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THE POST, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1940
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Interest Is Keen
In Wagner's Bid
For State Office
Former Dallas Burgess
Is Democratic Nominee
For Important Post
Although most local voters have
such little interest in this year’s
State elections that they scarcely
remember the names of the candi-
dates, they will watch with unusual
keenness the campaign of G. Harold
Wagner, a former Burgess of Dallas
who is seeking election as State
Treasurer.
Mr. Wagner, who was once editor
of The Post, was a potent figure in
local affairs 10 years ago and play-
ed an important part in strengthen-
ing the Republican Party here. Soon
after Mr. Roosevelt's election, Mr.
Wagner was converted to the Dem-|. - -
ocratic Party, reversing Mr. Willkie’s
change of convictions, and is now
that party’s candidate for the im-
portant office of State Treasurer.
A specialist in State and munic-
ipal financing through training and
experience for more than 20 years,
Mr. Wagner would take to the of-
fice of State Treasurer a wealth of
knowledge of the Commonwealth's
business.
A tax specialist, a consultant up-
on corporate and governmental fi-
nancing, an organizer of ability and
a former business man, Mr. Wagner
has acquired a fine reputation
throughout the State. As the super-
vising inheritance tax officer in the
Department of the Auditor General
since 1937 his services have been
in great demand in many counties
where, under his direction and su-
pervision, new methods have been
established for the assessment and
collection of inheritance taxes to
give not only better service to the
public, but to yield greater income
to the State.
Through his experience, Mr. Wag-
ner is well qualified to handle the
great sums of money that are re-
ceived and disbursed by the State
Treasurer each year, as well as the
guardianship of some $300,000,000
worth of securities owned by the
State and its various boards and
commissions.
Fought With U. S. Navy
A descendant of thrifty Pennsyl-
vania Dutch ancestors, Mr. Wagner
has always made his own way
through hard work. Born July 19,
1900, in Drifton, he is the son of
the late George Wagner and Sallie
Kitchen Wagner.
Wagner was educated in the city
schools of Wilkes-Barre, the Mining
and Mechanical Institute at Free-
land and the Wilkes-Barre Business
College.
Following his graduation from
business college in 1917 he was em-
ployed as Assistant City Ticket
Agent for the Lehigh Valley Railroad
and Secretary to the Valuation En-
gineer of the Delaware and Hudson
Railroad, which position he resigned
to join the United States Navy at
Newport, R. I., for participation in
the World War. He was assigned to
the Naval Mine Depot at Yorktown,
Va., as a second class seaman, and
three months later was promoted
to first class petty officer. He was
honorably discharged in April, 1919.
His father died in 1920 while in
office as Clerk of Courts, and, upon
recommendation of her cousin, A.
Mitchell Palmer, who was at that
time Attorney General of the United
States, his mother was appointed to
fill the vacancy. Mrs. Wagner was
the first woman in Pennsylvania
to hold public office following the
ratification of the Nineteenth
Amendment in August, 1920.
Wagner engaged in the insurance
business and became associated in
the organization of The Post, of
which he was for a time editor and
business manager. A great deal of
his time was devoted toward the
operation of a special tax service,
wherein municipalities and others
were advised regarding State, coun-
ty and inheritance taxes. He also
served as burgess of Dallas.
In 1927, he was named chief of
the inheritance tax department in
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Play-off With Fairdale
At Noxen Tomorrow
The fourth of the five “play-off”
games between Noxen and Fairdale
of Wyoming-Susquehanna League
will be played at Noxen tomorrow
(Saturday) afternoon. The game
was washed out by rain last Satur-
day. Noxen has won two games and
Fairdale one.
Luzerne county, and in 1930, while
specializing in the appraisal of real
estate, he was named as county
property assessor. In 1931, he was
appointed special auditor of county
offices by the late Controller Leon-
ard D. Morgan. With the reorgan-
ization of the inheritance tax divi-
sion in the Auditor General's De-
partment, Mr. Wagner was called
upon by Auditor General Roberts
to train appraisers.
Mr. Wagner is married, father of
four children, a member of the Pres-
byterian Church, is a past Noble
Grand of the I. O. O. F., a member
of the Loyal Order of Moose, was
active in American Legion affairs,
and for two years was president of
the Dallas Rotary Club.
Due to industrial research, phono-
graph records can now be played by
photo-electric light.
There are twice as many motor
vehicles in the United States as in
the entire rest of the world.
New] Dallas Road
Part Of System
ToHelp Defense
Invasion Would Demand
System Such As Hitler
boulevard
's answer to
Adolf Hitler's e, intersectionless,
straight Reichsautobahnen, which
Germany built so it could hurl its
mechanized forces at high speeds to
the points where they might be
needed most.
A lot of attention has been given
to the new local road because of its
significance as a social and eco-
nomic factor, likely to cause great
changes in the devélopment of this
area, but not so much has been said
about its importance in the military
sense.
Actually, it is a part of the be-
ginning of an unprecedented pro-
gram of new highway construction to
improve roads vital to hemisphere
defense.
Road-building was one of the first
projects Hitler launched when he
rose to power in 1933. By the time
war began he had about 2,000 miles
of superhighways, and since then
the network has been increased by
1,500 miles.
Over these roads 70,000 motorized
troops can pass a given point in an
hour (compared with about 3,000
on average American highways).
Dallas’s
is part of
new $750, 0
Highways For War
The United States has more roads
and automobiles than any other na-
tion, but it has only one highway
which equals the German system,
the new $70,000,000 Pennsylvania
Turnpike between Pittsburgh and
Middlesex, near Harrisburg, which
will be opened this Fall.
The Public Roads Administration
is now conducting a survey of the
78,000 miles of highway (out of our
total of 3,065,000 miles) that are
considered of strategic importance.
Already it has been discovered that
12 per cent of the bridges on this
strategic road system—an average
of one every 35 miles—are incapable
of carrying loads of 30,000 pounds—
the weight of a medium tank.
Congress has approved plans to
spend 0$327,000,000 on highways
during the next fiscal year. In addi-
tion, the WPA will construct traffic
feeders to military and naval reser-
vations, widen shoulders of main
highways and improve secondary
routes.
Because of its already extensive
system of highways, the United
States will not need to spend as | section of the town.
CANVAS CITY FOR MOBILIZED NATIONAL GUARD
An aerial view of the tent city at Camp Dix, N. J., where some
9,200 National Guardsmen will be housed until construction of wooden
barracks is complete. A total of 852 buildings, to handle at least 20,000
men, are being built. 60,500 guardmen have just been mobilized for
federal duty as the opening move to put 1,000,000 men under arms by
January 1.
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31 Reasons For Joy
On Golden Wedding
Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Boice of
Sugar Hollow had 31 reasons for
happiness when they celebrated
their 50th wedding anniversary last
Thursday.
The reasons are ten children, 20
grandchildren and one great-grand-
child.
Mr. Boice is a native of Kunkle
and Mrs. Boice was a resident of
Noxen. They were married in Beau-
mont by Justice of the Peace Wil-
liam Frear. Twenty-five years later
they moved to Noxen and 16 years
ago they moved to Sugar Hollow.
Their children are Charles of Sug-
ar Hollow; Ralph, who died 20 years
ago; Jesse, Dallas; Mrs. Anna Pat-
ton, Noxen; Howard, Dallas; Wil-
liam, Mehoopany; Elmer, Noxen;
Mrs. Mary Kester, Brookside; Solo-
mon, Sugar Hollow; Mrs. Ruth Zeng-
er, Eatonville, and Harry, Sugar
Hollow.
much money as Germany did in con-
structing its system of super-high-
ways. The imperative need in this
country is to widen and dekink ex-
isting highways and to provide by-
passes around towns.
Those are the principles which
are being embodied now in the con-
struction of the new boulevard
through Dallas, skirting the main
.
Beginning
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Dallas Firemen To Hear
Committee Reports
Special committee reports will be
given tonight at the regular meet-
ing of Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Com-
pany of Dallas, James F. Besecker,
secretary, announced.
Mars Likes Sons!
There 1s an old legend that in
time of war few daughters are born,
because Mars needs boys who will
grow into soldiers. In the first
three weeks of this month, 301 boys
were born in Luzerne County, 31
girls.
THREE LOCAL FOOTBALL TEAMS
FACE OPPONENTS ON SUNDAY
Lehman and Kingston Township will open their 1940 football season
Saturday afternoon and Dallas Township, which dropped its opener last
week, will meet its second opponent.
Lehman will entertain the fast Shickshinny eleven, last year’s county
league champions. Coach Walter Hicks’ K. T. H. S. eleven will go to Clark’s
SSummit,
Dallas Township will have a tough
struggle at Edwardsville. Last week
the township lost a hard-fought
game to Jenkins’ Township, 7 to 0.
The Dallas boys made a good
showing, considering some of the
handicaps the team has encounter-
ed, and on several occasions they
pushed the ball to within a few
yards of a touchdown.
Both Jenkins and the local high
school had bands at the game to
add to the color and the Dallas
Township musicians, resplendent in
their new uniforms, made an es-
pecially pleasing appearance.
Dallas Township Club
To Meet Next Tuesday
The Townsend Club, No. 1, of
Dallas, will meet next Tuesday
night at 8 in the I. O. O. F. hall at
Dallas. Mr. Gruver of Scranton will
show pictures and explain the pur-
poses of the Townsend Plan.
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NEW CENSUS FIGURES
GIVE POPULATION OF
U. S. AS 131,409,881
he
The population of the United
States was 131,409,881 on April
1, 1940—a gain of 8,634,835 in
10 years—Census figures show-
ed this week.
The Census Bureau computed
the increase at seven per cent
‘and termed it the smallest of
any decade in American his-
tory.
The gain was less than half
the ratio in any previous de-
cade, and was attributed to a
declining birth rate and a vir-
tual stoppage of immigration
during the last 10 years.
From 1910 to 1920 the na-
tional gain was 14.9 per cent
and from 1920 to 1930 it was
16.1 per cent.
The gain from 1930 to 1940
in the seven towns which com-
prise the Dallas area was about
28 per cent, far above the na-
tional ratio.
Bazaar Next Tuesday
The Ladies’ Aid Society of East
Dallas Methodist Church will spon-
sor its annual bazaar and chicken
supper next Tuesday night. Serv-
ing will begin at 5:30.
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