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50 YEARS AGO - SEPT. 28, 1934
Dallas Borough High School Prin-
cipal Calvin McHose announced a
series of eight novel educational
assemblies planned for student. The
first would be a group of magicians
who would demonstrate levitation,
mind reading.
A state report noted that the
percentage of unemployed persons
in Dallas Borough was second
lowest in Luzerne County. The pre-
centage of women who had jobs was
the highest in the county. People
enough to last through the depres-
sion.
You could get pot roast 17 cents
Ib.; veal roasts 12 cents 1b.; frank-
furters 15 cents 1b.; bathroom tissue
cents doz.; celery 2 bunches 15
cents; beets 2 cents each; bavvage
1 cent lb.; evaporated milk 3 tall
cans 19 cents.
40 YEARS AGO - SEPT. 29, 1944
Frederick ‘Ted’ Loveland, was
killed in action on the French front.
Loveland was Captain and Star
halfback at Kingston Township High
School while a student there in 1936.
Lightning struck the home of
Demunds Road
struck the concrete block foundation
at a corner of the hosue and fol-
lowed telephone wires through the
cellar. No one was injured.
Married - Mary Hoffman to Capt. -
H. Lawrence Lee
You could get Lysol 89 cents
pkg.; Campbell's tomato soup 3 reg.
Mother’s oats 12
ak
cake flour 27 cents 1g. pkg.; black-
berry preserve 16 oz. ja 31 cents;
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30 YEARS AGO - OCT. 1, 1954
. Ten Back Mountain Students
entered Wilkes College. They were
Chester Belsky, Barbara Vavrek,
David Vann, Walter Steltz, Walter
Zercoe, Joseph Schoonover, Theo-
dore Jones, David Carr.
Dan Shaver owner and operator of
the Shaver Theatre afforded the
Back Mountain area with its first
wide screen pictures. A cinema-
scope screen was installed by Ed
Parsons that was 28 ft. wide and 12
ft. high.
Engaged - Joy Lou Steele to
Airman 2nd Class Duane Wickard;
Louise DeAngelo to Frank Castrig-
nano; Peggy Louise Worrall to
Bryce James.
You could get sirloin steaks 89
cents 1b.; leg o lamb 59 cents 1b.;
veal roast 49 cents 1b.; orange juice
5-6 0z. cans 69 cents; toilet tissue 2
rolls-25 cents; Vienna Bread 2 1g.
loaves 27 cents; 8 oz. jar Easy Off
oven cleaner 69 cents.
20 YEARS AGO - SEPT. 24, 1964
Past Matron of Dallas Chapter
No. 396 Myrtle Rineman, broke
ground for the new Eastern Star
Building, which was erected on
Foster Street. Russell Ide was con-
tractor for the project.
JoeAnne MeKeel, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Warren MeKeel Mountain-
view Drive, Lehman, was selected
queen of the Dallas Rotary Fall
Fair,
Prowlers in Ross Township and
Dallas Borough frighten area resi-
dents although no one was harmed
and in all but one case nothing was
stolen.
Engaged - Mary Isabel Mokychic
and H. George Clemow; Janet Lee
Stinson to Robert Thompson; Laura
Derhammer and Francis Gerrity.
Married - Phyllis Brown and
Harry H. Sebring; Janet Lucille
Shaver and henry C. Tuck, Jr.;
Margaret Ann DeRemer and John
B. Bishop
Anniversaries - Mr. and Mrs.
Rudolph Ikeler, former Lehman res-
idents, 45 years.
Deaths - Elmer Rockwell, Shrine
Acres, Florence Long, Shavertown.
You could get smoked hams 29
J. Stephen Buckley
Dotty Martin
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Mike Danowski
Charlot Denmon
Joe Gula’,........iil iain
Marvin, Lewis
Jean Brutko
paid in advance.
under the act of March 3, 1889.
time
Publisher
Editor
Circulation Director
Office Manager
cents lb.; corned beef brisket 65
cents 1b.; scallops 89 cents Ib;
Betty Crocker cake mixes 4 Ib. 45
cents; Royal Gelatin 4-3 oz. pkg. 38
cents; gal. cider vinegar 69 cents; 4
reg. bars Camay 39 cents.
10 YEARS AGO - SEPT. 26, 1974
Dr. Irvin Jacobs, Dallas Physi-
cian, was named president of the
American Heart Association, Penn-
sylvania Affiliate.
Dallas Borough executive board
met to plan the year’s activities.
President was John Patterson; vice
president was Mrs. John Patterson;
Mrs. Willard Newberry was secre-
tary; Mrs. William Rogers, trea-
surer.
Married - Karen Passarella to
Bernard James Boback, Jr.
Deaths - Arline Traver, Noxen;
Sylvia Stitzer, Shavertown; Robert
Ziegler, Harvey's Lake.
You could get pot roast 88 cents
lb.; ground beef 89 cents lb.; pork
loin roast 79 cents 1b.; chicken
breast 59 cents 1b.; bananas 15 cents
Ib.; apples 3 1b. bag 69 cents;
pineapples 39 cents each; 1-1b. pkg.
saltines 39 cents; 32 oz. jar
Smucker’s grape jelly 79 cents.
LIBRARY NEWS
By NANCY KOZEMCHAK
Library Correspondent
We have a beautiful, musical dis-
play at the library that is lovely to
look at and so pleasant to listen to.
Mary George of Shavertown has
allowed us to borrow 22 music boxes
collecting music boxes in 1970 when
she received one after the birth of
her son, Philip. Two of them are
from Ireland and some wooden
inlaid boxes are from Germany.
there is one very old powder box
and several of the boxes are hand
made. Most of the music boxes she
has received as gifts. A lovely
dancing girl plays Some enchanted
evening and an old fashioned girl
with a victrola plays Somewhere
my love. There is a squirrel on a
branch which plays Falling leaves
and a bird with cactus that plays
Cabaret. A dancing girl dressed in
white plays “The song of love and
an elf and a little girl dance to Oh
Danny boy. A clown with a bass
fiddle plays Send in the clowns and
an Irish cottage from Ireland plays
Galway Bay. There is a blue nurse
which was bought at a library
auction that plays A spoonful of
sugar and a unique Christmas tree
top that plays eight Christmas
songs. A small silver box plays The
way we were, and the baby one
plays Rock a bye baby. Two wooden
ones play Eidelweiss and a bust of
Tchaikovsky plas The dance of the
sugar plums. Mary’s husband
searched for a special song, Feel-
ings, and found a green grand piano
in Harrisburg that plays it. These
music boxes are a unique collection
and all have special meaning to
Mary. Thank you, Mary, for sharing
these musical delights with us. The
collection will be in the library
display case until October 17.
“What's in it for me?” is a
question we ask ourselves untold
thousands of times in our lifespan.
We could ask ourselves the same
question about the library. We will
find that the answer depends
largely on our needs, tastes, and our
desires. There are novels to whisk
us away to the world of make-
believe, poetry to inspire, to savor,
and to read on the bus. There are
books to answer almost every ques-
tion and biographies to inspire us,
By THOMAS P. EICHLER
The enforcement of our
nation’s environmental laws
is the prime responsibility of
the U.S. Environmental Pro-
tection Agency and its part-
ner pollution control agen-
cies at the state and local
levels. Together we have
made remarkable progress
in reducing many forms of
pollution. Vika
For example, the air is
much cleaner foday than it
was 10 years ago. All of the
major pollutants controlled
by the Clean Air Act of 1979
have been reduced. Ambient
levels of particulates have
dropped 15 percent, sulfer
dioxide 33 percent, carbon
monoxide 31 percent, ozone 9
poreent, and lead by 64 per-
cent.
The same progress is visi-
ble in water. Despite a grow-
ing economy, rising indus-
trial activity and the spread
of urbanization, the quality
of our surface waters has
improved in many places. In
some places, like Lake Erie,
the improvement has been
dramatic. Rivers like the
Delaware, Potomac an Ohio
are now supporting fish pop-
ulations that haven’t been
seen in years.
But, this [provement
hasn’t come sole y from the
efforts of government. The
number of pollution sources
far outstrips government’s
ability to monitor and
inspect them often enough to
observe all violations of the
law. In the five-state Middle
Atlantic Region which
includes Delaware, Mary-
land, Pennsylvania, Vir-
ginia, West Virginia and the
istrict of Columbia, there
are almost 3,300 air pollution
sources and 1,600 water pol-
lution sources. Yet, the A
office responsible for ensur-
ing that these sources
comply with the law has only
approximately 170 people
working on enforcemtn of
the law. The whole Regional
Office has less than 550
people working in all areas
of pollution control.
While state and local pollu-
tion control agencies add
their considerable resources
to the federal effort, if it
were not for the vigilance
and concern of average citi-
zens, we would not have
been as successfu in reduc-
ing pollution as we have
been. Our first lead to a
violation of the law often
comes from a citizen phone
call.
Today, we are faced with
more than just air and water
pollution. Hazardous waste
1s now our number one pollu-
tion problem. In the Middle
Atlantic Region, we have
nearly 4,900 hazardous waste
generators, 1,300 transport-
ers and 500 treatment, stor-
age and disposal facilities.
e have also identified over
1,700 sites where hazardous
wastes were dumped and
which may present a threat
to the public health or envi-
ronment. We have already
designated 59 of these sites
for cleanup under the
‘Superfund’ law. i
Here, again, the public can
be of bein, Many violations
of hazardous waste regula-
tions are even harder to spot
than violations of air and
water laws. Among the most
dangerous of hazardous
waste disposal practices is
‘‘midnight dumping’’: the
illegal dumping of waste in
an unauthorized area with-
out any controls. This prac
tice is almost impossible to
enforce against unless the
responsible parties are
caught in the act. Since gov-
ernment cannot have eyes
and ears everywhere, the
public must be alert to these
activities and report them to
the proper authorities.
In order to help the public
do this, EP has established a
toll-free telephone hotline.
This number is 800-438-2474.
This hotline has already
identified a hazardous waste,
dump in King of Prussia@
Pennsylvania, whihc EPA is
cleaning up. Enforcement
action 1S now being taken
against the responsible par-
ties.
With the help of citizens,
EPA working in partnership
with the states will continue
to move Dpressively against
any and all violators of our
nation’s environmental laws.
Will you be one of those to
he : .
(Thomas P. Eichler is the
Regional Administrator of
the U.S. Environmental Pro-
tection Agency, Region III.)
DEAR EDITOR:
The “Public’s Right To Know’’
thrusts upon them, whether or not
they really do want such knowledge,
all the world’s ugliness. Man’s inhu-
manity, in all its forms, (to his
fellow man, to his environment, to
the animals who also inhabit the
earth) is the basis on which the
Media and the Press are forced to
thrive.
So much more so then, is it the
duty of responsible journalism to
invoke the ‘‘Public’s Right To
Know” when the beauty of man’s
humanity to man exists and flour-
ishes in their midst.
It is not only refreshing, but
actually an inspiration, to find in
today’s world of un-involvement
some committed individuals who
are indeed their brothers’ keepers.
It has been my privilege and plea-
sure, during recent visits to several
of the Local High-Rise Apartment
Buildings, to come in contact with
representatives of Project: Remain.
These are a group of Mercy Sisters,
founded and headed by Sister
Susanne Stutz, who spend each
weekday serving the needs of the
residents of those structures,
regardless of their religious affilia-
tion. They give most generously of
themselves and their time to enrich
the Lives of those whom the rest of
society has forgotten.
These dedicated women perform
for those people all those essentials
that we who are more fortunate
take for granted, and yet are insur-
mountable obstacles for those whose
mobility is limited by age or health.
Nor does their devotion end with
merely providing a means of pro-
curing the usual necessities from
nearby department stores for those
unable to get out.
Should tenants become hospital-
ized, a sister visits regularly to
assure them that they are not all
alone, that someone does indeed
care about them. And should nurs-
ing home placement become neces-
sary, they are still not abandoned.
In fact, the sisters work closely with
all area agencies, should a referral
for any type of service (nursing,
housekeeping, transportation) be
needed.
these unique women is that they are
Senior Citizens themselves. After
retiring from a career in the field of
teaching, they have embarked on a
second vocation of yet more serice;
and in doing so, they have given
more the benefit their fellow man
than most of us do in one lifetime.
As much as these sisters are
doing, there is so much more that
could be done with adequate fund-
ing, both public and private. We like
to call ourselves the “Valley With A
Heart’’; and I can think of no other
cause more worthy of support,
because of all the Heart given by
the sister, and all the grateful
Hearts of those who have benefited
by their help, and who, by the way,
made this “Valley With A Heart”
what it is today. /
APPRECIATIVE RESIDE
DEAR EDITOR:
While Geraldine Ferraro never
once mentioned the word abortion in
her talk here in Scranton, there was
never any doubt in anyone’s mind,
the crowd and the media alike, that
Rep. Ferraro was referring to the
abortion issue when she said, “I
don’t want religion to be an issue.”
Why didn’t she come out and say
what she really meant, why didn’t
she simply say, “I don’t want abor-
tion to be an issue in this cam-
paign?”’
Advance media reports noted that
Rep. Ferraro hoped to meet the
abortion issue head-on in this
strongly pro-life area and thereby
diffuse it as an issue that has
dogged her campaign. To accom-
plish that goal, she labelled abortion
a religious issue and then used the
argument that religion and politics
should be kept separate.
This argument is being used by
politicians both to justify a do-
nothing position on abortion and to
silence church leaders who criticize
the do-nothing “personally opposed
but” position. If those who advocate
this schizophrenic approach to poli-
tics were consistent, they would
advocate church silence on all polit-
ical issues with moral overtones -
from civil rights to nuclear war to
capital punishment.
Despite a concerted effort by
political figures and representatives
of the media to portray opposition to
abortion as a religious belief, a
private act beyond the reach of
government, the fact is that opposi-
tion to abortion is part of that
Judaeo-Christian moral heritage
which forms the foundation of our
democratic society.
When churches urge their mem-
bers, the public and our legislators
to change the unjust law that per-
mits killing innocent unborn babies,
they are simply urging citizen par-
ticipation in a civil rights battle as
was done, unchalleneged, during the
battle for black civil rights two
decades ago. When President
Reagan expresses his concern for
the rights of the unborn, he acts in
the tradition of the American presi-
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dency in using hir
office to advance
moral discourse and preserve moral
tution separates church from state,
it does not separate morality from
government.
The time has come to stop playing
word games! Abortion is killing.
“Thou shalt not kill” is not only the
fifth commandment adhered to buy
religious people, it is also the law of
the land. Lawmakers who know that
abortion is killing should stop trying
to muddy the political waters with
the emotional, poorly defined
church-state argument so that we
can get down to debating the real
moral question involved: Should we
as a nation tolerate the Killing of
one and one-half million of oury
each year?
HELEN GOHSLER, PRESIDENT
PA. FOR HUMAN LIFE,
SCRANTON CHAPTER
Rep. Hasay
Rep. George C. Hasay reminded
area residents that Oct. 9 is the last
day to register to vote in the Nov. 6
General Election.
The 117th District lawmaker said
that to be eligible fo vote, an
individual must be:
—a citizen of the United States for
at least one month;
LAT
--a resident of the election district
for at least 30 days before the
election;
~18 years of age on, before, or the
day after the election.
Citizens who have moved recently
or who have not voted in the past
two years should check with the
AE WET
their registration is current, Hasay
said.
Those who ned a registration
application post card may contact
Rep. Hasay at 735-2704 or 542-7345.
Hasay said that he also has a
supply of absentee ballot applica-’
tions available for those who will be
unable to vote at their regular
polling place. : :
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