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EDITORIAL
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Joe Butkiewicz
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ew books
The following new books have
been added to the shelves of the
Back Mountain Memorial Li-
brary, 96 Huntsville Rd., Dallas,
for the month of March:
EXPRESS \
“The Thief” by Clive Cussler
FICTION
“The Thief” by Clive Cussler,
“Oath of Office” by Michael
Palmer, “Witch and Wizard: The
Fire” by James Patterson, “Be-
fore She Dies” by Mary Burton,
“Copper Beach” by Jayne Ann
Krentz, “All Necessary Force” by
Brad Taylor, “The Devil's Elixir”
by Raymond Khoury, “Targets of
Opportunity” by Jeffrey S. Ste-
phens, “Black Site” by Dalton Fu-
ry and “The Spy Who Jumped
Off the Screen” by Thomas Ca-
plan
MYSTERY
“Threadbare” by Monica Fer-
ris, “The Alpine Winter” by Mary
Daheim, “The Chocolate Castle”
by Joanna Carl and “Chocolate
Covered Murder” by Leslie
Meier
at library
BIOGRAPHY
“Hemingway’s Boat: Every-
thing He Loved in Life, and Lost,
1934-1961” by Paul Hendrickson
YOUNG ADULT
“Why We Broke Up” by Daniel
Handler, “Issues from Cyber-
space: From Privacy to Piracy”
edited by Robert Curly, “Archi-
tects of the Information Age” ed-
ited by Robert Curly, “Under-
standing the Federal Reserve and
Monetary Policy” by Corona Bre-
zina, “The Returning” by Chris-
tine Hinwood, “Where Things
Come Back” by John Corey
Whaley, “Under the Mesquite”
by Guadalupe Garcia McCall and
“Desert Angel” by Charlie Price
SPECIAL DONATIONS
“Rediscover Catholicism: A
Spiritual Guide to Living With
Passion and Purpose” by Mat-
thew Kelly, presented by Rever-
end Daniel A. Toomey, Pastor of
Our Lady of Victory Parish and
“Fancy Nancy: Stellar Stargazer”
by Jane O’Connor, presented by
Juliet Beatrice Price
Remembering loved ones
The following memorial
books have been added to the
shelves of the Back Mountain
Memorial Library, 96 Huntsville
Rd., Dallas for the month of
March:
In memory of Bernadine Or-
loski, “The Village Baker” by
Joe Ortiz, presented by Karen
Belli
In memory of my mother, Glo-
ria K. Hill, “Taken” by Robert
Crais, presented by Karen Lyons
In memory of Harold Fritzges,
“The Lion and the Journalist”
by Chip Bishop, presented by
Newell Fuel Service
In memory of Crystal Joy Rus-
sell, “Treasure Buddies” (DVD),
presented by Cheryl Newberry
MOMENTS IN TIME
By Samantha Weaver
* |t was Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw who made the
following sage observation: “A government that robs Peter to pay
Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
* We're all familiar with the act of CPR - we often see a film or
television character come to the rescue and save a life using the
technique. And on TV, according to a recent study, CPR is shown as
being successful 75 percent of the time. The reality is not quite so
rosy, though. A study conducted in 2010 found that when CPR is used
in real life, only about 8 percent of the patients were still alive after
one month. Of those who did survive that long, 97 percent couldn't
live a normal life.
® Do you suffer from astraphobia? If so, | hope you don't live in
Florida. Those who are afraid of lightning would be terrified in the
Sunshine State, especially in Tampa, known as the lightning capital of
the world.
® Researchers in the United Kingdom have invented a robot that
eats slugs and is powered by the gas from the decaying creatures.
They have dubbed their creation the SlugBot.
® For six generations, many members of the Fugate family of the
Appalachian region of Kentucky have suffered from a rare blood
disorder called methemoglobinemia. The disorder seems to have no
adverse health effects, but it's not at all difficult to diagnose it at a
glance: Sufferers have blue skin. Not just a slight tinge, either; vari-
ous family members have been described as “blue as Lake Louise,”
“the bluest woman | ever saw” and “almost purple.”
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Pat Giordano, of Harveys Lake, captured this magnificent view from a float plane while flying over a glacier in Juneau, Alaska.
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20 YEARS AGO - 1992
The Lake-Lehman Football
Club is sponsored a fashion
show in the High School Au-
ditorium.
Thirty-five football players
and cheerleaders modeled
sportswear from the Field
House in
Dallas, ca-
sual wear
from Fash-
ion Bug,
and prom
dresses
YESTERDAY and tuxe-
dos from
U.S. Tuxedo and Kathy’s Bri-
dal Boutique.
Amongst the models were
sophomores Larry Lucarino,
Bob Sayre and Bobby Lamo-
reaux.
Colton Lee Spencer, 2 year
old son of Samuel and Saman-
tha Spencer of Dallas, recent-
ly received a trophy and a
medal as prizes for the title of
first runner up in the 1992 Re-
gional Hemisphere Pageant
held at the West Side Mall.
Colton is the grandson of
Thomas and Sally Walter,
Dallas, Howard Naparsteck,
Wilkes-Barre, and John Spen-
cer, Dallas.
30 YEARS AGO - 1982
First Woman Postmaster at
Harvey’s Lake is Marilda Rak-
lewicz, who, with husband
Charles, lives at Pole 86.
The new Postmistress has
been employed as a clerk at
Harvey's Lake Post Office the
past 17 years.
Harvey’s Lake Woman's
Service Club presented “The
Girls of the Year” recently at
their monthly meeting held
at the Lake Noxen School.
Each year eight senior high
girls are selected because of
their overall scholastic, civic
and out of school activities.
This year’s winners are:
Kathy Bernick, Maria Drob-
nicki, Debbie Lansberry, Kim
Edwards, Susan Hobbs, Mar-
garet Hall, Pamela Janiczek
and Melinda Muller.
40 YEARS AGO - 1972
Linda Tough, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Tough,
Lehman, won first prize in
the 10th annual sewing con-
test sponsored by the Har-
vey’s Lake Women’s Service
Club recently.
Second place winner was
Terry Lienthall, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Walbridge Lien-
thall, Harveys Lake. Debbie
Muessig, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Carl Meussig, RD Nox-
en, won third place.
Dallas majorettes will per-
form a routine at the band
concert Friday night.
Members of the squad are:
Patti Parrish, Nan Phieffer,
Debbie Ostrum, Jane Dom-
nick, Mary Lou Roman, Bon-
nie Porter, Carol Muscavage,
Patti Turpak, Nancy Young,
Karen Earl, Cathy Skammer,
Cathy Stella and Rosalie Dan-
na.
50 YEARS AGO - 1962
Dallas Varsity Cheerleaders
won the Class A competition
at the Bloomsburg State Col-
lege Tournament. The girls
are noted for their enthusi-
asm and peppy cheers and for
their colorful halftime rou-
tine, a new addition to Dallas
basketball games.
Squad members include Su-
sie Dorrance, Georgia
McCutcheon, Sandy Am-
brose, Nancy. Elston, Judy
Woolbert, Carol Dungey, Car-
ol Spare, Margie Walp and
Peggy Jordan.
Janet Cleasby, 13, seventh
grade student at Dallas Ju-
nior High School, received
one of the awards for an out-
standing poster in the Na-
tional Safety Poster Contest
sponsored by Wilkes-Barre
Kiwanis and American Auto-
mobile Association at a lun-
cheon in Hotel Sterling.
One of the judges stated
that Miss Cleasby’s entry was
the finest piece of graphic art
he had seen in this area.
60 YEARS AGO - 1952
Shirley MacMillan, Alice
Epply and Sue Haron, Lake-
Noxen High School, are at-
tending the annual conven-
tion of The Future Homemak-
ers of America in Pittsburgh.
The girls left on Thursday
and will return in Sunday.
They are being chaperoned
by the Lake-Noxen Chapter’s
adviser, Miss Helen Sileski,
who is also the Home Eco-
nomics teacher.
Thursday, Friday and Sat-
urday of this week, Shirley
Ann Drake, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Raymond Drake,
Center Hill Road, Dallas, is
competing in the State con-
test held at Meyers High
School in Wilkes-Barre, and
in the chorus in Philadelphia
on Sunday. Shirley, a so-
prano, qualified at Montrose
for Northeastern District.
70 YEARS AGO - 194
A shooting eye made keen
by years of hunting in the
deep woods back of Harvey's
Lake won high honors last
week for Private Elwood W.
Davis, son of Squire and Mrs.
Ralph Davis of Alderson.
The 25-year-old Marine
recruit, who has gone out af-
ter deer and other game with
his father since he was old
enough to hold a gun
straight, was high man in ri-
fle and pistol last week
among 500 other trainees on
the range at Paris Island, Ig
rine Corps training base. y
For a woman who used to
think nothing of entertaining
a thousand people at a time,
the affairs of a country club
ought to be a fairly simple
proposition.
At least that’s what officials
of the Irem figured week be-
fore last when they appointed
Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson, for-
mer chief home economist
for the Pennsylvania Power
and Light Corporation, to re-
place Carl Schlingman as
manager of the palatial Irem
temple Country Club here in
Dallas.
Information for “Only Yes-
terday” is taken from past 1is-
sues of The Dallas Post which
is 122 years old. The informa-
tion is printed here exactly as
it appeared in the newspaper
vears ago.
“I miss having snow
days because I'd rath-
er be at home.”
Michael Recinos
Hunlock Creek
“I don't like the snow.
It's too cold and my
face and hands get
cold.”
Kaitlyn Schwartz
Sweet Valley
“No, because some-
times | don't like
snow. It's too cold and
gets inside my boots
and feels like ice.”
Aidan Kukosky
Sweet Valley
“DID YOU MISS SNOW THIS WINTER?"
“Yes, because | like
sleigh riding and mak-
ing snowmen with hats
and scarves."
Lyndsey Sayre
Sweet Valley
“Yes, because | like
snow boarding and
sledding down my hill
at my house with my
brother, Tyler."
Hunter Burke
Sweet Valley
“Yes, | like to make
snowmen and then
kick them down withggx
my feet and a shovel.
Sophia Tattersall
Sweet Valley