PAGE4 THE POST EDITORIAL Sunday, November 13, 2005 n | MOMENTS IN TIME The History Channel * On Nov. 20, 1820, the 238-ton American whaler Essex is attacked in South American waters by an enraged 80-ton bull whale. The 20 crewmembers escaped in three open boats, but only five men sur- vived the harrowing 83-day journey to the coast. * On Nov. 14,185], Harper & Brothers in New York publishes “Moby- Dick,” by Herman Melville. The book flopped, and it was many years before the novel was recognized as an American classic. Melville continued to write until his death in 1891, and his last novel, “Billy Budd,” was not published until 1924. * On Nov. 18, 1883, American and Canadian railroads begin using four continental time zones to end the confusion of dealing with thousands of local times. It was not until 1918 that Congress officially adopted the railroad time zones. * On Nov. 16,1901, A.C. Bostwick becomes the first American race driver to exceed the speed of a mile a minute, on the Ocean Parkway racetrack in Brooklyn, N.Y. ® On Nov. 19,1944, looking for ways to fund World War Il, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive. The Loan Drive flooded the market with war bonds intended to meet Roose- velt's goal of immediately raising $14 billion for the war. ® On Nov. 15,1956, “Love Me Tender,” Elvis Presley's first movie, opens at the Paramount Theater in New York. The movie earned back its $1 million cost in just three days. * On Nov. 17,1972, wealthy London socialite Barbara Baekeland is stabbed to death with a kitchen knife by her 25-year-old son, Antony. After the murder, Antony was institutionalized until a bureaucratic mistake resulted in his release in 1980. He then lived with his grand- mother until he stabbed her to death later that year. (c) 2005 King Features Synd., Inc. CHURCH BRIEFS Fall craft show set for Nov. 19 A fall craft show to benefit victims of Hurricane Katrina will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19 at River of Life Fellowship Ministries, 22 Outlet Road in Lehman Town- ship. The building is the former Lake-Lehman Middle School. The show will include hand- made crafts, a bake sale, conces- sion stand, face painting, Avon, Pampered Chef, Mary Kay, chair massages, and door prizes. Vendor space is available at $25 each. For more information, call 477-3433 or visit the Web site www.rolfministries.org. Thanksgiving meal open to community The Missions and Outreach committee of the Shavertown United Methodist Church will hold a Back Mountain commu- nity Thanksgiving meal at noon Thursday, Nov. 24 at the church on Pioneer Avenue in Shaver- town. The meal will be open to anyone in the Back Mountain and reservations are required. To make reservations, call 675- 3616 no later than Nov. 21. For more information about the event, call Carol Folk at 333-4363 or e-mail carolfol- k@yahoo.com. Communion service Nov. I7 at TUMC The Trucksville United Meth- odist Church will hold a Harvest Home Communion Service at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 17 in the church’s Fellowship Hall on Church Road in Trucksville. The Rev. Michael Bealla will cele- brate the sacrament of Commu- nion, followed by a luncheon given by the membership com- mittee and supported by the Anne Vernon Memorial Cele- bration Fund. Anyone planning to attend the special service should call the church office at 696-3897 no later than Now. 15. UMW meeting set for Nov. 5 The regular monthly meeting of the Lehman-Idetown United Methodist Women will be held Tuesday, Nov. 15 at the Lehman United Methodist Church. The program “We are Not Alone” will be presented by Linda Van Gorder. Hostesses will be Do- rothy and Judith Dawe, and Ruth Johnson will be the honor- ary hostess. For the time of the meeting, call 639-5051. The group will be making pasties Thursday, Nov. 17. Or- ders must be placed no later than Monday, Nov. 14 with any club member. The annual Christmas party will be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6 at the Red Rooster Restaurant. The cost is $15 per person and reser- vations are due by Nov. 28. To make a reservation, call Jayne Haefele at 639-5051.A $5 gift should be brought to the dinner for residents of Wesley Village. The gifts must be wrap- ped or placed in a gift bag, and marked for a woman or man. The gifts cannot be candles or sharp objects. St. Therese’s holding turkey raffle, bingo St. Therese’s Church will hold a turkey raffle and bingo at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 21 in Father Sammons Hall. The church is located on Pioneer Avenue in Shavertown. Tickets for a chance to win one of 15 10- pound turkeys are available at the church. The cost for a sheet of six tickets is $5. The purchase of one sheet entitles the seller to a no-charge entry to the party. The party will include bingo, pizza, hot dogs and beverages. For more information, call the church at 696-1144. Holiday bazaar at Tunkhannock UMC The United Methodist Wom- en of the Tunkhannock United Methodist Church will hold a holiday bazaar and luncheon from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17 in Fellowship Hall at the church on Warren and Church Streets. There is no admission charge. The event will feature many unique, one-of-a-kind hand- crafted items. Pine cone wreaths, made from all natural materials, will be featured among the many home deco- rations. There will also be Christmas tree skirts, Christmas tree ornaments, closet orga- nizers, hand-knit scarves, cro- cheted “scrubbies” and other handmade delights. A limited number of beautifully done sets of handmade note cards will be available. The luncheon will include the UMW’s famous turkey casserole, which will be served from noon to 2 p.m. An assortment of sand- wiches, salads and homemade pies will also be offered, as well as cookies, specialty breads, fudges and hard candy. Proceeds from the event will support the many charitable endeavors the organization Patrick McHugh PUBLISHER THE POST TIMES®LEADER Community Newspaper Group 15 N. Main St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18711 ® 570-675-5211 thepost@leader.net Erika Calvert ADVERTISING David C. Konopki EDITOR FOR THE POST/CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK Moments like this one are special. A time to talk. A time to reminisce. And as Charlene and Karl Walter show during a visit with their mother Myrtle on the grounds of The Meadows Nursing Center in Dallas, a time to spend with the people you love. American Indian program, new books, DVDs at library In celebration of Children’s Book Week, the library will hold a program about Ameri- can Indian stories at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16. Children of all ages and their parents.are invited to attend. Kathy Kelchner from Frances Slocum State Park will be presenting the stories. The week of Nov. 14 through 19 is Amnesty Week. If you have any overdue books or other library materials, bring them in. There will be no fines or penalties. ¢ The Friends of the Library remind you that if you haven’t yet ordered your citrus fruit and need an order form, drop by the library and pick one up. The deadline for placing or- ders is Monday, Nov. 21. ¢ The library will be closed Thursday, Nov. 24 in celebra- tion of Thanksgiving Day. The following new books, DVDs, and books on CD have been added to the collection at the Back Mountain Memorial Library, 96 Huntsville Road, Dallas. For more information, call the library at 675-1182. Suzanne Forster ~ “Hot Ice” by Cherry Adair EXPRESS “The Actor’s Guide to (1 Week Loan) Greed” by Rick Copp “Camel Club” by David Bal- “Private Wars” by Greg dacci Rucka “Toxic Bachelors” “by. Da- nielle Steel : NONFICTION “Ordinary Heroes” by Scott “Benjamin Franklin: in Turow search of a better world” edit- “Killing Time” by Linda Ho- ed by Page Talbott ward “Your Best Life Now” by Joel 3 Osteen FICTION “Antiques 101” by Frank “The Camel Club” by David Farmer Loomis IV Baldacci > “The Fate of Africa” by Mar- “Toxic Bachelors™ “by Da- tin Meredith nielle Steel “Ordinary Heroes” by Scott ~BIOGRAPHY Turow: * {His Oldest Friénd” by Son- “Julie and Romeo” by Jeanne ny Kleinfield Ray : “Juiced” by Jose Canseco “Fifty Degrees Below” by J Kim Stanley Robinson LARGE PRINT “Memories of My Melanch- FICTION = oly Whores” by Gabriel Garcia “Cinnamon Kiss” by Walter Marquez Mosley “Over Her Dead Body” by “The Memory Keeper’s Kate White Daughter” by Kim Edwards “Puppet” by Joy Fielding “Unlucky for Some” by Jill McGown “The Lonely Girls Club” by “The Portrait” by Iain Pears “The Franklin Affair” by James Lehrer “Specimen Days” by Michael Ta Cunningham “Over Her Dead Body” by Kate White “Alibi” by Joseph Kanon | “Ten Little New Yorkers” by Kinky Friedman “Never Let Me Go” by Kazuo Ishiguro Spindler “Julie and Romeo Gef Lucky” by Jeanne Ray i “Wicked” by Shannon Drake ‘ “Company Man” by Joseph Finder “Blue Smoke” by Nora Ro- berts a! YOUNG ADULT | “Flush” by Carl Hiaasen" y BOOKS ON CD oi : “The Camel Club” by Dav iC Baldacci - “Up Country” by Nelson DeMille hi] DVDs “Lewis and Clark: the jours ney of the Corps of Discovery” 70 YEARS AGO Now. 15, 1935 LOCAL WOMEN AID CAMPAIGN Exemplifying their slogan, “Be a Good Neighbor,” more than 50 women who have volun- teered to help Community Wel- fare Federation attain its goal pushed toward their quota this week in Dallas, Kingston Town- ship, Lehman, Idetown, and Har- veys Lake. The latest report was that the local work- ers have re- = ceived . law pledges BT Ei % amounting &® 7 to slightly ONLY more than YESTERDAY 11 percent of their $2,100 goal. The campaign will end with a Victory Dinner next Wednesday night. During the fiscal year 1934- 1935, the West Side Visiting Nurse Association made 1,682 free visits in the Dallas District, which includes Dallas Borough, Dallas Township, Shavertown, Trucksville, Jackson, Lehman and Lake Townships. So reports Miss E. Pearl Wardin, executive director of the VNA. Willard Shortz, representative from this district to the State Legislature, and Frank Shannon, grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of 1.O.O.F,, delivered in- spiring addresses before 150 per- sons at the “Odd Fellows Night” meeting sponsored by Blue Rib- bon Club of Dallas M. E. Church in the church on Wednesday night. Members of the club and the lodge and their wives attend- ed. 60 YEARS AGO school jointure, asked for per- Now. 16, 1945 mission to use the playing field at Shavertown Elementary MAGAZINE SALE School during the summer of 1956. A HUGE SUCCESS Forestalling acid comments of . Withatotal of $1,037.75 worth gp avertown residents, who re- of magazines sold — more than $200 more than any previous year — Lehman school children this week completed their an- nual magazine contest. The school will receive $356.69 of that money, a sum that will be spent for some needed school equipment. Team captains of the contest were Helen Haznik and Mary- claire McKenna. The faculty ad- viser in charge was Miss Deliah Kisler. sented having their small chil- dren kept off the field during the League’s grass-growing season last year, Jones stated that no grading or reseeding problem would be present this year, and school children could have free access to the field. ~ Since this is Education Week, the library at Dallas-Franklin- Monroe Joint Schools is featur- ing an exhibit of education books. Present day texts and li- brary books are compared with those of earlier days. It is interesting to see how the people in the days of Davy Crock- ett, Theodore Roosevelt, and Dwight Eisenhower learned the three R’s. One is impressed with the fact that the good old days were far from perfect, at least in the educational fields. The Dallas Women’s Club will hold its annual holiday dance at Irem Country Club Saturday, Nov. 24. Miss Mildred Devens is the chairman, assisted by Mrs. Walter Elston. Other committee member are Mrs. Ross Lewin, Mrs. Floyd Chamberlain, Mrs. James Hus- ton, Mrs. Arthur Culver, Mrs. Phillip Cheney, Mrs. John Jones and Mrs. Edward H a A hunting rifle that Joseph Skopic had been using for sever- al years, exploded Sunday while he was trying it out in the back- yard of his home in Bloomsburg, hurling a piece of brass from the shell of the bullet into his eyes and throwing him 20 feet against his porch. The explosion sprayed pieces of the weapon 50 or more feet away. Attorney M. Jenkins will give a talk entitled “World Peace” at the meeting of the Dallas Town- ship Parent-Teacher Association Monday evening at 8 o'clock. A membership drive is being con- ducted by the association and all parents are urged to attend. 50 YEARS AGO Nov. 11, 1965 LITTLE LEAGUE ASKS FOR FIELD USE James Jones, spokesman for a committee from the Little League which attended Monday night'shoard meeting at the Dal- las Borough-Kingston Township 2-YEAR-OLD BOY SLEEPING IN WOODS Looking hale and hearty and warmly appreciated by his mom- my is 2-year-old J Oncay of “Rio Bravo” by Hovaif Hawks" 8 “Band of Brothers” pi 2 - i] Outlet Road in Lehman Towne ship, who wandered away from his home on Saturday morni and was found sleeping in woods a few hours later. He found about a quarter-mile % his home. % A group of rescuers followed Fifi, the Onclay’s pet poodle, {8 the place where the boy was sleeping. A group from the Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Company arrived on the scene in the ear] afternoon to assist in the search. The Dallas men hit the jackpot only minutes after arriving on the scene. Little Jeffrey was on the ground beside a log. £ Bernard Gerrity, 63, a form music teacher in the Le schools was killed instantly dus ing a car accident on Route 18. of the Benton cutoff (Rou “Killer Takes All” by “® L The car struck a bridge just | 254), several miles west of R Rock. i The accident took place at 3:30 p.m. when Mrs. Gerrity, the, driver who was critically injured, swerved the car, possibly to avoid hitting a deer. Mrs. Gerrity' was listed in guarded condition] at Geisinger Medical Center i in| Danville. i Mr. Gerrity was a music teach-| er for many years in the Lehman | Township schools, from which! he retired in 1963. He resided in| Forty Fort before moving to Oak] Hill in Dallas and later to Shaver-| town. : The Old Shoe trophy will be| presented by the Dallas Rotary! Club to the Dallas High School football team for a job well done. ! The guest speaker will be Pet) v A. Carlesimo, director of athler ics at the rapidly-expanding Uni-| versity of Scranton. Cat has been a featured speaker at’ many top sports dinners in thé countrig’ GL
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