Phoning home costly
least not in the immediate future.
Only yesterday
too costly for
50 YEARS AGO - JANUARY 12, 1934
While school directors of Kingston Township pro-
ceeded with plans for construction of a new school
building, taxpayers of the township took definite steps
to block the directors’ plans, charging the cost of the
proposed building would burden taxpayers unfairly.
Dallas Borough Council conducted its reorganization
meeting and installed newly elected councilmen, Peter
D. Clark and Wesley Himmler. All borough officers
and employees were re-elected.
C.A. Frantz was re-elected president of the First
National Bank of Dallas when the institution held its
annual meeting of stockholders and directors.
The necessity for prompt reports from parents in
whose homes symptoms of any contagious disease
were evident was stressed by Elmer Kerr of Harveys
Lake, district health officer, as cases of diptheria,
whooping cough and scarlet fever continued to appear
throughout the Back Mountain region.
You could get - Fancy selected eggs, 25¢ doz.;
cherries, 19c can; peas, two No. 2 cans, 25¢; rice, 1b.
pkg., 8c; toilet soap, 4 bars, 19¢; Angel Food cake, 33¢
ea.
40 YEARS AGO - JANUARY 14, 1944
In order to meet an increasing burden of debt
brought about primarily by the reconstruction of three
miles of streets, Dallas Borough adopted a budget that
increases the tax millage from 18 to 22 mills - the
highest since 1932.
Many taxpayers in the Back Mountain region were
unaware of a new penalty of 7 to 1 percent per month
had been placed on all delinquent school taxes,
starting Jan. 1.
A chimney fire which had apparently smouldered
for several hours before it was discovered threatened
the home of former school director C.J. Brown of
Lehman.
Deaths - Mrs. Sarah Jane Shupp, East Dallas; Mrs.
Susie Jennings Rogers, Lehman; Mrs. Ida Hawke,
Dallas; Mrs. Ella Mae Space, Noxen.
Married - Alice May Kauffman to Petty Officer
Third Class F. Sherman Mead, Dallas; Second Lieu-
tenant Arvilla Mae Swan, Shavertown to Lieutenant
Warren Dale Blakney, Plainview, Texas.
You could get - Celery, 1g. bunch, 10c; carrots, 2 1g.
bnehs, 19¢; ready-to-eat hams, 38c 1b.; shrimp, 37¢ lb.;
bread, 2 Ig. lvs., 17c. #
30 YEARS AGO - JANUARY 8, 1954
Lake Township and Lehman Township offices, decid-
ing the time was ripe for action, laid down the law to
tavern keepers. Licenses promised to cooperate in
maintaining legal closing hours and serving no liquor
to minors.
A large crowd gathered to inspect the new Ross
township
Township Elementary School and to listen to dedica-
tion address.
Dallas Borough-Kingston Township Joint Board laid
plans for the coming evaluation by the Middle States
Association on Secondary schools.
Married - Sally Ann Lasher, Dallas, to Airman 3-C
Frank E. Wagner Jr., Dallas; Patricia Ann Nieman,
Kansas City, Missouri, to Charles Bigelow, Beaumont;
Mary Patricia Wilson, Dallas, to Robert Ralph Harris,
Dallas; Bernice Ethel Ramsbottom, Collingswood,
N.J., to Robert J. Stephenson, Dallas; Ruth L.
MacMillan, Nosen, to George Jurista, Tunkhannock.
Deaths - Herbert R. Williams, Trucksville; Lt. Col..
John M. Robinson, Dallas; Frederick C. Crispell,
Harveys Lake; James Crispell, Noxen; Charles A.
Hilbert, Beaumont; Earl Lamoreux, Idetown; Mrs.
Louise Van Norman, Oaklawn.
You could get - Lobster tails, 89c lb.; prune juice,
qt., 25c; apple butter, 28 oz. jar, 25¢; cherries, 16 oz.
can, 25¢; apricots, 16 oz. can, 25¢.
20 YEARS AGO - JANUARY 16, 1964
Dismantling operations were scheduled to put an
end to a rare week in Dallas history, after Treasury
agents and State Police raided and impounded a 600-
gallon can alcohol distillery in Kunkle.
A near-blizzard immobilized not only the Back
Mountain, but the whole Wyoming Valley.
Members of Teamsters Union, Local 401, picketted
at the Natona Mills plant, Route 415, Dallas.
Deaths - Harry Ell, Jr., Shavertown.
You could get - Peanut butter, 18 oz. jar, 53c;
margarine, 2-1 lb. pkgs., 53c; Colgate dental cream,
family size, 69c; orange juice, 3-6 oz. cans, 83c.
10 YEARS AGO - JANUARY 10, 1974
Area police and road supervisors were in agreement
that the state road department deserved no congratu-
lations for their maintenance of Back Mountain
secondary roads during the winter.
The new board of supervisors of Jackson Township
appointed Don Jones the new police chief at a salary
of $211 permonth.
Nancy Kingsbury, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William
Kingsbury, of Dallas, was the first baby born in the
new year.
Deaths - Leo Wisnewski, Fernbrook; Morgan Row-
lands, Shavertown; Samuel Pritchard, Hunlock Creek;
Mary Palchanis, Dallas; Margaret Bigger, Dallas;
Alice Crispell, Ruggles; Gertrude Behee, Chase; Anna
Grietzer, Shavertown.
Married - Janice Diane Akers, Indiana, to David
Joseph Johns, Lehman.
You could get - Ice cream, gal. 58¢c; king size bread,
3 lvs., 79¢; Campbell’s soups, 3-10%» oz. cans, 49c;
Lipton tea bags, 100, 69c; Close-up toothpaste, 6.4 oz.,
64c.
Re GAL1AS
(
USPS 147-720
(in the Jean Shop building) -
Buying gasoline
means making
many decision
In the old days it could be very
simple. When you needed gasoline,
you pulled into the corner station
where the attendant cleaned your
windshield, checked under the hood
and ‘‘filled ’er up” with regular.
Today, there are decisions. Should
you buy regular leaded gasoline or
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the post office in Dallas Pa under the act ot March 3 1889
regular unleaded? Or maybe prem-
ium unleaded? Are you paying with
cash or using a credit card? Will
you pump the gas yourself or have
an attendant do it?
The prices you see in large num-
bers on service station signs almost
always reflect regular, leaded gaso-
line prices. If your car, like most,
uses unleaded, you’ll probably find
the price is higher. In some cases,
the posted price may be a ‘‘come-
on.” Read the signs closely so you
won't have any surprises when it
comes time to pay.
It’s useful to remember that some
stations will almost always adver-
tise the lowest price they offer on
any product. Leaded gasoline is
gasoline sold so that price is posted
to encourage customers to use that
station. When you pull up to the
pump, you’ll often find that the
unleaded price is generally a few
cents higher.
If a gas station has competitively
priced leaded gasoline, its price for
unleaded may not follow. That
leaded gas price may be a ‘‘draw.”’
from
‘B62
ooks like giardiasis is
the thing to have these
days - at least in parts
of the Valley other than the
Back Mountain. Fortunately,
the germ hasn’t made it way
into local residences, forcing
our neighbors to either boil
or buy.
Back Mountain people,
however, cannot completely
avoid the giardiasis craze,
as they must travel into the
infected areas to go to work,
or maybe to a health club, or
possibly to a doctor. The
problem, though not in our
immediate area or in our
water faucets for that
matter, has affected all of
our lives.
Who’s to blame? PG&W?
DER? Who knows? Neither
one of those organizations
wanted to blame each other -
and they certainly didn’t
want to blame themselves.
So, what did they do? They
blamed the poor, defenseless
beavers who made their
homes near the reservoirs.
It’s. quite. : difficult to
believe the beavers just
moved into the Springbrook
Reservoir area and caused
now. No, it wasn’t the bea-
vers. Somebody, somewhere
along the line, made a mis-
take and the poor, innocent
beavers had to pay the price
- the very heavy price of
death.
The latest reports are tell-
ing turned-off tap owners the
problem is due to human
sewage - human sewage that
has made its way into the
reservoir that carries their
drinking water. Can you
think of anything more dis-
gusting? That's enough to
make anybody boil or buy.
So, here we sit in the Back
Mountain - away from the
giardiasis and all,its compli-
cations. Here we sit, free to
turn on the tap and grab
ourselves a glass of water,
or fill our dog's water dish,
or brush our teeth.
None of us, however, has
been able to stear com-
pletely clear of the contami-
nated water as the whole
creepy mess has touched all
of our lives in one Jor
another. J
Fortunately, there are
those who have done every-
thing they can to make life
this giardiasis problem all of
a sudden. That isn’t the way
it happened, though. The
beavers have been there for
a long time and nobody ever
complained about them until
free of charge. Thank God,
there are still a few good
people left in this world.
‘ The people involved with
this problem, however, had
better get their act together
and get it together soon.
Innocent people are suffer-
ing and innocent animals
have died because of a situa-
tion that could have been
avoided.
Giardiasis, a household
word of late, has turned our
lives topsy-turvy and no one
is happy about it. We'll wait
a certain amount of time for
those who are responsible to
clear up the problem - or at
least give us some idea of
how long the problem will
last - but we won’t wait
forever.
We want answers and we
want drinking water at the
push of a button or the turn
of a handle. We want some ;
order restored here. a A
God forbid should Bill dp 1
Thopson’s (The Times
Leader) ‘Looking into the
future” column of Jan. 6
ever become reality. Can
you imagine living during an
era when you have only fond
memories of something as.
simple as running water in
your home? Watch out! Such
an era may be right around
the corner.
— DOTTY MARTIN
By HOWARD J. GROSSMAN
The long awaited year is here.
The George Orwellian Society, por-
trayed in his famous book may not
be upon us, however, a revolution in
like kind has spread its wing across
the nation. For better or for worse,
the computer revolution has struck
with a thundering clash and clang
as bold as the Industrial Revolution
of a century or more ago.
What all of this means to North-
eastern Pennsylvania remains to be
determined in the next 16 years.
when the pages of history turn to
the 21st century.
The dawn of a new era always
brings with it problems and oppor-
tunities. Technology in Northeastern
Pennsylvania is undergoing rapid
transformation as it is throughout
the nation. More and more firms
are speeding into the computer age
as are non-profit organizations and
governments. In Pennsylvania, this
is being accelerated through the
Ben Franklin Partnership, a state
administered program through the
Pennsylvania Department of Com-
merce wherein four technology cen-
ters have been established across
the state. Lehigh University is the
primary technology center servicing
the seven counties of Northeastern
Pennsylvania.
What this portends for the future
of Northeastern Pennsylvania in
1984 and the years beyond is a
question being addressed by several
organizations, including the Eco-
nomic Development Council North-
eastern Pennsylvania. It is easy to
discern that in 1984, the technology
changes which started in the years
just preceeding 1984, will continue
throughout Northeastern - Pennsyl-
vania. The focus on technology,
however, is not the only trend which
will mark 1984 in this region.
The economy should improve as
far as employment rates and con-
sumer investments are concerned,
as has been dramatized by the
holiday season retail market. The
basic problem which marks North-
eastern Pennsylvania’s economy
still remains to be resolved. The
region’s economic posture needs to
be stablized in an upward direction,
rather than the stabilization which
has taken place in a downward
direction. This means that while
Northeastern Pennsylvania did not
suffer as much as could have been
the case during the height of the
recession of the early 1980’s, it
nevertheless found itself with double
digit unemployment. Most new jobs
came about as a result of expansion
of existing businesses and industries
rather than new industrial develop-
ment.
A remarkable number of invest-
ments have been made throughout
Northeastern Pennsylvania, even
during the height of the recession,
especially in the Pocono Mountains
with resorts expanding, time share
units being developed and land
transactions occurring at a rapid
pace.
Much of this activity revolves
around the 1984 controversy as to
types of gambling which may or
may not be permitted in Northeast-
ern Pennsylvania or, in fact, the
entire state. If 1984 proves nothing
else in this region, there may be a
revolution in how the region views
this issue, depending upon what the
State legislature and the Adminis-
tration does in Harrisburg, relative
to permissive forms of gambling.
Problem areas which remain to
be resolved in 1984 include, but are
not limited to, the following:
1. Completion of the Railroad
Preservation Program to stabilize
rail transportation and utilize its
potential for economic growth.
2. Selection of one or more sites
for disposal of non-hazardous, indus-
trial residual waste in order to
protect thousands of jobs which
otherwise might be threatened
throughout Northeastern Pennsyl-
vania. > ne ALT np
3. Expansion of the major runwa ) i
at the Wilkes-Barre Scranton Inter-m |
national Airport to approximately ,.<. A
oj
7,500 feet. This is a project which &
has been in the planning stages for =~ |
many years and may well reach
final decision, if not in 1985, then in
the years shortly following.
4. Further development of the
growth corridor along Interstate 81
between Wilkes-Barre and Scranton.
This includes the development of
the Montage Project and the poten-
tial development of the 1,150 acres
recently acquired by a private
entrepreneur in an area formerly
proposed for a regional correctional
facility.
5. The development of attract
tourism and vacation expenditure
dollars. This is a continuation of.
trends in the early 80’s but on an
accelerated basis in light of the
expected continuation of the
national economic recovery.
6. Expansion of existing busi-
nesses and industries throughout
Northeastern Pennsylvania as the
keystone of economic growth. Var-
ious tools are now available to
encourage this including, Revolving se
Loan Funds, Small Business Admin. @F
istration corporate structures for
fixed asset financing and much
more.
While these conditions will affect
the overall economic growth of the
region, they are by no means the
only activities which are forecast
“for 1984. Each year the Economic
Development Council publishes a
State of the Region document. The
latest edition should be issued some-
time before the end of January 1984.
That document will provide much
more focused information on how
and what Northeastern Pennsyl-
vania will be like during the Orwel-
lian era which is now thrust upon
us.
Library news
By NANCY KOZEMCHAK
Library Correspondent
The Back Mountain Memorial
Libary is involved in a service to
the public called Interlibrary Loan.
If one of our patrons needs a certain
book and we do not have it in our
collection, we can request it through
the Osterhout Library in Wilkes-
Barre and if they don’t have it, they
will try to find it.
During the past year we have
received books for our patrons from
Tennessee, Florida, New Jersey and
Texas along with many from college
libraries out of the district. A new
service is the fiction round, locating
fiction in local areas before sending
out of town. The Osterhout van
delivers and picks up from Back
Mountain on Monday, Wednesday
and Friday each week. One of our
particular book and we don’t have it
here, we will try to get it for you
from another library. If you need
something special, try Interlibrary
loan.
Your library tells you how! What-
ever your interest, you can find a
book that shows you how to accom-
plish a task, how to travel to a
foreign country, how to repair a
leaky faucet, how to play bridge. In
fact...hundreds of books in the
library’s card catalog begin with
the phrase ‘How to...’ Use your
library and find out, ‘how to’!
New books at the library: “Winds
of Blame’ by Jane Gilmore Rush-
ing is a novel that recreates a time
and lace as a setting for a family
whose members have reached the
end of endurance and “take the
ultimate, awesome step beyond it.
They encounter the community’s
vengeance and their neighbors’
well-intentioned falsehood. A tale of
murder and tragedy! w
“Berlin Game’ by Len Deighton )
is a new Book Club purchase and is :
a superb, strong and compelling H
thriller. It has unfaltering excite-
ment in its creation of atmosphere
and character. ‘Brahms Four Wants
out’ is the alarming signal - which
means one of Britain's reliable and
valuable agents behind the Iron
Curtain needs safe passage to the
West. :
“Shame” by Salman Rushidie is a
novel which takes us back to the
world of the East, giving us &
colorful, complex fantasy at once
comic and serious - a mixture of
history, myth, art, language, poli«
tics, religion, but all ‘at a slight
angle to reality’. It is a saga of
rivalry, passion, brotherhood,
betrayal, sexual obsession, violence
and revenge. Dr