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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1980 Glimpses into Remembering the big bands: 1939 4 OF SHENANDOAH, MAHANOY CITY AND ASHLAND Ashland Tel. 875-1184-Mahanoy City Tel. 773-1011-Shenandoah Tel. 462-2777 Published every evening except Sunday at Ringtown Boulevard, Shenandoah, Pa. 17976 St.

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Newspaper Publishers Assn. And Audit Bureau of Circulations National Advertising Representative: Landon Associates, Inc. DON BESTOR Remember the early Jack Benny radio series, when Jack said, at least once in every program, "Play, Don, play?" Well, that was Don Bestor he was giving the cue to. Don was Benny's regular bandleader before Phil Harris came along. The Bestor style was popular in the Roaring 20s, especially among the more conservative crowds who appreciated his arrangements and the band's soft and soothing sound which was appropriate to the maestro's personality like a mild-mannered professor.

One of Don's writers in the latter 1930s was a young musician from the Pennsylvania anthracite region who was later to become one the the big name leader Les Brown. WILL OSBORNE What oldtimer from the early Depression years can't recall the handsome singer who gave Rudy Vallee a run for top billing? Will Osborne was another of Canada's gifts to the big band scene, and he came south of the border around the same time as Guy Lom-bardo. Unlike Vallee, who tended to be reserved and snooty, Osborne was one of the most happy-go-lucky leaders of the era. He came across as someone who really enjoyed what he was doing, and his band was one of the better groups in the mid-30s, playing jazz, swing, or dreamy tempos with equal class. He developed a solid brassy sound which emphasized tombones playing through megaphones.

Beneath their dignity imagine the nerve of that guy Wally Baran He has the actual audacity to insult the dignity of state office employees by asking them to help keep the place clean by sweeping up and emptying trash bags. Where does the guy get off I So what if he's the state secretary of general services. He should know that people on the public payroll are not going to let anybody order them to do such demeaning work. And one of the female union members told him so.Wanda Weaver, president of Local 2543 American federal of State County and Municipal Employees, gave Mr. Baran a mouthful.

Said just won't do it. My people aren't emptying trash. We have our own duties." What's it all about? In the interest of giving the taxpayers a break, the state legislature earlier this year cut appropriations for various state departments. In order to stay within the spending limits, the department head cut the payroll. In General Services, the custodial force was reduced, and to help keep the place looking tidy, Secretary Baran provided plastic bags which he asked them to fill and leave in the The Old Days ASK DR.

BROTHERS Working Mom Feels Unappreciated them out I'm not even sure that I'd enjoy sex with him as much if I did. I know I can't talk to him about this. What can I do? J.J. 30 years ago-1950 Mohanoy City has its fourth case of polio, the victim being John Coombes, aged 4, son of Mr. and Mrs.

William Coombes, 44 North Main Street. The ailment was diagnosed after the child complainted of a stiff back and leg weakness. He was taken to the Allentown Hospital isolation ward. This makes a total of ten cases in the county. hallways for pickup.

But Dame Weaver put her foot down. She absolutely refuses to allow the taxpayers get away with fewer people on the state payroll. This is one taxpayer who's sick of union bosses like Wanda Weaver pushing us around. We're sick of sacrificing and asking our family to do without things in order to keep the bureaucratic tax trough filled with cash so that the public service unions can swell their membership rolls. We wonder if Ms.

Weaver refuses to put out the trash or sweep the floor at home because she feels it should be done by a union worker. If she and her cohorts consider themselves too good to place trash in a bag and put it outside in the corridor, let them work in the filth. And if they don't like that, let them quit their jobs and make room for someone who isn't afraid to do a little extra work for the taxpayer and give them a break. Dear Dr. Brothers: I took a job to help meet some of the rising costs of trying to raise a family in today's economy.

I hate the job and continue to work only to ease some of the tension that was arising over money. However, I feel that neither, of my two teen-age children nor my husband fully appreciates that my time is as valuable to me as theirs is to them. It seems to me they all feel that what I'm doing is just part of what any mother should do but they're not willing to make any sacrifices to contribute to family harmony. I'm sick of hearing arguments about who's going to get what part of the money I'm earning and I always end up on the very short end. A.C.

Dear A.C.: Call a family meeting and make sure every member is present Have paper and pencil ready so together you can draw up some sort of agreement that clearly states what each member of the family will contribute and what each will receive. Teen-age youngsters should be able to contribute something financially, as well as helping with chores that must be done around the house. Express your feelings as unemotionally as possible. Be simple, clear and direct assertive, but not hostile or nagging. Make a realistic budget and set family goals for anything that falls in the category of recreation.

It sounds to me that many of your problems could be solved by a better method of communication. Often, women seethe with anger and resentment and are amazed when they discover that no one else in the family is really aware of how they feel. Dear Dr. Brothers: I feel very guilty because I have sexual fantasies about other men whenever my husband makes love to me. I'm terribly afraid that some time when I fall asleep I'll say something and hell hear it He's very old-fashioned, extremely jealous and would never understand.

I really do love my husband and I don't want other men. I'm not interested in them but it would be difficult to convince him of this. I feel that these fantasies of mine are abnormal under the circumstances and I don't know how to block Driver education myth Dear J. J. Try to accept the fact that what's happening in your mind isn't evil, or unusual.

Just because you have a fantasy about another man doesn't mean you're commiting adultery. If this were the case, almost everyone would be guilty. One study revealed that 65 percent of the married women in the study said they had fantasies while having sex with their husbands, and many were thinking of an imaginary lover. Women who fantasize actually are apt to be happier and more contented with their mates than those who don't Since your husband is jealous, I believe you're wise not to let him know that there's some other male in your dreams. Although it's unreasonable, this would certainly be apt to make an insecure person jealous.

Letters to the Herald 60 years ago 1920 One man is dead, another seriously wounded and a third suffered a severe beating as the result of a riot on the streets of Ashland between a squad of state police and a mob from Centralia. John Horan, 20, of Centralia died of gun shot wounds of the abdomen. Frank Mowrey, a state policeman residing at 305 West Main Street, Girardville, a former resident of Shenandoah, is in the hospital with his right arm almost shot off. William O'Neill of Ashland was extensively injured when attacked by the mob. The trouble started at a picnic at Washington Park just east of Ashland when the Centralia men became involved in a free-for-all fight around 9 p.m.

The state police were called and took two brothers by the name of Kane to the lockup. When word of the arrests reached Centralia, a mob of about 40 came down to Ashland around midnight and went to the council chamber on 5th Street where some of them broke down the door while others broke into a blacksmith shop to get sledgehammers to break open the lockup doors. William O'Neill was passing and tried to pur-suade them to desist but was set upon and beaten. John Keihl, a borough watchman, also happened along and the mob ordered him to release the Katie brothers or they would riddle him with bullets. However, Keihl stood his ground and word finally reached the state police at the Ashland House.

Two troopers went up 7th Street and Mowrey went along Centre. As Mowrey rounded the corner at 5th Street, the mob caught sight of him and opened fire with a shotgun. Mowrey returned the shots but was wounded in the chest and arm and his revolver dropped. The officer managed to pick up the gun which he reloaded and resumed firing with the left hand. The other two troopers then approached from the other side and as the mob began to run, Horan fell ijhis tracks with a bullet in the abdomen.

He was taken to the hosptial with Mowrey, while the other troopers continued after the mob up the mountainside toward Centralia trail of blood on the street indicated others were wounded. More police were sent from the Pottsville troop to comb the mountains and two members of the gang later surrendered. They were James Fennel, suffering a bullet wound of the right instep, and James Doyle. Both were placed under $2,000 bail. Horon refused tq.

give the police any information before he died, but reports from Centralia indicate that the mob are members of the notorious Hatchet Gang responsible for terror In that area. Political parties do not discriminate among tax dollar spending bureaucrats. It is up to us, the concerned taxpayers. Please help and get involved. Don't be swayed by reports that the increase is limited to 5.

That applies only to the first year, 1961, (after that the sky is the limit) and it applies only to the county tax (school districts and boroughs or townships also can get on the gravy train opened up by the commissioners when they raised the assessment ratio) RAY AND ARLENE SACHLEBEN Then why spend $300 million of the taxpayer's money on the program? The answer, of course, is: Because it's there. Like lots of other programs that do no good and even some harm once the bureaucracy moves in, there's almost no hope of getting it out The itch to run things remains. We were told, for example, that keeping speeds at 55 mph would reduce fatalities and cut down on the use of gasoline. Now we are told by the experts that it does not A car doing 55 mph is only marginally less lethal than one going at 65 mph. But the bureaucrats have latched on to the 55 mph bit And so it becomes an article on faith.

Try to convince people that something they hold to be true is untrue, and they get mad. So ask not what your government will do about driver education. You may be sure that it's here to stay. It costs money, doesn't it? Then it must be good. Few bother to acknowledge one big fact The major killer on theroads is not driver inexperience or age or the state of your transmission.

The biggest killer comes in a bottle and is called Booze. Teenagers have so many more accidents because they are reckless, true, but more importantly because they have not yet learned what alcohol does to them and how to handle it percent and the total number of crashes went down 63 percent Those communities which did not terminate their driver education showed no change. With more than 3.5 million high school students taking driver education courses that 6 percent margin adds up, particularly since teenage drivers have the greatest number of accidents of any age group. Robertson estimates that of the kids who begin driving in Connecticut at age 16, one in five will be involved in a crash by the time they reach 18. There's another study of teenage drivers which somehow has reached the Department of Transportation, which carries the federal end of the training program.

This study, conducted by the government, surveyed 10,000 students in Georgia's De-Kalb County. And guess what? Comparing the driver education-trained students with" those who teamed their driving from a parent or a big brother, it was discovered that there was no difference in accident rates. Driver education-trained students did have fewer traffic violations, but they smashed up no less than the control group. These findings are preliminary, but the DOT is already resisting them. If you've got a federal pro- gram going, why give it up? But the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, which funded the Robertson study, stands behind him.

As one of the institute's of ficers -put it "I don't think that the public is well served if it thinks that driver education will reduce death and Injury, because it wont" By RALPH DE TOLEDANO Copley News Service WASHINGTON For years, federal and state governments have been spending some $300 million annually to teach young people how to drive. Insurance companies have given rate breaks to those who take a driver education course. The idea was that kids who were taught how to drive properly would have fewer accidents. This would bring happiness to their families and to the insurance companies. Now another illusion has been shattered.

A Yale University researcher, Leon S. Robertson, gave the bad news to Autoweek writer Jack Keld-erman who passed it on to his readers. "Driver education programs," say Kelderman, may be killing a lot of young people It's all "in the Robertson told Kelderman. He backs it up with a study be made for the Center for Health Studies at Yale University. In the study, be compared communities in Connecticut which have cut out driver education with those that continued it His conclusion: "Driver training courses increase the number of 16-and 17-year-olds who are on the road and driver training or no driver training they get into a lot of accidents." Robertson's method of determining this was to add up the "years" that IS- and 17-year-olds are motorist la communities that eliminated driver training, the number of "yean" dropped by 57 TO THE EDITOR: It is time for Schuylkill Countians to put government back in the hands of the people.

It is obvious that our chosen leaders are proving themselves incompetent We have allowed apathy to guide our actions for too long. We must now join as a group and let our commissioners know they can no longer take our money and throw it away at their every whim. Every propertyowner is affected by the higher tax assessment, and 35 to 75 is a big increase. We know we must pay taxes but soon we will be earning money everyday at our jobs merely to pay taxes levied upon us. And what of the retired property owners? They worked so hard all those years to purchase the property, fix the home, only to lose it in your golden years because Social Security did not increase as much as taxes did.

We are not retired. We are young people in a new home trying to make ends meet in an age of inflation and untouchable meat prices. We are trying to raise a family. We are law-abiding and God-fearing people and we are grateful to those who are leading the Concerned Citizens movement We thank them for snapping us from our apathetic world and for waking us up to the ways of tax dollar waste. Come to the meeting in Shenandoah (Thursday, Aug.

28, at 7:30 p.m.) and listen to what is being said about tax waste. You're sure to become as angry as we ha ve. We urge everyone to join the tax revolt movement Sign petitions. Talk to neighbors and urge them to get involved. Don't pay taxes this month.

The penalty wil be only peanuts compared to the proposed increase. We must do som thing now at the county level. We can beat this increase but we must get together to do it This is not a political revolt TO THE EDITOR: Many people scoff at the idea of ghosts, but I saw one. It happened years back when my husband worked at Wadesville, and we lived in the old Whippoorwill house. It was the only time in my life I was ever really afraid.

I used to stay up late reading stories. On the night in question, I finished reading, took the lamp and carried the baby upstairs, said my prayers and got into bed. Shortly afterward I heard the swish of a dress passing the bed. I looked in that direction and saw a tall lady wearing a blackskirted long dressandahat I had locked the attic door, as I did every night, but she opened it with no difficulty and I heard her going up the steps. I was scared stiff.

Thinking it was imagination, I mentioned it to a neighbor and she wasn't a bit surprised. She said the same ghost had been seen by everyone who ever lived in the place. I slept in the same room afterward but mat was the only time I saw it JEANETTE JENKIN Pottsville Young people think that getting drunk is a game and we all went through that phase. But if there's a car handy, the game can be the last one for all eternity,.