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THE DALLAS POST
Sunday, October 20, 2013
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Take advantage of fall
events at the library
Now that the hectic season
of summer is behind us and the
holiday season is not quite here,
the Back Mountain Memorial
Library invites you to take
advantage of this “hiatus” in
your schedules.
A new Book Discussion
Club is forming at the library
beginningat 10 am. on
Thursday, Oct. 24. Call the
library to register for this
formational meeting where you
will join with the facilitator to
discuss upcoming book titles.
SENIOR TAI CHI
CLASSES
Free Senior Tai Chi classes
will be held at the library
beginning at 6:30 p.m. on
Monday, Nov. 4. This six-week
series of classes for seniors
ages 50 and up are sponsored
by the senior centers of the
Bureau of the Aging. Tai Chi
is an enjoyable, beneficial
form of exercise, both relaxing
and therapeutic to joints and
muscles. Pre-registration for
this six-week series is required
by calling the library at 570-
675-1182, prior to Oct. 31.
Space is limited, so gather your
friends and call soon.
DISPLAY CASE
And while youre at the
library, don’t forget to visit
our display case, located near
the front desk. A variety of
collections are displayed on a
monthly basis and the library
is currently seeking collectors
for the upcoming year. Both
adults and children are invited
to display their collections.
Past displays have included
salt/pepper shakers, tea pots,
jewelry, postcards, Legos,
Webkins toys and everything in
between. Call the library now
to schedule a month for next
year.
SLIGHTLY READ
BOOKSHOP
The Slightly Read Bookshop
is also ready to provide you
with relaxing materials to fill
these beautiful fall days. Their
special bookcase of popular
authors, including Tom Clancy
and Danielle Steele, are
currently on sale at half price.
It’s a great time to stock up on
any Clancy titles that may be
missing from your collection.
The Bookshop has also
received a large increase in
its collection of music CDs,
available in all genres. Buy
the first one for $1 and any
subsequent CDs for only
$.50. Cookbooks are on sale
through December, as well as
a new collection of table/board
games,
The Bookshop is also
accepting donations of parlor
games with all of the parts/
pieces in good condition.
Don’t forget that the Frequent
Reader's Club punch card
program is also still in effect
- every $5 purchase will be
indicated on your card and
after you spend $50 you will
receive a $5 discount.
PENGUINS READING
EVENT
It’s also time once again, for
the library’s annual “Penguins
to Promote Reading” event.
Mike O’Brien, Tux and
star players from the Wilkes-
Barre/Scranton Penguins are
scheduled to present a lively,
family reading program at the
libraryat 5 p.m. on Tuesday,
Nov. 12. Space is limited and
families are asked to call the
library at 570-675-1182 to
reserve seats.The players will
talk to the families about the
importance of reading, about
being a team player and about
their careers as professional
hockey players. Tux will then
entertain the children with
his antics as the players read
to the children. So bring your
questions along with your
memorabilia to be signed and
get ready to have some fun with
the Penguins and Tux!
FALL STORY TIMES
Reminder to parents: There
are still openings for the Fall
Story Times. Please call the
library if you are interested in
pre-registering and for more
information.
MOMENTS IN TIME
The History Channel
* On Oct. 31, 1517, 'the
priest and scholar Martin
Luther nails to the door of the
Castle Church in Wittenberg,
Germany, a piece of paper
containing 95 revolutionary
opinions that would begin
the Protestant Reformation.
In one, Luther condemned
the corruption of the Catholic
Church for asking for payment
for the forgiveness of sins.
*+:0n Oct. 30, 1890,
Oakland, Calif., enacts a law
against opium, morphine and
cocaine. The new regulations
allowed only doctors to
prescribe these drugs, which
had been legal for cures or
pain relief.
* On Oct. 29, 1929, Black
Tuesday hits Wall Street as
investors trade 16,410,030
shares. In the aftermath of
Black Tuesday, America and
the rest of the industrialized
world spiraled downward
into the Great Depression. By
1932, stocks were worth only
about 20 percent of their value
in the summer of 1929.
* On Nov. 2, 1947, the
Hughes Flying Boat — the
largest aircraft ever built — is
piloted by designer Howard
Hughes on its first and only
flight. Built with laminated
birch and spruce, the “Spruce
Goose” had a wingspan longer
than a football field and was
designed to carry more than
700 men to battle.
* On Nov. 1, 1952, the
YOUR SPACE
Pink daisies were among the last blossoms of September in the Sr. Regina Kelly Shakespeare Garden at Misericordia University.
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ONLY YESTERDAY
20 YEARS AGO - 1993
Wilkes University senior
linebacker Mark Buss was
named the Middle Atlantic
Conference and eastern College
Athletic Conference Division
III South Defensive Player of
the Week for his play against
Upsala College last weekend.
Buss, a 6°2”, 232 pounder,
earned the double honor after
making 13 tackles, recovering a
fumble and intercepting a pass
in a 23-14 win over the Vikings.
Buss is a resident of Dallas.
Holly Zug of Dallas was
crowned Homecoming Queen
of Wyoming Seminary’s Class
of 1994 during half-time of the
school’s football game earlier
this month. Other candidates
for queen included Jennifer
Eidam, Sonia Kimm, Natalya
Sharp and Molly Shea.
30 YEARS AGO - 1983
The Lake-Lehman Booster
Club recently presented jackets
to the girls’ softball team in
recognition of their 19-0 record
during the 1983 softball season.
The team is coached by Flossie
Finn. Members are: Gail Austin,
Kelly Siglin, Billi Jo Sorber,
Christy Wascalus, Cheri Cross,
Melissa Kittle, Deana Knorr,
Kelly Wandel, Chris Titus,
Sandy Dicton, Barb Anderson,
Sue Bonsavage, Cindy Slocum,
Pam Solinski, Lori Lopasky,
Jill Solinski, Kim Fey, Anita
Kalie, Sheila Coombs, Rhonda
Hudzik and Cathy Cordick.
Christi Strauser was
crowned Homecoming Queen
at Dallas High school during
halftime of the Mountaineers
game with Pittston Saturday
afternoon. She was escorted
by Craig Rome. Members of
the Homecoming Court were
Lori Handley, Joe O’Donnell,
Karen Evans, Dale Fitch, Marie
Germata, Shawn Kravitsky,
Sue King, Jim Walsh, Polly
Kunkle, Ed Gorey, Wendy Van
Horn and John Bourke.
STRANGE BUT TRUE
By Samantha Weaver
* It was American writer Gore Vidal
who made the following sage observation:
“The corporate grip on opinion in the
United States is one of the wonders of the
Western world. No First World country
has ever managed to eliminate so entirely
from its media all objectivity — much
less dissent.”
40 YEARS AGO - 1973
Members of St. Andrews
Orthodox Church, Dallas, met
recently to finalize plans for
their annual
bazaar
and dinner
this week.
Committee
members
include Mr.
and Mrs. ONLY
John Panco, YESTERDAY
Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Selingo, Mrs. Robert
Rhodes, Olga Kozemchak, Anna
Archacavage, Mrs. William
Ostrum, Fay Kozemchak, Mr.
and Mrs. George Hoblak, Al
Lipko, Peter Fritzky, and Mr.
and Mrs. Anton Huminik.
Eight Back Mountain youths
were among 16 Wyoming
Seminary Day School students
who received the President’s
Physical Fitness Award during
a special assembly program at
the school.
The four youths are: Charles
Parkhurst, Blair Jennings,
Hillary Maslow, Wendy Flick,
Kevin Hora, Jenifer Maslow,
Nancy Swain, and Christine
Innes.
50 YEARS AGO - 1963
Sheryl Stanley, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Stanley,
Center Hill Road, represented
Dallas High School at the
15th Annual Flaming Foliage
Festival at Renovo last
weekend. |
Miss Stanley was chosen
because of her poise,
appearance, character and
scholastic ability. Her escort
was Robert Sinicrope.
Michael Adams, a member of
the Lake-Lehman School Board
and well-known Sweet Valley
businessman, received a “Dusk-
to-dawn” light as a result of his
participation in U.G.I.’s display
booth at the Dallas Rotary Fair.
The Luzerne Electric Division
of the company installed the
* If youre
like most
you've probably never encountered a
tziganologist. That is, unless you consort
with those who study Hungarian gypsies.
* When someone mentions the rock
band ZZ Top, you probably think of a *
group of musicians with beards. They
don’t all have beards,
drummer is clean-shaven as a matter of
“Dusk-to-Dawn” light in front
of Adams’ grocery store at
North Lake and Sweet Valley
roads intersection.
Back Mountain 4H
Horseshoe Club met at the
Lehman Fire Hall Saturday
and held a Family Night. Harry
Georinger, Anne Davies, Leslie
Vivian and Debbie Post played
piano compositions and Linda
Mekeel sang.
60 YEARS AGO - 1953
Pre-campaign meeting of
the organization for the Back
Mountain territory, 1954
Wyoming Valley Community
Chest Campaign, was held
at the home of Mrs. Frank
Townend, Dallas. Mrs.
Townend is Major of the
Back Mountain Battalion.
Volunteer workers are: Mrs.
Frank E. Parkhurst Jr., Mrs.
Willard Garey, Mrs. Andrew
Hourigan Jr., Mrs. Elizabeth
MacPherson, Mrs. George
Jacobs, Mrs. Laning Harvey
Jr., Mrs. Charles D. Flack, Mrs.
John D. Sicher and Mrs. Robert
Doran.
Sunday school pupils of
Dallas Methodist Church were
presented with new Bibles
last Sunday by the pastor, Rev.
W.H. Heapps, in observance
of Promotion Sunday. These
pupils were promoted from
the Primary Department to
the Junior Department: Dale
Mosier, Ronald Cross, Stephen
Schultz, Ricky Drake, Robert
Wallace, Timmy Groff, William
Welsh, Richard Brown, Dick
Creasy, John Carey, Bonnie
Lewis, Carol Durkin, sally
Moyer, Ruth Miller, Peggy
Ochs, Nancy Elston, Susan
Owens, Ruth Ann Scott, Linda
Rice, Kay Ide, Judy Williams,
Gail Dixon, Kimi Klisch and
Mary Alice Knecht.
Richard Sorchik, a junior
in Lake-Noxen High School,
successfully passed the
novice class amateur radio
people,
Beard.
though; the
Squirrels are
foresters.
trees grow from caches of nuts and
acorns that squirrels forgot about.
examination last Tuesday at
Williamsport.
70 YEARS AGO - 1943
Ten horsemen, guests of
John H. Blackman, of Idetown,
completed their fifth annual
115-mile autumn ride on
Sunday over mountain trails
through the old lumbering
country bounded by North
and South mountains. At the
conclusion, Edward Hartman,
of Trucksville, riding the
registered thoroughbred,
“Drill,” was voted winner of
the trip. Other riders were: Dr.
Parke, William Tiffany, Dan
Shaver, Thomas E. Heffernan,
Edward Holmes, Harry Fassett,
Dr. Stevens, John Blackman
and Robert Hahn.
Dallas Unit Red Cross
Canteen were hostesses
preparing and serving the
evening supper for service men
at YW.C.A. Sunday evening.
YW.C.A. has open house for
all service men of the area
every Sunday evening when
different canteen groups from
the valley are in charge of the
lunch. Local women in charge
Sunday were: Mrs. Arthur
Dungey, Mrs. Wesley Himmler,
Mrs. Joseph Schmerer, Mrs.
William Niemeyer and Mrs.
David Brace.
Mrs. Zelma Agnew, of
Lehman, was hostess to the
Confidence Class of the Idetown
Sunday School at her home
Tuesday evening. Assisting
her were: Anna Shaver,
Mildred Welsh, Hope Ide, Jean
Moore, Doris Spencer, Ruth
Parrish, Charlotte Calkins,
Ella Williams, Clara McKenngg
Hazel Kriedler, Lillian Cave. 0
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Information for “Only
Yesterday” is taken from back
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reprinted here exactly as it first
appeared.
safety (imagine being in the middle of
a drum solo and getting a stick caught
in a long beard — ouch!). Interestingly,
the unbearded drummer’s name is Frank
wonderful
Every year, thousands of
IDONTWANTTO ADMITI
BUT PROBABLY ABOUT FIVE
R.J. Scouton
Harveys Lake
“NOTMUCH. IM LUCKY IF]
GETTO SEE THE NEWS AND
SURVIVOR”
Tammy Taylor
Sweet Valley
“THESE DAYS WITHTHE
LITTLE GUY. NOT MUCH
MOSTLY CARTOONS”
Darrell Hogan
Harveys Lake
“HOW MUCH TELEVISION DO YOU WATCH IN A WEEK?”
he |
"MAYBE AFEW HOURS
WATCHING THE HISTORY
CHANNEL OR COOKING
SHOWS”
Al Cuba
Dallas
“SN HOUR A DAY. HAVE
FOUR KIDS SO T'S MOSTLY
CARTOONS
Jennifer Casey
Dallas
“QUITEALQT. ILIKE
LIFETIME , THE ‘GOLDEN
GIRLS’ ANDALLTHE OLD
SHOWS”
Diane Mularkey
Kingston Twp,
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