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Why We'll
Don’t you feel this way about the Fourth of July, 1941?
I am an American. Nothing makes me prouder than
this.
My first and greatest devotion is to my American
ideals.
I can renounce a policy of my government without the
feel of steel in my back.
I can still watch the great airliners fly overhead with-
out the scream of sirens and the sickening crash of bombs.
I can still drive my car through America’s green coun-
tryside on roads free from enemy troops; unmarked by
deep craters.
I live in peace, yet I know compassion and give freely
to a just cause.
My income is modest—but my laugh is hearty: because
I'm wealthy compared with any man in the same job in
any other country!
And I have yet to see a ration card!
My children have the greatest opportunities in the
world. They are better educated, better fed, and now
because of the tragic lessons we have learned from other
nations, I believe will grow up to be even better Ameri-
cans.
I am an American.
Out
living, in tolerance, in liberty in mutual goodwill, I pledge
myself to uphold these, our American ideals.
we know, are America’s past and future, and the ultimate
goal of all people everywhere, regardless of the length of
time or the amount of torture they must endure to
achieve it.
Let us defend, preserve and improve our system. And
keep it, as in the past, a haven and a stronghold for those
who, having tried all other systems, shall know better.
On Hitler's List
Somebody said that the
should change its name to the ‘America Next” Committee.
Fair Trade
South America seems to have given the United States
Carmen Miranda for Douglas Fairbanks, which is some-
thing like trading your neighbor a basket of peaches for—
but then Doug’s all right, too.
Superman?
Father was explaining defeatism.
Junior, “it’s sort of believing that ‘that bad man’ is a
Tarzan and a Superman put together, huh?”
Celebrate
of the days of our peaceful
For these,
“America First” Committee
“Oh, yes,” said
FROM.
PILLAR TO POST
Little did the packed assemblage at the two performances of the circus
in Kingston suspect as they applauded the skillful and prancing tricks
of the horses, that these same animals had carried Arthur Konyot and
his family to safety when they fled from their native Czecho-Slovakia.
On the evening of March 14, 1939, Kenyot and his family were in
Prague, fully aware of the difficulty in leaving the country once the Nazi
military machine reached the city.
It was a quick decision, one that
wiped out their entire fortune—
money and home. Carrying no bag-
gage, Konyot and his family, with
eight horses, made their way .to
Huler, a small hamlet in Czecho-
Slovakia. A treacherous body of
water, about seventy-five yards
wide, separated Huler from Mustier,
Poland.
Under cover of darkness, Konyot,
his wife, Maria; his son, Alexis, and
their daughter, May-Theodora, each
a highly trained rider, astride four
horses, and guiding the other four
by the reins, made their way across
the swiftly running waters.
The reputation of their horse act
was known throughout Europe.
Friends quickly took care of them.
Despite the political unrest, the
Konyot act was in great demand.
They played to capacity houses in
Riga, Latvia. They played engage-
ments throughout Scandinavia, final-
ly reached Paris, where they were
greeted by the news that the Euro-
pean conflict had started. After
much difficulty they arrived in this
country.
As the spotlight focused last Wed-
nesday on the center ring, Arthur
Konyot, behind the clustered scene,
spoke of his specialty of a family
tradition that dated back more than
100 years. For his wife, daughter
and son last season was their first
appearance with Ringling Brothers &
Barnum and Bailey Circus. In 1909,
1910 and 1911 Arthur Konyot and
his father, Leopold, headlined the
circus bill in this country. In the
intervening years he married and
with his family played "in every
principal city of Europe.
With professional pride but with-
out a trace of false modesty, he said
he had trained more than 200 “lib-
erty-bell” horses and about (fifty
“high-school” horses during his long
career—he is 52 years old and his
professional career began at the
age of 4.
Liberty-bell horses, he explained,
were capable of executive move-
ments in a group but incapable of
intricate gaits. The high school
horses were capable of thirty gaits
and training them demanded un-
daunted perseverance, an ability to
understand the temperament and
disposition of the horse, and what
gaits came easier to the high school
horse.
Members of Konyot's family have
had their share of physical discom-
fort.. He fractured his left leg in
1909 when he tried to leap on a
horse. His wife has had several
broken bones. His son last season
suffered several weeks from pneu-
monia. Only May-Theodora has
been fortunate.
“Horses are like human beings,
they must be treated with patience
and kindness,” he said. As for him-
self and family, he could say only,
“we are so happy to be in this coun-
try which we hope will always be
our home.”
Army Invites
Dallas Folk
To Maneuvers
Dallas Parents Enjoy
Chicken Served On
Tin Plates With Son
Mr. ‘and Mrs. David E. Brace of
Huntsville St. had their first taste
of what an air raid is like last Sun-
day—but it held no terror for them.
In company with Mr. and Mrs. E.
David Brace of Kingston they mo-
tored to Gettysburg where they
watched the 71st. Coast Artillery
and Anti-Aircraft Regiment defend
the city during a mock air raid.
Their son, Samuel, is a member
of the headquarters battery of the
71st Regiment. ‘When the outfit was
ordered to move from Fort Storey,
Va., to Gettysburg, parents of all
Pennsylvania boys were sent special
invitations to visit their sons at
Gettysburg and enjoy a free chicken
dinner with them. The Braces were |
delighted with the meal, even if it |
was served on tin plates in regular
army style.
Sam's regiment left Fort Storey,
Va., on Friday in a convoy one and
one-half miles long, composed of
238 trucks and motorized cannon
of the largest types as well as mo-
torized searchlights, air-craft detec-
tors and all the other equipment
necessary to spot and shoot down
enemy aircraft under all types of
weather conditions. Personnel in-
cluded 20 officers and 800 men, The
regiment went into bivouac on the
exact spot where the Confederate |
army took its last stand at the Bat-
tle of Gettysburg during the Civil
War.
Saturday night the regiment man-
euvered into position to defend the
city against an air raid, wheeling
their guns, searchlights and detec-
tors into stations surrounding the |
city. The regiment remained in)
camp over the week-end, enter-|
taining parents and friends who had |
come from all parts of the State.
On Wednesday it took part in fur-~
ther maneuvers and a parade joined
by the 109th Field Artillery.
Mr. and Mrs. Brace would have
stayed over for th& parade, but
Sam had to be in Baltimore on Mon-
day and Tuesday to get parts for
three trucks damaged in convoy
when they were hit by a big tractor
trailer. Sam, they say, likes army
life because it fits right in with the
mechanical type of work he has
Thue Darras Post
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
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Vol. 51
THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1941
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No. 27
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.
Salary Increase
VotedFor |
Dallas Teachers
School Board Approves
$50 Annual Increases
For All Teachers
A salary increase of $50 annually
to all Dallas school teachers except-
ing supervising principal T. A, Will-
iammee was unanimously approved
and a new contract with Clarence
Labar at a salary of $1220 author-
ized at a meeting of the Dallas Bor-
ough School Board Friday night.
A total of $5086.92 in . salaries,
bills and other obligations was or-
dered paid, and three loans amount-
ing to $4400 and including a $1400
loan to meet the July payroll were
authorized. Purchases of school sup-
plies, to include an estimated $260
expenditure for new books, $121.40
for furniture and some $230 for new
band instruments and music, were
recommended by Mr. Williammee
and authorized by the board.
A contract to furnish 200 tons of
coal at $4.42 per ton for the coming
school year was directed made with
H. L. Still, low bidder for the con-
tract, and the secretary’s and treas-
urer’s insurance bonds were voted
approved.
The purchase of the Czulegar lot
adjoining the schcol rested without
action when the school directors
and E. J. Rainey, acting for the
owner, Mrs. Czuleger, failed to
reach an agreement on price. Mr.
Rainey has set the sale price at
$2,000, while the directors have set
its value at approximately $1200.
A reduction in school taxes as of
1937 was gained by a representative
of John Morrett of Main street who
showed that a reduction of $600 on
the Morrett property valuation for
that year had been allowed.
In attendance were Clyde Lapp,
W. H. Baker, John Durbin, John J.
Jeter, G. George Ayre, T. A. William-
mee and Atty. Jonathan Valentine.
HeartAttackFatal
To William Major
| Lehman Man Had Been
life-long resident of Lehman and one
of that community’s most respected
citizens, died suddenly at his home
Tuesday night at 8:45 following a
heart attack.
Despite a frailty that had grown
steadily worse during the past three
or four years and had prevented his
taking an active part in community
affairs, his death was unexpected.
He had been about his home as
usual on Tuesday and had eaten
dinher with his family the evening
of his death.
Squire Major,
tionately known to a host of friends
and neighbors throughout the Back
Mountain region, had been a Justice
of the Peace in Lehman for the past
forty years, and a member of Jack-
son Grange for the past thirty.
During his long life in the com-
munity of his birth he had held at
as he was affec-
|one time or another almost every
township office. He was for many
years both school director and tax
collector, and had been a member
of Lehman Mcthodist Church and
Osage Lodge, No. 712, Odd Fellows,
for the greater part of his life.
Despite his interest in all phases
of community life his energy was
such that he was one of the most
progressive farmers and dairymen
in the region until his retirement
about five years ago. He was a lover
of fine horses and during younger
years was an ardent horseman pos-
sessing one of | the finest saddle
horses in the region.
He was born in the old home-
stcad next to his present home just
over the hill in Lehman. His pater-
nal grandparents came to this coun-
try from Yorkshire, England, settling
in Exeter Township along the Sus-
quehanna River.
of floods in the valley they early
raoved to a farm in Lehman. There
William M. Major was born to
Champion znd Eunice Bouse Major
and there with few exceptions he|
lived for the balance cf his life. |
He attended Wyoming Seminary
and graduated from Eastman Busi-
ness College at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
For a number of years he worked
as time keeper with the Albert Lewis
Lumber Company in their timber-
ing operations at Harvey's Lake and
with the Stull Lumber Company at
Stull, ‘Wyoming County. ' He also
operated a grist mill at Lehman and
when advancing age made it neces-
sary for his father to give up active
farming, took over the farm which
been used to. He expects to be home
on furlough in about two weeks.
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Concerned for fear |!
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Know Your Neighbour
Colonel Dorrance Reynolds with his favorite horse “Lark.”
Tannery Workers
Organize Union
At Noxen Plant
CIO Leather And Fur
Union ClaZins 80% Of
Employees Members
Labor union activity at Noxen
Tannery, dormant there since 1933,
has once more come to the fore with
200 employees preparing for a CIO
election at the plant within the next
two weeks.
The current attempt of the CIO
International Fur and Leather Work-
ers’ Union to organize the 236
workmen at the tannery, a division
of the Armour Leather Company, is
the second within the last ten years
and is running concurrently with
the organization of the Williamsport
and St. Mary’s tanneries under the
CIO banner.
The move to organize the Noxen
plant under the Leather Workers’
Division of the International union
was begun some two months ago
under the leadership of Ernest Moy-
er and Lewis Francis, CIO organiz-
ers of Easton, and has gained rapidly
in popularity among the Noxen em-
ployees. Already more than 80 per
cent of the workers have given their
allegiance to the new local, and the
approximately forty not yet signed
are gradually being assimilated.
First recognition of the union as
a possible bargaining agent was
given by Morton Whitaker, super-
intendent of the Noxen plant, about
three weeks ago in the reinstate-
ment of Thomas Lane, a member of
the new local. Laid off for three
days, Lane was reemployed after
a conference between officers of the
Noxen union and Mr. Whitaker.
At that time Mr, Whitaker ex-
pressed willingness to deal with a
grievance committee appointed from
Noxen employees, and recently
Michael Brennan of Williamsport,
general superintendent of the Ar-
mour Leather Company's three
plants at Noxen, Williamsport and
St. Mary’s, made a similar statement
of policy.
An election to determine whether
or no the CIO Leather Workers’
Union will be established as bar-
gaining agent for workers in all
three plants will be held within the
next two weeks, both at Noxen and
in the other two tanneries, accord-
ing to officials of the local union.
The initial objective of the union
if. the election is successful will be
a five per cent wage increase for
workers of the Noxen plant, where
the scale varies between 58 and 80
cents an hour, and the creation of
a wage parity in all three tanneries.
At present there is a considerable
difference in wage scales between
Noxen and Williamsport. In one
worker classification, the local wage
is 69 cents an hour as compared to
83 at the Williamsport division.
All the demands which will be
made by the new union have not
yet been decided, but the general
goal is an all-around wage increase
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Soldier-Banker
Is Also Farmer
Col. Dorrance Reynolds
Is No Kentucky Colonel
Soldier, country gentleman, and
head of a great financial institution,
October; Board No. 1
Thirty-Three New Dallas Names
Added Tuesday To Draft Rolls
. Registration Five Per Cent That Of Last
Gets 147 Applicants
Cheerfully and in some cases even enthusiastically, 33 young men
from the Dallas area registered Tuesday for Selective Service . .
all over the State some 65,000 boys who had reached maturity since last
October formed a part of the new draft army.
Total registration for Local Board No. 1, of which this section is a
part, was 147, and in all of Luzerne County 2,275 new names went on
. while
Dallas Woman's
Grandson Badly
Injured In Fall
Boy, 10, Plunges
Into Hastings Quarry;
Mrs. Holcomb's Relative
Little Norman Keesler, grandson
of Mrs. A. R. Holcomb of Dallas and
a cousin of Glen Ide, employee of
The Post, was seriously injured Mon-
day when he plunged into an 84-
foot abandoned quarry near his
home at Hastings-On-Hudson, N. Y.
The 10-year-old boy, whose moth-
er, the former Miss Elizabeth Ruth,
of Scranton, is well known to many
Dallas people, is being treated at
the Dobbs Ferry Hospital for a frac-
tured skull, broken jaw and a pos-
sible leg injury.
Norman was playing about the
brink of the old quarry with his
friends when his foot slipped on a
loose stone, causing him to lose his
balance and topple into the abyss.
He was picked up unconscious from
the floor of the quarry and rushed
to the hospital, where every hope is
held for his recovery.
The little boy had frequently vis-
ited Mrs. Holcomb here with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Keesler. When
news was received of the accident,
Glen Ide and his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. George Ide of Dallas, went im-
mediately to Hastings, where they
learned that Normans’ condition,
Colonel Dorrance Reynolds was born
in the old brick house at 92 South
River St.,r Wilkes-Barre, on Septem-
ber 9, 1877. He still spends his
winters in the home that will be
100 years old in 1942, but if you ask
him, he “lives” among the rolling
fields and wooded lots of Goodleigh
Farm in Dallas Township . . . and
life begins with the first stir of
opening buds in spring and con-
tinues right around the seasons.
As a young man he attended
Harry Hillman Academy and pre-
pared for college at Hotchkiss
School. He was graduated from
Yale in 1902. An old teacher re-
calls. that when as a young man
Dorrance Reynolds was brushing up
to take the examinations for Har-
vard Law School, the only time the
two could work together was be-
tween 12 o'clock midnight and 2
o'clock in the morning. For months
during one winter after the young
man had graduated from Yale, stu-
dent and instructor, studied
during those impossible hours
with Reynolds avidly seeking the
knowledge that would fit him for
life. He was graduated from Har-
vard Law School in 1905,
Colonel Reynolds has always been
a lover of the country and the out,
of doors. In 1900 he and Mrs.
Reynolds bought the old Marshall
Martin farm in Dallas Township and
began farming, gradually creating!
the farm now known as “Goodleigh
Farm.” He has designed the farm,
its buildings, road system, fields,
fences and landscape. He has been
foreman, transit-man, engineer,
architect and farmer. Those who
know him are amused at his phrase
as he reaches the top of Chestnut
Hill, the main entrance to the farm,
“Isn’t it nice over here.”
In 1926 he became interested in
is critical.
Borough School
Calendar Listed
Williammee Adds Two
Days To Vacation
Adopting with two exceptions the
school calendar recommended by
the Supervising Principals’ Associa-
tion and A. P. Cope, county super-
intendent, Prof. T. A. Williammee
this week announced the 1941-42
schedule for Dallas Borough High
School, passed by the board last
Friday.
Differing from the suggested cal-
endar,
liamee has added two days to the
Christmas vacation, which will be-
gin in Dallas on Dec. 22 instead of
the 24th, and has declared that
Lincoln’s Birthday will be a school
day . . . because he believes that
the ‘anniversaries of our great men
should be devoted to an apprecia-
tion of their work rather than
marked as hgplidays:”
Sept. 3—School begins.
Oct. 16-17—Teachers’ Institute.
Nov. 11—Armistice Day.
Nov. 27-28—Thanksgiving Day.
Dec. 22-Jan. 5—Christmas holi-
days.
April 2-6—Easter holidays.
June 3—Class Night.
June 4—Commencement.
June 5—Last day of school.
Excluded from the calendar is
mention of Memorial Day, which
comes on a Saturday next year. If
any time is lost in the first three
months of school it will be made
up by school days on Dec. 22 and 23,
and any other school days lost will
Guernsey herds in Pennsylvania.
The aim and ambition of Goodleigh |
Farm has been to produce the finest ;
bottle of milk for the children and!
people of Wyoming Valley. This
became a reality in 1932 when the
Dallas Dairy, owned by A. N. Gar-
inger, started distributing this milk.
The herd has consistently grown. It
has taken the blue ribbon for the
highest butterfat test for eight con-
secutive years in the Luzerne-Col-
umbia County Cow Testing Associa-
tion. Every possible precaution has
been taken to insure the health’ and
well being of the cows. They are
frequently inspected by Dr. Ernest
W. Hogg of Wilkes-Barre and Dr.
Earle V. Hopper of New York. The
Goodleigh herd was one of the first
in Luzerne County to be blood test-
ed. At the present time it is com-
posed of 101 registered pedigreed
animals. Colonel Reynolds is visibly
proud of his Guernseys; their in-
creasing production, their growing
quality and numbers. “But,” he
says, ‘this herd has been created,
invented and built by Miss Mary
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be caught up during Easter vacation
or added at the end of the school
year,
BE
ALLAN KISTLER MAILS
PAPERS DURING LEAVE
FROM ARMY SERVICE
Alan Kistler, a former mem-
ber of the Dallas Post staff, now
stationed at Fort Still, Oklaho-
ma, dropped into the office last
Thursday night just in time to
take a hand with mailing the
weekly copies of The Post, Alan
had a thirteen-day furlough and
arrived home with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Alan Kistler, Sr.,
of Harvey's Lake, who recently
motored to Fort Sill to visit
their son. Alan, Jr. is stationed
in the army bakers’ school at
the military reservation but
says that he likes printing much
better than baking and that the
hills of Pennsylvania and civil-
ian life surpass anything Okla-
homa or the army can offer.
the Selective Service Rolls . . . an
estimated five per cent of the 53,700
who registered last fall.
When the new records are com-
plete and numbers assigned each
selectee, another lottery will be
held in Washington, D. C., and the
same order number arrangement put
in operation last year will obtain.
With only four exceptions, all
those registering with the sub-board,
which sat in Dallas Borough High
School, were residents of Dallas
Borough, Dallas Township, Shaver-
town and Trucksville . . . 29 in all
as compared with 890 from this im-
mediate vicinity in October.
T. A. Wiillammee, supervising
principal of Dallas High School, and
William A. Brickel of Lehman Ave.,
voluntary registrars for the local
sub-board, had no trouble of any
sort with the new registrants, most
of whom seemed entirely cheerful
about it all . . . even though all but
three of the group are gainfully em-
ployed. In fact, the longest face of
all was that of Floyd Lengel, of
Dallas Township, who, because he is
totally blind, is not eligible for
selective service.
First man to register was Edwin
Eckhart of Demuns Road, a teamster
for William T. Payne, who was
waiting patiently at the door when
the two registrars arrived at 7
o'clock, and the last two, Edward F.
Gallagher of Shavertown and Wil-
liam A. Rhodes, Jr., of Trucksville,
were registered shortly after 8
Tuesday evening.
Because of the excessive heat on
Registration Day, the sub-board was
moved to the cooler rooms of Dallas
High School from the borough build-
ing, where it was originally sched-
Supervising Principal Wil-
BN
uled te sit. On the door of the
borough building Police Chief Wil-
liam Covert posted a sign, “All Sol-
diers go up to the High School,”
which was a trifle ominous but
didn’t scare off any one.
Following is the registration by
towns. Although four of the regis-
trants live outside of the board
limits, jurisdiction over them will
remain with Board No, 1:
Dallas Borough: Robert L. Flem-
ing, John A. Dungey, Cyril J. Betz-
ko, Clyde O. Veitch, Jr. Robert L.
Swayze, Frank S. Mead, Willard E.
Shaver, Lewis W. Ferrey.
Dallas Township: Michael Kozem-
chak, Harry S. Smith, Glenwood G.
Ide, Albert G. ‘Allen, Charles C.
White, Harold E. Evans, Edwin
Eckhart, Floyd Lengel.
Shavertown: Ernest A. Bush,
Bernard R. Wilson, Sherman W.
Kunkle, James M. Ruhf, Edward F.
Gallagher.
Trucksville: Ernest J. Holdredge,
Edward E. Richards, Stewart C.
Yorks, Chester E. Hons, Arthur W.
Lindsley, Stanley E. Fabian, William
A. Rhodes, Jr.
Kingston Township: Marvel L.
Philo.
Alderson: Darrell C. Loomis.
Jackson Township: Theodore Cy-
bulski.
Falls: Lewis Barry Furneaux.
Hallstead: Rodney L. Davis,
Lake Police Begin
Hit-Run Drive
Week's Heavy Accident
Toll Promotes Crusade
A determined crusade against hit-
and-run drivers was begun this
week by Harvey's Lake and State
Motor Police as three automobiles
were badly damaged on as many
nights by speedsters on lake roads.
According to Chief Ira C. Steven-
son of the Lake force, this week’s
hit-and-run collisions, occurring
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday
nights, brought to ten the number
of cars damaged in that fashion in
the Harvey’s Lake area so far this
year.
In all cases damage has been
heavy, said the chief, and no arrests
have been made so far. Although
no one has been injured in hit-and-
run accidents this summer, John
Kuchta of Harvey's Lake was stagicl
by an unknown driver in April, and
Harold Singer of Noxen was injured
by a motorist who failed to stop in
May.
Henceforth every hit-and-run in-
cident will be investigated thorough-
ly by Harvey's Lake police, and a
severe example will be made of the
first driver nabbed. Corp. Dixon of
the Harvey’s Lake Motor Police de-
tachment has promised full co-oper-
ation, :