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.
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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
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Vol. 51
FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1941
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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
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the area.
As a part of their community
Nazi Blitz Tanks In Yugoslav Dr
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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