4 THE DALLAS POST/Wednesday, November 28, 1984 Editor's notes A little of this... ...a little of that HOPE EVERYONE HAD a will be a big one for all you PSU nice Thanksgiving and didn’t followers. stuff themselves with turkey. Thanksgiving meals are great, though, aren’t they? It gives the family an opportunity to get together, enjoy a good meal and good conversation. I read some- where that Thanksgiving is the only holiday when 42 people can squeeze in around a table made for eight and have a good time. Seriously, though, the Thanksgiving Day dinner is my favorite. My step- mother, Laura, cooked the turkey this year and, boy, did we have a -0- CONGRATULATIONS to 15- year-old Donni Rogers of Dallas for downing his first-ever deer. Donni shot his prize Monday morning and was the first to call The Dallas Post to tell us about it. He was so excited about bag- ging his first deer and when we were having difficulty getting directions to his house, he said he would sit at the end of his driveway and wait for the pho- tographer. When Ed Campbell, our photographer, arrived on the scene, he had no trouble locating Donni’s house because the young hunter was waiting at the end of the driveway just as he said he would. What Donni didn’t tell us, however, is that his driveway is feast! MARTIN a quarter of a mile long. Donni -0- was on his bicycle, though, and COLLEGE MISERICORDIA declined a ride'home with Ed. will host the annual Madrigal -0- Dinner in Merrick Hall on the college campus this Friday and Saturday. The students spend a lot of time preparing for this Old English Feast and usually do a superb job with it. If you haven’t already gotten your tickets, better hurry. They sell out fast and it really is worth the money. -0- SPEAKING OF COLLEGE MISERICORDIA, a big cheer to the men’s and women’s basket- ball teams of the local college. Seems they are about to put Misericordia on the map this year with their early-season per- formances. It wasn’t long ago the Lady Highlanders were no match for other local women’s teams and the men didn’t even have a basketball team. Now, the Miser- icordia women are downing Divi- sion II cage teams and the men are coming on strong. Keep your eye on them this year! REMEMBER, HUNTERS! We’d love to take your picture and tell everyone about the deer you bagged this year. Just call us and we’ll arrange to have a photo of you and your prize taken or stop by on your way home from hunting and we’ll snap your photo. -0- HR THE CHRISTMAS TREE at the Dallas Post Office is deco- rated for the Christmas holidays, You've got to give the Brownies credit - that’s a pretty big tree for those little girls to decorate, but they do a really nice job year after year. -0- CAN YOU BELIEVE there are only 27 days left to Christmas? Boy, that holiday seems to come faster and faster every year, doesn’t it? We're already reading about Santa coming to town and the Christmas shopping season. It almost seems to be the Christ- mas season has gotten way out of hand. SPEAKING OF SPORTS, the annual Penn State-Pitt game this year was a thrill for me, simply because I am no big fan of Joe Paterno’s and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing the Panthers make minced meat of the Nit- tany Lions. I braved the wind chill factor this past Saturday, enjoying the game from the bleachers of Beaver Stadium, and would like to tip my typewriter keys to Mike Leskowsky, a graduate of -0- WHEN I THINK of Christmas, I think of snow. And, when I think of snow, I can’t think of anything but skiing. My. skis have been tuned and waxed and waiting patiently in my living- room closet for over a month. Where, oh where is the snow? (Boy, am I going to take the heat from non-skiers for that remark, Lake-Lehman High School, who ~~ aren’t1?) : donned the Nittany Lion football 0 jersey for the last time. A GREAT BIG ROUND OF When Leskowsky was APPLAUSE to Judy Fitch of Dallas for finishing second in the Pennsylvania Junior Miss State Scholarship Finals in Reading last Saturday. Judy, a senior at Dallas High School, was a lot of fun when we were taking the photo of the Dallas Homecoming Court this year. A member of that court, Judy was so cooperative while we arranged the girls for the photo. And, in the end, she wound up with the toughest job of all. In order to make the photograph look balanced, Judy had to remove her high heels and stand on a folding chair in the back row. The hard part, however, came just before the photo was taken when she had to stoop down about five or six inches so she didn’t look a whole lot taller than the rest of the girls. announced along with the other . Penn State seniors, three gentle- men behind me commented on the fact that Mike was one of Shorty Hitchcock’s products from the Black Knights ‘wrestling program. Seems these guys were from Wilkes-Barre and one of them went to college with Shorty. PENN STATE FOOTBALL has a lot of fans from this area. Almost every car traveling south on Interstate 80 Saturday morn- ing was on its way to University Park. And, while I was there, I saw things like Bishop O’Reilly baseball hats, Wyoming Area swim team jackets, Plymouth softball jackets, etc. Yes, sir, the Nittany Lions sure have a big following from the Wyoming Valley area. Maybe, next year Tie SPDALLASCPosT ; ) (USPS 147-720 Advertising, Circulation and Editorial "REMEMBERING At the soda fountain Lillian Kuehn is shown here at the old soda place in those days. Only yesterday 50 YEARS AGO - NOV. 30, 1934 Teachers from Dallas Borough, Dallas, Kingston, Lake and Lehman Township attended an institute at Kingston Township High School. Dr. Joseph Miller, director of the vocational guidance department of Wilkes-Barre schools was speaker. His subject was Individual Differences Among Children. The Scarlet Fever epidemic spread to Lehman and Kingston Township. Nineteen homes were under quar- antine and 25 homes were under observation according to Elmer Kerr of Harveys Lake, State Health Officer. Married - Hilda Pearl Higgins to Sheldon W. Mosier. Deaths - W.W. Brace, Shavertown. You could get - Roasting chickens 19c¢ 1b.; pork sausage 25¢ 1b.; chuck pot roast 12¢ 1b.; sauerkraut 3 1b. 14c; ripe tomatoes 2 1b. 25¢; emperor grapes 9c 1b.; evaporated milk 5 tall cans 29c; raisins 3 pkg. 25¢. 40 YEARS AGO - DEC. 1, 1944 Close of the 1944 football season on Thanksgiving Day saw Lehman Township High School emerge as the outstanding contender for Back Mountain champion- ship honors. W Known for many years as’ one of the leading livestock producing farms in the state, Orchard Farm in Dallas Township, was purchased from the William Conyngham Estate by George and Kenneth Rice of Lehman Township. Deaths - Pfc. Herbert H. Shaver, Jr., killed in action in Holland. j You could get - Haddock 36c¢ lb.; catfish 29c Ib.; chuck roast 23c 1b.; oranges 3lc doz.; potatoes, peck 49c; apples 3 1b. 25¢; marmalade 2 1b. jar 19c¢; layer cake 55¢ ea.; first aid kit 59¢; crayon color books 10c. 30 YEARS AGO - DEC. 3, 1954 George Alles, treasurer, Harveys Lake Lions Club, presented a check for. $500 to Wesley Moore of the Lehman Volunteer Fire Company to be used for the purchase of new equipment. Magnetic, automatic traffic signals were approved by the State Department of Highways for installation at the Center Street intersection in Shavertown. Cost of the project, which was made by Thomas Electric Company, was $000. : Wyoming National Bank of Wilkes-Barre applied for a branch bank in Shavertown. Albert M. Bossard, was bank president. Married - Dilys Patricia Rowlands to Bernard Stoner; Janet Shupp to Harry Belles, Jr.; Louise DeAngelo and Frank Castrignano. Anniversaries - Mr. and Mrs. Russell Cease, Dallas, 50 years. Deaths - Ignatz Gavek, Beaumont; Ida Jane Davis, Harveys Lake. : You could get - Standing rib roast 59c Ib.; fryers 39c 1b.; chuck roast 35¢c Ib. ; dates 29¢ Ib.; anjou pears 2 lb. 29¢; tangerines 2 doz. 49c; whole wheat bread 2 1g. loaves 29c¢; 3-6 oz. cans orange juice 49c. 20 YEARS AGO - DEC. 3, 1964 Arthur Miller Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Miller, Huntsville Road and Robert Schooley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Schooley, Davenport St., Dallas were awarded the rank of Eagle Scout. Gus Shuleski of Center Hill Road, Dallas, was installed as commander of Daddow Isaacs American Legion Post succeeding Past Commander George Cave. Anniversaries - Mr. and Mrs. Harley Misson, Sr., Shavertown 21 years. Deaths - Susan McMillan, Mt. Zion; Milford Shaver, . Dallas. You could get - Hickory smoked pork loins 79¢ 1b.; bacon 49c 1b.; kielbassi 69c 1b.; Maine potatoes 50 Ib. bag $2.19; haddock 49c lb.; Calif. naval oranges doz. 59¢; McIntosh apples 4 1b. bag 39c; medium shrimp 59c Ib.; 3 Ib. fruit cake $2.99. 10 YEARS AGO - DEC. 6, 1974 Jackson Township Planning Commission okayed a 70 unit development proposed by James Veras. The sub- division was planned for Bulford Farm on Sutton Road, The board of supervisors also approved the plan. Cheryl Hontz, daughter of Mr. and mrs. Arthur Hontz, Shavertown was named to Who’s Who Among American College Students. Cheryl attended College Misericordia. Engaged - Thelma Sue Engelman to Kenneth Butler. Deaths - Gilbert Watkins, Tunkhannock Highway; Stanley Hartman, Hunlock Creek; Alice Oney, Har- veys Lake; Charles Fox, Dallas; George Rice, Dallas. You could get - Beef liver 79¢ Ib.; ground chuck 99c Ib.; smoked picnics 75¢ 1b.; oranges 10-89c; mush- rooms 89c Ib.; tomatoes 3-1b. pkg. $1; Pillsbury flour 5 Ib. bag 78c; Maxwell House Coffee 52¢ Ib. OPINION By EDWIN FEULNER the West. total participation ranging between 15-and-30 million. J. Stephen Buckley Betty Bean Mike Danowski Charlot Denmon Joe Gula Marvin Lewis Jean Brutko Peggy Poynton paid in advance. time. Publisher Editor Circulation Director Come January 1985, Washington will likely find itself involved in an historic life-and-death debate. Not the kind that so enthralls the headline writers and TV phonies: sob stories about innocent 80-year- old who have fallen prey to insensi- tive, right-wing government waste- cutters who can’t tell the ‘truly needy” from the “newly greedy.” What we're talking about is a real life-and-death debate: whether the United States intends to change its nuclear defense policy from one based on all-out retaliation - the doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruc- tion (MAD) - to one based on protecting the American people and U.S. assets. The MAD doctrine has stood as the foundation-stone of U.S. policy since the early 1960s. It is premised on the logical but immoral belief that if both the United States and Soviet Union possess enough nuclear warheads to destroy one another, neither country will be tempted to use them. But, as philosopher Gerhart Nie- meyer recently pointed out at the Shavano Institute, the theory has a terrible flaw: it is based on the absolutely incorrect belief that deci- sions in the Kremlin are motivated by the same forces that sway West- ern leaders. In the Soviet Union, however, the Party - the State - is everything. Its control is total. Any competing interests, such as public opinion, Soviety military planners believe a nuclear war can be won - and they plan to be on the winning side. In the United States, we view such discussions as academic. While U.S. military planners should be prepared to fight and win even a nuclear confrontation, our elected officials owe us more. Not the unilateral disarmament -clap- trap that flows so easily off the tongues of the present-day peacen- iks; no sensible person, seeing Kremlin behavior around the world, is going to buy that. Instead, they need to tell us how they intend to defend the United States if the octogenarians who head up the Communist Party of the Soviety Union decide the potential benefits of nuclear confrontation outweigh the risks. The Soviet Union now spends between $2 and 3-billion annually on civil defense planning. According to reliable intelligence estimades, the Soviets have constructed at least 15,000 blast and fallout shelters - with 1,500 shelters intended specifi- cally for top Communist Party offi- cials. The massive program oper- ates under a separate branch of the Soviet Ministry of Defense, with some 100,000 Soviet civilian and military personnel employed full- time in the effort. One recent report notes that every Soviet school, farm, factory, and government administrative unit has its own civil defense group, with The U.S., on the other hand, allocated only $169 million for civil defense in 1984 and cannot ade- quately protect or defend the U.S. population from nuclear attack. Even now Soviet bombers threaten the U.S. public, which is defended by just ninety active-duty air inter- ceptors - mainly 1950s-vintage F- 106s and 1960s-vintage F-4s. ‘ Even with additional Air National Guard units available, each aircraft would be required to defend more than 20,000 square miles of territory - an area roughly the size of West Virginia - if the U.S. came under attack. In 1982, the Reagan administra- tion proposed a $4.2 billion civil defense program to be implemented over a seven-year period. The pro- posal, which still hasn’t been funded by Congress, calls for the develop- ment of evacuation plans for high- risk ‘areas, construction of fallout shelters for a substantial portion of the U.S. population, and other mea- sures designed to protect the public and economic assets. Along with the administration’s Strategic Defense Initiative, designed to develop strictly defen- sive weapons capable of knocking enemy missiles out of the air, the Civil Defense plan makes eminent good sense. (Edwin Feulner is president of The Heritage Foundation, a Wash- ington-based public policy research organization.) LIBRARY NEWS By NANCY KOZEMCHAK Library Correspondent HAVE WE GOT A CONTEST FOR YOU!!! It is our “Guess the Date’’ contest. It involves the actual Memorial Library will open for? regular business in our new building on Huntsville Road. We would like everyone in the community to enter the contest. Simply come into the library and fill out the entry form or make your at 69 Main Street. On the form, we need the date of the entry, your name, address and phone number and the date you think we will open the new library. In case of ties, the earliest entry date will be the winner. The contest will close December 31. The clues are: The board of direc- tors had hoped we would open there on December 15; the staff was guessing December 31; members of the steering committee are planning on January 15; and the church which bought our present buildings hopes we will be vacated by Janu- ary 31. : J The old furnace has been taken out, new pipes are being installed, the gas line was connected on November 16 and the new furnace was delivered November 20. The auditorium is filled with stacks of ceiling tile, insulation and wall board. The galvanized studding is being installed inside, some cinder block and cement blocking of doors has been done, walls have been torn down and electricians, plumbers, masons and carpenters are working there every day. The auditorium floor must be reinforced, the heat installed and the windows re- vamped along with the shelving for our 50,000 books and the completion of the offices on the first floor. These are the clues, the guess is yours. This whole contest idea started when Bill Frederick, librarian, told me about a gift we had received from the Thomas Registry Com- pany, which is a register of Ameri- can Manufacturers, including name, address and product with phone number. We completed a survey for them and one out of one hundred entries was chosen to receive this gift. It was us! The prize is a GOTT TOTE 12, which is an all-around cooler with the ice in the lid. A large re-freeze bottle which stores in the lid makes the cooler like a refrigerator. It holds 12. cans-or two six-packs. We decided we would like to use it for a, prize and needed a contest. The maker of the cooler have a slogan, “Gott for the Good Times’ and we hope you will enter our contest and have a good time with us trying to guess our library opening date. The members of the board of directors and the staff of the Back Mountain ‘Memorial Library would like to designate Sunday, Dec. 2, as a very special day in the Back Mountain. Mrs. Florence Crump will celebrate her 90th birthday on that date and we all say cheers to her. She is one dedicated, devoted and wonderful human being. Happy Birthday, Mrs. Crump! STATE CAPITOL ROUNDUP Here is a summary of important events that occurred on Capitol Hill 120th Legislative District. LEGISLATORS RETURNED to Harrisburg this week to complete work on a number of pending bills legislative session which begins in January. In closed caucus sessions, members voted to reorganize party leadership for.the 1985-85 session. Most House Republican leaders retained their posts for the next two years. The only change in House GOP leadership was the selection of Rep. Harry Bowser (R-Erie) as caucus administrator succeeding Rev. Frank A. Salvatore (R-Phila.) who is leaving the House for a seat in the Senate. : -0- AN ATTEMPTED House override of Gov. Dick Thornburgh’s veto of the so-called spousal-rape bill failed when supporters of the move lost by six votes to get the necessary two- thirds majority. The bill, which passed the General Assembly over- whelmingly last month, would have made spousal rape a third-degree felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison. Shortly after the failed override attempt in the House, the Senate passed an amendment out- lawing spousal rape while making the crime a second-degree felony. A second-degree felony carries a max- imum 10-year sentence. A final vote on the bill containing the amend- ment is expected in the Senate next week. -0- PRESCRIPTION DRUG subsidies offered to low-income senior citizens through the use of state lottery funds is being used by only half of the eligible elderly residents, the state Aging Department reported. The study noted that 287,900 people, 51 percent of those who qualify had registered for the three-month-old Prescription Assistance Contract for the Elderly program (PACE).
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