’ @ o— GET OUR PRICES BEFORE YOU BUY JOB PRINTING - he More T han A Newspaper, A Community py A MODERN PLANT ASSURES SATISFACTION WHEN YOU BUY PRINTING HERE @®. VOL. 42 Ww THE DALLAS POST, DALLAS, PA., FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1932. = ” “Plan Gives Work State by furnishing free fuelwood, ac- sons, particularly those who were un- forestry _ ford counties. “yised by local unemployed to take ad- “of fuelwood size. Needy Get 9000 / - Cords Of Free Fuel In Forests to ‘Unemployed; Lessens Fire Hazard - : More ‘than 9000 cords of wood froin the Pennsylvania State Forests have helped keep feedy families warm the rast winter as -a result of the offer] made last fall by the Department of Forests and Waters to assist in the re- lief of unemployed throughout the cording to an announcement made to- day by Secretary Lewis E. Staley. So ‘far 1160 permits for cutting wQod | have been reported fourteen’ for-: esters. The quantity of wood cut amounted tc 9067 cords, which are equivalent to 453 freight cars of fuel- wood.- Individuals cut 6496 cords. Welfare groups, which availed them- selves of the opportunity to provide fuel for needy families in the com- munities covered by their activities, removed 2571 cords. In many cases choppers were hired by the welfare associations who paid the workers on a cord basis, after deducting the costs of hauling and their food. The fuel was then turned over to needy “per- by able to do their own cutting. The officials carefully supervised the proper disposition of the wood in order to avoid having individuals cut and sell the fuel. The Susquehannock State Forest in Potter and Clinton counties provided the largest amount of free wood, 2067 cords. The Bald Eagle State Forest in Snyder and Union counties furnish- ed 1952 cords; from the Penn = State Forest in Center and ‘Mifflin counties, 1275 cords were removed; and 1096 cords were cut in the Buchanan State Forest in Franklin, Fulton, and Bed- The forester in charge of the Tiadaghton State Forest in Ly- coming and Clinton counties reports 1050 cords removed. : : Various Methods Various interesting methods were vantage of the Department's offer. In the Michaux State Forest in Franklin and Cumberland counties the forest ranger supervised the cutting of burn- ed timber by a group: of forty-five unemployed’ sponsored by- the chief of police of Chambersburg. The area which had been severly burned by for- est fires in the summer of 1930 was cut clean of all dead hardwood growth In the Buchanan State Forest wood choppers brought to the State Forest daily on trucks, and food for feeding them was donated by in nearby towns. Secretary Staley estimates that in addition to helping needy families ap- proximately 1614 acres of State For- ests were improved by reason of hav- ing dead, defective, and fire scarred timber thinned out of the growing for- Although the utilization was rather complete, were | businessmen est stands. of the timber the foresters who supervised the oper- ations saw to it that. sound, living trees of good species were not cut. Ose of the most striking instances of the Department's free fuelwood policy benefiting the needy was re- ported by Secretary Staley in the case of two sisters of advanced . age who tried to support themselves doing laundry work using cordwood cut from the Tioga State Forest, Tioga coun- ty, and hauled to their hut at the base of Mount Tom by friendly neighbors. After one sister died fhe second was kept supplied with free wood cut to stove length until she was taken 111 in January. Although the doctors say she has but a short time to live, she is still supplied with wood from the State Forests and is assisted by the county authorities financially. - A&P Sales Down “and Pa- Sales of the Great Atlantie cific Tea Company for the five week period ‘ending April 2nd were $88,912,- 192. This compares with $104,742,250 for the same period in 1931, and is a decrease of $15,830,058, or 15.11 per cent. March sales, expressed in tons, were estimated as 520,198 this year, com- pared with 552,825 in March 1931. This of merchan- 5.90 per is a decrease in quantity sold of 32,627 tons, or dise cent. 3 Average weekly sales in March were $17,782,438, compared with $20,948,450 in 1931, a decrease of $3,166,012. age weekly tonnage sales were 104,040, compared with 110,565 in March 1931, Aver- Tanners Bank Of Noxen Consolidates’ With Wyoming National, ‘Tunkhanneek’ 3 FOR TOWNSHIP BONDS; OPEN BIDS TONIGHT | Kingston township will dispose of its bond issue totaling $85,000 without difficulty, according to all indications. Approximately 15 bond houses have requested information and bid sheets on the bond issue. The bids are to be opened at a special meeting to be ‘held at the tonight.