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VOL. 47
POST
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WISK
FISH
EDITOR
NOTE
$100
HORTICULTURAL NOTE: The
flowers in our window box have learn-
ed to chin themselves on the sill and
wink through the window at the editor
which is a highly disconcerting trick
when you're not expecting it.
Our nomination for the best fish-
ermen of the season goes to Kiler
Updyke and Bobby Henney, two youth-
ful anglers, who caught an unusually
big sucker in the little creek which
flows behind the Updyke home at
Kunkle last Tuesday morning. They
had been fishing only a few minutes
when they yanked out the fish. John
Race,, who happened to be passing
measured it and says it was fifteen
inches long.
——
Back in the 60's, the erudite’s “Edi-
tor's Drawer” of the old Harper's
monthly printed this self-appraisel of
a long career in frontier journalism
by a hard-bitten Texas editor:
Been asked to drink .......... 11,392
TANK «os eisiaiainisnnisionsgsisiov ona 11,392
Requested to retract ....... . 416
416
Didn't retract :
Invited to parties and receptions by
persons fishing for puffs...... 3,333
. Took the hint ....cccieiianrensaee 33
Didn't take the hint .......... 3,300
Threatened to be whipped ........ 174
Been whipped .....-0:-- a 0
Whipped the other fellow ........ 4
Didn't come to time .........- 170
Been promised whisky, gin,ete., if we
would go after them............ 5,610
Been after them .....coccaeceeens 5,000
Been asked what's the news.. 300,000
Mold. . ove veiainie dinsinee in in. n elas ode a 0 els 23
Didn't KNOW cease ecrrcscronses 200,000
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Semetirmes one sentence will stand
from its companions in a book like
a star on a cloudy ‘night. This one
glittered in David Seabury’s "How To
Worry Successfully”: “Life” writes
Seabury, “is a womb in which our spi-
ritual natures are growing until, freed
by death, we are born at last.”
lo.
Note received by a local drug store:
“Box asbern 4 hedax. Make it bears.”
Oe
It may interest Mrs. W. L. Tracy of
Shavertown, whose son, Lee, is best
known for his stage and screen char-
acterization of newspapermen, to know
that on the World-Telegram in New-
York City there really is a newspaper-
man named Lee Tracy. He is promo-
tion manager of that Scripps- -Howard
sheet,
—_—O—
Lee (that is, our and Mrs. Tracy's
Lee) has played newspaper roles with
such conviction and has caught the
spirit of the news room so well news-
papermen recognize him as one of the
its. and forget he is a movie
star. Frequently, SWS Mrs Tracy,
friends of Lee get well along into shop
talk with him before they recall that
he isn't really a writer.
‘We had a pleasant reunion this week
with Harold “Rip” Bowers, a Federal
bank examiner, who visited the First
National Bank, primarily, and us, 1n-
cidentally. “Rip” lived in Kingston un-
til about eight years ago and will pro-
bably be remembered as a crack ten-
nis player, although his chief ‘claim
to distinction, as far as we were con-
cerned, was his ability to play trick-
jazz rhythms by ear.
Rip’s father was manager of Lud-
wig & Co. in Wilkes-Barre and his
mother was once a Ziegfeld star. She
is now holding down a swell job with
a West Coast department store and is
coming East soon for a visit, by plane,
as usual, Rip informs us.
8 ’
tovernor George H. Earle found
“yery. amusing” the threat of a South-
ern gentleman who promises to raise
$2,000,000 to prevent Earle’s nomina-
tion for the Presidency in 1940 but one
Dallas ‘nan took it more seriously than
the governor.
This = man,
can’t be made public, but who,
assure our readers, holds enough pres-
tige and financial reserve to command
respect, said this week he would send
his personal check for $100 to Earle’s
Southern critic if he could learn his
address. ;
Are there any other local contribu-
whose name, naturally,
we can
tors?
‘
Known sometimes -as “The Boy
Evangelist’, although he is rapidly
outgrowing the title, Robert Sutton of
Dallas is conquering new fields. His
piano playing on a 10:30 to 11:30 radio
prograin over Station WIGBI, Scran-
ton, daily except Sundays and Mon-
days is attracting wide attention. The
nicest tribute the local young man re-
ceived in some time came recently at
the time Wilter MacDonald, who, be-
fore he became a travelling evangel-
ist, was known in vaudeville as “the
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THIS IS A SAMPLE OF THE CARD YOU WILL FILL IN WEDNESDAY
THE DALLAS
POST,
FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1937.
SPECIMEN REGISTRATION CARD
y
. WARD | DISTRICT
NAME & Wo. STREET
ROOM, JPARTMERT Peat Office Address
OCCUPATION OCCUPIED
“DATE RESIDENCE IN DESIGNATION OF POLITICAL PARTY FOR PRIMARY VOTE
ELECTION DISTRICT BEGAN Ly ¢
_YBAR PARTY AFFILIATION YEAR PARTY AFFILIATION
PLACE OF LAST TT CITY, TOWN OR BOROUGH STATE _
REGISTRATION {
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PLACE OF BIRTH SEX \
3 STATE OR TERRITORY -
OF THE UNITED STATES
OR FOREIGN COUNTRY
PERSONAL NATURALIZATION STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA #3:
; 1 HEREBY SWEAR OR AFFIRM, THAT I AM A CITIZEN O
DATE COURT . NITED STATES, THAT ON THE DAY OF THE NEXT ELECTION I
? ALL BE AT LEAST TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGEL, AND SHALL
HAVE RESIDED IN THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA ¥
CERTIFICATE YEAR (OR, HAVING PREVIOUSLY BEEN A QUALIFIED ELECTOR
PLACE No. HOVED AND RETURNED, SHEN SIX MONTHS, NEXT PRECEDING
DERIVATIVE NATURALIZATION y SAID ELECTION. AND IN THE ELECTION DISTRICT TWO MONTHS,
: THAT I AM LEGALLY JUALIFIED TO VOTE THAT I HAVE REA
Or HATE HAD READ To. ME, THE RORECOING STATEMENTS
1 FATHER [] MOTHER 1] HUSBAND MADE IN gONNECTION res MY REGISTRATION AND THAT
DOES ELECTOR REQUIRE ASSISTANCE TO VOTE? :
PHYSICAL DISABILITY ; us
IF SO, STATE NATURE OF PHYSICAL SIGNA' MARK OF VOTER
4 TLitrERacy H DISABILITY oa SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO BEFORE E
ME TIES. oi DAY ui ceiars oi saressossevesslSrese
HEIGHT COLOR OF HAIR | COLOR OF EYES | DATE OF BIRTH
SIGNATURE OF REGISTRAR
BOROUGH, TOWN OR TOWNSHIP OF:
SURNAME (REGISTRAR—DO NOT WRITE BELOW)
I
SERIAL No.
CHRISTIAN NAME OR NAMES
In accordance with Pennsylvanigls new election regulations, designed to eliminate corrupt voting practices), every voter will have to fill in one of
these cards if he or sh: wants to vote in electians from now on.
Girl Fractures
Skull At Noxen
‘Anna Barber, 9, who plunged from
a 50-foot trestle at Noxen on Tuesday
afternoon, and suffered a fractured
skull, was believed to be out of danger
yesterday. ‘Attaches at General Hos-
pital reported her condition was “fair.”
For a time it was believed she had
Suffered more serious injuries, and her
condition was thought to be grave,
The child is believed to have been
playing ofi ‘the trestle when she lost
her balance. Delmar Shultz, wah was
walking by, saw the girl fall and ran
to swmmon Dr George H. Rauch, who
lives nearly. He ordered a quick re-
moval to the hospital.
Marian Avery of Noxen rushed the
injured child to General Hospital in
Wilkes-Barre.
Her stepfather, Wayne Hubbell of
Noxen, is a patient at Nesbitt Memor-
ial Hospital, recovering from injuries,
including a broken ankle, he received
several months ago in an automobile
accident. It was reported he suffered
from gangrene which set in after the
accident.
Frear And Parrish
Reunion On June 30
The annual Frear and Parrish re-
union will be held at Montros¢ Grove
(Perrin’s Marsh) , Centermorg! and, on,
Wednesday, June 30. All relatives and
friends are cordially invited to attend.
Miss Dorothy Johnson, secretaryy urg-
es that those unable to attend send a
letter to be read at the meeting.
eet eee
New Ditch To Help
In Protecting Road
Gushing surface water rushing down
hillsides after the severe storm Mon-
day night settled in a great pool on
Lake Street in front of the Adelman
property and almost completely block-
ed traffic for a period of half an hour.
Recently fourteen WPA men spent
three days constructing a ditch in this
location to prevent such flooding of
Lake street after rain storms, but
their efforts: have apparently been in
vain.
850 Farmers Signed,
Grover Stock Says
Eight hundred and fifty) farmers in
Luzerne County have signed up for
this year's Agricultural Conservation
program, Grover C. Stock, chairman
of the County Agricultural Conserva-
tion Committee, reports. Many local
farmers who are in the program this
year already have used many of the
soil-building practices. Information on
how to take part in the program can
be secured from Jamts D Hutchinson,
county farm agent from Mr. Stock or
from the offices at rear of 34 Scott
street, Wilkes-Barre.
with the new regulation.
Only those who register will be
permitted to vote. Only the citizens |
of Wilkes-Barre, Hazleton, Nant:
ed from the new regulation.
At each polling place in local bor-
oughs and townships there will be one
Republican and one Democrat regi-
strar. They will receive $7.50 a day
for each of the three days, and $7.50
per day additional for return of en-
rodment books to the court house
after each registration day, or a total
wage of $15 each.
The cost of putting the new system
into effect in Luzerne County will be
between $70,000 and $80,000, County
Commissioners estimate.
Registrars Appointed
: Registrars appointed by the County
Commissioners this week for local dis-
tricts are:
Republicans:
Southwest District,
Northeast, A. H Young;
Arminda Woolbert.
+ Dallas Township:
Mrs. Minnie Kunkle;
Kingston Township;
A. C. Johnson;
Northwest,
South District,
Middle District,
coke and Pittston, who were register={
ed permanently last year, are except.
First Of Three Registration
Days Fixed For Next Wednesday
VOTERS MUST COMPLY OR MPLY OR LOSE PRIVILEGE
Voters in local towns will have their first opportunity to register under |
the new election code next Wednesday when registrars appointed this week
by the County Commissioners sit at local polling places.
Everyone who expects to vote in the important Fall elections must
register today or on July 15 or August 12,
fort Luzerne County, or go to the Court House at Wiles Barre to comply
the other two days designated
Hazel Gordon; ; South District, Stanley
‘Moore. =
Daisy” Borough: North,
Frantz; South, Ella Condiff.
Lake Township: North, Miss Luella
Gosart; South, Virgie Wilfe; Middle,
‘Harry Rossman. ;
Jackson Township: John Covert,
Lehman Township: Northeast Dis-
trict, Russell D. Rogers; Southwest,
Frank Zyblewski; Middle, Allen Ma-
jor. :
Democratic registrars named at the
same time are:
Dallas Borough: North District, John
Mead; South District, John Polackey.
Dallas Township: North District,
Ella Brace; Middle, Emma German
Verrista; South, Edward Estock, :
Jackson Township: Albert Salanski.
Kingston Township: Northeast Dis-
trict, Clifford Culver; Southwest, Fred
Schmitt; Southwest, Paul Erwine.
Lehman Township: Southwest Dis-
trict, Michael J. Winnicki; Northwest,
Jacob C. Gosart; Middle, George P.
Johnson.
Lake Township: North District, Ea.
ward Gaynor; Middle, Dominic P.
Steiner; South, Rainey Davenport.
Donald
Legion’s Circus
Repeated Tonight
ae
Fi
+
st Night's Performance
Scores Big Hit With
Audience
“About 100 prominent Dallas folk: got
a real taste of life in the sawdust ring
last night when they took part in the
opening performance of The Circus,
staged by Daddow-Isaacs Post, Amer-
ican Legion, in the borough high
school.
The riotous performance merited a
larger crowd and the Legion, which is
producing the show as a means of fin-
ancing its community program, hopes
for a better attendance tonight
One of thé most novel productions
ever staged here, The Circus is simi-
lar to Jimmy Durante’s “Jumbo,”
which rocked Broadway’ with laughter
last, year. It has a romantic plot, but
it has, too, all the traditional color
and glamour, all the freaks, and all
the ballyhoo of the real circus. All
the actors did exceptionally well in
their roles.
Tenure Act O. K., :
Jurist Decides
Bradford Judge Rules On
Case Simjlar To Local
ne
Although no decision had-come from
Luzerne county courts until yesterday
on the Tenure Act test/case involving
Kingston Township Dibtrict, Judge C.
M. Culver of Bradforfi County, ruling
on a similar case fro Stevens Town<
ship, pronounced thef bill SonSgpe on-
al. Ne
The local test case was started by
James Martin, supervising principal at
Kingston Township and w
reappointed when other teachers re.
ceived their contracts. He claimed
protection under the provision of the
new bill,
Judge Culver said the law in ques-
tion does mot violate the State Con-
stitution because school districts are
quasi-municipalities and as such are
the agents of the sovereign state.
Criticism Aimed
At Project Delay
Has Taken Since Last Fall
To Build Long-Awaited
Sidewalk
criticism
Outspoken against the
the sidewalk between Main
to
Dallas and Fernbrook/was call
the attention of borghan ordi this
week.
Although the WPA project has been
under way since last Fall the side-
walk still is far from finished. Ad-
vocated for some years by The Post
the sidewalk was to have provided
long-needed protection for pedestrians
and the delay in completing it expos-
es people walking along that highway
to the danger 'of heavy summer tra-
fific.
construction point out that there are
many other projects which would be
of benefit to the town if the sidewalk
project were out of the way... There
is no danger of unemployment for the
men, either, because there are other
projects scheduled’ nearby,
Republicans and Democrats alike
seemed to share in the opinion that
there is no excuse for the intolerable
for its sidewalk.
Lehman Principal
Weds Miss Lizdas
Newlyweds Will Hioside At!
Lehman After Summer.
Honeymoon
Miss Diana I. Lizdas, daughter of |
H. Austin Snyder, son of Rev, and
Mrs Ivan L. Snyder of Wiest Nanti-
ship schools, were married on Tues-
day morning.
The ceremony was performed by the |
bridegroom’s father, in the parsonage |
of the West Nanticoke M. E. church.
Mrs. Snyder is a graduate of the!
Hazleton High School and of the Sus-
quehanna University, where she re-
ceived her A. B. degree. During the
summer she pursued post-graduate
work at Pennsylvania State College.
For the past three years she was a
teacher and coach of girls’ basketball
at Lehman High School.
Mr. Snyder is a graduate of Wiyo-
ming Seminary, Mansfield = State
ho was D0t men chers’ College and Pennsylvania
State College, where he received his
M. E. degree. Both young people are
highly popular throughout this section
and Mr. Snyder has an excellent re-
cord. for the years he has headed the
Lehman schools.
After a wedding breakfast, the
couple left on a trip northward along
the Atlantic coast,
Events 150 Years Ago Ended Yankees’ Dream For New State
Wanted To Cat This Part |
Of Pennsylvania From
State
If fate had not taken an unexpected
turn a century and a half ‘ago Dallas
and its vicinity would this year be
celebrating the sesqui-centennial of
their State—not Pennsylvania, but
Westmoreland __ Fourteenth Common-
monwealth of these United States.
Tor it was 150 years ago that Col-
onel John Franklin's ambitious dream
40f a new state collapsed, and ended
the guerilla warfare which raged
through this part of Pennsylvania
after the Revolution,
Six hundred men stood ready under
Franklin to defend their right to sen-
arate from Pennsylvania, General
[Ethan Allen, hero of Ticonderoga, was:
poised at Athens for a drive South-
ward. The new Constitution was com-
pleted. ‘The officers had been selected.
A signal from Franklin would give
birth to the Fourteenth Common-
wealth.
And then, just as the forces of the
“Wild Yankees” were preparing to
move, the Pennsylvania Assembly,
which had been stumbling and dodder-
ing for years, miraculously took the
action which split the ranks of Frank-
lin’s men and brought about the col.
lapse of the rebellion.
: Claims In Conflict
The fantastic scheme was born
amidst the hatred and bloodshed of
the Yankee-Pernamite wars. Both
Connecticut and Pennsylvania had
laid claim to this territory. The sit-
uation attracted national attention in
Col. John Franklin Almost
Succeeded In Fantastic
Plan
1782, when a Conmessol commis-
sion met at Trenton and gave the ter-
ritogy to Pennsylvania, despite the
fact that the claim of Connecticut was
based upon three valid royal grants,
all prior to the grant upon which
Pennsylvania based its claim.
length of time it is taking to construct |,
street]
/
Critics of the WIPA direction of the
length of time Dallas has had to wait |
John Lizdas of Lake ‘Silkworth, and |
coke and principal of Lehman Town- |
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No. 26
Leaders Await
Word On Status
Of 7th District
esentative For
Rural Area
NEEDS EXPLAN ATION
Is Dallag in the Sixty Sixth or the Seventh
Legislative District now?
and none of the political leaders con-
tracted by The Post this week were
sure of that answer—rests a number
of important develop.nents.
Shortly before its adjournment the
Pennsylvania Legislature adopted
including Dallas and its vicinity, from
the Sixth Legislative District and
bulked them in a sprawling rural dis-
trict which includes also some towns
If the bill went into" effect
mediately, as most political leaders
assumed, the new Seventh Legislative
District is in the peculiar position of
having no representation at Harris-
burg.
Two solutions are possible before
the Legislature convenes in the Fall
May Appoint Representativ 3
a Represtntative for the new Seventh,
in which case this tradtionally -Re-
publican territory will probably find
itself being. represented at Harrisburg
the regular election of Representatives
next year.
On the other hand, voters from the
Seventh District may be called upon
to vote for a Representative in connec-
tests in the Fall.
The possibility that the actual
creation of the new Seventh Legis~
lative District will be postponed until
the regular election of Representatives
next year is unlikely. 1
One prominent local Republican
leader expressed the opinion that the
reapportionment exists
but that no
elected until
representative will be
next year, since any
a term anyway ’
At the county commissioners’ office,
which supervises election returns. no
light could be thrown on the problem.
A spokesman there said no definite
word has been received from Harris-
lines were to be made effective,
Effects Party H ads
The realignment also effects the Re-
in the county. At present Henry Dis-
que of Dallas is chairman of the Sixth
Legislative District for the Republi=
cans. If the realignment has gone into
effect he is in the unusual position of
living in one district and being chair-
man of another
i. The problem is different for William
Cotter of Wyoming, who is Democratic
chairman of the Sixth Legislative Dis-
trict. He resides in a town which is a
part of the condensed Sixth and the
Democrats ‘must elect a chairman for
‘the new Seventh District. It was re-
| ported this week that Charles Malpass
lof Forty Fort is being mentiined pro-
minently for that postion.
Drunken Drivin
Will Stand 1'rial
Lehman And 1 Idetown To
Hear Anti-Saloon League
Drama,
denunciation of drunken
be delivered on Tuesday
| night at Lehman and on Wiednesday,
Bi at Idetown when groups from
{the M. E. churches /of those towns
nace the court trial, “Death at the
Wheel,” a drama with a timely mes-
sage
| The two trials will pe difected Tr
| Rev. E. N. Bergerstock, superintendent
of the Harrisburg District of Pennsyl-
vania Anti-Saloon League. The oft-
asked question “When is a man
drunk?” will be answered from the
witness chair and the
reaches impressive dramatic heights.
The trials will begin at 8 P--m.
There will be no admission charge but
a cash offering will be received. Chil-
dren under twelve years of age must
be accompanied by their parents.
The cast for the Lehman trial,
which will be given on Tuesday night,
follows: | Judge, Rev. C. Duane But-
ler, pastor; district attorney, Howard
Crosby; defense attorney, Rev. Mr.
Bergerstock; defendant, ‘Arthur Maier;
policeman, F. R, Searfoss; Dr. Stover,
Alan Major; Frances McKeel, Mrs.
William Major, Ralph Major, Sheldon
Ehret, Stephen Summerhill, Jean Zim-
merman asd Edith Sutton.
The cast for the Idetown trial,
which will be given on Wednesday
night, follows: Judge, Rev. Mr. But-
ler; district attorney, Howard Crosby;
defense attorney, Rev. "Mr. Berger-
stock; defendant, Ted Parrish; police-
A stirring
(driving will
[Pennsylvania could have avoided.
years of bloodshed had she imme¢
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man, Joseph Ide; Dr. Stover, Floyd
Neeley; Ethel Wiright, Mrs. P. H.
irks, Jean Hadsell and Elsie Jean
a
im-
testimony
Governor May Have To Name
Upon the answer to this question— ;
bill which lopped certain Communities,
from the Second and Fourth Districts, :
First, Governor Earle may appoint vo
by a Democrat, who would serve until
tion with the ‘county and local con-
theoretically,
candidate elected could serve only half
=
burg concerning when the new district
publican and Democratic organizations