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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