PAGE TWO BuildingBoom Wou School Consolidation Issu . Dallas Firemen To Meet 1d Revive Tonight At Hose House The regular meeting of Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Company will be held tonight in the hose house on Mill Long-range Plan Seen As Major Need In Dallas Cooperation Of Borough End Twp. Suggested By Interested Citizen The likelihood of increased building and growth in the Dallas area in the next five years is reviving talk about consolidated schools and there is a strong possibility that school boards will soon face again the issue which has aroused so much discussion in the past. Twice within the last fifteen years Dallas Borough and Dal- las Township have discussed a consolidated school system, and each time obstacles have been unsurmountable. Both dis- tricts have good high school build- ings now, but signs of overcrowd- ing are apparent, and consolidation probably will be a paramount ques- tion before long. The merging of the two school districts has been suggested by the Department of Public Instruction at ' Harrisburg before this. The pro- ject was given serious consideration in 1929, when the State pointed to the tremendous savings and in- ‘ creased efficiency which would be possible through consolidation. At that time an official of the State Department recommended a joint supervising principal and co- operation in teaching such subjects " as music, health, shop, home eco- nomics and foreign languages, with THE QUEEN : Lana Turner rules the domain Hearts. The M-G-M starlet dons re Defy Cupid for the throne of hearts. Street. Calvin McHose, chairman of the play committee, will report OF HEARTS production on March 7 and 8 and tickets will be distributed. A full attendance is urged. Dallas Borough Board “Till Meet Tonight The February meeting of Dallas Borough school board will be held on plans for the firemen’s benefit | THE POST, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1940 Judge Sentences Fernbrook Men Brothers Convicted Of Taking State's Gravel Andrew and Joseph Sebolka of Fernbrook were convicted this week of stealing crushed stone from the Pennsylvania Department of High- ways and were paroled from a six- month prison sentence on promise to pay the cost of the stone and the prosecution. Andrew Sebolka was arrested on complaint of Superintendent W. C. Schmink of the Highway Depart- ment, who charged that the man tonight (Friday) in the high school building at 8 p. m. New Schedule Announced For Lehman And Idetown Rev, C. Duane Butler, pastor of Lehman charge of the Methodist Church, yesterday announced a new schedule of services, as follows: Ide- town, church service, 10 a. m.; Sun- day school, 11; Lehman, Sunday school, 10 a. m.; church, 11:15. 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"Questioned about the oft-discussed plan, a man who has had long ex- perience in local school affairs, de- cried the lack of a constructive, long-term, joint plan for develop- | ees ment of school facilities here. B. E. Snyder of Luzerne has been Stop-Gap Plan Costly double-crossed by a groundhog. “School facilities in this ‘section| Just when everything was in have grown by leaps and bounds | readiness for Br'er Groundhog’s an- and are still growing, in the same’ nual prognostication last Friday the manner,” he said. “The difficulty is | contrary woodchuck decided to post- that no permanent program is con- pone its 1940 reappearance and sidered and even after spending a! didn’t even stick its snout out of lot of money, piecemeal, only stop- | its, winter home in Mr. Snyder’s gap schools are provided for a short | cefiar, : time. In a few years population in-! As a result, the groundhog missed crease or obsolescence of buildings a tempting meal and Mr. Snyder's SNYDER'S GROUNDHOG SLEEPS ON, MISSES CHANCEFOR FAME friends are still in the dark as to} what kind of weather the next six months will bring. The woodchuck is still in there,| SNE Mr. Snyder declares, even though he hasn’t seen it since last September. Personally, Mr. Snyder believes the groundhog’s decision to, take an ex- tra 40 winks is a sign of an early spring, to say nothing of a long, hard summer. requires another spurt. | “The trend is toward consolida- seemingly everywhere but ws have been enacted to €ncourag- and in some cases enforce tion | Butler's Grandfather ‘Dice In Wayne County consolidation of district wr ur” Cer- as : tain schools in adjoining districts. | William H. Shaffer of Gravity, Local interests and prejudices have; Wayne County, grandfather of Rev. always been so noticeable here that | C. Duane Butler, pastor of Lehman any real effort of consolidation dis- | Methodist Church, died on January tricts has been dropped like a hot potato. ? “The Dallas area is apparently be- ginning to experience a building boom. The new by-pass ana water ifiprovements as well as general conditions would seem to point to such an experience. While the reg- ularly elected school directors are legally responsible for coping with | this outlook, they always have had enough headaches in their routine duties to occupy their minds and in practically every local change here- tofore frantic effort is made AFTER the need arises to provide school | facilities which by that time are urgently required and demanded. New homes are usually erected by young married people, which means an increase in younger pupils first. These gradually move through the school systems step by step and after the pressure once starts at the bottom makes difficulty over a pe- riod of perhaps ten years. Trying to make ten frantic adjustments to stich a situation means ten years of hard work for the school directors and many years of unsatisfactory facilities for the pupils. ; “Additional - building means In- creased tax revenues. While im- posing prohibitive taxes would be the worst thing to do to encourage building, a reasonable tax expendi- ture will eventually be requiréd and new home owners should be grad- ually educated to expect to assume such a burden. Cost figures pub- lished locally and nationally indi- cate that in very few families do the parent-taxpayers contribute the ac- tual expenses of the education of their offspring. Deplores Procrastination “Improvements in Dallas Town- ship and recent building changes in other nearby districts appear on the surface to provide adequate schools. However, if past experience means anything, this is a delusion. It is only a temporary relief of acute pressure. Sitting idly by until an- other and harder pressure is felt is going to make it possible for some impractical group to leap into a poorly located and inadequate school building because of extreme emerg- ency which makes doing something at once more meritorious than do- ing it properly. “Just now when there is no hard pressure anywhere would be the ideal time to begin work on a real ng-time program. No one can e a difficult problem under ss as well as after mature de- ption. |28 at the age of 90. Mr. Shaffer | was one of 12 children, 11 of whom ! died past the age of 70, five being in their 90’s. One sister, 82, survi- | ves. Mr. Shaffer had six children, all of whom survive him. i Mrs. Norman Thompson Of Noxen Died Sunday { Mrs. Norman Thompson, 49, Nox- | en, died on Sunday afternoon at her | home and was laid to rest in Or- cutt’s Cemetery, Noxen, on Wednes- | day afternoon. Services were held in the Noxen Methodist Church, with Rev. David Morgan officiating. Mrs. Thompson is survived by her { husband, four daughters, Mrs. Mary { Klopka and Mrs. Ruth Dymond of Noxen; Mrs. Mildred Campbell, Dal- las, and Norman at home; five | brothers, Jacob Traver, Ruggles; Peter and Frank Traver, Evans Falls, and Daniel and Severn Traver, | Noxen; four sisters, Mrs. Frank! Turner, Mrs. Charles Patten and Mrs. Edward Nelson, Noxen, and Mrs. Sarah Dymond, Binghamton, N. Y. Six grandchildren also sur- vive. Death Takes Child { Norman Sutton, 7, son of James Sutton, died at 8 on Sunday morn- | ing at the home of William Nulton, Alderson. Death was attributed to pneumonia. The funeral was held i from the Nulton home on’ Tuesday afternoon, with interment in Beau- mont Cemetery. “As far as Dallas Township and Dallas Borough are concerned con- solidation is not new. They once were consolidated. Efforts have been made from time to time in comparatively recent years to either consolidate the districts again or consolidate their facilities. But at such times the acute condition has prevented any calm and reasonable consideration of any proposals. “Grandiose schemes of consoli- dating all the rural section into one district have always fallen of their own weight and perhaps always will. Some of the larger districts can well maintain themselves and receive outside pupils on a tuition basis. On account of their peculiar situation it would seem that the two Dallas districts could well work together on the high school prob- HERE'S a tire that's famous for quality and long mileage. And—at a 25% discount from list price! Explains Relief Rule On Property Judgment Banned While Family Occupies Home Assurance that properties owned and rugged for long wear. 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