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.
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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 |
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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
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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-