50 YEARS AGO - MARCH 16, 1934
Slowly rising temperatures
thawed many of the water mains
which had been frozen for several
weeks and brought welcome relief
to hundreds of homeowners through-
out the Back Mountain who had
been suffering from the inconven-
iences of the water famine.
Although epidemics of contagious
diseases which threatened to
develop earlier in the year had been
checked and the number of quaran-
tines was low, Elmer Kerr of Har-
veys Lake, district health officer,
advised parents to guard against an
outbreak of measles which was
likely to start in the spring.
Directors of Dallas Borough
School Board adopted a tentative
budget with regard to the $2,500
grant expected from the State
Department of Education.
Deaths Norman J. Shotwell,
Shavertown.
You could get - Canned fruits, 4-8
oz. cans, 25¢; tomatoes, No. 3 can,
15¢; Borax, 2 pkgs., 29¢; flour, 24 1b.
bag, 95¢; butter, 2 Ibs., 63c.
40 YEARS AGO - MARCH 17, 1944
Mrs. Edgar Brace, Lake Street,
Dallas, had a thrill'when a group of
two-motored training planes flew
over Dallas, one piloted by her son,
Aviation Cadet, Edgar Brace.
With more than half the month set
aside for the Red Cross Drive gone,
donations had reached only $1,385.81
in the Back Mountain region, or a
little over one fourth of the quota,
$4,085.
Thirty-eight boys took the third
Navy and Army V-12 test given in
schools in the Back Mountain area.
Mrs. Margaret Jennings, of Ide-
town, received a letter from 1st. Lt.
Paul C. Higgins, commanding offi-
Library news
cer at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana,
commending her son, Sgt. William
John Jennings for the fine work he
was doing as cook for his company.
You could get - Coffee, 2-1 Ib.
bags, 47¢c; pickles, 3 for 13¢; hams,
30c 1b.; pork loins, 25¢ 1b.; lettuce,
lg. head, 9c; eggs, 35¢ doz.; beets, 2
30 YEARS AGO - MARCH 19, 1954
The tiny triplets, born to Mr. and
Mrs. Carlton B. Hadsall, were hold-
ing their own at Nesbitt Memorial
Hospital. The babies were housed in
isolettes, super-incubators which
supply premature babies with
oxygen and keep them at carefully
controlled temperatures with just
the right degree of humidity.
The Library Executive Board
decided there would be no Kick-Off
Dinner, but all efforts would be bent
toward making that year’s Library
Auction bigger than ever with sev-
eral added features.
Earl Booth was appointed Road-
master for the three districts of
Lake Township at a meeting of the
Supervisors.
Back Mountain Horsemen's Club
made plans for a 100-mile bike ride
to be held in April.
Deaths - Louis Blizard, Noxen,
You could get - Lobster tails, 89c
1b.; lettuce, 2 1g. heads, 25c¢;
oranges, 29¢ doz.; corn, 6 1-Ib. cans,
$1; tuna, 3 7-0z. cans, $1; chuck
roast, 35¢ 1b.; rib roast, 59c¢ 1b.
20 YEARS AGO - MARCH 19, 1964
A blast, about 100 yards away
from the Irvin Miller Company
crane in Carverton, terrified neigh-
bors. All that remained: after the
bombings were wrecked construc-
tion machines.
Continuing investigation by state
and local police brought to light
Mrs. Edgar Lashford, Sutton
Road, Trucksville and Mrs. Richard
E. Crompton, Westmoreland Hills,
accepted the chairmanship of the
1964 Cancer Crusade in the Back
Mountain area.
Deaths - Lawrence Race, Noxen;
Amos H. Swire, Harveys Lake;
Edwin Guernsey, Shavertown; Mrs.
Alice M. Anderson, Trucksville.
You could get - Smoked kielbassi,
69c 1b.; stuffed olives, 3 jars, $1;
DelMonte corn, 3 cans, 50¢; sweet
peas, 10 oz. pkg., 10c; porterhouse
steak, 79¢ 1b.; liver, 89c 1b.; franks,
2 1b. pkg., 95c¢.
10 YEARS AGO - MARCH 24, 1974
Harveys Lake Borough represent-
atives were going to Harrisburg to
see if any state aid had been over-
looked in the effort to fund the
Bob Stanton, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Warren Stanton, RD 3, Dallas, took
second place in the World Series of
Snowmobile at Eagle River, Wis.
Dallas Borough Chief of Police
Ray Titus reported nine juveniles
had been petitioned to the juvenile
court in the last two weeks and
there were several more pending
petitions.
Married - Rhona B. Schwartz,
Pittsburgh to Robert O. Morgan,
Shavertown.
Deaths - Herbert Ray, Beaumont;
Donald Watson, Idetown; Frederick
Studley, Shavertown; Gordon
Austin, Shavertown.
You could get - Round steak $1.69
Ib.; beef brisket, $1.59 Ib.; spa-
ghetti, 6-16 oz. cans, $1; Idaho
baking potatoes, 5 Ib. bag, 99c;
Macintosh apples, 3 1b. bag, 79¢.
By NANCY KOZEMCHAK
Library Correspondent
Would you like to see some beauti-
ful dolls? Our display case in the
library is featuring 16 lovely dolls
from the collection of Stefanie
Dwinchick of Dallas.
The different thing about these
dolls is they are Avon fragrance
decanters. Margaret Dwinchick
‘began collecting these dolls for her
daughter in 1976, and the first one
was Betsy Ross.
Included in the display are Pretty
Girl pin, Victorian fashion figurine,
Adorable Abigale, Skater’s watlz,
Dutch girl and Roll-A-Hoop. There
are three of the nursery rhymes,
Little Miss Muffet, Mary, Mary and
Little Bo Peep along with Bridal
maiden. The Avon Belles of the
senorita and Dutch maid. Her
newest addition is Prima ballerina.
These dolls make a very pretty
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display and add a lot of charm to
the library. Stefanie is nine years
old and in third grade at Dallas
Township School. The display will
be at the library until April 4.
The Back Mountain Memorial
Library Book Club will meet on
Monday, March 19, at 1:30 p.m. in
the meeting rooms of St. Paul’s
Lutheran Church in Shavertown.
Mrs. Florence Crump will preside.
New books at the library: ‘School
for Murder” by Robert Barnard is a
mystery about an English boys’
preparatory school called Burleigh,
where the teaching ranges from
brilliant to abysmal, with definite
emphasis on the latter. Nothing is
quite right, starting with the head-
master. Someone spikes the punch
at a party for parents and things
begin to happen.
“Night Sky”’ by Clare Francis is
an irrisistibly readable novel set in
the years between 1935 and 1945, a
decade when people everywhere
found their lives turned upside
down. The story combines the his-
torical drama of Europe in chaos
with the personal triumphs and
tragedies of people trapped by the
passions of war, love and revenge.
An exciting story.
“Lines and Shadows’ by Joseph
Wambaugh is a gripping story of
controversial police experiments.
The media haled them as heroes.
Others ‘denounced them as rene-
gades who over-stepped the shad-
owy boundary between law and
justice. They were the Border
Crime Task Force, a squad of San
Diego police officers, who disguised
themselves as aliens to lure bandits.
“Unto This Hour’’ by Tom Wicker
is an American epic, one which
draws us simultaneously into the
dread lottery of war - death or
survival, victory or defeat - and into
the destinies of characters, created
and real, who experience a great
crucible in our history. These char-
acters are drawn with total clarity
including agony, testing and awe-
some willingness.
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Guest editorial
By EDWIN FEULNER
hile everybody and
his brother knew
beforehand that he
would be in the red by $180-
200 billion, the! mavens of
Wall Street - who had been
chalking up hefty gains on
the Big Board all winter long
- reacted by acting surprised
and sending the stock
market into a tailspin.
I felt like calling my
broker to ask him the classic
question: © ‘‘If you're so
smart, why aren't you
rich?’ With minor varia-
tions, that’s exactly the kind
of question we should ask
many of our policy-makers:
“How can you be so smug
when you're so consistently
wrong?”’
In early February, for
example, members of a
House Banking subcommit-
tee, on a straight party-line
vote, approved legislation
designed to heal the hemor-
rhage in the U.S. industrial
base. The two-pronged pro-
posal would establish a fed-
eral advisory council to
target federal aid to ailing
industries and a new ‘‘Bank
for Industrial Competitive-
U.S. businesses. The legisla-
tion is part of a bigger
National Industrial Policey
(NIP) program designed to
revive the moribund manu-
facturing sector of the U.S.
economy.
But there’s at least one
major flaw with the pro-
gram: its proponents are
dead wrong when they claim
U.S. industry is seriously ill
and in need of heroic life-
support measures.
To the contrary, a new
study shows U.S. industry is
actually quite healthy and
“continuing to evolve along
its historical path,” accord-
ing to the study’s author
Thomas DiLorenzo, profes-
sor of economics at George
Mason University in Vir-
ginia.
“The national industrial
capacity is not declining, it
is growing and changing,”
Dr. DeLorenzo says, noting a
three-fold increase in indus-
trial output from 1950 to
1981.
Dr. DeLorenzo’s important
research shows that manu-
facturing employment has
actually risen from 16.5 mil-
lion jobs in 1960 to 21.8 mil-
lion in 1981.
(Edwin Feulner is presi-
dent of The Heritage Foun-
dation, ‘a Washington-based
public policy research insti-
tute.)
DEAR EDITOR:
Over the past several weeks I
have told the story of my accident
in Egypt to many people. Invariably
people say how lucky I have been. I
smilé and say ‘yes’ it’s true even
though I know this not to be the
case.
My survival from my accident is
not so much a matter of luck as it is
love. The love of a traveling com-
panion, my family, friends and rela-
tives were of primary importance
and it is they that gave me the will
to fight against the pain and infec-
tion.
Torn and confused in Egypt, feel-
ing abandoned by my government
people of the Wyoming Valley and
my hometown, Dallas, however,
that rescued me from the clutches
of uncertainty and fear.
I have met and heard: from so
many people who knew me only as
a person in dire need of help - one
that was caught in a tragic occur-
ence far from the comfort of his
native land.
I would like to thank all the
people of the area ‘who donated
what they could to my cause despite
the taxman and post Christmas bills
who, from a very sincere place in
their hearts, gave to bring this
native son home.
It has been five weeks since my
accident and at times I feel I will
never heal and suffer the frustration
of one who refuses to admit even to
a cold let alone to being physically
incapacitated. Then, five weeks has
brought me a long way from the
torn and tattered body that laid
screaming in the dirty streets of
Egypt. Five weeks brought me
closer to death and back on the road
to health. Five weeks has brought
me halfway around the world and
back to my home town.
ened in me a belief in the inherent
goodness of all human beings.
~ Again, thank you for the prayers,
donations and love, people of the
area. I hope I am worthy.
WITH SINCERE GRATITUDE,
JACK CHARNEY
Here is a summary of important
events that occurred on Capitol Hill
last week from
prep. Frank Coslett,
120th Legislative District:
BRINGING OPERATION of the
state store system ‘‘into the 20th
Century” is the solution to problems
hounding the state-run liquor
monopoly, not dismantling it as
Gov. Dick Thornburgh has pro-
posed. That was the conclusion of a
bipartisan panel of four senators,
released this week in a 14-page
report. The study recommended a
number of specific steps the Liquor
Control Board should implement to
modernize the 51-year-old system.
Among them are: creation of
‘‘super stores’ to serve as both
retail outlets and mini-warehouses
for other outlets; modernization of
marketing techniques; allowing the
stores to accept credit cards and
personal checks; and permitting the
LCB to run promotions and adjust
prices. Rep. Stanford ‘Bud’ Lehr
(R-York), Republican chairman of
the House Liquor Control Commit-
tee, embraced the plan, saying the
changes would produce ‘‘a better
system, and hopefully, a more prof-
itable one.” A spokesman for the
Thornburgh administration said the
proposal was ‘not even a good
imitation of reform.’’ Recently, the
Senate tabled a Thornburgh plan to
abolish the state store system and
turn the sale of liquor over to
private enterprise.
NEW CAR BUYERS would be
guaranteed protection against
defective vehicles or so-called
“lemons” under a bill which passed
the Senate this week and was sent
to the House for concurrence. The
“lemon aid” bill, which originated
in the House and was revised by the
Senate, would mandate that buyers
get a replacement or a refund for a
new car which doesn’t work prop-
erly and can’t be repaired in three
attempts. The measure applies only
to vehicles with less than 12,000
miles and still under warranty. The
House will now take the amended
bill under consideration.
PENNSYLVANIA HOME-
OWNERS would be eligible for state
income tax credits toward the
installation of solar energy heating
or cooling systems under a measure
introduced in the House. The bill,
- which whould grant a 40 percent
credit on state income taxes to
homeowners and a 15 percent credit
on corporate net income taxes to
businesses, was co-sponsored by
Rep. Ed Burns (R-Bucks), Republi-
can chairman of the House Con-
sumer Affairs Committee. I
believe solar energy systems repre-
sent an economically feasible and
long-term alternative to the energy
problems facing many home-
owners,”’ Burns said.
By HOWARD J. GROSSMAN
In recent months, greater atten-
tion has been placed on private
sector initiatives, as a result of The
Tax Reform Acts of 1981 and 1982
and the policy to promote strong,
private initiatives in lieu of govern-
mental. support for economic
growth. Whether or not this will
lead to economic prosperity
remains to be seen. There is an
effort underway, however, which
involves both the public and private
sectors to focus attention on where
most of the jobs have been gener-
ated; that is, through support of
small and medium size businesses
throughout the nation. In Pennsyl-
vania, and particularly in North-
eastern Pennsylvania, an emphasis
has been placed on the concept of
Enterprise Development Centers as
a stimulus for job generation.
These centers have been estab-
lished in several of the regions of
the Commonwealth through grant
support from the Appalachian
Regional Commission and technical
assistance from the Pennsylvania
Department of Commerce. They
involve the placement of expertise
and, in some cases, funding for the
establishment of a Revolving Loan
Fund to assist small and medium
size businesses and industries.
In Northeastern Pennsylvania, the
Economic Development Council of
Northeastern Pennsylvania
(EDCNP) has been designated as
an Enterprise Development Center
and has in place, a Revolving Loan
Fund including $250,000 available
from the Economic Development
Administration and $83,000 from the
Appalachian Regional Commission.
This fund will be utilized in conjunc-
tion with other development financ-
ing programs to package projects
which otherwise might not take
place and thus, increase business
development and jobs in various
parts of Northeastern Pennsylvania.
In fact, the revolving loan fund
dollars administered by EDCNP
totals well over $1 million currently.
port and the likelihood that state
governments cannot pick up all of
the federal programs which have
efforts become even more impor-
tant. There is a need to expand local
commitments for development
financing.
A tool which has been often used
to help create incentives for posi-
tive, private sector decision making
is in jeopardy. This is the Industrial
Revenue Bond Program which is
being examined by Congress and
the Administration for substantial
change and in some quarters has
in facet, this program is severely
constrained and or eliminated, it
will greatly inhibit the ability of
Northeastern Pennsylvania to prove
its economic worthiness.
Thus, the Enterprise Development
Program may prove to be an
extremely important effort in light
of shortfalls at the federal and State
levels and should be supported by
all those concerned with the growth
of Northeastern Pennsylvania.
More information can be secured
on all of these activities, by writing
the Economic Development Council,
P.O. Box 777, Avoca, Pa. 18641.
(Howard J. Grossman is the exec-
utive director of the Economic
Development Council of Northeast-
ern Pennsylvania.)
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