h PAGE 6 THE DALLAS POST Sunday, October 27,2013 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 Dotty Martin EDITOR 970-7440 dmartin@mydallaspost.com Diane McGee Advertising 970-7153 dmcgee@timesleader.com Library Friends holding citrus sale The Friends of the Back Mountain Memorial Library are once again sponsoring their annu- al fresh citrus fruit sale through Nov. 13. This year the Friends have selected a new company and the oranges and grapefruit will come directly from the trees to the deliv- ery facility for added freshness. Fruit may be purchased in units of 10 pounds or 20 pounds and mixed units are available. Order forms have been mailed to regular customers and new customers are invited to stop in at the front desk at the library at 96 Huntsville Road, Dallas to pick up an order form. Fruit orders may be picked up from 3 to 5 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 13 and from 9:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Dec. 14 at the library . All checks for pre-paid orders should be made payable to the Back Mountain Memorial Library and received by Wednesday, Nov. 13. All proceeds benefit the library. [9% 99, 1 oe 4€ Ne 1 J et LL Loa. a Submitted photo Erika Wintersteen, Tux and other young Penguin fans are shown at a recent reading program at the Back Mountain Memorial Library. Penguins to promote reading at library Mike O'Brien, Tux and star players from the Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton Penguins are scheduled to present a lively, family reading program at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 12 at the Back Mountain Memorial Library. All ages are welcome to attend. Space is limited so families are asked to call the library at 570-675 1182 to reserve seats. The players will talk to the fami- lies about the importance of read- ing, about being a team player and about their careers as professional hockey players. Tux will then enter- tain the children with his antics as the players read to the children. Bring your questions along with your memorabilia to be signed and get ready to have some fun with the Penguins and Tux. NTS IN TIME The History Channel * On Nov. 5, 1605, King James I of England learns of a plot to explode the Parliament building. Guy Fawkes had been found lurking in a cellar with 20 barrels of gunpowder. Fawkes revealed that he was part of a conspiracy to annihi- late England’s Protestant gov- ernment and replace it with Catholic leadership. * On Now. 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th pres- ident of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presi- dency. Lincoln received only 40 percent of the popular vote but handily defeated the three other candidates. * On Nov. 8, 1895, physi- cist Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen becomes the first person to observe X-rays, an advance that became an important diagnos- tic tool in medicine. In 1897, X-rays were first used on a military battlefield to find bul- lets and broken bones inside patients. * On Nov. 9, 1938, Jewish businesses and homes in Munich are destroyed, and Jewish men, women and children are beaten and mur- dered, in an exercise in ter ror. The night would be called “Kristallnacht,” or “the Night of Broken Glass,” because of the cost of replacing broken glass in looted Jewish shops — 5 million marks ($1.25 million). YOUR SPACE Dallas Post photographer Bill Tarutis shot this photo of a bonfire at Dallas High School. Bill was shotting a Lake-Lehman field hockey game and noticed the bonfire in the distance. c “YOUR SPACE" is reserved specifically for Dallas Post readers who have something they'd like to share with fellow readers. Submitted items may include photographs 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 number in the event we have questions. Readers wishing to have their photos returned should include a self-addressed/stamped envelope. Items will be published in the order in which they are received. The editor of The Dallas Post reserve the right to reject any items submitted for publication. 20 YEARS AGO - 1993 Offset Paperback Mifrs., Inc. recently recognized four employees for their 20 years of dedicated and loyal ser- vice. Each employee was pre- sented with a gift certificate and luncheon. Those honored are: Joseph Maskalis, Pete Hospodar, Andy Pastuszak and Tom Sadowski. Members of the Dallas High School Homecoming Court are Jennifer Bryant, Michelle Siglin, Amy Musto, Cindy Maier, Courtney Gauntlett, Jena Krakosky and Ruth Ann Selenski. Members of the Lake-Lehman High School Homecoming Court are: Cheryl Elston, Gretchen Dershimer, Debbie Coslett, Jessica Hynick, Julie Demidovich and Lynn Turner. 30 YEARS AGO - 1983 John Cooper, 13, of Dallas, received Honorable mention in the recent Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association Newspaper Carrier Contest. A ninth grade student at Dallas junior High School, Cooper has been deliv- ering The Dallas Post for more than a year. The Women of Shavertown United Methodist Church have been preparing for “The Church Mouse Emporium” to be held next weekend. Committee members include Dott Griffith, Marie Duermitt, Eleanor Elenick, Lillian Letukas, Alice Moye, Mary Bartlett, Chick Kozak, Ollie Daubert, Jean Linker, Donna Kachmar, Aletha Lawry, Helen Kishbaugh, and Jo Sims. Jean Chadwick SAMANTHA WEAVER * It was British author George Bernard Shaw who made the following sage obser- vation: “If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.” * If you're planning a trip to Hollywood next summer, you might want to make a stop at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. 40 YEARS AGO - 1973 Sixteen members of Brownie Troop 929, Shavertown, toured the offices of the Dallas Post and Greenstreet Nile. w '8 Company headquar- ters Monday afternoon. Brownies ONLY who went YESTERDAY on the tour were Barbara Eyet, Jane Hudak, Carol Linker, Jill Lipovsky, Kristine Miles, Sandy Newcomb, Kathleen Riley, Karin Saul, Wendy Wadas, Kathy Newhart, Gretchen Lohman, Barbara Bolton, Leslie Dymond, Diana Davis, Heather Sheehan and Dawn Gallagher. Members of Brownie Troop 623 toured the Dallas Fire Company during Fire Prevention Week. Participants included Maria Voitek, Maria Schleich, Denise Sitkowski, Michelle McGraw, Michelle Fabian, Tracy McDermott, Ann Marie Novicki, Jill Sitkowski, Lisa Pagliente, Carol Jones, Lisa O’Neil, Ann Crisci, Honor Gless, Pamela Covert, Susan Stravinsky, Suzanne Kern, Heather Gless, Lori Ann Novicki, Jean Zajkowski, Susan Rutkowski and Donna McDermott. 50 YEARS AGO - 1963 Six Dallas Senior High School students, all seniors, were honored recently for high performance on the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Each student was given a formal Letter of Not only can you visit the graves of such stars as Rudolph Valentino, Jayne Mansfield and Douglas Fairbanks (both Sr. and Jr.), but in the summer you also can picnic there while watching classic movies. * You might be surprised to learn that eggplants have fairly high levels of nicotine. * You may have heard that painting your kitchen red or yellow can help stimulate Commendation signed by his principal and the president of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Recipients are: Joanne Hadsall, Susan Cheney, Margaret Fleming, Linda Woolbert, Robert Brown and John Brominski. Gate of Heaven Parish will conduct a drive to raise a mini- mum of $125,000 to reduce the present debt on the parish and provide for future expan- sion. There is need for a con- vent, rectory renovation and a new chapel at Harveys Lake to accommodate the summer crowd which is growing every year. General Chairman of the drive is George Ruckno; Co-Chairman, Al Runstall; Staff Chairman, William Wright; Advertising and Promotion, William Lloyd. 60 YEARS AGO - 1953 Mrs. Ralph Fitch was sur- prised by a group of friends Saturday night when sixteen guests, led by Mrs. Alva Jones, gave her a house-warming in her new home on Huntsville Road. Guests were: Mesdames Charles Stookey, K. Harrison, Ella Schmoll, Walter Covert, Louise Atcheson, Jerry Richards, Norti Berti, Iva Jones, Ronald Caruthers, Frank Wagner, Edwin Banks, Helen Stookey Ide and Misses Emma Gee and Christine Gross. An unusual feature of the Sixth Annual Community Concert will be the partici- pation of the youthful Eck trio, children of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Eck Sr. of Shavertown. Marilyn, Dorothy and Frederick Jr. are students of Sarah Reese Ferguson. They average. have won several prizes for proficiency in their class. John Stahl was elected president and Gale Woolbert, vice president, of the Back Mountain Branch Town and Country Council. Other offi- cers are: Janice Houser, sec- retary, Ernest Stair, treasurer, and David Robertson, chap- lain. 70 YEARS AGO - 1943 A number of women from the Durbin Sunday School Class enjoyed a visit to tem- ple Israel, Wilkes-Barre, on Monday, to learn the back- ground of the Old Testament. Those who went along were: Mrs. Jean Richards, Mrs. Grace Richards, Mrs. Hortense Shaver, Mrs. Dorothy Sutch, Mrs. Edna Trafford, Mrs. Marion White, Mrs. Louise Brown, Mrs. Margaret Bryden, Mrs. Helen Chamberlain, Mrs. Martha Elston, Mrs. Catherine Evans, Mrs. Dorothy Huston, Mrs. Sylvia Kuhnert, Mrs. Lois Lewis, Mrs. Betty Warhola, Miss Josephine Stem and Mrs. Betty Snyder. Maralyn Wilson, of East Dallas, entertained members of the teen Age Class of East Dallas Methodist Church at a wiener roast Thursday evening. Present were: Alice! Brace, Mrs. Winfield Brag Beatrice Cooke, M Oblen, Marion Resique, Elsie Mahoney and Mitzi Brace. The Dallas Post has been in existence for 124 wears. Information for “Only Yesterday” is taken from back issues of the newspaper and 1s reprinted here exactly as it first appeared. your appetite, while painting it blue can help suppress it. The kitchen isn’t the only living area in which color research has been done, though; those who study such things say that those who sleep in yellow bedrooms get an average of 7.7 hours of sleep per night, while those in purple bed- rooms sleep only 5.9 hours per night on “THE CLOWN COSTUME THAT MY MOTHER MADE FORME” Amy Wood Forty Fort VHAT WAS YO “MY SCREAM CUSTOMETHAT | WORE FOR FIVE YEARS INA ROW. Jacob Dragon Trucksville “THE YEAR | WAS GOMEZ AND MY HUSBAND WAS ELVIRA; HE'S BRITTANY SPEARS THIS YEAR! Kelly Bibbons Dall “| WAS AWITCH WITH PURPLE SPARKLES FVERYWHERE MADE BY MY MOTHER CEIL MORRISON." Ericka Hornak Dall “MY MAIL BOX COSTUME. | WAS AMAIL BOX” Nick Carr Kunkle “THE ROMAN GLADIATOR COSTUME | MADE MYSELF FROM GARBAGE CANS” John Grutkowski Lake Silkworth
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