4 The Dallas Post Dallas, PA Wednesday, March 22, 1995 The Dallas Post Lively elections are good sign for region Give credit to the Republicans who swept into Congress..to a backlash among Democrats..to Rush Limbaugh if you like, but it’s heartening to see the number of contested local races in the upcoming primary, and again in November. The primary will be a lively affair in both school districts and Harveys Lake Borough. All candidates but one are filed on the Democrat and Republican tickets in the Dallas district, and each of the nine Lake-Lehman candidates is cross filed. In the race for Harveys Lake Borough Council, five Democrats and four Republicans will be on the ballot, with the top three of each party making it to the general election. Dallas Borough Repub- licans will choose three of five Republican candidates, with three incumbents facing two challengers. Perhaps most surprising, there will be a race for Dallas Township supervisor in November, the first time that has happened since Thomas Frantz and Glenn Howell competed = forthe office in 1981. We don’t yet know the positions or merits of Marjory Gorko, the Democrat who will face incumbent Frank Wagner, but we plan to give both adequate opportunity to tell voters why they are the better choice. Franklin and Jackson township voters also will have a two-party decision to make in the general election. We hope incumbents don’t see our delight at having political races to report as criticism of them or favoritism to challengers. We simply are pleased to see a contest of ideas bringing a choice of candidates for local offices. Most people would say, and we would agree, that Back Mountain government is efficient and fair in its operations. A little short-sighted, maybe, and not particularly progressive sometimes, but surely not wasteful or malicious. That's good enough for a lot of folks, and certainly beats the corruption found in many valley towns. But maybe it could be better, either because of new faces or because the challenge forces incumbents to think in new ways. The candidates have done their part, now it will be'up to the voters. But you can’t vote if you aren't registered by April 17, so don't put it off for another minute. It’s easy, and we're making it easier by handing out mail-in registration forms at our office. Just pick one up, fill it out, and send it into the courthouse. It won't cost a dime, because the postage is free. But remember mail it to arrive at the courthouse by April 17, the final registration day for the May 17 primary. Our office is at 45 Main Road in Dallas Township. Main Road runs down the side of the Offset Paperback plant, starting at ~theintersection with Route 309 at the Mark Il restaurant. If you | need further directions, call us at 675-5211. Publisher's notebook The proposal to give tax credits to parents is a good idea at the wrong time, although its top limit of $200,000 income is about double what makes sense. Instead of wringing our hands about the state of families or shaking our fingers at those deemed to lack “values,” providing extra cash for parents could ease some of the burden of raising children in an ever more complex — and expensive — world. The timing stinks, though if you understand that every dollar handed out today will have to be paid back with interest as long as our budget is out of balance. Since tax cuts now will assure that will be the case for years to come, we are again robbing our descendants’ piggy bank to pay for today’s largesse. If you're more cynical, you might say we're stealing from children to buy votes. The world’s financial rnarkets understand this, and have shown how they feel by pounding the dollar lower. This will continue as long as we run deficits, until we are forced to devalue our currency, which will instantaneously make us all poorer. Another tax cut proposal, the one on capital gains, is a loser from start to finish. Capital gains, the profit from appreciation invalue of an asset such as a house or stocks, are already taxed at a lower rate than income. In the case of a home, there's also a one-time exclusion of up to $125,000 in profit. Proponents say a lower captital gains rate will create revenue because people will buy and sell stock more frequently. That's non- sense. Ecept in specialized cases, investors don’t make deci- sions based on a few percentage points of taxes. If they do, they're called speculators, and their trading leads to inflated markets that crash. Do you agree? Disagree? Editorials are the opinion of the management of The Dallas Post. We welcome your opinion on contemporary issues in the form of letters to the editor. If you don't write, the community may never hear a contrasting point of view. Send letters to: The Dallas Post, P.O. Box 366, Dallas, PA 18612. Please include your name, address and a daytime phone number so that we may verify authenticity. | Wedonot publish anonymous letters, but will consider withholding ~ thename in exceptional circumstances. We reserve the right to edit for length and grammar. The Dallas Post Published Weekly by Bartsen Media, Inc. P.O. Box 366, Dallas PA 18612 Telephone: 717-675-5211 Ronald A. Bartizek Charlotte E. Bartizek EDITOR AND PUBLISHER ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Grace R. Dove REPORTER Peggy Young ADVERTISING ACCT. EXEC Paul Rismiller Olga Kostrobala PRODUCTION MANAGER CLASSIFIED/TYPESETTING Jill Urbanas OFFICE MANAGER 2) PRINTED WITH SOY INK MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION AND PENNSYLVANIA NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER'S ASSOCIATION VOTED 3rd BEST SMALL WEEKLY IN THE U.S., 1993 i a L SN The Village Store graced the hamlet of LaGrange in the early 1900's. Does anyone know iiiore about it? Letters Seeks info on Daniel Sorber, Civil War soldier Editor: I have in my possession the Military Service Records from the Civil War 1862-1865 of Daniel Sorber. He was a Private in the Union Army, 92nd Regt., Com- pany D, 9th PA Cav. I found his grave in the Sorbertown Ceme- tery in Hunlock Creek, PA., as well as his wife, Marilda. Daniel was born in 1842 in Union Town- ship, Luzerne County. She was born in 1844 and died in 1906. I would like to know who Daniel's father was, as well as brothers, uncles, and any infor- mation on the Sorberline. I would like to hear from someone. Write to: Dolores Swelgin 415 Smith Pond Road Shavertown, PA 18708-9742. Thanks Lakeside Nursing Center staff praised for care Editor: The family of the late Mary La Bar wishes to express our sincere thanks and love to the staff of the Lakeside Nursing Center. The economic Ail | Howard Grossman | Have you heard the term citi- zen service? If you have not, you may wish to know about the Penn- sylvania Citizen Service Project and the various ways by which citizens throughout Northeastern Pennsylvania can contribute to their community and to enable young people and older citizens to participate in improving the way in which community life can be enhanced throughout the region. The Pennsylvania Citizens Serv- ice Project is a not-for-profit cor- poration whose Board members represent both the public and private sectors in Pennsylvania. They have established the Penn- sylvania Institute for Environment anc Community Service Learning (PIECSL) which is based at the Philadelphia College of Textiles. The Institute runs a variety of programs with special focus cur- rently on the greater Philadelphia community but also provides assistance to other parts of Penn- sylvania. The plan is to expand citizen service across the state in cooperation with the on-going Commonwealth program called PennServe and the newly devel- oped National Community Serv- ice Program, originally generated under the auspices of the Bush Administration and expanded significantly by the Clinton Ad- ministration. Pennsylvania, in fact, utilizes the citizen service program as widely or more intensively than any other state in the nation. For example, school districts through- out the Commonwealth have ac- cess to PennServe monies which provide opportunities for students under appropriate faculty super- vision to undertake projects of community service. Some schools such as Wyoming Seminary and Scranton Prep have community service as part of their learning environment. Intergenerational projects have been undertaken by the Philadel- phiabased Institute to enable older Pennsylvanians to work with young people and carry out proj- ects such as formalizing institu- tional memories regarding certain geographic areas of greater Phila- Your caring and your concern for our mother and also for her family. Your giving of your own time and your checking on mother much more than was expected or needed, touched us deeply and will never be forgotten. God Bless each one of you. Mary La Bar's family Dallas Community service: a misunderstood resource dlephia. As an example, a project was undertaken to develop an historical reference document regarding Northeast Pennsylva- nia. The document provides memory references by older North- eastern Philadelphians and was organized through the auspices of VISTA (Volunteer In Service To America) volunteers attached to the PIESCL. The Pennsylvania Institute for Environmental and Community Service Learning has a mission of becoming a national and state- wide resource for service learning programs. The Institute intends to focus on teacher training, pro- vide educational packets and publications to further service learning initiatives, conduct re- search into service learning, con- duct service learning projects, and support the efforts of the Pennsyl- vania Department of Education and PennServe to foster school reform. Service learning means stu- dents learn by doing and giving. Rather than merely receiving in- formation in a classroom setting, students venture out into their community, making real connec- tions with other members of soci- ety and having substantial and genuine impact on a problem ‘which all members of the commu- nity share. One example of service learn- ing is the Pennsylvania Literacy Corps. This involves one on one tutoring by high school students for elementary schools students. Dr. Harry Silcox, Director of the Pennsyvlania Igstitute for Environmental Community Serv- ice learning states that “of all the service learning programs in the United States, the High School Literacy Corps has the most sig- nificant impact on the learners and volunteers, is the easiest to accomplish, and fits the school culture with the least disruption. Every school district should have a literacy corps.” In a draft document designed to promote citizen service through- out Pennsylvania, a strategic plan- ning process notes that “regional advisory boards should be estab- lished in each of the substate regions of Pennsylvania to work with the Citizen Service Project Board and to provide guidance and counsel as to ways by which community service learning can be carried out in that part of the State. From these regional Boards, members can be selected to serve on the State Board and in that way create a network which will reenforce how and in what man- ner citizen service learning takes place at the State level and within the context of each substate re- gion.” Furthermore, steps designed to increase citizen service include close collabortion with the Penn- sylvania Chamber of Business and Industry, the Pennsylvania Coun- cil on Economic Education (Eco- nomics America), Junior Achieve- ment chapters and related organi- zations. Organizations such as the State Chamber, the AFL/CIO and others should be encouraged to either contribute funding sup- port or to be a partner in helping to find financial resources to support the work of the Citizen Service Project. Among the work program ele- ments which might be developed further by the Citizen Service Project are the following: e Substantially expand literacy corps activities throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. e Develop intergenerational projects involving community histories which bring together senior citizens with young people throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsyvlania. * Expand opportunities to work with senior citizens throughout the Commonwealth and appro- priate senior citizen organizations to considerably advance a num- ber of projects undertaken by senior citizens in connection with the use of senior citizens in volun- tary capacity to support not-for- profit organizations. e¢ Promote and enhance the involvement of young people in specific projects designed to be constructive contributions to the quality of life of Pennsylvania. e Sponsor an annual citizen service symposium in Pennsylva- nia. These are a few examples of the type of thinking currently being envisioned by the Citizen Service Project Board as ways to expand the citizen service function. For those who would like more information regarding citizen serv- ice, contact can be made with the Pennsylvania Institute for Envi- ronmental and Community Serv- ice Learning, c¢/0 Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, Henry Avenue and School House Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19144. Howard Grossman is Executive Director of the Economic Develop- ment Council of Northeastern Penn- sylvania. He lives in Dallas. Only yesterday 60 Years Ago - Mar. 29, 1935 DAYLIGHT SAVINGTIME SPARKS BIG DEBATE A spirited campaign being car- ried on in Wyoming Valley in an effort to have daylight saving time, this summer evoked considerable discussion in this section con- cerning the action to be taken by Ne businessmen if the valley com-' munities agree to the plan. Con-' sensus of opinion here seemed to’ be that if Wilkes-Barre and sur-" rounding towns decide to use Daylight Saving Time, Dallas and its vicinity will almost be com-'. pelled to adopt the same system to prevent confusion among busi- nessmen and commuters. re A capacity audience applauded’ the cast of “Aren't We All" enthu- siastically as the first perform-" ance of the 1935 Benefit Show of * Dr. Henry M. Laing Co. was given * last night in Dallas Borough High School. 50 Years Ago - Mar. 23,1945 0 é BROWN, ACHOFF ARE | LISTED AS P.O.W.'S With one week to go before the: campaign closes, the Back Moun-- tain area was within $457 of reach-- . ing its $5,250 quota in the Reds rb Cross War Fund Drive. Missing in action since Decem % : ber 17, when he took part in the: Battle of the Bulge with the 28th Division, Alfred J. Brown, Shav- ertown, has been unofficially; - reported as a prisoner of the. 1" German government. ra He The War Department reported. ai! Sg. Louis Achoff of Fernbrook, radio gunner in a a Flying For: tress missing on a bombing mis-. : sion over Germany since Feb. Oto: be a prisoner of war in Germany.: You could get - Porterhouse = steak, 42¢ lb.; Crisco, 3-lb. jar; ‘x 68¢; carrots, 1g. bnch, 5¢; Rome. +. apples, 3 lbs., 25¢ 40 Years Ago - Mar. 25, 1955 FRANKLIN TWP. HIGH SCHOOL ADDITION OK. Bids for the projected shop and four classroom addition to Dal- las-Franklin Township high . school will be opened April 12, with expectation that ground will : be broken shortly thereafter. { Blueprints in their final working oe form were OK'd by Harrisburg on... Friday and bids advertised immer diately. Projected widening of Rte. 300. | from the vicinity of the Y near; Casper's Restaurant to approxi |. mately the Wyoming County line south of Beaumont, has been N ; ® approved by the Highway Depart- . i’ | ment. Work is expected to start 2 sometime this year. Bids will be : asked on April 15. The Hayloft above Harry Smith’ S : Economy Store on Huntsville Road, is a rainbow of color for today’s. opening, summer casuals crowd- ing the racks, suits and four piece outfits. Lillian Hindle and Mrs. Betty Thompson will staff the new dress shop. 30 Years Ago - Mar. 25, 1965 FIRE DESTROYS RENDERING PLANT ~~ = Jackson Township's fire siren’ wailed 24 times as Elmer Laskow- ski's rendering plant burst into flames Monday evening, one of: the few total losses in the com-" ' pany’s history. In past times one’ ofthe primary products of render- ing was grease for use in paint,’ 2 but Laskowski says the primary” ; product is now fertilizer. Mr. and Mrs. William Vivian of Centermoreland are observing their 51st wedding anniversary today. They are the parents ofone * son, Earl of Centermoreland, and’ i have three grandchildren. College Misericordia’s last" Theatre 3 presentation of the season will be Fred Waring and" his Pennsylvanians at Irem Temple: in the “Magic of Music.” 20 Years Ago - Mar. 27, 1975 SHAVERTOWN Soi "3 WILL BE SOLD Dallas School Board passdb" resolution to sell the Shavertown" Elementary School Building and’ grounds at a special meeting -* Tuesday night. The Public School" - Code enables the school district to sell the building and premises; of approximately 2.13 acres lo- ° cated on Route 309 and West Center Street. Sec. Tom Jenkins was instructed to publish requests for sealed bids beginning March 31. Bids willbe opened ata public meeting April 29. More than 600 anxious young-, - » sters showed up at Dallas Junior” High School gymnasium March 22 for theannual Easter Egg Hunt sponsored by Dallas Junior Woman's Club. The highlight of the afternoon were conversations with “Mr. Bunny”, Elby’s Big Boy and a clown who were on hand to greet the children. RATES, -
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