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what life would be like
without a newspaper to
inform you, to entertain you
and to simply relax you.
Sure, you can watch televi-
sion for all the same rea-
sons, but unless you are
available at just the right
time, you may miss all of
this. If you don’t watch the
nightly news on television -or
don’t have the radio tuned in
at the same time the announ-
cers are ready to provide
you with the news, you can
easily miss the important
things happening around
you.
Your newspaper, on the
other hand, gives you all of
this - and gives it to you
when, and only when, you
are ready to receive it. Like
Joie’ for a moment,
per is there when you need
it but won’t dessert you if
you don’t have time for it at
any given moment.
Your newspaper provides
mation - from what’s going
on in all corners of the world
to what the Lockhorns are
fighting about this week. It
can tell you the score of the
high school football games,
the favorite recipes of the
day, who was involved in
that automobile accident up
the street from your house,
who’s celebrating an anni-
versary, and what’s going on
with the local school boards.
Your newspaper is a
wealth of information - the
kind of information you
would be lost without. News-
papers have become so
important to our lives, that
very few people go more
than 24 hours without at
least Blepeme through one.
This week - National
Newspaper Week - is the one
week out of the year the
newspaper world asks for
your consideration in recog-
nizing its products as your
sources of information.
This week, as you read
your newspaper, try to real-
ize the tremendous amount
of time and effort that goes
into producing that newspa-
per and getting it to your
home on time.
And, while you're reading
that newspaper, thank the
reporters, the photogra-
phers, the editors, the adver-
tising salespeople, the com-
posers, the pressmen, and
the carriers for bringing that
newspaper to you. For, with-
out any one of them, you
would be without that ever-
important source of informa-
tion.
— DOTTY MARTIN
hey have been called
everything from geria-
tric patients to the ‘Old
and the Restless,”” but the
Philadelphia Phillies breezed
past the Los Angeles Dodg-
ers like nobody’s business
last week. The win gave the
old guys the National League
championship and a trip to
Baltimore and the 1983
World Series.
Actually, the Philadelphia
baseball franchise is old - it
versary this year. The Phil-
lies have become a house-
hold word - a word that
makes us mad when it is on
the bottom end of a score
and a word that makes us
games of all - the World
Series.
The Phillies really are
“our’’ ‘team. They are
housed just a hop, skip and a
jump away in the ‘City of
Brotherly love’ and, on sev-
eral occasions, have visited
our area during the off-
season. Although we love
‘em when they win and hate
‘em when they lose, the Phil-
adelphia Phillies are ‘‘our”
team no matter what the
score.
This week, while the Phil-
lies go against the Baltimore
Orioles in the 1983 World
Series, enjoy it - for it will be
the best Major League base-
ball action you will see all
year. But, remember,
regardless of the outcome,
the Phillies are still “ours”
and even if they fall short
next year.
— DOTTY MARTIN
By NANCY KOZEMCHAK
Library Correspondent
Two sessions are being held
Wednesday mornings, one at 9:30
and the other at 10:45 with Mrs.
Lauren Chimock and Mrs. Jane
Only yesterday
50 YEARS AGO - OCTOBER 13, 1933
Hunters got ready for the season by purchasing their
hunting licenses. Fee for a resident license was $2
while an out-of-state license ran $15.
Morgan Cease, member of a pioneer family, farmer,
storekeeper, operator of a lumber mill, postmaster,
Justice of the Peace and school director died at the
age of 70.
Deaths - Mildred Sickler,
Kingston.
You could get - Eggs 23c doz.; smoked hams 14c 1b.;
Maine potatoes 33c 15 1b.; sugar 10 lb. 49c; sweet
potatoes 10 lb. 19c; Del Monte Fruit Salad 2 Ig. cans
45¢; sauerkraut 6 cans 59¢; chewing gum 3 pkg. 10c.
40 YEARS AGO - OCTOBER 15, 1943
The third annual Back Mountain Halloween Parade
and Block Party was being planned. Lehman, Dallas
Township and Dallas Borough School bands were
featured in the parade. The parade was sponsored by
area PTA’s.
Paul Shaver, Chief Observer of Dallas’ Observation
Post, was notified that the post would discontinue 24-
hour service. The post was organized immediately
following Pearl Harbor.
Ten horsemen, guests of John H. Blackman of
Idetown, completed their fifth annual 115-mile autumn
ride over mountain trails through the old lumbering
country bounded by North and South Mountain.
Engaged - Betty Shriner to Ensign Harold Kocher.
Anniversaries - Mr. and Mrs. John Lowe, Shaver-
town, 50 years.
Deaths - Margaret Stern, Philadelphia.
You could get - Veal cutlets 39c 1b.; fresh ground
hamburg 28c 1b.; pork sausage 39¢ lb.; cod fillets 38c
1b.; haddock fillets 40c 1b.; ASCO coffee 24c Ilb.;
Farmdale evaporated milk 3 tall cans 27c.
30 YEARS AGO - OCTOBER 16, 1953
The possibility of holding kindergarten at Lehman-
Jackson-Ross Elementary Schools was discussed at a
meeting of the Lehman School Board. Supervising
principal suggested a survey be taken to see how
many children would he affected. Bus service would
not be provided.
Fifty-three entrees from Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Noxen; Thomas Carle,
uled for the fourth annual field trials of Pennsylvania
German short-haired pointer’s club. The trials were
held on the Jonathan Valentine Estate, Sutton Road.
Chuck Morrow landed a 13%4-inch, 13-pound trout at
Harveys Lake. This was one of the largest trout taken
from the lake.
Engaged - Anne Lodge to Edward F. Haskell;
Maxine Schwarzbarth to Lt. Marvin Slomowitz.
Married - Lois B. Evans to Joseph Waltich.
Deaths - James H. Race, Kunkle; Bessie Bowkley,
Huntsville; Olive Frey, Beaumont; Emily Parrish,
Huntsville Road.
You could get - Boneless chuck roast 49c 1b.; frying
chickens 49c¢ Ib.; veal roast 49c 1b.; shrimp 69c 1b. or 5
Ib. box $2.99; oysters pt. can 79c; fresh mushrooms 49¢
Ib.; Tokay grapes 3 1b. 25¢; sharp cheese 69c 1b.
20 YEARS AGO - OCTOBER 17, 1963
Dr. Robert M. Bodycomb, a prominent Dallas
dentist, was honored at the annual meeting of the
American Dental Society in Atlantic City when he
made a Fellow of the International College of Dentists.
Bow hunter George Holowich, Harveys Lake,
bagged a 10-point buck near Stull.
Airman Charles Anthony Volack, Jr., Orange, lost
his life in a plane crash in Bolivia. Volack was on
detached duty on loan to the Bolivian government
when the accident occurred. He was a graduate of.
West Side Central Catholic High School.
Engaged - Sandra Sprout to Robert D. Richardson;
Karen Fitzgerald to David Harper.
Married - Charlotte Patton and David Hopfer:.
Anniversaries - Mr. and Mrs. August Strazdus, East
Dallas, 28 years; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sulgar,
Shavertown, 56 years. : {
Deaths - Emily Besecker, Dallas; Corey G. Crispell,
Beaumont; Stella Eveland, Tunkhannock; Fred Petitt,
former Pioneer Ave. resident.
You could get - Chickens 26¢c lb.; fresh picnic hams
33c 1b.; corned beef brisket 69c lb.; shrimp 69¢ Ib.;
swordfish 49c 1b.; grapefruit 9c ea.; McIntosh apples 4
1b. 35¢; 3 1b. can Crisco 79c¢; 22 oz. jar pickles 29c. =
10 YEARS AGO - OCTOBER 18, 1973
Kingston Township officials voted to lower the speed
limit on all township roads to 25 miles per hour.
Harveys Lake Municipal Authority opened bids for
the community’s sewage system which was estimated
at $5,460,275. Engineers Glace and Glace were receiv-
ing the bids.
Michael Klug, a student at Dallas Intermediate
School, and Edie Chesnovich a Lake-Lehman student,
were grand prize winners in the Back Mountain
Firemens Association Fire Prevention Poster Contest.
Deaths - Marvin Kitchen, Alderson; Marian Major,
Lehman; Robert Krown, Newberry E ‘Estates, Dallas;
Fannie Vennema, Harveys Lake.
pork chops $1.19 Ib.; seedless grapefruits 4-59c;
delicious apples 3 Ib. $1; cranberries 1 1b. pkg. 39¢; 100
ft. Glad Wrap 15¢; fresh eggs 59¢ doz.; Pennsylvania
Dutch Noodles 2-1b. pkg. 69c.
Letters
DEAR EDITOR: :
After reading and rereading recent articles by Dotty
Martin and Jane Bolger of The Dallas Post, I called
the Post and talked with Dotty Martin. She suggested I
write this article for publication.
In recent years, The Dallas Post has become an
investment by people from another area without the
personal interest of a Howard Risley or Ray Carlsen.
The staff should make an effort to duplicate their
policies and cease being a weekly critique of our area
which most people are justly proud of. A new policy
would sell more ads and papers.
During dry hot weather, they faced similar problems
to ours. We did not create problems. We did what was
possible to control them. Chairman Bill Kalinowski
was watering, oil has been used, calcium had been
spread, but in one hour Mother Nature neutralized
every effort. The writer believes that the Fair was
administered in excellent efficiency by Bill Kali-
nowski, his wife and committee. You can’t expect
permanent buildings, blacktop walks and a show
arena in the three years we have had to develop the
new Fair site.
The ‘“‘confusion’” and “awful” lot of ‘‘unanswered
questions’’, are only increased by Jane Bolger’s
article in the Sept. 28th Post. Maybe the writer can
members from each club, the Dallas Fall Fair was
founded. In the middle seventies, the Back Mountain
Kiwanis Club and Dallas Junior Chamber of Com-
merce joined the Dallas Fall Fair.
In an effort to make her article become a mysteri-
ous mistake, Jane Bolger mentions ‘‘people who have
resigned from one board or another and insinuate
‘there is a story there’ are not willing to be quoted”.
When you have served on as'many Boards as the
writer, you learn that a minority of members seem to
feel their duty is to rock the boat. They usually resign.
Sometime, it is justified. The important part is. when
was the resignation justified? Unfortunately the writer
has no right to answer that question.
The finances and governing bodies are not confus-
ing. The Dallas (Luzerne Co.) Fall Fair Board
administers the fair. The profits are divided between
financial support of the Paramedics, housed in the
Medical Center, and the Back Mountain Medica
Center Board. Any additional profits will be used t
improve the fair grounds or for a worthy community
project.
The community should be grateful to the Nesbitt
Memorial Hospital. Five members of their board
joined with five members of the Fall Fair board to
plan and make the Medical Center a reality.
So who benefits from the fair? Everyone who is
answer adequately a few of them.
“Originally’’, as Jane states, ‘the Dallas Fall Fair ~
Association”. Originally, it was the Dallas Rotary Fall
Lasecki as story ladies. One session
on Thursday morning at 10 has Mrs.
Betsy Balonis and Mrs. Jeanette
young at heart; everyone who wants our area to be
progressive; everyone who occasionally needs a medi-
cal facility; everyone who needs the paramedics in an
The fall sessions of the pre-school
story hour began Oct. 5 at the
children’s annex of the Back Moun-
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Shonk in charge. There are 53 chil-
dren registered in the program,
which will include films, crafts and
book talks. Marilyn rudolph, chil-
dren’s librarian, is director of chil-
dren’s activities. Questions regard-
ing story hour should be directed to
Mrs. Rudolph.
During the month of September,
| 5,779 books were checked out of the
1,941 from the annex. Book Club
members took 238 books out and 141
new books were added to the collec-
ence questions.
The Book Club will meet on
Monday, Oct.
library annex. Mrs. Florence
| Crump will preside at the business
| meeting and an interesting program
is planned. Refreshments will be
served and members and guests are
invited to attend.
New books at the library include:
i “Whodunit” by H.R.F. Keating is a
guide to crime, suspense, and spy
fiction.
“Beyond All Frontiers” by Emma
Drummond is set in India at the
time of the Raj and is a mesmeriz-
ing historical novel that seems to
sum up an enlire era through the
lives of its characters.
and James Srodes is the story of the
rise and fall of John Z. DeLorean. It
is the story of a man who created
his own strange version of the
American dream - and was ulti-
mately ruined by it. This man is one
of the most fascinating figures ever
to enter the fast tracks of big money
and international celebrity. -
Fair, founded in 1963. In a few years it had become too
much for one club to handle, so Rotary invited Dallas
Kiwanis and Dallas Lions to join them. With five
emergency; and enthusiasts - not critics.
DR. L.E. JORDAN
TRUCKSVILLE
DEAR EDITOR:
‘Money talks.”
We’ve all heard this phrase used one way or another
in our daily lives, but nowhere does money ‘talk’
more loudly than in politics.
Interest groups - from automobile dealers and
avocado growers to doctors and dockworkers - have
organized committees through which they funnel
money into campaigns of candidates for public office.
These committees are known das political action
‘committees (PACs).
Over 3,300 PACs gave more than $80 million to U.S.
congressional candidates in the 1982 elections. This is
a 500 percent increase in the number of PACs and a
560 percent growth in PAC contributions since 1974,
when 600 PACs gave $12.5 million to House and Senate
candidates. The problem with this PAC money is that
it comes with strings attached. What the PACs want is
access to legislators.
And their money does talk. So loudly that you, I and
“the interests of this country suffer. Studies show over
and over again that all too often legislators decide
issues in favor of the largest givers. Instead of our
government being of, by and for us, it is becoming of,
by and for the special interest PACs.
‘What can you and I do about the disproportionate
influence of PACs on our government? Fight back.
What we need is a limit on the amount of money
congressional candidates can accept. Congressional
elections should also be financed by a combination of
small contributions from individual constituents and
an equal amount of federal funding while PAC
contributions should be held to a minimum. This is
similar to the system we now use to finance presiden-
tial elections (enacted after the Watergate scandal)
which has reduced the impact of PAC contributions on
level.
writing or calling Representative Frank Harrison. Let
him know that you believe that we must change the
way our elections are financed. Together, we can stifle
the loud voice of money in politics and finally take
Congress off the auction block from the highest
bidders.
LEO G. KUCEWICZ JR.
DEAR EDITOR:
The GFWC Dallas Junior Woman’s Club would like
to publicly thank those who supported their recent
production of the children’s play ‘‘Annie Oakley and
Buffalo Bill.”
Many handicapped and underprivileged children
were given the opportunity to attend the play through
generous donations from the general public and local
businesses.
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organization, all proceeds realized from the play will
benefit their annual scholarship fund and other special
projects; such as health care programs, community
children projects and helping others less forftnate
than themselves.
Membership is open to all young women between the
ages of 18-40. Further information, contact Valerie
Gialanella at 675-5193.
Club president is Kathie Oravitz.
DALLAS JUNIOR WOMAN'S CLUB