Editorially Speaking =—=————————=
On The Sign Committee, Are You?
For years ‘this community has recognized the need for
street signs. For more than three years this newspaper,
through editorials and contacts, has attempted to have
Dallas Borough Council do something about it. But the
problem has been too heavy for the members of Council
to solve. Nothing has ever happened. Apparently the
even tenor of their respective businesses has not been.
interrupted as frequently as ours by the the inquiries of
delivery boys, prospective home-owners, revenue agents
and bill collectors trying to find their way around.
Now Jim Stile, a resident of this borough for less than
three months, comes around with a solution as simple as
it is economical. He'll paint attractive street signs during
his spare time as his own contribution to community ad-
vancement if the good citizens of Dallas will furnish the
supplies. The cost of these materials, incidentally, is no
more than a dollar and a half per sign. There is no catch
to his scheme. One buck-and-a-half: one street sign. Jim
is no sharp-shooting promoter or opportunist.” He’s just a
man who wants to do something for his home town—if his
home town is willing to cooperate.
However, although the scheme has been publicized for
two or three weeks now, there have been no takers. We
have pleaded with and exhorted the townspeople to go
along on the street sign project. No luck. To date no one
has even made a graceful gesture. Well, we are through
pleading and exhorting and advertising the street markers
in rousing terms. If the mountain won’t come to Mahat-
ma, Mahatma must go to the mountain.
We hereby, and arbitrarily, appoint the following good
people as committees-of-one to make collections for street
signs in their neighborhoods. From each of your neigh-
bors, ladies and gentlemen, you are to collect no less than
twenty cents. When every home-owner on your street has
coughed up, bring the money to our office on Lehman
avenue. In practically no time at all a new street sign will
be tacked up on your corner telephone pole.
The committee, street-by-street:
Bulford, Mrs. Howard Cosgrove; Elizabeth, Mrs. Brook
Arnold; Park, Walter Davis; Jackson, Joseph Adametz;
Parrish, Mrs.
Joseph Schmerer;
Davenport, William
Welch; Lehman, Ralph Rood; Pinecrest, Mrs. Earl Monk;
Franklin, Mrs. O. L. Harvey; Lake, Mrs. Arthur Dungey;
Machell, Burgess H. A. Smith; Ridge, Mrs. Thomas Reese;
Barker, Mrs. Ralph Eipper; Spring, John Joseph; Church,
Zel Garringer; Huntsville road, Helen Anderson; Norton,
Mrs. Paul Shaver; Cemetery, Mrs. R. L. Templin; Mill,
Mrs. Clyde Vietch; Claude, Mrs. Harry Snyder; Center Hill
road, Joseph MacVeigh; Main, Philip Cheney; Baldwin, A.
S. Culbert; Terrace, Mrs. L. L. Richardson; Water, Joseph
Polackey; Wellington, Elwood McCarthy; Wyoming ave-
nue, Mr. Fiest.
First one to plank his money down on the editor’s desk
gets his street sign outlined in gold leaf, second in silver
leaf, and the third in blue.
FROM
PILLAR TO POST
By Mzs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr.
I used to wonder idly about Board Meetings. I especially used to wonder
what people ate at Board Meetings that came at Lunch time. A handful
of sawdust, maybe, or a tasty snack of cremed shavings, or wooden nut-
megs from Vermont, the kind that thrifty Yankees zscd 40 palm off on
credulous city-dwellers. I am now in a position to know what people eat
at Board Meetings, having recently ®
joined a couple of Boards myself.
This noon the colored waiter prof-
fered a menu which had listed upon
it a number of sandwiches, none
of which semed to hit the spot.
There was a sliced-chicken sand-
wich, but after having eaten stewed
chicken two meals in a row I did
not care whether I ever met another
chicken or not. My neighbor on the
left picked out a luncheon com-
bination labelled number three on
the menu, a boiled tongue sand-
wich complete with all the trim-
mings including an olive on a tooth-
pick, a dill-pickle, and an order of
French-fries. My neighbor on the
right ordered a fresh-fruit salad,
which arrived mounted on a tall sil
ver pedestal and accompanied by
a bowl of pink salad dressing con-
taining chopped maraschino cher-
ries.
The man across the table had
combination number one, and the
well-upholstered lady a few places
down the line had a complete lunch-
eon, starting out with soup and ap-
petizers and ending up with a tall
and nourishing parfait. The thin
and dyspeptic-looking man with the
prominent Adams-apple had himself
a real binge—three rye-crisps and
a glass of milk.
The waiter came back and hov-
ered over me. I said that nothing
on the menu appealed to me, and
that I should like to have a raw-beef
sandwich. The waiter started to
write the order, then paused and
back-spaced with his pencil-stub.
“You say a raw-beef sandwich,
Ma'am ?”’ Yes, I wanted a raw-beef
sandwich. “Yes Ma’am, a raw-beef
sandwich. Ma’am, you want that
raw-beef sandwich rare or well-
done?”
I said I wanted the raw-beef
sandwich raw, Raw-beef sandwiches
were almost always served raw.
“You means rare, doesn’t you,
Ma'am ?”’ said the dusky gentle-
man hopefully. I said I wanted a
raw-beef sandwich. That I did not
want a hamburger. That I wanted
the chef to fix me a raw-beef sand-
wich, and that IT wanted him to be
personally acquainted with the cow.
“Yes, MA’AM”, said the waiter,
and disappeared in a walking trance.
The waiter brought all the other
orders, one after another, the rye-
crisps, the complete luncheon, the
fruit salad with its toothsome pink
dressing. Still no raw-beef sand-
wich.
Once more the waiter appeared
at my elbow, perspiring with emo-
tion, apologetic, but eager to please. |
“The chef, he say he ain't never
seen no raw-beef sandwich, but he’s
workin’ on it now. It be along di-
rectly.”
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Mrs. Jane Lohmann
Faithful Employe
Now Postmaster
Mrs. Lohmann Replaces
Staub At Trucksville
Mrs. Jane Lohmann, since 1925
an employee of the Trucksville Post
Office, has been appointed acting
postmaster of that station to fill a
vacancy created by the resignation
of Nicholas Staub. Her appointment
was received from Postmaster Gen-
eral Frank Walker Saturday, three
days after Mr. Staub submitted his
resignation, and will be effective un-
til she is named permanent post-
master, or until the position is filled
by another qualified applicant from
the Civil Service rolls.
Mrs. Lohmann, now entering her
18th year of continuous service, has
become as much of a fixture to the
2500 subscribers of the Trucksville
Post Office as the old frame building
itself. She first went to work at
the postal station in February, 1925,
and served as postmaster until 1935,
when William Luksic was appointed
to the position. For three years she
served as his assistant, and was as-
sistant to Mr. Staub until his resig-
nation last week once again placed
her in charge of the post office.
She has been a resident of
Trucksville for the past 28 years,
and lives on Lohmann street. That
thoroughfare, incidentally, was
named for her husband, the late
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Tue Darras Post
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
Vol. 52
FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1942
No. 17
Principals In Dallas Township High School Band Concert
The band is shown here assem- |
bled on the platform of the school
auditorium.
| First row, left to right: Robert
Patrick, Alyce Brace, Hannah Miers,
Mildred Kitchen, Margaret Martin,
Joy Lamoreaux, Phyllis Kunkle,
Harry Bellas, Bobby Winters,
Sherry Nulton, Alan Kunkle, Robert
Moore, Billy Whipp.
Second row: Harry Hughey, Nor-
man Stair, Warren Stanton, LaRue
Swayze, Lawrence Smith, Harold
Elston, Miss Evelyn Knappman, di-
rector; Robert Ashburner, James
Brace, Richard Case, Harry Martin,
George Bittenbender, Donald Smith,
Walter Kozemchak.
Third row: Bernard Breza, Charles
McManus, Wilda Zimmerman, Ethel
Shultz, Mary Jones, Charlotte Getz-
man, Wilma Hess, mascot; Florence
Ward, Geraldine Stanton, Dorothy
Photo by Ralph DeWitt
Gries, Donald Barto, Charles Cooke,
John Cooke, Melvyn Compton.
Fourth row: Robert Hess, Dorothy
Weaver, Josephine Hudak, Eleanor
Hardisky, Mable Rogers, Katherine
O’Boyle, drum majorette; Rhoda Ed-
dinger, Beatrice Cooke, Betty Kep-
ner, Robert Hessler.
Dallas, Shavertown and Trucksville.
To Be Conducted Here Tomorro
Trucks Will Canvass Dallas, Shavertown And
Trucksville; All-Out Cooperation Expected
Determined to clear this area of all waste materials usable in national
defense industries, a crew of 150 volunteer workmen will man a 30-truck
detail tomorrow and conduct a clean-up campaign along every street of
Local Citizens
Pledge $100,000
2000 Cards Collected
In War Bond Canvass
Annual war bonds purchases of
more than $100,000 in the Back
Mountain Area were indicated this
week as returns from the ‘Pledge
for Victory’ campaign came in to
Charles A. Stookey of Dallas, chief
of Air Raid Zone No. 9.
While Mr. Stookey’s estimate is
not official, it is based on the aver-
age pledge of nearly 2,000 cards
turned in by air raid wardens and
other defense workers who conduct-
ed the house-to-house canvass
throughout this area last Thursday
evening.
“The results of the drive here
were most encouraging,” said Mr.
Stookey, “and the work of the 200
or more public-spirited citizens who
made the rounds for war bond
pledges was particularly commend-
able.” Despite the large territory
each worker had to canvass, more
than 90 per cent of the homes here
were covered Thursday evening and
the entire job was completed by
Saturday morning.
Air raid wardens, members of the
"Women’s Council for Defense, serv-
ice clubs and others volunteered to
make the canvass. Sector Wardens
Ralph Hazeltine, Clyde Lapp and
Chief Ira C. Stevenson organized
the campaign in the Kingston Town-
ship, Dallas and Harvey's Lake sec-
tions.
FFA To Hold Dinner
At Dallas Township
A few sidelights on what the
younger farmers of Dallas Township
are learning in agriculture class
these days are in store for a number
of old-timers and proud pappas who
will attend the Father and Son Ban-
quet of the Future Farmers of Amer-
ica at Dallas Township High School
next Wednesday night.
While a noted farm expert—
Howard E. Newcomer, Lackawanna
County Advisor of Vocational Agri-
culture—will be main speaker of
the after-dinner program, the Fu-
ture Farmers themselves will domin-
ate the program as each boy talks
of his pet projects and experiments.
Group singing and other entertain-
ment have also been planned.
- General chairman of the banquet,
which is sponsored by the Anthra-
cite Chapter of the FFA, is Ger-
ald M. Snyder, chapter advisor and
agriculture instructor at the town-
ship school. His committee includes
Paul Carlin, Harold Elston, Ralph
Snyder, Walter Kozemchak, Danny
Kozemchak, Lawrence Smith and
Aubrey Weaver.
“Salvage For Victory” Collection
dl
First project in the ‘Salvage For
Victory” drive, which will be continued here and in all other parts of
the nation for the duration of the
war, tomorrow’s collection is de-
signed to cover only the built-up
portions of the Dallas Area. In the
near future a salvage center will
be established in. .ziery community
in this section« for - the accumula-
tion of useable waste from rural
homes.
Scrap metal, old rubber; rags,
paper, glassware and all other con-
vertible materials now lying idle in
the cellars, attics, yards and gar-
ages of local people are to be piled
in front yards or on porches con-
venient to the streets, so that the
salvage collectors will not be de-
layed in making their rounds. All
streets will be covered, and every
home-owner is expected to make
some contribution to the clean-up.
The salvage collection, divided
among three crews—one to each
community—will begin promptly at
9:30 tomorrow morning and con-
tinue until every home has been
canvassed. The Dallas crew, organ-
ized by Clarence LaBar and Mrs.
Arthur Culver, will begin opera-
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Fall Is Fatal
To Little Boy .
Francis Tondora Dies
From Throat Injuries
The tragic little body of Francis
Tondora, 7-year-old Fernbrook
youngster who lost his life Satur-
day in one of the strangest acci-
dents ever recorded here, was laid
away Tuesday morning in Secred
Heart Cemetery. Funeral services
were held from the home of his par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Tondora
of Glen View Terrace, with an angel
mass at 9:30 at St. Therese’s
Church, Shavertown, celebrated by
Rev. Eugene Frank.
Francis died about 3 o'clock Sat-
urday afternoon, scarcely fifteen
minutes after he had fallen in the
basement of his home. He had
stumbled while carrying an armful
of wood to the furnace, where his
mother was kindling a fire, and as
he fell his throat struck against the
sharp corner of a box. The blow,
while it did not cut or scar the
skin, apparently caused a stricture
of his windpipe and he died of
strangulation a few minutes later.
Mrs. Tondora came swiftly to the
aid of her injured, struggling son,
carried him up the cellar stairs and
went immediately to the home of
her neighbor, Mrs. Russell Case, to
summon Dr, Malcolm Borthwick of
Shavertown. Though Dr. Borthwick
came immediately, little Francis was
dead when he arrived.
Mr. Tondora, employed by the
Sordoni Construction Company at
the A. C. & F. plant in Berwick,
was notified by phone to return
home immediately. The call, which
reached him about 3:30, did not
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MAN LAUGHS AT GAS
SHORTAGE, BICYCLES
HERE FROM CAROLINA
Arthur Dymond,~26, travel-
ling north from South Carolina
to visit relatives in Beaumont
had no fear of gasoline short-
ages. Arthur left Carolina last
Thursday night at 8 on a bicy-
cle with his luggage loaded on
a rubber tired toy wagon trail-
er. He pulled into Boyle's Inn
at Hillside at midnight Tues-
day. The young man, wore a
corduroy outfit during most of
his trip and slept out in the
open nights. He was dog-tired
when he reached Boyle's but
after a short snooze appeared
fit-as-a-fiddle and continued his
journey through the darkness
to Beaumont.
a
Noxen Barkeeper
Is Found Guilty
Wilson To Receive
Sentence May 11th
Convicted by a Wyoming County
criminal court jury on three counts
in violation of the liquor laws, Allen
“Torchy” Wilson, proprietor of the
Noxen Inn at Noxen, has been re-
leased on $1,000 bail pending sen-
tence.
The verdict of guilty was handed
down Saturday morning after a five-
day trial at Wyoming County Court
House at Tunkhannock in which the
State Liquor Control Board, as pros-
ecutor, charged Wilson with Sunday
sales, sales to minors and minors
frequenting his establishment.
Bulk of the testimony came from
some twenty youngsters of Noxen
and vicinity, between the ages of
16 and 20, who had been questioned
during a raid on the Noxen Inn a
month ago and subpoenaed as wit-
nesses. Evidence that Wilson's
establishment had been opened for
business on Sundays was also sub-
mitted. Wyoming County District
Attorney R. M.: Trembath repre-
sented the Liquor Control Board
and Attorney Francis Murray of
Wilkes-Barre was defense counsel.
Judge Edward Farr, who presid- |
ed during the trial, will pronounce |
sentence on Monday, May 11. Un-
der -law, the penalty can be a fine
of $300, a year in prison, or both.
Costs, alone, because of the large
number of witnesses, and other legal
expenses may exceed $500.
Lake Carpenter
Joins The Navy
Eric Weber, 28-year-old carpen-
ter and jack of all trades, left his
home on Noxen road last week and
set off for the Naval Training Sta-
tion at Great Lakes, Illinois, where
he will undergo training for a chief
petty officer's rating.
Mr. Weber, son of: Eric Weber,
Sr., of Harvey's Lake, has been mak-
ing his own way since he was a
youngster of 17—and has made a
pretty good job of it, too. One of
the most skilful carpenters in these
parts, Eric has helped build many
of the attractive new summer homes
at the lake and constructed his own
Township Band
Plays Friday
School Musicians To
Give Varied Program
The martial music and well-drill-
ed showmanship of the oldest
school band in the Back Mountain
Region will greet a huge turnout
next Friday evening, May 1, when
the Dallas Township High School
Band presents its annual concert
in the school auditorium.
Playing its second year under
the direction of Miss Evelyn Knapp-
man, talented music director of the
township schools, the 50-piece stu-
dent outfit has been rehearsing sev-
eral months for the forthcoming
performance and has reached near-
perfection in ability and style of
presentation.
The program, which will include
the stirring anthems of the U. S.
Armed Forces together with num-
erous classical and popular num-
bers, will be further enlivened with
novelty arrangements, solos by out-
standing members of the band and
several routines by the twirling
drum majorettes. Among the solo
artists to be featured are saxophon-
ist Paul Fahringer, clarinetists Dor-
othy Gries and Mildred Kitchen,
Ethel Shultz, cornetist, and Robert
Patrick, talented baritone player.
Kay O’Boyle, drum majorette, and
Wilma ‘Hess, band mascot, will be
high-lighted in the twirling routines.
The addition of new military
jackets makes the appearance of the
band especially striking, and the
trim, snappy outfits are appropriate
to the martial theme of the coming
concert.
The proceeds of the performance
will go towards new music and
equipment for the bandsmen and a
special Dallas Township High School
banner to be carried with the col-
ors during parades and other pub-
lic events. Admission prices are 28
cents for adults and 15 cents for
children.
7\¢ SS
More Sweat,
Less Blood
And Tears!
Special Periods
Set For Men In
New Registration
Borough School Open
Saturday and Sunday
For Local Enrollment
While the main enrollment
of men of the Back Mountain
Area in the Fourth Selective
Service Registration will be
conducted here, as in all other
districts of - the nation, on
Monday, two alternate regis-
tration periods have been set
by officials of Local Board No.
1 at Wyoming.
Men of this area who will find it
impossible or inconvenient to regis-
ter on Monday may do so tomorrow
or Sunday afternoon between the
hours of 2 and 4 o'clock at Dal-
las Borough High School, or at
board headquarters in the borough
building of Wyoming from 2 to 6
Saturday and 2 to 5 Sunday.
The regular registration will be
held from 7 A. M. to 9 P. M. Mon-
day, and the following enrollment
centers are open to residents of
Dallas borough and Dallas, Kingston
and Franklin townships: Dallas Bor-
ough High School, Prof. T. A. Wil-
liammee in charge; Kingston Town-
ship High School, Prof. J. A. Martin
in charge; West Wyoming town hall,
Gilbert Parry, registrar; Wyoming
borough building, with John Piatt
in charge.
Men of Lake, Lehman, Jackson,
Ross and Hunlock townships are to
register either at Lehman Township
High School, where Prof. H. Austin
Snyder will officiate, or at Local
Board No. five headquarters in
Shickshinny.
The registration will include all
men between the ages of 45 and 65,
or those born on or after April 28,
1877, and on or before February
16, 1897. The only exempt persons
are those now serving with the
armed forces.
Because the registration will be
far more detailed than that of the
three previous Selective Service en-
rollments, all are cautioned to ar-
rive at the enrollment center as
early as possible Monday and allow
themselves plenty of time for regis-
tration.
Firemen Launch
Drive For $1000_- ;
Shavertown Company
Seeks New Apparatus
Seeking to increase and modern-
ize their fire-fiighting equipment
members of the Shavertown Fire
Company launched a campaign this
week to raise $1,000 from the citiz-
ens of their community.
In a circular letter to all home-
owners of Shavertown, Stanley Dav-
is, president of the fire company,
stated that new equipment is need-
ed by the company not only to han-
dle possible emergencies due to air
raids but also to provide added in-
surance against regular fires.
Present fire-fighting apparatus
consists of a chemical truck, suffici-
ent to handle the small conflagra-
tions normally answered by the
company, but useless against in-
cendiary bombs and inadequate for
any large fires. With the proceeds
of their campaign, the Shavertown
firemen will purchase a booster
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Rubber shortage and prospects of
drastic gasoline rationing has
alarmed commuters in the Lehman
region. They will meet. Wednesday
night at 8 in Lehman Township
High School to discuss ways and
means of obtaining daily bus serv-
ice along the route from Outlet to
Hillside where connections can be
made with the Dallas busses of
Wyoming Valley Autobus Company.
Such a plan has been under dis-
cussion for several weeks but an-
nouncements that the government
will shortly drastically restrict gas-
oline for pleasure automobiles to
2% gallons a week has brought
many in Lehman and outlying points
to the realization that immediate
action is necessary.
Clyde Cooper, temporary chair-
man of the citizens’ group, declared
this week that unless some form of
transportation other than private
automobiles can be obtained many
who own homes at a distance from
bus lines and who work in the val-
ley will either have to move back
to the valley, make arrangements
to stay in the valley during the
house single-handed.
week, returning to their homes for
Lehman Commuters to Organize
Campaign For Daily Bus Service
the week-ends, or give up their jobs.
Some of the far-sighted have al-
ready made contacts with the Wyo-
ming Valley Autobus Company to
have the necessary transportation
services provided. The more opti-
mistic among them believe that
enough people will patronize the
busses to make four trips a day
feasible—two around 8 in the morn-
ing and two around 5:30 and 6:30
in the afternoon. They contend
that there are many school teach-
ers and others who come out from
the valley every day so that there
will be considerable passenger traf-
fic both ways. The Autobus Com-
pany is reluctant to give any en-
couragement to supporters of the
move until a survey is made of the
potential number of passengers to
be expected. This is one of the
purposes of the meeting.
Many persons, Mr. Cooper ‘said,
have shown an interest in the plan
and have called to offer their co-
operation. He expressed the belief
that a large number will attend the
meeting. Others on the tempor-
ary committee are Mrs. John Cur-
tis and Atty. Hale Coughlin.