‘While They Last, Send For Your Free Crochet Instructions And Join The Army Of Smart Housewives Wiho Are Brightening Their Homes With Handwork. See Pictures And Free Of- fer On Page 4. Ten Thousand Feet Above The World Eight People Live Thirteen Dangerous, Unforgettable Hours. Start The First Gripping Installment Of “13 Hours By Air” In Next Week's Post. Dallas Post More Than A Newsbaber,. Hert A Community. Tnstitvsion VOL. 46 POST SCRIPTS COAL GREECE NEWS THYROID ERRORS The next tuue you uear some of our good neighbors to the East call Wyom- ing Valley ‘the birthplace of anthra- cite” refer them to their ancient his- tory. The Greeks had a word for it 2300 years ago. It’s true. As far back as 371 The- ophrastus, one of Aristotle’s brightest young men, was writing a treatise on stones .mentioning “the coals which kindle and burn like wood coals” Someone going over the mountains to Olympias had picked them up around Liguria and Elis. It's from the Greek “anthraces” that we get ‘anthracite’, The early Britons used it, too, and the Romans, When the Imperial Le- gions overran the Isles they found the glowing “kohle” a great help in with- standing the raw British weather. In . fact they were so disgusted with the weather that they went back home and didn’t get mixed up with the English again until last year. : —— The first coal dealer (you'd be.sur- prised where we picked up all this useful information) was Wilfred. A boy by the name of Wilfred used to bring us our paper. No relative. Wul- fred leased the land of Sempringham from the Abbot Ceobred in 852, pro- mising to deliver to the monastery each year “60 loads of wood, 12 loads of coal, etc.” Then Wulfred bought a light truck and had his name painted on the back, “Coal and Ice”, and had quite a business among the Saxon 1 housewives until somebody invented the oil burner and the electric refri- gerator, —e Now, there is some excuse for ‘the frequent claim of our cocky neighbors. But even if it were true that a com- pany of Connecticut pioneers found coal in 1762 at the mouth of Mill Creek near what is now Wilkes-Barre, you couldn’t really call it a ‘discovery’. They say that an Indian gave “black stones” to a blacksmith who ran out of charcoal, and the Indians must have known about the presence of an- thracite, but that was hundreds and hundreds of years after Theophrastus had put. his record down in black and white. The best we'll grant Wyoming Val- ley is that Obadiah Gore did run a] forge with anthracite in 1769 and that | the Proprietary Government of Penn- sylvania did float some anthracite down the river to Harrisburg In 1775. That coal was hauled to Carlisle to to be used in the manufacture of arms for the Continental Army. —y— Somehow this week we acquired a copy of the Mission Village News, a paper published in a suburb of T.os Angeles. Robert E. Callahan, “author of seven books and a lover of the great Outdoors” is the editor and, if we are any judge of style, the complete staff, of The News. From his unique paper we lift the following samples of re- freshing journalism: “Banjo Harry came in from the Burbank hills last Sunday to take Singing Sally out riding in his new Ford; he got a little careless with the steering wheel and they both had to walk back.” “Two-gun Ton-ka-wa got tired of working around our auto court some weeks ago and moved out into the cat- tle country. He has only been there five months, yet last week he shipped twelve steers and thirty-seven calves to market, which is pretty durn good, as he started business with only one saddle horse, a branding iron and a calf rope. “Mr. and Mrs. Roland, a quiet and unassuming couple, came in from Ohio yesterday— spent part of the day, checked out and went up the coast for one reason or another, and today we had a long distance call from Pennsylvania wanting to know if we had seen her husband. You can never tell by looking at a frog how far a flea ca jump.” EE i The difference between Professor Einstein and an imbecile is about one (Continued on Page 8.) DALLAS, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1936. Even Texas Dogs Go High-Hat Down Dallas (Texas) way even, the pups are entering into the spiriv of the coming Texas Centennial Exposition, which opens there June 6. Here is Bozette, 7-weeks-0ld, pedigreed Boston Terrier, get- ting into the spirit of things by usi ng a ten-gallon hat for a kennel. Local Dam In Good Shape, Says State Find Huntsville n Redticing ges Huntsville Dam withstood the strain of recent high water staunchly and is in splendid condition, according to the Water and Power Resources Board of the Department of Forests and Whters, | which this week completed a survey | of important dams in Pennsylvania. | The inspection of the local dam was ordered by Secretary James F. Bogar- dus because of apprehension in some sections regarding the safety of all dams after the high water, During the flood in the Wyoming Valley imagina- tive rumors that the local dam was giving were frequent and caused con- siderable alarm, despite assurance of officials that the dam was holding. ‘Other important dams in this section which remained steadfast and afford- ed splendid flood control are the Brownell, Elmhurst, I.ake, Scranton, Nesbitt, Pike Creek, and Watres dams, varying in height from 27 to 131 feet and forming reservoirs from 800,000,000 to 2,900,000,000 gallons of water. Since the faith of the Austin dam in 1911 and the enactment of legisla- tion in 1913 the local dams have been inspected yearly by the Department of Forests and Waters. Engineers Aide New Contributions | Add To Local Fund Flood Relief Gifts Exceed $419 In Dall Area Although the Red Crd ers in Dallas post offic wee closed last week additional contributions made locally this week sent the Dallas contribution to nearly $420. The contributions announced by Mrs. Peter Clark included $15 from Dallas Township Schools, $5 from: the local branch of Jr...O. "UU. A, MM. $1: from Miss Glen Hice, $2.35 from Dallas Bor- ough Schools, and $1 miscellaneous, which, added to the $395.24 announced in last week’s Post, brought the fund to $419.59. In addition, several contributions from local persons were made to the Wilkes-Barre headquarters. Any per- sons still desiring to contribute may give their money to George Kirkendall, Dallas postmaster, or Mrs. Clark, who will transfer it to the Wilkes-Barre headquarters. The campaign for funds was launch- ed by the Red Cross before the recent flood and was for $13,000. When the flood struck throughout the East the quota was raised to $35,000 to provide food, clothes and medicine for stricken families, That amount was raised within a’ week and since then public- spirited citizens of Wyoming Valley and neighboring sections have con- SS heggeffiart- tributed an additional $18,000 in excess of the amount sought. King Christopher Accepts Local Plan To Solve Financial Muddle Spitania, April 2—(Special To The Spitania’s financial muddle, King Christopher today announced that he is pre- pared to accept the proposal of Henry M. Laing Fire Co. of Dallas to “pull. the treasury out of the red within two weeks”. King Christopher and his perplexed council will put a group of prominent residents from Dallas in complete charge of the situation, in return for their guarantee to put his kingdom on a sound financial basis. At its first conference on the prob- lem the fire company selected as its “master mind” Smiling Freddy Slinger, otherwise known as John Durbin. Smiling Freddy met with his col- leagues for the first time this week to rehearse the plans, all of which will be presented publicly in the high school auditorium on Thursday and Friday, April 16 and 17, in “Here and There”. The general chairman of the plan is Chief of Police Leonard O'Kane. He is being assisted by Arthur Dungey, Jo- seph Jewell, Addison Woolbert, Timo- thy TLaBar, Clyde Veitch, Charles Reigle, Peter Clark, John Yaple, Wil- liam Vivian, Leslie Warhola, and Clyde Lapp. Post)—In a desperate effort to solve Besides Mr. Durbin as Freddy Sling- er, the cast will include William Baker, as “King Christopher; Zigmund Har- mand as the Minister of Justice; A. F, Lewis as the Minister of Education. John Yaple as the Minister of War; Joseph Jewell as Chancellor of the Exchequer; Ralph Rood as the Minis- ter of Foreign Affairs; George Ayre as Postmaster General; Clyde Lapp as Secretary of the Navy; A.chuii New- man as Secretary of Commerce; Mrs. George Swartz as Sally Davis, an ex-channel swimmer; Mrs. Thomas Robinson as Marie, proprietor of the Tavern; Lettie I.ee as “Mrs. Van Higgs, president of the Spitania Sew- ing Circle; Arthur Keefer as Karl Van Higgs, a communist: Arthur Franklin as Johnny, idiot son of the Minister of War; Theodore Dix as Gustave Von Kraut, a lawyer; William Dix and Wilard Westover as flunkies, Willard Lauderbaugh and Clyde <Vietch as moving men. MARCH UPHOLDS RULE; COMES IN LIKE LAMB; . GOES OUT LIKE LION March, which began with balmy Spring weather, took its leave this week on the wings of stiff winds leaving behind it the wettest rec- ord in twenty years. Most of the rain, records at the Huntsville Dam filter plant show, came in the second half of the month. In all, March accumulated 5.16 inches of rain, the heaviest falls coming from the seventeenth to the twenty-first and resulting in Wyoming Valley's disastrous flood. The average March patntall in this section is 2.45 inches, less than half of last month’s record. The mean temperature for last month was 43.10, slightly warmer than the average March figure. Will Incorporate Hillcrest Company Public Service Commission Has Petition For Mt. J Airy Service : | i ission was! re incorpora- | The Public Service Co asked this week to appr tion of the Hillcrest A pany to supply water to A Mt. Airy Terrace in Kingston Township. : The request was made by Harry F. | Goeringer and Herbert N. Stark of} Wilkes-Barre and Fred W. Malkemes | of Shavertown., Par value of capital | stock would be $5,000, the Commission | was told. Commenting on the action yesterday, Mr. Goeringer explained that the water is being drawn now from a well drilled some time ago but never incorporated. Mr. Goeringer has two other private companies supplying water to tracts of land he is developing. College To Give Biblical Drama Funds To Go To Sisters Who Left Here For British Guiana The dramatic society of College Misericordia. will present “Pharaoh’s Daughter”, a prize-winning Biblical play, at Elmer L. Meyers High School | on Thursday night, April 23, to raise funds for the benefit of the Leper Colony at Mahaica, /British "Guiana, South America. Twelve nuns left the college here | several months ago to labor in. the leper colonies. The Sisters of this pro- vince will send two more to cook and nurse the stricken in the hospitals, where even the most primitive instru- ments for the alleviation of‘ pain are lacking. Because of the loathesomeness of the disease, the lepers are shunned by all but the self-sacrificing nuns, who devote their'lives to serving them. The money from the play will be used: to supply modern conveniences for the lepers. From the preliminary sale of tickets, it is evident that the Misericordia players are assured of a large audience. Baiz Tells orm About Boy Scouting The. importance of adult support in Boy Scouting was stressed ‘by Chris- tian Baiz, an executive of Wyoming Valley Council, Boy Scouts, before the Men's Club of Trucksville M. E. Church on Monday night. Mr. Baiz explained the purposes of “Cub” scout troops. The men decided to old a “Bee” to complete the parking space in front of the church this Saturday. Men and) young men of the community are asked to help so the work can be completed before Palm Sunday. Attending the meeting were Fred Turner, George Metz, rR. E. Rees, Sam Davis, Francis McCarty, C. A. Baker, William \R. Rhodes, Thomas Carle, Jr., John C. Lewis, S. C. Welter, Rev. J. Rolland Crompton, and Warren Taylor. i Middle Spirited Fight For SR ~~ Member's Of County Commit- FEW UN OPPOSED Strong evidence of the renewed in- terest in the Democratic party locally is given In the scramble for Democratic County Committee posts which will be at stake in the Spring Primaries on April 28. ‘Although many Republican districts have only one candidate, the Demo- cratic berths will be contested by as many as three or four candidates. Ore of the few districts where there will be no contest is ‘the’ North District of Dallas Borough, where Thomas J. Healy is the lone candidate. ‘Local Republicans show signs of more unity behind candidates. In Lake and Lehman Townships only one can- didate has filed for each Republican committee post. The stiffest Republi- can contest appears to be in the Northwest District of Kingston Town- ship, where three candidates have filed for one G. O. P. position. The committeeman holds a relatively unimportant position in the political machine except when he is serving as the collective base upon which that machine : rests. Complete list of committee candt- dates in this section follows: Republican Dallas Borough: South District, For- rester H. Still, William _H. Price; North District, Morgan Wilcox. Dallas Township: North District, Fred \F. Honeywell, Palmer Updyke; South District, Earl H. Layaou, Ar- ithur Neuman; Middle District, Clifford Ide, Fred Turpin. Jackson Township: William Hab- blett, Gustave Split, C. S. Norris. (Ed- ward McGinn filed, but withdrew.) Kingston Township: Northeast Dis- tract, John I. Earl; Northwest Dis- trict, Daniel M. Shaver, and Charles R. Howe; Southwest, Ralph IL. Hazletine and Jessie C. Jones. Samuel J. Wool- bert was a candidate but withdrew. Lake Township: South District, Al- fred Martin; North District, Benjamin S. Rood; Middle District, Russell Hoover. Lehman: Middle District, Stanley Culp: Northeast District, Nelson Ro- cers: Southwest District, Bernard Zailsky. Democratic Dallas Borough: = South District, Clarence Esser, Dorothy Esser; North “District, Thomas J. Healy. Dallas Township: South District, Della Schrey, William Griffiths, Jr. Andrew Kozemchak, Evan R. Brown; District: Maude Garrahan, Michael Sedler; North District, Mary Jane Boston, Ralph Elston. Jackson Township: W. A. Prutzman, Gwilvm Evans, Verna M. Learn, Bar- ney Laskowski, Joseph T.evi. Kingston Township: Southwest Dis- i trict, Nicholas A. Staub, Elizabeth H. Gobel, Albert Klumpp, Pearl M. John- son, Charles A. Perkins; Southeast District, Gertrude Michael, David Cul- ver; Northwest District, Martin Bil- bow, Maritta Warden. Lake Township: South = District, Peter Eckerd. Margaret Lukasavage, Michael McHugh, T.eona McHugh; North District, Alexander Kocher, Helen B. Javers, Liva Rauch Delaney; Middle District. Arvi'la Zash, Clarence Gray, Christ Milbrodt. T.ehman: Northeast District: Joseph 'W. Park, Thomas Davis, Leona Moore: Middle District. Martin Yozwiak, Mary Stolarick: Southwest. Joseph Ronczka. Flees Flood; Dies At Nephew’s Home Miss Emily Calman Suc- cumbs Of Pneumonia At Dallas ) tn) . Miss Emily Calmag, 67, wt d to the home of her n nere ‘when flood waters threatened her residence in Wilkes-Barre two weeks ago, died on Monday night of pneumonia. Miss Calman had lived with her. sis- ter, Mrs. Laura Moss, 25 Oak Street, Wilkes-Barre. When the rising Sus- quehanna inundated the Southern. sec- tion of Wilkes-Barre, Miss Calman was brought to the home of her nephew, Delbert I. Moss, Church Street, Dallas, where she contracted pneumonia. - She was a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church. Beside. her sister, Mrs: ‘Moss, she is survived by three nieces, Mrs. F. K. Miller, of Pittsburgh, Mrs. Lewis Krebs of Port Carbon, and Mrs. Ellen Lewis of Wilkes-Barre, and two. nephews, Delbert Moss of Dallas and William H. Moss of Wilkes-Barre, El i, a Local Towns Share Liquor Fee Funds Lake Township Receives $675 Largest Of Five Checks Five local communities @ received checks totalling more than $2,000 this week for their share of money received from licenses permitting retail sales of liquor within their borders. Dallas Borough, which has only re- tail liquor outlet, received the smallest amount, $87. Lake Township received the largest share, $675. Other communities which shared the ' 192,596,359 which the State distributed this week are: Dallas Township, $583; Kingston Township, $316, and Lehman Township, $350, ‘imany and other foreign countries. HAS IMPORTANT ROLE | Mrs. Thomas Robinson, who has one of -the important roles in “Here and There”, the annual pro- duction of Henry M. Laing Fire ¢ Co., which will be given on Thurs- day and Friday nights, April 16 and 17, in Dallas Borough High School auditorium. : Hillside Blazes Fought Near Here Stiff Winds Dr oods And Raise Footrest Fire Menace Despite the heavy rainfall during March, hillsides near Dallas are dry enough to compel the vigilance of for- est fire wardens, who fought four fires near here this week. E. W. Whispell, who has charge of the Dallas Fire tower, has urged ex- treme caution in the use of fires in the woods and has urged that any farmers burning brush notify their dis- trict warden or the tower, Dallas 153- R-16. "Two fires were reported last Sun- day. A blaze sighted at the local tower burned over eight acres above Wiyom- ing before eleven men under command of Stanley Vincent extinguished it. On Sunday afternoon fourteen men under George Vietch fought a blaze which burned over fifteen acres near Court- dale. Philip Kunkle’s crew of four men extinguished a one-acre fire on Mon- day near DeMund’s Corner. Later in the week a fire on Bunker Hill in Kingston Township occupied seven fire fighters under direction of Melvin Hewitt. On Sunday afternoon Shavertown | firemen were called to the Mt. Airy Terrace ' Section to extinguish a brush fire which had escaped .control of a group burning brush. After working for half an hour, the firemen succeed- ed in extinguishing the flames hefore they reached a valuable apple orchard. Although lowlands are still moist, Mr. Whispell says the stiff winds re- cently have dried hillsides to the ex- tent that they present fire hazards. a nt pn Shavertown Girl Winning Speaker Oratory Takes Prize In Annual County-Wide Contest Vigorous Tilt Marks Board’s Budget Mee ting Dallas Directorg” Fix Levy At 28.5, Samie As Last Year. DISQUE CHALLENGED Smouldering factionalism on Dallas at Wednesday night's meeting when Henry Disque, deposed leader of last year’s majority, launched an attack on the budget proposed for the year be ginning in July. A two-hour debate over the stiles. ed budget and the basic millage” was climaxed by an acrimonious exchange of personalities and the threat of a fist fight. The argument concluded with the adoption of a basic levy of 28.5 mills, the minority dissenting. At earlier meetings of Jack: ‘Roberts, Clyde Lapp and Harry Pittman, mem- bers of the budget committee, and soli- citor Burt Lewis and - Supervising Principal Norman Dinger a tentative budget had been drawn. to. permit a reserve which could. be used. for the payment of long-standing, debts it necessary. at Although the millage had exceeded 28.5 once during Mr. Disgue’s- leader- ship of the old board, he made a mo- tion at Wednesday night's meeting that it be reduced to 28, one- -half mill lower than last year. Mr. Pittman, a member of the budget committee, vot- ed with Mr. Disque, but: the motion was defeated by Dr. G. K. Swartz, Mr. tors. Immediately afterward, a motion To, fix ‘the millage at 28.5 as of last year, was passed, with Swartz, Lapp and Roberts voting in the affirmative and Disque and Pittman dissenting, The clash between Mr. Disque and members of the minority reached its climax when Dsque ordered Mr. Ro= sprung up to challenge Disque. Mr. Disque complained that the cause the budget had not yet been ap- proved finally. It was pointed out to him that he had made the orizinal mo- tion for immediate fixing of the mill- age. } The tentative budget is for $38,000 and will be posted through the borough before it is adopted. finally, probably at the regular May meeuize All direct- ors had copies of the budget to indy before the meeting. The basic millage of 28.5 is valuation of $653,385. : on a secretary, three insurance policies, amounting to slightly more than $9,000, so arrange- ments can be made to stagger the pre- of economy. (Conginued on Page 8.) Election Stalls «= By- -Pass bir Over LongfAwaite Measute —_— The long-cherished plans Luzerne by-pass seemed to be bogged down in the State's primary election this week as proponents of the pro- ject marked time, Grace Elodie McGuire, a student at | [tzinaston Township High School, and | the daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Frank | McGuire of East Center Street, Sha- vertown, won first prize in the county- wide oratorical contest for girls Forty Fort High School on Wednes- day night. The contest, which attracted entries , from all-parts of the county. wos sponsored by Luzerne County Princi- Pals’ and ‘Supervising Principals’ So- ciety. As a result of Miss McGuire's | victory, she received a handsome med- | al and the school received a cup. The title of Miss McGuire's original oration was “Onward, Constitution!” Motor Club Erects School Zone Sig in Nine school zone signs in Fernbrook, Trucksvill wood Kiwanis Club. (had aereed rying their cammnaoi~ Highways "W- rom nn to Secretary of Van Dyke. on good authority Highway Department under pressure of county political leaders, to construct the back . road from Luzerne to Wyoming, th»oneh Maltby, ahead of the Luzerne fe -pass, Local leaders in the movement met ' this week to review progress in the remorted State It was that the Borough School Board burst into flame Lapp and Mr. Roberts, majority direc« berts to “shut his mouth” and Roberts adoption of: the millage was illegal, be~ The board directed Daniel Waters, to ei 60-day binders on miums over longer periods for the sake Back Road Giver] Preference for the nyenaratory ‘to car-ais campaign and to discuss plans which 3 might bring the project to a successful | conclusion. It is probable that definite plans for the sending of a delegation to Harrisburg will be announced next - week. it is also understood that there is’ an alternate plan under ‘consideration but not ready for public . announce-" RC ment. One suggestion made this week ? was that, since the by-pass seems al- ready to have been involved in poli-' tics, it might be advantageous to make pit~an issue of the election and to put. on record the attitude of candidates’ toward it. / Although it will be four months be of color which is Mrs. George Sawyer’ tremendous task of nourishing 13, 000 b der way. All winter the plants were stored at a temperature of 45 degrees and as a result they weathered the severe win- ter amazingly well. Now, Mrs. Sawyer is in the midst of the three-month task of cutting the bulbs and preparing the dahlias and gladioli for planting late this month, weather permitting. Mrs. Sawyer’s collection of dahlias is one of the largest in this section. Last year she raised over 100 different varieties, besides many that were pro- duced from seeds, including the new orchid type. During August and Sept- ember, her garden attracted many vi- sitors. Her dahlias won more than fifty ribbons in flower shows last year. This year, Mrs. Sawyer promises: to have an even more interesting exhibit, since she has acquired many more re- cent varieties, including some imported from France, Canada, Holland, Ger- \ Many Rare Varieties Included In 13,000 Gladioli For Local Garden fore visitors begin to inspect the blaze : s large garden on Church. Street, the ulbs to blooming health is already un- Mrs, Sawyer believes the ‘dahlia is’ steadily enlarging its circle of friends in the growing gardening fraternity. ye explains that it is easy to grow under a variety of weather and soil conditions and is not greatly bothered by insects and pests. Her flowers range in size from the giant decorative 12 inches or more in diameter, to the little pom-poms, an inch in diameter. Although most dahlias are raised from tubers, the only sure way to re- J produce them true to the original form and color, the new varieties are ob- tained from seeds. Dahlia seeds are unlike most other flower seeds. They do not produce flowers similar to the parents but vary greatly in form and color. Seeds started indoors about the first. of March and transplanted to the garden when the weather will permit will produce flowers the same year,
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