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Alfred (Al) H. Ackerson,
immediate past president of the
Dallas Kiwanis Club, has been
commended by the Penn-
sylvania Department of
Commerce for his ‘important.
role in the recovery effort from
Hurricane Agnes. As part time
executive = director of the
Luzerne County Industrial
Development Authority, he has
been expediting Pennsylvania’s
short term disaster recovery
loans for the Wilkes-Barre area
businesses.
As a commercial credit ex-
by Rev. Charles H. Gilbert
My first impulse when at-
tending «the Sinfonia .Da
Camera, Feb. 7, at College
Misericordia was to thank God
in all devout sincerity “for my
good ears,” with which I en-
Joyed unusual delight in hearing
that evening of music. God
knew and accepted my thanks
with no special demonstration
to make him aware. Fur-
thermore 1 knew that College
Misericordia was His agent for
arranging these and other
special concert treats. I said to
myself, “I will use. My
Typewriter Talks column in The
Dallas Post to say ‘Thank You’
to College Misericordia for
providing concerts in such good
taste.” 1 know that it takes
more than one person to
arrange such events and I am
thinking of College Misericordia
as representing - a wide
coverage of responsible people.
And thank you, all of you.
There are dates in my life
which I call special ‘‘ex-
periences,’’ to be noted as such
in my diaries. It is more than
just a record for a day, but
rather covers happenings which
I call ‘experiences’ in my
soul's journey.
The record of that night was
more than ordinary because I
became conscious that sound
waves with all their’ mystery
and lovliness were coming
through all possible in-
terventions right to me. They
would be coming from sound
boxes of a score or more
stringed instruments
representing harmonies and
pitches, and I seemed able to
hear them not only as separate
waves of sound but as a planned
blending into a total gift from
God. The strings of the deep
bass seemed to speak to my
emotions -as if purposely
sounded. I got the impression at
first that there were some wind
instruments hidden back there,
but soon realized the strings
were doing it all.
These vibrations were coming
as so many creators of the tones
,and air waves, coming with
"unusual clarity and pleasure.
Not being a skilled listener, I
could not say in what way this
particular concert was doing
this to me more than ever
before. But suddenly I felt this
high gratitude which by inner
words I kept saying, “Thank
God for my good ears!”
Never before have I ever said
such a particularized prayer of
thanksgiving. I have done much
complaining about my im-
pairment of hearing, for in-
stance the melody of the song
sparrow, the too soft speech of
readers! On this night I was
majoring in my feeling of
“Thank You, God, for my good
ears!” What marvelously
complex is the mechanism of
hearing! I read in a book the
other day about how sound
waves strike a membrane down
a channel of the inner ear and
set a-tremble a chain of tiny
bone shapes until the auditory is
reached, and then it becomes
sort out and interpret to the
conscious mind what is going on
outside the hard skull. The
world of vibrations becomes a
concert, and this inner self of
conscious mind has, perhaps,
an ‘‘experience’’ about it! An
experience for me! Becoming a
part of me! Coming from up
there on that platform down to
me as an individual! And I was
~ There was something else
different. The names of the
composers of the music of the
concert were not totally un-
familiar to me, but so far as I
am aware of it, I did not know
any of the numbers they were
playing. I know how people are’
about hymn tunes. They want
only the familiar ones, or as
best!”” They don’t really mean
old, just familiar, and usually
referring back into their
childhood. How often audiences
“The Old Rugged
init!) I never heard that song in
my boyhood, for the song goes
no further back than 1913!
I have observed that during
the concerts I have attended, I
found myself watching for some
familiar phrases of the music
that I had heard before. A habit
was formed of setting special
store of value on that part of the
concert which was familiar to
me. We all know how true that is
with the music of Handel's
Messiah. If the only concert we
ever attend is the Messiah or
other familiar favorites, how
can any other of the great works
of the musicians have a chance
at our inner lives? We become
poorer just through favoring
only the familiar.
Here was a concert finding its
way into my deeper self and
giving me an unusual sense of
privilege to be able to hear
vibrations for the sheer delight
of the music’ as such. And the
effect of spending a whole rich
evening in the atmosphere of
whole regiments of notes and
harmonies and rhythms,
clearly and easily hearing it
with my God-given ears! This
has become for me a date of
ecstasy for my diary, as though
I had achieved a new skill, or at
least a new level of listening
pleasure.
1 do not want to omit special
mention of the gifted artist at
the keyboard . of the. .piano,
Thomas Hrynkiv. I first saw
and heard him as a very young
man with oodles of future
promise ‘ahead of him in a
concert in Wilkes College
gymnasium, must be 18 or 20
years ago. How he makes the
keys on a piano sing! Alsol:l
always think about such a
piano, how much skilled work-
manship goes into its
manufacture! And time for the
seasoning of the wood! Again, it
was a combination of different
wave-lengths of music borne to
us from that piano.
Again—I want to pass along to
Misericordia and
associates my thanks and ap-
preciation. And, please, God
hear again, which I am coaxing
from my typewriter to tap out a
“Thank You, God, for my good
ears!’
Woman departs
For Bangladesh
A former Dallas girl who is
now a medical missionary
under the Association of Bap-
tists for World Evangelism left
for Bangladesh Wednesday to
undergo language study and
work at a missionary hospital
for four years.
Janice Wolfe, a member of
the Bible Baptist Church,
Shickshinny, departed from
Kennedy Airport with her first
destination being Chittagong,
Banladesh.
She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Lawrence Wolfe, RD 2
Dallas, and is a graduate of
Lake-Lehman High School and
the Wilkes-Barre General
Hospital for Nurses. She also
attended Baptist Bible College
in Clarks Summit.
New Number
For Police
Telephone numbers for the
Kingston Township Police and
Municipal Building will change,
effective Feb: 20. New numbers
will be 696-1174 and 696-1175.
[970 CHEVROLET
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pert with more than 40 years
experience in business, the 71-
year old retired banker’s job
has been to get the paperwork
Wilkes-Barre industrial base
jobs can be restored as quickly
as possible.
In the three month period
ending Jan. 1, Al handled the
paper-work at the local level
connected with making over 30
loans totaling about $8-million.
He will complete his temporary
assignment by June 30 by
concentrating now on the
details involved with the
repayment of loans.
“Al has been great to work
with in this program,’ reports
Charles J. Blankenship, state
commerce disaster recovery
coordinator. State Commerce
Secretary Walter Arader
selected Mr. Ackerson for the
position with the concurrence of
the authority. According to Sec.
Arader, Mr. Ackerson’s age
was not of importance, only his
business experience and his
credit. His years in business in
the community were a real plus
for the emergency position.
‘“‘Al’s work has proven to be
an example of the talent that
can be found among our senior
citizens if our society fakes the
trouble to seek it out,” Mr.
Blankenship emphasized.
Living in an apartment in
Kingston, Al and his wife Louise
lost all their possessions when
the June flood swept through
that area. The couple’s losses
went beyond ordinary
household items because Al has
been an antique and book
collector for years. They lost
many antiques and other items
that they placed in storage
when they earlier moved from a
17-room house in the Dallas
area.
Al plans to return to an
apartment in the Dallas area.
The Ackersons are presently in
a mobile home which was
visited by President Nixon on
his tour in September.
The New Army
Is Going to Pot!
The Army is going to POT and
they don’t care who knows it.
POT is Performance Orientated
Training, considerably differ-
ent from Army training of
another era.
Soldiers at Fort Ord, Calif.
are exposed to a totally dif-
ferent instructional technique.
Privates are hardly ever seen
listening to a lecture. The men
are trained with their ‘Hands
On’’ the equipment. Basic
trainees have radios in their
hands after only 30 minutes of
basic instruction. Soldiers now
teach each other. When a ser-
geant instructor teaches a man
how to climb a pole, the recruit
must climb the pole himself,
then turn right around and show
another recruit how it’s done.
The soldiers really go for it.
As one put it recently, “I learn-
ed more’ as an instructor than I
did as an instructee,”” he
quipped. ‘Some of the guys ask
some pretty tough questions
and the more answers you have
to dig up—the more you're
going to know yourself.”
The more its men know, the
more the Army knows. From
the looks of it, the new Army,
the Modern Volunteer Army, is
a pretty knowledgeable Army.
William Conyngham
Elected President
Planned Parenthood
William L. Conyngham, a
Back Mountain resident, was
elected to serve as president of
the Planned Parenthood
Association of. Luzerne County
at the organization’s recent
meeting at the Hotel Sterling.
His family has long been a
staunch supporter of Planned
Parenthood, several members
having served on the affiliate
board. At one time Mr. and Mrs.
Conyngham served on the board
simultaneously.
A 1942 graduate of Yale
University, Mr. Conyngham is
presently secretary-treasurer
of Eastern Pennsylvania Supply
Company of Wilkes-Barre. He is
a member of the Board of
Directors of the First National
Bank of Eastern Pennsylvania,
as well as the Wilkes-Barre
General Hospital and Wyoming
Valley Historical Society.
Sundays will find him and his
family at St. Stephen’s
Episcopal Church, where he
serves as senior warden. He
lives at Chase with his wife, the
former Cornelia Parkhurst, and
their children.
Other officers elected include
Mrs. John G. Ruggles Jr. first
vice-president; Mrs.
Stanford L. Weiss, second vice-
president; Mrs. William C. M.
Butler Jr., recording secretary;
Mrs. William Robbins,
corresponding secretary;
Clifford K. Melberger,
treasurer; and Harold C.
Snowdon Jr, assistant
treasurer.
Newly named to Planned
Parenthood’s Board of
Directors were: Edmund M.
Poggi Jr.; Louis W. Jones Jr.;
Mrs. Stewart Pierson, John
Charest, Mrs. Peter Foldes and
Mrs. Sydney Friedman.
Dallas Boy Accepted
By Widener College
Peter Calkins, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Calkins of Dallas,
mission at Widener College in
Chester, it was announced by
Vincent F. Lindsley, director of
Peter is currently a senior at
Dallas Senior High School and
will graduate in June.
Located on an 87-acre campus
in Chester, Widener College,
whose name honors . the
nationally prominent Philadel-
phia family, offers baccalaur-
eate degrees to men and women
in liberal arts, science, en-
gineering, economics and
management. and nursing, as
well as the new unstructured
major for those who prefer a
more flexible approach to high-
er education. ;
Reg. $4.50
Reg. $4.50
17 Oz. Bottle
Now $2.50
Now $2.50
$2.50
The 21st annual Parade of
Quartets Concert sponsored by
the Wilkes-Barre Chapter,
Society for the Preservation
and Encouragement of Barber
Shop Quartet Singing in.
America (SPEBSQSA), is
scheduled for March 3 in the
Coughlin High School
Auditorium, = Wilkes-Barre.
Curtain time is 8 p.m.
The Cirele W Four from
Pittsburgh, formerly known as
The Westinghouse Quartet will
headline the concert, according
to General Chairman Raymond
Patsko, Wilkes-Barre. He added
that comedy segments will be
provided by The Free Lancers
from Dundalk, Md.
Special guests on the program
will be The Chorus of the Lehigh
from Allentown-Bethlehem
Chapter of SPEBSQSA. Ap-
pearance by the 60-member
chorus is a goodwill gesture by
fellow barbershoppers ex-
tending a helping hand to
members of the singing society
-
affected by the hurricane
disaster of last June. The local
chorus, under the direction of
James McClelland, Wilkes-
Barre, will be featured in a
separate segment of the show.
The Tag Masters, registered
quartet of the Wilkes-Barre
Chapter, also will appear.
Tickets for the upcoming
concert, one performance. this
year, are available from
members of the Wilkes-Barre
SPEBSQSA Chapter and by
writing to the organization’s
meeting and rehearsal site,
Scott Street Hose Company in
Swoyersville.
Chairmen assisting with the
concert plans are: tickets—
John J. McCloskey, Moun-
taintop; program—Thomas
Reilly, West Pittston; patrons—
Phillip L. Brown, Shavertown;
promotion and staging—
William A. Zdancewicz, Ed-
wardsville. Chapter president is
John Durkin, Pittston.
The public is invited to attend
this harmony concert.
The Jazz Ensemble of Ver-
nona High School, Vernona,
N.J., has been named as one of
the competitors in the for-
thcoming Festival of Stage
Bands being sponsored by the
Kiwanis Club of Dallas.
One of the best known jazz
ensembles in the U.S., the
Vernona group was chosen to
participate in the U.S. High
School division of the Mon-
treaux International Jazz
Festival held in Montreaux,
Switzerland.
The group received the honor,
according to director Harry
Owens, as a result of past
festival awards. The Vernona
group captured first place in the
Ramapo High School Stage
Band Festival, New Jersey's
largest festival, and placed
second among fifty bands in the
New England Band Festival,
the first time it competed, and
first the next year.
The Vernona Jazz Ensemble
will compete with at least three
other high school stage bands in
the Kiwanis Club Festival Feb.
24 in the Irem Temple
Auditorium in Wilkes-Barre.
Judging from applications
received, the other high school
competitors will be from the
local area, according to
Festival Committee co-
chairman Tom O’Malia.
The festival will begin at 8
p.m. with tickets available at
the door. Tickets may be ob-
tained in advance by contacting
the Do Re Music Center in
Dallas.
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