L PAGE 4 EDITORIAL Sunday, February 17, 2008 MOMENTS IN TIME The History Channel e On Feb. 20, 1725, a posse of New Hampshire volunteers comes across a band of encamped Native Americans and takes 10 “scalps” in the first significant appropriation of this Native American practice. The posse received a bounty of 100 pounds per scalp from the Colo- nial authorities in Boston. ® On Feb. 22,1732, George Washington is born in Westmoreland County, Va. Part of his success in the Revolutionary War was due to his shrewd use of an “ungentlemanly,” but effective, tactic of “guer- rilla” warfare, in which stealthy “hit-and-run” attacks foiled British armies. * On Feb. 24, 1786, Wilhelm Karl Grimm, the younger of the two Brothers Grimm, is born in Hanau, Germany. The brothers’ collection of oral folktales includes “Hansel and Gretel,” “Snow White,” ‘Little Red Riding Hood,” “Sleeping Beauty,” “Rapunzel” and “Rumpelstilt- skin.” ® On Feb. 18,1885, Mark Twain publishes his famous -- and famous- ly controversial -- novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Twain (the pen name of Samuel Clemens) first introduced Huck Finn as the best friend of Tom Sawyer, hero of his novel “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876). e On Feb. 19,1914, Pittsburgh movie theaters are required to estab- lish a seating section for unaccompanied women. Some women attending movies alone had complained of harassment. e On Feb. 23,1940, folk singer Woody Guthrie writes one of his best-known songs, “This Land Is Your Land.” Guthrie died in 1967, having lived long enough to see the tune become a rallying song for the civil-rights movement. e On Feb. 21,1994, CIA operative Aldrich Ames is arrested for sell- ing secrets to the Soviet Union. At least 10 men were killed after Ames revealed their identities, and more were sent to Russian gu- lags. Both Ames and his wife were later convicted. Ames was sen- tenced to life in prison, while his wife, as part of a plea-bargain agree- ment, received a five-year sentence. GOOD GRIEF! SNOOPY’S ON DISPLAY IN THE LIBRARY! On display at the Back Mountain Memorial Library for the month of February is a Snoopy collection. Snoopy, as most peo- ple know, is Charlie Brown's beagle from the “Peanuts” charac- ters. The collection comprises over 20 pieces, including stuffed toys, porcelain ornaments, a sno-cone maker, several character toys and belongs to 5-year-old, Carly Cavanaugh. Carly has been collecting Snoopy items for three years. She loves the Christmas ornaments and the “Cool Sister” Snoopy that her sis- ter bought her. She also enjoys the Snoopy Sno-Cone maker, es- pecially in the summer. Her favorite item, however, is a stuffed toy Snoopy that she sleeps with every night. Her mom was quick to add, “That one is not in the case!” Carly is a kindergarten student at Gate of Heaven School and lives in Dallas with her parents, Terry and Mary Lou Cavanaugh, and her sister, Nicole. SHARE YOUR PET PICTURES WITH OUR READERS MAN & BEAST “The Poodles" are all ready to go to bed after a hard day's work. On top of the stairs is $ 6-month-old Rameses. Cleopatra, on the middle step, and Tutankhakun, on the bottom step, . are 10 monhths old and are brother and sister. The poodles, who live with Judith Walczak on Center Street in Harveys Lake, love to play with each other and their toys but their favorite thing to do is eat puppy ice- cream 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. 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 telephone number in the event we have questions. i Send everything to "Man and Beast," c/o The Dallas Post, 15 N. Main St., Wilkes-Barre, PA 1871 or e-mail the picture to us at news@mydal-. laspost.com. If you send a picture and would like to have it returned, be sure to include a self-addressed/stamped envelope. We'll publish the pictures in the order in which we receive them. New books are on shelves at Back Mountain brary The following new books have been added to the shelves of the Back Mountain Memo- rial Library, 96 Huntsville Rd., Dallas for February 2008. EXPRESS (1 WEEK) “The Appeal” by John Grisham, “7th Heaven” by James Patterson, “The Shoo- ters” by W.E.B. Griffin, “The Secret Between Us” by Barbara Delinsky, “My Enemy’s Cra- dle” by Sara Young, “Dead Heat” by Dick and Felix Francis ~ FICTION “The Appeal” by John Grisham, “7th Heaven” by James Patterson, “The Shoo- ters” by W.E.B. Griffin, “The Secret Between Us” by Barbara Delinsky, “My Enemy’s Cra- dle” by Sara Young, “Duma Key” by Stephen King, “The Redbreast” by Jo Nesbo, “Drop Dead Beautiful” by Jackie Collins, “Song Yet Sung” by James McBride, “Winter in Ma- drid” by C.J. Sansom, “Diary of a Bad Year” by J.M. Coetzee, “Hand of Evil” by Judith A. Jance, “Missing Witness” by Gordon Camp- bell, “Dead Heat” by Dick and Felix Francis, “People of the Book” by Geraldine Brooks, “Blue Heaven” by C.J. Box NON-FICTION “The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court” by Jeffrey Toobin, “The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944” by Rick Atkinson, “The Joy of Living” by Rinpoche Yongey Mingyur LARGE PRINT FICTION “Duma Key” by Stephen King, “Sizzle and Burn” by Jayne Ann Krentz, “The Purrfect Murder” by Rita Mae Brown, “Beverly Hills Dead” by Stuart Woods, “The Séance” by Heather Graham BIOGRAPHY “Grace Will Lead Me Home” by Robin Giv- ens, “True Grace” by Wendy Leigh, “Sage- ing While Age-ing” by Shirley MacLaine SCIENCE FICTION “Darth Bane: Rule of Two” by Drew Kar-- pyshyn YOUNG ADULT “Tamar” by Mal Peet, “November Blues” by Sharon M. Draper, “Red Glass” by Laura Resau, “My Mother the Cheerleader” by: Robert Sharenow, “Undercover” by Beth Ke-. phartm “Your Own, Sylvia” by Stephanie Hemphill, “Tasting the Sky” by Ibtisam Ba- rakat, “Dragon’s Keep” by Janet Lee Carey, “Home of the Brave” by Katherine Getarins gate, “The White Darkness” by Ge McCatighrean STRANGE BUT TRUE By Samantha Weaver * |t was English novelist and essayist Virginia Woolf, one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the 20th century, who made the following sage observation: “For most of history, Anonymous was a woman." e Other than being celebrities, what do Woody Allen, Farrah Faw- cett, Stanley Tucci, Glenn Close, Richard Attenborough and Kevin Spacey have in common? They're all pigs. In the Chinese zodiac, that is. * At 6 feet, 4 inches tall, Abraham Lincoln is the tallest president in the history of the United States. e In a study of 28 women, it was found that screaming has a ther- apeutic effect on the physiology of the body. After bouts of scream- ing, the test subjects showed slower heart rates, lower blood pres- sure and lower body temperature. ® The Netherlands is well-known for picturesque photos of wind- mills, dikes and, of course, the ubiquitous tulips. The flowers have been an integral part of the culture of the country for hundreds of years. In fact, in the 77th century, it was possible to purchase a house with just a few tulip bulbs. Very special tulip bulbs, | would imagine. * The bread-slicing machine was invented by a jeweler, not an engineer. The Dallas Post Community Newspaper Group THE TIMES LEADER 15 N. Main St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18711 ® 570-970-7440 news@mydallaspost.com Richard L. Connor Dotty Martin PUBLISHER EDITOR 829-7202 970-7440 rconnor@timesleader.com dmartin@mydallaspost.com Christie Delicati ADVERTISING 970-7111 cdelicati@timesleader.com LR day Sd . is & 20 YEARS AGO Eighteen-year old Mark Schmoll of Dallas has been bowl- ing. in a « man’s scratch league for the past three years with two goals in mind - roll a perfect game and hit a 700 series. Last Monday night in the Roth Novel- ty-Back Mountain Bowl League, Schmoll achieved both goals. Ironically, despite Schmoll’s out- standing performance, his team lost that game to their oppo- nents. The Dallas Chapter of UNICO and the Dallas Playground Com- mittee are sponsoring a Spaghet- ti Supper to be held on March 9 at the Dallas Junior High School. Proceeds from the dinner will go toward the construction of a playground at the Dallas Ele- mentary School. Lehman Cub Scout Pack 241 recently held its Pinewood Der- by at the Lehman Jackson Ele- mentary School. The top three winners of the Race Cars Best Overall Appearance category were first place, John Fielding, Dallas; second place, Allen Scott, Hunlock Creek; and third place, David San Fanandre, Hun- lock Creek. The derby race win- ners were first place, Barry Ide, Idetown; second place, Matt Bullock, Dallas; third place, Al- len Scott, Hunlock Creek; fourth place, Jeff Eyet, Shavertown; fifth place, Tom Fostock, Shaver- town; and sixth place, Joey Cor- tegerone, Shavertown. ONLY YESTERDAY 30 YEARS AGO Dallas girls’ basketball team took the first half honors in Divi- sion II of the Wyoming Valley Girls League with a 7-0 record. Members of the team are: Renee Young, Chris Reid, Liza DeWitt, Lauri Aicher, Gloria Hazletine, Carol Kwasnik, Chris Kern, Hol- ly Fry, Nora Barlow, Leslie Wolfe, Michele Kravitsky, Maur- ita Gries and Rose Moorehead. Dallas Band Parents present- ed jackets to majorettes, strut- ters and band members who will graduate in June. Majorettes re- ceiving jackets were: Michele Riegel, Dawn Davenport, Cindy Asby, Laurie Santarelli, Gail Pratt, Alison Davis, and Kathy Bonawitz. Window-breaking vandals were active in Dallas Borough over the past week, with a shop window and automobile win- dow being destroyed by thrown objects. Police report that a chunk of ice was thrown through the window of Uncle Mike's Welding shop, Main Street, Dal- las, on Monday morning. An au- tomobile belonging to Albert O. Breymeier, Spring Street, has its windshield shattered Monday morning as it was parked in front of its owner’s house when some- one in a passing car threw a bot- tle at it. 40 YEARS AGO Richard H. Demmy, UGI Vice President and General Manager of Luzerne Electric, presented a Pennsylvania Electric Associ- ation check to Mrs. Nancy Goer- inger, Home Economics teacher at Dallas’ High School. The check represents the Electric As- sociation’s 2nd prize awarded to the Dallas Senior High School Food Service Class for its dem- onstration at the Farm Show in Harrisburg. The demonstration featured the use of electrical ap- pliances. Dallas Kiwanis Club is picking up the cost of the purchase of the large banner which will desig- nate the lake-Lehman Band in their march in the Cherry Blos- som Festival Parade in Washing- ton in April. The price is $152. The Dallas Senior and Junior Woman's Clubs have completed plans for a dinner and semi-for- mal dance to be held at Irem Temple Country Club Saturday. Mrs. Thomas Reese and Mrs. Harold Haefele, chairmen of the affair, have announced that pro- ceeds from the affair are to be used for scholarships and other charitable works which both clubs support. 50 YEARS AGO Some of the parents of boys in Boy Scout Troop 232 got cold feet when they saw what was cooking in the way of weekend weather on Friday, but a few in- trepid souls swallowed their forebodings and five dauntless Boy Scouts camped over-night in Shavertown in the teeth of a howling blizzard. Tommy Glenn, Pete Blessing, Tom Lee, J. Luckasavage and Harley Mis- son buttoned themselves into their sleeping bags. The night passed with everybody snug and dry, ravenous for bacon and eggs for breakfast. One of the fastest growing sports in the United States, Quarter-Midget Racing, will be introduced in the Back Moun- tain this spring. A track, to be built within a short distance of Dallas, will conform with similar tracks rapidly springing up all over the forty-eight states. Local Acme stores were fea- turing a two pound package of fresh carrots fro 17 cents; two cans of Star-Kist tuna fro 59 cents; and oven-ready turkeys for 47 cents a pound. 60 YEARS AGO Officers for the coming year were elected at a meeting of the Kingston Township Football Mother’s Club held Tuesday eve- ning at the home of Mrs. Jacob Harrison. Elected were Mrs. Ce- dric Griffith, president; Mrs. Leo Carey, vice president; Mrs. Fred Handley, secretary-treasurer. Movies playing at the Shaver Theater, Shavertown, included “Cheyenne” starring Dennis Morgan, Janis Paige and Jane Wyman; “Possessed” starring Van Heflin and Joan Crawford; and “For Love of Rusty” starring Ted Donaldson and Tom Pow- ers. Virginia Jones was hostess to members of the Shavertown Se- nior Girl Scout Troop at her home on Pioneer Avenue Mon-, day evening. Present were Nan- cy Lozo, Sylvia Jones, Ruth Mary | Morgan, Judy Powell, Janice Ross, Beverly Atwell, Dorothy Reese and Mrs. Jane Case "® | 70 YEARS AGO Six Penny Bit of Fenbor, a son of Mrs. Margaret McL. Cottle’s| won first prize in the specialty show for! wire-haired fox terriers which preceded the big Westminster dog show and placed third in a, puppy class of eleven at West- Corinthian Cypress, minster last week. Three men are beginning jal sentences and three more are, locked up awaiting hearings asa result of a sweeping police inves- tigation in the vicinity of Dallas this week in an effort to solve. scores of petty crimes which have been committed during the last few months. About $1,000in goods stolen from local people ‘has been discovered. Representing motorists who have complained again concern- ing the condition of Center Hill Road, Dallas, Wyoming Valley Motor Club this week took steps | to have the section from Lake Street to the railroad taken over by the State Department of! Highways, a step which would settle a controversy of many years duration. The dividing line between Dallas Borough and Dallas Township, Center Hill Road has been the cause of a number of disputes and the question of responsibility for its maintenance has even provok law suits. Several months a; the motor club threatened to have the constable return the highway as a nuisance. Information for “Only Yester- day” is taken from past issues of The Dallas Post, which is 119! vears old. The information is| printed here exactly as it ap- peared in the newspaper years ago. :
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