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THEIR PICTURE STORY
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VOL. 47
THE DALLAS POST, DALLAS, PA.,
FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1937
No. 17
See Need For Reforestti
In Area Drained By
Engineers Study Toby's Creek’s Contributions
alley’s
Flood Problem; Will Incase Part Near Mouth In
Concrete; Seek Way to Curb Freshets Here
DAMS NO REAL SOLUTION, EXPERTS BELIEVE
The necessity for an extensive program of reforesting along the head-
waters of Toby's Creek has been stressed as a result of surveys made in
connection with Wyoming Valleys flood control program.
Although it never overtlows its banks here with any serious consequen-
ces, Toby's Creek is one of the tributaries of the Susquehanna River which
are being studied by engineers in their plans to
flood hazard.
Usually tributaries can be checked®-
by the construction of impounding
dams but it is understood the lack of
sites and the expense of constructing
dams large enough to hold the water
pouring trom ° tne unusually large
drainage area have caused engineers
to abandon that plan here.
The easiest solution to the problem of
controlling the treshets of Toby's Creek
is reforesting, according to experts ques-
tioned by The Post this week.
After heavy rains or snowfalls, such as
caused Wyoming Valley's disastrous flood
last year, Toby's Creek drains large quan-
tities of water into the Susquehanna River
below Edwardsville, and parts of that
town, Kingston and Luzerne are flooded
by the combination of backwater and
freshet.
To confine the creek to its banks near
its mouth Army engineers are preparing
to incase it in concrete walls as far north
as the flats between Luzerne and Pringle,
where even a slight freshet sends the
water sprawling over its banks.
But how to control the water above
that point remained a problem this week.
Although Army engineers in the Val-
ley to supervise construction of the dikes
have visited this section to study the Toby
Creek watercourse the tributary is out of
their jurisdiction. The army is respon-
sible for work along navigable rivers (the
Susquehanna is still recognized as a navi
gable river, despite the fact that it is
choked with silt) but their authority
does’ not extend to small tributaries such
as Toby's Creek. . :
The survey along the local creek is
under the authority of the Water and
Power Resources Board at Harrisburg and
engineers at the headquarters of the Val
ley’s flood control project said this week
they had no definite information con
cerning what the Board's engineers are
planning here. ;
In the opinion of one prominent local
eiginee who has studied the Toby's
Creek watercourse there are no suitable
sites for a dam large enough to hold the
sudden and short-lived rush of" “water
which follows a heavy rain. Sel
The source of Toby's Creek is near
Shepherd's Corners, at DeMunds, and on
its way down to Dallas it taps a number
of small pools and several swamps, col-
fecting the drainage water from a tre.
mendous area. At Dallas it collects the
water drained off from the hills on all
sides of it and .by the time-it reaches
Hillside it is carrying the drainage water
from hundreds of square miles.
Much of the territory drained. espec-
ially in the vicinity of the headwaters,
consists of farms which have been cut
over for some years, and as a result there
is nothing to retain the water, which
rolls down the steep hills into the creek.
For this reason, experts here believe
the easiest solution to the problem of con-
trolling the creeks drainage into the
Susquehanna would be to launch an ex-
tensive program to plant trees along the
hills of the headwaters and along its
course so the water will be held in the
ground until the creek is better able to
carry it off.
Clubwomen Meet
Here Wednesday
Dallas Club Hostess To 200
Expected At Federation
Meeting
Several hundred clubwomen from all
parts of Luzerne County will be guests
of Dallas Junior Women's Club on next
Wednesday at the Spring meeting of
Luzerne County Federation of Women's
Clubs at Irem Country Club. J
The Federation has met at the country
club frequently but the Dallas group has
never before been hostess to fhe visitors.
Miss Beth Love, president of the local
club, will welcome the visigors and Mrs.
Gilbert Jacobosky, president/of the Federa-
tion, will respond.
Besides Miss Love, o | C
ess club are Mrs. John aple, vice-presi
dent; Mrs. ‘Wesley Moore, secretary;
Mrs. Charles’ Lee, trgasurer; Miss Jose-
phine Stem, iE secretary.
The local committee assisting Mrs.
Moore, who is general chairman, includes
Mrs. Thomas Mogre, registration; Mrs.
Yaple, resetvationg; Mrs. Carl Kuehn, de”
corations; Miss Helen Himmler, page;
Mrs. John Durbin, hostesses.
There will be three sessions. At 10:15
Mrs. Jacobosky will open a business
session. At a luncheon meeting at noon
Attorney R. Lawrence Coughlin will,
speak and Mrs. A. B. Shutts, president
of West Pittston Women's Club, will
lead a discussion of reports of club presi
dents. In the afternoon the Glee Club
of Dallas Women's Club, directed by
Mrs. Allan Sanford and accompanied by
Mrs. William Baker, will sing several
numbers.
Mrs. Keller Struck
By @ar In Valley
Mrs. Anna Kellarf 58, Parrish Street,
Dallas; was injured’ last Thursday when
she was hit by an automobile on West
Northampton Street, Wilkes-Barre. She
was taken to the Meréy Hospital by Wil-
liam F. Stolfi, 22,450 Lincoln Street, of
Wilkes-Barre, who had been driving the
car which struck Mrs. Kellar.
ers of the host-
protect river towns against
MRS. KUEHN IS AMONG
SIX LOCAL PERSONS
CHOSEN FOR JURORS
Mrs. Jean#Kuehn of Dallas was
selected this week among the six per-
sons from the Dallas section who will
serve on the jury during the May
term of Criminal Court at Wilkes
Barre.
“ The names drawn include the fol-
towing:
Week of May 17 ;
Dallas—]Jean Kuehn, Ray Marsh.
Week of May 24 ;
Kingston Township—]. C. Lewis.
Week of June 1
Kingston Township—Curtis Montz,
John Pittinger, Harold N. Rust.
Dallas—Stanley T. Glidden, M. C.
Miers.
Lehman Township—W. R. Neely.
POST
SCRIPTS
LETTER
CORONATION
WRITING
ROOSEVELT
PALOOKA
A few months ago we presented in this
column «a letter trom England. Judging
trom the response, it was interestung to
a number of people and so we are peg-
ging oti from our own assignment again
ana shoving an Englishman into the gap.
We find ourselt now corresponding
with five British newspapermen in a
trans-oceanic agreement to keep each
other informed of what is Lappening in
each ot our own bailiwicks. = Since we
are the only American on this end of the
agreement it keeps us fairly busy, but
the insight we have gained into British
affairs has made it well worth-while.
It all started with .a rather amusing
tale. A printer at The Post, a tormer
Britisher, gave us the name of a man to
whom we could write in England. In the
years since our friend had known the
gentleman he had left newspaper work
behind and had become a Member of
Parliament but he informed us he was
submitting our letter to the secretary of
the National Journalists’ Union, in the
hope that he might be able to suggest a
correspondent.
We had almost forgotten the incident
when we received a letter from England
in the mail. A day later there was ano-
ther, and then another, and another until
we had received fifteen letters from
British newspapermen anxious to accor
modate. Our own letter, inviting a cor-
respondent, had appeared, we learned, in
the national publication of newspapermen
on the Isles—and we were swamped with
correspondence.
How we got out from that load is
another story, but we now have five
friends on the British Isles, and one—
who tailed along several months after the
first rush—in Australia.
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The young man who supplies us with
the material for this week's column is a
free lance writer, a former newspaper:
man. This letter is in response to a
heavy bundle of clippings on the Simpson
Case which we forwarded to him a
month or so ago. His comment on that
case is interesting.
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“The clippings” he writes “gave me a
good idea, not merely of the case itself
but of the censorship which had been im-
posed upon us here. Well, perhaps cen
sorship is sometimes necessary. I don’
quarrel with the institution, but with th
application of it here in what was purely
an artificial crisis—so artificial and so un-
real that the most popular monarch of
England has been completely forgotten
by now and we all dutifully sing ‘God
save King George VI'".
Our friend on the Coronation: “I'm
not looking forward to the Coronation,
with its hysteria, its pseudo-patriotism,
its quack profitmaking and its disgusting
contract between luxury and the most
miserable poverty. What an immoral
world we live in! All the villages and
towns are whipping up a simulated en-
thusiasm over the event and are financing
open air tea parties, firework = displays,
sports, fetes and the rest of it.
“I should be glad to be out of the
country, yet I shall have a sneaking de-
sire to be in the thick of it and may
probably go to London on The Day. All
the motor cars are running around with
Union Jacks stuck in their bonnets and
mothers are buying penny flags for the
children. You can get anything from a
pound of sugar to a spring suit in red,
white and blue now.”
Oa
A British writer on American writing:
“I liked your magazine ‘Time’. Some of
its pertinence bordered on impertinence
and some of it was a trifle sordid, yet
nevertheless I'd rather have it that way
(Continued on Page 5)
Visiting the New York World’s Fair of 1939 in 1937]
RS
NEW YORK (Special)—Profes-
sor Lewis Edwin Theiss of the
faculty of Bucknell University at
Lewisburg, Pa, and his daughter
Frances, 2 sophomore, are caught by
cameramas as they inspect a model
of the New York World's Fair of
1939 on display as part of an exhibit
on the ground floor of the Empire
State Building at 34th Street and
| Fifth Avenue. Miss Theiss did the
taiking for the family when inter-
viewers appeared: “We just couldn't
wait until the Fair opened to learn
what it is all about,” she said. “We
have been thrilled by the models and
plans which disclose a scope of
astounding proportions, We cer-
tainly. will be back in 1939 and know
that we shall see the greatest fair of
all time.” Mr. Theiss, who was a
New York newspaper man before
turning educator, expressed intereas
in the Theme of the Fair “Building
the World of Tomorrew” and fore-
cast a large attendance from educa:
tional circles.
Russian Dancers
Coming To City
Headed By Member of For-
mer Imperial Russian
Ballet :
Admirers of Mikhail Mordkin are ar-
ranging an enthusiastic welcome for the
first appearance of the Mordkin Ballet
at Irem Temple, Wilkes-Barre, Saturday
evening, April 24, 1937, under the aus-
pices of the Serve Your City Club, when
his highly proficient organization = will
dance Adolphe Adam’s seldom-produced
French ballet, “Giselle”, and follow with
the humorous and much discussed Tch-
erephine work, “The Goldfish”, adapted
from Alexander Pushkin’s delicious poem.
The name of Mordkin will always be
associated with classic mimodrama in
America. His triumph as a handsome
masculine exponent of dancing in the
famous Imperial Russian Ballet, was the
needed impulse to win all music and bal-
let lovers and prepared patrons for the
visit later on of Diagileff.
The Mordkin Ballet presents many new
faces and names including the = gifted
Lucia Chase as chief prima ballerina and
Viola Essen, the youngest premiere ever
to reach such honor under Mordkin.
They will appear in both ballets. Alter-
nating in Mordkin’s former roles will be
the Russian dancers Leon Varkas and
Dimitri Romanoff, assisted by Janna Per-
lova, Janice Hanford, Hermoine Hawk-
inson, Fyodor Nazinoff, Dorothy Weiger
and Leo Danieloff, who have been under
Mordkin since he established his American
ballet school.
In “Giselle” from Theophile Gautier’s
romance, Lucia Chase, has the tragic title
part with Viola Essen as Myrta the
“Queen of Death”. Leon Varkas is
Duke Albert and Dimitri Romanoff is
the tragic Hans.
In “The Goldfish” Lucia Chase has
one of her greatest roles as the Fisher-
man's Wife opposite the rotesque fisher-
man. She will also do Tchaikowsky's
famous “Russian Dance” with Varkas.
Viola Essen is the fairy goldfish, a pic-
turesque butterfly role of much grace and
beauty. The production is in five scenes
with costume designs by Soudeikine.
Reservation may be made at Irem Tem-
ple or Landau’s, 107 South Main Street,
Wilkes-Barre. Telephone and mail orders
will be given careful attention. Call Irem
Temple 2-5315. Landau’s, 3-2168.
Convention To Be
: 55th For County
The 55th annual convention of the Lu-
zeern County Sabbath School Association
will be held in Central M. E. Church,
Wilkes-Barre, May 3, 4 and 5. Dr. O.
W. Warmingham of Boston University,
professor of Biblical history and litera
ture, will speak nightly. A mass Meet-
May 3.
If a sufficient number of recruits can
be enlisted locally, Irem Country Club
boys this year, Ted Weisser, golf pro at
the club, announced this week. Te
In the past the majority of the caddies
have been boys from towns in the val
ley. Weisser reported this week he wants
to meet-any local boys 14 years of age
who have the qualifications for good cad-
dies. They should report to the golf
shop as early as possible, he said, so they
can be trained before the season opens.
ing for adults will ‘be held Monday night, |
Glee Club Gives
Minstrel Tonight
Program Ready For Colorful
Production In High
School
The: Glee Club of Dallas Junior Wo-
mai s~Club will present a Colonial min-
strel tonight (Friday) at 8:15 in Dallas
Borough High School Auditorium.
Mrs. Sara Sanford will direct the pro-
duction. © Mrs. Ruth R. Manning will
supervise dance numbers and Mrs. Maude
Baker will be accompanist. Mrs. Sanford
will be interlocutor, too. Beth Love is
president of the Women's Club and Mrs.
Thomas Robinson is chairman of music
and chairman of tonight’s minstrel.
Other committee chairmen for tonight
are: Mrs. George K. Swartz, tickets and
ushers; Mrs. Charles W. Lee, publicity;
Mrs. Kenneth Oliver, program; Mrs. Karl
Kuehn, decorations; Mrs. Robert Baker,
Miss Ruth Hull, costumes; Mrs. George
Stolarick, script.
Ushers will be Mrs. Milford Shaver,
Miss Leona Smith, Mrs. Margaret Shultz,
Mrs. Herbert Lundy and Mrs. Marie Per-
rego. The material for the costumes was
purchased and sewed by the members
themselves.
The program follows:
Theme song, ‘Song of the Soul”, Glee
Club; Aunt Jemimas, humor; solo, "Mighty
Lak a Rose”, Mrs.’ G. K. Swartz; Aunt
Jemimas; song, “In a Country Garden”,
glee club; country dance; Aunt Jemimas;
duet, “I will give You the Keys to My
Heart”, Ethel Stolarick and Helen Him-
mler; song, “Allah’s Holiday”, glee club;
comedy act. Aunt Jemimas; guest artist,
Pompilio Forlano, cornetist; intermission;
son, “Wake Thee Now, Dearest”, glee
club; “Little Old Lady”, Winnie Cease;
duet, “Honey, If Yo’ only Knew", Jane
O'Kane and Margaret Robinson; songs,
“Dixie” and ‘She Sleeps, My Lady
Sleeps”, glee club; solo, “Second Minuet”,
Charlotte Payne; Minuet by glee club; and
finale, “The Star Spangled Banner”.
Those members of the glee club who
will be “Aunt Jemimas” are Mary Durbin,
Ruth Hull, Jane O'Kane and Margaret
Robinson.
Dancers: Martha Washington — Milli-
cent Rustine, Ethel Stolarick, Mary Fe-
dor, Annette Baker, Clementa Swartz and
Winnie Cease; George Washington—DBar-
bara Oliver, Beth Love, Helen Himmler,
Charlotte Payne, Lillian Kuehn and Dor-
othy Moore.
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Basketball Finals :
Played Tonight
The finals in the intramural basketball
tournament at Kingston Township will be
played in the high school gymnasium to
night, when the Junior and Sophomore
boys and the Senior and the Sophomore
girls meet. z
COUNTRY CLUB WANTS TO USE
LOCAL CADDIES THIS SEASON
A few early golfers are already enjoy-
ing the club's links, which are probably
will select its caddies from among Dallas in better condition this year than in many
years past. The season will not open
officially until May 15, when Irem club
members celebrate the annual F. J. Weck-
esser Day.
Mr. Weisser, who had been at Year
man's Hall, Charleston, S. C., all winter,
returned last week and is busy making
preparations for the summer season. He
looks especially fit as a result of his win
ter in the South.
For Paving Of Main
A good start toward eliminating fr:
battle to secure a good road for Back
most important need is prompt action
the town, no matter what route, and
and a by-pass be paved eventually.
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NEW PASTOR
Rev. Herbert E. Frankfort, who
will be installed formally ‘as pastor
of. St. Church,
Paulis itl. n
Shavertown, on Sunday evening at
a
7:30:
Conference Head
T'o Greet Pastor
Rev. Mr. Frankfort Will Be
installed At St. Paul's
Sunday Night
The instailation of Rev. Ilacbert E.
Frankfort as the pastor of St. Pauls
Lutheran Church wil take piace on Sun-
day nightat /:9U. Kev. inomas Atkin-
son, president or w ilkes-Barre conference,
will have charge ot the installation and
will deliver the charge to the congrega-
tion.
Rev. Ernest J. Hoh, B. D., pastor of
Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Lancaster,
will deliver the charge to the pastor, who
came here trom Lancaster. A trio com-
posed of the Laycock sisters will sing
“Jesus Saviour, Pilot Me".
Kev. Mr. Frankrort was called to the
local church on February 21, tollowing
the resignation of Rev. G. Elson Ruft.
The new pastor was ordained on Easter
Sunday, at the local church, and moved
hee the following week.
On Sunday evening at St. Paul's
Church the Luther League will inaugur-
ate a series of devotional services at a
meeting at 6:45 in the church basement.
Miss Mary Jean Laycock will have charge
of the devotions and Rev. Hoh of Lan-
caster will speak on “What we know
about God”.
Beginning this Sunday the Sunday
school session will be held at 9:45 a. m,,
instead of 10, as in the past.
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Group From School
To Visit College
Eight Dallas Girls Guests At
Cedar Crest On
May 1
Eight girls from Dallas High School
have accepted the invitation of Cedar
Crest College, Allentown, to attend the
fifth annual Open House at the college on
Saturday afternoon, May 1, from 1:30 to
5 ips im.
The girls are Bernice Sheppleman,
Betty Weid, Alberta Himmler, Elsie
Culp, Florence Kelly, Elsie Johnston,
Jane Knecht and Roberta Van Campen.
Miss Elizabeth Culbert will have charge
of the group. 4
The local visitors will be shown various
activities of the college by twelve service
girls, each of whom will be in charge of
a group of high school students and
friends. The manufacture of cosmetics
| Lewis explained how people in Dallas
Opposing Groups To Join |
Forces In Fight For Road
Dallas Delegation Confers With Luzerne Merchants On The
Highway Project; Petition To Be Drafted Asking
Street And By-Pass
NO COMPROMISE WITHOUT BY-PASS, THOUGH
iction between opposite camps in the
Mountain motorists through Luzerne
was made on Wednesday night when a delegation from this section met
with Luzerne merchants to discuss the problem.
As a result resolutions and a petition will be drafted stressing that the
to secure a passable highway through
recommending that both Main street
Attorney B. B. Lewis, spokesman
for the local delegation, said yester:
day he felt the conference had pre-
pared the way for a new understand-
ing between the allied groups work.
ing for a by-pass and the Luzerne
merchants who have opposed that
plan in the past because of its threat
to their business section.
Still Want Bysfass
Questioned yesterdgs as to whether
the agreement mig delay by-pass
plans, C. L. Albgft, chairman of Dal-
las Rotary Clupfs highwa
said it definitefy would
he is encourages
Wednesday: night’s
feels the movement tc
ter route to the valley for
tain motorists was stimu
meeting of Wednesday night.
Attorney Lewis and Attorney Henry
Greenwald of Luzerne were delegated
to draw up a position incorporating
the views of Luzerne merchants and
local groups and calling upon allied
organizations to co-operate in achiev~
ing the goal. y
The discussion at the meeting Wed-
nesday night was led by Stanley John.
son, chairman of the road committee
of Luzerne Civic Association. Atfor-
ney ‘Greenwald presented the attitude
‘of the Luzerne men and Attorney
/’
by the
a.
and its vicinity feel about the condi-
| tions which prevail now.
Councilman John Crossin of Lu-
zerne suggested that a parking lot be
provided in the rear of the firemen's
building for persons who wish to shop
in Luzerne. Shopping would be free,
the lot would be lighted, and police
protection would be provided.
Mr. Crossin also assured the meet-
ing that police will receive instruc.
tions to enforce the ordinance prohi-
biting double parking cn Main Street
and will use every means to ease cons
gestion along the main thoroughfare.
Red Cross Drive
Is Started Here
Oliver Calls For Generous
Support In Annual
Roll Call ;
One of the first divisions organized,
the Dallas group of volunteers who are
carrying on the annual Roll Call of Wy-
oming Valley Chapter, Ameri¢fn’ Red
Cross, got off to a flying staf this week.
“We've seen so many edimples of Red
Cross generosity recently” said James R
Oliver, local chairman, that there shold
be no hesitancy this im"Tesponding
to the call of th» Pd Cross. In Wyom-
ing Vallev aft + "st vear’s flood the Red
Cross expended four times as much as
vas ‘on prih to in ithe Valley. The Red
“nes is still helping the people of the
Mle West to recover from their dis-
“ous floods. Dallas people are always
1erous. We ‘expect them to respond
overwhelmingly to this worthy cause.”
The quota for Dallas Borough and
Dallas Township has been set at $500.
Local workers who have volunteered are
Mrs. James Ayre, Mrs. Nelson Shaver
Mrs. Peter Clark, Mrs. Joseph Walle
Mrs. B. B. Lewis, Mrs. H. Lee Scott, Mrs
Kenneth Oliver, Margaret Czulegar, Mr.
Machell Hildebrant, Harry Tennysor
Mrs. Ethel Shaver, Miss Josephine Ster
Mrs. Georgianna Welch, Mrs. Walte
Davis, Maurice Girton, Mrs. Charles
Bodycomb, Mrs. Karl Kuehn, Millicent
Rustine, Mrs. Kenneth Oliver, Alberta
Hofmeister, Mrs. C. W. Lee, Mrs. Harold
Rood, Mrs. Stanley Davies.
It has been requested that any persons
who are not contacted by volunteers but
who are anxious to contribute send their
donations to Chairman Oliver in Dallas.
Madden Sentenced
Ten to Forty Years
in the chemistry laboratory, jewelry in
the jewelry laboratory, a display of gar
ments designed and made by the students
in home economics, demonstrations of
several of twenty-five sports carried on
at Cedar Crest, the various machines used
in connection with the course in Secre-
tarial Science, and art exhibits will be
among the many interesting features of
the program.
The trip will be one of several groups
of students from the local high school
have made this Spring to educational in-
stitutions.
rrr A mis
Penalty Added To
Property Tax May 1
Tax Collector Arthur Dungey of Dallas
this week reminded .taxpayers that May 1
will be the deadline for payment of all
property taxes. After that date the tax
will be returned to the County Commis-
sioner’s office and a penalty will be add-
ed. Personal taxes must be paid before
The last chapter in the career of a
gang of youthful bandits who terrorized
this section was written last Thursday at
which time Wyoming County court sen-
tenced James Madden of Pittston to serve
from ten to forty years in the State pen-
itentiary. Madden, who was sentenced
with the gang which held up local gaso-
line stations in February and March, was
acquitted in Luzerne County but pleaded
guilty in Wyoming County. His three
friends, who have begun their terms in
the penitentiary were taken to Tunk-
hannock to give testimony.
To Discuss Building
Plans Next Monday
Shavertown firemen will meet on Mon-
day night in the Shavertown school to
discuss further plans for the purchase of
a site in the township and the construc-
tion of a new firemen's home. A com-
mittee will report on the results of its
survey since the last meeting two weeks
June 1 to escape the penalty.
ago.
Snyder, Mrs. J. C. Fleming, Mrs. Robert