PAGE 6 EDITORIAL Sunday, September 12, 2010 The Dallas Post www.mydallaspost.com Community Newspaper Group THE TIMES LEADER 15 N. Main St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18711 ® 570-675-521 news@mydallaspost.com Richard L. Connor Dotty Martin PUBLISHER EDITOR 829-7202 970-7440 rconnor@timesleader.com dmartin@mydallaspost.com Diane McGee ADVERTISING 970-7153 dmcgee@timesleader.com Library adds several new books to shelves The following new books have been added to the shelves at the Back Mountain Memorial Li- brary, 96 Huntsville Rd., Dallas. AUGUST 2010 EXPRESS (1 WEEK) “Veil of Night” by Linda Ho- ward, “Tough Customer” by Sandra Brown, “Cure” by Robin Cook, “The Vigilantes” by W.E.B. Griffin, “The Last Lie” by Ste- phen White, “Crossfire” by Dick & Felix Francis, “The Postcard Killers” by James Patterson, “Three Stations” by Martin Cruz Smith FICTION “Veil of Night” by Linda Ho- ward, “Tough Customer” by Sandra Brown, “Cure” by Robin Cook, “The Vigilantes” by W.E.B. Griffin, “The Last Lie” by Ste- phen White, “Crossfire” by Dick & Felix Francis, “The Postcards Killers” by James Patterson, “Three Stations” by Martin Cruz Smith, “Broken” by Karin Slaugh- ter, “Thin, Rich, Pretty” by Elisa- beth M. Harbison, “Beach Week” by Susan Coll LARGE PRINT FICTION “The Rembrandt Affair” by Da- niel Silva, “The Glass Rainbow” by James Lee Burke, “Shame- SEPTEMBER 2010 EXPRESS (1 WEEK) “Lost Empire” by Clive Cuss- ler, “Spider Bones” by Kathy Reichs, “Body Work” by Sara Pa- retsky, “Savor the Moment” by Nora Roberts FICTION “Lost Empire” by Clive Cuss- ler, “Spider Bones” by Kathy Reichs, “Body Work” by Sara Pa- retsky, “Dancing for Degas” by Kathryn Wagner, “Shirley Jack- son: Novels and Stories” by Shir- ley Jackson, “Freedom” by Jo- nathan Franzen, “Damaged” by Alex Kava, “Home Again” by Ma- riah Stewart, “Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Objective” by Eric Van Lustbader, “The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay” by Beverly Jensen, “Layover in Dubai” by Dan Fesperman NONFICTION “Sh*t My Dad Says” by Justin Halpern, “The Obama Diaries” by Laura Ingraham BIOGRAPHY “Listen to the Echoes” by Sam Weller SCIENCE FICTION “Bearers of the Black Staff” by Terry Brooks REFERENCE “The Statesman’s Yearbook 2011” less” by Karen Robards BOOKS ON CD BOOKS ON CD “The Boy with the Cuckoo- “In the Name of Honor” by Ri- Clock Heart” by Mathias Malzieu chard North Patterson MOMENTS IN TIME By Samantha Weaver * |t was existential psychologist Rollo May who made the following sage observation: “It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.” * Two countries are tied for the nation encompassing the most time zones. It's no surprise that Russia is one of them, but it seems odd that the other would be France. It's true, though; once you take a look at a map of French territories around the world, you'll see. There are French Polynesia in the Pacific Ocean, the island of Reunion off the east coast of Africa, various holdings in the Caribbean, and New Caledonia off the east coast of Australia, among others. | * |f you had to choose, would you rather be bitten by a skunk or sprayed by one? The creatures can't do both things at once. ® Yes, there's a word for it: The plastic tips you find on shoelaces are known as aglets. ¢ |f you're a professional flute player, it's likely that your instru- ment is made from sterling silver, 14-carat gold or platinum. * A snail's teeth are located in rows along its tongue. ¢ [t's a commonly held belief that the Coriolis effect causes water to drain out of sinks and toilets in one direction in the Northern Hemisphere, while it drains in the opposite direction in the Southern Hemisphere. As it turns out, this isn't true. Drains are so small that the Coriolis effect has no measurable influence at all. It's the shape of the sink and whether or not it's level that determines the direction of the drainage. YOUR SPACE A favorite pastime of Charlotte Kelley's is feeding the birds and watching them come to the feeders at her house on Roosevelt Street, Dallas. Every year, Charlotte keeps busy pulling up all the seedlings from the sunflower seeds. This year, she admits to being lazy and didn’t get outside much to “weed.” The little seedlings started to grow taller and taller and, one day, Charlotte noticed they had buds on them. She decided to let them go and see what would develop. Lo and behold, those tiny seedlings are now blooming and, as the plants get taller, the flowers get bigger. "YOUR SPACE" is reserved specificlaly for Dallas Post readers who have something they'd like to share with fellow readers. Sub- mitted items may include photographs or short stories and should be sent via e-mail to news@mydallapost.com, by fax to 675-3650 or by mail to The Dallas Post, 15 N. Main St., Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711. Information must include the submitting person's name, ad- dress and a telephone number in the event we have questions. | ers wishing to have their photos returned should include a self-ad- dressed/stamped envelope. Items will be published in the order in which they are received. The editor of The Dallas Post reserves the right to reject any items submitted for publication. 20 YEARS AGO Less than four months after opening its doors, a local busi- ness has skipped town, leaving some of its employees wonder- ing if they will be paid for their last two weeks work. For Crepes Sake, which was located along Route 309 in Sha- da ight YESTERDAY . aye early morning hours Thursday the place was cleaned out of all the tables, chairs and other items used to furnish the restaurant. The owners have been identi- fied as Dr. Joseph and Elaine Spaziani and Lou and Denise Ce- sare, all of Bear Creek. Cub Scouts who spent one week this summer at Cub Scout Day Camp at Moon Lake Park in- cluded Kevin O’ Malia, Wesley Adams, Trapper Smith, Jamie Raub, Bryan Bachman, Paul Carlson, Vince Burakiewicz, Bill Duda and Jonathan Meehan. 30 YEARS AGO Rebecca Lynn Brown, age two, daughter of James and Jo Ann Brown of Center Street, Shavertown was entered in a ba- by contest held at Tunkhannock Arts Craft Fair. She came in first and was awarded a Blue First Place Ribbon. She was judged in the class of one to two years old. Mary Taylor of Trucksville has been named chairperson by the 82 members and salon owners of the Greater Luzerne County Hairdressers and Cometologist’s Association in its observance of National Cosmetology Week, Oct. 5-11. Sparky Steinkirshner and Scott Saba won most of the Dal- las Rec Center awards during the past season. The boys re- ceived their awards last Thurs- day at the end of the season par- ty. 40 YEARS AGO A comprehensive collection of dangerous drugs and narcotics was displayed last Thursday at the Wyoming National Bank, Shavertown, by Joseph Kwak of the State Police Community Re- lations Office. The display was set up in cooperation with King- ston Township Police Chief Herbert H. Updyke and William Pugh, the township’s narcotic of- ficer. All drugs on display, Officer Kwak informed The Dallas Post, had been confiscated in the area served by State Police of the Wyoming Barracks. The narcot- ics displayed included heroin and cocaine, while marijuana and several powerful hallucino- gens such as mescaline and LSD were included in a collection of dangerous drugs. 50 YEARS AGO A diamond bar pin which Mrs. EW. Stringham prized highly was lost in the fire at her home Monday evening. The pin had been made years ago out of a pair of diamond cuff links worn dur- ing Revolutionary days. Yesterday while workmen for Edward Eyerman & Sons were shifting ashes from the fire, they came across the pin with its dia- monds in perfect condition. Fifteen local Rainbow Girls, chaperoned by six members of the advisory board, were among the 3100 Rainbow Girls from all parts of Pennsylvania who gath- ered at Pennsylvania State Uni- versity for the Eighteenth Gener- al Assembly Peace Session last week. Girls attending from the Back Mountain were: Carol Dymond, Donna Hopa, Lynn Hughes, Car- ol Jolley, Andrea Krimmel, Su- san Lawry, Earlene Layaou, Eli- zabeth May, Sheila Meeker, Mar- lene Milne, Karen and Sharon Samuels, Nancy Sieber, Barbara Tagg, Diane Transue. 60 YEARS AGO The Back Mountain region will have a new $150,000 nine room parochial school and audi- torium in Dallas within the next year if bids submitted for plans drawn by Lacy, Atherton and Wilson are approved by Gate of Heaven Parish. The new school will be locat- ed on the parish plot of land on Machell Avenue between the old Baur property and the property owned by Mrs. G.A.A. Keuhn. The plans have been approved by Bishop Hafey and have been put out today for bid. Dallas Junior Woman's Club will present a repeat perform- ance of its Tom Thumb Wedding Wednesday evening at Dallas Borough High School. There will be the same cast but with few changes that pre- sented the first performance at Dallas Township School. Wil- liam Roberts will impersonate William Burnaford; Sandy and Murphy Hislop will impersonate the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hislop, Sr.; Janice Harter will impersonate her grand- mother, Mrs. Marion Harter, and Marion Mascali will imperson- ate Mildred Devens. 70 YEARS AGO A new and stranger-than-ever chapter in the fantastic story of Faith Hope Charity Harden, pre- cocious daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry G. Harding @@R' Trucksville, was being writ®u this week. It began last Sunday, on Faith’s fifth birthday anniversary, when her followers dedicated a chapel on the magnificent estate in Ty- ron, North Carolina, where Faith and her mother have taken ref- uge. Information for “Only Yester- day” is taken from past issues of The Dallas Post which is 121 vears old. The wformation is printed here exactly as i# ap- peared in the newspaper years ago. “The obnoxious clown in the dunking booth when you first come in who talks to every- one.” Lisa Valenti Dallas "WHAT DO YOU LIKE BEST ABOUT THE LUZERNE COUNTY FAIR?" “The funnel cakes and the kettle corn.” Colleen Pomfret Dallas “The food, the fried Orios and the horse shows." Carl Zimmerman Dallas “| like how it's local and you can meet all kinds of people there.” Madison Ziemba Dallas a “I don't like the rides but | do like the kind of pot luck food there.” Doug Albertson Lake Silkworth “| like the general feeling of community and the enjoyment of something special.” Fran Calpin Shavertown
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