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A 1980 graduate of
Eckert, Page Two...
to help the Red Cross July 21”...
“TALK BACK!”
What am I thinking about this
moment. Besides a mess, my feet
Have the center of attention. I was
standing on them all afternoon and
am thinking about how they’ll feel
tonight. One good thing is that I' was
wearing a neat new pair of sandals I
got at Gino’s. They were on sale’
and I got to see a friend of mine,
Libby. She told me it was the
fastest and easiest sale she ever
made since I took one look, they fit
and I paid. Although if you wish to
browse around Libby will let you do
that too.
Zowie! (A colleague named Tom
gave me that word) Peking Chef
will be open this Thursday. Yes in
just a few days the Back Mountain
will receive its’ second Chinese
Restaurant. I'll probably be
hanging out in there so I can give
you a first hand scoop next week.
Because, the following week I will
be in Wildwood. I’ve decided in
advance (This is rare, because I
like split-second decisions) that
while in Wildwood I'll write down
and send in the exciting occurances
down there, and I will enlighten you
with what the vacationers of that
week are doing.
You’ll never guess where Jane is
this week? Arizona. Scottsdale to
be exact, and she says the heat is
unbearable. However, the ex-
periences she’s had on her trip so
far were fabulous and she wouldn’t
trade them in a million years. (You
think she’d invite ' me for a
vacation.)
Do you know who I haven't
mentioned at all yet and it’s a place
1 visit almost every day? Daring’s.
Yes, I know most of the people there
and I visit regularly. I hope you've
got your name in the box for the
weekly drawing. Explaination, in
details, is in their ad this week and
every week and besides Mr. Daring
offers friendly service. If I'm not
eating you'll probably find me
buying food in Daring’s.
Did you give your blood-the other
day? 1did. Or should I say another
colleague Shelia helped me give.
Shelia’s husband is a Red Cross
person and Shelia helps him get
recruits. So when the Blood Mobile
was in Dallas, Shelia had me there.
I lived to tell about it so it really
ONLY YESTERDAY
50 years ago-July 10, 1931
A parade headed by Civil War
veterans, followed by Veterans of
Foreign Wars kicked off Noxen
Fourth of July Celebration.
Athletic contests, patriotic ad-
dresses by Rev. W. S. York and
Rev. Harold Delsher and patriotic
selections played by the Ruggles
Pioneer Band added to the
festivities. A brilliant fireworks
display completed the day.
~~ Married-Marjorie E. Schoonover
and Fred C. Dixon; Anna Miller and
Leslie E. Lamoreaux; Lucy Hoover
and Robert Traver.
Anniversaries-Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Gossart, Shavertown, 50
years.
Deaths-Elizabeth Powell,
Beaumont; Frage L. Brown,
wasn’t as bad as everyone makes it
out tobe. And now I'll be expecting
to see you at the next drive when it
comes to Dallas.
I'm not sure if I can give details
yet, but next week there is a big, big
contest going on in the Post and
everyone better participate: or else,
cuase when you send in your entry
I'll see your name and like Santa’
Claus I'll know who was naughty
and who was nice.
Do you want to hear the biggest
bummer of the day. (Tough if you
don’t) My muffler came loose while
driving down the highway. I'll just
look at it as another event in my
everday life. However, I guess you
really don’t care, but that’s youre
opinion. It’s my excuse for petty
conversation with strangers
(besides the weather) (Don’t
forget--don’t talk to strangers.)
Do bugs bug you? Agway has all
kinds of trips and as a matter of
fact, in this week’s ad is some sort
of bug trap, check it out. ‘It could be
just what you need.
This week’s “Hi” goes to’ my
Uncle Steve, Aunt Bonnie, Kathy,
Michael and Michelle--my
relatives. My uncle helps keeps me
and the Limo on the road and all of
them read the Post. They also beep
and wave to me when I see them on
the road (I love people who beep
and wave) so this week this “Hi” is
for you guys.
You'll never guess what I saw on
the Dallas-Harveys Lake Highway
by the Dallas Golf Range (that’s the
hangout)? A state cop in a brand
new rust colored Z28. I almost
stopped to ask him where I sign up.
A little reminder for all you
speeders, there is a 15 mph change
in the speed limit from Jack’s Arco
to the lake, and unless you want to
donate your money to the Z28 fund,
I’d suggest a little less pressure on
the peddle.
Did you see the neat glasses
Kevin Covert has for sports en-
thusiasts yet? Boy, are they neat.
He even has others in his shop but if
you take a peek at this week’s ad
you'll get more details.
Well, here’s wishing myself a
good time in Wildwood, and I don’t
think I’ll be thinking of the Back
Mountain to much while I’m gone.
Catch me on the next wave.
Trucksville; Mrs. B.F. Coop,
Hunlock’s Creek; Dr. L.N. Boston,
Philadelphia.
You could get-evaporated milk 4
tall cans 25¢; Alaska pink salmon 2
tall cans 19c; sugar 10 lb. 49c;
onions 4 lb. 15¢; bread 7c loaf.
40 years ago-July 11, 1941
The National Defense Program
hit home with a drive for
alumimum contributions from area
housewives. Alumimum was
needed to supplement the short
supply needed to manufacture
defense supplies.
Engaged-Jessie Ritchie and
Willard Lauderbach; Doris Howell
and Ralph Edward Shone.
Married-Esther Rogers and
Francis McDonald; Kathlyn
Parkinson and George Lewis; Lois
tougher than others.
Maybe that’s a law of
physics. But when, in a
rather round about
do an article on breast-
feeding, I had no idea of
the reams of material that
through. Nor the remotest
idea of how I, a male,
could deal with such a
feminine subject.
The solution came
easily though. Among the
material handed me by
the three mothers seated
around the kitchen table
at Jill Holcomb’s home in
Sweet Valley two weeks
ago, was a four page
reprint of an article by
David Stewart of Marble
Hill, Missouri.
Dave Stewart is a
father, and he knows
through experience that
“fatherhood is the
“Take pride in it,” he
says, ‘‘and apologize to no
one for giving your time
and first consideration to
putting your job second.”
But this is a story about
motherhood, and about La
Leche League Inter-
national, so a little more
about ' Dave Stewart
further on.
La Leche League
International (La Leche is
Spanish for ‘the milk’) is
women like Jill Holcomb,
Chris Fedor, Mary Jo
Johnson, and others of
groups around the world.
They all have one goal;
the ‘“Womanly Art of
Breastfeeding.”
Why would anyone have
to organize around the
world to promote some-
thing that seems so
natural?
“Because the normal
act of breastfeeding is
considered a baboo,”’ the
mothers say.
In the ten years bet-
ween 1946 and 1956, -the
number of American
mothers who breastfed
their newborn babies
dropped by nearly half.
Part of the reason is this
quote from the Nutrition
Committee of the
American Academy of
pediatrics: “It is a
curious commentary on
our society:
tolerate’ all degrees of
explicitness in our
literature and mass
media as regards sex and
violence, but the normal
act of breastfeeding is
taboo.”
Another reason is it is
nearly a lost art. Says
Mary Jo Johnson, mother
of three: ‘The family as a
unit has been broken up.
The new mother who
might want to breastfeed
has no one to talk with
unless her own mother
breastfed her babies. And
she might also be meeting
resistance from her
husband, who doesn’t feel
publicly nurse.”
“LLL is also here to
keep the professional
community updated with
all of the recent breast-
feeding information
provided by our medical
advisory board, which is
made up of doctors and
nurses from all over the
country,” Jill said.
She said there are two
la Leche groupus in the
Back Mountain area, East
and - West, and that
mothers and pregnant
women—or any interested
persons—are welcome to
contact leaders about
problems they might be
having. One way to get
information = on leaders
and groups is by calling
HELPLINE. Mrs.
Holcomb said that listing
the numbers of leaders
has sometimes resulted in
crank calls. She said
that ‘the recent World
that would restrict baby-
Vrabel,
formula advertising
aimed at predominantly
third-world mothers,
should be considered a
victory for breastfeeding.
The fact that the United
States was the only nation
of more than 100 which
voted against the
restrictions, prompted a
petition from La Leche
League International to
President Reagan ex-
pressing its dismay.
But there are many
factors involved with the
decline of breastfeeding,
although that decline may
have been reversed
world-wide with the ad-
vent of La Leche leagues.
The decline of breast-
feeding, at least in in-
dustrialized countries,
began about 50 years ago.
Technology had a lot to do
with it “and so did
changing economic
patterns, particularly
since World War II when
women went to work in
full force. The technologic
progress and nutritional
discoveries in the past 20
or 30 years resulted'in the
development of infant
formulas. These formulas
provided an alternative to
breastfeeding, which, at
least in the Western
world, is often considered
incompatible with
work outside the home.
Now, however, largely
through the efforts of La
Leche League Inter-
national, the act ‘of
breastfeeding is again
becoming the natural way
to feed infants. And is at
this point ‘that the the
three Back Mountain
mothers express their
total
many studies supporting
their claim that ‘human
milk is best fitted for
human babies.”
“Breastfed babies are
healthier,”” says Chris
Fedor. ‘‘Studies have
shown that breastfeeding
definitely provides a
natural
many children’s diseases.
It has been found that
there were twice as many
infections in bottle-fed
babies as breastfed.”
Dr. Paul Gyorgy,
writing on the uniqueness
of human milk’ in the
American Journal of
Clinical Nutrition, says:
“Human milk should be
considered superior to
cow’s milk as the initial
human infant...human
milk is for the human
infant, cow’s milk is for
the calf; breastfeeding
reduces both: morbidity
and mortality rates,
especially the latter.”
Both: the Nutrition
Committee of the
Canadian Pediatric
Society’ and the Com-
mittee on Nutrition of the
American Academy of
Pediatrics feel that
breastfeeding is a must:
“It is recommended that
countries
legislation to enable new
four months of leave after
delivery to care for their
infants.”
The committee also
recommends that
education about ‘breast-
feeding be provided in
schools for all children,
and, along with infant
nutrition, should be
provided in the curri-
culum of physicians and
nurses.
Econimics plays an
important part in the care
an infant receives. ‘A
real bonus is that mothers
can save enough money
by not having to buy in-
fant forumla that in six
months or so the family
can buy a new appliance
or take a vacation,” Mary
Jo said. ‘“‘But even more
important. ‘is the great
psychological effect that
breastfeeding has on the
mother as well as the
baby.”
Selma Fraiberg,
professor of child psycho-
analysis, University of
Michigan Medical School:
“In many busy house-
holds or nurseries, the
baby is fed by means of a
propped up bottle and is
deprived of one of the
vital nutriments of love.
Alone in his crib he will
not learn to associate
feeding with body in-
timacy and the face of his
mother...the bottle gives
the mother far more
mobility than the breast,
which is one of the
reasons for its growing
popularity during the past
two decades. And a baby
today experiences many
more Separations from
his mother.”
Professor Fraiberg
adds that “‘...something
goes on between an or-
dinary baby and ordinary
mothers and fathers that
creates and ensures the
capacity for love in in-
fancy and in later life.”
Perhaps that sums up
mothers just 25 years ago
were able to turn their
concern into an organiza-
tion of 4,397 La Leche
League Groups in 43
countries, with 12,416
certified leaders.
And that brings me
back to David Stewart,
up for midnight bottles.
Marianne Mahle,
Wilkes-Barre.
You'll be able to" travel
with your wife and baby
without ‘inhibition, even
go. camping if you want.
Baby’s food will always
right ‘amount, * formula,
time and temperature.
It’s also cheaper...your
baby will smell better. No
spitting up indigestible
cow’s curd, and bowel
movements will be less
stinky...your baby will
also have a better chance
to be healthy and will
probably have fewer
allergies. This means
savings to you on doctor
bills...”
Irem concert
Sunday
Weber Concert
Orchestra will appear at
the pavilion of Irem
Country Club on July 26 at
8 p.m. as part of the
Sunday Evening schedule
William Weber is
oldest in Northeast
Pennsylvania. It was
organized by the late
Edward Venzel in 1945
and upon his death in 1976,
Weber was chosen to
direct. - Weber is asst.
professor of music at
Marywood College’ and
was formerly at Wilkes
College. “His service
connections were with the
U.S. Air Force and U.S.
Marine Bands and he
performered throughout
the = United States,
Europe, North Africa and
the near and far east.
The featured vocalist is
Darice Swaboda, an
alumna of Wilkes College
where she majored in
piano and voice. Ms.
Swaboda will sing a
medley of songs from
‘‘Oklahoma.’’” The or-
chestra will give a varied
program of light classical
music from Viennese
waltzes to Sousa marches
and Broadway melodies
from ‘‘Annie” and others.
A vesper service will
predede the concert and
will be led by Rev.
Edmund L. John,
minister of the Wyoming
Avenue Christian Church. -
Stress seminar
A one-day Stress
Management = Seminar
will be conducted July 22,
by Monte C. Sahlinc A
community mental health
specialist and family
counselor, at the Seventh-
Day Adventist Mission,
127 °S. Market St., Nan-
ticoke, with registration
at 9:30 a.m.
Gypsy moth
(Editor’s Note: In a continuing
something themselves about the
gypsy moth, The Dallas Post
herewith passes on some of the
latest methods suggested by its
readers.)
Edgar May, a resident of
Kingston who has spent the past 50
years at his Harveys Lake property:
in the summers, has been waging
war against the destructive pests.
He is using rope, duct tape, creosote’
and kerosene, and an ingenious
device called the moth trap.
Mr. May and his son had been
using a special sticky tape sold for
the purpose of controlling the cater-
pillar as it climbed trees but found
and was cheaper. He said the
commercial tape cost about $6 a roll
and only covered two or three trees,
whereas duct tape cost $4 and could
cover 15 to 20.
A couple from Trucksville also
expressed a desire to help control
the moths but refused to have their
names used because they fear
vandals. “Who knows what the k
of today will do,” the woman s
adding that some people see a name
or address and might ca lp
problems. However, she suggeste
that the government could “pay a
bounty for the darn things...50 cents"
or even a dollar a quart. It would
give the kids something to do
besides riding around aimlessly on
their bikes.”
Her husband said that he went
into the woods last week and the
moths were swarming around by
the thousands. “They were flying
right into my face. And right now
there are about eight of them out-
side banging against the window.”
The woman suggested that a
chemical company should make a
creosote spray in an aerosol can, as
bulk creosote is messy and burns
the skin and ruins clothing.
Mr. May said that if the moth is
not stopped, owners of fruit trees
could be in for some hard economic
losses, noting that the pest has
started eating at fruit trees. “They
have also been attacking hemlock
and pine, and once they do they (
kill those kind of trees: They are
like the broad-leaf trees which on
come back,” he said.
Bob Dickinson, Park Avenue,
Dallas, claims the broom is very
effective, in his ‘‘personal ven-
detta” against the moth: *‘I take an
ordinary house broom and brush
them off the trees and step on
them,” says Mr. Dickinson. “I
suppose I have killed thousands of
them so far, Spraying, in my
opinion, is just a waste of time.” He
said the broom allows its user to
reach higher into the trees than
most weapons. Mr. Dickinson also
told of a man who lived in Dallas
years ago who was employed by the
federal government in a program to
eradicate the gypsy moth: “If they
Chapman and Lewis Harvey; Elsie
Ritts and Stanley J. Harmon.
Deaths-Fred Mosier, Kunkle;
C.P. Rosengrant, Shavertown; Rev.
Thomas Harwoon, Montrose;
Wallace Kocher, Outlet; George
Miers, Kunkle.
Anniversaries-Mr. and Mrs. John
Lee, Idetown, 52 years.
You could get-chuck roast 19¢ 1b;
pork chops 27c Ib; haddock or sliced
cod 17¢c 1b; peaches 5 c lb; coffee 2
1b. 31 c.
30 years ago-July 1951
The fifth Annual Library Auction
surpassed all others earnings $9,600
to support the library.
Construction was off to a good
start at Lehman High School. In
addition to a new gymnasium,
locker and shower rooms were
added. The old gymnasium was
remodeled into classrooms.
Engaged-Pauline Kozemchak
and Paul Selingo.
Married-Clair Searfoss and Pvt.
Robert Adams; Jane Harrison and
James LaBarr.
You could get-Long Island ducks
35c 1b; skinless franks 59c 1b; sirloin
steak 99c 1b; young turkeys 75¢ lb;
cantaloupes 19c each; margarine
25¢ 1b; tuna fish 6-o0z. can 30c.
20 years ago-July 13, 1961
Auction figures showed a profit of
nearly $22,000. County Com-
missioner J. Bowden Northrup won
a Corvair while Frances Dorrance
was awarded a Boston rocker.
Dallas High School’s new building
was to be completed by the time
school opened in September. Black
topping, landscaping and seeding
was already in progress. A $500 gift
from the 1961 graduating class was
used for a special landscaping
project.
Married-Beverly Anne Crispell
and Ray Wandel.
Deaths-Joseph Lusky, Hunlock
Creek; Olive Whitesell, Lehman;
Edward King, Shickshinny; Bruce
Spencer, Fairmont Township.
- You could get-ground beef 2 Ib.
97¢; fryers 29c 1b; frozen leaf
spinach 6 pkg. $1; strawberries 1Y4
1b. bag 65c.
10 years ago-July 15, 1971
With a profit of $28,000, the annual
Back Mountain Memorial Library
Auction was a ‘definate success.
Dr. Marvin J. LaHood of Ken-
more, N.Y. was named academic
dean of College Misericordia.
Married- Sharon Lee Serio and
. \
oing we may not have the problem
fone have kept that program
e have now,” he said.
Henry Thomas Mastaiski;
Elizabeth Joy Pillarella: and
William John Faerber.
Anniversaries-Mr. and Mrs. Lynn
G. Johnson, St., Lehman, 25 years
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Templin,
Overbrook Avenue, Dallas, 25
years; Mr. and Mrs. William B.
Motyka, Oak Hill, 25 years.
Deaths-Anthony Gromada, Sweet
Valley; John Muller, Sr.
Loyalville; Alec E. Silic, Shaver-
town; Mary Meier, Harveys Lake;
William Petro, Luzerne-Dallas
Highway; Robert ‘Partington,
Trucksville.
You could get-Eye round roasts
$1.45; round roasts $1.19 1b; chicken
legs 49c; sliced’ bacon 49c 1b; peanut
butter, 18 oz. jar 55c; bing cherries
49c lb; fresh peaches 4 lb. 89c.
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