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BY JOHN ALLEN
If Ed Mitchell can bluntly declare
himself the best candidate for
congress, and if Frank Harrison
can run supported by the Wilkes-
Barre City Democratic Committee,
and Dr. Thomas O’Donnell can run
supported by the county committee,
and Nelligan can run supported by
Republicans, well then I, supported
by no one, other than my wife and
children, can also run.
Ed says he’s the best for the job.
He counts his knowledge, qualifi-
cations and valuable experience.
The other two candidates (and
incumbent Nelligan) were chosen to
be the candidates, not by me (and,
100 to one, not by you) because their
chief qualification is: that they
circle of the two major political
parties. Sure, they are articulate
and have a certain intelligence, but
let us not lose sight of the fact they
backroom who would choke on their
candidate.’
There is not a true populist among
Mitchell, but Mitchell has been
standing for years with one foot on
the circle. He comes on strong
every time there is an election, but I
campaign everyday, 24 hours
everyday. ‘And I don’t seek that
office, for purposes of wanting a
good paying job. I seek that office,
simply because I want the power to
change an antiquated, dead from
the head up, system.
- This country can no longer
tolerate the Democrats or the
Republicans. My friends, this
binders, janitors, drivers, milkmen,
clerk-typists, ditch-diggers,
mothers, secretaries, waitresses,
writers, artists, and mom and pop
store-keepers. My friends, this
country cannot tolerate anymore
corporate « leaders,
politicians, and lawyers, especially
lawyers. I don’t have the statistics,
but through common, everyday
observation, I can assure you.that
of our so-called
representatives are lawyers,
corporation chieftains and the idle
laborer in Congress, one laborer in
the state house, one laborer in the
cities’ councils.
one ounce of precious gold in all the
world that wasn’t mined by a
laborer. I defy you to prove that all
the great wealth in this country did
not come from the sweat of the
working men and women. Nothing
moves, nothing is created for the
and created by the laborer, trucker,
the plumber, the carpenter, the
waiter, and the assembly line
worker. The lawyer, the engineer,
the robots in our factories, the
computers, mean absolutely
nothing unless the ‘‘common’” man
and woman is willing that they
mean something. Yet all glory, all
power, all wealth goes to a
minority.
My friends, there really is little
time left. Our natural resources are
being destroyed in the mad rush for
greater profit. The oil, the gold, the
copper, the trees, the very earth
itself is being depleted to the point
where soon there will be nothing left
but unproductive soil and foul water
and unbreathable air, But even that
will not stop, will not be changed,
until the last drop of wealth has
been wrung from those materials.
I will not beat a dead horse. You
have been warned a thousand times
in a thousand ways of the coming
disasters, disasters that you,
possibly, will escape. But not your
children. Your children, ladies and
future is starvation, disease, and
~ barbarism.
Yet there is hope. If you use your
own head, if you refuse, finally, to
stop listening, and, worse yet,
obeying, the powers that now
control your life, you can begin to
control it yourself. You can begin
regaining that elusive birthright,
self-determination, by demanding
that those people whom you have
elected to be your servants, act and
become your servants. How
ridiculous, how stupid, to pay a ser-
vant more than you yourself make,
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spurious rules and regulations that
are not in your interest, butin the
interests of a phoney free enterprise
system.
My friends, if we truly had a free
enterprise system, a competitive
economy, we wouldn't be paying the
very same price for a gallon of gas,
butter, a pair of shoes, bread and
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a half-dozen producers, would we?
Exxon raises its gas two cents and
so does Shell and all the rest. Chase
Manhattan raises its interest and so
does First National and all the rest.
Wonder Bread raises its ‘price and
so does every other bakery. And in
the case of those unable to raise
their prices because it would mean
cause they are swallowed up by the
big boys. Instead of three bakeries,
one. Instead of many companies,
one. Instead of the corner mom and
pop, a superdad. Instead of a rail-
road for all the people, an airline for
the few. Instead of a local power
company, a faceless conglomerate
in some distant city. Instead of the
country doctor, a cold clinic. In-
stead of reasonable prices, out-
rageous prices. Instead of workers
protecting each other, workers
band together in private country
clubs and deny membership to
others, gorging themselves at the
expense of their brothers and
sisters.
My friends, what is it you want?
Make a list of the things you want.
Let that list run a mile long. (Are
you not allowed at least to dream?)
After you make that list, which
really should take no more space
than a post card, you will find the
basic desire is that you want only to
be happy! To be happy you need
only shelter, food, warmth and love.
Then ask yourself why it is that you
haven't got those basics of life and
you will have to answer it is because
you are being denied them by laws,
not natural laws, for nature has
provided the materials for your use,
but denied by the greed and
corruption of others. Those others
are not more intelligent than you,
they are more stupid! For if they
were intelligent, they would realize
that by their greed, their corrup-
tion, their avarice, their disregard
for others, they are destroying your
welfare and their own. The only
difference is that you feel the
results as pain. They feel the results
as self-satisfaction, the self-made
man,
Now what do I mean by a planned
BY P.T. AM
Well, it’s official. The women of
the Back Mountain have formed an
organized softball league and will
become an ASA League. (Amateur
Softball Association League). If
there are any women in the Back
Mountain who are interested,
“Racie” Carroll or Laura Jones are
just two of the people I know you
can call for more information.
Unless you're passing the Dallas
American Legion--usually someone
from the league can be found there.
Spring is in the air and on these
gorgeous days you can see new car
dealers spinning their stuff on
Memorial Highway. And with the
price of gas declining, a new car
with some petrol in it can make you
feel foot loose and fancy free.
If you remember back to the year
1979 you may remember a girl by
the name of Cheryl Kittle. In recent
correspondence I have learned that
Cheryl has moved to Virginia and is
working. She does miss the Back
Mountain, however. I guess the
saying goes “There’s no place like
home.”
I've also taken notice to the
Dallas Senior Band with their spiffy
new band uniforms. I do want to
wish them luck with the uniforms,
they really look sharp.
Checking round the area I've
found a few homes with the long
awaited Pac-Man cartridge. Of
course I was one of the anxious and
now I sit in the quiet of my home
playing. It really isn’t like the
“real” thing but for Atari, it’s just
super. In June of this year, Atari
plans on marketing a Defender
cartridge which is another popular
Te SDALLASCDosT
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Dallas, Pa. 18612. Entered as second
class matter at the post office, Dallas,
Pa. under theact of March 3, 1889.
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send form 3579 to P.O.Box 366,
Dallas, Pa.18612.
economy? Simply this: that what-
ever is produced be produced to
benefit all the people. That nothing
be produced simply because ‘it
provides profit unless the end result
of that production benefits society
as well as the producer. Making
disposable razors, or disposable
diapers, does not benefit society.
Putting three cents worth of corn-
flakes in a ten cent box does not
benefit society; building fifty dif-
ferent models of an automobile does
not benefit society (when one well-
built model with all parts inter-
changeable would most certainly
benefit society;) changing the style
of shirts and shoes does not benefit
society. What these so-called
changes do is waste our energies
and our already dangerously de-
pleted natural resources.
I know what some of you educated
people are thinking: socialism!
This guy’s a commie! Call me what
you will because it won’t make a bit
of difference when the last drop of
oil is gone, when the last tree has
been cut down to make toilet paper
and newsprint, and the last drink of
pure water, and the last breath of
fresh air has been gulped through
cancerous. lungs.
Yes, Virginia, doomsday is close
at hand. Never mind that when the
oil is gone we still have coal, be-
cause that soon will be gone too.
Never mind that Wyerhauser is
planting more trees, because
without oil, they can’t cut, mill,
plane or move, that tree, and never
mind that we now have the
technology to turn sewage into
potable water, because it takes
energy to do that too. Get the pic-
ture? Well, then Bunky, get on the
Allen Bandwagon! Get out there
and vote! The people want change
and with the help of God and losts of
big bucks you're gonna get change.
You're now going to get rid of a
Republican and bring on a
Democrat. Or is it getting rid of a
Democrat and...
Applause, footstomping,
cheering, whistling, cameras
fade....
Only kidding, boss.
video arcade game. I'll surely look
forward to seeing that one.
There is a Carol Williams out
there who works at Humphrey's
who is just dying to know my
identity. Well Mrs. Williams, I'm
sorry, but I'm top secret.
April 5 there will be a blood drive
at the Dallas Twp. Elementary
School from 11:45 to 5:45. The drive
is being sponsored by the Back
Mountain Blood Council, and I do
hope you will be there--blood is one
thing that there is never enough of.
Say, did you hear about the Post’s
photographer Paul Strasser. Paul
has accepted a position with
another local photographer to help
out and as of this date has left none
other than Mark Moran in charge. I
do want to wish Paul and Mark luck
with their adventures. :
Baloney sandwiches are just not
my cup of tea, but if you're looking
for something different between
your bread, stop by Daring’s and
try out this cheese that: has pep-
peroni in it. It is really different,
and just might put some zing into
lunch.
I’ve had the opportunity to tour
the Meadows apartment complex
located behind Daring’s and I sure
do wish that everyone could see this
beautiful building. The halls are
carpeted and there are windows all
over. The security is top-notch and
when summer comes the grass will
be greener. I feel really good to
know some of my tax money has
been spent wisely to help the elderly
and handicapped live in comfort.
Maybe when I retire I'll be as
fortunate.
A group I feel deserves a hand is
the Kingston Twp. Police Dept.
some people get nervous and jerky
when they see the cruisers, but if
you travel the roads a lot you'll soon
notice that whenever you travel
through Kingston Twp. nine times
out of 10 there's a cruiser around.
Second on the list would have to go
to Dallas Borough. Chief Lyons is
out every morning hanging the flag
in‘ the center of Dallas and oc-
casionally you’ll find the borough
cruiser around. I really have to
admit that in my opinion--not
anyone elses, that I haven’t seen
around. But then again, I'm not
usually looking for a cop-I'm
looking at the road and the drivers
around me. ’
HOT TIP OF THE WEEK: Dr.
Joe Fink, College Misericordia’s
president celebrated his birthday
last Friday--looks like the
president’s another year older!
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by Barry McWilliams
50 Years Ago - March 18, 1932
Judge W.A. Valentine, appointed
Attorney James McCabe, Charles
E. Rowe and Daniel Sakowski as
viewers to examine the Kaschen-
bach plot which the Kingston
Township School Board hoped to
secure for a new high school.
A new 2 cent stamp was to be
issued on April 22 to commemorate
the 60th anniversary of Arbor Day.
The stamp portrayed intertwining
branches forming an arbor with a
center design showing a boy and
girl planting a tree.
Deaths--Mrs. A.H.
Hunlock Creek.
You could get--24%, 1b. bag flour
53c; Palmolive soap 4 cakes 29c;
coffee 1-1b. tin 37c; ice cream 36¢
qt.; soft drinks 85c case, preserves
or marmalade 17¢, 1 lb. jar.
Cragle,
40 Years Ago - March 20, 1942
Two Lehman buddies, PFC
William Edward Simpson and PFC
Alfred F. Lamoreaux, were
reunited on the distant Australian
front. Boyhood friends and school-
‘mates, both enlisted in the Army
Air Corps in 1940.
A ‘Salvage for Victory”
paign, designed to help overcome
the national metal shortage and
also speed the construction of the
local Community House was
launched. The affair was sponsored
by the Dallas Area Women’s Unit,
Luzerne County Civil Defense.
Sighting of robins, whippoorwills,
meadow larks and herring gulls by
bird expert Frank Jackson indi-
cated that the spring migration to
the Dallas area was well under way.
Engaged--Emma Freda Walters
to F. Emmett Murtha.
Anniversaries--Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Andrews, Jackson Street,
Dallas 50 years; Mr. and Mrs.
Walter H. Brown, 50 years.
Deaths--John Wesley Davis, Leh-
man Township; Mrs. William J.
Dunhill, Rotherham, Yorkshire,
England.
To the Editor:
I have belatedly read Ned Hart-
man’s letter to the editor in the Post
of March 3, 1982. I like his indigna-
tion towards the system as well as
the criminal. I have been saying the
things Mr. Hartman says but in a
different way. But, then, I have raw
experiences: most do not. Also, the
particularities of my situation no
doubt color my comments. But I try
to be logical.
I have no desire to criticize Mr.
Hartman’s views. I rather seek to
understand them. I agree with him
that the criminal’s self-pity is all too
often a scam, soliciting the pity of
the compassionate ones to be used
as a license for further criminality.
What about our victims?
Clearly the criminal has to accept
responsibility for his life or he will
never have the strength to
Modalities? They only make
careers for the “treatment” people.
Pathology is a morass.
But we are ringing the right bell
at the wrong address. I don’t feel
coddled. I have 15 years served of a
20 to 40 years sentence for
burglaries in Pittsburgh in 1967
involving property worth $8,000 and
all returned to rightful owners. I
have never committed a violent
crime in my life. It costs $22,000 to
housekeep me per year.-So, I'm not
the only stupid party - the taxpayer
is stupid, too, as Mr. Hartman so
aptly depicts.
What Mr. Hartman is really
descrying is all this waste of money
You could get-Men’s Michaels-
Stern suits $37.50; Arrow shirts
$2.25 to $5; Mallory hats $5-$7;
Arrow ties $1-$3; heavily tufted
chenille bedspread $2.99; fishing
licenses $1.60; double edge razor
blades 20 for 25c.
30 Years Ago - March 21, 1952
Sue Haron, Shirley MacMillan
and Alice Eppley, Lake-Noxen High
School students attended the annual
convention of the Future Home-
makers of America in Pittsburg.
Miss Helen Sileski, Lake-Noxen
Chapter advisor chaperoned the
girls.
Dallas signed 37 Little Leaguers
while Fernbrook signed 28 eager
youngsters for the summer season.
Commissioner Steinhauer an-
nounced that opening day would be
May 19. The first game would be
preceded by a Back Mountain
Community Parade.
Engaged--Anna Havrilla to Paul
Wolensky. ;
Married--Anita Rinus to Willard
Reese.
Deaths--Hale Garey, Shaver-
town; Douglas Kulp, Goss Manor;
Main Street,
Dallas; Lewis B. Hughes, Trucks-
ville.
You could get--Frying chickens
39c 1b. ; oysters 69c pt.; pork chops,
center cut, 69c 1b.; sliced bacon 39c
lb.; Florida oranges 29c¢ doz.;
coconuts 10c lb.; Velveeta cheese, 2
1b. box 89c.
20 Years Ago - March 22, 1962
Three Wilkes College students,
Stephen Petris, typing, business
and office major, Elaine Whiteman,
social studies major, Leslie
Andrews, art major, and Audrey
Rupinski, Marywood College art
major were doing their student
teaching at Dallas High School.
Northeastern Pennsylvania
Sports Car Club of America staged
a “Little Alpine Rally” from the
Back Mountain Shopping Center.
off in the long-run if he does it
himself.
I would ask Mr. Hartman to also.
take a look at the big salaries of
these parasitic staffs and ad-
ministrators in our Pennsylvania
prisons. He is in for a shock. The
waste of these monies is not
“coddling.” It’s for control
stratagems to perpetuate big
salaries and to coddle prisoners.
Thus our high recidivism statistics.
Mr. Hartman is onto the game,
alright. Yes, we prisoners are
parasites, ‘too, but coerced
parasites. The taxpayer is our
second victim.
The ongoing dilemma of the
human condition is that we have
law in the second instance because
we have desire in the first instance,
and that it requires human will to
‘institute law. Clearly there can be
no right and wrong without will. But
will stems from the destructive
component of life's urge-energy.
The force of will seems to brutalize
all solutions in applying law to
desire. Prisons are limbos - not
solutions. They are iceboxes for
stale sin.
Mr. Hartman is right in that the
letter of the law must be satisfied.
There can be no civilization without
law. Without law there can be no
guarantee of secure connections
between individuals.
But we must not allow the force of
will to become unbridled. If we do,
what then follows is a subtle sup-
planting of justice and equity with
the feral. Society must not allow
itself to inadvertantly become like
that which it inveighs against.
Society must ‘always guard
against any brutality of its own
will...to ensure a just society for its
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Rally-masters were Mr. and Mrs.
Tom Hillyer, Briarcrest Road,
Dallas.
Engaged--Judith Ann Masters to
William Edward Adams.
Married--Barbara Lee to John F.
Higgs.
Birthdays--Mrs. C.N. Booth, 82
years.
Anniversaries--Mr. and Mrs.
Eugene Hilbert, Lake Catalpa
Road, 62 years. :
Deaths--Marvin Scott, Davenport
Street; William J. Richards,
Wilkes-Barre; Retta: Hunt,
Unadilla, N.Y.
You could get--2-cycle automatic
washer $169; full size mattress
$39.75; rotary power mower $49.95;
White rotary console sewing
machine $88; tackle boxes $1.19;
sleeping bags $5.95; men’s golf
jackets $5.95.
10 Years Ago - March 23, 1972
George McCutcheon = was
Lions and Rotary. McCutcheon,
who was. associated with Luzerne
County Community: College, re-
ceived the award for his many
community services.
Dallas Borough Planning Com-
mission announced plans for a
rectangular barn fashioned of cedar
and Douglas fir to house the Library
Auction. In addition to the barn, a
refreshment stand and connecting
walkway would also be built.
Married--Sheryl Stanley to Frank
Lenz; Christine Volack to William
Mission.
Engagements--Pamela
Cooper to Phillip Hall, Jr.
Anniversaries--Mr. and Mrs. Ellis
Swingle, 68 years.
Deaths--Gustav J. Kretchmar,
Dallas; Margaret Holt, formerly of
Dallas; Elizabeth K. Davis, Dallas.
You could get--House broom
$2.89; 24 inch bamboo rake $2.18.
Pero
children and grandchildren. Today
is not forever.
HL Norman Nusser
State Prison
Dallas, Pa. 18612
Letter:
TO THE EDITOR
The Pennsylvania Utility’ Com-
mission is now considering a
request which would give utilities
permission to charge their
customers for construction work in
progress (CWIP). A decision is
expected in May.
If the utilities win they will be
allowed to charge for new power
plants before they produce even one
watt of electricity. This would
make customers automatic in-
vestors in their power company,
with nothing in return. It would
force senior citizens to pay for
power plants that may never serve
utilities to continue their practice of
building power plants that are not
needed.
The electric utilities are in
financial trouble because of poor
management decisions made in the
past. : z
The time to oppose this scheme is
now, not later when electric rates
are raised even higher. Write to the
Commissioners of the Public Utility
Commission (Susan Shanaman,
James Cawley, Clifford Jones,
Linda Taliaferro and Michael
Johnson) at PO Box 3265,
Harrisburg, Pa. 17120. Your voice
will make a difference.
For further information on CWIP,
write WHIP CWIP, P.O. Box 911,
Bryn Mawr, Pa. 19010.
David Mann
Lewisburg, Pa