‘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