Editorially Speaking: Is Guity Back Of This ? “To look up and not down To look forward and not back To look out and not in To lend a hand”. —Edward Everett Hale The above words still hold true and should be the motto of every progressive citizen in these troublesome times. But it seems our present Legislative body at Harrisburg has once again started the ‘looking back process”, in an attempt to investigate the Agricultural Extension Service of the Penn- sylvania State College. In our observations, over a long period of time, we don’t know of any semi-official agency that has achieved so much good for the advancement of the general public and still remained outside the ‘pale of political influence as the Agri- cultural Extension Service. The Agricultural Extension Service, as administered by the Pennsylvania State College, has as its sole purpose, ed- ucation, and so it has remained as an educational organiza- tion despite the many thwarted attempts to make it a reg- ulatory agency or a political footstool for selfish individuals. Each year, through its program of education, one is able to sense the sight and feel of the changes of practices in our agriculture through the influence of the Extension Service. Times are changing, methods are changing and so must Agriculture. The old time methods are gradually being elim- inated and the service that is keeping our agriculture abreast of the times is our own Luzerne County Agricultural Ex- tension Service, bringing the ment Station to our farmers. So, just. a word to the wise. latest methods of the Experi- It would be well for our Legislators ‘‘to look up and not down’’ for despite their many efforts, it will avail them nothing to attempt to in- ject politics into a respected and wide-awake Educational System such as the Agricultural Extension Service. If our observations of the conduct of the Extension Ser- vice are correct, it will breast no fear of the investigation. “The honest man is not afraid of his past”. But it does seem trivial and non-enterprising to investigate a worth while organization, that is achieving results with a mini- mum expense. There are bigger and better things to be done in this State. New Dallas-Harvey's Lake Highway Construction Assured This Summer Five-Mile Link Will Complete (* This Area's Greatest Road Program Bids for the new Dallas-Harvey’s Lake Highway will be opened at Harrishurg next Friday, April 18, in one of the largest single day letting of contracts in the history of the State Highway Department. Scheduled bridge and highway improvements will cost an estimated $2,300,000 and include the improvement of 37 miles of highway on twelve different jobs in various parts of the State. All but two of the jobs will be paid for entirely out of motor funds as part of the Depart- ment’s financed construction activities for the coming year. It is expected that contracts on the Dallas-Harvey’s Lake highway will be let quickly and that con- struction will start about June 1 or shortly thereafter. The new road will be approximately five miles long and will extend from the center of Dallas where it joins the partially completed Fernbrook-Dallas super- highway at Kuehn’s Drug store. From that point it roughly follows in the direction of the old traction company right of way having at its other terminus a point just north of the Sunset bridge at Harvey's Lake. The route from Idetown to Harvey’s Lake follows none of the old highway roadbeds, and except for short stretches where it follows the old traction company roadbed from Dallas to Idetown, will be com- pletely relocated, doing away with all curves of any consequence. The pave will have three lanes, ranging from 33 to 37 feet at the curves. There will be five bridges of various sizes. The route has been surveyed to provide a minimum of waste in excavation and construc- tion and the cost is not expected to be as heavy as that of other con- struction jobs completed or nearing completion in this area. Construction of the lake highway and completion of the Trucksville- Fernbrook and Kunkle-Beaumont links early this summer will give this suburban area one of the finest networks of modern highways in the State. Work on the Trucksville-Fern brock highway has* continued throughout the winter months with construction of retaining walls, bridges, excavation and grading al- most completed so that paving can start shortly. The same is true of the Kunkle-Beaumont section where quicksand was encountered late last summer and fall, making consider- able work necessary during the win- ter months while ground was hard enough to permit heavy machinery to move over difficult terrain. Atty. Peter Jurchak Is In The Hospital Friends of Atty. Peter P. Jurchak of Goss Manor will be pleased to know that he is resting comfortably after undergoing an emergency ap- pendectomy at Wilkes-Barre Gen- eral Hospital Sunday at mid-night. School Board Opens Sealed Bids Tonight Bids for 185 items of supplies and equipment as well as for coal will be opened tonight at the April meet- ing of Dallas School Board. It is also likely that the tentative budget will be adopted subject to final re- vision in May. “North Carolina” was commissioned at the! Brooklyn Navy Yard Wednesday. Many jce- lebrities were present. This ig the vessel on which Andrew Kozemchak will serve. > From Pillar To Post Joe MacVeigh dropped into our easy chair the other night on his return from Washington. Pipe in hand and full of stories, Joe told us about all of the excitement in the war-time capital and about his drive in a taxi around the tidal basin where the cherry blossoms are bursting in their buds to bloom for Easter visitors and the convening sisters of the D. A. R. We question- ed Joe why Mrs. MacVeigh hadn't accompanied him. It was then he explained about “Sandy”, his Scotch terrier—whose mother Joe vouches was Scotch. It seems that “little Sandy” gets homesick when he’s away and lone- some if left behind. When the Mac- Veighs went south for several weeks he stuck up his nose at his doggie dinner and almost wasted to ribs, eyes and tail. Since then the Mac- Veighs have travelled alone one or the other staying home with “Sandy”. We understood that family prob- lem having just made similar con- cessions with the new maid so that we could be away for Easter. Peo- ple who haven’t a canine friend in the world have no sympathy or pa- tience for those who have. We can remember when our mother-in-law wouldn't let one get within two acres of her favorite rose bush and unpardonable sin. —next to find ing a bedbug—would have been to find a dog on the Morris chair. Now she sleeps with one and during thunder storms with two. Every man to his own taste when it comes to dogs. Some like hunt- ers, some want pets, some buy them for the kids and some want bed fel- lows. Now Arthur Turner's taste runs to outdoor dogs—setters in particular. Fred Kirkendall wants a small cuddly fellow that will al- ways remain a pup. The soldiers at Indiantown Gap let Gros Adolph sleep on the top sergeant’s bed, and Dickie Oliver runs the risk of ma- ternal disapproval to weedle $10 out of his dad to buy an unpedigreed Boston Bull. Les Warhola likes a stray dog, while Mrs. Bennett search- es the wet hillsides to find her Eng- lish bull. Lillian Kuehn’s favorite companion is ‘“Betty,”. a hound. Bill Corcoran and Mrs. Jean Kuehn pre- fer Kerry Blues. Burgess and Mrs. Smith have a spaniel and Jay Llew- ellyn a Doberman whose spots on a dozen town dogs belie their paren- tages’ The Haucks’ St. Bernard “Dusty” is a favorite caller in a dozen homes—and Tyke is a friend #of mankind but misses the old:police New battleship, “NorthiCarolina’¥ calls with Leonard O’Kane. Breed and style, shape and size have little to do with affection. There’s a universal understanding Tux Darras Post MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION 1. 2. 3. 4. vey’s 5. Vol. 51 FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1941 6. No. 15 markings and numerals on all homes in Dallas, Shavertown, and Trucksville. which will train men and women in national defense measures. Dallas Borough. er highway between Dallas and Har- 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- Lake before 1942. Centralization of police protec- More sidewalks. Lehman Citizens Will Landscape School Groun -. Wil-B€ Supervised By College Expert improvement program public-spirit- ed citizens of Lehman Township will hold a Community Planting Day Tuesday morning, April 20, when they will landscape and beautify their new high school building with shrubbery. The work will be under the direc- tion of James Hutchison of Luzerne County Agricultural Extension As- sociation with the assistance of O. A. Rasmussen of Pennsylvania State College. The ground will be pre- pared by boys in the Agricultural department of Lehman schools. About 25 citizens are expected to help with the plantings so that they can be completed in one morn- ing. Orders for the shrubbery have been placed with. Huntsville Nursery by the school board. To be planted are: 2 upright yews; 4 American Arbor Vita; 2 cork bushes; 6 fragrant honeysuckle; 16 red Morrow honeysuckle; 18 Jap- anese barberry; 10. Jet Bead; 12 Rigel’s privet; 2 white tartarian honeysuckle; 6 yellow fruited Mor- row honeysuckle; 2 beauty bushes; 1 alternate dogwood; 5 Redosier dog- wood; 1 Panicled dogwood; 9 Mugho | pine; 8 Boston ivy and 5 pin oak trees. Gritfin Family Awarded $4,200 Father Killed In Fire Escape Fall Compensation amounting to $4,200 has been awarded to the wife and three children of the late Eugene A. Griffin of Pioneer avenue, Dallas, a former representative of Segram’s Distilling Corporation, who was killed last summer in a fall from the fire escape of Hotel Casey at Scranton. The award, one of the largest granted in this area in some time, comes as the result of a decision handed down Wednesday by Joseph P. Olexy, referee for the State Work- man’s Compensation Board. Payments will, be spread over a period of 300 weeks and are to be shared by Mrs. Griffin and her three children. To Virginia Ann Griffin, 16, compensation payments amount- ing to $18 a week, or a total of $745.71 are due from July 15, 1940 to May 15, 1941, the day she at- tains an age of 16. To Barbara Jane Griffin, 15, pay- ments amounting to $16 a week, or a total of $1,337.14 are due from May 15, 1941 to December 7, 1942, the day she attains an age of 16. To James Griffin, 13, payments amounting to $13.50 a week, or a total of $1,299.86, are due from December 1, 1942 to October 11, 1944, the day he attains an age of 16. To Mary L. Griffin, payments amounting to $11 per week, or a total of $865.86 from October 11, 1944 to April 15, 1946, the expira- tion of the widow claimant’s 300- week period. The compensation award also in- cludes 6% interest on deferred pay- ments and $200 for Mr. Griffin's funeral expenses. Kiwanis Show Has Many Stars Rapid patter, novelty numbers in profusion, and outstanding vocal- ists combined with a big chorus of forty-five voices will make this year’s Kiwanis Minstrel the great- est show in years when it opens for a two-night performance next Thursday at Kingston Township High School. The show, which recalls the old- time minstrelsy of Primrose & West, is under the direction of that vet- eran manager, David Joseph of Dal- las, who is now completing his fif- teenth production. Among the solists are Eddie Vaugh Davis, tenor of many Bach Festivals, Isabel Santiago, operatic singer, Sam Davis and Arthur Ev- ans. Ends will be Lee Partington, Graf Patton, John Miles, Herman Kern, Bernice Lundy and Eva Ray, all known for their ability to pro- voke mirth and merriment. Specialty numbers will be by those stellar performers, Jack Titus, Harvey and James Johns, John Ger- lock, David Blight, James Colvin, Doris Kuhl and John Davis. Jack Hislop’s renowned -Minstrel band will furnish music. Proceeds from the show will be devoted to Kiwanis’ many charitable activities among under-privileged children in (Continued on Page 8) the area. As a part of their community Nazi Blitz Tanks In Yugoslav Dr 2 ive According to the official German caption, this picture, flashed by radio from Berlin to New York, shows German tanks advancing into Yugoslavia. theatre of war. This is one of the first action photos to come from the Balkan United States Health Surgeon Finds Germans "Thin and Pale” C. A. Frantz Greets Dr. H. A. Spencer At Pier On His Return From Europe A behind-the-scenes picture of civilian life’ in Germany, with a population palid and languid from an enfeebling diet, was given to C. A. Frantz and his daughter Mrs. Harold Titman, Tuesday night when they welcomed Dr. Herbert A. Spen- cer, of the United States Public Health Service on his return to New York aboard the American Export liner Excalibur from an inspection tour of Germany. Dr. and Mrs. Spencer's boat ar- rived at 8 p. m. and Mr. Frantz and Mrs. Titman visited with them in their room at the Hotel Lincoln until 2 a. m. as the doctor recounted his experiences during six years in London, France, Germany and Fin- land. Dr. Spencer is a former Dal- las boy, the son of the late Dr. Calvin A. Spencer. He was educated in the Dallas schools, Wyoming Seminary and University of Penn- .sylvania Medical School. His first wife Adelphine Shaver, who died seven years ago, was a sister of Mrs. Frantz. Before he left for Europe six years ago this June, Dr. Spen- cer spent considerable time with the Frantzs and old friends in Dallas, and he hopes to spend some weeks here this summer. | Dr. Spencer told Mr. Frantz that the people of Germany are deep- ly concerned and fear the at- titude of the United States toward the European conflict. At a press conference with re- porters of the New York newspapers he said the vitamin deficiency among the German people was as apparent as it was among the Al- lied prisoners in the prison or work camps and in some cases even more apparent. “To a medical officer,” Dr. Spen- cer said, “it is a sad thing to see those thin and pale people walking listlessly in the streets of Berlin and in the villages throughout Germany. Know Your Neighbour e | Dr. Sherman S. Schooley Lehman Parents Will Present “Crazy House" Proceeds Will Be Devoted To Band Uniform Fund Lehman Township Parent-Teacher Association is busily preparing its forthcoming production “Crazy House”, a farce-comedy in three ‘acts by Pete Williams. Ta Mrs. Arthur Major is directing this This appearance betrays what | presentation, which will include the you never hear from German offi-|f;llowing large cast: Mrs. Simms, as cials the absolute lack of vitaminSiMys, Aspasia Beldinker, a very mod- in the diet of the masses of the|gm composer; Dorothy Englehart as people. Bee Beldinker, her daughter, who “Of course, the German officers | paints; Polly Lou Cooper as See Bel- and soldiers show no such deficien- | dinker, a darling child; Margaret cy. They are living, apparently, on | Triebler as Laura the maid; Mrs. the vast food stores of conquered |Lloyd Rogers as Grandma Dimity, countries.” Mrs. Beldinker’s mother; Richard Dr. Spencer, who has been abroad Parks as Aay Beldinker, a young five years, is a specialist in epidemic physical culturist; Clyde Cooper as control and as such was one of two;Jonathan Q. Pypuss, a salesman; physicians sent to Finland at the |Allan Major as Dick Charles, study- request of the Finnish Red Cross |ing to be an undertaker; Mrs. Don- at the time of the Russian invasion. ald Dodson as Suzy Kloppenhauer, a He was sent into Germany to in- (Continued on Page 8) spect prison camps and to report to 2 This Doctor Has A General's Name His Encestors Came To Americain 1630 It would take a good man to fill Doc. Schooley’s shoes! That state- ment can be taken figuratively and literally for when Doctor Sherman R. Schooley of Shavertown walks into a shoe store he doesn’t specify color, size or shape. He takes the first pair he can get his feet into, ‘and is delighted that he doesn’t have to bother to visit another store. He has learned by experience that variety in his size is limited. “Sherm” is a big man physically, about 6 feet 2 inches ... and a big man professionally, although you'd have ls :find that out from brother physicians and patients . . . you'd never learn it from him. Sherman was born about this time of the year—April 19—just at the turn of the century, on the Schooley homestead on Harris Hill. His father, the late Ziba F. Schooley, was an outstanding citizen of King- ston Township and Wyoming Val- ley, His mother, Mary Richards, was of artistic temperament and Sher- man treasures many of her paintings in his home. His mother’s family came to Dor- chester, Mass., in 1630 on the ship Mary & John. Her great grand- father, David Richards, served as a Minute Man with General Putman at Fairfield, Conn., when he was 15 years old. When he was 22, he moved with his mother and sister to Luzerne County in South Wilkes- Barre. Richard’s Island in the Sus- quehanna was named for him. Sherman’s grandfather, Elijah Richards, served in the 9th Penn- sylvania Calvary and was with General Sherman on his march to the sea, while his great uncle, Cap- tain David Schooley, was a captive of the Confederate forces moving just ahead of the Yankees marching through Georgia. Elijah Richard’s admiration for his leader resulted in his daughter’s first son being named Sherman. It is also interest- ing to note in this connection that another Union General’s ancestors came to America on the William & Mary that brought the first Rich- ards to America in 1630. They were the grandparents of Ulysses S. Grant. Graduating from Kingston Town- ship High School, Sherman studied at Wyoming Seminary where he was the star in the'late Charlotte Black- man’s German class. From Semi- nary he went to Bucknell Univer- sity and graduated at Jefferson Med- ical College in Philadelphia in 1925. After an interneship at General (Continued on Page 8) the Public Health Service in Wash- ington on condition and tesnont] of men in such camps. He said that generally he found conditions in prison camps ‘‘good,” | although he came across isolated cases of brutality and maltreatment of the prisoners. ‘The same shock-| Now is the time for all good men, ing lack of vitamins” exists in the {who are cooks, to speak up in diets of the men in the camps where | meeting. The best “He-Man” cook several million Allied prisoners are |Back of the Mountain will be select- incarcerated, Dr. Spencer said. He |ed at two novel “Kitchen Free” Elec- added that “only 7,000 of these pris- | tric Cookery demonstrations spon- oners are British.” sored by Luzerne County Gas & His visits took: him to about sev- | Electric Corporation at Dallas Meth- enty of the 600 prison camps in |Odist Church on Monday evening, Germany, he said, and to more than | April 21, and at Shavertown Metho- a hundred of the 2,000 work camps. dist Church on Tuesday evening, He said Allied soldiers and officers | APril 22. 3 : were sent to these camps to be sent | ~The demonstrations will be under out for heavy labor on farms and | the direction of a cooking expert even in factories, except, of course, | from Westinghouse Electric Com- those factories linked with Ger- Pany. Prizes will be awarded to many’s prosecution of the war. (Continued on Page 8) the men who submit the best meat |dish recipes. Whether a man has gained his cooking experience in a Now Is The Time For All (ood Men To Come Forward hunting camp, or in the army or navy will make no difference so long as his recipe is the best in the opinion of the judges. Everybody in the community is invited to these demonstrations. Men are urged to bring their wives and wives are urged to bring their husbands. Ladies if you have a hus- band who is hard to keep out of the kitchen or who claims that he knows the recipes for food like “mother used to cook” here’s your chance to have unbiased judges de- termine the merits of his case. Just see to it that he mails his recipes to Luzerne County Gas & Electric Corporation, either at its Dallas or Kingston office. | Crispell, Easter Beauty Is Untarnished By Sordid Chaos Worshipping Throngs Will Attend Special Services In Churches The second greatest holiday of the church year—Easter— will be ushered in with Good Friday services in many churches of the Back Mountain region. These will be followed by sunrise services early Eas- ter morning in a number of other churches. The late ar- rival of Easter portends smil- ing skies and balmy weather to add to the beauty of the festival. Special music and cantatas will contribute to the lighter side of programs while baptism and reception of mem- bers and Holy Communion will add a more ‘solemn tone. The congregation of one church will dedicate a new altar and pulpit furniture with fitting ceremonies. In all of the churches there will be a pro- fusion of beautiful and stately Easter lilies, palms and spring flowers, to greet the large gath- erings of worshipers. St. Paul’s Church Easter will be ushered in at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church at Shaver- town of which Herbert E. Frankfort is pastor at a Sunrise Service at 6 a. m. The Easter story will be told in song, poem, and pageant. A short address will be given and several anthems will be sung by the Senior Choir. Sunday School will convene at 9:45 and the Easter Festival Ser- vice will be conducted at 11:00. Sermon subject, “I Am The Life”. There will be no Luther League ser- vice. An Easter program will be presented at the Sunday School meeting at 6:30 by the following: Beatrice Ell, Elizabeth Ann Siperko, Carol Lee Thomas, Kenneth Thomas, Jean Franklin, Carol Ann Rudy, | Freddie Malkemes, Maralyn Lundy, Ralph Ell, William Winters, James Owen, Carol Malkemes, Elizabeth Dierolf, Barbara Franklin, Gail Gal- ' lagher, Donald Hinkle, Jane Swartz, Nancy Fahringer, Nancy Lozo, Re- gina Siperko, Esther Warren, Ruby Shrey, Robert Lozo, Kenneth Mal- kemes, Barbara Jane Malkemes, Robert McMichael, Dorothy Winter, Beatrice Adler, Margaret Ann Mal- kemes, Beverly Morgan, Theodore Hinkle, Robert Adler, William Mor- gan, Walter McMichael, John Cottle, Mary Winter, Nancy Weiss and Dor- is Kemmerer. St. Therese’s Service Easter will be observed at St. Therese’s Church by celebrating a thigh mass at 8:30 in the morning |instead of at the usual 10:30 hour. I There will be special Easter music. Low mass will be at 10:30, Free Methodist A special Sunrise Service will be conducted at the Outlet Free Meth- odist Church, Rev. Albert Reining, pastor, by the young people’s organ- izations of the Plattsburg, Dallas and Outlet Free Methodist Churches |at 6:30 a .m. Easter morning. John Y. P. M. S. director of Evangelism, will be in charge. Mem- bers and friends of all ages from |Outlet and surrounding communi- ties are urged to come and worship. The young people of the Trucksville Free Methodist Church will also be present. Other services Easter: Plattsburg, Sunday School at 10:00 with Easter program; Church 11:00. Sermon subject, “Make It As Sure As You Can”; Dallas, Sunday School 2:00, with Easter program; Church 3:00. Sermon subject, “The Power of An Endless Life”; Outlet, Sunday School 10:00, Easter program, Young People’s Service 7:15; Church 7:45. Sermon subject, ‘Not Dead But Alive Today”. Rev. Morgan’s Services A cantata, “On the Third Day”, will be presented for all the charges of Rev. David Morgan at the Noxen Methodist Church Good Friday, to- night, at 8 o'clock. Easter Sunday the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper will be taken at Noxen and Kunkle Churches and there will be baptism of infants and adults at Ruggles. The sermon subject will be “I Be- lieve in the Everlasting Life”. There will be special Easter music. Services: Ruggles 8:45, Alderson 10:00, Noxen 11:45 and Kunkle 7:45 p. m. Leads in the cantata, which is being directed by Mrs. Wheeler Hess: Mrs. Marie MacMillian, Shir- ley MacMillan, Charles VanCampen, George VanCampen, Miss Stella Shook, Mrs. Eltheda Hackling, Bob Space, Mrs. Laura Jones, Mrs. Lina Newell and Donald Searfoss. The above are supported by the church (Continued on Page 8)
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