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VOL. 44
The Dallas Posi.
More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution
THE DALLAS POST, DALLAS, PA., FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1934
The
Harvey's Lake open a rich market for
the advertiser in The
Invite these people to patronize your
business by reaching them surely and
economically through this newspaper.
Post advertising pays.
summer homes in Dallas and -
Dallas Post.
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No. 27
Local Rotarians
Prepare To Play
Hosts At Outing
l
Forty Clubs Invited To Be
At Country Club On
July 12.
SPLENDID PROGRAM
———
“On To Irem” was the slogan among
the members of 40 Rotary Clubs in the
51st District this week as they made
preparations for their caravans which
will converge on Dallas next Thursday,
July 12, for the annual outing at
which Greater Dallas Rotary Club will
be host,
The Rotarians who will be guests of
Dallas on that day will come from a
territory extending from the Penn-
sylvania-New York boundary on the
North, Schuylkill Haven on the South,
Renova on the West and Stroudsburg
on the East. Although the outing is
known officially as the annual’ Golf
Tournament the program will include
tennis, quoits, swimming, a luncheon,
and a banquet,
Detailed arrangements for welcom-
ing the guests at Irem Country Club
will be completed. Plans for the
event have been in progress for several
months, the first invitation being
mailed to Rotary Clubs in the district
about June 1. The affair will be strict-
ly “stag.”
In his instructions mailed to Rotary
Clubs this week William McIntyre
chairman of the outing, outlined plans
for the day and urged those planning
to attend to make their reservations by
Saturday, July 7.
Arrangements have been made to ac-
comodate a limited number of Rotari-
ans who desire to stay overnight at
the country club.
1,000 Expected At
Shavertown Social
Additional Committees For
St. Therese’s Church
Supper
Additional committees were an-
nounced this week for the annual sup-
per and lawn social to be held by St.
Therese’s Church of Shavertown, on
the grounds adjoining the rectory.
‘Wednesday evening, July 11. :
Rev. John J. ‘O'Leary, pastor, with,
his assistants, Rev. John TF. Carroll,
‘and Rev. Thomas L. Gildea, have ex-
tended a general invitation to their
many friends to participate in the an-
nual summer party. Expectations are
that close on to 1,000 suppers will be
served, t
A special detail has been announc-
ed to assist Mrs. E. J. Staub’s com-
mittee on the night of the supper.
Richard Staub will be chairman, as-
sisted by Harold Culver, Junior Klump,
Harold and George Gable, Joseph Gir-
“van, Harold Keppner, Warren Meach-
man Bernard Miller, Edward Staub,
John, Edward and Paul Gallagher.
Other committees announced today
are:
Games—John Gallagher, chairman.
Bingo—A. P. Fischer, Ambrose Farrell,
Joseph Regan, Bernard McNelis and E.
J. Staub. .
Cage—William C. Luksic,
Quinn and Frank McGarry.
Wheel—Patrick Garrity and Eugene
Griffin,
Refreshment stand—Mr.
Fay Williams Jacob Beline,
Bilbow and Joseph Donachie.
Rose tree—Mrs. W. Arthur Blewitt
and The Little Flower Girls.
Fancy work booth—The Misses Mil-
ler and Florence Rave.
Grounds—Fred Youngblood, -chair-
man; Herbert Lohman, Charles Layou,
Louis Youngblood, William Staub, Jo-
seph Wallo, Ray Laux John Staub,
. Harold Laux, James Cawley, Thomas
Keppner, Edward Estock, John Breza,
Alpert Klump, Charles Youngblood,
Warren Meacham, Nicholas Staub and
Chris Stahl.
Building And Loan
To Open New Series
Bernard
and Mrs.
Martin
x
The Rural Building and Loan Asso-
ciation is offering stock in the second
series of the association, starting at
the meeting which will be held next
Monday night at the Dallas National |
Bank.
This association was started to aid
home owners and the development of
Dallas, Shavertown, Trucksville and
other nearby territories. Forty-three
members subscribed to 233 shares of
stock in the first series issued January
a TRACE HISTORY OF
: STATE'S 70,000
GRADUATES
'What will happen to the 70,000
graduates of Pennsylvania's high
schools this year? From its sur-
vey of what happened to 1933's
65,000 the state makes these pre-
dictions: )
12,000 will go to college.
4,200 will return to high school
for additional education.
3,600 will enter schools for nurs-
es or commercial schools.
18 400 will £1 emnlorrent. |
The others, approximately 35,000
will “remain st home”, many of
he rirls as wives or house%eepers
FIVE PRESIDENTIAL
INQUIRIES KEY TO
ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
—_—
Here are the five questions
President Roosevelt asked every
citizen of United States in his ra-
dio address before he left on his
sea tour:
1. Are you better off than you
were last year?
2. Are your debts
some ?
3. Is your bank account more se-
cure? ;
4. Are your working conditions
better? y
5. Is your faith in your own in-
dividual future more firmly
grounded ?
The answers are supposed to be
the key to the question of the
country’s economic condition a
year after Mr. Roosevelt took of-
fice.
What are your answers?
Mrs. N eyhart, 76,
Called By Death
Widow Of Former Township
Tax Collector Buried
At Greenwood
less burden-
The funeral of Mrs. Ella M. Ney-
hart, widow of Milton Neyhart, who
was tax collector at Kingston township
until his death in 1932, was held from
the home in Shavertown yesterday af-
ternoon.
Services were at the Shavertown M.
E. Church, with Rev. F. M. Sellers,
pastor, officiating. - Rev. J. I. Thomas
of Trucksville and Rev. W. H. Stang
of Shavertown assisted. Interment
was in Mount Greenwood Cemetery.
Mrs. Neyhart was porn in Idetown
and resided in that vicinity her entire
life. She was a woman of pleasing
personality and industrious character.
She was organist for many years and
was a member of that church. She
taught music to pupils in Kingston
Township for many years. Mrs. Ney-
hart was a correspondent for the Re-
cord for five years.
She is survived by her daughter Mrs.
Leona Doughton with whom she re-
sided, and one son, Ben Neyhart of
Fernbrook; also four grandchildren,
Mrs. Walter Lyke of Syracuse, Milton
Doughton Viola Doughton and Pauline
Neyhart, and one great-grandchild.
Walter Frederick Lyke.
Mrs. Stella Fiske,
Old Resident, Dies
Widow Of “Former Dallas!
Constable Buried
Yesterday.
Mrs. Stella, Fiske, a resident of Dal-
las Borough for the last thirty years,
died on Monday afternoon at 5 at the
home of John L. Sullivan Huntsville
Street. Funeral services were held yes-
terday afternoon from Mrs. Fiske’s late
home on Parrish Heights.
The deceased was tne wedow of Ed-
ward Fiske, who had been a constable
in Dallas and formerly a policeman in
Luzerne. She had been in ill health
for several weeks. Her passing was a
severe blow to her many friends in
this section.
Surviving are two step-children,
Eugene Fiske of Wilkes-Barre, and
Herbert Fiske of Luzerne; four broth-
ers, John, Edgar, and Harry Harris
all of Dallas, and Charles Harris, of
Miners’ Mills, ’
rr tp pris
To Present Pageant
Rehearsals for the pageant, “Who
Bids”? which will be presented by the
children of the Methodist Sunday
School next Wednesday night in the
M. E. Church, will be held at 4 p. m.,
Thursday and Friday.
The pageant will begin at 8 p. m.,
and is under the direction of Mrs. Mar-
garet Patton. Miss Edna Hunt is ac-
companist on the piano and will be as-
sisted by Miss Doris Leek, saxophonist
and Miss Olive Anthony, violinist.
The proceeds will be used to buy
chairs for the Beginner's Department.
There will be a silver offering. An ice
cream social will follow the perform-
ance.
Lake Far In Lead
In Retail Stores
Mercantile Report Lists 77
For Lake, 28 For
Dallas
The list of retail stores in Luzerne
County communities, as announced
this week in connection with the Mer-
chantile Appraisement, shows Lake
Township to have by far the greatest
number of retail outlets among towns
in the Back Mountain Section,
Seventy-seven stores and retail es-
tablishments are listed for the town-
ship, as compared with twenty-eight
existing in Dallas Borough. Kingston
Township ranks second, with forty-
five stores and Lehman Township is
tied with Dallas Borough with twenty-
eight. Dallas Township has twenty-
one retail establishments.
It is apparent from the report that
the greater number of retail stores list-
ed for Lake Township result from the
popularity of the region as a summer
resort and although the number of out-
lets exceeds the number from another
of the other Insal cervrammities .many!
ted are «mall atoros and refresh-
stonde
£ Tt is prokable that the
twenty-eivht retail establishments in
Dallas Rorouc® “do a greater yearly
valrme of brsinase than the seventv-
many of the boys as “unemployed”.
seven at Harvey's Lake, many of which
are opened only during the summer.
Ice Skating While Temperatures Rise
Dallas
degree temperatures this week
* but in the Chicago’s World Fair
ice skating was uninterrupted in
folk sweltered in 100-
the German exhibit, where
science has made it possible to
maintain winter atmosphere
throughout the hottest weather.
Record-breaking crowds are
attending the World's Fair and
are paying particular attention
to the section in which the fore-
ign villages are built, an area in .
which the visitor can “see one-
juarter of the world in half-a-
lay”.
Fourth Celebrated Without Fanfare Here;
Tunkhannock Mardi Gras Draws Crowds
Heavy Traffic Marks Exodus
To Lake And Country
Club
allas and vicinity observed Inde-
pendence Day without fanfare on Wed-
nesday, Back Mountain motorists join-
ing the crowded holiday traffic lines
which moved along main highways all
day bound for resorts and Fourth of
July outings.
Many persons from this section went
to Tunkhannock to enjoy the four-day
Mardi Gras which began on Wednes-
day. on the Fair Grounds. The affair
which is being sponsored by the Ameri-
can Legion, will continue through the
remaining days of the week and will
be climaxed on Saturday by Legion
Day. There is a splendid program of
circus acts, music, and novelty enter-
tainment. Several thousand persons
were in attendance on the Fourth.
Nearly 2,000 persons came to Irem
Country club on Wednesday, 200 of
them participating in the flag tourna-
ment in the morning and afternoon.
The swim-a-thon, long distance
swimming race at Harvey's Lake at-
tracted more thousands of persons as
the survivors in the gruelling contest
approached the 100-mile mark. These
teams remain in the race. One of the
Pittston swimmers, Roger Palmer,
weakened on Wednesday and received
medical attention, but was expected to
resume his place yesterday. Others
have been forced to withdraw from the
contest.
Dallas Council Meets
Dallas ° uncil met Tuesday
evening | - borough building with
six counc..uen present. Mr, Niemeyer
secretary, read the minutes of the pre-
vious meeting which were accepted. A
e
number of bills were paid. The work
on Davenport Street is progressing.
|Shavertown Leader
Heads Scout Group
Miss Beth Evans Completes
Course In Pioneering
At Macy.
Camp Onawandah, the camp of the
Wyoming Valley Girl Scout, Camp,
opened it's first encampment for the
1934 season on Wednesday, July 4th.
with a capacity enrollment of 123
campers. Each of the four units will
have every place filled with campers
from ten years of age on. The addi-
tional pre-scout unit especially ar-
ranged for this first encampment it-
self has an enrollment of twenty little
girls from the ages of eight to ten
years. ,
The Pioneer counselor in the inter-
mediate age group Mirimichi, Miss
Beth Evans, of Shavertown, Lieutenant
of Troop No. 19, Trucksville, just re-
turned from Camp Macy Training
Camp at Briarcliff Manor, N. Y. Miss
Evans took the course in Pioneering
and Tramping and Trailing and is well
prepared to teach pioneering to the
Mirimichi campers.
Girl Scouts wishing to enroll for
the other summer encampments start-
ing July 18th. August 1st. August 15th,
are urged to do so right away as regis-
trations for same are being received
rapidly. These may be made at Girl
Scout Headquarters, 54 W. Market
street, Wilkes-Barre.
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Pomona Grange
Members of the Grange of Luzerne,
Columbia and Wyoming Counties will
meet their friends at Patterson Grove,
Camp ground for a go-to-church-day,
Sunday July 8, at 2:30.
John A. McSparren will give the ad-
dress.
STRANGE SAGAOFADOG AND
MARINE IN FLANDER’S FIELD
By William Carmel Sparks.
Somewhere among the teeming millions of our country or in a poppy-
covered sepulcher in famous Flander's Field, rests the answer to this strange
tale of a United States Marine and a dog.
Verdun Belle—A setter.
‘This narrative of loyalty and affection, born amid the suffering of war was
first recounted sixteen years ago this
the Marne.
the tale of Verdun Belle.
Sixteen years have fled down the
fluted tube of the hour glass and the
trickling sand has piled high on end,
but the mystery persists. The final
chapter has never been told . . . may
never be told, for Verdun Belle (of
course she couldn’t really talk) has
long since passed her allotted span of
life, And the Marine too, may be in
Vallhalla, another lifeless shell on the
altar of destruction as a sacrifice to
the grim god of war.
His name? Lost! Lost among that
maze of humanity that trod the an-
cient Roman roads of France in the
summer of 1318. Only one thread from
this whirling spool of facts remains.
This young warrior was said to have
enlisted from some point along the
Eastern seaboard.
Perhaps there is some one, some
buddy, who shared with him in Flan-
der’s Field, who recalls camaraderie
that existed between this young Lea-
therneck and Verdun Belle. Perhaps
some one can write FINIS to this
anecdote of France's battlefields which
began. ...
In a chill grimy village where in all
manner of billets, a weary detachment
of Marines lay waiting the command
that would send them into those des-
olate ditches of death and despair,
> Minh andi Aizay pattern through “No
Man's Land.”
Into th's bleak T.orraine village
“me da at dusk, there trotted down
the mnidy road, a shabby squat set-
ter of a :estionable ancestry, Her hur- i
summer, in the shell-pocked valley of
Alexander Woolcott, eminent critic and journalist, first penned
Marines sat reflecting on his boot tips.
But he didn’t look up.
The setter sat down and contemplat-
|
ed this disconsolate-looking warrior.
Then, satisfied seemingly by what she
saw and sensed, she came over and
sank down on her haunches, settling
herself slowly as if she had come to
the end of her journey. A tired, grimy
hand reached out and rubbed a mud-
caked ear.
Somehow that gesture-Sealed a com-
pact between those two, man and dog.
She accepted him as her master. She
ate as he ate. Followed his every step.
To the uninitiated her enthusiasm may
not have been immediately explicable.
To his First Sergeant he was just an-
other Leatherneck. But then First
Sergeants, as a rule, are not sentimen-
tal. :
‘When orders came to move-up she
went along. Her behaviour was ex-
cellent. Certainly she knew trench
ways. Knew the dangers of the parapet
and the whining slugs that whistled
overhead. Through long hours of
waiting for patrols, when a sound
might have spelled disaster to hun-
dreds of men, Verdun Belle was the
perfect soldier,
Thala,
Some weeks later,
pany was encaged in the exhausting |verton ) 2
‘nties of what the high command was awarded to Isaac Coursen, at his bid
rlensed to call “resting,” Verdun Belle of $1,080 a year.
presented her master with a litter of
seven wrizeling casuals, They brought
ried steps slowed to a walk and finally i=any a furrow in her master’s brow.
stopned before a doorway at the end Then rest once more became a night- sixteen of whom will be six years old
of the street where a Private of!
(Continued on Page 4.)
Not a sound did she!
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Borough School District
Forced To
Default Bonds
Drys To Rally At
Shavertown Church
Chairman Of National Pro-
. hibition Party To
Speak.
E.E Blake national chairman of
the Prohibition Party, will be the
principal speaker at a rally to be held
by Prohibitionists of Lackawanna and
Luzerne Counties tomorrow (Satur-
day) afternoon at 3 in Shavertown M.
E. Church. N
Dr. Blake is a nationally known fi-
gure and has assumed a leading role
in the attack against forces which
were responsible for the repeal of the
Eighteenth Amendment to the Consti-
tution. That movement, which was
dormant during Prohibition years, has
been revived during the last several
‘months and the Prohibition Party is
expected to play a fighting role in en-
suing elections.
George Hart of Scranton and other
prominent leaders in the movement
will join with clergymen and laymen
from Luzerne County in sponsoring the
rally.
The committee on arrangements has
as -members Rev. Fred B. Sellers,
pastor of Shavertown M. E. Church,
where the meeting will be held, Rev.
Judson Bailey pastor of the Methodist
Episcopal Church at Carverton, and
Mr. Hart.
A cordial invitation has been ex-
tended to everyone to hear what Mr.
Blake and his associates have to say
concerning conditions which are sub-
sequent to Repeal. f
Laing Carnival
Two Weeks Away
Firemen Speed Plans For
Four-Day Benefit
Event
Plang for the annual carnival to be
held by Henry M. Laing Fire Co., of
Dallas Borough and Dallas Township
on the Adelman Plot on July 18 19, 20
and 2., were rapidly approaching com-
pletion this week.
Among plans already made are
those for the nightly dances which will
be held, with music for both square
and round dances; the gayly-decorated
midway, an air circus, and a number
of new acts. A special event will be
the roast beef and fish supper on Fri-
day night.
Sunday School Board Meets
The M. E. Sunday School Board met
Monday evening at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Eugene Fiske. A number of
bills were ordered paid. It was decided
that the Sunday School collection of
July 15, should be used in the pur-
chase of hymnals and it was announc-
ed that the annual picnic will be held
at Fernbrook Park August 3.
Members of the board who were
present included Rev. Francis Free-
man, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Culp, Mrs.
A. C. Thomas, Mrs. LaVerne Race,
Miss Faye Whipp, Mrs. Jennie Brown,
Miss Lola Pittman, Mrs. Donald
Frantz, A. H. VanNortwick, Miss Bet-
ty Culbert, and Mr. and Mrs. A. E.
Fiske.
Teacher Resigns;
Appointment Made
Kingston Township Directors
Award Transportation
Contract
The resignation of one teacher
was accepted and two appointments
were announced at the meeting of
Kingston Township school board on
Monday night.
Miss Helen England presented her
resignation and Miss Sarah Pfahler of
Wilkes-Barre was elected to “fill the
vacancy in the commercial department.
Daniel N. Tippin was reelected as a
high school instructor, at a salary of
$1,050 yearly. Miss Pfahler’s salary
was fixed at $1,053.
Bills totalling $4,226.25 were paid and
a sum of $4 200 was borrowed from the
T.uzerne National Bank.
Tax collections totalling $278.48 were
reported. Prof. J. A. Martin, supervis-
ing principal of township schools, was
granted a vaeotion th at*and Columbia
+o laneisaar gedssiong from’ July
T 40 Ancust 17.
A three-year contract ‘or transpor-
TTnivasit
when the com- tation of schoo! children from the Car-
sect'on to the school was
At the recent registration of the
first grade children there were seven-
tv-five registered in the first grade,
by September 1.
+ treble
Payment On Issue Maturing
June 30 Remains
Unpaid
PRECEDENT HERE
For the first time in its history and
closely following the announcement of
a gift of $4500 from the State to meet
teachers’ salaries, Dallas Borough
School District defaulted in meeting
$2,400 worth of its bonds and interest
presented for payment June 30 at First
National Bank of Dallas.
Announcement of the failure to meet
the bonds came as a distinct surprise
to most citizens who were aware that
provision had been made for their pay-
ment in the current school budget and
who were also led to believe that the
board could handle its obligations on
the reduced tax ‘millage put into ef«
fect a year ago at the instance of Dal-
las Borough Taxpayers’ Association.
What will be the result of the board's
failure to meet its bonds remains to be
seen but it is evident from the Penn-
sylvania School Code that School
Bonds present a first lien against all
local assets. It is understood that the
board is acting under the advice of its
+
solicitor and is not sure itself of the
course of action that will follow. One
director when interviewed said that the
bonds will be met out of the next
school duplicate. If that procedure is
allowed the district will also have to
default when the next bonds come due
as there can be no provision made for
them in the 1934-35 duplicate.
No explanation of the default has
vet been forthcoming trom the board.
Previous hoards have been able to meet
the bonds as they came due, pay the
teachers higher salaries and reduce
other fixed obligations from the tax
duplicate and without the aid of a
$4 500 gift from the State.
It might be supposed that the reduc-
tion in tax millage this year is reflect-
ed in the non-payment of the bonds
but this is not the case when school
finances are analyzed.
Finances Analyzed
The school budget for 1933-34 shows
provision for the payment of $1,500 in
bonds and $1825 in interest. It also
makes provision for a loss in taxes of
$4358 in land returns. A reduction in
the taxes from 30 to 25 mills allows
for a $3,500 decrease in revenues re-
ceived by the board for operating ex-
penses but this is offset by reduced
operating expenses totaling $3,495 be-
low the previous school year, this re-
duction in operating expense being
brought about in the following man-
ner: Reduction in teachers’
$450; reduction in principal's salary,
$100; an additional reduction of $900
in teachers’ salaries because eleven
teachers are employed instead of
twelve as in the previous year; $2,000
which will not be due on teachers’ sal-
aries until July and August because of
the introduction of the 12-month in-
stead of 9-month system of payment.
The reduction in revenues due to
salaries
lower millage of the past year is bai-
anced by a reduction in the operating
costs to June 30 1934, revenue reduc-
tion being approximately 3,500 and op-
erating reduction being approximately
$3,500.
No Sinking Fund
Some members of the board claim
that the default is the result of pre-
vious school boards failing to set up a
sinking fund. Members of previous
boards say that the State Department
of Education recommended that no
sinking fund be established for the fol-
lowing reasons: First, if such a fund
were set up and taken from current re-
ceipts of the board there would be no
place where this money could be in-
vested to bring in 5 per cent. which is
the amount of interest which the bonds
carry. With - money set aside in a
sinking fund the board would have to
borrow money at 6 per cent to meet
expenses and would lose in the neigh-
borhood of $3 000 in interest over a
period that the bonds are outstanding.
Former boards have been able to meet
the bonds in serial form as they come
due serially and without the use of a
sinking fund. This method has had
the full support of the State Depart-
ment.
Aside from failing to meet its bonds,
the present board is also behind on
finances of the local school distric
(Continued on Page 4.)
SEASON OPENS TO GET
FOUR-LEGGED
CROAKERS
Frog legs, ranking as perhaps’
the| greatest delicacy produced by
Pennsylvania inland waters, are
legal again. The season for the
big green fellows opened on Mon-
day. y
Frogs are reported plentiful in
a number of sections of the State
this year and some good catches
are expected. “Fishing” for frogs
has many unusual angles as a
sport. They wi'l freanently lunge
with lightning-like rapidity at a
trout fly dangled before them. Old-
timers at “frog-fishing” use a
long cane pole and a short, stout
line usually not more than two
feet in length. Their lure is a
hook, drapped with red
flannel. Whether the red excits
a certain “bull instinct” in the
frog is a matter for conjecture,
but the fact remains that this lure
is the most effective one. ;