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BY.JOAN KINGSBURY
The Dallas Junior Women’s Club
voted to disband its organization at
last Tuesday's meeting due to
declining membership and failure
to obtain a president for the
Scheduled to officially disband
BOX 336
BRIGHTON, 1A
community.
Another reason cited for the
disbanding vote was the fact that
several projects, such as the
Easter Egg Hunt and Christmas
Shopping Store, previously con-
ducted soley by the club have been
taken over by local school and
civic groups.
Any funds in the club’s treasury
at the time of the disbanding will
be dispersed to various organiza-
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Jill Solinski and Ray Iwanowski,
Olympic flag at: the
will fly at the local McDenald’s
until the conclusion of the summer
Olympics. The flag was raised on
the same day the Olympic Flame
was lit in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia,
tions throughout the community.
The Dallas Junior Women’s Club
is affiliated with = the = General
Federation of Women’s Clubs, the
largest international women’s
organization. Its current officers
are Kathy Oravitz, president;
Carol Kristen, first vice president:
Pat
Pieffer, second vice-
president; Elaine Hudak,
treasurer; . Valerie Gianella,
corresponding secretary; and
Mary Ann Storz, recording secre-
tary. 3 !
In the past, the Dallas Junior
Women’s Club has spensored a
candy booth at the annual Back
Mountain Memorial Library
Auction and “has presented an
annual scholarship to a deserving
Dallas High School senior. The’
club was instrumental in
establishing the Meal on Wheels
program in the Back Mountain - at
1983 Pennaprintine
the opening of the
Owners of the
Shavertown McDonald's are
Albert and Carol Mueller.
Manager is Rosemarie Midgett.
(Photo by Glenn S. Bodish)
A television commercial" for
Wendy’s Restaurant, depicting
three elderly women analyzing a
fast food hamburger, has recently
come under some controversy.
The commercial, which shows
two elderly women commenting on
how big the bun is while the third
asks repeatedly, ‘‘Where’s the
beef?’’ has evidently offended the
Michigan Office of Services to the
Aging. A commission from that
office voted unanimously on Jan.
Only once in a great while does a
television commercial gain as
much popularity as the Wendy's
ad which asks, “Where's the
beef?’ People from all walks of
life and all ages have committed
the now famous quote to memory.
Leicha Cilvik of Harveys Lake
classifies the commercial as one of
her favorites. “Ilove it,” she said.
“My seven month old son even
seems to brighten up when he sees
it
Debbie Kocher of Dallas claims
one of the children in her Kkin-
dergarten Sunday School class
repeats the saying over and over.
‘If he asks someone, ‘Where's the
beef?’ and no one answers him, he
yells, ‘I don’t think anybody's back
there!”’, she said.
The commercial doesn’t only
appeal to younger children, but to
teens and adults alike.
The entire Billy Giberson family
of Edwardsville admits to being
fans of the commercial. Nancy, a
younger daughter, says she
especially likes it when the woman
on the ad gives up and assumes
that no one’s back there. Both Mr.
and Mrs. Giberson agree with
their children’s delight over the
commercial,
I's ' quite obvious from the
public¢’s opinion, that if there was
such a thing as a Commercial Hall
of Fame, ‘Where's the beef?’
woudl echo through its halls for
sure. ;
-WALLY KOCHER
Shown here is a display done by
Cub Scout Pack 281 of the Dallas
United Methodist Church. The
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display, which appeared in the
window of Besecker Real Estate,
Main Street, Dallas; was done in
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20 to ask Wendy's International,
Inc. to remove the commercial,
claiming it feels the advertisement
is “demeaning to senior citizens.”
Few people from the Back
Mountain area support the view of
the Michigan agency as Tom
Sweeney, administrator of the
Meadows Nursing Home, Dallas,
feels the commercial is done in
good taste.
“I guess television, in general,
tends to stereotype the elderly, but
as of yet, I haven’t heard anyone
say they resent this particular
commercial,” Sweeney said.
Marian Slutzker, public relations
home, took an unscientific survey
at the home with approximately 30
people, including staff, family
members and volunteers,
responding. No one thought the
commercial is demeaning in any
way. }
Frank Coller, press secretary for
the Pennsylvania Department of
the Aging, agrees with the Back
Mountain consensus. Coller said,
in a telephone interview, he feels
there is nothing inappropriate with
the commercial.
observance of Boy Scout Week.
(Photo by Ed Campbell)
onetime coordinating the program
and most recently serving as
drivers.
Additional service projects of the
club included raising money for a
Back Mountain girl needing a
kidney operation and heling with
financing for a dialysis machine at
Wilkes-Barre General Hospital.
Social events sponsored by the
club included speakers ‘Chef
Tell” and Dr. Linden Smith, “Up
With People’ - concerts and
Oakley and Buffalo Bill.”
The 40th anniversary cookbook
comprised’ by the Dallas Junior
Women’s Club, which may become
a collector’s item, will still be
available through the month of
March from any club members
and at the Back Mountain
Memorial Library after the club
BY JANE C. BOLGER
A week in an American hospital
has done wonders for Jack
Charney of Dallas who was injured
last month when sideswept by an
Egyptian Army truck and then
subjected to various Islamic forms
of primitive medicine. Jack's
normal enthusiasm has returned -
he is writing poetry, hobbling
around on crutches and planning
his next trip which he laughingly
admits ‘‘might include travelers
insurance.”
From the moment Jack was
knocked down by the military
vehicle while standing in front of a
train station purchasing a return
ticket ‘to Cairo, it: was “a
horrendous experience.” ‘I was
lying there covered with dung,’ he
said, ¢ ‘while all this press of people
kept movin in on me; pointing and
screaming.’’ :
“The whole crowd came right
into the hospital. ..into the filthy
operating room with me,’ he said
relating how ‘the ‘doctor was
smoking” while he treated him
and ‘‘a little girl was sitting on the
table playing with the surgical
instruments.” After his initial
treatment, Jack was placed in a
room with 10 other patients.
Transferred to another hospital
which Jack says, “was billed as an
International Hospital’ he fared
little ‘better “under the care of
Islamic nurses for whom it is taboo
to see a naked body.”” There was
also a language barrier whereby
Jack said if he asked for water he
would get a bedpan and vice versa.
As infection set in and his fever
rose to 104 degrees, Jack con-
sumed 12 to 15 pitchers of water
daily which was usually provided
by Irish, Swiss or Fillipino nurses
who also serviced a section of the
hospital. Jack’s first inclination
that his condition was worsening
came when he turned over during
the night and accidently broke
open ‘‘the gruesome, rough stit-
ches’ in his groin area.
The Egyptian doctors, however,
refused to treat the wound and
simply resealed it with what Jack
described as ‘‘a ball of plastic
Jack Charney is shown here
relaxing in his private room at
Wilkes-Barre General Hospital.
After being injured in Egypt,
Charney was transferred to the
medical treatment. In the
foreground on the hospital tray are
a bowl and a’ mug ‘which Jack
made himself as well as chopped
beets and a bouquet of fresh
local hospital for additional parsley. (Photo by Bill Savage)
bandages.” On the advice of would have been at Jack's expense
Dallas = naturopath, Gerry along with the' amazingly ex-
Reisinger who was reached by
phone, Jack removed the ban-
dages with the help of a visitor,
who was also a nurse and
“pressed, yellow, green pus out all
day.”
“I bit into my pillow, tears
streaming down my face,” Jack
said “I worked on it all day...I
became frightened of
gangrene...so much came
out...then the fever started going
down.” Through all this time Jack
was not given antibiotics, but
rather morphine.
When his father, John Charney
Sr. arrived in Egypt, the doctors
reluctantly gave Jack permission
to, be transferred back to: the
U.S:A. even though they still
preferred their original plan that
an Egyptian doctor accompany
him. The doctor’s round trip flight
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The Mercy Medical Offices,
located at Lake Street, Dallas.
adjacent to the
College
opened on Monday. The new
building will house the offices of
three local physicians and will
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offer the following ancillary
services to citizens and physicians
of the Back Mountain Area:
Radiological procedures,
laboratory studies and physical
therapy treatments. The
physicians relocating their private
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pensive hospital bills that had to be
paid before Jack was allowed to
return to America.
Both Jack and his father have
taken out loans te cover all his
medical expenses as well as their
airplane flights. Jack was charged
“the price of five First Class seats
-$5,000 by T.W.A. for the space the
stretcher © took up in ‘the
plane’ despite the fact that ‘‘there
were lots of extra seats.’
Jack is tremendously grateful
for all the financial support both
from individual local people and
the various fund raising projects
presently underway.
“T want to thank all the people
from” the valley,” Jack said,
‘“They’ve been incredibly @kin-
dias great to be
loved...amazing...people are there
when you need them.”
practices to the new facilities
Internal Medicine; Harry G.
Gallagher, M.D. General Prac-
tice; and Vincent a. Carbone,
M.D., Pediatrics and Adolescent
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