I've been waiting for over a week now for someone, a television critic or a member of the sports fraternity, to blast the travesty perpetuated on an week. So far--zilch. While I don’t fancy myself in either of the above categories, someone has » In brief, I thought last week’s Ali- Spinks fight was a multi-million dollar debacle. ‘Farce’ might be a better word to describe the whole evening's proceedings. There should have been ample warning of things to come in the network’s announcer intro to the Quote ‘Show’ Unquote. He admitted with what I can only describe as boyish candor that the night’s festivities had been put together, not so much as a sporting event, but as a network attempt to build its ratings. He hoped that ‘he’ an evening with Charlie’s Angels for a night of fistic splendor. And, in gratitude for such a spec- tacular, stay with the presenting network in the future? Good Luck! Then came the ‘Piece de Resistance’ or however you spell it, “The Main Event of the Evening.” Good grief, Charlie Brown! I never thought I'd see the day when I'd miss Howard Cossell and his non- stop mouth. But after I saw, or more importantly, heard that night all T can say is, “Sic ’em Howie.” If I didn’t see what I was seeing, or thought I was, I'd swear young Spinks was getting his brains beat out by Ali and it was only a matter of moments now ‘before he, Spinks, would be a battered, bleeding hulk sprawled unconscious on the canvas. Maybe it was my poor eyesight or bad camera work but I just wasn’t seeing what the ‘commentators’ were seeing. It wasn’t until late in the fifteenth, last, round, that they reluctantly admitted that just maybe Ali was in a little trouble. About as little as a stray dog who Dear Mr. Editor: subject is Dan Flood. Dan Flood. procedures. ci off em TER SEF Re Flood. I Bw I know personally 500 people hg have, ritten - x him to ask for help. % 2 Everyone of them have rébsived help. he has never asked one of them if he’s Democrat or Republican, and has never asked if he’s a voter. a Aid E68 ONLY YESTERDAY t f #0 years ago-Feb. 25, 1938 Congressman J. Harold Flannery reports that there is growing interest n the idea of building a nationwide system of toll highways. President Roosevelt is said to believe that the broject would help stem the recession. ' The Federal Commodities Cor- poration will be buying another carload of apples from Dallas area growers, reducing the surplus created by this year’s bumper crop. . The Post learned this week of I'rucksville resident Joseph Bulford, 53 years old, who in 1889 at the age of 4, operated the hand press that rinted the first issue of The Post. The Dallas Township PTA ganization will sponsor an amateur how at the high school auditorium. Master of ceremonies will be local kadio personality Franklin D. Coslett. £ Sheldon Evans, propreitor of L ns’ Cutrate Drugs, attended a inner given in Wilkes-Barre to honor hlumni of Philadelphia College of harmacy and Science. : Navyman William Thomas, brother fit Mrs. William Niemeyer of Dallas, serving on the U.S.S. Trenton, one three cruisers at Singapore where ngland is constructing a dry dock to irengthen the base. The Ladies Aid Society of the avertown ME Church will hold an yyster supper at the church on a wednesday, March 2. & The Lehman High School basketball fam lost to Nicholson Tuesday, 32-18, : girls losing by an identical score. ith a 6-1 record, Lehman is to play inless (0-7) Laketon tonight. You could buy--Coffee 17 cents lb.; ead 6 cents loaf; peaches 2 cans for cents; lettuce 5 cents head; jelly eans 9 cents 1b.; dog food 3 cans for cents. ee € he Yours truly, Richard Tattersall the Kunkle Community Hall to ex- plore the proposed new lower rates for electricity in the area presented to the Public Service Commission by the Harveys Lake Light Co. New rates are 8 cents each for the first 45 kilowatt hours, 6 cents for the next 55, and 3 cents for all over 100. Atty. Roscoe B. Smith gave a talk on Abraham Lincoln to the Dallas Rotary and the Dallas Women’s Club last night. Smith is Past Potentate of the Irem Temple. The Trucksville Methodist Church will dedicate its new amplifying system with a special service next Sunday at 10:30. A gift of the Men’s Class, it is a memorial to all veterans. Miss Molly Poad, an Army nurse with 19 months in the Pacific and a graduate of Dallas Township High School and general Hospital, will marry James Irvine, former Army lieutenant and now a building con- tractor in San Francisco. The Navy advertises vacancies in the technical specialties at a lifetime income of $2,227.56 per year. The Dallas Boro basketball team with an eight-game winning streak will meet Kingston Township away tonight. Last night the boys beat Harter 46-27 and the girls won their game 25-17. Movies of the Joe Louis-Joe Walcott fight will be shown at the Shaver Theatre Monday and Tuesday nights. Latest hit records advertised are “Papa Won’t You Dance With Me” (Doris Day, ‘“The Best Things in Life are Free” (Dinah Shore), and ‘‘Slap Her Down Again, Pa.’’ (Arthur Godfrey). You could buy--Saltines 25 cents pound box; pork butts 47 cents lb; apples 3 lbs. for 29 cents; large bread 13 cents loaf; coffee 40 cents lb.; tea bags box of 25 for 27 cents; eggs 57 cents doz. 20 years ago-Feb. 28, 1958 A delay in cindering the highways wandered into a barn full of tom cats. But it was after the fight that I really began to doubt my sanity. I could have sworn that I was watching a replay of film clips of the fight choreographed to the music and voice of Barbra Streisand warbling ‘He Touched Me.’ ‘He Touched Me’? For cryin’ out Pete. ‘He Clobbered Me’ was more like it. I had visions of their ‘He men’ tripping blithely across living rooms and bars all over the country to put their number twelves through the picture tube. I was tempted. Or maybe there was just so much jubilation at the outcome of the fight that they just ignored the whole thing. We'll never know. As I said at the top, I'm neither TV critic or sports pundit but I do know what I like. And I didn’t like. Till next week, keep happy. steel. airplane. 21. DERINO meanwhile says he plans Tuesday, February 21. After being more or less snow- bound and otherwise ‘‘under the weather”’ for solong, it has been fun to get out and go places again. Last Tuesday I invited myself to go along with Cathy and her riders to the Oratorio Society rehearsal. Sat in a corner behind the soprano section and really enjoyed it, even though I had no idea what they were singing about most of the time. But there was something about the vibrations of sound from all those people singing together in that rather small room which thrilled me. It will sound quite different in the big church building when I get to be 87 years old! I expect to celebrate my birthday in April at attending the dress rehearsal, and the concert next oe aan the edfiesday noonday Lenten service at St. Stephen’s followed by some delicious soup and a delightful chat with Mrs about Mrs. Hicks. Thursday noon was an organ recital by Richard Dower, who always reads my column in the Dallas Post! That probably doesn’t actually do anything to improve his organ playing but it does give me a special reason for liking to hear him play. In the afternoon, Cathy got the living room ready for her choir people who get off the school bus for practice resulted in a six-vehicle crash at the verton Road Tuesday evening. Ice developed when the evening cold froze the water produced by melting ice during the day. A tractor-trailer struck a car stopped at the in- tersection, and then four more cars plowed into the two vehicles. There were no injuries. A half hour later the highway was cindered. Ben C. Shipman, Jr., son -in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Marks of Leh- man, and husband of their daguther Carolyn, will appear on NBC TV’s “The Price is Right” Monday. Anniversaries--Mr. and Mrs. John Nowell, Noxen, 50 years; Mr. and Mrs. Roger Carey, Dallas, 18. Married--Constance Yanchunis and Thomas Hillyer; Mary Ann Owen and Roy Meeker. Underdog West Wyoming upset Dallas 77-75 Friday at West Wyoming, Swoyersville captured the North League title Friday with a 66-40 victory over Lehman. Now playing in the movies-‘‘An Affair to Remember,” Cary Grant and Deborah Kerry, Himmler; “Peyton Place,” Lana Turner and Lloyd Nolan, Comerford; ‘“The Gift of Love, ” Robert Stack and Lauren Bacall, Paramount. You could buy--Raisin bread 19 cents loaf; instant coffee 6 oz. jar $1.09; boiled ham 98 cents 1b; bathroom tissue 10 cents roll; grapefruit 6 for 39 cents; a 1958 Mercury 2-door sedan for $2663 or $59.87 per month on the 36-month plan. Coal-s—-Stove and nut $18.25 ton; pea $15.75 ton; buckwheat $14.25 ton; rice $13.60 ton. 10 years ago-Feb. 29, 1968 Eight companies respond to a fire at the Noxen Tannery, abandoned since 1961. William Mc Govern, nearby vesident, is frozen to his own roof while hosing down his home to protect it from the blaze and has to be helped --FORMER INCLUDED: to bring up the hearings. here. Robbie, who is nine, is always the first to arrive and likes to play with the cats or the piano. This time he discovered one of our children’s toys which has never really been put away since it was given to our girls in 1929. Soon there was the = familiar sound of marbles running down the chute into the shoebox and Cathy was telling about the carpenter named Charlie it for them. A few years back we were visiting in Great Bend and met one of the Snow grandchildren, and ‘‘The Marble Game’’ was an instant point of contact. It is one of those simple, sturdy playthings which has a never- ending facination. Sunday morning we went visiting at Barre, which was a combined celebration of friendship with St. Stephen’s. Cathy sang in the combined choir, so I was there early enough to hear the practicing the anthms. Afterwards at the coffee hour I was pleased to meet some old friends, including Herb Frye, who worked at Valley Crest when I was chaplian there. And to meet his son, who discussed with me the importance of studying Latin and Greek. While 1 was taking my afternoon nap, Cathy woke me up just enough to down by firemen. Harveys Lake is being stocked with brook and rainbow trout, to the delight of local fishermen. Atty. Benjamin R. Jones, III, will open a law office in the Garinger Building, 26 Lake St., Dallas. Area churches are preparing for a World Day of Prayer service tomorrow. At the Kunkle Community Center Friday, March 1, will be a dance featuring ‘‘The Starfires With Linda.” Admission is 75 cents. The Dallas High School basketball team lost to Wyoming Valley West in its final game for its 14th loss of the season. Although Valley West won the conference wrestling title, Lake- Lehman’s wrestlers won the district title with a good showing. According to ‘Keeping Posted,” over the past week, H. Rap Brown is jailed in New Orleans; Hue is recaptured in ruins with 2000 civilians known dead, the Vietcong shell Saigon, and a black college in Orangeburg, S.C., recovers after a riot over desegretation of a bowling alley. Marie Gensel of Lake-Lehman High School has been named winner in the Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow competition. Marine Private John W. Kern, Trucksville, has completed two weeks training under simulated combat conditions at Camp LeJeune, S.C. Weddings--Sandra Lee Strazdus and Lynn A. Sheehan; Gwen Bliss and Richard F. = Pope; Charlott Breakstone and Walter F. Grohowski. You could buy--4 cans of soup for 49 cents; one-half gal. orange juice 65 cents; hams 39 cents lb.; 1 lb. bag coffee 63 cents; rye bread 2 1 lb. loaves 45 cents; 8-inch apple pie 39 cents. Subseribe to the Post say “I'm going over to Barbie's to polish rocks.” One of her choir girls had received a tumbler for Christmas but had been waiting for a good time to start the process. It evidently takes several days, because she’s going what’s happening. Monday night was Mozart Club, and it was all music composed by people who live around Wyoming Valley. I especially liked the tuba solos; it certainly was something differert from the ‘‘OOmpah-pah’” we usually associate with a tuba. And the ladies sang two lovely songs by our firend Ruth Crompton, who played the piano for them. Tuesday morning ( the day this is being written) we dashed down to the doctor, for, my. regular monthly check vewaszrth arid ote (Continued from P.1) tL flrs heé''sdys, “were in a very favorable position. Presumably, then, area people will not begin to feel any “crunch” until late March or early April at the least. Fred Hartwigsen, consumer relations manager at UGI, agrees with McDermott’s ‘‘big picture’’ view. ‘Things depend upon the PJM interconnection more so than on UGT’s coal supply,” he says. The UGI supply, he points out, is fairly safe because the Hunlock plant burns anthracite, not affected by the bituminous coal strike, and can continue to operate indefinitely. However, continues Hartwigsen, UGI is both a supplier and purchaser of power, and any soft-coal shortages affecting the whole interconnection are bound to have an impact upon local people sooner or later. He points out that UGI has already asked its customers to voluntarily reduce consumption by eliminating none-essentials as urged by the Public Utilities Commission. “We've called major industrial customers and asked them to cut back,” he says. What does he foresee our having to do if things get worse? “Any man- datory program will have to come from the state,’”” he observes. We have no input from the PUC or the state on what steps will have to be taken by consumers. The PUC has a, load curtailment plan filed in Harrisburg.” That plan will contain UGI’s direc- tions. PP&L is dependent to about 80 percent upon coal for generating SENATE AP- ® up, but the result made us stop at the grocery store for some unusual (for us) purchase. We had some celebrating to do! After about eight years on a low-residue diet because of diverticulosis,I am now supposed to eat many of the things which were forbidden. Raw apple and celery salad and a bowl of oatmeal may no sound like a gourmet’s special delight, but it was s0-0-0-0 delicious after doing without such things for so long. And Cathy has plans for planting things in her garden this year which she hasn’t bothered with because I couldn't eat them. I don‘t want to gain any more weight, but she says if we eat enough of those things, we won’t be so apt to eat too much of the fattening low-fiber things. power, according to George Stozenski, Wilkes-Barre area manager, and it’s one of the PJM system’s more vulnerable links in this coal strike. As such, it has already begun cutbacks in output. “We put together a plan last fall,’ he states. “When a plant gets to a 45-day supply of coal, we reduce the capacity of that plant to 75 percent of its normal output.” All but one of his coal-fired plants are at that level now, he says, with an average 40-day supply remaining. One, which has reached the 30-day level, has been cut to 50 percent. Other plants are oil-based. Stozenski also looks to the PJM interconnection for aid in the crisis. “The system can handle our needs for a while yet,” he maintains. “But we’d still appreciate it if people would try . to conserve.” Y) He believes that, should the strike , continue for many more weeks, some '» sort of federal or state energy cur- tailment will become reality. He thinks that some interconnections, those on the PJM level, would have to help others out by supplying power. He also believes that mandatory power cuts could be promulgated, shutting down schools, outdoor display lights, and non-essential such as sports. “Such cuts will be man- dated before the coal completely runs out,” he adds. ‘homes are the last level to be affected.” Stozenski does see grounds for optimism, though, in the White House taking a direct interest in the strike. March 3, 1889. Subscriptions. $7 per year." 2 366, Dallas, Pa. 18612.
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