state agency but he didn’t know which one. 50 years ago — 1972 Dirt is beginning to move on land south of Hermiston Foods. What has been a circle of irrigated farm land is on its way to becoming Hermiston’s largest private industrial develop- ment of the 1990s — the Wal-Mart Regional Distribution Center. The distribution center will employ 400 when it opens, probably at the end of this year. Within three years, between 100 and 200 more employees will be added. It will furnish goods to Wal-Mart retail outlets throughout the Northwest, Intermountain West and Alaska. You never know where a litter bug will pop up. A spokesman for the Umatilla County Health Department told the Umatilla County Court on Wednesday that the Oregon State Parks Division has illegally dumped refuse at the closed Ukiah dump. The dump has been closed for more than a year. He also said that the Oregon Highway Department is burning roadside refuse illegally in a state gravel pit near Hermiston instead of hauling the refuse to an approved landfi ll. The county court told 25 years ago — 1997 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 21, 1975, with Communist forces clos- ing in, South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu resigned after near- ly 10 years in office and fled the country. In 1649, the Maryland Toleration Act, provid- ing for freedom of wor- ship for all Christians, was passed by the Maryland assembly. In 1836, an army of Texans led by Sam Hous- ton defeated the Mexicans at San Jacinto, assuring Texas independence. In 1910, author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, bet- ter known as Mark Twain, died in Redding, Connect- icut, at age 74. In 1976, clinical trials of the swine flu vaccine began in Washington, D.C. In 1980, Rosie Ruiz was the first woman to cross the finish line at the Bos- ton Marathon; however, she was later exposed as a fraud. (Canadian Jacque- line Gareau was named the actual winner of the women’s race.) In 1998, astronomers announced in Washington that they had discovered possible signs of a new family of planets orbit- ing a star 220 light-years away, the clearest evidence to date of worlds forming beyond our solar system. In 2015, an Egyptian criminal court sentenced ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi to 20 years in prison over the killing of protesters in 2012. (Morsi collapsed and died during trial on espionage charges in June 2019.) In 2016, Prince, one of the most inventive and influential musicians of modern times, was found dead at his home in subur- ban Minneapolis; he was 57. In 2018, Barbara Bush was remembered as the “first lady of the Greatest Generation” during a fu- neral in Houston attend- ed by four former U.S. presidents and hundreds of others. Actor Verne Troyer, best known for his role as “Mini-Me” in the “Austin Powers” movies, died in Los Angeles at the age of 49. PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
