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
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doctor's care.
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ira Major, Sr., and brother, Frank
Major of Tunkhannock are staying’ at
the Major cottage at this writing.
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John Bronson is ill with pneumonia
convalescing from a case of
measles.
after
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Claude Wilkes called
Verne Kitchen on
Mr. and Mrs.
Mr. and Mrs.
Monday night.
on
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Mr, and Mrs. William Hillard, chil-
dren Wilma, Barbara and Dean spent
Thursday evening with Mr. and Mrs.
Ogear Whitesell of Roaring Brook.
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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. :
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and Mrs. Verne Kitchen, Vera
Nellie Kitchen, and Harold
of Wyoming spent Thursday
on Mr. and Mrs Orrison
Mr.
Sarah,
Wilson
calling
Kocher,
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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<Barre
as presidént of the American Progres-
sive League, Inc., of Pennsylvania, at
an election held by delegates from: 92
branches in Kingston, this
league
week.
Vets Will Sponsor
Benefit At Theatre
Kingston Township Veterans’ Assoc-
iation will sponsor a benefit perform-
ance at Shavertown Theatre, Shaver.
town, on Monday, July 18. The re-
ceipts will be used to send a Kingston
Township boy to the American Legion
encampment at Indiantown gap.
SERVICES AT NOXEN
Rev. John Albright, pastor of St.
Luke's Lutheran Church at Noxen, will
preach on “The Cloak of Humility” on
Sunday morning at 11 a. m. There will
be no vesper services during July and
August.
The only circular boundary on earth
separates Pennsylvania from Delaware.
DON'T MISS THE NEW OUTDOOR
BIG GAME PARTY
Next Tuesday Night at Blanchard’s
(Norris Glen, Formerly Farmer’s Inn
Hillside-Huntsville Road)
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| Nine hot weather “dont’s” that all
persons might well observe this sum-
mer have recently been compiled by
a health organization at Rockefeller
Center, and are as follows:
overeat or overdrink. (2) Don’t fail to
sleep with the windows open. (3)
Drink at least six glasses of water,
cooled, but not iced, daily. (4) Don’t
fail to bathe daily. (5) Don’t eat much
meat and not more than once a day.
(6) Don’t fail to get eight hours’ sleep
every night. (7) Don’t fail to get a
“typhoid innoculation before leaving the
city. (8) Don’t overwork. (9) Don’t
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MODERN COOKERY REDUCES COSTS,
; SIMPLIFIES CHORES, CUTS LABOR
Farm Bureau Warns
Against Epidemic
Late Potato Blight Appears
In Counties Near
Luzerne
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A warning sual late blight wis
issued by Luzer: § County A ietiltural |
Extension iio (pie meck after
reports had been eived of serious
damage in neighboring counties,
Late blight has caused a 50 per cent
reduction in the Eastern Shore of New
Jersey potato crop. The disease has
appeared earlier in the season than
ever before and the widely separated
points in which it has been reported
indicates that it is well distributed
through the potato growing areas,
This condition is due to early favor-
able weather conditions such as cool
nights followed by warm. moist days.
Should normal hot, dry weather occur
during July, the blight outbreak prob-
ably will be checked. but if damp wea-
ther continues, blight may cause seri-
fous losses to potato growers.
Thorough spraying with bordeaux
mixture is the only measure that will
insure growers against loss from the
threatened blight epidemic. Growers
are urged to obtain thorough coverage
at once, unless a thorough job ‘of |
spraying has already been done.
Camp Wildwood Is
Opened For Season
all
Camp Wildwoqd, ir?” Scohit day
camp at Harvey's Lake, was officially
opened for girls from 10 to 18 years
of age early this week. Heading a|
WPA councilor staff will be Mrs. E. K.
Conrad, camp director: Edith Daniels,
Bertha Cohen, supervisor of Wyoming
Valley camps; and Mrs. E. J. Schu-
bert. Special bus accomodations for
girls from the Dallas district were pro-
vided.
Spanning the Susquehanna River
north of Harrisburg, the Rockville
stone arch bridge of the Pennsylvania
railroad is the largest structure of its
kind in the world,
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Electricity Helps
Housewives
HERE NEXT WEEK
(Mys. Howe is home economics di- =
rector for Luzerne County Gas &
Electric Corp. She will be at the
_-€ooking School Annex next week
to meet local housewives and
answer their questions about elec-
tric cooking.) !
Modern cookery is “simplified cook-
By MRS. BERTHA HOWE.
ery” which shortens hours in the
kitchen and produces healthful com-
binations of food for well-nourished
bodies. It cuts to a minimum the
thousand and one steps the average
meals a day, three hundred and sixty-
five days a year. }
In my travels in many states, I found
great interest in modern cooking
equipment, especially the electric :
in Washington old and dilipidated
equipment was replaced with the
most modern methods available, in-
cluding the electric range.
As you know, economy is the watch-
ing methods is available today than
ever before in the history of our coun-
the large centers where manufacturers
methods of food preparation.
desirable. Mrs. Home Maker wants to
know that which will enable her to
squeeze every penny out of every food
dollar that she spends. Low cost in
the operation of her electric range does,
this for her.
things, economy, simplicity,
ience and many other features. Think
of the convenience of having breakfast
done when you come down in the
hour desired and with no watching
for fear it will not be right, as the
electric dinner takes care of this.
There is no time like the present
for being a home maker, famous for
her ordinary skill,
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