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HIP, HIP, HURRAY! My stitches
have gone away.
No, I am not a poet, but I sure am
darn glad the stitches have been
removed from my foot following my
recent orthopedic surgery.
That doesn’t, however, mean that
I am getting around any easier. All
it means is that I have graduated
from a specially-made surgical shoe
to sneakers. And, I don’t have to tell
you how silly I feel going to work in
an office while wearing sneakers.
I certainly hope I will be able to
graduate to the next step where I
can wear the shoes I normally
“wear.
to recovery over
this silly surgery|#
is that my other
foot is exactly the
same way and,
sooner or later,
I'll have to have ;
that foot operated DOTTY
on, also. MARTIN
My stepsister, who always looks
on the bright side of things, told me
t's a good thing I'm not a cen-
tipede. Consoling little thing, isn’t
she?
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. MUCH THANKS to Rosanne Cor-
rigan, of Plains, who called me
- after reading my column last week.
Debbey Wysocki, our entertain-
ment writer, is Rosanne’s niece so,
naturally, Rosanne has been read-
ing our paper ever since Debbey
starting writing for us.
And Rosanne took the time to call
me for two reasons - to ask me how
I was doing after my surgery and to
tell me how much she enjoyed
living‘in Plains, she had never seen
a copy of The Post before and she
wanted me to know how much she
enjoyed reading it.
Can’t tell you how much we
enjoyed hearing from you, Rosanne
- you certainly brightened my day!
Thanks.
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ANOTHER LOCAL RESIDENT
who also enjoys reading our paper
is Ralph Elston of Kunkle. 2)
Ralph, who is the grandfather of
one of our employees, Jane Cum-
mings, says our paper certainly is
getting better. .
Thanks for the encouragement,
Ralph, and remember people like
you are the reason we're here.
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HERE’S ONE FROM THE
“Believe it or Not”’ department.
The Warden Place Ladies Auxil-
jary held a Christmas Party
recently. That’s right - a Christmas
party. So, if you see an article in
today’s paper listing the names of
those who attended the Christmas
party, we’re not losing our marbles,
we're just telling you what hap-
pened.
And these women really did have
a Christmas party - they wished
each other a Merry Christmas and
everything. -
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CONGRATULATIONS to Court-
ney Dick on being named the 1985
Dallas High School Homecoming
Queen.
It was also nice to see Amy Aston,
the 1984 Dallas Homecoming Queen,
return to her alma mater to partici-
pate in this year’s homecoming
ceremonies.
Amy, who was voted one of The
Dallas Post’s Student/Athletes of
the Year last year, was at the
Dallas football field on Saturday
afternoon to crown Miss Dick
during halftime ceremonies.
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SPEAKING OF the Dallas foot-
ball team, congratulations are cer-
tainly in order for Coach Ted Jack-
son and his squad of fine young
men.
The Mountaineers proved them-
selves to everyone in the Back
Mountain, and most likely to anyone
else who follows the Wyoming
Valley Football. Conference, when
they rolled over a tough GAR team
this Saturday.
Coach Jackson and his assistants
have done a great job with the
Mountaineer gridiron squad this
season. Keep up the good work,
boys - the Back Mountain is proud
of you!
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THE DALLAS FOOTBALL TEAM
certainly skunked our prognostica-
torslast week as every one us
expected GAR to defeat the local
boys. But, we were wrong and every
one of us was tagged with a loss on
that game.
People around town are still
trying to figure out who GoalPOST
Petie is. GoalPOST Petie, for right
now, is an anonymous person who
makes his predictions about area
football games along with five
members of our staff.
And, GoalPOST Petie remains
anonymous until the Wednesday
before the Old Shoe Game where
Dallas and Lake-Lehman meet. At
that time, we reveal the identity of
GoalPOST Petie for all to see.
One thing is certain, though, for
those of you who may be seeking
clues as to Petie’s identity, he is a
male and he lives in the Back
Mountain. And, that’s all we’re
going to tell you right now.
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WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SIGHT one
can see while travelling on the
Cross-Valley Expressway from
Wilkes-Barre to the Back Mountain.
The trees are absolutely beautiful
at this time of year and you can see
them all around you. Driving this
route this past weekend made me
feel like I really was in a Valley
with all that beauty surrounding us.
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WITH THE BEAUTIFUL TREES,
however, comes a chore most of us
would rather avoid - the chore of
raking leaves.
Talk about a thankless job. You
can rake leaves all morning, filling
those leaf bags and bandaging the
blisters on the insides of your
thumbs - and then, POOF, as if by
magic, a gust of wind comes along
and your yard is back to its original
state before you even started to
rake.
Seems kind of stupid, doesn’t it, if
not a waste of time. I wonder why
we don’t just wait until every last
leaf has fallen off the trees and then
rake them all at once and only
once?
It doesn’t make a lick of sense to
me to rake leaves every day when
you know darn well there will be
more tomorrow, but I am just as
guilty as those who rake leaves
several times a year.
J. Stephen Buckley
~ Dotty Martin
_ Betty Bean
Mike Danowski
~ Charlot Denmon
Joe Gula
Marvin Lewis
Peggy Poynton
paid in advance.
time.
Publisher
Editor
Circulation Director
Office Manager
REMEMBERING |
World War vets
Only yesterday
50 YEARS AGO - NOV. 1, 1935
Checks totaling more than $2,600 were received by
five local communities as their share of Pennsylvania
liquor license monies. Municipalities receiving these
funds were Dallas Borough, $112; Dallas Twp. $1,000;
Kingston Township, $200; Lake Twp. $862; Lehman
$525.
Due to recent theft of several articles from Dr.
Henry M. Laing Fire Company, members decided to
keep the firehouse locked and obtain a request in
writing from those wishing to use it.
You could get - Sea trout 10c 1b.; legs of lamb 27c
Ib.; ducklings 23c 1b.; 8 O’Clock coffee 15c 1b.; rice 5¢
Ib.; 4 rolls Waldorf paper 15c¢; pt. jar salad dressing
15¢; yellow onions 10 lb. bag 29¢; Winesap apples 8 Ib.
25¢.
40 YEARS AGO - OCT. 26, 1945
A box placed near the checker’s desk in the Acme
Market would be used to hold gifts of baby food for
and Bessarabia.
Vandals damaged the Parrish Heights siren, one of
two operated by Henry M. Laing Fire Company as a
fire alarm and nine o'clock curfew. Damage was
estimated at between $50 and $100.
Deaths - Mrs. ILA. Rood, Laketon; Mrs. Charles
Fischer, Trucksville.
You could get - Walnut meats 29¢ % 1b.; mince meat
2.1b. jar 43c; Northern Toilet Tissue 4 rolls 25c;
Fairlawn coffee 29c Ib.; molasses 25¢-32 oz. jar; oyster
crackers 18c 1b. pkg.; evaporated milk 3 tall cans 29c¢;
Cream of Wheat 1g. pkg. 25¢.
30 YEARS AGO - OCT. 28, 1955
A large crowd attended the Ground Breaking
Service for the new addition to St. Paul’s Lutheran
Church. Oldest charter members Christine Malkemes
and John Eck were the first to break the ground
Chester Hartman and Frederick J. Eck, chairman of
the building committee.
Polio innoculations were scheduled to be adminis-
tered in area schools.
Two Lehman-Jackson-Ross High School seniors com-
peted in the new multi-million dollar National Merit
Scholarship Program. Ashel Sutliff and John Steele
competed in the new program.
Married - Joyce Elaine Oncay to Walter Chamber-
lain; Jean Marie Bynon and Daniel Blaine; Harriet
Prater and Theodore Dymond; Warren C. Elston and
Hilda Nickerson.
Deaths - Hazel Transue, Plattsburg Road; John
Creek.
You could get - Frying chickens 39c Ib.; sirloin
steaks 79c 1b.; bacon 45c Ib.; tomatoes 19¢ cello pkg.;
mushrooms 39¢ 1b.; apples 4 1b. 33c; endive 10c bunch;
3 cans lg. shrimp $1; eggs 49c doz.; 4 pkg. cake mix
$1.
20 YEARS AGO - OCT. 28, 1965
Students from both Lake-Lehman and Dallas heart
safety measures. This Champion Highway Safety
Program was sponsored by Indianapolis 500 racing
veterans. :
John N. Landis, District Manager of the Dallas
district was promoted to General Commercial Supervi-
sor of Commonwealth Telephone Company. R.E. Koeb
was named to replace him.
Married - Dolores Louise Patton to Walter Weiss.
Anniversaries - Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Jr. Taylor Jr.,
Sterling Avenue, Dallas, 25 years; Mr. and Mrs. BE.
Leroy Kocher, Harveys Lake, 62 years; Mr. and Mrs.
John Kritchen, Sr., Shavertown, 20 years; Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Wyrsch, Binghampton, N.Y., 25 years.
You could get - Turkeys 39c 1b.; hams 59¢ Ib.;
shrimp 99¢ 1b.; clams 4c ea.; 3 lb. fruit cake $2.99;
Tokay grapes 3 1b. 29c¢; sweet corn 6 ears 45c; Ig.
bunch pascal celery 19c; Italian chestnuts 29c 1b.;
MacIntosh apples 3 bags $1.
10 YEARS AGO - OCT. 30, 1975
Homecoming court members at Lake-Lehman High
School were Laurie Dockeray, Cheryl Hoover, Barb
Kasakowski, Diane Godleski, Donna Moskluk and
Mary Duffy.
Millie Hogoboom was the first woman to run for the
office of supervisor in Jackson Township.
Honorable Robert J. Hourigan served as toastmas-
ter of the Back Mountain Protective Association
presentation of their annual community service award
to Rep. Daniel Flood.
Married - Nancy West and Gary Walters; Mary Ann
Lacina and William Frank Hardisky; Judith Ann Cook
and Dale Shupp; Fern May Egliskis and David
Schooley.
Deaths - Sterling Fisk, Dallas Township; Ernest
Price, Dalls; Henry Miller, Dallas; Elmer Rainow,
Dallas; Byron F. Kester, Franklin Township; George
Shaver, Sr. Overbrook Ave., Shavertown; Gertrude C.
Wood, Laketon; Walter L. Snyder, Shavertown.
You could get - Chicken 45c lb.; country style
spareribs $1.19 lb.; pork sausage $1.39 Ib.; kidney
beans 4-$1; whole or cream style corn 3-89c; bartlett
pears 3-$1; potatoes 10 lb. bag 89c; oranges 10-89c.
OPINION
LIBRARY NEWS
By NANCY KOZEMCHAK
By EDWIN FEULNER
Special to The Dallas Post
The writers for Curly, Moe, and
Larry — the best-known of the
Three Stooges — couldn’t have
thought up a better plot or more
stereotyped characters.
The bad guy: an evil business-
man, trying to foreclose on a sickly
widow who can’t keep up the mort-
gage payments on her house and 40
acres. For good measure, make the
businessman Oriental: Mr. Moto;
better yet, Mr. Honda.
The good guys: as played by the
Three Stooges, they would pose as
doctors. And in the process of trying
to heal the poor widow Fairtrade,
they will stumble, bumble, and
“bonk’ their way through a variety
of lethal-looking gags that in real
life probably would kill the old lady.
In the end, however, she will
recover her good health, emerge
with her home, and send the disap-
pointed Mr. Honda into retreat.
Well, everything is set for a real-
the happy ending.
The bad guys, of course, are all
those foreigners who are selling us
shirts, and sheets, and shoes, and
slacks, and cars and trucks, and
televisions, and toasters, and
hundreds of other products at better
prices than we can get from U.S.
manufacturers. In most cases, the
bad guys come from the Orient.
Because they are losing business
to foreign competitors, some U.S.
manufacturers — our poor widow
Fairtrade — are having a tough
time of it. They have called the
doctors — Congress — to fix things
for them. But, instead of the choreo-
graphed chaos one would expect
from the Three Stooges, Congress is
threatening to deliver some serious
blows. Not only to Mr. Honda, but to
the very people they are trying to
help.
The name of the game Congress is
playing is’ ‘‘protectionism.” It has
never cured a patient, and in the
long run it could be lethal. Members
of Congress are so anxious to
deliver political payoffs to U.S. busi-
nesses having difficulty making it in
the international marketplace that
they are almost bumping into each
other with their various protection-
ist measures. |
The textile industry. The steel
industry. The shoe industry. Sugar
producers. And dozens of others are
lined up in Capitol Hill’s sick ward
looking for some quick-fix cure. The
proposed medicine, however, is
worse than the disease: quotas to
limit inexpensive imports, and
import fees that will jack up the
prices of foreign-made goods, both
‘of which will hurt the U.S. consum-
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textile industry. Textile industry
lobbyists are supporting legislation
that would cut textile imports as
much as 40 percent. The problem
is: the United States already has
very restrictive textile import poli-
cies — which add an estimated $38
billion-a-year to the prices we pay.
The new restrictions will hit us even
harder.
This is not to say all foreign
producers are living by the
mutually agreed-upon rules of free
trade, as spelled out in the General
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
(GATT). The U.S. wine industry’s
American Grape Growers Alliance,
for example, recently went before
the International Trade Commission
claiming that European wine pro-
ducers are ‘‘dumping” red table
wines in the United States at prices
below the cost of production. Such
practices are outlawed by the GATT
agreement, and Washington needs
to see that the GATT prohibitions
are enforced. .
But there’s a world of difference
between enforcing free-trade rules
that our trading partners have
agreed to and erecting new barriers
to free trade that will simply make
a bad situation worse. Curly, Moe
and Larry never would have acted
(Feulner is president of The Heri-
tage Foundation, a Washington-
based public policy research insti-
We had a super birthday party!
The Back Mountain Memorial
Library celebrated its 40 years of
existence wit han open house com-
plete with cookies, cake and punch.
We were well decorated with bal-
loons and streamers thansk to our
balloon blowers, Melanie, Pat, Lisa
and jane. We had balloons from
United Penn, Franklin's, Suburban
News and even helium ones from
McDonald’s.
A special thanks to Mary for the
corn stalk and the pumpkins. We
were well pleased with the attend-
ance at the open house; many
people who had not been in our new
library before came and. it also
attracted some people just.to come
in for a tour.:
Eloise Titman, a member of one
of our first Board of Directors; Lee
West who worked o nthe antiques at
the auction for many years; Millie
Kear, an original member of the
Book Club and Donald Sutherland,
who is probably one of our most
faithful weekly borrowers were all
here to help celebrate. It was a
beautiful day, weather-wise and a
lovely party in all ways. |
A friend and I took a one-day
excursion to AC last week to put
some coins in those machines. Had
a great time, a beautiful day, just
like summer. The boardwalk did
suffer some’ damage down near
Convention Hall from that storm,
Gloria. Some of the area has raised
up about two feet and had to be
roped off. We got to have some
Hillside Ice Cream on Ocean One
which is always delicious. Enjoyed
talking to the seagulls, which
reminded me of the song, ‘Cherish’
by Kool and the Gang, who, by the
way, will be at Caesar’s in Novem-
ber. A trip to AC is always exciting.
What a way to spend a day —
Enjoying that other world!
I must say I am over-whelmed
with people’s genuine concern over
my recent illness. It is also interest-
ing to see how many people read the
library news. I have received many
helpful suggestions and am grateful
for the care and concern. What is a
Heparin Lock? This is something I
learned while in the hospital. It is a
new form of IV needle, which allows
freely and after you are there a
while, you become very familiar
with it. An interesting coincidence
with numbers, the library phone
number is 1182, my numer at home
is 2818 and my hospital room
number was 218-1. A lucky number.
Some recent memory book addi-
tions ‘include: Renewing An Old
House, gift of Mr. and Mrs. William
Austin in memory of Ernest Gay;
An Unkindness of Ravens by Ren-
dell, gift of Molly Darcy in memory
of Neil McIntyre; David by Rothen-
berg, gift of grandmother Lorraine
Stair in memory of Bobby Stair;
The Magic Years of Beatrix Potter
by Lane, gift of daughter, Mrs.
Dana Crump in memory of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Tremayne; Basic
Small Business Management by
Baumback, gift of Elin M. Northrup
in memory of Harold R. Maye.
STATE CAPITOL
ROUNDUP
Here is a summary of important
events that occurred on Capitol Hill
last week from Rep. Frank Coslett,
120th Legislative District.
CALLING THE program ‘‘a
catastrophe in itself,” Rep. Richard
A. Geist (R-Blair) this week offered
an amendment to a House bill to
eliminate the Catastrophic Lost
Trust (CAT) Fun and the House
approved the measure. The bill has
not been sent to the Senate for
concurrence. Geist’s amendment to
abolish the fund passed by a 142-53
margin. The CAT Fund is ‘a manda-
tory medical insurance program for
Pennsylvania vehicle owners that
provide up-to $1 million in medical
payments.
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ALCOHOL RELATED violations
committed by individuals under the
age of 21 could result in the revoca-
tion of their driver's license under a
bill passed by the House. Developed
by Rep. Mario J. Civera (R-Dela-
ware), the bill would increase fines
and suspend the license of any
underage individual convicted of
purchasing, attempting to purchase,
consuming or transporting alcoholic
beverages. In addition to losing the
license, an underage drinker would
face a mandatory fine of at least
$500. “It is my belief that the loss of
driving privileges will be an effec-
tive ‘deterrent to underage drink-
ing,” Civera said.
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A STATEWIDE CAMPAIGN in
support of the so-called bottle bill
was kicked off in the Capitol when
groups from throughout the com-
monwealth met to encourage legis-
lators to vote for the measure.
Environmentalists, farmers and
sportsmen were among those in
attendance. The bill would require
deposits on soda and malt liquor
beverage bottles sold in the. state.
Supporters claim it would not only
reduce litter but help extend the life
of landfills as well. Opponents
counter that the legislation would
eliminate jobs in the glass industry,
increase the cost of drinks and
present an inconvenience to con-
sumers.
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