i Only yesterday xh & of your time. It isn’t hard to do. And it doesn’t hurt at all. That’s right, voting. takes less time than scrubbing the kitchen floor. It’s easier than running a mile. And it’s less painful than going to the dentist. And, voting is something we all have the right to do. No one tells us we have to vote. No one tells us when to vote. And no one tells us how much time we have to spend voting. ; Voting is a right to which we as American citizens are entitled. A right that has been given to us because we live in a democratic society. A right that we, as free people, have. Yet, it is a right so many of us don’t exercise. A lot of blood has been shed and a lot of lives have t only takes a few minutes been lost in years past over the right to vote. Now we have that right, yet the voter turnout at polls is never any- where near 100 percent. No one tells us for whom we should vote. And no one says we have to vote for “one of everything.’”’ We have been given the right to vote and we should take: it. Even if we vote for only one candidate or one policy, we should still vote. , In times of battle with Marines falling on fields in places of which we have never heard before, with planes being shot out of the sky, and with national secur- ity heads discussing our country’s options, it may seem that we, the people, don’t have much say about what is happening in our country. Your vote counts, though. Whether it be a vote in a presidential election, a county election, or a local school board election, your vote counts. And it is your vote that will put people in office - people who will make your municipality a better place to live or people who will raise your school taxes without giving your children a better education for it Whatever your vote, it’s yours, and it counts. You will have the oppor- tunity to go to the polls next Tuesday. Take that oppor tunity. Remember, voting won’t take as much of your time as scrubbing the kitchen floor. It won’t be as difficult a task as running a mile. And it won’t hurt nearly as much as a visii to the dentist. vote is your voice. Let it be heard. — DOTTY MARTIN 50 YEARS AGO - NOVEMBER 3, ; 1933 Huntsville Christian Church cele- brated its 90th anniversary. Rev. Henry Hampton Halley, famous Bible recitalist, was speaker. George L. Rice of Lehman was the newest member of Pennsyl- vania’s 400 Bushel Club with a yield of 477 bushels of potatoes per acre. You could get - Butter 2 lb. 49¢c; peanut butter 2 Ib. 53c; White House Milk tall can 5c; Wisconsin cheese 17¢ 1b: Crisco 1-b. can 19¢; raisins 3 pkg. 19¢; Hellman’s Mayonnaise 33¢ pt.; Fleischmann’'s Yeast 3c cake. yk 40 YEARS AGO - NOVEMBER 5, 1943 Mrs. Jean Vercoe Mulligan resigned from her position as direc- tor of music at Dallas High School to accept a similar position at Berea College, Kentucky at a salary of $1,900 annually. Mrs. Bernard Whit- ney of Fernbrook substituted until a replacement could be found. Rachel Wyckoff, 95-year old, cast her vote early on election day. Mrs. Wyckoff was the oldest voter. She had missed voting only twice, due to illness, since she voted for Presi- dent Harding in 1920. Engaged - Hazle West to Sgt. James Kistler. Married - Martha Jane Brace and Clarence F. Fegler. Deaths - Harry L. Williver, Shav- ertown. You could get - Granulated sugar 10 1b. 60c; cod fillets 38c 1b.; peanut butter 1 Ib. jar 47¢; ASCO coffee 24c 1b.; Swan soap med. cake 6¢; Dia- mond Walnuts 45¢ 1b.; napkins 7c pkg.; Pillsbury’s Best Flour 25 1b. bag $1.38. ; 30 YEARS AGO - NOVEMBER 6, 1953 Dallas-Franklin, Lake-Noxen, Dallas Borough-Kingston Twp. dis- cussed the possible jointure of their districts with County Supervisor ES. Teeter and James Tressler of the State School Building Facilities Department. Raymond Hedden began construc: tion of a $100,000 building project in the woodlands just off upper Mach- ell Avenue. Seven new apartment dwellings would present the finest in residential development. Pennsylvania State Liquor Control Board signed a five-year lease with Dallas Borough to use part of the new Borough Building for a State Liquor Store. Engaged - Nancy Schooley to James Atherton. Married - Virginia Reckert to Claude Lapp, Jr.; Dorothy Edwards to Donald UC. Searfoss. Deaths - "Edgar B. Worthington, Dallas; David Philip Thomas, Har- veys Lake; Ellsworth Field, Noxen. You could get - Oysters 69¢ pt.; standing rib roast 49¢ Ib. ; fryers 49¢ 1b.; red rapes 2 lb. 25c¢; dates 29c 1b.; potatoes 50 lb. gag $1.09; Supreme bread 2 1g. vs. 27c; frozen peas 2-10 oz. pkg. 29c¢. 20 YEARS AGO - NOVEMBER 7, 1963 L.L. Richardson and Andrew Kozemchak won director seats for School Board. In Lehman, Barbara Vivian and Dean Shaver captured school seats. Republicans swept all areas except Harveys Lake. Beverly Eck, 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Eck, Shavertown, captured the crown of Valley Junior Miss for 1964. Beverly was a member of the National Honor Society, basketball and hockey teams at Dallas Senior High. Engaged - Gladys Crane to Thomas Hopa; Alberta Joan Goble to Robert J. Crispell Married - Adeline Prynn Long to Robert Hasselwonder; Ann Mathers to Niles White; Donna Lee Givens to Arthur O. Owen, Mary Wheeler Cook to Rudolph Morgan. Anniversaries - Mr. and Mrs. Otto Olofsson, Alderson, 50 years; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hosler, Dallas, 40 years; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Calk- The 25¢ on newsstand $12 peryearinPa. Managing Editor Associate Editor Advertising Representative Circulation Manager from ins, Jackson St., Dallas, 30 years. Deaths - Mrs. Effie Downing Sax, Huntingdon Mills; Beriha Kreller, Noxen. Yol could get - Haddock fillets 43¢ 1b.; halibut steak 5% lb sirloin steak 73c 1b.; apples 2 lb. bag 35¢; oranges 39c¢ doz.; radishes 2 cello bags 13c; chunk light tuna fish 2-9; 0z. cans 69c; cream cheese 8 0z 25C. 10 YEARS AGO 1973 Republicans swept the area in elections. Gen. Eravk Townend candidate fop judge. was defeated by Arthur Dalessandro. The strong est Democratic vote occurred in Harveys Lake Borough where Wil: liam Sherkias, Johu McManus, Wil- liam Connolly captured bids for councilmen and mayor respectively. Walter ‘A. Zell, RD 1, Lehman Twp. formed the Wyoming Valley Handicapped Athletes Association. Zell and his wife, both confined to wheelchairs led a very active life. Zell was forming a wheel-chair bas- ketball team which already had 17 members. ; Deaths .- Alvin Meeker, Shaver- town: Joseph Hanna. Shawnese Road, Harveys Lake; Harold Chris- tiana, Lake Silkworth: Amanda NOVEMBER 8, Downs, Sweet Valley: Evelyn Ridall, Shavertown; Richard Lewis, Trucksville; Mae Jones, Harveys Lake; Emily Degutis, Sweet Valley; Orval Ferrell, Idetown Library aids area shut-ins By NANCY KOZEMCHAK Library Correspondent The Back Mountain Memorial Library has a shut-in service which is handled by volunicers, Janice and George Jenkins. They will deliver books and other reading material to people in the Back Mountain area who are unable to get (othe iibrary to pick up their own material. We try to select books according to the needs or preference of the shut-in Anyone who is interested for them selves or knows oi someone else who would like to receive books this way can contact the library. Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church’ by editor F.L. Cross is in memory of Mr. Patrick Patton donated by Rosenn ' Jenkins and Greenwald. It is a remarkable book, ence work on Christianity. It con- tains over 6,000 entries on all aspects of the Christian Church and religion. The main emphasis is on history, but it also explores a host of related subjects. “Incarnate’’ by Ramsey Campbell is a novel of terror involving five people, from widely differing hack- grounds, Who are braught to London to participate in a controlled experi- ment in prophetic dreaming. But so ominous are the results, so disturb- ing the implications, that the scien- tists in charge are forced to cut the program short. It is an’ involving novel! “pDead In The Water” by Ted Wood is a tough, fast paced and original novel. Reid Bennett is offered a job as the one man police force of tiny Murphy's Harbour and it seems too good to pass up. A corpse turns up at one end of the lake and a New Yoik woman 1uok- his vestigation wicovers ihe fact that this is not the idyllic haven. SEA ats off to Kingston Township officials for keeping their town clean during the election season. The ordinance call- ing for a $100 deposit from any candidate who wishes to hang political signs in the borough seems to be work- ing. Candidates must first submit a $100 deposit to the township before hanging any political signs in the area. Providing the signs are removed within 30 days after the election, the candidate is entitled to ‘a return of his $100. heers to the members of the Dallas High School girls’ field hockey team for their accomplishments in winning the District 2 Class AAA Championship last week. The LAdy Mountaineers are to be commended for a gallant comeback effort after logging a disappointing 1-4 record at the start of the 1983 season. They showed According io Kingston Township Manager Mark Kunkle, the ordinance came into being after the township suffered some serious prob- lems with political posters When county and state can- didates left their posters hanging six to eight months after the election, the town- ship had juvenile delinquents who were doing time with the township remove the posters. Kunkle said the idea of the $100 deposit orginated wilh the zoning and planning commission. 1t was then passed on to the board of they are true champions when they bounced back to a respectable position in the league and eventually became champions. A 2-0 victory over Tunk- hannock last Tuesday gave the Dallas stickwomen the championship and etched them in the school’s history books as the first field hockey team to attain such an honor - an achievement of supervisors for approval before being drafted into an ordinance by the township solicitor. This is the third election the ordinance. has been enforced and it is working well. Every candidate who wants to hang political post ers in the township has com plied with the ordinance and after removing their signs within the allotted period of time, has had his or her $100 refunded And. Kingston Township is certainly a better ooking place for it. go — DOTTY MARTIN which they can all be very proud. The Dallas Post wishes the meinbers of the Dallas! High School girls’ field hockey team the best of luck when they enter Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association Regional play- offs next week against the District 4 champion. DOTTY MARTIN \ DEAR EDITOR: Majority Commissioners Bromin- ski and Crossin are asking the voters of Luzerne County to elect them this November to another term. Their party affiliation is the only reason they give for asking our support. Unquestioned party loyalty makes sense when the quality and integrity of all candidates are rea- sonably equal. Since this is ques tionable in Brominski’s case, the voters should demand a more con- vincing reason than party loyalty. The cause of good, honest, and representative government is not served by voting for the candidate’s party. Except for his being a Demo- crat, Brominski has not given us one good reason to vote for him. Perhaps we should look at a few reasons why we shouldn’t vote for him! (1) The last four years he and Crossin squandered nearly a quarter of a million dollars of public money on lawyers’ fees and out-of- court settlements, rather than be judged and possibly found guilty of Civil Rights violations. If this incompetence were caused by indif- ference of a lack of knowledge he might be forgiven, but consistently it was evident that he used his elected office to settle political dif- ferences or to ‘fulfill political prom- ises made to his friends. The out- rage is that taxpayers have to pa¥ for his mistakes. Mr. Brominski may have set a record in the state for law suits filed against an admin- istration (2) The United States Constitution .guarantees each of us the proteciion from self-incrimination. Recently, Mr. Brominski used this right sev- eral times in a conspiracy and bribery trial in 1982 conducted in the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas. The State Attorney General’s Office prosecuted this case in which I was a witness for the State. Anyone following fhis trial can’t. help but wonder who Brominski was protecting - himself or the defendants; We have a right to know. The responsibility of every citi- zen, most especially an elected offi cial, is to serve the cause of justice. For this reason alone every thinking voter should pause a moment and reflect on the meaning of his actions. At the very least, the public is entitled to an explanation of his reasons for refusing to answer ques- tions while he was on the stand. ‘(3) Perhaps the greatest concern of the people is their taxes. During their term in office, Brominski and Crossin raised our property taxes by a greater percentage than in any other time in recent history, yet they lacked the courage to institute the more equitable property reas: sessment values The County reas- sessment program cost hundreds of thousands of dollars which appears to be more money wasted. As a result, the same property owners who carried the load in the past continue to bear the brunt of paying County taxes. I am not surprised that studies show that Luzerne County government is among the most inefficient in the state I'm sure Mr. Brominski, and Mr Crossin want to -be re-elected to their $30,000 a year positions, but te solicit the support of the voters exclusively on the basis of their political party is an insult to the intelligence and integrity of all the residents of Luzerne County, Repub- licans, Democrats, and Independ- ents alike. I would suggest to aii the voters to change their County Government An opportunity like this will not present itself again until 1987. The interests of democracy are best served when no one group is allowed to, become too powerful or too entrenched in their positions. We should choose to elect a govern ment, whose credibility and integ rity are above reproach. If we don’t, it is not their fault...IT IS OURS! WALTER PLACEK HARDIN | DEAR EDITOR: The Dallas High School Marching Band sincerely regrets that it was “unable to participate in the annual Back Mountain Halicween Parade in Dallas on Oct. 30. The competitive band, under (he direction of David C. Benn. part.ci- « pated in the Chapter 7 Group II coinpetition held at Nanticoke. DALLAS HIGH SCHOOL BAND BOOSTERS ASSOCIATION [ —— ee ————————————" A RP SRA: ar pene = RR,
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