~ Editorially Speaking:
For All The Lord's Blessings il
uy
by That grand old holiday—Thanksgiving—is going the
way of other cherished ideals and traditions of the American
people. Too, bad. We had grown to like Thanksgiving more
- and more each year—from the first one we remember when
our grandmother’s table looked so beautiful loaded with
bright red home-made jellies,
cranberry sauces, turkey and
fruits—that table that stood in the bay window with a win-
ter sun lighting blue and white milk glass piled high with
raisin-centered sugar cookies, mince pies, buttermilk cheese,
and odd pieces of china, like
hadn’t seen since the Fourth of July.
the Japanese celery boat, we
What a day it was
with its assorted smells of sage, damp bread and spices float-
ing through the house on the warm air from the kitchen.
Small cousins, sisters and brothers—constrained only
by parental admonition—found it difficult to await the re-
turn of uncles hunting over snow-dusted hills for rabbits and
partridges or for the last load of relatives to remove their
hats and fur-collared coats and hang them in the closet that
smelled of guns, horses and rubber boots.
Then greetings
over, hunters, home, aprons off and grandmother putting a
last loving touch to the table, we sat down to eat.
Only old Sunday, the hound, scratching
‘were no stragglers.
There
at the door, complained and grandfather let him in wiggling
from muzzle to stern in anticipation of the feast he'd have
an hour later.
Yes, we liked Thanksgiving. The days between that
day and Christmas always seemed long enough to us—way
too long. We might have seen some sense then to making
them shorter—but longer, never; Thanksgiving to Christmas
-—the beginning and end of a
season. Not just two grand
~ holidays but a whole row of them filled with anticipation,
secrecy, bustle, excitement and delicacies—or the prepara-
tion of delicacies.
You could always count on Thanksgiving. It was steady
‘and constant like home and old friends. You could depend
on it a whole year ahead. It
was fixed right there on the
calendar—a late Thursday in November in the season of
~ full moons, frost, gunning, and occasional snow. There was
never any doubt about Thank
sgiving. Here was a holiday,
unlike Easter, that didn’t wander all over the almanac and
through all sorts of weather from slush and sleet to spring
and daffodils.
* clothes to wear.
There was never any question what kind of
You bundled in warm things snuggly up
to the ears, or took the consequences without complaint. It
‘was the season of pine trees, wood smoke, light falling snows
~—and home.
f Store, postoffice, school, ¢
~ farmhouse, mansion and cabin
ty and State all celebrated the
‘made provision for it.
hurch, college, football classic,
, hamlet and town, city, coun-
occasion on the same date and
There was no conflict, no confusion.
Since the Pilgrim fathers established it, Thanksgiving had
always been the same. Hadn
Plymouth rocks, Indians, and
't we cut out turkeys, and
Pilgrims enough in school to
have that deeply implanted in our minds? That was before
we’d been enlightened by modern histories that Lincoln once
changed the date, or that Washington, Jefferson and ‘Adams
were too lazy to run for a third term. That was before be-
ing productive was sinful and
and upset to be fruitful.
Maybe we're old-fashioned,
blood of economic royalists in
our country had to be divided
tainted with reaction and the
our veins, but if there is any
i taint, it got there in the last eight. years—not from that
farmer grandfather grateful to the Pilgrims for Thanksgiv-
ing and to God for bountiful harvests.
He was proud of his
little pigs grown to hogs, of his cellars piled high with apples.
He tilled stony ground and piled rock on rock to make strong
fences and good neighbors.
That sturdy ' character was
thankful for the opportunity to struggle, barter, trade and
make a profit. He knew how
to live within his income and
«was thankful there was something left to save: A msi iho
prepared for his own rainy days, he would have disowned
a child who suggested that the “good life” or security came
. without sacrifice or that he shouldn’t prepare for his own
. old age. .
Yes, maybe we're tainted with that kind of blood, but
~ we'll celebrate Thanksgiving on the old-fashioned day, thank-
ful not to
r. Roosevelt for plowed under’ crops, slaughtered
pigs, WPA cracked stones, Old-Age security, confusion and
discord, but to God, the Pilgrims and the grandfather, who
knew when and what to be thankful for.
FROM
PILLAR TO POST
It was only yesterday, it seems,
before the world gathered momen-
tum, that little girls collected dolls, skinny boys searched damp spots
along the roads to collect yellow butterflies, and their fathers and a Pres-
ident collected stamps.
cobwebbed barns and dusty attics fo
Only yesterday their mamas, too, poked through
r antiques and old quilts made from
patches grandma collected from striped shirts grandpa had collected.
That was yesterday. What the collecting habit will be tomorrow, no
one knows, but today a young man in Lehman aided by fast moving
science, is collecting voices—frozen
words to release at some future
time like Bird’s Eye peas and Quick
Freeze strawberries with all their
trapped summer flavor.
Carl Brandon drives a Lehman
school bus and helps Ralph Hallock
with his plumbing between runs.
He is the young exponent of the
frozen word. Carl conjured with the
possibilities of frosting hot music
and chilling torrid arguments for
release when there’s a scarcity of
the fresh product-just as the Bird's
Eye people do.
Maybe it was the political cam-~
paign that gave Carl his idea or
then again it might have been the
babble in the back of his school bus.
At any rate he tried it out the
other night at the Lehman Band con-
cert with great success. Almost be-
fore the last note echoed through
the hall, Carl went out back of the
school house and started defrosting
band music on the still night air.
The outfit Carl uses to promote
his hobby is hardly more expensive
than an amateur photographer's
camera. With all shipping charges
and directions thrown in, Carl says,
his voice reproducing outfit cost
him only $89.50.
Mainly it is a scientific contrap-
tion with amplifiers to pick up
sound waves and convey them
through wires, a steel arm and
a jeweled cutting head to a metallic
disc where they are trapped or
“frozen”. The metallic disc revolves
on a moving table in a box resembl-
ing an old-fashioned phonograph.
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Photographed With Duke
Joseph Elicker, { returned from
Nassau, Bahamas} thi k, is
showing interesting™pictures of the
Islands. One of them shows Mr.
Elicker on an inspection tour of
a Nassau hospital with the Duke and
Duchess of Windsor. The Elickers
will open their home on Pioneer
Avenue this week.
Ig o'clock every evening.
Tue Darras Post
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
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Vol. 50
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1940
No. 47
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markings and numerals on all homes in
_ Dallas, Shavertown and Trucksville.
which will train men and women in
national defense measures.
Dallas Borough. x
er highway between Dallas
vey’s Lake before 1942,
tion in the Dallas area.
THE POST WANTS:
Permanent - and legible street
Emphasis locally on activities
The installation of fire plugs in
The construction of a new, short-
and Har-
Centralization of police protec-
More sidewalks.
Dallas Region
Takes To James's
Thanksgiving /_-
Little Conflict Here
Bs Schools And Churches
Plan Bnnual Observance
Yesterday was Thanksgiving Day
for employes of First National Bank,
rural mail carriers and isolated Fed-
eral employes in the Back Mountain
region. Everybody else, in keeping
with Governor James's proclama-
tion will observe next Thursday
as the annual feast day—and Fed-
eral employes, mail carriers and
bankers can join in if they want
another holiday. The schools, being
State institutions, will be closed
next Thursday as will all business
places.
There was little confusion in this
area because of the conflict between
President Roosevelt's November 21st
Thanksgiving and Governor James's
Pennsylvania Thanksgiving on No-
vember 28th, although many pub-
lic officials and politicians through-
out the county took advantage of
the dual holiday to give taxpayers a
“little less for their money” by
keeping their offices closed yester-
day and announcing that they
would “officially” celebrate Thanks-
giving next Thursday.
Postal Service
Most postoffices found themselves
caught in the middle, remaining
open most of the day but without
rural mail carrier service. Next
Thursday most offices will be closed
but rural mail will be delivered.
Joseph Polacky, postmaster, re-
ceived the following instructions
from the United States Post Office
Department:
The President has designated
Thursday, November 21, 1940,
as a day of general Thanks-
giving. That day will be ob-
served by the Postal Service
and compensatory time must be
granted for all service perform-
ed thereon. If November 21 is
not observed locally, necessary
service should be given the pub-
lic on that day and compensa-
tory time therefor should be
granted so far as practicable on
the day which is observed ex-
cept on rural delivery routes.
Compensatory time can be
granted only for service per-
formed on the day designated
by the President's proclama-
> tion. Service over rural deliv-
ety routes should be suspended
November 21. There is no pro-
vision of law under which ru-:
ral carriers may be allowed to
perform service on November
21 and omit service on Novem-
ber 28, because of that day be-
ing observed locally or through-
out the State as Thanksgiving
Day.
Church Services
In many churches throughout the
region there will be services of
Thanksgiving next Thursday morn-
ing with appropriate music.
Football Classic
On the sport card is the annual
football classic between - Kingston
Township High School and Lehman
High School. The game will be
played on Kingston Township
grounds at 10 a. m. Bands of both
schools will play before the game
and during the halves.
Free Draft Certification
As a patriotic service Squire John
Yaple of Dallas Township offers to
certify all selective service ques-
tionnaires without charge. Mr.
Yaple’s office hours are from 6 to
FERDINAND, NOW FRANKLIN II.
IS DOING NICELY THANK YOU
Little Ferdinand, pawn in the
great game of politics when th
owner of the 4-day old pullLcalt,|
Charles Smith of Beaumont paid an
election wager to Cashier W. B.
Jeter of First National Bank, is do-
ing nicely in his new home at Forty
Fort this week.
Christened with a new name,
Franklin the 2nd, he has learned
to drink calf meal mixed with milk
from a bucket and from all indi-
cations is faring well under a
Democratic administration.
When Cashier Jeter received his
unique payment, and protested that
he would just as soon call the bet
off, he had no idea what to do with
the little fellow. Necessity being the
mother of invention, Mr. Jeter load-
ed Ferdinand in the trunk of his
car and took him home with him to
Forty Fort. That wasn’t the most
comfortable start in the world for a
ocrat like Ferdinand, but when
e Jeter family discovered him
there in the back of the car Ferdin-
and thought “the world wasn’t so
bad after all”. It was a lucky thing
for him that Mrs. Jeter owns a farm
on the Forty Fort flats for after
a little while out there in a cold
garage, Ferdinand began to think
about food and when he thought
about food he thought about his
FORCEFUL PREACHER
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Rev. IL Toole, an evangelist of
more than thirty years experience,
who will conduct a series of special
meetings at Trucksville Free Metho-
dist Church starting Sunday even-
ing at 7:30 and continuing every
evening until December 8... Rev. H.
D. Olver is pastor of the Trucksville
Church.
Grocery Stores Will
Stay Closed Wednesdays
Grocery stores of Dallas will con-
tinue to observe Wednesday after-
noon closing periods throughout the
winter months with the exception
of next Wednesday, the day before
Thanksgiving. While some stores in
other lines of business have decided
to remain open Wednesday after-
nocns during the winter, the grocery
store owners and managers met
this week and voted to continue
Wednesday afternoon closings.
Enters Air Service
Valerow Hunt, clerk at Shaver-
town postoffice, enlisted in the
Army Air Service this week.
Two Volunteers
Accepted For
Army Service
Wyoming And Exeter
Youths Will Go First
Rinzo John Ducceschi, 20, 739
Kaufman street, Exeter and James
Lewis Nichols, 30, Ninth street,
Wyoming are the first of 12 to vol-
unteer rather than wait to be draft-
ed under the Selective Service Act
in the district under jurisdiction of
Local Board No. 1, which embraces
Dallas, Kingston Township, Wyom-
ing and Exeter. If they pass rigid
physical examimations of the
Board's examiner, Dr. G. L. Howell
of Trucksville, they will report at
the induction center, Wilkes-Barre
on November 27.
Ten other volunteers in the district
must wait to be called in the order
in which they volunteered. Draft
Board No. 1. has been asked by the
War Department to furnish two men |. . .
by November 27 but the willingness
of many volunteers will make it un-
necessary for the board to draft
any one. Nor is it likely, in the
opinion of Board members, that any
one will be drafted at the time of
the second call.
An informal program and send
off will be held at Wyoming next
Wednesday, the day when, the two
young volunteers leave for the in-
duction center. Burgess John Masel,
Draft Board Members and friends
will take part and an honor escort
of State Police will accompany the
young men to the induction center.
Including college and absentee
registrations a total of 3945 men are
now enrolled with the board. Ques-
tionaires have been mailed to two
hundred men in the district. Of this
number about one-half have been
placed in class 1 having no depen-
dents or occupational exemptions.
Back Mountain League Refuses
To Admit Shickshinny Schools
Inability Of Lower End Team To Play
Friday Nights Bars Welcome Entry
Application of Shickshinny High School for admission to Back Moun-
tain Basketball League was rejected by League principals and coaches at
an organization meeting Tuesday night in Kingston Township High School.
At the same time the League's 1941 schedule was cut from sixteen to
eight games when a compromise 12-game schedule was deemed infeasible.
‘Rejection of the Shickshinny application, at first received with favor,
came when it was learned that lower end school could not play on Tues-
day and Friday nights because Coach Charles Blackburn had previously
signed a contract to officiate at oth-
er games on those nights. C. E, Mill-
er, supervising principal, also said
that it was unlikely Shickshinny
could develop a girls’ team in time
to participate in League games.
Since the League has by-laws de-
nying admission to new teams that
cannot play on Tuesday and Friday
nights and have no girls’ team it
was considered advisable to reject
the Shickshinny application. Inde-
pendent games will, however, be
played with the lower end school.
In cutting the schedule to eight
games both coaches and principals
agreed that last year’s sixteen-game
schedule was too heavy, but coaches
thought eight not enough. A com-
promise on 12 games was suggest-
ed but was considered impractical
because of conflicts and unbalanced
home and away games. The prin-
cipals chose eight in preference to
the old schedule of sixteen and an
eight-game schedule was adopted
over the objection of some of the
coaches.
The. League season will open on
January 10 and close on March 1.
All games, excepting two, will be
played on Friday nights.
T. A. Williammee, supervising
principal of Dallas Borough schools,
was elected League president, and
Thorwald Lewis, supervising princi-
pal of Dallas Township schools, was
made secretary-treasurer.
Members of the League are Dallas
Borough, Dallas Township, Kingston
Township, Lehman Township and
Lake Township.
Attending the meeting were: Su-
pervising principals, Walter Roberts,
Lake Township; Austin Snyder, Leh-
man Towhship; James Martin,
Kingston Township; T. A. William-
mee, Dallas Borough and Thorwald
Lewis, Dallas Township.
Coaches attending were: Mary
Morgan, Howard Tinsley, Dallas
Borough; Gerald Snyder, Antonio
mother back there on Charlie,
Smith’s farm. And when a calf
wants his mother there is just one |
thing to do—let the world know it.
That is what Ferdinand did.
So the Jeters took Ferdinand to
the farm and the good farmer
taught Ferdinand how to drink
out of a bucket and there he is to-
day growing up to be a big Demo-
crat to cause plenty of trouble one
of these days for the Republican
Jeter family.
Kozemchak, Dallas Township; Wil-
liam Morgan, Eleanor Trethaway,
Lehman; and Elwood Swingle,
Kingston Township.
Please Send Cony Early
Because of the Thanksgiving
holiday next week correspond-
ents and advertisers are urged
to forward their copy to The
Post early in the week so that
the staff can enjoy the tra-
ditional holiday.
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WOUNDED BEAR ESCAPES
WHEN BOB HISLOP’S/GUN
JAMS AFTER FIR
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A rifle that jammed after his
first shot had knocked down a
bear on the opening day of the
season at Mountain Springs,
probably cheated Bob Hislop,
proprietor of Dallas Inn, out of
many good bear steak dinners.
Bob’s companions, Reese Finn
and Harold Blewitt, both got
shots at the bear but apparent-
ly without telling effect. The
wounded animal escaped
through the underbrush and al-
though the hunters followed his
bloody trail for about five miles
they were unable to see him
again.
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Calves Stray Away
From Bulford Farm,
Four calves strayed away from
where one of them was cornered on
Clifford Space’s farm and captured.
The other three, a bull and two
heifers about six months old, es-
caped and continued on their way
over the hills toward Sterling Ma-
chell’s farm. Any one coming across
one, two or three hungry red and
white calves is urged to get in
touch with Mr. Bulford. His tele-
phone number is Dallas 288-R-16.
Welfare Drive Has
Successful Climax
This year’s quotas were exceeded
by Dallas Borough and Lake Town-
ship in the Community Welfare
Drive which closed last night, and
the quotas of all previous years
were exceeded by the other four
communities in the district under
the direction of Mrs. C. Hayden
Phillips. Success of the campaign
and a generous and gracious re-
sponse on the part of all who were
solicited.
was attributed to diligent workers:
IN SERVICE
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Sergeant Wayne Harvey
son of Mrs. Frank Harvey of
Cemetery Street, who is stationed
at Chanute Field, Rentoul, Illinois,
where he is taking a three months
training course in aviation.
Wisnewski Sends
$50 Contribution
To Fire Company
Firemen's Efforts Win
Reward As Membership
Drive Gets Under Way
A $50 check, given in apprecia-
tion for its efficient work in fight-
ing a stubborn blaze on the Wis-
newski farm at DeMunds several
weeks ago, will be presented to Dr.
Henry M. Laing Fire Company at its
meeting tonight by James Besecker,
secretary, who received the contri-
bution early this week.
The letter which accompanied the
check is as follows: ‘Enclosed here-
with find check for $50 in apprecia-
tion of the wonderful work done by
the firemen at the fire on the Wis-
newski Farm on the Demunds Road.
Thanking you again for your fine
cooperation, we are yours truly, F.
W. Baking Company, Frank Wis-
newski.” : Sof.
The fire to which Mr. Wisnewski
farm and several large flocks of
of the firemen the flames were pre-
vented from spreading to larger and
more valuable nearby buildings.
“Pleased with ' Mr. Wisnewski’s
generosity, Mr. Besecker said the
gift is especially timely since the
company is now in the midst of its
annual solicitation and membership
drive. Members of these commit-
tees will report tonight, and from
all indications they have met with
an enthusiastic and unprecedented
response throughout the community.
men of the community and civic
leaders met with Dr. F. B. Schooley,
chairman of the building committee,
in the offices of James R. Oliver’s
garage to discuss proposals for land
in Dallas Borough. Among the prop-
erties offered for sale to the com-
pany for building purposes are sev-
eral attractive lots on Lake Street,
another on Main Street, and two
others in central and convenient
locations. :
Dr. Schooley reported that the
community has been generous in
its approval of the proposed build-
ing and that tangible results will be
forthcoming shortly. ;
refers destroyed turkey pens on his
turkeys. Largely through the efforts:
Last night representative business’
Record Number
Of Bears Shot
In Mountains
Lebanon Man Dies Of
Heart Attack Huntin
On North Mountain/
Scores of hunters from the Dallas
region augmented by at least a
thousand others from throughout
Pennsylvania scoured the rugged
timberland of the North and South
mountain area for bears during the
four-day big game hunting season
which opened Monday and closed
yesterday.
The kill was larger than in years
with 25 bears known to have been
shot during the first two days.
There were no reports of fatal acci-
dents, but one man, Isaac Bach-
man, 45, Lebanon steel worker,
dropped dead from a heart attack
while hunting on North Mountain
about 10:30 Monday morning.
There were numerous reports of
game law violations. John Slapikas,
of Wanamie killed a cub less than
a year old in the Benton area and
reported to Game Protector Edward
Carpenter with a fine of $25 and
had the carcass confiscated. Joseph
Urenovitch of Freeland and Joseph
Wansock of Berwick were fined $10
each for having loaded weapons in
their automobiles during a check-up
made by Game Protectors Mark
Hagenbuch and Clarence L. Drumm.
There were unconfirmed reports of
poaching on the North Mountain
Game Preserve and in two instances
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Dallas Region
May Yet Furnish
Rirport Site
Army Engineers Seek
Good Elevation And
s-
Absence Of Cross Winds
Q Army Air Corps engineers seek-
ing a location for a purely military
jairport in the vicinity of Wilkes-
Barre and Scranton are giving con-
sideration to the Dallas area it was
learned on reliable authority this
{ week.
Factors which have eliminated
Wilkes-Barre-Wyoming Valley and
Scranton airports’ from considera-
tion and may make the proposed
Pittston location undesirable are be-
lieved not to exist’ in the Dallas
region. ; i
The Army engineers are not con-
cerned with commercial air traffic
but are primarily interested in a lo-
cation away from flood hazards,
with high elevation and absence of
undesirable cross winds.
Presence of strategic highways of
military importance in this rural
area has given added impetus to the
belief that army engineers will not
make a final decision until available
locations near Dallas are given a
thorough survey.
Establishment of a military air-
port in Northeastern Pennsylvania
is a part of the million dollar de-
fense appropriation recently passed
by Congress. While nothing of a
political nature is supposed to in-
fluence location of ‘the port, it is
believed by many local citizens that
the desirability of the Dallas area
as a site for the:airport should be
called to the attention of the prop-
er authorities in the War Depart-
ment in Washington. Such a move,
they believe, would be a patriotic
duty and offset some of the political
pressure being exerted for the Pitts-
ton location.
A 367-pound bear, the first he had
ever seen in the woods alive, was
shot Tuesday morning at Cider Run
on Stack Mountain above Dinstel’s,
by Harry Rudolph of Conyngham.
Rudolph, 23, was accompanied by
Delmar Winterstein of Reynolds
street, Kingston. When the hunters
came across the bear, Rudolph let
the big animal have a shot from his
32 Special Winchester. As the bear
reared on his hind feet Rudolph let
him have the coup de grace with
three more.
With the excitement of the kill
behind them, the two young men
faced the problem of getting 367-
pounds of bear out of the woods with
no roads and ‘several miles between
them and their parked car. Rolling
the carcass over and over through
the underbrush and down hillsides
they finally reached the Bowman's
Creek Branch of the Lehigh Valley
SIX BEARS SHOT FIRST DAY
IN WOODS NEAR
CIDER RUN
Railroad. About that time or shor
after a light vehicle came puttering
around a curve on the tracks. It
was a home made section car pro-
pelled by a gasoline motor taken
from an old washing machine and
used by natives of that forested
and roadless region for transporta-
tion on the Lehigh Valley's right of
way.
With the help of the operator,
the bear was loaded aboard and
taken to Dinstel’s where it was
transferred to the hunters’ automo-
bile. Tuesday night when the bear
was weighed on Harvey's Lake
Butcher, Herman Garringer’s scales
tipping the beam at exactly 367-
pounds young Rudolph was one of
the happiest men in Pennsylvania.
Game wardens. reported six other
bears shot in the vicinity of Cider
Run on the opening day of the four
day big game season.