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East Oregonian
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COFFEE BREAK
Thursday, April 28, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Widower doubts whether
intimacy can occur again
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
While your religious beliefs
Dear Abby: My wife of 41
may not allow you to have sex
years passed away four years
before marriage, there is no
ago. I’m in my mid-60s. I have
reason why the subject can’t be
sought grief counseling to fully
honestly discussed.
process her loss. The counselor
Dear Abby: My daughter
has encouraged me to maintain
asked if her girlfriend could stay
and expand my peer relation-
with us until the two of them
ships. The counselor has also
J EANNE
move out in a month. To help
encouraged dating, which I have
P HILLIPS
them out, my husband and I
tried, but no romances have re-
ADVICE
agreed. The problem is, the girl-
sulted.
friend is very insecure about her
My wife was diagnosed with
weight. She’s on the heavier side,
bipolar type 2 mental disorder,
which progressed the longer she lived. and my daughter’s weight is average. I
When she died, I was glad she no lon- don’t want her to feel uncomfortable
ger had to suffer with her mental illness. around us because I watch what I eat.
With the onset of menopause and the Advice? — Weighty Issue In Washington
Dear Weighty Issue: Ask your daugh-
bipolar, her libido had dropped dramati-
cally. The counselor has assured me that ter if mentioning these topics makes
if romance develops, sexual relations can her girlfriend uncomfortable. Until she
leaves, refrain from discussing topics that
happen with women my age.
Because of my religious convictions, I make her uncomfortable in her presence.
Dear Abby: I am 60 and disabled. I
will not have sexual relations before mar-
riage. My question concerns a woman’s desperately would like a dog. Working at
desire for sexual relations at this stage a shelter isn’t an option. I added up all
of life. Are sexual relations something the pluses and minuses, and the minuses
that can be mutually enjoyed, or just a were more plentiful. HOWEVER, the
requirement of marriage? — Wondering pluses are SO tempting.
Logically, I know it would not be fair
In Iowa
Dear Wondering: Allow me to put to either of us. Any advice? — Nurturer
your concerns to rest. Seniors are not In New York
Dear Nurturer: Rescue a dog who
clones of each other. Some enjoy sex into
their 80s; others do not. If both partners needs nurturing as much as you do.
are comfortable with their bodies and Adopt an older one from an animal res-
willing to accommodate the inevitable cue, and you may save two lives at once.
changes that come as their bodies age, That said, it’s important you discuss
they can enjoy sex as much as couples those pluses and minuses with a veteri-
narian and take out pet insurance.
who are younger.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago — 1922
GARFIELD
BY JIM DAVIS
The Milton Eagle announces that it is deter-
mined to not print anything but the strict truth
regarding any candidate during the campaign.
This is not only right, but good policy, too. The
East Oregonian long ago adopted that rule.
While it is for the Democratic ticket, it has a host
of intelligent Republican readers who, however
they differ from us politically, have learned that
whenever the East Oregonian publishes any
specific statement regarding a candidate, its
truth can be implicitly relied upon.
50 years — 1972
BLONDIE
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
From the outside the new Burger Shoppe
in south Pendleton doesn’t look big enough to
even have a grill to fry its hamburgers. And
it isn’t. “All of our hamburgers are cooked in
compact microwave ovens,” said the establish-
ment’s manager, Bob Peickert, Pendleton. He
said that is why he can put all of the equipment
needed for a hamburger stand into an eight by
ten foot building. The Burger Shoppe, the first
of the nationwide chain in Eastern Oregon,
opened two weeks ago. “The pace of the world
is getting faster and everything has to keep
up,” said Peickert. “And the microwave oven
is fast and clean.” The oven works on the same
principle as a police radar system, Peickert
said. Beams are reflected off the oven walls
and pass through the material to be cooked.
As the beam passes through it rearranges the
molecular structure just as heat from a stan-
dard oven would. He said if a person were to
put a hand in the oven while it was still on the
hand would be severely damaged because the
beams would rearrange its molecules just as it
would a hamburger.
25 years ago — 1997
The skies have been stormy of late, but the
future looks bright for the Tamustalik Cultural
Institute. Not only is construction at the museum
and cultural center progressing three months
ahead of schedule, the Confederated Tribes of
the Umatilla Indian Reservation just received
a $275,000 grant from the U.S. Department of
Agriculture for the landmark project. And tribal
officials are even planning to invite President
Bill Clinton to the grand opening, scheduled for
May 1998. The institute will include interpre-
tive exhibits, an auditorium, gift shop and cafe
for visitors as well as space for artifact storage,
classrooms and administrative offices. Consid-
ered the “crown jewel” of the resort, which will
eventually include an RV park as well as a golf
course that’s nearly complete, Tamustalik is
expected to create 35 jobs.
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 28, 1994, for-
mer CIA official Aldrich
Ames, who had passed
U.S. secrets to the Soviet
Union and then Russia,
pleaded guilty to espio-
nage and tax evasion, and
was sentenced to life in
prison without parole.
In 1788, Maryland be-
came the seventh state to
ratify the Constitution of
the United States.
In 1952, war with Ja-
pan officially ended as
a treaty signed in San
Francisco the year before
took effect. Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower resigned
as Supreme Allied com-
mander in Europe; he was
succeeded by Gen. Mat-
thew B. Ridgway.
In 1965, President
Lyndon B. Johnson or-
dered U.S. Marines to the
Dominican Republic to
protect American citizens
and interests in the face of
a civil war.
In 1980, President
Jimmy Carter accepted
the resignation of Sec-
retary of State Cyrus R.
Vance, who had opposed
the failed rescue mission
aimed at freeing Ameri-
can hostages in Iran.
(Vance was succeeded by
Edmund Muskie.)
In 2001, a Russian
rocket lifted off from Cen-
tral Asia bearing the first
space tourist, California
businessman Dennis Tito,
and two cosmonauts on
a journey to the interna-
tional space station.
In 2011, convicted
sex offender Phillip Gar-
rido and his wife, Nancy,
pleaded guilty to kidnap-
ping and raping a Califor-
nia girl, Jaycee Dugard,
who was abducted in 1991
at the age of 11 and res-
cued 18 years later. (Phil-
lip Garrido was sentenced
to 431 years to life in pris-
on; Nancy Garrido was
sentenced to 36 years to
life in prison.)
In 2015, urging Ameri-
cans to “do some soul-
searching,” President Ba-
rack Obama expressed
deep frustration over re-
curring Black deaths at
the hands of police, riot-
ers who responded with
senseless violence and a
society that would only
“feign concern” with-
out addressing the root
causes.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE