J The Dallas Post Dallas, PA Wednesday, March 3, 1993 5 Defense 57) Difficult Reductions Education Social Security a 4 -— y —— _ > ; = Library news i ; 7 : | ) By NANCY KOZEMCHAK The Back Mountain Memorial Library will celebrate 8 years in our new location on Thursday, March 4. Our library continues to grow with new members joining every day. Our book collection is continually increasing with new books being added. Our volun- - teers support the library in differ- ent ways; many of them help in the library shelving books, check- ing book numbers against book cards, alphabetizing daily circu- lation cards, and slipping the returned books at the front desk. Our library auction is handled each year with board members and volunteers whe put a lot of effort and time into the annual event. The library staff is willing @=nd able to answer the questions of our patrons and help them search for the material they need. The Back Mountain school chil- dren use the library for research and study space every day. This library continues to be the best it } Bike-A-Thon memories can be! One of our faithful supporters and patrons is moving from the Back Mountain area and has donated his collection of classical records. We are selling these rec- ords in our basement sale room in advance of the auction. The single records will sell for $1.00 each and the albums for $3.00. These will be for sale on Wednesday and Saturday during the regular sale days. Wednesday sale hours 12 thrc ugh 5 and Saturday 10 until B; Some of the single titles in- clude: ‘Kiri sings Gershwin’ John McGlinn and the new Princess theater orchestra; Ives Sympho- nies 1 & 2 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra; Montser- rat Caballe Puccini Arias by the London Symphony Orchestra; Emanuel Ax, The Cleveland Quar- tet Dvorak, A German Requiem by Brahms, the London Philhar- monic Orchestra and choir. The albums include Simon Boccane- gra Giuseppe Verdi with Claudio elLibrary's eighth anniversary at new location Abbado; Verdi Othello Del Mon- aco Tebaldi with the Vienna Phil- harmonic and Madama Butterfly, Puccini, complete recording with Renata Tebaldi as Butterfly. These records are in good condition and are sure to be enjoyed. New book at the Library: “Offi- cial and Confidential” is the Se- cret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, writ- ten by Anthony Summers. The story tells of the presidents who yearned to fire him, but were daunted by his storehouse of damaging secrets. Public officials and private citizens lived in fear of his illegal surveillance and har- assment tactics. Now, in this ground-breaking, at times shock- ing biography, J. Edgar Hoover, the man who ruled over the FBI for nearly fifty years, emerges definitively as one of the greatest menaces of our times. Some dis- closures include he was a closet homosexual and transvestite. Mafia bosses had information about him andused it for decades to keep the FBI at bay. How many of you remember the First Bike-A-Thon sponsored by the Dallas Junior Womans Club in the 1970's? Although it took months of planning it raised thousands of dollars in only about six hours of riding. The 25-mile course was one of the most community -involved projects ever undertaken in the Back Mountain; some of the route is still used today by the “thons”. Every local fire company, all local police forces and every municipality had a part in the run. It began at the Dallas Junior High School and ended there. The proceeds went to ARC. The photo this week shows the first group out. Ready-Set-Go-ldentify them for us! ICE-A-RAMA BUILDING Coal St. Recreational Complex Coal St. & N. Sherman St., Wilkes-Barre FRI. = SAT. — SUN. 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To summarize: She had been in a slight auto accident. She came to me and wanted me to tell her insurance company that she had, in fact, missed many more days of work than had actually occurred. She would then file a disability claim, and I would get a percent- age of what she collected...she was lying and me swearing to it. Ideclined...and you would have. thought had kidnapped her first- born child. She was actually furi- ous that I wouldn't go along with this fraud. She couldn't believe there was anything wrong with what she proposed, saying it was business as usual where she came from...the Wyoming Valley...and, years later as I read the Moosic story, I guess nothing much has changed. So as not to suggest the Wyo- ming Valley has a lock on morally repugnant behavior, how about a more insidious kind of fraud. Some 40 million Americans are without health care coverage. 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Many of these so-called policies are virtually worthless. Some of these companies employ sales agents and pay them a cut of up to 60 percent of the premium of any policy they sell to the eld- erly It is then only logical to realize that if a company pays its sale- speople 50-60 percent and keeps out any sums at all for profit and administrative expense, then the amount which can be returned in claims to the elderly is very low. At the same time, and when you look at the society as a whole, this corporate greed is not hard to understand...it is little more than reflection of debased individual values. And isn't a large portion of in- flation really the result of individ- ual greed. Of individuals not sat- isfied with what they have, always seeking (and going into monu- mental debt, encouraged by credit card companies, to obtain items once called luxuries but now re- garded as necessities? Is it really surprising. then, to find insurance companies spoon feeding hope, and then financially draining senior citizens, when at the individual level we hear, for example, a person boasting ofhow he or she “made money” on an auto accident claim by patroniz- ing a shop willing to jack up the Computer Hair FREE! a i See Yourself With A § New Hairstyle Before It's Cut! Rn ie tn wn aS si ay ma a ~~ oh a Saturday & Sunday 12-5 Clip Coupon - Save $5.00 Off Haircut if you decide to go with the new you. =). ., Call For An Appointment New Energy Hair Rt. 309 3 Fernbrook Plaza, Dallas PA 18612 bill with a resultant split of the so- called profit? Or employees and traffic violators as noted above. It's clear that all of these per- sons are thieves; nothing more, nothing less. And none of this behavior, either corporately or individually is strange anymore. It's the run-of-the-mill; and more’s the pity. This kind of behavior cries out for a renewal of ethical and moral values once thought by many to be inherentin Americans. It's also clear that when a society forgets that its corporate actions reflect little more than its individual desires, any large scale efforts to then deal with that society's so- called undesirable elements, ends up begging the question. It makes our so-called war on drugs a joke, our attempts to raise responsible, moral and ethical children a virtual impossibility. I know there are those of you out there who will say that the answer is a God-fearing, theologi- cally oriented country where moral values are imposed and enforced by temporal servants toward ce- lestial ends. Ifthat’'s what you wish, move to Iran. At the same time, we cannot continue to function as an ethi- cally and morally debased society without accepting that, in doing so, we will eventually give up our freedom. 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