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EDITORIAL
SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 2013
Joe Butkiewicz
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Learn how to blog at the library
The Back Mountain Memo-
rial Library is “keeping with
the times” and will offer a Blog-
ging Class from 4 to 6 p.m. on
Tuesday, March 12. Attend this
free class and learn how to set
up a blog, as well as the “ins and
outs” of blogging. Pre-registra-
tion is required.
Parent /child workshops
Attention, parents: It’s once
again time for the spring session
of the Parent/ Child Workshop.
This playgroup setting allows
toddlers, 1 through 3 years of
age, to play and interact with
other children, as mothers
(caregivers) get a chance to talk
to one another and the resource
professionals who attend each
session.
The sessions will begin on
Tuesday, April 2 and will be held
at 11 a.m. on Tuesdays, April 9,
16 and 23. Pre-registra-
tion is required.
Auction committee
The Auction Planning Com-
mittee will meet at 7 p.m. on
Thursday, March 21.
Call the library at 675-1182
to register for any of the above
classes/workshops or to obtain
more information.
MOMENTS IN TIME
* On March 24, 1603, after
44 years of rule, Queen Eliza-
beth I of England dies, and King
James VI of Scotland ascends to
the throne, uniting England and
Scotland under a single Brit
ish monarch. Queen Elizabeth
I passed into history as one of
England’s greatest monarchs.
* On March 23, 1839, the ini-
tials “O.K.” are first published
in The Boston Morning Post.
Meant as an abbreviation for
“oll correct,” a popular slang
misspelling of “all correct” at
the time, OK steadily made its
way into the everyday speech of
Americans.
* On March 19, 1916, the
First Aero Squadron flies a sup-
port mission for the 7,000 U.S.
troops who had invaded Mexico
on President Woodrow Wilson's
orders to capture Mexican revo-
lutionary Pancho Villa dead or
alive.
* On March 18, 1937, nearly
300 students in Texas are killed
by an explosion of natural gas
at their school. Eleven oil and
natural-gas derricks stood in the
schoolyard as a means of sav-
ing the school money. The blast
killed most victims instantly and
was felt 40 miles away.
* On March 20, 1965, Presi-
dent Lyndon Johnson sends a
telegram to Gov. George Wallace
of Alabama in which he agrees to
send federal troops to supervise
a planned civil-rights march in
Wallace’s home state. Earlier that
month, civil-rights activist Martin
Luther King Jr. had led two at-
tempts to march to Montgomery.
* On March 21, 1980, Presi-
dent Jimmy Carter informs a
group of US. athletes that, in
response to the December 1979
Soviet incursion into Afghani-
stan, the United States would
boycott the 1980 Olympics in
Moscow. It marked the first and
only time that the United States
has boycotted the Olympics.
STRANGE BUT TRUE
* President Harry Truman
was once told there were ghosts
in the White House. His re-
sponse? “I'm sure theyre here,
and I'm not half so alarmed at
meeting up with any of them as
I am at having to meet the live
nuts I have to see every day.”
* Pet food is the third most
profitable item for supermar-
kets, following meat and fresh
produce.
* The warmest parts of your
. body are your eyes and nose,
while the coldest parts (unsur-
prisingly) are your fingers and
toes.
* In the African country of
Zaire, more than 200 different
languages are spoken.
* It was more than 30 years
ago, in 1982, that a man in
suburban Los Angeles tied 24
weather balloons to his lawn
chair in an attempt to fly. A pret-
ty successful attempt, too — he
made it to 16,000 feet, alarming
air traffic controllers and pilots
in the process.
* Those who study such
things say that the rate of di-
vorce increases during the win-
ter months.
* The Baltimore Orioles had
a pretty bad season in 1988.
After the team lost its first 10
games, Bob Rivers, a deejay at
Baltimore radio station WIYY,
announced that he would stay
on the air until the home team
won a game. He kept his word,
sleeping only between songs, for
10 days. When the Orioles final-
ly defeated the Chicago White
Sox, Rivers played “I'm Free” by
The Who, and finally left.
* Queen termites can live for
up to 100 years.
* When respondents to a sur-
vey are guaranteed that the re-
sults will be anonymous, fully
40 percent of the people admit
to cheating on their taxes.
* % %
Thought for the day: “When
two men in business always
agree, one of them is unneces-
sary.” — William Wrigley, Jr.
YOUR SPACE
Pat Giordano, of Harveys Lake, took this photo of a willow tree in her yard on a morning after an overnight snow-
fall that left snow on bare branches. The tree was nominated in 2010 with the Pennsylvania Forestry Association and
recorded as the largest weeping willow in the state of Pennsylvania. At the time, it measured 301 in. circumference,
48 ft. high, and 95 ft. spread.
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publication.
ONLY YESTERDAY
20 YEARS AGO -1993
Recently, Tiger cubs of troop
281 enjoyed a nature presenta-
tion and hike at Francis Slocum
State Park under the direction
of Park Naturalist Jerry Kozlan-
sky. The boys and their parents
learned about leaves and trees
in the Pennsylvania forest while
hiking Slocum’s trails. Partici-
pants included James Welch,
Casey Zalenski, Phillip Miller
and Vincent Landers.
The second annual Dance-
- A‘Thon to benefit the Back
Mountain Memorial Library
is set for March 28. The
Stretchout Exercise Studio,
Shavertown, is sponsoring the
charity event to be held in the
Gate of Heaven gymnasium.
Planning committee members
include Terri Besecker, Marlene
Cocozza, Joanne Runner and
Martha Wheeler.
Artwork by Holly Zug, Dal-
las, and Kevin Rogers, Shaver-
town, were among that of 11
art students from Wyoming
Seminary College Preparatory
School, Kingston, selected to
appear in the 1993 Scholastic
Art Awards regional art exhibit
at the EM. Kirby Center.
30 YEARS AGO -1983
Dallas Township man, Thom-
as Doughton, was recently pre-
sented with a plaque honoring
his nomination as “Outstanding
Young Firefighter” by the Back
Mountain JayCees. Doughton
was named by the local club
to participate in state competi-
tion.
The Harveys Lake Lions
Club will hold their annual
Pancake and Sausage Supper
and Breakfast at the Lake-
Noxen Elementary School on
March 26. Chairman of the af-
fair is John Lynch. Committee
members include Tom Smith,
John Adams, Carl Schreiner
and Charles Gordon.
Coach Shorty Hitchcock’s
Black Knights of Lake Lehman
took five first place finishes and
five runnerup places to take
the Division II AA team title
with a total of 193 2% points last
weekend in the competition
at King’s College. Jeff Austin,
Rusty Coolbaugh, Quentin Wal-
czak and Tracy Slocum took
firsts in the district competi-
tion.
40 YEARS AGO -1973
A group of students will
fly to Europe this summer to
attend classes at a campus in
Germany. Arno Miller, German
teacher at Dallas Senior High
School, will accompany them.
The students will attend sum-
mer school at the Collegium
Platinum and visit such cities
as Lucerne, Stuttgart and Paris.
Participants are: Philip Miller,
Karen Aicher, Cindy Barakat,
Karen Purvin, Anne Crispell,
Kim Martin, Jackie Gerstein
and Melinda Scovell.
Adele Correale, five-year-
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Vincent Correale, Oak Hill, has
been selected as “Miss Petite”
and will represent Kingston in
the Pennsylvania International
Talent and Beauty Pageant in
June at Thiel College, Green-
ville. Adele, a brown-haired,
dark-eyed youngster, is a
kindergarten student in the
Lake-Lehman School District.
50 YEARS AGO - 1963
Charlene Makar has done it
again, continuing what prom-
ises to be an annual winning of
high awards at Science Fairs.
A junior at West Side Central
Catholic, showing her Perpet-
ual Motion Pump for a grand
champion rating at her own
Science Fair of 330 projects,
she will exhibit her project at
King’s College March 17 and
later at Scranton University
if she again wins. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vin-
cent Makar, New Goss Manor,
and a former pupil of Gate of
Heaven school.
Four members of Dallas Se-
nior High School Band will at-
tend Northeast District Band at
East Stroudsburg this weekend.
John Wardell, Richard Ratcliffe,
Lee Philco and William Cooper
will be accompanied to East
Stroudsburg by Band Director
Lester Lewis.
Bernard “Bernie” Williamson
was awarded the PMA bronze
Award for one-year record of
safe driving for Kutz Bakery,
Inc., Wilkes-Barre, last night.
Well-known bakery products
salesman for the Back Moun-
tain, where he has covered the
same route for many years,
Bernie is among 15 Kutz driv-
ers honored by Pennsylvania
Manufacture’s Association
Casualty Insurance Company.
60 YEARS AGO - 1953
Jean Ide and Eunice Traver,
representing Lake-Noxen
Senior Tri Hi-Y Club, together
with Helen Skopic and Grace
Major, representing the
Lehman-Jackson tri Hi-Y Club,
are the four lucky girls who
have been selected to represent
Tri- Hi-Y Clubs of the Back
Mountain Town and Country
Branch YMCA at Harrisburg
for the Model United Nations
Assembly later this month.
These four girls, together with
one representative of the Tri
Hi-Y Club from Tunkhannock,
will represent Argentina.
Back Mountain Area captains
for the Red Cross Fund Drive
are: Mrs. Charles Beech, Mrs.
Charles Frantz, Mrs. Fred Kroll,
Mrs. Robert Evans, Mrs. John
Conyngham, Mrs. Harry Ohl-
man, Mrs. Gilbert Austin, Mrs.
Lloyd Kear, Mrs. Arthur Ross,
Mrs. Charles Brooke, Mrs.
Byron Kester, Mrs. Stanley
Davies, Mrs. Arlene Deeter and
Mrs. Irvin Marvel.
70 YEARS AGO - 1943
Thirty-one men from this
area have been called by Draft
Board No. 1, of Wyoming for
their final physical examina-
tions prior to induction into
the United States army at the
Induction Station, Wilkes-Barre
on March 15th and 16th. Those
called are: Dallas — Charles
Blain Herring, Joseph John
Polachek, Isaac Watkins, Carl
Dennison Wint, Francis Rhodes
Chamberlain, Roy Osborne
Jones, John Seletsky, Robert
Fred Miller, Paul John Klug,
Theodore Edward Busch,
Robert David Race, Arthur
Reese Morgan, Robert William
Lauderbaugh, Lawrence Wil-
liam Drabick, Donald Robert
Yeust, Leroy Delbert Roberts,
Maurice Bowman. Shavertown
— Michael Silick Jr., Donald
Edison Davis, Gordon Herbert,
Robert Leroy Boston, Joseph
James Gallagher, Leo Theo-
dore Swartz, William Shewan.
Trucksville — George Jerome
Blazes, Thomas Martin Beline,
John Albert Blasé, Paul Henry
Lyne, William Edward Fox, Ed-
ward William Guyette. Alder-
son — Earl Junior Norton.
Dallas Borough took the
Back Mountain Boys’ Basket-
ball League championship for
the fourth successive time
this year, after a not-too-easy
struggle with Dallas Town-
ship. At the end of the first \
half, it looked like a walk-aw-
for Borough with a score of
30-7 in its favor, but during
the second half, Township
got 21 points, and the final
score was 58-23. Borough's
Hank Urban received the title
of high scorer in the league.
Other members of the cham-
pionship team are: Robert
Moore, Clinton Brobst, Har-
old Brobst, Bob Gross, Harold
Roberts, Jack Nelson, Charles
Moore, Edward Tutak, Bob
Roberts, John Quail, Peter
Roushey and James Besecker.
“A lot of stateside
traveling like Mt.
Rushmore,
Yellowstone, more of
seeing my country.”
Sal Luzio
Old Forge
IF YOU COULD VISIT ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, WHERE WOULD YOU GO?
“Sonoma wine
country and the
Grand Canyon.”
Meg Karwaski
Trucksville
“Alaska, the whole
coast line, a train
water and land tour.
Icebergs would be
neat.”
Tammy Hoyt
Shickshinny
[
“The Holy Land - to
walk where Jesus
Walked - the Sea of
Galilee, Nazareth,
Jerusalem. That would
be neat.”
Lee Manganella
Luzerne
“Alaska, for sure.
| love hunting and
fishing and have
friends there.”
; Charla Pilger
Dallas
“Aruba. It sounds
crazy but we like the
shape of the trees
there and the beaches,
of course. We've never
been there.”
Teena O'Connor
Harveys Lake