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Only yesterday
50 YEARS AGO - NOVEMBER 17,
1933
Drawing from his own exciting
experiences as a member of the
Candian Air Force during World
War I, Rev. Fred Sellers, pastor of
Shavertown Methodist Church,
painted a graphic word picture of
war’s horrors and waste at the
Armistice Day services for area ex-
soldiers. :
College Misericordia presented
scenes from five Shakespearean
plays. The episodes, sponsored by
the English Department at the Col-
lege, were enacted by members of
the Classic Guild of New York City.
About 500 students from local high
schools attended the presentation.
Deaths - Blanche Sickler, Hunts-
ville Road.
You could get - Sardines 3 cans
10¢; bacon 19c Ib.; prunes 2 lb. 19c¢;
pie cherries 2 cans 25c; Victor
Coffee 19¢ 1b.; Crisco 2 1b. can 39c;
flour 24 1b. bag 99c; eggs 37c doz.;
beans 2 Ib. 15¢; sugar corn 10c can.
1943 3
Two local men shot bears on the
first day of the season. Dr. Malcolm
Borthwick shot a 135 lb. black bear
at West Creek Gap in Columbia
County while William White killed a
130 1b. black bear along Stony Brook
above Forkston.
Pvt. First Class Michael C. Sten-
cil, USMC of Trucksville ws one of
six marines awarded thé Purple
Heart ‘for injury received as a
result of enemy action in the South
Pacific.” Michael, a gunner, was
the son of Mrs. Ann Stencil of
Trucksville.
Engaged - Roberta Crocker to
Pvt. Gilbert F'. Huey.
Married - Charlsie Matthews to
Charles Windsor.
Deaths - Charles B. Hoyt, Hunts-
ville; Leon Kromelbein, Tunkhan-
nock. <
You could get - Fresh ground beef
25¢ 1b.; veal rump 29c Ilb.; lamb
chops 39c 1b.; link pork sausage 39c
1b.; evaporated milk 3 tall cans 26c;
granulated sugar 10 lb. 63c; eggs
57¢ doz.; Ivory soap 31g. cakes 29c.
30 YEARS AGO - NOVEMBER 20,
1953
Mrs. Alfred Bronson, Sweet
Valley, received word that she had
passed the State Board examination
for funeral directors.” Now a
licensed funeral director, Mrs.
Bronson was in business with her
husband at his Sweet Valley
Funeral Home.
Dorothy Pellam, Beaumont, spent
three days at General Hospital after
being bitten by a neighbor’s
monkey. Dorothy, 16, was the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Pellam.
Engaged - Irene Polisky to Stan-
ley Cook; Doris Mae Hazeltine to
Leonard Stoner.
Deaths - Mrs. Fred H. Renard,
Dallas; Ellen Brown, Shavertown;
Mrs. Clyde Kocher, Endicott, N.Y.
You could get - Turkeys 55c Ib.;
Long Island ducks 59c¢ Ib.; pork
roasts center cut, 69c lb.; emperor
grapes 2 lb. 29c; cranberries 23c
pkg. canned pumpkin 2 1g. cans 25¢;
fruit cake 98c 1b.; walnuts 49c 1b.;
peanuts 39¢ 1b.
20 YEARS AGO - NOVEMBER 21,
1963
Dallas football team subdued
Wyoming team 32-0 to garner their
second West Side Conference First
Library news
Place.
A terrible house fire on Orange
Road in Carverton claimed the lives
of two pet kittens owned by the
David Voitek family. Fortunately,
the Voitek family was uninjured
although house damage amounted
to $7,500.
Engaged Linda Gosart to
Thomas Major; Barbara Jeanne
Payne to Edward Andrew Uftring,
Jr.
Your could get - Turkeys 33c 1b.;
sirloin steak 75c¢ 1lb.; fresh ham
roast 43c lb.; Gold Seal Flour 5 lb.
bag 47c¢; cranberry sauce 2 cans
39¢; cream cheese 8 oz. pkg. 25¢; 2
cans pumpkin.33c; Scott napkins 25¢
pkg. of 40.
10 YEARS AGO - NOVEMBER 21,
1973
Area residents sadly remembered
the assassination of President John
F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas in
November 1963.
Sixteen cherry trees were cut
down by vandals at Lake-Lehman
High School. In addition to the tree
damage, pads were stolen from the
football team’s seven man practice
charging sled. These pads were
valued at $40 a piece.
Engaged - Mary Ann Smith to
Richard L. Warner.
By NANCY KOZEMCHAK
Library Correspondent
The week of November 14 through
20 is National Children’s Book
Week. The children’s annex at the
Back Mountain Memorial Library
will be celebrating with various
special programs and activities for
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the children. Besecker’s window in
the center of Dallas will be filled
with some interesting items as well
a many selected new books. The
theme for this year’s book week is
“BOOKS ARE BEST FRIENDS.”
Bookmarks will be available for
children in the annex.
We would like to thank Mr.
Joseph Kubic who is responsible for
a book being presented to the
library. “The Delaware, Lacka-
wanna & Western Railroad In The
Twentieth Century’’. by Thomas
Townsend Taber has been donated
in memory of Gerald F. Cruse by
the National Railway Historical
Society, Lackawanna & Wyoming
Valley Chapter. The book is copy-
righted in 1981 and covers the his-
tory and operation of the ferries, the
freight activities in New York
harbor, public relations and adver-
tising, locomotives and cars, and a
station listing giving information
concerning every named point along
the railroad. We are indeed grateful
for this book which will be added to
our memorial collection.
New books at the library include:
“Crochet Workshop’ by James Wal-
ters is a down-to-earth discussion of
every aspect of crochet ‘technique
and an invaluable reference book. It
is meant for those who would like to
learn as well as the experienced
who are looking for more informa-
tion in order to experiment and
devise their own designs. Motifs,
patchwork, crochet lace, jacquard
and colour work, free-working and
finger crochet are covered.
“And I Don’t Want To Live This
Life” by Deborah Spungen is the
very moving true story of one
woman’s relationship with a deeply
|disturbed child--and how that child
almost destroyed her. It is a strong
indictment of the medical commu-
nity, and a powerful, extremely
sympathetic insight into the struc-
ture of a modern family. It is also a
scary look at that family’s brief
fling with unwanted notoriety and
fame.
T.M.B.. Hicks,
known as ‘‘Hix’’.
JL,
area residents for- years to come.
her death.
boy holding a hand-let-
tered sign “YANKEE GO
HOME,” waved enthusiati-
cally at President Kennedy
Friday afternoon and Presi-
dent Kennedy waved back
with an answering smile.
Moments later, three shots
rang out, and the holiday
crowd scattered as the offi-
n Dallas, Texas, a smiling
President broke from the
cavalcade and raced for the
nearest hospital.
The incredible news was
on the air. :
The message flashed
around the world that the
President of the United
States had been assassi-
nated.
Everything that made
John Fitzgerald Kennedy his
berant self, perished in the
crash of a madman’s bullet
through the familiar head
with its dark unruly hair,
bared to the breeze of Texas
as it had been bared to the
bitter January wind of Wash-
ington on the day of his
inauguration.
The body of the President
lived for half an hour before
the courageous heart was
stilled.
longer...IT.
A body, to be carried ten-
derly. A body, to be encased
in a bronze casket and flown
to Andrews Field.
A body, to be slipped
quietly into a sleek grey
ambulance enroute to
Bethesda Naval Hospital,
while another President of
the United States, already
sworn into office, faced a
battery of television cam-
eras against the clamor of
jet planes, paces away on
that same landing field.
That supreme self confi-
dence; that somehow
endearing arrogance; that
vital youthfulness; that stiff-
necked pride which kept his
head unbowed through
family grief; that almost off-
hand reaction to danger;
that determination to win
which had drawn to an
inside straight,” forcing the
Premier of the Soviet Union
to throw in his hand in the
Cuban crisis of a year ago,
all that tremendous capabil-
ity and potential
power...gone forever.
Dallas, Pennsylvania,
heard the news from Dallas,
Texas Friday afternoon with
the same incredulous horror
which gripped the rest. of the
country and the world.
In Dallas, Texas, the holi-
day crowd had dispersed,
leaving behind a crumpled
placard, ‘“YANKEE, GO
HOME.”
The Yankee had gone
home, and Dallas, Texas,
bowed its head in shame.
BY HICKS
ow would you like-to
be Thanksgiving and
get lost in the Christ-
mas rush? Have you ever
noticed how the Christmas
season begins earlier every
year and the Thanksgiving
holiday has become almost a
forgotten one? :
Isn’t it funny how local
borough employees have
already begun to hang
Christmas lights and
Season’s Greetings signs
everywhere - and it’s only
the middle of November. My
goodness, we’ve got a month
and a half of beautiful fall
and winter weather and a
very peaceful holiday like
Thanksgiving lying in
between now and Christmas.
Why is it that we have
allowed Christmas to get so
out of hand? What have we
done that'has turned Christ-
mas into such a rushed,
commercial season?
It seems every year the
stores begin their Christmas
advertising earlier, while the
consumers allow themselves
to be swallowed into the
trap, buying more and more
and spending not just more
time, but more money. .
It is somewhat dishearten-
ing to see Christmas decora-
tions going up shortly after
the masks and costumes of
Halloween are put away
rather than waiting for the
disappearance of the
Thanksgiving turkey. It
makes one wonder if maybe
nothing other than an obsta-
cle between the American
consumer and Christmas.
After all, Thanksgiving
was long ago declared a
national holiday and has
always been treated as one -
school bells do not ring,
places of employment call it
quits for one day and stores
are forced to keep their
doors closed. And, with the
stores not open, Thanksgiv-
ing Day has become nothing
other than one less shopping
Christmas shopping day.
What is just as disappoint-
ing is the fact that we have
allowed a nice, peaceful holi-
day like Thanksgiving to go
by the wayside is the way we
have exploited Christmas.
The yuletide season started
out as the ‘‘season of giving”
and has mushroomed itself
into the ‘‘season of spend,
spend, spend’’ and the
‘“season of expect, expect,
expect.”
We have rushed the Christ-
mas season and now spend
almost two solid months pre-
paring for it. We have man-
aged to forget why we cele-
brate Christmas in the first
place and we have managed
to turn the beautiful reasons
for Christmas into the most
commercial holiday this land
has ever seen.
While - Thanksgiving Day
parades are now ending with
Santa Claus and his sleigh
full of Christmas packages,
maybe it is time for us to
pull a little tighter on the
reins of our pocketbooks and
on our expectations for the
Christmas season. If each
one of us does our own little
part of removing the com-
mercialism from the Christ-
mas season, perhaps the
mushrooming effect will
move us into the direction
we should be headed - the
direction where we can all
appreciate Christmas for
what it really is and not for
what we have made it to be.
After all, wouldn’t it be
the Thanksgiving dinner
table with family and friends
and thank the Lord for the
food we have, the good
health we enjoy and the hap-
piness we have known?
Then, and only then, can we
also thank him for allowing
us the opportunity to look
forward to wishing Him a
happy birthday on December
24.
— DOTTY MARTIN
ey, Mister! That’s a
principal serving
doughnuts.
A tip of the early morning
coffee mug to Sam Barbose,
the bright-eyed and bushy-
tailed principal at the Dallas
Township Elementary
School, for making Dad’s
visit to his child’s school last
week more convenient than
ever.
Barbose, with the help of
the school’s Parent-Teacher
Organization, served coffee
and doughnuts to fathers of
elementary children during
the early morning hours last
Thursday. Thus, fathers
were given an opportunity to
visit their child’s school
during American Education
Week - an opportunity they
may have otherwise missed
due to hectic work sched-
ules.
By visiting, the school,
fathers had the chance to
become better acquainted
with the programs offered to
their children and had an
opportunity to meet and talk
with the people who are edu-
cating their sons and daugh-
ters.
It is encouraging to see a
man like Barbose put the
important aspects of a young
child’s education ahead of a
few extra Z’s in the morning.
And, if Barbose hits the five
extra minutes button on his
alarm some day this week,
none of us will really blame
him. _ poTTY MARTIN
DEAR EDITOR:
Back Mountain PAK would like to
thank all of the area businesses who
helped to promote The Chemical
program on their billboards.
on our local panels, the school
BACK MOUNTAIN PAK