PAGE 6 EDITORIAL Sunday, March 20, 2011 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 - Fun Night’ for library The Friends of the Back Mountain Memorial Library invite every- one to attend their “Fun Night” fundraiser from 5 to 8 p.m. on Thurs- day, April 7 at Friendly’s restaurant in Dallas. Treat your family out to dinner and know that a percentage of total sales during these hours (including eat-in, take-outs and purchase of gift cards) will go directly to the Back Mountain Memorial Library. These proceeds will then be used for our children’s Summer Read- ing program. Also, as a “Thank You” for attending, the Friends will give away a Friendly’s gift card to one lucky winner. Look for the li- brary display near the front of the restaurant for your chance to win! VHS movie sale The Slightly Read Bookshop is still offering its sale of VHS movie cassettes at the price of five for $1. There is also a special sale of select mystery titles on sale at three for $1. Be sure to stop in soon to check out their non-fiction section full of great titles for the upcoming spring gardening season. Bookshop open The Slightly Read Bookshop is open from 1 to 7 p.m. on Mondays, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesdays and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays. Please remember, however, that the Bookshop will be closed on the Saturday before Easter (April 23) and will re-open on Monday, April 25. | LETTERTO THE EDITOR Reader seeks stationery Dear Editor: I am writing to various newspapers across the country to request help on my current collection. I am an autistic person who collects stationery in the form of note cards and letter paper. I am searching to extend my collection and I am collecting sta- tionery from all parts of the country. I have included my contact information below if anyone in your area is interested in donating stationery to extend my collection. Thank you very much. Elysia Duke | 3315 Treece Rd. Hornbeak, TN 38232-3039 carebearstenn@aol.com STRANGE BUT TRUE By Samantha Weaver e |t was Kurt Vonnegut, one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, who made the following sage observation: “There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as an- gels, | hope they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.” ® That cork you pulled out of your wine bottle was made from the bark of a tree. The cork oak has to grow for 25 years before any cork is harvested, and then it's stripped only every 10 years thereafter. * If you can predict the future by watching the flight patterns of birds, you are engaging in ornithomancy. ® The coldest place on earth is a place known only as Ridge A in Antarctica. The average winter temperature there is -94 degrees F. e According to archaeological research, the bikini is nothing new; evidence has been found that the two-piece garment was worn in parts of Italy as early as 2000 B.C. ® In 1950, 70 percent of all the cars, buses and trucks in the world could be found in the United States. e According to the Consumer Electronics Association, the average television screen in United States homes is growing by 1inch every year. * |t was Ambrose Bierce, in his “Devil's Dictionary,” who defined “admiration” as “our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.” e Ever wonder why magazine publisher Hugh Hefner chose a rabbit as the symbol of his Playboy magazine? Evidently, when the mogul was a small boy, one of his treasured possessions was a blan- ket with bunnies all over it. 2010. A YOUR SPACE Allan Hobbs, of Harveys Lake, got up close and personal with this Sandpiper while on vacation at Assateague Island in Virginia in September "YOUR SPACE" is reserved specifically for Dallas Post read- ers who have something they'd like to share with fellow read- ers. Submitted items may include photographs or short stories and should be sent via e-mail to news@mydallaspost.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, address and telephone number in the event we have questions. Readers wishing to have their photos returned should include a self-addressed/stamped envelope. Items will be published in th 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 Winners in the Back Mountain Memorial Library’s contest for school children, “Surprising Food I Would Like To Find in My Lunch Box,” received gift certif- icates from the Back Mountain Book Store recently. Winners in the contest were Vince Burakiew- icz, William Bonning, Megan Fin- ley and Pam YESTERDAY Rodgers. A new B.- Levy Shoes store has opened in the Dallas Shopping Center. Store person- nel include Chris Giza, Lea Deni- son, Brent Mallery, manager, and Jane Wackley, asst. manag- er. 30 YEARS AGO A third Dallas High School student is responsible for saving a life. Becky Carsman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Cars- man, is a junior at the Dallas High School. She is among the 300 students enrolled in the car- dio pulmonary resuscitation course currently being present- ed at the school. On Monday morning, when Beck was getting ready for school, her sister and 14-month old brother, Jeremy, were eating breakfast. Becky's sister suddenly yelled that Jere- my, who was sitting in his high chair, was choking. Becky rushed to the kitchen to discover that Jeremy was choking on an apple skin. She took her brother from the high chair and gave him four back blows which dislodged two pieces of apple. Jeremy con- tinued to choke and Becky tried three times before the last of the apple, two additional pieces, came out of Jeremy's throat. Michael E. Polk, Pear Tree Lane, Dallas, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Polk, was one of five Wyoming Seminary students who qualified as a finalist in the National Merit Scholarship Pro- gram last fall, it was announced recently by NMS officials. In be- ing named a finalist, Polk is among 14,000 high school stu- dents in the nation to be eligible for 1200 national merit $1,000 scholarships and over 3,500 four year merit scholarships that will be awarded this spring. 40 YEARS AGO Sewer pipes are stacked up in neat piles along Carverton Road and giant power shovels are al- ready chewing up sections of the roadway in lower Trucksville. The excavation for sewers in the Back Mountain community is at long last underway. The Dallas Area Municipal Authority’s sew- er project will serve Dallas Bor- ough, Dallas and Kingston Townships. Two students from Dallas Se- nior High School have been se- lected to play in Region II and ITI State Orchestra at Conestoga High School, Berwyn, later this month. Dennis McCartney, a se- nior, son of Mr. and Mrs. H.R. McCartney, Elmcrest, Dallas, will play first trumpet. Alan Za- boski, a junior, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Zaboski, Warren Drive, Dallas, will play first trombone. 50 YEARS AGO Just as capable as they are at- tractive in their natty uniforms, Westmoreland Girls Basketball team completed a perfect season Friday with the defeat of King- ston. Members of the team are: Nancy Jones, Theresa Novicki, Nancy Harris, Marilyn Eck, Lynne Jordan, Judith Woolbert, Dorothy Cleasby, Bonnie Gross, Beverly Race, Nancy Coolbaugh, Gloria Dolbear, Dorothy Math- ers, Donna Meyers, Janice Thompson, Sandra Ambrose, Sally Moyer, Susan Kelley, Elsa Orchard, Dorothy Eck, Anna-. belle Ambrose and Barbara Hil- debrand. The team is coached by Miss Mable Jenkins. - Forty Boy Scouts of Troop 281, most of their parents, and a num- ber of visitors, enjoyed the an- nual dinner last Thursday night at Dallas Methodist church. It was a covered dish affair with a hearty meat loaf for the main fea- ture, and everybody was abun- dantly served. Merit awards, presented by Bruce Davies, Scoutmaster, included: swim- ming, Bobby VanOrden; person- al fitness, Billy Baker; “Toys For Tots” campaign awards, Scott Strohl, Robery Wiley, Tommy Rowett, Bruce Davies, Summer Bachman, Calvin Tinsley, John Gager, Marshall Rumbaugh, James Yarnal, Art Miller, Ri- chard Cross, Richard Baylis, Ge- orge Mahler, and Donald Bul- ford. 60 YEARS AGO Construction of the Gate of Heaven Parochial School on Ma-. chell Avenue, Dallas, is held up because of lack of structural steel. Material is on hand for sup- ports for the roof, and for the first floor, but none for the sec- ond. Shipments of steel, states Curtis-Pethick Co. are coming in by dribbles and enough has been promised by the end of March to finish the job, but until steel joists as well as beams can be procured, the job is at a stand- still. Back Mountain folks don’t need to envy Baltimore its quads. Four kids arrived at the Joseph Hardisky barn last Sun- day, all in one package. The be- wildered mother, proud but un- able to accommodate more than two at a time, was relieved when the extra pair were put on a for- mula. Mrs. Hardisky says that this milch goat adds one kid to her project each time she stages a blessed event. First year it was one, second, two, third, three, and now, at her fourth accouche- ment a prize bag of four. There must be a limit somewhere, says the baffled owner. 70 YEARS AGO Following a pattern that put him in fourth place last year in the Pennsylvania Forensic league oratorical contest, Ri- chard Jones, 17, Kingston Town- ship High School Senior and son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Jones of Shavertown, won the Luzerne County contest at West Hazle- ton on Wednesday with his origi- nal oration, “The Light Shall Burn,” written on the Constitu- tion. Others from Kingston Township High School who are competing in various phases of activity in the contests this year are: Mary King, Wilma Hunt, S ra Breslin, and Hugh Riddell. Nancy Parks, Ted Parks and Betty Naugle of Lehman High School were among the 138 band members chosen from approxi-. mately 30 different schools in the north East District of Penn- sylvania to take part in the an- nual music festival in Blooms- burg High School Saturday. Information for “Only Yester- day” is taken from past issues of The Dallas Post which is 122 vears old. The information is printed here exactly as it ap- peared in the newspaper years ago. 7 “WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO MOST ABOUT SPRING?" . iid - 38 “I love seeing the flowers come out.” Annette Appel Harveys Lake "My driveway might thaw out.” Mary Ann Edwards Harveys Lake “Hearing the birds sing again and the warm weather.” Scott Gallup Shavertown “Let's forget spring; I'd rather jump right into summer.” Ed Bilder Harveys Lake “Everything warming up and | get to play golf.” Austin Smith Dallas “The warm weather and | like to play around more with peo- ple then.” Anthony Benedetti Dallas
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