Editorially Speaking:
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Never let it be said that anything or anybody can ever
blitzkrieg Kingston Township out of its lethargy.
the Chinese, that community simply opens up, lets the
blitzkrieg pass through, and
The analogy may be poor—but so are most efforts to
secure anything of public good in Kingston Township.
Take the highly important matter of traffic regulation.
Try to find somebody in authority to blitzkrieg into ac-
tion. There just isn’t any
Township—nobody in authority—nobody responsible—
just thin air and supernatural spirits.
That’s the reason there
Center Street in the heart of Shavertown, or at Harris Hill
Road or Carverton Road in the heart of Trucksville.
Kingston Township is just an ungainly sprawling com-
munity of pleasant homes filled with mothers, fathers,
children and old folks who have no civic leaders—except
a few small-time politicians—and no local government to
look after their safety or care whether they return from
church, postoffice or store on their feet, in their own cars
or in an ambulance.
Wonderful place to live—Kingston Township—if you
are willing to stay indoors
porch—but not much of a place to venture to the movies,
go to school or call on the neighbors.
We feel sorry for people who live in the township.
They are denied the solace of damning someone else. They
have just themselves to accuse when life goes wrong.
Kingston Township is just an overgrown sprawling cross-
roads with no local government, filled with a lot of people
whose civic responsibility ends with voting the Republi-
can ticket and scanning the Sunday paper to find their
names in print.
They are the people who are willing to be handicapped
by poor streets—who enjoy
community life—who are willing to let shabby billboards,
hot dog stands and unsightly shacks hide the beauty along
the new highway—who never heard the word “zoning”
They are the persons who grope
across dangerous street intersections at night aided only
by feeble street lights and without the benefit of traffic
and care less about it.
lights or police protection.
Sunday turned their community over to visiting motorists
and waited ten to twenty minutes before they could cross
the new highway at Center street with their Sunday
They are the ones who watched their chance to
dodge across the highway to Church at the intersection
papers.
with Carverton Road.
In this respect citizens of Dallas were better off. Two
. uniformed policemen regulated Sunday traffic on Main
street and at the triangle just out of town. Burgess H. A.
Smith and members of Borough Council were on hand to
study the flow of traffic and plan for better control as they
benefits of experimental street lights at
observed the
danger spots.
We've not boasting here in Dallas.
problems in common with Kingston Township—none of
us can high hat the other as
Creek—an open sewer—in common.
recognize it for what it is—while Kingston Township
either swims in it or pretends it isn’t there.
In Common
Like
then closes in behind it.
such creature in Kingston
is no traffic regulation at
or sit on your own front
none of the conveniences of
They are the ones who on
We've got a lot of
long as all of us have Toby’s
But in Dallas we
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PILLAR TO POST
Unless something is done about
to rate next to St. Swithan’s Day on the calendar of most small fry. We
in our family Friday, instead of dogs, so that we
wished we had a boy
could have somebody in the clan
greatest accomplishment—a safe and unsatisfactory Fourth of July. Not
that we personally regret the pass-
ing of noisy fire works on the
Fourth—and the two weeks of
hubbub that preceded it or the two
weeks of banging cap guns that
followed. But the Fourth of July
without firecrackers isn’t like an
early Thanksgiving. You can’t eat
your way into resignation. Who ever
heard of a turkey dinner on the
Fourth—and what small boy would
be satisfied with a big dinner in
place of fireworks. Something has
to be done about the Fourth of July
unless this country looks forward
to rearing a generation of pacifists.
What good is there looking at fire-
works if you can’t shoot 'em, we'd
like to know ?
We never heard of a small boy
being rained out on the Fourth
like the oldsters and professionals
were at Harvey's Lake and Forty
Fort. What this country needs is
more and bigger fireworks in the
hands of young fellows who aren’t
afraid to see the sparks fly.
For a week now we've been the
arsenal’ of this small democracy
furnishing the long strips of paper
that serve as ammunition for these
new fangled firearms that depend
on bursting paper for their bang—
and we with our young customers
agree that it’s a poor substitute for
gun powder and "burned fingers.
Shucks, who said this was a democ-
racy when the fellows most con-
cerned never had a chance to vote
for sky rockets, firecrackers and pin
wheels ?
As we said earlier—we’re not
complaining—but that’s because our
point of view has changed since we
lay awake all night to be one of
the first to fire a giant cracker at
dawn or slept with a couple of
young companions on the front
porch with dozens of miniature ex-
plosives underneath our pillows.
It was one of those Fourths many
years ago that our faith in the
adage ‘rain before seven, clear be-
fore eleven” was badly shaken—in
fact we've never had any faith in
it since. A downpour that started
shortly after midnight before we'd
fired our first cracker continued
right on through the morning hours
with no deference to the eleventh
and washed out a double header
ball game as well as a band concert.
That experience jarred our faith
and almost destroyed our friendship
for two of our most trusted weather
advisors of early days—Daddy Bo-
gart, our Civil War hero, and Bill
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it soon, the Fourth of July is going
to rebel against Governor James's
Fourth Teacher
Lost To Dallas
High Since ‘36
Commercial Instructor
Gets Better Contract;
Unpaid Tax List Large
The fourth commercial teacher to
resign from the Dallas High School
staff in as many years, Miss Dorothy
Werner of Chester, asked borough
school directors this week to can-
cel her 1941-42 contract.
Though technically still in the em-
ploy of the borough, Miss Werner
has already accepted a position at |
Towanda High School, and asks to
be released from her obligation here
in order to fulfill her new contract,
which calls for a considerable salary
increase. She was paid $1,270 last |
year, and would receive $1,320 for |
the coming term under the general
wage increase voted last week by
Dallas directors.
If Miss Werner's resignation is
accepted, she be the fourth
commercial instructor to leave Dal-
las High School since 1936 for a
better-salaried position with anoth-
will
er school district.
Per capita school taxes have been
coming in very slowly, according to
Daniel A. Waters, secretary of the
board, with a number of large sums
in back taxes still unpaid.
The annual financial report of the |
school district, prepared this week |
for the board, shows total assets of
$142,667.62 and total liabilities of
$26,364.92.
Receipts for the fiscal year, in-
cluding taxes, the State appropria-|
tion, tuition, loans and other sour-
ces of income, amounted to $34,-
288.78, and expenditures, which in-
cluded the $18,485.06 outlay for
teachers’ salaries, came to $34,-
253.77, leaving a balance of $35.01
in the general fund.
The report shows that $24,835.86
are due in unpaid taxes, half of
which have been delinquent since
“| the Noxen employees have pledged
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MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
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Vol. 51
CIO Organizers
Petition For
Noxen Election
Tannery Workers Vote
Next Week; National
Union President Speaks
CIO organizers at Noxen
this week petitioned the Na-
tional Labor Relations Board
for an election to determine
whether the International Fur
and Leather Workers’ Union
will be chosen bargaining
agent for 300 Armour Leather
Company employees.
While no date has been set for
the election at Noxen Tannery by
NLRB officials, it will take place
within a week, according to Fred
Vandergrift of Easton, newly ap-
pointed boss of the Noxen union.
Voting will be conducted concur-
rently in all three Armour Com-
pany tanneries at Noxen, Williams-
port and St. Marys, where organ-,
ization under the CIO banner has |
been conducted for the past two
months.
Morton Whitaker, general guper-
intendent of the Noxen tannery,
and Michael Brennan of Williams-
port, director of all three plants,
have expressed willingness to deal |
with officials and grievance a
mittees of the union, should the
election be successful. Vandergrift,
who recently replaced Ernest Moore
as chief organizer at Noxen, and
his co-worker, Lewis Francis, pre-
dict a clean sweep in all three
plants. More than 80 per cent of
themselves to the union, and better
than 95 per cent of the Williams-
port workers have been organized.
Samuel Bert of New York City,
national president of the Fur and
Leather Workers’ Union, will ad-
dress the tannery workers at a mass
meeting in the Noxen Odd Fellows’
Hall Tuesday night. The meeting,
which is- scheduled to begin at 7,
will be the last general conference
of the local before the election.
Councilmen Seek
Township Aid On
Street Repairs /
Church Street Back-To
Local Care; Brooklyn
Crossing Promised
With the maintenance of Church
St. returned to Dallas by the State
on the completion of the new
Trucksville-Lutes’ Corners highway,
Borough Councilmen seek the co-
operation of Dallas Township direc-
tors in making improvements to the
road.
The construction of adequate
drainage facilities and sidewalks on
the thoroughfare, long planned by
Council, can not be feasily begun
until Dallas Township agrees to
make similar repairs on the upper
portion of the street. During heavy
rains large quantities of debris are
washed over the road from the top
of the hill, which lies within the
township line.
It is almost certain that the care
of the Dallas-Fernbrook road will
also be returned to the borough, to-
gether with that of Lake St., ac-
cording to Councilman Morgan Wil-
cox, which will add considerably to
the Dallas maintenance burden.
A proposal to erect a stop light
at the junction of Main St. and the
new Trucksville-Dallas highway can
not be considered by Council until
the recently completed thorough-
fare has been accepted officially by
the State. It is believed, however,
that stop signs making the new
highway a through-traffic route to
Lake St. will be used instead of a
traffic light, in order to avoid un-
necessary traffic stoppages on Main
St. Until the new highway has
been accepted from Banks Con-
struction Company, the Main St.-
Lake St. route will retain right-of-
way.
The three 600-watt flood lights
at the juncture of Main St. and the
highway, installed last week as a
trial illumination measure, are be-
ing favorably considered by Council
as a permanent arrangement. Plans
are being made to illuminate the
Fernbrook crossing in co-operation
with Kingston Township by use of |
similar street lamps. |
The construction of an adequate !
intersection of the Brooklyn Road
and the new highway was assured
this week by the Department of
Highways, and the matter will be|
cared for as soon as the Lehigh
Valley tracks at that point have
been raised sufficiently to permit
1938.
the junction.
FRIDAY, JULY
11, 1941
In Summer Concerts
Lehman High School Band which
of summer concerts tonight at 8 on
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will appear in the second of a series
Lehman High School grounds. The
{band will be under the direction of Joseph Clouser. The public is invited
'dnd there will be no admission charge.
Trees Topple As /Giant Tractors
Clear Way For
ake Highway
Road Will Be Four-Mile Straightaway
Between Dallas And Lake; 75 Employed
With huge excavating machines
biting into the stony land and thick
woods north of Dallas along the old
traction right-of-way, work on the
new $400,0000 Dallas-Harvey’s Lake
highway gained momentum this
week, presaging the development of
a Greater Back Mountain region.
The highway, begun last month
when the Central Pennsylvania
Quarry, Stripping and Construction
Company of Hazleton moved into
town with a large complement of
dump trucks, scrapers and steam
shovels, will be a continuation of
the just- completed Trucksville-Dal-
las three-lane road.
Four miles long, it will be a vir-
tual straight-away between Dallas
and: Harvey's Lake, meeting the
road bordering the lake shores at
a point 200 yards west of Sunset,
just beyond the Carpenter road
junction.
According to contract plans, the
new highway will follow the old
street car track bed as far as War-
den’s farm, branching from the
right-of-way there to cross the pres-
ent Dallas-Harvey’s Lake road in
Idetown. From Idetown it will run
in a straight line to an intersec-
tion with Carpenter road, and from
there to a junction with the lake
shore road.
Three 11-foot lanes of concrete
pave with ten-foot shoulders, the
highway will be nearly four miles
long, and with only one broad curve
at each end will eliminate curve
hazards of the present thoroughfare
between Dallas and the lake, be-
sides cutting considerably the dis-
tance of the drive. When com-
pleted, it will be a valuable link in
the new network of highways in
this section and another big asset
tc the future development of the
Dallas Region as a residential area.
Nearly all of the new highway
path is a departure from former
routes of travel, with only small
portions of the traction right-of-way
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Son Of Civil
War Hero Dies
Mosier Buried From
Kunkle Wednesday
Fred R. Mosier, well-known and
respected resident of Kunkle for
many years and the son of a Civil
War hero, was buried in Fern Knoll
Cemetery Wednesday afternoon fol-
lowing services at his home con-
ducted by Rev. David Morgan, pas-
tor of Alderson Methodist Church.
Mr. Mosier, a hard worker for all
his’ 72 years and in the best of
health ‘until a week before his
death, passed away suddenly of a
heart attack at his Kunkle home
Sunday night. His death is mourned
by his many friends of this sec-
tion, among whom he had lived for
the past 26 years.
He was born in Plattsburg, in
Wyoming County just across the
Luzerne line, where he lived until
he came to Kunkle in 1915. He was
a quiet, home-loving man, and for
many years was active in the Kun-
kle Grange.
Mr. Mosier was the son of the
late Levi Mosier, noted for his dis-
tinguished service as a lieutenant
with a New York Cavalry unit dur-
ing the Civil War, and Louise Eip-
per Mosier, who was a native of
Huntsville and a member of one of
the oldest families in this section.
He is survived by two sisters,
Miss Blanche Mosier of Kunkle and
Mrs. Minnie Harris of Dallas, and
two brothers, Caléb and Stanley of
Plattsburg, Wyoming County.
Know Your Neighbour
Malcolm J. Borthwick, M. D,
Once A Postman,
Now A Physician
Dr. Malcolm Borthwick
Likes Sports, Hunting
Dr. Malcolm J. Borthwick of
Pioneer Ave., Shavertown, has a
number of distinctions which have
nothing whatever to do with his ex-
tensive medical practice among the
people of this regian.
For one thing, he is one of the
very few physicians hereabouts . . .
or anywhere else, for that matter
. . . who was once a postman, and
before that a laborer in the mines.
Also he is a good fish and game
man, as sportsmen go, and a year
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tire Plug Plan
Reviewed Tonight
Council To Meet With
Water Co. Manager
The installation of fire plugs in
the business district of Dallas, a
project which has been re-intro-
duced several times in recent years
for council deliberation, will be dis-
cussed tonight by Borough Council-
men with Robert Hall Craig of Har-
risburg, general manager of Dallas
Water Company.
The proposal calls for three fire
plugs to be situated on Main St.
These are to be purchased by the
borough, connected with the short
Main St. water main, and the water
is to be paid for on a blanket charge
arrangement.
Because of the expense involved
and the fact that limited facilities
would allow plugs only in the busi-
ness district, it is doubtful that any
action will be taken on the proposal,
according to one Councilman. It is
believed by the majority of Council
that the installation of plugs as
planned would be an unnecessary
financial burden to the borough,
while serving but a small portion
of its residents. The Henry M.
Laing Fire Company has been ade-
quate to handle all local fires within
recent years with the use of its
present equipment.
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LAPP MAY BE SECOND
TO SERVE CONSECUTIVE
TERMS ON DALLAS BOARD
If Clyde Lapp, president of
the Dallas School Board and
incumbent director seeking re-
election, is renamed to the
board, a record which has
stood for more than 20 years
will be broken.
Ralph Rood of Lehman Ave.,
a commercial instructor at the
High School, is the only man
to have served two consecu-
tive terms on the board since
its creation, concluding 12
years as a director back in
1921.
However, in spite of the no-
csecond-term precedent, Mr.
Lapp filed his candidacy with
high hopes, and is basing his
campaign for re-election on his
six years’ record. of service.
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Two Injured In
Sole Holiday
Accident At Lake
Hunlock Women Hurt
When Car Overturns
At Pike's Creek
In the only serious traffic acci-
dent in the Harvey's Lake area over
the holiday week-end, two Hunlock
Creek women. wer: injured and an
automobile demolished late Satur-
day night at Pike’s Creek.
Mrs. Anthony Drzewsiecki, 67,
and Genevieve Winick, 19, both of
Hunlock Creek, suffered leg injuries
and minor cuts and abrasions when
a machine in which they were rid-
ing was struck and overturned by
an automobile driven by Edward
Yablicki of Nanticoke,
The accident occurred at 11:50
Saturday night at the Pike’s Creek
intersection of Route 115 and the
Lake Silkworth highway, and was
caused when Anthony Drzewiecki,
with whom the injured persons were
riding, failed to halt his car at a
stop sign. The machine was over-
turned and badly damaged by the
force of the collision.
Mrs. Drzewiecki and Miss Winick
were treated by Dr. H. A. Brown
of Lehman. Also riding with
Drewiecki was his sister, Irene, who
was uninjured.
Patrolman Fred Swanson of the
Harvey’s Lake police force, who in-
vestigated the accident, said it was
the fourth serious collision to occur
at the intersection in Pike’s Creek
within the past year.
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Rainy Weather Causes
Postponement Of Display
The fireworks rafts of the Har-
vey's Lake Boat Club, which never
left dock last week-end when the
display was twice postponed by in-
clement weather, will be launched
tonight, with the display scheduled
to begin at 9:30. If rain again
causes postponement, the fireworks
. . . financed by lake merchants . . .
will be set off Sunday night, fol-
lowing the Boat Club Regatta.
markings and numerals on all homes
in Dallas, Shavértown, 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.
Dallas Housewives To Contribut
Aluminum For National Defen
Burgess Smith Director Of Local Collection:
Campaign Begins Next Week; Solicitors Named
The National Defense program has been brought right into the homes
of Dallas people with the drive for aluminum contributions from house-
wives in this section scheduled to begin next week.
The local campaign has been planned in accordance with an appeal
sent out by the combined offices of Production Management and Civilian
s Defense asking
that the critical
nationwide shortage of aluminum
for the manufacture of defense ma-
terials be made up by voluntary
contributions of aluminum cooking
utensils from American housewives.
An executive committee working
under Burgess Herbert A. Smith,
chairman of the aluminum drive in
the Dallas area, this week appoint-
ed a number of solicitors who will
make a house-to-house canvass in
the borough and its immediate
vicinity the latter part of next week
to enlist the support of local people
in the collection campaign.
All housewives agreeing to con-
tribute aluminum pots and pans and
other utensils which they can read-
ily spare are asked to place their
offerings on their front porches the
morning of collection day, which
has been set for July 22. Dallas
Boy Scouts will load the aluminum
ware on trucks, contributed for the
day by local contractors, and mass
the total offering from this district
at a protected spot, the location of
which has been kept a secret.
The Dallas committee expects
one hundred per cent co-operation
from local housewives in this com-
paign, which is being conducted on
a nationwide basis. The American
Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars,
Dallas Rotary and Mt. Greenwood
"Kiwanis Clubs have all pledged en-
thusiastic support to the aluminum
collection drive and will work with
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Breslin Named
Rotary President
Club To Promote Road
Safety, Boro Fire Plugs
Dallas Rotary was dedicated to a
vigorous program of civic better-
ment by its new president, Robert
J. Breslin of Shavertown, at an in-
stallation meeting at Irem Country
Club last Thursday night.
Rotarians will concentrate on
safety measures and beautification
of the new highway this coming
year, he said, and with the co-oper-
ation of the Henry M. Laing Fire
Company will help to promote the
installation of fire plugs in the, bor-
ough. Together with these: ‘main
objectives, Dallas Rotary will con-
tinue its work of developing better
community spirit among the people
of this section and aim towards all-
around civic improvement,
The new president, a rotary mem-
ber since 1938, is affiliated with
the Bucyrus-Erie Corporation of
Kingston. Other officers installed
were Daniel Richards, vice-president
and director, Robert Roberts, secre-
tary, and Ralph Hallock, treasurer.
The Rotary-Anns, meeting in joint
session with the Rotary, installed
Mrs. Margaret Nicholson as presi-
dent, Mrs. Frederica Breslin, vice-
president, Mrs. Mary Dick, secre-
tary, and Mrs. Claire Warriner,
treasurer.
Present were Mr. and Mrs. C. L.
Albert, Robert Bodycomb, Robert
Breslin, Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Gar-
inger, Peter Jurchak, L. F. Kings-
ley, Michael E. Kuchta, Mr. and
Mrs. Calvin McHose, Mr. and Mrs.
John Nicholson, Mr. and Mrs. Wil-
liam Reilly, L. L. Richardson, Rob-
ert Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. Warren
Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Paul War-
riner, Burt Williams, Hiney Klein-
kauf and Richard Lyons of the Wyo-
ming Rotary Club.
The first of the series of weekly
band concerts to be given by mem-
bers of the Lehman High School
Band was held Sunday afternoon
in the local gymnasium due to bad
weather conditions. Guest players
were Robert DeLong of Laketon,
drummer, and member of the North-
east District Band at Bloomsburg;
Frank Berry, Clarks Summit, All-
State tuba player; Charles Utt,
Clarks Summit, snare drummer;
Roland Frisbie, Clarks Summit,
trumpeter; Thomas Bonham, West
Nanticoke, trombone player; Henry
Miller, West Nanticoke, clarinet
player; Carl Brandon, bass drum
player.
Starting tonight and continuing
through the first week in August
the concerts will be held at 8
| o'clock Friday evening on the lawn
Lehman High School Band Gives First
Of Series Of Outdoor Concerts
of the High School. Band members
of neighboring districts are welcome
to join the Lehman players. It is
expected that the guest players of
Sunday will continue with the Leh-
man Band through the summer.
The program tonight will include:
Thunderer, Sousa; Ambition, an
overture, Bennett; Salutation,
march, Seitz; Old Timers’ Waltz, a
medley; El Capitan, Sousa; Mexicali
Rose, popular waltz; The Marine
Hymn, Let Me Call You Sweetheart,
Glow Worm, Jack and the Bean
Stalk, a novelty with narrator,
America I Love You, Anapola and
Star Spangled Banner.
A male quartet composed of Carl
Brandon, Joseph Clouser, Richard
Parks and Bob Parks will give sev-
eral selections and a trumpet trio
with Lenora Parks, Carol Crosby,
and Andy Wallo will entertain.