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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Man’s true colors shock
his longtime girlfriend
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
adults, and most people consid-
Dear Abby: I am a 58-year-
er us a perfect couple. My wife
old, never-married woman. I’ve
has had several affairs over the
recently ended a relationship
years, some she has admitted
with a man I’ve known since
to and others I have stumbled
childhood. I truly love him. The
across. For the most part, they
problem is that he had been
have been physical only, with no
stealing from me. I confronted
emotional attachment. Twenty
him several times, but finally
J EANNE
years ago she had a passionate
had to involve the police. Now,
P HILLIPS
affair with a younger man. It
he has flattened my tires and re-
ADVICE
ended when he broke it off to be
peatedly dented my cars.
with someone else. I didn’t know
Is there more than one right
about it at the time.
person for everyone? How long
A year ago, she found out he’s single
will it take me to recover from a bro-
ken heart, if ever? How well do you again and invited him back into her life.
really know anyone? — Disillusioned Now, she’s openly seeing him. She’s tell-
ing me they are “just friends” and she
In Washington
Dear Disillusioned: Inform the police “needs his company because only he un-
that your ex-boyfriend is continuing to derstands her.” I believe if he had a bet-
retaliate because you reported him. There ter job and financial outlook, she would
is no timetable for healing from a broken leave me in a minute.
I can’t stand the thought of losing the
heart, but take it from me, it DOES hap-
pen. I firmly believe there is more than love of my life, but I also can’t keep living
with her knowing I play second fiddle in
one “right person” for everyone.
We get to know the significant people her heart. She refuses counseling because
in our lives by observing them over a she doesn’t see this as a problem. Should
long period of time and watching how I give her more time (a year already) or
they treat others. You should not keep file for divorce? — Confused In Illinois
Dear Confused: You have given your
your distance from this man only be-
cause of his vandalism and the money wife enough time to come to her senses.
he has cost you, but also because he has You state that she refuses counseling and
anger problems he seems unable to con- you believe she would leave you in a min-
trol. Surely those character flaws showed ute if he made more money. That means
themselves before he started acting out she is staying with you only because of
on you. Think back on the little things the lifestyle you provide. I do think there
should be some counseling — for YOU.
you may have chosen to ignore.
Dear Abby: My wife and I married as It will provide insight and emotional sup-
teenagers 40 years ago. Our children are port as you contemplate divorce.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago — 1922
GARFIELD
BY JIM DAVIS
When teams from various schools of
Umatilla county meet here this weekend to vie
with each other for championships in declama-
tion and track and field events, the folk dance,
which was introduced last year, will also be an
event over which teams will contend. At pres-
ent indications are that five teams will partici-
pate in the folk dances. A change in plans has
been made and this year the teams will stage
their dances on the courthouse lawn. This part
of the program will be held Saturday morning
and will be free to the public.
50 years ago — 1972
BLONDIE
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
Irrigation from wells in some areas of the
dry desert country of Eastern Oregon may be
restricted before long. In fact, this was done in
the Ordnance area in 1966 in a strip 12 miles
wide and 15 miles deep. This was the word
given Heppner-Morrow County Chamber of
Commerce this week by State Engineer Chris
Wheeler. Under discussion was the Butter
Creek area, which extends some 18 miles south
from Ordnance, and three miles east. The only
shallow wells are along the creek bed. In other
areas deep wells have recently been drilled,
bringing much of this land under irrigation.
But studies show the water level is dropping 30
feet per year. “Development started faster and
went further here than in any other area in the
state,” Wheeler said in explaining why it was
being watched so carefully by his department.
“This may be one of our most critical areas.”
Restrictions might require only that no irriga-
tion be carried out except during the growing
season. But they may also require closure of
some wells now in use.
25 years ago — 1997
The lightning that rattled windows all across
town Saturday evening struck a tree at Pendle-
ton High School. The strike scorched the tree,
ripping bark off most of the tree trunk, and also
damaged a cement sidewalk at the school. The
lightning bolt apparently traveled down the tree
and through the ground a few feet before blow-
ing out a portion of the sidewalk near the high
school shop. Trisha Olson, secretary for PHS
principal Jim Krout, said the strike also caused
some electrical problems, such as clocks not
running and computers malfunctioning. The
high school was remodeled and expanded over
the past year, with work finishing at the start
of the school year. Olson said the school is in
the process of finding out how much damage
was caused by the lightning strike so the school
could inform its insurance company.
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 May 3, 1979, Con-
servative Party leader
Margaret Thatcher was
chosen to become Britain’s
first female prime minister
as the Tories ousted the
incumbent Labour gov-
ernment in parliamentary
elections.
In 1802, Washington,
D.C., was incorporated as
a city.
In 1937, Margaret
Mitchell won the Pulitzer
Prize for her novel, “Gone
with the Wind.”
In 1948, the Supreme
Court, in Shelley v. Krae-
mer, ruled that covenants
prohibiting the sale of real
estate to Blacks or mem-
bers of other racial groups
were unenforceable.
In 1960, the Harvey
Schmidt-Tom Jones musi-
cal “The Fantasticks” be-
gan a nearly 42-year run
at New York’s Sullivan
Street Playhouse.
In 1987, The Miami
Herald said its report-
ers had observed a young
woman spending “Friday
night and most of Sat-
urday” at a Washington
townhouse belonging to
Democratic presidential
candidate Gary Hart.
(The woman was later
identified as Donna Rice;
the resulting controversy
torpedoed Hart’s presi-
dential bid.)
In 2006, a federal jury
in Alexandria, Virginia,
rejected the death penalty
for al-Qaida conspirator
Zacarias Moussaoui, de-
ciding he should spend
life in prison for his role
in 9/11; as he was led from
the courtroom, Mous-
saoui taunted, “America,
you lost.”
In 2009, Mexican Pres-
ident Felipe Calderon told
state television that a na-
tionwide shutdown and
an aggressive informa-
tional campaign appeared
to have helped curtail an
outbreak of swine flu in
Mexico.
In 2011, Chicago’s
Derrick Rose became at
age 22 the NBA’s youngest
MVP.
In 2015, two gunmen
were shot and killed by a
police officer in Garland,
Texas, after they opened
fire outside a purposely
provocative contest for
cartoon depictions of the
Prophet Muhammad.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE