y hk of Times have we seen a report of the ‘first straw poll on the outcome of © 1,000 automobiles to take the straw ager, Knobby Walsh, : Have 7 ; ~The Firemen’s ‘Campaign Fund? They Need Your Help. Send Your : Contribution, However Small, To Laing Fire Company. More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution e — Read tre Post's Discussion Of The Future Of Industry In Pennsylvania On The Editorial Page This Week. Vol. 48 POST SCRIPTS WISDOM: According to plans made some months ago and discussed re- peatedly with Fred Kiefer and Ralph Hazeltine, our. counsellers in mutters) historic, | this week's column was to be dedicated to our trip to Gettysburg. Then a wisdom tooth began cutting up with all the thunder of Hunt's artil- lery. The tooth was soon added to our dentist’s collection of unusual speci- mens, leaving us with a hole in our jaw such as might be made, roughly, by a fair-sized Confederate, howitzer. Result: While our friends hied them- selves to Gettysburg, we gargled and stayed away from drafts. Further re- sult: No Gettysburg column this week. —Q— BODYGUARD: One of our friends who did get to Gettysburg tells of stopping to talk with a 92-year-old Union veteran from Walla Walla, Wash. The od soldier was wandering about by himself so our friend asked him. if he had come to the reunion alone. “No,” the spry old fellow answered, “I've got a bodyguard but I never walt for him. He's my son-in-law. He's only 63.” i # lige in the New York POLL: Only Pennsylvania’s November election and we wonder why, since the vote was taken at Kingston during the firemen’s convention a few weeks ago. Forty T.ocust Gap firemen stopped more than vote. Of the 4,351 persons questioned, the total number eligible to vote in the November election was 3,223. In the Governship contest, Judge James re- ceived 2,108 votes to 1,115 cast for Charles A. Jones, the Democratic nominee. For Senator, Governor Earle received 2,211 to 1,012 for Senator James J. Davis, the Republican nom- inee. Because the poll was taken In Tuzerne County, the home of Judge James, the firemen divided the straw voters to determine the number from Tuzerne County itself and the number from the rest of Pennsylvania. In the Luzerne County vote Judge James re- ceiveg 1,198, Mr, Jones 805, Governor Earle 1,071 and Senator Davis, 932. The total for the rest of the State showed: James, 684; Jones, 536; Earle, 822, and Davis, 398. ——r— ZIP: At 60 miles an hour your au- tomobile travels 88 feet a second, which is 80 feet too far for some of us. a PALOOKA: Joe Palooka, the lov- able comic strip prize fighter, has a sizable following hereabouts because his creator, Ham Fisher, is a Wilkes- Barre boy and worked on newspapers in the valley, including his own ‘“Pic- torial” for a number of years before his strip clicked. Recently, Palooka fans were surprised to see President Roosevelt appearing in the strip, a nighly unusual, if not unprecedented, situation. Palooka, you will know if vou follow Ham’s hero, joined the For- eign Legion and became involved in a sequence of novel adventures which brought him, and Ham, to the difficult point where Palooka was to be shot. For once, Ham had his brain-child in a predicament from which there was no “natural” escape. So Fisher wrote Marvin McIntrye and Stephen T. Ear- | ly. Présidential secretaries, asking if | he could have the President intervene in behalf of Palooka and have him re-| leased from French service in Africa. | Early assured him it would be al- right if Fisher would handle it dis- creetly. #0 Ham drew Palooka’s man- at the White House. The President’s features ap- peared in every panel for two days, discussing the situation with Knobby and. finally, promising to ask the Pres- ident of France to pardon Palooka. Fisher received more than 1,000 let- ters after the stunt, including dne | from Mr Early, saying that President Roosevelt had seen the comic strip and had enjoyed it. Now that Joe has been pardoned he will return to Amer- ica and we understand Ham intends Civic Group Meets Tonight To Study Sewage Conditions Committee From Rotary And Kiwanis To Press : For Action INTEREST GROWING | es mn Realizing fully the great need for a joint sewage system for Dallas and the possibilities of the opportunity at hand for the convenient and relatively inexpensive construction of a disposal system in conjunction with the public works fund made available by the Federal Appropriation Act of 1938, a joint committee of Mt. Greenwood Ki- wanis and Dallas Rotary clubs will meet tonight to discuss local sewage conditions, long a sore spot of the Back Mountain region, The joint committee, headed by Earl Monk and Russell Houser, realizes that speed is imperative if the full benefit of the proferred federal financial and advisory assistance is to be realized, and immediate action will be taken on the sewage problem, it was disclosed by Attorney Peter Jurchak, a member of the committee, - The sewage . committee, comprising Mr. Monk, Mr. Houser, Warren Yeisley and Peter Jurchak, which is a part of the Kiwanis and Rotary plan for the formation of 'a community council for Dallas Borough, Dallas Township and Kingston Township, started work on the sewage problem some months ago. They met with L. D. Matter, district engineer, last April to confer on the possibility of constructing an efficient joint sewage system in this section. Due to press of business and other immediate considerations, the commit- tee was forced to postpone active work on the problem until this week, when, in connection with The Post’s current campaign for sewage correction, they are once again taking up a serious con- sideration of conditions with a view towards immediate action. In July, 1933, The Post suggested the following steps in a plan for the bet- terment of local sanitary conditions: Three-Point Program (1.) An immediate investigation and detailed report bv Dallas Board of Health so Council wili have an author- itative and official report on which: to base any subsequent action. (2.) The formation of a committee having representatives from Dallas, Shavertown and Trucksville to discuss the plan to construct a joint sewage system (3.) A survey by the borough engt- neer to determing an estimated cost of a sewage system, giving the cost of a borough disposal plant and an alter- nate for the cost of connection with a joint sewer outlet to the Susque- hanna. It is believed that the sewage com- mittee will base its suggestions along similar lines, with special accent on the last point, the speedy accomplish- ment of which will make more cer- tain the obtainance of government aid. Flood control work at the foot of Toby’s creek includes inclosure of that portion of the stream. Whether it would be the best plan to enclose (Cortinued on Page 8) LAKE MAN WARNED Keithline Told To Stay Away From WPA Office In City After Creat- ing A Disturbance Harold Keithline, Warden Place, Harvey's Lake, was arrested this week after he created a disturbance in the WPA headquarters at Wilkes-Barre. Magistrate Paul Kulesavage releas- ed Keithline after warning him to stay away from WPA headquarters in the future. CONDITION WORSE Word was received this week that Mrs. J J. Ryman, who is in a hospital near Philadelphia, is in serious condi- tion. Mrs. Ryman has been ill since (Continued on Page 8) February. Nazi Ace Who Visited Noxen Last Year Breaks U. S. Record Peter Riedel, five nours in Noxen last July after his glider had ridden the winds here from Elmira, N. Y., is back in Amer- ica and adding new laurels to his rec- ord. This week Riedel piloted his motor- less ship 225 miles from Elmira to the Arlington airport at Washington, D. C., smashing the old American record of 212.45 miles established this spring. His mark did not count, however, because Riedel is not an American citizen. Nazi ace who spent |a warm welcome from Noxen folk when he descended upon them unex- pectedly last year, jumped into the lead early in this year’s soaring con- tests and, although not eligible for the championship, he was far ahead of American soarers, Riedel was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Gomer Thomas during his brief visit to Noxen last vear. He made the long- est flight in the 1937 contests but was barred from the championship because The smiling German, who received he is an alien. THE DALLAS Pe FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1938 ACCEPT FAC PROGRAM 914 Luzerne County Farmers Eligible To Take Part In Federal Con- servation Program Nine hundred and fourteen farmers in Luzerne County have agreed to reg- ulate crops and build up their soil this summer as part of the Federal Agri- culture Conservation program. The governor will pay the farmers for carrying out soil-building practices and growing allotted acreage of cer- tain crops. They will receive approxi- ately 70 per cent of the cost to them. Seven hundred seventy-five farmers in Wyoming County are eligible to take part in the 1938 program. League's Top Team To Be Here Sunday Arrows Will Meet Vernon On Espy Diamond At 2:30 The Dallas Arrows will meet Ver- non, leading team in the bi-county baseball league, at Espy Field, Center Hill Road, Dallas, on Sunday after- noon at 2:30. It will be the first time this' year that the Dallas nine has crossed bats with the fast Vernon ag- gregation and an unusually good game is expected Last Sunday the Arrows’ run of four victories was cut short when Noxen defeated the locai nine, 5 to 4, in a 10- inning game. Noxen broke the tie in the beginning of the tenth with a walk and two singles. Dallas got a man as far as second in the last half of the closing period but he was left Shere at the last out. In a game which preceded the league tilt last Sunday, Sordoni’s softball team defeated Arthur Kiefer’s team. Dallas is in fourth place in the league, having climbeq there. from the bottom position in the last month, Next week the Arrows will play at Factoryville. A good crowd—largest this year—enjoyed last Sunday's game and another good turnout is expected Sunday. Outing On July 17 Will Signal Start Of Fall Campaign 2,500 Republicans From This District Expected At Oxbow Lake WILL LAUNCH DRIVE The opening gun in this\ section’s General Election campaign will be sounded on Saturday, July 16, when | thousands of Republicans from the Sixth Legislative District, of which the Back Mountain is a part, will gather at Ox Bow Lake, near Pankhannosk. for a gigantic rally. The keynote of t drive to elect Arthur H. {Jam overnor of Pennsylvania will be sounded by prom- inent speakers at the rally. Judge James, himself, may attend. An espec- ially ‘large turnout from the commun- ities about Dallas is expected as a tribute to Peter D. Clark, new district chairman, Although ostensibly a social affair, the outing (will end the political inac- tivity which has prevailed since the primary election and will be followed by a concentrated and comprehensive campaign to boost the Republican reg- istration through the Sixth District. Alhough the G. O. P. still leads 2 to 1 in this section in registration, certain voting precincts are weak and the committeemen will aim at strengthen- ing their party in those districts. Next Saturday’s outing will begin with as sports program in the morning, including trapshooting, softball, volley- ball, quoits, fishing, boating, swim- ming and water polo, Plans are be- ing made to accommodate 2,500. The affair will be held on the property of Attorney Donald Coughlin and Ox Bow Lake is mear Lake Carey, about six miles from Tunkhannock. Weatl Committees Announced A number of local mén are on the committees which were named | by Chairman Clark this week. John Shoe- maker will be treasurer. Albert Bry- ‘den, secretary. Others on committees are: f Refreshments, Kyle Cundiff, Harry Marlos, Martin Craze, Adam ‘Boslewicz, (Continued on Page 8) WOMAN WHO SET TYPE FOR POST . 39 YEARS AGO BACK FOR VISIT Recalls Dallas In Days When Paper Was In Its Infancy : “PEOPLE THE SAME” Although there have been amazing changes in the town 6f Dallas since the beginning of thgfcentury, the peo- ple are as friendly and hospitable as ever, according to Mrs, Jennie Bross Howland of Binghamton, who set type on The Dallas Post 39 years ago, and who came back this week for a brief visit. Mrs, Howland was accompanied by Miss Ella Warden of Johnson City, al- so a former resident, Miss I. L. Butler ‘of Binghamton and Catherine and Carl Epler of Johnson City. Mrs. Howlang was 16 years old and a pupil in Dallas High School when she began to work for W. H_Capwell, who had founded The Post in 1889. She recalls that the late Frank Mor- ris was superintendent of the schools and she still has sincere admiration for that venerable personage. In those days the paper consisted .of four pages of a size slightly larger than now and the stock, with the two pages on the inside already printed, came to Mr, Capwell each week from Chicago. Mr. Capwell and Mrs. How- land set the type for the front and back pages by hand. The paper was published in the lit- tle building on Huntsville Street now owned by Paul Shaver and used as his electrical shop. A great coal stove heated the shop in winter and the press was operated by steam power. After Mrs. Howland had been working a while Capwell sold The Post to the late Harry Anderson, who was editor for many years. Mrs, Howland’s sister, Ida, collected from subscribers. She traveled mostly by train and recalls the hospitality of the people she visited up and down the Bowman’s Creek branch. She has an especially warm spot for the people of Kunkle, Mrs. Howland says, for they always were noted for their friendli- ness. Mrs. Howland worked at The Post two years. She came to know a great many people during that time and she had an opportunity to visit some of her. old friends this week. She was particularly impressed by changes at Harvey's Lake, which was a quiet, iso- lated resort at the turn of the cen- tury. She also expressed surprise at the spread of the town of Dallas, and the number of buildings on Surround. ing hills, Appeal For $1,500 For Fire Company Dallas Firemen Need For Current E; And New Hose 4 oney ses A letter to citizens of Dallas Town- ship and Dallas Borough urging them to contribute to the current fund- raising campaign of Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Co. is being dispatched this week as the opening gun in a drive to raise $1,500. “The Henry M. Laing Fire Co, pro- ‘| tects your family and property day and night,” the letter explains. “This ser- vice is rendered to you without pay. The only way we have of maintaining equipment and paying insurance and operating expenses is by pald member- ships and by your contributions. Your voluntary contribution to your volun- teer fire department will enable this organization to serve you in the future as well as it has served you in the past.” Clyde Lapp is chairman of the cam- paign. It is hoped that a good start of the $1,500 goal can be raised within a week after all the letters have been dispatched. The money is needeq to pay for new hose and for current ex- penses for 1938. Weidner Appointed Watkins Distributor Karl G, Weidner of Pioneer. Avenue, Dallas, has been appointed local dis- tributor for the products of J. R. Watkins Co. and announced his plans this week for prompt ang complete service to local families. Mr. Weidner’s line will include the food products, medicinal preparations, toilet articles, soaps and cleansers and other items manufactured by the fa- mous firm. The products have an ex- cellent reputation for their purity and economy. Mr. Weidner will be available at Dallas 269 and will make delivery daily. His twenty-four-hour service on orders and his demonstrations of pro- ducts without obligation are two fea- tures he has established. Mr, Weid- ner is widely known throughout this section and well liked and is sure to succeed in his new venture. Select Route For Three-Mile Stretch Into Lutes’ Corners SCHOOL BOARD MEETS TO APPROVE PLANS, ACT ON LINE CASE As The Post was being printed last evening, the. Dallas Borough School Board was meeting in an important session at which the di- rectors expected to reach a deci- sion on the case of Ernest E. Line, "high school faculty member who was called before the board last month to answer seven charges. The board also was expected to approve finally the plans of the architect for the proposed annex to the high school. All other steps have been taken and the directors are anxious to advertise for bids soon so the annex can be available for use before the end of the year. Debt Is Smallest In Last Ten Years Dallas School Board Hears Detailed Review Of Finances “The outstanding fgature of Dallas School Board’s fiscal [ope n is the retirement of the las the tempor- ary loans,” Daniel A, Waters, secre- tary of the board, reported in his de- tailed review of the year presented to the directors at heir meeting last night. “The total devoted to retirement of bonds was $5,000,” Mr, Waters said. “Bonds amounting to $2,000 falling due during the year also were retired. Debt at the end of the year is at the low- est point in 10 years. All the prop- erty of the district is in good condi- tion of repair and the equipment of all kinds is the best and most com- plete in the history of the school.” In opening his report, Mr. Waters ‘called attention to the severe drop in receipts from current taxes, but said it was offset by increased revenue from delinquent taxes and tuition and receipts from miscellaneous sources which enabled the board to close the books with some cash ‘in the treasury. The fiscal year ended July 4. The school board estimated its ex- penditures for the year as $30,925. Actually, the board received about $300 more than it expected. Expendi- tures totaled $30,275.98. As a result the balance at the end of the year. is $984.67. Assets of the borough school district now, with the exception of sites, build- ings dnd equipment, and including land returns due on delinquent taxes, total $34,055.08. Liabilities are $29,- 930.85, a reflection of the sound financ- ial condition of the district. QUIETEST HOLIDAY Chief Stevenson Says 30,000 Visitors To Lake Enjoyed Fourth, Got In Less Trouble cidents at Harvey's Lake over the holiday weekend, Chief of, C. Stevenson yawned, stp€tched, look- ed a trifle bored, a trifl€ gratified, and said ‘nary a one’. And ‘nary a one’ was, setting an all-time record for the e, which hasn’t gone thfough a Fourth of July in eight years without a major accid- ent of some kind, and hasn’t ever gone through the holiday without an accid- ent of some kind registered on the books. No too far, no stomach aches were report- ed—even in one restaurant which ser- tors—and well over 30,000 people crowded the resort over the weekend. Truly a banner Fourth for Harvey's Lake, and Chief Stevenson owes it all to his efficient police force, comprising the capable Frederick Swanson, assis- tant to Stevenson, and Chief Stevenson himself. .. . . ; Questioned as to the number of ac- | cars collided, nobody swam out! ved over 1,500 safe ang sane celebra- | New Link Follows Present Highway | Next Stretch Will Join Noxen Road At Lutes’ Corners SURVEY IS STARTED A route for a three-mile concrete link on Route 92, between Dallas and Tunkhannock, was agreed upon ten taviely this week at a jt of Wyoming County Commissioners and engineers of the State Department of Highways. Ever since the last concrete stretch was completed last year officials have been considering alternate routes for the next link, which will connect the present concrete highway at Evans Falls Lutes’ Corners. Two of the routes under consideration would have necessitated considerable relocation. The one adopted follows the a route nearly all the way. ik The State Highway Department at Scdanton announced this week that a survey has already been started along the route agreed upon and will soon be finished and forwarded to Harris- burg. Doubt was expressed, however, that construction can be started yet Nid this year. Third Concrete Link The new link will be the third in the program to improve the main highway : between Dallas and Tunkhannock. Sections from Evans Falls to Eaton- : ville and from Eatonville to Tunkhan- nock have been constructed within the last few years. meet with the The | next link will improved road into Noxen and although the section be- tween Dallas and Lutes’ Corners will still remain in its present deplorable condition, the improvement will be of vast benefit to Harvey's Lake and Noxen' motorists. Residents along Route 92 have re- vived the road crusade within the last month and the conference at Tunk- hannock this week was the result of numerous pleas for action by motorists who have to use the neglected high- way. The first sections of the road were paved after a delegation of civie leaders had carried to Harrisburg pe- titions carrying 8,000 names which had been gathered by The Post in a drive ‘to bring the need for improvements on Route 92 to the attention of the State Highway Department. At the same time it announced the agreement on the next link on Route 92 the State Highway Department said no word has been received yet con- cerning advertisements for bids for the Luzerne by-pass. WILL BORROW $500 oe Borough Council Exonerates Tax Col- lector On 1937 Duplicate, Names Him Delinquent Collector A loan of $500 from First National Bank to pay current borough bills was authorized by Dallas councilmen at their meeting on Wednesday night. The councilmen exonerated Arthur Dungey on ‘the 1937 duplicate and ap- pointed him delinquent tax collector. Burgess Herbert Smith reported ar- rangements to enforce the ordinance demanding the cutting of noxious weeds on vacant lots in the borough. He also reported he would confer soon with officials of Lehigh Valley Rail- road and the traction company rela- tive to repairs to sidewalks from Main to Lake Streets, CHIEF IMPROVED Chief of Police Leonard O'Kane was able to be out this week but still weak as result of the illness considerable part of the last month. His friends wish him a speedy and complete recovery. ' “Mr. W. Wyatt Wilcox, Mr. McCartney ang Mr. Edward Powell their first—born suddenly at a meeting . at Huntsville. Thus dig The Post receive news this week of its only local competitor, “The University Club News”, a sprightly publication dedicated to pub- licizing the mid-summer outing of the University Club at the Frank Martz Farm tomorrow. Edited by Thaddeus R. Zilch, former “sex editor of The announce the birth of a newspaper— | gi, Thaddeus R. Zilch Editor Of New Huntsville Paper John high in nonsense, Typical personal: “Edward H. Pog- popular University Club member, has been sold to the Cunard Lines for use as a fog horn.” Mr. Zilch, who brings to his new editorship “every qualification except literacy”, was a phenomenal success at one thing or another in the Back Mountain District, Forewarned, The Post is preparing to expose Zileh’s past. A bitter feud between the two Dallas Post”, the journal strikes a new ' journals is anticipated. 5 with the Noxen highway ati 187 hich. has confined him to his home for a i F i /
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