es (3 1 a & { John W. Johnson The Dallas Post Dallas, PA Wednesday, March 20, 1996 5 A e How incredibly ironic, (and typically intellectually dishonest), ‘that the woman in the famous Roe “v'Wade abortion ‘case was bap- ‘tized'last year. The irony is that she was baptized by an ardent ‘pro-life minister who also ardently opposes homosexuality. The ‘woman is gay. .» «Even ifthey were only going to ‘run -a bake sale, the joining of Louis Farrakhan and Mohmmar Kadafy, is something for the world towatch very carefully. Both men have long histories of advocating violence to achieve political ends. As'such, they are not reasonable, nor acceptable participants in the ‘political process of freedom loving ‘humans anywhere. ""e'’As many now struggle to make enids meet following the lemming ‘like rush to feed the Christmas monster, it would do all of us good to pause and keep uppermost in our minds that a person is re- membered by what he or she gives, not what he or she owns. | le Keeping warm this winter shauld not include getting behind the wheel of a car after drinking alcohol. And forget all that non- sense, about some people can ‘hold theirliquor'.....any alcohol in your bloodstream slows reaction time and impairs judgment. Period. And isn't it ironic that Bobby Library slates "Special Lunch" The Friends of the Back Mountain Memorial Library, Dallas, has set the date for the Eighth Annual “Luncheon with a Special Author.” The luncheon willbe held Thursday, April 25, at the Appletree Terrace, Newberry Estate, Dallas, with a social ‘period starting at 11:30 a.m. and the luncheon at 12 noon. The guest speaker will be poetess June Nelson of Kingston. Pictured are, from left, JoAnn Hall and Cynthia Eckman, co- . chairperson of the event. Ironic notes from all over Unser, Jr., a man who makes his living behind the wheel of fast automobiles, agreed to affix his name to an organization lobbying Congress not to increase taxes on beer? e Contrary to his protesta- tions—and he once made them to me—Dr. Edward Teller, along with J. Robert Oppenheimer, were the parents of the atomic bomb. What makes this all the more ironic is that in 1995, Teller made a com- plete about face. While listening to a group of soldiers at a 50th anniversary of the end of World Warll, the 87-year old Teller heard for the first time, first-hand ac- counts of how the bomb had saved many, many American lives. Fol- lowing his hearing of those ac- counts, Teller said he reached the “unshakable fact” that the bomb had saved lives. In the age of institutionalized mea culpas, perhaps Teller and Robert McNamara ought to go on tour together. e [t was alittle more than ayear ago (January 17) that a powerful earthquake, measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale struck Kobe, central Japan, killing more than 5,000 persons. Not a well known fact— and not to spread unnecessary alarm—is that the Wayne County and much of the area along the Delaware River lies along one of the United States’ 13 major earth- quake fault lines. It is ironic, however, that what most developers complain about in this area—poor drainage and bedrock—is nature's way of keep- ing our fault line from shifting dramatically. There is the occa- sional tremor—such as the one just west of Reading recently which measured 2.3 on the Richter scale—but nothing of great con- sequence. * Even as financial institutions worldwide continue to feel the ef- fects of British merchant bank Barings PLC's collapse, bankers here fail to see the irony that the continuing trend toward automa- tion, mergers and increased fees by virtually breathing bank air. is slowly driving away the small busi- nessman, this economy's stabi- lizing force. A significant amount of business which banks used to enjoy is now conducted in the underground economy through barter and other forms of ex- change. And that will only grow as banks become more and more distant {rom the customers they allegedly serve. e While this nation is rightfully concerned about who will control, and what will happen to the former Soviet Union's nuclear arsenal, the irony is that this illustrates yet again how federal the mind becomes when the reach exceeds the grasp. Our major concern comes in much smaller packages, much smaller doses, and is wielded by much less reasonable minds. Eleven people died, and more than 5,000 were injured last March 20 in a nerve attack on the Tokyo subway by the Aum Shinri Kyo religious sect. It is the [ringe,. in particular those whose strength is found in religious fervor, that the world should worry about. We have to look no further than the April, 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City to see what the fervor of zealots can pro- duce. Lehman board (continued from page 1) sabbatical leaves for the following teachers: « a medical sabbatical leave for Margaret Holmgren for the 1996- 97 school year; + a sabattical leave for study to Virginia Ide for the 1996-97 school year; - « a sabattical leave for study to Sandra Goodwin for the 1996-97 schoal year: « the second half of a sabbatical leave for travel to Cheryl Phillips for the second semester of the 1996-97 school year. - Board member Rose Howard said for now she realizes that sab- baticals are state mandated, but soon’ the laws will be changing and she “will not vote for any sabbatical leaves unless for medi- cal purposes,” claiming that it would save the district a lot of money. : + Allen Moss went a step further, saying he “would not vote even for medical reasons,” asking the au- dience, “how many of you get paid for fedical leaves from your jobs?" Tax windfall from golf club The district may see an increase of about $43,000 in property tax revenues from a recent reassess- ment of the Huntsville golf course in" Lehman Twp., owned by Maplemoor, Inc. Due to a provision in the sc hool code, the district may be able to recover some additional tax rev- enues' from the period after the initial assessment, according lo Savage. He added that the own- ersof the golf course have 45 days aller receipt of the notice lo ap- peal.’ ‘Savage also announced that the district's bond issue which was {o be refinanced last week was put on hold due to the recent instability of the bond market. Savage said if the refinancing had gone through the way they had hoped, “it would have resulted in a‘savings of $106,000.” However, as of late last week, the net savings amount “dropped in" excess of $20.000." he said. Therefore. he continued. the un- derwriters and bond counsel scheduled to make their presen- tation ‘that evening were nol present because “they felt they should put the issue on hold until the market stabilizes.” Superintendent William Price announced in his report that Dr. Graham B. Spanier, president of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity will visit Lake-Lehman High School on March 21. The visit is part of a statewide initiative to rededicate the university to the students it serves and to allow the students to increase their under- standing of Penn State and higher education in general. Price also mentioned that the district will receive $13,800 un- der the Goals 2000 grant issued through the state Department of Education. In addition, he said tentative approval was granted for the funding of two satelllite dishes as well costs for installa- tion. In other academic news, board member, Karen Whipple read a memo from high school principal John Oliver noting that Lake- Lehman high school students re- cently participating in a TEAMS Competition at Penn State, Wilkes- Barre, captured a first place tro- phy. The one day competition challenged students to work as a team using their skills, references and calculators to solve real-life engineering problems. They com- peted against seven other area schools including Dallas, MMI, Valley West, Bishop Hoban, Crestwood, Pittston and Nanticoke. The Board also: « approved the first reading of a district wide weapons policy. « appointed Kathleen Williams as assistant secretary to the board effective as soon as appropriate bonding is secured. e accepted the following teacher substitutes pending Act 34 clear- ance: Diane Stilp - elementary Thomas Traver - elementary Daniel Walker - elementary Amy Lynn Comitz-Thomas - elementary During the visitor's comments, Cathy Cebrick, a Lake Twp. resi- dent, claimed she had not receive an answer from last month's board meeting where she asked permis- sion toobserve classes at the Lake- Noxen elementary school which her daughter attends. She said 1 neither superintendent Price nor board president Ed Kern have: given her an answer and she feels she's “being discriminated against, because she knows other parents have been invited to ob- serve classes.” She further stated that she is "not a troublemaker” and quite the contrary, has even volunteered in the past with the district's pre- school program. Price responded that his an- swer is in letter form and would be mailed to her, stating that “visita- tion, if you follow the normal chan- nels, is no problem.” He also said, “we're trying to establish a policy on classroom observation.” I CAReed GATEWAY SHOPPING CENTER 10% OFF OUR ALREADY DISCOUNTED PRICES ON COMMUNION ‘PAPER TABLE WARE & ACCESSORIES With This Coupon - Expires 4/22/96 NO OTHER DISCOUNTS APPLY. L _PHONE 283-1918 or; PHARMACY 159 N. Memorial Hwy, Shavertown, PA 675-1191 Jack Hilsher Ordinarily I wouldn't bother you with dry statistics. They are sel- dom exciting enough to make good reading, and there is also that old adage which claims figures don't lie but liars can figure. But there are some numbers and the things they foretell which have been thrown around recently that scare me, and make me feel very fortunate to be living in my own age, that is, before The One to Come. A word that crops up in all this stuff is “down-size.” As | under- stand it, down-size simply means a company lays off sizeable chunks of people to the point where it can still compete and at the same time save sizeable sums in salaries and benefits. The human side of such action By NANCY KOZEMCHAK The Back Mountain Memorial Library will hold a special pro- gram for young adults at the li- brary in the community room on Wednesday, March 27 from 7- 8:30 p.m. It will be a “Make-Over Pro- gram”; teaching make-up tips and hair styling success. The pro- gram will be conducted by a Mary Kay representative and Country Scissors pesonnel. Registration is required. Sign up will be taken at the front desk in the library or you may register over the phone at 675-1182. Other programs will be held at a later date; a program of multi- culture for the entire family; a computer day [or senior cilizens or older adults; a program on community involvement; and a A disturbing future vision seems secondary. The company may or may not help in relocation, and there is always the assump- tion that those laid off will find other jobs. Alter all, the concept of being born, growing up, getting mar- ried, retiring and dying, all in the same community - even neigh- borhood - long ago disappeared. So why shouldn't the concept of being hired, working throughout a career and retiring, all with the same company, also vanish? Granted, our society is more mobile now, and all those con- cepts have become old-fashioned. But what scares me is the work- place vision and the new concepts which replace them. “By the end of the decade” is the watchword, but I'd rather not be around to witness the paperless office or the robotic assembly lines. Case in point: Our offices each year use almost a trillion pieces of paper, enough to cover the earth. But by decades end these pieces of paper will be no more. No longer will file clerks be needed to file. No longer will typists be needed to type. Voice recognition equipment will produce the let- ters, but not on paper. Aetna's info manager says, “Paper in a service business is like choles terol in the bloodstream. 1tcle up the arteries.” Instead, alt a will be stored electronically:® *+ Secretarial pool? Private sec- retaries? Already in a steep de- cline because of things like: by I- sonal computers, fax mack and E-mail. Rec nh used to pay them more so they would dress better SE 1 met the public. Now Bell reséafc is developing an EAL ceplionist” to answer calls, record messages and huntdown theparty being called. (It is not conten- plated, at least so far, that the device would make coffee.) , ., Worst case: Olivetti research has computers for five people 10 converse and work together elec tronically. Each computersciden has five windows so participahis can see each other on the screen as they share information!:!the reason being given is “so we! can recapture some of the flexibility and human warmth that elec- tronic communication has lacked.” gn 2001? You can haveit. , , 18% i ei AES eat ‘Young adults' Make-over Day slated for March 27: stress buster iota The dates and times for the future programs will be announced in the future. New books at the library: “Commonwealth Avenue” by Linda Nevins begins with the finding of an extraordinary diary, hidden for decades in a one-hundred- year-old mansion on Common- wealth Avenue in Boston. Au- gusta Hillyard began that diary on her wedding day in 1881. Over the years, she recorded her most intimate details of her life of com- fort and privilege as well as the declining fortunes that ultimately threatens to destroy. “Riding Shotgun” by Rita Mae Brown draws us into the world of racy wil, acerbic insight, and un- forgettable characters that have earned her the title ‘queen of the Southern sexual farce’. For Cig, nothing can cloud the excitement of tomorrow's hunt. Dizzied by the demands of single mother- hood and her flaky real-estate cli- ents, Cig feels truly alive only Yi Mie when she’s {lying over a jump on her favorite horse. “In The Presence of the Enemy” by Elizabeth George is a powerful story; a chilling tale of betrayal, vengeance, and murder. Hailed as the ‘king of sleaze’, tabloid edi- tor Dennis Luxford is used to fer- reting out the sins and scafidgls of people in exposed positiohs. When he opens an innocuous- looking letter addressed to him at “The Source’, he discovers tat someone else excels at ferréting out secrets as well. “Going To The Sun” by James McManus begins when Penelope Culligan agrees toaccompanyher boyfriend on a camping trip-into the wilds of Alaska. She, Jgy0 immersed in the first throgs: Of love that she barely registérs the dramatic majesty ofthe surrqung- ing landscape. This landscape j Ss brought rather harshly into réltef, however, when her beloved Pavic is savagely attacked by a Say bear. Advertising in the Post It works for me. . ’ Bak hg he BBB 8,8 Eh § Fran Ochman has operated a jewelry and coin business in Dallas since 1979, and has advertised in The Dallas Post since the store opened. chman Coins & Jewelry is the store of choice for plenty of Back Mountain jewelry and coin buyers, because Fran Ochman has stocked her shop with a wide array of desirable and fairly-priced items. She used the Post to advertise diamond hearts for Valentine's Day, and was pleased with the response. Of course, the Post is known for careful and committed readers in the Back Mountain, but Fran was startled The Dallas Post A Hometown Paper You Can Feel Good About 3 recently Ochman COINS & JEWELRY 18 Church Street Dallas, Pennsylvania last year to pick up a customer from Arizona through Post ads. It seems a, 0 former resident gets the paper, and clips ads and i. + articles of interest. She ‘wi brought them with heron - a visit, and stopped in to pickup afew pieces. Now = “™™% she's a steady customer, if a long-distance one. Near or far, Fran Ochman knows she can count on advertising in The Dallas Post to bring in old and new customers. So can you. FGI Pp Ale 4 ~ FONE & Y ‘G9 ™ EE hat fa al en a Ta Bat ta a” Sat A A TTT PEE REET
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