RICHARDS
by Lee L. Richards
The Olympic Games
were the topic of most
| conversations last week
- with teams pulling out and
. heading home. The
| Canadians have always
been a peculiar lot to us
and the recent episode
substantiates our feeling.
. Our biggest beef about
the games is how all of the
© pros from Russia, East
: Germany . and other
© countries can com-
© pete???Sure they’ll win
* ‘most of the medals, but you
© don’t see the Olympic
© Committee ever doing
© anything about this
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© get too excited about the
© games, except for several
. events.
. For instance, there isn’t
©. one event which rules are
condusive to the ones our
i athletes compete under on
a regular basis. Every
i 4 sport is geared to aid the
“bad guys.”
Isn’t the ABC-TV
~ overdoing it with all of its
© superlatives on Olga
_ Korbut? She could care
less about the United
States. Howard Cosell has
© picked out his favorites and
~we’ll get their names
: pounded into our brains
until they become hereos
like his boxing partner.
Our basketball team
looked impressive in
hammering Italy. It was
. rather ridiculous how
“people put down our
| ‘cagers. I'm confident we’ll
© win the gold here after
“Russia was given the gold
in ‘72 by the officials--and a
lack of coaching by our
people. Dean Smith is now
in control and is a fine and
dynamic leader.
Meanwhile; ~ football
opens on Friday with the
Steelers butting heads
with the College All-Stars.
We'll root for the stars, but
the Steelers have too many
supers. How’s a 24-10 score
sound? Stars lack quality
QBs.
About the most exciting
thing about the recent
baseball all-star game was
what Pete Rose would do
next for the National
Leaguers. You knew the
outcome. Rose, in our
book, is the best player in
baseball. If there’s a. way
to win, he’ll make the play.
Winners from Irem’s
shotgun tourney over the
weekend in the best-ball
scores of the foursomes
were: first-Bill Keller,
Russ Stone, Carlton Kase
and Dave Evans; second-
R.J. Bachman, Charlie
Ed Carr; third-Tom
Turner, Tom Neyhard and
Carl Blight. All three
teams carded 123s. A
match of cards decided the
winners. The last trio
played as threesome and
used score of Moe
Schonfeld from another
group for its No. 1 player.
Hope that’s not too con-
fussing?
Tom Gauntlett, Sr.
recorded an eagle two on
the second hole at Irem on
Sunday. He laced a
threewood to the base of
green and chipped in his
second shot with a wedge.
With the annual
Potentate’s Golf Tourney a
little over two weeks away,
chairman John Troup
reports that over 90 teams
have already paid up to
compete. It appears the
competition will even be
better than last year. Ed
Hennigan and Cy Monka
are the defending champs.
Understand the Lake-
Lehman school board has
tabled appointment of the
head wrestling post until
September meeting. Chip
Sorber, who was the head
coach, is being pressed by
assistant Ed Ladamus.
R.J. ‘Gorilla’ Bachman
shot a three-over par 75
last Wednesday to win the
gross title in the Annual
All-Shrine Tourney at Irem
which had a field of over
200 players from all over
the East Coast. Big Bob
has his game in pretty good
shape for the club cham-
pionship which gets un-
derway this weekend with
the 16 low qualifiers
moving into match play.
Tom Gauntlett, Jr.
defending champ and rates
the favorite role again.
He'll be pressed by Lance
Hungerford, Rollie Sch-
midt and several other
golfers.
A bunch of football
magazines are on the news
stands already. One of the
best is Street & Smith, but
they blew it in listing the
top running backs when
they overlooked Ohio
State’s Pete Johnson. He
only led the country last
year in touchdowns scored
with 25. They did tab the
Buckeyes as the No. 1
team. Some selected
Michigan.
Forget Bo’s lads
because the final game is
at Ohio State this year and
Michigan has not won
there under Bo. Another
significant point is
Michigan’s lack of a good
QB. By this we mean, they
can’t throw ‘the football
worth a lick.
Boston = hooked its
manager, Darrell Johnson.
He won’t be missed. The
Bosox’ shabbiness can’t all
be attributed to him. Some
of the players obviously
got fat heads over the
World Series. i
Have you noticed how
Eagles’ Coach Dick, Ver-
miel is running off all the
riff-raff in his Lombardi-
type camp.
Speaking of Coach Vince
Lombardi, one of the finest
all-around fullbacks ever
to buckle a chin strap, Jim
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Taylor, will enter the Pro
Eootball Hall of Fame in
the near future. Taylor is
the first of many Packers
from the 1960s to garner his
statue. Many, many more
will follow over the course
of the next 10 years.
Sure our women
swimmers are getting
licked, but you've got to
expect this from the
government-subsidized
“amateurs.”
We can’t help but wonder
if Communist women ever
have any fun???
MDA carnival
planned
July 31
A carnival against
dystrophy will be held on
July 31 at 111 Church St.,
Dallas. Matthew William
Evans, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Matthew Evans, will serve
as ringmaster, assisted by
Aimee Lynn Troxell and
neighborhood children.
The carnival which
begins at noon will feature
such games as ring toss,
take-a-chance, and the
Dallas zoo and all
proceeds will go to aid the
fight against dystrophy
and related diseases af-
flicting millions.
Last year, in cooperation
with Muscular Dystrophy
Associations of America,
42,239 carnivals were held
by children across the
country and over $1,372,572
was raised for MDAA’s
research and patient
service programs. For
additional information call
675-2050.
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Latin rivalis:
Also available in
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21’x37’ kidney
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(Not installed)
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- Sunday
Noon to 9 P.M.
Oak Hill
by Bridgette Correale
There are many happy
moments in my life, but
this past Saturday was the
frosting, when the Lehman
Jackson Giants took the
Back Mountain Little
League baseball cham-
pionship. In fact, here it is
two days after and I still
want to do handstands and
cart wheels. What a fan-
tastic ballgame, every
inning, right up the last
out, was full of excitement
and tension.
It isn’t enough that our
fans are A-wild, B-noisey,
C-crazy, we had to have
some Brooklyn “support.
Part of our family from
New York traveled in to
share in this excitement
while the other half was on
the phone hearing a play-
by-play description.
One of the nicest things I
heard about the game was
from my sister-in-law
Nancy who commented on
the respect the teams have
for each other. ‘‘No
hissing, booing, or any
other nonsense - beautiful
boys.” Need I say how
proud we all are of our
league.
Now I'll try and keep my
feet on the ground and fill
you in.
Ronny Ritts, King of the
Idetown Horseshow (He
isn’t really, but I just
threw that in) celebrated
his birthday July 21. And
one of the nicest gestures
we can do is to call him up
and volunteer a few hours
of our time toward the
annual Jonathan R. Davis
Horseshow, Aug. 13, 14, 15.
Help is needed to either set
up, clean-up, man the
stands and ticket booths.
Please give your support.
Erin Cleary shared her
seventh birthday by
hostessing a pizza party for
several Amigos. Enjoying
the goodies were: Adele
and George Correale,
Kathy Hocker, Elizabeth
Williams, Allison
Lukasavage, Missy
Yoniski, Karen
Iwanowski, Shannon and
Kelly Cleary and Susan De
Gennaro.
The Gerchaks have
recently returned from a
visit with relatives in
Connecticut.
Birthday wishes are
extended to Kathy Hocker
who will honor her eighth
birthday with a party, July
22,
The Cleary’s Jack and
Marianne, enjoyed a stay
at Paradise Stream,
Poconos, while the
Correales spoiled their
Kelly. What joy it, was to
have a toddler in the house.
July 27, Father Thomas
Jordon, pastor at Gate of
Heaven, will “celebrate a
birthday. Happy birthday
to you.
Friday evening, the
Osborne’s entertained
their son Dougie’s baseball
team, Lehman Jackson
Cardinal’s with a lawn
party for players and
parents.
Happy birthday to Donna
Passerella whose big day is
July 26 and to Pete
Tomaselli, July 28.
I left you hanging as to
who or whom our house
guests this weekend...-
Mike, Nancy, Regina,
Jesse and Mark Correale of
Pelham and East Hamp-
ton, New York joined Adele
and Tony Amalfitano and
Mike Ruggiero of
Brooklyn, New York.
Five birthday candles
Allison
birthday
burn out on’
Lukasavage’s
cake, July 30.
The Kerkowski’s will
have a busy week next
week when they party for
Scott, July 27 and Gerri,
July 29. Many happy
returns.
For the past six weeks
I've had to visit the
Luzerne County Cour-
thouse for one reason or
another and everytime I
have come away with a
deep warm feeling. That
building is beautiful. The
columns of marble and the
painted ceiling are
breathtaking. Today the
children and I visited an
empty court room and I
was amazed that the
children knew more about
the lay out than I did.
Sometimes we travel a
hundred miles to sight see
and something that is
literally around the corner,
we ignore. »
by Mrs. Norman Franklin
John E. Fielding, son of
Mr. and Mrs. John Fielding
of Sutton Rd. recently
graduated from the
Pennsylvania Army
National Guard Military
Academy Officers
Candidate School at Fort
Indiantown Gap. He was
commissioned a Second
Lieutenant.
Lt. Fielding is a veteran
of the Vietnam conflict,
having served with Co. A.
2nd. Battalion 506th.
Infantry.
He is married to the
former Marleen A.
Hampel. They have one
daughter Jennifer. The
Fieldings reside at
Fieldcrest, RD 9;
Shavertown.
Mr. and Mrs.
Laskowski; of Chase
recently visited their
daughter and son-in-law
Mr. and Mrs. A. Dubs, in
Sumner, Md. Mrs. Dubs, is
the former Mary Ann
Laskowski Parsons.
The Laskowskis’ enjoyed
their trip to Washington
also. They found the New
Aerospace Building very
interesting to visit, as well
as the beautiful Folger
Shakespeare Library and
Theater and many other
points of interest.
Mr. and Mrs. Willard
Wright, of Chase,
entertained Mrs. William
Herrington, son Kevin, and
Miss Deborah Maloid, of
Md., Mrs. Joseph
McKenny, and Miss Marie
Wright, of Idetown on
Friday, July 9.
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Stash
and family have returned
home from a two weeks
vacation. They visited their
daughter, Susan Stash, in
Lander, Wym. Many points
of interest were seen on
their trip including Mt.
Rushmore, South Dakota.
They also attended a rodeo
in Lander.
Mrs. Irene Reakes, of
.Ceasetown and Mrs. Leona
Roberts, of Nanticoke
spent several days with
their sister and family, Mr.
and Mrs. Woodrow Donner,
Lehighton, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. Norman
Franklin of Jackson
Church Rd. were dinner
guests recently of Mrs.
Charlotte Weaver of
Dallas.
Mr. and Mrs.
Roushey, Raritan N.J.,
spent the week-end with
their family, Mr. and Mrs.
James Roushey. They all
Elmer
attended the Roushey
reunion at Benton Park on
July 17.
Miss Marie Wright,
Idetown, spent the week-
end with her brother and
sister-in-law Mr. and Mrs.
Willard Wright, Chase.
Mr. Elmer Swelgin, and
son, Donnie Swelgin have
returned home from a
vacation. in Rangely,
Maine.
Happy Birthday to Rose
Mary Zbiek daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Zbiek
of Chase Rd. Rose Mary
will celebrate her 15th
birthday on July 24. She
will enter the 10th grade at
Lake Lehman School. Rose
Mary also is a member of
winning Lake-
Lehman Band.
Mr. and Mrs.
Allison and son, Mark
attended the Allison
reunion July 10 in
Manchester Mich. They
also visited their son, Mike
Allison who attends the
Medical College of Ohio,
Toledo, Ohio and their
daughter and . son-in-law
Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Evanko, Cleveland, Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. Warner
Franklin, Phila. recently
spent the evening with Mr.
and’ Mrs. Norman
Franklin. The Warner
Franklins enjoyed a
vacation in Canada resting
and fishing.
Blaine
The eleventh annual
horse show sponsored by
the J.R. Davis Volunteer
Fire Company will be held
on Aug. 14 and 15; at the
Lehman Horse Show
grounds Route 118, four
miles west of Dallas.
Activities will start at 9
a.m. both days.
According to the fire
company president Walter
show will run in aec-
cordance with the rules of
Association Inc.
The judge for the two
days will be Raye A.
Northamer, State College,
and the steward will be
Percy Glynn, Middletown.
Both men are graduates of
the Meridith Manor School
of Horsemanship.
There will be 51 classes
during the two days to hold!
the attention of all. Some of
the classes will be western,
English, jumping, pee
wee, pony with cart,
walking horse, equitation,
pleasure and timed events.
There will be electric
timers-used for the timed
events.
A negative Coggins Test
certificate will be required
before entering the show
grounds?
Anyone wishing a prize
list for the show may do so
by contacting Ron Ritts
Jr., R.D. 4, Dallas, or Fran
Clark, 65 W. Pettebone St.
Forty Fort.
Refreshments will be,
served on the grounds
There will be free parking
on the show grounds and fm
children under 12 will be"
admitted free.
Certain
Styles Only!