i, { PAGE4 THE POST EDITO RIAL 4 Sunday, October 16, 2005 | MOMENTS IN TIME The History Channel ® On Oct. 19,178, British General Lord Cornwallis surrenders 7,087 officers and men, 900 seamen, 144 cannons, 15 galleys, a frigate and 30 transport ships to a larger French-American force. Pleading ill- ness, Lord Cornwallis did not attend the surrender ceremony. ® On Oct. 22,1797, the first parachute jump of note is made by Andre-Jacques Garnerin from a hydrogen balloon 3,200 feet above Paris. He landed shaken but unhurt a half-mile from the balloon’s takeoff point. * On Oct. 18,1922, “Robin Hood,” starring Douglas Fairbanks, opens at Grauman'’s Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. As a publicity stunt two weeks before the premiere, Fairbanks and several others shot arrows from atop a hotel and accidentally injured a man through an open window (the man agreed not to press charges). ® On Oct. 20,1947, the House Un-American Activities Committee of the U.S. Congress opens its investigation into communist infiltration of the American movie industry. Protesting witnesses, called the “Hollywood Ten,” were found in contempt of Congress and went on to serve jail terms. ® On Oct. 21,1967, violence erupts as more than 100,000 protesters march on the Pentagon to ask for an end to the Vietnam conflict. By the time order was restored, 683 people, including novelist Norman Mailer and two UPI reporters, had been arrested. ® On Oct. 23,1971, Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Fla. Disney World would later include EPCOT Center, based on Walt Disney's vision of a Utopian planned community. (EPCOT stands for Experi- mental Prototype Community of Tomorrow.) ® On Oct. 17,1994, taxicab driver Jeremy Levine returns to London from a round-trip journey to Cape Town, South Africa. Passengers Mark Aylett and Carlos Aresse paid 40,000 pounds, or approximately $65,000, for the 21,691-mile trip. (c) 2005 King Features Synd., Inc. STRANGE BUT TRUE * Before he became famous for writing such masterworks of sci- ence fiction as “The Time Machine,” “The Invisible Man,” “The Island of Dr. Moreau" and “The War of the Worlds,” H.G. Wells wrote text- books on biology. ¢ |t has been estimated that it can take up to 50,000 years for a plastic container to decompose. ® This sounds like it could be an observation made by any of a num- ber of modern authors: “Our ignorance of history causes us to slan- der our own times.” You might be surprised to learn, then, that it was 17th-century French novelist Gustave Flaubert who is credited with that quote. ® For the first six or so months after birth, a baby can breathe and swallow at the same time. If you're old enough to be able to read this, you can't do it - go ahead and try. * Renowned novelist William Faulkner was a high-school dropout. He later decided to take a few courses at the University of Mis- sissippi in Oxford, but he didn't fare well there, either - he made a D in English. * Those who study such matters say that California by itself consti- tutes the fifth-largest economy in the world. * The next time you're out on a date, be careful about how you treat the wait staff. In a recent survey of singles, 43 percent of re- spondents said they pay close attention to a date’s behavior toward servers. e At an auction in New York, a man got what he thought was a bargain on a used car. He got a bit more than he bargained for, though; when he opened the trunk, he found a dead body. Investiga- tion showed that the car had been sitting on the lot for three months. AMERICAN LEGION DONATES TO LIBRARY The Daddow-Isaacs Post 672 American Legion of Dallas re- cently made a monetary donation to the Back Mountain Memo- rial Library. The Legion has been making the donations, which is used for the purchase of books on military topics, for years. Ac- cepting the donation from Commander John Emil Sr. is library director Martha Butler. What's in store for these apples? The might find themselves baking inside a pie. Maybe they'll be crushed and made into homemad applesauce. Or perhaps they'll be processed into a delicious apple cider, which tastes great on a chilly autumn afternoon. 2, LIBRARY NEWS The following new books have been added to the collection at the Back Mountain Memorial Library, 96 Huntsville Road, Dallas. For more information, call the library at 675-182. EXPRESS (1 Week Loan) “Angels in the Gloom" by Anne Perry “Perfect Nightmare" by John Saul “Lipstick Jungle” by Candace Bushnell “The Lincoln Lawyer” by Mi- chael Connelly “Cinnamon Kiss" by Walter Mosley “Iron Orchid” by Stuart Woods “13 Steps Down" by Ruth Rendell FICTION “Angelsin. the Gloom’ by Anne Perry “Anansi Boys" by Neil Gaiman “Perfect Nightmare" by John Saul “Lipstick Jungle” by Candace Bushnell “The Cinderella Hour" by Kathe- rine Stone “Fury” by Robert Tanenbaum “The Last Days of Dogtown" by Anita Diamant “Slow Man” by J.M. Coetzee “Dinner with a Perfect Stranger” by David Gregory “Fan-Tan" by Marlon Brando “Wickett's Remedy" by Myla Goldberg “Iron Orchid” by Stuart Woods “Blue Smoke" by Nora Roberts “The Lincoln Lawyer" by Mi- chael Connelly “Flashback” by Gary Braver “Cinnamon Kiss" by Walter Mosley “Poison Study" by Maria V. Snyder “The Widow of the South” by Robert Hicks “The Zahir" by Paulo Coelho “Half Broken Things" by Morag Joss “The Foretelling” by Alice Hoff- man “A Breath of Show and Ashes” by Diana Gabaldon NONFICTION "Bait and Switch” by Barbara Ehrenreich “100 People Who Are Screwing Up America" by Bernard Goldb- erg “Approval Addiction” by Joyce Meyer “And One More Thing Before “Approval Addiction” by Joyce Meyer : “And One More Thing Before You Go “ by Maria Shriver MYSTERY “Belle Ruin” by Martha Grimes “Demon of the Air” by Simon Levack “13 Steps Down" by Ruth Rendell “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers” by Yiyun Li BOOKSONCD « “The Daughter of Time” by Josephine Tey “The Curious Incident of the Qog in the Night-Time" by Mark Had- 4 don | YOUNG ADULT “Under the Persimmon Tree” by Suzanne Fisher Staples “America’s Battle Against Ter- rorism"” edited by Andrea C. ©" Nakaya “Capital Punishment” edited oe Mary E. Williams “Drug Legalization” edited by Karen F. Balkin “Iraq” edited by Andrea C. Na“ kaya “Homeland Security” by Andres C. Nakaya it SPECIAL DONATIONS, “Royal Russia: the private al-- bums of the Russian Imperial Family” by Carol Townend, pre- sented by Mrs. Catherine Gour- ley Tae POST TIMES® LEADER Community Newspaper Group 15 N. Main St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18711 ® 570-675-5211 thepost@leader.net Patrick McHugh PUBLISHER David C. Konopki EDITOR Erika Calvert ADVERTISING 70 YEARS AGO ~ Oct.18, 1935 LEHMAN FARMER HAS BUMPER CROP For the third consecutive year, George L. Rice of Lehman has es- tablished his right to member- ship in Pennsylvania’s exclusive 400-bushel Potato Club. Mr. Rice, with the assistance of his son, reports a yield of 454 bush- els to an acre this year. In 1933, he had one acre which yield- ed 477 bushels and last year his yield was 450 bush- ONLY YESTERDAY els. The construction of an addi- tion to Dallas Borough High School was one step nearer to re- alization this week as directors prepared to submit plans for the annex to Works Progress Admin- istration officials. The directors will then learn if the project can be financed with federal funds. LV. Lacey, the architect, showed a plan for a building which would contain four more classrooms and which would cost about $25,000. 60 YEARS AGO Oct.19, 1945 AMERICAN LEGION MEMBERSHIP GROWS Revitalized by new blood and sparked by the admission of eight new members, 22 mem- bers of the Daddow-Isaac Post American Legion held their semi-monthly meeting at the Back Mountain Memorial Li- brary. The group discussed plans for a new Legion Home lo- cation. The first step in the campaign to raise funds will be a communi- ty square and round dance at the Dallas Borough High School au- ditorium on November 2. Barbara Ann Katacinski, 4, is in Nesbitt Memorial Hospital with a broken pelvis and body bruises she received when she was knocked down by a truck Wednesday afternoon in front of the Shavertown Fire House. The truck was driven by a rug sales- man from Wilkes-Barre. The youngster was playing in the yard of the Fire House while her mother, the former Marion Heale, was helping prepare for a party at the Fire House. No one witnessed the accident and nei- ther the driver nor other chil- dren who were playing nearby were able to explain how it hap- pened. 50 YEARS AGO Oct.14, 1955 HUNTSVILLE CHRISTIAN NOTES ANNIVERSARY The presence at the Hunts- ville Christian Church of the Rev. Edward J. Bruce of Pitts- burgh next Sunday morning will lend significance to the celebra- tion of the 112th anniversary of the church and the dedication of the new educational building. An invitation is extended to all to attend the worship service at 9:30 a.m. and the Bible school at 10:30 a.m. Sunday will also mark the fourth anniversary of the first use of the parsonage. The Rev. and Mrs. C. H. Frick will be at home to friends and members of the church from 3 to 6 in the af- ternoon. 40 YEARS AGO Oct.14, 1965 COUNCIL SECRETARY SUBMITS RESIGNATION Dallas Borough council secre- tary Robert Brown announced that he has accepted a position as assistant vice president of the First National Bank of Sayre, and that he must resign a council sec- retary in the near future, Council President Harold Brobst said that Brown, in his 10 years as sec- § retary, has done “an extraordin- ary job,” far above the demands of his salaried position. William A. Austin of Monroe Township was officially desig- nated as elementary principal of the Dallas-Franklin-Monroe Township jointure at last Tues- day night's school board meet- ing. Fred Case was appointed as head teacher at Beaumont. Mrs. Stella Lancio, head of the main building cafeteria, will as- sume administrative duties over the Monroe Township cafeteria. The Lehman-Jackson Little League team was honored for winning the Back Mountain championship by receiving tro- phies at the Lehman-Jackson- Ross PTA meeting. The team has won the championship five times in the last six years. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 9, 1975 FLOOD CONTROL PROJECT OK’D William Sherksnas announced approval by the General State Authority of a $185,000 flood control project for the Warden Place section of Harveys Lake at Harveys Lake Borough Council meeting Thursday. Sherksnas said the GSA had appointed GEO technical servic- es, consulting engineers and ge- ologists to begin the preliminary work on the project, Dates an- nounced in connection with the project include the preliminary design date, Oct 28; the prepara- tion and drawing deadlines, Jan 28, 1765 and May 29, 1975 was set as the date when final bid- ding documents are to be ready. More than 400 parents visited the College Misericordia cam- pus over the weekend in partici- pate in a series of activities con- ducted by the students of the honor of fall parents weekend. Some parents arrived on campus Saturday for an informal meet- ing with college personnel and a buffet dinner with the students. J Room of Merrick Hall. Invitations for the seven: nual Starlight Ball have “ak mailed, according to the wor n- an’s auxiliary of Wilkes-Barr General Hospital. The all-p: tron event will be held on Sat- urday evening, Nov. 8 at Gus Genetti Hotel. Mrs. Albert Schiowitz, cil man of the ball, and Mrs. Julian S. Long, co-chairman, have indi- cated that proceeds will be used to help fulfill the auxiliary’s commitment to the General Hospital's $8 million expansion program. - 20 YEARS AGO 5g Oct. 9, 1985 i ud DALLAS BAND WINS COMPETITION: The Dallas High Sc marching band was victori in the 15th annual “Battle of th Bands” competition sponso by the Arthritis Foundation a Wilkes-Barre Memorial Sta um. The band won first place ho ors in Group II competition as well as specialty trophies for music and band front. Steinkirchner was selected “Soloist of the Show,” Mark is a senior and plays trumpet. i 3 This fall, the nearly 1.5 lion students across the Unit States who take the Prelimi Scholastic Aptitude Test-N: tional Merit Scholarship Qu: fying Test will have a special o portunity to familiarize the selves with the testing fo also used on the Scholastic A; titude Test. On the PSAT-NMSQT, the | nior students taking the test at Dallas Senior High School.ex Oct. 19 can “preview” the e3 Xz process for the SAT-the pre uisite for many college- students, said Patricia Russ the school guidance staff,
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