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50 YEARS AGO - DECEMBER 29, 1933¢
Following a spring-like Christmas Day, the mercury
zoomed to zero following a five inch snowfall.
Plans were made by Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire
Company to present the musical comedy ‘Heads Up”.
Mrs. Arlene Rood of Dallas directed the production.
Rev. and Mrs. John L. Thomas, Mt. Greenwood
Road, Trucksville were married 50 years.
You could get - Tomatoes, 2 No. 2: cans 15¢; white
pea beans 3 1b. 10c; best pink salmon 2 tall cans 21c;
chocolates 5 lb. box 98c; rolled oats 2 pkg. llc;
sardines 2 oval cans 15c¢; pork loins 1lc lb.; leg of
lamb 17¢ 1b.
' 40 YEARS - DECEMBER 31, 1943
Two local boys, Pfc. Donald H. Grose and Pfc.
Frederick M. Johnson' graduated from Keesler Field
technical school as airplane mechanics in the mainte-
nance of big B-24 Liberator bombers.
Alan Kistler, former Post printer, sent a letter to
soldier in‘New ‘Guinea. Kistler was the husband of the
Alan Kistler, Harveys Lake.
Married - Elizabeth Palace to Tech. Sergeant
Raymond Hozempa; Elda Dymond to Luther Hontz.
Deaths - William Weaver, Idetown; Mary Belavage,
Trucksville; Edward Travis, Elizabethtown; Prof.
C.H. Albert, Bloomsburg; Mary Gwynne Whitby Hill,
Shavertown.
You could get - Pork loins 25¢ 1b.; smoked hams 33c
Ib.; large shrimp 37c lb.; oranges 31c doz.; spinach 2
1b. 19¢; salad dressing 22c pt.; Farmdale evaporated
milk 3 tall cans 26¢; tomato soup 8c can.
20 YEARS AGO - DECEMBER 30, 1963
Despite drive-in movies, mass communication and
rock ’n roll the Kunkle Farmer Dance remained the
oldest formidable public social event in the Bk.
Mountain. Attendance at this affair guaranteed a good
time. The dances averaged 200 patrons.
Girl Scout Troop 648 took cheer baskets to Carpenter
Library news
Nursing Home for each patient, entertained with
Christmas Carols and made a favor for each guest.
Dianne Johns, June Belles, Paula Smith, Yvonne
Smith, Linda Evans, Linda Weaver, Clare Clark, Gail
Space, Dorothy Luketic, Marie Blizzard, Judy Lee and
Millie Traver participated in this project.
Engaged - Catherine Geiger to Ronald B. Morgan.
Married - Jean Williams to A. Joseph Sekera;
Harold Hess to Mary Wiley.
Deaths - Harriet Rogers, Lehman; Kaziah Jones,
Dallas; John Fetsko, Dallas; Richard Lengel, Shaver-
town.
You could get - Chickens 25¢ 1b.; pork sausage 3 Ib.
79¢; jumbo shrimp 97c lb.; lobster tails $1.69 Ib.;
sauerkraut 2 Ib. bag 39¢; horseradish 5 oz. jar 21c.
- 10 YEARS AGO - DECEMBER 27, 1973
The second major snowfall of the season blanketed
the region causing numerous auto accidents and
forcing schoolsand businesses to close early:
Ten area Students graduated from Bloomsburg State
College. They were Virginia Piatt, Mark Vivian, Grace
Fries, James Brace, Barbara Dorish, Rita Fedor,
Ruth McCloskey, Joan M. Woolbert, Gloria Blessing
and Janet Nossal.
Following the appearance of the obituary of Cather-
ine Miller in a local paper, vandals entered her home
and ransacked it. Police Chief Paul sabol urged
Kingston Township residents to report any unfamiliar
parked cars, activities or individuals to the police
immediately. Many acts of vandalism had occurred in
Kingston Twp. during the past weeks.
Married - Linda Yakubowski to Edward Steltz.
Deaths - Eleanore Fisher, Trucksville; William
Roberts, Sutton Road; Catherine Miller, Pioneer Ave.
You could get - Pork roast 88c 1b.; Delmonico steak
$1.98 1b.; skinless franks 99c 1b.; oranges 10 for 79c;
Emperor grapes 39c lb.; lemons 3-29¢; 8 oz. can
Snow’s minced clams 39¢; 2-1b. can Maxwell House
coffee $1.85.
By NANCY KOZEMCHAK
Staff Correspondent
As we get ready to begin the new
year, the Back Mountain Memorial
Library Board of Directors and
staff members would like to express
our appreciation to the community
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for its support during 1983.
The people who use the library
facilities as well as those who sup-
port it financially are very special
our patrons and the world at large
is a year of peaceful existence,
happy days and tolerant under-
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standing of each other.
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“Many of us spend half our time
wishing for things we could have if
we didn’t spend half our time wish-
ing.” We don’t know who said it, but
whoever he was, he summed up an
awful lot of wisdom in one sentence.
Take this matter of reading, for
instance. Fifteen minutes a day, a
substitute for wishing, would allow
you to read up to two dozen books in
a year. The library can help you
translate wishes into reality. Get
the ‘library habit’!
New books at the library: ‘‘One
Brief Shining Moment” by William
Manchester is a celebration of John
F. Kennedy’s triumph in life. Cull-
ing incidents from a friendship that
spanned almost two decades, the
author recalls boisterous family
gatherings, grueling campaign trips
and quiet evenings. A unique tribute
to an extraordinary man and
leader.
“Trinity’s Child’ by William
Prochnau is a novel of the Third
World War, the most chillingly
authentic nuclear holocaust novel
since ‘On the Beach’. The world is
plunged into its worst nightmare -
and you are caught up in an edge-of-
your-chair global thriller.
“Rubicon One” by Dennis Jones
is the last resort scenario. The
CIA’s giant computer at Langley
has been forecasting world affairs
with chilling accuracy. When the
printouts read Armageddon, the
chiefs decide to launch the most
secret of all secret operations.
‘Sassafras’ by Jack Matthew is a
spirited, adventurous, picaresque
novel about some things that might
have happened on the frontier in the
1840’s. Thad Burke is a young
.phrenologist who gives lectures and
reads heads. A natural commenta-
tor on the human species.
“Delta Force’ by Col. Charlie
Beckwith and Donald Knox is the
story of the U.S. counter-terrorist
unit and the Iran hosinges rescue
mission.
t the risk of sounding
like someone standing
on a soap box waving
their arms and jamming an
idea down your throat, we’d
like to remind our readers
that New Year’s Eve cele-
brations can be some of the
most dangerous times of the
year.
Celebrating is fun - espe-
ciallyy when you have
enjoyed a good year and are
anxiously looking forward to
the upcoming year. New
Year’s Eve celebrations are
a time to get together with
friends, rehash all that has
happened during the last 365
days and plan for the coming
12 months.
Don’t let your New Year
come to an abrupt and tragic
halt. Be careful when cele-
brating. Too many times we
view tragedy as something
that happens only to others
and couldn’t possibly enter
our. lives. Every one of us,
however, is susceptible to
tragedy and tragedy strikes
faster than you or I can
blink an eyelash.
This New Year’s Eve,
while celebrating, remember
those who love you, those
who need you and those
whose mere existence
depends on you. Remember
living in the Back Moun-
fine’ if anyone else
tain has as much ‘trouble
Donald Joneses as I do?If
Donald J. Jones from the
Lake-Lehman School Board
and Donald R. Jones from
the Dallas School Board are
upset with me, I can cer-
tainly understand that. In
announcing the fact that
Donald J. Jones was
recently honored for 10 years
of service to the Lake-
Lehman School Board, we
published a picture of
Donald R. Jones from the
Dallas School Board instead.
Subsequently, the wife of
Donald J. Jones phoned our
For the eight million Americans
who are severly afflicted with
depressiegn, therapy and medication
may be the best route. But for those
of us who hit an occasional down-
draft of mild or moderate depres-
sion, there are a number of self-help
remedies that can give a substantial
boost.
Joan Heilman, writing in’ the
December Reader’s Digest, outlines
mood-elevating steps that you can
take yourself - “uppers,” in effect,
without the drugs.
Exercise - The very fact that
you're taking action instead of just
A toast
A toast to 1984 for a happy,
Year.
to celebrate in moderation
and don’t allow the New
Year’s toasts to become so
powerful they overtake your
good sense.
This New Year’s, remem-
ber to leave the driving to
someone who isn’t drinking -
office the following day and
informed us she is not mar-
ried to the man whose pic-
ture;was-in the paper=Seems
Mrs. Donald J. Jones was
taking an awful ribbing from
her fellow employees that
morning and wanted to get
the whole thing off her chest.
Donald R. Jones called the
next day. Fortunately, his
voice was laughing and he
was not upset at all. Come to
find out, Donald J. Jones
recently attended a confer-
ence as a school board
member. Shortly thereafter,
an innocent party stopped
Donald R. Jones and
inquired as to how he
sitting there helps, but exercise
actually changes the level of hor-
mones in the blood.
Nutrition - Some authorities
believe that even a single nutri-
tional deficiency can cause depres-
sion in susceptible people. Vitamin
therapy, when taken in accordance
with a physican’s instruction, is
harmless and can quickly have an
effect.
Think positive - Depressed people
view life darkly. Be aware that your
dark feelings originate in your head
and may not jibe with reality. Work
on converting your negative
throughts into more realistic alter-
allas Post/Joan Kingsbury
peaceful and prosperous New
or the drinking to someone
who isn’t driving. s
On behalf of the staff and
management of The Dallas
Post, I’d like to wish you and
yours a very peaceful New
Year.
— DOTTY MARTIN
enjoyed the conferenceygy
Donald R. Jones hadn’t even'§ .
been sworn -in -as a school g
board-member-
TEST re
Looks like I'm not the only
one who is having a problem’
keeping the two men
straight. Fortunately, they
aren’t both serving on the
same school board. Can you
imagine the chaotic situation
we’d have then?
Anyway, I hope Donald R.
Jones and Donald J. Jones
will accept this public apol-
ogy for my confusion and
will continue to be as kind
about bringing the difference
of the two to our attention.
— DOTTY MARTIN
your tune! w
natives.
Socialize - The very fact that you
feel isolated and lonely is an early
warning signal of oncoming depres-
and keeping in touch with asso-
ciates.
Check your medications - Many
prescription drugs, Heilman warns,
can cause depression as a side
effect. Check with your doctor if
you're taking medication. If you
frequently feel down in the dumps,
your doctor or a mental-health pro-
fessional can help you. Depression
can be successfully treated.
“Drink milk’ is the earliest
recorded advice to ulcer sufferers,
dating back to the fifth decade A.D.
and the Roman scholar Gaius Pliny.
His advice lived on through the
centuries, as medical science
progressed from simple observation
of symptoms to a knowledge of
anatomy and organ function.
Eighteen hundred years later,
Cruveilhier of France not only
renewed the admonition to drink
milk, but also distinguished between
stomach ulcers and gastric cancer.
Most of the attention to ulcer
disease continued to focus on stom-
ach ulcers, until John Abercrombie
of Edinburgh described duodenal
ulcers - those occurring in the first
portion of the small intestine - and
noted the tell-tale symptom: ‘Pain
begins about the time when the food
is passing out of the stomach, or
two to four hours after a meal.”
In the 19th century, several
famous physicians studied the
nature and function of the digestive
juices and their role in ulcer dis-
ease. Patienty were kept in bed for
a month or two, starved the first
few days and then placed on compli-
cated diets, developed around milk,
which were aimed at countering the
assault of the digestive juices. Anta-
cids began to be used, along with
other pharmaceutical agents. Unfor-
tunately, then as now, ulcers
healed, but usually came back later
on.
In the 20th century, when X-rays
led to better understanding of the
digestive organs and allowed visual
diagnosis of ulcers, physicians
oftered resorted to surgers to
‘‘cure” ulcer diseases.
An American physician, Bernard
Sippy, laid the foundation for
modern ulcer treatment around
1915. He developed basic diagnostic
techniques and limited the indica-
tions for surgery. Instead, he
stressed medical management,
based on frequent milk/cream feed-
ings and acid neutralization with
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various chemical substances.
Today, ulcer patients are much
better off than in days gone by. Milk
is no longer recommended, because
sophisticated measuring techniques
have shown it to be a potent acid
stimulator. Patients may eat bal-
anced meals, avoiding only those
foods which prove to be irritating.
In addition to the histamine block-
ers, which reduce acid production,
sucralfate is now available. This
stream, but goes direct to the ulcer,
where it forms a protective barrier,
that allows the ulcer to heal. Anta-
cids taken in large doses are also
effective, but more inconvenient.
As Dr. Sippy observed some 70
years ago, ‘The general tendency
is aided but slightly.”
Therefore, physicians Yoday rely
on medical management, saving
surgery as a last resort for the
more complicated ulcer cases.