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OK, ALL YOU BEARS FANS,
Sunday certainly was your day,
wasn’t it? With a 46-10 victory over
‘the New England Patriots to win
‘Super Bowl XX, you're probably
still gloating now.
Personally, I wasn’t sure who I
wanted to see win the Super Bowl.
After all, if the Miami Dolphins
aren’t playing, I have a hard time
cheering for one side of the other.
I know one
thing for sure,
though, and that
is I think Chicago
Bears quarter-
back Jim
McMahon is an
absolute idiot. If I
wanted the Bears
to win for any
reason, it would
be because 1
think William
‘‘Refrigerator’’
Perry is a riot.
I thought I liked Walter Payton
and respected him for all the years
he’s spent in the National Football
League - until. Until, I read some of
the things he said after the game,
about being so disappointed that he
didn’t score a touchdown. Was he
out there playing for his team or
was he trying to hog all the glory
for himself?
I would have liked to have seen
the Patriots win for a couple of
reasons - for the sincerity and
honesty in Coach Raymond Berry’s
eyes, for Julius Adams who
announced his retirement from the
game earlier in the season, for Mr.
Sullivan, the Patriots’ owner who
looked so dejected when his team
went down in defeat, and for the
New England fans who stuck by
their team through all the bad
times.
But, somebody has to win and
somebody has to lose. I just wish
Jim McMahon had been on the
losing end this time.
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MUCH THANKS to my friends at
College Misericordia who presented
me with my very own Paw Power t-
shirt, in honor of the college’s new
nickname.
Judy Daly, who brought the shirt
over to my office, said she wasn’t
sure whether or not I'd wear a
Misericordia shirt, knowing full well
that I will always remain true blue
to my alma mater, Wilkes College.
Luckily, Misericordia colors of
blue and gold are the same as
Wilkes.
No, really, I will wear the shirt —
.and I will wear it proudly as a loyal
‘supporter of the College Misericor-
dia Cougars.
Thanks, gang - I appreciate
you’re thinking of me.
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ALSO, THANKS to the people at
Custom Management Corporation in
Kingston for sending me a copy of
their annual President’s report.
A quote on the very first page of
the report caught my attention and
I’d like to pass it on to you.
It goes like this:
‘Quality is never an accident, it is
always the result of high intention,
sincere effort, intelligent direction
and skilled execution; it represents
the wise choice of many alterna-
tives.” The quote is attributed to
W.A. Foster.
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ANOTHER THOUGHT-PROVOK-
ING PHRASE that caught my atten-
tion was hanging in the window of a
paint store. It goes like this:
“Room for improvement is the
largest room in the world.” Think
about it!
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SINCE I TURNED 30 last March,
it seems everything is going wrong
with me and I spend more time than
old.
I couldn’t help but smile, though,
when I came to work one day this
week and there was a note on my
desk, informing me that the Mup-
pets had turned 30.
Well, I'll be darned! It sure is
nice to share the same feeling with
some very successful 30-year-olds.
Happy birthday - to all the mup-
pets!
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SINCERE SYMPATHY is
extended to Hank Kaminsky, an
employee of the Dallas Post Office,
on the recent death of his wife.
Hank, a resident of Kingston, has
been a smiling face at the post
office for several years now. Our
most sincere condolences to you and
your family, Hank.
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A RECENT REPORT stated that
the Burger King Corporation doesn’t
think the Herb campaign wasn’t as
successful as it could have been.
The Burger King people think that
because McDonald’s launced its
new McDLT sandwich at the same
time Herb was announced, the Herb
campaign kind of got lost in the
hamburger rush.
However, now that Burger: King
has unveiled the real “Herb” who
will be making his way across the
country and visiting one Burger
King restaurant in every state (Do
you think he’ll come to the Back
Mountain?), it seems business
people all over are now taking
notice of Herb.
While driving down Route 11 to
our production headquarters in
Bloomsburg, it’s amazing how
many businesses make reference to
Herb on their own signs. Here are
some of the signs I've seen in the
past few weeks: ?
Sign on a Pizza Hut: Herb eats
Priazzo!
Sign on a waterbed company:
Herb sleeps here.
Sign on a garage contracting com-
pany: Herb bought his garage here.
Sign on a cinder block company:
Herb works here.
Sign on a heating system com-
pany: Herb bought his heating
system here.
Sign on a motel: Herb lives here.
I find it amazing to think that
Burger King doesn’t find Herb to be
a success. After all, I'm sure Herb
reads The Dallas Post and, that in
itself, makes him a success.
(Dotty Martin is the Executive
Editor of Pennaprint, Inc., pub-
lisher of The Dallas Post.)
REMEMBERING
Familiar sight
boats on Harveys Lake.
Only yesterday
50 YEARS AGO - JAN. 31, 1936
A 150 day postponement of new meter rates which
would have gone into effect was announced by Robert
Hall Craig, general manager of Dallas Water Com-
pany. The postponement was due to protest from area
residents.
The Pike’s Creek Orchestra from Lake Township
held the State Championship in Luzerne County.
Married - Helen Balut to Dr. T.C. Kroll, Ida M.
Evans and Harry Carr; Pansy Evans and Emmanuel
P. Morgan.
Deaths - George M. White, Danville; Frank P. Ace,
Mehoopany.
You could get - Chuck roast 17¢ 1b.; round steak 33c
Ib.; pork sausage 27c lb.; stewing oysters 4 doz. 29c;
Minute Tapioca 2 pkg. 23c; Maxwell House coffee 29¢
Ib.; oranges 5 1b. bag 25¢; prunes 4 1b. 25¢; evaporated
milk 4 tall cans 25¢c.
40 YEARS AGO - FEB. 1, 1946
Having completed four years in the U.S. Medical
Corps, Dr. A.A. “Jack” Mascali purchased the A.N.
Garinger home on Machell Avenue and opened his
office there.
Word was received by Mr. and Mrs. Stanley L. Culp,
Huntsville, that their son Herbert Culp had been killed
in action. He would be returned to the U.S. for burial
in a military cemetery.
Married - Edith Spencer and Alvin Shaffer; Ruth
Johnson and Edward E. Jeffrey; Elsie J. Ayre and
William Lewis; Ida Lewis and Pfc. Paul Redmond.
Deaths - Ella Ruggles, Pikes Creek.
You could get - Chickens 35¢ 1b.; haddock fillets 39¢c
Ib.; pork sausage 39c lb.; oranges 35c doz.; broccoli
23c 1g. bunch; carrots 2 1g. bunches 17c; Palmolive
soap 10c bath size; Crisco 3 lb. jar 68c; 16 oz. jar
molasses 22c.
“30 YEARS AGO - FEB. 3, 1956
The epidemic of Scarlet Fever among grade school
children in Lehman was apparently on the wane.
Fourteen children had been stricken with the disease.
Other area schools, however, reported no problem
with scarlet fever.
Atty. Mitchell Jenkins was elected president and
five new directors were named at the annual meeting
of the Back Mountain Memorial Library. Directors
were Mrs. Peter D. Clark, Mrs. Myron Baker, Stephen
Hellersperk, Mrs. Donald Smith and Mrs. Fred
Swanson.
Engaged - John M. Humphrey, 3rd to Mildred
Kidder Haffelfinger; Janice Marion Lamb and James
D. Borst; Elaine Swsan to Airman 2-C Alvin Cragle;
Lois K. Jones to Harry J. Johnson; Robert Sutliff to
Kathie M. Doberly; Freda Shupp to Howard Woolbert.
Deaths - John Zosh, Meeker; Lydia Spencer, West
Davenport, N.Y.; Mrs. Charles Landers, Wilkes-
Barre; Michael Begley, Dallas; Timothy Jayne,
Kingston.
You could get - Sirloin steaks 89c lb.; ground beef 3
Ib. $1; franks 39c pkg.; coffee 79c lb.; bologna 39c lb.;
oysters 89c pt.; bananas 12c Ib.; eggs 39¢ doz.; frozen
strawberries 3 pkg. 55¢; Breyers ice cream 99¢ 1% gal.
20 YEARS AGO - FEB. 3, 1966
Mrs. Emma Millen was 100 years old. A resident of
Harris Hill Road, Mrs. Millen was born in 1866, shortly
after the end of the Civil War.
Franklin Township announced the intention of pass-
ing a one per cent wage tax.
Richard A. Holodick was named president of the
Jackson Fire Company.
Engaged - Barbara Ann Hennebaul and Raymond R.
Strazdus. :
Married - Betty J. Trask and L-Cpl. Leslie W.
Dickson; Patricia Schell and Bernard H. Hughes.
Deaths - Willard Lozo, Shavertown; Roy L. McNeil,
Dallas; Edward Michalus, Harveys Lake; Lydia
Kilner, Jackson Twp.; Daisy Farver, Bloomingdale.
You could get - Turkeys 39c 1b.; spare ribs 49c Ib.;
sliced bacon 79¢ 1b.; 5 Ib. grapefruit 49c; pascal celery
Ig. stalk 25¢; butter 71c 1b.; 1 1b. bag potato chips 49c;
2 bars Dial 33c; Musselman applesauce 2 jars 33c.
10 YEARS AGO - FEB. 5, 1976
Leonard Kozik, Dallas, was named sanitary inspec-
tor for Jackson Township.
No progress was reported in the strike of Communi-
cations Workers of America and Commonwealth
Telephone Company.
More than 350 area residents of Lebanese origin
have relatives living in strife-torn Lebanon. This
observation was noted by Rev. Victor Kayrouz, pastor
of St. Anthony’s Maronite Church, Wilkes-Barre.
Engaged - Bonnie Jean Gerard and George Mahler;
Florence Bryan to Toefil Zalinski; Mary Lou Pieczyn-
ski and Ronald Karpovich.
Married - Joan Meyers and John Sidorek.
Anniversaries - Mr. and Mrs. James Kozemchak,
Huntsville, 35 years.
You could get - Chicken 39c¢ lb.; ham $1.59 1b.; paper
towels 2 rolls $1; applesauce 3 jars $1; grape jelly 1 lb.
4 oz. jar 74c; bread 2 loaves 68c; pepper 4 oz. can 48c;
margarine 19c¢ 1b.; broccoli 3 pkg. $1.
By HOWARD J. GROSSMAN
Special to The Dallas Post
With the invasion of telecommuni-
cations, video tapes, VCRs, comput-
ers, and other elements of the com-
munications revolution, it would be
easy to conclude that libraries are
ancient relics of the past. The truth,
however, is just the reverse.
Despite the communications
changes which have created many
alternatives to reading, and despite
the ability of these new communica-
tions resources to speed up the
process of learning and talking, the
written word remains a powerful
center of thought, trade, law, and
above all, a learning experience
which needs to be reinforced in our
educational system at all levels.
Nowhere is there more current
commitment to the above than the
transformation and modernization
of the Back Mountain Memorial
Library. Attention has been riveted
on the opening, early in 1985, of the
library’s new facility in Dallas. This
move actually accomplished two
major goals. First, it enabled the
library to be housed in a single
building with sufficient space for
substantial expansion and the
opportunity to establish, within the
structure, a community room, thus
focusing in one facility, the ability
to carry out a number of commu-
nity-type activities.
Second, it enabled an abandoned
school building to be transformed
into a productive and useful facility
as a major contributor to the
improvement of the Back Moun-
tain’s quality of life.
The library not only serves as a
foundation for learning through
reading, but it also acts as a
resource and research center help-
ing students and, thus, school dis-
tricts in the Back Mountain to carry
out their activities in the fields of
research, paper preparation, and
other purposes more effectively.
The library literally serves as an
extension of the school systems in
the Back Mountain as well as an
excellent community resource
DAVID F. CONNER
General Manager
DOTTY MARTIN
Executive Editor
which needs the support of all
public and private sectors and indi-
viduals in its service area.
While much of the basic work has
been accomplished with respect to
the library being able to open and
carry out its community service
activities, additional work is
planned including the preparation of
the community room. To accom-
plish the goal of establishing a new
library facility, community leaders
gathered together to plan and
implement a major capital cam-
paign to raise over $450,000. This
capital campaign was initiated in
late 1984 and continues today in
order to reach the goal of carrying
out the design plans for the facility.
Thus far, $360,000 have been raised
or pledged against this goal, and the
campaign steering committee, as
well as the Back Mountain Memo-
rial Library Board continues to seek
funding support from the local com-
munity.
Some of the key factors involved
in the new library include the fol-
lowing:
— It is large enough on one floor
to allow barrier-free access.
— It contains one big room for the
main collection and several smaller
spaces for Reference and Children’s
Library rooms and offices.
— It has large, level, adjacent
parking areas even large enough for
the annual auction parking
demands.
— There are rooms upstairs
adapted for public meetings and
other community uses.
— Basement rooms, spacious.
enough to store the coming year’s
auction goods, are available.
— It is a public building centrally
located near the old library.
This is only the beginning of a
library renaissance in Northeastern
Pennsylvania.
There are 10 libraries in the
Luzerne County system alone. To
support this growing library
system, community-wide financial
support is required as well as the
possible option of a special tax
applied at the municipal level to
meet library needs. This is permit-
ted under Pennsylvania law.
Over the course of time, libraries
have an impact on almost every
citizens within a library’s service
area. The library is an important
link between families and school
districts, as well as those individu-
als who utilize libraries for personal
enrichment through reading,
research, and other purposes. For
example, libraries ‘have become
places where records, films, and
other forms of communication
processes can be loaned. Libraries
extend themselves beyond their
service area through the inter-
library loan program whereby one
library not having a requested
resource can borrow that resource
from another library or district
library center.
Libraries are important to eco-
nomic development. As a quality of
life factor, evidence that libraries
are supported by local communities
is an added reason for an industry
to consider a particular location for
a new plant. It demonstrates the
support that community gives to
improving the quality of life and its
respect for a comprehensive
approach to community values.
The Back Mountain Library rep-
resents a cornerstone for commu-
nity growth. The capital campaign
as a community project is one of the
first of its kind in this section of
Northeastern Pennsylvania. Both
donated materials and financial
support are equally needed. Its suc-
cess will demonstrate once ay
the volunteer spirit which pervades
much of Northeastern Pennsyl-
vania.
(Howard J. Grossman is the exec-
utive director of the Economic
Development Council of Northeast-
ern Pennsylvania.)
LIBRARY NEWS
By NANCY KOZEMCHAK
Library Correspondent
The Back Mountain Memorial
Library would like to congratulate
Dr. Charlotte Casterline of Old Well
Lane in Dallas on the recent publi-
cation of her book, “My Friend Has
Asthma” and thank her for her
donation of the book to the library.
Dr. Casterline and her two chil-
dren, Corine, age 11, and Pete, five,
have borrowed books from the chil-
dren’s department of the library for
many years. She is one of the few
borrowers of the library who uses a
rubber stamp to sign the book"
cards, and we can say, in all
honesty, she borrows books by the
bushelful.
Our copy of the book has been
autographed by the author and will
be available in the children’s
department of the library. The illus-
trations are absolutely precious and
the entire book is very well done.
We are grateful to Dr. Casterline
for her donation and are thrilled to
have this copy of the first edition in
our library.
The library staff is most grateful
for the donation of a periodical
displayer from Mrs. Edward J.
Schellenberg, Amy Schellenberg
MacNulty and E. John Schellenberg
III in memory of Edward J. Schel-
lenberg. This displayer has been
installed in the reference room at
the library and will display 64 mag-
azines. This contribution is a much-
appreciated organizer for the peri-
odical collection in our reference
room. Thank you, Schellenbergs.
Mrs. Crump stopped in the other
day and asked me what coriander
was, and, unfortunately, I was not
able to tell her off the tip of my
tongue. The dictionary offered little
help except that is a a plant whose
aromatic, seedlike fruits are used in
cooking and in medicine. The World
Book encyclopedia gave us what we
wanted to know: The seeds are used
in curries, sauces and liqueurs,
mostin in Europe; and 500 pounds of
seeds yield 5 pounds of oil. Corian-
der belongs to the parsley family.
Just in case you wanted to know.
Another educational spot: Stu-
dents have been doing papers on
funeral things, such as embalming,
cremation, etc. and one girl wanted
to do something on the process of
freezing a person for a length of
time and returning it with no aging
process and. no ill effects and we
could not find the proper spelling of
the word and, therefore, could not
find any information. We found out
later what the word is, thanks to
some reference searching. The word
is. cryonics. One of the greatest
rewards in reference work is finally
finding the answer.
The library has available, for the
public, Federal Income Tax Forms
of most of the commonly used
forms, on a table in the corridor of
tion desk has other forms which
may be photo-copied. Ask for the
forms you need but can’t find.
STATE CAPITOL
ROUNDUP
Here is a summary of important
events that occurred on Capitol Hill
last week from: Rep. Frank Coslett,
120th Legislative District.
HOUSE MEMBERS voted unani-
mously to change a House rule
which closed some expense account
records to the public. Under the new
policy, the public will have access
to all expense account documenta-
tion in the House. Previously, the
public and media were permitted to
review only reimbursement docu-
ments. Detailed expense records
were not open for examination. Rep.
James C. Greenwood (R-Bucks)
announced recently that he planned
to introduce a resolution to open the
expense records. The House voted
this week to change the rule before
the resolution was introduced.
PROFESSIONAL AND non-pro-
fessional employees in Pennsyl-
vania schools would have to
undergo background checks under
legislation approved by the House
Education Committee. Sponsored by
Rep. Edward Burns (R-Bucks), the
bill would require that all employ-
ees working for school districts,
vocational-technical schools, inter-
mediate units and private contrac-
tors furnish school districts with
background checks. Current law
requires only professional employ-
ees to sign a statement indicating
whether they have been convicted of
certain crimes.
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RECENT COURT action by the
Pennsylvania Conference of Trial
Judges could create a financial
crisis within the State Employee’s
Retirement System, according to
Rep. John Kennedy (R-Cumber-
land). At a press conference, Ken-
nedy announced that he will attempt
to introduce a resolution calling for
the creation of a special committee
to investigate the fiscal stability of
the retirement system. Pennsyl-
vania’s trial judges recently filed
suit against the Commonwealth in
the State Supreme Court, seeking to
have the current judicial pension
system declared unconstitutional.
The judges want all members of the
bench granted the same pension
benefits now awarded only to those
judges elected before 1974.
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