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By CLYDE DUPIN
Special to The Dallas Post
The elections are over, but the
challenges that face our nation
and the world are the same. As
the twenty-first century beck-
ons, our government must cope
with new problems. Regardless
of who won the elections, they
need our prayers.
Our greatest need in America
is a return to the traditional,
moral, and family values that
made us great. We do need a
balanced budget and a strong
national defense. We also need
moral responsibility and cour-
age to protect the unborn and
reject ehthanasia. Qur students
need school prayer rather than
teenage birth control. Until
there is a moral and spiritual
restoration, drug and alcohol
abuse will remain a major prob-
lem.
Our greatest need is for cour-
age to face and deal with these
ething
Peace on Earth - what a
longed-for, but so far, elusive
dream.
Heads of governments come
together in history - making
summits to thrash out their
differences - complicated differ-
ences that have prevented
peace for generations.
Most of us are not privy to the
details of these talks. All we
know is what we are told by our
leaders and the media.
Admittedly, these super-power
meetings are necessary. I
wonder, however, if there isn’t
something each of us can do to
bring this dream to fruition.
“Let there be peace on earth
and let it begin with me.”
Let it begin with me - that
phrase suggests to me that, if
one is at peace within oneself
and at peace with family,
friends, and neighbors, this feel-
ing would radiate like the rays
of the warming sun from home
to neighborhood to community
and from nation to nation
throughout the world.
One need not attend momen-
tous international conferences
to address this issue. One need
only take a very private journey
- the journey inward. Take some
time during the course of your
By NANCY KOZEMCHAK
Library Correspondent
Here we are! October’s ending
and Halloween is with us.
A special thank you to Mary
for sending us some cornstalks
along with pumpkins and some
very fancy gourds. These made
the entrance to the library most
festive. Unfortunately, the
pumpkins and gourds lasted
only a few days, having been
whisked away to be smashed on
the road. The children’s” story
hours had their Halloween par-
ties during the week and were
attended by some different look-
ing little people such as bat
man, space girl, big bird, a
princess, a quiet ghost, a scary
skeleton, an ugly witch, a clown
with colored hair, a cowboy, a
goony bird and our own chil-
dren’s librarian became a neat
scarecrow. The children has a
parade, refreshments and some
fun games.
An interesting quote for the
season, ‘Skeletons aren’t scary.
Everybody has one inside.” A
fun time season before
approaching the winter months.
I had a very busy but enjoya-
ble weekend beginning with the
Northeastern Pennsylvania
Philharmonic Concert on Friday
night featuring guest conductor,
Enrique Diemecke and featured
violinist, Nadja Salerno-Sonnen-
berg.
This violinist was absolutely
fascinating and played the
violin as if it was part of her; a
truly exciting, electrifying per-
problems which threaten our
American way of life. The influ-
ence of secular humanism must
be stopped or all moral values
will gradually disappear. We
must understand this new reli-
gion and its powerful influence.
Humanism says there is no
God. Christianity says there is a
living creator, God. The human-
ist believes man is central, his
reason is supreme, and his sal-
vation is science. Their most
powerful pulpit and sanctuary
has been the public school
room.
It may not be fashionable to
write about God, morality and
traditional family values, but
this is our only hope to save our
future. We must protect our
Constitution; and as Christians,
influence our society.
(Clyde Dupin is author of a
column entitled ‘‘Religious
busy week to sit quietly by
yourself and think about your
feelings.
Ask yourself some hard ques-
tions. “What can I do to make
myself a better person?’ “Are
others responsible for making
me happy?”’ “What don’t I like
about myself?”’ “Is what scares
me real?’’ “What is my respon-
sibility towards the well-being
of others?”
By asking yourself these and
other such searching questions,
you have taken the first step
towards inner peace. Perhaps
“Peace on Earth” really means
something very personal. “Let
there be peace on earth, and let
it begin with me.”
I’s something to think about...
(Toby Coleman, a Back Moun-
tain resident, is a columnist for
The Dallas Post. Her column
appears regularly.)
formance. The guest conductor
was also a joy to watch and the
orchestra was superb.
I drove to Philadelphia on
Saturday to visit my son, Cliff,
and his wife, Barbara. Cliff was
in a special race regatta with
his single crew shell on the
Schuylkill River and this was a
most fascinating experience. I
had not seen him race before
and he was in the Championship
single scull race and came in
21st out of 50 entrants, which he
ways is very good for him,
considering he was racing
against the best in the country.
His time was 18 min. 16 sec-
onds and first place was 16 min.
30 seconds. The course is 23;
see the four man, six and eight
man and some women in the
race, with their own shells. We
came back to their home in
time to see Penn State beat
Alabama, went out for dinner to
a quaint little restaurant in
Chestnut Hill called Rollers, and
returned home to watch the
Mets beat the Red Sox in the
bottom of the 10th inning.
Sunday morning we attended
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in
Chestnut Hill and had brunch at
the Cock 'n Bull Restaurant at
Peddler’s Village where we cel-
ebrated Cliff's birthday which
was on Monday.
(Nancy Kozemchak is the
assistant librarian at the Back
Mountain Memorial Library.
Her column appears weekly in
The Dallas Post.)
DAVID F. CONNER
General Manager
DOTTY MARTIN
Executive Editor
al
Macri, Jenny Metzgar,
Margaret Harrison, Marianne
Linda Poulos, Karen
Pacovski,
Susan Stritzinger,
Dallas Post/Donna Sutliff
Danae Husband,
Laura Uzdilla, Keri
and Jessica Husband.
She claims
DEAR EDITOR:
Did you know that federal
funds that should be used to
treat humans addicted to drugs
and alcohol are being used to
fund drug and alcohol addiction
research on live animals?
Your tax dollars to the tune of
$311,495,000 will be wasted in
1986 on animals ‘‘models”’ of
cocaine killings, alcoholism,
heroin, LSD, angel dust, mari-
juana and Valium addiction and
the list goes on. Millions of
animals from snails to dogs to
primates and even horses and
elephants are the ‘models’ for
barbaric experiments that
cause pain, fear, and agonized
death. These funds should be
used to expand existing rehabili-
tation programs and implement
programs where none exist.
It is impossible to simply
transfer the results of animal
experiments to humans. Ani-
federa
mals live under completely dif-
ferent conditions than man. The
experimental situation is artifi-
cial, one-sided, and does not
correspond to real life situa-
tions. These innocent, animals
are forcibly addicted to drugs
and alcohol. Since the animal
does not choose drugs or alcohol
they are forced through starva-
tion, electric shock, and depri-
vation of water to name a few
methods.
In 1786, dogs and rabbits were
addicted to opium, In 1887, ani-
mals were poisoned with
cocaine and the first barbituate
poisoning took place as early as
1911. Since 1948, experimenters
at the Addiction Research
Center in Lexington, Kentucky
have been performing revolt-
ingly cruel addiction research
on spine severed dogs. These
animals are forcibly addicted to
morphine, angel dust, and other
drugs and then plunged into the
agony of withdrawal by either
cutting off the drug or injecting
an ‘‘antagonist’”’ which brings
on the withdrawal syndrome
immediately.
Symptoms include rapid heart
rate, seizures, fever, ‘“‘continu-
ous stepping” of the paralyzed
hindlimbs, retching, vomiting,
hair standing on end, ‘canine
delirium’ and more. The exper-
imenters also routinely torment
the dogs by pinching them with
forceps and by burning their
skin. Other ‘discoveries’ at the
center include: Spine-severed
rats twitch their legs more after
amphetamine dosing.
Spinal reflexes in morphine-
addicted, brain-injured and
spine-severed cats are less than
in brain-injured, spine-severed
cats not addicted to morphine.
These experiments are not only
unscientific; they are also inhu-
man and brutalizing. The appli-
cation to man from these exper-
iments; none.
There are modern methods
available to test the effects of
addictive drugs. By using the
alternatives, the terrible suffer-
ing of forcibly addicted animals,
which has been going on for 200
years, can be totally eliminated.
Demand that these experiments
be: stopped and-the money used
for treatment of human addicts.
Write to Senators Heinz and
Specter and your Representa-
tive in Washington.
If you would like a free bro-
chure ‘‘Animal Agony in Addic-
tion Research’ write to
L.0.V.E. (League Opposing Viv-
isection Experiments), P.O. Box
1284, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18703.
MARY LOU PHILLIPS
SECRETARY
LEAGUE OPPOSING
VIVISECTION EXPERIMENTS
DEAR EDITOR:
Americans who cherish our
democratic system of govern-
ment have cause to rejoice over
legislation enacted by President
Reagan on the civil rights of the
handicapped who use the
nation’s commercial airlines.
“The Air Access Carrier Act
of 1986,” signed into law by
President Reagan, makes law
the right of Americans with a
handicap to use commercial air-
lines with safety and dignity.
For the handicapped traveler,
“the adventure of flying’ has
been just that, prior to the
passage of this important legis-
lation. Until now, the handi-
capped air traveler could expect
any number of difficulties, from
being refused one’s choice of
seat to being refused passage
altogether. Other restictions
often included an extra handling
charge for wheelchairs, being
required to travel with an aide,
or being forced to give advance
notice of one’s intent to travel —
as a handicapped individual —
well in advance of departure.
Each of these restrictions was
at the complete discretion of the
airline official on each particu-
lar flight — with no consistency
among airlines or even among
different flights of the same
airline.
The quick passage of the legis-
lation, actively supported by the
Paralyzed Veterans of America
and a broad range of organiza-
tions serving the needs of handi-
capped Americans, is an indica-
tion of the growing feeling
nationwide that we can no
longer tolerate discriminatory
treatment of people who happen
to have a handicap.
The “Air Carrier Access Act
of 1986” addresses this critical
need to protect the civil rights
of the handicapped passenger
aboard commercial airlines and
is a tribute to the fine leader-
ship of Senator Robert Dole (R-
KS) and Representatives John
Paul Hammerschmidt (R-AR)
and Norman Mineta (D-CA) in
the House of Representatives.
We owe our thanks and appre-
ciation to these members of
Congress and many others in
supporting our nation’s ideal of
“equality for all.”
In advocating full citizenship,
dignity and safety for 35 million
handicapped Americans within
our great democracy, our
nation’s representatives have
further protected these rights
for all Americans.
R. JACK POWELL
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
PARALYZED VETERANS
OF AMERICA
DEAR EDITOR:
During the last few years, and
especially in 1986, school boards
across the Commonwealth have
used their practically unlimited
taxation powers to increase rad-
ically their citizens’ tax burden.
in at least eight school districts
to double and triple the school
taxes.
All this is legal and may well
occur in your school district.
Pennsylvania is virtually the
only state in the Union where
school boards can sell bonds
without a referendum. Vested
interests with powerful lobbies
want to keep it that way.
The Annville-Cleona Taxation
Here is a summary of impor-
tant events that occurred on
Capitol Hill last week from Rep.
Frank Coslett, 120th Legislative
District.
DER REPORT — A report
critical of the state’s Abandoned
Mine Reclamation Program
was issued this week by the
Democratic chairman of the
House Conservation Committee.
The study was dismissed as
political and without merit by
both the head of the Department
of Environmental Resources
(DER) and the ranking Republi-
can on the Conservation Com-
mittee. DER Secretary Nicholas
DeBenedictis defended his
agency’s management of the
mine reclamation program and
said the attack on the program
was politically motivated. Rep.
George C. Hasay (R-Luzerne)
said the report was without
merit since committee mem-
bers were not involved in the
investigation and were not
asked to accept or reject the
findings of the report.
LCB REFORM — The author
Advisory Committee (ACTAC)
will hold a conference on the
issue of TAXATION POWERS
OF SCHOOL BOARDS at Leba-
non Valley College in Annville,
Lebanon County, PA on Novem-
ber 22, 1986. Its purpose is to
investigate the use and abuse of
the current school financing
laws, and to lend support to
of legislation to abolish the
Liquor Control Board (LCB)
this week urged the committee
studying LCB sunset review
measures to significantly
revamp the agency. Rep.
Joseph M. Gladeck Jr. (R-Mont-
gomery) called the LCB ‘‘out-
moded, inefficient and anti-con-
sumer.” Gladeck suggested that
the House-Senate conference
committee studying the sunset
legislation consider a number of
proposals he has introduced.
The committee must take action
on the sunset review legislation
citizens
several bills which were intro-
duced in the legislature to
remedy an impossible situation.
If you wish to attend this
meeting and to help bring about
a change, please write to
ACTAC, P.O. Box 132, Annville
PA, or call (717) 867-2135.
JOERG MAYER
CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN
by Dec. 31 or the LCB will
expire. ‘Pennsylvania consum-
ers are sick and tired of having
to face more high prices, poor
service, questionable ' licensing
and limited selection. Once
again, we have an opportunity
to do something positive and we
cannot afford to fumble the
ball,” Gladeck said.
(Rep. Frank Coslett serves
the 120th Legislative District
which encompasses parts of the
Back Mountain. His column
appears regularly in The Dallas
Post.)
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