OOPS, I GOOFED!
While relating the wonderful story
of the missing golf shoes being
returned to their rightful owner last
week, I mixed up some of the people
I wrote about.
The truth of the matter is that
Ann and John Walsh are the sister
and brother-in-law of the woman
who claimed the shoes while Lana
and Jack Burnstock are friends.
Helen Thomas,
the owner of the
golf shoes, and
her husband,
Harold, are avid
golfers and are
members of the
Lehman Golf
Club. While
visiting Ann and
John Walsh in ly
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Florida, they ran
into Lana and
Jack Burnstock on a golf course
there.
I made the mistake of mis-
identifying all the people from
Florida in last week’s column and
promised Mrs. Thomas I would
make good this week. Now - she’ll
have to send two copies of our paper
to The Walshes and to the
Burnstocks.
Sorry about that errror!
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I HAD THE MISFORTUNE of
being in the middle of a ride around
Harveys Lake one day last week as
a thunderstorm approached the
area.
I never realized how dreary the
lake area is during a storm, but I
sure found out then. Boy, for as
pretty as the lake is on a nice
sunny, summer day, it’s just as ugly
on a day of stormy weather.
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SPEAKING OF RAIN, our own
Charlot Denmon got drenched while
attempting to do her job last week.
When we got wind of the Vision
Quest wagon trains making their
way up the Dallas Highway, Charlot
armed herself with her camera and
a notebook and pencil to chase down
the horses and buggies for a story
and some pictures.
Well, just before she got to the
caravan, a torrential downpour
made its way into our area and
drenched not only the horses and
buggies, but Charlot as well. Being
the trooper she is, though, she still
managed to get some photos of the
whole thing.
Later that same day, while the
sun was shining, we were informed
that the people involved with Vision
Quest were setting up tents for the
night at the Dallas Intermediate
School.
So, Charlot decided to try again -
this time in an attempt to talk to
some of the individuals to get more
of a story than she had gotten
during the first downpour.
And - off she goes - with camera
and notebook and pencil in hand.
But, guess what! The rain started
again, but this time it waited until
she was in the middle of the field,
trying to make her way through the
mud in a dress and high heels.
Managing to make her way back
to her car before being completely
drowned, Charlot went home, dried
off, changed her clothes and, when
the sun came out again, went to the
intermediate school once again -
this time without getting soaked!
Getting a story is not always this
difficult for a reporter, but I sure
hope those of you who take the time
to read her story on the Vision
Quest caravan will appreciate all
she went through to get it.
Something tells me The Dallas
Post is going to be paying for her
beauty shop appointment this week.
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CHEERS TO Michael Daley of
Dallas, who was featured in a story
in the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader
this week.
Daley, a student at College
Misericordia, has fought his way
back from a very serious
automobile accident in 1980 that left
him minus two hands, a foot and
full of facial scars.
After. more than 60 operations,
Michael is still plugging away and
accomplishing more than some
people without any physical
impairments ever do.
You're a credit not only to the
Back Mountain, Michael, but to the
human race as well.
Congratulations on all you’ve done
so far and the best of luck to you in
everything you attempt from here
on in.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISHES to
Dena Miles, of North Lehigh Street,
Shavertown, who will celebrate her
17th birthday on Saturday, August
16.
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GET WELL WISHES to Sheila
Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
George Brutko of Dallas.
Sheila suffered a nasty fall from
her bicycle last Thursday afternoon
and is currently in the middle of a
long recuperation period.
Keep your chin up, Sheila - better
days are ahead.
I HAD AN INTERESTING
PHONE CALL from a woman by
the name of Jennie Dugan.
the Back Mountain all her life, is
seeking a photo of the Goss School.
The school, she tells me, was
located in what is now New Goss
Manor in Dallas.
Jennie was a student at the Goss
School during 1928 and 1929 and
photograph of that school. If anyone
has a photograph of that school,
Jennie would love to talk to you
about purchasing-it or having a
copy made of it as she would like to
have one to hang in her livingroom.
Anyone with such a photograph is
asked to call Jennie Dugan at 696-
2506.
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CONGRATULATIONS to the
Spaces - and to the Smiths.
A baby boy, Matthew, was born to
Mark and Jill Space of Forty Fort
on Thursday, August 7, at Nesbitt
Memorial Hospital.
Mrs. Space is the former Jill
Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Smith of West Pittston. Jack is
the proprietor of Elston and Gould
Automobile Service in Dallas.
Mr. Space is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Space of Forty Fort.
Matthew is the first grandchild
for the Spaces and, although the
Smiths are not new to the business
of being grandparents, they’re just
as proud can be.
Congratulations to all of you. And,
I must add, a special
congratulations to Jill since she and
I graduated from high school
together and it sure is nice to write
about good things happening to your
former classmates.
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SINCERE SYMPATHY is
extended to Wendy Martin of
Dallas, an employee of The Dallas
Post, on the death of her horse,
“Goldie.”
Goldie, who had been with Wendy
for 18 years, died this past week. As
a lover of animals, I can appreciate
the grief Wendy and her family are
feeling over this loss.
Wendy, as a tribute of her love for
Goldie, offers the following prayer
for other animal lovers:
“To thee, my master, I offer my
prayer. Feed me, water and care
for me, and when the day’s wok is
done, provide me with sheter, a
clean dry bed and a stall wide
enough for me to lie down in
comfort. Always be kind to me.
Talk to me. Your voice often means
as much to me as the reins. Pet me
sometimes, that I may serve you
the more gladly and learn to love
you. Do not jerk the reins, and do
not whip me when going up hill.
Never strike, beat or kick me when
I do not understand what you want,
but give me a chance to understand
you. Watch me, and if I fail to do
your bidding, see if something is not
wrong with my harness or feet.
Do not check me so that I cannot
have the free use of my head. If you
insist that I wear blinders, so that I
cannot see beind me as it ws
intended I should, I pray you be
careful that the blinders stand well
out from my eyes.
Do not overload me, or hitch me
where water will drip on me. Keep
me well shod. Examine my teen
when I do not eat, I may have an
ulcerated tooth, and that, you know,
is very painful. Do not tie my head
in an un-natural position, or take
away my best defense against flies
and mosquitoes by cutting off my
tail.
I cannot tell you when I am
thirsty, so give me clean cool water
often. Save me, by all means in
your power, from that fatal disease
- the glanders. I cannot tell you in
words when I am sick, so watch me,
that by signs you may know my
condition. Gie me all possible
shelter from the hot sun, and the
cold. Never put a frosty bit in my
mouth; first warm it by holding it a
moment in your hands.
I try to carry you and your
burdens without a murmur, and
wait patiently for you long hours of
the day or night. Without the power
to choose my shoes or path, I
sometimes fall on the hard
pavements which I have often
prayed might not be of wood but of
such a nature as to give me a safe
and sure footing. Remember that I
must be ready at any moment to
lose my life in your service.
And finally, O my master, when
my useful strength is gone, do not
turn me out to starve or freeze, or
sell me to some cruel owner, to be
slowly torturef and starved to
death; but do thou, My Master, take
my life in the kindest way, and your
God will reward you here and
hereafter.
Amen.
(Dotty Martin is the Executive
Editor of Pennaprint Inc.,
publishers of The Dallas Post. Her
column appears weekly.)
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50 YEARS AGO - AUG. 14, 1936
Howard Hallock of Shavertown was named part-
time teacher and supervisor of music at Dallas
Borough School.
Among the record-breaking crowds attending daily
services at the 26th Annual Camp Meeting being held
at B.T. Roberts Memorial Grove in East Dallas were
two women who had served as African missionaries.
Grace and Mary Hitchcock had served 30 years at a
missionary home in Durban, South Africa.
Married - Betty J. Laycock and William Thomas;
Edna Cease and Ted Cerwanka.
Engaged - Ruth Arlene Patton and Virgil E. Wright.
You could get - Legs of lamb 29c 1b.; chuck roast 20c
Ib.; ground beef 2 1b. 33c; sweet potatoes 4 1b. 25¢; tub
butter 2 lb. 79¢; vinegar 19c gal.; cocoa 2 lb. 15¢; 2
bunches celery 15c; sugar 10 lb. 49c; Certo, 2 bottles
45¢; pt. size mason jars 49c doz.; V4 lb. tea 15c.
40 YEARS AGO - AUG. 16, 1946
Natona Mills, a division of Native Lace Works Inc.,
Hightstown, N.J. was well under construction, the
plant would employe 350 people.
Alderson Methodist Church presented its Sixth
Annual Flower Show sponsored by the Women’s
Christian Society of Christian Service. The show was
held at Laketon High School. Committee members
included Mrs. Raymond Garinger, Mrs. Gilbert Car-
penter, Mrs. Hobert Ferrey, Miss Margaret Davis and
Mrs. David Morgan.
Engaged - Bette Jones to Kenneth L. Grose; Laura
Grace Keiper and Leland Case.
Married - Loretta Hilbert and PFC. R.S. Fitzgerald.
Anniversaries - Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ruggles,
Meeker, 53 years.
Deaths - James Youells, Luzerne.
You could get - Cucumbers 5c ea.; apples 4 lb. 25¢;
California Red Grapes 29¢ 1lb.; cabbage 3c Ib.;
Palmolive soap 3 reg. bars 20c; bread, lg. loaf 10c;
honeydew melons 10¢ 1b.; eggs 59c¢ doz.; butter 75¢ 1b. ;
prunes lb. 16¢.
30 YEARS AGO - AUG. 17, 1956
Lehman-Jackson-Ross board of education voted in
favor of a further jointure with Lake-Noxen Schools.
Edgar Lashford was president of Lehman-Jackson-
Ross Board of Education. Lester B. Squier was
supervising principal.
The final barn clearance session of the 10th annual
Back Mountain Memorial Library closed with receipts
of $616.03 for the day. A small crowd of about 300
people attended this finale to the annual auction.
Engaged - Diane Clara Bystrak and Carl Otto
Metzger.
Married - Judge Benjamin R. Jones and Jane R.
Griffith; Ethel Margaret Merchant and Arthur Leon-
ard Nuss.
Anniversaries - Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ruggles, 63
years; Dr. and Mrs. Otis Allen, 45 years.
Deaths - Emma Gallup, Pikes Creek; Bessie Cook,
Evans Fallas; Mary Alice Kemmerer, Lehman; Annie
Brown, Centermoreland.
You could get - Smoked hams 59c¢ 1b.; smoked bacon
29c Ib.; sharp cheese 59c lb.; 2 lvs. rye bread 29c;
sweet corn 39c doz.; honeydew melons 49c ea.:
watermelons 89c ea.; green beans 2 lb. 19c; 18 oz.
glass Peter Pan Peanut Butter 59c.
20 YEARS AGO - AUG. 18, 1966
According to Library Auction chairman Jerry Gard-
ner, the annual event grossed $19,763. In other Library
news, Mrs. Richard Dale, resigned her position as
librarian to accept the position of reference librarian
at Hoyt Library.
Sixty five families in the immediate area met to
discuss the organization of an Orthodox Church in the
Back Mountain. Meetings of organization were held at
Trinity Presbyterian Church.
Engaged - Sandra Faye Hoover and Gary Howard
Whitesell; Eileen M. Crispell and Elvin Bean; Patricia
Zawoiski and James Kozemchak, Jr.
Married - Lois Ann Ryman to Joseph F. Hardisky;
Amy Louise Hetrick and Francis Stocker; Carol Lyons
and Burton Steltz.
Anniversaries’ - Mr. and Mrs. Russell Lewis, 43
years.
Deaths - John Belles, Reyburn; Lamon Harmen,
Hunlock Creek.
You could get - Boneless round roast 85c lb.; beef
49c 1b.; sea scallops 59c 1b.; Italian Prunes 2 lb. 39c:
seedless grapes 19c¢ 1b. ; cherries 45¢ 1b.; cream cheese
2 3-0z pkgs. 25¢.
10 YEARS AGO - AUG. 19, 1976
Dallas School Directors approved the sale of the
Shavertown Elementary School to William Powell of
Dallas. Cost of the school and property $102,000.
Dallas Area Municipal Authority engineer consultant
Henry Haley applied for the necessary funds from
Community Facilities State Grant to aid in supplying
Stonehedge with the much needed sewer system.
Kingston Township supervisors turned down the
request of the Rose Village developer to take over
three streets in the development. Water drainage
problems were cited.
Married - Margaret Jordan and R. Glenn Harvey;
Bonnie Gerrard and George Mahler; Sally Anne
Harter and Thomas John Graham; Marianne Domow-
itch and Leonard J. Reggie; Nikki Belasco and Robert
Astary.
Deaths - George Lamoreaux, Huntsville; Andrew
Stofko, Chase Road; Alva Holdredge, Trucksville.
You could get - Chickens, whole, 39c; chicken legs
69c Ib.; chopped ham $1.49 1b.; 48-0z. box Ivory Liquid
$1.49; Kraft’s grape jelly 8 oz. 59c; 24-0z. cans
Hawaiian Punch 99c¢; cabbage c Ib.; bananas 5 1b. $1;
green peppers 29¢ lb.
Opinion
Library news
DAVID F. CONNER
General Manager
DOTTY MARTIN
Executive Editor
By EDWIN FEULNER
Special to The Dallas Post
Drug abuse in the United States is
a bit like terrorism — every time
there is a highly publicized death,
as in the case of basketball player
Len Bias, people act with such
shock that you would think it had
never happened before. But the sad
fact is that people die every day
from drugs.
Len Bias died of a heart attack
allegedly caused by ‘‘free-basing”
cocaine. There is no such thing as
an overdose of this dangerous intox-
icant, doctors say, because the
same amount may give one person
a “high” and kill another. Cocaine
causes an interruption of the normal
electrical patterns in the brain that
send messages to the body. Simply
put, Len Bias’ brain told his heart to
stop beating.
Although cocaine, and an even
more dangerous derivative known
as ‘‘crack,” are the drugs in the
news lately, a wide range of other
substances are similarly polluting
the country. Drug usenin the work-
place has reached near-epidemic
proportions. That is not only poten-
tially dangerous to the users’ co-
workers and in some cases the
nearby community, it is costing
America uncounted billions of dol-
lars in lost productivity.
Drugs are primarily a youth prob-
lem; however. Ask most any college
campus, and even those wise
enought to stay away from them
can probably tell you.
In spite of the evident problem on
our campuses, all too often college
and university administrators say,
“It's the same everywhere,” and
abdicate their responsibility for
trying to eradicate drugs.
In a speech here recently, Secre-
tary of Education William Bennett
called these administrators down off
their high horses. “Our colleges and
universities ofen, and sometimes
quite properly, call to task the rest
of society for failing to live up to its
stated ideas,” he said. “They set
moral conscience.
“Surely when parents send their
children to college, they have the
right to expect the colleges to take
some measures to protect their sons
and daughters from drugs,” Bennett
added.
Bennett suggested after his
speech that he would favor congres-
sional action giving the secretary of
education the authority to withhold
federal aid to any college found not
to be making a good faith effort to
eradicate drugs.
Some kind of standards would
have to be established, of course. It
would be wrong to simply say a
school is ‘‘not doing enough”
because a drug problem has been
discovered. Secretary Bennett
surely does not have any rash policy
in mind, but he is absolutely right to
suggest that colleges and universi-
ties may have to be forced to crack
down on a problem many of them
would just as soon ignore.
At the University of Maryland
(where Len Bias played basketball),
for instance, students found in pos-
session of drugs can expect penal-
ties ranging from a reprimand to
expulsion. ‘Pushers’ are supposed
to be expelled.
Not to single out Maryland, but
that policy is far too lenient. Posses-
sion of drugs is a crime. Those
caught on campus with drugs should
be arrested by police, and if found
guilty, thrown in jail. Students
should be told, “If you ‘do drugs’ on
campus, your college career ends.
Period. No coming back to class-
ever.” Even the most thick-headed
freshman can understand such a
straightforward policy.
Those schools that wish to pursue
the sort of ‘“‘enlightened” drug poli-
cies that have made drug abuse a
national epidemic may do so with-
out the good grace of federal fund-
ing. ;
Of course, we should not simply
rely on the govenrment to solve the
drug problem. Parents, teachers,
professors, friends, anyone close to
young people need to educate them
about the dangers of drugs.
There is only one lesson about
drugs, really: drugs put the user on
“the fast track” — bound straight
for a graveyard. Len Bias is not the
first to die from cocaine, and he
won’t be the last. The best legacy he
could leave is to have shocked
people enough to make them go
beyond rhetoric in the war on drugs.
(Edwin Feulner is president of
The Heritage Foundation, a Wash-
ington-based public policy research
Institute. His editorials appear peri-
odically in The Dallas Post.)
By NANCY KOZEMCHAK
Library Correspondent
The library has received delivery
of four 36 x 72 library tables to be
used in the main reading room of
the library. These tables have a
practical construction top of durable
plastic laminate in a medium brown
oak wood grain finish. These tables
were ordered through the local sales
representative of Roberts & Meck,
Inc. of Harrisburg, and are Bravo
tables manufactured by Texwood
Furniture Corp. of Austin, Texas.
The addition of these tables
completes another segment of the
on-going renovation process at the
new library. The Dallas Area
Federated Woman’s Club donated
$500 specifically to be used for the
purchase of one table. The other
three tables have been purchased
with monies realized from the
major Capital Campaign conducted
by the library which is now into its
second year of a three year
campaign. Contributions are still
being accepted for the Capital
Campaign.
Some exciting news regarding our
circulation figures. In July of 1985,
our first year in the new building,
we set a monthly circulation record
of 10,049, which was the first time
we ever circulated more than 10,000
books in a month. Now, in July of
1986, we have set a new monthly
circulation figure. 10,758 books were
checked out of the library; 5,420
adult titles and 5,338 juvenile. This
shows a 709 increase over last July
and surprisingly, tae adult circ was
up 623 and juvenile up 86. The
juvenile circ set its new record
breaking the 1985 record of 5,252.
Needless to say, July was an ;
extremely busy and exciting time at
the library, along with the 40th
annual auction which proved to be
the best auction ever, running for
five days, raining for two, and still
coming out with the best financial
year, $71,000.00 gross which should
show a net profit for the library of
at least, $45,000; which is about one
third of the operating budget for
1986.
The current library book
collection inventory stands at 54,147
volumes, which means that almost
one fifth of the current library
collection was checked out during
the month. The summer reading
program and the story hours in the
children’s department have brought
many children into the library who
are checking out and returning
mountains of books. The second
summer semester of the preschool
story hour has started with a
completely new group of children in
order to give those children, who
have been on a waiting list, a
chance to participate in this
program. The Playschool Group and
the Playground children and Little
People classes have been visiting on
a regular basis. All things
considered, the library has been
busy and staff and volunteers are
struggling to keep ahead of the
slipping of the returned books and
getting them back on the shelves.
The Back Mountain Memorial
Library is, indeed, on the move!
(Nancy Kozemchak is the
assistant librarian of 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:
SOUTH AFRICAN REVIEW -
After a 16-day speaking tour of four
southern African countries, Gov.
Dick Thornburgh this week
announced that he is ordering a
study of Pennsylvania’s economic,
social and cultural ties to South
Africa. In making the
announcement, the governor said he
wants to discover .f any of the
state’s policies appear to condone
apartheid. : Se
HUMAN SERVICE FUNDING -
Gov. Thornburgh signed legislation
freeing some $28 million in funding
in funding for Pennsylvania’s
human service programs, after
blue-lining or removing $7 million in
additional spending tagged onto the
bill by House Democrats. The
money, included in the state’s 1986-
87 budget, will be used primarily for
county-level programs for the
mentally and physically disabled
and the needy. The legislation
moved to the governor’s desk after
a recent special session of the
General Assembly approved the
measure. The session was needed to
remove a provision in the budget
which prohibited distribution of the
money until December 1.
RABIES LEGISLATION - The
House Game and Fisheries
Committee met in Harrisburg but
failed to take action on a bill which
would require all dogs in the state
to be vaccainated against rabies.
During the first seven months of the
year, 330 cases of rabies have been
confirmed in Pennsylvania’s
wildlife. :
(Rep. Frank Coslett serves the
120th Legislative District, which
encompasses parts of the Back
Mountain area. His column appears
weekly in The Dallas Post.)
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