There’s a pleasant surprise waiting for Luzerne County residents who haven’t yet dis- covered Moon Lake Park in Hunlock Creek. Moon Lake Park, the county’s newest re- creational area, has facilities for camping, fishing, swim- ming, bore ard picnicking— and just plain relaxing. Robert Neff, park director, reports that “‘things were pretty slow around here until last week, what with the rainy weather first and then the flood. But now—Wow!”’ “Wow!” is right. The double Olympic-size pool is brimming with swimmers seeking relief from the blistering heat, and the two diving boards and slippery slides are in use from the minute the pool opens at noon till closing time at 8 p.m. In the adjoining youngsters’ pool, Waldo ‘+ z¢Whale spouts two gorgeous a of water sky- ward and offers a strong con- crete back to children brave enough to climb aboard. for children and $.85 for adults, with family season passes available for $20; adult season passes costing $10 and a child’s pass available for $7.50 For persons who think a picnic is a required part of any outing, there are picnic tables and charcoal braziers scattered throughout the park. Sadly enough, Moon Lake Park is not without its litterbugs. Despite attempts to police the picnic areas, park officials are appalled at the variety and quantity of garbage and litter which thoughtless picnickers leave strewn behind them. ‘The littering can also be dangerous: during a 20-minute period one morning last week, three eagle- eyed youngsters filled two soda cans with razor sharp ring tops which had been tossed through- out the picnic grove near the marina). Boating and fishing go together at Moon Lake Park like kids and ice cream. Row boats may be rented at the marina for $.75 an hour or at the bargain price of $2 for six hours. The 48-acre lake is stocked with largemouth bass, pickerel, fishing is reportedly quite good. Camping areas are located along attractive Oakcrest Drive and Grey Birch Lane, with “‘pri- mitive’”’ camping permitted in one of the park’s more secluded groves. Campers who are familiar with the rustic ‘‘out-of- door” sanitary facilities pro- vided in Pennsylvania’s state parks are delighted to find that there are hot water showers, flush commodes and automatic washers and dryers in a cen- trally located redwood building at Moon Lake. Camp sites with electricity cost $2.75 the first night and sites without electricity are $1.75 the first night and $1.25 each night thereafter; primitive camp sites are $1 per night. The entrance road to Moon Lake Park is off Route 29, the Lake Silkworth Road. Route 29 can be reached from Route 11 at West Nanticoke or from Route 118 at Pike’s Creek. The park is open to the public between 6 am. and 9 p.m. during “the summer season. ¥ by Rev. Charles H. Gilbert Day by day goes by with nothing spectacular happening. Then when car traffic is heavy up our road off Rt. 92, I begin to realize that all this continual rain has been enough to float a Noah’s Ark, close roads to traffic into and out of the valley down below, close bridges across the river, tear homes to pieces, float houses off their foundations, tear corpses from their graves, silence church fic instruments to junk, pollute water supplies, damage foods, hush telephones, turn lights into darkness. My imagination falls down. I have seen none of this. Except the sign over the high- way where ¥ “railroad bridge warns the clearance is only 12 feet, 6 inches, and the sign itself is smeared with mud! The high-priced weekly magazine peither saw any of it nor smellc@its stench, as if it never did happen. But our very Dallas Post had the best cover- age of the whole thing that I have seen anywhere. So I rolled up the Flood Story of 1972 from Dallas, put it into a mailing tube and sent it to daughter Dorothy “in the middle of Africa, air mail for only $1.50. The radio reports she had received were too sketchy. She reacted to my County Libraries Buy New Books The Bradford-Wyoming " County Libraries has recently received a contribution from the Bradforg County Federated Women’s CiShs with which to purchase new books to be circu- lated to all libraries and deposit stations throughout the two- county area. Two new biographies are among the new selections. ‘The House of Life: Rachel Carson at Work’ by ul Brooks discus- ses Rachel "Carson’s achieve- ments as a writer, her struggles and triumphs and at last her emergence as the most eloquent spokesman for conservation in our time. ‘‘Sea Fever: the making of a sailor’ by Emery N. Cleaves tells of a boy who dropped out of school to hold his own among “men and the elements as a mer- chant seaman. Other new books selected include The Relevance of Edu- cation, Brothers and Sisters of Retarded Children, The Pills in Your Life. The Coming of Age, 12, 20 &5. The Hitchcock Chair, China Rgiurns, Time-Life Family Legh! Guide. Books for younger children include Joseph the Dreamer, The United Nations: at work throughout the World, Gassire’s Lute: a West African Epic, Lasers, Thor: Last of the Sperm Whales, Vaccines and Viruses, What We Find When We Look at Maps, The Phillippines and It Is the Poem Singing into Your Eyes. All of these books will be carried on the bookmobile and and deposit stations throughout the two-county area. letters when she got them July 7 by writing, ‘My goodness, such excitement!’ Wonder what she’ll write when she knows about her alma mater hospital and Wyoming Seminary! Current events can be dull, especially when the same highly pictorial weekly maga- zine I've had for years simply ignores these events in favor of trivialities of a convention, bare backs and stomachs of some show-offs, much pictured hand- shaking, some new surgical techniques for curbing popula- tion growth, and some 12 year old news! My own current events are a bit statistical, for instance the medical secretary at Valley Crest gave me a new list of patients at Valley Crest for which I am assigned responsibi- lity as Protestant Chaplain. She gives me a new list every few weeks. This one tells me there are a total of 96, with six- teen of them listed as ‘no church affiliation’; the other 80 of them are designated accord- ing to denominations. Part of current events are my visits among these patients. Some of them have complaints—as we all have! But when I look at them and sometimes imagine how I would be if I had only one leg, hands too cramped up to hold anything, speech so muti- lated in sound effects as to be almost incomprehensible,—— let’s not go into the matter of how I would act if a minimum of such disabilities were mine! I am glad that they have a home on a hill, and they and I are thankful. It is a matter of my current events when something is not satisfactory in the health of my friends or relatives. My brother who has recovered from sur- gery in marvelous success has been quite well and it is a de- light to me to know such is the case. But just now he is back in the hospital with some set-back that doesn’t sound good to me. From time to time I get busy trying to re-make the bird Talks feeder in a new and better loca- tion. The ‘‘chickens’’ as I like to remember how Hiawatha spoke of his birds have a temporary feeding station on a shelf on our kitchen window sill. They like that, for it gives them a chance to see what and how we eat. And the grey squirrel like fit too. They look saucy-like when I say, ‘Listen! I buy those expen- sive sunflower seeds for the birds, like chicadees, the cardi- nal, the rose-breasted grosbeak, or any other grosbeak. You go gather your acorns!’”” They can’t read such thoughts! Catherine’s gardening is fruitful and often beautiful. For now she has practically emptied the ‘‘glass house” so as to get many plants out into the open. They appreciate the outdoors hardly realized how tall the And her lantana ‘trees—not naturally tall, but more often spreading out. But she ties them to the lower edge of the blue sky and they look up and grow up! A couple of last spring’s Easter lilies set in the garden are now blooming, and saying, “It is always resurrection day, you know!” Yes, I know! But I like hearing you say so! But my carpentering efforts atre-making the feeding station are so clumsy I should not try to keep at it. But I think I need to do a little fussing like that. me discovering the unusual in an old book, such as one of the thick Bibles with the apocry- pha. Recently I ran across a story of a man who got ac- quainted with a man who turned out to be an angel and had ways of healing people. The angel showed the man how a fish had medicinal parts; such as its gall which the man took and smear- ed on his father’s blind eyes, and it made the white patches shrivel and then the son took hold of the ‘‘cataracts’” and peeled them off, and father saw son and was happy. Well how is that for current event! ® MECHANICAL ® HYDRAULIC ® WELDED ® ROUND ® SQUARE ® RECTANGULAR Stair Completes Course in Navy Marine Lance Corporal Ray- mond J. Stair, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Stair of 41 Main St., Kingston, has completed the Motor Vehicle Operators Course at the Marine Corps Air Station, Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. He is a former student of Wyoming Valley West High School, Kingston. Pennsylvania school buses will be sporting brand new re- flectorized license plates for the 1972-73 school year. The present school bus plate expires July 31. Truck registra- tion plates expire Oct. 31. How- ever, reflectorized license plates will not be seen on auto- mobiles until after the expira- tion of the current bi-centennial plate in 1976. ° Kathy Karuza at Oral Roberts Univ. Kathy L. Karuza, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. Karuza, Dallas, has completed her freshman year at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Okla. During her first year at school, Miss Karuza was a member of the girls’ football team and belonged to both the Spanish and German clubs. An art major, she is a 1971 graduate of Dallas Senior High School. An unusual part of the school’s curriculum is its em- phasis on student involvement with the Tulsan community. In line with this emphasis, Miss Karuza worked in various volunteer capacities at the St. Francis Hospital on Saturdays, and ‘‘adopted’”’ a ‘little brother” from the Sand Springs Home for orphan children. the new plates, William A. Titelman, Director of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, State Transportation Department, said, ‘Use of the new plates will provide an extra measure of safety for our children as they ride to and from school. In accordance with strict PenDOT specifications, the plate is made from an aluminum alloy which should prove very servicable. The reflective material used in the tags was created by the 3-M Company, exclusively for the State of Pennsylvania and can- not be used by anyone else.” ~ Use of these plates on school buses will enable PenDOT to check their longevity and dura- bility and make any necessary improvements before the 1976 general issuance. The color scheme on the new plates will be opposite from the tags now being used. Titelman said, “The new safety plate will carry blue numerals on an orange field and, by specifica- tion, must be visable at night for a minimum distance of no less than 100 feet, with other illumi- nation. “The color field was re- versed because tests showed that a blue background cannot be adequately reflectorized and because we wanted to issue a plate similar to those which will to out in 1976,” Titelman added. Xs Page 7 Montross Accepts Position with Dupont Alan G. Montross, recently graduated from the Wilkes- Barre Campus of The Penn- sylvania State University, has accepted a position as engineer with the Dupont Corporation, Wilmington, Del. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Mon- tross, Island Road, Noxen. A graduate of Lake-Lehman High School, Alan received his associate degree in electrical engineering this past June. He completed his two years of associate degree work at the local campus with a perfect 4.0 average. 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