PAGE4 THE POST EDITORIAL Sunday, March 5, 2006 MOMENTS IN TIME The History Channel e On March 10,1902, in the case of Edison v. American Mutoscope Company, the U.S. Court of Appeals rules that despite his claims, Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera. The court did, how- ever, admit that Edison invented the sprocket system that moved perforated film through the camera. ® On March 9, 1926, “Lolly Willowes; or, The Loving Huntsman" by English novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner, the first Book-of-the-Month Club selection, is published by Viking Press. The Book-of-the-Month Club's 4,000-plus members were not pleased with the novel, a fanta- sy about a widow who scandalizes her relations by moving to a town involved in witchcraft. e On March 12,1933, eight days after his inauguration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gives his first “fireside chat,” or national radio address. The subject of the broadcast was the reopening of the banks, closed by presidential order the week before to stop a recent surge in mass withdrawal of U.S. savings. * On March 7,1955, the first Broadway play to be televised in color, featuring the original cast, airs. The play was “Peter Pan,” starring Mary Martin. ; e On March 8, 1969, the Pontiac Firebird Trans Am is introduced. The Trans Am, originally a limited-model Firebird, would become a symbol in the muscle-car niche of automobile manufacturing. e On March 11,1970, author Erle Stanley Gardner, creator of Perry Mason, dies. The crime-solving attorney Perry Mason appeared in numerous novels and became the star of a top-rated TV show start- ing in 1957. The show starred Raymond Burr as the titular hero and ran for nine years. ® On March 6, 1986, Georgia O'Keefe, the artist who gained world- wide fame for her austere minimalist paintings of the American Southwest, dies in Santa Fe, N.M., at the age of 98. O'Keefe was con- sidered one of the preeminent artists of the American West and inspired legions of imitators. (c) 2006 King Features Synd., Inc. STRANGE BUT TRUE e With April 17, this year’s deadline for filing your income-tax re- turn, approaching, it seems an appropriate time to remind you that it was Mark Twain who made the following observation: “The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxider- mist leaves the skin.” ® Perhaps unsurprisingly, the word souffle’ comes to us from the French; its original meaning was “to blow or puff up.” * Valentine's Day is over, and the flowers are wilted or dead by now. But what about the chocolates? It seems there must be some still left in their boxes,-uneaten - especially considering the fact that retailers estimate that 36 million boxes of chocolates were given as gifts for this year's holiday. * More than 18,000 species of butterflies have been documented by researchers. e |t's still not known who said, “An X-ray reveals a lot about a man, but an ex-wife can reveal much more.” But I'm willing to bet it wasn't a single man. e Another item from the Poetic Justice files: A Philippine man, Renato Salazar, broke into the building of his employer in Manila. He headed to the kitchen, where he opened two industrial-size gas tanks and then climbed into a large drum full of water. He then tossed a lighted match at the gas tanks and ducked down inside the drum, presumably with the idea that the water would protect him from the effects of the fire. Unfortunately for him, though water may not burn, it certainly does get hot. In the process of destroying the two-story building, the fire also boiled the arsonist alive. ® A region can't be technically classified as a desert unless it re- ceives less than 10 inches of rainfall every year. kkk Thought for the Day: “No man can be a patriot on an empty stom- ach.” - William Cowper (c) 2006 King Features Synd., Inc. PLANTS, COLOR THE FOCUS OF LAND TRUST PROGRAM North Branch Land Trust naturalist Rick Koval will present the program “Wildflowers and Plants, Twelve Months of Color" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 8 at the Land Trust offices. The offices are located at 11 Carverton Road in Trucksville, across from Pizza Perfect. The presentation will include a wide array of great pho- tos of local native flowers and plants. The photos were taken over many years by Koval. The cost of the program is $3 for adults and $2 for children 12 and under. There is no charge for members of the NBLT. All children must be accompanied by an adult. The North Branch Land Trust was formed in 1993 to help protect the quality of life in the region. For more information about the event or the NBLT in general, call Linda Thoma at 696- 5545 or e-mail thoma@nblt.org. THE 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 barrier, they'd go along and a-field and astray. Just like sheep to the fodder. FOR THE POST/CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK G+ the chance, unhindered by board and pen, they'd surely wander, to where browse beckoned and gut feeling suggested. Without Fiction, nonfiction, mystery books added to shelves The following new memorial and honor books have been do- nated to the collection at the Back Mountain Memorial Li- brary, 96 Huntsville Road, Dal- las. For more information about donating a book, call the library at 675-1182. 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Jance ~~ Deborah Tannen “Murder at the Washington Wilson presented by The Ladies “Sleeper Cell” by Jeffrey An- “If You Could See What I See” Tribune” by Margaret Truman Tea Group derson, M.D. by Sylvia Browne “Finders Keepers” by Mark “Cinderella” DVD presented “Lost” by Michael Robotham “At Canaan’s Edge” by Taylor Bowden by Madeline, Colin, Liam and “Irish Crystal” by Andrew M. Branch “Between Two Worlds” by Zai- Olivia Kwiatkowski Greeley “Marley and Me” by John Gro- nab Salbi “The Grim Grotto” by Lem- “The Archimedes Effect” by gan “Wild Animus” by Rich Shap- ony Snicket presented by Laura Tom Clancy “Take It Back” by James Car- ero and Cindy Lohmann 70 YEARS AGO Church, N. Y., will be the speak- The arrival of Daniel C. Ro- = ward Lashford told board mene March 6, 1936 er at a special Lenten Service ~~ berts Fire Company’s new bers that something would Monday evening at eight at American LaFrance fire truck have to give somewhere. Shavertown Methodist Church. sometime after the middle of ie GAIN IN Dr. Elliott is a national officer April will be celebrated on 30 YEARS AGO AREA in the Federal Council of Sunday, May 27 with a motor- March 4. 1976 Democrats cig) hott big- Churches of Christ in America cade and dedication services at : gest gains during the last year and a delegate to the World Harveys Lake. : in thisrock- Council of Churches. He has BONKO ROAD ribbed Re- just returned from a world tour Vern Groff, manager of Dallas SUBJECT OF MEETING publican in which he visited Christian Outdoor Theatre is confined to A heated discussion ensued sector, if churches in the war areas of his home on Church Street at the Jackson Township super- ” registration both Europe and the Pacific. after a 12-day hospitalization in visor meeting Monday night figures for The brilliant author and radio = Palmerton. He is recovering when residents of Bonko Road boroughs minister is well known in this steadily from loss of blood brought up the subject of the and town- area from his previous visits to incurred when he ruptured his township taking over the road. YESTERDAY ships being Wilkes-Barre and Scranton. spleen in a car crash on slippery compiled at : roads near Slatington. John B. Hibbard, Dallas, who ; Luzerne Auditor General G. Harold has directed the affairs of Keys- County Courthouse this week ~~ Wagner has approved payments 40 YEARS AGO tone Junior College since Aug. can be taken as a standard. The totaling $907,974.39 to 1,254 March 10. 1966 1, was elected as the fourth Saniopst sive Drsteset, second class townships in the g president of the college last which includes Dallas an Commonwealth. The payments Friday. The trustees of the vicinity, had a gain of 419 Dem- are the first to be made from an STUDENTS ASKED he chose Mr. Hibbard, ocrats, about 200 of from Dallas appropriation of $8,500,000 out ABOUT 2-YR. COLLEGE former board chairman of the and Dallas townships. of the Motor License Fund to Students at both Back Moun- Commonwealth Telephone Co., the State Department of High- tain high schools (along with over a list of more than 200 Poultry experts will speak at ways for 1946-47. students all over Luzerne Coun- candidates for the position. the annual meeting of Luzerne ty), were given forms to be $ County poultrymen in the new Alden “Brick” LeGrand, vet- filled out this week to deter- David Beamesderfer, 56 4 Wilkes-Barre YMCA on Tues- eran of more than three years in mine the degree of demand for Maple Drive, Dallas, has been day. Speakers will be Kenneth the Marine Corps, has pur- a Community College in the selected to enter a photo con- Hood and D.C. Henderson of chased the restaurant owned by county. test sponsored by Guide Maga- Pennsylvania State College Joe Davis. “Brick,” seriously Included was an information- zine, depicting community Agricultural Extension Depart- wounded on the Guam in 1944 al brochure called “Facing Facts service activities of the Path- ment, and Harry Blake, promi- after taking part in operations ~~ About the Two-Year College,” finder Club. Si poultryman of Wayne on Bouginville and Saipan, was which distributed by the coun- unty. discharged January 19. He is commissioners. the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis ” PIERS AGO i The yee guns Series to LeGrand, Baldwin Street. Warden Place Improvement ; ecide the basketball cham- Association has filed a protest pionship of the rural scholastic 50 YEARS AGO petition in Harrisburg » re- LIBRARY CAMPAIGN circuit began on Monday night March 9. 1956 sponse to an announcement of SHORT OF GOAL ii Datias Borough scoring a i increases of rates by Warden The Back Mountain Memo- ecisive victory over an aggres- Place Water Service, the associ- rial Lib Capital Campai sive Kingston Township five. yay IS NOT ation president has told the SA WL om The Dallas High school girls DOG’S BEST FRIEND Dallas Post. The rates, effective effort to raise money to help team played Lehman High girls A Trucksville man was fined during the summer months, pay costs for renovation pro- and lost by a slim score of 27- 25. 60 YEARS AGO March 8, 1946 SHAVERTOWN UMC HOSTS GUEST SPEAKER Rev. Philips Elliott, minister of the First Presbyterian $15 and $2 in costs by justice- of-the-peace Beatrice Williams, Tuesday night on a hearing of having abandoned a hound dog on Bunker Hill Road. Four youthful witnesses appeared. They said they saw the man throw the dog out of his car shortly afternoon on Saturday. When they shouted the man, he sped away. represent an approximately 150 percent increase. With the many abatements in real estate taxes in the Lake- Lehman School District, plus mandated increases in salaries for next year, and approximate $50,000, directors found them- selves up against a tight budget scheduled Tuesday night. Ed- jects on the library building, say they have totaled $334,286.80 in money and pledges to date. The campaign, now in its 17th month, is hoping to amass $450,000. But according to Homer Moyer, co-chairman of the committee, along with Nancy Eckert, that goal may be in jeopardy.
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