PAGE4 THE POST EDITORIAL 2006 dog licenses available HARRISBURG - Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff today reminded Pennsylvanians to purchase their 2006 dog licens- es. If an animal is spayed or neu- tered, the annual license is $6. If it is not, the license is $8. Life- time licenses may be purchased for $51, or $31 if the animal has been spayed or neutered. Senior censes are required for all dogs more than three months of age. Dog owners may apply for a 2006 license by either: Down- loading and completing the Dog License Application found at www.agriculture.state.pa.us and returning it, along with a check or money order, to your county treasurer; or; visiting your coun- ty treasurer’s office to file an application or pick up a list of agents who sell the licenses. citizens and people with dis- abilities pay reduced fees. Li- MOMENTS IN TIME The History Channel ® On Dec. 16, 181, the greatest series of earthquakes in U.S. history begins when a quake of an estimated 8.6 magnitude on the Richter scale slams the Mississippi River Valley near New Madrid, Mo. The earthquake raised and lowered parts of the Mississippi Valley by as much as 15 feet. At one point, the Mississippi River momentarily reversed direction, giving rise to Reelfoot Lake in northwest Ten- nessee. ® On Dec. 12,1904, Italian physicist and radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi succeeds in sending the first radio transmission 2,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean from England to Canada, disproving de- tractors who told him that the curvature of the Earth would limit transmissions to 200 miles or less. ® On Dec. 18, 1916, Betty Grable is born in St. Louis. During World War Il, she became a top box-office draw and was voted “favorite pin-up girl” by American servicemen. Paramount had Grable's legs insured for $1 million. ® On Dec. 15,1939, “Gone With the Wind" premieres in Atlanta. The film, based on Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, be- came an instant hit, breaking all previous box-office records. ® On Dec. 14,1947, the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is founded in Daytona Beach, Fla. It was the first formal organization for stock-car racing, a sport said to have begun with souped-up bootlegger hot rods during Prohibition. ® On Dec. 13,1957, the last two-seater T-bird is produced. Through 1957, Ford's Thunderbirds were jaunty, two-seat sports cars that boasted removable hard tops and powerful V-8 engines. ® On Dec. 17,1963, the U.S. Congress passes the Clean Air Act, a sweeping set of laws designed to protect the environment from air pollution. It was the first legislation to place pollution controls on the automobile industry. STRANGE BUT TRUE e According to statisticians, Christmas is the most deadly day of the year for Americans: On Dec. 25, there are, on average, 12.4 per- cent more fatalities than on any other day of the year - and that doesn’t count seasonal-depression suicides and turkey-carving acci- dents. e |t's still not known who made the following sage observation: “After the unexpected has happened, there is always someone who knew it would.” e It's been reported that the 30th president of the United States, Calvin Coolidge - for reasons unclear - rode a mechanical horse up to three times every day. President Andrew Jackson kept his racehorses at the White House, and President Warren Harding played poker there twice weekly. ® Researchers report that for the average 160-pound man, 29 pounds of that weight is just the skeleton. ® A newspaper in New Jersey discovered something odd about a medical examiner's report. After a brief investigation, their findings were published: “The medical examiner's office filed a report based on clinical observation that listed the cause of death as pneumonitis, or a bad cold, but an autopsy found Mr. Acevedo had died of multiple gunshot wounds to the head.” e Chimpanzees are the only primates - other than humans, of course - who have been known to hunt for meat in the wild. e It's not terribly unusual in Scotland to order your breakfast oat- meal topped with Scotch. ® Lollipops are 99 percent sugar. e For the first 12 years of its existence, that ubiquitous office staple Liquid Paper was called “Mistake Out.” %k kk Thought for the Day: “Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.” - Ambrose Bierce PLATES ON DISPLAY AT BACK MOUNTAIN LIBRARY A Lucy Reilly, a resident of Shavertown, has put her collection of McDonald's plates on display at the Back Mountain Memorial Li- brary. Reilly, who is 10 and a student at Wilkes-Barre Academy, has a collection of about 25 plates. The different themes include the Olympics, World Children's Day, Halloween and Ronald McDonalds and the Hamburgler. THE POST - TIMES®LEADER Community Newspaper Group ® 15 N. Main St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18711 ® 570-675-5211 thepost@Ileader.net Patrick McHugh PUBLISHER David C. Konopki EDITOR Erika Calvert ADVERTISING FOR THE POST/CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK Over time, progress spread across open field, barn then shed then garage, a chain of utility for the farmer. To the rest of us passing by, this contrast of manmade structure against nature's free flowing lines, is the sort of pretty picture that's always just beckoned from down the road. LIBRARY NEWS The following new books 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 li- brary at 675-1182. EXPRESS (1 Week Loan) “S is for Silence” by Sue Graf- ton FICTION “Lie by Moonlight” by Aman- da Quick “Forever Koontz “Once Upon a Christmas” by Odd” by Dean Lauraine Snelling and Lenora Worth “Gabriel’s Angel” by Nora Ro- berts “Facing Rushmore” by David Lozell Martin “Soldier of God” by David Hagberg “Get a Life” by Nadine Gor- dimer NONFICTION “Oh What a Slaughter” by Larry McMurtry “Opus Dei” by John L. Allen “Phenomenon” by Sylvia Browne with Lindsay Harrison “The Allure of Horses” photo- graphs by Bob Langrish “Bowhunter’s Guide to Accu- rate Shooting” by Lon E. Lauber “Where God was Born” by Bruce S. Feiler “Talk to the Hand” by Lynne Truss BIOGRAPHY “Mother Angelica” by Ray- mond Arroyo REFERENCE “The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2006” YOUNG ADULT “Journalists at Risk: reporting America’s wars” by George Sul- livan “The Fight for Peace: a histo- ry of antiwar movements in America” by Ted Gottfried “Smoking 101: Aan overview for teens” by Margaret Hyde and Dr. John F. Setaro “101 Questions About Repro- duction: Orhow1+1=3o0r4 or more” by Faith Hickman Brynie “The Brave Women of the Gulf Wars: Operation Desert Storm & Operation Iraqi Free- dom” by Karne Zeinert and Ma- ry Miller BOOKS ON CD “Raising Your Spirited Child” by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka “Jarhead” by Anthony Swof- ford “King Kong” by Edgar War lace : “Around the World in Eighty Days” by Jules Verne ] 70 YEARS AGO Dec. 13, 1935 KINGSTON TWP. BEGINS WPA PROJECT Several WPA projects have been started in Kingston Town- ship and several more are un- der consideration to be inaugu- rated soon. The grading and laying of a stone base, and the surfacing with gravel of Warden Avenue, Trucksville, is under- way and the crossroad between Porter Michaels and Charles Cease farms in the Carverton section of the township will be improved. The first project will employ fifty-seven men; the p- second +p forty-seven men for ONLY about three YESTERD AY months. Football fans from Kingston Township will pay enthusiastic tribute to their championship football team at a dinner on Monday night in the recreation rooms of Shavertown MLE. Church. Be- sides clinching the champion- ship of the Back Mountain League, the township team took a majority of the positions on The Post All-Conference team, announced today. Rural mail carriers in this section knew this week that Christmas was less than two weeks away. The volume of mail at the Dallas post office jumped sharply this week and carriers distributed heavy loads. To prevent disappoint- ment among people who are delaying their mailing of Christ- mas packages Postmaster Ge- orge T. Kirkendall this week listed deadlines on dates for mailing 60 YEARS AGO Dec. 14, 1945 CHRISTMAS LIGHTS TURNED ON IN DALLAS Dallas is aglow again with the lights of Christmas. From 5:30 p.m. until around mid- night each evening the brightly colored lights add to the Yule- tide sprit. This year, the lights have been extended some 2,500 feet. They are now strung from Jack Richardson’s Garage to Memorial Library and from the R.L. Brickel residence to be- yond the Light Company Build- ing on Church Street. Students of the Senior Class of Lehman Township Schools will present a dramatic version of Booth Tarkington’s famous novel, “Seventeen” in the school auditorium at 8 p.m. this evening Friday December 14.. William Johnson will portray the role of Willie Baxter, the love-smitten adolescent, and Ann Husted will pay Lola Pratt, the pretty girl from another town whose summer visit cre- ates a variety of sensations among the circle of Willie's friends. With almost three times their quota of $6,000 already in the bag, Dallas Women’s Club members are making an envi- able record in the last War Bond Drive. To date they have raised $16,221.90 by personal solicitation. The drive closes December 31. Members who have earned their pins for sell- ing at least ten bonds are: Mrs. Harriet Thompson, Mrs. W.H. Bonn, Miss Josephine Stem, Mrs. Wesley Moore, and Mrs. Niles White. 50 YEARS AGO Dec. 9, 1955 WARDELL, SCOTT _ NAMED TO POSTS John Wardell was elected president of the Kingston Township School Board, and D.T. Scott was named president of the Dallas Borough School Board during individual meet- ings held before the joint board meeting Monday night. Harry Ohlman and Lewis LeGrand presented certificates of elec- tion to the borough boards members. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Dow- nend, 33 Gordon Street, Dallas, have received word that their son Ralph is in London with the Marines. Completing a course in counter-espionage in Washington recently, Ralph is not in the courier service. The day he left for Washington, October 5, after a 21- day leave spent in Dallas, Ralph was made a corporal. A 1954 gradu- ate of St. Mary’s High School, Ralph enlisted in the Marines a year and a half ago. Maurice K. Goddard, secre- tary of Department of Forests and Waters, has announced that early ordering of tree seedlings for reforestration purposes is advisable. Insuring reservation of stock for next spring requires compli- ance with the February 15th deadline for ordering. Since the supply of all species is limited, orders will be given preference as received. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 9, 1965 LOCAL PROPERTY CONSIDERED FOR INDUSTRY According to a recent report from Wyoming Valley Industrial Fund, bolstered by active in- terest from U.G.I. officials and the architectural firm of Lacy Atherton and Davis, the poten- tial of a 58-acre piece of land in Dallas Township is being con- sidered. It is large enough, in the estimation of these orga- nizations, to accommodated two large industries of high caliber, or two moderate size industries and four smaller ones. A Dallas officer has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross by the Air Force. Captain Robert C. Winters, son of Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Winters of 95 Claude Street, received the medal at Forbes AFB, Kan., for his achievement during flights of international significance. Workmen this week were in the process of demolishing a large storage shed on Lake. Street to allow more parking for the Commonwealth Tele- phone Company. Frame building, 46-by-42 feet behind the old Devens Home, was a tract brought by the utility and included the Himm- ler Theater. 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 11, 1975 ANTI-PORNOGRAPHY ORDINANCE SOUGHT At the December 4 meeting, Harveys Lake Borough Council also instructed solicitor John Thomas to prepare for their passage an anti-pornography ordinance for the Borough of Harveys Lake. Vice President Robert Wintersteen and Mayor Mark Connolly spoke in favor of the ordinance. Connolly asked for the resolutions pas- sage saying he feels, “how a community deals with obscene matters directly relates to its morals.” Wintersteen said he backed the ordinance because, “We have two of the leading dealers living right here in the borough.” The art committee of the Back Mountain Bicentennial Celebration to be held June 4, | 5, and 6 will sponsor an art contest featuring pictures of “yester-year.” The contest will be open to all Back Mountain residents. The pictures will be judged in student and adult divisions. A small entrance fee will be charged and cash prizes will be awarded. The Dallas Woman's Chorale has been busy this holiday season presenting concerts throughout the area. The cho- rale is composed of women from both the Dallas Junior “@® Senior Women’s club. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 11, 1985 GINOCHETTI WINS FIVE SWIM MEDALS Patty Ginochetti won five first-place medals in five events during the fourth Annual Wilkes-Barre YMCA Masters Holiday Plunge, which was held Sunday, Dec. 1 at the Dr. David Kistler Pool, Wilkes- Barre. Mrs. Ginochetti, mother of four children, is wife of John Ginochetti, owner of Gino’s Shoe Store. The Ginochettis reside in the Back Mountain. The Wyoming Valley Cathol- ic Youth Center in Wilkes-Barre is still accepting registrations for its initial Indoor Teener Soccer League for 15-, 16- and 17-year-olds. Ed DeMichele, athletic direc- tor, announced that the ce ® will play its games on Monda nights in the spacious CYC indoor soccer gymnasium.
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