PAGE 6 EDITORIAL Sunday, September 16, 2012 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 Joe Butkiewicz Dotty Martin EXECUTIVE EDITOR EDITOR 829-7249 970-7440 jbutkiewicz@timesleader.com dmartin@mydallaspost.com Diane McGee ADVERTISING 970-7153 dmcgee@timesleader.com Bee Bi # 5] Vintage silhouettes display at library Joan Taylor of Shavertown, will display her collection of vintage silhouettes at the Back Mountain Memorial Library during the month October. Joan’s collection consists of items she has purchased over the past 30 years. She states that she has a “love of vintage items.” Her favorite pieces are “those vignettes that tell a story” and the “Lady in Her Boudoir” is one of which she is especially fond. Joan enjoys going to estate sales and, even though she does not go specifi- cally to find silhouettes, if she sees one she likes, she will purchase it. Her advice to people who also enjoy collecting is choose “what catch- es your eye and what you enjoy looking at.” MOMENTS IN TIME By Samantha Weaver * |t was American singer Josh Groban who made the following sage observation: “There's no half-singing in the shower, you're ei- ther a rock star or an opera diva.” ¢ If you're considering having a child sometime in the near future, you might want to consider this: It's said that the cost of caring for a newborn during its first year of life is more than $6,000. ® In 1986, actor and director Clint Eastwood took on a new and unfamiliar role: political candidate. He ran for mayor of Carmel, Calif. He defeated the incumbent mayor in a landslide, and he kept the position for two years. His salary? A whopping $200 per week. * Often these days you'll see someone carrying a tiny dog around with them, but you might be surprised to learn that this is not an entirely new fashion. In ancient Rome and Greece it was not uncom- mon for a noble lady to carry her tiny Maltese dog around in the sleeve of her robe. * In the early days of motion pictures, Will H. Hays became known as the “Czar of Hollywood.” He presided over the earliest incarnation of the MPAA, charged with ensuring the morality of movies. Some of the changes the so-called “Hays Office” insisted upon were removing the image of a cow's udder from a Walt Disney cartoon; and remov- ing any direct reference to adultery in the 1935 adaptation of the Tolstoy novel “Anna Karenina" - despite the fact that Anna's affair is at the heart of the novel. * Those who study such things say that a woman's sense of smell tends to be better than that of a man. o00 Thought for the day: “I think that | am better than the people who are trying to reform me.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "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 YOUR SPACE Dallas resident Jane Brennan caught this double rainbow after a thunderstorm in Ocean City, Maryland. 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. 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- 20 YEARS AGO -1992 Franklin Township Fire Com- pany will hold its seventh “Coun- try Music Jamboree” Sunday September 20 to raise funds for a new fire truck. Committee mem- bers involved in planning the fund raiser include Mark Rogers, don Rogers, Corey Rogers, De- rek Rogers, Jeff Sudol, Amy Rog- ers, Debbie Jones, Louise Sand- Joes, ONLY Rusinko and YESTERDAY . Fred Risch, In the Family Day competition at the Luzerne County Fair, Jennifer Dombroski, 10, of Dallas, was named Junior Princess. Fifty-six girls, ages two to 10, participated in the competition. 30 YEARS AGO -1982 Winners in the Back Mountain Art Contest, sponsored by Sue Hand of Dallas, included Mi- chele Pallis, Eric Paczewski, Lib- by Davies, Todd Paczewski, Nik- ki Reisinger and Hugh Mundy. Kim Lamoreaux, a Back Mountain girl, is one of the con- testants in the initial “Miss Lu- zerne County Fall Fair” pageant this year. 40 YEARS AGO -1972 President Richard Nixon’s vis- it last week to flood-stricken Wyoming Valley touched off a spark of controversy less favor- able to his upcoming election in this region than perhaps any trip the most widely-traveled U.S. President has made to date. Not only did Gov. Milton Shapp re- lease some rather strong re- marks about the Nixon visit, but a host of flood victims have been irked as well. In both cases, the secrecy of the trip seemed to be the central issue. Fifteen Back Mountain young- sters rose to great heights this past summer with their partici- pation in the library’s special reading program. They are Becky Jones, Tracey Hughes, Sharon Partridge, Elizabeth Spencer, Susan Dreher, Mary Spencer, Linda Kuras, Lisa Loke, Judy Loke, Michael Polk, Ann Spencer, Mary Lou Williams, Cheryl Todd and Michelle Crab- tree. 50 YEARS AGO - 1962 Oath of office as Acting Post- master was administered to Ed- ward M. Buckley Friday after- noon by Inspector Walter B. Pop- ejoy of the United States Post Of- fice Department. Mr. Buckley succeeds the late Joseph Polacky who died in office. Frank L. McGarry, Main Street, Dallas, rammed his car through two plate-glass win- dows and cracked another in the front of Gosart’s Appliance cen- ter, Memorial Highway yester- day afternoon. According to wit- nesses, McGarry clipped the rear of a parked car in front of the store and continued on up over the two-foot foundation. Rough estimate of the damage to the windows is $500. 60 YEARS AGO —1952 Mrs. Jean Kuehn, Dallas, was one of the three women recog- nized as founders of the organi- zation at a luncheon of North Eastern Pennsylvania Regional Conference of Republic Women held Thursday at Irem Temple Country Club. Jane Cave, fourteen year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Shel- 70 YEARS AGO - 1942 Gerald Frantz, Huntsville meg chant, has been appointed third member of the Dallas Ra- tioning Board which will open on October 1 in remodeled offic- es in Oliver’s Garage. Mrs. Clar- ence Laidler has been appointed clerk and Fred M. Kiefer has been elected chairman of the three-man board. Classes in Home Nursing were started Monday evening at St. Theresa’s Church in Shaver- town. The classes will be led by Mrs. Charles Wagner, R.N. and are sponsored by the local American Red Cross. Wyoming valley Chapter of b 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 # ap- peared in the newspaper vears ago. don Cave of Idetown, is attend- ing the National Youth Conven- tion at the Episcopal Church in Boston this week. MOMENTS INTIME The History Channel * OnSept. 19,1959, in one of the more surreal moments in the histo- ry of the Cold War, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev explodes with an- ger when he learns he cannot visit Disneyland. Government author- ities feared that the crowds would pose a safety hazard. ® On Sept. 17,1965, four adventurous Englishmen arrive at a motor showin Germany after crossing the English Channel by Amphicar, the world’s only mass-produced amphibious passenger car. On land, the cars used a four-speed-plus-reverse manual transmission. In the water, they used a transfer case that had two speeds: forward and backward. ¢ On Sept. 20,1973, in a highly publicized “Battle of the Sexes” ten- nis match, top women’s player Billie Jean King, 29, plays Bobby Riggs, 55, a former No. 1-ranked men’s player. King beat Riggs 64, 6-3, 6-3. “WHAT WAS THE FIRST THING YOU BOUGHT WITH YOUR OWN MONEY?" "I can't remember any one thing exactly but | had to contribute to buy my first car - an Audi 4." “I bought myself this car - a 4- wheel drive Jeep Cherokee and | like it.” Kyle Williams Shawn McAndrew Shavertown Dallas “I'm not good at sav- ing my money so | don’t buy anything special but | would like to save for a laptop.” Maggie Fannick Dallas “Loco Yoco frozen yo- gurt. | recommend it to everyone but, oth- erwise, | just buy gas." Jenna Morgan Dallas "Can't remember any- thing special just clothes and shopping trips for miscellane- ous stuff." "Nothing special - just gas, car insurance and food." 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