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Every Week of the Year.
The Dallas Post
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Every Week of the Year.
“VOL. 41
THE DALLAS POST, DALLAS, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1931
- Controller Morgan
Holds Up Payroll
Says Pre-election Road Ex-
penses Not Justified
Attorneys; representing; the County
Commissioners of Luzerne county fil-
ed a writ of mandamus this week
with Judge Benjamin Jones of the
county court of common ‘pleas de-
manding the approval of road main-
tainance payrolls for the first two
weeks of September by County Con-
troller Leonard Morgan.
In withholding approval of the pay-
‘rolls Controller Morgan contends that
the expenditures were excessive and
not in keeping with the work done on |
the roads. Checking back over the
expenditures for road maintainance
during the previous months of 1930,
the controller's office finds that these
expenditures did not exceed $5,000,
whereas during the last two weeks of
August the expenditures jumped to,
$22,000 and during the first two weeks
of September to an amount in excess
of $37,000. During 1930 the peak per-
iods for road maintance, expenditures
did not exceed $5,000.
So Great was the antagonism to the
Controller's action that on Tuesday of
this week more than 300 persons em-
roadwork
ployed on pre-election
stormed the Controller's office and
with threats and ‘insults demanded
their. pay. It was necessary for mem=
bers of the Controller's staff to call up-
on the Sheriff's office for deputies to
despel the mobs storming the office.
The hearing on the writ of mandam-
us will come before Judge Jones on
Tuesday. During the week the Con-
troller’s office has been preparing a
defense of its action in holding up
the payroll.
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ERECT SCHOOL SIGNS
Borough street employees this week
erected school caution signs on all of
the streets in the vicinity of the high
school building and also along Main
street where children have to cross
to and from school.
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DALLAS METHODIST
. EPISCOPAL CHURCH
‘Sunday school at 10:00 o'clock. Ser~
mon at 11:00 o'clock, subject “The Vi-
sion, for Tomorrow.”
Epworth League Devotional Meeting
at 6:45. Leader Miss Hewitt. An il-
lustrated Lecture at 7:30 o'clock.
Subject, “The Abundant Life” about
70 beautiful colored slides will be used
in this service. All are invited to
come.
Dr. Hartsock is planning to give au
illustrated lecture each Sunday even-
ing during the month of October.
Game Protectors
Seek Cooperation
Ask That Wild Game Be
Liberated
Game protectors from this district
are receiving frequent reports of the
capture of game birds and young fawn
deer by motorists and trappers. The
game is then taken home where efforts
are made to domesticate it.
{How these birds and animals get in-
to the hands of persons during the
‘closed season is some concern, but to
the game protectors it is of much
greater concern when they fail to re-
lease them. The game protectors say
that it is illegal to capture and then
hold them in captivity.
Recently a game protector from this
section said that he had three or four
cases where young fawns had been
trapped in wild grape vines. The ani-
mals struggled to free themselves and
attracted the attention of passersby
who took the young deer home with
them. The game protectors say that
invariably when young deer are in-
jured or are accidently trapped the
mother deer or doe is nearby. Thus
the proper procedure would be to re-
lease the animals.
Farmers occasionally come across
pheasant nests in hay and wheat fields
and in some instances take the eggs
home and place them under a hen to
hatch. Later when the young pheas-
ents are hatched and partly reared
they are liberated. Such aid as this
is gratifying to game protectors and
should be appreciated by sportsmen.
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GRADE SCHOOL GROUNDS
Grounds in front of Dallas bor-
ough high school buildings are being
graded and seeded by 'the Huntsville
Nursery. The work is being sponsor-
ed by the local Parent-Teacher asSso=
ciation and when completed will add
greatly to the attractiveness of the
school grounds.
EOEONOORO, TC UR AUBOBUB BBR EO 2
5 BAD FOR THE EYES
Ei HE b
i This week a man dropped /in=
{| to our office and ' stopped his
= subscription to The Post saying
£0 that he was having considerable
cf trouble with his eyes and was |
not supposed to do any reading. |
Commenting further he explain- |
ed: “Every time The Post comes 5)
to my home | find it so intergst-
ing that | have to read it wheth-
er I’m supposed to read: or not.
That’s bad for the eyes, so ;dis-
|
continue the paper for a while at
i least until my eves get betiter.”
| so, the cop returned to give Stanley a
(of indebtedness.
SIE
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|| Thursday morning at 3:30 at the age
PICK AND SHOVEL MAN
ACCEPTS COLLEGE POST
is executive
Today Earle Swingle
secretary of the University of Cal
fornia at Los Angles. Last week he
was working as a ditch digger. It atl
came about when Dr. Ernest Carroll
Moore, provost of the University,
looked about for someone to fill the
vacant post of executive secretary, a
sort of ambassador between all de-
partments of the institution. The day
laborer was recommended to the
board of regents for the vacant pos:-
{ion and today exchanged his cramp-
ed quarters in the ditch for a spacious
private office.
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Stanley Ide
Taken For Ride
Motorcycle Cop Thinks He
Has Real Villian But Soon
Learns Mistake
To ride or not to ride that's the
question, and how Stanley Ide will
answer it after his experience of this
week is still another question,
It appears that the local boy friend,
was standing along the State highway
in his home precinct of Idetown hali-
ing passing motorists for a ride to
Dallas, Wilkes-Barre or anywhere,
when a shining young motorcycle
patrolman chanced by. And then the
fun began.
No respector of uniforms or persons,
Stanley hailed the cop with “Hi-ya;
hi- -ya, hi-ya. ” ‘Wheeling his motor-
cycle around in the middle of the road
at a high rate of speed, the machine
swaying from side to side as ne did
more personal greeting and was ac-
costed with the remark, “Ha, Ha, yer
drunk, y'er drunk, nearly tipped it
over didn’t ya; nearly tipped over.”
Thinking Stanley the offender and the
one who was really drunk, the cop
immediately took the local boy in
charge, placed him under arrest, load-
ed him in his side car and proceedea
in the direction of Luzerne in search
of a Justice-of-the-peace.
Stanley, friendly as usual, and en-
joying the ride, turned to the cop,
“got anything on the hip?” Your
drunk, your drunk, nearly tipped it
over didn’t ya? ‘All of which confirm-
ed the cops suspicions that Stanley
might have had a drink or. two or
maybe more.
When the patrolman reached Lu.
zerne he soon learned that Stanley
was a back mountain character above
the grasp of the law. A
course, the cop is the laugt
of the entire countryside. T
know Stanley Ide will appre
situation.
School Board Adopts
Resolution For The
Floating of Bonds
Kingston Township School Board
at a special meeting held Tuesday
night at the Trucksville High School,
with Attorney Gordon, for the pur-
pose of drawing up resolutions for
the proposed floating of a bond issue,
gained another step in their plans,
when the meeting was called to order
by President G. Wilbur. Nichols in the
chair and Howard W. Appleton, secre-
tary. The following directors were
present: Hay, Nichols, Schooley, Hill
and Appleton.
The president stated that the meot-
ing was called for the purpose of tak-
ing action upon an increase of indeb-
tedness of the school district for the
purpose of purchasing a site and
grounds for a new high school building
and for the erection of a new high
school building on such site and to
obtain the assent of the electors of
this school district to such an increase
The resollution was
1dopted on motion of Herbert Hill and
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SIMEON LEWIS
Simeon Lewis, one of the oldest re-
sidents of the State died at the home
of his son, L. N. Lewis, Pikes Creek,
of 96 years,’ten months and twenty-
nine days.
Besides his sos he leaves a daughter;
Mrs. Dora Wesley, nine grandchildren
and seven great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held on
Saturday afternoon at 2 continued in
Maple Grove church at 2:30. Inter-
ment will be at Maple Grove cemetery.
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FIRE PREVENTION WEEK, OCTOBER iy 1931
My Record
20
persons killed
1 by fire, each day
'500,000,000
of property
destroyed every
y ear
Guard against Fires
Water Company Drills
New Well at Shavertown
J
Creswell Drilling company of Forty
Fort has been awarded the contract
for drilling the new well of the Dal-
las-Shavertown Water company in
Shavertown, ;
Machinery will be moved on the
ground on Saturday and work will be
started immediately. The new well
will be the fourth and largest well
owned by the company in Shavertown
and will be drilled to a depth to in-
sure: adequate water supply for the |
community throughout the year. Al-
though the other wells in Shavertown
will not be dismantled they will bey
used supplement to the big new well.
A reservoir for storage purposes will
also be constructed near the new well.
Improve Rice Street
Crossing and Bridge
Borough street employees are busy
this week raising the bridge on Rice
street to level with the rest of tue
street/ Traction company employees
have also been working there raising
the tracks to the same level as the
rest of the street and putting in new
crossing. When completed there will
no longer be a dip in the street at this
point, and the road will be as smooth
as the other streets of the borough.
Y. W. M. S§. TO MEET
Young Women’s Mission Society of
the M. E. church will meet at the home
of Mrs. Laura Patterson on Tuesday
evening, October 10.
Can’t Stand Criticism
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In withholding legal advertising required by law
from the columns of this newspaper, Kingston township
school board is attempting what a number of politicians
and not a few advertisers have already unsuccessfully at-
tempted; namely, dictating the editorial policy © of The Dal-
las Post.
The school directors chpse three Wilkes- Barre news-
papers in preference to the ir home newspaper to carry
pre-election notices on the firthcoming school bond issue
in Kingston township. They
id this because they want to
whip The Post into line and because they are incensed over
the editorial which The Post carried sometime ago on the
now famous Kingston. Township Compensation case.
- Like many othe:
pues.
first on The Dallas Post.
uninformed persons the board be-
lieves that the short:st way to a newspaper's editorial
licy is through the increase or decrease of advertising
Perhaps that belief is justified in some in-
es and it may be just another case of the ill luck that
as followed it, that the board should try this method out
Apparently the board believes that its conduct in the
Howell compensation case is above reproach and that its
conduct of other school affai’s is also above suspicion. In
that case the board is probably justified in its attitude to-
ward The Post. But, the board has had plenty of time to
answer that editorial and could have answered it, had it
cared to, through the columns of this newspaper which
are open to all.
If the board as businessmen can justify the lapse of
a $5,000 insurance policy, if it can justify its change of at-
titude, from assisting the widow to secure compensation
and then appealing any attempts to collect it, the Post will
be glad to publicly retract.
We do not, however, believe that certain members of
the board can ever restore The Post’s confidence in them;
not since the affair of more than a year ago
when the
Post’s job printing department was approached by cer-
tain persons with regard to
school printing, the facts of
which, if published here, would make interesting reading
for every citizen of Kingston township. ;
We are not interested in the financial returns which
we might, have received from legal advertising placed by
Kingston township school board.
We are, however, in-
terested in the motive back of the board’s attitude toward
The Post. We wonder how anyone who dares to criticise
the board can expect fair play in business relations with
the board, selection of teachers or in any matter which re-
quires a fair,
school directors. 2
unbiased and Hnprejudieed decision by
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MISS JESSIE THOMAS
TALENTED PIANIST
Miss Jessie Tnomas, of Noxen, tal-
ented pianist, received considerable
applause by her presentation of dif-
ficult compositions in the recital re-
cently in Dallas borough high school,
sponsored by pupils of Ernest Wood.
Miss Thomas was the featured player
and to her went the honor of present-
ing first Katydid, a, recent composi-
tion of Mr. Wood's. The program
was enjoyed by several hundred per-
sons.
Former Citizen At
- At New Army Post
Wilkes-Barre Man Also Sta-
tioned at New Aviation
Field
Randolph Field, the “Aviation City,”
near San Antonio, Texas, will begin
functioning as the new Air Corps
Training Center on November 2nd,
next, when a class of 200 students will
enter upon a strenous eight months’
course of primary flying training. This
class will be the first one to reap the
benefits of the infinitely superior fae-
ilities Randolph Field will afford as an
ideal flying school.
With eighteen students selected to
pursue their flying training at Ran-
dolph Field, the State of New York
has the largest representation among
the student body of the new class,
while Denver, Colorado, leads the var-
ious cities represented with four pros-
pective military flyers.
. When this' field begins functioning
as the Air Corps Training Center, all
Army Air Corps flying training will
be cohcentrated in the vicinity of San
Antonio. The Advanced Flying School
at Kelly Field, also at San Antonio,
will, for the time being, continue func-
tioning as a component part of the
Air Corps Training Center.
Commissioned officers of the Regular
Army graduating from the Advanced
Flying school become members of the
Army Air Corps when the formality
of effecting their transfers from their
original branch of the service is car-
ried out. Flying cadets and non comn-
missioned officers of the Regular Army
training in their grade are commis-
sioned second lieutenants in the Air
Corps Reserve and assigned to extend-
ed active duty with various Air Corps
organizations.
Among the Third Corps Area resi-
dents in the class are: Charles B.
Dougher, Infantry of Wilkes-Barre, 1st
Lieutenant John P. Kirkendall, Air
Corps, of Dallas.
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FIRST FALL MEETING 1
The first fall meeting of Shave.-
town branch Nesbitt Memorial hospi-
tal auxiliary will be held this after-
noon at the home of Mrs. C. S. Behee
of "Chase. Mrs. Ethel Oliver has
charge of entertainment. 1 An unusu-
ally good program has been arranged
for this meeting.
mmr (embers
LOCAL MAN HONORED
Maurice Chait, advertising manager
of Fowler, Dick and Walker, Wilkes-
Barre department store, and whose
home is in Dallas, is chairman of the
retail advertising session at the au-
nual convention of Direct Mail Ad-
vertising Association which will be
held in Buffalo, N. Y., next week.
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SEEK SCHOOL SITE
Agents have been searching this re-
gion for the past few months in the
hope of securing an ideal spot for the
location of a men’s college. Although
nothing definite has yet been done, it
is understood on reliable authority
that many local landowners have
been approached and have discussed
the projeet with the agents. The
school, if located here, will have un-
limited financial backing and the sup-
port of strong religious organiza~-
tion.
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CONSTRUCTS BUILDING
Under the ownership of Meses Grif-
fith, veteran lumber dealer of Plains,
Shavertown Lumber company is mak-
ing a number of noticable improve-
ments to its property.
The company is constructing a new
storage shed for lumber wRich when
completed will enable the cqmpany ta
house all of its lumber in weather-
proof buildings. {
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| Despite Defeat of Last Week
Hospital Talk :
Stirs Interest
Nearby Sites Viewed as Pos-
sible Location For New
Institution
There is considerable discussion |
among local physicians and interested
citizens regarding the possibility of a)
sanitarium and hospital being located
here. First indication that such
move is in prospect came two wee
ago in an editorial published in Th
Post.
As indicated in the editorial, those
back of the movement have ample fin
ancial backing to build a hospital and
sanitarium, and are not interested in
financial support from the communi
They are, however, eager to learn the
sentiment of local citizens and physi
cians with regard to the establishmen 3
of such an institution here. Fo
They believe that there is a real
need in Luzerne county for a hospit
and sanatarium located amid quiet
surroundings, on high ground and con-
venient to good roads. There is a
sentimental reason for the establish=
{
established it will be a memorial
to this region.
One of the first stipulations of th y
backers is that the institution shall a
be unexcelled in its equipment and
provisions for maternity cases. The
hospital will also be equipped to han-
dle emergency cases and as the com-
munity grows provision will be made
for the enlargement of the hospita
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Local Teams Meet
On Gridiron This
. Dallas Hopes to Defeat
Kingston Township Footy
ball Warriors i
A big crowd is expected Satur
when Dallas borough high school t
meets the Kingston township team
Dallas high school athletic field.
It will be the first game of the sca-
son for Kingston township and the
second for Dallas, the local boys hav-
ing been defeated last week by the
much more experienced Forty Fort
high school varsity.
Despite the defeat of Dallas, toca]
observers believe that the two teams
which will play tomorrow are about
evenly matched and that the outcome
of the game will be in doubt until the
final whistle is blown.
Coach Hick of Kingston township
has a heavier team to send on the
field, but like Dallas his team is made
up of inexperienced material, this be=
ing the first year for football in the
lower township schools.
Coach Wormley has been coaching
his team in the fundamentals of the
game and has been -attempting ‘dur-
ing the past week to iron out the
weakness which were displayed in the
team play last Saturday at Forty Fort.
Officials for the game which will 3
start Saturday afternoon at 2:30 are:
Referee, Rosser, Bucknell; and Um-
pire Lippencott also of Bucknell.
Probable starting line-up for Dallas Uva
‘will be: Brace, center; D. Disque, left =
guard; J. Jeter, right guard; Rogers, :
left tackle; Coolbaugh, right tackle;
Besteder, left end; Sutton, right end;
Van Campen, fullback; Disque, quart-
erback; Rook, left halfback; and La
Bar, right halfback. AS
The line-up for Kingston township.
is not yet settled. Coach Hick is in
doubt’ who will start the game in the
quarterback and right guard position.
‘He can select from three men for
quarterback and may use Holngran;
Little or Kitchen. Although he has
| slated Stark for right guard he may
at the last minute swith Johnson to
that position. He has plenty of good
substitute material and in this end has
the margin over the Dallas team.
Tentative line-up: Kocher, center;
Piatt, left guard; Stark, right guard; -
Schuler, right tackle; Loveland, left
end; Smitth, right end; Thomas left
halfback; Crop, right halfback; Wool-
bert, full back, and Little, Holngren or’
Kitchen quarterback.
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