L PAGE4 THE POST EDITORIAL Sunday, October 23, 2005 ® LIBRARY NEWS Haunted Library open Oct. 23, 28, 29 and 30 By CAROL KING Library Volunteer The public is invited to visit this year’s Haunted Library from 5-9 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 23 at the Back Mountain Memorial Li- brary on Huntsville Road in Dal- las. The Haunted Library will also be open from 6-11 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28 and Saturday, Oct. 29, as well as 5-9 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30. The admission is $6 and all proceeds benefit the library. Fred Krohl, manager of the Slightly Read Bookshop, has closed the bookshop until Nov. 2. Fred is seeking a volunteer for the shop on Wednesday afternoons. Fred would like the volunteer to work from 2-7 p.m., but the hours are flexible. Stop in at the book- shop or inquire at the library’s desk. You may also call 675-1182. * * * Amnesty Week at the library takes place Nov. 14-19. Bring in your overdue books and tapes, and all penalties will be waived. The annual citrus fruit sale will be held in November, as usual, with delivery in December. Watch for flyers and order blanks which will be available soon. The products make excellent gifts for individuals and businesses. Another reminder for holiday giving: the 2006 Entertainment Book is available at the library for $25.Librarian Martha Butler says the book is more focused on the Back Mountain area than before. The coupons are valid and will be good until Nov. 1, 2006. Carol King is a volunteer at the Back Mountain Memorial Library. Her library news column appears in The Post every other week. MOMENTS The History Channel IN TIME e On Oct. 28,1886, the Statue of Liberty, a gift from France to the United States, is dedicated in New York Harbor. The 151 foot statue was originally known as “Liberty Enlightening the World.” e On Oct. 27,1904, the first subway system in America is opened in New York City. The first route ran north from City Hall, under Lafayette Street and Park Avenue to Grand Central Station, west along 42nd Street to Times Square, then north on Broadway to 145th Street. ® On Oct. 25,1912, comedian Minnie Pearl, destined to be- come a longtime fixture of Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, is born. Pearl was famous for her comic monologues about hillbilly life. e On Oct. 30,1938, radio program Mercury Theater on the Air presents H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds,” a fictional drama about a Martian invasion in New Jersey. The program sparked panic among millions of listeners who believed the play was an actual news broadcast. e On Oct. 29,1954, the last Hudson motorcar is manufac- tured. Although rarely a top seller, Hudson was responsible for a number of important automotive innovations, including placement of the steering wheel on the left side. ® On Oct. 24,1969, movie star Richard Burton dazzles wife Elizabeth Taylor when he buys her a 69-carat Cartier diamond ring costing $1.5 million. His purchase of the famous Cartier diamond was the product of a fight in which Burton called Tay- lor's hands large and ugly. She responded that in that case, he'd better buy her the 69-carat ring she wanted so that her hands would look smaller and more attractive. e On Oct. 26,1984, at Loma Linda University Medical Center, Dr. Leonard L. Bailey performs the first baboon-to-human heart transplant, replacing a 14-day-old infant girl's defective heart with the healthy, walnut-sized heart of a young baboon. (c) 2005 King Features Synd., Inc. STRANGE BUT TRUE e The planet Mars has mountains to put ours to shame: The tallest peak there is three times the height of Mount Everest. e Another tidbit from Ambrose Bierce's “The Devil's Dictio- nary": The word “monkey” is defined as “an arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.” * In the original portrayals, icon of America Uncle Sam had no beard. * Talk about prolific: Though Chopin died at the age of 39, he's credited with writing more than 200 piano pieces. In the last three months of his life, Mozart composed three entire symphonies. And Schubert, who died at the tender age of 31, wrote a total of 600 songs, 140 of them in the year 1815 alone; it's said that he once wrote eight songs in a single day. ® |t's been reported that a person who dives for pearls with- out any breathing apparatus like scuba gear, if experienced, can stay underwater for up to two and a half minutes. The aver- age person can only stay under for 40 to 60 seconds. e |[n Japan you can buy noodle ice cream, shrimp ice cream and even chicken-wing ice cream. e Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova was best known for the dying swan dance from “Swan Lake.” Evidently she, too, consid- ered it to be her defining piece: The last words she spoke be- fore dying were, “Get my swan costume ready!” * Oddly enough, garlic and onions are both members of the lily family. * You might be surprised to learn that Vancouver, Canada, is North America's third-largest filmmaking center - after Los Angeles and New York City, of course. * kk Thought for the Day: “It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.” - Friedrich Hebbel (c) 2005 King Features Synd., Inc. Patrick McHugh PUBLISHER THE POST TIMES€®LEADER Community Newspaper Group hd 15 N. Main St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18711 ® 570-675-5211 thepost@leader.net Erika Calvert ADVERTISING David C. Konopki EDITOR ) This goose on Idetown Road in Idetown certainly has a complaint about something. Perhaps the cold weather has gotten him “down.” We suggest he go the drug store, get some Chapstick, and put it on his bill. 70 YEARS AGO Oct. 25, 1935 500 MEMBERS, GUESTS ATTEND CHURCH DINNER Approximately 500 members _ of the St. Therese’s Church in Shavertown and their guests at- tended the annual Dutch roast beef supper in the church base- ment Wednesday evening. The supper, served country style, started at 5:30 p.m. and contin- ued until after 8. The tables were attractively decorated with fall flowers and a general at- mosphere of good fellow- ship pre- ~ vailed. ) Games of bingo were ONLY enjoyed by YESTERDAY many of the younger group after the supper. A contract for construction of 3.11 miles of reinforced concrete pavement, 20 feet wide. In Eaton and Monroe Township, was awarded by the State this week to Holmes Construction Compa- ny, Wooster, Ohio. The construction will be the first definite response to the long-time demand for a better highway between Dallas and Tunkhannock, a campaign which has been supported by scores of civic groups through- out Northeastern Pennsylvania. Charges that Noxen school board is responsible for unsani- tary conditions in the schools which might be eliminated through government-financed projects which would give work to unemployed men of the vicin- ity were made this week by Nox- en Branch, No. 41, Luzerne County Unemployment League Inc. The charges were signed by a committee, which has as mem- bers William Besecker, Edward Saxe and John Heddis, and au- thorized by four officers of the Noxen Branch. 60 YEARS AGO Oct 26. 1945 MARY CAREY ELECTED GIRL SCOUTS PRESIDENT Mary Carey was elected presi- dent and Dolly Fabian was elect- ed vice-president at the meeting of Girl Scout Senior Service Troop 38 at the Trucksville Fire Hall on Oct. 17. Other officers chosen were Barbara Metz, trea- surer; Margaret Chalker, secreta- ry; Betty Smith, senior council representative. Others present were Alice Holcomb, Marguerite Chalker, Mary Carey, Dolly Fabain, Bar- bara Metz, Betty Smith, Claire McGuire, Betty Kepowich, Mae Evans, Marie Johnson, Jean Cle- well, Gladys Parson, Jane Ri- chards, Jean Johnson, Betty Ke- ponwich and A. Fabian. The Luzerne County Election Board, comprised of Robert Lloyd, Herman Kersteen and Stanley Janowski, in agreement with David C. Vaughn and James Law, county chairmen of the Re- publican and Democratic par- ties, have approved a plan where- by returning war veterans may not register to vote in the forth- coming election. Harry E. Williams, director of the county registration depart- ment, states that returning vet- erans may vote providing certain requirements are satisfied in ac- cordance with the recent ruling to enfranchise hundreds of sol- diers in this area. Mrs. Isabel Hunt, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Sandel Hunt of Spring Street followed in her sis- ter’s footsteps last Thursday eve- ning, October 18, and graduated after three intensive training with a class of cadet nurses at Nesbitt Hospital. Lt. Eloise Hunt, who gradu- ated exactly one year before to the day, came on from Woodrow Wilson Hospital, Stauton, Va., to - be present at her sister’s ceremo- nies. After Isabel has taken her examinations she expects to spe- cialize at University of Pennsyl- vania. 50 YEARS AGO Oct. 21, 1955 EDWARD LINE NOTES 90TH BIRTHDAY Edward T. Line, 34 Main Street will celebrate his 90th birthday on Monday and be awarded a second star on his Eighty-Plus Club card at the Dal- las Post. Mr. Line says his birth- . day candles will cover the cake. The eighteen steps up from the entrance to his apartment along side Bret’s Drugstore in the Devens Building make Mr. Line think twice before going up and down too often in the course of a day, but he gets out of the post office to buy stamps. Mr. Line says it has eased up on his daily schedule a lot to have the carrier bring letters to the door. There are four foreign stu- dents from the junior class at College Misericordia working at the Back Mountain Memorial Li- brary annex. Maude Wades- traudt came from Haiti, Adelisa R. Almaris is from the Philip- pines, Camille Vieira is from British Guiana, and Dolores Na- gai is from Hawaii. Miss Alamaris, from a family of ten children, became interest- ed in the United States and Col- lege Misericordia through a priest who had at one time vis- ited the college. Miss. Nagai has not been in Hawaii since regis- tering here three years ago. Both Miss Nagai and Miss Vieira speak excellent English. The Harveys Lake Rod and Gun Club Turkey shoot will start Sunday at 10 a.m. and continue until dusk at the camp grounds at Alderson. Running and stand- ing deer targets will be available for rifle practice, as well as tur- key cards for .22-caliber guns. Glenn Spencer is the chairman and Mrs. Malcolm Nelson will operate the refreshment stand. The public is welcome. 40 YEARS AGO | Oct. 21, 1965 GATE OF HEAVEN HAS NEW PRINCIPAL Sister Mary Chrysostom, the new principal of Gate Heaven School, is well acquainted wi the school, its problems and pos! sibilities. This is her seventh year at the Dallas parochial school, where she taught first grade and more recently served as primary coordinator for the first three grades. She worked closely with her predecessor, Sister Damian, who instituted departmental work in the upper grades. In keeping with the anonymity of the habit of a Sister of Mercy, Sis- ter Chrysostom talks little about herself, but becomes enthusias- tic about her hopes for the 630 children under her care. - At the week’s outset, plans for the annual Halloween children’s parade — held alternately at Dal: las or Shavertown each year —re¢ mained shadowy, befitting the season. The Dallas Post, with growing understanding that the Halloween event manages to materialize in the nick of time every year with a minimum of planning, still exercised its cus; tom of touching off the first can- non. . On Saturday, Oct. 23 at 7:45 a.m., the Greater Wilkes-Barré Youth for Christ will meet at Ha- nover High School in Lee Park.| Special guest will be the Lovett] Brothers, a men’s trio from Tho-| masville, Georgia. Members of! the group are television stars and recording artists and one of} these brothers will speak. A cho-| rus practice will be held at 6:45 p.m. The public is invited. CALLIGRAPHY ON DISPLAY AT LIBRARY v] The Calligraphers Guild of Northeastern Pennsyl- vania has donated original calligraphic art produced by its members to be fea- tured in the display case at the Back Mountain Memo- rial Library on Huntsville Road in Dallas. The organi- zation, which is more than 25 years old, issues a very informative newsletter and meets on a bi-monthly schedule. The next regular meeting will take place Jan. 27 and the topic will be “Calligraphy on Stained Glass." For more informa- tion about the organiza- tion, call 287-2485. Stand- ing next to the display case, from left, are CGNP presi- dent Patricia Podesta and exhibits chairwoman Yvonne Fontinell. / Ea
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