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Pallante, who comes from a
family of smokers, gets the most
encouragement to quit smoking
from his 11-year-old daughter,
Jackie, who, to the best of her
father’s knowledge, does not smoke.
Not having told his family of his
intentions to join the Smokeout prior
to their reading it in The Dallas
Post, Pallante said his daughter
‘was delighted when she found out.
“Jackie was all excited about it,”
the proud father said. ‘‘She’s always
trying to find ways to get me to quit
smoking and I keep putting her
off.”
Pallante’s wife, Joan, assistant
director of developmental education
at College Misericordia, is a
reformed smoker and supportive,
but not self-righteous. Mrs. Pal-
lante, however, was attending a
seminar at Drexel University on
Smokeout Day and was not availa-
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ble to offer any encouraging words
to her struggling husband.
His three sons (Jamie, 21; Joseph,
19; and JD, 18) were all smoking
cigarettes while reading about their
father’s intentions so their com-
ments were rather curtailed.
Dr. Pallante says he suffers from
physical reactions when his body
goes without nicotine for any length
of time.
“My knees get jerky and my
whole body is jerky,” he said. ‘I
am very, very uncomfortable.” The
uncomfortableness was written all
over his face during the morning
hours of the Smokeout as he sat in
his office, gritting his teeth and
nearly crushing his coffee mug.
All in all, though, Dr. Pallante is
supportive. of the Great American
Smokeout.
“The American Cancer Society. is
not overly aspirational with their
Smokeout goals,” he said. ‘One in
every five smokers is not a bad
target. I think it is a very sensible
way to raise consciousness.
“You rarely stop and pause to
think about what you’re doing. You
always say, ‘I am going to quit
someday.’ As long as it’s someday,
that makes it alright. And, as long
as it’s not today, that makes it even
better.”
The Great American Smokeout
worked for Dr. Pallante - he lasted
12 hours without a cigarette and is
now aware of smoking. Dr. Pallante
is a winner from the Smokeout.
And, who knows? Maybe his
attempt next year will be even more
successful.
Meanwhile, at the office of The
Dallas Post, typesetter Olga Kostro-
bala, who very quietly put her
cigarettes out of sight for last
Thursday’s Great American Smo-
keout, has yet to light up. Congratu-
lations, Olga - a job well done!
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been nixed over the years with the
only dramatic changes being in
speed limits which drop from 55 to
45 to 35 as motorists approach the
dangerous areas.
The lower speed limits and strict
police enforcements of them have
helped on the straightaway. It is
apparently the diagonal local shop-
ping traffic where motorists cross
‘and crisscross the highway at
random that needs improvement.
“We are killing each other,” said
one local government official,
explaining that this highway was
never designed for this type of
traffic. “Originally in 1960, Route
309 was designed as a Limited
Access Highway with no left turns.
It was banked for high speed and
curbing was supposed to be
installed,” he stated. At that time,
apparently two one-way roads were
also proposed with the present high-
way planned for southbound traffic
only and another road to be con-
structed along the abandoned
roadbed to carry northbound vehi-
cles.
“The area grew too fast,’ stated
another resident, bemoaning the
fact that the Memorial Highway has
once again earned its name. ‘‘This
has to stop’’ seems to be the concen-
sus of opinion but until the state is
ready, willing or able to act road
safety in the Back Mountain is
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apparently in the hands of the
people.
Will you volunteer to make right
turns? Drive around the block
instead of taking a shortcut? Pay
attention and drive defensively?
Wear safety belts on short trips?
How about you business people -
what will you do for the safety of
your customers? Will you provide
separate exits onto side streets?
Will you provide single entrance
and exit lanes to your shopping
centers?
If everyone helps each other in
be one of our lives.
— JANE 'C. BOLGER
Medical
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offered by the Medical Center will
be available at least eight hours a
day, five days a week. Exactly what
hours these services will be availa-
ble is not yet known as the ho: pital
~ will conduct a survey to learn what
hours are most convenient to the
people who will be using the facili-
ties. :
The outpatient services, which
will be staffed by Mercy Hospital
employees, will be for the utilization
of all Back Mountain doctors and
their patients and not just for the
doctors whose offices are housed in
the center.
Grilli said the area around the
building will be landscaped prior to
its opening in January and will
provide parking for approximately
30 cars.
Bobby
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to see everyone as he would have
liked to do, but did go down to the
parking lot with his parents and
rode around there. Bobby also got a
six hour pass on his 13th birthday
and went with his family to a
shopping center for ice cream.
Now that Bobby is totally confined
to bed he, the nurses and doctors
are enjoying looking at Bobby’s
hospital album. The Adams started
taking happy and positive snapshots
of Bobby’s progress when he had his
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first operation for multiple birth
defects at age two. Prior to each
operation, the family reviews the
album and remembers only the
good things as an inspiration for the
hard post-operative times ahead.
The doctors and nurses are
amazed to see youthful photos of
themselves and long gone co-work-
ers taken in the early 70’s with two-
year-old Bobby. The big surprise for
all’this time was that a long-haired
resident pictured with Bobby in 1972
is now the Assistant Chief Surgeon
at Shriners Hospital and performed
this operation on Bobby.
Whether Bobby has his next
operation before Thanksgiving or
just after, if you're thinking of him
during this holiday time and would
like to send him a card his address
is: Bobby Adams, Boys Ward, c/o
Shriners Hospital, 8400 Roosevelt
Blvd. Philadelphia, Pa. 19152.
Tell Bobby. for all of us, were
thinking of him and counting on him
to be home for Christmas.
Sterling Telecommunications
Supply Company, a division of Com-
monwealth Telephone Enterprises,
Inc., recently appointed two new
district sales managers, according
to John A. Heller, General Manager
for the company.
Allan J. Maloney is District Sales
Manager for the North East Region,
covering the New England States,
East New York State, New York
City and Northern New Jersey.
Kathie F. Sabatini is District Sales
Manager for the Southern Region,
covering parts of Maryland and the
District of Columbia, all of Virginia
and the remai
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States.
Maloney comes to Sterling with 26
years of diversified telecommunica-
tions background including engi-
neering, management training,
budget manager and facility plan-
ning. He has been responsible for
administration of start-up opera-
tions “of new programs and the
instruction and counseling of indi-
viduals in leadership and personal
goals.
Maloney worked in various posi-
tions with Southern New England
Telephone Company, the most
recent being Staff Engineer respon-
sible for outside plant planning,
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engineering and sales support. In
that capacity he recommended and
engineered Connecticut’s first fiber
optic cable relief project, as well as
engineered main frame configura-
tions for the company’s electronic
central offices.
ney was an Independent Regional
Sales Manager, representing 15
major manufacturing companies
specializing in designing and engi-
neering of sophisticated electronic
systems, components and test
equipment to meet end-user require-
ments. Chi
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By WALLY KOCHER
Imagine the scene. The parents of
a young marine stationed in Beirut,
Lebanon anxiously wait to hear
about the fate of their son.
Suddenly, the phone rings, as it
has so many times before. Pulses
quicken and palms become cold and
clammy. Is it their son this time? Is
he calling to say he’s alright? Then
again, perhaps it’s the call they've
been dreading.
upsetting one for Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Freeman of Dallas. .
Fortunately, for the Freeman
‘family, the phone call brought good
news. It was their son, Cpl. Harry
Freeman, telling them that he was
fine.
Marines- soon after he graduated
from Tunkhannock High School. He
left for Beirut in May of this year.
The Freemans first learned of the
Beirut bombing when they heard it
on the radio. Mrs. Freeman admit-
ted that the four days before she
heard from her son were filled with
fear and tension.
“Worry of the unknown was about
the worst feeling,”” she said.
“During that time we couldn’t leave
the phone, leave home, or even go
to work. We had to sit and watch for
someone (a Marine representative)
to come, around the clock.”
Thankfully, that visitor never
came. On Thursday, four days after
the bombing, they received the call
for which they were hoping. Their
description of the relief they felt
upon hearing their son’s voice was
summed up in one word - ‘‘drain-
ing.” According to Mrs. Freeman,
away’ from her head to her toes.
Even though the Freeman family
would never want to go through
such an ordeal again, Mrs. Free-
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“If they were pulled out now, we
Cpl. Freeman left Beirut on
be removed from Lebanon.
licked,” she said.
to dock in North Carolina on Dec. 7.
Troop 232 BSA, sponsored hy Gate
of Heaven Church in Dallas, held a
Court of Honor recently at College
Misericordia. The troop met to
honor those Scouts who had earned
awards since last June. The troop
has had a remarkable record of
achievement over the past five
months having won two awards; the
National Camping Award and the
Honor Unit Award. In addition, the
troop is co-sponsoring the Window
on the World program to expand the
knowledge of different civilizations
among young people of the area.
Of particular interest at this Court
of Honor was the awarding of Scout-
ing’s second highest rank Life Scout
to Nathan Kelley and Lee D. Wil-
liames. Both Nathan and Lee are
from Trucksville and are honor
students in the Gifted Program at
the Dallas Junior High School.
Awards were presented to the
following Scouts by Andrew Yencha,
the Senior Patrol Leader of the
troop. Scouts Mat Campbell,
Michael Farris, Ron Fitch and John
Kristan earned, their Scout Badge.
Mat Campbell was also awarded a
First Aid Skill Award. David Casey
received the Wilderness Survivial
Merit Badge. Edward Cavalari
earned the Rowing and Soil and
Water Conservation Merit Badges.
Michael Dzanko achieved First
Class Scout rank, the Environmen-
tal Science, Pioneering, Nature,
Mamals and Wilderness Survival
Merit Badges, as well as Camping,
Cooking and Physical Fitness Skill
Awards. Shane Fegley earned the
Soil and Water Conservation Merit
Badge. James Fry completed the
Wilderness Survival, and Pioneering
Merit Badges, as well as First Aid
Skill Award, and Camping Skill
Award.
The Scoutmaster Dr. Williames
distributed awards to some of the
senior Scouts. Aaron Kelley earned
the Camping, and the Soil and
Water Conservation Merit Badges
as weH-as, a certificate of participa-
tion in an archiological dig. Nathan
Kelley, in addition to his Life Scout
rank was awarded Communications,
Camping, Rowing, Soil and Water
Conservation, and Environmental
Science Merit Badges, as well as
the Mile Swim Award. Jeffrey
Colwell Class meets
The Colwell Class of the Dallas
United Methodist Church met at the
home of Mrs. Earl Brown, Country
Club Apartments, Dallas. Mrs.
meeting as Mrs. Colwell, president
was ill.
Mrs. Alva Eggleston gave devo-
tions. Mrs. Henry Hess showed
slides and gave a talk about her trip
to Australia. The class planned a
trip to Peddler’s Village. Anyone
interested can phone Mrs. Earl
Brown.
Kubasti received the Pioneering,
Wilderness Survival, and Mammals
Merit Badges.
Alan Landis earned Mammals,
Reptile Study, Environmental Sci-
ence, Rowing and Nature Merid
Badges. Jon Mitchell received the
Wilderness Survival and Pioneering
Merit Badges, along with the Hiking
and Camping Skill Awards. Phil
Niedjaco completed Wilderness Sur-
and Camping Merit Badtges. Bob
Skursky earned Second Class Scout
rank, Mammals, First Aid, Wilder-
ness Survival and Pioneering Merit
Badges, as well as ‘Hiking, Conser-
vation, and Camping Skill Awards.
Robert Rowlands completed the Soil
and Water Conservation Merit
Badge. J
David Sigman was awarded Star
Scout rank, Soil and Water Conser-
vation, Camping and Wilderness
Survivial Merit Badges. James
Strange was awarded the Star Scout
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rank, Environmental Science,
Rowing and Soil and Water Conser-
vation Merit Badges. Jon Strange
earned the Star Scout rank, Soil and
Water Conservation, Rowing and
Environmental Science Merit
Badtes.
Lee D. Williames, in addition to
Life Scout rank, was awarded the
arship and Environmental Science
Swim Award, and. the 50 Miler
Canoe Trip Award. Andrew Yencha
earned the Soil and Water Conser-
vation, Geology, and Personal Man-
agement Merit Badges, as well as
Conservation and Environmental
Skill Awards. Lee Williames and
Andrew Yencha also received the
World Conservation Award.
The troop meets on Monday
nights at 6:30 p.m. in the garage
building behind the rectory of Gate
of Heaven Church, Machell Avenue,
Dallas.
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