the Empire State Building, and the
PAGE SIX
GOP Convention
ToBe Televised
Many From This Section
To Go To Philadelphia
Because of its nearness to Dallas,
the Republican National Convention,
which will begin on Monday, June
24, in Philadelphia, will attract a
great many people from this sec-
tion, but those who are unable to
attend the colorful sessions will
have an unprecedented opportunity
to follow the proceedings by radio
and television.
As a matter of fact, television
will make its bow in the big time
when it takes its place alongside
photographers, news reels, the press
and radio at the GOP National Con-
vention.
All the color and importance of
this great political event will be
caught and relayed to the some
5,000 television receiving sets locat-
ed generally along the eastern sea-
board from Massachusetts to Dela-
ware. Experts figure eight to ten
persons will be at each set, approx-
imating 45,000 Americans who will
see and hear the convention pro-
ceedings at the same time from
points as far as 300 miles distant
from Convention Hall in the Quaker
City.
Two special stands and a special
studio have been provided at the
Convention Hall so that these Amer-
icans may have the benefit of the
finest projection television has to
offer. Some forty feet from the
speaker’s stand, the special stands
are extensions of the first balcony
of the hall, providing a possible
swing for the television cameras
from the speaker out over the dele-
gates’ seats. The studio is provided
for special interviews.
The National Broadcasting Com-
pany and the Philco Radio and Tele-
vision Corporation are the compan-
ies involved. The NBC transmitter
is in Manhattan, New York, atop
Philco transmitter is located in Phil-
adelphia. The National Broadcast-
ing Company has arranged to utilize
the only coaxial cable, necessary for
television, between the two cities to
carry their program to New York. !
The two companies will send a total
of 40 men to handle the job—NBC |
sending 25 and Philco 15.
The NBC audience is located in
lower New York State, parts of Mas-
sachusetts, a large part of Connecti-
cut, a corner of Pennsylvania, and
in New Jersey. The Philco primary
‘GARGANTUA’, MILLION DOLLAR GORILLA, GOES ON SUMMER TOUR
Gargantua (right) glares
from his air-conditioned cage,
which is surrounded by bullet
proof glass, against chilled
steel bars one inch thick and
two inches apart. The vicious
Gargantua was once a house
pet.
No pains are spared to pro-
vide comfort for the 500-
pound, man-hating gorilla.
Below: A circus maintenance
man inspects the heavily-tired
wheels which give tempera-
mental Gargantua a smooth
ride.
THE POST, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1940
WPA ‘Open House’
Begins Saturday
Citizens Invited To
Inspect Local Projects
The Work Projects Administra-
tion will keep “open house” for the
citizenry of Luzerne County next
week.
Sponsors and Wpa officials here
will join the nation in a week's cel-
ebration, from May 20 to 25, to
demonstrate to the community the
value of the WPA program. Slogan
for the “open house” will be “This
Work Pays Your Community!”
Officials are eager to have the
public visit their projects and are
inviting civic, patriotic, fraternal
and social groups to visit one or all
of the projects during the week.
Lecturers will explain the function
of each project.
be invited to visit other projects and
arrangements are being made to
“stagger” the working hours so
that those working on one project
may visit another.
There will be no “dressing up”
for the week, but the public will
Isee the activities of the WPA pro-
jects as they actually function
WPA workers, themselves, are to |
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Big Aid To Home-Owners
Each Spring finds hundreds of
SUMMER TREK IN SPECIAL CAGE
BEGINS FOR PAMPERED GORILLA =: soive nes sunsress o
2 CE behaved house pet of My Lentz, Gargantua, | area searching about for suggestions
the “million-dollar gorilla”, is now regarded as the most vicious and for brightening their homes and this
a a) i
treacherous gorilla in captivity. | year they are discovering a new and
Among the objects of his wrath, have been Roland Butler, circus : :
a ! : y luable so f hel th -
publicity, man, an elephant herder who stepped within reach, John bi e source O p in the gi
North, his owner and Kroener, his keeper. ganic, Sierwin-William Paint and
throughout the year. ; ;
“In Luzerne County the WPA has| Ib
performed much useful and con-! i
structive work,” Col. Philip Mat- |
crowbar fingers he grabbed the ele-
phant herder’s necktie and jerked
him against the bars. The shock
ripped the tie and the man fell to
the ground unconscious but safely
out of reach.
John North was demonstrating
what happened to the herder when
Gargantua bit his right wrist to the
bone. While Kroener was reaching
with a pole to open a skylight over
the cage, the gorilla reached
through the bars, grabbed the keep-
er's sweater, drew his arm inside
the cage and sank his teeth into it.
Kroener struck Gargantua in the
face with the pole and escaped, but
area is confined largely to Pennsyl- |
vania and the adjacent section of
New Jersey, plus serine of Delaware
- JACKSON
The Jackson Ladies’ Aid Society
held its monthly meeting at the
home of Mrs. Herbert Miers on
Wednesday.
Durwood Splitt and Ruth May
Hazel spent Saturday at Wilkes-
Barre.
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Spaar and
son, Gerald, of Allentown returned
to their home on Monday after
visiting Mrs. Emma Linsinbigler for
several days.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Lameroux
and baby son visited Mr. and Mrs.
Corey Smith on Sunday.
“Mrs. Mary Ashton visited her
father at Nanticoke recently.
Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Harvey, Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Elston and chil-
dren visited Mr. and Mrs. Gustav
Splitt on Sunday.
Harry Kester of Kingston was a
recent local dealer.
Eugene Michael and Durwood
Splitt, members of the 109th Field
Artillery, Battery A, attended drill
at the Nanticoke Armory on Monday
night.
Mrs. Margaret Eads, who has been
ill for several months, is much im-
proved.
Jackson Township school board,
at its meeting for May, adopted the
same budget as last year and levied
the school tax of 15 mills for 1940.
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his ay was so badly mangled that
it has been crippled ever since.
Gargantua’s new quarters are de-
signed to avoid further casualties.
It is 26 feet long, 7 feet wide and
7 feet high. The sidewalks are half-
inch-thick panes of plate glass set
double with an air space between.
Lining the panes and shutting off
the pen are chilled steel bars one
inch thick and two inches apart.
The wheels are equipped with Tim-
ken tapered roller bearings to give
him a smooth, comfortable ride on
his long travels over all kinds of
roads.
His summer tour with Ringling
Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus
will take him into every state and
nearly every .city in the United
| States.
|
i
Revival Meetings Begin
At Plattsburg Church
Bert Sanford, the “Singing Black-
smith’, will begin a series of revival
meetings at Plattsburg Free Metho-
dist Church on May 20. Mr. San-
ford, who is from Ferndale, N. Y,,
is known widely for his challenging
messages, and sings the old-time
songs. Services will be held every
evening at 7:45 ~@%cept Saturday.
Rev. Albert Heining, pastor of
the charge, has announced the fol-
lowing schedule of services: Platts-
burg, Sunday school, 10; preaching,
11; Dallas, Sunday school, 2; preach-
ing, 3; Outlet, Sunday school, 10;
Young People’s Service, 7; preach-
ing service, 7:45. :
To Give Music Lessons
In Shavertown Church
Harvey Drumtra, graduate of the
National School of Music, Chicago,
Ill, and accompanist for the WPA
Symphony Orchestra, will give les-
With his nine foot reach and |
Street, Wilkes-Barre,
| Color Style Guide, a collection of
| color photographs of interiors which
|are arousing enthusiastic praise all
"over the country.
The Style Guide itself is more
than three feet wide when spread
out. © It contains 120 pages, with
143 full-color illustrations. The Sher-
win-Williams Company spent years
and an impressive sum of money
developing the big book, which -ig
{now being shown at~all branches,
including those at 84 South Main
at the Goff
Lumber Co., 212 South Pennsylvania
Avenue, Wilkes-Barre, and at Lu-!
zerne Lumber Co., 445 Main Street,
Luzerne.
Painters, contractors, architects
and home financing institutions
early accepted the book as a unique
contribution to artistic building and
renovizing, and now home-owners
themselves are discovering it and
learning that its suggestions are in-
valuable in planning interior or ex-
terior decoration. ‘You feel as if you
can actually step into these rooms,”
one customer said, after looking at
the exquisite, large-size, full-color
i photographs.
Another new Sherwin-Williams’
hews, State Administrator, said.
“With the co-operation of the spon-
sors, it has established many good
projects which have served the com-
munity well. It is my hope that ev-
ery citizen will visit one or more of
these projects, so that he may see
for himself the contribution our Fed-
eral agency is making to this com-
munity. In a sense, this is our
accounting to the public of our
stewardship.”
Fernbrook Boy Scouts
To Reorganize Monday
Fernbrook Troop, No. 284, Boy
Scouts, which lapsed recently, will
May 27, at 7 at a meeting in the
Sunday school rooms of St. Paul's
Lutheran Church, Shavertown. The
troop, which will be known as St.
Paul's Boy Scout Troop, No., 284,
will be sponsored by the Lutheran
Brotherhood. Stanley Davis will be
scoutmaster and Theodore Hinkle
will be his asistant. Willard Lozo,
president of the Brotherhood, will
be chairman of the Scout committee.
publication, The Home Decorator
and Color Guide, is available to
sons on piano and brass instruments | those who request it. This handy lit-
in the basement of St. Paul's Lu-|tle volume contains hundreds of
theran Church on Monday and Tues- | miniatures of rooms and exteriors
day afternoons at 4 p. m. Those in- {and an article by Ray Hookway, di-
terested can enroll next Monday at rector of the S-W decorative service.
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New Texas Carrots bunch
Fresh Green Cukes each 51
Fresh Clean Spinach ih. each
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