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Eifnis country for about
1 etty soon now he'll go
A in and ¥pecome a Storm Troop-
es OV€Lep his mouth shut but
talking 2 little here he doesn’t mind
arm tacticS: bit about Hitler's strong
‘or Goebbels: Je doesn’t like Goering
He jg still her.
peed 2 StorMite young and he hasn't
Die Junge fifrrooper long. He was in
when, at 18,t and he did so well that
| er they ga% became a Storm Troop-
bk ing Nazi D him a nice job instruct-
| chine gun:ces in the use of the ma-
! pack ho
Gene
the Dalarus, the new president of
pomes School Board, and whose
most Machell Avenue is one of the
| peerractive in the borough, has
as the headlines almost as much
jonel Lindbergh recently.
was probably a surprise to many
l see the daily newspapers referring
ir. Lazarus as president of the
ingston Business Men's ‘Association.
seems a little strange for a loyal
allas citizen to hold that job until
ou recall that Gene fills an executive
osition with the Kingston Cake Com-
bany, which is, after all, Kingston's
astest-growing industry.
We happen to know something about
e respect Kingston business men
ave for Gene's judgment and we'd
ongratulate him on his activities in
he campaign to widen Market Street
if it weren't that every time we see
him he’s hurrying to a committee ses-
sion,, a council meeting, or a Public
Service Commission hearing.
~ He had a real break last Friday
morning when the Public Service Com-
mission scheduled the hearing on the
arket Street project to follow im-
fnediately the Dallas water case. Gene
vas vitally interested in both projects
‘and he covered both on one trip to the
court house.
| Frankly the complications attending
the proposal to widen Market Street
leave us in a daze and how Gene can
ad his forces with such constant and
Shatiblo -onongy -oViolzos sur highest
ration, - ba
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ince the paragraphs above were
ten we have seen Mr. Lazarus and
atulated him. He was beaming.
on Council had just voted, 13 to
0 widen Market Street. Gene re-
ised praise. “Congratulate the people
Kingston” he said.
. Sai
One night this week we went'to a
bcond-run theatre in Wilkes-Barre to
be (for twenty-five cents) Laurence
alling’s cinematic history called The
rst World War.
The picture began with a shot of
ree-year-old Edward Windsor, later |
oa
e Prince of Wales, playing at
ldiers with two other youngsters. It
owed Kaiser Wilheim and his Prus-
n war lords reviewing countless rows
goose-stepping soldiers on countless
jocasions. It moved swiftly through
he days when all Europe was prepar-
hg for war and then it showed the
rmies — Russia’s ten million men
hat were to be more than enough to
top the war . . . King George’s “con-
femptible little army” off for Calais
. . Papa Joffre sending his men in
axis to stop the German advance on
Paris.
The picture moved toward its cli-
max. Flaming balloons dropped into
the trenches . soldiers, struck while
advancing, whirled and somersaulted
and clutched at their breasts in front
of the camera ... great geysers of
zith shot into the air . . . airplanes
roared overhead . . . villages burned.
In the midst of it, somewhere in the
darkness of the theatre back of us,
there was a shrill, nervous scream . . .
‘a pathetic cry from a man’s throat.
Two men, one holding the other's
trembling arm, got up and walked out
of the theatre hurriedly.
Back on the screen the war had end-
ed and flashes of today’s events were
being shown. Mussolini, Stalin, Hit-
ler, McDonald, Roosevelt, Goering . . .
all of them waving their arms wildly
and opening and closing, their mouths.
For all the world like fish in a glass
baw! we thought.
ALittle Orphan Annie has come to
our house to stay.” At least nothing
we have been able to do seems to make
ler like our place less—and that, ladies
land gentlemen, is the reason for this
—0—
tory. Orphan Annie is a cute little |
Hog, lively and smart in everything e-1
expt knowing how to find her home. |
or the last two weeks she has made
er headquarters in our dog coop, but
e already have a dog,—and there's
1e rub. If you would like to have a
nice little dog for your children you
can have this one by calling The Post.
Not just because we want to get rid
of a stray dog. That could be done
easily enough by calling a police officer
but we think Annie is the kind of a
dog that deserves a good home. Doecsn’t
someone want her?
y me
Generally when anything as exciting
as the local wate controversy rocks a
community a n
the developmet!
vailing sentimer
accusations of
ority.
so reflects the pre-
hat it cannot escape
yjudice from the min-
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~~ DALLAS, PA.,, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1935.
STRATOSPHERE
ACE WEEK-END
VISITOR HERE
Balloonist Who Bailed Out
At 1,500 Feet Visits
Kirkendalls
HAD NARROW ESCAPE
Residents of Dallas were thrilled
Saturday afternoon when Lieut. John
P. Kirkendall and Major William A.
Kepner flew over Dallas and gave a
flying exhibition for a few minutes
before proceeding to the Scranton Air-
port where they landed and came to
Dallas to visit Lieut’ Kirkendall’s par-
ents, Postmaster and Mrs. George Kir- |
kendall.
The two officers flew here from their
station at Dayton, Ohio, where they
are in the procurement department of
the Army Air Corps in charge of pur
chases of air corps ' supplies. The
left Dayton at 11:33 Saturday mornin
and after stopping for sometime at th
Army Airport at Middletown arrived
in Dallas about 2:30. Because of the
condition of the Wilkes-Barre Wyom-
ing Valley Airport they were forced to
land at Scranton where they were met
by Mr. Kirkendall’s parents. Althougn
the ship they flew was not a fast one,
they traveled at a rate of about 170
miles an hour with favorable tail]
winds.
Lieut. Kirkenrall grew up in Dallas
where he received his early education, |
later attending St. Mary's academy in
Wilkes-Barre and Villanova College. |
He was graduated from West Point in |
11924. After leaving West Point he was |
| stationed at Brooks Field and Kelly
Field, San Antonio, Texas. He was]
| then transferred to Scott Field, Belie- |
| ville, IIl., in the lighter than air divi-
|sion where he received training in the
handling of observation balloons. Two
years of foreign service in Honolulu
followed. On his return to the United
| States he served at the New Randolph
Field at San Antonio and also for a
short time at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. At
| present he is stationed at Wright Field,
| Dayton, Ohio. Last winter while the |
Army Air Corps had charge of flying |
the mails, Lieut. Kirkendall had charge
of the conduct of the mails at the Chi-
cago Port.
Major William A. Kepner, who ac-
companied Lieutenant Kirkendall, 1s
his immediate superior at Wright Field;
and had the distinction last year of
one of the three Army Air Corps offi-
cers in charge of the National Geogra-
phic Society’s Stratosphere flight in a
balloon. Major Kepner was the pilot
on that ill-fated trip and was the last
to. bail out after the balloon bag rip-
ped and the gondola started at a dizzy
pace for earth.
Although Major Kepner talked little
of the flight while here, he did ex-
plain his experiences in the gondola
after one officer had successfully bailed
out through the port hole and a second
in attempting to leave had become
wedged in the port hole thus blocking
the exit for the Major. The gondola
| was dropping like a stone, Twice cap-
tain Stevens tried to push himself
through the hatch, but wind pressure
around the rapidly falling sphere
forced him back. Suddenly he backed
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up and plunged headlong through the |
opening. By this time the gondola had
| descended to 1,500 feet with Major
| Kepner still inside. Then Major Kep-
ner jumped.
his parachute the gondola continued |
earthward. He heard the gondola hit
the earth with a tremendous thud and |
saw a huge ring of dust shoot out
from the Nebraska cornfield in which
it landed. Then a minute later Major
Kepner landed near it.
Major Kepner is a world war veteran
and was wounded in an engagement in
France. After spending ‘Saturday
night and Sunday morning in Dallas |
with Postmaster and Mrs. Kirkendall,
Lieutenant Kirkendall and Major Kep- |
ner returned to their stations at
Wright Field. :
To Hold Benefit
Party January 29
Fernbrook Inn To Be Scene
Of Catholic Church
Fete
On Tuesday night, January 29, the
women of St. Therese’s Church will
conduct the first of a series of card
As the air pulled open |
parties and a Dutch ‘Supper at Fern-
brook Inn, Fernbrook, for the benefit
church.
Mrs. Albert Klump, chairman of the
| assisted by women of the community.
She has
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of .the church and from present indi- |
cations it will be the most successful |
social affair eyer staged by the local |
committee on arrangements, is being |
FOUR MORE DAYS
GEORGE H. EARLE
After next Tuesday,
Earle, (above) long-time Roose-
velt booster will be Governor of
this Commonwealth of Pennsyl-
vania. Democrats will swarm to
the Capitol City to celebrate their
recapture of administrative -leader-
ship.
George H.
Truckeville Woman
Heads V.N. A. Again
/
Two Other Locdl Women
Re-elected To
Board
Mrs. Harry W. M6htz of Trucksville
wag re-elected president of West Side
Visiting Nurse Association anr Mrs, R.
L. Brickel of Dallas and Mrs. George
Reynolds of Trucksville were named
directors at the 25th annual meeting on
Tuesday afternoon at Mrs. Montz's
home.
Significant yearly reports of the val-
uable work carried on throughout this
district each year by the association
were made by committee chairman. In
summarizing the year’s activities, Mrs.
Montz reported that there had been 22,-
172 visits made to 4,329 patients. Ap-
proximately 13,000 of those visits were
free. Mrs. Montz said a high maternity
mark had been reached, 7,850 visits hav
ling been made, an increase of 729 over
1933.
Local Men Will
Serve As Jurors
Three-Week Term To Start
February Fourth At
Wilkes-Barre
A number of men from this section
are among the 240 jurors selected at
Luzerne County Court House this week
for service at the February term of
Criminal Court, which will begin on
February 4.
The selections follow:
Week of February 4.
Kingston Township—C. E. Cunning-
ham, manufacturer; Herbert Hiil,
florist.
Lake Township — William Hausch,
carpenter,
Dallas
farmer.
Dallas Borough—Nelson Whipp, gen-
tleman.
Week Of February 11.
Lehman Township William H.
Nealey, merchant.
Kingston Township — Ralph Waltz,
Sr., chauffeur.
Week Of February 18.
Dallas Borough—Harold F., Blewitt,
laborer; R. L. Brickel, mortician; Paul
B. Shaver, electrician; G. Harold Wag-
ner, insurance.
Township — Lewis Nulton,
Kingston Township—Frank C. Locke, |
janitor.
Texas Woman Dies
At Sister’s Home
Gertrude Watt/ Here
To Attend Funeral
of Niece
Mrs.
Mrs. Gertrude B. Watt, wife of Dr.
|A. W. Watt of Texas, died on Tuesday
morning at the home of her sister, Mrs.
William Gans.
Mrs. Watt came here several weeks
announced that a valuable [ago to attend the funeral of her niece,
door prize will be awarded and indi- |[Mrs. Joseph Kram.
She was stricken
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The startled cries of a one-year-ol
from possible death in a raging inferno
The baby, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. |
| Harold Heiter, was awakened last I'ri- |
|aay morning at 4 by flames which were |
| licking the wall close by its crib. Its
| frightened cries aroused the parents.
|
Taking the baby from the crib and |
[lifting an older daughter, aged 3, from |
[her bed in an adjoining room, Mr, and [Improvement Company, affiliated with | paid.
Harold time |
Mrs. Heiter had just
; : iw snneth: ther of .
paper which reports enough to escape, attired in their sleep- | Bennethan, the mother of Mr. H ;
|also owns the structure occupied by the
They ran through the snow to the La |La Casa Club and occupied a suite of | reported
ling garments and barefooted.
[Casa Club about 500
building,
LAKE FAMILY SAVED FROM FIRE
BY CRIES OF ONE-YEAR-OLD BABY|
d baby saved a Harvey's*Lake family
last gveek.
the firemen reacl€d the building it was
beyond saving, the fire-fighting ef-
| forts to a#f adjoining building, which |
was blazing. It was only partially des-
troy€d.
Both cottages were owned by Lake
the George Estate.
Bennethan Mrs.
eiter,
away, and telephoned an alarm for the |the fire,
» Harvey's Lake Fire. Company. When!
The loss was estimated at $5,000.
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No. 2
4 Rate Rise No
State’s Engineer Intimates
t Necess
ary,
THE WATER COMPANY:
Meter Commercial and Industrial
Consumers.
Conduct fixture leakage survey
as recommended by Pitometer
Survey.
Install 6 inch
Street.
main on Monroe
Connect Golf Club Spring line.
File new rate schedule.
In 1936 install reservoir close to
distribution system with one
day’s storage (75,000 gallons)
Install 6-inch- line from reservoir
to system.
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In future, clean or enlarge trans-
mission mains as necessity de-
mands.
Install additional gate valves and
pressure reducing valves, if de-
sirable.
THE WATER COMPANY:
$7,100.00
Defraying
THE WATER COMPANY:
“If to the flat rates an annual
amount of $4.00 were added the
increase in revenue would be
$1,440 which added to a possible
saving of $300 per annum through
lessened. pumping head - totals
© $1,740, equivalent to a capitalized
rate base of $24,800 at 7 per cent
or $29,000 at 6 per cent.”
THE WATER COMPANY:
$4.00
POINTS ON WHICH THE WATER
COMPANY’S REPORT DIFFERED
FROM THE STATE ENGINEER’S
Suggested Improvement Program
The Estimated Costs
The Rate Increase
THE STATE ENGINEER:
Meter all public and commercial
consumers.
Conduct a survey of all consum-
ers requiring repair of leaky fix-
tures and if necessary install
meters on those consumers re-
fusing to make such repairs.
Replace 3-inch main on Monroe
Avenue and in the Sylvius trans-
mission main with 6-inch pipe.
Give consideration to meter all
consumers.
Erect immediately a standpipe
within the limits of the distribu-
tion system with a capacity of
at least 70,000 gallons.
Clean transmission mains.
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THE STATE ENGINEER:
$6,800.00
The Costs
THE STATE ENGINEER:
“Assuming that present rates
are just and reasonable, this ad-
ditional cost would entail an ad-
ditional charge on the 280 con-
sumers of approximately $1.00
per annum.’
THE STATE ENGINEER:
$1.00
By HENRY
Rate Increase May Provoke
Municipal Ownership Effort
Taxpayers’ Association Awaits Utility’s Action
J. DISQUE
President, Dallas Borough Taxpayers’ Association,
“Municipal ownership will not be pressed by the Taxpayers’ Association
unless the water company insists upon increasing its present rates.
“It has been said by a citizen of Dallas that we expect this water company
to furnish water as cheaply as in big cities. There is no truth in this as the
taxpayers have asked only for correction of the present inadequate service, as
School Waterless
As Service Fails
Classes Dismissed; Board
Moves To Seek New
Supply
The water supply at Dallas Town-
ship High School on Monday was so
inadequate, classes were dismissed for
the: day.
At a meeting of the board of direct-
ors' that night a committee was ap-
pointed to investigate the advisability
of obtaining a supply of water from
other sources than those now used.
School was resumed on Tuesday and
the supply restored. Giles Wilson and
Arthur Newman are the directors on
the committee seeking a new water
supply.
At the same meeting C. J. Eipper,
president, reported on the trip he, Mr.
Newman, and George Russ, architect,
made to Harrisburg recently to discuss
plans for the school addition which will
be constructed this year. A revised
plan was accepted by the board and
for final approval.
Russell Case, secretary, reported the
plans to improve the athletic field have
been approved as a CWA project and
| will be started early in February if
[final approval is given at Harrisburg.
C. J. Eipper was appointed a delegate
{to the convention of school secretaries
Ito be held in Harrisburg on February 5.
3ills amounting to $1,22
The treasurer's report showed
a, balance of $13,490.92 in the general
Ji.
|fund and $1,650.47 in the sinking fund. |
| M. J. Girton, supervising principal,
18 pupils were enrolled for
x
5
feet |rooms in that building at the time of |pecember and the average attendance
{was 85 per cent because of the
Ivalence of colds and grippe.
will be presented at Harrisburg again |
were |
pre- |
suggested by the Bureau of Engineer-
ing, Public Service Commission, with-
out increasing the present high rate,
admitted by the Dallas Water Company
in 1ts report to the Public Service Com-
mission.
There are a few of those residing in
the lower section who have an abun-
dance of water and raise a cry about
leaving ‘good enough alone.’ In other
words, as long as they are well-served
they should worry about their neigh-
bors. A very selfish and not to be
commended attitude.
Again, we have the
cries about the town's name being
harmed by the widespread publicity
given the local water situation. Yes,
the town has and is losing prospective
home owners because of the. long-
standing poor water service, but this
inadequate service has been well-
known for the past ten or fifteen years
and is not just now being realized.
If widespread publicity will help to
bring about the realization of an ade-
quate water service at a reasonable
cost, then it will have helped the future
growth and health of this community.
In the meantime there are those whose
| health and property values are greatly
element that
affected who will not sit idly by until
adequately served with water, a service
for which they are paying plenty.
“The taxpayers are not fighting the
metering of the town, provided the
maximum number of gallons allowed
per consumer per day at a reasonable
{minimum rate is not fixed so low
las to result in an increase water rental
|to the average consumer.
“The Taxpayers’ Association is pre-
| pared to fight to the end any rate in-
| crease.
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FIREMEN TO MEET
Henry M. Laing Fire Company will
meet in the hose house on Friday night.
STRESSES NEED
FOR STANDPIPE
Consumers Await Decision
Of Attorney Goldberg
On Case :
CASE COMPLETED
TAXPAYERS AWAITING
Improvements swhich assure
adequate water e in Dallas can
be made for an additional charge of
$1.00 per annum per consumer, instead
of the $4.00 increase suggested by the
local water company, according to G.
Radford Berry, the engineer who con-
ducted a survey here for the Public
Service Commission.
This disagreement with the utility’s
report and the insistence that certain
improvements should be carried out im-~
mediately instead of within a year as
the water company suggested were
highlights of the report which Mr.
Berry presented at the hearing of the
Public Service Commission last Friday.
Mr. Berry's report to the commission
was supplemented by a letter which he
wrote after he had studied the report
‘made by the Dallas Water Company.
In that letter he presented a detailed
plan, which, assuming that present
rates are not too high, would entail an
additional charge of approximately
$1.00 each per annum.
In the same letter Mr. Berry referred
to the utility’s plan to construct a re-
servoir close to the distribution system
shortly after the end of the 1935 calen-
dar year. “We see no justification”
wrote Mr. Berry, “in waiting still an«
other year.”
Both reports were presented formally
to Commissioner Herman J. Goldberg,
at a hearing last Friday morning in
Luzerne County Court House. Attor-.
ney Goldberg promised to announce
within a few days his decision con-
cerning which of the proposed mea-
sures the utility is to carry out. :
Reports Dovetail -
The report presented by Robert Hall
Craig, general manager of The Dallas
Water Company, was that which was
first presented by The Post three weeks
ago.
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tions for improvements and proposed
the new rate tariff, as was predicted.
In many respects, Mr. Berry’s report
was similar to that of the water com-
pany. Mr. Berry had visited here in
November and his description of the
plant, the supply and sources, the
mains, the distribution system and
other general information was similar
to that in the utility’s report.
lies in the areas in which complaints
were concentrated and found justifi-
cation for their complaints. ‘The Te-
latively great length of each of the
transmission mains appears to be the
principal cause of the difficulty with
regard to adequate pressures on the
high points” he wrote. “It is undoubt=
edly true that if these mains were
cleaned as is recommended by the Pit-
ometer Company, marked difference
would be noted.”
The mecessity for immediate provie
sions for a reserve source of supply to
meet any decline in the yield from
either of the two wells or sudden in-
creases in use through the system was
stressed by Mr. Berry repeatedly. “This
storage” he said “could be provided by
means of a stand-pipe suitably located
within the distribution system and
having a capacity of 70,000 gallons
which, coupled with the Sylvius Reser=-
voir, would provide for something raore
than one day’s supply.
The water company suggested a pi
milar move but believed it would not
be necessary until 1936.
Metering, a leakage survey, replace=
ment of the Monroe Avenue ling with
larger pipe, and the erection of the
standpipe should be carried out im-
mediately if relief is to be had, Mr.
Berry said.
Rates Figured
In disagreeing with the company’s
intimation that a $4.00 increase wonld
be necessary to defray costs of im-
provements, Mr. Berry, who estimated
that the repairs could be made for
$6,800, instead of the $7,100 estimated
by the utility, resorted to accounting.
His figures follow:
Return on investment, 6%
Depreciation, allowing 25 years
for meters, 30 years for stand-
pine, and 50 years for mains,
using 4% sinking fund
$408.00
101.00
Maintenance of Standpipe \
and Meters $125.00
ARENA,
Sub-Total $634.00
Less a credit for saving in pow-
er (estimated by respondent at
$300) ‘and . by Treason of the
abandonment of the 3 inch main
on Monroe Street, say 334.00
Net increase in annual cost $300.00
Assuming that present rates are just
and reasonable this additional cost of
$300 per annum would entail an addi-
tional charge of the 280 consumers of
approximately $1.00 each per annum.
Repairs May Wait
It ‘was indicated by Attorney B. B.
Lewis, representative for the Taxpay=
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It listed a number of recommenda,
Mr. Berry visited a number of fami- -