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ajor in Liberal Arts and Business.
He also plans to play football there.
Kelly Wandel of Lake-Lehman
High School played midfield on the
field hockey team for four years,
serving as captain during her senior
year; and shortstop on the softball
team for four years, serving as
captain during her senior year.
The daughter of Walter and Lois
Wandel, RD 4, Dallas, Kelly main-
tained a 3.2 grade point average
while in high school.
She plans to study Medical Tech-
nology at Wilkes College where she
will also play field hockey.
Jeff Austin of Lake-Lehman High
School was a member of the Black
Knights wrestling team for four
years, wrestling in the 105 pound
weight class. He also served as
captain of the wrestling team
during his senior year.
A member of the National Honor
Society, Jeff maintained a 3.885
grade point average while at Lake-
Lehman.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Austin, Box 193, RD 2, Harveys
Lake, Jeff plans to attend Lafayette
Univ ersity where he will major in
Economics and Finance. He also
plans to wrestle while in college.
WIC has openings
The special supplemental food
program for women, infants and
children (WIC) has immediate
openings to provide nutrition educa-
tion and food items to pregnant and
nursing women, infants and -chil-
dren up to age 5.
Women
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women now hold that office in their
respective communities.”
Mrs. Reese said that overall more
women are registered to vote in the
Back Mountain than there are men
and she believes that they take their
right to vote more seriously than
men do.
As far as running for office, she
said it is tough for women to get
into. politics. “It is an uphill battle
and takes a lot of time and money.
One has to battle a lot of odds.”
Atty. Ann Lokuta filed in the
primary recently as a candidate for
a judge in the Luzerne County
Courts but failed in her first
attempt although she was well qual-
ified.
Pat Gregory, past vice-chairman
of the Republican Party in Luzerne
County, who served several terms
on the Dallas School District Board
of Directors, said that there are
more women registered in the
Republican and Democrat parties in
the Back Mountain than there -are
men but she doesn’t believe they
have reached their potential in the
political world.
“They don’t realize their potential
because they don’t unite in num-
bers,” said Mrs. Gregory. ‘It’s
tough to run for office when you're
a woman since the men have had
the power for so long.
“Women could be complementary
to the men in political positions. The
difference in their temperaments
and personalities would make a
good balance.”
Gregory said she has no doubt
that women take their right to vote
seriously. She said that is apparent
by the number of women who come
out to vote jin the elections and in
This week, the entertainment
column features Part One of a
three-part series — a nostolgic look
at television, a trip down memory
lane to see how many of those
‘‘oldies-but-goodies”’ people
remember. Part One focuses on the
early days of television, 1940s -
1950s. da
In the ;
beginning, there
were four
television
networks in
operation. ABC-
TV, CBS-TV, and:
NBC-TV were Ya
actually DEBBEY
extensions of WYSOCKI
radio chains. They began
functioning in 1947, but by 1955, the
foruth network, DuMont Television
Network, already ceased operation.
CBS was fortunate in excelling in
good entertainment right from the
start. This was primarily due to
initiative taken by network
president William Paley. Paley very
nearly conducted a talent hunt all
by himself. He convinced such
performers as Fred Allen, ‘Amos 'n
Andy,” Jack Benny, Edgar Bergen,
Burns and Allen, and Red Skeleton
to come to CBS. In 1951, the comedy
show entitled ‘I Love Lucy’ made
its network debut. ‘The Ed Sullivan
Show’’ originally called “Toast of
the Town,” began its long run on
CBS in 1948.
In the early days, NBC also
provided viewers good
programming. NBC had Milton
Berle and his “Texaco Star
Theater.” The network featured Sid
Caesar and Imogene Coca in ‘Your
Show of Shows.”” NBC also
broadcast ‘‘Kukla, Fran, & Ollie,”’ a
popular puppet program produced
in Chicago.
Unfortunately for ABC, it had few
truly popular programs in the early
television era. The only program
worth mentioning was the network’s
‘Stop the Music.”
During the early 1950s, live TV
drama propsered. Westinghouse’s
“Studio One,”’ aired on CBs, was a
On the local scene, television
markets originated in 1953 with
productions usually including news,
weather, sports, children’s shows,
cooking programs, and musical
broadcasts.
Important filmed dramatic series,
at this time, were “The General
Electric Theater” hosted by Ronald
Reagan and the ‘‘Hallmark Hail of
Fame.”
The earliest Westerns found on
general elections the number who
must split their vote.
She believes that the League of
Women Voters will play an impor-
tant role in women running for
office in the near future and she
also believes that women could do a
good job in a state office but Mrs.
Gregory is puzzled why no woman
from the Back Mountain has never
filed for such a position.
Margaret Purcell of Harveys
Lake, who served on the borough
believes the Back Mountain women
exercise their right to vote and give
serious consideration in selecting
the candidates. She thinks they
don’t mind running for a local office
but when it comes to a state office
they are doubtful about their qualifi-
cations.
“When you serve locally, it is
fine,” said Mrs. Purcell. “However,
when women go to meetings in
Harrisburg, Philadelphia, or Pitts-
burgh, they find it takes money,
time and ambition.”
In this area, Mrs. Purcell said
that in most families the women are
working, that there are very few
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TV were such shows as ‘‘Hopalong
Cassidy,” the “Lone Ranger,” and
“The Gene Autry Show.”
“Gunsmoke” debuted in 1955,
followed by ‘‘Cheyenne,’’
“Sugarfoot,” “Wyatt Earp,”
“Bronco,” “Maverick,” and
“Bonanza.”
In 1952 Jack Webb established a
new trend for realistic crime
show, in turn, inspired other police
“77 Sunset Strip,” “Naked City,”
and ‘‘The Untouchables” (one of
television’s most violent shows).
Other crime show variations were
“Perry Mason,” ‘“M Squad,” and
‘Peter Gunn.” >
“The Colgate Comedy Hour,”
which NBC introduced in 1950,
became the first commercial TV
program to originate in Hollywood
and, in 1953, the first network color
telecast.
In 1952, Jackie Gleason began a
Saturday night variety format. One
of his famous routines was “The
Honeymooners,” which eventually
became a regular situation comedy.
The first radio sitcom to succeed
on television was ‘‘The Life of
Riley.” This was followed by
“Father Knows Best,’ starring
Robert Young and regarded as the
classic wholesome family situation
comedy.
Disappointingly, ‘Fibber McGee
& Molly” did not make a successful
transition from radio to TV, only
lasting four months during the 1959-
1960 season. Other notable sitcoms
of the era include ‘Make Room for
Daddy” (1953-1971) and ‘‘The Phil
Silvers Show”’ (1955-1959).
The daily newscast had been
important since the early days of
television. A typical newscast from
1947 until 1953 consisted of stories
read by a newscaster, plus footage
from a newsreel service. NBC’s
nightly ‘‘Camel News Caravan’ by
John Cameron Swayze was quite
different from today’s “NBC
Nightly News” with Tom Brokaw.
The same could be said for CBS’s
“Television News with Douglas
Edwards’ in regard to “CBS
Evening News” with Dan Rather,
and ABC’s ‘News and Views’ as
compared to the news with Peter
Jennings. Probably the most-
watched network newscast for years
was “The Huntley-Brinkley
Report.”
(Next week - Part II, “The
60s...)
(Debbey Wysocki is the
entertainment writer for The Dallas
Post. Her column appears weekly.)
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