PAGE 6 EDITORIAL Sunday, July 15, 2012 Joe Butkiewicz EXECUTIVE EDITOR 829-7249 jbutkiewicz@timesleader.com The Dallas Post www.mydallaspost.com Community Newspaper Group THE TIMES LEADER 15 N. Main St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18711 ® 570-675-5211 news@mydallaspost.com Diane McGee ADVERTISING 970-7153 dmcgee®@timesleader.com Dotty Martin EDITOR ; 970-7440 dmartin@mydallaspost.com LETTER TO THE EDITOR Reader shares gas drilling boom concerns Dear Editor: The Wyoming Valley has been fortunate so far in fending off any possible injuries from the gas drilling boom. We faced possible loss of our Valley water supply by gas drilling next to our reser- voirs. This possibility of chem- icals used in gas drilling, causing forever loss of drinking water, made some see this industry as a problem and stood up for us. Then the city of Wilkes Barre was asked to allow hundreds of trucks each day to come through towns carrying chemically-laced water. A few more Valley resi- dents were added to the list of people seeing this industry as a problem. The problem they were finally realizing was this industry can change your daily and future life from what we want to what they need. They need us to alter our lives to conduct their busi- ness. Now we are faced with another possible sacrifice so the gas in- dustry can conduct its business — a compressor station on a moun- tain top in West Wyoming over- looking our Valley to the east and our Frances Slocum State Park to the west. This will forever put known toxic contaminates into our air that will settle into our Valley. This compressor station con- sists of three huge engines to pro- duce pressure to push the gas through the 24-inch main pipe. These run, constantly spewing known cancer-causing and other toxic anti-good health exhaust in- to the air. The specs for these three en- gines are at a level, gas company says ok, questionably over ac- ceptable limits of pollution. Best part is - every compressor station gets increased to maybe nine en- gines eventually. Uh oh! Let’s see, we take boarder line pollution x 3 Ah gee, we don’t need all these people living in our Valley; we can spare some lives. This is the first compressor station with maybe nine engines of who knows how many more scattered around our Valley. Wait for the plus — there are other polluting things at these sites. Great! First our water and NOW our air. Remember, please, that our reservoirs are still at risk when all other gas in Pa. is gone except the gas near our water supplies. Our shale gas is an industrial busi- ness. I've been trying not to use the word “profit” but I must. It’s a business! It’s time once again to get off the couch and stand up and say, “I am not a necessary profit sacri- fice.” Interjection: We must say thank you for our new “Health Care Act” just passed by our Su- preme Court. Why ? Pre-existing conditions are now covered. We will eventually have one, unless we stand up for our Valley. Steve Simko Chairman Concerned Harding area residents MOMENTS IN TIME The History Channel * On July 22,1598, William Shakespeare's play “The Merchant of Venice" is entered on the Stationers’ Register. By decree of Queen Elizabeth, the Stationers’ Register licensed printed works, giving the Crown tight control over all published material. ® On July 19, 1799, during Napoleon Bonaparte's Egyptian cam- paign, a French soldier discovers a black basalt slab inscribed with ancient writing near the town of Rosetta, about 35 miles north of Alexandria. Called the Rosetta Stone, the artifact held the key to solving the riddle of hieroglyphics, a written language that had been "dead" for nearly 2,000 years. ® On July 18,1925, Volume One of Adolf Hitler's philosophical auto- biography, “Mein Kampf,” is published. It was a blueprint of his agen- da for a Third Reich and a clear exposition of the nightmare that will envelope Europe from 1939 to 1945. ® On July 20,1969, at 10:56 p.m. EDT, American astronaut Neil Armstrong, 240,000 miles from Earth, speaks these words to more than a billion people listening at home: “That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Stepping off the lunar landing module Eagle, Armstrong became the first human to walk on the surface of the moon. YOUR SPACE Corinne Klug, of Marina Drive in Harveys Lake, took this photo on the boardwalk in Ocean City, New Jersey. "YOUR SPACE" is reserved specifically for Dallas Post readers who have something they'd like to share with fellow readers. Submitted items may include photo- graphs 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 num- ber in the event we have questions. Readers wishing to have their photos returned cation. 20 YEARS AGO - 1992 Two Lake Lehman High School students will attend Pennsylvania Governor’s Schools of Excellence this sum- mer. Junior Layla Osman will at- tend the Governors School for Teacher. Barbara Campbell, also a junior, will attend the gover- nor’s for the Agricultural Sci- ences. The Harveys Lake Business and Tourism Association re- cently held a “Little Miss Har- veys Lake” contest. Six little misses vied for the title. Kristie Lynn Taylor, 6, was named Lit- tle Miss Harvey's Lake. Brittni Gurnari, 6, was 1st runner-up, and Aniela Coveleski, 4, was 2nd runner-up. Other contes- tants were: Jennifer Bonetski, 4; Sara Serhan Perez, 4; and Ana Burrell, 5. 30 YEARS AGO - 1982 Lisa Loke, of Trucksville, a student at the Wilkes-Barre campus of The Pennsylvania State University, is a 1982 recip- ient of the Eric A. and Josephine Walker : . Award. The a & award is presented YESTERDAY each spring to the out- standing student at each of Penn State’s Commonwealth campuses. 40 YEARS AGO - 1972 Jon Jay LaBerge, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jon C. LaBerge, Dal- las, has been chosen as one of the 24 students entering Webb Institute of Naval Architecture next fall on a four-year tuition- free scholarship. The scholar- ships are valued at $20,000 each. True to her love of animals, Lauren Kintzer of Demunds Road, Dallas, has been working long hours to rescue animals in the devastated flood areas of Lu- zerne County. Thanks to the ef- forts of Lauren and her co-work- er at the Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Animals, over 1200 animals have been saved. 50 YEARS AGO - 1962 Twelve Dallas Senior High School students have received scholarships to colleges univer- sities or hospitals. Four of them are Rotary Foreign Exchange Students. They are: Nancy Sieb- er, Louise Hadsall, Elfriede Hefft, Sandra Ambrose, Bonnie West, Mary Jane Bennett, Judi- th Williams, Dale Mosier, Ralph Belles, E. William Welch, Lewis Chere and Judith Woolbert. Thirty women golfers trekked over the Irem links on Friday to vie for the Wagner Trophy, which resulted in a four-way tie. Mrs. Larry Spencer, Mrs. Lloyd Kear, Mrs. Louis Maslow and Mrs. George Dean had net scores of 76. On matching cards, the trophy went to Mrs. Kear. 60 YEARS AGO - 1952 Dallas Rotary Club and Ro- tary Anns met at a dinner meet- ing Thursday night at Irem Temple Country Club for the in- stallation of officers for the com- ing year. Daniel Robinhold was installed as president of the Ro- tary Club, with Sheldon Mosier as vice president, James Eckerd as secretary, Harold Titman as treasurer, and Gerald Cook as Sergeant-At-Arms. The new vice president of the Rotary Anns is Ollie Robinhold. Catherine Mulcey was installed as vice president, Rachel Hale as secretary, Minnie Roberts as corresponding secretary and Rilla Eckerd as treasurer. 70 YEARS AGO - 1942 John Nicholson was installed as new president and Dr. Rob- ery Bodycomb as vice president at the dinner meeting of Dallas Rotary at Dallas Inn last Thurs- should include a self-addressed/stamped envelope. Items will be published in the or- der in which they are received. The editor of The Dallas Post reserves the right to reject any items submitted for publi- day evening. Other officers were AN. Garinger, treasurer, and Harold Payne, secretary. Through the civic-spirited cog operation of Mrs. Stanley D vies, an attractive new sign post has been erected on the green in front of Dallas Methodist Church at the intersection of Parsonage and Church Streets. 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 i ap- peared in the newspaper years ago. STRANGE BUT TRUE By Samantha Weaver e |t was beloved cowboy humorist Will Rogers who made the following sage observation: “Nobody wants to be called common people, especially common people.” * Do you think you could eat 80 pounds of chicken? If you're like the average American, that's how. much you will consume this year. ® You've probably heard or even used the term “fly off the handle” to describe someone losing their temper. You probably don't realize, though, that the handle referred to was originally an axe handle. Sometimes the blade of such a tool would be impro- perly fastened to the handle, and would therefore be sent flying when the axe was being used. * The composer who wrote the famous song “Que Sera, Sera” also wrote the theme song to the 1960s TV show “Mr. Ed." * Those who study such things say that England's Elizabeth | owned 3,000 dresses. e |f you make a trip to Venice to see the famous canals, keep an eye out for any gondola not painted black. If you see one, you can be sure that it belongs to a high official in the government; they are the only ones permitted by law to have gondolas in any other color. * The world’s single largest consumer of fossil fuels is the Unit- ed States military. * You might be surprised to learn that, according to the Amer- ican Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, half of all American children suffer at least one dog bite before the age of 12. The ASPCA also says that most of those bites aren't from strange animals; rather, it's the family pet or a friend or neighbor's dog that does the biting. “I open my eyes in a funny way like really wide when I'm tired.” Nico Deluca West Pittston “DO YOU HAVE ANY UNUSUAL HABITS?” “I like to go on cruises at the spur of the mo- ment with my friends, Chris and John, and my husband, Tony." Pat Arasin Harveys Lake ih, “I'm a slave to flea markets and | like to collect odd and unusu- al things." Tony Arasin Harveys Lake “| always wear the same socks at every basketball game | play for luck.” Steff Cybulski Dallas 2 “I'm addicted to buy- ing plants and | can't keep away from them. They recognize my car at all the places.” Jennie Valick Dallas “| can't say no. I'm always volunteering and helping people out. They appreciate it.” Irene Wentzel Harveys Lake
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