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on Nov. 8
Only yesterday
50 YEARS AGO - OCTOBER 27,
1953
For the first time Alumni Day
was held at Kingston Township High
School. Highlight of the day was the
football game between Wyoming
Seminary and Kingston Township.
Margaret Dorothy Girvan, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. John N. Girvan
.of Claude Street in Dallas graduated
“from St. Mary’s Hospital School of
. Nursing in Hoboken, N.J.
You could get - Easy washer,
(wringer type) for $35.50; ladies fur
trimmed coats $22.50; ladies woolen
dresses $4.87; children’s oxford
shoes $1.98; boys knickers 98c;
~ ladies hats $1.95; flannel nightgowns
40 YEARS AGO - OCTOBER 29,
1943
Joseph Malarkey, Center-
~ moreland, was listed missing in
action since Sept. 9 when the Fifth
Army landings were first made in
Italy. Mlarakey’s son and wife lived
.
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Determined to stamp out whoop-
CONE ew
Spooks, hobgoblins and witches
.mond Kihnert, chairman; T.A. Wil-
liammee, James Martin and
"Howard Hendricks.
" Married - Martha Sedler and Pfc.
Melvin Adler.
Deaths - Anna Appleton, Shaver-
town.
You could get - Chickens 39¢ Ib.;
sausage 39c¢ lb.; scrapple 15¢ Ib;
Oxydol 1g. pkg. 23c; tomato soup 11
oz. can 8c; large golden pumpkins
3c Ib.; celery 15¢ lg. bnch.; cauli-
flower 25¢ hd.; cabbage 4c 1b.
1953
Commonwealth Telephone Com-
‘phone service giving Sweet Valley
and Noxen their own exchange.
Charles James, familiar with the
woods and hunting, demonstrated
for students of hunting age at West-
moreland High School, how to
handle firearms in the woods.
Rt. Rev. Frederick J. Warnecke,
Bishop Coadjutor of the Diocese of
Bethlehem confirmed the following
at Prince of Peace Church: Lloyd
Kear, Robert A. Hughes, Paul Grif-
fin, Mary Griffin, Margaret Jones,
Joseph Allen, Roy Hall and Lynn
Sheehan.
Married - Lois Minchin to Mark J.
McQuilkin; Audrey Campell to
George Coolbaugh.
Anniversaries - Mr. and Mrs. Seth
B. Howell, Fernbrook, 45 years; Mr.
and Mrs. Stephen Monka, Fern-
brook, 25 years.
Deaths - Nelson Moore, Carver-
ton: Fred Goodrich, Harveys Lake;
Jacob Straley, Kunkle; Charles R.
Searfoss, Dallas.
You could get - Three piece snow-
suit for children $12.98; turkeys 69c
1b.; eggs 3 doz. $1.59; leg o lamb 59¢
ib.; lobster tails 89¢ 1b.; cauliflower
lg. hd. 15¢; pears 2 lb. 25¢c; Scott
tissue 9 rolls $1; tuna fish 3 cans $1.
20 YEARS AGO - OCTOBER 31,
1963
Back Mountain was the fastest
growing section of Luzerne County
in fotal number of people according
to the report of the County Planning
Commission. It was projected that
by 1980, 3300 acres would be needed
for homes, college, industry and
roads.
Children’s Theatre at College Mis-
ericordia presented ‘‘Beauty and
the Beast.” Maryann Homnack and
Pat Walters starred in the produc-
tion.
Engaged - Alice Martin to Bruce
Zeiser; Ruth Ann Alt to Roy G.
Crawford.
Married - E. Jane Gosart and
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Richard L. goodwin; Beatrice
Gramley and Ronald Clemow;
Mary Alice Cooper and Darryl Dick
son.
Anniversaries Mr. and Mrs.
Charles W. Van Buskirk, florida,
former Fernbrook residents.
Deaths - Ralph A. Newcomb,
Dallas; Elmer Haring, Beaumont;
Myrtle Ranier, Trucksville.
You could get - Boneless round
roast 75¢ 1b.; pork butts 35¢ 1b.;
skinless franks 59c 1lb.; pineapple
juice 3-46 oz. cans 89c; carton of 24
large candy bars 89c; 5 lb. bag
Florida grapefruit 49c¢; shrimp 79¢
1b.
10 YEARS AGO - NOVEMBER 1,
1973
Six local Boy Scouts received the
Ad. Altare Dei Award at Gate of
Heaven Church with Rev. Stephen
McGough officiating. Scouts receiv-
ing this award were Shawn Mul-
doon, Michael Muldoon, Walter
Weir, Vincent Sodrosky, Jr., Mark
Hession and Edward Janosik.
Campaign chairman Richard M.
Ross Jr., reported that Back Moun-
tain donations exceeded the
expected quota by 4.5 percent.
Engaged - Mary Alice Fertal to
Paul Joseph McMillan.
Married - Nancy Howell and
Ralph Ide; Barbara Bonning and
John Paul, Jr.
Deaths - Vincent Uzdilla, Sweet
Valley; Iona Davis, Pioneer
Avenue, Dallas. i
You could get - Chuck roast $1.19
Ib.; bologna $1.09 lb.; tangeloes 59¢
doz.; bananas 12¢ doz.; delicious
apples 3 1b. $1; cranberry cocktail
juice, 49c qt.; eggs 69¢ doz.; paper
towels 3-2 ply rolls $1; 1 ib. pkg.
saltines $1.
By NANCY KOZEMCHAK
Library Correspondent
There are pitchers and goblets
Tue
25¢ on newsstand
Mike Danowski
$12 peryearinPa.
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from
borrowed from Orceil Brown Davis
of Dallas in the display case at the
Dallas Library for the next four
weeks.
Orceil has been collecting pitchers
through the years and receives
many as gifts. She received her first
pitcher 30 years ago, a crooked
hebnail from California.
We have 14 pitchers including
glass, pewer, china and milk glass.
There is one copper luster pitcher
which is part of the Dickens collec-
tion that was in the Smithsonian
Institute in Washington for over 30
years. The goblets are from Orceil’s
mother, Mrs. Percy Brown, and are
antique crystal. We have 10 on
display and no two in the ‘collection
are alike.
There are many fascinating
eye and heart design, which was
Orceil’s favorite. We have also dis-
played six miniature Toby mugs;
and a folding fork and a coffin
spoon. A couple of really neat spe-
cial items are a miniature cran-
berry glass brandy pitcher and two
small jigger glasses. CR
The Wednesday morning story
hour children will be viewing films
Cathy Breish, an educational con-
a demonstration for parents and
guests. The company is based in
California and the toys are sold by
educational representatives. The
program will be held in the annex
from 10 to 11.
We have a new page working for
us under the work study program.
Judy Grivner of Pringle is in her
second year at College Misericor-
dia, working towards a bachlors
degree in nursing.
The Collector’s Group will meet
Wednesday, Oct. 26 at 7:30 in the
jannex.
s ridiculous as it may
A sound, John Baur actu-
ally helped to pay the
fee of an attorney who
fought against him.
Baur, proprietor of Treat
Drive-In on Route 309 in
Dallas, had plans of con-
structing four more two-unit
buildings like the one
already on his property.
Members of the Dallas
Township Zoning Hearing
Board, however, dampened
those plans when they
refused to give him a build-
ing permit.
The zoning hearing board
made a decision not to give
Baur a building permit
because it was believed he
was building a shopping
center. Baur, in turn, filed
an appeal, stating that he
was not building a shopping
center. Baur’s reasons for
the appeal lie in the fact that
a zoning ordinance in Dallas
Township defines a ‘‘shop-
ping center’ as retail stores
situated on two acres of
land. The tract of land on
which Baur wants to con-
struct eight units is only
1.083 acres.
Following Baur’s appeal,
the township was forced to
provide an answer to it.
Attorney Frank Townend,
solicitor for Dallas Township
who would normally handle
such a case, explained that
he turned this particular
case over to Attorney Keene
Mitchell for personal rea-
sons.
“My son was killed at that
location,’ Townend
explained last week, just a
few days after Judge Ber-
nard Brominski handed
down the final decision in
Baur’s favor. ‘‘I was preju-
diced and was afraid I
couldn’t be impartial in the
case.”
Townend’s reasons for not
representing the township in
this case was respectable.
The question that arises
however, is why did anyone
have to be paid to represent
the township in the first
place? There wasn’t any-
thing to fight about.
Townend is the first to
admit that the township
zoning ordinance defines a
shopping center as a tract of
land of two acres. Townend
is the first to admit that
John Baur’s land is 1.083
acres. Townend is the first to
admit that 1.083 acres of
land is not two acres of land.
Townend is the first to tell
you that Brominski’s deci-
sion is ‘unfortunate and a
mistake.”
“We (the zoning board
members) believe that 10
stores is a shopping center,”
Townend said. ‘Brominski
decided that as long as it
(the land) is less than two
acres, then it is not a shop-
ping center. I think that’s
wrong. The answer here is
that we never believed
buildings on one acre of
land.”
Townend also admits that
it is the township’s responsi-
bility to pay the fee of the
attorney who represents it in
such legal matters. There-
fore, Dallas Township, or,
more specifically, the tax-
payers of Dallas Township
or, more specifically yet,
John Baur, a taxpayer of
Dallas Township, contrib-
uted something to Atty.
spent fighting the case.
Townend feels Brominski’s
decision is regrettable.
What is regrettable here is
that John Baur "has been
trying for 2 1/2 years to do
something that was perfectly
legal when he first had the
idea, and is still perfectly
legal today. What is regrett-
able is that Dallas Township
spent any money at all fight-
ing something that had no
reason to be fought in the
first place. What is most
regrettable is that it is the
taxpayers, and John Baur
himself, who have to foot the
bill for an attorney to fight
such a cut-and-dried matter.
— DOTTY MARTIN
By HOWARD J. GROSSMAN
In recent months, much attention
has been given to the prospects of
either casino gambling or slot
machines and video game devices
being legalized in Northeastern
Pennsylvania. The attention has
been focused on proposed legislation
which is yet to be introduced into
the General Assembly relative to
these forms of gambling. Statistics
have been collected on the results of
gambling in Nevada and Atlantic
City, and various study committees
have been ‘established throughout
Northeastern Pennsylvania to deter-
mine, what policies should be
adopted concerning the legislation
of various forms of gambling.
Such organizations as the Pocono
Mountain Vacation Bureau, the
Pocono Mountains Chamber of Com-
merce, the Economic Development
Council of Northeastern Pennsyl-
vania and others have established
such study groups. Focus has been
placed on the Pocono Mountains in
relation to where legalized gam-
bling might occur. No one can
predict what might result in the
way of legislation which the General
Assembly might eventually adopt in
relation to legalized forms of gam-
bling.
Thus, the issue is a statewide
subject which deserves the attention
of all citizens of the Commonwealth.
The official policy position of most
organizations who have studied the
problem thus far in Northeastern
Pennsylvania is to oppose legisla-
tion that would permit casino gam-
bling in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
For example, the Economic Devel-
opment Council of Northeastern
Pennsylvania examined the issue of
casino gambling from an economic
point of view. It found that casino
gambling in the region would cause
substantial problems for economic
development over and above any
positive effects which might accrue
as a result of permitting casino
gambling to occur. Other forms of
gambling, however, were left unde-
cided as to a policy position.
In recent weeks, two legislators in
Pennsylvania announced that they
would introduce legislation in the
General Assembly in the fall of 1983
to permit slot machines and video
game devices in large resorts in the
Poconos. The proposed legislation
Pocono Mountains Vacation Bureau.
Many other organizations have
established special study groups or
have committed themselves to mon-
itoring closely the legislation and
what its impact might prove to be in
the Commonwealth, and in particu-
lar, Northeastern Pennsylvania. -
The economic impact of slot
machines and video game devices
to the State and to portions of
Pennsylvania remains to be deter-
mined. Revenue flows as a result of
such gambling activities according
to the sponsors of the legislation
would accrue substantially to the
Commonwealth and to municipal
governments where such facilities
would be permitted. It is likely that
the debate over slot machines and
video game devices being permitted
in the Pocono Mountains will result
in a strong and vigorous dialogue,
one which should involve the views
of all citizens in the Commonwealth.
(Howard J. Grossman is the exec-
utive director of the Economic
Development Council of Northeast-
ern Pennsylvania. His column
appears every other week in The
Dallas Post.)
DEAR EDITOR:
I have never before seen such a
display of barbarism ever.
On Sunday morning, Oct. 16, I
went to Zayre’s Department Store
in Wilkes-Barre to get my daughter
a Cabbage Patch Kid by Coleco. I
arrived at the store approximately
9:15 a.m. The store opens at 10 a.m.
When 1 arrived, there were
approximately 15 to 20 other people
waiting. By the time the doors
people there. Standing outside the
store for 45 minutes for the store to
open was fine, until the last 10
minutes. The people in the back
started to push. There was yelling
and hollering back and forth
amongst the crowd.
Once the doors opened, that was
and rude. Men as well as women
were in on the act. Fighting was
going on over these dolls. People
were jumping over counters, knock-
ing things from shelves, stepping on
each other and the things they had
knocked down.
One girl had a hold of another by
the neck choking her to get her doll.
out of the package by the hair. I
have never seen anything like this
The behavior display of these
adults appalled me. They are cer-
tainly not a fine example for our
youth.
If this type of behavior were
displayed by a group of teenagers,
the police would have been called,
arrests would have been made, and
they all would have been hauled off
to act this way.
I also feel that Zayre’s could have
handled the situation differently.
Maybe as the people got there they
could have taken a number and
-stood in line, then numbers called
out and they got to choose a doll.
First come first serve.
I never did get the doll, which was
alright. I was just glad to get out of
there with my life. I am withholding
my name because I don’t want any
repercussions.
Representative Frank Coslett said -
recently that the state’s Small Busi-
ness Action Center is ready to serve
Pennsylvania’s business people.
inventory of such forms so there is
no need to contact several different
government agencies and depart-
ments, Coslett said.
frequently experience difficulty in
identifying and meeting government
requirements the state established
the center in 1980.
The center helps small businesses
identify government regulations and
taxes affecting their companies and
obtain needed state forms and appli-
cations. The center maintains an
The center can also assist in
obtaining federal, state, local and
private financing and solve, busi-
ness-related problems with state
agencies.
Publications helpful in opening or
expanding a small business are also
available through the center, Coslett
said. :
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