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PAGE SIX
Willkie Doesn't Want The Nomination
If He Has To Put On Cowboy Clothes,
Kiss Babies And Make Fake Promises
(This is the first of a series of articles discussing outstanding
possibilities for the Republican nomination for the Presidency.)
Brawny, two-fisted Wendell Lewis Willkie is perhaps the most color-
ful figure that America’s vast industrial life has produced since the turn!
of the century. As head of the Commonwealth and Southern Corporation
he is an important utilities executive, but as a member of the Republican
party he is a leading Presidential candidate. “Dark horse” may be the
usual name for such a candidate, but this hardly seems adequate for
Laketon Alumni
Host To Seniors
Graduates Welcomed
At Country Club Fete
The newly-organized Alumni As-
sociation of Laketon high school en-
tertained the graduating class at a
dinner dance at Irem Country Club
on Friday night.
S. Franklin Leinthall, who was in
Willkie who in the last two months
has risen from comparative incon-
spicousness to third place in the
Gallup poll of Republican possibili-
ties for the Presidency.
Recent months have seen a boom
unprecedented in political history
for this Indiana farmer who has
made good in the business world.
Thousands of letters and telegrams
poured in daily to the hastily set-up
office of his managers, urging him
to throw his hat in the ring. The
nomination without any strings at-
tached, he would be delighted to ac-
cept, but as Willkie himself says,
“I wouldn't spend a dollar or permit
any friend of mine to spend a dollar
for a delegate to the National Con-
vention, and I refuse to go around
making two-way promises, kissing
babies or dressing up like a cowboy.
I am distinctly not a professional
politician. I am a businessman.”
Born some forty-eight years ago
in Elwood, Indiana, Willkie in all
probability owes a debt to heredity
for his great ability, for his father
was one of Indiana’s most successful
trial lawyers, his mother the first
woman ever admitted to the bar in
that state, and his grandmother a
well-known preacher. At college he
was singled out for his willingness
to fight others’ battles, and for his
outspoken disregard of the ‘“‘joe-
college” attitude. Graduated at the
head of his class he went on to law
school where again he won all top
honors.
With bar exams out of the way
he settled down to practice with
his father, but America’s declara-
tion of war abruptly ended his first
law attempts, and he promptly en-
listed, seeing action overseas.
Little time elapsed after the Arm-
istice before Willkie had become a
leading figure in legal circles in|
Ohio. Among his clients were sev-
eral utilities companies, and he was
soon known as an outstanding au-
thority on matters pertaining to the
creation and sale of electric power.
This led in 1933 to the presidency of
the Commonwealth and Southern
Corporation whose deficit of $1,600,-
000 he converted into a profit of
$10,000,000 in the short course of
three years. During all the years of
depression, instead of letting men
go, he increased the sales force, and
doubled the use of electricity in
rural communities by cutting the
rate in half.”
Though a utilities executive him-
self, Willkie has long advocated the
regulation of holding companies,
originally supported President Roos-
evelt on that score. That regula-
tion, he believes, has gone too far.
“Today,” he says, “the abuses which
corrupted the 1920’s seem to have
been transferred from Wall Street
to Washington.
Business we have to fear. It is Big
Government.”
Shrewd Republican scouts who
have watched Willkie’s work are
convinced that he would be an able
campaigner, and that if the Na-
tional Convention came to a dead-
for the nomination.
Foxburg in Clarion County claims | Rosser, members of the faculty, and |
HIS CAMP GROWING
WENDELL L. WILLKIE
Healey To Speak
Before Grangers
Pomona Grange To Meet
With Jackson Saturday
William B. Healey,
Luzerne County prison, will speak
{at the joint session of Pomona
i Grange No. 44 and Jackson Grange
warden of
on Saturday.
The morning session will begin at
10:30 and will include business and
the annual Memorial service. Din-
ner will be served at noon by the
Jackson Grange and the afternoon
session will begin at 2.
Frank Anderson, physical educa-
tion director at the Wilkes-Barre
Y. M. C. A., will speak on his recent
trip through Germany. Lehman High
school band will play and a quartet
will sing. The public is invited.
Dallas Township Seniors
Ready For Capitol Trip
The following members of the
| Senior class of the Dallas Township
| high school will leave for Washing-
| ton on Monday morning: Marilynn
| Colvin, Jane Case, Mildred Sanford,
It is no longer Big | Pauline Kozemchak, Ruth Ross, Ida
| Schoonover, Elva Knecht, Julia
| Matukitis, Wilma Estock, Irene
| Breza, Jeanne Miller, Ruth Kunkle,
| Martha Kunkle, Ruth Yeust, Marion
Hildebrant, Betty Race, Geraldine
| Howell, William Snyder, Kenneth
| Brace, Burton Bonell, William Ro-
_ lock, he would be an excellent bet | berts, John Borton, Arthur Garinger,
| Harold Hess, Edward Wallace.
The party will be chaperoned by
Miss Mary Jackson and John PF.
the oldest golf course in the United will be registered at the New Colon-
States.
) ial Hotel.
106 Main Street
XS
Luzerne
charge of the affair, was assisted by
Avis Wesley, Bethia Allen, Ruth
Richards, Pauline Davis, Virginia
Allen, Catherine Wyant and Mary
Garrity.
Calvin McHose was toastmaster.
Mrs. Charlotte Payne and Miss Mary
Alice Payne entertained with vocal
selections and Roannah Shoemaker
and Virginia Allen offered a piano
duet. Harold Payne, president of
the Alumni Association, invited the
graduating class
and Richard Williams, president of
the Seniors, responded. Prof. Wal-
ter E. Roberts, supervising princi-
pal, spoke.
Velma Whitesell represented the
Class of 1916, the first graduating
! class at Laketon high school. George
Smith, Jr., a game warden at Mt.
Union, came the longest distance
to be present. After the dinner
there was dancing.
The following attended: Frank
Dennis, Avis Wesley, Dean Kocher,
Mary Alice Payne, Tom Rowland,
Jeanne Williams, James Wyant, El-
sie Aicher, Virginia Allen, Kather-
ine Wyant, Eleanore Whitesell,
Wrighter Benscoter, Fred Swanson,
Charlotte Payne, Harold Payne,
Madge McHose, Calvin McHose, Mr.
and Mrs. William Richards, Velma
Whitesell, Viola Boothe, Leona
Oberst, Jean Ballantine, Peggy Da-
vis, Florence Hausch, Genevieve
Wolfe, Cecelia Kupstas, Bethia Al-
len, Hilda Allen, Wally Leinthall,
Mary Garrity, S. Franklin Leinthall,
Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Roberts,
Ruth Rogers, Dick Williams, George
B. Smith, Jr., Mildred Devens, Mr.
and Mrs. Kline, Elsie Garinger, Joe
Rauch, William Watlock, Jim Payne,
Joe Garrity, Louise C. Miller, Mar-
garet M. Dunn, Otis Allen, Jr., Ethel
Harris, Charles Kern, Roannah Shoe-
maker, Kenneth Davis, Eugene Gor-
don, Leo Johnson, Marion McNeil,
Florence Melusky, June Oney, Eliz-
abeth Sorber, Josephine Hummel,
Olga Brin, Faith Kocher, Isem Pen-
nington, Kay Parkinson, George
Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Armi-
tage, Adirene and Edgar Nulton.
No ‘Fifth Column’
To impress the danger of un-
Americanism upon its subscribers,
the Reading Eagle-Times began elim-
inating its fifth column on Monday,
filled with news.
Noxen's Population Up
The population of Noxen has in-
creased a little more than 100 in
the last 10 years. The population
in 1930 was 1,032. Today it is
1,150, according to the 1940 U, S.
Census.
Lake Wallenpaupeck, near Haw-
ley in Wayne County, is the largest
artificial lake wholly within the
state, covering 5,760 acres. It was
created in 1926 by the damning
of Wallenpaupack Creek for hy-
! draulic power.
into membership |
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|
Hazel Baer
Dallas
Althea Dymond
Trucksville
Ethel Maltman
Dallas
Alberta Howell
Dallas
Grandfather Was
Pioneer At Lake
| Joseph Worthington, 79,
| Laid To Rest Tuesday
Descendant of one of Harvey's
| Lake’s first families, Joseph Worth-
| ington, who died last Saturday af-
| ternoon at the age of 79, was laid
{to rest in Idetown Cemetery on
| Tuesday afternoon, following funeral
services attended by a large crowd
| of sorrowing friends.
| His grandfather, Joseph, settled
(in the lake section in 1806. Mr.
{ Worthington was prominent in civic
| and church affairs. An active mem-
{ber of Idetown Methodist Church,
the served as superintendent of the
| Sunday school and was on the of-
| ficial board of the church for many
years.
i The funeral was held from his
|home at the Lake on Tuesday af-
.ternoon at 2 with services by Rev.
Frank Abbott, pastor of Lehman
| Methodist Church, and Rev. C.
Duane Butler, former pastor of that
| church.
| Surviving are two daughters, Miss
Ruth Worthington at home and Mrs.
‘Eugene Fisk of Dallas; a sister, Mrs.
Edith Ide, Idetown, and two broth-
ers, Louis Worthington, Harvey's
| Lake, and Edward B. Worthington,
Forty Fort.
Alice Hand
Alderson
‘Cease’ Wilson Joins
| With Brother In Business
Walter “Cease” son of
| Mr. and Mrs. William Wilson of
Franklin Street, who has been as-
sociated with Oliver's Garage for
{the past seven and one-half years,
has joined his brother, John, in the
| electrical appliance business in
| Kingston.
Wilson,
| “Cease” will have charge of sales
iin the Back Mountain Region. The
{firm handles a complete line of
{household appliances including re-
~ ; frigerators, washing machines,
| cleaners, etc. John Wilson was for
| many years associated with Lazarus
| Department Store in Wilkes-Barre.
Claudia P. Jones
Drive For New Recruits
Has Quota Of 2600 Men
The drive for new recruits in the
Third Corps Area is progressing in a
satisfactory manner, according, to
officers at the Headquarters. Al-
ready 585 men have enlisted, of the
quota of 2600 expected by July 1st.
Many young men are taking the
opportunity now open to join the
Army, feeling that by coming into
the service at this time they will be
the first to be promoted to higher
and better paying grades in the pro-
gram for expanding the Army.
In discussing the. circumstances
surrounding the joining of the ser-
leaving the other seven columns | vice with many of the new recruits,
in nearly every case they were sur-
prised at the wide number of op-
portunities offered to young men
by the Army now.
For example, one young man was |
astounded to learn that the cavalry
not only needs horsemen, but could
use many specialists, including mo-
tor mechanics, radio mechanics, and
operators, ignition experts, chauf-
feurs, truck drivers, musicians,
clerks and cooks. What is true of
the cavalry in the variety of oppor-
tunity is also true of the other
branches of the service.
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Memorial Day Pictures
“Bingo” Cicero, who recently blos-
somed out as pictorial newshound,
has on exhibition at his place of
business on Main Street, Swoyer-
ville, many clear and interesting
views of the Swoyerville Memorial
Parade. “Bingo”, who is president
of the Swoyerville Mine Workers,
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Sutton Will Preach
| their new venture.
At Noxen On Sunday |
“Bob” Sutton, a Junior at Bap-| Goeringer Buys Guernsey
The American Guernsey Cattle
the Noxen Gospel Tabernacle on | Club of Peterborough, N. H., reports
ithe sale of a registered Guernsey
Sunday night at 7:30. The subject’ cow by V. L. Elliott to C. F. Goer-
will be “Life Can Be Beautiful”. inger of Dallas. The club also re-
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‘ ato | ports the sale of a registered Guern-
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