Only yesterday
IN THE
50 YEARS AGO - MARCH 9, 1934
Center Hill Road, long a point of
contention between Dallas Borough
and Dallas Township, was again in
the limelight as it had been
returned by Constable Leonard
0’Kane as a road nuisance.
Dallas Borough School District,
which had applied for a share of the
$5,000,000 fund which the state had
appropriated to assist school dis-
tricts, was scheduled to receive its
grant.
The request of Lehigh Valley Rail-
road for permission to discontinue
its passenger service between
Wilkes-Barre and Sayre along the
Bowman’s Creek Branch, through
Dallas, was approved by the Public
Service Commission at Harrisburg.
Married - Lillian Frances Jones,
Noxen, to Lewis Lord Jr.
You could get - Applesauce, 3 No.
2 cans, 25¢; eggs, 25¢ doz.; fancy
shrimp, 2 cans, 25¢; red salmon, 2
cans, 25¢; pineapple, big can, 15¢;
lima beans, 3 No. 2 cans, 25c.
40 YEARS AGO - MARCH 10, 1944
Draft boards at Wyoming and
Shickshinny as well as all other
boards in the country were review-
‘ing their files of all farmer regis-
trants in classifications 2C and 3C
and would continue to do so every
six months. According to Samuel W.
Rhodes, of Huntsville, chairman of
Draft Board No. 5, legitimate farm-
ers within the age groups of 18 to 37
had nothing to fear, so long as they
were engaged in producing the
required amount of agricultural
products.
‘Lt. Phyll:s Whittingham of Boston
and Technical Sergeant Kathryn
Jaquinta of Oakland, California,
members of the Women’s Army
Corps were on duty at the tempo-
rary recruiting and information
booth at the post office in Dallas.
Cpl. James LaBar, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Timothy LaBar, of Dallas, was
doing a great job in Italy, according
to Ernie Pyle, noted columnist and
author of “Here’s Your Army.”
Deaths - Thomas John Davis,
Idetown; Romaine Trumbower,
Hunlock Creek; Pfc. John J. Kelly,
Edwardsville; Mrs. Mary Brobst,
Carverton.
You could get - Pork loins, 25¢ Ib.;
skinned hams 27c lb.; potatoes, 15
Ib. ‘bag, 45c; carrots, 2 bunches,
15¢; sausage, 35¢ lb.; bologna, 29c.
30 YEARS AGO - MARCH 12, 1954
Petitions were out for Senator
Newell Wood of Harveys Lake who
would seek reelection for a third
term in the State Senate without
Repblican organization support.
Lake Township Supervisors
decided to engage one roadmaster
for all three districts of the town-
ship.
Lester Squire, supervising princi-
pal, speaker at a meeting of the
Lehman-Jackson-Ross Township
joint school board, reported that
Mrs. Clayton Bostic, supervisor of
home economics, had resigned and
that Mrs. Edwin Stolarick, the
former Ruth Shelhammer and
teacher of that same department,
was taking over the situation on a
substitute basis until the end of the
school year.
Married - Mary Helen Tarasovic,
Bridgeport, Conn., to John D.
Brewster, Dallas.
You could get - Steaks, 69c¢ 1b.; rib
roast, 59c Ib.; bread, 2 lvs., 27c;
donuts, pkg. of 12, 19¢; mushrooms,
49c 1b.; oranges, 29c¢ doz.
20 YEARS AGO - MARCH 12, 1964
When the weather blew a no-good
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ill wind, it usually blew a few gripes
into Dallas Borough Council meet-
ings. So council was not surprised
when three people from opposite
ends of town showed up with woeful
takes of water.
The Dallas Senior High School
was scheduled to be evaluted during
the middle of March. Accreditation
is given if all requirements are
approved by the examining commit-
tee.
William Frederick, West Center
Street, was elected fire chief of the
the organization.
Deaths - Thomas John Reese,
Shavertown; Ellis D. Ellsworth,
Lehman; Mrs. Mary L. Hessel,
formerly of Trucksville; Mrs. Irene
Adams, Sweet Valley.
Married - Linda Stevens, Dallas,
to Michael Carter, Washington, D.C.
You could get - Boneless chuck,
57c Ib.; grapefruit, 6 for 49c; apples,
6 for 39c; spinach, 19c pkg.; tomato
soup, 3 cans, 32c; tomato catsup, 2
14-0z. bottles, 39¢; ice cream, half-
gallon, 59c¢.
10 YEARS AGO - MARCH 7, 1974
Recreational needs and opportuni-
ties in the Back Mountain was the
topic of discussion at a meeting of
municipal and school district offi-
cials.
The Back Mountain Policeman’s
Association and the Luzerne County
Police Chiefs’ Association declared
their support of Robert Cooper,
former Jackson Township Police
Chief, in his effort to regain his
position. »
Deaths - John Sallada, Dallas;
George Wyda, Shavertown; Ozmar
Hilbert, Beaumont.
Married - Emma Marie Burke,
Dallas, to Robert LaFrance, Dallas.
You could get - Chickens 38¢ Ib.;
Macintosh apples, 3 1b. bag, 69c;
fish sticks, 14 oz. pkg., 78c; spa-
ghetti, 2 1-Ib. pkgs., 58¢; fruit cock-
tail, 16 oz. can, 58c.
Churches
encourage
prevention
The Wyoming Valley Council of
Churches is encouraging people to
become more concerned about pre-
venting accidental deaths and inju-
ries.
The Wyoming Valley Council of
Churches is joining other churches
and synagogues throughout the
nation in a special observance of the
sixth annual National Safety Sab-
bath sponsored by the National
Safety Council.
Areas of emphasis in this year’s
campaign inlcude: (1) Educating
people on the need to wear safety
belts when they travel in motor
vehicles. (2) Teaching parents the
significance of fastening children in
child safety seats. (3) Encouraging
home owners to install smoke detec-
tors and to plan emergency evacua-
tion escapes in case of fire. (4)
Urging community members that if
they're going to drink they should
not drive.
Newbery
Award is
presented
'By NANCY KOZEMCHAK
Library Correspondent
“Dear Mr. Henshaw” by Beverly
Cleary has been awarded the John
Newbery medal for 1983 as the most
distinguished contribution to Ameri-
can literature for children. The
Association for Library Service to
Children, a librarian’s group,
chooses one book as the children’s
book of the year.
“Dear Mr. Henshaw” is a book
about a boy dealing with problems
ranging from lunch-bag thieves fo a
lost dog to his parents divorce.
Previous Newbery Medal winners
include 1982 - Dicey’s Song by Cyn-
thia Voight; 1981 - Jacob Have I
Loved by Katherine Patterson and
1980 - A Gathering of Days by Joan
Blos. The Newbery Award was
established and endowed in 1921 and
was named for John Newbery, an
English publisher and bookseller
who was the first person to print
and sell books for children and was
called the ‘friend of children’.
Recipients of the Newbery Medal
must be Americans.
The Back Mountain Memorial
Library has a children’s annex,
which is the building next to the
main library, that has shelves brim-
ming with books for the beginning
picture book looker and for readers
including the sixth grade level.
Marilyn Rudoclph is the chil-
dren’s librarian and is the coordina-
tor for the activities in the annex,
including story hours, nursery
classes, grade school visits and
movie times. New books purchased
for the children’s annex include:
“Sam’s Lamp” by Barbro Lindgren,
for the primary reader, is a funny
picture book in which a toddler
named Sam knows what he watns
and climbs after a pretty lamp
hanging temptingly out of reach.
What happens next is anyone’s
guess.
\ “Anno’s U.S.A.” by Mitsumasa
Anno is for the third grade shelf and
is a guided tour of the new World
that is a visual and intellectual
delight, and a true journey of dis-
covery. It is a uniquely creative and
beautiful book done in a wordless
panorama.
“Child of The Morning” by Bar-
bara Corcoran is for the fifth grade
reader and is the story of Susan,
who had been hurt during a volley-
ball game and afterward had odd
spells in which she seemed to lose
consciousness. Her life had sud-
denly become complicated.
‘The Pig-out Blues’ by Jan
Greenberg is for the sixth grade
shelf and is the story of 15-year-old
Jodie who’s mother has ‘a perfect
figure. fi i
Data Center
has report
Howard J. Grossman, Executive
Director of the Economic Develop-
ment Council of Northeastern Penn-
sylvania (EDCNP), has announced
that the agency’s Data Center has
received the fifth in a series of
statistical reports released by the
Pennsylvania State Data Center
based on the 1980 Census of Popula-
tion and Housing.
The fifth report, Pennsylvania
School Districts: 1980 Census Data
Summary, contains a wide variety
characteristics by school district.
The table format allows the user to
quickly identify an item for single
and multiple district analysis.
The following is the list of tables
which appear in the report:
Summary of General Population
Characteristics, 1980; Total Popula-
tion by Age; Children by Race by
Age; Children Under 18 by House-
hold Type and Relationship; Chil-
dren 5 to 17 by Ability to Speak
English; Summary of General
Housing Characteristics,l 1980; Eco-
nomic and Social Indicators; Per-
sons 3 Years and Over by School
Enrollment; Persons 16 to 19 Years
by School Enrollment, Years of
School Completed and Labor Force
Status; Persons 25 Years and Over
by Years of School Completed; Per-
sons 16 Years and Over by Labor
Force Status; Employed Persons 16
Years and Over by Occupation;
Family, Household, and Per Capita
Income in 1979; Persons by Poverty
Status in 1979 by Race and Spanish
Origin; Families with Children 0-17
Years by Family Type by Poverty
Status.
Grossman stated, “This publica-
tion is available for public inspec-
tion at the Data Center or can be
ordered directly from the Pennsyl-
vania State Data Center. The Penn-
sylvania State University, the Capi-
tol Campus, Middletown, PA 17057.
The cost is $25.”
Grossman also pointed out that
EDCNP’s Data Center is an Affili-
ate of the Pennsylvania State Data
Center, and as such, it is prepared
to asist the public in meeting data
and information needs.
Information about the Data
Center and its resources is available
by contacting the Council at P.O.
Box 777, Avoca, PA 18641, telephone
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It’s just a
paper has published paid
advertisements offering
‘‘pregnancy terminations’’
n recent weeks this news-
counseling.”
It is not the belief of this
newspaper that the accept-
ance or rejection of this or
any other ‘‘controversial’’
advertising should necessar-
ily be based upon moral
judgements on the part of
the staff or management of
this newspaper.
In the past, we have pub-
lished advertisements from
“pro-life”” and ‘‘pro-choice’’
organizations and individu-
als as well as from those
offering services such as
mentioned above. |
In doing so, neither the
staff nor management of this
newspaper is, in any way,
attempting to condone and/
vidual, or any practice of
belief of same, but rather is
attempting to live up its
responsibility to safeguard
those rights guaranteed by
case of
the First Amendment to the
United States Constitution.
We do this regardless of
subject.
To do otherwise, to
attempt to judge or censor
such advertising, would
place us in direct confronta-
tion with the First Amend-
ment, the very existence of
which guarantees our right
to operate as a member of a
free press; indeed, the exist-
ence of which guarantees all
Americans the right to speak
freely on virtually any
matter, no matter how con-
troversial or distateful it
may be.
As always, the Post invites
all readers and all interested
parties to write letters to the
editor on this and any sub-
ject.
and include an address or
phone number. We will not
publish the author’s name if
So desired.
DEAR EDITOR:
Hooray for Pat Baloga and her
“letter to the editor.”
1 often purchase your paper, but I
certainly don’t want any of my
money (not even a quarter) to help
pay for ‘“‘abortion’’ ads.
As a mother of eight and grand-
mother of 12, I find the pregnancy
termination ads most offensive.
CLARE DOMINICK
Trucksville
Here is a summary of important
events that occurred on Capitol Hill
last week from: Rep. Frank Coslett,
120th Legislative District.
PRISON OVERCROWDING in
state and county correctional facili-
ties is a threat to security, harmful
to ‘'employée morale and unfair to
inmates, a‘feport released this week
concluded. The study, undertaken
by a subcommittee of the House
Judiciary Committee, urged the
hiring ‘of more than 300 additional
guards’ at’ 'state prisons, accelerat-
ing the construction of additional
prison space and releasing inmates
who do not have to be confined. The
recommendations would cost an
estimated $40 million to implement.
Some of the funds are already
included in Gov. Dick Thornburgh’s
proposed 1984-85 budget. Rep. Jef-
frey E. Piccola (R-Dauphin), rank-
ing Republican on the subcomittee,
said the recommendations “would
go a long way (toward) solving the
problem.”
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TWO BILLS passed the House this
week which ban the use of diesel
engines in underground coal mines.
The bills won approval after lengthy
debate by margins of 134-62 and 136-
62. Supporters of the measures con-
tend the engines. pose potential
health hazards to. miners, while
opponents counter that the health
that, the, lower operating .costs of
diesel equipment: create needed
jobs. The legislation was sent to the
Senate where similar legislation
failed to win approval in 1982.
AN __ ADOPTION "information
exchange system operated by the
state Public Welfare Department
would greatly improve a foster
child’s chances for adoption,
according to Rep. Marvin Miller (R-
Lancaster). Miller sponsored a bill
which passed the House recently to
create a Pennsylvania Adoptive
Cooperative Exchange (PACE). At
a start-up cost of $100,000, Miller
says, PACE would catalogue all
foster children in the state available
for adoption and make the informa-
tion accessible to prospective par-
ents. Because of the absence of such
a system just 56: children were
adopted in Pennsylvania in 1982.
Miller said, although almost 1,400
were available.
Each year the Economic Develop-
ment Council of Northeastern Penn-
sylvania (EDCNP) issues a State of
the Region report which compares
the economic performance of North-
eastern Pennsylvania with those of
the United States and Pennsylvania.
The analysis is based upon the
behavior of various economic indi-
cators such as unemployment rates,
total employment, average weekly
hours and earnings, inflation rates,
and employment structure. The eco-
nomic analysis of 1983 provides the
basis for 1984 economic projections
for the region. This year’s report,
also, discusses several regional pro-
grams and how they might confrib-
ute toward economic growth in
Northeastern Pennsylvania.
In presenting the Council’s views
on the state of the region, Sanburn
Sutherland, Council President,
stated, “The nation has been in a
period of recovery from the 1981-82
recession for the past year. North-
eastern Pennsylvania still has a
considerable way to go before it
reaches pre-recession levels.”
In 1984, a series of projects will be
unveiled regarding the Small Com-
downtown revitalization and other
types of programs. Also, new
Revolving Loan Fund monies will
become available to amplify exist-
ing funds for low-interest loans for
business development projects.
Sutherland also pointed out that,
“The Area Awareness and Action
Program for the Pocono Northeast
will be aggressively promoted
throughout Northeastern Pennsyl-
vania during 1984.”
There will be a specific plan
unveiled in 1984 relative to one or
more public facilities such as a
stadium-arts cepter-convention
center-civic arena in Northeastern
Pennsylvania.
Some of the conclusions from this
year’s report include the following:
1. 1983 saw mixed signals ranging
from the appeaance of the end of a
recession to a recovery nationally
and some signs of positive economic
change in Northeastern Pennsyl-
vania.
2. Total employment increased
throughout 1983 in Northeastern
Pennsylvania.
3. Unemployment rates were still
double-digit in three of the seven
counties during October and the
overall average was 10.2 percent.
4. Plant closings still affect the
stabilization of the region’s econ-
omy but are counter-balanced in
party by business expansions. Many
new jobs have come about as a
result of Pennsylvania Industrial
Development Authority (PIDA)
loans and Industrial Development
programs.
5. The apparel trades still form
the most significant manufacturing
sector of the region’s economy, rep-
resenting 29 percent of the manufac-
turing work force. :
6. The travel development indus-
try has remained strong despite the
recession, although weather condi-
tions dictate how strong that sector
is at any one time.
7. A new metropolitan area has
been designated which raises the
population ranking of the metropoli-
tan area serving Northeastern
Pennsylvania in relation to all other
metropolitian areas from 63rd to
58th.
The State of the Region report is
now available and anyone wishing
of it may write to EDCNP, Box 777,
Avoca, PA 18641, telephone (717)
£55-5581. 3
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