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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,