50 YEARS AGO - SEPT. 18, 1936
Sacred Heart Monastery at Harveys Lake, twice
destroyed by flames, would be restored. The
announcement was made by the Very Rev. Lawrence
S. Brigmanas, C.C.J., Supervisor of the Most Sacred
Heart of Jesus, founder of the monastery. The
congregation was founded in 1926. The Monastery
attracted thousands of religious folk seeking retreat
and solace.
Plans were finalized for the donkey baseball game.
Dan Richards was captian of the Dallas team while
Ken Cobleigh of Shavertown led the Valley squad.
Flowers from the large gardens of Mrs. S. Sawyer
on Church Street won 15 ribbons at the flower show in
Plymouth.
Married - Ellen Keiper to William Barnard; Edna
Billings and Chester Harris; Nettie Elizabeth Thomas
and Clarence Adams; Charlotte London and William
Joseph.
You could get - Sweet potatoes 5 1b. 13c; potatoes 35¢
peck; onions 5 lb. 10c; soap, Lux, 3 bars 17c; Land O
Lakes cheese 25¢ Ib.; vinegar 23c gal.; salmon 3 tall
cans 29c; celery 2 bunches 15c; was paper 2 pkg. 13c;
sandwich bread long loaf 9c; preserves 2 Ib. jar 29c.
40 YEARS AGO - SEPT. 20, 1946 2
Plans were outlined for the anniversary meeting of
Back Mountain Memorial Library. A suggestion of an
auction sale of antiques, household articles, old
furniture and machinery to be held in the spring for
the benefit of the library was enthusiastically
received. Contributions were under the direction of
librarian Miriam Lathrop.
Crates of chickens were scattered over the highway
when a truck driven by Russell Race, Centermore-
land, driver for North Star Farms, Shavertown, was
struck head on and completely demolished by a
greyhound bus. Race narrowly escaped death in the
accident. Although badly shaken and receiving a gash
on his leg which required six stitches to close, he
chased the chickens until he gathered them all safely
without a single casualty and returned them to their
crates.
Engaged - Hannah Mae Gibbon and Robert M.
Patrick.
Married - Anne Cynthia Poad and William Nicoll;
Deaths - Ida S. Nuss, Lehman; William Jones,
Noxen.
You could get - Stewing chickens 47c 1b.; bologna 34c
Ib.; braunschweiger 14 1b. 10c; coffee 34c bag;
Evergreen pine jelly soap 27c¢ a jar; Realemon juice
qt. bottle 28c; Nabisco grahams 12c pkg.; Baker’s
cocoa 8 oz. pkg. 10c; tomato juice 46 oz. can 25c.
30 YEARS'AGO - SEPT. 21, 1956
Church and his family, were honored at a reception at
the church. Lawrence Updyke was chairman of the
program and covered dish supper that was held to
Clark Lewis, Dallas/Franklin/Monroe Township
junior took second place in vocational agriculture
student dairy cattle judging at Springfield, Mass. Two
boys were chosen to represent their home state.
Engaged - Dianne Dobinick and Lewis George
Saxon; Joan Kasper and Kenneth Malkemes.
Married - Louise Kann to Davis C. Williams.
Anniversaries - Rev. and Mrs. Henry Kraft, Noxen;
Mr. and Mrs. William Sorber, Harveys Lake, 50 years.
Deaths - William Cobleigh, Dallas; Ilalou Robi-
deaux, Milford, Conn.; Mrs. Florence Steele Myers,
formerly of Harveys Lake.
You could get - Breyers ice cream , gal. 88c; boiled
ham 95c 1b.; frying chickens 39c Ib.; ground beef 3 1b.
$1; bananas 2 1b. 25¢; tomatoes 3 1b. 29¢; carrots 2
bunches 19c¢; canned cream 6-76¢c; Velveeta cheese 2
Ib. 75¢; orange juice 6 cans 69c; Kleenex 2-49c.
20 YEARS AGO - SEPT. 22, 1966
Two Dallas young men were serving as Rotary
Exchange Students in New Zealand. Marshall D.
Rumbaugh and John Gager were staying on the
northern part of the Island.
A freak wind raged through Dallas splitting a double
oak tree in two near its base and depositing one half
on the roof of the John Layaou home 119 Lehman
Avenue. \
Engaged - Karen S. Badman and William H.
Eckhart.
Married - Eileen Michele Crispell and Elvin T.
Bean, Jr.; Donna Gregory and Robert Ken Andrews.
Anniversaries - Mr. and Mrs. John L. Parrish, 41
years; Mr. and Mrs. William H. Baker, Sr. 50 years;
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Davis, 24 years; Mr. and Mrs.
Michael Maransky, 30 years; Mr. and Mrs. Elmer
Duncklee, 50 years.
Deaths - Laura Bartlett, Tunkhannock; Benjamin F.
Merrel, Trucksville.
You could get - Chicken breasts 55¢ 1b.; standing rib
roast 69c 1b.; pork loins 75c¢ 1b.; chuck roast 69c 1b.;
peaches 29c lb.; cantaloupes 39c ea.; MacIntosh
apples 3 Ib. 49¢; egg noodles 33c Ib. pkg.; Planters dry
roasted peanuts 9 oz. jar 59¢; Saltines 19c lb. *
10 YEARS AGO - SEPT. 23, 1976
Kingston Township representatives met to discuss
various recreational areas in Kingston Township. The
meeting was an informative one to show area resi-
dents how much was available to them in their own
immediate area. Town Meeting committee members
were Kit Karuza, Marsha Landis and Virginia Perry.
May Day
Mannear.
this matter. The purchase of a park and municipal
building on a $131,000 site at Sandy Beach was
defeated 4-3 causing a schism in the council.
Anniversaries - Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Reed, 25
McCusker, Dallas; Frank George Dougher, Jr., Ide-
town; Floyd Taylor, Harveys Lake.
You could get - Chicken 39c Ib.; frankfurters 89c 1b.;
yogurt 8 oz. 3-89c; Birdseye Orange Plus 2-51.09;
Crisco 3 lb. can $1.49; MacIntosh apples 3 lb. 69c;
years.
Deaths - Marvin Moss,
Mary
ee
THE 1986 LUZERNE COUNTY
FAIR is history now, but will
certainly go down in the books as
the biggest and best ever.
I have never F@
before spent as
much time at the}
fair as I did this
year and have
never enjoyed
myself as much
as I did this year
The new barns
housing the :
horses DOTTY MARTIN
and the arts and crafts displays are
just beautiful, the grounds were so
well cleared and leveled that it was
much easier to walk around, every
exhibitor space was filled with good
quality foods and things to look at
and buy and even the parking lot
was easier to maneuver around in.
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MY COMPLIMENTS to fair
chairman Ray Hillman whom I saw
spending a lot of time on his feet,
walking from one end of the fair to
the other, making sure things were
going just right.
- My hat is tipped also to fair
association president Bob Cartier
who even managed to find time to
prop his video camera atop his
shoulder Sunday evening during the
Leahy performance to capture some
precious moments on film.
These two men, along with the
entire association board and all the
volunteers, did one heckuva job this
year. The only problem with their
accomplishments is that we now
expect a repeat performance of
those accomplishments next year.
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SPEAKING OF THE LEAHY
FAMILY, for those of you who did
not make either of their two
performances Sunday, you don’t
know what you missed.
These kids - and that’s just what
they are - 11 brothers and sisters
7 — are so musically talented, they
are almost too good to be true.
Their singing and dancing show
was so inspiring and uplifting, the
family members made you feel
really good about yourself and
about their show.
All the way from Ontario,
Canada, the family was presented
with an American flag by Uncle Ted
at the end of their second show. I
have no idea how the fair board
even heard of this group of
youngsters, but I for one am sure
glad they did. I thoroughly enjoyed
both shows.
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CAROLYN BULFORD, full-time
secretary for the fair, was seen
making her way through the crowd
during the Leahy’s performance.
Carolyn, who filled the media with
press releases and public service
announcements about the fair for
months before the annual event,
looked as if she was just about
winding down during the last night
of the fair.
And, when I ran into her the next
day at the post office, she admitted
it had been a wearing ordeal. Your
time and efforts have not been
wasted, Carolyn - I’ve heard only
good things about the fair this year.
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JEAN HILLARD, a columnist for
The Dallas Post as well as an active
volunteer on the fair board, was
also making her way through the
crowd on the fair’s grand finale.
Jean, who expected to be working
late that evening with other fair
volunteers, said she got out to the
fair a little later than usual on the
last evening, having managed to
catch a little shut-eye during the
afternoon hours.
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GEORGE MCCUTCHEON of
Dallas did a great job of pushing
tickets at the Kiwanis Club exhibit
while HELEN DICKINSON, also of
Dallas, had a pleasant smile for
everyone who visited the Nesbitt
Memorial Hospital booth.
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JANE MORRIS, a teacher at
Lake-Lehman, was just great as she
manned the microphone during
Sunday’s 4-H competition. An avid
horse lover and the owner and
trainer of several award-winning
horses, Jane spent all day Sunday in
the announcer’s booth, coordinating
efforts for the 4-H competition.
Hats off to both you and the
gentleman who served as the judge
of the competition that day (I don’t
know his name.) Both of you are to
be commended for all the time you
FLOSSIE FINN, girls’ softball
coach at Lake-Lehman High School,
sure gave me an education during
the 4-H competition.
Having wandered over to the
horse ring during Sunday’s events, I
ran into Flossie who was cheering
on daughter Beth (a championship
competitor) while husband Jim
supported son Chuck at a junior
football game.
Knowing absolutely nothing about
horses or equestrian competition, I
welcomed Flossie’s knowledge
about the sport as she shared some
pointers with me.
I was fascinated at the things she
told me. Heck, I never knew the
difference between Western
competition and Eastern
competition. Why, I didn’t even
know that a pony will never grow up
to be a horse.
I thank you, Flossie, for sharing
all that horse knowledge with me. It
sure sheds a different light on how
much time and effort these people
involved with 4-H really put forth.
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FLOSSIE and CHERYL TRAVIS,
a former stellar athlete at Lake-
Lehman High School, gave me a
tour of the new horse barns built
with the helping hands of the
volunteers from the Red Rocks Job
Corps.
The barns, which I understand
were finished just in time for this
year’s fair, are a welcome sight to
the fair grounds and, once again, I
commend all those‘involved with
their construction.
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YES, THIS YEAR'S FAIR
certainly was a successful
operation. The sad part about the
whole thing is we have to wait an
entire year for the next one. That
may not seem like a very long time
to those involved with the planning
of the fair, but for those of us who
look forward to just having a good
time there, it seems like forever.
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A GREAT BIG HELLO to one of
the most special people in my life.
My grandmother, Irma Martin, of
New Castle, Delaware, is visiting
my father and my stepmother in
Forty Fort this week.
Preparing to celebrate her 83th
birthday in January, Nana is just as
keen and alert as you and I. And
her sense of humor is something I
really look forward to after a hard
day at the office.
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CONGRATULATIONS to Bob
Roberts of the Lake-Lehman High
School staff.
Bob, who has been a teacher at
the senior high school for several
years now, was recently promoted
to administrative assistant.
I have accused Bob of doing
nothing but walking the halls of the
senior high school these days, but I
know better. Bob Roberts is one of
the most valued employees Lake-
Lehman has and he deserved to be
commended on his recent
promotion. ;
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HATS OFF to the women from
Centermoreland who manned this
weekend’s ‘Country Store” for the
benfit of Janet and Carl Brown, also
of Centermoreland.
As was told in last week’s issue of
The Dallas Post, Janet Brown
recently underwent a kidney
transplant at Geisinger Medical
Center in Danville while her son,
Carl, had rare reconstructive heart
surgery at the University of
Alabama.
Post-operative complications have
put both Janet and Carl back in the
operations and medical bills
continue to soar.
Some kind people from
Centermoreland decided to hold a
“Country Store” and spent Saturday
and Sunday selling baked goods,
fresh fruit, hot dogs and soda, and
flea market items. While visiting
the store Saturday afternoon, the
women told me they had more
dreamed and had sold more than
they thought possible.
And, when all was said and done,
the good women of Centermoreland
had raised a whopping $1700 for the
benefit of the Brown family. God
bless all of you!
(Dotty Martin is the Executive
Editor of Pennaprint Inc.,
publishers of The Dallas Post. Her
column appears weekly.)
By NANCY KOZEMCHAK
Library Correspondent
Have you done anything
especially exciting or really
memorable during the summer of
1986?
I am aware of two gentlemen
from Dallas who have done
something very worthwhile and
quite commendable during the
summer of ’86. Ron Buckman of
Franklin Street and Jim Davis of
Davenport Street spent a lot of time
‘during their summer at the Rice
Cemetery on Huntsville Road in
Dallas. ;
They decided this cemetery
needed some attention and between
them they spent a few hundred
hours repairing tombstones, cutting
trees, planting grass and
beautifying this cemetery. There
were only 10 stones standing when
they started and after their
repairing, there are now 112
standing. There are 111 names on
stones that are readable-and over
180 field stone markers with no
information on them. Evidently
some one by the name of Snyder
donated this 1% acres of ground as
a burial plot which was established
before 1810.
With the help of Tom Reese, all of
the Civil War graves now have flags
on them. They typed up a list of the
names recorded on these
tombstones and presented a copy of
same to the library. This list is filed
in our vertical file and is available
for reference only. These gentlemen
would be happy for any further
information regarding this
cemetery. This is indeed a job well
done and a great caring way to
spend some of the Summer of ’86.
The Back Mountain Memorial
Library has returned to regular
hours after what seems to have
been the shortest summer on
record. The library will be open
Monday through Thursday from
9:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. and Friday
and Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30
p.m.
I stopped at ¥'1no’s Drug Store one
day last week to pick up our
newspapers and found a library
book there to be returned. It seems
someone left it there hoping it would
be returned to the library. And it
was, thanks to the help at Fiino’s. A
new library book drop-off place,
maybe?
I deliver books to the residents of
the Meadows Apartments on the
first Monday of each month and
recently the manager of the
apartments called and asked if we
had anything on how to do the Hula
dance. Tried to find something on
Interlibrary loan and couldn’t and
then I checked our catalog and
shelves more thoroughly and found
a small book called, ‘‘Learn to
dance the Hula.”
Just perfect, called Barbara, she
had someone pick the book up and
evidently it was of some use
because I saw a picture in the paper
of the residents who had dressed the
part and had held a Hawaiian Luau.
Is there some project the library
and its books can help you with?
Are you looking for a small,
inexpensive gift? Before disbanding,
the Dallas Junior Woman’s Club
donated the remaining Cookbooks to
the library. One of our patrons
recently purchased three of these as
going away gifts, at $3.00 each. A
nice momento from the Back
Mountain area and the sale of the
cookbooks benefits the library.
(Nancy Kozemchak is the
assistant librarian at the Back
Mountain Memorial Library. Her
column appears weekly.)
By HOWARD J. GROSSMAN
Special to The Dallas Post
Hidden in the recesses of
Pennsylvania’s recent history has
Program. In 1965, Pennsylvania
became one of the first States in the
Union to participate in the Partners
for the Americas Program and to
establish a close relationship with a
major state in Brazil. Bahia is a
huge coastal state in Brazil.
The Partners Program grew out
of the Alliance for the Progress
established under President John F.
Kennedy. The Partners Program
today is a major focal point for
North American and South
American cultural, educational,
economic, environmental, physical,
and social links designed to provide
opportunities for two governmental
jurisdictions to learn to know one
another and to aid one another as
required. .
The Partners for the Americas
Program has an office in
Washington, D.C. with a staff of
over thirty persons. Specialists in
various geographic sectors of South
America, Central America, and the
Caribbean provide resource
assistance to the two Partners and
are themselves linked to nationwide
Partners offices in countries such as
Brazil.
Since 1965, the program has
grown to accommodate 56 Partner
relationships throughout the
Americas. Pennsylvania in late 1985
was divided into two Partner
relationships with Brazil. Eastern
Pennsylvania continues its
partnership with Bahia, and
Western Pennsylvania has a
partnership with Maranhao.
Northeastern Pennsylvania is
participating in the Bahian-
Pennsylvania Partners Program
through the cooperation of the
Economic Development Council of
Northeastern Pennsylvania
(EDCNP), and the involvement of
individuals connected with various
institutions in the region.
For example, Wilkes College is
involved through Dr. Mahmoud
Fahmy, and he and a representative
%
of EDCNP sit on the Board of
Partners Committee. The
Committee is aided through the
involvement of Executive Director
Robert Miller of Bloomsburg.
(Howard Grossman, a Back
Mountain resident, is the executive
director of the Economic
Development Council of Northeast
Pennsylvania. His column appears
peridically in The Dallas Post.)
DAVID F. CONNER
General Manager
DOTTY MARTIN
Executive Editor
Letters
DEAR EDITOR:
Dallas Ambulance is currently
experiencing problems similar to
those of many other volunteer orga-
nizations where people are too busy
to gibve their time.
The ambulance serves the com-
munity 24 hours a day, every day of
the year. There isn’t a neighborhood
in Dallas that hasn’t benefitted from
its skilled help. Through the year
when you have needed us, we have
been there; now we need you to be
here with us.
New members are desperately
needed to continue the quality serv-
ice you all deserve. Twelve volun-
teers cannot possibly serve the
needs of 12,000 citizens. We will
train you free of charge. You will be
provided with most up-to-date
instruction, using state of the art
equipment under the guidance of
highly experienced crew captains.
At present, the all-volunteer group
is made up of people from all
professions. Insurance agents, fac-
tory workers, secretaries, retired
persons, factory supervisors, teach-
ers, students, business owners and
realtors all work together to help
their neighbors. Dallas Ambulance
answers about 500 calls a year and,
with the current rapid growth in our
area, this number will continue to
rise. Providing free, experienced,
speedy services is ‘a constant con-
cern to the members and something
the community counts on.
Information and-or applications
can be obtained from Jack Wega,
ambulance chief; Bob O’Konski,
assistant chief; Robert Besecker,
day time ambulance coordinator
and fire chief, or by calling 675-3611.
JACK WEGA
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