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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outdated.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
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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.”
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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.
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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