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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-
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pated in the Chapter 7 Group II
coinpetition held at Nanticoke.
DALLAS HIGH SCHOOL
BAND BOOSTERS ASSOCIATION
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