Ld PAGE4 THE POST EDITORIAL Sunday, October 7, 2007 LIBRARY NEWS Annual book event features readings and discussions The Back Mountain Memorial Library and the entire Luzerne County Library System, in conjunction with the Tudor Bookshop & Café, would like to invite the public to attend its “Author Fest — 2007” at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 21, at Genetti’s Best Western Hotel, Wilkes-Barre. This annual event will feature 10 authors reading and discussing excerpts from their newly-published books. The ticket price of $16 will include a $5 coupon toward the purchase of a book on the day of the event, which you may have autographed; a $3 donation to your public library, as well as a Viennese Dessert table. We are currently selling the admission tickets, as well as raffle tickets for the event. The price of the raffle tickets is $2 each or 3 for $5. A list of the prizes will be available at the library. "Haunted Library returns Once again, ghosts and goblins and their “pre-historic friends” will hide in our basement during the Back Mountain Memorial Haunted Library on October 19, 20 and 21 and also during the following weekend on October 26, 27 and 28. The Haunted Library will be open from 6:30 to 11 p.m. on Fri- days and Saturdays and from 5 to 9 p.m. on Sunday evenings dur- ing the above-mentioned dates. Admission price is $6 and all pro- ceeds will benefit the library. A light assortment of food will be available for purchase, including a bake sale. Younger children will be able to participate in outdoor games and crafts. Anyone still wanting to volunteer may contact the library to obtain an applica- tion although slots are filling rapidly! Hurry in...if you dare! Healthy eating program Registrations are currently being accepted for a new healthy eating program to be held at the Back Mountain Memorial Library entitled “Vegetarian Basics for Everyone.” This seminar will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct.11. The event, which is free of charge, will consist of a basic overview of a vegetarian diet and related health benefits. The second hour of the seminar will be a demonstration and sampling of an easy, nutritious no-cook vege- tarian meal and desert that you can make. Pre-registration is re- quired by calling the library at 675-1182. Slightly Read Bookshop The Slightly Read Bookshop is holding a Trade Paperback sale! The price is three paperbacks for $2 while supply lasts. The Paper- back Room of the Bookshop will be closed from now to October 30 to prepare for the Haunted Library and the actual Bookshop will be closed from October 15 to 30. During this time, book donations will not be accepted due to space requirements. Both areas will re-open on Wednesday, Oct. 31. "Get a Clue" badges ready Children who participated in the “Get a Clue” summer reading program may stop by the library to pick up their game cards and badges. Story hours set to begin Parents are reminded that story hours begin this week. MOMENTS IN TIME The History Channel ® On Oct. 1, 1793, the death toll from a yellow fever epi- demic in Philadelphia reaches 100. By the time it ended, 5,000 people were dead. Today 20,000 people still die ev- ery year from the disease. e On Oct. 12, 1810, Bavarian Crown Prince Louis marries, with the citizens of Munich invited to attend the festivities. The decision to repeat the festivities in the subsequent year gave rise to the tradition of the annual Oktoberfest. e On Oct. 14, 191, Mary Pickford's contract with Independ- ent Moving Pictures is voided when a court rules that she cannot be held to a contract she signed as a minor. Before Pickford, studios refused to identify their actors by name, correctly fearing that name recognition would drive up ac- tors’ salaries. * On Oct. 8, 1944, “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” airs its first episode on radio. The show, which moved to TV in the early '50s, focused on the comic situations of the real-life family of show founders and stars Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, and sons Ricky and David. Ricky became a success- ful rock musician and died in a plane crash in 1985. ® On Oct. 10, 1951, President Harry Truman signs the Mu- tual Security Act, announcing to the world that the U.S. was prepared to provide military aid to “free peoples,” with an increase in military assistance to democratic nations. Presi- dent Dwight Eisenhower. abolished the Mutual Security Act in 1953. ®e On Oct. 9, 1969, the National Guard is called in as dem- onstrations continue in Chicago protesting the trial of the “Chicago Eight.” The trial involved charges against Abbie Hoffman and others, and stemmed from the violent antiwar demonstrations in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic Na- tional Convention. ® On Oct. 13, 1974, television talk-show legend Ed Sullivan dies. Sullivan gained national fame as host of “Toast of the Town,” later named simply “The Ed Sullivan Show,” which ran for more than two decades. (c) 2007 King Features Synd., Inc. The Dallas Post TIMES®LEADER Community Newspaper Group 15 N. Main St, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18711 ® 570-970-7440 news@mydallaspost.com Richard L. Connor PUBLISHER Dotty Martin EDITOR Matt Smith ADVERTISING CHARLOTT BARTIZEK/ FOR THE DALLAS POST hare your pet pj Sure with ol readers. Who's your best friend? If your very best friend in the whole wide world is your pet, we want to know about it. Send us a picture of your pet — whether it be a lovable puppy, a slimy iguana or a parrot with'an extensive vocabulary ‘- and we’ll share ‘it with readers of The Dallas Post. is Tell us your name and address, your pet’s name, his or her age, his or her breed and anything else you'd like everyone to know about your pet. Be sure to include your tele- phone number in the event we have questions. Send everything to “Man and Beast,” c/o The Dallas Post, 15 N. M St., Wilkes-Barre, 18702 or e-mail the pic- tures to us at news@my- dallaspost.com. If you send a picture and would like to have it re- turned, be sure to include a self-addressed /stamped envelope. We’ll publish the pic- tures in the order in which we receive them. Ember and Phoenix, both volunteers with the Shavertown Volunteer Fire Company, belong to Clarence New- comb. LL seniors make dinosaur head for Haunted Library Three Lake-Lehman Ju- nior/Senior High School se- niors have made a dinosaur and dinosaur head for the Back Mountain Memorial Li- brary’s Haunted Library as their senior project. Steven Anthony, Harveys Lake; Myron Romanchick, Dallas Twp.; and Jeffrey Nel- son, Shavertown created “Bob 1,” a dinosaur head, and “Bob 2,” a T-Rex, from chicken wire frames made by Tom Cocco of Harveys Lake. The seniors then covered the frames in paper mache and painted them. Trees in the background were con- structed from cardboard. Anthony, Romanchick, and Nelson will also have to work as actors in their room dur- ing the six nights of the Haunted Library. Vicki Grsyboski, a library volunteer, is serving as the boys’ community mentor. Several juniors at Dallas Senior High School are also volunteering at the Haunt- ed Library to complete community service hours as part of their senior pro- jects. Kaitlin Rando and Nathan Pietrzak are in charge of children’s games and crafts, Dan Fritsky and Wes Lan- ders are doing the pirate ar- ea and Eric Davis and Doug Harpersburger are making a time tunnel in the hallway. Steven Antho- ny, Harveys Lake; Myron Romanchick, Dallas Twp.; and Jeffrey Nelson Lake-Lehman High School, have made a dinosaur and dinosaur head for the Back Mountain Me- morial Library's Haunted brary as thefr senior project. Ho foul Te SUBMITTED PHOTO 20 YEARS AGO The Lake-Lehman High School Band won first place at the Calvalcade of Bands Compe- tition held Saturday at Center Dauphin High School. Two Girl Scout Leaders with experience on all levels of Girl Scouting have accept- ed new re- ~~ sponsibili- ties for the Shaver- town- Trucksville Neighbor- hood of Penn’s Woods Girl Scout Coun- cil. Frances Williams and Marga- ret Craft will be the Neighbor- hood Co-Directors. The following members of the Harvey’s Lake Women’s Service Club held a pretzel sale: Ma- ryann Finch, Janice Woronko, Sharon Link, Mary Davis, and Nancy Wilson. ONLY YESTERDAY 30 YEARS AGO Members of the Gate of Heav- en Parent-Teacher Group recent- ly held a welcome Tea in the school auditorium. Attendees in- cluded Mrs. Robert Cartier, Mrs. William Gray, Sister Patricia Ann, Sister Evangelist, Sister Dorothea, Sister Joseph Loretta, Sister Doris, Sister Lucian, Ame- lia Yarmel, Sister Leonita, Rev. Thomas Jordan, Mrs. Paul Mill- er, Mrs. Edward Rees, Mrs. Rob- ert O’Konski, Mrs. Joseph Flynn, Mrs. William Farrell, Mrs. Rob- ert Fallon, Mrs. Edward Makow- ski, Carol Oliver, Mrs. Bert Al- bert, Mrs. Donald Thompson, Mrs. Robert Scruitsky, , William Farrell and Mrs. Gordon Wolver- ton. Herb Feeney is the new owner of the Holiday Market in the Dal- las Shopping Center. Feeney said that his policy will be qual- ity meat, good service, and low prices in order to successfully serve the residents of the area. The Lake-Lehman Band per- formed in concert last Thursday afternoon at the Bloomsburg Fair. A large crowd filled the seats in the area of the band- stand with many more sitting on the grass and squeezing into stand wherever they could find room. 40 YEARS AGO A hilarious afternoon of enter- tainment was in store for the au- dience gathered Sunday after- noon at the Dallas Junior High Football Field when the two most popular teams in the area - the Sisters of the Swish and the Brothers of the Brush of the Olde Dallas Sesquicentennial (150 years) - met each other on the gridiron. The Brothers won the game, 13-12, after it was called in the final quarter for unnecessary roughness. The girls were ahead at the end of the first half, 12-0. The men however, had been playing with a slight handicap, each team members had one leg tied to the leg of another teammate, but the girls were picking up the rope tied between and holding them back. Jonathan L. Weir, Huntsville Road, Dallas, today was named auditor of Miner’s National Bank of Wilkes-Barre. The Wyoming Valley United Fund Campaign for $1,335,000 opened last Friday with a motor- cade through all sections of the area, including a stop at the Back Mountain Shopping Center at Shavertown. Arriving there at about 1:20 P.M., the caravan was greeted by the students at Sha- vertown Elementary School on recess at the time. Also present at the stop to greet the caravan were volunteer leader’s of the campaign’s Back Mountain division, including: Mrs. Frank Townend, division chairman; and Mrs. Edward J. Boltz, Jr., division vice chairman and wife of the campaign general chairman. 50 YEARS AGO “A bomb will go off in ten min- utes” was what Bob Hanson, owner-operator of Crown Impe- rial Bowling Lanes, heard when he picked up an extension tele- phone Monday evening at 7:45, The fake bomb message, appar- ently placed by some teen-age youth from a pay station, tou- ched off an intensive ten-minute search of the premises. None of the 140 players and guests were alerted, and there was none of the wholesale exodus which the prankster expected to enjoy. Crown Imperial Bowling Lanes, in Dallas Borough limits on Memorial Highway, has re- cently added eight lanes to the original eight which were opened last year. Mr. Hanson has an investment of $400,000 in the lanes, which nightly draw a ca- pacity crowd. Back Mountain Protective As- sociation is preparing a petition to the public Utility Commis- sion, to protest about the inade- quacy of the Trucksville water supply, at the same time that PUC is instigating its own inves- tigation into the same situation. A petition signed by over 200 drought-stricken consumers of the Trucksville Water Company is being redrawn to comply with accepted legal form. The heavy hammers of a wrecking crew, are sounding the end of an epoch in Trucksville’s history. John Parrish and his workmen are razing the old Trucksville Mill. For almost 150 years, a mill has stood on the site below the falls in Toby’s Creek. Trucksville was settled about 1809, William Trucks having come there from his native Con- necticut. It was he who built the first mill on the present site. 60 YEARS AGO Lehman Township Educators Association elected the follow- ing officers: Robert Martin, pres- ident; Mary Battle, vice presi- dent; Hannah Culp, secretary; and Lillian Burgess, treasurer. Thomas Moore, manager of Hislop’s Market; James Hilfierty, manager of Howard Johnson Restaurant, Kingston, = and James Allen, who is engaged in commercial advertising, were admitted into membership at the meeting of the Dallas Rotary Club last night at Irem Temple Country Club. : Lehman Township’s Veteran's Agricultural School has an en- rollment of thirty veterans — sev- eral of them disabled — and still has room for the enrollment of one or two others. Classes have been underway from several weeks with William Keil and Ray Searfoss as instructors. The four-year course covers all phases of agricultural work with one night a week devoted to classroom activity. The instr) tors also make a weekly visi tion to each veteran on his farm or project. 70 YEARS AGO State Senator Leo C. Mundy informed directors of Wyoming Valley Motor Club this week that the contract for the long-awaited Luzerne by-pass will be awarded before the end of this year, but construction will probably not start before Spring. ; Fiery crosses may blaze again on the hills above Dallas if the Ku Klux Klan, which has been spot- lighted by Klansman Hugo Black’s appointment to the Su- preme Court, succeeds in its ef- forts to regain its onetime power here. Far from being dead, the Klan today numbers many local men as its members. Information for “Only Yester- day” is taken from past issues of The Dallas Post, which is 118 vears old. The informationgh printed here exactly as it peared in the newspaper years ago. ; \ Shavertown, ally students at \ h i r VR 0
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