the ‘loveliest ever.” The Dallas Junior Woman’s Club held its Christmas Dinner meeting last Tuesday evening at the Newberry Estate, Dallas. Mrs. William D. Davies, pre- sident, opened the meeting with the reading of the club collect. Mrs. Robert Yarashus, secre- tary, read ghe minutes and the treasurer’sYeport was given by Mrs. J. William Farrell. Department reports were made and membership chair- man Mrs. Harold Haefele wel- comed members and guests. She repé®ed that she has mem- bership cards available if any- one is interested in becoming a member of the club. Mrs. Harry Bernardi, chair- man of the Hess Fashion Show, announced $1,000 profit was made. All proceeds will be used There is a backlog of mail in some of the local post offices. Don’t take a chance on your news being left out of the paper. Send it in early for community proejets. Mrs. Charles Hillard, home life chairman, asked the club for their cooperation in support- ing ‘‘The Sandy Daubert Kidney Fund’. The motion was made and seconded to sponsor this fund for Sandy who is in need of a kidney transplant. Mrs. Jay Niskey, welfare chairman stated welfare bas- kets will be distributed to needy families in the Back Mountain area by the club Dec. 17. Members of the club are to bring food and Christmas cookies to area chairman by Dec. 14. Following dinner, a candle- light recognition ceremony was conducted by Mrs. Haefele and Mrs. Davies at which time Mrs. Harold Smith, Mrs. Donald Olsen, Mrs. Reginald Rose, Mrs. John Hudak, Mrs. Andrew Stahovee, Mrs. Daniel Luka- savage, Mrs. James Zambo, Mrs. Kerry Freeman, Mrs. John Andrusis, Mrs. Vance Johnson, Mrs. Frank Orlando, Mrs. Edward Lyons, Mrs. Robert Eyet, Mrs. Jack Bar- bose, and Mrs. Edward Janosik were recognized as new mem- bers to the club. Highlighting the evening was a Christmas Program given by the Dallas Woman's Club Chorale directed by Mrs. David Wojciechowski and accom- panied by Mrs. Walter Steltz. Mrs. Hans Dreher, chairman of the dinner thanked her com- mittee and reminded members the Jan. 9 meeting will be a covered dish beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the Shavertown United Methodist Church. Members are asked to bring their own place settings and an extra large casserole as members of the Westside Junior Women are invited to this meeting as our guests. Mrs. Evan Bonawitz, pro- gram chairman announced Mrs. Miller, home economist will demonstrate cheese and chocolate fondue at the January meeting. The Keynotes, a mixed choral group, entertained 115 persons at Gate of Heaven's Altar and Rosary annual Christmas party held at the Castle Inn this past Wednesday. A cocktail hour preceded the family style dinner consisting of roast beef, chicken, ham, all the ‘trim- mings,” and dessert. Sister M. Liquori, R.S.M. toastmistress, awarded Father Thomas Jordan a Fat Boy Award from the society’s Diet Club. Father Jordan was voted “the person who tried the hardest, but didn’t lose.” Sister then presented out-going lovely piece of luggage. Following the dinner, punct and homemade goodies wer: served by the committee o Christine Beline, chairman Nancy Parsons, co-chairman Eleanor Menges, Eleano Thompson, and Dolore Havrilla. The Society’s Christma donation to the church in th amount of $1200 was presente: to Father Jordan by Bridgett Correale. Father Jorda: thanked the society and the out going officers for a fun an successful year. The annual Christmas con- cert by the Dallas Senior High School Band directed by Lester R. Lewis and the mixed chorus directed by Florence H. Sherwood will be presented in the Dallas Senior High School auditorium at 3 p.m. December 37; The band will perform three concert selections: ‘‘Jingle Bells Rhapsody;” ‘Do You Hear What I Hear?-Snow Bells,” arranged by J. Cacavas; and ‘‘Christmas in Other Lands” by C. Hurrell. The first part will be concluded with a combined band and chorus number called ‘Three Noels” by Clare Grundman. The second part of the program will - begin with trumpeteers, Kevin Bonawitz and Jeffrey Odell, introducing “Fanfare for Christmas Day,” “0 Clap Your Hands” (Psalm 47) and ‘Mary Had A Boy Child,” a spiritual arranged for female voices will follow. A contemporary song ‘Shepherds and Wisemen’’ uses tambourine and “Glory to God in the Highest’ is sung in con- trapuntal style. The male chorus will do a medley of Legion Post carols with Stephen Hartman and Jack Kloeber as soloists. “African Noel,” a Liberian folksong makes use of all rhyth- m instruments. The traditional “‘O Holy Night’ will be sung by Dagmar Moravec as soloist. One of the highlights of the program will be the presen- tation of a number written by two local artists. The song “Together” was written by John Paris of Scranton and arranged by Ken Partchey of Chase. They selected the Dallas Senior High Mixed Chorus to present it for the first time to the public. Soloists for this song will be Julia Evans and William Cutter. The concert will con- clude with the famous “Hallelujah Chorus’ from the Messiah written by Handel. Accompanists for the program will be Marilyn Miller and Julia Evans, Seniors; Julia Swepston, Susan Haddle, William Cutter and Patricia McMichael, juniors; Dorothea Anthony and Carol Evans, sophomores. Organists will be Marilyn Miller, Carol Evans and Susan Haddle. The public is invited to attend admission free. 967 Plans The annual children’s Christmas party will be held Dec. 17 at 1 p.m. at the Lake Elementary School. All children of the community from age one to 10 years of age are invited. There was a discussion that the Post may sponsor a Teener League Baseball Team from the lake area and five other townships. The Harveys Lake American Legion, Post 967, met Dec. 5 at Casey’s Hill Top Inn with President Fran Fisher presiding. Plans are being made for the third annual Commander’s Night Ball. Adjutant reminds all mem- bers that their 1973 dues are payable now. Mail to: Albert Barcheski, Box 333, RD 1, Harveys Lake. The post regrets the loss of another one of its Legioneers, Clifford (Bud) Davis, who died Dec. 3 at the Veterans’ Hospital. Commander Fisher and six other members held services for him Tuesday evening at the Disque Funeral Home, Dallas. Photo by Alex Rebar John J. Farrell, Dallas, has assumed additional duties for the State Health Department, Health Secretary J. Finton Speller, M.D., announced today. Mr. Farrell will serve as principal planner for Health Department activities for the agency’s nine-county Region II- North, which includes Brad- ford, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Pike, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga, Wayne and Wyoming counties. Mr. Farrell’s new duties are in addition to his role as regional consultant for the Department’s Comprehensive Health Planning (CHP) program. According to Dr. Speller, Mr. Farrell is one of seven regional consultants with the new assignment, formerly per- formed exclusively by central office personnel. Under the direction of R. Michael Yeller, M. D., medical director of Region II, he will gather perti- nent health data and develop a comprehensive plan for the delivery of State Health Depart- ment services to the nine- county region, _ “The additional duties to be performed by our regional CHP consultants will greatly extend the Department’s planning capability and should ulti- mately result in improved health department services to all Pennsylvanians,”” Dr. Speller noted. At present, the Health Department operates programs which provide limited services in the areas of home health nursing, maternal and child health, communicable and chronic disease, drug and alcohol abuse and emergency health. The Department’s CHP program is a joint federal and state health planning effort, aimed at achieving the highest level of health care for all Pennsylvanis, particularly through increased consumer and community involvement. As CHP consultant, Mr. Farrell promotes the Compre- hensive Health Planning program throughout Region II- North, and assists both the New York-Penn Health Planning Council, Inc., Binghamton, and Health and Hospital Planning Council of Northeastern Penn- sylvania, Avoca, in program development. ‘Maybe this year you need to explore less elegant ways of serving your Christmas dinner. Perhaps your family has grown so large that it’s no longer practical or feasible to prepare and serve it yourself. Yet the tradition of a family Christmas dinner is one you want to retain for a few more years. Ruth Buck, Extension foods and nutrition specialist at The Pennsylvania State University, offers a suggestion on how you can enjoy a Christmas meal together with little effort for anyone. Plan a cooperative dinner. One family may be responsible for securing the place—it may be in a large home, or the dining facility of a church or com- munity building. That family serves as a host, gets the rooms ready and cleans up af- terwards. Another family may be responsible for providing colorful paper tablecloths, napkins, - centerpieces and for setting the tables. They decided on the type of service—country style or buffet style explains Mrs. Buck. Other families divide responsibilities in providing and preparing the food—the meat for some, vegetables and relishes for others. Salads, desserts, bread and beverages and other foods must be planned for, too. Girl Scouts Plan Bazaar, Bake Sale Cadette Girl Scout Troop,706 from Lehman is holding 2 “‘Mini-Bazaar and Bake Sale” Dec. 16 at the Dallas Acme Market from 10 a.m. until all items are sold. Some of the many bazaar items are ‘candles, ceramic Christmas ornaments, pine cone candle wreaths and candy cane trees. Baked items will include lollypops, banana bread, Christmas cookies and many more. All the items for sale were hand made by the Scout or her family. Come one, come all and help send these girls to winter camp!. Neighhars drop in. . friends stop by X® visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Orf, 124 East Overbrook Ave., Shavertown. And when they do, especially during the holiday season, they go home raving about Catharine Orf’s delicious fruitcakes. Yes—gruitcakes-for this gracious rand attractive blue- eyed Irish homemaker has two varieties that she makes and serves every holiday season. The first is dark fruitcake chock-full of dates, figs, currants, raisins and nuts, “very easy to mix and bake,” Catharine told the Post, and the second is a most unusual ‘No- bake Fruit Cake’ made from graham crackers and mar- “One great thing about them’ Catharine said, ‘‘is they’re all make-ahead. In fact, they taste better if you let them mellow awhile. They store beautifully in the i§frigerator, freezer, or at roortt temperature.” But Catharine Orf’s culinary talents do not end with fruit- cake. She is one of those unique individuals who can make the simplest casserole taste like nectar for the gods. And her husband and children will attest to that fact. Catharine, however, told the Post that it took her many years before she learned to prepare menus comparable to her mother’s and grandmother’s recipes, that it required a lot of patience on the part of her husband while she used the trial and error method to attain par excellence. The former Catharine Boyle of Wilkes-Barre, she and her husband moved to their two- story white home on East Overbrook Avenue 21 years ago. It was here that they raised their two children, Miriam, a senior at College Misericordia, and Tom, married and a Second Class Petty Officer at the United States Naval Base in Norfolk, Va. Catharine’s eyes light up with warmth and enthusiasm when she speaks of her family and especially her new grandson, Thomas Stuart Orf, two and one-half months. The Orf’s recently returned from a visit to their son and daughter-in-law and new grandson in Virginia. Cooking is only one of her talents. Her culinary skills are matched by her efficiency as bookkeeper at the Wilkes-Barre Campus of Penn State University, a position for which she is most qualified, having pursued post graduate work in the business field and com- pleting accounting courses at the local campus during the war. Prior to her present position she worked first with an automobile agency where she learned the General Motors system of accounting and later worked as bookkeeper at Gamins for six years before joining the Commonwealth Campus system. Her husband is employed as a paint technician at Motor Twins and in his leisure time does all the remodeling and renovating in their home and has several projects planned for the near future. . Working and taking care of her home does not prevent Catharine from sewing and doing needlework. She has completed many outfits for her daughter and last year made the costume Miriam wore in the program presented by Jonette Lancos' and other dancers of College Misericordia Dance Theatre. She also enjoys crafts and her favorite project is a Christmas doll made of cotton, styro-foam ball, and a Clorox bottle and trimmed with braid, sequins, or ribbon. Neither does her work in- terfere with preparation of tasty menus and she is always on the alert for new and temp- ting dishes made by friends or co-workers. Her family enjoys simple but satisfying meals, not followed immediately by desserts. They prefer to save these for a snack later in the evening. She makes a raisin and nut roll for Christmas and other times during the year which she obtained from her aunt in Ohio. This, too, she has agreed to share with Post readers. RAISIN AND NUT ROLL In large bowl, mix and let stand overnight: 2 C. seeded raisins 2Y; C. hot water 2% t. baking powder Blend: 3 eggs 1% C. granulated sugar 2 T. butter or margarine Vy, t. salt 1% t. vanilla Add to raisin mix; then add: 4 C. flour Y% C. chopped nuts Mix thoroughly. Grease and flour 5 No. 303 (1 1b.) cans. Fill one-half full and bake at 350 degrees for one hour. DARK FRUITCAKE Combine: 1 1b. melted butter : 2 heaping T. crisco 2 C. sugar 1 t. nutmeg 2 t. cinnamon %2 t. cloves % C. baking molasses 3 C. cold coffee Set aside and in another bowl mix: 2 1b. raisins 2 1b. currants 1 1b. cut up figs. 1 1b. cut up dates 6 oz. lemon peel (optional) Combine above with one cup flour and add to first mixture. Then add % lb. English walnuts Y 1b. black walnuts Next add separately 5 C. flour-a little at a time mixing well 2 t. baking soda dissolved in % c. boiling water 6 beaten eggs 2 oz. whiskey Mix well. Pour into greased pans lined with wax paper. Bake in 350 degree oven ap- proximately one hour.” Makes seven bread loaf cakes. NO-BAKE FRUIT CAKES In small bowl mix: Y C. evaporated milk 16 finely cut marshmallows 3 T. orange juice, wine or liquor In a second bowl mix: 48 graham crackers (rolled fine) % C. dates 3-4 C. chopped walnuts 3-4 C. mixed candied fruit 1 C. seedless raisins Ys t. cinnamon : 5 t. cloves Ys t. nutmeg Mix dry ingredients, add liquid. Mix with spoon, then with hands. Pack in wax paper- lined loaf pan. Cover tightly with wax paper or foil. Chill in refrigerator for 48 hours. BUTTER BUNS Mix: 1 envelope dry yeast Y; C. warm water Ys C. sugar Ys - 1% C. mashed potatoes (warm) 1 C. scalded milk Y t. salt Ys C. butter 1 egg beaten until thick (ivory color 4 C. unsifted flour ‘Knead 8 to 10 minutes. Let raise one hour; divide into three. Roll out ¥ inch thick. Cut in two inch squares, fold into triangular shape, pinch ends together. Bake on greased cookie sheet one inch apart - 400 degrees, 10-12 minutes. Photo by Alex Rebar
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