PAGE4 THE POST COMMUNITY Widely-known author to appear at library Author /illustrator Lind- say Barrett George, will visit the Back Mountain Memorial Library at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16 in the Children’s Room. The li- brary is located on Hunts- ville Road in Dallas. The event is being held in con- junction with Children’s Book Week, which takes place Nov. 13-18. The program is geared toward children and their caregivers. Teens and adults who aspire to write or illustrate are also wel- come to attend. George will discuss her famous book, “Inside Mouse, Outside Mouse.” She will divulge all words and pictures hidden within the illustrations and conduct a parent/child drawing session. George is a native of Pennsylvania and the book was selected as the first book in Pennsylvania’s reading program “One Book, Every Young Child.” She is known for her strikingly realistic illustrations of animals, birds and fish in their natural habitats. Some of her other books include, “My Bunny and Me,” “Around the Pond: Who's Been Here?,” “In the Woods: Who's Been Here?” and “The Secret, and Box Turtle at Long Pond.” Children who received the book “Inside Mouse, Outside Mouse” during the library’s story hours or at the program with guest speak- er Mary Baker may bring the book to the program and have it signed by George. There will be a limited number of books avail- able at the program for children who have not received a copy. To register or for more information, call the library at 675-1182. Author/illustrator Lindsay Barrett George MOMENTS IN TIME The History Channel * On Nov. 8, 1793, after more than two centuries as a royal palace, the Louvre opens as a public museum in Paris. Today, the Louvre's collection is one of the richest in the world, with artwork and arti- facts representative of 1,000 years of human civilization and culture. * On Nov. 11,1852, the Saturday Evening Gazette publishes “The Rival Painters: A Story of Rome,” by Louisa May Alcott, author of “Little Women” (1868). Alcott spent most of her life caring for her family financially, emotionally and physically. Her father died in March 1888, and she followed him just two days later. * On Nov. 7,1916, Montana suffragist Jeannette Rankin is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the first woman to win a seat in the federal Congress. A dedicated pacifist, Rankin’s first vote as a U.S. congresswoman was against U.S. entry into World War I. * On Nowv..6,1921, “The: Sheik" opens, launching the cult of Rudolph Valentino. Despite negative reviews, the movie and its exotic star caught the attention of women across the country, who were soon swooning in the theater aisles. Valentino died on Aug. 23,1926, at age 31, following surgery for a perforated ulcer. : * On Nov. 12,1934, the movie musical “Babes in Toyland” opens, featuring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as comic relief. The Laurel and Hardy comedy team began performing together in 1927 and appeared in more than 100 films, including 27 features, by 1950. *Y On Nov. 10,1970, for the first time in five years, no U.S. combat fatalities in Southeast Asia are reported for the previous week. ® On Nov. 9,1989, East German officials open the Berlin Wall, al- lowing travel from East to West Berlin. The following day, celebrating Germans began to tear the wall down. One of the ugliest and most infamous symbols of the Cold War was soon reduced to rubble that was quickly snatched up by souvenir hunters. (c) 2006 King Features Synd., Inc. STRANGE BUT TRUE * With the holiday gift-giving season coming up, you might want to keep this in mind: Statistics show that 20 percent of people who receive gift cards as presents never spend the full amount. ¢|t was in 1961 that singer Bing Crosby predicted “rock ‘n’ roll has run its course.” ® Stephen King, author of numerous best-selling horror novels - many of which have been turned into equally terrifying movies - once made the following observation: “Some people say that | must be a terrible person, but it's not true. | have the heart of a young boy. In a jar on my desk." ® Ever heard of “ochlocracy”? Probably not, but at times it seems like we may be experiencing it. “Ochlocracy” means “mob rule.” ® Reports claim that in Providence, R.l., it was once illegal on Sun- days to sell toothpaste and a toothbrush to the same customer. e According to the U.S. Department of Labor's statistics on worker fatalities, the most dangerous job in the country is truck driver. Next is farm worker, then sales supervisor/store owner and construction worker. Police detective rounds out the top five most dangerous occupations. Interestingly, cashier comes in at No. 10. e What do Mao Zedong, Vladimir Lenin and Eva Peron have in common? After they died, their remains were mummified. King Char- les the First's body was turned into a mummy, too - but not his head. The body of Mata Hari, exotic dancer and notorious World War | spy, was not mummified after she was executed by firing squad - but her head was. ® 00 Thought for the Day: “If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.” - Bill Vaughan (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 A reservoir is a workplace: to the kitchen tap as a power plant is to the table lamp. Yet it can be a beautiful thing, whether vista from afar or up close, graced with a raft of seasonal color, bright ard alas, too fleeting. Back Mt. Memorial Library offering Amnesty Week Do you have a book or two or three that you know are extremely overdue? Well, you may return it to the Back Mountain Memorial Library with no questions asked dur- ing its annual Amnesty Week. No late fees will be charged on books returned during the week of Nov. 13 through 18. Fines already posted on a patron’s record do not apply. It is the library’s hope to retrieve precious books and materials LIBRARY NEWS rial Library is open for busi- ness again after getting the spooks and ghouls out of the shelves from the very success- ful Haunted Library fundrais- er. The library is located at 96 Huntsville Road in Dallas. ® oo 0 Four great prizes are still Borne. Other prizes include a family golf membership at Newberry Country Club or $250 in cash; a $300 gift certif- icate for design services or merchandise from Sew Fine Draperies & Interiors; and a $100 gift certificate for the Eagle Golf Shop. The prizes will be awarded on Thanksgiving weekend. Tickets are available at the front desk of the library. For more information, call the Week, Nov. 13-18. She will present her program at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16. George’s book “Inside Mouse, Outside |, Mouse” was selected as the first book for Pennsylvania’s “One Book, Every Young Child” program. Call the li- brary to register for the event. ® 0 0 Gloria Schwartz is contin- uing her crocheting classes for; “tweens” — children between | the ages of 9 and 12 — from 10 that patrons are reluctant to available in the Rocking Horse front desk at 675-1182. a.m. to noon each Saturday at return because of mounting Raffle being conducted at the eo the library. Participants are fines. library for capital improve- Author/illustrator Lindsay asked to bring a G or H cro- ooo ments and repairs. First prize = Barrett George will grace the cheting needle and a regular The Slightly Read Bookshop is a beautiful rocking horse Children’s Room with a pro- worsted skein of yarn to the at the Back Mountain Memo- hand-sculpted by Matthew gram during Children’s Book class. 70 YEARS AGO sented in Harrisburg by a Dem- eventually employ more than LEHMAN TWP. COUPLE" Nov. 6, 1936 ocrat. Robert Bierley of West 500 people when the new plant SUFFERING... . 1 Pittston nosed out Republican is opened on Vetérans’ Memo- fs nga BACK MOUNTAIN William Shortz by a margin of rial Highway (Route 309). HARASSMENT VOTERS about 302 votes. Seven women are currently Vandalism and cruelty has In the presidential election, employed. That number will been reported from Lehman DEFEAT LOCAL OPTION President Roosevelt's total of increase and a second shift will Township during the past week Although they clung tena- more than 105,000 votes in be added. of Halloween and continuing | ciously to their long-time Re- Luzerne County is believed to after that celebration has publican loyalty as predicted, be the greatest number of votes 50 YEARS AGO passed. voters in this normally dry ever rolled up by one candidate Nov. 2. 1956 On Carpenter Road, aman territory upset tradition on in county history. Republican 2 and his wife have been harassed Tuesday by turning “thumbs opponent Governor Alf Landon unceasingly by youths between down” on the Local Option recorded 82,024 votes. ANDREW SORDONI the ages of 13 to the higher question HEADS LIBRARY teens. The wife, who has been In Lake Township, Dallas 60 YEARS AGO COMMITTEE an invalid for a long time, said Borough, Dallas Township and Nov. 1. 1946 Directors of the Back Moun: she and her husband live quiet Kingston Township, the largest ¢ tain Memorial Library and lives and they expect the same number of citizens ever to vote DALLAS BAND HOPES members of a newly-formed consideration from their neigh- ona municipal question have TOR PRE-WAR committee to study the present bors. cain oo} turned in a decisive majority to EVIVE ” and future needs of the library The couple didn’t complain favor of the sale of licenses to DAYS in relation to the community it when their windows were sell liquor in local COmmun;- Confronted with a depleted serves, were the guests of Mr. soaped, but when dead, bleed- lose treasury containing only $12, and Mrs. Andrew Sordoni at a grains a. placed - their Hsu 2 the Dallas Borough Band Par- dinner meeting at the Sterling - b on own | Met Slzean © ents Association will start an Hotel in Wilkes-Barre last Ofig With wiman excrement, | percentage mediate drive for funds to night. they Wele driven nearly to TTT x hea put the band back on its pre- Mr. Sordoni heads the com- $isaaction uty i & “5 a war footing as a going musical mittee which was recently amage gone to ter Mouse. id organization. According to appointed by attorney Mitchell : : their OPI association president Mrs. Jenkins, library president, to A Back Mountain blood drive YESTERDAY ion on the Thomas Kingston, many of the explore present and future held n the Kingston Township Qeston problems confronting the band trends in the Back Mountain fnaaiiipsl building fast Fa ; Some are due to the war when it was and the position of the library opped its quota by a pint an 5,300 voters in the four towns, without trained leadership and in relation to them. Other set the record for the largest 2,242 failed to vote on the Lo- when its program for training members of the © orndtt oe ate community donation on the op ain bitt youthful musical talent for Russell Frantz, Henry Pool, fists of the local American Red © TeSu’s ened a her replacements was interrupted. = Vern Lacy, Raymon Hedden, 1085: . contest that had been in pro- Thomas Heffernan, Harry Ohl- The total collection was 201 gress for two months. The More than 300 people attend- man, Henry Pet eTSOn Frederick pints, the largest amount ever question cannot be revived ed the Halloween party con- J Eck Howard Risley and Jen. collected during a visit of the again for four years, although ducted Wednesday night in the kis Oth or einbers are ez Bloodmobile. The quota was disappointed leaders of the dry Kingston Township High pecte diobe added 200 pints, the largest amount forces intimated yesterday they School auditorium by the La- : ever requested. There were 249 will begin immediately to call dies Auxiliary of the Trucksville = The Center Moreland Metho- registrants, 48 of whom were for 2 vote on beer licenses in Volunteer Fire Company. dist Church auction Friday passed by because of slight _ the next election. The auditorium was deco- night netted $1,150, including Mines or other physical rea- rated in Halloween colors and sales from baked goods, odds : A goal of $1,490 was fixed the judges were Gene Piatt, and ends, and the hot dog In 1955, there Wika banner this week for local workers in Don Finney and Harold York stand. This amount, plus $100 collection of 186 pints in memo- the annual drive for funds that Prizes in the children’s division = from an anonym oti donor, ry of Dr. Sherman Schooley. Commuty Woliar e Fadergtion went to Charlotte Perkins, $150 from three nights at the YaksoR 7 hi wil launch ne Snday. he prettiest costume; Juanita Farmers Market, and $575 from ~~, >2¢XSon 0WNShip Super- campaign will continue until Evans and Lorraine Harrison the summer food project when visors voted Tuesday evening Thursday, Nov. 19. The quota funniest; and Larry and Jay 4 women served lunches to tonia: to advertise their intention to Set for the local area this year is Farr, most original. More than to packers at the Frank Heit- levy a 1 percent wage tax. Solic- considerably lower than last 10 prizes, including a live duck, sman farm, adds up to approxi- itor Jonathan Valentine was year, when volunteers failed to were given away to children mately $2,000 raised in two authorized to prepare the prop- reach the goal of $2,100. The ard adults Months Th & fioney willbe er ordinance, which will be amount collection in this sec- y wsed fo . repairs ney [COVE imposed if a like tax is upheld tion las t year was $1,400. With the opening of a fin- tions to the old schoolhouse, in the City of Wilkes-Barre. ou, ishing department in the for- which was recently purchased Board chairman Wesley La- For the first time in many mer Teen-Age building on Main at auction for $975. moreaux stated supervisors years, the Sixth Legislative Street in Dallas. Natona Mills were loathe to impose such a District, of which the Dallas hi x ’ tax, but had been urged to do area is a part, will be repre- : : ye : San Sd fae pic. 40 YEARS AGO so to protect their own citizens. 1011 OI lace In as Now. 3, 1966 ea
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