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EDITORIAL
Sunday, June 8, 2008
NEW BOOKS AT LIBRARY
The Back Mountain Memorial Library, 96 Huntsville Rd., Dallas,
announces the addition of the following books to tits collection:
JUNE 2008
EXPRESS (1 WEEK)
“Santa Fe Dead" by Stuart Woods, “Secrets” by Jude Deve-
raux, “Odd Hours" by Dean R. Koontz, “Plague Ship” by Clive
Cussler, “Certain Girls” by Jennifer Weiner, “Zapped" by Carol
Higgins Clark, “Quicksand” by Iris Johansen.
FICTION
“Santa Fe Dead” by Stuart Woods, “Secrets” by Jude Deve-
raux, “Odd Hours" by Dean R. Koontz, “Plague Ship" by Clive
Cussler, “From Dead to Worse" by Charlaine Harris, “The First
Patient” by Michael Palmer, “Sun Going Down" by Jack Todd,
“The Last Gospel” by David Gibbons, “Codex 632" by Jose Ro-
drigues Dos Santos, “Sepulchre” by Kate Mosse, “Child 44" by
Tom Rob Smith, “Three in Death” by J.D. Robb, “Tom Clancy's
Endwar"” by David Michaels, “The Crystal Skull” by Manda Scott,
“Presumed Guilty and Keeper of the Bride” by Tess Gerritsen.
NONFICTION
“The Age of American Unreason"” by Susan Jacoby, “Traveling
with Your Pet: The AAA Petbook,” “City Lights” by Dan Barry,
“The Candy Bombers” by Andrei Cherny, “Complete Your Dis-
sertation or Thesis in Two Semesters or Less” by Evelyn Hunt
Ogden, “Gandhi and Churchill” by Arthur Herman.
MYSTERY
“Zapped" by Carol Higgins Clark, “The Sudoku Puzzle Mur-
ders” by Parnell Hall
BIOGRAPHY
“Audition: A Memoir" by Barbara Walters, “A Long Retreat” by
Andrew Krivak, “The Good Fight: Hard Lessons from Searchlight
to Washington” by Harry Reid, “Positively False" by Floyd Landis,
“White House Ghosts" by Robert Schlesinger.
SCIENCE FICTION
“Ranger's Apprentice: The Battle for Skandia” by John Flana-
gan
BOOKS ON CD
“The Nine" by Jeffrey Toobin, “Beyond the White House" by
Jimmy Carter, “Quiet Strength: A Memoir” by Tony Dungy with
Nathan Whitaker, “Odd Hours” by Dean Koontz, “Audition: A
Memoir" by Barbara Walters, “Zapped"” by Carol Higgins Clark,
“Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington” by Thomas Cath-
cart & Daniel Klein, “Secrets” by Jude Deveraux, “The Great Up-
heaval” by Jay Winik, “Shakespeare: The World as Stage" by Bill
Bryson.
SPECIAL DONATIONS
“Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles” by Don Felder, donat-
ed by Thomas F. O'Donnell Ill, D. Ed PHEAA
MOMENTS IN TIME
The History Channel
* On June 15,1877, Henry Ossian Flipper, born a slave in Thomas-
ville, Ga., in 1856, is the first black cadet to graduate from the United
States Military Academy. Flipper was never spoken to by a white
cadet during his four years at West Point.
* On June 10, 1935, in New York City, two recovering alcoholics
found Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.), a 12-step rehabilitation program.
Today there are more than 80,000 local groups in the United States,
with an estimated membership of almost 2 million people.
* On June 1,1944, five days after the D-Day landing, the five Allied
landing groups link up in Normandy to form a single solid front
across northwestern France in Operation Overlord. The Allied in-
vasion force included 3 million men, 13,000 aircraft, 1,200 warships,
2,700 merchant ships and 2,500 landing craft.
* On June 14,1954, more than 12 million Americans in 54 cities
“die” in a mock nuclear attack, as the United States goes through its
first nationwide civil-defense drill. At 10 a.m., alarms were sounded in
selected cities, at which time all citizens were supposed to get off the
streets, seek shelter and prepare for the onslaught.
* On June 9,1973, Secretariat becomes the first horse since Cita-
tion in 1948 to win America’s coveted Triple Crown -- the Kentucky
Derby, the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes. In 1999, ESPN ranked
Secretariat No. 35 in its list of the Top 50 North American athletes of.
the 20th century, the only non-human on the list.
* On June 13,1983, after more than a decade in space, Pioneer 10,
the world's first outer-planetary probe, leaves the solar system.
Headed in the direction of the Taurus constellation, Pioneer 10 will
pass within 3 light years of another star - Ross 246 - in the year
34,600 A.D.
STRANGE BUT TRUE
By Samantha Weaver
* Are you interested in pogonotrophy? If you're a woman, the
answer is probably no. The word, derived from the Greek word "“po-
gon,” or “beard,” and the suffix “-trophy,” or “nourishment,” refers to
the growing of a beard.
e Saturday, May 3, 2008, was the fourth annual World Naked
Gardening Day.
* |t was humorist Erma Bombeck who made the following sage
observation: “Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.”
® For better or worse, Wal-Mart stores are a ubiquitous part of the
American landscape, and they're spreading across the world. The
ones in foreign countries aren't all like the ones we're familiar with
here at home, though. In some places, Wal-Mart stores have weekly
singles nights. If you're in the market for love as well as cheap goods,
you can tie a red ribbon on your cart to announce your intentions.
® Chickens were domesticated before cats were.
* When you go to the movies these days, have you noticed that
the seats seem a bit roomier than they used to? You're not imagining
things: Over the course of the past decade, a standard theater seat
has grown from 19 to 22 inches, an increase of more than 10 percent.
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Thought for the Day: “There is nothing so absurd but some philos-
opher has said it.” -- Cicero
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70 YEARS AGO
Mrs. L.E. Cottle arrived home
yesterday after week in New Jer-
sey and New York. At the Morris
and Essex Kennel Club show at
Madison, N.J., last Saturday a
puppy bred by Mrs. Cottle
topped his class. This was “Six
Penny Bit O’ Fenbor” who just
last week annexed his first
points toward his championship.
Charles L. Albert of Pioneer
Avenue was elected president of
the Under-
writers’ As-
sociation of
Wyoming
~ Valley at a
meeting in
the Hotel
Sterling
Tuesday
evening,
succeeding Guy A. Smith.
YESTERDAY
60 YEARS AGO
Annual awards for scholarship
and extracurricular activities in
the junior and senior high school
will be made this afternoon at
special assembly programs in
Kingston Township High
School. Art awards will be made
by Dorothy Teresinski. Other
awards will be made by: Verus
Weaver, music; Ted Martz and
George McCutcheon, athletics;
George McCutcheon, cheerlead-
er; and Mrs. Samuel Buckman,
American red Cross Nursing
Awards.
Carverton’s Red Hot Minstrel
presented by Mountain Grange
on three successive nights in
April will be repeated on Friday,
June 18, in Lehman High School
auditorium under the auspices
of WSCS of Jackson Methodist
Church. The chorus is directed
by Sam Davis.
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50 YEARS AGO
Deplorable condition of many
streets in Dallas Borough was
once more brought up by a dele-
gation of citizens from Sterling
Avenue at Tuesday night's Bor-
ough Council meeting. Harry M.
Burns, submitted pictures taken
during the recent wet spells,
which showed much standing
water in the street.
Dallas Junior Woman's Club
will sponsor a Little League
Baseball team this summer, and
also send five girls to the YMCA
Day Camp.
40 YEARS AGO
Incoming officers of the Dallas
Lettermen Booster Club were in-
stalled Friday evening at Castle
Inn. Richard C. Farley, of Center
Hill Road, took the office of pres-
ident, replacing Carl E. Kaschen-
bach, Jr., of Yeager Avenue, Sha-
vertown, retiring president.
These two were among the six
men who, at the suggestion of
Ed Brominski, got together to
form the club seven years ago.
Elton “Red” Brace was installed
as first vice president; Robert
Hislop, second vice president;
Charles Siegel, secretary; and
Raymond Parsons, treasurer.
Members of Saint Paul’s Luth-
eran team won the champion-
ship of the Back Mountain
Church Bowling League at
Crown Imperial Bowling Lanes.
Team members are: Art Morgan,
matt Evans, Roy Stair, Bob Monk
and Tex Wilson. Dave Zimmer-
man, sixth man, filled in near the
end when Tex injured his leg and
could not bowl.
Dallas Drugs was entered
sometime during the night be-
fore Memorial Day, with the loss
of approximately $20 in change
from an open till, and several
packs of cigarettes.
30 YEARS AGO
A resident of Dallas, recent
King’s graduate Barbara DelVec-
chio was named “Student Teach-
er of the Year” at the college. The
award was presented at a dinner
meeting of the King’s Student
National Education Association.
“Our hamburger business in-
creased by 25 percent when
Burger King moved into the
Back Mountain,” says Dario Pa-
trini, owner-manager of the Per-
kins Pancake house in Dallas.
Difficult to believe though such a
statement may be, it helps to ex-
plain a phenomenon that has
puzzled more than a few resi-
dents who have noticed a steady
growth of eating places in the ar-
ea lately.
James Nicholas, Lake-Leh-
man High School principal, an-
nounced the top 10 seniors in the
1978 graduating class. They are:
Kathy Stefanovicz, Jill McCar-
roll, Kim Dinger, Ann Marie
Mark, valedictorian, Cheryl
Whitesell, salutatorian, John Zi-
minski, Marcia Janiczek, Valerie
Stefanoviczs, Cathy Smith and
Renee Yuscellis.
20 YEARS AGO
Recently the Lake-Lehman
High School auditorium was
transported to the era of the flap-
pers and Capone when the theat-
re production class presented,
“The Sting.” Mike Gerrity and
Stan Scott, who played Henry
Gondorf and Johnny Hooker,
pulled the “biggest con ever” on
Andy Thomas, who portrayed
Doyle Lonnegan. With a support
cast of 38, the story unfolded as
narrated by Susan Presper, who
played Mrs. Vanderkeift.
Don Spencer, of Lehman, a
freshman at Penn State Wilkes-
Barre, was recently named the
recipient of the Kolesar Athletic
Award. Originated by Professor
John Kolesar of the Wilkes-Barre
campus, this award is given to
the student who has most distin-
guished him or herself in the ar-
ea of athletic accomplishment
during the academic year.
Seven Cub Scouts from Pack
281, Dallas, recently earned
their God and Family Medals.
They are: Jared Dukas, Joseph
Dreier, Brian Karolchick, Scott
Townsend, Greg Riley, Matthew
Pelak and Scott Pattison.
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 i ap-
peared in the newspaper years
ago.
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