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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Husband’s drunk driving
puts whole family at risk
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
B.C.
PICKLES
BEETLE BAILEY
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
BY MASTROIANNI AND HART
BY BRIAN CRANE
band — while he is sober and
Dear Abby: My husband of
you are calm — that you have
20 years has had DUIs in the
reached your limit and, unless
past. He has always been a binge
he is willing to quit drinking,
drinker when socializing. He has
you are going to leave him. See
been going out once a week af-
how he reacts and, if nothing
ter work for three hours, during
changes, follow through.
which he drinks and then drives
Dear Abby: Seven years ago,
home. He tells me he has a cou-
J EANNE
my husband and I were going
ple beers, but his tab and his face
P HILLIPS
through a rough patch. Unfor-
tell a different story.
ADVICE
tunately, he shared all the details
We have three teenagers who
with his parents. We are still to-
see his behavior, and it sets a
gether going on 24 years. I was
bad example. My other worry
is that he may take the kids somewhere so upset when I found out he had told
after he gets home from his weekly out- them our business because I loved them
ing. I have instructed them not to let Dad and knew it wouldn’t be the same.
My father-in-law acts like he loves me,
take them anywhere on Wednesdays (his
regular bar day). I have also asked him but my mother-in-law doesn’t talk to me,
not to drive them anywhere on Wednes- and I haven’t received a birthday card
days. I make sure I work from home on since. On Christmas we receive a check
that day, but all of this doesn’t seem like with only my husband’s name on it. Only
my daughter and my husband are ac-
enough, and I want him to stop.
I have thought about divorce for this knowledged on their birthdays. I love my
and other reasons, but I worry his drink- in-laws, and with my own parents gone, I
ing would get worse. I’ve also considered miss just being loved. My husband thinks
doing an intervention with family. What it’s no big deal that they ignore my birth-
is the next step? — Reached My Limit day. Is it really no big deal? — Dreading
My Birthday Now
In Illinois
Dear Dreading: I disagree with your
Dear Reached: Step one should be
to attend some Al-Anon meetings. This husband. That his parents continue to
is an organization founded to help the punish you because he tattled about your
friends and families of someone with an marital problems IS a big deal. And now
alcohol problem, which it appears your the tattler should tell his folks it’s time to
husband has. Those meetings will give bury the hatchet and welcome you back
you perspective. Your next step will be into the fold. If he’s not man enough to
to figure out what divorce may mean for do that, then some sessions for YOU
you and your children financially. Once with a licensed marriage counselor might
you have that information, tell your hus- help you to accept the status quo.
BY MORT WALKER
DAYS GONE BY
100 years ago — 1922
GARFIELD
BY JIM DAVIS
The Pendleton city council, with only four
councilmen present which does not constitute
a quorum for passing ordinances, last night
considered two such measures, listened to a
request from a representative from the central
trade council that the wages of common labor
be not lowered by whatever contractor secures
the contract for the construction of the septic
tank, and discussed various other matters. The
two ordinances read and then tabled were the
police code and an ordinance providing that it
shall be unlawful for masked persons to parade
in the streets without a permit from the mayor
and without the list of names of the paraders
being submitted to the authorities.
50 years ago — 1972
BLONDIE
BY DEAN YOUNG AND JOHN MARSHALL
Sen. George McGovern, D-S.D., a candidate
for the Democratic presidential nomination,
spoke Sunday night at Hawthorne School in
Pendleton. The crowd attending was estimated
by the Secret Service to be at more than 1,100
people. There were more than 100 people outside
the building, trying to get in. A Secret Service
man described the crowd as “wall-to-wall
friendlies.” McGovern discussed the Vietnam
war, tax reform, farm parity, truth in govern-
ment and amnesty. His speech was interrupted
numerous times by cheers from the crowd. “We
should put our country on the path to peace. We
should put an end to death and destruction going
on in Southeast Asia,” McGovern said.
25 years ago — 1997
Nine months after fires scorched 300,000
acres in the Blue Mountains south of Ukiah,
mushroom hunters have begun to descend
on the blackened slopes in search of morels.
“We’ve got a lot of pickers,” said Bob Wolfe,
a law enforcement officer with the U.S. Forest
Service in Ukiah. “We’ve got about 1,500
people selling in Ukiah. It’s only been going
for about the past two weeks,” he said. “I don’t
know when it’s going to peak.” The hot spot so
far, Wolfe said, has been the 43,000-acre Tower
Fire-area that blazed late last August about
five miles from Ukiah. With snow still on the
ground in some places, the mushroom picking
season will continue all summer, depending
on Mother Nature. “It’s all weather-related,”
Wolfe said. In March, law enforcement agen-
cies met to plan how they would maintain order
in the mountains, which officials estimated
could see as many as 10,000 to 15,000 hunters
during the picking season. Wolfe said so far,
there haven’t been any major problems that
could be attributed to the hunters.
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 24, 1844,
Samuel F.B. Morse trans-
mitted the message “What
hath God wrought” from
Washington to Baltimore
as he formally opened
America’s first telegraph
line.
In 1935, the first
major league baseball
game to be played at night
took place at Cincinnati’s
Crosley Field as the Reds
beat the Philadelphia Phil-
lies, 2-1.
In 1937, in a set of rul-
ings, the U.S. Supreme
Court upheld the consti-
tutionality of the Social
Security Act of 1935.
In 1941, the German
battleship Bismarck sank
the British battle cruiser
HMS Hood in the North
Atlantic, killing all but
three of the 1,418 men on
board.
In 1961, a group of
Freedom Riders was ar-
rested after arriving at a
bus terminal in Jackson,
Mississippi, charged with
breaching the peace for
entering white-designated
areas. (They ended up
serving 60 days in jail.)
In 1962, astronaut
Scott Carpenter became
the second American to
orbit the Earth as he flew
aboard Aurora 7.
In 1974, American jazz
composer and bandleader
Duke Ellington, 75, died
in New York.
In 1976, Britain and
France opened trans-At-
lantic Concorde super-
sonic transport service to
Washington.
In 1980, Iran rejected a
call by the World Court in
The Hague to release the
American hostages.
In 1994, four Islamic
fundamentalists convicted
of bombing New York’s
World Trade Center in
1993 were each sentenced
to 240 years in prison.
In 1995, former Brit-
ish Prime Minister Harold
Wilson died in London at
age 79.
In 2006, “An Incon-
venient Truth,” a docu-
mentary about former
Vice President Al Gore’s
campaign against global
warming, went into lim-
ited release.
In 2011, Oprah Win-
frey taped the final epi-
sode of her long-running
talk show.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE