PAGE 4 EDITO RIAL Sunday, January 11, 2009 Turn to Library for help As your holiday decorations are put away and students reluc- tantly return to school and their classes, the Back Mountain Me- morial Library has a few remind- ers to help them (and you!) when homework assignments begin to take over the long winter eve- nings. By visiting our website, www.backmountainlibrary.org, students and parents can access several links to valuable resource and reference information, as well as “chat” with a reference li- brarian to assist you with re- search questions. The following links are provid- ed free of charge and you will need only to enter the numbers on the back of your yellow plastic Luzerne County Public Library card when prompted. Be sure to check out “Live Homework Help” which provides live on-line tutors to assist stu- dents in grades 4 through 12 with their homework in math, science, social studies, English and intro- ductory college level classes. This service is available from 3 to 10 p.m. daily. By clicking on the logo for “Ask Here Pa,” you will be connected to an actual librarian. A side bar window will open and allow you to enter your question, at which time the librarian will assist you in either finding the answer to your query or list several re- sources or websites that will con- tain that information. This ser- vice is staffed 24 hours a day. If you aren’t familiar with the library’s “Power Library” data- base, you owe it to yourself to give it a try! By clicking on the Power Library logo on our web- site and entering your library card number, you will gain access to full text articles from thou- sands of magazines, newspapers and journals, plus photographs, pictures, charts maps and relia- ble information on history, art, music, biography, literature, sci- ence, and more. This site also has an extensive medical database, Consumer Health Complete, which con- tains definitions, diagrams, ex- planations and latest research on various medical conditions. If you have any questions re- garding any of these research links, please call the library at 675-1182 for assistance. Slightly Read Bookshop resumes regular hours If you need to purchase an ac- tual book source for a research paper, you may want to visit our Slightly Read Bookshop located in the downstairs of the library. The staff has returned from its holiday vacation and is now re- suming regular hours of 1 to 7 p.m. on Mondays, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesdays and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays. The Book- shop is currently holding a “Closeout sale” on all VHS video tapes which will be discounted to 50 cents each, after which these tapes will no longer be sold. The Bookshop has received a collec- tion of “Manga” titles which are being sold for $1 each while sup- plies last. Stop by to discover oth- er bargains not listed here! Library cannot accept television sets Please remember that the li- brary CANNOT accept any used television sets that you want to discard due to the change-over to digital television broadcasting. We will not be able to sell them at our annual auction and we would incur a substantial cost to dis- pose of them. Thank you for your consideration in this matter. Parent/child workshop planned for spring 2009 A parent/child workshop will be offered in the spring of 2009. This workshop is a four-week pro- gram for children one to three years of age. A resource profes- sional will be present to answer parenting questions while the children play and are introduced to a short storytime. This work- shop will be held from 10 to 11 a.m. on Tuesdays, April 14, 21, 28 and May 5. Pre-registration, by calling the library, is required to attend this workshop. MOMENTS IN TIME The History Channel * On Jan. 14,1870, the first recorded use of a donkey to represent the Democratic Party appears in Harper's Weekly, drawn by political illustrator Thomas Nast. Four years later, Nast originated the use of an elephant to symbolize the Republican Party. * On Jan. 16,1945, Adolf Hitler takes to his underground bunker where he remains for 105 days until he commits suicide. Both he and his wife, Eva Braun, swallowed cyanide capsules which had been tested for their efficacy on his dog, Blondi, and her pups. ® On Jan. 18,1958, hockey player Willie O'Ree of the Boston Bruins takes to the ice for a game against the Montreal Canadiens, becom- ing the first black to play in the National Hockey League (NHL). It would be 16 years before another black player, Ontario's Mike Marson, played in the NHL. * On Jan. 15,1981, “Hill Street Blues," television's landmark cops- and-robbers drama, debuts on NBC. “Hill Street Blues” not only changed the way Americans viewed police officers, it also revolu- tionized television drama itself. The full squad house of regulars on the show rarely resolved cases in one episode. STRANGE BUT TRUE By Samantha Weaver e Successful inventor and businessman Thomas Alva Edison re- ceived only three months of formal education at a public school in Michigan. * Those who study such things claim that the human skull can be compressed by 10 percent before the bone cracks. It begs the ques- tion, though: How did they test the hypothesis? * Only male mockingbirds sing; the females of the species are silent. ® In 1740, a judge in an ecclesiastical court in France tried a cow - yes, an actual bovine - for sorcery. The poor animal was found guilty and sentenced to hang from the neck until dead. e |f you're like the average American, you consumed more than 250 eggs last year. * The first photograph of a United States citizen was taken in 1839. The subject was Samuel F.B. Morse, a painter who also happened to be the inventor of a single-wire telegraph system and developer of the Morse Code. e Experts say that in the United States, approximately 3.5 billion tons of soil are lost every year to erosion. That's enough to fill a freight train so long that it would circle the globe 19 times at the Equator. Thought for the day: “There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.” - G.K. Chesterton The Dallas Post www.mydallaspost.com Community Newspaper Group THE TIMES LEADER 15 N. Main St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18711 ® 570-675-521 Samantha, a 3-year-old cat, and Jackie, a 6-year-old Shepherd/Labrador mix, are both very lovable and get along well with each other and with people. Jackie, who is almost identical in color to her feline friend, watch- MAN & BEAST es over Samantha all the time. Jackie and Samantha live with Lynn Burns in Dallas. 1989- 20 YEARS AGO This week’s issue of The Dal- las Post is the first in its 100th year of publication. That distinc- tion makes The Post one of the oldest newspapers in the region and in all of Pennsylvania. A year-long series of events and special coverage are planned to celebrate this milestone. Kingston Township patrolmen Michael Mo- ONLY YESTERDAY Memorial Highway, Shavertown, Monday night to investigate a bur- glary. Patrolman Moravec report- ed that at 10:45 p.m., two black males were inside the restaurant. One of the males approached the clerk and handed her a note, with a bag, demanding the money in the cash register. The clerk put all the money from the register in the bag and handed it to the man, who ran out the door. The second man went into the kitchen area and when employ- ees called police, he stuck a gun in the manager’s back then left and ran out the back door. Both males fled in a late model Ford. Showcase Theater will pre- sent a Workshop Production of Don Appel’s comedy, “Lullaby” at its new facility located at 54 Tunkhannock Avenue, Exeter, the last weekend of January, ac- cording to President Jane To- massetti of Trucksville. Female lead in the production is Back Mountain resident Diane Yenason of Dallas. She will be seen as a brassy cigarette girl who meets and marries a truck driver, inside of three days. 1979 — 30 YEARS AGO The Dallas Post was one of 165 daily and weekly newspapers in the United States which was awarded designation of excel- lence known as the Blue Ribbon Newspaper Award by the Na- tional Newspaper Foundation. The judging sheet returned to the Post made special comment on the “good content” in the Post. No other Luzerne County newspaper achieved the distinc- tion, which is open to daily and weekly newspapers regardless of size. “What do they know that we don’t know?” That was the ques- tion asked by one Back Moun- tain restaurateur, noting the ev- er-increasing number of eating establishments in the area. “Is a new shopping center about to be built here?” “Is a new industry coming in?” Persistent rumors have it that at least two national chains are negotiating for locations to con- struct fast food places in this ar- ea. McDonalds and Arthur Treachers locations opened re- cently; Burger King and Mr. Do- nut opened about 1 Y% years ago and Perkins Pancake House re-. cently changed owners. During the past several weeks reports have been that Elby’s have purchased land in the vicin- ity of Wilson's Restaurant on Route 309 and plan to construct a restaurant. It also is reported that Sambo’s plan to open a busi- ness across from Franklin’s Fam- ily Restaurant on the site where the Sunoco station now stands. 1969 — 40 YEARS AGO The Kiwanis Club of Dallas in- stalled its new officers at arecent meeting held at the Irem Temple Country Club in Dallas. The new officers for 1969 are: George A. McCutcheon, president; An- drew F. Roan, first vice presi- dent; Edward J. Wilson, second vice president; Clyde W. Birth, treasurer; and Donald S. Antho- ny secretary. Miss Beverly A. Eck of Shaver- town, Pa., a senior at Gettysburg College, won second place in the women’s division of a 32-hour, student-sponsored Jog-A-Thon held recently. Miss Eck jogged 35 miles. Four students from Dallas Se- nior High School have been se- lected to play in the Pennsylva- nia Music Educators Associ- ation’s Northeast District Band at Wyoming Valley West High School later in the month at Kingston. Band members were selected through competitive try-outs which were held at Abington Heights High School. They are: Lindsey Sherwood, Donald Voelker, Brock Phillips and Michael Evans. 1959 - 50 YEARS AGO Mrs. Paul Nulton, Jr. found buried treasure in a chest buried at NBC Television in New York Wednesday morning under the eyes of half of Noxen and Beau- mont viewing Jan Murray’s Trea- sure Hunt over WBRE TV. Letha chose between accepting $300 and the contents of a Trea- sure Chest. She chose the chest and in it was: a $3,550 Chevrolet convertible, a week in New York with all expenses paid and a year’s supply of candy bars. The chest could have contained an onion, a bag of coal or nothing at all. Darrell - Crispell, - Overbrook - Avenue, trust officer of Wyom- ing National Bank in Wilkes- Barre, has been named vice president and trust officer, ac- cording to an announcement by Albert Bossard, president. The Harry Hunter children of Demunds Road are keeping up their reputation for snapping bones this winter. Two days be- fore Christmas it was year-old James Dale, not yet able to walk, who took a twisting header on the floor of the living room and broke his right arm. The day after Christmas, it was Pamela, eleven, who broke an ankle on the skat- ing pond near her home. When Pam was sixteen months old she broke her right arm, and two years ago, when knocked down by a car, she broke two ribs. Harry, now nine years old, had three broken arms. Mrs. Hunter is holding her fin- gers crossed, waiting for spring to come, though she admits that icy weather doesn’t necessarily spark the breaks. Her children, she says, can break a bone at the drop of a hat. They have proved it. 1949 - 60 YEARS AGO In keeping with other busi- ness developments throughout the Back Mountain Region, For- ty Fort Ice Cream Company at Fernbrook this week embarked on an expansion program that will see the construction of one of the finest and most modern ice cream and dairy stores in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Ground was broken Tuesday for the new building which will be located on land recently pur- chased from the Dohl and Yeag- er estates at the intersection of Memorial Highway and Main Road adjacent to the present Forty Fort Dairy plant. At local Acme Super Markets, two dozen oranges sold for 55 cents; Porterhouse steak was 69 cents a pound; and eggs were 59 cents a dozen. Kingston Township football squad, coaches, managers and faculty members were honored guests of Dallas Rotary Club last night at Irem Temple when they received the first annual golden football shoe award for the out- standing football team of the Back Mountain Region. Mem- bers of the football squad are: Jo- seph Adams, Glenn Carey, Bruce Cleasby, John Connors, John Cot- tle, Samuel Joseph, Bruce Grif- fiths, Richard Handley, Wayne Harrison, Albert Hawk, Russell Hons, Dean Johnson, Richard Le- wis, William Long, Sheldon McA- voy, James Martin, William Oney, Wayne Terrin, James Ter- ry, John Sherin Richards, Robert Roberts, and Bernard Joseph Youngblood. 1939 — 70 YEARS AGO Movies playing at the Himmler Theater in Dallas included “Just Around The Corner” starring Shirley Temple; “The Sisters” starring Errol Flynn and Bette Davis; and “Outlaws Of The Prai- rie” starring Charles Starrette. “The Big Broadcast of 1939” will be staged in the auditorium of Dallas Borough High School on Wednesday night by the Glee Club of Dallas Junior Women’s Club. Mrs. Sara Senigo Sanford, director of the chorus, has charge of the production which will include a full program of music and impersonations. 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. “Painting and | WHAT DO YOU LOVE MOST ABOUT W “The first INTER? news@mydallaspost.com “I love skiing “The other “Snow days. | “Nothing. It's WEA Ooty Mars and the thrill skiing - the mountain | can | snowfall, but Then | don’t too cold and PUBLISHER EpiToR of being out of | snow is so see from my when | was a have to go to | gets very hard ORL B ede adeno An I da aDoRt cor control with pretty.” house, the kid | loved it work.” to drive.” Chistic Delicid the wind in chelsea Martin | Winter colors more.” Ann Cooper Walter Troy ADVERTISING your face.” Dallas and snow.” Walt Karl Pikes Creek Trucksville 970-7111 Benton Rachel Madeira Dallas Chad Dymond Tunkhannock cdelicati@timesleader.com
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