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Only yesterday
50 YEARS AGO - JUNE 29, 1934
At a dinner meeting held at Irem Temple Country
Club, Dallas Rotary installed its new officers. H.S.
Van Campen was installed as president; Warren
Yeisley, vice-president; James F. Besecker, secretary
and L.F. Kingsley, treasurer. Past presidents were
also honored.
St. Therese’s Church, Shavertown, planned its
annual . pper and lawn social. In addition to serving
supper, a large number of entertaining features were
viewed. Bingo and other games wee planned. Rev.
John J. O'Leary was pastor. Rev. John F. Carroll and
Rev. Thomas L. Gildea were curates.
Engaged - Lelia Colbeigh to Rev. John Broeder.
Deaths - Joseph Bradbury, Luzerne.
You could get - Baker’s premium chocolate 1» 1b.
23¢; Scott tissue 3 rolls 20c¢; Octagon large laundry
soap, 3 cakes 13c; 24 Ib. bag flour $1.12; Diplomat
boned chicken 30c can; red salmon 2 cans 25¢; 8 0z.
jar peanut butter 10c.
40 YEARS AGO - JUNE 30, 1944
Henry Sobieski, Jackson Township infantryman was
wounded in the fighting north of the Anzio Beachhead
in Italy. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Sobieski, he had a
brother Leonard stationed with the infantry at Camp
Swift, Texas.
Pulpwood had become an important local product.
Ruggles Brothers Lumber Company were shipping two
carloads of pulpwood weekly to the Armstrong Forest
Products Company at Lock Haven to help relieve the
acute paper shortage while A.J. Sordoni was cutting
pulpwood at his Harveys Lake properties and shipping
it for the same purpose.
Engaged - Eunice Dorothy Smith to Harold LeRoy
Hess.
Deaths - Rufus Newberry, Beamont native; Ida Mae
Bealer, Sweet Valley.
You could get - Chickens 39c Ib.; beef ribs 21c 1b.;
long bologna 33c¢ 1b.; peaches 19¢ Ib.; tomatoes 22¢ 1b.;
new onions 3 Ibs. 17¢; Camay soap 3 cakes 20c.
30 YEARS AGO - JULY 2, 1954
Options were taken on 75 Jackson Township proper-
ties for the proposed establishment of a State Mental
Hospital in that area. The $30,000,000 hospital would
house 1,500 to 2,500 patients.
Carl T. Hedden, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond
Hedden, Dallas, left for Germany sailing on the Seven
~ Seas in the company of 1250 students who would live in
German homes under the supervision of American
Field Service. Carl stayed in Dusseldorf.
Engaged - Agnes Zolko to William Doberstein;
Alberta Ann Maransky to George Marshalek, Jr.;
Shirley Ann Welsh to Pfc. John R. Mahle; Lois Wood
- to Harrison Cook.
Married - Mary Elizabeth Schooley and Archie
Levern Williams; Anne O’Connor to Seaman Robert
Rother.
Anniversaries - Mr. and Mrs. Byron Kester,
Demunds Rd., 40 years.
You could get - Turkeys 59c 1b.; smoked hams 59¢
Ib.; clams 3 lb. basket 75¢; potatoes 10 Ib. bag 37c;
plums 19c Ib.; pascal celery 19c lg. bunch; 2 lb. box
Velveeta cheese 85¢; 9 rolls toilet tissue $1.
20 YEARS AGO - JULY 2, 1964
Two annual events of the summer season were
scheduled for this weekend. The Lehman Horse Show
and the Back Mountain Memorial Library Auction
were anxiously anticipated.
A premature baby girl weighing 2 pounds 14 ounces
was doing nicely at Mercy Hospital following her birth
in the office of Dr. Ben Groblewski, Harveys Lake.
Married - Dorothy Diane Swier and Donald LaBar;
Eileen Frances Ferry to Denis John Byrne.
Anniversaries - Mr. and Mrs. Austin Line, 43 years;
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Ward, 40 years; Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Lamoreaux, 16 years; Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Young, 50 years; Mr. and Mrs. William Parry, 14
years. }
Birthdays - B.J. Roushey, 85 years old.
Deaths - Mary N. Brin, Loyalville; Adrian Dunn,
Bloomingdale.
You could get - Smoked hams 29c 1b.; turkeys 39c
lb.; standing rib roast 65c 1b.; bing cherries 49c¢ 1b.;
white seedless grapes 39¢ 1b.; fresh green beans 2 lbs.
29c¢; sweet corn 69¢ doz.; jumbo cantaloupes 3-89¢; ice
cream 59¢ '» gal. ’
10 YEARS AGO - JULY 3, 1974
Robert’ W. Brown, a veteran of 25 years in the
banking profession joined First National Bank of
Easter Pa. as a vice president. Brown was a former
Dallas Borough mayor and served as a member of the
borough council at that time.
Dallas School District set new policy of rules
concerning termination of coaches in light of the
recent dismissal of basketball coach Robert Cicon and
assistant coach Clinton Brobst. The two coaches were
dismissed without warning when their names were
omitted from the list of coaches to be reappointed.
Married - Mary Alice Fertal and Paul J. McMillan;
Gail Doughton and Matthew J. Szeliga Jr.
Anniversaries - Mr. and Mrs. Russell Hoover, 50
years; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bowman, 50 years; Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Gosart, 58 years.
Deaths - Raymond R. Hedden, Loyalville; Thomas
Healey, Shavertown; Joseph Janusziewicz; Earl har-
ding, Tunkhannock; Rachel E. Rittenhouse, Hunlock
Creek.
You could get - Ground chuck 98c 1b.; smoked hams
53¢ lb.; watermelons 8c Ib.; pascal celery 29¢ bunch;
nectarines 49¢ lb.; bing cherries 69c¢ 1b.; 24 oz. jar
French’s mustard 35¢; sandwich rolls 74c doz.; bagels
60c 2 doz.; 3 pkg. tomatoes $1.
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Guest editorial
By EDWIN FEULNER
If Congress doesn’t act
quickly, Medicare could go
bankrupt in less than five
ears. That’s not much time
o fiddle around with ineffi-
cient remedies; the program
helps pay hospital bills for
more than 30-million Ameri-
cans!
When Congress acted last
ear to bail out the failin
ocial Security retiremen
fund, it didn’t even examine
the related Medicate hospital
fund - currently suffering
from what might prove to be
a terminal illness.
Medicare insurance pays
most hospital bills for Social
Security recipients. Initiated
in 1966, it cost $3.4 billion its
first year. Medicare now
costs $36.1 billion annually -
better than a 10-fold
increase.
There are many factors
contributing to the cost hem-
morrhage. People live longer
and 2.2 percent more elderly
are added to the Medicare
rolls each Year The perma-
nently disabled became eligi-
ble for Medicare in 1977. And
there has been a sharp
increase in medical costs in
recent years. :
A May Reader's Digest
article on the Medicare
crisis reported that between
1967 and 1982 ‘‘the daily rate
of a hospital room escalated
457 percent...at the same
time newer and higher-
priced diagnostic tests and
surgical procedures have
been prescribed with
increasing frequency.’’
According to the Congres-
sional Budget Office the
additional funds pumped into
Medicare can’t keep up with
the escalating cost of hospi-
talization.
The time has come to find
a cure for the ailing pro-
ram. Recently proposals
or ‘privatizing’ Medicare
have begun surfacing.
Though the very idea send
some people into knee-jerk-
induced spasms, the plan
deserves serious considera-
tion. One such proposal, by
former White House analyst
peter Ferrara, proposes the
use of ‘‘health-bank”’ individ-
ual retirement accounts
»
(IRAS).
Under this proposal, work-
ers would continue to pay
taxes to fund the current
Medicare program, but they
would also receive tax incen-
tives to establish voluntary
health-bank retirement
accounts. Over the years,
funds that accumulate in
these private accounts would
be used to pay for private
health insurance and_ other
medical expenses during
retirment.
This proposal could be the
first step toward solv.ng the
current Medicare financial
crisis. It would support the
current system for the
elderly without other medi-
cal insurance plans; it would
provide health care for the
poor; it would make the
system equitable. Most of
all, it would create a finan-
system for retired people - a
fy haying ublic. ]
(Edwin Feulner is presi-
dent of The Heritage Foun-
dation, a Washington-based
[ilie policy research insti-
ute.
DEAR EDITOR:
~The Dallas School Board’s recent
action to eliminate driver training
education is not a savings to the tax
payers.
This district has an average of 120
students completing the course a
year (not even counting the summer
students). The savings to the one
out of every three households that
has a youthful operator means a
savings to those who have com-
pleted the course of approximately
$30,000 a year.
Every insurance statistic availa-
ble strongly supports the fact that
the lessening of accidents and the
lessening of the severity of the
accidents to both property and body
are reduced 15 percent by these
students.
The savings by eliminating the
course might be half of this savings.
The saving of one life or a less
severe injury cannot be measured
by a financial savings. The entire
insurance industry and every agent
in the business all wholeheartedly
support the continuing of this
“ELECTIVE” course.
We can think of no other elective
course except possibly home eco-
nomics that would be used for a
longer period of a person’s life time
than this course. Parents cannot
and do not teach as well as a
professional in defensive driving
and responsibility of operating a
car, nor showing the vivid film that
relate to youthful accidents as high
school driver training courses do.
If the board’s action was to deny
Mr. Baran to continue teaching this
course at Dallas without ‘he super-
tive, then it seems that the politics
time and expense. If Mr. Baran’s
practice of teaching -this course
needs improvement regarding time
or direction, then direct these
changes and continue this important
course.
My purpose is not to interfere, but
after having talked to most of the
insurance agents of the Back Moun-
tain, including five tax payers of the
Dallas district, we all strongly rec-
ommend the continuence of this
program and any updating that may
be needed to improve it as neces-
sary.
NED HARTMAN
DEAR EDITOR:
On behalf of the Geisinger Chil-
dren’s Hospital Center, we would
like to sincerely thank the people of
northeastern and northcentral Penn-
sylvania for the overwhelming gen-
erosity shown during our Children’s
Miracle Network Telethon.
More than 10,000 people phoned in
pledges, amounting to over $300,000,
and carnival attendance surpased
DEAR EDITOR:
I wish to thank you (Dotty
Martin) and your staff, namely Lee
Richards and Charlot Denmon, for
the positive articles regarding Lake-
Lehman’s girls’ softball team.
30,000. Runners from all over the
people toured the medical center.
The money raised will go toward
such things as new Life Flight
equipment for children and infants,
new heart monitors, the expansion
of our Child Life Program and our
Pediatric Research Program.
Because of your generosity, we can
The articles came at a time when
spirits were low and they reminded
me, and I'm sure the rest of the
team, that we all had something to
be proud of.
We all gave the season and play-
ensure the best possible care for our
children.
Our children are our future. Your
generous response helps to make
their future much brighter. YOU
MADE A MIRACLE HAPPEN.
KENNETH E. QUICKEL, JR., M.D.
GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTE
ROBERT C. SPAHR, M.D.
DIRECTOR
CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL CENTER
appreciative
offs our best shot and your articles
rewarded that. Thanks.
FLOSSIE FINN
GIRLS’ SOFT-
BALL COACH
LAKE-LEHMAN
Here is a summary of important
events that occurred on Capitol Hill
last week from Rep. Frank Coslett,
120th Legislative District.
BIPARTISAN AGREEMENT
over the way a $190 million eco-
nomic development program should
be implemented appears to have
Classified Ad
been reached this week. The agree-
ment came in the foirm of an 11-bill
package developed overa two-month
period by leaders of both parties
and Thornburgh administration
aides. Authority to spend the $190
million was given by voters in a
$14. out of state
Paid in Advance
primary election referendum. The
SUBSCRIPTION RATES proposed program includes $50 mil-
25¢ t d : lion for so-called infrastructure
on newssiana. ...... $12. per year in Pa. improvements, $12.5 million in loans
for projects in small communities,
$30 million in new equipment pur-
chases for schools, $20 million to
J. Stephen Buckley. ........... Radmin ....Publisher promote growth of new small busi-
BilfSavage. ...-... . 7. nna Arild Managing Editor nesses and $15 million for a youth
DottyMantiny,...... kde. fon. sagen Associate Editor jobs program. 0
Mike Danowski. ................ Advertising Representative COMPETENCY TESTS in reading
and math will be administered to
Pennsylvania public school students
in third, fifth and eighth grades
under regulations unanimously
approved by the state Board of
Education. The program will begin
in October and is designed to ‘make
our public school system accounta-
ble to the tax-paying public,”
according to Education Secretary
Robert Wilburn. Although the tests
will determine a student’s compe-
tency in math and reading, Wilburn
said remedial courses for pupils
found deficient in those areas will
not be instituted unless the Legisla-
tive approves funding. Earlier this
year the House passed a bill which
would require eleventh graders to
pass a competency test in order to
graduate. That bill is now in the
Senate where it has been stripped of
the eleventh grade graduation
requirement.
THE FORMATION of a special
committee to investigate problems
resulting from the sale of a sex
manual discovered in Philadelphia
was approved by the House. The
resolution calling for the creation of
the panel was sponsored by Rep.
Frances Weston (R-Philadelphia).
The manual is written in a ‘how-to’
style and instructs adults in ways to
have sex with children. Weston’s
resolution: asks that the committee
‘“detrmine the adequcy of existing
laws and recommend any necessary
publications.
‘By NANCY KOZEMCHAK
Staff Correspondent
This is it! Next Thursday, the day after the 4th of
July. You guessed it! The 38th Annual Back Mountain
Memorial Library Auction begins July 5 and runs until
July 8 on the auction grounds behind the library on
Main Street. We need your books, to be used in the
library or sold at the book booth; we need your odds
and ends and larger used goods; we need your help at
the various booths and we need you to participate in
the auction one way or another to make this, our last
auction on these grounds, a success. The refreshments
are delicious, the sales are fantastic, the fun is
overwhelming and the good feeling of seeing people
respond to this volunteer action is heart warming.
Come to the auction, bring your chairs and your
friends and help us celebrate - the start of a new
beginning!
The children’s library is now open in temporary
quarters on the second floor of our new library
building on Huntsville Road. The amount of books
checked out during the first week in the new facility
has been great. The children are finding their library.
The hours are Monday and Friday 12:30 to 5:30 and
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 9:30 to 5:30. Mrs.
Rudolph and her library aides are there to help the
children with their summer reading.
The Dallas Junior Woman’s Club had put together a
cookbook as its final project and has donated these
cookbooks to the library. The cookbooks are available
for sale at the front desk at $3.00 each.