- Build Boys’ Town” Contest Closes Tuesday: Rush Your Entries In Contest Must Be : In By April 13 Judeer Pricer To Decide p Winnery Of Big Cash Prizes sour LAST CHANCE! Theres still time to enter the big Build oys Town slogan contest—but you've got to hurry. Remember your slogan must reach the office of this newspaper ‘mo later than midnight, April 13. You can mail or bring it in. ~ Remember, somebody is going to get 1 000 for writing a single, ten-word slo- there are lots of other big cash prizes, too ~—$2,100 in all. ; Heweine WORTHY Cie By entering the contest you are help- as worthy a cause as there is in this untry today—helping’ Homeless Boys. Because for every new one-year subscrip- “tion, two-year renewal or two-year past ue subscription paid up, this newspaper puts One Dollar in the Build Boys Town Lr to be used for the new dormitory building. Now, you know, an average of ive hundred homeless boys have to be used admission to Boys Town each year ‘because of lack of room. ~ Race, color or: creed mean absolutely othing “at Boys Town. Just as long as it’s a Homeless Boy in need of help. A umber of boys have come to Boys Town with only tags on their worn coats, in- structing kindly railroad conductors where to ship them. They have come from ev ery state of the union. One day last summer a little lad in rags walked into Boys Town. “Where's Father Flanagan?” he asked tremulously. Taken to Father Flanagan, he said: “Here I am, Father. I aint got no home. My mother’s dead and my father drinks all the time. The man who runs the cf gar store in our town told me about Boys "Town and you. I aint got no place else I bummed a ride on a truck That's the way poor, helpless boys come to Boys Town. Somebody has to take care of them. There they are fed and clothed, educated, kept until they are able and ready to make their own way in the ‘world And they do make their way in the world. 4,446 have done that in the past nineteen years. All of these boys today re successful, self-sustaining citizens. Not a single one is in a jail or penitentiary. > ONE Bic “Pusu” ~ This newspaper knows the people of : erica aren't going to forget the Home: f= Boy. It is proud of the way its readers in this community have co‘operat- ed so far. However, it would like to see Town drive away over the top. df you haven't already entered the big slogan contest, do it today. Somebody's going to win that $1,000 just for writing a ten-word slogan. With the story behind EH Boys Town to write the slogan around, it’s the easiest thing in the world. You know what Crime costs this country every year. Just stop and think what Boys “Town is ‘doing to prevent Crime. Be- «cause you know it's homeless and neglect- «ed boys today that become the hardened ~ -criminals tomorrow. : Write your slogan, enclose one new ~pne-year subscription, two-year renewal or “two-year past due, subscription paid-up, at “the regular rate and’ you may be the one “who will have that $1,000 in your pocket “when the contest is over, or one of those other big cash prizes. Remember for every slogan entered in Here are the simple rules in the big Build Boys Town Contest. But first, here are the prizes: .$1,000 in First Prize ... Cash Second Prize ..$ 500 in Cash Third Prize ...$ 250 ia Cash Fourth Prize.. 5 100 in Cash Fifth Prize. .$ 50 in Cash Sixth Prize....$ 25 in Cash Seventh Prize. . 3 15 in Cash Eighth Prize...$ 10 in Cash And THIRTY PRIZES (Ninth to Thirty-eighth inelnsive) ..85.00 each 1 ‘Write a simple slogan of not y = more than 10 words on‘“What Boys Town means to America As a Check On Crime.” Boys Town, you know, is the Home of a Na- tion’s Homeless Boys. And it is the neglected, homeless boys of today that become the hardened __criminals of tomorrow. Boys Town has made good, upright citizens of 4,446 homeless boys already. Not a single one of those boys is in a jail or penitentiary to- day. Your slogan should be as simple © and striking as posgible. For ex- ample: “Build Boys Town and Check Crime at Its Source.” The simplest, most effective statement in ten words or less of what Boys Town means to America As a Check On Crime is the one that will win. Mail or bring your slogan a written on a plain piece of paper to the office of this newspa- per before midnight, ; April 13, Be sure your name and address are written on the paper correctly 1d plainly. “Build Boys Town” Rules $2,100 In Cash Prizes Every slogan entered in the =. contest must be accompanied by one new one-year subscription to this newspaper, a two-year re- newal of a subscription or a two- year past due subscription paid up —-at the regular rate. For every such subscription turned in, one slogan may be entered. You can enter as many slogans. as “you choose, just so each slogan is ac- companied by a new subscription, a two-year renewal or-a two-year past due subscription paid up. Literature telling all about s Boys Town will be given you free at the office of this newspa- per upon request, Final results of the contest, 5. together with the winning slogans will be announced in this newspaper the week following the close of the contest. The contest closes Tuesday, April 13. Results will be announced in this newspa- per the following week on the reg- ular publication date. 6 This newspaper will turn over sa $1.00 to the Build Boys Town Fund for each slogan entered in the contest, for the erection of the new dormitory building, so badly needed there. 1. 8. 9. Winning slogans become the property of Boys Town. In case of a tie, duplicate awards will be made. Decision of the judges is of :course final. one final push to put the big Build Boys ; the contest, this newspaper puts One Dollar in the Build Boys Town fund. With the new dormitory, building, Boys Town won't have to refuse admission to those five hundred boys every year as it must now, because of lack of room. Do Your PART Do your part to check Crime in Amer- ica—and you may have $1,000 in cash in your hand when the contest is over. HURRY! Get your slogan in today! Laketon MRS MARIE OBERST CORRESPONDENT (Held From Last Week) Mrs. Charles Lerch gave a party for her daughter, Lillian, on her sixth birth. day recently. © Lunch was served to the following guests: Walter and Frances Crispell, Pauline, Marion, Thomas and Edward Wilkes, Edward Salansky, Donald and Wayne Smith, Shirley Finlayson, Mary, Isabelle, Billy, Bobby and Joe Lerch. A * * ® Mrs. Edgar Nulton and son, Sherry, of Kunkle spent Easter with Mrs. Nulton’s parents. * %* % Mrs. Arthur Kocher visited Mrs. Fer man Sorber at the Picnic Grounds re cently. * kk Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Thomas of Wyo: ming called on Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lerch recently. ona Kocher and Clarence Oberst. ; -B $ ® uw, cal CONVENIENCE Make the most of the electri- . For a few cents a day every \ : - farm within reach of our trans- : mission lines can have running water in homes and barns. There are hundreds of electri- cal labor-saving devices that you ‘can put in every-day use at a cost so low that it is mot worth considering. Let electricity do the drudg- ery. If your home and farm are not already being served by this company, let us go over your ' problems with you. ‘Harvey’s Lake Light Company | service at your command. and ; son, week-end’ Clarence Mr. and Mrs. james Lord Basil Lord, spent the Easter with her sister, Mr. and Mors. Oberst at Berwick. *¥ ¥ 0% Mr. and Mrs. Jack London and chil: dren visited Mr. and Mrs. Weed at Dal- las on Easter. . = George Anderson has been ill. and daughters, Barbara and! Wilma, Le- Miss Hazle Meeker motored to Niagara Falls and Canada with - friends from Shavertown recently. During their visit they dropped in on friends in Buffalo. . * = The following visited Mr. and Mrs. Rodell Kocher on Easter Sunday: Mr. and Mrs. Austin Hutchins, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Hutchins, Carol Hutchins and Arnold Pipher. : Philadelphia. ‘ADMIRAL RICHARD E. BYRD, AMERICA’S ACE AIRMAN’ , SPENDS BIRTHDAY AT BOYS TOWN Boys need heroes, and who can imagine a more appealing hero for the average boy than Admiral Richard E. Byrd, dauntless young conqueror of both Arctic wastes and the limitless dangers of air flight across the Atlantic? Admiral Byrd interrupted a recent lecture tour to spend his birthday with the homeless boys of Boys Town. As a gift, he received a candy-stick North Pole, from which a red pennant, bearing the numerals 47 (in honor of his he, flew bravely. ! Sister Of Local Women Dies At 65 Edith Alice Fuller, aged 65 years, a sis ter of Mrs. Bert Kellar and Mrs. Edward | Andrews of Dallas, died suddenly Friday afternoon, March 26, at Philadelphia. Ap- parently she had been in good health and while returning from shopping was seized with a heart attack and fell to the street. {She was rushed to the hospital but was dead on arrival. Mrs. Fuller was born in White Yaven, 4 September 12, 1872, and resided there un- til nine years ago, when she moved to Her sudden death brought forth expressions of sorrow and regret from her many friends. She possessed a kindly disposition ‘ind was liked by all who knew her. She was a member of the Free Methodist Church. Surviving are a daughter, Miss Edna, “| of Philadelphia, besides the two sisters in 'f Dallas. The body was taken to White Haven for burial, the services having been held on Tuesday afternoon at 2. Services were in hole of Rev. I. W. Person, pas tor of the Free Methodist Church there, assisted by Rev. Gertrude Ross of Dal Dallas Seniors Visit Bloomsburg Miss Elizabeth Culbert of Dallas Bor- ough High School faculty accompanied the Senior Class of the school on a trip to Bloomsburg State Teachers’ College on Monday. The group attended morning assembly, had luncheon, visited classes and observed the operation of the college. Miss Culbert also took the Seniors on a trip through College Misericordia re’ joently. —————————— Child Buried Gaillard Updyke, age 6, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Updyke of Hillside was buried on Wednesday afternoon from the Christian Church in Sweet Valley. 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