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DEAR EDITOR:
On behalf of The Frosting Friends of Luzerne
County, we thank you for the excellent publicity you
have given our cake decorating club.
The Aug. 24 feature article by Joan Kingsbury was
well written and we appreciate her professionalism
Story attracts
DEAR EDITOR:
I wish to express my appreciation to you (Dotty
Martin) and The Dallas Post for covering the guided
walk progam now offered at Frances Slocum State
Park.
I am sure that the articles published in the Dallas
Post helped to generate a tremendous amount of
interest in the park’s new outdoor program. After the
publication of Sheila Hodges’ article about the guided
and accurate reporting.
Again, we appreciate the continued support of The
Dallas Post staff in publicizing our club’s activities.
KATHIE ASTEGHER,
PUBLICITY CHAIRMAN
TUNKHANNOCK, PA.
walks, the attendance at the walks went from 37 one
Sunday to 75 the following week!
I also wish to compliment Mrs. Hodges and Ed
Campbell on their good reporting and photographic
work. It was a pleasure to meet them both.
~~ ANNFRY
PARK NATURALIST
FRANCES SLOCUM STATE PARK
Only yesterday
50 YEARS AGO - SEPTEMBER 1, 1933
Attorney and Mrs. Peter Jurchak of Mt. Greenwood
returned from a five-week trip to Czechoslovakia.
Attorney Jurchak was an American representative at
the dedication of a memorial to the founder of the first
Catholic Slovak Union, of which he was general
counsel. ‘
Tom E. Williams was Republican candidate for
County Prothonotary while Leonard D. Morgan was
seeking the office of county controller.
Deaths - Helen Burdick Smith, Kingston, N.Y.
You could get - Smoked hams 16¢ 1b.; fresh eggs 21c
doz.; sweet potatoes 7 1b. 25c; cigarettes 2 pkg. 2lc;
Wheaties 2 pkg. 25¢; vinegar 32c gal. jug; white tuna
20c can; large angel food cake 30c; Ritter tomato soup
5C can.
40 YEARS AGO - SEPTEMBER 3, 1943
Lehman Schools open with the addition of three new
faculty members. Mrs. Hannah Orr, will teach home
economics, Mrs. Martha Smith will teach science and
head that department while Seymour Grossman was
hired to teach English and Latin.
Mrs. Mary Westerman learned that her son Lt. Fred
Westerman of the Royal Candian Air Force was shot
down over ermany and taken prisoner. Fred and his
mother were formally from Kingston Twp.
Anniversaries - Mr. and Mrs. William Hanson, Holly
Street, Trucksville, 45 years; Mr. and Mrs. Anthony
Hudak, Overbrook Road, 30 years. S
Deaths - Claude W. Gregory, Dallas resident; Susan
Cutler, Sweet Valley; James Oliver, Dallas car dealer
and civic and business leader.
You could get - Fresh chickens 39¢ lb.; smoked
hams 33c lb.; frankfurters 31c lb.; granulated sugar 5
1b. bag 32¢; tomato soup 3 cans 22c; Lava hand soap 3
cakes 17c; 3 tall cans evaporated milk 29c; 1 lb.
peanut butter 35c.
30 YEARS AGO - SEPTEMBER 4, 1953
Dallas Borough purchased the Oliver property on
Main Street for a Borough Building at the cost of
$25,000. The property had once housed the salesrooms
and garage of James Oliver, prominent car dealer.
Mrs. Alva Vavrek, Demunds Road, Dallas suffered a
heart attack upon official notification of her son John’s
release from a prisoner of war camp in Korea.
Fortunately the attack was not too serious, and she
was able to enjoy John’s homecoming.
Driving rain accompanied by lashing winds of gale
proportions did thousands of dollars worth of damage
in the immediate vicinity of Dallas.
Engaged - Dorothy Meade to Sgt. John W. Dodson;
Delena Joyce Bedard to Raymond J. Jones; Romayne
Smith to Donald Daubert; Doris Kirkendall to Ray-
mond Myers; Ann Treslar to Keith Smith.
Married - Leah Johnson to Howard D.- Major;
Phyllis May to James DeRemer.
Deaths - Hilda Schelcher, Shavertown.
You could get - Ripe cantaloupes 23c ea.; Virginia
Lee ice cream !» gal. 98c; tuna fish 6% oz. can
Chicken of the Sea 32c; turkeys 59c 1b.; smoked hams
59c 1b.
20 YEARS AGO - SEPTEMBER 5, 1963
Donna Gosart was named Queen of the 1963 Idetown
Firemen’s Festival.
Dynamite stored in a garage and barn structure on
Bunker Hill brought firemen running when the struc-
ture was struck by a bolt of lightening. Seventy five
men from Shavertown and Trucksville Fire Compa-
nies responded and brought the blaze under control.
T.M.B. Hicks, Jr., husband of Mildred Hicks,
associate editor of The Dallas Post, died following a
long illness.
Engaged - Mary A. Glenn and William Henry
Mangan Jr.; Frederick W. Anderson, Jr. and Dorothy
Jean Gunderson; Karen M. Besteder to Allen Stash.
Birthdays - Mary Chappell, Summit St., Shavertown,
92 years old.
Anniversaries - Mr. and Mrs. Paul LaBar, Elizabeth
Street, Dallas 25 years; Mr. -and Mrs. Roy Hess,
Deaths - Albert L. May, Bowmans Creek; R.R.
Hubbard, Bunker Hill; Reginald Vosburg, Jr., Carver-
ton.
You could get - Boneless round roast 77¢ 1b.; chicken
breasts 47c 1b.; picnic hams 29c lb.; halibut steak 59¢
1b.; cantaloupes 19c ea.; strawberries 3 pts. $1;
Realemon 37c pt.; Nabisco Oreo Cookies 11 oz. pkg.
39c.
10 YEARS AGO - SEPTEMBER 6, 1973
Mel Mosier, owner and operator of Forty Fort Ice
Cream Store, Memorial Highway, leased his store to
Bernard Sult and Sheldon Munn who own ang operate
the Mark II Family Restaurant group.
Edward R. Maier, Dallas resident, was named to the
board of the Stegmaier Brewing Company.
Engaged - Nancy Ashton and Robert R. Potter.
Married - Marlene B. Milne to Thomas J. MclInturff;
Ann Marie Mohen to Francis M. Spangnuolo; Carole
Hozempa to David J. Davis; Jo Ann Thomas and
Joseph Pall; Jeanne Brown and Dale Mosier.
Anniversaries - Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Kardell, Jr.,
Trucksville, 25 years.
You could get - Fresh frying chicken breasts 98c 1b.;
thighs 79c 1b.; rib pork roast 89c lb.; ground chuck
pkgs. $1; Mrs. Filbert’s Margarine 29c 1b.
Library news
DEAR EDITOR:
I would like to make a suggestion.
Letters policy
The Dallas Post encourages
and invites its readers to partici-
pate in the ‘‘Letters to the
Editor’ column.
Letters should be typed or
written legibly and must be
received by Thursday to insure
publication the following Wednes-
day.
All letters must be signed and
include a telephone number for
verification. Names will be with-
held upon request. Letters
received without signatures or
telephone numbers will not be
printed.
ALASTAIR HODGES
DALLAS, PA.
Sen. Frank J. O'Connell, R-20, has
raised a caution flag on plans to
make too many long-range commit-
ments on future earnings from the
state lottery.
In a letter to fellow members of
the state Senate, the lawmaker
warned that the booming lottery -
with its current surplus - iS proving
to be too much of a temptation.
“Everyone wants to spend the
money - and spend it quickly,” he
said. ‘Yet, in haste, we may punish
those whom. we are seeking to
help.”
O’Connell pointed to two facts
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that, he said, demand attention.
“First, the lottery is not a predict-
able source of income. We should
not build too many legislative pro-
grams on such a revenue source,”
he said.
“Secondly, there are many people
in the Commonwealth who need
assistance. That need is not related
to the age factor.”
0’Connell said the state lottery
was created more than a decade
ago with the purpose of helping the
Commonwealth’s senior citizens
with their transportation needs and
their property tax and rental costs.
“] want to see these programs
continued,”’ he said. “But I think we
variety of proposals which would
commit us to large expenditures in
the future. Some of these are open-
ended in nature and could bankrupt
the lottery fund.”
0’Connell said some proposals,
scription plan, would require a huge
bureaucracy to administer them.
“Costs for such programs could
not be controlled easily,’ he said.
“If there were reverses in the lot-
tery operation, it might be neces-
sary to use money from the general
fund to bail out these programs.”
0’Connell said some of these pro-
grams are specialized in their appli-
cation and would therefore benefit
only a small portion of the state’s
elderly citizens.
“Because needs vary so widely, it
may be a better idea to distribute
the surplus to eligible persons in the
form of cash grants each year. In
this way, they could decide the best
way to spend the money,” he said.
DER issues
regulations
Officials of the Economic Devel-
opment Council of Northeastern
Pennsylvania (EDCNP) announced
that regulations have recently been
issued by the Pennsylvania Depart-
ment of Environmental Resources
implementing the Water Facilities
Restoration Act and creating the
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By NANCY KOZEMCHAK
The display case at the Back
Mountain Memorial Library is filled
to capacity with some unique
antique toys borrowed from Larry
Bruch of Mountaintop.
Larry became interested in col-
lecting antique toys when he visited
an antique show where they had
some Dinky toys and he remem-
bered he had about 300 of these in
his attic from his childhood. He has
been collecting for about three
years and attends toy shows in
Chicago, Allentown and other areas.
Larry has these toys displayed
throughout his home, in china clos-
ets, on the piano and on tables.
There is a Mickey Mouse the Magi-
cian battery-operated toy dating
from the 1950’s; a horsedrawn
hansom cab from 1910; a German
car from the 1930’s; a German
tourist boat from 1950; German
penny toys from the late 1800’s,
bought by venders for '» cent and
sold on the streets for one cent;
Tootsie toys made in 1930 in the
United States and Dinky toys from
1934 on up made in England.
There is one of the first Donald
Ducks from 1934, with a long bill
and crow feet; an Amos ’n Andy
fresh air taxi cab from 1930; a very
early Santa Claus and Minnie
Mouse knitting wind-up toy from the
early 1950’s. One special one is a
cast iron horsedrawn circus wagon
from 1940, handed down from his
family.
Larry would like to buy a robot
Mr. Atomic, sold by Sears in its 1963
catalog, and would pay $1,000 for it
if it is new and in the original box.
This display will be at the library
until Sept. 21 and is worth a visit.
The library will return to regular
hours on Sept. 6. Important change
from summer hours is that the
library will be open Saturdays from
9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and the main
library will be open Monday, Tues-
day, Wednesday and Thursday
evenings until 8:30.
New books at the library include:
“THURSTON HOUSE” by Dan-
ielle Steel is the story of Jeremiah
Thurston, owner of the first and
largest quicksilver mines in the
Napa Valley and his bride and their
magnificent mansion in San Fran-
cisco. It marked the lives of all who
lived there.
“DECISION” by Allen Drury is
the story of many powerful individu-
als, both in Washington, D.C. and
elsewhere in a deeply troubled
America. It is the story of a case
that begins at Pomeroy Station
Atomic Energy Installation and
moves through the courts of South
Carolina.
“DEATH IN ZANZIBAR’’ by
M.M. Kaye is a masterpiece of
mystery and romance. The setting
remains exotic and there's a com-
pelling air of romance at the family
house, Kivulimi. The members of
is a desperate and ruthless mur-
derer. -
Armchair travel is fun, but it?
not too satisfying. What is great fun,
though, is to plan a real honest-to-
goodness trip and study up on the
places of interest, local history and
Back Mountain Memorial Library
can help you!
Sen. Frank J. O'Connell, R-20, has reaffirmed his
position against changing the election of state judges
into a merit selection process saying, “The people of
our state deserve to choose the judges who make so
many decisions affecting their lives.”
The May primary judicial elections in Pennsylvania
bewildered many voters with a long list of cross-filing
candidates. The results of these elections, including a
low participation by voters, has prompted some
members of the Legislature to focus on the issue of
merit selection versus popular election of state-wide
judicial vacancies. :
One of the proposals for merit selection includes a
nominating commission which would present names of
judicial candidates to the Governor for final selection
after narrowing the field to the most qualified
individuals. :
“At first glance,” said O’Connell, “many of the
proposed changes would ideally result in only the most
qualified individuals serving in our judicial system.
“But we must closely examine whether or not the
theoretical and unguaranteed results of this process
would be worth surrendering voter participation to-
“I fear,” continued O’Connell, ‘“‘that a merit selec-
tion process would, in fact, place the power for
judicial appointment in the hands of a powerful few -
namely the governor at the time.”
O’Connell expressed concern that the diversity and’
representation of migorities could be reduced or
eliminated entirely with the merit selection process if
judges were chosen by a select few instead of the high
diverse populace.
The Luzerne County Senator did however, say some
changes in the election proceedings and regulations
may be needed to update the system.
“However,” he said, ‘‘eliminating the electoral
process for judges contradicts the basic rights granted
to citizens by the U.S. Constitution.”
O'Connell recommended the judiciary and Bar
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people of the state to vote on the list.
the relationship closer and more informative,” said
O’Connell.
“Voters should be introduced more to the judicial
process and be educated more about the issues,” he
stated.
“The responsibility for this education lies with the
judicial candidates, who could concentrate their cam-
paigns on explanations of important laws, and the
news media, who should focus more attention on facts
surrounding major issues,’”’ O’Connell noted.
nell, “We should remember how everyone applauded
eliminate political affiliations in the eyes of the voters.
“Instead, cross-filing caused the judicial elections to
become a lottery of ballot positions and geographical
ties.”
O’Connell said, ‘“We have a system of checks and
balances, situations of disagreement and unanimity.
We should use this time-proven process to help the
people of Pennsylvania become more involved and
more knowledgeable citizens who take an active role
in vital decisions such as judicial elections. :
“Our state courts have made decisions on the
constitutionalityof laws, ruled on authority of state
agencies, and interpreted the legality of many impor-
tant laws from reapportionment fo civil rights,” said
O’Connell.
“Let us not take away this more important voting
right but instead restore its full potential to our
constituents.”
O’Connell concluded by saying, ‘‘The people of
Pennsylvania may contact their senator and repre-
sentative with their views and concerns ‘on this
subiect.
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