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50 YEARS AGO - FEB. 2, 1934
Proponents of plans for construc-
tion of a new Junior High School for
Kingston Township expressed confi-
dence that the project would be
carried through successfully. Oppo-
nents of the plan continued their
attempt to block the project.
Appointment of Irvin C. Davis as
acting postmaster of Shavertown
was announced at Washington, D.C.
by Postmaster General James A.
Farley.
Dedicatory exercises were held at
the new Lehman Township Grade
School at Lake Silkworth under the
sponsorship of the Parent-Teacher
Association of Lehman Township.
Deaths — William H. Hutson,
Dallas; Mrs. Susan Kline Zimmer-
man, Huntsville.
You could get — Prunes, 2 No. 2)
cans, 25c; peaches, 2 lbs., 25¢;
grape fruit, ea. 5c; apple cider
vinegar, 2, 22-o0z. bottles 15¢; motor
- oil, 2 gal. can, 90c; bacon ! Ib.
pkg., 10c.
40 YEARS AGO - FEB. 4, 1944
Two Lake Township youths were
killed instantly and two others
injured when their 1935 sedan
crashed broadside into a tree near
Sandy Beach, Harveys Lake. The
‘dead youths, Thomas Walters, 18,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Evan Walters,
of Dallas RD 1 and Harry Hoover,
22, son of Mr. and Mrs. William
Hoover, also of Dallas, were on
their way home after attending a
dance at Kunkle with Roy Rogers,
17, of Outlet, and David Walters, 19,
a brother of Thomas.
Estimated to contain 50 and 100
ships, several groups of fighter
planes on night flying operations
flew over Dallas.
Officials of Wyoming Valley
Motor Club gave their hearty
approval to plans of the State High-
way Department to construct a new
highway between Lehman and Ide-
town as the final link in the route
between Williamsport and Wilkes-
Barre.
Deaths — Mrs. Jennie Austin
Brickel, Dallas; Fred Kraft, Prin-
gle; Mrs. Emmajean Mott, Pikes
Creek; Miss Delia Durkin, Shaver-
town.
Married — Mary Elizabeth Jeter,
Dallas, to Lt. James B. Davies,
Dallas; Jean Adelaide Hadsel,
Dallas, to 1st Sgt. Herbert H.
Updyke.
You could get — Pancake flour, 20
oz. pkg., 7c; smoked hams, 33c 1b.;
fancy large shrimp, 37c 1b.;
oranges, doz., 27¢; 2 bunches car-
rots, 17c; cabbage, 5c 1b.
30 YEARS AGO - FEB. 5, 1954
Daniel M. Shaver’s resignation
from the Kingston Township School
Board came as a surprise to mem-
bers of his own and of the Dallas
Borough-Kingston Township joint
board. Shaver stated that for per-
sonal reasons he did not wish to
continue.
Two members were elected to the
Advisory Committee of the Dallas
Branch according to an announce-
ment made by Miners National
Bank of Wilkes-Barre. They are
Sheldon T. Evans, Shavertown
druggist, and Charles H. Long,
Sweet ' Valley farm equipment
dealer.
Dallas Borough Council adopted
its annual budget for the expendi-
ture of $34,051.58 during the fiscal
year 1954.
Married — Jean Ruth Hart, Roch-
ester, N.Y., to Robert C. Monk,
Dallas; Joan Kittle, Sweet Valley,
to Francis Cornell, Pikes Creek.
You could get — Potatoes, 10 Ib.
bag, 49¢; butter bread, loaf, 25¢; rib
roast, 59¢ 1b.; chuck roast, 35¢ 1b.;
chocolate syrup, 2 1b. cans, 33c;
wax paper, 2, 125-ft. rolls, 45c.
20 YEARS AGO - FEB. 6, 1964
Dick Demmy was elected presi-
dent of Back Mountain Memorial
Library Association at the annual
meeting in the library annex.
Rev. Charles Frick, former pastor
of Huntsville Christian Church for
35 years, was seriously injured in
New Orleans when he was struck by
a car and knocked to the ground.
John J. Kritchen, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Kritchen, Shaver Ave.,
Scout Award at St.
Church.
Married — Alberta Joan Goble,
Noxen, to Robert Crispell, Noxen;
Shirley Williams, Swoyersville to
David Mikulka, Wyoming, RD 3.
Deaths — Mrs. Lizzie Franklin,
Hunlock Creek; Marvin P. Evarts,
Five Forks. .
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‘You could get — Lobster tails,
$1.69 1b.; spinach, 10 oz. pkg., 10c;
Banquet dinners, 9 oz. tray, 39c;
orange juice, 3 6-0z. cans, 83c;
strawberries, 2 10-0z. pkgs. 45c;
asparagus, 10 oz. pkg., 45¢.
10 YEARS AGO - JAN. 31, 1974
A Lake Township man who sued
area police departments for $5 mil-
lion and lost, charged a former
Dallas Borough patrolman with per-
jury, concerning the same matter.
Edward Meck, could then bring his
case against Ronald Dudik to the
Luzerne County Court’s grand jury.
Ground was broken for the Har-
veys Lake sewer project, following
years of effort and years of feuding
between members of the borough
council and the Harveys Lake
Municipal Authority.
Deaths. — Dorothy Anderson,
Trucksville; Rosa Vosler, Hunlock
Creeks; William Shook, Falls;
Augusta Roese, Sweet Valley; Peter
Grazulis, formerly of Carverton;
Vida Comstock, Harveys Lake;
Stanley Garbush, Sweet Valley; and
Lucy C.J. Traver, Noxen.
You could get — Maxwell House
instant coffee, 6 oz. jar, 78¢; Macin-
tosh apples, 3 1b. bag, 59¢; Morton
dinners, 2 pkgs., 79¢; margarine, 2
1-lb. pkgs., 69¢c; Ma’s Old Fashion
sodas, 2 half gal., 89c.
Library dues
are raised
Library Correspondent
The Back Mountain Memorial
Library Book Club dues for 1984 has
been increased to $10.00 for a single
membership and $15.00 for a double.
The amount of the dues had been
enough to cover the cost of an
average price book. The average
price of a book today is 15.95, which
necessitates this membership
increase.
In 1983, 149 books were purchased
with Book Club money. These books
remain on the book shelf ‘for book
club members only’ for one year
and then they are added to the
like to admit 225 members to the
Book Club for 1984. Membership to
date for 1984 is 126 members. The
next Book Club membership meet-
ing will be held on Monday, March
19 in the annex.
The Library Board of Directors is
seeking individuals who can help
the library by remembering that the
library is a worthy institution to be
considered in your will. There is no
better way for you to go on living in
the hearts and minds of your neigh-
bors than through a memorial
bequest to your library. Your gift
will still be working to improve
minds through the dissemination of
kowledge in years to come. Won't
you consider the library in your
will? It can provide long range help
to insure financial security.
A famous quote, ‘“‘There’s a time
in life to play the fool and a time to
be a lover. And there’s a time to
return a library book, too. It’s on a
card inside the cover.’
New books at the ares ‘Tough
Times Never Last, But Tough
People Do!” by Robert H. Schaller
is a book about how to make your
dreams come true - starting today.
* “The Succession” by George Gar-
rett is a novel of Elizabeth and
James. It is a triumph of intellect
and imagination that once more
brilliantly recreates Elizabethan
England. This story is a grand
tapestry of history, passion, and
stragem. Absorbing, unflagging,
entrancing.
By HOWARD J. GROSSMAN
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In addition, the Northeastern
Following is a list of events that
occurred at the State Capitol last
week:
GOV. THORNBURGH’S proposal
to abolish the state store system
and allow private industry to con-
trol the sales of liquor in Pennsyl-
vania was debated at a hearing
before the House Liquor Control
Committee this week.
Opponents of the plan, which
would replace the Liquor Control
Board with a five-member Alcoholic
Beverage Commission, contend that
it’s the state’s responsibility to
“control’”’ the sale of liquor and not
encourage it.
LCB member Mario Mele
defended the governor’s proposal
saying that ‘‘people are buying
(liquor) elsewhere and our pricing
structure has aggrevated this.”
He added that the loss in sales
was responsible for a reduction in
LCB employees from 3,200 to 2,900.
STATEWIDE TAX reform legisla-
tion will not become a reality unless
more public pressure is placed on
state legislators, according to one
House Republican. °
Rep. Leonard Gruppo (R-Nor-
thamptom) told a group of school
officials that there are many
approaches to tax reform among
lawmakers and that public pressure
must come to bear before compro-
mise legislation is achieved.
Many school districts support tax
reform that would allow schools to
collect increased earned income tax
on the local level, usually as a
tradeoff for decreased property
taxes.
“When you're changing the tax
structure so drastically, it affects so
many people and makes it difficult
to reach a compromise,” Gruppo
explained. He added that the Gen-
eral Assembly may be ready for a
tax reform vote in 1985.
A HOT LINE which provides
information about the newly-
enacted mortgage foreclosure relief
law has averaged 400 calls a day
and has been expanded to handle
the heavy number of inquiries.
The Pennsylvania Housing §
Finance Agency, which oversees the
program, this week doubled the hot
line’s capapcity.
typical callers ‘‘have been laid off
from heavy industry. They have
been off for more than a year. They
have exhausted their unemployment
benefits,”” a PHF A spokesman said.
He added that requests for infor-
matin come from all arts of the
state and from lending institutions.
The new law provides low-interest
loans for up to three years to
homeowners two or more months
behind on their payments and with
a reasonalbe prospect of making
future payments.
It's tax time!
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Between now
and April 15, income tax is first and
foremost in most of our minds. In
an effort to make filing income tax
forms a little easier for our readers,
The Dallas Post is publishing tax
tips each week for five weeks. This
week, the second of the series, the
tips are entitled, “Tax lessons can
save money for students and par-
ents.” The tips are furnished by the
Pennsylvania Institute of Certified
Public Accountants, Philadelphia.)
Too often, students who earn
spending money on a part-time job
decide their taxes don’t matter and
fail to file a tax return. Smart?
Dumb. Every year millions of
these students never collect refunds
to which they are entitled. Accord-
ing to William L. Smith, Jr., CPA,
President, Northeastern Chapter,
Pennsylvania Institute of Certified
Public, Accountants, students can
save themselves and their families
tax dollars by understanding a few
basic tax rules.
Even if you are one of those who
did not file for a refund of money
withheld from your paycheck, it’s
not too late. You can file an
amended tax return for as far back
as 1980.
If you earned less than $3, 300 in
1983, your tax refund may be. size-
able. Here's why: If you work for
only 10 weeks out of the year - as a
summer camp counselor, for
instance - you are taxed routinely as
if you were working 52 weeks. In
other words, if you are earning $200
a week at a job, you will be taxed as
if you earned $10,400. But since your
income for 10 weeks is only $2,000,
fact, on earnings of less than $3,300,
you don’t even have to file a return
unless you are entitled to a refund.
If you had no tax liability last
year and expect none this year, you
can ask your employer to not with-
hold any of your salary. If you know
how much you will be earning over
a given period of time, you can
calculate what the tax will be and
ask your employer to withhold the
appropriate amount. You don’t want
to have an excessive amount with-
held because that’s like giving the
government an interest-free loan
with your money. And that money
could be earning interest for you.
Another point students should con-
sider can save their parents’ tax
dollars. If you provide more than
half of the money needed to support
yourself, your parents are not enti-
tled to claim you as their depen-
dent. Consequently, they lose a
$1,000 exemption from their income
and must pay more tax.
Because you are a student, your
parents get certain tax benefits for
supporting you. If they pay more
than half of the cost of your lodging,
clothing, food, medical expenses
and education, your parents can
claim you as a dependent and
receive an exemption. You may also
claim a $1,000 exemption for your-
self if you file a tax return.
As an example, let’s say the total
cost of your support is $15,000 a
year. If you find that your own
earnings are nearing the halfway
mark of $7,500, consider stashing
investment account. This is not con-
sidered part of your “support.” You
will save your parents valuable tax
dollars because they can claim the
$1,000 exemption for providing more
than half yur support.
Money from grants or scholar-
ships can generally be excluded
from income and does not count as
part of your support if you are
working toward a degree. In addi-
tion, income from college work
study programs may also be
excluded from income, depending
on how the college has set up the
program. You may want to check
with the IRS to see how this may
affect you.
If possible, parents may want to
consider giving their children tax-
free gifts or interest-free ' loans.
Each option has benefits. A mother
and father can jointly give up to
$20,000 in gifts a year to each of
their children. The gift can be
invested or spent by the children
who are presumably in a lower tax
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on the investment interest.
Unlike a gift, an interest-free loan
will eventually be repaid to the
parents. In the meantime, it can be
invested or spent by the children. If
invested, the children pay less tax
on the income generated by the loan
money because they are in a lower
tax bracket, and the parents can
still get an exemption for supporting
the children because it is not consid-
ered money used to support them-
LETTERS
(EDITOR’S NOTE: In response to
the recent tragedy of another
youngster in Luzerne County to
alcohol, Carmen F. Ambrosino,
executive director, Wyoming Valley
Alcohol and Drug Services, Inc., has
issued this urgent plea to all adults
21 years of age and older in Luzerne
County.)
Recently our community lost
another young person to alcohol.
This is not an isolated case by any
means since 34 youngsters died in
Luzerne County in 1983 due to drugs
and alcohol. On an average three
young people per month die in
Luzerne County due to drugs and
alcohol.
I am writing this letter as an
urgent pleas to all adults in Luzerne
County over 21 years of age. My
reasons are two-fold:
1. There has been a continuing
alarming pattern of death among
our young directly attributable to
alcohol consumption. This pattern
has been prevalent for several yers
therefore we need to stop and exam-
ine the reasons why which brings
me to point 2.
2. Reports of adults furnishing
alcohol to minors is a critical prob-
lem which for years has been
treated lightly in this County. This
practice must cease at once and we,
as an adult community, must real-
ize the potentially tragic conse-
quences of what may seem as an
innocent act. Giving young people
alcoho! is a dynamite situation and
the results are in. How much more
loss of valuable human life are we
going to accept.
During the past 10% years I.have
had the opportunity and privilege of
working with young people. Our
agency, the Wyoming Valley Alco-
hol and Drug Services Inc., remains
committed to reaching out to our
young and helping them to find
alternatives to difficulties in their
lives.
Therefore, I urge al! residents of
Luzerne County, 21 years of age and
older to refrain from supplying alco-
hol to young people. Please stop
condoning the use of alcohol at
proms, graduation parties, bazaars,
family get-togethers, outings, etc.
and I ask your full cooperation in
this matter.
Most adults are. responsible and
should not be convinced by young
people that getting alcohol for them
is no .big problem. Therefore, I
additionally encourage and urge all
knowledge of an underage drinking
party or the knowledge of an adult
furnishing alcohol to minors to DA
Gillespie’s Alcohol Tip Line:
Hazleton Area 455-9441; Wilkes-
Barre Area 824-9944; Pittston Area
655-3771; Mountaintop Area 474-
9211; Back Mountain Area 675-5259;
Shickshinny Area 542-4114.
Let us as adults, rise to the
So our young people can look to us
as model citizens.
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