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Editor's notes
FOR THOSE OF YOU who are
still asking where I'm going on
vacation I'd like you to know that I
- am there now - as you are reading
this column.
Where, you say? Ah, that’s my
secret - at least until I return.
But if you really think you know
where I’ve chosen to spend my
week of rest and relaxation, send
me a letter and tell me where you
think I went. Remember to include
your name and phone number so I
can personally let you know if your
guess was correct.
One thing I want you all to know,
though, is that
as much as I
thoroughly
enjoy my job -
it sure does
feel good to get
away!
I know our
staff members
are probably
enjoying a
whole week
without me, but have no fear gang,
I will return to haunt you sooner
than you think!
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MY WARMEST GET WELL
WISHES to our own Charlot
Denmon who is hobbling around
town on crutches these days.
Charlot claims whatever hap-
pened to her foot happened while
she was asleep, and whatever it was
it was serious enough to put her on
crutches for some time. Fortun-
ately, Charlot’s niece, Cathy Wilson,
is a foot doctor and was able to give
Charlot quick attention.
A determined member of The
Dallas Post editorial staff, Charlot
assures me that the crutches are
not going to get in her way when it
comes time to cover football this
weekend.
Bug, do you want to know some-
thing? I believe her!
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I GAVE MY AGE AWAY the
other day when someone asked me
if T had seen Madonna’s wedding on
television.
I didn’t even know Madonna got
| married and when told the name of
the bridegroom, I sheepishly admit-
ted I had never even heard of him.
| Oh well, give me credit for at least
| knowing who Madonna is.
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MUCH THANKS TO DAVE AND
SHIRLEY PEARN of Forty Fort for
sharing a treasure with us.
Dave and Shirley spent some time
at Shirley’s grandmother’s house in
Orange last week and, while sifting
through some old photos and other
memorabilia, came across a special
supplement to a 1967 edition of The
Dallas Post.
It was rather strange to see how
newspapers looked just 20 years ago
- the ink was brown instead of black
and the photos looked almost fake.
One thing that caught my atten-
tion, though, was the publishing of
school attendance records, letting
everyone know how many days of
school each and every student had
missed throughout the year.
I can almost hear my phone
ringing off the walls with irate
parents screaming at me if we were
to publish such a thing today. Times
sure do change, don’t they?
Anyway, thanks a whole lot to
. Dave and Shirley. The staff mem-
bers got a big kick out of reviewing
that old paper.
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WE HAD A NICE VISIT from
Bobby (Zampetti) Z from Bobby Z’s
Video Memories in Wilkes-Barre.
Bobby is a band leader in the
Tunkhannock School District and
was on his way home from spending
the day getting his band room in
order. So, he stopped in to visit and
tell us how he spends his last week
of summer vacation - doing abso-
lutely nothing. A night of Grotto
Pizza with his friends, a night in the
Poconos, a little relaxing here and a
little relaxing there. Some life, isn’t
it?
Acutally, Bobby Z is a pretty busy
guy - with his radio show and the
programs he conducts at Hunter
Mountain in Hunter, N.Y. And, his
video memory business certainly
keeps him busy.
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Speaking of video memories,
when my brother and I were kids,
my father spent a lot of time with a
movie projector to his eye, taking
movie pictures of my brother and
me - movies that would become so
valuable to us some day. After
counting over 20 rolls of Super 8
film (that required projectors and
the whole bit to view), I decied to
have my entire childhood trans-
ferred to a cassette tape that can be
viewed on a television set with the
aid of a video cassette recorder.
My father and I sat together and
watched over two hours of a price-
less film the other night and, as the
two of us wiped the tears from our
face, I think he and I both realized
what a wonderful childhood I really
had. -
What’s sad, though, is that we
never realize how wonderful those
days are until they’re over.
Anyway, for whatever it’s worth.
Thanks, Dad, for all those great
times we've had - both now and
when I was a kid.
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PATTY GINOCHETTI and three
of her four children were enjoying
subs at Minotti’s in the 309-415 Plaza
the other day.
Not having seen Patty (we grew
up together since our backyards
met in West Wyoming) for some
time, I was thrilled to catch up on
the news of her family.
With her she had Annette, Nadine
and Vincent while Dad (Gino from
Gino’s Shoe Store) and oldest son,
Brian, were missing out on dinner
with Mom.
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I DECIDED IT WAS TIME for me
to go back to school and start
learning some more. So, I chose a
Marketing Course offered by Luz-
erne County Community College
and held at Dallas High School.
I went to registration the other
night and got a little nervous when I
was unsure of just how to answer
some questions on the application.
After all, it’s been eight years since
I was a college student. One tends
to get a little rusty after some time.
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BIRTHDAY GREETINGS go out
to a few members of our staff who
celebrated birthdays this week.
Office manager Peggy Poynton,
circulation manager Jean Brutko
and advertising representative
Betty Bean noted their birthdays
earlier this week while Becky Whit-
man, editor of our sister paper, the
Abington Journal, is celebrating her
birthday today.
Happy birthday to all of you!
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REMEMBERING
Waving the flag
Only yesterday
FIFTY YEARS AGO - SEPTEMBER 6, 1935
Directors of Dallas Borough school board discussed
plans for a six-room addition to the high school
building. The project would be a WPA job.
Judge Warren Davis was speaker at dedication
ceremonies for the new fire house at Harvey’s Lake.
The ceremonies were ‘a tribute to retired Woolworth
Co. executive Daniel C. Roberts who donated the
$15,000 which paid for construction of the building and
the $9,000 for the new fire engine.
Married - Arlene S. Baldwin and Adam Kiefer;
Winifred Crossley ad Lloyd Cease; Ilene Jackson to
Garfield Goodman.
You could get chuck pot roast 17 cents lb.; stewing
chickens 27 cents 1b.; lamb 19 cents lb.; Eight o’clock
coffee 15 cents lb.; evaporated milk 10 tall cans 55
cents; parafin wax 10 cents pkg.; Certo 23 cents bottle;
20 pz. loaf bread 6 cents.
FORTY YEARS AGO - SEPTEMBER 7, 1945
Construction of a new $12,500 firehouse in Lehman
was assured this wek when Bertha Conyngham, widow
of the late John Conyngham, donated $5,000 to the Fire
Company. The new building would be located across
from Lehman High School on a corner lot owned by
George Lewis.
Alarmed at the rising tide of juvenile delinquency,
Dallas Borough Council took drastic action to remove
some of the causes. Council advised Burgess H.A.
Smith to have police warn owners of establishments
operating punch boards, pin ball machines and slot
machines to remove them at once or have them
confiscated.
Married - Ardis Adele Lloyd to Sgt. Howard Archie
Wilcox; Marjorie Dendler to Captain John J. Szela.
Anniversaries - Mr. and Mrs. William Garnett,
Loyalville, 33 years.
Deaths - John P. Murphy, Goss Manor; Mary A.
Bond, Lehman; Stanley Ide, Idetown.
You could get chickens 47 cents lb.; sausage 37 cents
Ib.; 2 1b. bag coffee 47 cents; cauliflower 1g. head 25
cents; cabbage 3 cents lb.; potatoes 15 1b. 45 cents;
onions 3 1b. 19 cents; Ivory soap 3 guest size bars 14
cents; Spic and Span 21 cents pkg.; pears 2 Ib. 29 cents.
THIRTY YEARS AGO - SEPTEMBER 9, 1955
William Amos, formerly of Demunds Road, appeared
on “Life Begins at Eighty’’ television show. Nearly 90
years of age, Amos stayed at the Hotel Astor in New
York prior to the broadcast.
A widespread rumor that there might be a case of
typhoid in the area was proven groundless when Dr.
Malcolm Borthwick assured residents that tests per-
formed on Anthony Christ, Franklin ST., Shavertown,
were negative.
Married - Evelyn K. Will to Leonard H. Ide, Jr.;
Eleanor Ray to Norman Dymond; Mary Anne Kem-
merer to Peynton B. Lee, Jr.
Engaged - Jean Gummo to Russell Traver.
Deaths - Clyde Casterline, Noxen; Charles Updyke,
Sweet Valley; Lawrence Minier, Hunlocks Creek;
Archie G. Culver, Hunlock Creek; William Henry
Cragle, Sweet Valley.
You could get chuck roast 29 cents lb.; veal roast 49
cents 1b.; beef liver 49 cents lb.; bartlett pears 2 1b. 29
cents; cauliflower 29 cents head; American Cheese, 2
1b. box 99 cents; Velveeta Cheese 2 1b. 89 cents; Louella
Butter 68 cents 1b.; Vets Dog Food 6-1b. cans 49 cents.
TWENTY YEARS AGO - SEPTEMBER 9, 1965
Pennsylvania Department of Health shut down the
Lake Township dump. Township supervisors looked
into the possibility of using the Yatsko landfill on the
western edge of the township.
The Rotary Fall Fair promised to be a weekend of
fun featuring the State Police Exhibition of Trained
Horses and dogs and a craft and hobby show.
Engaged - Janet Louise Reed to Wesley Evans.
Married - Florence Louise Billings to James Robert
Finn.
Deaths - Jonathan Jones Shavertown; Darwin K.
Roberts, Dallas.
You could get pork loins 39 cents lb.; boneless
stewing beef 69 cents lb.; fully cooked hams 69 cents
Ib.; 20 Ib. bag potatoes 69 cents; lemons 49 cents doz;
ge. green peppers 4-19 cents; nectarines 25 cents Ib.;
red delicious apples 3 lb. bag 49 cents; cottage cheese
25 cents lb.
TEN YEARS AGO - SEPTEMBER 11, 1975
Lehman Fire Company captured first place honors in
the firemen’s olympic contest at the Luzerne County
Fair. Companies competed from Harveys Lake, Shav-
ertown, Idetown, Kunkle, Lehman, Trucksville and
Franklin Township. Categoriess included pumping con-
test, portable pumping contest, 10 man bucket brigade
and five man bucket brigade; women’s bucket frigade
and tug-of-war contest.
Back Mountain Protective Association invited nomi-
nations for the Back Mountain Community Service
Award. Dr. Budd Schooley was group president.
Engaged - Mary Dorothea Saraceno and Theodore
William Wright; Nancy Elizabeth West to Gary S.
Walters; Elizabeth Ann Clements to Bruce Gover;
SAndra Gail Gordon to Duane Ronald Sprau.
You could get apple sauce 3 cans for $1; Duncan
Hines cake mixes 63 cents; 38 oz. Crisco oil $1.49; 8 pz.
cream cheese 38 cents; half gal. milk 65 cents; 1 Ib.
margarine 55 cents; Velveeta cheese 95 cents Ib.;
Skippy epanut butter 40 oz. jar $1.69.
LIBRARY NEWS
By NANCY KOZEMCHAK
Post correspondent
What a nice sight to see! I drove
into the library parking lot this
morning and noticed about 12 pre-
school children in the playground
area of the library grounds enjoying
the swings, the sliding board and
the climbing bars.
expert supervision of their instruc-
tors from the Little People Day
Care School, now occupying the
second floor of the library. It’s nice
to see the grounds being used and
we do enjoy the little people.
LIE J
Our tomato plants are really
growing! I had to get some stakes
and tie them up the other day
because they were beginning to lay
down on the flowers. Two of the
plants are the miniatures and one is
regular size, with a tomato about
13% inches round.
If this tomato survives and
becomes red, we are planning on
having a tomato party; a small
sampling type party.
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The library has received a dona-
tion of a very specialized book. Mrs.
Helen Bubeck of Forty Fort has
donated the book ‘‘Adventures With
Rare Coins” by Q. David Bowers,
which was a gift to her husband,
Lee, and given to him by the author
who was a close friend of Lee’s,
having grown up in Forty Fort.
The book was autographed by the
author to Lee in 1979 and is an
exciting interplay of collectibles,
collectors, history, discovery, and
marketability. It covers rare and
everyday coins, paper money, Scrip,
gold dust, and silver ore, all the
while absorbing the legends and
lore of our country’s unmismatic
history.
Mrs. Bubeck felt this book would
be a vaulable asset for its research
and resources and thereby donated
it to the library, to make it availa-
ble for public use. We thank Mrs.
Bubeck for the gift.
It seems hard to believe that
summer is almost over and Sunday
begins the beautiful month of Sep-
tember; my favorite month of the
year. September has so many good
things; the lovely clear days, the
warm sunshine, and mostly, the
color of the leaves as they begin to
turn.
It also has something to do with
my being a Virgo, born on the 19th
and the fact that it will be 18 years
this September since I began work-
ing at the Back Mountain Memorial
Library.
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October will be an important
month for the library as it will
celebrate its first 40 years. On Oct.
12, 1945 the ceremony to mark the
dedication of the library was held
complete with ceremony and
parade. We have come a long way
since then and hope to have a
significant celebration.
One thing being planned for Octo-
ber by Priscilla Liput and Florence
Crump is a Book Sale to be held in
the book storage room on the lower
level of the library. A three day
happening! ;
The library will return to regular
hours beginning September 4. We
open Monday through Saturday at
9:30; Close at 8:30 Monday through
Thursday and close at 5:30 on
Friday and Saturday. We invite you
to visit and tour your new library
any time we are open!
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DEAR AUNT PATTY:
I am a housewife looking for a
job. I answered an advertisement in
the newspaper where I responded to
a box number. I received a tele-
phone call from the secretary of the
company and she scheduled me for
an interview at a downtown hotel. I
went to the hotel, asked for the man
I was supposed to meet, gave the
company’s name and went to the
room.
The interview went all right but I
was uncomfortable being in a hotel
room with a strange man who knew
all about me because of my pre-
viously sent resume but whom I
knew nothing about except that he
worked for the company for which I
was applying. I was extremely ner-
vous because of the setting of the
interview. Do you feel I was justi-
fied or do many companies use
hotels for interviews? By the way,
the company was from out of the
area.
JOB HUNTER
DEAR JOB HUNTER:
It is a common practice for out-of-
town businesses to hold interviews
at hotels or motels instead of asking
applicants to travel to distant cities
for interviews. In the future when
the same situation may come up, I
would suggest you ask the inter-
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viewer to leave the door open as a
courtesy to you. You do not have to
give any explanation for requesting
the open door. The majority of job
opportunities from out-of-town are
for sales positions in which interac-
tion between men and women will
be a common practice. If it makes
you feel uneasy, maybe you should
choose another field.
DEAR AUNT PATTY:
My daughter will shortly begin
attending kindergarten. She has
always been very close to me and
seldom plays with other children
because of where we live. She is
quiet, shy and has a hard time
interacting with other children. Also
I regret that our time together will
help her accept and like going to
school?
WORRIED MOM
DEAR WORRIED MOM:
Talk to your daughter about what
a wonderful time she will have in
school and about exciting things she
will be learning and doing. Tell her
about some of your experiences
when you were little. Assure her
that you will always be there when
she gets home. You must be brave
and not act worried or troubled
because she is leaving you. Give her
something of yours to take with her
in her pocket or lunch bag. Evening
gluing a picture of you inside her
lunchbox to look at during her snack
time will help her during the transi-
tion. I always gave my children a
secret kiss on their fingertips. I told
them to touch their fingers to their
cheeks anytime they felt they
needed a secret kiss from Mommy.
It seemed to help them.
DEAR AUNT PATTY:
My cousin is cheating on her
boyfriend. I saw her out with this
other guy and she begged me not to
tell her Mom. The guy she was with
has a terrible reputation and has
been in trouble many times. My
cousin is only fifteen and this guy is
22 years old. Should I tell her Mom?
I don’t know what to do. ;
CUZ
I think your best bet would be to
have a heart-to-heart talk with your
cousin yourself. Find out from her
what she finds attractive about her
new friend. Let herknow your con-
cerns and tell her it is because you
care about what happens toher is
why you are worried.
DEAR AUNT PATTY:
My 12 year-old-son and 14-year-old
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daughter fight and pick about
everything. I was an only child who
always wanted a sister or brother,
and this constant bickering really
upsets me. Can you offer any
suggestions?
R.G.
DEAR R.G.:
Part of the problem may be your
unrealistic idea that siblings are
always crazy about each other.
Even those who are close have
fights. And adolescence is such a
stormy time that it’s highly unusual
when teenage sisters and brothers
do get along well.
Sometimes the less you expect
your children to like each other, the
closer they will eventually be. If one
child takes advantage of another,
parents may have to intervene. But
your everyday squabbling should
reassure you that being an only
child wasn’t so bad after all! Just
get out of the house for awhile or
lock yourself in the bedroom until
the storm passes.
(Editor’s Note: ‘Dear Aunt
Patty” The Dallas Pest’s weekly
advice columnist has moved on to
another job. This week’s column is
the last “Dear Patty’’ column to run
in The Dallas Post. Good luck in
your new job, Aunt Patty.)