If You Do Business In The Rich Area _ Surrounding Dallas You Need A Reg- ular Advertisement In The Post. Why Not Test The Pulling Power Of This Paper With A Small Ag Next Week? ir Printing At The Dallas Post Are ssured Of Craftsmanlike Work At Fair Prices. { he Dalles More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution DALLAS, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1936. | F ight Imminent Over Utility’s Teacher Asked To Reconsider Her Decision WHAT $10,000,000 WILL DO BEFORE JUNE 6 Schedule Filed This Week Hits Business-Men Hapdést ¥% Dallas Board Declines To Accept Miss Dymond’s Resignation CATALOGUE BOOKS rl STATE ROUND AND ~~ AROUND - AMATEURS / / ‘ In any report on the State of the 3 Union, Presidential or sentimental, Miss Angeline Dymond, a teacher in +: there are certain developments which it is folly to ignore. Although he the commercial department of Dallas Borough High School, will be asked by the school board to reconsider the re- increased rafes filed by Dallas Water Co. with the Public Service Commiss covered his political field fairly well, EE a sion loomed this week as consumers— with business men in the vanguard— prepared to launch a protest. signation she submitted recently. = At a meeting on Wednesday night, members of Dallas Borough School Board explained they have been unable ~ Roosevelt neglected certain significant subjects which, we feel, are a part of 0 Bowes, the Union's state. Having nothing bet- ter to do—or, if you prefer, nothing ~~ worse—we shall take up where President left off. the & —Q—- His final words, you may recall, re- ferred to the “arduous days which lie before us’. Nothing he could have said ‘would have served better to lead into our discussion of the most recent Tw blight upon American civilization. ‘We efer to a song, title unknown, which elates, in monotonous detail, what happens to music when you push down the respective vaives on a sport model ~ French horn. According to our Research Dept., the song was born in a West Fifty-second Street musician’s club when a sharp- nosed trombonist by the name of Mike Riley tried to explain to an inquisitive and exhilarated young lady how he plays the silly looking horn he picked up in a Pitthsburgh hock shop. “You” he told her “just push this middle valve here, and the music goes downandaroun 4d.” If you have been near a radio at all in the last three weeks, you know the ; iley, Farley and “Red” Hodgson made a song of it. Splitting three ways, they have earned about $1,000 each to date. “Variety” predicts the ‘song will outsell “Yes! Ye Have No Bananas”. Thirteen thousand copies sold in New York City in one day. More than 100,000 copies were sold in “te weeks. The trio which wrote the song will receive three cents on each opy of sheet music, six cents a copy: on orchestrations and one-third of the receipts on records. : There are ‘““Round and Around” ties, illed with splotches of color and curly-cues. Women will be wearing ‘round and around dresses soon. One, ompany is ready to put out a ’round nd around cigarette holder. Although haven't heard of the 'Round and round Club reaching Dallas yet, we'll ‘know it has when someone slaps us on ‘the head with an open palm and hands us a paper clip curled ‘round and “around. That, we are told, is the ini- tiation. We just thought maybe could do something about it. Even though it has no 'Round and Around Club, Dallas is soon to have a concrete manifestation of another singular phenomenon in the history of the nation—the amateur contest. Not - Major Bowes, but The staid and civic- - minded Blue Ribbon Club will give lo- cal amateurs their chance. © Although there are other amateur programs and the idea is as old as en- ~ tertainment, the pace is set by Major who introduces about fifteen amateurs in his National Broadcasting j4 Co. program for Chase and Sanborn on * ‘Sunday nights. Some inkling of the ~ State of the Nation with regard to Congress | amateur contests is given in the report that about thirty thousand people leap - to their telephones or rush to a tele- graph office to vote for their favorite amateur on an average night, and ~_apout 10,000 people write to Major ¥ Towes every week asking for an invi- tation to broadcast. The Major gives © auditions to about 600. Generally, he selects about twenty acts. ! The lucky ones present themselves at his office at 2:30 on Sunday afternoon. The Major keeps an eye on them from then on, even taking them out to a res- _taurant at six for dinner. He's afraid if he leaves them to their own Te- sources some of them will faint or get drunk. Wihether you believe it or not, the dialogue is not rehearsed. Of course Major Bowes has a card which tells “a, few facts about each performer—if he’s married, if his wife’s expecting a child, what he does for a living. He ‘uses that information as a basis for his ‘questions. Nor do the amateurs know when they're going to get the gong. It's a delicate situation and it’s sure to crop .up at least once during every program. There's a certain danger that the dis- ~ gruntled amateur may vent his spite by cutting loose into the microphone. To prevent any embarrassing display . of anger, a strong arm man starts for the performer just before the gong is whacked. Some times the amateur who gets the gong isn’t so good-natured, but there’s never been any serious trouble. After the show, Major Bowes takes the performers to another room and has his picture taken with all of them. ‘Although the amateurs are told that they will get no money, each of them receives ten dollars after the show. About 250 of the flock which went before the microphone in 1935 are in the ten units now playing throughout the country. The minimum pay is fifty dollars a week, maximum is $150. In all, the payroll for the road companies is about $20,000 a week. Someone had estimated that Major Bowes and his personal organization cleared more than $1,000,000 during 1935. The Major gets $5,000 for each week's work. 2 el | All is not discouraging about the state of the Union. There is, for in- stance, the tale that drifts in from Bloomsburg-way. Shortly « before Christmas James Smith of Almedia was convicted on a to find an applicant who measures up to the standards of Miss Dymond, al- though there have been a number of applicants. ; Miss Dymond is reported to have an offer of a similar position at Forty Fort High School. Her resignation has been under consideration by the di- rectors for nearly a month. As part of the meeting, directors in- spected the auditorium to learn if pos- sible why heat there has been unsatis- factory for recent public meetings. Several weeks ago Jack Roberts was authorized to investigate. It was established that the maximum heat is not being secured from the system at the building. Directors dis- covered univents that were. adjusted wrong, window panes that were brok- en and unplastered sections—about a dozen openings in all—which allow cold air to enter. I. V. Lacey, architect, explained how additional equipment could be installed to insure better heat, but he recom- mended that nothing be spent until steps are taken to use the present sys- tem correctly. Ralph Hallock, who installed the heating system when the building was built, said that it had never been plan- ned to use the auditorium for a formal dance, but that the present ‘system could be relied upon to provide ade- quate heat for the ordinary school ac- tivities if operated right. Directors Lapp and Roberts were authorized to see that corrections are made in the method of operating the heating sys- tem. Daniel Waters, new secretary, took office and presented a comprehensive financial statement covering the last nine years. He also gave a statement showing that several allowances bud- geted for the year which began last July already were exceeded. The dir- ectors agreed to Mr. Waters’ sugges- tion that a purchase system should be used by school dificials, requiring that they fill out an order for any material or supplies bought. Recently there has been confusion regarding purchases because of failure to fill out orders. Af the same meeting 1.. V. Lacey re- ported a trip to Harrisburg during which he made inquiries regarding the possibilities of remodelling the grade school building. He estimated it would cost about $10,000 and he expressed opinion that that would be too much for such a project. He submitted plans Fitzpatrick Wins Two Union Offices | Cornelius J. Fitzpatri ¥ head press- man for The Dallas Pogt for-tfe last two years, was honored "this week by being elected to two prominent union offices. He was named vice-president of Wilkes-Barre Council, Allied Printing Trades, which includes two members from each craft. Mr, Fitzpatrick has been a member of the council for five years. He also was elected sergeant-at-arms of Local 137, Wilkes-Barre Printing Pressman. It is his fifth term in that office. Lake Sportsmen Harvey's Lake Camp No. 252, United Sportsmen, met last night at the Pic- nic Grounds, with Frank Halowick, president, in charge, and ended the membership drive which has been in progress for two months. Lehman To Compete Against 18 Victors Local Thespians In State Drama Tourney This Month Six men and women from Lehman, appearing under sponsorship of the Ladies’ Aid Society of Lehman M. E. Church, will go to Harrisburg late this month to compete in the rural one-act play ‘tournament which will be a part of the State Farm Show. The local group won the right to take part in the State competition by coming out first in the district bi-county tournament. The plays will be given in the huge | auditorium of the farm show building, beginning on Wednesday night, Janu- ary 22, and continuing until Friday at 4:30. Eighteen dramatic groups from all parts of Pennsylvania will compete, representing the best talent among some 240 groups which took part in the eliminations. Members of the TILehman group, which is coached by Mrs. Arthur Ma- jor, are Louis Ide, Mrs. Francis Lewis, | Emma Ide, Charles Kinsman, Jr., Shel- don Ehret and Mrs. Charles Kinsman. There will be a local representative also in the sixth annual State Rural Musical Tournament, in which eleven groups will vie for the state honors. The Pike’s Creek Club of Alderson was without opposition for the district championship. Its members are John Rebennack, Charles Williams, Otis Al- len, Herbert A. Bronson, Alfred Bron- Here are two extremes—below the Texas Centennial Exposition Grounds at Dallas, Tex. as they look today. above: artist’s concep- tion of the Petroleum Products Building, right: and the administra- tion Building, left, both permanent structures costing together appro- imately $625,000, which will arise on the rough site. Exposition heads are rushing work on projects which call for the expenditure of $10,000,000 before the opening date, June 6. Bowes’ Influence Crops Up Locally “Major” Lapp and “Gorgeous Gracious” Besecker Preside Although the date for the Blue Rib- bon Club’s first Amateur Night in Dal- las Borough High School has not been fixed, response to the stunt this week indicated that it may be bigger than the club anticipated. . Already a number of applications have been received and although the names of the performers are taken confidentially, Ira Cooke, president of the club, has promised that the audience will be surprised at the prominence of some of the amateurs. Since the num- ber to perform will be limited, Mr. Cooke has urged that applicants file immediately, by writing to Box 328, Dallas. (Continued on Page 8.) Kunkle Reelected Council President Three New Members Give Oath Of/Office dn Dallas™ Dallas Borough Council increased Chief of Police Leonard O’Kane’s sal- ary $100 to $1,000 at its reorganization meeting on Monday night and fixed a retaining fee of $75 a month for John T. Jeter, borough engineer. No other salary changes were made R. L. Brickel was re-elected treasur- er at a salary of $50 a year; William | Niemeyer was retained as secretary at a salary of $150, Wiesley T. Daddow was named road supervisor again at 60 cents an hour, and Arthur Turner was held as solicitor at $75 a year. James Ayre, William Davis and John | Durbin took their oaths of office as | councilmen ,replacing Grant Shaner, | Elmer Parrish and Clyde Vietch, who did not seek re-election. Warden Kunkle, who was re-elected |to council at the Fall election, also was | re-elected president of council. Kingston Township E. E. Trumbower was elected presi- dent of the Kingston Township board of supervisors at a meeting on Mon- | day night in the Trucksville High | School. Francis Youngblood was made secretary-treasurer and Bruce Long | was named foreman for state-operat- | ed roads. Grover C. Stock, former | president, retired. Attorney Peter Jurchak of Mt. Greenwood, an assistant district attor- ney, was named solicitor, succeeding Attorney D. O. Coughlin of Forty Fort. ROBERTS DISCOVERS GYM BASKET UNFAIR TO FOUL SHOOTERS It pays basketball players to elect basketball experts to school boards. At least the presence of Jack Roberts, long-time basketball manager, on Dallas Borough School Board, has saved some high school players from possible embarrass- ment this season. Players who spend long hours practicing free throws would have ‘been mystified by their inaccuracy had not Mr, Roberts discovered the other night that one basket in the high school gymnasium is eighteen inches too far from the foul line. The board ordered that the bas- ket be moved to its correct posi- tion. Lehman First Foe For Borough Five Scholastic “Quintets Open "Basketball Season Tonight High School basketball teams from the Back Mountain Section will open their 1936 season tonight with games at Kingston Township and in Dallas Borough gymnasium. Laketon will be idle on the opening night. The first opponent for -the Dallas Borough quintet will be L.ehman High School. Dallas Township will meet Kingston Township. Games will con- tinue until late in February, when the play-offs for the district championship will begin. The schedule, as announced by James A. Martin, president of the local scholastic league, follows: ' Friday, January 17—Kingston Town- ship at Dallas Borough; ILaketon at Lehman. Dallas Township idle. Tuesday, January 21 — Dallas Bor- tough at Laketon; L.ehman at Dallas Township idle. Friday, January 24—Dallas Borough tat Dallas Towaship; Laketon at King- ston Township, Lehman idle. Friday, January 31—Kingston Town- ship at Lehman; Dallas Township at | Laketon, Dallas Borough idle. | Tuesday, February 4—Dallas Bor- lough at Lehman. Kingston Township | at Dallas Township, Laketon idle. Friday, ‘February T7—Dallas Borough ‘at Kingston Township; Lehman at | Laketon, Dallas Township idle. Tuesday, February 11—ILaketon at Dallas Borough; Dallas Township at Lehman, Kingston Township idle. Friday, February 14—Dallas Town- [ship at Dallas Borough; Xingston | (Continued on Page 8.) l 1 | Templin Promises Picture With Boa Recounts Tales Of Local Youths’ Activities In Zone Further accounts of the doings of four Dallas youths who are spending two years in the United States Army in the Panama Canal Zone are given in a letter received this week from Richard Pemplin. y The letter, addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Vietch, follows: “At last I'm writing you. I really thought about writing often but never got around to it. I was hoping to get a picture of myself holding a live boa constrictor. I will yet. I've picked them up already, (young ones about seven feet long). I was in a big cave the other day but didn’t go in very far to explore it because it was too dark and I didn’t have a flashlight, It was pret- ty spooky in there with big tropical bats flying around and swatting you on the head once in a while. k “I'm going back as soon a5.0 ¢ +0 wet a flashlight and enough time and ex- plore it. You have to go in when the tide is out, because when the tide is in the water closes in the entrance. “Paul LaBarr and Ketteth Westover were ,over last Saturday (Ed. Note: Templin and Bill Disque are on the op- posite side of the Zone from the two other Dallas boys) and it was like old times being together again, Westover said he was going to write a story of it for The Dallas Post. “I was going camping in the jungle and had a nice spot picked out on the shore of a lake where there are a few alligators and good fishing. I couldn’t go because I haye a few blisters on my feet from practicing basketball, “Bill and I both are out for the team. The games don’t start until around May so we ought to be good if we practice until then. “Whenever we go in the jungle on war games, Bill and I are always to- gether. He is a telephone operator and I am a radio operator. “I was out with some sailors of the Finland Navy the other night and had a swell time. They even invited me to visit them on their boat. I was even out with their radio operator. I'm going to Spanish school now and can speak it a little already. After that I am go- ing to learn to dance. “I'm keeping a picture album and will have a nice bunch of pictures to look at after I leave this place. Bill is keeping one too. In fact, most every soldier keeps one, because it is about the best souvenir you can have after vou leave the army. I'm going to keep a diary for a year to keep as a souvenir of what I did during a year in army life. I think they will be interesting.” Land Still Stands As Basic Source Of Wealth The old frontiers are gone. There are no longer vast areas of new land on which a growing nation can settle and expand. It is mot up to us to conserve and develop wisely the land which we have. Here L. C. Gray, land authority, tells Post readers how that can be done. By L. C. Gray Assistant Administrator Resettlement Administration | Land—the raw material of farms, {forests and range—is one of our major [sources of wealth. Hundreds of thous- {ands of rural families are now endur- ing a poverty utterly inconsistent with American standards of living largely {because of a failure to use the land to its best advantage. In areas southern portions of the Mountains, such as Appalachian ent poverty is to be found in the his- whole too steep for farming, and cul- tivation merely aggravates the prob- lem by encouraging the erosion of the fertile soil, With both the forest and the topsoil destroyed, the people have become economically “stranded”, and their standard of living has steadily de- clined. Housing is very poor, consist- ing often of dilapidated, leaky cabins which give insufficient shelter, and en- force unhealthy crowding. The food supply is so limited that children suf- fer from malnutrition, and easily fall prey to disease. Education is neces- sarily limited. Society must decide whether these conditions can be tolerated. It is es- pecially important when we realize that the poverty of the rural slums means the dependence of large num- bers of families upon public charity {and relief. Our objective must be not jonly to restore to these people a {chance to attain an American standard {of living, but to make them once more {consumers and producers of economic |goods. = i The Resettlement Administration is | puying up tracts of land in various problem areas to help restore the na- tory of land use. The forest, which for- merly provided the chief income for the people of the mountains, was cut son, Walter Wolfe, Albert Ide and Mrs, | where conditions of living are parti- | off without any care for the future re- Albert Ide. icularly severe, one reason for the pres- | production of trees. The land is on the GOVERNMENT TURNS ATTENTION TO “RURAL SLUMS”; MOVES TO HELP FARMERS WORKING EXHAUSTED LAND — Failure To Conserve It Brings Economic Tragedy tural forest or grass resources which, if properly cared for, can again pro- vide employment for local people. At the same time, this work will put a stop to the needless destruction of soil fertility, which, if permitted to con- tinue, would make the rehabilitation of the people even more difficult and costly. Families who cannot be employed in forest work will be helped to move out of the hills to flat, fertile lands where they can become self-supporting. A similar conversion of the land to better uses is being undertaken in other areas such as the old forest re- gion bordering the Great Takes, the western plains, and the old cotton belt of the deep south. Land that is mot fertile enough for farming can be al- most always utilized for some other purpose, like forestry or recreation, or grazing. The extent of this work, long time necessary to restore land, place it beyond the sphere of private enterprise. Governmental ac- tion is essential unless thousands of families are to be abandoned to per- and the the manent poverty, and great areas of land relegated to ruin. Dallas Taxpayers’ Association has called consumers to a meeting next Monday night in Dallas Borough High School to plan the method of protest. The new rates, filed with the Public Service Commission at Harrisburg, call for a $l-a-year increase on the flat rates for consumers mercial consumers. the increase were mailed out Wednes- day by Leslie Warhola, manager, after Robert Hall Craig, general manager of Southwestern Gas and Water Co., has | notified the local office to post a copy of the proposed schedule in its office on Lake Street. Rise Expected The increase has been expected since early last year, when Mr. Craig in- formed the Commission that the ime provements sought by consumers would necessitate an addition of $4.00 a year to the flat rates. Subsequently, a State engineer stated that the im- provements could be financed with a4 flat $1 a year-increase. j During the year, Dallas Water Co. carried out a five-point improvement program ordered by the Public Service Commission. G. Radford Berry, State engineer, would cost the utility $6,800. It was said this week that the proposed ine crease would bring Dallas Water Co. an additional $1,800 a year, based on present consumption. Mr. Berry esti« mated that the improvements could be i financed for $300 additional annually. Business Men Hit Hardest hit by the new rate schedule are the business men, whose consump=« tion rate will be reckoned according to meter rates. Meters were installed in most local commercial buildings last March, but no monthly readings have Et been made, those continuing to pay the flat charge. Under the new system. their meters will be read monthly and consumption will be charged at these rates: i First 1,000 gallons per month, $1.50: next 2,000 gallons per month, $1 pe thousand gallons; next 2,000 gallons per month, 75 cents per thousand gal lons; next 5,000 gallons per moath, 60 cents per thousand gallons; next 10,- 000 gallons per month, 40 cents per thousand gallons; next 25,000 gallons per month, 20 cents per thousand gal- lons; next 25,000 gallons per month, 20 cents per thousand gallons, next 25,« 000gallons per month, 15 cents per thousand gallons; over 100,000 gallons per month, 10 cents per thousand gal« lons, : There will be minimum charges where water consumption by meter i$ small. Some indication of what the new schedule would mean to local business men is given by this example: A typi- cal business has been paying a flat rate of $4.60 quarterly for two hy=. drants and a toilet. Consumption of water has averaged about 4,000 gal« . lons a month. Under the new rates that firm will be asked to pay $4.25 a month, The water bill of this one con- cern will jump from $18.40 a year to $51 a year. Other increases soar to much higher increases. In Wyoming Valley the same volume of consumption would cost $26.40 a vear, including a $12.00 annual service charge. Domestic consumers who have been paying a flat rate of $16 a year will pay $17 after the new rates become effective on February 1. Homes which are used as boarding houses will be charged twenty-five per cent addi« tional. Company’s Argument In the contest which is imminent it is likely, that Dallas Whter Co. will ° attempt to justify its increase by two arguments: (1) That it has been un- able to operate at a profit and (2) that the improvement program wihch the people demanded must be financed. No financial statement for the local property is available for 1935, but Mr. Craig has reported that it operated at a loss for the twelve-month period ending September 30, 1934. Since the improvement program increased ex- penses tremendously in 1935, it is al- most certain that the books again showed a loss. (Continued on Page 8.) LOCAL MEN PICKED FOR JURY SERVICE IN FEBRUARY TERM Men from this section who have been selected for jury duty during the February Term of criminal court have been announced as fol- lows: Week of February 3 Dallas—Ralph Hallock, Harold" Lewis, William J. Rinkin and H. Lee Scott. Week Of February 10 Kingston Township—William H. Evans, Charles Norris and Wil- liam Pierce. Dallas—J. E. Roberts. Week Of February 17 Kingston Township— Arthur Schrage. and establish a new system of meter rates ‘for com~ estimated that program Cards notifying local consumers of N
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