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Editorially Speaking: m——
Fighting Alone
There are plenty of people who give the impression—
particularly the Treasury Department—that the purchase
of a war saving stamp or Defense Bond is going to win this
war. That philosophy has been drilled into us so often that
we're confused. Commendable as war saving stamps and
Defense Bonds may be we wish the Treasury wouldn’t
make its arguments so all inclusive.
‘We didn’t spend our way out of the depression and we
won't spend our way through the war. There are many,
we know, who believe their patriotic obligations have been
met once they've walked up to the window and planked
down the cash for a bond. Money has always got us out of
a jam before, it will do it again.
We don’t agree.
We've seen too much waste in high
places—too much non-defense spending—too many WPA
operations in progress—too many pensions for Congress-
men.
We couldn’t direct this defense effort. We wish a lot of
other people were as convinced of that as we are. But we
can see in our own little way, that this country needs a
change of heart before we can give our best effort.
We
have got to realize that potent as money is, exhaustless as
our resources are; strong as our allies may be, we, and
we alone, have got to win this war. When we get in that
frame of mind we’ll buy all the defense stamps and bonds
we can, we'll cut out non-defense and foolish spending in
our own local governments as well as in county, state and
nation.
And we’ll get down to business as if there were no other
nation on our side in this war. We'll help our allies to the
last ditch with far reaching materials supplied in time, but
we'll fight, every one of us, as though our backs were to
the wall, unaided, dog-tired, hungry and alone.
In that
mood we'll tolerate nothing at home that stands in our way
and we'll fight with the determination that wins total wars.
The Honorable Way Out
We were impressed with one sentence in the testimony
on which Laura Ingalls, woman aviator, was convicted of
failing to register as a paid German agent. It deserves to
be remembered.
This is the sentence in which Baron von Gienanth, for-
mer second secretary of the German Embassy, in Wash-
ington is declared to have discouraged a plan of hers to fly
back to Germany and said she could accomplish more for
the Nazi cause by ‘‘continuing her work for the America
First Committee.”
This need not be recalled as casting aspersion on the
loyalty of the men and women who formed and supported
the American First Committee from sincere motives, but if
we were Charles Lindbergh, “Ham” Fish and Bert Wheeler
we'd form a select little bomber crew, load it with high ex-
plosives and ram it straight into the sides of a Japanese
battleship. That seems to us to be the only honorable way
out.
Where They Belong
Hugh Donnelly of the Amsterdam, N. Y., Recorder, con-
tributes this one. Three young men probably receiving $75
a week and deferred from army service because they were
employed in a vital defense industry, were leaving the
General Electric plant at the end of their shift. A truck
load of soldiers passed them near the plant.
The young
workers raised their hands and called after them ‘“Hi-ya
. suckers!” The. fruck stopped.’ An army.captain walked
Jey
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“back, greeted the men; “Your names and*uddlesk, please?
Two weeks later vital defense got along with out three
smart alecks, and the army was probably not too much
improved by their presence.
Bmerica—The Determined
A skilled carpenter—a former contractor—and before
the depression the head of a prosperous firm stopped in
our office this week. He was depressed. For the past two
weeks he had travelled more than a thousand miles look-
ing for work. He had stopped in many towns and at many
plants. In each instance his appeals for work received one
of two answers.
He was either too old for work, sixty-
two, young men were being trained for the positions he
sought or he would have to join the Union, $100. Nobody
seemed to remember the Normandie or Pearl Harbor. No-
body seemed to care.
FROM
PILLAR TO POST
By Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr.
Ever since a pair of square-dance friends moved into our community,
this family has been going about in a happy daze. Dishes are washed to
the tune of “Oh Suzanna’, and the living-room
rug briskly vacuum-
cleaned to the strains of “Buffalo Boy” or “Take a little Peek”. Other be-
mused couples congregate on Saturday night, push the big dining-room
table into a corner of the room, roll
up the rug, and otherwise clear the
decks for action. The caller adjusts
the record-player, selects a record,
and bellows, “Sets in order!” The
middle-aged assemblage, all of us
old enough to know better or to have
some slight regard for our wind and
our hardening arteries, prances gaily
into place. We honor our partners
and we honor our corners, we take
eight hands and around we go, we
reverse ourselves in full flight and
dash in the other direction.
Some of us swing our partners
handsomely, some of us propel our-
selves gingerly around in a circle.
We allemand left, we circle right,
we grand-right-and-left, we contort
our protesting muscles in the rattle-
snake twist, or we make the su-
preme sacrifice and thread the
needle. We reduce ourselves to a
helpless state of perspiration and
laughter, and at the conclusion of
each set of three dances we make a
beeline for the punch-bowl.
It is astonishing how much punch
is absorbed during the course of a
strenuous evening. Fanny Farmer's
recipe for one hundred people is
just about enough to satisfy sixteen
square dancers. The basic ingredi-
ents come with the dancers, each
basket yielding its quota of ginger-
ale, tea infusion, grape-juice, and
lemon-juice. The water for dilution
is on the house. Sometimes we make
a stack of sandwiches, but mostly
we concentrate on keeping the
punch-bow! brimming. Each dancer
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Farmers To Meet
A Farm Machinery Meeting will
be held at Memorial Shrine Farm
in Carverton on February 26. Farm-
ers will be shown how to adjust
their machinery and to make simple
repairs. This is most important due
to the shortage of new machinery
and parts during the coming sea-
son. All growers interested are in-
vited to attend.
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
: 5. ; Centralization of police protec-
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markings and numerals on all homes
in Hallas Shavertown, and Trucksville,
which will train men and women in
national defense measures.
Ture Darras Post:
Dallas Borough.
lic recreational facilities serving the
entire Back Mountain area.
THE POST WANTS:
Permanent and legible street
Emphasis locally on activities
The installation of fire plugs in
A community building, and pub-
Richard Cease
Killed In Action
Over Far East”
Bomber Is First Local
Boy To Lose Life
Navigator On Army
The entire community was sad-
dened Monday morning to learn of
the death of Second Lieutenant
Richard Cease, killed in action some-
where in the far east.
Dick was the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Wilson Cease of Trucksville and
was a navigator on an Army Air
Corps Bomber. While the place of
death was not definitely established,
it is believed to have taken place
near Java possibly during an air
corps assault upon a Japanese in-
vasion fleet in the Macasser Strait.
But wherever it was, his friends and
family know that he met it quietly,
fearlessly and with the courage of
the man that he was.
His death was the first reported
among the hundreds from his gener-
ation in the Back Mountain region
who are serving their country.
Born in Trucksville, November 13,
1915, Dick Cease was 26 years old.
He was always a serious, ambitious,
youngster ever eager to take on a
new task or to run an errand, and
there will be many in Trucksville
who will remember him as a pleas-
ant, industrious boy rather than as
an air corps lieutenant. After his
graduation from Kingston Township
High School in 1933 where his fath-
er is teacher in manual training, he
entered Bucknell Junior College to.
study for a year.
Eager to be on his own, he
took up employment with the
Steinhauer Milling Company at Lu-
zerne and continued his studies
nights for three years at the Whar-
ton School of Commerce and Finance
of the University of Pennsylvania.
Then the opportunity he had long
awaited presented itself in a course
of aviation training at a Cadet Fly-
ing School in the South. Employees
and executives of the Steinhauer
plant were all fond of Dick. “We
had never expected a boy of his de-
termination to stay with us long in
the paint shop,” Miss Edna Stein-
hauer said, “he was an excellent
worker and he never grumbled.
When he returned to his old job at
the mill after being ‘grounded’ he
took it all philosophically. He talked
about his interrupted course and
flying experience in matter-of-fact
language.” Although it seemed for a
time like the end of his dreams, he
realized that his technical co-ordi-
nation as a student pilot would not
have qualified him for a pilot's
rating.
But the boy had impressed
his fellow cadets and officers and it
was not long before he received a
call to return to the service; a man
of his calibre didn’t belong on the
ground; they'd make a navigator
out of him. That was his great at-
tribute—the ‘ability to make lasting
friendships and inspire confidence.
After his return to cadet school
his advance was rapid. He trained at
Miami, Florida with Pan-American
and at other army bases, and was
stationed at Salt Lake City until
recently. The last information re-
ceived from him was a telephone
call to his parents two weeks ago
telling them that he was in transit
for French West Africa but could
not reveal his destination. Then on
Sunday his parents received the
army 2-star telegram delivered to
their home in Trucksville by West-
| ern Union Messenger.
The Message
The Secretary of War desires me
to express deep regret that your
son Second Lieutenant Richard
Wellington Cease United States
Army was killed in action in the |
defense of his country in the far
eastern theatre January twenty-
ninth (stop) Delay in reporting facts
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Little Boy, Who Spent Four
Years In Hospitals, Dies
The funeral of James Ellsworth
Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. Grover
Jones was held yesterday afternoon
from the family home on Huntsville
Road, Dallas, with services in charge
| of Rev. Francis Freeman of Dallas
Methodist Church.
During his short span of life—he
would have been seven in April—
Jimmie had spent more than four
years in hospitals where his ailment
baffled physicians. Unlike other lit-
tle boys, he was unable to attend
school. Jimmie had been ill for
more than five years spending
eleven months in a Philadelphia hos-
pital and the last two and one-half
years in General Hospital where he
was a favorite among nurses and
patients alike and had the run of
the corridors when he was not so
painfully ill that he had to be in
bed.
He and his mother who cared for
him constantly had a grand time
together on Saturday, St. Valen-
tine’s Day, when he had appeared
to be in much better spirits than
usual, but the little boy—‘‘the brav-
est little boy I ever knew” in the
words of his mother—took a sud-
den turn for the worse early Sun-
day morning and died Sunday after-
noon at 4:30.
Besides his parents he leaves his
grandmother, Mrs. James E. Jones
of Dallas and Mr. and Mrs. William
Larimer of Cumberland, Maryland.
The pallbearers were: Joe Sheri-
dan, Betty Roache, Marylin Davis,
Bobby Jewell, Donald Van Horn and
Howard Sauder. Interment was in
Dennison Cemetery.
Killed In Action--- Far Eastern Theatre
RICHARD WELLINGTON CEASE
November 13, 1915—January 29, 1942
Orchard ¥nob'
Farm Is Sold ~~
For $23,000
Only Final Signatures
Awaited For Completion
Of Property Transfer
While real estate men were loath
to confirm any details it is learned
on reliable authority that Orchard
Knob Farm owned by Mrs. Frederick
C. Johnson of Center Hill Road and
Florida, has been sold to Donald
Wilkinson, representative in the
State Legislature from the Sixth
District and Fred Brokenshire, son
of Councilman Fred Brokenshire of
Kingston.
By the terms of the joint sale, Mr.
Wilkinson will take the Johnson
mansion and seven acres of ground
as a permanent home and Mr.
Brokenshire will take the remaining
ninety acres, barn, out buildings, op-
erator’s home and double tenant
house. Mr. Brokenshire expects to
make his summer home in the house
now occupied by Charles Elston.
While all terms of the sale have
been met by the two men, the tran-
saction will not be final for several
of
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of the property, is in Florida and
it will be some time before all papers
can be completed. The transaction
| was made through the offices of C.
{ A. Leighton Company for a joint
| sum of $23,000. Original asking price
| was $27,500.
Charles Elston and Isaac Loveland
who occupy homes on the farm have
been asked to vacate the property
by April 1.
One of the most beautiful homes
in this region, occupying a high
prominence overlooking Huntsville
Dam, Orchard Knob Farm with its
surrounding rock gardens and orch-
ards was laid out and built more
than forty years ago by the late Dr.
Frederick G. Johnson, editor of the
Wilkes-Barre Record.
The high colonnaded house of
Southern Colonial architecture con-
tains twelve rooms, three baths and
three fireplaces. In addition there is
a two-car garage and adjoining cut
flower garden.
The two other houses on the farm
which will become the property of
Mr. Brokenshire are a six-room farm
operator’s home on Center Hill Road
and a ten-room double house on the
Huntsville-Idetown road. All fields,
orchards, barns with tile silos, hog,
chicken and tool houses as well as
ice cutting privileges on Huntsville
Dam will go to Mr. Brokenshire who
expects to devote much of the acre-
age to growing fruits and vegetables
for his Tavern at Kingston Corners.
In addition Mr. Brokenshire expects
to remodel a part ot the barn into
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days because Mrs. Johnson, owner !
Farmers Are
Indifferent
To Cash Crop
Only Eighty Acres Of
Tomatoes Contracted
At Meeting With Canner
About 100 farmers of the north-
ern tier townships of Luzerne Coun-
ty met in Dallas Township High
School Auditorium Wednesday eve-
ning and discussed plans for tomato
canning acreage.
It is the plan of the canners, Chef
Boyardee Food Products Company
of Milton, Pa., one of the most re-
liable packers in the country whose
famous brands have been nationally
known and advertised for years, to
contract within the vicinity of Dal-
las for at least 350 acres of to-
matoes for canning purposes this
year.
It was through the contact of
County Agent J. D. Hutchison, that
the Boyardee Company interested
itself in this area, for he felt that
farmers in the northern tier town-
ships should have more cash farm
crops. The contact was made prim-
arily for the benefit of the farmer
to assist him in making a better
living.
J. R. Keiser, in charge of field
production for the Boyardee Com-
pany explained the procedure in con-
tracting acreage to the farmers. He
stated that tomatoes grown by the
farmer will be hauled to Dallas by
the farmer and the load weighed.
Federal Bureau of Markets Inspec-
tors will take sample baskets from
each farmer’s load and grade sam-
ples into U. S. No. 1 and U. S. No.
2. These samples will establish the
grade of the load brought in and
farmers will be paid on the grade of
the sample.
After weighing, the crop will be
moved to Milton in large tractor
trailer trucks and the growers will
be paid within two weeks on the
basis of grade. The contract price
for U. S. No. 1 tomatoes is $22 a
ton and for U. S. No. 2 $14 a ton,
F. O. B. Milton. In co-operation with
the Federal Government the Boyar-
dee Co., is helping to maintain
farm income and is paying $5 per
ton on each grade above the aver-
age price paid last year.
Leonard Laskowski, Swoyerville
grower, who had come to the meet-
ing to urge the farmers to consider
the opportunity presented to them,
spoke briefly, driving home facts
from his experience during the past
two years as a tomato grower for
the Boyardee Company. Mr. Las-
kowski said that he rented high-
priced river bottom land, grew qual-
ity tomatoes and hauled them to
Milton himself. He said his relations
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Four Hundred And Sixty-Seven Men
Register For Military Servic
Two Sets Of Fathers And Sons And Twelve
Men Of Foreign Birth Are Among Registrants
While nature relased a downpour of rain from overcast skies to con-
tribute no cheer to one of the darkest days of the war, 467 Back Mountain
men between the ages of 20 and 44 registered for military service on
Monday at Dallas Borough High School. They were part of a grim throng
of 1795 who registered in the half dozen or more registration places
Ie
School Board
Will Enforce
Smoking Rule
Groups Seeking Use
Of Buildings Must
Adhere To Regulation
Matters of a routine nature re-
quired the attention of directors at
the meeting of Dallas Borough
School Board on Friday night. Atty.
J. C. Valentine presented a copy of
Court Order 568, March Term 1942,
appointing J. Wesley Himmler school
director in place of J. George Ayre
for the term expiring the first Mon-
day in December 1945. Mr. Himmler
did not, however, attend the meet-
ing, the first since his appointment.
The directors confirmed an order
issued to R. L. Hallock, low bidder,
to replace smoke pipe and fittings
on boiler No. 1 for a sum of $85.
The board also received quotations
from Paul Shaver for the installa-
tion of an additional alarm bell at
$44.45; and from R. L. Hallock for
the installation of a new drinking
fountain in the elementary school
{ building at $43.50.
| ~ There was considerable discussion
regarding the laxity in enforcement
of the ‘no smoking rule” in the
school buildings, especially at it per-
tained to fire prevention. The super-
i
| vising principal was instructed to
inform all groups seeking permis-
sion to use the buildings that smok-
ing will not be allowed. He was also
i directed to post “no smoking” signs
throughout the buildings.
Supervising principal, Williammee
recommended allowance of one-half
day to Clarence LaBar, physical ed-
ucation instructor, absent for Selec-
tive Service physical examination,
and deduction of one-half day’s pay
from Miss Dolton, absent on per-
sonal business. He also notified the
board of the suspension of Arthur
Hauck, but the board took no action.
because the boy is above the com-
pulsory school age.
Mr. Williammee discussed air raid
precautions, stating that most of the
recommendations he had received,
based on experience in bombed
areas, had suggested placing pupils
in corridors during air raid drills.
Test drills, he said, had revealed
considerable crowding so that he
had received some criticism of this
nlan. He suggested that a joint meet-
ing be held with parents for a pub-
lic hearing to discuss air raid drills
before any final policy is adopted.
The plan of a joint meeting was ap-
proved bv the board.
Atty. Valentine reported further
collections of 1939 and 1940 per-
sonal and property taxes and the
secretary submitted a list of 1934 to
1938 unpaid taxes which were turn-
ed over to Director William Baker
for checking in co-operation with
other members of the board.
Rutomobile Stolen
A new black Hudson coupe with
license number 4MN74 and owned
by Harold Smith, son of Burgess H.
A. Smith of Dallas, was stolen from
in front of a Shavertown home Sat-
urday night.
within the area of Draft Board No.
1 of Wyoming. Men from all walks
of life, farmers in blue denim waited
in line beside executives in tweed
suits—miners with grimy faces reg-
istered at tables beside pink cheeked
youths just out of high school. It
was a sober day, none took it lightly
but none appeared depressed.
Among them in the Back Moun-
tain area were a few born in for-
eign lands—some without first nat-
uralization papers—but all expressed
a willingness to serve their adopted
country if need be. Many others had
served in the first World War or in
the armed services of their country
at one time or another and still
others registered along with sons
just of military age.
Two men were waiting outside the
registration place when Chief Reg-
istrar T. A. Williammee opened it
for the day, following them came a
thin line of men until 9:30 when
the small class room at the front
of the building was thronged with
men in line waiting to register at
one of the seven small tables. Reg-
istrars were hard pressed from then
until 11—the heaviest registration
period of the day.
Shortly after T. A. Williammee
was sworn in as chief registrar by
Joseph MacVeigh, member of Draft
Board No. 1, Mr. Williammee ad-
ministered the oath to his assistants
—all teachers from Back Mountain
schools—William A. Moran, Clarence
LaBar, Howard Tinsley, Robert Hen-
derson and Ralph Rood from Dallas
Borough; James Martin, Thomas
Jenkins and Lawrence Coolbaugh
from Kingston Township; Gerald
Snyder, J. Lloyd Drake, Raymond
Kuhnert and George Ayre, fror
Dallas Township. The registrs
worked in shifts until 9 p. m. -
Because of an error in the Wilkes-
Barre Record, many men who sought
to register went first to Dallas
Township High School but were in-
formed there that the proper place
i to register was in Dallas Borough
High School.
Two men in General Hosiptal,
Elias William Miller and Donald
Chesney, sent word by relatives that
they would be unable to regitser
and provision was made for their
later registration.
Father And Sons
Among the fathers and sons were
Henry Fritzges and his son Robert
Henry Fritzges, a former Kingston
Township High School basketball
star and now a student at Bucknell
Junior College. Another father and
son combination was Charles Elmor
Gensel and William Charles Gensel,
a student at Kingston Township
High School.
Bob Bulford of Trucksville who
served in the navy, Sheldon Drake,
Dallas R. F. D. carrier, who served
in the Medical Corps; and William
McIntyre of Commonwealth Tele-
phone Company, who served in the
army were among the many World
War men who registered.
Men Of Foreign Birth
Among those giving a foreign land
as the place of their birth was Pat-
rick Ivory who works for E. M.
Green of Trucksville. Pat was born
in Dublin, Ireland. “Peter” handy-
man at College Misericordia and a
native of Ireland was on hand to
register but was informed that his
age, 45, released him from obliga-
tion. Oliver Saunders gave Wales as
the place of his birth and Peter
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As the first step in a plan to se-
cure a small industry for this area
in connectinn with the efforts of
State Department of Commerce on
behalf of the ‘anthracite area, stu-
dents of local ‘schools yesterday
started a house-to-house survey to
determine the potential labor supply
—both skilled and unskilled—in this
community.
Representatives of the Depa
of Commerce recently di
| length the possibility of
| small industry here. TI
this community as a
possibility because it j
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(is an area of home-ov,
| its own local newspa;
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| superior in many ret
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| an industry in the De
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Department Of Commerce Considers
Area No. 1 Possibility For Industry
the ideal community so far as the
State Department of Commerce g
concerned.
In order to give the img
telligent consideratio
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