Two volunteer staff members of MALABAR, Inc., a local drug abuse help center, addressed members of £he Harveys Lake Women’s Sel¥Mce Club at the club’s March meeting. Eleanor Smigel and Edward Mott ex- plained that MALABAR provides assistance for drug users in need of counseling. Located in the basement of Central United Methodist Church, Wilkes-Barre, the center attempts to rehabilitate the drug user through ‘‘self- therapy.” Mrs. Carl T. Swanson presided at the women’s club meeting. Grace Martin donated a wheel chair tggthe club and Mrs. Harvey Kitéin presented a check to purchase a chair in memory of her husband. Mrs. Robert Traver announced winners of the litter bug contest for first through third grades: first grade winners—Beth Nagle, Tony Javer, Jerry Hennebaul; second grade— Chip Austin, Melinda Muller, Ronald Swire; third grade— Brian Montross, John O’Con- nell, Theres Crispell; sixth grade A, lifer bug winner— Jackie Swire; sixth grade B, winners for bird feeders— Wanda Harding and Belinda Spencer. Mrs. Walbridge Leinthall, membership chairman, presented ‘Busy Bee’ pins to Mrs. John Barbose and Esther Grey for sponsoring five new members. Mrs. Elliott Ide was awarded the jeweled ‘‘Bee” pin for 10 new members. Mrs. Joseph Rauch, geron- tology chairman, announced that two members were eligible for the Senior Citizens and would be honorary members. The first of these two women to be presented was Pauline Davis, who has been a member for 25 years. Miss Davis has held many offices and contri- buted to all club projects. She currently is responsible for the club’s bulletin, The Chirper. Hazel Davis pinned a corsage on her sister and Mrs. Rauch presented her with the honorary pin. The second member to be honored was Mrs. Raymond Mrs. Garinger has served on the board and helped with many projects. She was responsible for organizing the scholarship fund during her years as chairman of the education committee. Mrs. Burton King pinned the corsage on Mrs. Garinger and she was given the honorary pin by Mrs. Rauch. Mrs. Allen Sorchik sang “Young in Heart” to honor the new Senior Citizens. Mrs. Howard Jones, edu- cation chairman, presented four girls of the month from Lake-Lehman High School. Debbi Knorr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Knorr, Sweet Valley is student director of the school musical, and par- ticipates in girls hockey, girls basket ball and the folk festival. Kathy Fluck, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Fluck Sr. Harveys Lake, is enrolled in the commercial course. She is a member of the Bible Club and is organist in Glenview Primitive Methodist Church, Fernbrook. Peggy Hoyt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Caleb Hoyt, RD 2 Shickshinny is active in G.A.A., girls basketball, National Honor Society and girls gym club. Dianne Johns, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Johns, Leh- man, is active in G.A.A., Pep Club, Honor Society, Quill and Scroll and is a varsity cheer- leader. Mrs. Swanson presented each girl with a gift. Mrs. Allen Sorchil announced winners in the club craft con- test: Knitting, Mrs. Bradley Ide, honorable mention, Mrs. Bradley Ide; crocheting, Mrs. Charles Williams, honorable mention, Mrs. Bradley Ide; ceramics, Mrs. Nicholas deLeur, honorable mention, Mrs. William James and Mrs. Joseph Krupa; embroidery, Mrs. William James, honorable mention: Mrs. Howard Piatt; miscellaneous, Mrs. Charles Williams, honorable mention, Mrs. S. Richard Strazdus and Mrs. Howard Grey. Mrs. Joseph Zier, chairman of the ham raffle, announced winners were Ferne Smith, Esther Armitage and Ray Garinger. A nominating committee was elected. Members include Mrs. John Barbose, Mrs. Joseph Rauch, Esther Grey, Mrs. Elliott Ide and Grace Martin. Alternates are Mrs. Allen Sorchik and Susan Dodd. Mrs. Richard Williams an- nounced that past presidents are planning the 25th an- niversary dinner to be held April 6 at Irem Temple Country Club. The executive board will meet March 20 at the home of Mrs. C. Wesley Boyle. phe Rev. Charles H. Gilbert How do you typists who do your typewriter-thing all the time manage to keep your hands foresg beautiful? Now I am not waiving to hear some hand-cleaner commerical, but how do you keep them from getting dirty, especially ink- stained? Or do you have some kind of modern machine into which you drop your spools of new ribbon like a cassette into a tape recorder? I'd be afraid to buy that kind of ribbon for fear peekers-into-cars might think it was for a cassette recorder and steal it. What a mess a type- writer ribbon cassette would make in a record machine! When I change the ribbon my hands suddenly lose their lily- white hue, and I lose my patience. The other day I bought what I ‘“Two-fer’’ bargains. Didn’t even notice that I was getting a red-and-blagk ribbon. So when I had to chani® the spools I got both red and black stains on my hands. And how do you tuck the end of the ribbon down in the reel so it will catch and hold on? Anyone might think I hadn’t done much with a typewriter all these years. It is lucky I can still wait for my/@pewriter to talk or you could never read my hand- writing. When I look back over the half century and more that I have been writing in diaries I notice that my handwriting was never good. It hasn’t improved! I don't like my type to get dim nor the o’s and e’s to get filled up with ribbon lint, nor my hands to get all inky of any color: One of my correspondents who gets my pink sheet Jots from Dots lives in North Dakota. Once when my mailing ‘came ‘back to me because I didn’t have a zip code on her town (and P.O. authorities said it didn’t ékave a zip code anyway—but it did!) T have looked up her town on the map and noted how few and far be- tween towns are. She answered my inquiries by writing that cattle on their ranch. I don’t get many letters from there but once in awhile she writes and sometimes sends literature about themselves and doings. Just last week two magazines came from there: one was a publication of North Dakota State University put out by a student organization known as the Saddle and Sirloin Club. This number features an agri- culture show of many varieties. The first picture in it was a por- trait of this year’s 1972 Man. of the Year, Lyle L. Dawson Sr. Then follows a full page of his interests and leaderships specialities, and finally the fact that he is “past president of the presently chairman of the of- ficial board of the Rural United Methodist Church.” It is his wife who is on my mailing list. You should see his ten-gallon hat! The whole language of the cattle ranching business is quite foreign to me even though I know it is good western- American English. When you see unretouched photographs of two and three thousand pound weight purebred bulls, and sheep all prettied-up for the show with fleece really whiter ecstatically happy with their over-weight, and men and some over-weight, and men and some girls wearing their tall felt hats, you feel like you're in another world. The other magazine was from the. North Dakota Stockmen’s Association. In this you see real cattle with permanent waves and curls in their hair. And on one page is a North Dakota Directory of cattle breeds and brands and their owners, headed as follows: ‘Members may advertise their brand and cattle operaticns every month on this page for only $15 a year, payable in advance.” And there among the names and ad- dresses is our ‘own correspon- dent and their brand adver- tising ‘Registered Aberdeen Angus, Lyle Dawson, Oak magazine is ‘Bar North.” The UMYF of the Lehman United Methodist Church will hold an Easter egg hunt in the church basement March 25 from 2 to 4 p.m. Children aged 2 through 9 may participate. Refreshments and prizes will be included in the afternoon’s fun, and a visit from the Easter bunny will highlight the festivit- ies. Admission is 50 cents. Reser- vations may be made by con- tacting Helen, Earl (675-1800), Linda Tough (375-1855) or Jean if $ 7 I first contacted Mrs. Dawson when our Methodist magazine Together had a hobby column and she was listed as being in- terested in genealogies and es- pecially the name of Gilbert! Although we have not established relationship other than both being descended from Adam, she did know through her WSCS about our Dorothy. Reason enough for putting her on our mailing list! That ranch sounds fascinatingly inviting. I'd like to visit, only I'd be afraid they might want me to get into a saddle, whereupon my tenderfootedness would at once be revealed. Better stay quietly among these lovely hills of Pennsylvania. The gathering of clans is not always joyful because so many times it happens only on the oc- casion of the passing of one of its members. Wedding anniver- saries and significant birthdays are apt to be not only joyful but even hilarious. Not so with funerals. Nevertheless there is unfeigned pleasure in the meeting of one with another because so often it happens that it has been a long time since some of the family have seen each other. When Paul Smith, formerly of Mt. Zion, died last Saturday, the family down around Center Village and Bethlehem came up here for a funeral and burial in Mt. Zion cemetery in the family plot. It was a pleasure in spite of the understandable and shared sorrow for us all to see so many of this widely known and res- pected family. Their children and grandchildren are lovely people as were their elders. As an old timer myself I remember B.E. Smith and wife who were very active in the church ‘way back when’ I was pastor. Now ‘that Paul is gone there are only Willard and Ida left of the chil- dren of B.E. and his wife. There are children and grandchildren of ‘theirs, all adorable people. Our sympathy was with Paul’s widow, Myrtle, whose mother Kate Rozelle I know years ago. Of this whole family present and gone I have spoken as always being a support and a help in every pastoral problem I ever had. They were never a part of the problem but of the solution. (That wording is not original with me.) They were praying people and people who asked for prayers, and are now people who grow as thev become more experienced in prayer. God Bless them every- one. All right, Typewriter, 1 guess you can rest now, or else take a deep breath and get going on my Sunday sermon. , MARCH 9, 1972 Seated, Standing are Parochial and public school children in Our Lady of Victory Parish, Warden Place, Harveys Lake, will register Sunday following 9:30 a.m. mass for the church’s confirmation class. To be eligible to receive the sacrament, which will be ad- ministered May 4, children must be at least 10 years old by April 30, 1972. Borderline cases will be reviewed by Father Healey. Adults in the parish who have not been confirmed should contact the pastor for further information. Those not baptized in the parish must tismal certificates. In preparation for ad- ministration of the sacrament, a schedule of special classes and rehearsals will be arranged. All children will be required to attend the classroom and practice sessions. : In choosing sponsors, children are reminded that their sponsors must be prac- ticing Catholics. If a sponsor resides in another parish, he must present a letter of recom- mendation from his pastor. Father Healey suggests. that, since seating capacity in the church is limited, parents of children in the confirmation class might serve as sponsors and thus assure themselves a seat for the May 4 ceremony. Father Healey also noted that confirmation names must be those of saints. Hanford L. Eckman. of the Singer Company, Trucksville, has been invited to speak at College Misericordia at 7:30, March 14, on what the Singer Company is doing to prevent pollution, according to Ruth Walsh of the college’s Ecology Club. The newly-formed Ecology Club at College Misericordia is Republican Women Sponsor Conference The Pennsylvania Council of Republican Women will conduct a regional conference on mem- bership and political activities at the Hotel Sterling in Wilkes- Barre March 16. The one-day meeting is the third of six spring conferences scheduled by the Council throughout the state during March. The Wilkes-Barre meeting is open to all interested Republican women in Bradford, Carbon, Columbia, Lacka- wanna, Luzerne, Monroe, Pike, and Wyoming counties. Speakers for the morning session of the conference, which opens at 10 a.m., will include Pennsylvania Council commit- tee chairmen Mrs. John Schoeninger, membership; Mrs. Donald Aikens, political activites; - Mrs. James Um- stattd, program; and Mrs. F. Karl Witherow, PCRW president. During the conference lun- cheon Republican State Com- mittee Chairman Clifford Jones will introduce Republican can- didate for State Treasurer Glenn Williams, and Franklin McCorkle, candidate for State Auditor General. Marjorie F. Bart of Wilkes- Barre, conference chairman, has announced that registration and a coffee hour will open at the hotel at 9 a.m. Reservations for the conference should be made by March 12 with Mrs. Catherine Jones, 12 Wyoming St., Wilkes-Barre. Visualize Ahead—Try to visualize how ornamental plants will look on your home grounds before you plant them, says J. Robert Nuss, Extension ornamental horticulturist at The Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. Many. people set their plants too close together. eds i currently organzing a program for this semester to discuss eco- logical problems and possible solutions in this area. Mr. Eck- mans the first guest speaker in the series. The address by Mr. Eckman will be held in Kennedy Lounge on campus and will be open to the public at no charge. Covered Dish at Huntsville Christian “The annual Week of Com- passion was. observed in the Huntsville Christian Church at a covered dish supper recently. An offering was received for the one great hour of sharing. The juniors led devotions. Those taking part were: Debbie Templin, - Jacki Jopling, Carolyn Jones, Pamela Marr, Holly Rave, Robert Major and James Ashton. Others present were: Rev. and Mrs. Paul C. Duncan, Mr. and Mrs. Royal = Culp, Julieanne; Mr. and Mrs. Wilber Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Jopling, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rave, Bob Scott, Kathy; Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Schmoll, Mark; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Yanalunas, Mr. and Mrs. Ar- thur Hontz, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Templin, Cheryl; Mr. and Mrs. Gordon James, Mr. and Mrs. William Eckert, Mr. and Mrs. James Major, James Jr. and Ricky; Mr. and Mrs. Don Rood, Estella Roberts, Laura Watkins, Janice Stiefel, Joyce: Ella Schmoll, Mrs. Marcus Ide, Mrs. ., James Wertman, Elma Major, Dolores Frank, Elmer Major, Robert Price, Robert Bullock, Robert Marr, Wendell Jones and Carl Roberts. Read The Classifieds Page 13 The National Association of Jazz Educators has announced that the 1972 Kiwanis Stage Band Festival has been ap- proved and sanctioned by the Association. Richard Talbott President of the Pennsylvania Chapter advises that N.A.J.E. will present official citations to the individual members of participating stage bands who are chosen by the judges as outstanding. The citations will be in ad- dition to the prizes won during the contest. The top winners in the stage band contest will have an op- portunity to compete in the final overall Music Festival Contest. The stage band contest will consist of a High School Division and an Open Division (college and beyond). The contest will be held March 11 at King’s College Auditorium, Wilkes-Barre, beginning at 8 p.m. Entrants in the ’72 contest include the Coughlin High School Stage Band. G.A.R. (Wilkes-Barre) Stage Band, Dallas Area Senior High Stage Band, ‘The Purple Mist” of Wallenpaupack Area High School, Wilkes-Barre Area High School Stage Band, Bucknell Jazz and Rock Ensemble, Bloomsburg Stage Studio Band and “The Esquires”’ of Man- sfield State College. The Kiwanis Music Festival is designed as a showcase for the best musical talent in Nor- theastern Pennsylvania. The contest is sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Dallas. § Photo by. J: Kozemchak Sr. Bank. by Neil R. M. Buist, M.B., Ch.B. Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Director March of Dimes Metabolic Clinic, University of Oregon Medical School The body’s chemical proc- esses fit together in an intri- cate pattern. If one crucial step is off, the whole well- is often tragically affected. This is what happens with a metabolic disorder. The body’s chemistry has been distorted. Such disorders are called “inborn errors of me- tabolism” because they are inherited. Inborn errors can be all the more dangerous than the birth defect that puts a child on crutches, since children with metabolic defects often look perfectly normal. The damage only starts to occur after birth, when they don’t have access to their mother’s blood through the placenta. Some of these disorders cause severe bodily or brain damage within a few weeks of birth. Others are more subtle and may lie hidden (or latent) for months and some- times for many years. In such cases, disorders that are un- diagnosed get no treatment or the wrong treatment. Lack of hormone That is the reason for the March of Dimes Metabolic Clinic at the University of Oregon Medical School here in Portland. We must find the children who have these in- born birth defects of body chemistry and see that they get the hospital care and fol- low-up they need. It is becoming increasingly possible to correct this kind of error. One of our patients, Tonya Fronatt, produces a low level of human growth hormone (HGH). in her pitu- RO itary gland. She is 10, but she is tiny and looks much younger. The lack of this hor- mone has also been the cause of the hypoglycemia that has sporadically thrown her into severe convulsions since she was three days old. - HGH is rare because it must be extracted from hu- man pituitaries, The HGH from about 2,000 human pitu- itary: glands would be needed to help her grow to normal size. But regular injections of the chemical have brought an end to her convulsions and she is now growing very well on it. Buying time The other side of this treat- ment coin is to deny the body any substance that results in damage. For three-year-old Robert Cecil, this means a special diet. Dimes clinic for Robert was born with a birth defect of his kidneys. These were so underdevel- oped that they were only five per cent as efficient as normal kidneys. The metabolic de- rangements caused by the kidney failure were so severe that two years ago the boy was near death because he could not eliminate his waste products. With a diet that restricts his intake of pro- teins, we have been able to re- duce the amount of waste products that his kidneys must process. This diet is keeping him alive and postponing the time when he must face a trans- plant. In the time we are buy- ing, he will grow stronger and kidney transplant techniques will be improved. Then we may be able to give him a healthy kidney by transplant. King George Ili The treatment of a child can be seriously threatened if his total environment is not considered. Take Rex McCollam, ad- mitted two years ago when he appendicitis. His appendix was removed. When the anes- thesia wore off, this nice, quiet little boy suddenly be- came violent. He was vomit- ing and uncontrollable and he stayed that way for two weeks. Then he went back to being a nice little boy again and was sent home. A month later he was back at the hospital with the same symptoms of acute appendi- citis. Again he was violent and uncontrollable and this time he nearly died. A nurse took some of the boy’s urine and started for the lab to have it analyzed. On fee. When she came back for the urine, it had turned pink. That started us toward a new diagnosis, porphyria, the disease that is believed to have made King George of England insane. There is still no cure. It is known that at- tacks of porphyria can be triggered by alcohol, by cer- tain sedatives and by a num- ber of environmental agents. When we diagnosed the porphyria, we understood that the anesthesia had prompted this boy’s postop- erative attack. But what sent him back to the hospital a month later? Malnutrition brought on the second subse- quent attack which left him with partly paralyzed legs. So here is another element of therapy: You can’t treat a chemical disorder completely unless you look for the socio- logical and psychological im- plications. That is why the March of Dimes also supports our social worker. She adds to what is the real value of this clinic: comprehensive care tailored to the needs of each child afflicted by these subtle, but deadly, inborn errors of metabolism.
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