ST —— PAGE 4 THE POST COMMUNITY Sunday, October 22, 2006 LIBRARY NOTES Crochet classes and lots more at library Have you always wanted to learn to crochet but didn’t have any- one to show you? Well, Gloria Swartz would love to show you the basics of crocheting during several classes scheduled for 10 a.m. to noon Saturdays beginning Oct. 28 in the Children’s Room at the Back Mountain Memorial Library. Children between the ages of 9-12 are welcome to register for the sessions by calling the library at 675-1182. Participants are asked to bring a G or H crocheting needle and a regular worsted skein of yarn to the first class. oo 0 Five great prizes are on tap in the Rocking Horse Raffle being conducted at the library for capital improvements and repairs. The first prize is a beautiful rocking horse hand sculpted by Matthew Borne. And for all the Penn State fans in the area, second prize is two tickets in the club section of the stadium for the Penn State versus Temple game Saturday, Nov. 11. A special drawing for the Penn State tickets will be conducted Nov. 1. All other prizes will be awarded Thanksgiving weekend. The other three prizes include a family golf membership at New- berry Country Club or $250 in cash; a $300 gift certificate for de- sign services or merchandise from Sew Fine Draperies & Interiors; and a $100 gift certificate for the Eagle Golf Shop. Raffle tickets are available at the front desk of the library. The Young Adult Book Discussion Group will meet from 6:30- 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 30 in the back of the Reading Room to discuss the book “Welcome to the Ark” by Stephanie S. Tolan. Participants may bring snacks to the program. oo The Bookshop will be closed for two weeks in celebration of the “Haunted Library” that passes through its doors. The bookshop will open Monday, Oct. 30. oo 0 All children who participated in the summer reading program, “Paws, Claws, Scales and Tales” are reminded they may pick up their reading log folders and certificates in the Children’s Room during library hours. o00 Would you like to join in on the excitement of one of America’s most popular hobbies — backyard bird feeding? Do you already feed the birds but need help attracting a greater variety of birds to your feeders? If so, this program is for you. Learn the basic strategies and techniques to make your own backyard refuge come alive with birds at your feeders. Join us at the library at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9. There is no charge for the program but call the library to register before the program date. MOMENTS IN TIME The History Channel * On Oct. 26,188, after years of feuding and mounting tensions, the Earp brothers, along with their friend Doc Holliday, and Clanton- McLaurys cowboys engage in their world-famous shoot-out near the OK Corral in Tombstone, Ariz., leaving three men dead and three more wounded. ® On Oct. 24,1901, daredevil Annie Edson Taylor initiates a famous stunt tradition when she goes over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel 5 feet high and 3 feet in diameter. Taylor reaped few financial rewards and died in poverty after 20 years as a Niagara street vendor. ® On Oct. 23,1925, talk show host Johnny Carson is born in Corn- ing, lowa. He began occasionally guest-hosting for Jack Paar on “The Tonight Show" and became its permanent host in 1962. Carson re- tired in 1992 and died in Los Angeles on Jan. 23, 2005. ® On Oct. 27,1954, “Disneyland,” Walt Disney's first television series, premieres on ABC. The one-hour show, introduced by Tinker- bell, presented a rotating selection of cartoons, dramas, movies and other entertainment. The show ran for 34 years under various names. ® On Oct. 28, 1965, workers “top out” the final section of the Gate- way Arch in St. Louis, Mo., completing construction of the nation’s tallest memorial after four years of work. The Gateway Arch spans 630 feet at the ground and is meant to symbolically mark the gate- way from the eastern United States to the West. ® On October 29,1979, the 50th anniversary of the great stock market crash of 1929, trading at NYSE is interrupted by protesters, who stormed the exchange to demonstrate against the proliferation of nuclear arms. STRANGE BUT TRUE ® Those who study such things say that the average lifespan of a computer is two years. ® Sea anemones have stingers covering their tentacles, and when a potential source of food comes into reach, those stingers shoot out to incapacitate the prey. Of course, fish are pretty fast, so the sting- ers have to be faster - and they are. Much faster. In fact, those sting- ers go from zero to 80 mph in 700 nanoseconds, demonstrating one of the fastest accelerations found in nature. *Have you ever noticed that when you give yourself a minor cut with a razor, it doesn't hurt as much as when you get a similar cut from a piece of paper? It seems counterintuitive, but there's a reason: When a piece of paper cuts you, it leaves fibers and other particles behind in the wound. * Pound for pound, a hamburger costs more than a new car. * In this time of highly charged partisan rhetoric, you might want to keep in mind the following sage observation made by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan: “Every American is entitled to his own opinion, but no American is entitled to his own facts.” * Are you pardalina? Unless you're a large predatory feline, probably not. “Pardalina” means “spotted like a leopard.” * If you've got a leaky faucet that's driving you nuts with the con- stant drip, drip, drip, preserving your sanity isn’t the only reason to get it fixed. One faucet leaking one drop per second can waste 165 gallons every month. Put another way, that’s as much water as one person needs for two weeks. . (c) 2006 King Features Synd., Inc. The Dallas Post TIMES® LEADER Community Newspaper Group ¢ 15 N. Main St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18711 ® 570-829-7248 thepost@leader.net Richard L. Connor David C. Konopki PUBLISHER EDITOR Trish Roe ADVERTISING FOR THE DALLAS POST/CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK Time, thief, steals in and snatches away summer. As the morning's chill lingers, the leaves of summer peel away like paint weathered too long, reminding us of what we have lost. 70 Years Ago Oct. 23, 1936 LANDON LEADS ROOSEVELT IN POLL Voters, one million, thirty- nine thousand, six hundred of them, residing in small towns such as Dal- las, Lehman and the sur- rounding vi- cinity have registered a straw vote preference for Presi- dent of the United States with the following result: A majority of them, 57.1 per- cent, favor Gov. Alf Landon of Kansas, the Republican party candidate. The second choice is President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Democratic candidate, with 36.8 percent of the vote. Con- gressman William Lemke, of the Union Party, is a distant third at 4.6 percent. The election will be held Tues- day, Nov. 3, 1936. ONLY YESTERDAY The dance at the Kunkle Com- munity Hall on Saturday night will be a Halloween Masquerade and a large crowd is expected to enjoy the fun. Prizes will be awarded for the best costumes in several different divisions. Fin- ley’s orchestra will provide the music and R. McLaughlin will be the caller. 60 Years Ago Oct. 25, 1946 DALLAS POST OFFICE TO RECEIVE IMPROVEMENTS The Dallas Post Office is one of three county offices listed by the Post Office Department as having last week qualified for im- proved postal facilities. The list was prepared on the basis of 1944 postal receipts. Communi- ties on the list will be retained providing receipts have not fall- en below a $10,000 minimum. Joseph Polacky, Dallas Post- master, has not received any def- inite word as to whether or not Dallas will be accepted. He points out the business the Post Office has done in recent years justifies larger facilities. Curtis Anderson, for many years a constable of Dallas Town- ship but now employed as a pa- trolman fro several Bear Creek clubs, received severe lacera- tions of the head and was beaten into unconsciousness Saturday by an unknown assailant — pre- sumably a fox trapper who was about to be placed under arrest for trespassing. The attack took place on the Bear Creek-White Haven Road when Anderson saw the man emerge from the woods with traps. Anderson was uncon- scious on the highway where he was found by motorists who took him to a physician. It took 21 stitches to close to head wounds. The Back Mountain area will receive $5,058.94 as its share of the State Motor Fund to be dis- tributed December 1. Amounts going to various districts for road improvement work are: Dallas, $802.46; Franklin Town- ship, $366.19; Jackson Town- ship, $529.28; Kingston Town- ship, $596.20; Lake Township, $722.31; Ross Township, $878.32; and Dallas Township, $481.55. 50 YEARS AGO OCT. 26,1956 EARTH BEING MOVED FOR MENTAL FACILITY Earth and rock were really moving this week at the site of the new State Institution for Mental Delinquents in Jackson Township at a rate of 4,000 cubic yards per day. Thousands of tons are being moved and graded by two mammoth Lima shovels, five bulldozers and 120 Euclid carriers. Late Wednesday afternoon, John Brin an explosives expert from Sweet Valley for the John McShane Co., set off one of the biggest blasts to date, using more than 4,000 pounds of dyna- mite. An earlier blast in September was bigger, however, requiring 4,600 pounds of dynamite. The blasting is done in the late after- noon after the day shift has left. Wednesday’s blast was at 4:50 p.m. The Dallas Rotary Club will put onits third annual communi- ty turkey dinner on Thursday, Nov. 8 at the Jackson Township Fire Hall. Proceeds will be used by the Dallas Rotary Club fro its community projects and the Back Mountain YMCA. The dinner will be catered by the ladies auxiliary of the Jack- son Township Fire Company and served by members of the Dallas Rotary Club between 5 and 8 p.m. 40 Years Ago Oct. 20, 1966 DALLAS GRIDDERS COAST TO VICTORY The Dallas Mountaineers football team opened its home season Saturday afternoon with an easy 33-19 win over a smaller Newport eleven before a fine Parents Day turnout. Coach Ed- die Brominski could have rolled up the highest score in the histo- ry of the school had he wanted to, but settled fro a two-touch- down margin of victory as he used a total of 60 players throughout the game. All 60 players saw action before half- time. Larry Gilbert paced the Dallas scoring attack with two touch- downs, while Carl Zimmerman, Greg Hicks and Roy Supulski each tallied once. Dallas notched 11 first downs by gain- ing 177 yards on the ground and picked up an additional 122 yards in the air by completing 4 of 17 passes. Three passes were intercepted. Newport was held to minus 10 yards on the ground, but found the overhead route more suc- cessful, completing 15 of 33 pas- ses for 222 yards. . A 40-year-old Noxen man was accidentally shot on Saturday afternoon while he was hunting alone on the side hill behind the Forest Hills Motel. A stray pellet entered his right leg, two inches below the knee and he was treat- ed at the office of Dr. Saidman, who ordered X-rays. If the for- eign body causes an infection, it will have to be removed by a physician. In the meantime, the man is nursing a sore er ll) e The identity of the hunt who is believed to have been grouse hunting, is unknown. 30 Years Ago Oct. 21,1976 COUNCIL, POLICE REACH AGREEMENT Police committee chairman’ Willard Newberry reported to’ Dallas councilmen Tiesday that the borough police had re- ached an agreement on their contract for the coming year. The police accepted a wage in- crease of $500 per year over thj year’s salary and an addition $150 for holiday work. They will work a 40-hour work week and receive time and a half for over- time. After one year’s service, the police will receive one week's vacation, two weeks after two years and three weeks after 10 years. The Lake-Lehman School Board announced at its monthly: meeting Oct. 12, its plans to hire a business manager effective Jan. 1, 1977. The motion to cre ate the new position was unani- mous and school board presi- dent Arnold Garinger directed finance committee chairman Gilbert Tough to develop a job: description and salary scale for. the new job. Tough announced that the po- sition will be advertised in the near future. He also commend ed board secretary Eleanor Humphrey for the work she h. been doing in keeping the dis* trict’s business matters in order. SUMMER PROGRAM A REAL LL FOR YOUNG READERS A group of avid young readers met in the Children’s Room of the Back | Mountain Memorial Library through- out the summer to discuss four books and eat 16 dozen donuts! The children are members of the popular | middle school book discussion group | “Donuts and Discussion.” This sum- mer marked the eighth season for | the program. Curry Donuts of Dallas | donated the doughnuts. Participating in the summer reading program, from left, first row are Casey Carty, Alyssa | Barre, Sarah Pomfret, Katie Heindel and Regan Rome. Second row: Bren- den Ehret, Anthony Chielli, Samuel Reinert, Corey Ehret, Chris Ehret, David Pomfret and chilren’s librarian/ program moderator Janet Bauman. | Abby Berger, Elizabeth Dillon, and Deidre Deluca also participated in the program.. ¥ = EU a.
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