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The Dallas Post
60 Years Ago - Oct. 23,1936
LANDONTO GIVE ED.R.
GOOD RUN IN ELECTION
Voters residing in small towns
and rural America have registered
a.straw vote for President. The
majority are favoring Republican
Gov. Alf M. Landon over Demo-
cratic candidate Franklin D.
Roosevelt. Getting down to cases,
the battle fronts will very defi-
nitely be in New York, Pennsylva-
nia, New Jersey, Illinois and Mis-
souri. Franklin D. Roosvelt will
most likely be re-elected to the
presidency according to results of
a poll taken among 5,145 news-
paper editors by Liberty Maga-
zine.
The Dallas Junior Woman's
Club will sponsor a Bingo Party at
Suburban Inn Oct. 23. Proceeds
of their party will go into the gen-
eral fund to furnish milk and soup
to the undernourished children
and also to supply Thanksgiving
baskets which it has been the
custom of the club to give each
year.
50 Years Ago - Oct. 25, 1946
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES
FINALLY ARRIVE
. Two hundred fifty safe deposit
boxes on order for almost two
years have been received and in-
stalled by First National Bank.
Shortly after their arrival here from
a plant in Ohio, a representative
came from New York City and
spent three days installing them.
Along list of customers who waited
torent the boxes almost exhausted
LIBRARY
NEWS
By NANCY KOZEMCHAK
The Back Mountain Memorial
Library is featuring a collage of
library auction photographs in the
referenceroomat the library. This
group of photos is from the first
library auction which was held on
June 14, 1947. The idea of an
auction was suggested by Ruth
LeGrand and Alice Howell and
supported by Howard Risley, who
offered his barn on Lehman Av-
enue, for the site and served as
chairman for the first three years
of the auction.
Attics and cellars were emp-
tied, barns and garages were
cleaned...and the result from the
first auction was a net of $3,000
for the library! It was a common
thing in the beginning to auction
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the supply as soon as they were
installed.
A former Marine Corps gunner,
David Jenkins, Davenport Street,
general manager of Standard
Equipment Co., Wilkes-Barre, was
appointed to fill the unexpired
term of the late Clyde N. Lapp at a
meeting of the Dallas Borough
School Board Friday evening. He
will serve until December 1947.
In other business Joe LaValle and
Ken Grose representing the Ameri-
can Legion asked permission for
use of the gym one night a week
for basketball games at which ad-
mission would be charged. The
board took the matter under ad-
visement.
40 Years Ago - Oct. 19, 1956
SALK POLIO VACCINE
AVAILABLE FOR KIDS
Borough President Joe
MacVeigh issued a stern warning
to all hunters this week that dis-
charge of firearms will not be per-
mitted in Dallas Borough. There's
a State law which prohibits the
discharge of firearms within the
« proximity of homes as well as a
Borough Ordinance which out-
laws the use of guns within the
borough limits.
According to action taken at a
recent meeting of Luzerne County
Medical Association, Salk vaccine
preventative against polio will be
given by private physicians and
not as a service of the public
schools. There is enough vaccine
for any child who wishes it and
quantities on hand are increasing
to a notable extent. No child will
be deprived of protection.
You could get - Legs O' Lamb,
59¢ Ib.; cut-up [fryer breasts, 65¢
Ib.; pears, 3 Ibs. 39¢; onions, 5
Ibs. 19¢; Raisin bread. 19¢ loaf;
Cherry pies. 49c¢ ea.
30 Years Ago - Oct. 20, 1966
TWO AREA POST
OFFICES DEDICATED
Not once in a blue moon do two
past offices within seven miles of
each other schedule dedications
on the same day. Dallas and
Harveys Lake are making news.
Both structures modern to the
last detail have been put into ser-
vice within the past several
months. Both will be dedicated
with due ceremony on Saturday.
The Harveys Lake dedication will
occur at 11 a.m. Dallas dedica-
tion will be at 2 p.m.
Zip-Code forms have been dis-
tributed in the Back Mountain.
Local post offices ask residents fill
out the addresses most frequently
used and send back cards as soon
as possible. Postmasters also ask
that when a resident mails a let-
ter, he put on the return address
his own Zip-Code number.
20 Years Ago - Oct. 21,1976
DAMA CRACKS DOWN ON
SEWER SCOFFLAWS
DAMA at its Oct. 14 meeting
moved to take “stringent” action
against any properly owners in
the Back Mountain area who have
not paid their sewer assessments
in full upon receipt of Oct. 1
billing. Since Oct. 1 billing was
delayed the authority determined
that it would take no legal action
against property owners provid-
ing their bills are paid by Oct. 29.
Unless assessments are paid in
full DAMA will not have the funds
needed to pay off the assessmnt
bonds sold to finance construc-
tion of the Back Mountain sewer
system when final bond payments
become due
Police Committee Chairman
Willard Newberry reported to Dal-
las councilmen Tuesday that the
borough police had reached an
agreement on their contract for
the coming year. Police accepted
a wage increase of $500 per year
over this year’s salary and an
additional $150 for holiday work.
They will work 40 hours per week
and receive time and a half for
overtime.
Old auction photos are on
display at the BMT library
off livestock and families often
went home with a new cat or dog.
The first picture is a group of
people at the bidding in front of
the Risley barn, which served as
the block from 1947 through 1971.
The second photo is a large group
of people mostly standing during
the bidding. A picture of Harry
Ohlman, 1951 chairman taking
bids with Norti Berti and Herman
Thomas helping with a lamb. An
early 1950's picture shows Harry
demonstrating an exercise bike.
Children gathered around
Herman Thomas and a baby lamb
waiting for auction. A bathing
suit was modeled by a slim beauty
as Bob Bachman was the auc-
tioneer. The winner of the bid
gave the acquired bathing suit to
the model.
New books at the library: “On
With The Story” by John Barth
uses the venerable literary device
Trail of Tears.
of the bedtime story, which links
fictions as different as The Ara-
bian Nights and Charlotte's Web.
It weaves stories from an ongoing,
high spirited but deadly serious
nocturnal game of tale-telling by
a more or less desperate loving
couple vacationing at their ‘last
resort’. The novel explores love in
modern life and postmodern lit-
erature.
“Pushing the Bear” by Diane
Glancy is a novel of the trail of
tears. It takes place in 1838 when
13,000 Cherokee-forced off their
lands in North Carolina, Alabama,
Georgia and Tennessee—walked
900 miles through four winter
months on what is known as the
They were up-
rooted from their homes, betrayed
by the government that they had
treated with respectand struggled
to undersand how to make a new
life.
Thanks to person who returned lost wallet,
Editor:
This is in heartfelt thanks to
the person who found the wallet I
had lost at Boscov's in Wilkes-
Barre on Sunday, October 6 and
took the time and effort to mail it
to me with contents fully intact.
As | was
saying
Jack Hilsher
Another casualty of our chang-
ing civilization went Chapter 11
recently. Smith Corona Corpora-
tion, last of the American type-
writer makers, is probably stone
cold by now. You could call them
the latest casualty of computers
and you'd be right. But that is
sad, not the sort of progress we
need.
When I was 12 and tender, my
parents gave me an upright L.C.
Smith. Heavy, noisy, cumbersome
to use...I loved it. Since then I've
had uncounted, and largely unre-
membered, instruments from por-
tables to electrics to a word pro-
cessor, but I still miss that old
upright.
It always sounded right. as
though your words meant some-
thing to it. “Clack-clack-clack,” it
went: It understood your
thoughts, accepted them, and
decisively recorded them on pa-
per.
My word processor does not do
that. It goes “sneck-sneck-sneck,”
sneakily, sort of, as though it was
reluctantly doing your bidding but
didn’t think much of what you
were saying. It never makes a
mistake on its own, like my up-
Your incredible act of kindness
and honesty has saved me count-
less future hours, days, and weeks
of agonizing over its whereabouts
and of attempting to replace its
lost contents.
You were quite literally an an-
swer to prayer. Though you chose
to remain anonymous, God ts
know your identity. Be assured
you are and will remain in my,
thoughts and prayers. God Bless!
and Keep You Always. You truly
walk in His Service.
Diana Lynn Tabbit.
Dallag
Glorious memories of the -
friendly manual typewriter
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right did. It never tilts a leller, or
darkens a word, and you never
getyour fingers inky when chang-
ing a ribbon. It's not the same.
At one time L.C. Smith had a
workforce 0f4,200 in upstate New
York, and shared a $1.6 billion
market with Royal, Remington,
and Underwood. Today the only
manual manufacturer is Olivetti,
an Italian company which makes
machines in Mexico and sells them
to the military for use in places
without electricity.
You can pick up hardly-used
portables in flea markets [or a few
bucks, and even that superbly-
designed IBM Selectric for a few
dollars more. Allare a far cry from
the first machines in the late
1800's, when aman named Chris-
topher Sholes [inally (after 51 oth-
ers had tried and failed) made one
which could write faster than a
clerk could in longhand with a
pen.
Sholes was called "the 52nd
man toinvent the typewriter," and
had tried but discarded many dif-
ferent models. (Think ofthe num-
ber of times he and others used
the Ulysses S. Grant campaign
slogan, “Now is the time for all
good men to come to the aid of
their party.”)
Remington bought his patent
and continued to use his inelli-
cient scattering of letters on the
keyboard. Other keyboard ar-
rangements never caught on.
Mark Twain said, “The little joker
Not Good With any other Offers.
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error in judgment by the wéll-"
meaning but misguided ladies of
the YW.CA."
Women who until then had
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worked at low-paying jobs in fagc- :
tories, schools or stores rushed to
learn the trade, which offered a |
substantially higher salary and
promised entry into the glamor-
ous world of business.
By the
year 1900, 60.000 female “type-
writers”
later and “secretaries” were all
men) were working at their ma-
chines in offices across the na-
tion.
Newspapers switched to word.
(the word “typist” came
processors long ago, and then to
personal computers. Yet there
are still some repair shops inbusi-
ness still accepting and fixing
manual typewriters. One shop
owner in New York said, “There
will always be manuals, and not
justin museums. There are people
who are not comfortable with com:
puters.”
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