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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,
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~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
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— 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.
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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.
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ZIP: At 60 miles an hour your au-
tomobile travels 88 feet a second,
which is 80 feet too far for some of us.
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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.
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