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50 YEARS AGO - OCT. 26, 1934
An old-fashioned patriotic political rally was held at
Dallas High School. County leaders sounded keynotes
of the republican campaign. Among the speakers were
District Attorney Thomas H. Lewis, Ralph Morris,
State councilor of Jr. OUAM; Mrs. J.B. Davenport,
vice chairman, Luzerne County Republican Committee
and Referee Asa E. Lewis of the Workmen’s Compen-
sation Bureau.
Ira Stevenson, reappointed chief of Police of Lake
and Lehman Townships, had the largest territory in
the state to cover with the exception of Pittsburgh and
Philadelphia.
Deaths - Alice J. Gordon, West Dallas; Charles F.
Kocher, Wilkes-Barre. :
“You could get - Chuck pot roast 13c lb.; pork loin
roast 17c Ib.; stewing chickens 19¢ 1b.; mushrooms 29¢
Ib.; Italian chestnuts 2 1b. 25c; eggs 29c¢ doz.;
cranberries 17c¢ 1b.; sweet potatoes, 10 1b. 19c.
40 YEARS AGO - OCT. 27, 1944
National Girl Scout Week was ushered in by more
than 250 scouts of the Dallas District with special
services at Shavertown Methodist Church. The pro-
gram featured a pageant ‘The Four Freedoms”
written by Mary Lou Boyes, Naomi Hons and Mildred
Porter of Shavertown Senior Troop.
"'D.A. Ide was named manager of the Dallas District
of Commonwealth Telephone Company. Ide formerly
headed the Montrose office of that company.
“ Married - Elizabeth Jean Lilley to Pvt. George
Phillips.
You could get - Long Island ducklings 32c lb.; veal
rump roast 29c lb.; bacon 32c¢ Ib.; haddock fillets 36¢
1b.; apples 3 1b. 25¢; apple butter lg. 25 oz. jar 16c; 10
tall cans evaporated milk 83c 1b.; jar peanut butter
2c. 30 YEARS AGO - OCT. 29, 1954
Larry Spaciano, 2 year old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Louis J. Spaciano, Maple Street, Shavertown, was
saved from drowning by the swift action of Ted
Kocher. The youngster was playing by a duck pond
near his home when he fell in. Kocher, a garbage
man, heard a scream for help, pulled Larry out of the
pond and administered artificial respiration. Larry
recovered very nicely. ;
‘ Experts say nothing was to be gained by annulling
the Dallas Borough Charter and returning to Dallas
Township. According to Professor Hugo Mailey, this
would be a step backward. Citizens of the municipality
would vote on this issue election day.
Engaged - Louise DeAngelo to Frank Castrignano;
Marian Parsons to William Eckert Jr.
Married - Rosemary T. Kozak to Charles L. Pilger.
Deaths - Ella S. Simons, Hunlock Creek; Ira
Johnson, Chase; Mary Martin, Beaumont; Gwen
Sickler Boice, Buckwheat Hollow.
You could get - Sirloin steak 79c¢ 1b.; veal roast 49c
lb.; frying chickens 43c 1lb.; mushrooms 39c¢ Ib;
emporer grapes 23c 1b.; Starkist tuna 3 cans $1; Crisco
3 1b. can 90c; 10 1b. pkg. All detergent $2.49.
20 YEARS AGO - OCT. 22, 1964
Traffic lights long overdue at several intersections
by Kingston Township were installed.
Willis Gentile was named president of the Lake-
Lehman Area Joint PTA. Ms. Stephen DeBarry was
secretary; Mrs. Edward Kanasky, treasurer.
Paul S. Monahan, Gate of Heaven Church, was
installed as president of the West Luzerne Council of
Catholic Men. :
Engaged - ‘Marjorie Louise Baird to William W.
Meade.
Anniversaries - Mr. and Mrs. Walter Davis, Dallas,
48 years; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fisk, Sweet Valley, 50
years.
Deaths - Christopher G. Boland, Kingston; John A.-
Barbuto, Trucksville; Besse J. Cronk, Trucksville.
Married - Patricia McCue to Conrad Hislop.
You could get - Porterhouse steak 85c 1b.; pork butts
35¢ 1b.; bananas 25c¢ 2 lb.; Italian chestnuts 29c¢ Ib.;
Delsey bathroom tissue 4 rolls 45c; 8 oz. pkg.
Philadelphia cream cheese 25c¢; wild bird seed 5 Ib.
50c.
10 YEARS AGO - OCT. 24, 1974
The women of the Huntsville Christian Church
celebrated the 100th anniversary ofmission work in the
Disciples of Christ. The occasion also marked the 131st
anniversary of the founding of the church. Mrs. J.M.
Culp and Estella Roberts were remaining charter
members of the mission group. Each had given 54
years of service.
Westmoreland PTA officers who played an impor-
tant part in American Education Activities were
president, Samuel Barbose; vice president, Mark
Umphred; Mrs. Robert Saul, secretary; Mrs. Mal-
comb Burnside, hospitality; Ann Chester, treasurer;
Mrs. Elwood Swingle, publicity chairman.
Married .- Annette Miles to John Rader; Christine
Mullarkey to James Roth.
Anniversaries - Mr. and Mrs. Robert Welsh, 25
years; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Scrobola, 48 years; Mr.
and Mrs. Edward Heck, 50 years.
By EDWIN FEULNER
A projection by the World Bank that the world’s
population will explode from 4.8 to 10 billion by the
year 2050, leaves one with nightmarish images of a
world of people living like squashed sardines amidst
exessive unemployment, disease, congestion and
crime. i
According to the report, the only solution to this
grim forecast is immediate family planning measures
to reduce the fertility rates in developing countries.
The Reagan administration, however, takes another
view on the issue of population growth. A recent White
House draft paper - later muddied up by the bureau-
crats - argues that in the long run a growing
population is beneficial to mankind.
Proponents of population control say that population
growth and political instability are inexorably linked.
In evidence, they merely point to ‘‘overpopulated’’
U.S. Congress breeds deficits.
But others, such as Julian Simon, co-editor of a
brilliant new book, The Resourceful Earth, sees
population as an asset, rather than a burden. Popula-
tion increases give us a never-ending renewable pool
of new talent, new genius, he says. If institutional
roadblocks don’t get in the way, people-power (what
author Warren Brookes refers to as ‘‘the economy in
mind”) can solve almost any problem, he argues.
According to The Resourceful Earth - a challenge to
the Carter-Mondale administration’s pessimistic
“Global 2000 Report,” which predicted an overpopu-
lated, polluted earth unable to sustain man’s basic
needs - evidence shows that given time to adjust to
resource shortages, free people inevitably will find a
way to create new resources.
The extraordinary aspect of this process, Simon
says, is that it. produces a world that is better than if
the shortages had never arisen, thanks to the new
technologies which are developed. Plastics, for exam-
ple, began as a substitute for elephant ivory in billiard
balls after tusks became scarce.
The main point, Simon says, is that population
growth increases the stock of useful human knowledge
that each day betters the world. And population
“control”, he notes with certainty, is a sure-fire way
to make sure mankind has a sure supply of future
Einsteins and Edisons.
(Feulner is president of The Heritage Foundation, a
Washington-based public policy research institute.)
DONKEY, ELEPHANT, OR?
A recent survey shows that 49
percent of the voters are “fed up”
with both the Republican and Demo-
cratic performance! That is just
about the total number of Ameri-
cans who vote! Now there is a real
solid alternative ‘with great pros-
pects for success. If you are one of
those 49 percent, you will want to
vote for that alternative - The
Populist Party. It gives us what we
want and what we deserve.
The enthusiasm with which it is
being received nationaly is shown
by the fact that in mid-September it
was already organized in all 50
states and qualified to be on the
ballot in 21 with prospects for quali-
fications in 35 states, inspite of the
fact that it was formed just in
January of this year. The official
name is The Populist Party of the
United States: Headquarters, P.O.
Box 76737, Washington, D.C. 20013,
phone (202) 546-5530.
Its leaders are real American
promise everyone everything and
once elected, prove to be puppets of
such special interest groups as the
Trilateralists and International
Bankers. The candidates nominated
by the 749 Delegates at the National
Convention 'in Nashville, Tenn. on
August 18, were Bob Richards of
reen Salaman of San Francisco,
California for vice president.
Bob Richards is best known as a
two-time Olympic Gold medalist in
the pole vault. ‘A former College
Professor, he is now a successful
businessman in oil and real estate.
He served as presidentially
appointed Goodwill Ambassador to
Asia. Maureen Salaman is a well-
known Radio and TV personality in
the west, author and long-time
advocate of Freedom of Choice in
Medical Care and Nutrition. She is
president of the 100,000 National
Health Federation and has been
active in Project Freedom, an orga-
nization that has led the fight for
full accounting of all servicemen
missing in action
The basic principle of party is
“POWER TO THE PEOPLE”, not
the Special Interests! Recognizing
that the state of economy is the No.
1 concern of Americans now, its
platform forthrightly offers “bold,
simple solutions that the other par-
ties ignore. (Don’t believe the solu-
tions have to complicated. That is
propaganda to make us believe that
only professional politicians have
the solutions! They have proved the
opposite.)
Solution No. 1. Enact fair tariff
laws to protect American jobs and
industry for unfair competition. 2.
Restrict immigration to protect
employment for American wor-
keers; no amnesty to illegal aliens.
3. Repudiate the ever-skyrocketing
National Debt, except for bonds
paid for by money actually earned.
4. Revitalize the family farm and
encourage public support for Ameri-
can farmers, and support the use of
fuels derived from farm products,
thus reducing dependence on for-
eign oil. 5. Restore to Congress its
constitutional ‘‘authority to coin
money and regulate the vlaue
thereof’’ (Article 1, Sec. 8). Abolish
the privately-owned Federal
Reserve System, which now creates
high interest rates for the personal
profit of the International Bankers!
For a copy of the Platform, send
a stamped, self-address envelope
to: Party Platform, R.D.1, Box 468,
Dallas, Pa. 18612. You will see that
the Populist Party believes that a
strong economy at home and peace-
ful dealings with other countries®
will once again make American
First! You can help by sending your |
ters. To help in Pennsylvania write
Michael Piper, Box 267, Mifflin, Pa.
17058. POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
HAROLD BASSETT
DALLAS
DEAR EDITOR:
Much has been made of potential
Supreme Court appointments during
a second Reagan administration. I
would like to express my distaste
for the type of justice that Walter
Mondale is certain to appoint if
First, Mondale is committed, in
accordance with his platform, to use
a litmus test to select only justices
who agree with the Supreme Court
decisions which legalized abortion-
on-demand for any reason for the
entire nine months of pregnancy.
These decisions gave minor girls
and women absolute veto power
over parents, boyfriends and hus-
bands in choosing abortion. A
Reagan Supreme Court could over-
turn these decisions and return
jurisdiction to individual states. (As
an aside, no woman has ever been
prosecuted for an illegal abortion,
nor will one ever be. Pro-lifers
regard these women in crisis as
second victims.)
Second, if elected, Mondale would
undoubtedly appoint ACLU-variety
justices who would overturn the
recent decision allowing Nativity
scenes in public buildings. President
Reagan’s appointment, Justice
Sandra O’Connor, cast the pivotal
vote for religious toleration in this 5-
4 decision.
Third, close \decisions during the
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By NANCY KOZEMCHAK
Library Correspondent
We have a truly beautiful collec-
tion in our display case at the
library.
Frances Cowett of Shavertown
has allowed us to borrow some of
the salts from her collection. When I
first learned of these, I assumed
they were salt and pepper sets.
They are not. These are small
individual salt cellars provided for
each diner. They are actually a
small shallow bowl for holding table
salt, which have a flat base or rest
; on a stemmed foot. These are quite
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admiring them at antique shows
when a friend convinced her to start
collecting them. They have cost
anywhere from 50 cents to $30,00.
She has a total of 47 salts and 3
master salts. They are made of cut
glass, china, pewter, sterling silver,
sandwich glass and belleek.
There isa china Royal Austria, a
Venetial glass with dolphin handles,
cranberry. glass ‘with white motif
bought at ‘an estate sale in Lenox,
Mass., an amberino type and a
lovely cobalt blue glass. There is a
grape design, etched design, Intag-
lio design, Heisey glass, limoges
and a unique quinmper from France
which is china, shaped like two
wooden shoes. Telire is a neat bird
on a branch with a salt made of
glass bought in Michigan.
A friend asked me the other day
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Aransas PR I LL
to try to find out the origin of a
particular quotation. He thought it
began with ‘Walk lightly’ and I was
disappointed because I was unable
books. He had seen it on a poster in
Scranton and was anxious to find
out who originally said it. I struck
paydirt this morning after trying
many other words which were not
working. The last sentence dealt
with thirst, I looked up that in
Bartlett’s Quotations and found it! I
think it is worth passing on: “Let
your boat of life be light, packed
with only what you need - a homely
home and simple pleasures, one or
two friends, worth the name, some-
one to love and someone to love you,
a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two,
enough to eat and enough to wear,
and a little more than enough to
drink; for thirst is a dangerous
thing.” This was a quotation from
‘Three Men in a Boat” written by
Jerome Klapka Jerome in 1889.
Here is a summary of important
events that occurred on Capitol Hill
last week from Rep. Frank Coslett,
120th Legislative District.
TELEPHONE RATES in Pennsyl-
vania must be restructured or big
business will desert local phone
companies for other services, thus
forcing the remaining customers to
pay increasingly larger bills or for-
feit phone service. That's what the
president of the Pennsylvania Inde-
pendent Telephone Association told
a special House committee studying
the breakup of American Telephone
and Telegraph.
PENNSYLVANIA'S EFFORTS to
reduce the amount of acid rain
produced by industrial emissions
are being comproinised by the lack
of effort on the part of neighboring
states. In a letter to the head of the
Environmental Protection Agency,
Gov. Dick Thornburgh asked that
the EPA require other states to
implement stringent regulations
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governing industrial emissions.
Thornburgh said “the EPA has an
obligation to put an end to this
situation.” He maintains that sulfer
dioxide emissions produced by other
states are deposited here in the
form of acid rain. Pennsylvania’s
position on the issue was rejected
by the EPA in September, but
Thornburgh has asked the agency to
reconsider its stance.
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HOUSE MEMBERS received
praise this week from Rep. Lois
Hagarty (R-Montgomery) for the
recent passage of legislation aimed
at curbing domestic violence in
Pennsylvania. Hagarty, the bill’s
prime sponsor, said the measure
would give police expanded arrest
power in domestic violence cases
and provide victims with protection
from further attack. The bill has
hoon sent to the Senate for consider-
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past year have enabled seniority
systems to remain intact. Mondale
justices would reverse these and
enable individual minority members
to leapfrog higher seniority people
without regard to whether there has
been past discrimination in a com-
pany’s hiring practices.
Fourth, recent narrow rulings
have allowed courts to use common
sense instead of technicalities in
determining guilt or innocence of
persons accused of felonies. There
is little doubt that more murderers
will go free and more innocent
people will be endangered thanks t
Remember, the average convicted
murderer now spends less than
seven years behind bars. Reagan’s
record is one of appointing tough
judges.
Fifth, in a series of likely deci-
sions affecting our schools, a more
liberal Supreme Court would decide
to ban organized silent prayer and
prohibit students from gathering on
school property during or after
school hours for religious activities.
Yet it’s safe to assume that a
homosexual promoting his views on
sex will be declared to be within his
constitutional rights.
One more “liberal” vote in a
recent Court decision would have
declared tuition tax credits to be °
unconstitutional. Walter Mondale
supports this discrimination against
parents who wish to send their
children to parochial schools, in
contrast to President Reagan.
A challenge may even come to the
ing of an uncertified church school
in Nebraska earlier this year illus-
trates the fact that there are intoler-
ant people in America just waiting
for a favorable Supreme Court cli-
mate to pursue this horrifying goal.
Walter Mondale and Geraldine
Ferraro are hiding their ultra-liber-
ality with high-sounding cliches and
euphemisms invoking family and
fairness. However, it is clear that a
victory for the Democratic ticket
will in time bring about a Supreme
Court in full accord with the likes of
extremists George McGovern, Bella
Abzug and Madelyn Murray
O’Hare.
ROBERT CIRBA JR.
SCRANTON
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