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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
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STATE
ROUND
AND
~~ AROUND
- AMATEURS
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‘ 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
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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.
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| 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.)
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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
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