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PRESTIGE
HARRIS
PANAMINT
CHROMOS
SUICIDE
This is Newspaper Week in Penn-
sylvania if we haven't got our dates
mixed and we are obligated to make
some contribution to the glory of the
press.
We do that happily. Newspapers
are, to us, the most important things
there are. If the weather and the
temperature in our office were more
conducive to inspired thought, we
certainly 'might write an impassion-
ed column on The World and the
Press. We should congratulate the
American newspaper readers that they
can stili read uncensored news. We
should congratulate them that they
don’t have to get their news from the
papers of Japan or Germany or Italy
or Russia, where the governments de-
cide what is or is not news.
‘Wie prefer, instead, to introduce a
gentleman we met in a book the other
night _one T. B. Harris. Mr. ‘Harris
wasn’t a very historic figure and in
many ways he was a very disreput-
able one. But he appears to be a
very vital symbol of a journalistic day
that has gone, and if newspapers have
any prestige today’ in this country,
it is largely because men "ike 8.
- Harris were ready to match the dar-
ing of the boldest pioneers.
—_——
Editor Harris, who was no different
from hundreds of country editors who
were toting their type cases to the
little villages which were to become
the great cities of another century se-
lected Panamint, which was booming
as a result of the discovery of silver
mines, as a good town to start a pap-
er. He took with him his concertina,
a light tent, a few cases of type, a
littie Gordon job press and a first-
class supply of resolution.
The driver of the stage which took
Harris to Panamint was Jack Lloyd,
a crochety old fellow who seldom
spoke a civil word. He introduced
Harris to the crude wit of the silver
boom town.
As they were jouncing along, Har-
ris made an attempt to be sociable.
“I hear,” he said, searching for a
common interest, “that you've got
quite a camp up yonder.”
He waited for a reply. Some time
passed. Then Lloyd said “Yup”.
Harris was encouraged. “What ev-
ery town needs is a good, live news-
paper.”
Lloyd kept his eyes glued on the
head of his lead horse. Finally he
indicated he had heard. ‘“Mebbe,” he
replied.
“I'm going to start one up there,”
‘Harris offered.
No answer for a while, then,
“S0-0-0-02" :
“Yes, four pages to begin with, lat-
er on, eight. It's to be called the
Panamint News. Three times a
week.”
Jack spit over the spinning wheel.
“mp.”
——Or=
Harris gave up. They rode on, still
jouncing dangerously along the rough
path. Then Jack Lloyd broke the si-
lence.
He pointed with his whip. “See
that?”
Harris looked. “What is it
Lloyd finaly looked at Harris.
“Whar we buried him. The first
Panamint editor.”
Harris was sympathetic. “What car-
ried him off?” he asked.
“He war shot.” Lloyd
him, bluntly.
They rode on, then Lloyd pointed
again,
“Thar,”
“Thar what ” Harris asked.
“He war lynched. The second edi-
tor.”
On and on rolled the old stage, with
both Harris and Lioyd sitting in glum
silence.
Finally Harris pointed.
said.
Lloyd, taken off guard, was curious.
“Thar what?” he asked.
“Thar,” remarked Harris, “is where
(Continued on Page 8)
informed
“Thar,” he
THE DALLAS POST, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1937
AIR VIEW OF PENNSYLVANIA'S NEW “ALCATRAZ” AT GRETNA
Until now Alcatraz, the Federal penitent-
iary in San Francisco Bay,*has been recogniz-
ed as the toughest “big house” in the country.
Only one prisoner has ever tried to escape
from Alcatraz, and his death was entered in
the records as suicide. Now Pennsylvania is
to have an “Alcatraz” of its own. A. birds-
eye view is shown above. The central tower
will house 592 single cells.
towers will inclose the shops and the parade
The two flanking
grounds. Outside the 39-foot walls, a 12-foot,
electrically -charged, tool-resistant wire mesh
fence will inclose a bare “no man’s land” where
there will be neither foliage nor grass. Photo-
electric cells and 'master locks will be placed
so a move in the wrong direction by any pris-
oner will seal the entire system automatically
and the warden, himself, will be as securely
held as any prisoner.
VOTERS HAVE UNTIL
SATURDAY AT NOON
TO REGISTER ANEW
Only two more days remain for
voters to register under the new’
state law if they intend to vote An pot
the important Gengrhl Election ‘on
November 2. FF go”
A staff of refisiedlts will be at
the Court House today from 9 to
4 and until noon tomorrow. It will
be the last opportunity to regis-
ter untit after the General Elec-
tion.
Only a little more than half of
the voting population in this sec-
tion has. registered so far. Both
Republican and Democratic par-
ties are conducting a drive to lead
in the final registration figures.
death.
Auto Races End
Bloomsburg Fair
ER es ig
Hundred Laps Of Driving
Are Scheduled For
Saturday
Leading dirt track drivers of the na-
tion will roar around the treacherous
mile track in quest of greater auto-
mobile race track glory tomorrow as
the greatest fair in Bloomsburg’s
history comes to a close.
The ' all-star field of entries is so
large Joe Dawson, zone supervisor for
the contest board of the American
Automobile Association, has announ-
ced the qualifying triais will begin be-
fore the noon hour.
Once they are completed there is
scheduled a hundred laps of motor
madness as fearless drivers strive to
secure the largest awards in Blooms-
burg’ history.
Ralph Hankinson, veteran promoter,
who has brought to Bloomsburg 'in
the past star-studded fields, this year
will present the greatest field of all.
Tony Willman, the flying Dutchman
froon. Milwaukee, who cleaned up on a
crack field last year; Tommy Hinner-
shitz, of Reading; Vern Crenduff, of
Tallahassee, and Ken Fowler, of Day-
ton, Ohio, are just a few of the stars
driving at Bloomsburg.
Before the races start, following
the time trials, the free vaudeville
acts, combining thrills, comedy and
beauty, will be presented. It is going
to be a great afternoon for auto race
fans and the lovers of first class en-
tertainment.
“Thrill Day” is on the program to-
day, featuring “Lucky” Teeter and his
Hell Drivers who wili use stock cars
in a two-hour program featuring
twenty different ways to flirt with
This feature is in addition to
the regular horse racing and vaude-
vile program of the afternoon.
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HALLOWE'EN DANCE
The ‘Senior Class of Dallas Town-
ship High School will sponsor a Hal-
lowe’en sport dance on Wednesday
night, October 13.
DRAINAGE SYSTEM HERE UNUSUAL;
NATURE BUILT “THROUGH” VALLEYS
Most valleys are like dead-end-
streets—they connect with larger val-
leys at one end but the other end a-
buts against hills or mountains—but
the valleys in Dallas and its vicinity
are what the State Department of In-
ternal Affairs calls “through valleys”.
Although this section of the state is
dotted with mountains most of the
valleys between are connected. The
glacier from which humble Toby's
Creek descended cut great gaps in
the 'mountains to help the engineers
who built the roads which connect
Dallas with Wyoming Valley. This,
say engineers, is Nature's way of
solving the drainage problem.
Because these valleys about Dallas
are connected with each other there
are often cases where streams whose
sources are close to each other flow in
opposite directions. When rain falls
in the vicinity of Dallas some of it
drains through Harvey's Lake into
Harvey's Creek into the ‘Susquehanna
at West Nanticoke, some flows into
Huntington Creek, which also rises in
Lake Township, and on down Kitchen
Creek, and the rest flows down Toby's
Creek into the Susquehanna at Kings-
ton,
bo”
MEN’S BIBLE CLASS
~ TO CONSTRUCT WALK
AROUND M. E. CHURCH
Dr. Place Men's Bible Clags wilil
build a concrete walk around the
‘Shavertown M. E. church, accor-
ding to plans made at a meeting
"last Tuesday night.
Hale Garey ig chairman of the
committee on arrangements. Ma-
terials for the walk will be do-'
nated and the members of the
class will do the work,
Rev. Duane Butler of Lehman
M. E. church spoke at the 'meet-
ing of the class on Tuesday night
and Ralph Lewis presided. 5
WPA To Pave Two
Borough Streets
®
Sidewalk On M Main Stpost Is
Slowly Nearing
Completion;
Proposals for the re facing of
Elizabeth street on Parrish Heights
and Park street on the Wihallo Plot
have been approved by Dallas Borough
Council and WPA. authorities and the
projects will be started soon.
‘The sidewalk, which has been under
construction for about a year, con-
necting the Fernbrook section with
Main street, Dallas, is almost complet-
ed and will be ready for use soon.
It will be one of the best improve-
ments council has given the town,
since it will not only protect school
children who were formeriy forced to
walk along the highway, but wili make
it easy for residents of the lower sec-
tion to reach the Dallag stores con-
veniently and safely.
Charges Against
- Township Dropped
Will Stay In P .I. A. A. Plays
West Pittston Saturday
Afternoon
The fear L Dallas Totvnship High
‘School's fobtbali tea Avould be bar-
red from competiti with other P. IL
0 weeks ago collapsed
this week when it wag announced no
disciplinary action will be taken.
M. J. Girton, supervising principal
at the township, said he had received
word that Plains had withdrawn the
charges and that no further action
wilt be taken. |A suspension would
have forced Dallas Township to cancel
the remaining games on its sched-
ule.
Coach Ronald Doll's township tearn
served notice that it is out to hang
up a good record when it held an ag-
gressive Exeter High School eleven to
a scoreless tie last Saturday at West
Pittston. The township team was on
the defensive most of the game, hold-
ing Exeter stubbornly. Doll's team
had a good chance to score in the last
quarter when they blocked a punt on
Exeter's 20-yard lihe, but the pass
over the goal-line failed.
Tomorrow afternoon the Dalias
Township eleven will play West Pitts-
ton on the same field.
Lehman Victorious
Lehman High School, last vyear’s
champions, started their season in fine
shape last Friday when they defeated
Factoryville, 7 to 6.
Factoryviile took
the first half. In the
Coach McCullough’s eleven,
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the lead late in
second half
without
There is an awful lota things
it out.
casts.
ment.
THE LOW DOWN from HICKORY GROVE
while the radio will get turned off and then I get a chance to kinda
try to think. And the radio itself, it puzzles me, and the part that
puzzles me most, it is the murder you hear.
And I never did hanker or thirst to find out just how or why
somebody took hold of a bowie-knife and severed another person’s
arteries in just such and such a manner, like they do on the broad-
And in rea llife, if some announcer would break into your own
home and cut throats right and left, and clutter up the living room _
with corpses and gore, it would not seem like such good entertain-
But I see in our laboratories they are findin’ out lots of things.
Like takin’ atoms apart, and ways to eradicate malaria germs and
the boll-weevil, etc., and maybe pretty soon they will get around to
the sponsors of the murder programs.
Yours with the low down,
JO SERRA.
I can’t understand, and once in a
And I cannot figure
Hot dog!
| Bixth Legislative
Shaver To Head
American Legion
Daddow-Isaacs Post Votes
On New Officers This
Month
Paul Shaver, local electrician and an
active member of Daddow-Isaacs Post
American Legion, since its inception,
has been nominated without opposi-
tion to serve as commander of the
post for the mext year.
Other somineeg
commander, Paul
vice-commander,
Gus Adler; adjutant, “John Thomas;
chaplain, Claire Winters and Albert
Stitzer; historian, Stuart Major and
Haroid Titman.
The election will be held on Thurs-
day, October 21. Stuart Major repre-
sented the local post at the American
Legion convention last week, with
Claire Winters as alternate delegate.
G. O. P. Is 14.000
Ahead In County
Senior vice-
District
Contributes To Party
Leadership
The Sixth Legislative District, of
which Dallas and its vicinity are a
part, continues to be the strongest
Republican sector in Luzerne county
after re-registration and has contri-
buted generously to the 14,131 lead the
G. O. P. is enjoying as the registra-
tion period nears the end.
In the seven districts of the county
there were only 258 voters who pre-
ferred other than the two major par-
ties, Among them were Socialists,
63; No Party, 130; Independent, 13;
Labor, 9; Farmer-Labor, 1; Royal
Oak, 22; Prohibition, 16, Communist,
4,
Jeter Treasurer
To Succeed Lewi
er
x
Lor
Fred Eck Named Secretary
Of Dutch Mountain
Clay Co.
W. B. Jeter was named treasurer
and Fred Eck secretary of the Dutch
Mountain Clay Products Co., Inc. to
succeed the late Asa E. Lewis at a
meeting of directors this week.
Mr, Lewis, who died last week, was
secretary-treasurer and manager of
the company’s plant, which is under
construction at Lopez. No director
has been elected yet to fill the vacan-
cy caused by his death.
The 'meeting this week was the first
since the asnual meeting of stock-
holders several weeks ago. It was an-
nounced that the work of construction
will proceed steadily.
——— I Peres
CARS COLLIDE
The automobile of Roger Williams,
Trucksviile, and A. Thomas, Shaver-
town, collided on Lehman street, in
Shavertiwn, on Tuesday afternoon.
Damage was slight.
Expect Morrett
Building To Be :
Up By Christmas
Excavation Almost ‘Complet-
ed For One-Story
Stucco Store
26 FEET WIDE
Excavations for the new store build
ing to be constructed on Main stree
Dallas, by Stanley Morrett were near-
ing completion yesterday and the worl
of laying concrete foundations and e-
recting steelwork is expected to be-
gin shortly. ¥%
Mr. Morrett says he hopes to hav
the building ready for occupancy be
fore the end of the year and with luck
before Christmas. It is understood
chain store hag already arranged to
occupy the storeroom. 2
The building will be of concret
block construction, with a stucco fin.
ish, and will be 26 feet wide by 70
feet long. It will be strong cnough to
permit the addition of a second sto
‘later.
The structure will be built on lan
made available last winter by th
razing of Mr. Morett’s old building,
which housed Stanley's garage. There
will stil: be land available for build-
ing on both sides of the new struc
ture.
Qld Building Stands ;
According to Mr. Morrett’s present
plans the old building occupied by
John Suska’s shoe shop, over Toby's
Creek, will stand for a while. Dallas
Borough Council has protested that
the structure is an eye-sore and has
asked Mr. Morrett to demolish it,
Mr. Morrett originally planned to
‘move that building and construct
new building next to the Frantz gr mi
cery store but Council refused to
grant a permit on the grounds ths
the oid place is a fire trap and sho
be razed. Mr. Morrett says if h
could have built over the creek h
would have erected a two-story buil
ing, with store- -room, on the ground
floor and apartments upstairs. Hi
says he cannot justify razing the old
building as long as there is a
in it.
So he will buiid a one-story bull
ing in the middle of his Main street
property and make the right wall of
that building strong enough to serve
as the foundation for another stru ;
ture if he should decide some time to
build on the site now occupied by M
Suska’s shoe shop. He has no plan »
he said, for’ buiding on the other va-
cant lot to the left, where Staniey’s
garage stood. ;
Mr. Morrett says he has received
number of offers from prospective
tenants since he began his plans to
build, evidence that there is consider-
able demand for business places along
Main street if there were buildings
enough to accommodate them.
To Redecorate
Small Group Pledges Funds
To Improve Interior
This Fall
A. group of public-spirited membefs
of Dallas M. E. church have pledged
enough money to redecorate the inter-
ior of the main auditorium this fall.
Names of the donors were not an-
nounced, since they have requested
that their identities be kept secret.
The work will begin within a few
weeks and probably wili be finished in
another month, >
The wood-work will be washed,
walls painted and the floor varni
and a new carpet will be %aid.
Sweet Valley Man %
On Broske Jury
Brandon McDaniels, Sweet Valley
farmer, was a juryman in the trial of
Horace “Bow Wow” Bowers of Phila-
delphia, who was tried at Luzerne
County Court House this week on a
charge of having killed State Trooper
Broske.
FARM BUREAU READY TO RECEIVE
ENTRIES FOR DRAMA TOURNAMENT
A general invitation to all rural so-
cial and civic groups to enter the an-
nual dramatic and music tournaments
‘of Luzerne County Agricultural Ex-
tension Association was extended this
week by J. D. Hutchinson, county
agent,
Applicationg for entry shouid be
made in writing to the County Exten-
sion office in the Post Office Building,
Witkes-Barre, both for the dramatic
tournament and for the music contest.
Hntries must répresent rural organi
zations, such ag granges, churches,
Parent- Teacher Assocjations and the
like,
Groups represented 'must be from
towns under 2,500 population, but or-
ganizations meeting in larger com.
munities will be accepted if more
than 50 per cent of the members are
rural residents. More than 50 per
cent. of the members of any organiza-
tion must be 18 years old or over.
Full information and a list of rules
can be obtained from Mr. Hutchinson.
Music and drama groups from the
Dallas section have made a fine show-
ing in the tournament in the past and
on several occasions have survived to
the state-wide finals at Harrisburg.