a
beautiful sunny land of Hawaii for
a while. The ice and snow will
surely be melted by the time you
return.
50 Years Ago - February 9, 1934
Plans for a community athletic
field ‘were presented by. I.A.
McHenry at a meeting of the
Dallas Borough Council. The plans
to be further discussed at a special
meeting of the Borough Council
the following week.
A plan to construct an addition to
the rear of the Dallas Township
High School was discussed by
members of the school board and
taxpayers at a meeting of the
hoard.
A ruling by the Pennsylvania
State Department ‘of Justice
brought an abrupt end to the plans
of Kingston Township School
Board to.construct a new $100,000
building.
The legendary big fish in the
dark and ice-cold depths of Har-
veys Lake played! among the
sparkplugs and gears of a truck
which broke through thin ice in the
middle of the lake and disappeared
in 80 feet of water. Andrew
Diamond, 23, of Tunkhannock,
driver of the truck, grasped a loose
floor board which floated up and
clung to it and the edge of the solid
ice until rescued.
Deaths--John Neuer, Noxen.
You could get--Flour, 24 1b. bag.
97¢; doz. eggs, 27¢; layer cake and
doughnuts, both for 33c; lima
beans, 2-2 1b. cans, 29¢; Chase and
Sanborn Coffee, 27¢ 1b.; mixed
pickles, gt. jar, 21c.
40 Years Ago - February 11, 1944
The Back Mountain Region was
again treated to an exhibition of
America’s growing air strength
when 20 army planes marched
across the morning sky at minute
intervals. The string of planes
coming out of the east and heading
west was led by a single fighter
plane whose roaring motor an-
nounces ‘‘planes over Dallas” and
brought many citizens to their
porches.
Dallas Township Honor Roll
Board Association perfected plans
for a drive extending from Feb. 15-
28 for funds to make im-
provements on the Service Roll.
Acting on the suggestion of Dr.
F. Budid Schooley that there was
any number of local men who
would like to join a community
musical organization, Dr. Henry
M. Laing Fire Co. appointed him
general chairman of its band and
orchestra organization committee.
Deaths--Ira Lamoreaux,
Jackson Township.
Married--Lt. Antonia Kozem-
chak to Cpl. Robert Lee Dolbear.
You could get--Potatoes 15 1b.
bag, 49c; oranges, doz., 25c;
beans, 2-12 oz. pkgs. 15¢;
Palmolive toilet soap, 3 bars, 20c;
cleanser, 2 cans, 9c; shrimp, 37c
1b.
30 Years Ago - February 12, 1954
Theodore MacHenry, Center-
moreland, night watchman at
Fernbrook Mill, was attacked and
beaten by a man who leaped into
his car and vanished immediately
after knocking MacHenry down
and injuring his left eye.
Dr. Eugene Hammer, speaking
on findings of the Anthracite
Institute school study foundation,
set forth the ideal school program
as developed for consideration of
Back Mountain schools.
Atty. Mitchell Jenkins, Davis St.,
Trucksville, accepted appoint-
ment as area chairman for the
$2,500,000 Development Fund
Campaign being conducted for
Wesleyan University, Middletown,
Conn.
Deaths--Alexander . Ballantine,
Pikes Creek; Caspar Wall, Wilkes-
Barre, formerly of Dallas.
Married--Marie Helen
Fenimore, Wilkes-Barre, to
George Kostenbauder, Courtdale.
You could get--Powdered milk, 3
1b. can, 89c; 46 oz. can pineapple
juice 30c; grapefruit sections, 2-16
oz. cans, 29c¢; Supreme bread, 2
lvs., 27¢; doughnuts, pkg. of 12
1%.
20 Years Ago - February 13, 1964
The burning question of suf-
ficient heat at Ross Township
Elementary School was solved by
a switch to pea coal and a changed
procedure in handling the furnace,
according to reports received at
the Lake-Lehman school board
meeting.
Two Plains men were injured in
a scuffle at a Demunds tavern
when they were assaulted by a
party of six local men, ac-
companied by three women.
George Bednar, son of Mrs.
George Bednar, Hazletine St.,
Shavertown, signed with the St.
Louis Cardinals to play
professional football.
Married--Regina Ricci, Center
Hill Road, Dallas, to Darrell
Cystian, Reading.
Deaths--Arthur Cobleigh, Pikes
Creek; Ralph Nathaniel Cease,
Muhlenberg; James Franklin Hill
Sr., Hunlock Creek; Josephine
Miller, Dallas; Mrs. Esther M.
Long, Trucksville.
You could get--Bananas, 10c 1b.;
steak, 79¢ 1b.; French fries, 1% 1b.
plastic bags, 4 for $1; soup, 4 pkgs.
$1; ketchup, four jumbo bottles,
$1; franks 59¢ 1b.
10 Years Ago - February 7, 1974
While Gov. Milton Shapp and
other state and national officials
met in Washington to discuss a
solution, independent truckers in
Northeastern Pennsylvania joined
a nationwide shutdown and vowed
to keep their rigs off the road until
the government and oil companies
met their demands for a fuel price
ceiling.
As potholes on state-maintained
roads became more numerous and
deeper, state legislators remained
cemented in a controversy over
how to fund $100 million for road
resurfacing.
Deaths--Alexander
formerly of Dallas;
Rinehimer, Dorrance.
You could get--Red potatoes, 10
1b. bag, $1.49; Coca-Cola 2-48 oz.
bottles, 68c; Kraft cheese, 12 oz.
pkg., 78¢c; hot dogs, 79¢ 1b. ; Morton
pot pies, 5 for $1.
Library
update
Johnson,
Infant
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 third of
the series, the tips are entitled,
“Singles may have more tax
breaks than they realize.”’ The tips
are furnished by the Pennsylvaniat
Institute of Certified Public
Accountants, Philadelphia.)
If you are single and treat your
1983 federal income tax return like
an unwanted houseguest you can’t
wait to get rid of, you may miss out
on some good opportunities to save
money.
Most singles file a short form
and claim the standard deduction,
or the zero bracket amount, of
$2,300. That's because they usually
don’t amass more than $2,300 of
deductible expenses and it doesn’t
pay to itemize their return. If
that’s your situation, you may still
find ways to save on taxes without
itemizing, says William L. Smith,
Jr., CPA, President, Northeastern
Chapter, Pennsylvania Institute of
Certified Public Accountants.
At the bottom of the 1040 long
form there’s a section called
“adjustments to income.” That
can be the route that will enable
singles to lower their taxable in-
come without the paperwork of
itemizing.
Let's say you moved to a new
location in 1983 to start a new job,
an the new job is at least 35 miles
further from your old home than
was yourold job. You can subtract
from your gross income the cost of
moving all your personal effects.
You can also subtract up to $1,500
for the cost of house-hunting trips
and any temporary housing and
meals until you were settled. In
addition, you can reduce your
taxable income by any fees or
commissions paid to real estate
brokers. However, there are limits
on these indirect expenses
associated with moving, so check
the IRS rules.
Another way to reduce your
taxable income, within the ad-.
justments to income section is to
subtract: any unreimbursed
business expeses. Include meals,
transportation, lodging and any
incidental costs incurred while you
were on an overnight business trip.
If you hold two jobs, you can
include the cost of traveling from
your first job to your second job.
Do not adjust your income for the
cost of commuting from your
home to your primary job.
Perhaps the most common
method of reducing taxable in-
come is making contributions to an
Individual Retirement Account
(IRA). About a quarter of those
eligible maintain IRA accounts. A
single person can contribute up to
$2,000 a year to an IRA account
and reduce taxable income by that
There are differing opinions on
whether a young single person
should opt for an IRA. If you put
$1,000 a year in an’IRA, it will be
worth $216,565 in 30 years, based
on the prevailing 10 percent yield
compounded quarterly for a
“conservative” IRA. That sounds
great, but young single people
have other factors to consider. If
after five years of $1,000 con-
tributions to an IRA you decide to
withdraw the money to take out a
home mortgage or to buy a
busienss, you must pay a 10 per-
cent penalty for withdrawing
before age 59%. You may want to
consult a tax advisor on your
personal situation before opening
an IRA.
CPAs say the very best wya to
save on taxes is to plan ahead and
combining your tax deductions is
an effective tax strategy for
singles. Think about this for your
1984 and 1985 taxes. If your
itemized deductions and the
standard deduction are about the
same, try to combine two years of
itemized deductions in either 1984
or 1985 and claim the standard
deduction the other way.
Let’s say you are a single person
with itemized deductions of about
$2,300--the same as your standard
deduction. But maybe you can
defer payment ‘of $1,500 of those
deductible items until 1985 and
claim the standard deduction for
1984. Then, for the two years, you
get deductions totaling $6,100.
That’s the $2,300
deductions in 1984 and $3,800 of
itemized deductions in 1985--your
usuall $2,300 plus the $1,500 shifted
from 1984. Thus, you increase your
total 1984-85 deductions by $1,500--
from $4,600 to $6,100-and you've
saved yourself a substantial
amount of tax dollars.
Tax planning is a year-round
necessity.
Guest editorial
By EDWIN FEULNER
deeply into our day-to-day affairs,
congressional liberals are report-
edly readying legislation that could
result in federal bureaucrats decid-
ing how much we should earn in
the private sector.
The legislation, rumored to be
nurturing in the office of Senate
Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), calls
for the establishment within the
U.S. Department of Labor of a
national ‘‘pay comparability’’
panel, board, or office modeled
after the Equal Employment
mission wouid be charged with
determining ‘how much a certain
secretaries; or whether nurses are
worth more or less to society than
zookeepers. In other words, the
new ‘federal authority would be
charged with setting wge scales, in
the process voiding labor-manage-
ment contracts, and creating chaos
within the economy.
The ‘‘equal pay for comparable
work’ scam - long on the radical
feminist wish list - was given a big
boost by a recent federal court
decision which ordered Washington
state to increase the pay of some
15,000 state employees, mostly
women. The ruling will cost stage
or more over the next two years.
But, the issue is not a feminist
one; and be forwarned, it is a two-
ernment or courts assume the
various jobs, it is by no means
certain they will decide you're
being paid too little. You could find
you're being paid more than the
bureaucrats say your job is worth.
Let’s face it: no two jobs or
careers are completely alike, just
as no two individuals are alike.
Different jobs require different
skills, education, risk-taking, etc.
The market thus determines, con-
sidering the supply of workers in a
particular category, how much a
job is worth. Nurses, for example,
used to be paid meager wages
hour; most cities report shortages
of qualified nurses; and trained
nurses are hotly pursued by ‘‘head-
hunters,” who are prepared to offer
them all sorts of bonuses and
inducements to take jobs which
now go begging.
Comparable pay is not a legiti-
mate feminist issue; it has nothing
to do with gender bias. Adopting
this radical idea carries the clear
and present danger of economic
regimentation, bureaucratic regu-
lation, lowered productivity,
ployment, higher tax burdens, and
less freedom for us all.
That is too high a price to pay to
try and placate the demands of a
small segment of the ‘‘working”
population.
based public policy research insti-
tute.)
25¢ on newsstand
J. Stephen Buckley.
Rick Shannon
Bill Savage
Dotty Martin
Mike Danowski
Sheila Hodges
BY NANCY KOZEMCHAK
A picnic in the winter? Sounds
unusual and itis. Jerry Fritzges is
acting as chairman of the 2nd
annual Auctioneers Mid-winter
Picnic to be held at the Irem
Temple Country Club on Friday,
February 10 beginning at 7 p.m.
The event promises to be a lot of
fun with the cost being $5.00 per
person, payable at the door.
Proceeds from this event benefit
the Back Mountain Memorial
Library. Dress 'is casual and the
community is invited to attend. A
lot of fun and surprises should
make this winter picnic special!
Remember the thrill you had as
a youngster when you first
discovered that you could learn to
mount butterflies, built a fot, or
make a wonderful doll out of cloth
and a clothespin just by: following
easy-to-read text and illustrations
in a book? It was fun, too, wasn’t
it, when you succeeded in digging
out just the facts you needed to
write a paper for school...But what
happened to your thrill of
discovery, to your conviction that
books ‘‘know everything worth
knowing,” since you became an
adult? Your library challenges you
to recapture the same thrill books
first gave youas a youngster! Visit
the library today--then use it
regularly. Recapture the won
derful world of books!
New books at the library: “Hard
of the critical years in America’s
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foreign policy.
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By CLYDE DUPIN
The outstanding high school stu-
dents in America are becoming
more religious. Over the past 14
years, the students. who make
‘“Who’s Who Among American
High School Students’’ have
become more interested in religion.
The survey reveals that these top
students are less interested in sex,
beer, and marijuana.
In the most recent edition of
‘“Who’s Who Among American
High School Students,” 5,000 were
selected from the 375,000 listed.
More than 2,000 responded to the
survey form. During the past 14
years, regular church attendance
has climbed from 59 percent to 4
percent. Sixty-eight percent of
these high achievers attend church
because they feel a need for a
spiritual uplift. The majority, 85
percent, would like to see prayer in
public schools. It is thrilling to see
these outstanding students with
high moral values and purposes for
their life.
There is also a revival of reli-
gious interest on the college and
university campuses. According to
a US. News and ‘World Report
story, students on campuses are
flocking to prayer groups and Bible
study sessions. According to the
report, at some universities, the
number of religious students has
doubled or tripled.
A new report by Gallup notes
that college students who say reli-
gion is important has grown over
percent to 50 percent. Students are
increasingly in search for a quiet,
secure, supernatural faith in God.
This may be the most encouraging
sign of our day.
(Clyde Dupin is the author of a
religious column, entitled ‘Reli-
gious Viewpoint.”’)
By CLYDE DUPIN
“71t has ‘been’ 11 years and 15
million legalized abortions since
the Supreme Court decision of 1973.
As our society continues to tolerate
abortion, people are becoming
uncaring and less respectful of the
handicapped and elderly. When the
sanctity and dignity of human life
is destroyed, our total value system
is endangered.
The pro-life movement is growing
stronger and more young people
are joining the movement. The
huge rally in Washington, D.C. on
the 11th anniversary of the
Supreme Court decision spoke vol-
umns. Even our President in his
State of Union message spoke out
strongly against the cruel evils of
abortion. The tide seems to be
turning against abortion on
demand. Many people who have
experienced the sorrows of abortion
are telling their stories of the
tragic after effects. Many churches
are beginning to education their
people on the value and sanctity of
human life both before and after
physical birth.
The two major obstacles that
being repealed are Planned Parent-
hood and the big business abortion
multi-million dollar business. In
vided 80,000 abortions in 36 clinics.
(Clyde Dupin is the author of a
religious column entitled ‘‘Reli-
Congressman Frank Harrison
announced recently that four
libraries within the 11th
Congressional District have been
awarded grants totalling $51,746
out of Federal Library Services
and Construction Act Funds.
The Hoyt Library in Kingston
has been chosen to receive $10,000
to establish a basic collection of
video cassettes composed of
curent popular movies, educa-
tional programs and documentary
and travel programs. The video
cassette recorder also will be pur- |
chased for loan to community
groups. : P