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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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