A14
East Oregonian
PEANUTS
Thursday, May 19, 2022
COFFEE BREAK
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Husband won’t keep his
spending under control
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
to kick his golden goose or he
Dear Abby: My husband is
will kill it.
retired from the military and liv-
Dear Abby: My mother, who
ing with a mental illness caused
lives with me, insists on keeping
by a traumatic brain injury. As
her window open several inches
a result, he’s disabled. We have
year-round. While I don’t mind
four children. Over the years, he
so much in the winter, we clash
has developed an extreme sense
in the summer because I need
of financial entitlement. Al-
J EANNE
the windows and doors closed
though I’m responsible for our
P HILLIPS
so I can run the air condition-
finances, I cannot control his
ADVICE
ing to optimal efficiency. She
spending.
thinks keeping her window open
His compulsions include lux-
is cooling her bedroom off and
ury coffee, fast food and “medi-
cal” marijuana, which cost hundreds doesn’t understand what the problem is
every month, yet he complains when if she keeps her door to the rest of the
house shut.
money is tight.
This issue has caused major argu-
Money is scarce and our children are
going without things they need. I’m al- ments because it’s making my AC unit
ways fighting for his respect, decency and work harder than it needs to, not to men-
self-control. Advice, please? — Angered tion I have allergies and my doctor has
told me to keep the air on all summer
In Arkansas
Dear Angered:You are going to have long. This is a ranch-style home, and the
to step up yet again and impress upon temperature is kept at 70 degrees.
I don’t want to fight with her, but I
your husband that while you are sad that
he regards what you are doing for your feel disrespected since this is my house
family as “controlling,” your children’s and she blatantly disregards my re-
needs MUST come before his own. By quests. Am I overreacting? Or does
that I mean, he should treat “luxury cof- she need to be respectful of my home?
fee” as a luxury and buy it no more than — Temperature Rising In Ohio
Dear T.R.I.O.: When you lived in your
X times a week, ditto for fast food and
mother’s home, she made the rules and
his “medical” marijuana.
If he needs more pharmaceutical sup- you had to abide by them. If keeping her
port for his stress, he should address it to bedroom windows ajar is “making your
his doctor (at the VA, I assume). Make air conditioner work harder,” then it’s
clear that you cannot carry more of the likely adding to your electric bill, which
load, and that you are not the cause of is disrespectful, inconsiderate and bad
the financial stress. Circumstances are to manners. If she can’t adjust, she should
blame for that, and he cannot continue contribute toward the extra cost.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago — 1922
GARFIELD
BY JIM DAVIS
At a conference held in which the delega-
tion from Ukiah, a delegation from the Pend-
leton Commercial Association, and the county
court participated this afternoon, the county
court reached a decision to lend its assistance
in making improvements on the road between
Ukiah and the Grant county line. The road is
so bad that “nearly every day the mail carrier
is compelled to stop before he has made half
of the distance,” one of the men said. “He must
then take the locked bag and go ahead on a
horse and leave the parcel post mail in the car
standing in the middle of the road. As it stands
now, the Grant county side of the highway
will be improved as soon as crops are in, but
that will not do too much good, because as
soon as the Umatilla county part of the road
is reached, traffic will be impossible, or prac-
tically impossible.”
50 years ago — 1972
BLONDIE
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
Two new courses probably will be offered at
Blue Mountain Community College during the
1972-73 school year. BMCC directors Wednes-
day night authorized Robert Hawk, dean of
applied sciences, to draw up curriculum plans
for submission to the Oregon Board of Educa-
tion for courses in real estate and human
services. The real estate course would offer
a two-year associate degree. It probably will
start on an evening basis next year. The human
services course would offer instruction to those
in the mental health and social services areas.
25 years ago — 1997
Northwest irrigators face a strange predic-
ament. There’s so much water flowing down
the Snake and Columbia rivers this spring
they could be left high and dry even as their
crops germinate in the fields. Heavy runoff
from unusually deep mountain snowpacks has
forced the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to
lower reservoirs on the rivers to make room for
surges that could cause flooding downstream
in Portland and Vancouver. At times, reservoir
levels have dropped below the point at which
irrigation pumps can draw water. The situation
is particularly serious in Eastern Oregon and
Washington, where farmers rely on the John
Day Reservoir to water 170,000 acres of crops
worth about $270 million. So far, though, the
Corps has been able to operate the reservoir in
a kind of balancing act between flood control
and irrigation, lowering the level for a few days
to capture runoff, then increasing it again so
farmers can irrigate.
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 19, 1536, Anne
Boleyn, the second wife
of England’s King Henry
VIII, was beheaded after
being convicted of adul-
tery.
In 1780, a mysterious
darkness enveloped much
of New England and part
of Canada in the early af-
ternoon.
In
1913,
Cali-
fornia Gov. Hiram John-
son signed the Webb-
Hartley Law prohibit-
ing “aliens ineligible
to citizenship” from own-
ing farm land, a measure
targeting Asian immi-
grants, particularly Japa-
nese.
In 1921, Congress
passed, and President
Warren
G.
Harding
signed, the Emergency
Quota Act, which estab-
lished national quotas for
immigrants.
In 1943, in his second
wartime address to the
U.S. Congress, British
Prime Minister Winston
Churchill pledged his
country’s full support in
the fight against Japan;
that evening, Churchill
met with President Frank-
lin D. Roosevelt at the
White House, where the
two leaders agreed on May
1, 1944 as the date for the
D-Day invasion of France
(the operation ended up
being launched more than
a month later).
In 1962, film star
Marilyn Monroe sang
“Happy
Birthday
to
You” to President John F.
Kennedy during a Demo-
cratic fundraiser at New
York’s Madison Square
Garden.
In 1967, the Soviet
Union ratified a treaty
with the United States
and Britain, banning nu-
clear and other weapons
from outer space as well
as celestial bodies such as
the moon. (The treaty en-
tered into force in October
1967.)
In 1993, the Clinton
White House set off a po-
litical storm by abruptly
firing the entire staff of
its travel office; five of the
seven staffers were later
reinstated and assigned to
other duties.
In 1994, former first
lady Jacqueline Kennedy
Onassis died in New York
at age 64.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE