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Only Yesterday

A part-time checker at Insalaco’s Supermarket in Dallas is credited with having saved the life of a little girl recently. Lynnette DeFrancesco of Trucksville was working when a frantic mother came running to the front of the store saying her daughter was choking. Lynette, who is a certified life guard and CPR trained, had never used her training before, but she found herself doing the Heimlich Manuever on little Amber Burkhardt, almost instantly responding to the mother’s plea for help.

Lynnette, a 19 year old sophomore in college and the daughter of Michael and Lorraine DeFrancesco of Carverton Heights, revived the girl twice before the arrival of the ambulance. After being admitted to the hospital, it was discovered that the little girl was running a fever and breathing passages in her throat were blocked, causing her to stop breathing.

1979 - 30 YEARS AGO

Groundbreaking ceremonies for the new Lake-Noxen Elementary School will be held on September 23 according to an announcement by Gilbert Tough, president of the Lake-Lehman Board of School Directors.

Dory Zacharias of the Dallas Cowboys was the winner of the bicycle in the Mini-Football drawing held between games at the Cowboys-Bobcats game at Dallas Junior High School field.

1969 - 40 YEARS AGO

Agnes Gregson, Dallas, assistant vice president and manager of travel in the first National Bank of Wilkes-Barre, has been named chairman of the 125th anniversary observance committee at Wyoming Seminary. John N. Conyngham, who heads the special trustee committee overseeing anniversary year activities, announced the appointment.

Lake-Lehman cheerleaders introduced Debbie Jenkins, their new mascot, at the G.A.R. game Friday night. Members of the squad are: Debbie Rinken, Colleen Wandel, Barbara King, Linda Adams, Jackie Adams, Kathy Cook, Emma Fox, Doreen Davis, Cindy Osborne, Shirley Grady, Cathy Tranell, Gail Cornell, Judy Lee, Donna Richardson and Lynn Adams.

1959 - 50 YEARS AGO

Members of Dallas MYF headed for Sky Lake Saturday morning. They encountered a sharp drop in temperature on Sunday, but enjoyed swimming and outdoor activities nonetheless. Some of the attendees were: Allan, Clark and Dale Mosier, Marilyn Yale, Quentin Getty, Glenda Williams, Susan Taylor, Sally Moyer, Douglas Shelley, Bill and Wilma Weidner, Barry Slocum, Ruth Ann Scott, Donald Williams, Donald Hopkins, Marcia Lawry, Fred Drake, Joe Peterson, Bill Welsh, Ruth Miller, Joy Bohanis, Judy Williams, Bonnie Updyke, Rita Rice, Judy Wright, Michelle Davis, Nancy Love, Susan Fleming, Harry McAdams, Linda Davies, Bruce and Barbara Hopkins, Georgia McCutcheon, Penny Ferrer, Gail Rumbaugh, Robert Brown, Bill Baker, Bill Kelley, Ruth Tinsley, Robert Wiley, Judy and Artie Miller, Richard and Nancy Love, Donna Smith and Alice Parsons.

1949 - 60 YEARS AGO

Bill Berti of Main Road was elected president of the tenth grade pupils at their election last week. Other officers are vice president, Carl Youngblood, secretary-treasurer, Bob Straw and room reporter, Beverly Hill.

Senator Andrew J. Sordoni has purchased the former Y.W.C.A. summer camp at Harvey’s Lake for $10,000. The property comprises one acre of land, a seven-room structure used by YWCA staff during camping season, and adjoins the present large holdings of the Senator at the Lake.

1939 - 70 YEARS AGO

A rusty, cast-iron section of pipe, thrust playfully about the head of 19-month-old Roberta Tierney of Alderson by her older sister, had to be removed with a hacksaw this week after the child had suffered for more than an hour.

Roberta’s sister, Janis, found the iron ring, which was about one-quarter inch thick, two and one-half inches high and less than six inches in diameter at the narrowest end of the opening.

Information for “Only Yesterday” is taken from past issues of The Dallas Post, which is 120 years old. The information is printed here exactly as it appeared in the newspaper years ago.