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vl 50 YEARS AGO - AUG. 17, 1934
Dallas Borough Council sought government aid for
funds to create a new topographical map including
streets, elevations and other important surface fea-
tures in the community. Costs of having the map
~ Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Company yielded a
disappointing $442.43 from its three day carnival.
Although crowds were large each night, there was
little spending, reflecting general economic conditions
throughout the community.
~ Deaths - Fred P. Kunkle, Kunkle; Clara Wolfe
Ashburner, Outlet; Dr. Harrison K. Van Tuyl, former
area resident.
You could get - Boneless rolled veal 19¢ Ib.;
frankfurters 2 1b. 25c¢; dried beef 14 1b. 18c: Little
Neck clams 10c doz.; butter 2 1b. 61¢; corn flakes 2
pkg. 13c; Maxwell House coffee 3lc lb.; Elberta
freestone peaches 4 1b. 25¢; vinegar 39c¢ gal.; salt 2-4
1b. boxes 15¢.
40 YEARS AGO - AUG. 18, 1944
Lehman School Board awarded a contract for a new
school cafeteria to Robert Eyerman & Son, Wilkes-
Barre at a bid of $4,640. The cafeteria would not only
serve school students but would be operated on a 12
month basis as a community canning center equipped
‘with all of the latest facilities for processing meats
‘and vegetables and preserving them in tin cans.
The fifth annual Flower Show sponsored by Alderson
Methodist Church was being planned. The show would
be held in the Laketon School. Judges for the show
were Frank Jackson, Guy Moore, Harry Trebilcox and
Charles Quicksell.
Married - Pvt. James Gordon and Madeline Neilson;
Air Cadet William Snyder and Mary Carolyn Davis;
Ruth Leona Becker to Lieut. Charles Girton.
Deaths - Edward Green, Trucksville; Edward
Engleman, Noxen; Harold Marth, Trucksville; Mrs.
Anna Verafin, Alderson.
You could get - Skinless franks 35c¢ 1b.; chickens 39¢c
Ib.; fresh ground beef 25c 1b.; bacone 29c 1b.; dressed
whiting 15¢ Ib.; marmalade 2 lb. jar 25c; evaporated
milk 3 tall cans 26c; coffee 24c 1b.; apples 3 lb. 23c;
potatoes 10 1b. 43c; Oxydol 1g. pkg. 23c.
30 YEARS AGO - AUG. 20, 1954
Herbert B. Moyer, resident of Lehman Avenue,
Dallas, was named comptroller of Miners Bank.
Mrs. Albert Ide was general chairman of the
~ Lehman Flower, Fruit and Vegetable Show. Members
of the Lehman Methodist Church Friendship Club
sponsored the show which was held in the Lehman
~ High School auditorium.
Engaged - Priscilla Cooper to Alexander Gulas;
- Margaret A. Webster to Carl E. Johnson.
Anniversaries - Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ruggles, Maple
Grove, 61 years;
Ruggles, 50 years.
Deaths - Martha Hufford, Evans Falls; William
Johns, Trucksville; Emma Marie Beline, Jackson
Township.
You could get - Club steaks 79c 1b.; veal roast 49c
Ib.; Bartlett pears 2 1b. 23c; Carnation milk 6 tall cans
79¢; 1 1b. pkg. elbow macaroni 21c¢; Lava soap 3 bars
32¢c; Ivory Flakes giant box 74c; Joy dishwashing
detergent giant size 74c; Hi-C punch 35¢ can.
20 YEARS AGO - AUG. 20, 1964
Hundreds of dollars worth of electonic equipment,
records and food was looted from the Dallas Little
League Field buildings. The theft resembled one at the
Dallas Drive-In Theatre earlier in the week. Approxi-
mately $600 worth of electronic items and food were
stolen from the theatre.
The home of Robert Hoover, Troxell Switch, was
struck by lightning. The bolt struck the cornice of the
building traveled down the TV antenna, set a curtain
in the living room ablaze and blew out two fuses.
Married - Theresa Mary McCue to Allen W. Mon-
tross; Joan Pellegrinelli to Michael Olenick.
Anniversaries - Dr. and Mrs. Otis Allen, Alderson, 53
years; Mr. and Mrs. John Baur, Shavertown, 40
years; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Saunders, 6 years; Mr.
and Mrs. James Daubert, 3 years.
Deaths - John Duda, Dallas; Walter Kuniskas,
Dallas; Irma Shoemaker, Trucksville; Henry Schilly,
Carverton Road; Charles Sutton, Lehman; John Pav-
Mr. and Mrs. George Dendler,
Martha Griesmer, Dallas.
You could get - Boneless round roast 75¢ Ib.; pork
butts 39c 1b.; franks 55¢ 1b.; jumbo shrimp 99¢ 1b.;
cantaloupes 19c¢ 1b.; white seedless grapes 17¢ 1b.; ice
cream 59¢ Y% gal.; strawberry preserves 2 1b. jar 59c;
nylons 3 pr. $1; cake mixes 3 pkg. 89¢c; cherry pie 45¢
each.
10 YEARS AGO - AUG. 22, 1974
Harveys Lake Sewer Authority secretary requested
that the authority join in a suit against the project
engineer Glace and Glace for failure to follow up on
grants totaling $1.5 million. Gulitus cited the fact that
the statute of limitations on a $57,000 harness racing
grant would run out shortly.
John J. Sheehan, Jr., was named executive secre-
tary of the Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Commerce.
Sheehan, formerly, an employee of Commonwealth
Telephone Company, was a graduate of Wyoming
Seminary, Wilkes College and served with the U.S.
Army.
Engaged - Theresa Derwin to Richard E. McCarty;
Jean C. Fleming to Arthur Posey; Diane Morgan to
Rick Gonzalez; Millie Weiss to Douglass G. Brody.
OPINION
By HOWARD J. GROSSMAN
The prospect of 50,000 citizens of Wilkes-
Barre, plus others in Wyoming Valley
articipating in a national demonstration
or preventative heart disease looms as a
major venture which has exciting overtones
for Northeastern Pennsylvania and the
entire nation.
Spearheaded by television producer Stan
Rar, a native Wilkes-Barrean and blended
by the daring imagination of Doctor Ted
Diethrich, the Director of the Arizona
Heart Institute, who also happens to own
the Arizona Wranglers of the United States
Football League, the project offers an
opportunity for Wilkes-Barre to receive
national exposure in an extremely positive
setting.
The project includes a five month period
of time in which centerstage is the City of
Wilkes-Barre, at the end of which will be a
national public television production of one-
hour length showing Wilkes-Barre as the
model community in which a preventative
heart disease process has been launched on
a scale never seen in the nation.
The idea is to showcase what can be done
over the length of time to improve the way
people take care of themselves to prevent
eart disease before it strikes prematurely.
Smoking habits, eating habits, stress and
other factors will be considered using a test
Procedure which Dr. Diethrich developed.
wo months after the first test is taken, a
second test will be given to see what
progress has been made in coping with
individual conditions on the part of those
who participated in the first test.
The Luzerne County Medical Society has
endorsed the project and is participatin
actively in its planning, development an
implementation. Many other loca organiza-
tions are contributing their time, money or
energies to make this project successful.
Such organizations include, but are not
limited fo, American Heart Association
American Cancer Society, American Re
Cross, each of the hospitals in Wyoming
Valley, Northeast Pennsylvania Business
Council on Health Care, Economic Develop-
ment Council of Northeastern Pennsyl-
vania, Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of
Commerce, many of the service clubs in
Wyoming Valley and a whole host of other
organizations and individuals.
The national exposure which Wilkes-
Barre, Wyoming alley and Northeastern
Pennsylvania will receive as a result of the
television program and the associated pub-
licity during the entire process, as well as
the exposure following the television pro-
gram, is another signal of the comeback
and vibrant revitalization of this region.
Diethrich will be in the Wyoming Valley
during the course of the five-month time,
along with a well known television person-
ality who will narrate the television pro-
ram. In addition, another spinoff effect is
e unity which the project has created
within the Greater Wilkes-Barre commu-
nity with many organizations sharing in the.
ability to produce this mammoth undertak-
ing.
x central office has been established ing
the Luzerne County Medical Society tacili- 9
ties at 130 South Franklin Street, Wilkes-
phone’ number has been established for
anyone desiring information on the project.
This number is OK HEART.
This project deserves the support of all
Valley citizens who, in many ways, consti-
tute the heart of preventative heart disease
prograt which will pervade our region for
he next five months. :
With Wilkes-Barre used as a national
model, the hope is that the entire country
will begin to utilize this technique as a
basis for improving health care and pre-
venting heart disease from striking prema-
turely. The national television program is
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designed to encourage every citizen of the
country to subsequently utilize the heart
test. Thereafter, an evaluation of the test
will provide insight as to what steps can be
taken to help prevent heart disease from
striking across the nation. :
Wilkes-Barre has a chance to pioneer a
trail of medical history for all Americans.
(Howard Grossman is executive director;
of the Economic Development Ccuncil of®
Northeastern Pennsylvania.) ®
DEAR EDITOR:
I have read with great interest
and concern all the articles on the
sale of Old Sandy Bottom Beach.
The stories are sad and indicate
“the end or an era’, and ‘“‘one of the
last open to the public bathing areas
of Harveys Lake.”
A few years ago, we had some
men on our town council who had
the foresight to know that this was
going to happen. They had the
opportunity to buy beach front and
a building, referred to as the stone
house for a cost of $80,000 to the
borough. They worked very hard in
an attempt to secure this property
for the borough and had obtained a
grant from the federal government
in the amount of $25,000 toward the
purchase. This brought the bor-
ough’s cost down to $55,000.
Had this purchase gone through,
Harveys Lake Borough would own a
beach area for its residents, as well
as its own building. They wanted to
guarantee lake access to residents
for today and for tomorrow!
Our so-called taxpayers associa-
tion fought hard against this pur-
chase and they won the fight. They
scared residents with their propa-
ganda that taxes would double and
the borough could not afford the
property.
The irony of it all is that their
endorsed candidates won the elec-
tion that year; and before they went
out of office they doubled the taxes,
and we still don’t own an inch of
lafefront property or a building of
our own. We probably never will
own an inch of lakefront property
either! It has become even more
scarce since then.
Of course, if 200 people can each
come up with $1900 to buy Old
access to the lake for a total cost of
Those who cannot
afford it, can drive by on a hot
summer day and observe the bath-
ers on their “private” beach. It’s
enough to make me sick!
MICHELLE T. BOICE
(USPS 147-720
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Here is a summary of important
events that occurred on Capitol Hill
last week from Rep. Frank Coslett,
120th Legislative District.
THE SPEAKER of the House,
Democrat K. Leroy Irvis, took no
action on a request from Gov. Dick
Thornburgh to call the House back
into session to consider a proposed
amendment to the state constitu-
tion. By not returning the House to
session by Aug. 6, Irvis effectively
killed a Senate-passed bill to reform
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amendment to the constitution must
be acted upon by the Legislature at
least 90 days before a general elec-
tion. The legislation would open
certain judicial disciplinary hear-
ings to the public and mandate
legislative review of judicial rules
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and regulations. Missing the dead-
line delays passage of an amend-
ment for at least two years. In a
letter to the governor this week,
Irvis said he is willing to talk to
House and Senate leaders of both
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Dotty Martin. . Cea oe Editor A SERIES of statewide hearings
Mike Danowski. io Dla AE Advertising Representative by a special House committee inves-
tigating alternatives to landfills as a
method of waste disposal in Penn-
sylvania will open in Bucks County.
The seven-member panel will consi-
der the dilemma of the increasing
the state and the limited capacity of
landfills. The problem is a pressing
one. A Department of Environmen-
tal Resources survey concluded that
seven of 10 major landfills used by
Philadelphia and its suburbs for
waste disposal will soon be filled to
capacity. It is expected that the
committee’s findings will be
reported to the House by Nov. 30.
IN TWO DAYS of testimony, a
House panel heard arguments con-
cerning a Senate-passed bill to pro-
vide township supervisors with the
same insurance benefits as full-time
township employees. Representa-
tives of the Pennsylvania Associa-
tion of Township Supervisors told
the House Local Government Com-
mittee that the part-time supervi-
sors are exposed to the same haz-
ards on the job as full-time
employees and are therefore enti-
tled to taxpayer-paid medical insur-
ance. A spokesman for a citizen’s
group contended that the supervi-
sors are aware of the lack of
benefits when they seek the elected
posts and should not ask taxpayers
to fund insurance policies when
many taxpayers are unemployed
themselves.
By NANCY KOZEMCHAK
Library Correspondent
A rousing thank you goes to the
Dallas Lions Club for their contribu-
tion of $1,200 to the Back Mountain
Memorial Library. This money was
realized through the Lions various
fund-raising events and is desig-
nated to be used to purchase large
print books for the library to be
used by the visually handicapped.
The check was presented by Drew
Fitch, Lions Club president and we
thank him and all the members of
the Dallas Lions.
What a beautiful sight to see, on a
lovely, warm summer day, at the
Meadows Apartments in Dallas. I
was making my regular monthly
visit to the apartments with a
and almost walked into a beautiful
horse and buggy. The buggy was
borrowed from George Taylor of
Idetown and the horse was loaned
through Butch Gray, head of main-
tenance at the Meadows. The resi-
dents of the apartments were wait-
ing on the lawn for their turn in the
buggy. Two at a time were taken
for a nice ride along the lake down
to the nursing center and they were
enjoying every minute of it. The
kitchen staff was providing ice tea
and cold drinks and all in all, it was
a lovely day to spend a day. I
understand the horse and buggy
were loaned to the apartments for
the day and what a nice thing to do!
Speaking of smiling faces - we
had a couple of fresh air kids here
last week. On one of those hot,
muggy days, our two summer youth
work room, processing books when
the idea came up to move them
outside on the walkway with their
equipment for a few hours. We
found a wooden table, used our
green benches and for a few hours,
they worked sitting down, out in the
fresh air with genuine smiles on
their faces!
New books at the library: ‘The
Decline and Fall of The American
Automobile Industry’’ by Brock
Yates is a penetrating analysis of
the failure of the industry in which
the author blames the management
of the Big Three automakers for
forfeiting America’s leadership role,
He claims General Motors, Ford
and Chrysler failed to see the
oncoming revolution in smaller
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