Only yesterday
50 YEARS AGO - DECEMBER 8,
1933
At a reorganization meeting John
E. Roberts was elected president of
the Dallas School Board. H.J.
Disque was elected vice-president,
J.F. Besecker, secretary and Ralph
Brickel was retained as treasurer.
A still, having a capacity of 15
gallons, was confiscated with five
gallons of moonshine and twe bar-
rels of mash by Chief of Police Ira
Stevens of Harveys Lake. The still
was located on property near Rug-
gles Corners.
Deaths - Mary E. Sullivan, Corpus
Christi, Texas; Mrs. Adam P.
Kiefer, Shrineview; Dahiel H.
Evans; Ashley.
© You Gould 2gat .-. Fleischmann
Yeast 3c cake; Post Toasties Corn
Flakes 2 .pkg. 17c; Baker’s Milk
Pack Coconut 15¢ can; Jello 4 pkg.
25¢; cheese 19¢ 1b.; eggs 25¢ doz.;
coffee 26¢ tin. 3 Th ah iad
40 YEARS AGO - DECEMBER 10,
1943
Farmer’s North Star, a corpora-
tion owned by Back Mountain, Wyo-
ming County and Nicholson busi-
nessmen, installed a mammoth
electric incubator with a capacity of
65,000 eggs. The hatching plant,
located in Tunkhannock, had a
weekly output of 17,000 day-old
chicks.
* Mrs. Robert Moore was appointed
school nurse upon recommendation
of the Board of Health.
+ Engaged - Lois Marion Heitsman
to Corporal Leon Emanuel; Mar-
jorie Brown to Corporal Hiram
Sorber; Julia Chamberlain to Pvt.
Ralph Richards.
Deaths - William Payne, Kings-
ton; Ronald Kittle, Mooretown;
Corey Miers Perrin, Shavertown.
You could get - 100 percent wool
Faribo blankets $12.85; desk set
$3.75; umbrellas $3; Horsman dolls
$3.29; cuddly teddy bears 98c ea.;
electric football games $1.98; Chem-
craft educational set $4.95.
30 YEARS AGO - DECEMBER 11,
1953
Lake-Noxen joint school boards
reorganized electing Wilfred Ide
president; Willard Bender, vice
president; Harry Allen, secretary;
Leslie Kocher, treasurer. Jean
Moledor was appointed school
nurse. Mrs. Donald Longmore was
appointed art instructor.
Dallas Borough workers string
holiday lights which will be turned
on Dec. 12. The borough council
contributed $150 to the expense
while Chief Russell Honeywell had
collected another $100 from Main
Street Merchants.
Engaged - Alice Elizabeth Kleiner
to Robert H. Scott, Jr.; Dolores
Kenjorski to Louis Kubasek; Har-
riot Van Lewis to James School
nover.
Married - Dorothy Schooley to
Smith; ‘Doris Hazeltine to ‘Leoafird'
Stoner. ; ww -~ apie
Deaths - Harriet Elston Miller,
Shavertown; Oscar Osmun, Shaver-
town,
winter jackets $4.99; rib roast 49c
lb.; fryers 47c lb.; cod fillets 39c
Ib.; mild cheese 59¢ 1lb.; Swiss
cheese 69c 1b.; 25 1b. bag Pillsbury’s
best flour $2.35. ;
20 YEARS AGO - DECEMBER 12,
: 1963
A building committee began plans
for early construction of an edifice
for Trinity United Presbyterian
Church. Committee members were
Mrs. George Davis, William Cooper,
Rev. Andrew Pillarella, Mrs. Wil-
liam Cooper, Lester Hauck, Mitchell
Jenkins, John Marsy, Ronald Wool-
cock and Donald Miller.
William Pugh was elected Shaver-
town Fire Company fire chief. Wil-
liam Frederick, Walter Davis and
John Chapple were elected assistant
fire chiefs. :
Engaged - Dorothy Gunderson to
Frederic W. Anderson; Juliana Van
Blarcom to Edward J. Hochreiter;
Carole Clark Herb to Gerald Zim-
merman; Gail Jones to Wilbur John
McCullough.
Married - Mary Ann Zarychta to
Marlon H. Rimple; Judith Ann
Richards to John Cathrall.
Anniversaries - Mr.
Charles Mannear,
and Mrs.
Overbrook
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Deaths - Wallace Perrin, Trucks-
ville; Lillian Bauman, Elmira,
N.Y.; Robert Curries, Kingston
Township school board member.
You could get - Pork 23c 1b.; legs
of lamb 55c¢ lb.; bananas 10c lb.;
oranges 49c¢ doz.; mixed nuts 49c
1b.; figs 21c lb.; pitted dates 39¢ 1b.;
black walnuts 59c¢ 1lb.; fruit cake
$1.59; halibut steak 59c¢ Ib.
10 YEARS AGO - DECEMBER 13,
1973
John R. Finn, Dallas, was chosen
manager of the Back Mountain
office of Franklin Federal Savings
and Loan Association.
College Misericordia embarked
upon its first capital funds cam-
paign. A concerted effort was made
for student aid endowment. Sister
Miriam Teresa R.S.M. college presi-
the three areas.
Engaged - Sheryl Annete Beard
and Christopher Jay Robbins; Sue
Anne Ertwine and H. Scott Lefko.
Married - Lt. Patricia A. Elias to
Dr. Jose Vincente Mamrique.
Anniversaries - Mr. and Mrs. Wil-
liam Wasser, 50 years.
You could get - Schick Lasting
Curl hairsetter and mist $19.99;
chuck steaks 79c¢ lb.; shrimp $1.89
1b.; pears 29c lb.; mushrooms 79c
1b.; pkg. of 100 Tetley tea bags 89c.
Library
may get
new home
By NANCY KOZEMCHAK
Library Correspondent
If all goes well, the Back Moun-
tain Memorial Library could have a
new home in 1984. The Court of
Common Pleas was scheduled to
decide this past Monday whether or
not the Dallas School District can
sell the former Dallas Borough
School building to the library.
The two buildings which now
house the library on Main Street
have become over-crowded through
the years with book shelves being
added to cover windows and every
conceivable place where shelving
could be used. Many of the books
have been stored in the attic of the
annex as the space is so limited.
The space available in the new
building and the parking facilities
have got to be the two most impor-
tant reasons for the change. Our
dream for a new spanking clean
library could become a reality in
the summer of ’84, according fo
Ernie Ashbridge, president of the
library board of directors.
The library welcomes a new vol-
unteer. Mary Thom of Dallas does
her thing at the library on Tuesday
mornings for three hours as she
shelves books and files cards.
A very dear friend, Corinne Pawl-
ing, who suffered a freak accident
this summer while on vacation, is
currently recuperating at the Read-
ing Rehabilitation Hospital. Corinne
library board of directors for the
past five years. We wish for Corinne
continued improvement and send
her our love and our prayers.
The Book Club will hold its
December meeting on Monday, Dec.
19, at 1:30 p.m. in the library annex.
Mrs. Crump will preside at the
business meeting and a Christmas
program will be given by members
of the club. Refreshments will be
Iserved and guests are invited.
DEAR EDITOR:
A large segment of Congress
recently voted for the adoption of a
National Holiday to honor Martin
Luther King. As an American citi-
zen, I seriously question the consid-
erations on how Dr. King was
awarded a tribute that should be
given at most, once or twice a
century.
Dr. King did stand for equality
and peace, but let us seriously look
at the records of Benjamin Franklin
and John F. Kennedy before passing
such an historical event and decide
who should have been honored with
a National Holiday.
Any one of BENJAMIN FRANK-
LIN’S accomplishments would have
been enough to make him famous.
Franklin was an expert printer,
originated the American Philosophi-
cal Society, formed Philadelphia’s
First Volunteer Fire Co., was the
first person to raise money for
America’s First Hospital, brought
about the founding of major col-
leges, invented a bookkeeping
system for every post office,
invented the Franklin Stove, was
one of the world’s greatest scien-
tists, helped craft the Declaration of
Independence and one of his final
public acts signed a memorial to the
state legislature to abolish Negro
Slavery.
On the same level of considera-
tion, may we consider the honor
student from Harvard, John F. Ken-
nedy. Kennedy wrote. the best seller
“Why England Slept” that showed
England’s unpreparedness for
World War II, saved his entire crew
when his ship (PT-109) was cut in
half by a Japanese destroyer, was
named by the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce one of America’s Out-
standing Young Men, fought hard on
the Select Committee to stop unfair
Labor-Management Relations.
As President in only three years,
Kennedy established the Peace
Corps to teach the underdeveloped
countries how to survive, the Alli-
ance of Progress was inaugurated,
vastly promoted America’s Space
treaty with Russia.
sidered. When race and popularity
performance and accomplishments,
we should take a serious look at
proposing Ben Franklin and John F.
Kennedy for national helidays on
ideals embodied in American Prin-
ciples.
JAMES DENNIS
WEST WYOMING
DEAR EDITOR:
Some 20 odd years ago, I was part
of a team studying, for a defense
contractor, the effects of a nuclear
war. At that time, we concluded
that if the Soviets successfully fired
all of their weapons and if we did
likewise, the likelihood of survival
would be slim and the problems of
doing so would be awesome. Since,
then, of course the situation has
deteriorated substantially.
Today, in the event of a massive
nuclear exchange, the destruction
initially engendered would probably
be followed by such a severe cli-
matic change that survival by most
life forms would be improbably. For
this reason, there doesn’t seem to
be any real point in flagellating
ourselves over an inability to come
to some form of agreement with the
Soviets.
If both sides understand that any
sizable nuclear conflict means sui-
cide, it may well be that the ulti-
mate conflict will be avoided. I
suggest that while the Kremlin may
shout and pout and while Washing-
ton may moan and groan, Armaged-
don is unlikely at this time.
However, this does not mean that
some nut or a small group won’t get
hold of a nuclear device and then
proceed to detonate it in one of our
cities. This would indeed be catas-
trophic for a number of reasons.
Our economy might not survive
the blow if, for example, all com-
puter programs were thereby
destroyed or if most public power
systems were knocked out for any
considerable length of time. The
likelihood of such a disaster would
appear to increase as nuclear weap-
ons proliferate. And according to
Murphy’s Law - if it can, it will.
For this reason, I think that pru-
dent survival planning for the next
few decades ought to be aimed
more at circumventing the effects
of a limited nuclear disaster than
the “end-of-the-world”’ event envi-
sioned by some. For example, a lot
of grief might be avoided if comput-
ers and programs were shielded
against the magnetic effects that
accompany nuclear explosions. And,
while large regional power grids
may presently have advantages in
economy, smaller widely-dispersed
units are less vulnerable to disaster.
On the other hand, if one is
Soviets is essential to avoid the
ultimate disaster, then the outlook
is dismal indeed.
Adherents to this viewpoint might
well consider the so-called ‘‘Noah
Project” which has been pro-
pounded to insure continuation of
the race of man - a few people,
animals, etc. hidden deep in the
earth for a very long period of time
would be counted on to repopulate
the planet some hears after. It could
work. But to what purpose?
HUGH P. KING
DALLAS
DEAR EDITOR:
As a candidate for School Board
Director in the Lake-Lehman School
Districtuiniithe Primary Election; I
am very interested in the vacant
seat created by the tragic and
untimely death of School Director
Vincent Marchakitus.
Vince and I are from the Lake
Silkworth area and worked together
on many projects for the betterment
of the community. We were the best
of friends and we both decided to
run for school director to be able to
get on the board to work in har-
mony with the other directors to
maintain good quality education. 1
was very happy and proud to'see
Vince win the primary election and
had already planned to run again in
two years.
I did not conduct a write-in vote of
my own nor help with any write-in
vote at the election because I
believe Vince should have won the
elections he thought so much of.
I would only hope now that consid-
eration of the School Board mem-
bers be given first to those people
who ran in our region in the Pri-
mary. Election-because-1 feel they
had enotigh”interest “and ‘stamina to
run in the election that they should
be most considered for this appoint-
ment.
And, in addition, the taxpayers
did elect a new school board direc-
tor when they elected Vince Mar-
chakitus. So replacing Vince with
one of the other two candidates is
only appropriate.
: RAY HILLMAN
DEAR EDITOR:
Betty Britt, David Lorah and
Candy Lorah did not have to die.
Their deaths must be charged, not
only to the drivers involved, but
primarily to PennDOT’s negligence
regarding lane and speed control on
Route 309 as it abuts Stapinski’s
Drug Store.
Before other innocent persons are
killed or injured, PennDOT must
reduce the 45 mile per hour speed
limit and must also restrict center
lane passing heading north.
The entire stretch of Route 309
from Franklins to Coscia’s needs
speed and lane control especially
now that population and business
growth has outstripped circa 1920
roadways.
DEAR EDITOR:
I got the nicest surprise yesterday
while reading The Post. I came
across our name in the anniversary
part of the paper.
You (Joe Gula) sure don’t forget
your hometown people. Of course, I
will cut it out and put it in the
album. I can’t believe a year has
gone by. ,
Thank you so very much and wish
you and yours a Happy Thanksgiv-
ing and a Blessed Christmas. :
MR. AND MRS. JOHN MANA
: SWOYERSVILLE
DEAR EDITOR:
On behalf of the Wilkes-Barre
General Hospital Woman’s Auxil-
lary, 1 want to thank you for the
publicity coverage provided to us by
The Dallas Post for the 15th Star-
light Ball. :
Publicity is such an important
part in the planning and success of
a fund-raising affair and your coop-
eration helped make the 1983 Ball a
successful one.
ELAINE RUSIN
PUBLICITY CHAIRMAN
1983 STARLIGHT BALL
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Music will fill the air at Pennsyl-
vania’s largest family affair - the
68th Pennsylvania Farm Show,
Sunday, Jan. 8, at the Farm Show
Complex in Harrisburg.
According to State Agriculture
Secretary Penrose hallowell, a vari-
ety of musical talent is scheduled to
perform at the show’s Youth Benefit
Concert at 6:30 p.m. on the opening
day of the annual event.
General admission tickets are
$4.50 ($3.50 in advance) and $6
fit Concert, P.O. Box 15724, Harris-
burg, PA 17105-5724. All mail orders
must be postmarked by Dee. 27 and
should include a self-addressed
stampled envelope. Checks should
be made payable to the Pen
“Dec. 27 will be held at the door in
‘of the concert. Tickets may also be
purchased at the Farm Show Ticket
Office on North Cameron Street
beginning Dec. 27. Hours are from
10 a.m. to 6 p.m. or phone 717-783-
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