\ OF OTHERS CF retis 2%) 2 Only yesterday ¢ 5 ) fi 1 50 YEARS AGO - AUG. 31, 1934 State Engineers began a survey on the local highway. About 5,000 signatures were obtained on peti- tions which would be presented to the state. The Back Mountain mourned the passing of former postmistress Ruth S. Waters of Dallas. A graduate of Dallas High School and Wilkes- Barre Business College, Miss Waters was postmistress for four years until illness forced her to take the position of assistant. You could get a knicker suit for $6.95; fresh eggs 2 doz. 59¢; tuna carton; potatoes 7 lb. 25¢; cheese 29¢ 1b.; motor oil § qt. cans 99c; butter 2 1b. 59¢; mayonnaise 19¢ pt. jar; large loaf bread 10c; olive oil 3 oz. bottle 10c. 40 YEARS AGO - SEPT. 1, 1944 Surrounded by members of her family and old friends, Alice Shaver Morris celebrated her 80th birthday anniversary at her home on Frank- lin Street. Mrs. Morris was the oldest native born woman living in Dallas. Rev. John J. O'Leary, pastor of St. Therese’s Church, Shavertown, and parishioners of St. Therese’s and Our Lady of Victory Church, Harveys Lake, sponsored a festival to earn money for construction of a new church, Gate of Heaven, which would be built on the Bauer estate on Machell Avenue in Dallas. Engaged - Elaine Reinhardt to Married - Kathleen Bogart to S- Sgt. John Richards. Deaths - Mildred Poff, Carverton You could get - Breast of lamb 17¢ 1b.; pork liver 19c 1b.; ground beef 15¢ 1g. bunch; green peppers 5¢ 1b.; 26¢; marmalade 2 Ib. jar 19¢; sugar 5 1b. bag 32c. 30 YEARS AGO - SEPT. 3, 1954 Many residents of Jackson and opposed to the possible location of a State Mental Hospital in the Jack- son Township area. A definite deci- sion concerning location of the facil- ity had not been made at that time. Nine one-room schoolhouses were sold over the block in the Ross Township area. Cletus Holcomb was auctioneer. Mott School brought $600, Mooretown $500, Mountain Springs $110, Frisbie building $200, Bloomingdale $125. The opening of the new Ross Township grade school made the one-room schools outdated. Engaged - Jean Watkins to Paul Sedler; Priscilla Davis to William H. Perry; Adele Puecylowski to Francis J. Polachek; Barbara ‘A. Behm to Angelo DeCesaris; Mildred Ann Kingston to William Burnaford, Jr. Deaths Eliza Greenwood Rd. You could get - Smoked hams 59¢ Ib.; turkeys 55¢ Ib.; ground beef 39¢ Ib.; shrimp 69¢ Ib.; bananas 2 Ib. 23¢; Tokay grapes 2 1b. 27c; Wine- crest coffee 99c¢ lb.; strawberries 35¢ 1b.; white American cheese 50c¢ Ib.; Star Kist tuna 3-6!» oz. cans $1: Nabisco Ritz crackers 35¢ 1b. pkg. 20 YEARS AGO - SEPT. 3, 1964 Donna Smith, new Worthy Advi- sor of the International Order of the Rainbow for Girls, was installed. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Smith, West Dallas, she replaced Gail Kelley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Kelley, Harveys Lake. Sansdale Farms, (larverton cap- tured senior champion and grand champion awards at the 11th annual Northeastern Pa. Black and White Show, Tunkhannock. Ralph Sands’ Glo-Mor Anna Texal Centurian was the prize winning cow. Thomas, Mt. Engaged - Lonnie Jozwiak to Leonard J. Zoeller; Barbara Ann Evans to Charles EE. Small. Married - Gail Alzina Jones to William J. McCullough; Eleanor Elenchik and Donald Taylor. Anniversaries Mr. and Mrs. John Clause, 28 years; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Greenley, Trucksville; Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Culp, Dallas. 50 years. J.Stephen Buckley William Savage Dotty Martin Betty Bean Mike Danowski Charlot Denmon Joe Gula Marvin Lewis Jean Brutko Peggy Poynton Newsstand rate is 25 cents per copy y Publisher Managing Editor Editor Advertising Circulation Director Office Manager Monday - Friday 1 Deaths - Kenneth Conklin, Sutton Creek Road; Theodore Swainbank, Dallas; George Wesley, Sweet Valley; Eliabeth Williams Rood, Dallas; Lydia Kemmerer, Shaver- town; Eva Skopic, Lehman Heights. You could get - Hams 29c¢ 1b; turkeys 39¢ 1b.; franks 53c 1b.; pork sausage 59c¢ 1b.; potatoes 25 1b. bag 3 1b. 19¢; shrimp $1.09 1b.; tea bags pkg. of 64, 49c; 2-1b. cans Mussel- man’s cherry pie filling 59¢; Impe- rial margarine 37¢ 1b. 10 YEARS AGO - SEPT. 5, 1974 The symphonie concert sound of the Lake-Lehman High School Band under the direction of John Miliaus- kas was presented over Radio Sta- tion WNAK, Nanticoke. College Misericordia welcomed 220 freshman students. The increase over the previous year was due to the new Nursing program. Married - Virigina Piatt to Rich- ard A. Ide; Linda Woolbert to Walter E. Flindt; Mariette Hanhau- ser to Bruce E. McCarthy. Deaths - Susan Wright, Shaver- town; Frederick Risch, Sr., Dallas: Nel Fischer Hoffman, Shavertown. You could get - Chuck roast $1.09 Ib.; ground chuck $1.09 lb.; chicken breasts 59¢ 1b.; bartlett pears 4 Ib. $1, peaches 4 1b. $1; celery 25¢ bunch; cabbage 8c 1b.; Velveeta cheese 83c 1b.; egg noodles 39¢ 1b.: bacon 99c¢ lb.; Minute Maid orange juice 2-12 oz. cans 69c. By EDWIN FEULNER Staff Correspondent It’s commonly believed that man-made chemicals are among society’s deadli- est Killers. Promoting this notion is an army of anti-technology flacks, hucksters, self-styled experts, and even a few sin- cere scientists caught up in the politics of it all. In her new book, The Apoc- alyptics: Politics, Science, and the big Cancer Lie (Simon_and Schuster, 1984), Edith Efron, author of The News Twisters and TV Guide media critic, Says the pseudo-scientific huckstering 1s enough to ‘‘leave even the most educated [yma incapable of differenfiatin between serious science an ideology in a white smock.” She’s right. The merchants of fear have attempted to play on our understandable fear of cancer, prohanly the most dread of all diseases, hy overloading our circuits wit claims of imminent doom, packaged neatly between the covers of scientific-sounding research papers who conclu- sions are written evern before the first test-tube is filled. Yel. on an a e-adjusted basis, cancer is declining in the United States, even as the use of industrial chemi- cals has risen sharply. That’s what the evidence says - not that we're com- mitting mass suicide by using spray paint on our atio furniture and eating ood grown with pesticides. How about workplace cancer? During the Carter- Mondale administration, then-Secretary of health, Education and Welfare Joseph Califano went before the TV cameras with an undocumented claim that 40 percent or more of all cancer deaths may be attrib- utable to exposure to work- place chemicals. The serious scientific community rejected his foolish claim immediately, but not before another seed of fear had been planted. Numerous studies over many years both in the United States an other industrialized nations, indicate that exposure to industrial chemicals proba- bly accounts for no more than five percent of all can- cers. In fact, the data show that working in the chemical industry is safer than work- ing in most other industries according to the National Safety Council. A long-term study of 8,181 eople who were on Dow “hemical Company’s Michi- an payroll on March 1, 1954 or example, showed thaf during the next 30 years the roup had 20 percent fewer eaths and five percent fewer cancer deaths than the eneral population. Some of is, soppany officials apres is probably due to the ‘healthy worker effect,’ where some people are screened out in the hiring process. “But it must also be true,” says Dr. Perry Gehring, director of health and envi- ronmental science for Dow Chemical U.S.A., “that if the Chicken Littles of the world are to be believed and if working with these so-called toxic time bombs is as haz- ardous as they say, then Dow employees should be dropping like flies and our mortality rate should be sky igh” fron’s new book, panned in The Washington Post for being too strident (though the reviewer acknowledged the scientific validity of everything she said), sets the record straight. I can’t imagine it ‘being on Ralph Nader’s Christmas-giving list, but anyone who really wants to know how the mer- chants of doom have tried to snooker us into believing death is just a molecule away should read it cover-to- cover. (Feulner is president of The Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based public policy research institute.) By CLYDE DUPIN At last, conpiess has restored some freedom of religion and free speech to our public schools. The 'so- called ‘‘equal-access mea- sure’’ has passed both the House and Senate. The Federal District Court rulings had forbidden all stu- dent religious gatherings on school property. The legisla- tion gives the same access to a student directed Bible study or prayer group. as other campus organizations have always enjoyed. In the past, political, after school or at free peri- ods, but religious activities had been banned. These stu dents led religious ‘clubs restore some of the freedoms that have been denied in recent years to our children. President Reagan had pushed for this equal access or religious groups, but was Jie ointed with some of the bill’s attached features. This school year, our chil- dren will return to school campuses with protection guaranteed for religious activities allowed during non-class periods. There are many liberal clergy and organizations which oppose this legislation. There may be “some abuses, but it is a constitutional Fight restored to our boys and girls. The Supreme Court recently upheld this right of religious assembly and activity on state college and university campuses. We congratulate our Con- gress for restoring this con- stitutional right of voluntary religious access to public schools. By NANCY KOZEMCHAK Library Correspondent What do the names Gluck, Robin Hood, Buckhorn, Iron City, Holiday, Pearl, Point, Maximus, Golden 16, Brown Derby, Cerveza Tecate and Carlsberg mean to you? Probably, not too much; but to Mel Congdon, Jr. of Demunds Road in Dallas, they are rather special. They are the names on some of the beer cans in his collection. Mel has been collecting these unique beer cans for six years and keeps them on shelves, tables, ete. all over his bedroom. He and his cousin became interested and began to collect them at flea markets or wherever they could find them. Most of the brands are not available in our area. Mel has collected about 150 of these cans and has allowed us to borrow 33 of them. The center of the display features a large rather rusty can Mel's father found recently on a farm. It is Imported German Draft Beer ‘Alt Seidel Brau’ from Dortmund, Ger- Here is a summary of important events that occurred on Capitol Hill last week from: Rep. Frank Coslett, 120th Legislative District. CONTINUING EDUCATION for Pennsylvania’s public school teach- ers would be mandatory under a proposal offered by the state Board of Education this week. The mea- sure ‘would require teachers to take six college credits every five years or lose their teaching certificates. The state’s two teachers unions opposed the proposal, contending that it violates the concept of a “permanent certificate” and that the idea would simply result in ‘‘credit counting,” not improved teaching performance in the class- room. A spokesman for the board countered that the public is con- cerned that ‘‘teachers know their subject and stay current.” a PRESERVING HISTORICAL and agricultural properties in the com- monwealth, and promoting the of a bill being offered by Rep. Marvin E. Miller Jr. (R-Lancaster). The House Urban Affairs Commit- tee held a hearing on Miller’s bill and a similar piece of legislation this week in Lancaster. Both mea- sures would allow counties to enact a 3 percent tax on hotel rooms. Miller’s bill would permit county governments the discretion of spending the revenues generated from the levy on tourism, historical or agricultural preservation pro- grams. The other bill would require that the money be used strictly to promote tourism. -0- STATE LANDFILLS are rapidly approaching capacity and Pennsyl- vania may run out of room to dump its garbage as early as 1992 if present trends continue, a Senate panel was told. A state environmen- tal official told the Senate Consumer Affairs Protection Committee that the problem is ‘probably the most serious’ faced by the state and that alternatives to landfills must be developed. One long-term solution may be to. construct facilities to convert the garbage into energy. A special House committee investigat- ing alternatives to landfills is sched- uled to open a series of statewide hearings in Bucks County. Misconceptions grow like weeds around any institution. Marriage has its own crop and they're dan- gerous: believe in them and you can run the risk of doing serious harm to your relationship. Dr. Barbara Russell Chesser, a social scientist at Baylor Univer- sity, examines some of the most common myths in the June issue of Reader’s Digest. “It’s the quality of time you spend with your spouse that’s important, not the quantity.” According to a study of more than 3000 cou;les who described their marriages as “strong” and ‘‘close,’’ over 90 per- cent said they spend ‘‘a great deal of time together.” Divorced couples reported they usually spent little time together before their breakup. “Anger has no placein marriage.” Carlfred Broderick, professor of sociology at the University of South- ern California, says, ‘“‘Anger works like a smoke detector. It warns you of danger so you can take appropri- ate action.’”’ Anger should be expressed, analyzed and resolved-- never. simply swallowed. “Hard times or crises bring mar- riage partners closer together.” This can happen, but often doesn’t. Serious crises, such as the loss of a job, a family member’s serious illness or sudden death, are statisti- cally more likely to result in divorce as the partners find it easier to flee than to struggle with difficult emo- tions. ‘Happily married people never unload personal problems on their spouses.” One family-relations spe- cialist estimates that among 85 per- cent of the couples he has worked with, at least one partner was stew- ing over something without telling the other. While people are afraid of appearing vulnerable in front of their spouses, it is this very opening up that encourages deep intimacy. “When all else fails, divorce pro- vides a chance to begin new lives.” If only it were so! Divorced couples frequently only exchange one set of problems for another. : many. It is one you can tap yourself from Australia, Canada, California, Texas, Mexico, New York, Wiscon- sin, Indiana and Pennaylvania. A few specials include Country Club Malt Liquor, a small 8 oz can, from San Antonio, Texas; Billy Beer, brewed especially for and with the personal approval of one of America’s all-time great beer drink- ers, Billy Carter; J R premium beer, from Ewing's private stock, ‘If you have to ask how much my beer costs, you probably can’t afford it!”’, imported from Texas. The display includes a large beer mug, Lowenbrau Munchen; a large Coor’s beer glass; three beer trays, Gibbons, Stegmaier and Schaefer; a small shot glass and an old Steg- maier bottle opener; a few special coasters and two small mugs, Coors and Heineken. This is a truly interesting and different display for the library and will be with us until September 19. Mel graduated from Dallas High School last year and is giving some time to what to do with the rest of his life. Thanks, Mel, for letting us share your hobby. Oh, by the way, the beer cans in the display are empty! The Back Mountain Memorial Library will return to regular hours on Tuesday, September 4. The main library will continue to operate from the Main Street location. The library opens at 9:30 every day except Sunday, closes at 8:30 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and closes at 5:30 on Friday and Saturday. The children’s library is in the Huntsville Road building and will stay with the temporary summer hours at the present time. New book at the library: ‘The Long Afternoon” by Ursula Zilinsky is the story of three young men who raise their glasses in toast on a summer’s day in 1914, ‘Friends now, friends forever’. What happens to people when countries go to war is at the heart of this novel. This war declares them enemies with a world so shaken, it will never again be the same. Toes
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