shed Ver, rth a skill. olve- dule ed. orce. stro- Jers, per- dern hips 1 the the nore k on vice eyes fully At- ‘ose, d to f a ially f a nust ance be ther air- yed oted the the the red d if te in § If ithe way ‘the 1aut 13 the of ned lly A sen Sl ee JACKSON TWP. Lynn Kasenchak, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Kasen- chak, Chase Manor, suffered a fracture of the right hand in a fall at school two weeks ago. Brownie Troop 658 of Chase attended an In-gathering at Dallas - High School on Sat., March 8. Susan Burk and Rosemary Zbick were Juliette Lowe representations of their troop. Color guards were Cathy Kittle, Ann Marie Mark, Terri, Morgan and Denise UffeOther girls who attended were Janet Addison, Carol Ann Cigarski, Leza Cochran, Christie Innes, Evelyn Rowles; and Lynn Kasenchak. Elders Garlock of Sweet Valley and Coombs of Rochester, N. Y. were present to discuss the Book of Morman “and ‘answer questions about it. Denise Sherwood celebrated her birthday on Sat., March 8 .and it was a hectic day. Debby Marr and Jane Salansky spent the day with her, and the party was held piece-meal. The girls attended the Scout In-gathering at Dallas in the afternoon. For dinner they went to the Smorgasbord at the Stawling Hotel, where a sur- prise party was held for Denise’s aunt, Jane Bennett of Wilkes-Barre, who was 75 on that day. The evening was spent at the Kiwanis Semi-Finals, and finally at 5 of midnight, the candles were lighted on her b¥thday cake and ‘‘Happy Birthday” was sung. The Ladies Auxiliary to the Jackson Twp. Volunteer Fire Company held their regular monthly meeting a day early, on Tues., March 11, with a larger than usual attendance. Preceeding the business meet- ing, the group was entertained by the 7-Ups, a choral group of Senior High School students of Dallas directed by Mrs. Florence Sherwood. The pro- gram ranged from religious to patriotic to pop and folk music, including a Russian [ : | Special Care To Antiques 1 Over 50 Years Dependable Service M. B. BEDDING CO. La 526 So. Main St., Wilkes-Barre — 822-2491 REUPHOLSTERY IM. B. Bedding completely rebuilds your furniture then recover it in your choice of lovely fabrics and a Hebrew folk song. Every- one present found the hour much too short. The young. people who participated in the program were Debbie Lorsong,- Vera Balshaw, Debby Kleiner, Donna Shupp, Ruth Lewis, Lorene Daring, D’Anne Cooper, Beth Shewan, Wayne Williams, James Pichert, Brian Beard, Charles La- Berge, Clark Sweitzer, Grant Davis and Lance Wills. President Hazel Fielding opened the business meeting. It was decided to have a Birth- day Tea late in the summer. Grace Fielding announced we have dinners to serve on May 10 and June 7. Caroline Esser, in charge of plans for a trip, .called about the opening of the Pocono Playhouse. The schedule will not be prepared ‘until late in May. Cathy Askew mentioned that we were to organize ‘a Red Cross First Aid class with Irene Shaffer as instructor. It was decided to await any action taken at Sunday after- noon’s meeting on the ambulance situation before making plans for the class. Mildred Wright inquired if we were going to help the firemen pay the insurance premium as in the past and it was voted to pay them $200. Marge Zbick asked about purchasing dollies to make it easier to move the piano with- out marking the floor. This will be done, but in the meantime we need a different piano. Many keys on this one do not play and we are advised it is in such sad tuning is not anyone has a condition to worthwhile. If piano in good donate" to a worthy cause, please let us know. I'm sure we could arrange to have it moved. Refreshments were donated and served (except for cost of a few extras) by Cathy Askew, Grace Fielding, Agnes Manzoni, Margaret Manzoni and Anna McNally. 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The show will get underway the evenings of July 3 and continue through July 4, 5 and 6, to be staged on the Lehman Horse Show Grounds, Route 118. present were: Hazel Fielding, Louise Lamoreaux, Peggy Ziminski, Leona Aston, Marjorie Zbick, Millie Yanchik, Mary Laskowski, Carol Moskalvk, Shirley Gen- sel, Norma Lamoreaux, Norma Glogowski, Freda Snyder, Esther Murray, Irene Shaffer, Caroline Esser, Dorothy Spon- seller, Margaret Bonning, Mildred Wright and Shirley Buttacavoli. Next meeting will be on Wednesday, April 9. Mrs. Edward Schrama will be pre- sent to display a wide variety ofitems her son brought back from Thailand when he re- turned from his tour of Army duty in Vietnam. Earl Miller, wandering son of Mrs. Charles Dodge, glad- dened the heart of his mother for Valentine’s Day by return- ing home the day previous to that holiday. For more than three years, .he had been roaming the western states and his mother had no.idea of his whereabouts all that time. , He arrived home one day and the next day found a job with Luzerne Products in ‘Plains. The Dodge’s live on Hillside Road and Mr. Dodge is em- ployed at Hillside Farms. Among those recently celebrating birthdays were: J.. K. Murray, Mrs. Elmer Laskowski, Mr. John Fielding, Denise Sherwood, Ziba Smith III, Mrs. Richard Moskalok. Mrs. Barne Tribbler, Mrs. Michael Slimak, Mr. Paul Snyder, Charlene Cigarski, Mr. Joseph Gibbons and David Caccia. We hope they all had a very enjoyable day. This coming week brings = birthdays to Donna Moskaluk and Mr. Albert Sherman on the 22nd, Mr. Thomas Gimble on the 23,, Mr. Andrew Barto and Judy Major on the 24 and to Jeffrey Teske on the 26. Best wishes to all of them. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Snyder have purchased a home in Mehoopany and will be liv- ing there. close to Ray’s job at the Charmin Plant. We wish them happiness in the new locality. I am happy to report that my sister, Mrs. George Harris is improving after major surgery and’ 1 am back home after spending a week in Dover, N.J. with her. UGI CORPORATION The Bi-monthly meeting of the Back Mountain Rotaract Club was held recently at the Trinity United Presbyterian Church. Our “Home Made Doughnut Sale” will be held on March 22. Orders are now being taken by any club member or by calling Jeri Jordan or Nina Shiner, by March 20. The doughnuts which will be on sale will be plain, cinnamon and powdered sugar. Anybody wanting to purchase them can do so by going to Mer- rick Hall on the College Miseri- cordia Campus on March 22 around noon. The five officers and ad- visors of Back Mountain Ro- taract Club have been asked to give a panel discussion on April 11, at 3 p.m. at the Dis- trict 741 Rotary Convention. Hybrid orchids from Hawaii will be sold for Mother’s Day. Peggy Jordan is chairman of the affair. The Club has decided to send a donation to the ship ‘‘Hope’’ which is a floating hospital. The ship will be docked in Philadelphia for a couple of months. The club is planning on taking a tour of the ship in the near future. The next meeting will be held on March 26, at the Trinity United Presbyterian Church at 7:30 p.m. Dr. Guttmacher addresses P-P Calling it ‘anachronistic and archaic that Luzerne County should not have a birth control clinic as part of its public health services, Dr. Alan Gutt- macher urged members of the Planned Parenthood Associa- tion to press on in their work to make every child a wanted child. Dr. Guttmacher, President of the national Planned Parent- hood-World Population Associa- tion, spoke recently to the County organization at the Hotel Sterling in Wilkes-Barre. In a chatty, informal talk, Dr. Guttmacher reviewed the history of the Planned Parent- hood = Association, recalling Margaret Sanger’s pioneering efforts in the field and; the tremendous obstacles she faced. Suggesting that «significant changes have occurred in the attitudes of both medical and governmental agencies since Mrs. Sanger’s first clinic opened in 1916, the Doctor warned that much remains to be done. “Some states,” he said, ‘have done a significant job in providing birth control infor- mation to the public. Pennsyl- vania has been tardy in its enthusiasm.” Terming the rapidly growing population a ‘‘cancer-like growth of human beings, an epidemic,” Dr. Guttmacher stressed that due to inadequate funds not enough is being done in biological research to find a birth control method suitable for the entire populace. “The way of the future is with steroid derivative injec- tions,” he added, ‘‘but we must perfect them before we can use them on a large scale.” Dr. Guttmacher spoke at length about the problems posed by illegitimate births and illegal abortions and cited ex- perimental family life classes now in operation in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., for the work they do in preventing the “beginning of that chronic disease, the first illegitimate birth.” J During a question and. answer period following his prepared talk. Dr. Guttmacher explained his feelings about the much- discussed Papal Encyclical is- sued. recently by Pope Paul. The, Encyclical . upholds ; the { Church’s traditional stand on birth-control: “I have empathy for that lonely man in Rome,’ the Doc- tor said. ‘‘and I feel that he is a remarkable ecclesiastical scholar. He is doing the only thing he thinks is possible from his viewpoint, and he won’t change his mind.” The Luzerne County Planned Parenthood Clinic is located in the Kirby Health Center at 71 N. Franklin St., in Wilkes- Barre. B. A. CLASS B. A. Class of ‘Huntsville United Methodist Church plans a chicken dinner on Saturday, April 26, starting at 5 p.m. Tickets may be purchased from any mémber of the class. first 200 By D. A. WATERS In 1770 the Yankees brought in a new backfield and scored on the first play with an end run. Capt. Zebulon Butler, new quarterback, and Ebenezer Backus made a wide sweep around Wyoming Valley and headed for Lancaster County. During the French and Indian war some Delawares and others had joined the French, also Pontiac in his war. For many years they spread fire and death all over the frontier, in- cluding the first Wyoming Mas- sacre Oct. 15, 1763. The Penn- sylvania assembly would do nothing but authorize a string of forts. . The suffering and burden of defense fell on frontier resi- dents. Among them were some Scotch-Irish living along Pax- tang Creek, near Harrisburg, called the Paxtang Boys or Paxtang Rangers. Their leader was Lazarus Stewart, who had fought with Braddock in 1755. At Conestoga lived a few peaceful Indians, remnant of the Susquehannocks destroyed by the Iroquois in 1675. On Dec. 14, 1763 the Paxtang Boys at- tacked and burned their cabins and killed the Indians at home. Some fled to the woods. Friendly survivors were rushed to Lancaster jail for their own protection. Over 100 Paxtang Boys, against objections of the whites, on Dec. 27, 1763 broke into the jail and murdered all the In- dians. A crowd assembled to march on Philadelphia and destroy a colony of friendly In- dians on Province Island. In a panic, the governor sent Ben- jamin Franklin to intercept the rioters, which he did. Later the governor offered a bounty for Indian scalps. Lazarus Ste- wart was proclaimed an out- law but no one was punished. Butler and Backus offered Stewart and men a township if they would help drive out the Pennamites. On Feb. 11, Ste- wart drove out Ogden’s men, captured Fort Durkee and Nicholson Sales EGGS Large white 45-50 Brown medium 46 Mediu 42-43 POULTRY Large hens 12-14 Bantams 9 Rabbits 1.00-1.35 ea. MISCELLANEOUS Goats 7.50 Butcher hogs 19.00-20.00 Personal WILKES-BARRE Harold C. Snowdon N 64 North Franklin Street A FAMILY TRADITION FOR OVER 60 YEARS. Shavertown SHAVERTOWN 140 North Main Street Harold C. Snowdon, Jr. 420 Wyoming Avenue Kingston KINGSTON Harold C. Snowdon, Inc. Joseph Nelms, Supervisor / PAGE THREE Rotaract news Wyoming Valley's vears Ogden’s blockhouse, and the ‘4 pounder’ cannon. Ogden quickly returned and repossessed his blockhouse. This was besieged. In April, Major John Durkee, recently released from prison, arrived with reinforcements and forced Ogden to surrender on April 8. One Yankee was killed, Baltzer Stager. The Yankees had un- disputed possession all sum- mer, allotted lands, laid out town plots, and received many new settlers. In September Stewart was arrested at Lebanon while visit- ing, but escaped by knocking down the constable with an axe handle. In October - he was again arrested west of the Sus- quehanna at Wrights Ferry, and hurried off to Philadelphia fore his friends could arrive. At Finley’s Tavern, at a night stop, all drank plenty and Ste- wart was handcuffed, tied to a guard, and laid down before the fire, with other guards. In the night he worked the ropes loose and escaped with the handcuffs on, without hat, coat, or shoes. Sept. 21, Ogden with 140 men, moved into the Valley by an unusual ‘route and camped on the mountain without camp- fires. In the morning, with a. telescope, he watched the Yan- kees scatter to their fields. He sent detachments of ten men to capture each small group. No one knew how many in- vaders there were or where they came from. A party sent for help went by the same war- riors path and was captured. That night Ogden took Fort Durkee and the next day Forty Fort, Some prisoners were sent to Easton. jail and Capt. Butler to Philadelphia. Other Yankees escaped to the woods. But at three in the morning on Dec. 18, 1770, Lazarus Ste- wart and some of his men took Fort Durkee and recovered the four pounder the Yankees had hidden before. For the first time, Yankees held the Valley. 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