and “Stubby’—meet them this week in The Post's new serial _ strip “O’Shaughnessy’s Boy”, a heart- ‘stabbing drama of a wild animal train- er and the boy he loves. Florida's Ship Canal Starts , .. Foot- ball Is Here . .. Great Britain As- sembles Hes Ships At Gibraltar . . . News Pictures From The Corners Of The World On The Post's Weekly Pic- ture Page. “Windy” The Dallas More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution VOL. 45 DALLAS, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1935. POST SCRIP VETERAN WORDS PHRASES EDITOR NOTE A man we have always admired from a respectful distance is Father J. J. O'Leary, whose pretty little stone church juts out from the hillside over Shavertown. Some years ago we managed to work our way for a while into the grace of a group of disabeled World War vet- erans who had their headquarters in a loft on Public Square. There the men who had felt the weight of war's wea- pons gathered almost nightly to nour- ish the friendship that sprang from their common disability. It was a small organization, but an exclusive one. You had to have had a piece of shrapnel through your leg or a lungfull of mus- tard gas before you were admitted. And these men, all of whom had learn- ed war at its worst, had an almost worshipful admiration for Father O'Leary. Father O'Leary had also seen war. He, too, had been severely, almost fa- tally wounded. When peace came he had become intensely interested in helping those men who had come back to civilian life with crippled legs, glaz- ed eyes, weakened lungs and patched- up bodies. Officially, he was chaplain. Unofficially, he was a sort of spiritual guide who could understand ex-soldiers and win their lusty respect. From the disabled vets we learned to have a wholesome regard for Father O'Leary. As a newspaper reporter, we had full opportunity to watch him moving among the veterans, joking with them, cheering them, inspiring them, and all without sacrificing any of the dignity of his office. We were especially ‘glad when Father O'Leary came to be pastor of this section’s most beautiful church, St .Therese’s at Shavertown. His Church, now benefitting by the addition of a new pipe organ, has one of the most loyal parishes we have ever known. Members of his congrega- tion have the same sort of respect for him that our disabled veteran friends had. His sphere of influence spreads far beyond the boundaries of his par- ish. A short time ago illness forced him to go South: for a time and the welcome received upon his return was an occasion in which people of all creeds participated, We like the way he has patterned his life, we hope he won't mind our mentioning it. tai Most people, we suppose, have pet words and phrases. One of ours is © “Questionable character of the com- munity”. It has a swing we like. The first time we heard it was when it was applied to some fellow who had blossomed out in a plaid sports cap. His wife told him he looked like one of the questionable characters of the community. A man we know loves to say that people are “eking out a pre- carious ® existence”. Another friend of ours once discovered the word ‘“medi- ocre” and abused it insistently until someone spoke to him sternly after he had commented that an accident had happened in the “mediocre” of the street. MATE ‘We can never, the mental processes of people who be- lieve they can, from the wealth of their experience selling bonds, performing surgical operations or digging ditches, run your newspaper better than you can. It is one of the worst curses of mewspaper work. An ordinary man would hesitate to teach history without studying it care- fully, No sane person would try to build a house without knowing some- thing about architecture and carpen- tering. Even a ditch diggér has to have some experience before he wields his pick smartly. But everybody and his brother enjoys tossing off advice on how to write a story, pattern a magazine or headline a feature, pre- facing it, usually, with “I didn’t know anything about it, but—". It seems to be accepted generally that editing a newspaper is nothing more than a matter of common sense. A man with ten or twenty years ex- perience on newspapers is granted no more authority than the man who has written nothing since he left high school but who will, at the drop of a hat, instruct an editor in the proper way to conduct his job. lO Actually—and of course no one will believe this—publishing a newspaper or a magazine, however humble, is a job full of subtleties and pitfalls which become known only after practical ex- perience. We have proved that it takes no great brains, but experience does count. No one without experience can expect to co-relate all the details into a complete, polished, finished result— an interesting newspaper. Given un- limited resources, any intelligent per gon can hire the experienced depart- ment heads but even then the plan sometimes fails because of faulty poli- cies. As we say, no one will believe us. But if any enthusiastic critic of ours would like to. edit this newspaper for a week he can reach us at Dallas 300. ‘While we are on the subject, we would like to write something about people who telephone newspapers to tell them what they can’t print, a fav- orite peeve of ours. We hope no story of ours ever harms any person unjust- ly. ‘We never use stories of juvenile delinquency. We could count five or ten sensations which have occurred in Dallas in the last several years which were never puhlished because they might have embarrassed someone (Continued on Page 8.) THE BROWN BOMBER TAKES IT EASY i ‘While he awaits arrangements for his match with Max Schmeling, German heavyweight, Joe Louis, Detroit brown bomber, relaxes and enjoys the novelty of the marital state. But Joe, who has said he will fight as often as his manager can find opponents, takes no chance on getting out of shape. Here he is preparing to take a brisk bit of exercise on the shiny new bicycle which Willie 'Honeman, American bicycle champion, has just pre- sented to him. ' Local Townships Offered Share Of Funds For Road Maintainance Supervisors of second-class townships in the vicinity of Dallas yesterday received froii the county Works Progress Administration office invitation to take advantage of the opportunity to receive Highway Department funds on local WPA projects. The letters indicate that requests for’ use of Parkinson Act maintainance funds on projects can be made by a Directors Should township upon adoption of a resolu- | Study C Old Plan tion by its board of supervisors. It isi likely that a number of the second- High School Wi Was Built So | class townships near Dallas will avail Additions Could Be themselves of the opportunity. Mide Lasil Where a township advances funds 2 e a1 y for a project, either from its own treasury or by borrowing, the Highway | Department cannot reimburse the | I municipality, because the expenditure | of the money must be directed by the Pe built with a minimum of expense | department. Applications for projects, | was recalled this week as the school therefore, must be made to the local [Boars prepared to increase the space Highway Department office for ap- {available for rooms in the borough's proval by the Harrisburg Central of- School buildings S The foresightedness of directors w ad Dallas Borough's high building constructed so additions could | ho | { { | we suppose, fathom | Parkinson Act, and WP ‘When the present high school build- The Department is responsible for ing was constructed, the plans were | {the expenditure of funds under the |drawn 30 additions could be made A officials have | Poth sides of the auditorium at the | agreed that projects involving this |rear. The fact that the steel was | money will be superintended by dis- |placed with that idea in mind, that the trict officials and specifications for | fice. school on | {toilet and steam lines were laid so con- Death Driver Gets 4 Years, 8150 In Fines Had Been inking Before Accident I ch Boys Were Killed VERDICT SURPRISE Stewart Waters of Wilkes-Barre, who fled after the car he was driving while under the influence of liquor had figured in an accident in the Luzerne- Dallas road which resulted in the death sentenced to four years in jail and $150 in fines by Judge Benjamin R. Jones this week. In consideration of the circumstanc. es of the case and in view of the feel. ing here as a result of four automobile fatalities in one month, the sentence was considered by most persons as a mild one, and incinsistent with Judge Jones’s statement at the hearing when he told Waters “I don’t believe you realize what you have done. One dead and three others likely to die as the result of vour drunken act.” At the hearing, when Waters piead- ed guilty to a charge of involuntary manslaughter and driving while in- toxicated, it was recalled that Judge years before, On the involuntary manslaughter charge Waters was sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and the costs and to serve two years in the county jail. On a charge of driving while intoxicated he was sentenced te pay an additional two years in the county jail, making the total imprisonment four years. The accident occurred on September 3 on the broad, concrete highway, out- side of Luzerne. Two Huntsville boys, Harold Morgan, 7, and his brother, Warren, 12, died as a result of injuries they received in the crash. There were three deaths mear the same spot last month and about fif- teen injured. Councilmen Study Zoning Ordinance Committee Named To Sug- gest Changes In Bor- ough's Rules A committee - has been named by ent zoning regulations here with the lidea of making changes to protect pro- perty owners and assure the borough of safe and sightly buildings. | Members of the committee are Clyde Vietch, Wesley Himmler and Morgan |W ilcox. They were appointed on Tues- |day night after councilmen had dis- cussed the present building ordinance jand expressed doubt whether its pro- [visions are adequate. | Borough Engineer John Jeter was in- structed to present the Fernbrook- | Dallas sidewalk project to proper au- [thorities for approval and was also | instructed to report on costs of a side- |i walk on Huntsville Street from Frank- | {lin to Parrish Street, also suggested | las a WPA project for the borough. | Council ‘donated several oil lamps | which it no longer uses to the Outlet | Bible Tabernacle. Several residents of | | Pineview Avenue asked that a street | light be installed on that avenue, [which is without illumination. Attor- | A. IL. Turner, borough solicitor, | |ney of two of his youthful passengers, was |’ Jones had revoked Waters’ license two | {Dallas Borough council to study pres- | ANNEX TO BE COMPL | { | School was signed this week and work Chris Eipper, president of the board, $22,000 Contract Signed For New Township School ETED BY FEBRUARY 1 The contract for construction of the annex to Dallas Township High will be started within the next ten days, announced yesterday. Cost of the addition will be about $22,000, Mr. Eipper said. The general contract was awarded to W. F. Sutter of Nescopeck, “PETE, PET/\CROW, SHOWS DESIRE TO BE FRIENDLY NEIGHBOR A friendly crow which has been tapping at windows and hopping boidly about people’s porches in the borough recently turned out this week to be a tame bird, who squawks and flaps his wings when you call his name. "The crow pald several visits to The Post this week, blinking his eves wisely just outside the win- dow, and showing no fear at friendly overtures. A query direct- ed yesterday to a group of school children who were watching the crow’s aerial maneuvers brought the .information that the bird's name is “Pete” and that he is the property of Jimmy LaBarr. Beloved Blind Man ong Dies In Sleep n Home At Evans Falls Quietly, like the benediction to a beautiful life, death came last Sunday Peter ’ & slept in the humble home behind his little store at Evans Falls. Only a few hours before he had an- nounced to friends that he had sold the store which had been his for near- (ly forty years. His ruddy, youthful face was bright as he invited them to visit him in the rooms back of the store, where he would live. But in the evening (heart attack. He seemed to recover and lat 3 a. m. his wife carefully covered him and went to-her room to sleep. | When she awoke at 8 a. m. her hus- |band had not moved. He was dead— [nearly eighty-seven years after ‘his [Lirth in a mountainside homestead | [close by, forty years after a delayed {well explosion had blasted away his | sight. Living, his stalwart courage and the inspiring example of his cheerfulness ! had made him c¢ne of Northeastern Pennsylvania's best-loved characters. | Dead, he left as a memorial, friends in greater numbers than any quiet-liv- ing man in this section. He was born on November 16, 1848, in a mountain home which still stands near Evans Falls. When he was an old man he spoke frequently of the hard- Iships which were characteristic of his early life. In his middle ycars the accident oc- curred which cost hira his sight. A dynamite charge in a well he was sink- ing failed to fire. Impatiently, he dlimbed iato the holea-—in time to re- ceive tha tull force of the helated blast |in the® face, It blinded hin. The store to whicn he turned to make his living brought Fim most of the friends who grew to respect him {highly during the declining. years of his life. Sightless. he managed the store with the alacritv and keeness of a seeing man, He knew the feel of road projects shall be in accordance nections could be made easily and that |\j]) prepare releases which Mr. Davi- |every coin and could make chahge ac- additions considered at the [time were in harmony with regulations | Second Class Townships of the coun- lot th : ty receive about $32 per mile of Park- inson funds for road maintainance, and | as the county's total mileage of this type of highway is 597.26 miles this | Plans for remodelling the grade | means that approximately $22.804 will | oy, 00] ‘at an approximate cost of $22,- be available if all townships desire 10 {500 were studled by. directors. at a set up projects for the coming year. meeting Friday night, The alterations Townships with largest mileage of \would provide two additional rooms for this type of road are as follows: Fair- | the grade school and have been drawn mont, 58.21; Huntington, 55.80; Salem, [by L. V. Lacy, architect. 33.50; Butler, 24.6; KXingsten, 25.54; Mr. Lacy has Jackson, 22.01; Black Creek, 29.1; Lake | .,.ootion of an addition 32.80; Lehman, 27.70; Union, 28.68: | opoor pulling contalhing Hunlock, 24.90. Nescopeck, 25.80; Dora the basement, class rooms, a library rance, 24.40; Hollenback, 23.30; Hazle, | 1,5 and a principal's office. These 21.40; Sugarloaf, 22.10; Franklin, 17.24; [plans will be presented to the Depart- Dallas, 15.72; Exeter, 16.72, 16.79; PIV-) ong of Education by Mr. Lacy who mouth, 20.01; Foster, 24; Denison, |i report again at the next meeting. 18.32; Fairview, 7.60: Ross, 38.90; Rice, Mr. Lacy’s suggestion to cover 4.90; Bear Creek, 3.5; Wright, 1.90; | school yard with a composition, od BC Lr emacstlcost dof $147.50; Bucky is the only Second Class Town- | of the cost. Harry Pittman, secretary. ship in the county without locally | was authorized to solicit bids for fifty maintained roads. (Continued 'on Page 8.) | with Department standards. | he future | by directors who are now planning an addition. to the high a shop in at a BACK MOUNTAIN: BIOGRAPHIES: NO. 8 George Reith From all parts of the world came the men and women who wrested this section from the George Reith, a Carverton farmer who was one of this region’s outstanding citizens in the middle of the Nine- teenth Century, first saw the light of day in Kincardineshire, Scotland, on the banks of the River Dee, in a territory steeped in traditions dating back to the Norman Conquest. His father, George, Sr., was overseer on the es- tate of a large landowner in Scotland, a man versed in the most forward methods of farming, He and his wife and his son, came to the new world on a boat that took six weeks tc cross the Atlantic. They settled in Wilkes-Barre in 1852. Later moved to the John Dorrance estate, where George, Sr., was employed. Uryon his deat, George, Jr., worked for then moved to Franklin Township, where In 1865 he wilderness. George, Jr., Sey five years on the Dorrencs farm, he purchased the D. H. Frantz farm of 125 acres. was married to Miss Eliza J. en and a son, George, was born to them on October 3, | 1866. Later the R was a progressive farmer, informed in civil and social matters, a man of influence in his neighborhood. eiths moved to Carverton. Until his death George, Sr, ‘ e State Department of Education | | warrants consideration of the old plans | presented plans for | the | was rejected because | son of Pineview Avenue ~will have |signed. } | J. F. Besecker, chief of Henry M, {Laing Fire Coy, asked that council in- | stall a fire hydrant at Machell Street | fand Lehman Avenue, where the new |six-inch main ends. Council promised to install the hydrant if the cost is not exorbitant. The treasurer’s report showed a bal- ance of $1,31.81. Bills amounting to $782.65 were ordered paid from the general fund, including a note for $250 due October 3. A bill for $139.40 was ordered paid from the light fund. Senator Is Chief Of Firemen Again Allen Also Re-Elected As President of Lake, ~~ Compgny.. Senator Andrew J. Sordoni has been re-elected chief of Daniel C. Roberts Fire Company of Harvey's Lake. At the same election Otis A. Allen was re- elected as president. Other officers are: I. C. Stevenson, | vice-president; M. E. Kuchta, record- |ing secretary; W, E. Myers, assistant secretary; F. A. Williams, financial secretary, and A. L. Stull, treasurer. The meeting was held on Friday night, when committee reports were received and plans for the ensuing year were discussed. Senator Sordoni, who lis also chairman of the board of trus- tees, reviewed the philanthropies of Daniel C. Roberts, who financed the erection of the new fire building and the purchase of a new truck complete with hose, boots, coats, hats, etc., and expressed the company’s gratitude to Mr. Roberts. Special attention is called to the re- > ihis stock curately, except when bills were in- volved. Only once—waen a friend test- ed him with a new $20 gold piece | milled edges—did he fail to call the denomination of the piece, and even then he guessed it was gold. He knew | and customers, |. accurately, especially strangers, were dumbfound- (Continued on Page 8.) Skull Is Fractured = In Motor Accident 26, of Mt. Airy=Shavertown, who suf- fered wafrattured skull in a motor crash this week, hes improved consid- erably. She is at Nesbitt Memorial Hos- pital. Mrs. Hankey was riding in the car with her husband when they collided with a truck operated by Walter Ben- ich, 126 ‘West Main Street Glen Lyon, on Union Street, Luzerne. The truck is said to have crowded Hankey's car from the road. Post Sends Magazines To Six Local High Schools Following a custom established some vears ago, The Dallas Post this week forwarded one year subscriptions to the American Boy and Youths’ Com- panion to each of the following six lo- cal school libraries: Dallas Borough, IDallas Township, Kingston Township, {Lehman Township, Monroe Township and Noxen Township. Called By Death morning to “Uncle” Peter Brong as he | he suffered a! J > —————— The/ condition of Mrs. Edith Hankey, | Provides Needed Space The annex will solve Dallas Town~ ship’s school congestion problem by | providing two additional classrooms i for use about February 1. As funds are available, the district will finish ad- Broes classrooms and the auditorium which will be completed in the rough | under the present contract. i The sound condition of the district's finances permitted the directors to bor- row on their assessed valuation and did not necessitate the use of the $25,- 000 bond issue approved by township voters at the election last year. The district still has a margin on the two per cent limit allowed, a sharp con- trast to many districts which have been financially pressed. yi The plans for adding to the building as funds are available has been ap- proved by the State. The construction to be completed under the present | contract will be of frame, with a brick { veneer, in harmony with the present structure, Tap Water Supply Coincident with the start of con- |struction on the new annex, the Dal- {las Township School District will have water company mains disconnected and begin use of its own water supply, a move calculated to bring an appreci- able saving | ers. f | The supply hill come from a well on school property from which, years ago, ithe Highland Mineral Springs water, the first bottled water to be sold in this section of the State, was drawn. The well has not been used for years and underwent a thorough cleaning under the direction of R. B. Shaver i before tests were made. : Careful tests bythe State dicate that the quality of the water is high and tests for volume show that there will be a supply of water more than adequate for the district’s needs. The well equipment is being installed now [by Ralph Hallock, local plumber, and it is expected that the water will be [used by the school within two weeks, | The grade school will continue to. {use the water supplied by Dallag~ Shavertown Water Co. Forefather Was In Boston Tea Party Former Luzerne Police Chief Was Descendent Of Roger Williams A descendant of Roger Williams, English colonist and toner opto ; Island, Asa Rush Pembletops 86, re- tired Shavertowii merchantevas buried vesterday afternoon in Trucksville Cemetery. 5 He died on Sunday morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. S. Bos- art, Harvey's Lake, of a heart ailment. Mr. Pembleton was born at Lockville lon February 8, 1849, the son of Rev. Asa and Anne (Dymond) Pembleton. His great great grandfather was Cap- tain Brian Pendleton, one of the lead- ers in the Boston Tea Party, and his great great grandmother was Esther ' Williams, a daughter of the English clergyman whose name became a his- toric symbol for religious liberty and uniform justice. Mr. Pembleton was for about fifteen years chief of police and high con- | stable in Luzerne Borough. He is sur- ivived by two daughters, Mrs. Gosart of Harvey's Lake and Mrs. Griffith | Lloyd of Kingston; sixteen grandchild- ren, and 16 great-grandchildren. The funeral was held yesterday af- ternoon at 2 from the Nulton Funeral Home at Beaumont with services at Trucksville 'M. E. Church. Rev. Joshua Brundle and Rev. J. Rolland Cromp- ton officiated. Two More Projects For This Section Laketon And Shavertown In; WPA Appropriations From U. S. Two more WPA projects were grant- ed to local communities this week when President Roosevelt approved ex- penditure of more than $700,000 for PWA and WPA jobs in Luzerne Coun=~ ty. Laketon will receive a Federal ap- propriation of 11,696 for work on the hill road on Route No. 415 and Sha- vertown will receive $3,443 from the government to repair a grade school. TO TEN GU Ten nuns who left yesterday for hot, moist, unhealthful British Guiana, in South America, were given a ceremon- [quest that persons reporting fires in [the vicinity of Harvey's Lake tele- Iphone the Dallas operator. : | HORSE DRAGS BOY TO DEATH | Hustus, Nebr. acy Jack, 11, was fatally injured len a horse he kicl- led bolted and dragged him over a mile. 1 Qrovson Baltimore, Plains, Freeland, dense for ests. ious farewell at, College Misericordia on Sunday afternoon. Four of the sisters will ga Charlestown in Demerara to teachiand lie will take over a leper colony where {the danger of infection will be a eon- | |stant menace. & | The group includes nuns from Towa, | MISERICORDIA BIDS FAREWELL JTANA-BOUND NUN S | Johnstown, Scranton and Washington, {D.IC. The ceremony on Sunday included a pageant, illustrative of the heroism of | the nuns who have offered their ser- 0 | vices to the lepers and the children of lall races to be found among the pres- {ent pupils at St. Mary's, Charlestown. The climate of Guiana is unhealth- {ful to North Americans. A British colony, its interior is covered with to the township taxpay-
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