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Vol. 48 THE DALLAS POST, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1938 No. 14+
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POST
SCRIPTS
SPRING
COLUMN
THIS
YEAR
Columnists are suckers for Spring.
Whether their beat is Broadway or
the barnyard you can wager that the
capital “I” boys will hang one column
about this time of the year on Spring.
It has been several weeks noy since
Dallas hailed the vernal equinox and
we've been remiss in our own duty to
the bfidding trees, the mild breezes,
the wistful twilights and the grass
fires. We've been at a loss for some |
new angle. Perhaps the way to do it
is to shut our eyes and plunge right
in. Heaven knows, we have an ade-
quate supply of examples.
i a—Y—
For example, if Walter Winchell
were writing Post Scripts, he’d not
hesitate 'a minute. He’d twiddle his tel-
egraph, he’d say “Good Morning, Mr.
and Mrs. America and all the ships at
sea, let's go . . .
“Red” Schwartz of Shavertown had
a bit of a winning Sweepstakes ticket
. He was one of the “Lucky 26”
pool at the T-L: only nobody recogniz-
ed his name because the Leader, where
he works, called him “Leo” .. . Alfred
Adler, the eminent psychiatrist who
was placed under “protective arrest”
by the Austrian Nazis, lectured in
Wilkes-Barre in 1927 . . . in Temple
Israel . . Orchids to “Javie Aiche,”
whose sprightly contributions have
brightened Wilkes-Barre newspapers
recently . Funny, how much his
style reads like that of our great and
good friend, John V. Heffernan . . .The
Hottest Gal In Town: Miss Spring
. .. The day of her arrival the mercury
went up to 74 . . . It’s a boy at the
nest of Mr. and Mrs. Robin Redbreast
on Huntsville Street, who returned on
Monday from the South . .. She was
the glamorous ‘Gloria Tweep, whose
swing ding rhythm featured the Tree
Top Scandals last year.
Or David Lawrenee, that Sage of
Capitol Hill, might handle the new |
season this way:
Farmers Afraid
Continued Cold
Will Harm Fruit
No Damage Yet, Although
Buds Are About Two
Weeks Advanced
RECALL ’36 FROST
Snow flurries and chill blasts, com-
ing after several weeks of compara-
tively mild weather, threatened local
orchards this week and caused alarm
among farmers, who are afraid con-
weather will damage buds
e coaxed out prematurely
during thq recent warm spell.
The buds have not developed enough
vet to be seriously effected and al-
though orchards are about two weeks
ahead of the season the buds are still
fairly well protected against frost, a
check-up among local orchards indi-
cated yesterday.
Trees are in what is known as the
| “silver bud stage”, no green showing
yet. The buds developed rapidly dur-
ing the last days of March, under the
warm sun and mild breezes, but their
progress has been slowed considerably
in the last week.
The quickly changing weather recalls
to farmers the frost which ruined
thousands of dollars worth of fruit here
in the middle of May, 1936. Some farm-
ers in this section reported losses of
ninety per cent at that time, although
some of the damage was repaired later
in the season. The small crop which
resulted from that frost was followed,
in 1937, by a bumper crop with a sur-
plus which has not yet been consumed.
Although orchardists are worried by
the weather, truck farmers made
enough
pleased with their advantage. The sun
softened the ground for plowing and
the absence of rain gave farmers a
| chance to push their planting far
ahead of schedule.
On many local truck farms lettuce
Although it has had nb effect so far
upon the present recession in business
and employe, the rer ela
after days of cloudy weather, does re-
call that this celestial orb is about 93,-
Te SUL,
000,000 miles, more or less, from the!
| Exhibit To Be Held
earth. This is still only a drop in the
bucket beside the national debt, which
was hovering somewhere around $37,-|
000,000,000 the last we heard. That was
Tuesday, no, it must have been Mon-
day—or was it Sunday? Well, any-
way, the sun got over the equator on
Monday and I can get back to brood-
ing about what my linotype operator
is going to do for figures if the bud-
zet isn’t balanced soon. This tenden-
cy to accumulate a staggering national
debt is, no doubt, a political deal with
the type founders who manufacture
the numerals, and although it is giv-
ing more employment to the men who
cast figures it is driving the rest of
us about nuts.
rp
Dorothy Dix, the harassed house-
wife’s friend, would probably run a
column something like this:
Dear Dorothy Dix:
We are a group of young fellows, all
about 87 years of age, over here in
Lehman and we are writing to tell you
our problem. We think we should be
allowed to go out sparking these fine
Spring nights but our parents tell us
we should stay at home and do our
school work. Well, gosh, you know
how it is in the spring, and we do not
want to stay at home but want to go
out. The other night when I tried to
sneak up the road to meet a girl who's
in my Sunday School class grandpa
chased me clear up past the corn crib
and back and walloped me across the
britches so hard that I lost my lower
plate and now I sound like a peanut
roaster. Tell me, Miss Dix, I like a
girl who is 94 years of age and she
likes me. I want to do things like the
other boys do. What do you think?
Or do you?
Flaming Youth.
Dear Flaming Youth:
Well, if you aren't
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old enough to
jand cabbage have already been planted
(and celery is being seeded. Truck farm-
ers are confident they will have an
unusually early crop this Spring.
By Dallas Schools
Schools of Dallas Borough will join
for a general exhibit of the year’s work
on April 22. A feature of the pro-
gram will be a musical play, “Tom
Sawyer” by elementary students under
the direction of Louis Colwell and
Helen Anderson. Pupils from first to
twelfth grades will exhibit’ their work.
Supervisors Send
Request to State
Ask Marshall To Authorize
Acceptance Of Center
Hill Stretch
The supervisors of Dallas Township
this week asked S. W. Marshall, chief
{ engineer of the State Highway De-
partment. to accept for State wnainte-
nance two-tenths of a mile of Center
Hill Road.
“his is a township highway in very
poor condition and in need of paving
{as quickly as possible” the supervis-
[ors wrote to Mr. Marshall, “because
{it is the chcief artery to the homes
| of a large number of taxpayers in Dal-
lag Township.”
| Norman Johnstone, secretary of Wy-
| oming Valley Motor Club, who co-oper-
ated with the supervisors on the move,
said he expects the Highway Depart-
| ment to take prompt action on the re-
quest. \
Committee Candidates Draw
For Places On Ballots Today
Candidates for committeemen from
the Sixth Legislative District which
includes Dallas, will draw for their
positions on the primary ballot this
morning at Luzerne County Court
House.
The number of candidates seeking
the support of local voters was re-
duced materially over the week-end as
withdrawals were recorded. Henry
Jones of Shickshinny withdrew as a
candidate for Congress, leaving Mi-
chael Yeosock as the sole Republican
candidate for that office.
The list of candidates seeking the
Republican nomination for Represent-
ative to the Legislature from this dis-
trict was reduced by one when John
V. Hudak withdrew. That leaves a
four-day contest between Willard G.
Shortz, Don Wilkinson, John Masel and
Charles Hoyt.
Both parties are putting on a stren-
uous drive in this section to register
all possible voters before the final date,
Saturday, May 7. It is estimated that
the number of non-registered voters
in local districts ranges from 10 to 25
per cent.
progress last month to be |
Profile
Photo From Penna. Publicity Commission
Nature, tireless sculptor with
tools of wind and water, carved
this. close likeness of George
Washington in Sayre Park, near
Bethlehem, Pa.
Baseball Season
To Open April 2
Four Local High Schools
Put Teams In Local
League
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A baseball league which will include
teams from Dallas Borough, Dallas
Township, Kingston Township and
Lehman was organized at a meeting
of representatives from the different
high schools at Dallas Borough High
School Wednesday night.
The first games will be played on
Friday afternoon, April 29. Games will
be on Tuesday and Friday afternoons.
The season will end on May 20, by
which time each school will have play-
ed each other school twice.
On the opening date Dallas Borough
will play at Lehman and Kingston
Township will play at Dallas Town-
ship. Ralph Rood will be the coach
at. Lehman, M. J. Girton at Dallas
Township, Warren Taylor at Wingston
Township and Mal McCullough at
Lehman.
Austin Snyder, president of the
league, presided at Wednesday night's
meeting.
Merryman Attracts
Throngs To Church
Rev. B. J. Merryman is attracting
large crowds to his nightly evangel-
istic services at Outlet Free Methodist
Church, where Rev. L. H. Seifert is
pastor. There will be no service on
Saturday night but meetings will be
resumed on Sunday to continue each
evening at 7:45. The campaign will
end on Easter Sunday.
Gladiolus Bulbs Come Here
From Over World For Tests
RAY SHIBER RECOGNIZED AS RANKING GROWER
If there is a world map of gladiolus fanciers, Dallas must be on it in good- |
sized type for in a modest, three-acre garden on Center: Hill Road tests are |
made each year on seeds and bulbs which have arrived in Dallas from all
over the world.
From Canada, from France, from Australia, from Germany and from
scores of other spots on the globe come rare, high-priced gladiolus bulbs
and seeds each year to be studied by
Ray Shiber.
this section’s outstanding glad expert,
Right now Mr. Shiber is busy pre-&
paring 2,500,000 bulbs for planting. He
will not plant all of them in his own
garden, of course. A few days ago he
dispatched 15,000 bulbs, incuding 10,-
000 of the popular salmon-colored Pic-
ardy glad, to one of the nation’s big-
gest nurseries. He will sell thousands
of others between now and July.
Before he plants his garden, some-
time next month, Mr. Shiber must put
his bulbs through a painstaking pro-
cess. He washes them first with bi-
chloride of mercury to kill disease
germs. After a 17-hour bath, the bulbs
are spread on' screens which permit a
free circulation of air. Even when he
has finished his preliminary work and
is ready for planting, extreme care
must be exercised to see that every
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HEARING MONDAY ON
NEED FOR POLICEMAN
IN DALLAS TOWNSHIP
The request of a group of Dallas
Township citizens for full-time po-
lice protection will be considered
by Luzerne County court at a
hearing at Wilkes-Barre on Mon-
day morning.
A group which is opposing the
move to appoint a paid policeman
will be at the hearing to present
arguments against the request,
which was embodied in a petition
filed last month. }
flower is marked clearly so it can be
identified later.
One of the most fascinating phases
of Mr. Shiber’s hobby is his origina-
tion of new species. He has devel-
oped many which have received top
rating with the American Gladiolus So-
ciety. Usually, he names his creations
for prominent local people. A: deep
salmon one he called “The Dr. Sprague
Gladiolus.” He named a pink flower,
with a lemon center, in honor of Mrs.
William Conyngham. Another, a white
flower with a red vein, he registered
as “The Mrs. Percy Brown Gladiolus.”
Not all grower’s experiments with
new species are successful, of course.
Sometimes he walks in his . garden,
tearing out flower after flower which
has failed to mature as he hoped. It
is a red letter day when science and
nature combine to produce a thrilling
new flower.
It is likely that Mr. Shilber’s garden,
when it is in bloom, represents a value
of untold thousands of dollars. One
row of flowers, twenty feel long, Mr. |
Bh@E Lr valued at $700. Hundreds of
persons, glad experts or Just casual
visitors, come to Mr. Shiber’s: home
during the summer to drink in the
rare beauty of his garden.
: Opinion is sharply divided and it
is likely there will be a good-sized
representation of Dallas Township
taxpayers in court to listen to tes-
timony.
Describes Drama
Of Palm Sunday
Savacool Recalls Conflict
As Christ Rode Into
Jerusalem
(This is the mext-to-the-last of a
series of Lenten sermonettes which
are being written especially for The
Post by local clergymen. The con-
cluding article next week will be by
Rev. Francis E. Freeman, pastor of
Dallas M. E. Church.)
By HARRY M. SAVACOOL
Pastor; Trucksville M. E. Church
The first Palm Susday was a tragic
drama. Three groups besides the
Christ himself moved across this stage.
Mr. Shiber loves to talk about his
avocation and he has fascinating stor-
ies to tell about his own work and that |
of glad experts from all over the
world who correspond with him. He
hedges on only one subject, the pro-
nunciation of “gladiolus.” Your re-
porter, bewildered by the variety of
pronunciations, appealed to Mr. Shiber,
as an authority.
“I've heard the most famous grow-
eri argue on that subject and if they
can’t decide how to pronounce it how
can I? I just say ‘glads’ and leave it
at that,” Mr. Shiber says.
Winter’s Return Engagement
Brings Heaviest Snow
Of Season
EXPECT QUICK THAW
An eight-inch snowfall on Wednes-
day—she sixteenth day of Spring—
blanketed Dallas and the surrounding
countryside under its heaviest snow of
the year and brought an abrupt end
to balmy weather which had enabled
farmers to get away ahead of their
spring schedule.
A steady fall of snow all day Wed-
nesday and into the night broke ex-
isting records for spring snowstorms
in this section. Although road crews
were on the job promptly, keeping
main thoroughfares cleared, driving
was hazardous Wednesday night and
some rural roads were still in danger-
ous condition yesterday.
The Weather Bureau predicted a
quick return to warmer weather and
an early thaw. Predictions of rain to
come brought danger of flood to fam-
ilies along the Susquehanna River.
local weather prophets who persisted
in their forecasts of snow even during
the sunny days last week. Ralph
Rood, 2a member of the faculty of Dal-
las Borough schools, was one of the
forecasters whose prediction was vin-
dicated by Wednesday’s storm.
Although the snow fell hard all day
it was not cold the mercury hover-
ing about 25 degrees. Yesterday snow
on borough streets had turned into
slush, making extremely difficult
walking.
Eight-Inch Snowfall Blankets
Plowed Fields, Budding Trees
The storms bore out predictions of |
Asphyxiated Man
Well Known Here
Ryman Lived At Noxen And
Shavertown; Mother
Dallas Resident
First there were the Jews. For cen-
turies they had dreamed of and look-
ed for a Messiah. It had been the hope
sustaining them through their amazing
trials. Now the long expected Messiah
had come and they would not accept
him. It was the same old story of re-
fusing to accept what did not agree
with their preconceived ideas. They
were not lookng for such a Christ as
had come but for such a Christ as
they had wanted. This same old stum-
bling block has persisted through the
ages. Many will not yield to Christ
and Hig Church because it is not like
their own man-made conception of
God and religion. It is the modern
worship of idols, the idol now being
the creation of our minds and imagin-
ations rather than of the hands.
Then there were the Romans, the
second group of actors in this drama.
Procurator, officers and soldiers alike,
they looked on with quiet contempt.
Their conceit and racial arrogance
made it impossible for them to see the
Divinity in Christ. So it is today. The
so-called intelligensia are so sure of
their own knowledge and importance
that the idea of a Saviour is not within
their powers of comprehension. There
are those who feel no need and the
first step towards salvation is the re-
alization of need.
Then there were the disciples. They
were tragically weak but they were
humble seekers willing to learn and
Marvin D. Ryman, 42, West Pittston
automobile salesman who was asphyx-
iated on Sunday night in an unusual
tragedy which also took the life of]
Julia Pavlick, 23, of Swoyerville, was
a former resident of this section and
well known here.
He had resided at different times in
Idetown, Noxen, where he was em-
ployed in the tannery, and Demunds.
Until July of last year he lived with
his wife and trree children at 36 Hill-
crest Avenue, Shavertown. Mr. and
Mrs. Ryman were parted.
On Sunday night Mr. Ryman and
Miss Pavlick returned from visiting
the girl's sister and parked in the
driveway with the motor running. The
lethal fumes from a broken exhaust
permeated the car and Miss Pavlick’s
mother discovered the lifeless bodies |
at 6:30 the next morning.
Mr. Ryman’s mother, Mrs. Marilla
Ryman Brown, is a resident of Dallas.
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G. 0. P. MEETING
Men’s Republican Club of Dallas
Township will
night, April 13,
Hall. There will be a speaker and re-
freshments.
meet on Wednesday
at Kunkle Grange
that was and is the key to salvation.
The seed of the future was in the
hearts of these weak men but they
were trusting in God and, behold what
that seed has become__the Church of
Christ through the Ages.
It is ‘again Palm Sunday. The Christ
again passes by. With which group
do we stand; the Jews with their
minds closed by prejudice; the Ro-
mans with their false superiority; or
the weak but trusting and dedicated
disciples?
Study Plan To
Convert School
To Town Hall
Expect Council And School
Board To Confer On
Proposal Soon
RARE OPPORTUNITY
Representatives of Dallas Borough
School Board and Dallas Council will
confer within the next month to dis-
cuss the possibility of making a com-
munity building of the old frame school
house on Huntsville Street.
The building, which has been in use
for about sixty years, will not be need-
ed by the school district when the pro-
posed addition to the high school is
completed next fall. It has been sug-
gested by the school directors that the
borough acquire the
transform it into a town hall.
The plan for a community building,
to house borough offices, the fire
truck, recreational facilities and a hall
for public meetings, has been discuss-
ed frequently in recent years but it
has never received more than casual
attention because of the expense in-
volved in constructing such a build-
ing. Many are of the opinion that the
abandonment of the old grade school
by the school directors offers an op-
portunity to acquire a town hall at
little expense.
Coucil probaby will be reluctant to
enter into any plan which might be
expensive but one councilman ex-
pressed the opinion this week that
council might appropriate funds to re-
model the interior of the building if
the sechool board donates the structure
to the town for a community hall.
The board on the other hand, may
balk at making an outright gift of the
building. Several councilmen and
school board members already have
discussed the suggestion tentatively
but are awaiting a more thorough in-
vestigation of the probabilities before
reaching any definite conclusion.
To Repair Bridge
Near Fire House
Mill Street Span Too Weak |
For Safety, Councilmen
Hear
Gansell, fire truck driver, that the
bridge on Mill Street is in bad condi-
tion, Dallas Borough Council on Wed-
nesday night authorized William
Schmoll, road supervisor, to make re-
pairs promptly.
Mr. Gansell said the bridge, which
spans Toby’s Creek, is in such condi-
tion thdt it is not safe to drive the
seven-ton fire truck over it. Mr.
Schmoll will place timbers under the
bridge and patch the surface and it is
hoped that later a new bridge can be
constructed as a WPA project.
R. Lawrence Coughlin, county solic-
itor, informed the councilmen that the
county will not pay rent for use of the
Burgess’s office as a polling place. A
recent law designates public buildings
as polling places, he said.
May 5, 6 and 7 were fixed as Clean
Up Days for Dallas Borough and per-
sons who deposit rubbish where bor-
ough trucks can collect it will have it
hauled away free on those days.
The councilmen agreed to use Colas,
a patching preparation sold by Gor-
don Mathers, again this year, several
councilmen reporting that experiments
with the material last year proved
highly satisfactory. The borough
street department used the material
for the first time last year and found
it easier, cleaner and quicker to use,
the councilmen were told.
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“Scholastic” Prints
Poem By Local Girl
“Scholastic”, a national school mag-
azine published in Pittsburgh, printed
a poem by Jane LeGrand of Dallas
High School in its current issue. Miss
LeGrand is the girl who won the Lu-
zerne County Oratorical Contest for
girls last week.
109th Field Artillery Armory in Kings-
ton on Friday and Saturday. April 22
and 23, were heard at the weekly club
meeting Wednesday night.
Receipts from the show and from
the dance which will be held on Sat-
urday night will be used by the club
in its broad program in behalf of un-
derprivileged children in this section.
Kiwanians Hope To Raise Cash
To Aid The Underprivileged
Encouraging reports of interest in the
two-day horse show to be sponsored |
by Mt. Greenwood Kiwanis Club at| Sunday afternoon.
The show will be open on Saturday
evening, April 23, and continue on
A feature of the show will be the
appearance of Major Norbert C. Man-
ley’s famous steed, “Black Bottom”,
| which is one of perhaps twelve horses
in the world that has been trained to
the high degree necessary to give a
dressage exhibition. ;
David Joseph is general chairman of
the show committee.
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