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POST |SHAVERTOWN YOUTH, 16, FOUND DEAD IN GARAGE AT HOME
| S CRI PTS BRICK PLANT FINANCED LOCALLY NEARS COMPLETION AT LOPEZ Had Taken Cun Out
| orien After Cats; Wound
} EL Is Found In Head
Hon, Franklin D. Roosevelt,
The White House,
Washington, D, C.
Dear Mr. President:
I have such a difficult time recon-
ciling so many of the things I see about
me every day with the things you do
in Washington that it has occured to
me you might welcome a simple little
report from one of the fellows on the
other side of the fireside,
I have some idea of the volume of
mail which you receive. Much of it,
I suspect, is prejudiced, either for you
or against you. I neither hate you nor
idolize you. I voted for you in 1932
and I shall always be grateful to you
because your dramatic attack on the
Buildings of the brick plant at Lopez which will be worth $100,000 when completed, will employ 40° men and will have a capacity of 45,000 bricks a day.
depression gave me a new faith in my’
country. My idealism had suffered
several setbacks by 1936, but I voted
for you again because I felt you de-
served an opportunity to work out your
program, and Mr. Landon’s proposals
were pretty vague.
I question whether you had a more
inspired booster back in 1932. I re-
member how proudly I displayed the
telegram you sent us when our straw
vote forecast your election. I was a,
member of the younger generation in
the era when it was smart to snipe at
the poor dubs who were running the
government, but in my enthusiasm for
your aggressive and humanitarian pol-
jecies I found myself becoming an
American again.
———
I probably talked too much because |
today I find myself in a fine jam. For-
tunately, not very many persons re-
member how I gushed back in 1932
and 1933 so it is embarrassing only
when I recall it myself. The truth of
the matter is that I am confronted, on
every side by overwhelming evidence
whiceh indicates that I was woefully
wrong.
I think my position is typical. In
fact, I estimate that there are about
7,000,000 voters in this country—
enough to swing any electlon—who
are passing through the same transi-
tion. We are the independent voters,
bound by no party ties (merely as a
matter of convenience, I am registered,
as I have always been, as a Republi-
can). We are the middle tlass, sand-
wiched between the Sixty Families and
the 13,000,000 unemployed.
You have travelled about this coun-
try more than any other President, I
know. You have a remarkable organ-
ization for securing information con-
fidentially. The advice of your wife
must be invaluable. And yet, I think
you are unaware of the real state of
public opinion. That is the most char-
itable way I can explain some of the
things my friends and I are alarmed
about.
$100,000 plant of Dutch Mountain Clay
development of the idea is bound up
Cachet Will Carry
Town's Name Afar
Polacky Names Committees
In Charge Of Air Mail
Welk Hare
A list of committees which will have
charge of the local observance of Na-
tional Air Mail Week, May 15 to 21,
was announced this week by Joseph
Polacky, acting postmaster at Dallas.
Mr. Polcky also announced that he
has arranged to have all| oup-going
air mail from Dallas stamped with a
cachet during Air Mail Week, an idea
which will give Dallas publicity
throughout the country.
The executive committee which will
have charge of the observance, which
will include an essay contest and an-
other contest to be announced next
week, for school children, has as mem-
bers Mr. Polacky, chairman: Josephine
Stem, vice-chairman, and Dorothy B.
Moore, treasurer.
Burgess H. A: Smith is chairman of
the honorary committee, which has as
its other members: C. A. Frantz, Fred
M. Kiefer, Leonard O'Kane, James
Gansell, Leslie Warhola, Warden Kun-
kle and George T. Kirkendall.
Other committees follow:
Publicity: Howard W. Risley, chair-
man; Mary Wallo, Howell E. Rees,
Wesley Himmler.
ony
Take your Reorganization Bill, for
example. Now that the smoke has
cleared, it is admitted pretty gen-
erally that the provisions of that bill
were fairly harmless, that they were,
in fact, not very different from the
bill President Hoover wanted during
his term. I've been talking with peo-
ple about it and I find that only a
o
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fraction of them even know what was
in the Reorganization Bill. They were
not against it because of what was
in it. They were against it because
Education: H. L. Tennyson, chair.
man; Henry J. Disque, Ronald C. Doll,
John A. Williams, Sister Mary Loretta.
Civic Clubs: M. E. Kuchta, chair-
man; R. L. Hallock, Gustav A. A.
Kuehn, Paul Shaver, Ernest M. Culp,
Arthur Brown, Minnie Brown.
Business and Professional: James R.
Oliver, A. N. Garinger,
you wanted it. Now that may be
mighty unfair, but you can’t ignore
the significance of such distrust. Peo-
ple are losing faith in you, Mr. Roose-
velt, because they associate you, right-
ly or wrongly, with the shiftlessness
of WPA, with the high taxes, with the
steam-roller politics which are by-
products of your administration.
And that brings us to your frequent-
ly-expressed conviction that the peo-
ple of this country gave you ‘“a man-
date” and that they are “behind you”.
It is high time some good and sincere
friend warned you about the falla-
ciousness of that theory.
You have, of course, the compara-
tively few sincere New Dealers, who
are really inspired by some of your
policies and will stand blindly by you
whatever happens. Any personable,
eloquent leader can count on a certain
proportion of those.
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chairman;
George Stolarick, H. Stanley Doll, Mor-
ris M. Lloyd, George K. Swartz, Har-
old Rood, J. E. Roberts, R. S. Roberts,
xlwood McCarty, Howard A. Cosgrove,
A. A. Sibolka, W. A. Higgins. !
Air mail pick up, schedule and ser- |
vices: William Corcoran, H. B. Arnold,
Fred Youngblood, Addison Woolbert,
Sheldon Drake and Milton Perrego.
Women’s Club Will
Repeat Play May 6
“The Phantom Bells”, the play pre-
sented with such success by Dallas
Junior Women’s Club last month, will
be repeated, under the joint auspices
of the club and Dr. Henry M. Laing
Fire Co. on Friday night, May 6, in the
borough high school auditorium.
Dallas Driver Gives Wrong
Name When Nabbed By Cops
Charged with having left the scene | early Monday.
He fled and was ar-
| diameter inside, has twelve fire-boxes.
| 2600 degrees.
of an accident in which his car figured, ! rested on Pierce Street, Kingston.
John Mack, 32, R. D. 3, Dallas, was re- When he was arrested he said he was
leased under $500 bail at a hearing be-| William J. Dilg of Dallas and was car-
fore Magistrate Joseph Hendler of | rying Mr. Dilg’s operator’s card. Dilg
Wilkes-Barre on Tuesday. is Mack’s father-in-law. Police said
Police say Mack rammed into a|the car was owned by a brother-in-law
parked car owned by Charles Glasser| who died recently. When taken before
of Wilkes-Barre at North Franklin| Magistrate Hendler on Tuesday Mack
and North Streets, Wilkes-Barre, | gave his right name and plead guilty.
Dutch Mountain Plant Nears
Completion; Ready May 15
WILL HAVE CAPACITY OF 45,000 BRICKS A DAY
The! result of years of planning and two years of concentrated effort, the
Products Co.. which has been financed
mostly by local capital, will be ready about May 15 to turn Sullivan County’s
valuable clay deposits into fine bricks.
Although the’ plant itself is at Lopez, 35 miles from here, the story of the
with Dallas. a
It was Wesley /T. Daddow of Dallas
| who first saw fhe value of the rare
clays on his fArm, a #&w miles from
Lopez and Lo the idea of
forming a company to manufacture
bricks. The first men to respond were
Dallas men and today, as the plant
nears completion, most of the officers,
directors and
Dallas. :
Designed by HB. M. Freese Co., of
Galion, O., the plant has - been con-
structed under the direction of H. A.
Woolever, plant superintendent, who
has been 40 years in the business, and
George Warwood of Poughkeepsie N.
Y., who has about the same length of
experience and who is in charge of
the construction of the drier and kilns,
Process Is Automatic
The clay is brought to the plant by
truck and dumped under a long shed,
through the center of which runs a
wide conveyor belt. The belt carries
the raw clay to the revolving dry pan
where two massive 31% ton wheels
called “mullers” grind the clay.
As the raw clay leaves the dry pan
it is picked up by buckets on a verti-
cal revolving belt. The buckets carry
the clay up three floors and empty it
into a chute leading to a screen. The
finest-ground clay drops through the
screen and into a 50-ton storage bin.
That which is not fine enough passes
on down the chute and is returned to
the “mullers” for another going-over.
The screened clay now passes on to
the third step in the process, its trip
through the de-airer, which presses
the clay to a greater density. Then
the clay is pressed into a flat strip,
which rolls into the vicious-looking
cutter and is divided into bricks.
Until now no hands have touched
the bricks, but here the moulds of clay
are piled on sturdy little cars, about
stockholders are from !.
700 bricks to the car, and trundled out
on a transfer to the drier, a structure |
which is identified easily by its high,
wide chimney. Intense, dry heat i
culates in huge pipes under each of
the four tunnels in the drier and the
bricks are now sent into these tunnels,
Bach tunnel has two tracks and will}
hold about 28 cars. {
The slow trip through the drier com-
pleted, the bricks are inspected and
moved next to the kilns, dome-shaped
structures capable of withstanding |
terrific heat. Eventually the company |
will have six kilns, with three stacks,
one for every two kilns, The first kiln
is nearing completion. It is 32 feet in
and will hold about 100,000 bricks.
Baked Over Roaring Inferno
It takes from two to four days to
pile the bricks in the kiln. Then the
door-ways are sealed with bricks, be-
tween layers of sand, and the bricks
are ready for their final—and most im- |
portant—process. Roaring fires in
twelve fire-boxes raise the temperature
in the kilns from zero to from 2200 to
For about six days the
| bricks are baked over that inferno.
Then, for four days, they are permit-
ted to cool. Finally, the seals are
opened and the finished bricks are re-
moved, a job which takes another three
or four days. The bricks are ready
‘for shipment. |,
The Dutch Mountain Clay Products
Co. has leases on ground which will
supply clay to the plant for hundreds
of years, geologists have estimated.
One of the most valuable deposits is
that on the Daddow farm, a 150-acre
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FREAK RAIN DRENCHES
PART OF TOWN, OTHER
END ESCAPES SHOWER
A sudden sun-shower about 2:30
Wednesday afternoon sprinkled the
upper end of Dallas, in the vicinity
of Lehman Avenue, while the low-
er section, near Main Street, re-
mained dry.
The freak of nature first came
to the attention of The Post, which
was in the shower zone, when a
Trucksville visitor expressed won-
derment at the soaked ground. La-
ter, people from the lower end of
town were confused by a reference
to the afternoon’s shower and in-
vestigation disclosed that they had
been unaware of it.
The storm lasted only about five
minutes and rain fell heavily for
a few minutes until the sun burst
through, There were other show-
-8¥s later in the afternoon, but they
were more general,
Sw
Farmers Can Apply
For Loans Tuesday
Field Supervisor Will Be
At Wilkes-Barre To
Confer
Donald G. Rose, field supervisor of
the Emergency Crop Loan Office; will
be in Wilkes-Barre at the County
Agent's office on Tuesday at 9 a. m.
to accept applications for crop loans.
These loans are made for the pur-
pose of purchasing seed and fertilizer
and feed for work stock. The maxi-
mum amount any one person can bor-
row is $400 and the rate of interest is
4 per cent.
Anyone who is interested and can-
not meet Mr. Rose at that time should
write to him at Box 86, Harrisburg.
Mrs. Billings Dies
At Daughter's Home
Passes Away Wednesday At
End Of Eight-Month
Illness
Mrs. Flora Billings, 79, respected
resident of this section, died about 5
p. m. Wednesday at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. A. C. Woolbert of Dal-
las. Mrs. Billings had made her home
with her daughter for the last few
years. Sy
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs.
E. C. Hulme, Towanda; Miss Florence
Billings, Washington, BD. C,; Mrs. A.
C. Woolbert, Dallas, one son, Walter
Billings of Trucksville, and eight
grandchildren.
The funeral will be held tomorrow
(Saturday) with services at 2:30 and
interment in Warden Cemetery.
Smith Will Speak
At Meeting Of PTA!
| Cites Miss Weir's Record
in the high school auditorium |
Rev, George M. Smith will be the
speaker at the regular meeting of Dal-
las Township Parent-Teacher Assoc-
iation
next Monday night at 7:45.
The program, which will be directed |
by William Banks, a member of the]
faculty, will include also piano selec- |
tions by Warren Kistler, trumpet solos
by Bernard Price, vocal selections by
Marion Brandt.
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The first locomotive to turn a wheel !
in America was run at Honesdale, |
Wayne County, August 8, 1829.
Discontinue Daily
Freight To Dallas
Curtailment To Every Other
Day Marks Road’s 50th
Anniversary
Another reflection of the trend
which has sent business of the Bow-
man’s Creek Branch of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad from its high peak at
the turn of the century to a point
where passenger traffic has disappear-
ed entirely and freight transport is
at a low ebb came this week when the
railroad discontinued daily freight ser-
vice through Dallas.
_ Freight trains will come here from
Coxton Yards every other day in the
future. Express was delivered here by
truck this week and it is likely that
plan will be followed. Ironically enough,
this latest comcession tc changing
times comes in the fiftieth anniversary
year of the completion of Bowman's
Creek Branch.
Surveys for F railroad through Dal-
las and intof'the rich timber country
to the west and north were made as
early as 1868 bift it was not until Al-
bert S. Orfinterested John Shonk of
Wilkes-Barre in helping to finance the
road in 1886 that construction was
started. A few months after Mr. Orr’s
imported Hungarian) laborers began tr
lay the tracks out of Luzerne the Le-
high Valley Railroad became interest-
ed and purchased the road.
The first locomotive chugged through
Dallas on Thursday, December 9, 1886.
Although historians differ some on
the date of completion, A. S. Culbert,
station agent at Dallas, claims the
road northward from Wilkes-Barre
was linked with the tracks running
south from the main line at Towanda
in' 1888, fifty years ago. Albert Lewis,
big lumberman and one of the leading
promoters, was first president of the
company which started the branch.
Mr. Culbert was station agent at
Stull thirty-five years ago and recalls
colorful stories of the lumber boom
which kept long trains shuttling back
and forth over the Bowman's Creek
Branch night and day for years. Al-
Think Neck Was Broken Alsa
In Fall From Ladder
In Garage
WELL-KNOWN FAMILY
Carlton Averett, 16, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harvey Averett of Mt. Airy Road,
Shavertown, was found dead in the
garage near his home about 9 yester-
day morning.
There was a wound in the right side
of his head from a bullet from the .22
calibre rifle which he had taken to the
garage intending to shoot some cats
which had been annoying the neigh-
bor hood.
It was also possible that he had
suffered a broken neck in falling’ from
a ladder to the second floor of the
garage and Deputy Coroner R. IL.
Brickel of Dallas had X-ray pictures
taken at General Hospital to deter-
mine which of the accidents had caused
the boy’s death.
The boy went out to the garage
about 8, hunting for cats which were
in the vicinity. An hour later his
brother went to the garage to get his
{ automobile and found the boy dead on
the floor.
As The Post went to press details
of the accident were scareg but po-
lice expressed opinion that the boy
had fallen while climbing a) ladder to
the second floor of the garage." It. .was
still unknown whether the bullet
wound or the neck injury had been
| the cause of his death.
The Averett family and the boy, who
is a student at Kingston Township
High School, are well known in this
section and news of the tragedy
spread over the community like a
gloomy cloud. b tht
The circumstances of the tragedy
indicated clearly that it was acci-
dental, Myr. Brickel said,
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Borne to Last Rest
By Her Classmates
Cause Of Blaze Which Took
Life Of Anna Costine
Still Unknown
Her classmates from the Michigan
school in Franklin Township carried
the remains of eleven-year-old Anna
Harriett Costine, who was burned to
death when fire destroyed her home
on Dallas Star Route last Friday, to
their final resting place in Wyoming
Cemetery on Monday afternoon,
The cause of the blaze which swept
suddenly through the home at 1:30
Friday morning, trapping Mr. and Mrs.
Norman Costine, their sons, Norman,
Jr., 19, Forest, 9, and the child who
died, remains a mystery.
There were no electric lights in the
building and the furnace was not be-
ing used. Norman, a student at Buck-
nell University Junior College, return-
most everystream was dotted with
sawmills. Mr. Culbert says it was not
unusual to ship 28 cars out of Stull
in a, day and he remembers a day on
which 65 cars left Lopez alone.
Then there were two passenger
trains daily each way between Wilkes-
Barre and Towanda and two locals
ed home from the movies in Dallas
about 11 and noticed nothing unusual.
About 1:30 the family was awakened
by the smell of smoke. The flames
had already spread through the first
travelling between ‘Stull and Wilkes-
Barre.
floor, cutting off escape _that™way, so
the family leapegd.f6Mm the bedroom
In addition to the heavy freight| windows.
business there would be, during the Anna was with her mother, but ap-
summer, almost daily excursion trains | parently was overcome by panic and
to Harvey’s Lake, some of them so|ran back from the window. Norman
long they had to be split into three and his father secured a ladder and
or four sections. The curtailment of | entered the home ' again, exposing
service began with the decline in the | themselves to danger of asphyxiation,
lumber business and was accelerated but were unable to find the child.
by the advance of the automobile. | Her body was recovered about noon
Daily passenger trains were discon- | and brought to the parlors of R. L.
tinued several years ago. Brickel, deputy coroner.
[- One son, Forrest, suffered a sprained
! back when he jumped from the sec-
YOUNG DEMOCRATS
The Young Democrats of Lake ond-floor window.
Township will meet on Monday ‘at 8 The home was owned by Mrs. J. L.
p. m. at Tip Lewis’s place, Pike's Peak. Welter.
Says Women Can Run Farms
Contending that women make good | women to help her and says that she
managers for farms, Miss Muriel Hill, | enjoys working with them—in fact
well-known lecturer, recently cited | some of her most helpful employes
Miss Mary Weir, manager of Col Dor- |
rance Reynolds’ Goodleigh Farm in
Dallas Township, as proof.
Miss Hill pointed to the outstanding
and said: “Miss Weir calls herself a
real dirt farmer and she bears an ind]
viable reputation in the community in
which she is employed. She use: some |
i record of the Goodleigh Guernsey Jor
are women . . . They have taken the
blue ribbon in the cow-testing as-
sociation of their county for six con-
secutive years.”
The reference to Miss Weir was in
Miss Hill’s widely broadcast address
on the subject, “Women Can Run
Farms.”