os dg 2 by Rev. Charles H. Gilbert Because my daughter does such outstanding work in keep- ing me happy on a diet pre- scribed by the doctors at Nes- bitt Hospital when I was sent home to ha healed medically in- stead of ®¥gically. I have vol- unteered my services as a dish- _ washer—drier—putter-away-er ever since. It has not been tedious because the outcome of it--keeping me off the operating table--is worth some personal concern in keeping clean dishes on the table. Dallas Man Receives Doctorate at P.S.U. John P. Martin of Dallas re- ceived hisgDoctorate in educa- tion at i exer- cises held Sept. 16 at the Penn- sylvania State University. Nearly 1,450 graduates, many from Luzerne County, received degrees at the commencement marking the end of the summer term. Dr. John W. Oswald, presi- dent of the University, was assisted in conferring the degrees by J. Lewis Williams, of Uniontown, a trustee of the Universitzy representing the board of (fstees. Among the 1,442 graduates the baccalaureate degree, 131 of them graduating with honors. Advanced degrees totalled 626, with 493 receiving one of the masters degrees and 133 doc- torates. There were 111 doctor of philosophy degrees and 22 doctor of education degrees. Earlier, 18 seniors who had completed one of the Reserve Officers Training. Corps pro- grams, received commissions in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force. Commencement: exercises were held Saturday morning in Recreation Building. Evacuees To Get Telephorie Service James Mold office manag £ wealth ephone Company, disclosed “an expenditure of $75,600 to splice nearly eight miles of cable required to pro- vide telephone services to evac- uees living at the Frances Slocum State Park. Approximately 33,000 feet of cable, running” from the com- pany’s central office located on Lewis Avenue in Trucksville, will enable telephone installa- tions to begin at the park by Sept. 25. To this date Commonwealth has received at least 150 appli- cations from resiidents at the trailer site and are reportedly expecting more. The telephone line will be dis- mantled at the year’s end, Mr. Morgan explained, and it is likely that most of the cable will be damaged beyond further use at this tigg- HUD Numbers If you are a flood victim and you have a question or complaint for HUD, or if you want to inquire about a hookup or maintenance, call any ans of 10 numbers, 288- 7581 throu 288-7590. CHECKERBOARD INN FEATURING Seafood Steaks Homemade Italian Food and Pizza Dinners Served Tues-Sat 5 til 12 diningroom closed monday Petgg & Janice Mattioli Carverton Rd. Trucksville There are some dishes I like washing more than others. For instance, if I were buying dishes all over again, I would buy a lot of Corningware cooking uten- sils. They are so easy to wash. Food doesn’t stick to it. Even when food sticks in the process of cooking it is simple to let it soak a few minutes and then scrub it with an ordinary dish- cloth, scrubbing brush, or in extreme cases, stainless steel wool. Nothing to it! "And I am partial to stainless steel pots and pans. They come clean easily too. Catherine likes the oldfashioned iron ware like my mother used to use. It is not too bad to clean and you can’t hurt the stuff with scrubbing. But don’t let it stand around wet, for nobody likes cleaning rust. The kind of utensil I dislike to clean is'-whatever dish in the lot gets overlooked until I have dumped out my dishpan, wrung out the dishcloth, and am al- most ready to go into the other room to sit down to rest. When I turn around and see the coffee percolator over on the range, I know there’s lots of grounds to be emptied out, the strainers must be taken apart, and then everything scrubbed hard. Not that the coffee pot is so hard to clean--but I thought I was all done! And there was that! So I get some new hot water and stuff and my scouring pad. Or there is the blender! I should not have overlooked that for it stands right near the sink and probably parts of it are al- ready handy to be washed. It is not a hard appliance to clean, only you don’t want to leave it until you think you are all done. There is the glass jar, with its plastic top, and the bottom metal cap which holds the spinning knives into place. They are not hard to wash, the spray hose comes in handy to swish off the first coat of stuff. It comes easy unless it has stood and the food has hardened. So get it into the rhythm and get it over with. When there are a number of big kettles and pans I like to get them done ahead of the china and silverware. They may have ne day Cathy asked me to see if I'could get her another 12 quart pan or kettle for quantity productions. So I sauntered around in one of the stores in the Wyoming shopping center, and in reply to a nice clerk, I said I wanted a huge kettle. She showed me the big 12 or maybe 14 quart kettle. I said that was what I wanted. Then to my sur- prise she called me by name: “Rev. Gilbert, what under the sun are you going to do with such a big kettle?” And I told get together lots of chunks of meat, vegetables and whatever else she can find to make soup. And how she makes up a batch of it to have on hand instead of opening a tin can for supper! Then came the fun—I asked her how she knew me, for I couldn’t remember who she was. She told me she was Betty Smith, wife of Bill Smith of Orange! Oh yes, but I was sorry I hadn’t seen them often enough to know, for I’ve liked Bill ever since years ago when I was sending a little parish paper to all the servicemen on my charge. And Bill Smith was one of them. and he had been on an aircraft carrier--was it the Serving Complete Dinners Tues.—Sat. 6 P.M. to 10 P.M. Overbrook Rd. Dallas CALL 836-2151 Fook $1.75 Lexington? or some other, and the ship was hit, and Bill was in the water swimming around in the oil scum and I don’t know «what else--and somehow he came out of it all right and came home. But when I thought of how scared I'd have been in that situation I have thought of him as an outstanding hero. So far as my imagination of him, he should be coming in on a big white horse or Cadillac or something, with a wreath around his neck, and a brass band and so on and on. I could pick him out in a crowd then. But he and his wife are just people, Bill and Betty! What has that got to do with what I started writing about? Well, when Cathy gets on a soup canning spree and I have that huge kettle of scrubbable alu- minum, that hero comes to mind, and how his wife Betty sold me the kettle! I don’t usually leave a big kettle like that for the last and then forget it! Sometimes I begin with it and use it as a dishpan until I get the smaller stuff done and then do that up by itself, washing and drying the kettle and put it up on a high shelf. How it is easy to get to think back through the years and dwell awhile in the past! But the other day just the opposite came to me when the mail brought me the first copy of a new magazine. The magazine is the result of two great church papers getting together to pub- lish the two as one. It is a com- bination of the United Church Herald (Congregational) and the Presbyterian Life now in one with the title: “A.D. 1972 Serving Members of the United Church of Christ and the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.’ Volume 1, Number 1. This has no connection with directions on how to wash dish- es, and how to remember to get the last one before you empty out the dish-pan. It is to say with rejoicing that the first article in this new magazine is about ‘The owl and the Christian experience”. And because I am a great admirer of writers who can write and use good words and make beautiful reading matter, I.am thrilled with this first number. Written by a learned man named Theodore Gill, it is illustrated by two or three pictures of owls drawn with pen and ink or fine brush or a living imagination of a godly man. And yet this very day I opened a ‘national magazine’ that I have been paying for a good many years, and I read one article init. I don’t know what it was about, but I wanted to use a big black pencil and blot out a number of words which always smell bad to read, and they were not necessary. How oppo- site is this magazine with the owl for a part of the title, and with the English language printed at its best, so beautiful in my eyes. I would like to underline some lines with gold ink--only the words as used do not need beautification, for in their own historic meaning they are clothed in beauty I'd like to teach my typewriter to use when it talks! But I'd have to learn which keys to push! Chairman: CLARKE BITTNER TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA 18612 Co-Chairman: WILLIAM J. UMPHRED Clarke Bittner The move from farm to city may be coming to a halt, a new era of economic and social growth for rural America may already be launched These are two conclusions to be drawn from various reports on the progress of rural America, from the arid stret- ches of the Southwest to the green fields of the Southeast. They also are indications that the much talked about goals of rural development are begin- ning to emerge as realized accomplishments for an in- creasing number of commun- ities. Some signs of the recharged energies within rural areas include: --More jobs: During the 1960’s nonfarm jobs increased by 39 percent in the countryside, a slightly better rate than the 34 percent in metropolitan areas. This growth rate has been high in completely rural counties as well as in those with cities of up to 50,000 population. --Farm-exodus ending: The farm population has dropped to fewer than the 9% million persons. With so few people re- maining on the nation’s farms, little further decline in the pop- ulation is possible. As the farm- to-city migration dwindles to a negligible level, continued gains in. nonagricultural jobs will have a more visible impact on the overall economy and population of rural areas. --Greater federal commit- ment to rural areas: The government is stepping up its investment in rural America manyfold. For example, funds earmarked for housing in rural areas amount to $2.2 billion this year, four times the 1969 level; sewer and water programs are allocated $342 million this year, nearly twice the 1969 level. Total funds devoted to rural development efforts by the CATS Inc FF P.O. Box 849 730 ON. YOUR DIAL WE MADE YOU AWARE OF FIRST CHOICE IN PAINT = I | Department of Agriculture will amount to $3.5 billion this year-- four times the level in 1961 and twice as much as in 1969. More important than the sta- tistics or the governmental ex- penditures, however, is the de- termined individual in com- munity after rural community who resolves to solve the problem on his own, who takes action to set his own neighbor- hood on the road to progress. In Tulia, Tex., for example, local leaders set out to combat decaying businesses, blighted housing. As a result of their efforts, the community has 386 new low-cost homes and jobs and incomes are up because of the construction work. In North Carolina, citizens mounted a driver education campaign as a small but vital part of their statewide effort to connect more rural workers with more better paying jobs. featuring our famous SUNDAY DINNERS $2.75 Reservations Accepted Phone 836-2971 New items arriving daily in our Gift Shop Open Tuesday thru Sunday Page 13 To get skiers in the mood for skiing, Camelback is planning its own ski show Oct. 15. There will be ski equipment displays with manufacturer’s representatives on hand to answer questions: ski demon. strations on the moving ski dek by ski school director Joe Amato and his staff: fashions by Mitchell and Ness: contin- uous ski movies, chairlift rides to the top of Camelback Moun- tain at the height of fall foliage:and entertainment by the Jonathan Martin Banjo Duo Jonathan Martin Banjo Duo in the cocktail lounge. The cafeteria. cocktail lounge and picnic grounds will be open. The reservation service will have information on Pocono Mountain resorts and will handle early winter bookings. 1972-73 Season Passes will be on sale. ; Outdoor events will include the hill climb (on foot) to the top of the mountain with first prize listed as a new pair of skis. The ski fest ‘will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is $1 per person. Traffic fatalities in Pennsyl- vania over the recent Labor Day weekend were 45 percent lower than last year. The traffic casualty index compiled by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation with the assistance of more than 1500 local and state police re- porting stations across the Commonwealth, registered 16 auto fatalities, four pedestrian deaths and one motorcycle fatality for the long holiday weekend. ———————————— Plant Perennials--September is a good time to plant many perennials, reminds Extension Pennsylvania State University. Iris, peonies, daylilies, hardy bulbs, and phlox are among those which can be set. Try to buy plants locally or from very nearby mail order firms, so'that such plants will have less ad- justing to do before winter. PennDOT Secretary Jacob Kassab said this year’s figures were the lowest in the past five Gov. Milton J. Shapp com- mended PennDOT, the Penn- sylvania State Police and all Pennsylvanians and travelers on state highways for cooper- - ating to reduce fatalities. Kassab, who also serves as Chairman of the Governor's Traffic Safety Council, said it was impossible to tell how much PennDOT’s campaign urging people to minimize driving over the holiday weekend actually affected the results. He pointed out, however, that the national figures ran close to the average: for the weekend. According to the National Safety Council, 609 had died on the highway as compared with 618 last year. Unofficial checks with neigh- boring states showed New York with 44 fatalities this year compared to last year’s 23. 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