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Give Night Drivers Plenty OfRoad,
They Need It, Says Jack Hazeltine
Ninety Percent Of
Wrecks Hauled In,
Happen At Night
On the lot back of Oliver's Garage
are seven wrecked automobiles, all
of them bearing late 1939 inspection
stickers which means that man
failure rather than mechanical im-
perfection is most likely the rea-
son for their presence there. Seven
is only a fraction of the number of
wrecks hauled in yearly by Oliver's
wrecker in charge of Jack Hazel-
tine.
A pretty fair average would be
two a week according to Jack. But
quite recently he brought in seven
wrecks in one week. More than
ninety percent of the crackups come
in at night and Jack ought to
know because he has to get up out
of bed to haul them in. From Lu-
zerne to Noxen and from Carver-
ton to Lehman, no particular spot |
on the highways seems to have
more wrecks than another, although
a large number of the wrecks come
from the vicinity of Harvey's Lake
and most of them from the Harvey's
Lake-Noxen Road. Just why the
Noxen road is responsible for so
many wrecks is more than Jack
can understand unless it is because
there is little traffic and drivers
think they hove the road to them-
selves.
Speed and alcohol play a large
part in the wrecking of automobiles
and young people have most of the
wrecks. Now and then a school
teacher cracks one up when she is
teaching her sister to drive or some
older driver freezes to the wheel
when quick action is necessary, but
such wrecks are the exception rath-
er than the rule. Once in a while
a college professor backs his wl
into the Lake and then Jack has to
turn diver as well as mechanic. |
Thieves Wreck Them, Too
A few weeks ago Jack received
a call at 4 on Sunday morning to
come out on the Noxen road and
pick up a wreck. When he got to
the spot he found a badly smashed
1937 Pontiac and two nervous
youths. Jack hitched on to the
wreck and hauled it into the garage.
The boys urged him to repair the!
damage right away, but Jack said
he couldn’t. They urged him to put
a wheel on the car so that they
could drive it anyway. They were
in a hurry to drive to Towanda to
their work they said. Jack didn’t
have any extra wheels and besides
that the car was too badly wrecked
in other places for them to make
a trip of any distance. So the boys
left, saying they would be back in
a few days to make arrangements
to have the car repaired. Every-
body around the garage wondered
why the boys didn’t return in a
couple of weeks to make arrange-
ments for their car and then one
day they returned escorted by mem-
bers of the State Highway Patrol.
They had stolen the car from
their neighbor in Meshoppen on a
Saturday night and the neighbor
hadn’t missed it for several days.
When he discovered his loss he noti-
fied Pennsylvania Motor Police and
under their grilling the boys had
confessed to the theft.
Then again there was the early
morning when Jack was called to
the Huntsville-Idetown road by Mo-
tor Patrolman, Fred Swanson, of
the Harvey's Lake force. Jack found
a badly smashed 1933 Ford and |
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| NEW = YORK—(Special)—Bill
Robinson, Old Man Rhythm to
millions, is standing them in the
aisles nightly at the Music Hall
lat the New York World’s Fair.
‘Bill taps his way to the audience’s
(heart as he plays the role of the
[Emperor in Michael Todd’s Hot
Mikado.
three naked occupants, two of whom
had to be rushed to the hospital
immediately. Four boys had been
swimming in Harvey's Lake late at
night naked. Patrolman Swanson
on his rounds blew his whistle at
them. The boys jumped in their
car and a merry chase followed
which ended in a crack-up. The
most they would have gotten for
swimming naked would have been
a tongue-lashing from the cop for
swimming in the wrong place in the
wrong attire. Jack doesn’t believe
it pays to run from cops. Mostly
such races end in crack-ups.
It is all pretty exciting business
hauling in wrecks. It is interesting
to see how many different ways an
automobile can be twisted, battered
and smashed. But it’s gruesome,
too, to see matted hair, teeth, blood
and flesh in some of the wrecks.
Plenty of night rides that start out
innocently enough end in tragedy.
It’s important to drive carefully,
thinks Jack, especially at night and
it’s just as important to keep your
eye on the other fellow and see
that he has plenty of room—he may
need it more than you think.
Sullivan County Fair
Tex Rose and his variety of en-
tertainment will be featured at the!
Sullivan County Fair which opens |
at Forksville on September 6th and
continues for four days and nights.
Patterson Grove
Large crowds attended the ses-
sions
Meeting which closed on Sinan at
the conclusion of a progra
tivities which lasted ten As
of Patterson Grove Camp
Who Pays The Taxes?
(Continued from Page 2)
ee
among the town’s heaviest tax-
payers.
Another corporation never
heard to complain is the Scranton-
Spring Brook Water Company
which pays this borough over $250
in school taxes annually.
The Main Street business and
professional places practically all
pay well over $100 per year in
school taxes. The better residenc-
es on Lake Street also pay large
amounts. James R. Oliver who
pays taxes on both of these ex-
pensive streets becomes one of the
heaviest taxpayers in town.
All the full-size farms remain-
ing in the borough pay heavy tax-
es even though some are idle from
a production standpoint. At the
extreme end of the borough, Mrs.
Georgia P. Johnson has always
been well up toward the top of
the list of the heavy taxpayers,
although as far as the writer knows
she has never had a pupil in school
here. Clifford Space, prominent
in recent milk price activities, is
always among the first half-dozen
of the heavy taxpayers.
Real estate operators such as
{ | Elmer Parrish and Joseph Wallo,
4 1as well as some not residing here,
pay heavy taxes. It should be said
to their credit that Messrs. Parrish
and Wallo pay their taxes on time
in cash, which is not true of most
of the non-resident operators.
Years ago Dallas had many fine
estates, the summer home of the
POST; TRIDAY,
well-to-do: residents of the valley.
There are still a few which pay
substantial taxes.
From the standpoint of dollars
and cents, if the old $5 per capita
tax had been collected 100%, it
would have served only to pay
actual tuition for a few days per
pupil.
Survey of all the records of the
school district indicates that the
per capita taxpayers who are not
property owners are fortunate.
Unfortunately some of them, I
should say many of them, do not
seem to realize it.
Property owners who live here
also have to pay per capita taxes.
Like St. Paul in one of his let’
ters, I say this of myself and not
by commandment. It may not re-
flect the sentiments of my employ-
ers on the school board.
—D. A. Waters.
Re-Opening Of Mines
Considered Doubtful
Efforts to have the Connell mines
at Bernice, Sullivan County, opened
for work this winter are meeting
with little success. Committees of
clergymen, businessmen and union
members have made determined ef-
forts and it has been hoped that a
new breaker would be built during
July. No breaker has been built
and according to the Sullivan Re-
view, “hopes for working the mines
have reached a new low.”
Democrats Lead
Registrations in Columbia Coun-
ty show that Democrats lead Re-
publicans by a margin of seven to
five.
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