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Vol. 48 THE DALLAS POST, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1938 EH No. 4 48
POST
SCRIPTS
EPH
McCOY
TALKS
ABOUT
BEARS
A cold draft swished across our
desk one day this week and just as we
were getting ready to yell “Close that
door!” we swung around and there
was Eph McCoy, The First *Settler,
his buckskin leggings damp with snow,
his old fur cap pulled jauntily down
over the ear that was frozen while he
was scouting for Sullivan in 1779.
“How, son!” he said, grinning, and
leaning his long Pennsylvania rifle
against the safe, within quick reach.
Once, absent-mindedly, in welcom-
ing Eph, we tried to shake hands with
him and found ourselves clutching at
thin air. Eph guffawed so lustily that
time and caused us so much embar-
rassment we never give him any
greeting mow more than a friendly
“hiya” and a gesture toward a seat
in the corner, where his ghostly trans-
parency won't startle some innocent
visitor.
“Well,” we began, as Eph settled
himself and bit off a prodigious chew
of the evil-looking twist tobacco he
swears by. “I haven't seen you since
I interviewed you for Miss Danger-
field of the Times-Leader last summer.
I've been wondering where you were.
Only the other evening Ralph Hazel-
tine was in asking about vou.”
Eph ruminated briefly. “Ralph Haz-
eltine, Ts that John’s son?’ he asked.
“John, the feller that plays a fife so
good?”
Eph frequently mixes up his gen-
erations. “No,” we explained. “This
is John’s great-grandson, Ralph. He
"lives down at Trucksville.”
“Oh,” Eph said. “I knew his great-
grandaddy. Never heern a man who
could coax more music out of
than Johnny Hazeltine.
them about bears.”
We didn’t understand Eph’s refer-
ence to bears. “What have bears to
do with Mr. Hazeltine?” we inquired.
“Well, son,” Eph slipped a knife out
of his belt and began to carve his |
initials in the window sill, “that’s
what I came to see you about. Have
you heern these stories goin’ about
about Pike County bears?”
‘Do you mean those stories John
Cummings has been writing in his col-
umn in The Inquirer? 2” we asked
“Them’s the ones.” Eph said. “This
newspaper feller’s been praisin’ Pike
County bear. He tells about one which
started chasin’ a huckleberry picker in
July and both of them kept runnin’
until the follerin’ January, when the
bear fell through some thin ice ‘and
the huckleberry picker escaped. Now,
son, that was quite a bear, but he was
downright lovable alongside some of
the Luzerne County bears I've seen.
Danined if this feller Cummings ain't
libellin’ our county bears. Why I rec-
kollect one we
‘cause his one hind leg was crippled.
He got caught in of Abe Pike's
big traps but he just bit the trap in
half like it was sugar taffy, Every-
body in this part of the country shot
at Mean Limpy but he just snickered
at bullets. Nobody knows how old he
was, but there were codgers 80 and
90 who had seen Mean Limpy while
they were boys. He died of old age. I
one
guess, and when they brought him in
stretched out on two bob-sleds he
weighed 1,3661 pounds and they got
enough lead out of him to take the
143rd Pennsylvania Volunteers half-
way through the Civil War ’thout get-
tin’ any bullets from the government.”
“This newspaper feller says one Pike
County bear called Old Nasty kept the
State Highway Department tryin’ for
10 years to build a road less than a
mile long through the Pike county
woods. For 51 weeks of the year, Old
Nasty would come out every morning
and chase the road men and they
couldn’t shoot him because it wasn’t
bear season. When bear season came
Old Nasty ,would go and hide and the
highway men would work like mad on
the road. Soon as the season was over
Old Nasty would come back and chase
’em again. ‘So they could only work
one week a year on the road and it
took them 10 years.
“Now I believe that story, son,
‘cause I know bears, but this Old Nas-
ty wouldn’t last a day over on North
Mountain, where they’s bears that
really is ferocious. T read where Kiefer
got a grizzly last September out in the
Canadian Rockies. Why, son, the only
reason they ain't grizzlies in the East
is that the couldn’t stand the competi-
tion here, Our bears chased ‘em out
of the county and they didn’t stop
"till they got on the other side of the
country. Right after I. come out here
after the Revolution there was one
bear here had an awful mean disposi-
tion. One day a Mohegan hunter came
through here and this old bear spied
him and set out after him. The Mo-
hegan headed down the valley to the
Fast with the old bear high-tailin®
after him. The perspiration was drip-
ping. from the Indian so fast it made
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a fife |
He could tell;
called Mean Limp,
ONSUMERS FILE COMPLAINTS WITH COMMISSION
CHAMPS SCORED TWICE AS MANY POINTS AS OPPONENTS
First row. left to right:
dridge (captain),
and Harold Fritges.
‘Second row: Donald Davis,
This stalwart squad of Kingston Township High
School has won the local scholastic football champ-
ionship for the second successive year.
Lawrence Isaacs, Donald
Bulford, Lewis Evans, George Schmoll,
Lawrence Newhart, Ralph Heale,
Donald McFadden,
Robert Fritges. Wallace Perrin, Roland Fielding, Da-
vid Evans, Karl Barkowski, Louis Spaciano, Michael
Parsons,
ager),
Ernest Hol-
ard, Arja Brown,
lagher,
Stencil, Robert Beck, and Coach Walter Hicks.
Top row: Bernard Wisnéski, Edward Fielding, Dale
William Dierblf,
Robert Griffith,
Jones, Wallace Thompson, John Judge, Chester Dal-
ley, Fred Smigel (assistant manager), Robert Pritch-
Missing: Claude Wardan, Lauris Graves, Paul Gal-
Michael Chersin and Richard Winter.
Sixty Citiz
ens Sign
First Protest Filed
Borough Solicitor Preparing
Second Formal Complaint;
Jurchak Proposes General Meeting Of Consumers To
Discuss Needs Of Back Mountain Water Consumers
COUNCIL AGREED DECISIVE ACTION NECESSARY
(See Editoria
1, Page Six)
One complaint against Dallas Water Co. was filed this week with the
Public Utility Commission, a second petition will be presented before the
end of the week and a movement was started to call all consumers served by
the small companies in this section to a general meeting to discuss the need
for an expanded service.
The first petition was filed by a group of consumers in the P
Heights Section of Dallas, served by Dallas Water Co.
ish
The complaiglt was
signed by about 60 persons, the same group which directed a vigorogis pro
test ‘to the company last summer, according to Mr. Disque.
Mr. u
was called upon to advise the consumers because he was 'a leading figure
in a successful campaign by consumers several years ago.
Y
(man-
William
Amandus Dalley
Howard Jackson,
caused cancelling of
EDT.
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EPIDEMIC OF MUMPS CHECKED,
NOXEN COMES OUT OF QUARANTINE
SIXTY CASES IS KNOWN BUT DANGER IS PAST
A ten-day quarantine which closed Noxen schools and churches and
many Thanksgiving
T. MacDougal of Tunkhannock, Wyoming County
»d opinion the epidemic of mumps Which provoked the quarantine is
activities was lifted this we€k and
medical director, ex-
The first cases of mumps were re-
ported three or four weeks ago and
when the total reached 35, health au-
thorities and school officials became
alarmed. On November 18, when more
than 60 cases of mumps had been dis-
covered, Dr, MacDougal and C. D.
Vaughn, health officer, declared a
| quarantine.
Although the ruling only
persons under 18 years of the
churches in the community co-operat-
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effected
age
ed by
| closed for thorough fumigation and the
moving picture theatre was ordered to
admit only patrons over 18 years of
age. As a result of the quarantine,
the epidemic is believed to have been
checked.
“There are still about 60 cases under
individual quarantine,” Dr. MacDoug-
al said, “and we are maintaining a
close watch in Noxen
every reason to believe that we have
eliminated any chase of . further
spread.”
In addition to the quarantine, Noxen
| was struck by a record-breaking
the drifted highways, added to the ab-
sence of activities,
down considerably.
CHRISTMAS PARTY
The annual Christmas party of the
Berean Class of Shavertown M. E.
Church will be held Tuesday night,
December 6th, at the home of Mrs
William Llewellyn of Mt. Airy Road.
Guild Ends Strike
But Printers’ Action May
Block Publication
This Week
Although The Sunday Independent
signed a year’s contragt’ with striking
American Newspapey Guildsmen on
Monday, ending a tyo- month strike of
reporters against’ “that newspaper, it
is probable publication will be impos-
sible this Sunday because of refusal
of printers to return to work.
The printers, who are members of
the International Typographical Union,
an A. P. of L. affiliate, were negotl-
ating for a new contract when the
Guild, a C. I. O. union, called its strike
on four Wilkes-Barre newspapers on
October 1, forcing their Suspension.
Until Wednesday afternoon, when
the I. T. U. met and refused to permit
any of its members to report, The In-
dependent had planned to give Wyo-
ming Valley this Sunday its first lo-
cal newspaper in two months.
three dailies, which closed down at the
same time as the Independent,® have
not been negotiating with the Guild.
The contract with the Guild included
a 40-hour, five-day week, pay minima,
Guild shop and dismissal indemnities.
canceling services. Schools were |
but we have!
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| expired
snow-storm on Thanksgiving Day and | | through 1939.
slowed the town |
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With Independent
| nor-elect Arthur H. James came home
{ farm at Huntsville.
The |
New Police Chief
is Walter Covert
Council’ Fills Vacancy Left]
By Death Of Leonard
O’Kane
[
Walter C. Cet enti of Dal-
las Borough police force for the last
four years, was elected Chief last Fri-
day night to fill the vacancy left by
the death of Leonard O’Kane.
Mr. Covert was a member of the
Dorranceton police force from 1918 un-
til 1921, when he resigned fo go on a
His work on the
local force has been commended by
Burgess Herbert A. ‘Smith and coun-
cilmen. He will fill Mr. O’Kane’s un-
term, which will continue
NOXEN PTA MONDAY
The Parent- Teacher Association of
Noxen will be held on Monday might.
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Snow Aids Hunters
In Assault On Deer
ATTORNEY M. F. MacDONALD
TO SUCCEED JUDGE McLEAN
ON LUZERNE COUNTY BENCH
Gov. George H. Earle named At-
torney Michael F, MacDonald yes-
terday afternoon td succeed the
late William S. McLean as.Judge
in Luzerne County,
Attorney MacDonald is a native
of Sugar Notch and an early as-
sociate of Judge Arthur H. James.
He won state-wide prominence in
prosecuting Hanover Township of-
ficials on charges of graft.
Heavy Doe Hi Reported
By Local Spoftsmen
This Week
Roaring guns brought down an im-
mense number of doe this week, as
deep snow, perfect for tracking, mod-
erate temperature and very little sun-
shine provided an ideal background for
the antlerless deer season.
In the Back Mountain section alone
hundreds of deer were shot. Chief Ira
C. Stevenson of the Harvey's Lake
police force counted 75 doe being car-
ried out on Monday afternoon,
and Chief Walter Covert of Dallas saw
nearly fifty deer carried through Main
Street Monday and a similar number
Tuesday. William Evans, hunting in
the Poconos, reports that a woman in
Blakeslee saw 200 fresh killed doe go-
ing out in one day.
Illegal shooting of bucks was rare,
according to County Game Warden
Philip Sloan of Kingston, although
two beautiful bucks were killed by
automobiles at Harvey's TLake/and an-
other big buck w reporfed found |
dead in the North Bortain woods.
Patrolman Fred Swanson found a 16-
point buck, described as one of the
finest animals ever seen in this region,
on the Harvey's Lake road last week,
and this Monday picked up a large
buck on the Noxen road where it had
been struck by a motorist.
Success of local hunters ranged all
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cars
Rested and smiling after
three-week vacation in Texas, Gover-
this week to tackle the gargantuan
job of selecting his cabinet, formula-
ting Administration policies and su-
pervising some 11,000 State appoint-
ments.
Meanwhile, his neighbors in Luzerne
| County made preparations for travel-
thousands to Harrisburg
17 to witness the inaugura- |
tion which, despite Judge James’ re-
quest for simplicity, will probably at- |
tract an unprecedented crowd.
Already, hotels in the Capital are
sold out and a warning has been is-
sued that it is likely there will be no
sleeping ‘accommodations for visitors.
Even hotels in cities about Harris-
burg are booked up solidly for the in-
auguration. The State Farm Show,
which attracts about half a million
people, will open on January 16, the
ing by
January
| day before Judge James’ inauguration
Two special trains, with sleeping ac-
commodation, will leave Wilkes-Barre
on Monday night, January 16. The
occupants will make the cars thelr
homes while in the capital. The trains
will return to Wilkes-Barre on Wed-
nesday morning,
Special Trains Scheduled
Other special trains will leave early
on the morning of the inauguration
and will return that night.
on:
Neighbors Of Judge James
Get Ready For January 17
a pleasant |
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The inauguration program will be-
| gin with the Lieutenant-Governor’s
ceremonies at 11:30. Judge James wilt
be inaugurated at 12 noon. The pa-
rade will begin at 12:30. At 9:30 p.)
m, the Iniugu-al Ball will be held.
Attorney Frank Slattery is in charge
of preparations for the local delega-
tion’s trip to the inauguration and Jo-
seph Reinhard is treasurer,
Judge James, who left shortly after
his election to visit Col. Carl Estes,
Texas publisher, came home by way of
New Orleans. Last Saturday he was
a guest of Governor Richard W. Leche
of Louisiana at the Tulane-Louisiana
State football game at Baton Rouge.
“When I return to Pennsylvania,” he |
told reporters, “I will have 27,000 ap-
pointments to keep. All official. And
believe me that’s a lot of handshak-
ing.”
A survey among Republicans made |
by Dr. George Gallup, director, Amerd
ican Institute of Public Opinion, last
week revealed that Judge. James is}
one of the seven leading contenders |
for the 1940 G. O. P, Presidential nom- |
ination.
At Dallas, Tex., where Judge James
was guest of a group of prominent of- |
ficials who gave him a ten-gallon hat,
Governor James V, Allred of Texas,
commented in his speech, “You'll prob=
ably hear much of this astute Penn- |
sylvanian from time to time.” |
{ Election’s
| on December 8 at 2 p. m. for the final
Election Outcome
Still In Dispute
Court’s Hearing On Two
Questioned Districts
Postponed
The official tabulation of returns
from Luzerne County in the Noyember
8 election will remain unset#led until
December 19 when the cgdrt en banc
will hear the Democratie” County Com-
mittee’s appeal from the Board of
action in throwing out the
vote of two election districts.
The appeal was to have been heard
last Friday but was postponed by |
agreement. Until the court acts upon
it, it is impossible to say whether
Judge Arthur H. James, Republican,
or Charles Alvin Jones, Democrat,
carried Luzerne County. The Board
of Election refused to include one dis-*|
trict . in Hazleton and another in
Wilkes-Barre because of charges of |
fraud against officials in the two dis-
tricts, beth overwhelmingly Demo-
cratic,
Democrats claim Jones won the
county by 187 votes. Republicans in- |
sist, with the two districts out, James |
won by 400 or more votes. Upon the
outcome of the quarrel rests the dis-
position of about $85,000 worth of elec-
tion bets.
YEAR’S LAST MEETING
The Trucksville Ladies’ Aid Society
will meet at Trucksville M. E. Church
meeting of the year. Hostesses will |
be Mrs, David Williams, Mrs. Edward
Williams, Mrs. Herbert Williams, Mrs.
Arch Woolbert, Mrs. George Reynolds,
Jr.
New Hospital Plan
Goes Into Effect
‘Two-And-One-Half Cents A
Day’ System Approved
Locally
A group hospitalization plan, con-
ducted by the Hospital Service Assoc=
iation of Northeastern Pennsylvania
under the sponsorship of Wyoming
Valley hospitals, received the approval
of the Pennsylvania Insurance Com-~
mission this week and went into ez-
fect yesterday.
Popularly known as the 2%-cents-
a-day plan, the system is designed to
meet the needs of the middle classes,
said George /T. Bell, Xecutive direc-
tor. “The rich capsafford hospitaliza-
tion, and the bor receive it free; it
is for the benefit of the middle classes
that this plan is sponsored.”
Subscription rates entitle the sub-
seriber to 21 days of free hospitaliza- |
tion upon the advice of his doctor in
either Nesbitt Memorial, General,
Mercy or Homeopathic hospitals. The
plan is open only to regularly employ-
ed persons, who must enter from their
| although
| Mt. Greenwood Heights Co.,
Attorney Arthur L: Turner, sor
licitor for Dallas Borough Coundil, is
preparing a second petition, author-
ized by the councilmen at their meet-
ing last Friday night, and it is likely
this complaint will be in the hands of
the Public Utility Commissioners be-
fore the end of the week.
Proposes Public Meeting
Meanwhile, Attorney Peter Jurehak,
who conferred with an engineer of the
Public Utility Commission on Novem-
ber 16 relative to a complaint against
Trucksville Water Co., proposed that
all dissatisfied consumers gather at a
public meeting to discuss complaints
and formulate a request to the P, U.
C. for a general survey in Dallas and
neighboring communities to determine
the needs and what steps should be
taken to satisfy them.
Service in Dallas Borough was nor-
mal this week and attaches of the
water company reported no com-
plaints, a situation contrasting sharp-
ly with last week, when a broken pump
and a break in a main kept some con-
sumers almost completely without
water service for four days. Obvious-
ly, the break-down last week was an
unavoidable emergency but, coming on
top of frequent complaints from about
one-fourth of the company’s consum-
ers, it provoked officials to decisive
action.
Staunchly behind the drive for ade-
quate service are real estate men, who,
deploring the unfavorable
publicity for a community liability,
predict a sizable building boom here
after the opening of the Luzerne by-
pass if some of the civic problems are
solved before then. Ellmer Parrish, a
local real estate man for a number of
years, is authority for the statement
that prospective tenants invariably
bring up the question of water supply.
Since Parrish Heights is one of the
sections most often inconvenienceaq,
Mr. Parrish has offered to give Dallas
Water Co. deed to a plot large enough
for a well and Walter Brown, veteran
well driller, has guaranteed to strike
a good water supply if the company
will drill where he designates.
Served By Fire Companies
Consumers in the Back Mountain
section now receive water from five
independent companies, Dallas Water
Co. and Shavertown Water Co., which
are subsidiaries of the same company;
Trucks-
ville Water Co. and the Wallo Water
Co. The last-named has about 25
consumers, all of whom have adequate
service, At one time or another, com-~
plaints have been made to all of the
other companies,
If appeals to the Public Utility Com-
mission are unavailing, three courses
will be open to consumers if they join
to insure better future service:
1. A merger or consolidation of all
local independent companies to com-
bine their facilities and resources.
(Continued on Page 8)
(Hlustrated by Terry Kilburn, as Tiny Tim in
place of business.
“A Christmas Carol’),
Ji
ks