The Post Presents Herewith Its School Issue, In Tribute To The Back Mountain Kids Who Will Grab Their Books And Answer The Opening Bell Next Week. _ other rich valleys, [POST |SCRIPTS AROBLEW IN SOCIAL SECURITY Somewhere-in-Pennsylvania: The name of the little town in which this week’s column is being written is not important. Odds are you never even heard of it. We've withheld the name purposely, for reasons which will be obvious before we end. It is not unlike hundreds of other villages in the hard coal region. Wedg- ed in a narrow valley, between heav- ily-forested mountains, it retains a good bit of its original beauty, despite man’s worst efforts to scar its moun- tain sides and rob it of its one-valu- able coal deposits. On all sides stretch dotted with the small farms of thrifty Pennsylvania Dutch. We: were a baby a few months old when we made our first visit to this town. Later we spent memorable, lazy, fun-packed summers here. Now and again we have come back and al- though our visits have been less and less frequent, we respect this old fa- miliar house as one which offers a kind of contentment and relaxation we find nowhere else. All during the month we have been looking forward to days of swimming in streams which tumble down from mysterious moun- tains, of walks along roads where the dust lies inches deep, of standing on the high peak where, legend says, In- dians kept watch from two seats still visible in the sheer rock wall. All these things have been change- less ever since we learned to appreci- ate them, but other factors influencing the lives of the people in this little village have changed in late years in a manner that challenges imagination. — > Seventy-five years ago the discov- ery of rich coal deposits in the moun- tains here drew men and women as a magnet. Immigrants, especially, found this the spot they had dreamed of in the old country. Here they found jobs and freedom and adventure and a vil- lage intoxicated with prosperity com- ing from its God-given mineral de- posits. As years passed the town became known for its solid families, its neat homes, its consistent good time. Most of the thrifty folk owned their homes. There were a number of fine, well- kept churches. Stores sprung up on almost every corner, and their business made their owners actually wealthy. Anthracite rolled away in long trains of cars and came back in an endless flow of bright dollars, It ig not an exaggeration to say that + the occasional accidents in the mines were about the only things that spoil- "ed the brightness which hovered over the village. Sometimes the miners fought the operators, but each time they won higher wages and better con- ditions, and no one worried about the operators, as long as the union was winning new concessions and condi- tions kept getting better and better. Then, one year or one month or one day, someone discovered that the mar- ket for anthracite had been ruined almost beyond repair by a combination of circumstances too far gone to recall. With a surplus of coal to sell, the company preferred to concentrate on production where mining was less ex- pensive. Men were laid off in large numbers, machinery was silenced, the breaker closed and the mules were brought to the surface. townsfolk, accustomed to occasig, al lay-offs, settled down to waif Then the company began to 12Z2¢7the break- er and there was genuif siarm. Dele- gations waited on compa.iy officials, but brought home no hope. It weecame evident, as water rose in the abandon- ed slopes, that this was no bluff. This was the real thing, and something like panic ran through the town. By this time there were no jobs elsewhere, because the nation was In a depression. Two banks closed, freez- ing the life savings of hundreds. A group of desperate civic leaders made a pdthetic effort to have the mines opened on a profit-sharing basis, but their plan failed. Private charity was unable to meet the situation. People stared hopelessly into a future shad- owed by want, starvation, idleness and despair. (Continued on Page 8) Local Architect Chosen To Plan East End School Verne L. Lacy of Pioneer avenue, Shavertown, was appointed by the Wilkes-Barre School Board to draw up the plans for the new East End school building. He was selected on the un- animous vote of the directors at their meeting Tuesday. The contract tendered Mr. Lacy stipulates that he will receive 6 per cent of the contract price for new work, and 10 per cent for old work, if any. Hotel At first the | HE DALLAS POST | Center Street ‘Repairs - Begun Vigorous Complaint Of Tax Payers Gets Hasty State Action \ State high#vay officials guaranteed indignant avertown property hold- ers an emgrgency job with completion in sixty d . and sent twenty men and machinery to East and West Cen- ter Streets this week in the latest de- velopment of the fight for improve- ment of the highway. Fifty more men will be at work by next Tuesday. Machinery on the job this week included a roller, scarifier, and two trucks. Electric light and telephone poles were being moved fur- ther to the sides of the street today and yesterday. Th sudden activity in repairs grew out of two insistent conferences which a citizens’ committee headed by Har- old Lloyd held with the highway of- ficials last week. “We were determined that the shocking condition of the road must not be neglected, and when the de- partment realized how angry residents 4 along the street were becoming, they saw reason and guaranteed wus an emergency job right away,” Mr. Lloyd said. Charges that the road was being ignored for political reasons had been made by several Shavertown residents. The committee was formed spontan- eously by the Center Street property owners when they assembled at Shav- ertown grade school last week to find that the responsible persons who had called an indignation meeting were not present. Mr. Lloyd was chosen unanimously as chairman, and with his committee members held a meeting with the highway men immediately. At a second meeting last week, he was able to promise definite action. Further conferences resulted in the renewed activity on the thoroughfare. All machinery assigned to the job is new, Mr. Lloyd explained, . which should add to the rapidity with which ‘the work is to be completed, | Manager Is | Fined For Conduct Chamges in the school attendance Silkworth Man Jailed For Disorderliness; Three Are Indicted On Sewage Silkworth hotel, was jailed Tuesday night at the Harvey’s Lake police sta- tion at the request of his wife on charges of disorderly conduct, accord- ing to Chief Ira C. Stevenson of the Lake police force. : He was fined $5 and costs at a hear- ing before Squire Ralph Davis Wed- nesday morning. He was given until tomorrow afternoon to pay the fine. Three Harvey’s Lake business es- tablishment operators were indicted for public nuisance on charges of un- lawful sewage disposal by the Grand Jury Monday, on the petition of Chief Stevenson. Frank Devlin, Estelle Ben- nethum, and Edward Duffy, all of whom operate business places in the Sunset section of the Lake, will have to answer to the charges before Coun- ty Court in the near future. A TWoarrests were made by the Lake police force this week for unsanitary disposal of garbage. Chester Puter- baugh of Luzerne and James Hahn of Oak Street, Wilkes-Barre were ar- raigned before Squire Davis and fined for dumping garbage unlawfully. Chief Stevenson expects to arrest two more ofrenders before the end of the week. Two mora cases of unlawful sewage disposal were discovered by Chief Stevenson and his aides this week, but the people involved will he given a chance to clean up their faulty sys- tems before public nuisance charges are preferred. “We intend to clean up the sewage and garbage disposal situation at the Lake before the summer season is over,” said- Stevenson, “and I wish to warn all lake residents who are viol- ating health regulations that they will be met with due course of law unless they make necessary corrections.” In his drive for sanitation, Stevenson will make scientific tests of all sewage systems fronting on the lake. Sordoni Glass Barn Featured Over Air Under the title of “What's New In Barn Building”, the all-glass barn on Senator A. J, Sordoni’s Harvey's Lake estate was featured on the Farm Ra- dio program broadcast over 60 prom- inent stations, recently. The program will be repeated by the Newark sta- tion today, Schenectady and Cincin- atti on Sunday. Andrew Malbach, manager of a Lake | More Than A Newspaper, THE DALLAS POST Firemen May Ask Taxation Increase Lapp To Move Taxation Support As~ Drive Proveg#Failure Ss Cr Disgusted with charity ‘methods, members of the Henry M. Laing Fire department will probably ask for an increase in the Dallas Borough tax rate of one mill, Clyde Lapp, chairman of the drive for funds, announced yes- terday. The resolution will be presented at the meeting of the company tonight, and will probably be acted upon, Mr. Lapp stated. If the resolution is ap- proved, a petition will be circulated among Dallas property owners, asking for the increase. “This increase would mean an ad- dition to the borough’s tax revenues of $500,” Mr. Lapp estimated, “and that should be sufficient to maintain our equipment. We have to have the money, or we can’t give adequate fire protection, and we can’t supply the expenses ourselves.” “After all, we are a volunteer fire unit, giving protection to every citizen of Dallas, and in return we have to depend upon the contributions that the more generous residents feel like mak- ing. There is no way at present of having every Dallas citizen assume his rightful share of the burden.” “From now on we want to have the affairs of this community project on a businesslike basis. The failure of our drive for money has convinced us that we can mo longer depend on that method.” The drive closed today with less than $900 received. Needs of the com- pany had totalled $1,500. Still to be found are the $600 which were not contributed, and which are necessary: to keep the fire company going, Compulsory School Age Rofsed To 17 Agel’ "Raised One Year; Football Out At High School laws which are effective this year, were outlined this week by Supervis- ing Principal T. A. Willlammee, in preparation for the opening of Dallas Borough schools September 6. All children who will be six years old before Feb. 1, may enter the school at the beginning of the year. Other- wise, they must wait until Sept. 1939. There will be no first grade entries in the middle of the year, Parents may elect to send thelr children when they are six years old. They are not required to be started until 8 years old, by state law. How- ever, once a child has been entered, regardless of whether he is 8 years old or younger, he is subject from then on to compulsory attendance untill he is 17 years old. This is an increase in the required attendance of one year over the 16 year limit which was set until last year. Children who dropped out last year, and were 16 before Feb. 1., will not be required to return. But the restric- tions will. hold from now on, except for those ‘who 2raduate from high schopl before they ‘are 17. There has been no. change in the de- cision to drop football from the school’s athletic schedule. “There will be,” Mr, Williammee added, “both basketball and baseball. And TI hope that there will also be track.” It may be possible to return football sometime in the future. Fifteen educational and historical moving pictures wore ordered by the school board at its meeting Monday night. These pictures will be paid for by the school district, and the students will see them free of charge. A WPA project for matron service in the schools was approved, and the pur- ‘chase of textbooks and other items necessary’ to. the maintenance of the schools was ordered. Sister Of Dallas Woman Died Tuesday At Sayre Marie Schade of Dallas mourns the passing away of her sister, Mrs. George Gibbs of New Albany, a former Wil- kes-Barre resident, who died Tuesday morning at Sayre. Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at 2 from the Maryott Funeral Home, To- wanda. Mrs. Gibbs was the daughter of the late Mr, and Mrs. William F. Schade of Gilligan Street, city. In addition to Miss Schade, the deceased is survived by the following brothers and sisters: Joseph Schade of Philadelphia; Wil- liam Schade of Detroit; Frank and Martin Schade of Wilkes-Barre; Mrs. poe it the cab. A Community Institution FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1938 BEVERLY E. NOLL Miss Beverly E. Noll of Lehigh- ton, who was named this week to’ the commercial teaching post in Dallas Borough High School. She has been termed well fitted for her new position by Supervising Prin- cipal T. A. Williammee. Truck Crashes At Fernbrook — Hay Truck Overturns On Sharp Curve Early morning e: ished Fernbrook erated by George M. Willauer of Nazareth, Pa., over- turned on the sharp curve just below the park. According to the proprietor oe the Pen-Fern service station located at the corner, the truck overturned when Willauer, sensing that his load was shifting as he attempted to negotiate the turn on the heavily crowned road, righted the wheels too abruptly. The seven and one-half tons of baled hay which the truck was carrying shifted, overturning ' the trailer, and are Willauer climbed from the cab un- hurt, as the proprietor of the gas sta- tion rushed forth with a fire exting- uisher in case the gasoline flowing from the tank of the truck should ig- nite and fire the load. Three WPA workers, who were sitting on the steps of a store fronting on the corner, left hastily when they saw that the truck wag crashing. They and the proprietor of the service station were the only witnesses of the accident, it is be- lieved. A large crowd gathered soon after the crash. The driver of the truck, an independent trucker who was carry- ing the load of hay to the Harvey's Lake farm of Senator A. J. Sordoni, called the Senator’s superintendent, John Dershimer, who sent out two smaller trucks to convey the load to its destination. A rope was tied to the trailer of the overturned truck, and the machine was righted by leverage when one of the Sordoni trucks was hitched to the rope and driven east along the road. The accident occurred shortly after 6 in the morning, and Willauer was on his way back home by 3 in the after- noon, after repairing the truck, which was damaged very slightly, and clean- ing up the debris from the turn. Mrs. John Isaacs Celebrates Birthday A covered dish supper celebrating |, the 62nd birthday of Mrs. John Isaacs of Kunkle was held recently at the home of Mrs. Ralph Elston of Kunkle. Present at the affair were Mrs. Lillian Kunkle, Mrs. Elizabeth Hess, Mrs. Elizabeth Heidenreich oféWilkes-Barre, Mrs. Jane Isaacs, Mrs. Margaret 'Wool- bert, Mrs. Marietta Wardan, Mrs. Mildred Malkemes, Margaret Ann and Freddie Malkemes, Mrs. Margaret Fischer, Laura Jean Perrin, Mrs. Mary Dymond, Mrs. Margaret Kunkle, Mrs. Edith Shoemaker, Mrs. Irene Devens, Mrs. Armanda Herdman, Mrs, Julia Kunkle, Mrs. Jennie Kunkle, Mrs. An- na Landon, Mrs, Amy Miers, Mrs. An- na Richards, Mrs. Lena Elston, Mrs. John Isaacs, and Mrs. Ralph Kunkle. Senator Sordoni Buys Guernsey From Reynolds Senator A. J. Sordoni added a new prize-winner to his Guernsey cow herd this week with the purchase of Edna Mapleton 288143 from Dorrance Rey- nolds. ‘The sale of the cow was an- nounced by the American Guernsey Cattle Club, Peterborough, N. H. TO RESUME MEETINGS The Ladies of St. Luke's Lutheran Elizabeth Reed of Rochester, and Miss Ann Schade of Rochester, and esd Michael Ryman of Wilkes-Barre. Church of Noxen will resume their regular meetings next Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 in the parish house.’ Meet Miss Beverly E. Noll, Who Smiles So Ingratiatingly From The Front Page. She Is The New Commercial Teacher For Dallas. Borough High School. em No. :35 4 Township Residents Indignant At Condition Of Goss School MOHAMMED AND THE MOUNTAIN RE-ENACTED FOR DALLAS OFFICER “If a man makes superior rat traps, the world will beat a path to his door.” Officer Walter Co- bert, Sr., was jerked from a sound sleep at 1 a. m. Wednesday morn- ing by the sound of a crash squarely in front of his house, on Huntsville Road. He dashed down the stairs and out the front door, to find that two cars had collided, one driven by Robert Seirstrer, of Sweet Val- ley, and the other by Stanley Narozny, of Nanticoke. Both drivers agreed on a settlement of the damages on ther spot, and Of- ficer Cobert went wearily back to bed. “This is the second accident I've had all summer,” he stated to the Post. “I feel that’s a pretty good record. Now that the season is closing, however, and the roads are becoming less crowded. I'm afraid that the rate will go up. Drivers will have to be more care- ful from now on.” Board Names New Teacher Beverly E. Noll Declared Outstanding By T. A. Williammee When Dallas Borough schools opens next Tuesday, students in the high school commercial classes will be greeted by smiling Miss Beverly E. Noll, of Lehighton. She was hired by telephone at the school board meeting last Monday, at a salary of $1,170 a year. Miss Noll nis just completed a five year course to prepare her for "this position. The first four years she spent -at East Stroudsburg State Teachers College, where she took an academic course which qualified her to teach French, and other subjects. The last year of her education, she took an all commercial course at Elizabethton College, from which she graduated last Spring. Until she received the offer of the Dallas board, she had been working as a secretary in an office at Lehigh- ton, according to Board Secretary Dan Waters, which adds practical experi- ence to her training. “The thorough- ness of Miss Noll’s training makes her outstanding among prospective teach- ers,” Supervising Principal T. A. Wil- liammee explained,” and Dallas is very lucky to secure her services.” Miss Noll has many interests in ad- dition to her teaching. Her avocationsg are collecting poetry, writing short plays, and doing cross word puzzles. (Continued To Page 5) Arrows Reach Semi-Finals Defeated Jenks 7-6 Last Week-end; Will Play Carverton Sunday « The Dallas Arrows, crack local team in the Bi-County League, will play the second place Carverton boys in the semi-finals of the League champion- ship this Sunday. Announcement of the game, which will be played on the Dallas Township High School field at 2:80, was made by League officials. In a fast ten-inning game last Sun- day on the neutral Beaumont field, the Arrows defeated Jenks by a score of 7-6 for fourth place in the League and an opportunity to play in the semi-final series. The game was one of the best played in the league this season and was marked by the stellar pitching and batting by Chet Sutton of Lehman who has been playing with the Arrows this year. In the first half of the tenth with the score 5-5, ‘Sutton drove in two runs to give the Arrows a two-point lead. In the last half of the tenth Carverton scored one on an error and had two men on base when the game ended. As the league goes into the semi- finals it finds four teams in the fol- lowing order: Vernon, Carverton, Nox- en, Dallas. Noxen and Vernon will start a three game series and Carver- ton and Dallas are paired for the big attractions this Sunday. ] Objections To Uncleanliness Of Goss School Keynoted By Mrs. Chamberlain “Conditions at the Goss schoolhouse are a positive disgrace to the com- munity and the Dallas Township School District. I would never think of allowing a child of mine to attend school amid such unsanitary condi- tions,” stated Mrs. Floyd W. Cham- berlain of Grand View Avenue this week. “The building itself is dirty enough, but the toilets outside are un- speakably filthy.” “I felt sure that conditions at the the beginning of the Fall term, or I would have objected long before now. Why, two of the members of the Township school board pass that building every day on their way to work, and I am surprised that they have done nothing to improve it.” ’ Mrs. Chamberlain said that she and many other land owners in the Goss Manor section have been indignant over allegedly unsanitary conditions at the old biulding for some time. Be- lieving, however, that the school board would take steps to improve the building before the opening of the Fall term on its own initiative, none of them have appeared before the board to make objections in person, she stated. Mrs. Chamberlain was especially forceful in her denunciation of the outdoor toilets in the school yard, which have been used by WPA work- ers throughout the summer. She de- clared that she, and many of her neighbors, believed them to be a men- ace to the health of the school chil- dren. Post reporters investigated the toilets and the schoolhouse itself, and found conditions much in keeping with’ those described by Mrs. Chamberlain. She said she had written to state officials at Harrisburg on the condi- tions as she saw them, and that she also intended to appear before the Dallas Township School Board to state In deference to objections of par- ents last year in regards to allowing smaller children to use the outdoor toilets in . winter weather, Dallas Township school board this year has moved the elementary grades into the high school building and has relegated older pupils from the grade school to } the Goss building, As plans mow stand, 140 pupils will have classes in the old building, which is a four room, two story affair. Heat- ing facilities in the building consist (Continued To Page 5) Two Local Men Flirt With Dynamite Truck Russell V. Lahr of Lehigh Street, Trucksville, and Chester Sheppleman of Dallas contemplated nervous break- downs Tuesday afternoon after a little injudicious flirting with the verities. Both men were operating machines in a slow and tedious line of traffic proceeding westerly along Pierce Street, Kingston, last Tuesday after- noon, when Lahr, apparently unable to slow down sufficiently, crashed in- to the rear of a machine just ahead of him, which, in turn, crashed into the rear of a truck just ahead, operated by Clarence Renfer of Avoca, which crashed into the rear of Shepplemany automobile, What Lahr and Sheppleman aian’t realize at the time, and what Renfer knew only too well, was that the truck was carrying a full load of dynamite. The men involved, shaking from fright, were taken to the Kingston Po- lice Station. Said Renfer, “Gee, T had a full load of dynamite . . . If it ever went off , ..” . Lah’rs worries are not over yet, however, for he is being held at the station to answer to several violations of the Motor Code. Beaumont Schools To Open Next Wednesday Children from Beaumont will troop into school Wednesday morning, Sept- ember 7, at 9 o'clock, when the fall term opens. Announcement of the opening date was made this week by supervising principal William A. Aus- tin. enrolled, providing that the entering youngster will be six years of age be- fore Feb. 1, 1939, and has a vaccina- tion certificate, According to the law, the beginners must enroll within the first two weeks of school. ; Wadell Woodchopper Sits On Rattlesnake’s Head “Whew! I'm tired,” Rogers of Waddell, said Seymour and he stopped ground. jumped hastily away, just as a snake’s fangs lashed at him. He had been sitting on the rattlesnake’s head. schoolhouse would be remedied before her objections to the old school house. Beginners in the first grade will be wood chopping and sat down on the There was a rattle, and he
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