PAGE 4 EDITORIAL Sunday, May 4, 2008 Back Mountain Memorial Library offers beading/jewelry class If you are looking for a unique way to express your creativity this spring, the Back Mountain Memorial Library has a great idea for you. A Beginners’ Beading/Jewelry Making Class will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 14. Ms. Debbie Rodzinak will teach students at this class about the tools needed for beading and the different types of beads. Participa- nts will then have a choice to make either a bracelet or an ankle bracelet. Rodzniak has been doing beading as a hobby for the past several years and has taken classes locally and in Cape May, New Jersey. She has experience in making earrings, bracelets, necklaces, rings and anklets. She also does custom work and enjoys working with Swarov- ski crystals. This class is appropriate for ages 14 and up, including adults, but the class size is limited. Pre-registration is required and the payment of either $8 to make the bracelet or $10 to make the ankle bracelet is due at the time of registration at the library. Auction kick-off dinner set Another fun idea for a night of springtime fun and fine dining is the Back Mountain Memorial Library's Auction Kick-off Dinner and Mini-Auction to be held on Monday, June 2. The dinner will be held at the AppleTree Terrace at the Newberry Estates with cocktails and hors d'oeuvres from 6 to 7 p.m. (with open bar) and dinner served at 7 p.m. The dinner will include a grilling station, pasta station and dessert station. Following the dinner, a variety of antiques and new goods items will be auctioned off, provid- ing a great chance to practice those bidding skills! The cost of the * dinner is $28.50 payable at the time reservations are made. Please call the library at 675-182 for more information. Remember the library when spring cleaning With auction excitement just around the corner, remember to keep the library in mind when you are spring cleaning your bookshelves and closets and looking for a place to donate any of your used books. The Slightly Read Bookshop is accepting book donations at this time for use in the ever-popular Used Book tent at the auction. Donations may be dropped off at the library during regular busi- ness hours. Any used book is acceptable with the exception of text- books, Reader's Condensed Versions of books, magazines, encyclo- pedias or any book that has become yellowed or musty. If in doubt, please call the library at 675-182 for more details. SHARE YOUR PET PICTURES WITH OUR 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 is 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 tele- MAN & BEAST Queenieis all ready to have her first lick! of ice-cream in this photo. Since sh only weighs eight; pounds, she obvi- ously doesn’t have to worry about her waistline. Queenie ; loves to run in her backyard and try to catch chipmunks, 7 go for rides in the | car, swim and play / with her toys. She'll be10 years old soon == but acts as if she's’ 2. Queenie's mom is Monica and her dadis Charles Kras- niak. The family lives in Dallas. 1 phone number in the event we have questions. Send everything to "Man and Beast," c/o The Dallas Post, 15 N Main St., Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711 or e-mail the picture to us at news@mydallaspost.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 thems STRANGE BUT TRUE By: Samantha Weaver e |t was author and Pulitzer Prize- winning humorist Dave Barry who made the following sage observation: “Although golf was origi- nally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.” e |f the paint on your house is starting to peel or fade and you're dreading the expense and trouble of repainting, you might consider yourself lucky if you remember this: When it comes time for the exterior of the White House to get spruced up, it takes 570 gallons of paint. * The oldest woman on record to give birth was 65 years old when she became pregnant. * For more proof that the Germans have a word for everything, consider "weltschmerz,” a word used to describe the feeling of mel- ancholy that comes from reflecting on the state of the world. A more literal translation is “world pain.” * You're almost certainly familiar with duct tape, that ubiquitous silver adhesive that comes in giant rolls and sometimes seems capa- ble of fixing anything. It-was originally developed as a waterproof sealing tape for ammunition cases in World War Il, but was later used to seal heating and air conditioning ducts -- whence its name. Iron- ically, experts now say that while duct tape has many uses, it doesn't actually work very well to seal ducts. * Have you ever felt like your pet was really communicating to you -- almost talking? Well, a company in Japan wants to help you under- stand what your cat is saying. It invented a device called the Meow- lingual, which purportedly translates the meows of a cat into human language. Thought for the Day: “The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.” -- Albert Einstein MOMENTS IN TIME The History Channel * On May 10, 1749, the 10th and final volume of Henry Fielding's "Tom Jones" is printed. The novel tells the humorous story of the attempts of the illegitimate but charming Tom Jones to win his neighbor's daughter, despite her father's objections to his uncertain parentage. * * On May 7, 1789, President George Washington attends a ball in his honor. The event provided a model for the first official inaugural ball. Since 1809, formal inaugural balls have been held to celebrate new presidential terms. * On May 6, 1937, the airship Hindenburg, pride of Nazi Germany, bursts into flames while attempting to moor at Lakehurst, N.J., prob- ably after a spark ignited its hydrogen core. Rapidly falling 200 feet to the ground, the hull of the airship incinerated within seconds. * On May 5, 1945, in Lakeview, Ore., six people are killed while attempting to drag a Japanese balloon out the woods. The explosive balloon was one of a handful of Japanese attacks against the conti- nental United States, which were initially conducted by Japanese submarines and later by high-altitude balloons. * On May 9, 1950, Ron Hubbard publishes “Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.” Hubbard's book introduced a branch of self-help psychology that morphed into a belief system boasting millions of subscribers: Scientology. * On May 8,1988, Stella Nickell becomes the first person to be found guilty of violating the federal Anti-Tampering Act when she is convicted on two counts of murder. Nickell put cyanide in Excedrin capsules in an effort to kill her husband. ® On May 1,1997, chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov resigns after 19 moves in a match against Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer developed by IBM. Kasparov, conceding defeat for the first time in his career, said of his decision, "I lost my fighting Spire] n 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 70 YEARS AGO The long-awaited Luzerne By- Pass, which is expected to touch off a new building boom in Dal- las and its vicinity, will be start- ed bytheend of May or the first part of June, Sen- v ator Leo. C. ' Mundy told The Post yesterday. Boys at Dallas Bor- ough and Dallas Township Schools have been invited by Jo- seph Polacky, Dallas postmaster, to compete in a model airplane building contest to be conducted here in connection with National Air Mail Week, May 15-021. The model planes will be tested on Saturday afternoon, on a lot yet to be determined, and the owner of the model which is best con- structed, most efficient and flies the longest will receive as his re- ward an airplane flight from Wyoming Valley Airport to Dal- las some time shortly after the contest. The new Shavertown Theatre will swing open its doors and welcome people from all over this section to its “first night” performance. The handsome new theatre, which has been built by Daniel Shaver, will have as its policy: to show the best films, with changes three times a week. ONLY YESTERDAY 60 YEARS AGO “A Toy Shoppe” will be the theme of the 1948 May Day Fes- tivities opening in Dallas Town- ship School Auditorium on Thursday. May Queen Mildred Borton and Maid of Honor Peg- gy Mart will be crowned on the front lawn of the school. Mem- bers of the planning committee are: Raymond E. Kuhnert, Alfred Milliner Camp, Veronica Mills and Mary Mohr. Mrs. A.D. Hutchinson, chair- man of the solicitation commit- tee for the Back Mountain Li- brary memorial Auction, which will be held on July 10, has an- nounced the following commit- tee members: Mrs. Fred Howell and Mrs. A.C. Dick, co-chair- men; Mrs. Harry Ohlman, chair- man auction day supper. The State Liquor Control Board has ordered the suspen- sion of the license of Herman and Mae Van Campen’s Restau- rant, Main Road, Shavertown, for a period of 40 days beginning May 14 on charges including Sunday sales, maintaining gam- bling devices and permitting gambling. Only last fall local op- tion was defeated in Kingston Township. 50 YEARS AGO Margaret Coole will be crowned Queen of the May Mon- day at Lake-Noxen High School. Attendants are Sandra Morris and Connie Smith. Three Back Mountain stu- dents who took top honors re- cently at West Catholic Science Fair, consolidated their posi- tions by taking honors at Lu- zerne County Medical Society Science Fair. Eddie Girvan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Girvan, Dallas, again took first place for construction and operation of a Castner cell, which demonstrat- ed breaking down of common salt into its component chem- icals. Carol Rinehart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John. C. Rine- hart, Trucksville, and Marian Mascali, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. A.A. Mascali, Dallas, took a third prize for their dissection of a frog and articulation of its skel- eton. Movies playing at the Himm- ler Theatre, Dallas, included “Stopover Tokyo” starring Rob- ert Wagner and Joan Collins. At the Dallas Outdoor Theatre, James “Maverick” Gardner was featured in “Darby’s' Rangers” and Dan Daily was featured in "Undenyater, Warrior.” 40 YEARS AGO Frances Slocum State Park is taking shape by easy stages. The springs which will feed the Lake on Carverton Road have already brought the water up to a consid- erable level, but it is far from full. The spillway remains dry. Chil- cal 401, dren skated on the slowly filling lake during the winter. Spring rains have brought up the level. The park will be one of the most modern in the country, with toi- let facilities which will leave the average par far behind. Four high school boys, two from Dallas and two from Lake- Lehman, were guests of Dallas Rotary Club last week as candi- dates for the Rotary Leadership Camp this summer. Boys are se- lected for their qualities of lead- ership and recommended by guidance counselors after con- ference with the faculty and key Rotary Club members. Dallas students are Scott Peterman and Vincent Roman. Lake-Lehman students are James Paul and Paul Niezgoda. Boys from all over Northeastern Pennsylva- nia, representing many high schools and many Rotary Clubs, annually gather at the camp near Lake Wallenpaupack each sum- mer, to be instructed in princi- ples of leadership. Settlement at Natona rids the area of fear of another long- drawn out strike such as the one which resulted in the closing of the Linear plant last year. The strike, called last Monday by lo- Teamsters Union, brought about filing of an injunc- tion by Natona. A conference on Friday in chambers of Judge Robert J. Hourigan resulted in an understanding that issues not resolved would be taken up later, and if no agreement were reac- hed, the matter would go to ar- bitration. 30 YEARS AGO The recent Gate of Heaven School Easter Candy Sale was concluded with the awarding of prizes to the most successful stu- dent salesmen. The prizes were presented by Father William Cusick, pastor of Gate of Heaven Church. The top three prize win- ners were John Walsh, Billy Mill- han and Thomas Luke. Other top salesmen included April Pe- troski, Debbie Raginski, Michael Mascali and Nanette Ellsworth. Two Dallas residents will be among the cast Wednesday eve- E31 ning as College Misericordia presents its annual dance th re program. Walt Bebetski Jim Balmer will both be dancing in the program. David Coyle received the award for Outstanding Musician from the Dallas Band Associ- ation at the band concert held re- cently at Dallas Senior High School. Mary Law, band associ- ation president, presented the award, which was chosen by Les- ter Lewis, band director. 3 20 YEARS AGO 4 This year will be the 11th sum- mer that thousands of under- privileged New York City. chil- dren have participated in the Fresh Air Fund Friendly Town Program. Approximately 20 fam- ilies in the Wilkes-Barre — Dallas Friendly Town will be hosts to some inner-city children for their summer vacation. Chair- man Fran Williams, of Shaver- town, and her husband Gary, first applied two years ago, butia child was not available to them. Paul “Sarge” Kutzer has been given permission by the Ameri- can Legion Post No. 967 to p a cannon and missile from war memorial on the site of the American Legion’s display near the entrance to Harvey’s Lake. The decision was made after Kutzer was ordered to remove his memorial from property lo- cated on Carpenter Road in the borough. The youth group of Trinity Presbyterian Church will pre- sent a dessert theatre produc- tion, “An Old Fashioned Soap” Friday night at the church. The play will help to raise funds for the youth group’s Mission trip to New Hampshire. Cast members are Michelle Lankwarden, Sam Gorgone, Melissa Billington and Renee Ziglin. 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. } WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO WIT "I have no “Pay bills and | “If | was going idea. Miscella- | have fun.” to get one, I'd neous." Tracy McDermott | fIX My car and Dan Wisnieski phaveriows spend it on Shavertown gas.” Joe Kapral Dallas < H YOUR ECONOMIC STIMULUS CHECK? “Savings.” “Invest it.” “I'm going to Vivian Jayne Andrew sabol | take it with Trucksville Shavertown me when | go. to Italy and spend it." Mary Bartos Harveys Lake r v/ ¢ so
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