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: Publick Occurrences
Nov. 4
The United Methodist Women of the Dymond Hollow Church
will serve a roast beef dinner at the church, with serving to
continue from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. No tickets may be purchased at
the door.
Nov. 4
Tender; Tom Turkey will make another command per-
forman dat the Dallas Chapter of the Eastern Star’s annual
turkey dinner, scheduled for the Jackson Fire Hall at Chase.
"Nov. 4
All couples of the Trucksville United Methodist Church are
invited to attend the masquerade party at the Fellowship Hall.
Should come masked. No reservations necessary.
Nov. 4
The Trucksville Fire Department will sponsor ‘‘Harvest
Home Festival,” an auction, at 8:30 p.m. at the Trucksville Fire
Company. Entertainment will be provided by Herman Coon.
Refreshments will be served and the public is invited to attend.
Nov. 5
(rate of Heaven’s Altar and Rosary Society will celebrate a
Mass for deceased members at 7:30 p.m. A meeting will follow
Mass and a film on cancer will be shown. Dr. Richard Alley will
conduct giquestion and answer period. Women of the community
are inviia to attend. ;
Nov. 7
The Friendship Class of Leham United Methodist Church will
hold a bake sale and snack bar at the Lehman Fire Hall for
voters. Menu will include homemade vegetable soup, hamburg
barbeques; hot dogs and sauerkraut, coffee and homemade pie.
Nov. 8
The Holy Name Society of Our Lady of Victory Church will
sponsor a turkey tapboard party at the Casino, Sunset, Harveys
Lake. Doors will open at.7:30 p.m.
Nov. 11
A Hargdst Home dinner, prepared by the women of the Leh-
man Un¥d Methodist Church, will be held in the Lehman
church with serving to begin at 5 p.m. Tickets may be purchased
at the door or from any member of the church.
Nov. 11
Noxen United Methodist Women will sponsor a bazaar and
turkey supper at the church. Serving starts at 5:30 p.m. Tickets
are available at the door.
Nov. 13
The guidance officer and residents at the State Correction
Institute at Dallas will speak to the members of the Holy Name
Society of Gate of Heaven and their guests. The speakers will
answer questions about prison life and prison reform.
Nov. 13
Back Mountain Senior Citizens Club will hold a Thanksgiving
luncheon at the College Misericordia beginning at 12:30 p.m.
Members are requested to bring a covered dish. A film will be
shown and there will be games played. Members are asked to
wear name cards.
Nov. 15
Dallas Junior Woman's Club will sponsor a fashion show at the
Dallas Jugior High School auditorium at 8 p.m. The In-
ternationat¥®how will include the 1972-73 fall-winter collection of
designer originals by Hess’ Store of Allentown.
Nov. 17
The Holy Name Society of Gate of Heaven Church will hold a
turkey bingo in the school’s cafeteria.
Nov. 1 wn) Li
The Holy Name Society will sponsor a turkey bingo at 8 p.m.
at the Gate of Heaven School auditorium. A basket of cheer will
be awarded in a drawing Dec. 11.
Nov. 17-18
The Trinity United Presbyterian Church will hold its second
Holly Bazaar which will be open Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. and
Saturday, from 10 a.m. A supper will be available Friday and
lunch Saturday. Everyone’s favorite article will be offered for
sale—everything from knitted items, candles, ornaments,
crochet scarves, hats, etc., dried arrangements, art work, and
baked goods to delightful stufied animals and books for chil-
dren.
Nov. 21
The Lake-Lehman Band Sponsors will hold their monthly
hoagie sale. Orders must be in by Nov. 17.
Dec. 5
Senior Citizens of the Back Mountain will hold a Christmas
party at the Castle Inn. Reservations can be made by calling
Mrs. William Morgan, 675-3968.
Dec. 16
A Christmas trip to Longwood Gardens. A round trip ticket
can be j@rchased and reservations can be made by calling Mrs.
John GXighan 675-1902 or Lorraine Stair, 675-1879.
Fine Arts Calendar
For November Full
The Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Commerce has
released a full schedule of fine arts events in the Wyoming
Valley area for the month of November. The list includes films,
concerts, lectures, theatre, recitals, and opera.
Nov. 2 - Film, “All The King’s Men” at King’s College
auditorium, 8 p.m. >
Nov. 3 - Film, ‘Metropolis’, German with English titles at
Wilkes College, CPA, 7 and 9 p.m.
Nov. 4 - Slide Lecture, ‘Wanamaker Organ’, Organ Guild, at
Grace Episcopal Church, 8 p.m.
Nov. 4-5 - Theatre, ‘‘The Misanthrope’ at Showcase Theatre,
8:30 p.m.
Nov. 6 - Film, “The Last Hurrah’ at King’s College, 8 p.m.
Nov. # Concert, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, by Theatre 3 at
Irem Temple, 8:30 p.m.
Film, “Tobacco Road’ at Wyoming Seminary Student Center,
8 p.m.
Nov. 9 to 11 - Theatre, ‘Facade’ by Fourth Floor Players at
King’s College auditorium, 8 p.m.
Nov. 13 - Theatre, ‘Barbier de Seville”’, French play by King's
College at Irem Temple, 8 p.m.
Nov. 15 - Lecture, “Management Rights and Responsibilities”,
Atty. Paul Reeder, Industrial Management Club at Gus
Genetti Hotel, 6:30 p.m. /
Nov. 15 - Film, ‘The Grapes of Wrath”, Wyoming Seminary
Student Center, 8 p.m.
Nov. 16 - Opera, ‘Rigoletto’, Community Concert, Irem
Temple, 8:30 p.m.
Nov. 16 - Film, ‘‘A Night at The Opera’, Marx Brothers, College
Misericordia, Walsh Auditorium, 8 p.m.
. by Ralph Nader
WASHINGTON -- In the
closing days of the 92nd
Congress, President Nixon un-
leashed a virulent, anti-con-
sumer lobbying effort which
succeeded in defeating or block-
ing major consumer protection
legislation. All lip service to
consumer interests in health,
safety, and dollar value in the
market place was swept aside
as White House operatives
lobbied along with corporate
interests to defeat the Con-
sumer Protection bill in the
Senate.
Backed by a group of
Democratic and Republican
senators, the bill would have set
up a non-bureaucratic, low
budget agency to push con-
sumer rights often ignored or
overridden by other federal
regulatory agencies coddling
business interests. As an ex-
ample, the consumer agency
would participate or challenge
agency proceedings and decis-
ions which give consumers
short shrift in such areas as
utility and telephone rate in-
creases and drug, auto and
proposed agency would not
regulate any industry; it would
just represent the consumer,
whose voice is so little heard by
agencies and the courts.
The House of Representatives
passed a weakened version of
the bill last fall and the White
House reluctantly endorsed it.
But when the White House saw
an opportunity to direct a fili-
buster against the bill on the
Senate floor in late September,
Mr. Nixon's aides, Wallace
Johnson and Tom Korologos
huddled with industry lobbyists
to block the bill completely.
Working closely with Bryce
Harlow of Procter & Gamble, a
former Nixon White House
special assistant, and the
Grocery Manufacturers of
America, Johnson and
Korologos drove their limousine
up to the Senate day after day to
orchestrate their defeat of the
bill, with the particular assis-
tance of Sen. Edward Gurney,
Republican, of Florida.
Three times, Sen. Ribicoff,
Percy and Javitz moved to stop
the filibuster and three times
the White House narrowly mus-
tered the more than one-third
flammable fabric hazards. The vote needed to continue it.
Ambulance Log
NOXEN
Oct. 24—Mrs. Ernest Race from General Hospital to Lake
Carey. Crew: Fred Boston, Jerry Talent.
Oct. 25—Mrs. Bruce Cardone from General Hospital to home at
Beaumont. Crew: Elmer Race, John Lyons.
HARVEYS LAKE
Oct. 13—Jay Naugle, accident at Alderson Corners to Nesbitt
Hospital. Crew: Rich Williams, Pat Stenger.
Oct. 14—Viola Cavill, accident at Pole 204 to Nesbitt Hospital.
Crew: Rich Williams, Bob Wintersteen.
Oct. 14—Leo Youngblood, Sunset Terrace to Mercy Hospital.
Crew: Jim Faerber, Chet Davis. -
Oct. 16—Herman Kern, Outlet to Nesbitt Hospital. Crew: Jim
Faerber, Chet Davis.
Oct. 19—Helen Scarlett and Marie Shibilski, accident at Pole
201 to Nesbitt Hospital. Crew: Rich Williams, Chet Davis.
Oct. 20—Joseph Smolovich, Marywood Avenue to Genéral
Hospital. Crew: Jim Faerber, Chet Davis.
Oct. 20—Edward Feist, Hillside Avenue to Mercy Hospital.
Crew: Art Wagner, Chet Davis.
Oct. 26—Edward Feist, Mercy Hospital to Hillside Avenue.
Crew: Rich Williams, Chet Davis.
Oct. 27—Samuel Anthony, Old Lake Road to Nesbitt Hospital
and back. Crew: Myron Williams, Chet Davis.
Oct. 28—Lillian Sobolewski, Pole 95 to Nanticoke State Hospi-
tal. Crew: Rich Williams, Chet Davis, Jim Faerber.
DALLAS
Oct. 23—Michael Klopotski, 98 Prospect St., Nanticoke, to Nesbitt
Memorial Hospital. Crew: Harold Smith, Mimi Wilson and Jim
Davies.
Oct. 24—Mildred Spencer, Country Club Road, Dallas, to Wilkes-
Barre General Hospital. Crew Len Roginski, Mimi Wilson.
Oct. 24—Cary Caporone, Franklin Street, Dallas, to Nesbitt
Hospital. Crew: Willard Newberry, Len Roginski and Dave Cary.
Oct. 26—Ben Pieczynski, 123 Church St., Dallas, from Nesbitt
Hospital to home. Crew: Don Shaffer, Bob Besecker.
Oct. 26—Ida Schleicher, Hillcrest Drive, Dallas, to Mercy
Hospital. Crew: Bob Besecker, Gary McDade.
Oct. 26 Gladys Parry, Roushey Street, Fernbrook, to Wilkes-
Barre General Hospital. Crew: Ted Wright, Harold Smith and Bill
Ward.
Oct. 27—Estella Evans, 65 Elizabeth St., Dallas, to Nesbitt
Hospital. Crew: Don Shaffer and Bob Cartier.
Oct 28—Mary Shelby, Orchardview Terrace, Dallas, from
General Hospital to Leader Nursing Home. Crew, Harold Smith,
Bill Ward and Jim Carroll.
Oct. 29—Michael Silchak, Reservoir Road, Dallas, to Nesbitt
Hospital. Crew:Lynn Sheehan and Len Roginski.
Within a week of Senate ad-
journment, Sen. Percy sent
feelers to the White House
asking whether President Nixon
would accept a bill identical to
the House version which had re-
ceived White House approval.
He was abruptly turned down.
Where was Virginia Knauer,
the supposed consumer advisor
to Mr. Nr. Nixon, during this
time? Out around the country
campaigning for the President
at the taxpayers’ expense! She
had long ago surrendered her
job to the industry-indentured
aides in the White House who
have been the architects of anti-
consumer policies.
Other consumer bills were
also blocked by President Nixon
during the past session of
Congress. These included (1) a
consumer class action bill to
allow consumers to sue as a
group against a seller or manu-
facturer who defrauded them
all in the same way; (2) a bill to
provide the FTC with long-over-
due authority to issue prelim-
inary injunctions and assess
damages to obtain refunds for
cheated consumers; (3) legis-
lation to give consumers great-
er assurance that warranties
and guarantees on products are
backed up by the manufac-
turers and not used to reduce
the consumers’ rights.
In the midst of this Congress-
ional drive for consumer jus-
tice, the White House has estab-
lished itself as a super jockey
for reactionary big business
interests. Even when Mont-
gomery Ward, the giant retail-
er, came out publicly in favor of
the bill in September, the White
House refused to withdraw its
opposition. Procter & Gamble,
Sears Roebuck and J. C. Pen-
ney, active lobbyists against the
bill, refused to join Montgomery
Ward even after several con-
cessions in the bill were made.
Indicative of President
Nixon’s political manipulation
in an election year, he sent a bill
up two and a half weeks ago to
prohibit television blackouts of
professional football games
where the team plays in its
home town. He exhorted
Congress to pass this bill im-
mediately. But when it came to
taking a stand for measures
which would protect the health
and safety and pocketbooks of
American consumers, the
President sat on the sidelines
directing the opposition.
Gravity Grand Prix
Honors Volunteers
The * Kingston Township
Recreation Commission
recently held a banquet
honoring the volunteers of the
First Annual Gravity Grand
Prix--also known as the Soap
Box Derby!
In the vanguard of advisor
and volunteer workers was
George Gilbert of radio station
WARM who was presented a
plaque - expressing the
recreation commission’s
gratitude for his work on behalf
of the youth of Wyoming Valley.
Ned Hartman, commission
chairman, introduced the
volunteers while Nicholas
Taddei presented the plaque to
Mr. Gilbert.
Leaf Collections
In Kingston Twp.
Leaf collections for
have been scheduled by the
road department of Kingston
Township, Secretary Michael
Stanley announced last week.
Already underway is the
collection of leaves by township
trucks in Trucksville. The
collection began Monday and
will continue through Nov. 4.
Leaves—which must be
bagged by residents for
collection—will be collected in
Shavertown during the week of
Nov. 6 through 11.
According to Mr. Stanley. the
collection is a first in the
township and is being conducted
in an attempt- to prevent
clogged water run-off drains
throughout the community. In
past years, clogged drains have
caused flooding problems and
have necessitated costly
maintenance programs.
State Commission
Announces Change
in Phone Number
A new telephone number is in
effect for the Harrisburg re-
gional office of the Penn-
sylvania Human Relations
Commission which serves re-
sidents of 39 counties in central
and northeastern Pennsylvania,
including Lackawanna,
Wyoming and Luzerne.
The new number is (717) 787-
9780.
There is no change in the
address of the office, which is
located at 301 Muench St.,
Harrisburg, 17102.
State Senate
Passes Bus
Dallas parents and school
children alike should be greatly
pleased to hear that H.B. 1480,
providing for additional school
busing, has recently been ap-
proved by the state Senate and
sent to the governor for his
signature.
H.B. 1480 will provide busing
for kindergarten and elemen-
tary school children, living
within 1% miles of the school,
where road and traffic con-
ditions are such as to cause
hazards to the children.
The bill also provides busing
for secondary school children
‘living within two miles of the
school, where the same hazar-
dous conditions exist. It will fur-
ther provide that school dis-
tricts assure busing for all non-
public school pupils.
Rep. Frank J. O'Connell (R-
Luzerne) has repeatedly pushed
for the bill which waives the
minimum required distance for
busing when ‘highway, road or
traffic conditions’ may en-
danger the lives of students ‘‘for
180 days out of very year.”
“The lives and safety of our
children should be our first and
foremost consideration and I
am hopeful Governor Shapp will
soon sign the bill into law,” Rep.
0’Connell announced.
Page 5
Nader Report
On Rep. Flood
The Ralph Nader Congress Project Report on Rep. Dan
Flood. whose 11th Congressional District includes Luzerne
County, was released Oct. 22. Excerpts from Mr. Flood’s
voting record on key floor votes are reprinted below :
INDOCHINA WAR
1966 Vietnam Funds
No draftees to Vietnam after 1971
No Vietnam funds after 6-72 if POW’s released
Do not require withdrawal within 9 months if POW'’s
released
FOREIGN RELATIONS
Import quotas on footwear, textiles
Loan 16 warships to Greece, Spain
Cut Peace Corps funds 25 percent
Cut International Development aid by !» over three
years
DEFENSE
No Presidential War beyond 30 days
Limit ABM to 2 sites
Reduce defense 5 percent
Reduce defense 2 percent
PUBLIC WORKS AND SPACE
Delete SST
Cut mass transit aid from $5 to $3 billion
Add unrequested $!4 billion to NASA
SUBSIDIES AND SPENDING
$1.75 billion for OEO (1967)
Delete model cities (1967)
$588 million for urban renewal
Unemployment compensation for migrant farm
workers
Child care facilities for working poor
Delete aid to higher education
Add $170 million for passenger trains
$250 million loan guarantee to Lockheed
$20,000-person limit to farm subsidies
TAXATION
Tax Reform Act of 1969 (lower rates, reduced foun-
dation and capital gains loopholes)
ECONOMIC REGULATION
$1 minimum wage for farm workers (1966)
Exempt newspapers from antitrust laws
No selective wage-price controls on single industry or
labor group
Make wage-price evidence public
Compulsory arbitration to settle West Coast Doc
Strike 3
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
Delete Cannikin Nuclear Test
EPA rulings appealable by environmental advocates
as well as by polluters
No sea mammal killing without permit
Increase logging in National Forests
Noise Control Act
MEDICAL CARE, HEALTH, SAFETY.
1965 Medicare + © © mira
Add $230 million for health
Add $82 million for handicapped rehabilitation
JUSTICE
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
No minority hiring targets (no Philadelphia Plan)
Equil Rights Amendment
Delete independent legal services corp. for poor
$1.5 billion for school integration
No requirement or funds to integrate by bus
DC Crime Bill (pre-trial detention, no-knock entry)
Continue SACB secret black list
18-year-old vote
Prayer in schools
GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
Election of President by direct popular vote
Broadcast spending limit
No CBS contempt cite
No federal campaign finance records in members dis-
trict 7
Keep seniority system (challenge to Chairman Mec-
Millan)
Vote Nov. 7
When Frederick Smith trudged down the
corridors of Kardbord Karton Inc. for the last
time, no one he passed showed the least
curiosity over the odd pallor of his face, at-
tributing it, most likely, to the somewhat
faulty fluorescent lighting or to reflections
from the frosted, green-glass doors of the
offices lining the old hallway. The stares
began only when he stepped out onto the sunlit
sidewalk and it became apparent, without a
doubt, that his skin was green.
One of Frederick's erst-while co-workers
came hurrying down the street, a pudgy,
vested fellow, checking his watch repeatedly
like the white rabbit. Glimpsing Frederick he
paused, out of courtesy, a greeting on his lips.
Then the skin tones registered and he laughed
nervously, confused, not sure what he should
say, having never seen a green man, even on
the news.
“Hey there Fred..Going mod eh?..Heh
heh...’’ Flustered, he scurried away,
chuckling back a somehow inapplicable
remark about hippies.
“But it’s not my fault,” Frederick wanted
to shout after him. ‘‘I woke up this way one
morning, through no choice of my own.” But
he didn’t shout, of course, not wanting to draw
any more attention than he had already and
what’s more, notthing he could say would
matter in the least. His promising career was
over. Life isn’t easy for a green man.
The following weeks were lonely ones.
Frederick had expected his neighbors to offer
advice and condolences once they learned of
his ‘unfortunate condition.’”’ But they stayed
away.
People, meeting on the sidewalk, or talking
over their fences, would nod toward
Frederick’s house and their voices would sink
into scandalized whispers to say, “If it was
anything normal we’d be only too glad...” or,
“Frankly we don’t know what to think. It’s
S0...50...youknow..!”, or, “Well, George and I
wanted to help but some people aren’t so
understanding. They might not approve of our
associating. And there are always the
children to think about...”
Someone hurled a rock through the living
room window and Frederick had to badger
the local police department for a week before
they sent someone out to investigate. Then the
policeman simply said, “Under the ecir-
cumstances, you have to expect this kind of
thing.” And that was that.
“It’s not fair,” Frederick told his wife. “So
I'm green. So what? My thoughts aren’t
green. I’m still the same inside. I'm still
Frederick Smith, just the same as ever.”
A week later his wife left him and he was
isolated. Depression hit. He felt that he was a
monstrosity. How could he go on living in a
world designed for decent people? Before
long his despair evaporated in the heat of the
anger that was growing inside him. He found
an apartment in the city and took a job as
night watchman at a warehouse.
He ventured to the supermarket in broad
daylight and the disapproving gaze of the
crowd fell on him like a smothering rain.
Frederick had never been stared at before.
He had never been the object of insults thrown
from passing cars, had never been the target
of the quivering, pointed chins of indignant
old women. He had always blended in with the
crowd and had prided himself on his
anonymity, calling it respectability. But he
could hide no longer.
At first the frowns and scowls he attracted
were a torture to him but soon he began to
realize that the frowners and scowlers, the
starers and nudgers, the snorters and hissers
and sniffers, the grimacers and facial con-
tortionists, were all more grotesque than he
was. He saw them for the fools they were. The
buzzing crowds were like swarms of flies
stuck helplessly to the sticky surfaces of
things, condemned to the shallow existence of
appearances. A middle aged man, he saw this
one simple thing belatedly, felt ridiculous for
not having seen it sooner, while realizing at
the same time that the majority of people
never see it at all.
He came to like his green skin. If this was
how people were: petty, bigoted, ignorant,
then he was glad to set himself apart from
them. He took long walks amusing himself
with the antics of the offended, laughing
displays his appearance triggered.
neighbors’ opinion had been lifted from him.
One day a garbage truck rumbled past and
the driver yelled out, ‘Hey, Mars man!” An
odd kind of thing to say, thought Frederick.
Then, a little further on, an immense woman
who might have been 30 or 60, growled, as if to
herself, “What does he think he is, a Mars
man?’
A thrill of excitement ran through
Frederick at the significance of these en-
counters. When a group of small boys ran past
him shouting, “Mars man...Mars man...” he
knew there could be no doubt.
He was no longer alone. Only the existence
of other green men could have led to the
codification of a ‘‘proper social response’
(Bigots, after all are even less creative than
they are intelligent.)
It wasn’t long before green faces began to
appear in crowds everywhere. Newspapers
started to inveigh against them. The
President denounced green skin as a “tool of
the communists” and appointed a task force
to discover a cure that would be made
mandatory under the law.
At one time Frederick would have lamented
his predicament, but no longer. He saw things
from a clearer perspective now. Maybe he
would start a newspaper devoted to green
affairs.
The green movement was no sooner un-
derway than Frederick, heading for a
meeting, encountered a young woman who
was, so far as he could tell, completely blue. It
was a marvelous joke really...