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Dr. Henry M. Laing
Firemen’s Carnival
August 10-11-12
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Remember These Dates!
Dr. Henry M. Laing
Firemen’s Carnival
August 10-11-12
VOL. 43
eadlines
Of The Week
A summary of this week's
news of international in-
terest, reviewed for Post
readers.
"PLOW
Two years ago the South refused
to plow under every third row of cot-
ton to reduce the crop and lift price.
Last week the South stood pledged to
plow under nearly one-quarter of its
standing cotton crop. One problem
was: Would mules, trained to walk
between cotton rows, be driven atop
the beds to pull a plow there?
PLANES
First of 36 airplanes, costing $1,000,-
000, constructed by Curtiss, left U. S.
. for China this week. The biggest ord-
er of the year was landed by Major
James H. (“Jimmy”) Doolittle, who
tore around Shanghai at 22 m. p. h.,
dived at 350 m. p. h., to annihilate an
imaginary bomber, pleased Chinese
war lords.
sett,
BALBO
Still hopeful this week was a lonely
ground crew near Julienehaab, Green-
land. For weeks it had waited to give
service to General Italo Balbo’s 'planes
should they choose to land en route
from Iceland to Labrador. The crew
never caught sight of the flying ar-
mada. Maybe General Balbo would
stop there on his way back.
WHITTLE
Death, as it must to all men, came
this week to Dr. Frederick Henry
Baetjer, 58, x-ray pioneer. Dr. Baet-
jer died from x-ray ‘burns received
before the advent of modern protec-
tive devices. For years surgeons
whittled at Dr. Baetjer’s body taking
first an eye, then four fingers, operat-
ing seventy-three times. ?
TAX :
To settle a $29,900 delinquent tax
bill on 40 acres in Brooklawn, N. J,
Andrew William Mellon, one time Sec-
retary of the Treasury, offered 50c on
the dollar. For a similar bill of $90,-
000, nearby Belmawr accepted Mellon's
check for $45,000.
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TAX ig
North Tarrytown, N. Y., received a
check for $10,000, half the tax due from
its largest taxpayer, John Davison
Rockefeller, sr. It was the first time
he had failed to pay the taxes on his
Pocantico Hills estate,
GAME
fn Chicago, playing hide-and- 30
Edward Sarkan, 13, hid in a box car,
got out two days later in Detroit.
‘REPEATS
In Epping Upland, England, three
months ago, George Poole rounded a
corner on his motorcycle, collided with
“a lorry, had his arm broken. Last
week George Poole rounded the same
corner on the same motorcycle, collid-
ed with the same lorry, had the same
arm broken in the same place.
MOVIE
By splicing together old newsreel
scenes of WAR headlines, tlie Armi-
stice, Reds, Peace ‘Conferences, Klu
Klux * Klan crosses, inaugurations,
mah jong, beauty contests, Sacco &
Vanzetti, the Florida Boom, Capt.
Lindbergh, Aimee McPherson, a mar-
riage in diving suits, Presperity, Hoov-
er and Smith, Jimmy Walker, unem-
ployment, breadlines, the Bonus Army,
President Roosevelt asking ‘“extraor-
dinary powers from Congress’, The
New Deal — Frederick Ullman, jr.
and Gilbert Seldes this week complet-
ed their new film “This Is America’.
GAL
Her new book, “Gal Reporter” rela-
ting her experiences as a sob sister
for a Boston tabloid, on sale, Joan
Lowell, went back to her schooner,
The Black Hawk, which had been
_ stranded for need of higher tides and
more money on a Bahama sandbar,
said “Hell, yes, we're going on — right
around Cape Horn”.
FLIERS
Trans-Atlantic Fliers James Molli-
son crashed without serious bodily in-
jury at Bridgeport, Conn., 65 miles
short of their goal, Floyd Bennett
Field; Wiley Post zoomed out of a
murky sky to complete the first solo
flight around the world, breaking the
record he made with Harold Gatty
jast year; General Balbo and his Ital-
ian armada hopped for home.
RECOVERY
Into Washington this week poured
tens of thousands of telegrams from
governors, housewives, employers and
employes pledging support for Gover-
nor Roosevelt's re-employment pro-
gram. 3
BALLOON
Dr. Jean Piccard withdrew from
participation in plans for a flight into
the setratosphere over Chicago this
week to make way for mors scientific
instruments which can be packed into
the spherical gondola, Com. T¥#G. W.
Settle will be both navigator and
scientific observer in a solo flight, as
a result.
CHRISTOPHER
To mark the anniversay of the feast
of St. Christopher, who carried the in-
fant ChYist on his shoulder through a
stream and so became the patron
saint of travelers, Father John J. Ma-
hon, Baldwin, Long Island, dedicated
an automehilists’ shrine, with a replica
of a radiator, surmounted by a croge
and set in a rock grotto.
‘various
Lower Trolley
Fare Is Goal
Of Taxpayers
/ ZF
Group Discusses Watept
Supply Ami, Post”
Due Taxes
MEET AGAIN AUG. 7
‘Questions concerning the reduction
of street car fares, collection of delin-
quent taxes and adequate water sup-
ply for Dallas, Shavertown and
Trucksville were discussed Monday
night at a meeting of Dallas Borough
Taxpayers’ association in Dallas high
school building.
Members of committees from the
communities, appointed at a
recent meeting of Shavertown Im-
provement association, reported on
their finding with regard to a reduc-
tion in street car fares. It is planned
to take this matter up with the Trac-
tion company and see if a more equit-
able fare cannot he worked out for
persons living in this section.
Because of the stormy weather the
crowd attending was not as large as
expected, but although the
dampen the spirits or ardor of the
thirty odd representatives citizens who
attended the meeting and took part in
the discussions.
Borough council and Dallas school
board were censured for their indif-
ference in failing to follow up or send
out notices to those delinquent in pay-
ing their taxes and it was voted to
contact both organizations with a view
to getting definite action on this mat-
ter. To better aid the association in
its work, two committees were ap-
pointed to attend all future meetings
of school board and council to report |
back the work of these groups -at
each meeting of the association. Those
appointed to attend council meetings
were; Messrs Stooky, Lazarus and
Wallo; those to attend school board
sessions were; Mrs Joseph Wallo;
Harold Wagner and Capt. C. N. Booth.
There followed a lengthy discussion
of the water situation in the borough.
A number of citizens reported contin-
ual shortages of water and on Parrish
Heights citizens presented samples of
discolored and muddy water which
came through his hydrants. A com-
mittee made up of Capt. C. N. Booth,
Vincent ‘Shindle and John Frantz was
appointed to meet officials of the wat-
er company with a view of improving
the situation.
There wasiousidiuble informal dis-
cussion of the water situation with
“many proposals for its improvement.
It was believed by a number of per-
sons that the expenditure of $1,000 by
the present water company would be
sufficient to guarantee year around
adequate service to furnish water for
household purposes to every resident
of the borough. The concensus of
opinion seemed to be that there is
little to do at this time toward getting
a sufficient supply of water in the bor-
ough for fire fighting purposes. Still
others were of the opinion that the
water system should be municipally
owned and that there is no better time
than the present to start a movement
with that end for a goal.
The meeting was adjourned at 11
o'clock with plans for the next meet-
ing which will be held Monday night
‘August T in the high school building.
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L. V. R. R. Employes
Plan Picnic August 3
Eighth annual picnic of the Wyom-
ing Division employes of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad will be held on Aug-
ust 3rd at Harvey's Lake under the
auspices of the Coxton Welfare Asso-
ciation.
The committee in charge has plan-
ned many novelties and prizes for
those attending. A free trip to the
World’s Fair at Chicago over the Le-
high Valley Lines will be the main
prize and everyone holding excursion
tickets will have an opportunity to
win. An electric refrigerator will be
given away and baskets of food. One
to the largest family on the grounds.
There will be 30 cars to transport
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Epworth League To
Hold Rally Tuesday
Dallas Sub-district Epworth League
will held their summer rally in the
Dallas Borough High School Auditor-
ium next Tuesday night. A special
program is being planned by the Dal-
ias league and Rev. Francis Freeman
of Dallas will speak.
All leagues competing for the Sid-
ney delegate. prize are requested to
present their reports at this meeting
and the winning team will be announc-
ed during the program.
The meeting will start at 8.
worthians of the district
friends are invited.
All Bp-
and their
rainy
weather kept many away it did not |
SCENIC SPOTS NEAR DALLAS
Kitchen Creek
Falls, one of the
"beauty spots of Lu-
zerne County. -
A bit of guiet riv-
er scenery along the
banks of the Sus-
quehanna River.
Local Pilot Carries Radio Men
To Greet General Balbo’s Armada
Philip Reynolds, Mount
Greenwood, Helps To
Greet Italians
’
Aviation, as a regular vocation, sel-
dom laeks excitement but it is only
frequently that it brings to its follow-
ers the thrill which came to Phil Rey-
nolds of Mt. Greenwood last week
when he piloted the ’plane which car-
ried a staff of N. B. C. announcers out
from Chicago to describe the arrival of
General Italo Balbo’s armada of Ital-
ian seaplanes. :
Mr. Reynolds is a pilot for American
Airways and carries passengers be-
tween New York City and Chicago for
that company. He was at the Chicago
terminus of thé route when he receiv-
ed the assignment to take up the ra-
dio announcers.
Forty-six ’planes took the air from
Chicago to go out to greet the inter-
pid Italian aviators. Over Michigan
City the twenty-four 'planes which had
spanned the ocean were sighted — and
the first to sight them was Mr. Rey-
nolds. From his ’plane, a Curtiss
Condor, with a capacity for fifteen
passengers, the announcers told the
world that Balbo and his men were
nearing their destination.
Mr. Reynolds has been a pilot for
seevn years. He began flying at
Hartford, then moved to Bridgegort
and later went to Roosevelt field. He
became exceptionally well-known lo-
cally through his early association
with Wyoming Valley airport. He has
progressed rapidly and is now profi-
cient in both flying and radio. He
has made a fine record as a commer-
cial pilot.
Barn Burns During 1] mouth and. lower valley communities.
Hard Thunder Storm
During the severe electrical storm
Monday afternoon lightning struck a
barn on the Z. Platt Bennett farm on
the Huntsville to Idetown road in Leh-
man township and destroyed it before
anything could be saved except two
cows. Alfred “Shorty” Ray, who with
his family has been living on the farm
for the past two years was away when
lightning struck.
The barn contained a quantity of
hay, straw and rye that had just been
thrashed. There was also new farm
machinery that had never been used
including cultivators and a harrow. A
tractor was also destroyed. Mr.
the barn and was not sure whether
there was insurance on the property,
or not.
Dallas and Harveys Lake fire com-
panies responded to an ularm, but the
fire had gained too much headway for
them to do more than prevent the
spread of the flames.
List Offices At Stake In
Primary Election September 19
Lists of the offices which will be at
stake in local boroughs and townships
are included in the primary election
notice issued by the county commis-
sioners this week.
The primary election will be held on
Tuesday, September 19, to make nom-
inations for public offices which will
be voted for at the general election on
November 7.
In Boroughs the following offices
will be open for nominations: Regis-
ter Assessors, School Directors, Coun-
cilmen, Burgess, Tax Collector, Con-
troller (where elected); Justice of the
Peace, (where terms exxpire); High
Constable, = (where elected); Con-
stables, (where terms expire); Poor
Directors (where elected); Auditors.
In Townships: register assessors,
School Directors, Auditors, Justices of
the Peace, (where terms expire); Su-
pervisors of Commissioners; Poor
Directors, Tax Collectors or Treasurer.
Farmers Have
Annual Pienic
Granges Sponsor Affair At
Benton; Crowd
Present
A great number of farmers from
this section attended the annual out-
ing of Grangers from Conte Fey
day.
“tev. Harry S.
church was
agriculture - ji Ay
ly farm agent of Mercer County.
Baseball games, special fireworks .and
talking pictures were also included on
the program. g
One of the most enjoyable features
was the presentation of eleven vaude-
ville acts with Eddie Gallagher of Wil-
kes-Barre acting as master of cere-
‘monies.
Officers of the Picnic Association,
which had charge of the affair, are:
President, Charles W. Hess; vice-
president, M. D. Pennington; treasur-
er, W. A. Butt; secretary, Ray B. Keel-
er; executive committee, I. R. Apple-
man, Charles W. Hess, M. D. Penning-
ton, W. A. Butt and Percy Brewington.
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Prospects Good For New
~ Plymouth-Lake Highway
Improvements of the back road to
Harvey's Lake from lower Wyoming
Valley is expected to materially re-
duce daily and week-end automobile
traffic to Harvey's Lake over the
Luzerne-Trucksville-Dallas route ac-
cording to motorists living in Ply-
The Larksville correspondent of a
local newspaper has the following to
say about the new road.
At last it is possible to announce
the near-completion of a highway
that has long been the basis of con-
tention by residents of Larksville and
Plymouth. Lately, interest was won
irom State Representative William
Roan and Senator Andrew J. Sordoni,
who were backed by Wyoming Valley
Motor Club, business and professional
men, in a desire to have a new route
through the rural section to Harvey’s
Lake, so as to reduce traffic and haz-
ards on the course taken through Lu-
zerne and Hillside.
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Streets Flooded
Ray £1
had no insurance on the contents of
For seyeril hours Monday afternoon
and evening during the severe rain
Lst6tm Lake street in the vicinity of
the Adelman Plot was flooded with a
foot and a half of water. Motorists
were forced to reduce their speed and
20 into second gear to get through the
flooded area.
Fire Truck Taken To
Allentown for Renovation
Representatives of the Mack Truck
company were in Dallas Monday tak-
ing the Dr. Henry M. Laing fire com-
pany’s truck and pumper to the Allen-
town plant of the Mack Company
where it will be renovated and a new
six cylinder motor installed. All extra
equipment on the pumper such as hose,
lanterns, ladders, fire extinguishers
and first aid kits were removed from
the truck and put in storage in the
borough building until the machine is
returned in about two weeks. While
the truck is away Shavertown, Trucks-
ville and Harvey's Lake fire compan-
ies will respond to Dallas fire alarms.
C0 AS MA
| Succeeds Daniel Waters;
TALENT NEEDED
Musicians, vocalists, tap danc-
ers and any other entertainers
living in this vicinity are urged
to get in touch with members of
the entertainment committee for
the Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire-
men’s carnival to be held August
10, i1, 12. Talent is needed to
help make the Carnival a suc-
cess. The committee is not
seeking professionals, ‘but it
does make an appeal to public
spirited citizens who have ability
along this line to contribute
their time toward the entertain-
ment portion of the program.
Letters mailed to the Post will
be turned over to the chairman
of the committee, or he can be
reached by telephoning Dallas
226-R-0.
‘Planes To Stunt
At Carnival Here
Firemen Completing Plans
For Gala Event Aug.
10, 11 and 12
Two airplanes have been engaged,
and a number of entertainment and
novelty numbers planned for the Dr.
Henry M. Laing Fire Company’s carni-
val to be held August 10, 11, 12 on the
Adleman plot on Lake street.
Members of the committees on ar-
rangements met ‘Monday night in the
borough building to discuss the pro-
gram and make further arrangements
for the program. Tickets for the
chicken supper to be served by the
Ladies’ Auxiliary on the last night of
Carnival were distributed and are
now on sale throughout the commu-
nity.
The importance of having all local
talent of the community, willing to
contribute “ time and novelty acts to
the entertainment program, get in
touch with members of the committee
was stressed by committee members.
Attractive blue and red pole posters
and store signs have been distributed
to stores in communities within sev-
eral miles of Dallas. A large banner
advertising the carnival was erected
old Raub hotel La last
Si .
Hermit Of Huckleberry Mt.
/ Hale and Hearty At
Seventy-One
The Wilkes-Barre Record on Thurs-
day published a story and picture of I
Herman “Oc” Eastwood, “Hermit of
the Huckleberry Mountain.” The Post
is glad to learn, through this account,
that Mr. Eastwood is now in his sev-
enty-first year, in good health and liv-
ing in comfort in his cabin’ on the
mountainside near Forkston, Wyoming
County.
Some few years ago The Post pub-
lished an account of the death of Mr.
Eastwood as the result of .Snakebite,
soon learning, however, from his
friends and acquaintances, that Mr.
Eastwood was very much alive. There-
fore, Mr. Eastwood is one of the few
persons with the distinction of having
read his own obituary notice and pro-
bably feels as Mark Twain did on a
similar occasion that reports of his
death were very much exaggerated.
The publicity Mr. Eastwood has at-
tained proves once again the difficulty
of living in seclusion in quiet without
attaining notoriety. But even at that,
the newspapers can hardly be blamed
for their interest. There are few who
can say that there is no ‘real news”
in a man Mving in peace and content-
ment, unworried by world depressions,
automobiles, airplanes, beer and kid-
nappers in these hectic days in 1933.
To him The Post offers
“Long live “Oc” Eastwood, a man who
(Continued on Page 4.)
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Clifford Space De- 3
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John Durbin of Franklin street, Dal=
las, was elected a member of the
board to fill the unexpired term of
Daniel Waters, who recently resigned,
at a special meeting of the school dir-
ectors Tuesday night in the high
school building. gts
Mp Durbin who is a graduate Of
Pennsylvania State College, has been
a resident of Dallas for the past two
years having purchased a property
here after removing from Plymouth.
Mr. Durbin is an engineer for Luz-
erng County Gas & Electric Company:
and is a member of Dallas M. KE.
church and Masonic orders. He has
two children.
The newly elected diredton haw not
stated whether he will run for the of-
fice at the fall election. Mr. Waters’
term would have expired at that time
and it will therefore be necessary for
Mr. Durbin to run this fall if he ex~
pects to serve for any length of time
The special meeting was attended
by directors, Besecker, Swartz, Cul-
bert and Roberts. THe main topic of
business centered about the election
of amdirector. Clifford Space who was
first unanimously elected by the direc-
tors, refused to accept the office mak-
ing a second ballot necessary.
Other matters of business included
discussion of ¥he school courses for
the fall term and informal discussion
of school problems with Calvin Mec-
Hose. principal-elect for the coming
year. : ‘
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Sun Never Sets
On Post-O- Graf
Products Of Local Firm
Sent To Countries
Around Globe
Post-O-Graf manufacturing com-=
pany of Trucksville has recently ship-
ped a number of orders of duplicating
machines to Honolulu, Hawaii; Cucuta,
ion among agents in fereign
Domestic sales of duplicating mach-
ines are also on the increase. Com-
menting on the growing export busi-
ness of the company, R. M. Scott,
president of the company says, “The
depreciation of the dollar in foreign
exchange has been a marked stimulus
to export business in many countries.
It is, nevertheless, difficult to do busi-
‘ness with such countries as New Zea-
iand, England, Australia and other na-
tions which like America are off the
gold standard.”
An idea of the amount of outgoing
mail sent by this company is gained
from the figures of Trucksville post-
office where the classification of the
postoffice has been raised In large
measure as the result of the volume of"
mail sent by the Post-O-Graf com-
pany.
Recently the company has been Fins
ing considerable research work in the
development of various models and
makes of duplication machines. One
of these is an automatic machine to
do color work.
Schools Get New
Drainage
—
A new terra cotta drainage system
is being installed in Dallas’ borough
school grounds and curbing will be
placed along the sidewalks to permit
a better grading of lawns.
The work is being done by local men
employed from work relief funds,
When completed the drainage system
will eliminate a problem which has
confronted those who have been eager
to improve and beautify the school
grounds. The work will take about
two weeks. :
New Highway Sign
s To Help
Motorists In Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania Department
Highways has adopted a new. stan-
dard of signs for providing warnings
and ‘information on State highways in
the Commonwealth, Secretary Sam S.
Lewis has announced. Information is
embossed in black on a white back-
ground, and symbols are employed to
denote most conditions requiring eau-
tion.
The most important departure of the
new standard State highway signs
previously used in Pennsylvania is
‘the adoption of symbols. These sym-
bols have been developed after exten-
sive experiments conducted during the
past year on Pennsylvania highways.
The chief purpose of the symbol
sign, Secretary Lewis said, is to give
the motorist at a single glance the in-
formation necessary for his guidance
in the situation presented. The sym-
bols adopted are so plain that they
can be readily understood by the most
illiterate individual or by those whose
vision may be defective or so obscur-
ed that they could not readily decl-
of
plier lettared information.
A curved line bent to the left with
an arrow at its upper end indicates
that the,motorist is approaching a left
curve. ‘A similar line bent to the right
indicates a right curve. A line right-
angled to the left indicates a left turn,
while the same angle placed in an
opposite direction denotes a right turn.
Two simple crossed lines denote cross-
roads. A left intersection is indica-
ted by horizontal and vertical lines
joining in T-shape with the horizontal
line projecting to the left. An ex-
actly opposite symbol indicates a right
intersection. A dead-end intersection
is symbolized by a T in up-right posi-
tion. A line tilted to the left with two
curves in opposite direction indicates
left reverse curve, while a simila
symbol with tii to the right indicates
a right reverse curve. In case an in-
tersection is encountered on a simple
curve or a reverse curve there will be
a straight line joining or bisecting the
curve symbol to indicate character and
direction of the intersection. {