OUR READERS haven’t been
very successful in finding rear
window signs in cars for us,
however, bumper stickers run
amuck in the Back Mountain.
One of my biggest suppliers of
such sticker sayings is our own
Back Mountain every Wednesday
and claims to do an awful lot of
cruising the rest of the week.
Anyway, here
are some of the
bumper sticker
sayings that have
surfaced
throughout our
area in the past
few week:
. “A woman’s
place is in the
mall.”
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spending our DOTTY
children’s MARTIN
“I love my short-haired pointer.”
‘Happiness is a cold wet nose.”
‘I pause - for paws.”
“Let’s go fishing - you and me.”
“Insanity is heredity - you can’t
get it from your kids.”
“The King is coming.”
“Recycling pays.”
“Spoiled rotten.”
“I ‘brake’ for Nittany Lions and
‘back over’ Pitt Panthers.”
“The only bear you’ll ever pinch -
Kodiak.”
“I owe, I owe - so off to work I
go.”
In light of the fact that all these
sayings were neatly written on a
piece of paper, I'm afraid Howard
is going to have to share the credit
with his lovely wife, Laura, because
I have a feeling she’s the only who
wrote them up for me.
Thanks, Laura - and I’m so glad
you’re feeling better these days. It’s
nice to have you up and around
again.
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MRS. MARGUERITE BOGART
had a few real surprises after
having her picture in The Dallas
Post on June 25.
Mrs. Bogart, who resides on 42nd
Street in Dallas, celebrated her 89th
birthday on June 23 and was
Shortly after The Post came out
on Wednesday, June 25, Mrs. Bogart
received two phone calls from
friends of old whom she hadn’t seen
nor heard from in years.
One call came from a lady friend
of Mrs. Bogart’s who had seen the
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wish the Dallas resident a happy
birthday.
The second phone call came from
a gentleman who wanted to visit
Mrs. Bogart at her home. When told
he was welcome at Mrs. Bogart’s
house, he jumped at the chance to
visit her - a woman, he claims, he
always had a crush on when he was
a little boy.
The gentleman informed his
always wanted to kiss her and
asked if he couldn’t do so on the
special occasion of her 89th
birthday. When granted permission
from Mrs. Bogart, the gentleman
did just that - gave her a big kiss
for her birthday.
However, the story ends there.
The gentleman made the trip to
wife of many years and was simply
carrying out a childhood wish.
But, it is kind of nice to know that
we brought these people together
again after so many years of not
seeing each other.
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SINCERE SYMPATHY is
extended to the Arnold Garinger
family of Harveys Lake upon the
recent death of Arnie’s mother,
Mrs. Mildred Garinger.
‘Onawandah in Keelersburg - a fun
‘place to visit and fun people to visit
with.
My condolences to all of you in
your recent loss.
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THE 40TH ANNUAL Back
Mountain Memorial Library auction
begins tonight and continues
through until Sunday evening.
This year’s auction, featuring a
brand new auction block, promises
to be filled with fun things to do and
neat things to purchase. And, rumor
has it, members of this year’s
committee are expecting this to be
the most successful library auction
yet.
The library auction is always a
good time and, with five days of
Mountain Library provides so many
of us with so many services, it’s
hard to imagine any Back Mountain
residents who can’t find time in a
five-day period to visit the auction.
Make it a point to get there. It’s a
fun time - and it certainly benefits a
good cause.
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THE DALLAS POST is certainly
its fund-raising effort.
We will have a booth set up at the
auction and will donate $5.00 to the
library for every one-year
subscription purchased during the
five days of the auction.
Be sure to stop in at our booth,
say hello, subscribe to The Post for
a year full of complete Back
Mountain news and help the
library’s fund-raising drive - all at
the same time.
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THE ASSOCIATION OF
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS OF
AMERICA recently conducted a
conference in San Francisco,
California for weekly newspaper
people. The Dallas Post was among
those newspaper being critiqued by
weekly newspaper editors across
the country and members of our
editorial staff found some of their
comments rather interesting.
One of the comments that kept
most of us in the office laughing
almost an entire afternoon was a
comment another editor had jotted
our editions. The story the headline
referred to was about a two-car
crash that had occured in Dallas
and, although the crash was rather
brutal, the people involved were not
hurt. Thus, the headline read -
“Dallas man uninjured.”
The editor’s comment - ‘And so
are 1,000s of others’’ — which
makes all the sense in the world.
I’m sure, without a doubt, there are
thousands of uninjured people in
Dallas every week.
However, just to be sure, we are
going to conduct a very scientific
survey. What I'd like you to dois
call us if you live in Dallas and if
you manage to stay uninjured for a
one-week period. Then, we will run
a special feature every week that
will start out something tlike this:
“The following list names all those
Dallas residents who have managed
to remain uninjured during the past
week.”
It’s funny, how you write things
such as headlines and don’t realize
how silly they sound until someone
else reads them in a different
context than you did when you
wrote them.
I remember one time writing a
professor who was going to give a
lecture at one of the local colleges.
The headline I wrote read, ‘Dr.
Jones to speak.’”’ And, when the
editor of another newspaper read it,
he asked me what was so significant
about Dr. Jones speaking. He read
the headline to mean that Dr. Jones
had never before spoken a word in
his life and was, for the first time,
preparing to utter a word.
Amazing - how two different
people can read the same thing and
come away with two completely
different meanings. -
(Dotty Martin is the Executive
Editor of Pennaprint Inc.,
publishers of The Dallas Post. Her
column appears weekly in The
Dallas Post.)
50 YEARS AGO - JULY 10, 1936
A blazing sun in a cloudless sky sent the mercury to
an all-time high in Dallas when the summer’s most
intense heat wave passed the dangerously high mark
of 102 established in 1908. The thermometer registered
prostration were reported.
Five primary teachers were named to Dallas
Borough School District for the coming school year.
R.H. Rood, Helen Anderson, Louise Colwell, Charlotte
Mack and Dorothy Gardner were accepted as elemen-
tary teachers.
Engaged - Amy Huston Barber and Philip Worden
Straw.
Married - Bessie Metzger and Jack Senchak; Marie
Eyet and Vane Race.
Deaths - Mrs. William B. Beigh, Broadway.
You could get - Standing rib roast 23c lb.; sliced
boiled ham 29¢ % 1b.; watermelons 49c ea.; onions 3
1b. 10c; cantaloupes 2-25¢; plums 3 lb. 25c; grape juice
19c qgt.; Ivory soap 5c cake; Sparkle gelatine dessert 6
pkgs. 25¢.
40 YEARS AGO - JULY 12, 1946
Operation at the Hay’s Corners plant of the Housing
Foundation of America were at a standstill. Work was
suspended for an indefinite period due to a shortage of
steel and steel cable.
Fighting mad after losing its last three games to
Wyoming Valley teams by one point an alert Jackson
club prepared to meet Wanamie on its home diamond
on the Huntsville-Ceasetown Road.
Engaged - Bette Jones to Kenneth Gross; Dolores
Updyke to George W. Hackling; Bina Clare Garrity
and John H. Stenger III; Edna Drabick and Lynn
Johnson.
Married - Mary E. Snyder and George E. Shaver,
Jr.
Deaths - Mrs. Alice Roote, Lehman; Miss Mary
McCollum, Dallas; Mary B. Polacky, Dallas.
cantaloupes 10c 1b.; onions 4 1b. 19¢; cod fillets 35c¢ 1b. ;
mixed nuts 41» oz. jar 34c; Hi-Ho crackers lb. pkg.
21c; Nabisco Graham Crackers 1 1b. pkg. 19c;
spaghetti and meat sauce 10c bot.; wheat germ 29c
pkg. ;
30 YEARS AGO - JULY 13, 1946 -
Joseph Lavelle, substitute mail carrier at Dallas
Post Office, was awarded a Certificate of Merit Award
from the United States Post Office Department.
Lavelle saved a two month old child trapped in a
burning car. The child ws well on his way to recovery.
Despite rain, spirits were not dampened at the 10th
Annual Library Auction held at Risley’s barn. Harry
Ohlman was serving as auction chairman for the
eighth consecutive year.
A softball game for children ages 8 to 13 was
featured in opening day ceremonies at Idetown Center
playground, located near Oak Hill.
Engaged - Marcella Kocher and Albert Crispell; Lila
Sue Tyson and George Kintz; Shirley Ferry and
Thomas Sayre; Grace Martin and Earl W. Beahm,
Jr.; Edna Gosart and George Van Campen.
Married - Dolores Motto and John F. Vavrek; Joan
Croman and P.F.C. David Moore; Diane Grace
Colsten and Lawrence Ashton. Menefee, Jr.; Jane
Elizabeth Owens and Edward Stair.
Deaths - William Lance, Chase; Ralph Austin Davis,
Harveys Lake; May Bronson, Lake Silkworth; Dora
Major, Lehman; Robert Loomis, formerly of Alderson.
You could get - Boneless round roast 59c 1b.; ground
beef 3 1b. $1; legs of lamb 59c¢ 1b.; watermelons $1.19
ea.; bananas 2 lb. 25¢; mayonnaise 55c jar; tuna fish 4
cans $1; rye bread 2 loaves 29c; lemonade, frozen, 7
cans $1; 12 oz. jar wheat germ 33c.
. 20 YEARS AGO - JULY 14, 1966
Two new directors were elected by the Dallas School
Board at its reorganization meeting as directed under
Act 299. Elected to new positions were Milton Evans,
Kingston Township and Fred Dymond, Jr., Franklin
Township.
Five more black bears were sighed throughout the
Back Mountain area. Mrs. Joseph Zercoe, Marcytown
reported seeing one in her back yard; Mrs. Lewis
Crisman, Loyalville saw one coming down hergarden
path while the Marvin Hoppes family saw a mother
bear and two cubs, also in the Loyalville area.
Engaged - Carol Sweitzer and Willard Bullock, Jr.
Married - Nancy Marie Valentine and Patrick
Stanley Byrne.
Anniversaries - Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Templin, 20
years; Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Archavage, 40 years; Mr.
and Mrs. Calvin Strohl, Noxen, 13 years; Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Quick, 24 years.
Deaths - Robert Allen, Noxen; John Bennett, Har-
veys Lake.
You can get - Chicken 29¢ lb.; franks 57¢ lb.; beef
liver 39c 1b.; potatoes 10 lb. bag 45c; blueberries 39c
pt.; peaches 4 lb. 49c; Campbell’s soup 6 cans $1;
Wish-Bone dressing 8 oz. bottle 39c; peanut butter 2 1b.
8 oz. jar 95¢; Bumble Bee tuna 2 cans 79c.
10 YEARS AGO - JULY 15, 1976
An all-time grand total of $30,000 was rasied during
the three days of the Annual Back Mountain Auction.
Howard Strom was auction chairman.
A full day of games, contests and recreational
activities was planned for Noxen’s Bicentennial Day.
David Harris was general chairman. Dr. F. Budd
Schooley spoke on the history of Noxen.
Engaged - Donna Perry and Brent Long; Martina
Waldron and Phillip J. Denmon.
Married - Megan Moore and Gary Ide. :
Anniversaries - Mr. and Mrs. William Motyka, 30
years.
Deaths - Myron Jurysta, Dallas; Mrs. Miriam
Freeman, Dallas; Walter Sayre, Shavertown; John
Ide, formerly of Dallas; Howard Engleman, Noxen.
You could get - Boneless round roast $1.39 1b.; rump
rost $1.49 1b.; beef liver 59c¢ lb.; Bumble Bee tuna 2-
$1.09; kidney beans 4-$1; Charmin toilet tissue, 4 roll
pkg. 69c; tomatoes 49c lb.; cucumbers 2-25c¢.
At 16, Jim B. had dreams of
becoming a banker. He was one of
In April, Jim was in an automobile
into the windshield. If Jim ever
comes out of a coma, he will live
the rest of his life with significant
disabilities. He wasn’t wearing a
safety belt.
first job as a journalist. She, too,
was in an accident and went
through her car’s windshield. Now,
intellectually and physically handi-
capped, Debbie will never be a
journalist. She wasn’t wearing a
safety belt.
They were some of Pennsyl-
vania’s best and brightest. They
aren’t any more.
A bill that would require Pennsyl-
vania citizens to war a safety belt
as a driver or front-seat passenger
of an automobile, truck or motor
home has been pending before the
State House Consumer Affairs Com-
mittee since November 1985. Sen-
Library news
By NANCY KOZEMCHAK
Library Correspondent
ALA NYC ’86! That’s what it says
on my new T-shirt and that’s
exactly where I was last Saturday.
The American Library
Association annual conference was
held at the new Jacob Javits
Convention Center in New York City
from June 28 through July 3. The
entire conference was coinciding
with the Statue of Liberty
centennial.
The Convention Center covers
four blocks in New York and is the
largest I have ever been in. There
were 1700 exhibitors in the center
including publishers, library supply
houses, and many, many computer
displays. I had collected a shopping
bag full of catalogs, brochures,
posters, buttons, pens, bookmarks
and pamphlets; so many, in fact,
that I had difficulty carrying it
around New York.
Many of the authors were there to
autograph their books and one
special one in my life, Norman
Bridwell, was there with his new
book, ‘Clifford and the Grouchy
Neighbors.”’ I have purchased every
Clifford book through the years for
my son, Cliff, ever since he was a
small boy. I purchased the new
book, Mr. Bridwell autographed the
book, ‘Best wishes to Cliff’ and
wanted especially to meet someone
who has a son named Clifford.
Then, surprise, Clifford, the big red
dog, who is the main character in
these books was there standing on
two feet and I got my picture taken
with him. I will present this book to
my son when I see him next time.
A very exciting finish to this day
was a gala champagne reception,
‘A Birthday Party for Ms. Liberty”
which was held from 7-9 p.m. at the
New York Public Library at 5th
Ave. and 42nd Street. Three floors
of the library were used with tables
set up on each floor, red cloths,
served by waiters and waitresses in
black and white outfits; champagne
served in plastic glasses and large
glass bowls of beautiful
strawberries.
The temperature in New York
was 92 degrees and at least 100 at
the library. I have never seen so
many people in one area in my life,
it was really jammed. There was
air conditioning in two of the rooms,
them and a beautiful Cosmopolitan
Brass Quintet was playing there.
There were bands and orchestras in
many of the rooms including Herald
trumpets in the second floor
corridor. My favorite town to visit,
my favorite subject, libraries. An
exciting day!
My right hand at the library,
Melanie, one of our library pages,
and I painted for five hours in the
new antiques room in preparation
for the auction, which begins July 9
at 6 p.m. The room looks lovely,
painted yellow and the 550 antiques
which will be auctioned off have
filled the room.
Support your library! Attend the
auction!
(Nancy Kozemchak is the
assistant librarian at the Back
Mountain Memorial Library. Her
column appears weekly in The
Dallas Post.)
State Capitol
roundup
By REP. FRANK COSLETT
Special to The Dallas Post
Here is a summary of important
events that occurred on Capitol Hill
last week from Rep. Frank Coslett,
120th Legislative District.
STATE BUDGET - Tax cuts,
more aid to education, increased
funds for economic development
and more help for Pennsylvania’s
poor highlighted the 1986-87 state
budget signed by Gov. Dick
Thornburgh Tuesday. The $9.71
billion spending plan was approved
by the Legislature less than 24
hours after the budget deadline
expired. The fiscal blueprint
includes reductions in the rate of
personal income tax from 2.2 to 2.1
percent, effective Jan. 1. In all,
state taxes will be reduced by $165
million. Local school districts will
receive a total of $2.2 billion in aid,
including some $40 million in one-
time assistance. The budget
includes a new $25 million tax credit
job creation program and increased
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DAVID F. CONNER
General Manager
' DOTTY MARTIN
{ Executive Editor
tate Bill 483 was passed by the State
Senate in October 1985. Now SB 483
needs the full vote of the State
House of Representatives before
becoming a state law. Pennsylvania
can’t afford to wait any longer for
the passing of a safety belt law.
Pennsylvania needs a safety belt
law now.
There are 50,000 Pennsylvanians
currently suffering from physical,
intellectual, and behaioral impair-
ments due to head injuries, with
2,500 more people likely to be added
to that list every year. Of these
people, 26,000 (50 percent) suffered
head trauma as a result of automo-
bile accidents.
As President of the Pennsylvania
Association of the National Head
Injury Foundation, I strongly urge
immediate passage of Senate Bill
483. A recent survey by the Key-
stone Safety Belt Network found 73
percent of Pennsylvanians inter-
viewed are in favor of a safety belt
law. Pennsylvania must join the 25
states and the District of Columbia
that already have passed safety belt
laws.
Pennsylvania can’t afford to lose
the best and brightest, especially
when that loss can be so simply
avoided.
According to the Pennsylvania
Department of Transportation
Center for Highway Safety, in 1985,
1,809 Pennsylvanians were Killed in
accidents involving cars, trucks and
motorcycles - 57 more than 1984. In
the first three months of this year,
363 Pennsylvanians died on our
roads - 80 more than during the
same period in 1985. ’
In 1985, 920 Pennsylvanians were
killed in automobile accidents.
Nearly 92 percent (847) were not
wearing safety belts. Since safety
belts were first installed in passen-
ger cars in the mid-60’s, we’ve seen
a 40 percent nationwide drop in
traffic deaths. Imagine how many
morelives could have been saved if
people had only buckled up!
PennDOT’s Center for Highway
Safety has determined that if every-
one in Pennsylvania used a safety
belt right now, there would be 552
fewer deaths from automobile acci-
dents, 1,486 fewer major injuries
and 7,062 fewer moderate injuries a
year. Also, if a safety belt were
worn, there would be 12,581 more
instances in which no injury would
occur at all.
Motor vehicle accidents are the
number one cause of on-the-job
fatalities and lost work time due to
injuries. According to the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administra-
tion, the cost to an employer for
each employee fatality is about
$120,000. To offset this loss, a com-
pany would have to make an esti-
mated $2,400,000 in sales. Using the
same study we can estimate that
the overall economic cost to Penn-
sylvania of the 920 traffic fatalities
in 1985 was more than $368 million.
(The above commentary was pro-
Network. Anyone desiring further
inforamtion about the Safety Belt
Law should contact Julie McGreevy
at 717-763-7159.)
funds for social services. Gov.
Thornburgh termed the plan ‘the
best Pennsylvania budget ever.”
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HEALTH CARE COSTS -
Legislation which would form a
panel to investigate the cost of
health care for Pennsylvania’s
needy population was passed by the
House and Senate this week and
sent to the governor. The measure
which finally passed the General
Assembly after numerous /
amendments, contains many of the
suggestions offered by Rep. Carmel
Sirianni (R-Susquehanna). The bill,
if signed by the governor, will |
establish an independent council
responsible for collecting and
publishing data on the cost and
quality of health care services.
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(Rep. Frank Coslett serves the
120th Legislative District which
encompasses parts of the Back
Mountain. His column appears
weekly in The Dallas Post.) ;