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Discovering Buried Treasure Metal Detecting Offers Key to Exercise, Service, Community, and Adventure By Beth Anne Heesen Metal detectors have become almost as common on beaches as seagulls. It is a popular hobby today, with thousands of people flocking to the sand each year to search for rings, coins, and other treasures. But for Bob Clark, 73, metal detecting is much more than a hobby. He started more than 40 years ago and has been doing it ever since. He began in the late ’60s. “Not many people had metal detectors at that time,” he said, “but as a deputy wildlife conservation officer, I was one of the few that did.” He was also a nature writer, and metal detecting turned out to be a perfect activity for the outdoorsy, adventure-loving man. Clark uses his metal detector extensively for community service, so the hobby has been a joy not only to him, but also to countless others who have benefited from his findings. “People take off rings [at the beach], put them in a shoe, and then come back and throw the sand out of the shoe,” he said. Out with the sand go the rings, much to their owners’ dismay. Clark said he is happy when he can return an item to someone and does not accept rewards. In the early ’70s, Clark joined a ring recovery team. One time, he found a class ring for a Gettysburg woman at Pine Grove Furnace State Park in Cumberland County. “She was very poor, and it was one of the thrills of her life,” he said. The please see TREASURE page 4 Metal-detecting enthusiast Bob Clark at the lakefront beach in Pine Grove Furnace State Park, where he has often unearthed lost jewelry.

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ring had her husband’s initials and digging, and the exercise can One of Clark’s friends makes about inscribed on it. “She was thrilled to range from light to heavy, depending $30,000 a year metal detecting in death when she found out,” he said. on how much someone wants to Ocean City, Md., but that is not the “It was unbelievable.” work on it and where they go. norm. Clark said it is not unusual Clark is a member and past “You don’t have to be in that for him to find 10,000 to 12,000 president of Pen Mar Historical good of shape on sand at the beach, coins a year, but that is not a lot of Recovery Association, a metal but it works you when you’re digging money when 90 percent of those detecting club in Gettysburg with 3 or 4 inches into dirt,” he said. coins are pennies. about 50 members ranging in age Clark and his wife of 52 years, One of the rarest items Clark ever from early teens to seniors. found was an 1824 self-made The team often goes to state coin in the South. Another parks and other grounds to great find was a 100-year-old, search for historical relics. 44-caliber Peacemaker They put the items they find revolver he found under a in plastic bags, and wooden floor in an old barn archaeologists analyze them. out West. The club donates its He said he finds a lot of findings to museums all over junk too, which is why he the country and has made recommends spending at least historical discoveries. Once, $300 for a metal detector. Clark and seven other “You want to find a machine members found 3,500 items that will discriminate against on a 600-acre plot on aluminum,” he said. A few of the items Clark has recovered over the years Gettysburg National Park that Clark’s hobby carries include centuries-old coins, bottles, horse-riding proved the land had been a spectacular social benefits for equipment, and a 100-year-old, 44-caliber battlefield and prevented it him. He enjoys metal Peacemaker revolver, shown at left. from becoming a shopping detecting with club members center. and looks forward to the Thelma, travel all over America. Clark has even used his metal treasure hunt they hold each Wherever they go, he never leaves detector for crime solving. In the October, which he said is “sort of home without his metal detector. He like an Easter egg hunt for adults.” early ’70s, a conservationist officer loves to go to the beach, where sand For a fee, anyone is welcome to was shot in Adams County. He makes metal detecting a lot easier. search for Indian Head pennies, survived but was seriously injured. His wife is not as interested in metal silver, and other items—including a Clark found three shell cases that key to a treasure chest. were linked to the gun of the person detecting as Clark, but she enjoys He eagerly shares findings with spending time on the beach. who shot the officer. others who enjoy metal detecting, Clark said that, for his purposes, “The man [had] panicked,” he the beach is best when it is not busy. although most keep the sites where said. “He was hunting deer and [the they found them secret, just as some Children get excited when they see officer] caught him, so he shot the people keep silent on the special people metal detecting and follow officer between the eyes.” He has ingredients of their most scrumptious also found knives and other weapons them around. “You have to be recipes. “People love to share, but careful with children,” he said. “Ask linked to crimes that occurred long won’t tell you where,” he said. them to stand back and show them ago. Clark said that metal detecting is a what you found.” Another reason Clark metal Metal detecting can bring a profit great thing for a husband and wife to detects is for the health benefits. The do together and that it provides a fun if you work hard at it and are lucky. hobby requires walking, stretching, activity to do with kids and grandkids at the beach, where it is easy to get Bestselling bored. Best of all, Clark said every day of Children’s Books metal detecting is an adventure. “You of All Time never know what you’re going to find next,” he said. “You never know when 1. The Poky Little Puppy by Janette Sebring Lowrey (1942) you’re going to find a gold coin.” 2. The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter (1902) For more information on metal 3. Tootle by Gertrude Crampton (1945) detecting or the Pen Mar Historical 4. Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss (1960) Recovery Association, visit www.gettysburgelectronics.com/ 5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling (2000) penmar or contact Don Hinks at 6. Pat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt (1940) (717) 334-8634 or 7. Saggy Baggy Elephant by Kathryn & Byron Jackson (1947) gettysburgelectronics@ 8. Scuffy the Tugboat by Gertrude Crampton (1955) embarqmail.com. The club meets on 9. The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss (1957) the second Tuesday of every other 10. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling month at the National Apple (1999) Museum in Biglerville.

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The 26 annual Lebanon County Senior Games are set to take place June 17 with a full schedule of events for county residents 50 and older. The games will be held at different sites throughout the county. The Lebanon County Senior Games, organized by the Lebanon YMCA, promote physical fitness and fellowship through participation in competitive and noncompetitive activities. Participants are divided into several age divisions and will compete for one of three top-place awards in each age division for every event. The games’ fiveday span will include walking, golf, shuffleboard, bingo, billiards, and more. Scheduled events for 2011 are as follows: Wednesday, June 1 8 a.m. – 1.5-mile walk or half-mile walk, Lions Lake, North Lebanon Township 9:30 a.m. – Miniature golf, Watering Hole Golf Course 1:30 p.m. – Bowling, Cedar Lanes 6 p.m. – 5K race, Cedar Lanes Thursday, June 2

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Royal Wedding Collectibles Dr. Lori ate Middleton and Prince William married at Westminster Abbey in London on April 29, 2011. Royal watchers will be eyeing a wide range of collectibles. Which royal collectibles should you buy? I always advise people to collect objects that chronicle a historic event or relate to historic figures. It has been proven that in the market for art and antiques, these historic and genuine objects will hold their value long term. Quality and authentic objects relating to a royal wedding, albeit the first of this century, certainly fit the bill.

Collecting the Queen Reports indicate that the Lord Chamberlain, Earl Peel, wrote in a staff memo recently that “We want [royal wedding] items that are permanent and significant.” For the Kate/William royal wedding, Queen Elizabeth II and her staff are proponents of such regal

produced William and wedding collectibles as Kate wedding dolls and porcelain pillboxes, knickknacks featuring monogrammed tea towels, images of the couple, and commemorative cups many of which are that highlight the future coming out of China. king and his new bride. Some of the more jovial These are going to be, long royal collectibles include term, the sought-after royal condoms, royal collectibles, so these are wedding sick (vomit) the objects to acquire now. Buckingham Palace prefers bags for all the other The history of royal “significant” royal wedding collectibles ranges from collectibles for the wedding of women who aren’t marrying the world’s Queen Victoria’s diamond Prince William and Kate. On April 29, the value of the Prince No. 1 bachelor, and tiara, George V’s Charles and Lady Diana “Waity Katie” nail coronation china, Queen engagement mug will spike, polish. Elizabeth II’s doubling today’s value of $175. Collectibles will monogrammed silver tea emerge in the oddest of service, and, of course, Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s royal places. With the Internet, a sales arena not available when Princess Diana wed wedding porcelain boxes. in 1981, the world will have no trouble Cuckoo Collectibles acquiring a wide variety of royal Buckingham Palace prefers classic collectibles relating to Prince William royal wedding souvenirs over the massand his bride.

Unexpected but Valuable For the wedding of William and Kate, there are a few collectibles that I think will travel under the radar. For instance, the University of St. Andrews in Fife, Scotland, will see an increase in sales of items relating to the special place where the royal couple met in 2001 and fell in love. The couple graduated from the famous school in June 2005. Don’t be surprised to see lots of people donning St. Andrews t-shirts and bags or selling off carpet remnants from the couple’s famous campus apartment. I wish congratulations to the royal couple, and happy hunting to all the rest of you royal collectors. Ph.D. antiques appraiser, author, and awardwinning TV personality, Dr. Lori presents antique appraisal events nationwide and appears on the Fine Living Network and on TV’s Daytime. Visit www.DrLoriV.com or call (888) 431-1010.

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Sandy Koufax, b. 1935. Koufax won 18 games and struck out 269 batters for the Brooklyn Dodgers, a league record. Koufax was the first major leaguer to pitch four no-hitters, including a perfect game. He became the first player to earn three Cy Young Awards and the youngest player ever elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Barbra Streisand, b. 1942. Streisand is one of the most commercially successful

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May is Better Hearing & Speech Month Mouse with ‘Golden Ears’ Yields Hearing-Loss Insight Most people lose some of their hearing as they get older. That’s a common part of aging. But for a small number of seniors—roughly 5 percent— it’s not the ears that are the problem; it’s the brain. In new research published in the Neurobiology of Aging, scientists have created a mouse model that is comparable to an older adult who has the ears of a healthy 20-year-old but the brain of that 20-year-old’s greatgrandmother. They created the model when they crossed two mouse strains commonly used to study age-related hearing loss: the CBA mouse, which loses its hearing gradually, like most people, and the C57 mouse, which loses its hearing rapidly in middle age and becomes deaf later in life. “The CBAs don’t breed very well. The C57s do. And so we thought, if we could

get an offspring that breeds well but still C57 mice and the CBA mice as they has pretty good hearing, we would get an aged. improved animal model for studying ageOn the other hand, they also found related hearing loss,” that the F1 mouse brain said Robert Frisina, was less able to University of compensate for sound in Rochester Medical background noise than For a small Center, and principal the CBA mice. This is number of seniors, investigator on the similar to an aging it’s not the ears study. “But we actually person whose ears are got one that had working fine but who that are the significantly better still has trouble problem; hearing than either understanding speech mouse model. And when there’s a lot of it’s the brain. that was a surprise.” background noise, such Using technologies as at restaurants and that are commonly dinner parties. used to screen newborns for hearing loss, The research team’s next step is to the researchers indeed found that the figure out what molecular pathways are offspring of this cross, called the F1 in place that may be protecting the F1 generation—a.k.a. the golden ear mice— mouse’s hearing. had significantly better hearing than the “We definitely know why the F1’s

hearing is better than the C57’s. It’s because it doesn’t have two copies of the recessive genes that the C57 has. So that’s a slam dunk,” said Frisina. “Why it has better hearing than the CBA, that’s still open.” In addition, age-related hearing loss usually is the outcome of aging ears and an aging brain, and for this reason, it’s difficult for scientists to untangle the roles the two systems play. Because F1’s ears are still working well, the researchers plan to explore how the part of the brain that processes the sounds we hear ages on its own—without the added complication of processing distorted sounds from damaged ears. If researchers can pinpoint key changes occurring in the brain as a result of aging, they may be able to develop drug or gene therapies to ward off hearing loss in some older adults.

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Contestants from Diverse Backgrounds Share Their Talents at PA STATE SENIOR IDOL Auditions By Beth Anne Heesen Some came from local bands and theaters. Others sang at church, crooned for customers at the grocery store, or performed karaoke for residents in retirement homes. Still others performed only for spouses and grandchildren, danced only in kitchens, and sang only in showers. Whatever their backgrounds, more than 100 people made it to the sixth annual PA STATE SENIOR IDOL auditions, held by On-Line Publishers, Inc., to prove that Pennsylvania’s seniors are bursting with talent. Most sang for the judges, but others played the trumpet or guitar. Everyone had their chance to shine, but only 15 outstanding performers are going on to next month’s finals competition to compete for the title of Pennsylvania’s next SENIOR IDOL. Jose Angel Cruz of Ephrata arrived early for his audition and, fortunately, so did his birthday. Cruz wanted to enter the competition last year but could not because he was still under 50. The firsttimer nailed his audition when he sang “Butterfly Kisses” by Bob Carlisle with energy and passion. Philadelphia resident Dan Kelly was worried when he walked into the audition room because the song on the CD he used was in a different key than he had practiced. Imagine the judges’ surprise when he belted out a deep, confident performance of “Why God, Why” from Miss Saigon. While contestants in the waiting room could not see his dramatic body language and the emotion on his face, every one of them could hear his powerful voice. Judges felt like they found a pot of gold when Patty Price of York took their breaths away singing Judy Garland’s “Over the Rainbow.” Price’s stunning voice and poise earned her a place as a semifinalist for the second year in a row. Constance Kuba Fisher of Mechanicsburg’s animated expressions and gestures also delighted her audience as she sang “Don’t Rain on My Parade” from Funny Girl. The elegant, sequined shirt that she made herself matched her shimmering talent beautifully. Every seasoned contestant knows that to wow the judges, you’ve got to “hit [’em] with your best shot,” but sometimes

the biggest step is just going through with the audition. Steve Reuben of Harrisburg was a little nervous about singing “Some Enchanted Evening” from South Pacific at his audition because he was a little under the weather. Fortunately, he showed up anyway because no one else would have had a clue. His compelling voice was apparently sturdy enough to withstand the attack on his sinuses. Margie Sheaffer of New Providence was another contestant who had butterflies in her stomach. She had been part of a late-’60s rock band and has considerable theater experience, but after 15 years off-stage, Sheaffer was outside her comfort box. Last year she applied for an audition but then backed out of it. She would never have come in for this year’s audition, she said, had 50plus Senior News editor Megan Joyce not contacted her for an interview for April’s cover story. Now that she found herself featured in an article about SENIOR IDOL contestants, she knew there was no turning back, and her husband reminded her that, this time, she had to do it. Before she went in for her audition, she joked with Joyce that she was mad at her for “making” her do this. But after a sizzling performance of “Fever” by Peggy Lee, she gave Joyce a hug and said she was happy that she went through with it. The next day, she got a call congratulating her for making it to the finals. These exceptional semifinalists and others will showcase their talents at the sold-out PA STATE SENIOR IDOL finals competition at the Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre in Lancaster on Monday, June 6. The show’s emcee will be Diane Dayton of Dayton Communications, and local celebrity judges Janelle Stelson of WGAL-8, Buddy King of The Magnificent Men, Valerie Pritchett of abc27, and R.J. Harris of WHP580 AM will select three finalists after the first round of performances. The finalists will then perform a second selection, after which the judges and the audience will vote together to select the 2011 PA STATE SENIOR IDOL. Sponsoring this year’s competition are abc27, Blue Ridge Communications, WCHE1520AM, WHYL960AM, and WHP580 AM. Visit www.SeniorIdolPA.com or call (717) 285-1350 for more information. www.SeniorNewsPA.com

On Memorial Day, Remember These Battles Memorial Day is a time to remember those brave men and women who sacrificed their lives in defense of their country. It began as a day of remembrance for soldiers of the Civil War, then was extended after World War I to include those who served in all of America’s wars. As you stand in silence or lay a wreath, consider the price we paid for victory in these historic battles that, each in its own way, shaped the nation: Trenton (1776). George Washington defeated Hessian forces by crossing the Delaware for the first major victory in the Revolutionary War. The Alamo (1836). Approximately 150 Texas settlers held off a Mexican force of 1,500 troops, enduring a 13-day

siege before being overwhelmed. Though the Alamo fell, the defeat caught the attention of the nation and inspired many to join the revolution there. Gettysburg (1863). Union forces in a three-day battle with the Confederate Army halted the South’s invasion of the North during the U.S. Civil War. Midway (1942). The U.S. Navy decisively defeated the Imperial Japanese Navy in a battle that weakened the Japanese fleet’s ability to undertake a further major offensive against the United States. D-Day (1944). Allied Forces landed in Normandy, France, in the largest amphibious invasion in history.

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arth’s 4.5 billion-year-old sun, the axis of our magnificent universe, altruistically fathers all life. Sunbeams provide nutrition for vegetation eaten by omnivores, who are then consumed by other animals, who are ultimately consumed by humans, and so on and so forth. Since the creation of Earth, the infinite cycle of life has obtained power and energy from the sun. Without sol’s warm rays, Earth could not support the gift of life. Cheerful sunlight is considered the best source for vitamin D. When aging kicks in, we spend more time indoors. Outdoors, we slather on sunscreen, blocking wavelengths that manufacture vitamin D. Subsequently, the Archives of Internal Medicine report that 77 percent of Americans are vitamin “D-ficient,” which has links to high blood pressure, depression, weak immune system, diabetes, poor lung function, autism, fibromyalgia, schizophrenia, MS, osteoarthritis, and RA. Not a sunlit picture. The major biological function of D is to maintain normal blood levels of calcium and phosphorus. It also

supports all organs, plus 2,000 genes, and, in concert with a number of other vitamins, minerals, and hormones, promotes bone mineralization. Without D, bones become thin, brittle, soft, or misshapen. Positively, D diminishes risk of cancers, autoimmune diseases, infectious diseases, cardiovascular disease, and early agerelated macular degeneration, especially vitamin D-3. If you’re an easy mark for flu, colds, sinus and bronchial infections, or pneumonia, vitamin D-3 regulates T-cells, which are absolutely indispensable for a protective immune system. Put this in context with winter colds, sniffles, flu, and depression, and … sigh … it’s all too clear why we’re a sickly bunch. My dear family, including 93year-old Mom, took 2,000 IU D-3 daily this winter and nary one got as much as a sniffle. The RDA for D established 60 years ago is an insignificant 400 IU when it should’ve been 10 times higher, but our leaders failed miserably in researching basic human nutrition standards. RDA stands for Recommended Dietary Allowances, a “norm” established by the FDA during World War II that was intended to provide educated guidelines

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for how much of particular nutrients a normal, healthy person required to stay fit and healthy. The Canadian Cancer Society has responsibly upped its advice to 1,000 IUs a day. Others believe northern climates should consume at least 2,000 IUs a day. “The first thing we’d see is a reduction by 80 percent in the incidence of type-1 diabetes,” said Cedric Garland, a professor of family and preventive medicine at the University of California at San Diego. “The next thing we’d see is a reduction by about 75 percent of all invasive cancers combined, as well as similar reductions in colon cancer and breast cancer, and probably about a 25 percent reduction in ovarian cancer.” Salmon, tuna, mackerel, and fish liver oils are among the best dietary sources of D. Cows moo that their milk is fortified with D, but it’s synthetic, ergo, rubbish. Minute amounts of D exist in grass-fed beef liver, cheese, and organic, free-range egg yolks. Vitamin D in these foods is primarily in the form of vitamin D-3. During the warm parts of the year, our magnificent Holy Temple produces the “sunshine vitamin” from 10 minutes of daily rays, but ol’ sol dips lower on the fall horizon, not returning until late spring to bathe Earth’s needy northern hemisphere. The northern United States is so dark in winter that D synthesis shuts down completely. If, for some reason, you’re unable to eat foods with D or to get enough sunlight, Dr. Chuck Landon, PhD, ND, DaHOM of Indianapolis, suggests taking 2,000 to 5,000 IU daily. Check with your own doctor and see what he or she recommends. No adverse effects have been seen with supplemental

vitamin D-3 intakes up to 10,000 IU daily. Skip the counterfeit, synthesized grocery versions and support your community vitamin store for a true source. For most Caucasians, a half hour in the summer sun in a bathing suit can initiate the release of 50,000 IU vitamin D into the circulation within 24 hours of exposure; this same amount of exposure yields 20,000–30,000 IU in tanned individuals and 8,000–10,000 IU in dark-skinned people. While the study focused on white Americans, the same geographical trend affects black Americans, whose overall cancer rates are significantly higher. Darker-skinned people require more sunlight to synthesize the vitamin. Americans assume more is better of anything, hence the skin cancer paradox. While it’s true the sun isn’t a wonder drug, it’s elemental in sustaining human health. The benevolent giver has been worshiped by many cultures throughout history because of its vast healing and therapeutic powers. At the turn of the century, people considered the sun good for health and touted it as a cure for major disease. It was a time when “recuperating in the sun” grew popular, with claims that extensive exposure, preferably by the seaside, was a magical cure-all for plague, old age, and TB. So it’s true that there’s nothing new under the sun. Ditch the gooey white stuff and then go out and let the sunshine bathe your beautiful skin—but for only 10 minutes, OK? Wendell Fowler is a retired chef turned motivational speaker and the author of Eat Right, Now! Contact him at chefwendell@yahoo.com.

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The Flak Literally Creased the Top of His Skull Robert D. Wilcox uring WWII, Otis Harrison was working in a shipyard in Newport News, Va. And what he saw of ships there convinced him that the Navy was where he ought to be. The Navy was glad to have him; although, after boot camp, they did their

best to interest him in submarines. “Not a chance,” he explains. “I wanted to be able to see the sky over my head.” And he wound up picking PT boats. These boats used the planing-type hull form developed for racing boats and could reach speeds as fast as 40 knots.

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The “PT” stood for “Patrol Torpedo,” clear at the height of the 40-foot tide but and they were designed to use their speed would snare them as the tide receded. to get close to enemy surface ships and Then they were sitting ducks. Many men their small size to avoid being spotted tried to jump off and wade in, only to be and hit by gunfire. weighed down by all their gear and sink Harrison shipped to Melville, R.I., to their deaths. It was hell on earth,” he where he spent 16 weeks learning all says. about PT boats. Then “Our PT boat did it was to New Orleans picket duty, and we to be assigned to a were constantly crew. They picked up picking up wounded their new “Higgins” and dead soldiers. We boat at Lake would carry them to Pontchartrain and, the first large vessel, with five other PT leave them, then boats, proceeded to continue picking up Miami for shakedown more. All this time, of the new vessels. we were being shot at A PT boat identical to his, as They then sailed to from the German photographed by Harrison. the Brooklyn Navy pillboxes, and the Yard, where the six shells from our heavy crews and their boats cruisers and were placed aboard a Navy tanker for the battleships were whistling over us.” Harrison stops to ask, “Have you ever trip to Swansea, Wales. heard shells from those 14- and 16-inch They had arrived in Wales barely in rifles go overhead? They sound like a time for the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Two days later, they were part boxcar going over. I don’t know how badly it scared the Germans, but it sure of the vast armada of ships making the sobered me.” invasion. Harrison says, “The number of In the two weeks following D-Day, ships was simply unbelievable. There was Harrison’s boat was given the job of a solid canopy of ships. It seemed like drawing fire from German shore batteries you could just walk from ship to ship, along the length of the Cherbourg there were so many of them. Peninsula, so they would reveal their “We were being fired on constantly. positions to our heavier ships who could LSTs loaded with troops were being then aim at the flares they saw from the blown up all around us. The Germans German guns. had planted ‘hedgehogs’ all along the Harrison remembers when they once approach to the beach. They were steel actually entered the Le Havre harbor at rails that formed a V that LSTs could

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night … and set off the most awesome of the surrender of the Japanese. And in display of tracers from left and right. He a few more weeks, he was discharged. says, “There was a solid wall of tracers He worked in sales for many years for coming at us.” He still wonders how Union Camp and retired in 1985. In they got out of that unscathed. 1954, the company had sent him to Their next assignment was to patrol Central Pennsylvania, and he liked it so the Channel Islands in the English much he never left. Channel. The islands had been taken by He was not able to go when a group the Germans, and the job of Harrison’s of veterans returned to France in the boat was to 1970s to a help keep the dedication Germans on ceremony at those islands Omaha Beach. bottled up. It Those veterans was there were honored that a shell by the French landed just government for beyond the their service stern of his during the boat and invasion and actually lifted were given the boat out special Liberty of the water. Medals minted Radioman 2nd Class Otis Harrison, right, And that’s by the French in London in October 1944, with his cousin, where parts for the Joseph Barnes, left, who was in the 8th Air Force. of the occasion. exploded Harrison and shell created a crease in his scalp. 40 or so others got that same medal in When it was their time to go home, February 1985 in the office of U.S. their boat was hauled aboard an LST at Representative Joe Pitts, who had Portsmouth, England, and they were off worked hard to find the veterans and to New York. But is an LST equipped to present them with the medal in their handle a crossing of the North Atlantic? honor. “I would have said no,” Harrison Today, Harrison plays golf seven days admits. “They were built to deliver a week, works with Meals on Wheels, soldiers to a beach. They had no keel, and busies himself with work of his and they slid around alarming in the 20- church. But he says he’ll never forget to 30-foot swells. But somehow they got those days of excitement and peril us there.” aboard his PT boat in the greatest war Harrison was scheduled to go to the the world has ever seen. Pacific, but he had a leave that took him Colonel Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber in back to his family home in Petersburg, Europe in WWII. Va. It was on the train when he learned

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Lebanon County

Calendar of Events Senior Center Activities

Lebanon County Department of Parks and Recreation All events held at the Park at Governor Dick unless noted.

Annville Senior Community Center – (717) 867-1796 200 S. White Oak St., Annville

May 1, 1 to 4 p.m. – Music on the Porch Series: Bluegrass/Appalachian Workshop and Jam May 7, 9 to 10:30 a.m. – Colors of Nature Hike May 28, 10 a.m. to noon – Bird Census

May 6, 10:30 a.m. – “Flowers for Mom” with Bonnie Gornick May 26, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. – Bus Trip to Shade Mountain Winery, Slifer House Museum May 31, 10 a.m. – Share Time and Lunch at Quittie Park

Lebanon County Library Programs

Maple Street Community Center – (717) 273-1048 710 Maple St., Lebanon

Annville Free Library, 216 E. Main St., Annville, (717) 867-1802

May 2, 11:15 a.m. to 4 p.m. – Bus Trip: Trolley Ride and Museum in Hershey May 6, noon – Mother’s Day Breakfast and Movie: It’s Complicated

Lebanon Community Library, 125 N. Seventh St., (717) 273-7624 Matthews Public Library, 102 W. Main St., Fredericksburg, (717) 865-5523

Myerstown Senior Community Center – (717) 866-6786 51 W. Stoever Ave., Myerstown

Myerstown Community Library, 199 N. College St., Myerstown, (717) 866-2800

May 12, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Bus Trip: Light’s Victorian House – Mother’s Day Brunch May 24, 1:30 p.m. – Spring Tea May 26, 4 p.m. – Dinner and Mini Golf at Kauffman’s Chicken Barbecue

Palmyra Public Library, 325 S. Railroad St., (717) 838-1347 Richland Community Library, 111 E. Main St., Richland, (717) 866-4939

Programs and Support Groups May 4, 2 to 3 p.m. Live Music: The Gentlemen of Jazz Concert and Sing-along Lebanon Valley Mall 22nd and Cumberland streets, Lebanon (717) 867-1000

Free and open to the public May 6, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Live Music: The Gentlemen of Jazz Harrisburg Area Community College – Lebanon Campus 735 Cumberland St., Lebanon (717) 867-1000

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Northern Lebanon Senior Community Center – (717) 865-0944 335 N. Lancaster St., Jonestown – www.jonestownpa.org/senior.html May 12, 4:30 p.m. – Supper Club at Marabelle’s Restaurant May 17, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. – Bus Trip: Dandy Cruise on the Potomac May 26, noon – Bingo and Lunch at Hoss’s

Palmyra Senior Community Center – (717) 838-8237 101 S. Railroad St., Palmyra May 9, 10:45 a.m. – ’50s Fashion Fun Day and Hula Hoop Contest May 10, 9:30 a.m. – Spring Fling Senior Day at Gretna Glen May 16, 11 a.m. – Presentation on Palmyra Neighborhood & Community Watch

Southern Lebanon Senior Community Center – (717) 274-7541 Midway Church of the Brethren, 13 Evergreen Road, Lebanon May 10, 9 a.m. – Gretna Glen Fling May 17, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. – Bus Trip: Dandy Cruise on the Potomac May 25, 10:30 a.m. – Bible Study

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The Search for Our Ancestry

Which Records Take Precedence? Angelo Coniglio Q: My grandmother’s tombstone says she was born Dec. 26, 1893, in Germany. She was married in the United States. Her marriage certificate gives her marriage date as Nov. 30, 1912, and her birth date as Dec. 26, 1894. After I sent to her birthplace for a birth certificate, I received a document in German that is headed “EXTRAKT” and gives her birth date as Dec. 28, 1893. Which birth date is right? – S.L. A: Each of the records you describe is a secondary record. That is, they were not made at the actual time and place of your grandmother’s birth. Any of them might be correct, but all of them could be in error. A primary record is an official record made at the time and place of the event, and as such takes precedence over any other records. First, the gravestone: Unless stones are preplanned, the dates on grave markers are usually given to the stone carver by a relative or friend of the deceased. That is, the date is hearsay, not supported by an actual document, so it could be, and often is, incorrect. That may not be of much importance to survivors, if they are not interested in tracing the family heritage back in time. But if they are, the most accurate records are needed, since there may have been more than one person with the same or similar names and birth dates, and you want to be sure you’re finding information on your ancestors, not those of someone else! The marriage certificate: The marriage certificate is a primary record of the marriage, and that date can be considered official. But often in those days, when immigrants had few official records with them, they were simply asked their birth date (and other pertinent information), which was entered on the marriage certificate as a secondary record of the person’s birth. Your grandmother may simply have not remembered her exact birth date. In Germany in the 1890s, “birth certificates” were not issued to a child’s parents; instead, the birth was recorded in an annual ledger with all other births from that year, either in a civil register, a www.SeniorNewsPA.com

church register, or both. The family had no “certificate” that they could readily or frequently refer to, and exact dates of birth may not have been very important to them. Since Grandmama was evidently born near the end of the year, her family may have remembered her birthday in association with “the winter of 18931894” and forgotten the exact year. The German document: Extrakt is German for “extract”; that is, a document on which pertinent information is handcopied from an original. It is not a photocopy of the original, and while it is an official document, it is still a secondary record. The clerk or official who copied it down may have made a mistake in transcribing the information. For example, your grandmother’s official, primary birth record might very well say that she was born on Dec. 26, 1893. However, births were not necessarily recorded on the day they happened. The first date appearing on the original birth record is the date the birth was reported. In this case, the baby could have been born on Dec. 26, but not brought in to be registered until the 28th. The modern clerk who answered your request may have read the record date in the register, assumed it was the birth date, and entered the wrong date on the extract. So, how do you find your grandmother’s correct birth date? You need a primary record. That is, visual inspection of the original official register in Germany or a photocopy of that record. Since you wrote to and received a response from her town of origin, you know that town’s name. While we can’t traipse over the world at will to look at original records, we can search for the town using the Mormon website www.familysearch.org to determine whether microfilms exist of its birth registers for the late 1890s. If they do, the films can be ordered at a Mormon Family History Center, and after they arrive, they can be viewed at the center. Search the films for the years in question, and when you find the primary record, you’ll know your grandmother’s correct birth date. Be open-minded. Don’t

say, “That can’t be her; that’s not what her gravestone says.” The gravestone may be wrong. The primary record takes precedence. Further, the original record will often contain much more than was transcribed onto the extract—for example, the father’s age, occupation, and address, and possibly the mother’s maiden name and age. Their ages can then be used to determine their approximate birth years, so that you can search for their birth records, extending your family tree. Now that I’ve explained primary records, to be strictly correct, I must add a point. In many cases, in many countries, duplicate records were required to be sent to jurisdictions higher than the town of birth—for example, a provincial or county seat, or a special tribunal that maintained archives of the records. Prior to the 20th century, the only way to produce duplicate records was to have

the clerk draw up handwritten copies to be sent to the other jurisdictions. While the same clerk made all the copies, each copy after the original is technically a secondary record. The clerk may have erred on the copies. When the Mormons microfilmed documents, for convenience it was generally at a place where records from more than one town were stored, such as a tribunal or provincial archive. Most genealogists accept the information from these higher jurisdictions as primary records, but if a serious discrepancy is suspected, it may be necessary for you or a representative to examine the town’s original register. Angelo Coniglio encourages readers to contact him by writing to 438 Maynard Drive, Amherst, NY 14226; by email at Genealogytips@aol.com; or by visiting www.conigliofamily.com/ConiglioGenealogyT ips.htm.

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Such Is Life

My Diary: A Thank-You to Mom Saralee Perel January 2, 1961: Dear Diary, My sled hit a tree and cracked my head open. My stupid brother said I didn’t crack my head. But I certainly did! Mommy took us out for butterscotch sundays. Goodbye! Saralee Perel I was 10. My brother, Michael, was 14. My poor mother. How could she let us out of her sight? Michael loved terrifying me. He said, “If you hiccup and burp at the same time, you die.” Instantly, I hiccupped. I raced to my parents’ bedroom and cried, “I’ll die if I burp!” Mom patted the bed. Our arms surrounded each other as we fell asleep. January 7: Dear Diary, I have a sore throat. Mommy officially said No School For You. She let me try on her jewelry. Even her GENUINE diamonds. Goodbye! Saralee Perel I have her clip-on earrings, brooches, and “genuine” (costume) diamonds.

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January 9: Mommy Mom rarely slept thinks I’m faking my well. When I’d need the VERY sore throat. I bathroom at night, I’d TOLD her my sneak past Michael’s tempeture. One dark door. He’d lunge hundred twenty! out screaming, Goodbye! Saralee Perel “SURPRISE!” I’d go P.S. Mommy’s agrevated flying 3 feet in the air, with me. then land on all fours. January 10: Dear “Mommy!” I always Saralee, her mom, and brother Diary, One of our fishes Mike on the beach in Atlantic City, ran to her side. “Michael died. They are Frankie N.J., in 1955. did it again!” Without and Johnny. Frankie is opening her eyes, she’d the dead one. Mommy pat the bed, then wrap me in her arms. won’t get another fish because she is mad I Once Michael said, “If you sleep on forget to feed them. We had a dog named your back, you turn into a corpse in a Friskie. He died because he stopped coffin, and Mom and Dad will bury you breathing. Well, that’s all! Except I wish I alive.” To sleep on my stomach, I’d put pieces of my china tea set against my shoulders, so I’d feel them if I turned. Sometimes they’d break. Mom found out. She cried, holding a delicate teacup with a broken handle. “Please don’t cry, Mommy.” “Grandma gave me this for my bat mitzvah. We had tea parties, like you and I do.” I loved tea parties. We’d have Tetley Tea and Keebler cookies. We sang, “Tea for Two,” emphasizing words by singing them loudly. “Just ME for YOU, and YOU for ME.” “There’s some I haven’t broken, Mommy.” It broke my heart then and it does now.

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February 9: Dear Diary, It’s my birthday!!!! I got Frankie THE SECOND. I told Mommy one hundred times Johnny THE FIRST is lonely. Goodbye! Saralee Perel Can you imagine how irritating it was, hearing me kvetching all day about a fish? October 23: Dear Diary, Jamie and I bicycled downhill. With NO hands. I fell. The kick stand stuck in my leg. It was pouring red blood. Let me just say it was agony. Mommy took me to my uncle, the FAMOUS Doctor Louis Sachs. Uncle Lou picked out many hundred pebbles under my nose and sewed black stitches on my leg. I almost died. Mommy stopped and bought chocolate cake. Goodbye! Saralee Perel My mother loved me— unconditionally. I wish I could tell her that I know that … now. I want to say, “I adored the shelter of your arms. You made my world safe.” Sometimes I think I’ll never find solace again. “And Mom? I am so sorry I broke our treasured tea set.” My last entry says, “Dear Diary.” However, I’m changing it for this story, as a final thank-you to my mother. December 31: Dear Mommy, Well, well, well. Our time together is coming to a sad ending. It’s been SO wonderful having you to talk to. You are my very best friend. I will miss you SO much. I will love and cherish you forever. Love, love, love, love, love, Goodbye. Saralee Perel. Award-winning columnist Saralee Perel welcomes emails at sperel@saraleeperel.com or via her website: www.saraleeperel.com.

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Older But Not Wiser

Kowabonga Sy Rosen

answer is, absolutely! It was popular, Esther: “I ate some salmon last week; creative, and made people smile. maybe it was no good. I’m going to my I started wondering what other doctor right now!” people wanted to be remembered for, From then on, I made sure that what they consider everyone knew that the their major question had nothing accomplishment in life. to do with their current If you were I did some research by health. I went to lunch remembered for asking my friends and with my best friend, family. That may have Larry, who happens to one thing, what been a mistake. be a schoolteacher. would you want The first person I Larry said, “I’d like talked to was my Aunt to be remembered for it to be? Esther. She is a feisty reaching, really reaching and dramatic lady, and a few of my students.” as soon as I asked what she wanted to be We then finished our meal and, as remembered for, she replied, “Why? Am usual, Larry looked away and I paid the I going to die soon?!” bill. Just once I’d like Larry to “reach” Me: “No, I’m just doing some for the check. research.” My cousin, Carl, who has a pretty Esther: “Do you know something? good sense of humor, wanted to be Am I sick?” remembered for being the oldest man in Me: “No, you’re very healthy.” the world.

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dward Kean, the head writer for The Howdy Doody Show, died last summer. I remember being glued to the TV watching Howdy, Phineas T. Bluster, Dilly Dally, Chief Thunderthud, Clarabell, and Flub-aDub. And, of course, there was Princess Summerfall Winterspring, whom I had a major crush on and dreamed of marrying. It probably wouldn’t have worked out because it’s kind of hard for a 10-year-old to support a family. The obituary talked about Edward Kean’s many accomplishments, but it particularly emphasized the word he created for Chief Thunderthud, “kowabonga.” That word swept the country and is still used by surfers, only they spell it “cowabunga.” My question is, if you were remembered for one thing, would you want it to be “kowabonga”? And my

Aunt Flora wanted to be remembered for being a great dancer … “In 1958 I won the Coney Island Cha-Cha Contest. I still have the trophy.” She then did the cha-cha for me and was actually quite good. She asked me to do the cha-cha with her, and I’m glad nobody videotaped it. Cousin Arnie, who is a dentist, said, “I’d like to be remembered for making the perfect crown, a crown so perfect that people wouldn’t realize it was a crown and would think it was a real tooth. I guess if they thought it was a real tooth, it wouldn’t be remembered as a perfect crown, so I guess I would like to be remembered as the man who wasn’t remembered for making the perfect crown but he did make it.” My cousin will be remembered as a man who talked too much. I then went to see my Uncle Mort and Aunt Sylvia, who were sitting next

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what I mean.” Aunt Sylvia then quickly said, “I want to be remembered for killing my husband Mort, if you know what I mean.” After talking to all these people, I decided I wanted to be remembered for being a great father and husband. I know it’s a little trite, but we all can’t come up with … “kowabonga!!!”

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