State’s Hard Coal Region Is Having Its ‘Face Lifted’ Ungightly Culm Banks To Be Planted With Black Locust OTHERS LEVELED Pennsylvania's pock-marked hard coal region is having “its face lifted.” Ungightly culm banks and ragged pit openings in the anthracite areas, paritcularly in Luzerne and Lackawwa counties, are now being leygted and re- planted. 4 bo The Wilkes-Barre Chamber o; #Com- merce, in announcinggfthe materials for carrying 0 its program of beautification, h®S advanced its plane from the theoretical to the prac- tical stage. Pittston, Scranton, Olyphant, Car: bondale, and Nanticoke are among the other cities that are now removing these ‘“‘eyesores.” The trend for beautifying the hard coal region is the outgrowth of a re- cent conference held in Wilkes-Barre, where Federal and State agencies ap- proved a general plan advanced by the Valley Entrances Committee to clothe culm banks and other mine debris with swifl-growing black locust trees—more than 250,000 of them. Representatives of the State High- way Department and U. S. Forestry service in co-operation with major coal companies and railroads of the region worked out details of the projects. The projects, as decided at the con- ference, are being carried out by the National Youth Administration, under Highway Department supervision. In Olyphant, town councilmen have leased the site of an old dump and are now converting it into a park and playground for children. The culm taken from these huge banks is to be used in filling in a gul- ley that separates two streets. The State Publicity Commission in referring to the Wilkes-Barre an- nouncement held that the beauty of the hard coal region would be enhanc- ed by the planting of these tall trees, which would serve to hide the ugli- ness of the culm banks by acting as screens. Children would also be kept off dangerous highways by converting these plots into playgrounds. Ruggles MRS. MYRTLE KOCHER CORRESPONDENT Leslie Kocher has been under the » doctor's care. * * ira Major, Sr., and brother, Frank Major of Tunkhannock are staying’ at the Major cottage at this writing. * * ? John Bronson is ill with pneumonia convalescing from a case of measles. after * * Claude Wilkes called Verne Kitchen on Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Monday night. on * * Mr, and Mrs. William Hillard, chil- dren Wilma, Barbara and Dean spent Thursday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Ogear Whitesell of Roaring Brook. * * Mr. and Mrs. Orrison Kocher, Mrs. Louise Kocher of Ruggles, Mr. and Mrs. John Shoemaker, daughters, Louise and Betty of Wyoming were entertained at dinner at the home of Mr and Mrs. George Smith of Alder- son on Sunday. : * “* and Mrs. Verne Kitchen, Vera Nellie Kitchen, and Harold of Wyoming spent Thursday on Mr. and Mrs Orrison Mr. Sarah, Wilson calling Kocher, The first American Bible was print- ed in Pennsylvania. First National Bank DALLAS, PENNA. MEMBERS AMERICAN BANKERS’ ASSOCIATION DIRECTORS R. L. Brickel, C. A. Frantz,W. B. Jeter, Sterling Machell, W. R Neely, Clifford W. Space, A. C. Devens Herbert Hill. * OFFICERS C. A. Frantz, Pres. Sterling Machell, Vice-Pres. W. B. Jeter, Cashier" * * * Interest On Savings Deposits No account too small to secure careful attention Vault Boxes for Rent ( ! night. The Old Scrap Book . Greetings: There are many qualities in children that most adults would do well to imi- tate. Their sincerity, simplicity, and utmost confidenge amazes us who are not so much that way. \ Never make light of any idea a child may have. Who knows but that some day that very same idea may be one that will make a name in the world? Often a childlike thought has suggest- ed important advances in society. A CHILD'S PRAYER A child’s prayer means more to me, Than money or a sight to see; A tender thought in sweet array, . Remembering Christ on His dying day, | A clear resemblance of our own Christ child, \ With pleading eyes and pralses mild; Their thanks for blessings from above, To the One who gave them all His love. To know that they are free from sin And going forth some soul to win; To know He has left them without a care, That's the joy of a child’s prayer. (By Miss Betty Cressman of Hazle- ton)i = \ Here is our text for the week: “Ex- cept you be converted, and become as little children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. (Matt. 18:3). The children of today are the men and women of tomorrow. How they succeed as leaders in the next genera- tion depends on the parents of today. Therefore, be careful as to what kind of example you set for them. Here is a thought for the week: Don’t think that you need to be child- ish; what you need is to be child- like. Yours in the interest of juveniles, Bob Sutton. Quarterly Meeting : Began Wednesday The quarterly meeting began at Outlet F. M. Church on Wednesday There will be a service on Fri- day night, none on Saturday, and ser- vices Sunday. Sunday School will be at 10, preaching, followed by commun- ion, at 11, Love Feast at 7, followed by preaching. Rev. T. M. Holcomb, district elder, will attend for the last time during his present term. Miss Leona Kocher and Clarence Oberst were quietly married by Rev, Guy Leinthal at the home of the bride’s parent, Mr. M. J. Xocher on Saturday evening at 8 o'clock. The couple have left on an extended wedding tour and expect to be at home on Lehman Road to start house- keeping after July 1, The world’s first oil well was drilled in Oil Creek in Venango County in 1859. v This is Luzerne County Gas & Electric Corporation's - “Little White House” in Kingston, where Mrs. Bertha Phillips Howe conducts cooking classes advantages of electrical equipment. to instruct housewives in the Inside is a completely- equipped, up-to-date kitchen, where visitors can see how steps and money can be saved, how quality of cooking can be improved. FIRST TRAVEL PICTURES MADE BY LYMAN HOWE 25 YEARS AGO © This section of Pennsylvania is the home of the modern travel films that today are shown in most theatypes. Lymon H. Howe, who lived in Wikkes- such as films of a five-year expedi- tion into the walled-in-secrets of China; views of giant caterpillar trac- tors first introduced by the army; Barre a quarter of a century agd, Was “Views of Coney Island, and “fast and the true pioneer in this particular branch of the movie industry. Howe's travel festivals were semi- annual affairs in practically every im- portant city in the country and brought moving pictures to countless thousands long before the era of screen dramas. His programs, in the form of trave- logues filmed in all parts of the world, early were recognized as pictures of high merit. These pictures were prominent during the first decade of the twentieth century when there were no motion pictures as they are known today. The films, as outlined in the pro- grams of the Lyman H. Howe Travel Festival, covered a variety of subjects furious fun at New York’s play- ground”; Alaska, its icebergs and gla- ciers; pictures of Mount Vesuvius in action. To add realism Howe acquired a piano-playing partner named S. M. Walkingshaw, who with him developed their own sound effects. Men were placed behind the scenes to create the sound of splashing water when ships or boats were being shown. Battleship maneuvers always had the loud “boom!” of a pistol fired into a large empty barrel. And the group of sound-effect men in the back would converse in Chi- nese when an Oriental scene was flash- ed on the screen, and croon a Hawai- ian number when the beach of Waikiki was shown. [ < y ” Rev. Mahler Elected ( HOT WEATHER “DON'TS President Of A.P.L.L Rev. Andrew Mahler, Dallag M. Er campgrounds clergyman, sticcegded Marvin W, McCarty of Wilkes