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EDITORIAL
Sunday, September 2, 2012
The Dallas Post
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ons first-ever golf
ourney aids library
The Back Mountain Mémorial Library announces that the
Dallas Lions Club will hold its first-ever Dallas Lions Golf
Tournament with proceeds to benefit the library on Sunday,
Sept. 23 at the Newberry Estate Golf Course on Pioneer
Avenue in Dallas. There are two flights scheduled, one at 9
a.m. and another at 1 p.m.
Fees for the event are as follows: 18 holes of golf plus
lunch at the Appletree Terrace are $45 plus $8 for a cart. The
cost for non-golfers who wish to attend the luncheon only is
$30.
The luncheon menus will consist of a choice of appetizers,
including cheese and fresh fruit, crab salsa, Swedish meat-
balls and mini potato pancakes. Entrees include Chicken
Franchaise, stuffed flounder Florentine, hamburgers and hot
dogs, cheese tortellini in a tomato vodka sauce and rosemary
roasted potatoes. Desserts will include cheesecake with fruit
topping, chocolate molten lava bundt cake and an ice cream
bar. A cash bar will be available. :
For more information or registration forms, stop by or call
the library at 675-1182.
Reminder
The library will be closed on Monday, Sept. 3 to celebrate
Labor Day and will re-open at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 4.
MOMENTS IN TIME
By Samantha Weaver
e |t's still not known who made the following sage observation: “To
succeed in politics, it is sometimes necessary to rise above your
principles.”
* |t was beloved American poet Robert Frost who made the follow-
ing sage observation: “A bank is a place where they lend you an
umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.”
* In 1938, Time magazine featured Adolph Hitler on the cover as
its Man of the Year.
* You might be surprised at some of the amazing feats that can be
accomplished with the aid of modern medicine. In 2008, two women
in India gave birth at the age of 70. With the aid of egg donation and
postmenopausal in vitro fertilization, Rajo Devi Lohan gave birth to
her only child, a girl. Charan Singh Panwar and his wife, Omkari Pan-
war, already had two daughters and five grandchildren, but they
wanted a son. Using the same procedure, Omkari had twins, a boy
and a girl.
* The first time a toilet was ever seen on television was in the pilot
episode of “Leave It to Beaver" in 1957.
* The most common name in the world is Muhammed.
* If you live in the South, home of huge roaches, you probably
won't be surprised to learn that a cockroach can live for a week
without a head. When the headless insect does finally die, it's from
starvation, not from the loss of its head.
* Those who study such things say that there are 45,000 chickens
for every person on the planet.
Thought for the day: “The reason that adulation is not displeasing
is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in
one way or other, to induce people to lie.” - Lord Byron
Mom nor Dad were in sight.
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These cute little ducklings were born on Harvey's Lake this year. Photographer Pat Giordano says they were not a bit camera shy and neither
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20 YEARS AGO-1992
Returning Dallas Elementary
students attended a Great
Books Reading Camp in Au-
gust. The group read and dis-
cussed short stories from
around the world. Participants
included Nathan Bohlander,
Heather
Vodzak, No-
rah Krakos-
ky, Ellen
Kim, Jessi-
ca Stefon,
John Nack-
ley, Mi-
chael Laity,
John Schultz, Ann Ross, Mau-
reen McGuire, Abby Ahmad,
Seth and Dough Yeager and
Keith Sprau.
Lindsay Pearson and Lauren
Atherholt recently won the Art
Contest at the Lehman-Jackson
Elementary School sponsored
by Pennsylvania Food Services
Association.
YESTERDAY
30 YEARS AGO -1982
Gate of Heaven Cub Pack 232
held a Fun Day fundraiser for
Luzarc. The fundraiser fea-
tured a flea market, games, hot
dogs and drinks. Scouts who
worked at the fundraiser in-
cluded Ron Lafkoski, Mike Wil-
liams, Jackie Jones, Matthew
Campbell, Mike Farris, Ste-
phen Gregor, and John Kristen.
John M. Levitski, Public In-
formation Specialist for PP&L’s
Susquehanna Steam Electric
Station near Berwick, was the
speaker of the evening at the
weekly meeting of the Dallas
Rotary Club.
40 YEARS AGO -1972
The Dallas Rotary Club, at a
recent dinner meeting at Irem
Temple Country Club, had as
honored guests members of the
Trucksville Volunteer Fire
Company who had shown out-
standing courage and devotion
to duty during the aftermath of
the flood in Wyoming Valley.
The young men had volun-
teered their services to help in
the recovery and relocation of
graves at the Forty Fort ceme-
tery. Those honored are: Dave
Barnuna, Frank Oatridge, Bob
Sabol, Cliff Engler, Tom Schmi-
dle, Paul Jordan, Paul Peters
and jack Martin.
50 YEARS AGO -1962
Warren Samuel Jr.,, Dallas,
won 2nd place in the 50 meter
any-sight rifle match at the Na-
tional Rifle and Pistol match,
Camp Perry, Ohio last Thurs-
day. He fired a score of 400-37
out of a possible 400-40 on the
match. Matches were spon-
sored by the National Rifle As-
sociation.
Back Mountain Little League
All-Stars will be presented with
a State Championship pennant
at a testimonial dinner spon-
sored by Daddow-Isaacs Post
American Legion Thursday
evening at the Legion Home.
60 YEARS AGO - 1952
Herbert Jenkins, Trucksville,
active in community life and a
resident of Kingston Township
for the past thirty years, was ap-
ation. One of Wilson Garinger’s
pigeons came in third and a bird
owned by Burton Roberts t,
fifth place. Each had 25 bir
the race which had more t
300 entries. Because of bad fly-
ing conditions the race con-
sumed about four hours and
scored of birds were lost.
W.S.C.S. of Trucksville Meth-
odist church will sponsor a gar-
den party on the lawn of Mrs.
S.D. Finney, Holly Street,
Trucksville, Thursday after-
noon. Committee members:
Mrs. Neuel Kester, Mrs. Tho-
mas Ayres, Mrs. Sheldon Jones,
Mrs. Don Finney, Mrs. Cedric
Griffith, Mrs. Thelma Bulford
and Mrs. Bertha Sutliff.
Information for “Only “@
day’ is taken from past iss
The Dallas Post which is 122
vears old. The information is
printed here exactly as it ap-
peared in the newspaper years
ago.
pointed Chief of Police to suc-
ceed the late Francis McCarty
at a special meeting of Kingston
Township Supervisors Wednes-
day night at the Township
Building on Carverton Road.
Shavertown has a new music
teacher, qualified by gradua-
tion from the School of Music at
Ohio Wesleyan University to
provide musical education for
children and adults of the com-
munity in both piano and voice.
Mrs. Thomas Lorenz came to
the area two months ago when
her husband was transferred to
this area by the Bell Telephone
Company.
70 YEARS AGO -1942
A.N. Garinger’s racing pigeon
came in first in the 100-mile
race from Harrisburg, conduct-
ed last Sunday by the Wyoming
Valley Racing Pigeon Associ-
MOMENTS IN TIME
The History Channel
® On Sept. 4, 1957, Ford Motor Company unveils the Edsel, the
first new automobile brand produced by one of the Big Three car
companies since 1938. One reporter called it “an Oldsmobile suck-
ing alemon.” In addition, at highway speeds the famous hood orna-
ment had a tendency to fly off and into the windshield. :
® On Sept. 5, 1972, during the 1972 Summer Olympics at Mun-
ich, Germany, a group of Palestinian terrorists storms the Olympic
Village apartment of the Israeli athletes, killing two and taking
nine others hostage. The terrorists were part of a group known as
Black September. s
¢ On Sept. 8, 1986, “The Oprah Winfrey Show” is broadcast na-
tionally for the first time. It went on to become the highest-rated
talk show in TV history. By 2008, “The Oprah Winfrey Show” had
an estimated weekly audience of some 46 million viewers in the
United States and was broadcast around the world in 134 coun-
tries.
“IF YOU WERE TO WRITE YOUR AUTOBIOGRAPHY, WHAT WOULD YOU TITLE IT?"
“'Peculiar Facts’ be-
cause after teaching
college for 28 years,
my job was given to a
young woman from
“Anne Gill's Exciting
Adventures’ because
I've lived in many ci-
ties, worked with
street people and
Marywood.” opened a soup kitch-
Reese Pelton en.”
Dallas
Anne Gill
Forty Fort
“'My God and My
Dogs’ because we all
need God and the dogs
give us unconditional
love.”
Margie Bart
Orange
“"When to Say No’ be-
cause I'm usually so
afraid to disappoint
people.”
Lisa Angeli
Dallas
“'Hard Lessons
Learned’ because |
have a tendency not
to listen to anyone.”
Loretta Galm
Dallas
“Journals of an Egg
Lady’ because I'm a
craftsman who makes
Russian Pysanky :
eggs.” )
Marianne Lurie
Orange