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believe it if you saw it.
The homes range from
$8,000 to $100,000. Each
family has two or three
cars and diamonds sparkle
on every ladies earlobe.
Rents, if you're lucky to
find an empty apartment,
are between $200 and $1200
a month. And listen to this,
only ten per cent of the
people work.
As far as I could figure
out, these figures only
apply to the isle of Ischia,
which is a resort, busy
from April till November.
The only explanation is
that everyone lives off the
~ tourist trade and what they
grow.
For instance, the rest-
aurant we ate in everyday
was located in a cave by
the beach. The fish we
ordered was freshly caught
in the bay, the salad and
vegetables grown in their
gardens, the olive oil from
the olives they grew, the
wine from their grapes, the
bread from their ovens, the
enormous fruits and so on,
all home grown.
One of the most sur-
prising things I found was
that Italian women aren’t
chunky at all. Built beauti-
fully, if you know what I
mean. We were in Italy
almost 12 days and the only
fat person I saw was me,
everytime I looked in a
mirror, and two women we
met in Rome, both Ameri-
can.
After putting off leaving
the gorgeous island, we de-
parted early one morning
to cross the choppy waters
of the Mediterranean. The
night before was the only
time it rained during our
“vacation and this made the
seas quite rough.
~ But being my father’s
daughter, I handled it well,
Vin and the children were
even better than me, they
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managed breakfast on
board.
The seas were so rough
that you had to time every-
thing you put in your
mouth.
On Vin’s first try, he put
an Italian pastry in his eye
instead of his mouth.
Ten minutes before
docking in Naples, Louis
was all but hanging off the
ferry. The United States
Navy’s Sixth Fleet is sta-
tioned in Naples and
wouldn’t you know it, some
of our ships were anchored
in the bay.
We sailed around an air-
craft carrier, a submarine,
a destroyer, several P.T.
boats and ‘other ships. If
nothing else, that made
Louis’ trip.
Out of Naples, we headed
for the final stop of our
tour, Rome. After settling
in our hotel, we returned
our rented car to Avis and
enjoyed an afternoon by
the poolside. That evening
we rode a bus through the
city , enjoying the illum-
inated fountains and build-
ings.
The next morning a
chauffer driven Mercedes
took us on a full day tour of
Rome, stopping whenever
and wherever we wanted,
Trevi Fountain, Colliseum,
St. Peters in Chains and so
much more.
When we reached
Basilica Square, we were
walking toward St. Peters
when I asked the children,
“Isn’t tuis exciting?” At
that very moment, George
looks up and sees an air-
plane and says, “Louis, I'll
bet you ten cents that’s a
747.’ Did my balloon
burst!
But all in all, -I was
thrilled to tour the
Basilica, showing the
children the Sistine Chapel,
the gorgeous paintings on
the ceilings, all the beau-
of steel
tiful statues and then hav-
ing the children tell me the
life stories of some of the
Saints.
The food in Rome was
the best we have ever
eaten. Of ourse it was just
luck that we even found
these good restaurants.
But everything is luck. You
try your best to plan a good
vacation and then if you
sail with it, you got it
made. There were times
that things didn’t go as
planned, but we learned to
accept it.
At the Fumicina Airport,
for our flight home, we
realized the precautions
the Italian government
goes through to secure our
safety.
The airport was com-
pletely guarded with army
personnel, all carrying
sub-machine guns. Each
plane was surrounded with
guards and no one was al-
lowed through oor with
showing all credentials
several times.
Needless to say, the
children were fascinated
by it all, while the mother
and father were wearing
pasted smiles.
The nine-hour flight was
pleasant, considering it
was full of American Greek
children returning home
after a summer in Greece.
Within an hour all children
aboard were gathered to-
gether playing cards, chess
or checkers. Leaving all
parents time to catch-up on
long needed sleep.
The moment of truth ar-
rives when our T.W.A.
flight number 845 touches
down at Kennedy and
everyone went wild with
applause and yours truly
sang ‘‘God Bless
America”.
There is no place in this
big wide beautiful world
like the United States. The
freedom and security we
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have and took for granted
is something we now ap-
preciate.
This was mine and Vin’s
second trip aboard to-
gether. The first was en-
joyable, but not as exciting
and interesting as this past
experience. I guess it was
because we shared this trip
with our children.
Seeing it through their
eyes and hearing their
interpretations, was some-
thing Vin and I will never
forget and I hope by shar-
ing these articles with you,
I brought you some enjoy-
ment.
I simply can’t close this
article without telling you
of our exit from Kennedy
Airport.
Every custom house we
crossed, passed through,
whatever you want to call
it, the children were ex-
pecting a complete search
of our luggage, car and
person. Only in Ireland,
France and the United
States, did they even look
at our passport, let alone
the baggage. So when we
arrived at U.S. Customs,
we hoped (all but George)
that we would sail through.
After buying up a storm,
all I needed was Vin to
have to pay duty tax.
When the custom guard
checked our claim sheet,
he said we bought an ex-
cess of liquors and wines.
For this we had to pay tax.
We paid and were sent on
our way, George turns
around and says, “Not
even you are going to check
our luggage?’ The man
smiled and said, ‘Welcome
home.”
As soon as we passed
through the customs doors,
our family was on hand to
welcome us. With all that
commotion, all New York
knew we were home.
Now comes the fun - my
brother walked Vin to
where he parked our car
and since we were stopping
over Vin’'s parents home,
my brother and relatives
took off.
We settled in our car and
took off. After trying to find
the ‘right. exit; Vin
screamed, shouted, cur-
sed, ‘I. drove: all over
Europe, never got lost, not
even once and here I am at
Kennedy Airport and I
can’t find my way out.”
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Members of the Ella
Moore Class of East Dallas
UM Church School will
meet Monday at 6:30 p.m.
in the church social rooms
to complete plans for a
benefit rummage sale to
be held October 14-15 at the
church. Donations for the
rummage sale may be
brought to the church for
sorting. Mrs. [Edna
Husband is class president.
Mrs. Edna McCullough;
daughter, Mrs. Betty
Cohen, and son, Roy Mec-
Cullough of Milford, Del.
spent the week end with
Mrs. McCullough’s nephew
and niece-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Martin,
Roushey Ave.
Members of the three
United Methodist Churches
comprising the Carverton
UM Charge are making
plans to participate in the
coming blood drive to be
held Friday Oct. 22, from
12:45 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the
Trucksville UM Church.
Mrs. Marjorie Mead is in
charge of plans at the
Orange UM Church; Mrs.
Lavina Parrish is heading
the committee at the
Carverton UM Church, and
Mrs. Margaret Harris is
chairing the blood drive
work at the Mt. Zion UM
Church.
Friends of Wesley Lewis,
Mt. Zion Rd., will be
pleased to learn he is
showing improvement at
Nesbitt Memorial Hospital,
Kingston, where he is a
medical patient.
Charles Volack, Orange;
his daughter, Mrs.
Christine Misson, and
grandson, Billy Misson, Jr.
of Centermoreland, . spent
the week end in Doyles-
town where they visited
Charlie’s son, Gerard
Volack, a freshman at
Delaware Valley College of
Agriculture. Gerry, a 1976
graduate of Dallas Area
High School, is enrolled in
the Agronomy course at
Delaware Valley College.
Commission on
Education, Sunday School
Teachers and officers of
Centermoreland United
Methodist Church will
meet Monday morning at
10 at the home of Mrs.
Millard Beatty, Center-
moreland.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Franek; their son-in-law
and daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. James Charney, and
grandchildren Ann Marie,
Jim, Jr. and Cynthia
Charney of Franklin, N.J.
spent the week end with
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Mrs. Franek’s brother-in-
law and sister, Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Grauzlis,
Carverton Road.
The flowers that
adorned the altar at
Carverton United
Methodist Church for
Sunday morning’s worship
service were in memory of
Mrs. Catherine Youells and
were placed there by her-
son-in-law and daughter,
Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Sick-
ler.
Finance committee of
the Carverton UM Charge
will meet Tuesday night,
Oct. 12, at 7:30 at the
Orange UM Church social
rooms.
Plans for a course in
Christian Community will
begin Oct. 24 at 7 p.m. for a
six-weeks period. Persons
interested in the course are
asked to call the Carverton
UM Charge office at 696-
3715 Tuesday, Wednesday
or Thursday from 8:30 a.m.
to 12:30 p.m.
The welcome mat is out
for Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Homoyack and son, Ralph,
Jr., who have moved into
the former Frantz home on
Demunds Road. They
formerly resided in
Nanticoke.
Today is the deadline for
calling in orders for the
benefit hoagie sale to be
held Saturday by the
Franklin Township
Volunteer Firemen at the
fire house in Orange.
Orders can be called into
any member of the fire
company or its auxiliary
Orders can be picked up
Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2
p.m. Committee in charge
is composed of Harold
Hoover, Richard Love,
Jack Roberts and Michael
Warman, who is chairman.
Prayer group will meet
Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the
Carverton UM Church
followed by a healing
Miss Mary Ann Bump, a
member of the editorial
staff of the Troy, N.Y.,
Times - Record, has
returned after several days
with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John Bump, Culver
Hill.
Nominating committee
of |Carverton UM Church
will meet Sunday evening
at 7 at the Church.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Robbins, Carverton
Heights, have returned
after 11 days in Virginia.
They toured the Busch
Gardens in Williamsburg,
Va. and also spent several
days at Virginia Beach,
Va.
Nice to hear that Donald
Hislop of Orange is coming
along at home after a stay
at Wilkes-Barre General
Hospital. He is the father of
member of the Dallas Area
School Board.
Mountain Grange 567 of
Carverton will host the
meeting of Pomona
Grange Saturday evening
Bodle Roads. Members of
the Jackson Grange will be
guests of the local group of
which Stanley Krzanowski
is grange master.
The Lay Witness Mission
held last week end at
Centermoreland UM
Church was most suc-
cessful. The Lay Witness
team of more than a score
of persons, mostly from the
Williamsport area and
headed by Atty. Scott A.
Williams, co-ordinator,
brought many inspiring
messages during the three
days of services.
A sure*measure that the
Mission was an over-
whelming success was
evidenced at the Sunday
night ‘evaluation meeting,
which followed and which
was attended by a near
capacity crowd of Center-
moreland UM Church
members. The Rev.
Carolos Munoz is pastor at
the Centermoreland UM
Church.
Mrs. Althea Dymond,
Orange, and Mrs. Alverta
Sayre of Beaumont, spent
Sunday with their aunt,
Mrs. Elizabeth Moore,
Johnson City, who ob-
served her 88th birthday
anniversary last week.
Mr. and Mrs. E. R.
Hutchings of Brooklyn,
N.Y. returned Monday
after four days with Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Robbins,
Carverton Heights.
Mrs. Alice Lewis, Mt.
Zion, underwent surgery
Friday morning in Nesbitt
Memorial Hospital, and
her condition is much
improved.
Circle Oct. 27 on your
calendar. That’s the date
for the harvest home sale
to be held by Kings
Crusader Class of Mt. Zion
UM Church in the church
social rooms.
Flowers on the altar for
Sunday morning’s worship
service at Dymond Hollow
UM Church were in
memory of Robert Ide and
placed there by members
of his family.
First aid classes being
sponsored by the Franklin-
Northmoreland Townships
Ambulance Association
are being held Monday
evenings in the Orange
Community Hall, Nelson J.
Dymond, president, has
announced. They formerly
were held on Thursday
nights.
Members of Mountain
Grange 567 of Carverton
are completing plans for
their annual harvest home
auction, which will be held
Saturday Oct. 16, at the
Grange Hall, Orange and
Bodle Roads, Carverton,
beginning at 7 p.m.
Grange members also
will sponsor their annual
pork and sauerkraut
dinner, which will be
served Saturday evening,
Nov. 20, from 5 o’clock on.
Tickets may be purchased
from any member of the
Grange. Stanley Krzanow-
ski is Grange master; Mrs.
Edgar Sutton is secretary,
and Herman Coon is
treasurer.
Mr. and Mrs. Willard
Piatt, Carverton Road,
have returned after at-
tending a Shriners’ Con-
vention in Virginia Beach,
Va. Piatt is chairman of
the Kingston Township
Board of Supervisors.
Rural Branch of Nesbitt
Hospital Auxiliary has
begun plans to assist in the
held by Nesbitt Hospital's
Auxiliaries on Nov. 17-18
when the theme of the
bazaar will be ‘Joys of
Christmas.” Mrs. Nelson
Dymond of Orange and
Mrs. Arthur Coolbaugh,
who is president of the
Rural Branch, which is
composed of auxiliary
members in the Franklin-
Northmoreland Townships
branch auxiliary’s com-
mittee on arrangements.
Only ambulance activity
for the week of Sept. 26-
Oct. 2 was standby duty at
the first aid station at the
Carverton Dirt Cycle on
Sunday, Sept. 26, when the
Wyoming Valley Dirt
Riders Association held
one of its races. Am-
bulance association per-
sonnel on duty for the race
included Mrs. Tania
Stankus,
Clarence Schoonover
Malcolm Baird and Arthur
Coolbaugh.
Members of the Con-
franternity of Christian
Doctrine of St. Frances
Cabrini Church, Car-
verton, and Blessed Sacra-
ment Church, Center-
moreland, heard a report
on the annual picnic of both
parishes, held last month
at Fanti’s Grove, Orange,
at its meeting Tuesday
night at Blessed
Sacrament Church,
Centermoreland. Joseph
Buzunis is president of the
CCD.
An ‘in memoriam’ mass
will be offered Sunday at
10:30 a.m. in Blessed
Sacrament Church,
' Centermoreland, for the
late Joseph Gates.
Schedule of in memoriam
masses for this week end at
St. Frances Cabrini
Church, Carverton, as
Rev. Thomas Croghan,"
follows: Thursday at8 a.m.
for Mrs. Victoria Rezykow-
ski; Friday at 8 a.m. for
Charles Gostynski;
Saturday at 4:30 p.m. for
Rose Schmutz; Sunday at 9
a.m. for Andrew Lucas,
and Sunday at 11:30 a.m.
for Charles Gostynski.
Weekly prayer meeting
of Centermoreland UM
Church will be held
Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the
church. Choir rehearsal
will be held Wednesday at 8
p.m. Mrs. Jack Roberts is
choir director.
Mrs. Lillian Henderson
of Wyoming, formerly of
Orange, was a week end
guest of Mr,
William Hoover, Demunds
Road, Orange.
Annual roast beef dinner
of Dymond Hollow UM
Church will be held
Saturday evening, Nov. 6,
at the church.
Cub leaders
in council
Scouting leaders from
the Susquehanna, Moun-
tain Pathfinder and An-
thracite Districts of the
Penn Mountains Council
Boy Scouts of America of
Wyoming Valley will
conduct a leadership
training session on Oct. 16
at the Wilkes-Barre
Vocational Tech School.
The Pow-Wow, ‘‘Cubbing
on Parade,” will consist of
two two-hour training
sessions and a Blue and
Gold Dinner for Cub and
Webelo leaders. Children
may not attend.
Registration will be
from noon until 1 p.m.
followed by the opening
ceremony.
The cost is $4 per person
which includes registration
and dinner fees and a Pow-
Wow booklet. Registration
deadline is Thursday, Oct
7 and none will be accepted
after * this date.
Registrations must be
made at Boy Scout Council
office in Plymouth. Those
planning on taking crafts
are reminded to bring glue
and scissors. All packs are
asked to bring craft for the
Mid-Way.
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