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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Couple reconnects but
can’t rekindle the past
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
one to “nest” with, you will have
Dear Abby: I met a man,
to look elsewhere.
“Gabe,” 30 years ago. We had a
Dear Abby: I am contemplat-
very good time together. We dat-
ing asking my wife for a divorce.
ed some and even traveled occa-
Her 86-year-old mother lives
sionally. I liked him a lot but,
with us. After she moved in, I
when we met, I was divorced
quickly realized that her mother
and looking for marriage. He
is a bigot, nosy and has little to
was not. I moved for my job, and
J EANNE
no respect for my wife. Agreeing
met and married someone else.
P HILLIPS
to her mother moving in was the
Gabe did call to keep in touch
ADVICE
worst mistake of my life. I avoid
for several years, but the calls
her like the plague now.
stopped. I never forgot him.
I can work from home full
My husband passed away
four years ago, and then COVID hit. time, but prefer to drive 75 miles a day to
Feeling the loneliness of lockdown, I get out of the house. Her mother needs
wrote letters to people I hadn’t heard more care now than can be provided at
from in years. Gabe’s was one such let- home. However, my wife wants to bring
ter. He called me after he received it, and someone in a few days a week, since I no
we reconnected. We have enjoyed each longer work from home. She’s just delay-
ing the inevitable.
other’s company off and on since then.
I believe her mother is more impor-
I would love to have a deeper relation-
ship with him. Unfortunately, he regards tant to her than I am and, if that’s the
me as nothing more than a friend. He is case, I can’t change her mind. Aside from
intelligent, quick-witted, well-traveled this, we have a great marriage. I don’t
and still very handsome. I enjoy his com- want to lose what I have, but I am pre-
pany very much. I’ve wanted to tell him pared to walk away. Advice? — Hates
how I feel, but I don’t want to jeopardize The Houseguest
Dear Hates: I do have some. If as-
what we have together. So here I am, now
in my 60s, feeling lost and not knowing sisted living is in your mother-in-law’s fu-
how to handle my desire to be with him. ture, it would be kinder to have her take
What do you think? — Long History up residency soon, while she’s capable of
adjusting to it rather than postponing it
In Florida
Dear History: If you are looking for until there is an emergency. You are long
more than you already have with Gabe, overdue for a frank and not very pleas-
you are wasting your time. Gabe is sat- ant conversation with your wife about
isfied with the relationship just as it is. how you feel you rank on her list of pri-
If he wasn’t, believe me, he would have orities. Feeling as you do, it may be your
mentioned it. If what you need is some- only chance of saving your marriage.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago — 1922
GARFIELD
BY JIM DAVIS
Milton City’s new engine arrived Wednes-
day from the factory at Beloit, Wis. It is a Fair-
banks-Morse, of the semi diesel type, three
hundred horsepower and weighs thirty tons.
The gigantic machine is about twenty feet
long by six feet in width, and is one piece of
solid iron, with the exception of the shafting,
pulleys, etc. It was no small task to move the
huge thing from the car to the foundations,
a distance of about one hundred feet. The
job was accomplished by means of blocking
made of railroad ties and other heavier timbers,
over which it was moved on rollers, Gilbert
Thomas using his Fordson tractor in the place
of a capstan. Any kind of fuel oil, from gaso-
line to crude oil, can be used to run it.
50 years ago — 1972
BLONDIE
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
Muscle shirts on boys, and blue jeans on
girls. Are these grubbies? No, said a McLough-
lin High School committee from the student
council which attended the regular meeting
of District 3 school board Tuesday night.
The committee was accompanied by more
than 50 students. The student protest began
last week, said school Supt. Edward Miller,
when four students were sent home for wear-
ing apparel the school principal considered
to be in violation of the student dress code.
Last fall a code was reviewed by faculty and
students. Teacher Jack Williams, one of the
members of the Milton-Freewater student-fac-
ulty committee, was asked to define the word
“grubby.” “It wasn’t easy,” said Williams.
“But we finally decided grubbies are clothing
that is ragged, dirty or unkempt, and clothing
which is disruptive in school.” Lee Monthie,
president-elect of the student body, said that
a school poll showed 89.5 per cent consider
muscle shirts “not disruptive,” and 92.5 don’t
think blue jeans on girls is disruptive. The
students, said Monthie, propose that the school
administration leave the matter of dress to the
students and their parents.
25 years ago — 1997
After almost 20 years of service, Amtrak’s
Pioneer trainline decided to shut down its
Chicago to Seattle run. Originally, it was
supposed to cease to exist Nov. 10, 1996, but
a six-month reprieve was granted by Amtrak,
which agreed to let states affected by the shut-
down search for ways to win additional money
for the line. It didn’t work. In March, the
company announced that without state support,
the Pioneer line would stop running May 10, and
this time, there would be no stay of execution.
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 10, 1940,
during World War II,
German forces began in-
vading the Netherlands,
Luxembourg,
Belgium
and France. The same
day, British Prime Minis-
ter Neville Chamberlain
resigned, and Winston
Churchill formed a new
government.
In 1775, Ethan Allen
and his Green Mountain
Boys, along with Col.
Benedict Arnold, captured
the British-held fortress at
Ticonderoga, New York.
In 1818, American pa-
triot Paul Revere, 83, died
in Boston.
In 1865, Confederate
President Jefferson Davis
was captured by Union
forces in Irwinville, Geor-
gia.
In 1869, a golden spike
was driven in Promon-
tory, Utah, marking the
completion of the first
transcontinental railroad
in the United States.
In 1924, J. Edgar
Hoover was named acting
director of the Bureau of
Investigation (later known
as the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, or FBI).
In 1994, Nelson Man-
dela took the oath of of-
fice in Pretoria to become
South Africa’s first Black
president. The state of Il-
linois executed serial killer
John Wayne Gacy, 52, for
the murders of 33 young
men and boys.
In 2002, a tense
39-day-old standoff be-
tween Israeli troops and
Palestinian gunmen at the
Church of the Nativity in
Bethlehem ended with 13
suspected militants flown
into European exile and
26 released into the Gaza
Strip.
In 2013, the Internal
Revenue Service apolo-
gized for what it acknowl-
edged was “inappropriate”
targeting of conservative
political groups during
the 2012 election to see if
they were violating their
tax-exempt status.
In 2014, Michael Sam
was picked by the St.
Louis Rams in the seventh
round of the NFL draft,
becoming the first openly
gay player drafted by a
pro football team. (Sam
retired after an unsuccess-
ful stint with the Rams
and the Dallas Cowboys.)
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE