Editorially Speaking:
We have always been of the opinion that Memorial Day
should be kept, in the spirit of its origination, as a dedica-
tion to our soldier dead. That it has become, in large
measure, just another holiday for so many people seems
highly regrettable to us.
Towards a better and more
meaningful Memorial Day, then, we recommend and
whole-heartedly support the All Back Mountain Observ-
ance. Even if its only virtue lay in the fact that it will
allow the people of this region to gather together in friend-
ship and enjoyable enterprise, rather than spread to the
four corners in search of aimless holiday pastime, we
would consider it well worth while. And we know, further,
that the program is fundamentally designed to honor this
region’s soldier graves with patriotism and solemnity.
The entire morning will be devoted to services in re-
memberance of the men and boys who marched and
fought and died in the defense of this country and the
ideals for which it stands. The quaint, quiet beauty of the
Lehman cemetery has been chosen for these solemn cere-
monies . . .
chosen because its wooded setting, well-kept
graves and peaceful atmosphere are in themselves a per-
fect dedication to the dead buried there. . . chosen because
it is so typical of rural cemeteries everywhere, old and
weathered and steeped in tradition, and yet young and
green and vibrant in the renaissance of Spring. Where
better could we meet—bareheaded and silent and reverent
on this Memorial Day?
It is not the intention of the committee to in any way
depart from the rightful spirit and significance of Memor-
ial Day. We may have called the program, carelessly, a
celebration. Rather it is an observance, and one in which
we feel all the people of this region can join together.
After taps has been sounded in Lehman Cemetery, the
more convivial and hearty events of the day will begin.
Community singing, band concerts, basket lunches or
chicken dinners served by the church women of the com-
munity, and in the afternoon the All Back Mountain Horse
Show. All this is offered in the spirit of good old-fash-
ioned country get-together—an opportunity for every one
of you to spend an enjoyable, as well as a thoughtful and
serious, Memorial Day in the company of your neighbors
and friends.
We realize that many of you will wish to spend a por-
tion of the day on another burial ground, closer to your
hearts and memories than that of Lehman. And this is as
it should be. But we feel that all of you can well afford to
participate, in part at least; in this All Back Mountain
Memorial Day.
Thoughts On Gas Rationing
A long Sunday’s rest in bed at home—if you can get
it—is just as good as a week’s rest in a strange bed ina
strange town a thousand miles from home. :
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We know who bosses the men, but who bosses the
women?
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There’s no place left on this earth at this time where a
man can go and get away from it all.
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War is just as tough on fathers as on mothers.
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FROM.
PILLAR.TO POST
By Mgrs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jz.
If a columnist should let a column have its head instead of coercing
it along some predetermined path, I wonder where the column would
end up. Would it describe a perfect. circle like a wandering cow, returning
finally to its starting point, or would it leap the fence into a neighbor's
pasture and end up in the next county with its head against a stone
wall? The speculation opens up a
delightful range of possibilities.
We might start with a seasonable
topic, the rationing of gas. Last
week everything that could roll on
four wheels was on the road, getting
in one final fling before the lid was
clamped on and the rationing cards
were distributed.
Impressive Packards and Cadillacs
purred steadily along, sharing the
road and the spring scenery with
jalopies equipped with an organ
under the seat that played ‘Harps
and Flowers” when the speed limit
exceeded twenty miles per hour,
That ancient wheeze, doubtless a
hardy perennial when Caesar was
a pup, used to read, ‘Nearer My
God to Thee,” but I consider “Harps
and Flowers” much more subtle.
Along the road that leads farther
and farther into the high Alleghen-
ies and the oil-country of northern
Pennsylvania, the steady procession
hummed its way. Up near Brad-
ford there was feverish activity
among the oil-derricks. Every well
that could pump was pumping.
Clearings in the woods were littered
with the paraphernalia of new der-
ricks, and lines of smaller wells, all
leashed together and pumping in
unison, were doing their bit toward
relieving the gas-shortage in the
Hast.
Even the grave-yards were yield-
ing up their crude. Along one side
of a country cemetery was strung
a line of busy little wells, their nod-
ding heads narrowly missing some
very fancy angel-wing effects in
rugged granite. These little wells
have a heavy head apiece which is
balanced by a counterweight, When
the solemn heads bob up and down
in perfect rhythm, the effect is that
of a row of patient donkeys grazing
obediently in a well-discipiined
picket-line.
Gas-rationing, up to date, has not
cramped anybody’s style to any per-
ceptible = extent. Probably every-
body, even as you and I, filled the
gas-tank to the brim the night be-
fore the dead-line. The pinch will
be felt next week when the tanks
are nearly dry and that three-gallon
quota looks like a drop in the
bucket.
The newspapers carry illuminating
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Seven More Are
Inducted Here
Men In Third Draft
Undergo First Exams
Seven young men of this area re-
ceived their examinations and were
inducted into the Army Saturday,
it was announced this weék by Fred
Houghwout, secretary of Local
Board No. 1 at Wyoming. The new
selectees included Howard A. Cos-
grove of Bulford street, Dallas; Jos-
eph G. Layou of R. R. 1, Trucks-
ville; James W, Harris of Alderson,
and the following, all of Shaver-
town: Thomas R. Clemow, 144
Shaver avenue; Peter P. Silic, Nich-
olas Sosik, 237 East Center street,
and Donald T. Roberts of Roushey
street.
To date no men have been taken
from the February 16th draft, but
preliminary physical examinations
for the classification of those in the
Third Registration are now in pro-
gress and men will be inducted from
the new rolls beginning in June by
both Board One and Board No. 5
at Shickshinny. New Selective Ser-
vice regulations, effective June 15th,
will allow draftees a two weeks’ fur-
lough following their final examina-
tion. During this period of leave,
however, they will not be permitted
to enlist.
Announce Schedule For
Township Commencement
The schedule for Commencement
exercises at Dallas Township High
School was announced this week by
Prof, Raymond Kuhnert, supervising
principal.
Class Night will be held Friday,
May 29, the Baccalaureate Service—
in which seniors of Dallas Borough
will also participate—is to be con-
ducted Sunday, May 31, in Dallas
Methodist Church, and Commence-
ment will be on June 2. Blake
Tewksbury, registrar of Scranton-
Keystone Junior College, has ac-
cepted an invitation to address the
graduating class.
18E Darras Post
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
Our Job Is to Save
2 Dollars
Buy
War Bonds
| Every Pay Day
Vol. 52
FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1942
No. 21
Marines Mustered Into Memorial Day Parade
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Among the colorful floats, smartly stepping bands and quaint old horse-drawn buggies and buck-boards
Jot the All Back Mountain Memorial Day parade will b e the sleek station wagon of the three stalwart Marines
pictured above, whose services have been promised for the day by the Marine Recruiting Service of Wilkes-
Barre. On the right, and commanding officer of the de tachment, is Staff Sergeant Warren J. Lewis of Lehman.
His two companions are Staff Sergeants Charles E. Spen cer, at the wheel, and Edward J. Orem.
Dread Disease
Strikes Youth
Son Of Former Dallas
Couple Seriously Ill
Stricken with the dread malady
of Encephalitis—commonly known
as sleeping sickness—the T-year-old
son of a former Dallas couple was
removed this week from a York hos-
pital to Johns Hopkins in Baltimore,
where his condition is described as
extremely critical.
The victim, little Jimmie Ayre—
only son of Mr, and Mrs. James
Ayre, who moved from this com-
munity to York a few months ago,
and nephew of Mr. and Mrs. George
Ayre of Lehman avenue, contracted
the disease about 14 days ago, di-
rectly following a severe attack of
measles. After treatment at a hos-
pital in York, he was taken early
this week to Johns Hopkins and
put under the care of nationally-
known medical authorit es.
Although he withstood the trip
from York to Baltimore ‘“remark-
ably well,” according to physicians,
little hope is held for his complete
recovery. It was reported from the
hospital yesterday that the young-
ster’s life is on an ‘“hour-to-hour”
basis and that his lower jaw is
completely paralized.
He was first thought to have been
suffering from spinal meningitis, but
later symptoms indicated the dis-
ease to be that of sleeping sickness.
He has been placed in an isolation
ward at Johns Hopkins, where all
the skill and knowledge of medicine
is being utilized to bring about his |
recovery.
Issue 2764 Gas/
Rationing Cards
Majority Apply For
B-3 Fuel Allotment
Despite cramped backs and ach-
ing fingers from the just-completed
sugar registration, the teachers of
this region turned to with a will |
last week and managed to issue gas-
oline rationing cards to 2764 local
motorists.
Largest registration was at King-
ston township, where 923 automo-
bile-owners enrolled, 373 cards were
issued at Dallas borough, 459 at
Dallas township and 473 at Lehman
township. Jackson township teach-
ers registered 276 and 260 cards
were passed out at Sweet Valley,
Due to the large number of local
people who commute to Wilkes-
Barre, the majority of the rationing
cards issued here were of the B-3
variety, allowing holders to pur-
chase 57 gallons of gas during the
six-week rationing period. While
no figures on the proportional allot-
ment of cards were available from
Kingston township, 1055 B-3 cards
were registered in the other five dis-
tricts. A-cards numbered 351, and
X—or unlimited—cards were given
to 200 applicants.
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Parade Chairmen Swamped With
Entrants As Enthusiasm Mounts
Yoke Of Oxen, Car That Carried British Royalty
Promised For Procession; Four Bands Lined Up
The American capacity for adjusting itself good-naturedly to the in-
conveniences and annoyances growing out of the all-out war effort will
be crystallized at the All-Back Mountain Memorial Day observance by the
attendance of many persons in horse-drawn vehicles. At least 50 rigs,
, some of them 75 years old, will be the conveyances in which many old and
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Sailor Sulfers
Apprentice Seaman Francis S.
Mead, son of Mr, and Mrs. Sterling
Mead of Park street, is receiving
| treatment at the Naval Medical
Center in Bethesda, Maryland, for a
sinus infection. Seaman Mead, who
enlisted in the Navy April 6th, re-
ceived his preliminary training at
Newport, R. L, and was taking ad-
vanced training at the Range Find-
ers’ School in the Washington Navy
Yards when he became ill two weeks
(ago. He expects to be returned to
| active service by the first of June.
Class Of 24
To Graduate
Louis Kelly Tops
Borough Seniors
A Dallas Borough High School
graduating class of 24 students, led
by honor pupils, Louis Kelly, Willis
Ide, Jane Ayre, Dorothy Dorn and
Edwin Nelson, was announced this
week by Prof. T. A. Williammee,
| supervising principal.
Commencement exercises will be
held Thursday evening, June 4th, in
the school auditorium, and, as in
past years the entire program will
be planned and presented by mem-
bers of the graduating class.
Feature of the exercises will be
the Valed.ctorian address, given by
‘| Louis Kelly on the topic, “America
Must Live.” Other speakers will in-
I clude Salutatorian Willis Ide, who
jwill give the welcoming address,
| Jane Ayre, John Joseph, Jay Gould,
School Director Clyde Lapp and
Prof. Williammee. Dorothy Dorn
will give the Mantle address and
Doris Stookey, honor student of the
Junior Class, will speak in accept-
(ance. Rev. Austin L. Prynn, pastor
of Dallas Methodist Church, will give
the Invocation, and the high school
band and glee club will also par-
ticipate.
The Baccalaureate Service will be
held in Dallas Methodist Church on
Sunday, May 31st, and Class Night
comes on June 3rd.
Members of the graduating class:
| Louis Kelly, Willis Ide, Jane Ayre,
Dorothy Dorn, Edwin Nelson, Ralph
Antrim, William Barry, Kathleen
Bogart, Betty Bryant, Lois Bryant,
| Marion Comer, Donald Cosgrove,
| Ruth Fiske, Mildred Galey, Jay
Gould, Lois Howell, Isabel Hunt,
Margaret Jones, John Joseph, Helen
LaBar, Betty Pittman, Joseph Ur-
ban, William Wagner and Layiah
Winters.
young will arrive at the Observance.
Some of the drivers will wear the
old-fashioned garb of 50 and 75
years ago and drive their horses in
the parade which starts at 10 A, M,
Some will come on horseback, oth-
ers in buckboards, carryalls, coach-
es, buggies and farm wagons. All
will be guests of the general com-
mittee at a special table at dinner.
So enthusiastic has been the re-
sponse to this spontaneous feature
of the Observance that the General
Committee this week asked Life
Magazine to send a photographer
here to cover the horse and buggy
angle of the Memorial Day program
for its Life Goes To a Party series
in the hope that the All-Back Moun-
tain Observance might be given
national recognition. At the same
time an additional series of posters
inviting horsemen to attend were
printed with the following jingle:
“Put on your old gray bonnet
with the blue ribbons on it, and
hitch old Dobin to the shay, just
forget about your ration and ride
out in fashion to an old-fashioned
Memorial Day!” :
While this unexpected turn to the
Memorial Day Observance has
come only within the last week and
has changed some of the plans of
the general committee in caring for
the crowds, a Jackson Township
man this week notified the commit-
tee that he would be on hand with’
a yoke of oxen and another sent
| word that he would drive out behind
a span of young mules. Farmers
from Sweet Valley, ‘Lake Township,
Dallas township and the Carverton
region have also asked'to be among
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Sons Of Veterans
To Honor Graves
Memorial services for its soldier
dead will be solemnized in six
cemeteries in the Back Mountain
area Sunday, May 24, under the
auspices of Col. R. B. Rickett Camp
129, Sons of Union Veterans of the
Civil War.
George W. Knarr of Luzerne Bor-
ough, son of a Union veteran of
the Civil War, and H. Austin Sny-
der, supervising principal of Lehman
township schools, will be the speak-
ers.
Pikes Creek drum corps will furn-
ish music.
Services will
Grove cemetery
Maple Grove Sunday School will
participate. Mossville at 10:00,
Fairmount at 10:30, Watertown at
11:30 where dinner will be served,
New Columbus at 2:00, Benton at
3 o'clock.
start at Maple
at 9:00 A. M,,
M.
Power Of County
G. O. P. Falters
As Martin Sweeps Sixth District
Back Mountain Voters
Majority of 1000 Over
Casting more than 5400 ballots
Give State Candidate
Fine-Supported Davis
towards the nomination of General
Edward Martin as Republican candidate for the governorship, the voters
of the Sixth District gave the state-supported campaigner a plurality of
1000 over Senator James J. Davis
in Tuesday's primaries and demon-
strated conclusively that the domination of Back Mountain politics by the
Sterling Farm
Field Day Will
Draw Hundreds
Dairymen’ Invited To
Between twelve and fifteen hun-
dred dairymen of Northeastern
Pennsylvania are expected to at-
tend a Field Day at the Andrew J.
Sordoni Farm at Alderson on Wed-
nesday, June 3rd, This will be
known as “Ladino Clover Grassland
Field Day,” and farmers will be
given the opportunity to observe the
growing of Ladino ‘Clover in com-
bination with alfalfa and other seed
mixtures.
The possibilities of Ladino Clover
will be shown in the yields obtain-
ed on this farm. Last year this mix-
ture yielded at the rate of nine tons
of dried hay per acre or thirty-six
tons of green hay. This is an ab-
normal yield and shows the possibi-
lities of what can be done with this
new crop known as Ladino.
At the Sterling Farms almost 200
acres are already seeded to Ladino
and with over 300 acres of improved
pasture, this will be of interest to
all dairymen.
The morning session will start at
the dairy barn at 10:00 o’clock with
trips around the fields. Basket
lunch at noon and some nationally
known speakers will tajk in the aft-
ernoon, followed by further visits
around the farm.
The Sterling Farm purebred
Guernsey herd consists of over 100
animals and will be observed in the
morning. The breeding of this herd
will be explained by Mr. Gordon
Hall, nationally known Guernsey
authority. The herd produced at the
rate of 470.2 pounds last year in the
‘Dairy Herd Improvement Associa-
tion.
All dairymen are invited to at-
tend.
Among the guests are men from
Pennsylvania State College, New
York, New Jersey and Maryland.
Chamberlain First Man
To Head Township PTA
First man ever chosen to head the
Dellas Township Parent-Teachers
Association, Floyd Chamberlain of
Goss Manor was elected president of
the organization Monday night. His
election followed the withdrawal of
Mrs. Harold Smith, who had been
named president at the previous
meeting. Other new officers in-
clude Prof. Raymond E, Kuhnert,
honorary vice-president; Mrs. Thom-
as Kepner, vice-president; Miss
Martha Zehner, secretary; Gerald
Snyder, treasurer, and Miss
Gladys Schoonover, corresponding
secretary.
county G. O. P. organization has
come to an end.
In Dallas, Dallas township and
Kingston township Martin carried
all but one district—the South in
Dallas township—by a large margin
and in all three municipalities polled
993 votes against 680 for Davis. In
the borough Martin had 208 ballots
against Davis’ 140, carried Dallas
township 370 to 261 and in Kingston
township received 415 votes to 279
for Davis. F. Clair Ross's state-wide
majority for the Democratic guber-
natorial nomination was not, how-
ever, reflected in the Democratic
vote here. Ross polled 46 votes in
this area to Judge Ralph H, Smith’s
88. In the special congressional elec-
tion, Atty. Thomas Miller carried
this section with 663 votes, 200 bet-
ter than his nearest opponent, ‘“Lit-
tle Bill” Phillips, and well ahead of
Frank A. O'Neill, who polled only
285. Don Wilkinson, though defeat-
ed in the county for the Republican
nomination as State Senator of the
20th District, gained a plurality in
this area with 741 votes to 642 for
Adrian H. Jones, his victorious op-
ponent.
The animosity in this area be-
tween the County Organization and
Pete Clark’s independent Republi-
cans served to enliven what was
otherwise a more or less routine
election. Most exciting incident of
the day occurred at the Middle Dis-
trict polls of Dallas Township,
where a County Organization man
challenged the votes of two bona
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Lehman Seniors
To Hear Farley
Graduation Program
Is Set For June 3rd
The annual commencement exer-
cises of the Lehman Township High
School will: be held at the high
school auditorium on Wednesday,
June 3. Dr. Eugene Farley, director
of Bucknell Junior College will be
the speaker. He will be introduced
by E. H. Kent and diplomas will be
presented by Charles Nuss, president
of the Board of Education. The
valedictory address will be given by
Mrs. J, G. Hadsel of Idetown; and’
the salutatory address by John: Culp,
son of Mr. and Mrs. John Milton
Culp of * Huntsville. An American
flag, presented by the American
Legion of Dallas to the high school,
will be accepted by Herman Kessler,
fourth honor student.
Class night, under the supervision
of Mr. Clarence Boston, high school
principal, will be held on May 29,
in the high school auditorium. John
Stofko, third honor student, will
present the mantel] to a representa-
tive of the junior class.
The Baccalaureate Services will
be held on May 21. Reverend Frank
K. Abbott of Lehman will officiate.
Star Athlete Graduates At Head
Of Class, Plans To Fly For Navy
There are athletes and athletes.
Some of them, we understand, can
pass their courses without recourse
to special examinations and expert
penmanship in the grade book.
Others, as a matter of record, have
done very well scholastically. But
Louis Kelly, varsity basketball cen-
ter for the championship Dallas
Borough High School team, is in a
class all by himself.
This lanky and likeable red-head
can conjugate a Latin verb just as
handily as he can swish a basketball
through the hoops, a habit for which
he is widely noted in these parts.
In three years of high school he has
amassed an average of 98.6, and for
this startling accomplishment has
been named the Valedictorian of
his class—a fact which is highly
pleasing both to himself and his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. William
Kelly of Main street.
Whatever special knack he has
for learning—he himself is at a loss
to explain his breath-taking average,
since he’s never fancied himself a
book-worm, or even a particularly
industrious student—Louis expects
to devote his talents in the future
to mastering the techniques of flying
and shooting down enemy planes.
He has applied for training as a
Naval aviation cadet—in the V-5
division, which is specially designed
for high school graduates—and will
be called into the service sometime
in August.
For the summer he has lined up a
job in Harold Titman’s department
store, but he thinks that his future
employment, after the war is over,
will be in radio and television. For
the past several months he has been
taking a correspondence course in
such matters, and has noted an
ever-growing interest in the radio-
television field.
Salutatorian of the borough senior
class is Willis Ide, whose three-year
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