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Who Will Do The Housecleaning
The booze business in this section of Luzerne County
has had a swell week. Chalk up two deaths in its favor—
maybe three when you read this piece. Then give it a
dozen long credit marks for selling to youths who are
obviously minors and you will understand why a lot of us.
are losing some of our zeal for personal liberty—the kind
of personal liberty that recognizes no civic responsibility
higher than accepting 25 or 30 cents for a drink of liquor
from a minor or a man or woman so stupidly drunk that
they can’t walk across a barroom floor let alone drive an
automobile.
It may be that these deaths had an element of poetic
justice. Maybe the imbibers had it coming. Once too often
they had thumbed their noses at fate—common decency
and every moral obligation.
But that doesn’t put a halo
around the head of the bartender who jeopardizes the
livelihood of the decent element of his own industry and
the life and liberty of the rest of the community.
We are not our brother’s
keeper, but we have a right
to demand that our lives and those of our children and
brothers and sisters are protected when they step on the
highways. We have a right to curb the lust for profit
of the rotter who sells booze to a minor, an obvious drunk,
or to a man who is already too unsteady to drive an auto-
mobile. If the liquor dealers association can’t clean its own
doorstep there is an element in the community that can
clean house. It’s up to the dealers to decide who is going to
do the housecleaning.
If a booze dealer is unable to decide whether a customer
is a minor or adult—if he is
unable to determine whether
a customer is drunk or sober—if he knows a man becomes
a fool on one or two drinks, he knows what to do or he
doesn’t belong in the business.
Last week four drunks—two men and two women—
spent the greater part of the week touring Harvey's Lake
and Dallas in a Packard coupe. Among other things they
ran the car in Harvey's Lake once so that it had to be towed
to Dallas for repairs. Not once in the whole episode was
the driver sober, yet he was able to drink and drive, drive
and drink and use the same highways all of us travel
without once being refused a drink or once being told to
stay off the road either by the police or by those who
"repaired his car.
Like the police, the repairmen, and the gasoline attend-
ants this newspaper can be accused of keeping its mouth
shut too long. We're running a temperature now, you say?
Brother, it’s just the kind of temperature that ushered
the booze business out in 1917 and it’s just the kind of
temperature, if enough of us get it, to forebode a plague
for the booze business in this area if somebody doesn’t get
innoculated—and quick.
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Guard And Defend Liberty
“God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are
always ready to guard and defend it.”—Daniel Webster.
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We've enjoyed courtesy and willing service soimuch that
we sort of hate to see the depression end.
NETTIE
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PILLAR TO POST
By Mgrs. T. M.
B. Hicks, Jr.
While Dr. Kniffen carpenters my teeth we discuss matters of moment—
the political situation, the scarcity of rubber and gas, the progress of the
war in the Pacific. The term, “We”
is probably misleading. He lectures,
in a soothing monologue, while I listen with my mouth full of pillows and
attached to the sink by a flexible rubber suction-tube. Under these trying
conditions, my contribution to the
conversation is somewhat limited,
and expressed by a series of smoth-
ered gurgles interspersed by an oc-
casional yelp.
Last week, having exhausted the
present-day war news, he tuned in
on the war news of twenty-five
years ago. Deftly inserting three
bolsters and the suction-tube (open
a little wider, please) he tested his |-
drill and got down to business.
“Thirty sets of parents around
here certainly got a break during
the last war,” he stated. Then he
inserted his head in my mouth to
get a better view. I pinched his ear,
whersupont he. emerged with a
wounded look and said, “Now don’t
get tough. You are the one that is
supposed to suffer.”
I made sounds indicating that if
I was to suffer I wanted company,
and that in any event it was my
teeth he was working on, not my
tonsils. We worked out an ar-
rangement, in sign language on my
part, whereby I was to pinch his
knee if the drill got too hot. This
was to be the signal for him to de-
sist and allow the fire to die down.
“Most of the parents around
here,” he said, bearing down on
the drill and rounding a corner on
two wheels, “were worried because
they thought that their fifteen-
year-olds might enlist in the A.E.F.
So when the Boys’ Working Reserve
was organized, it was a big relief
to them to have their sons sewed
up for the summer, with no possible
chance of squealing out of the ar-
rangement and going off to the
wars.”
I indicated that his remarks in-
terested me, so he took a firmer
grip on the drill and elaborated.
It seems that the shortage of farm
help during the last unpleasantness
was just as acute as it is today.
Fields lay idle for lack of planting,
and vegetables and fruit rotted on
the ground for lack of harvesting.
To correct this condition, , the
Boys’ Working Reserve was formed,
its personnel to consist of fourteen-
to-seventeen-year boys.
The thirty local boys who joined
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Draft Boards
Name Stations
Boys Aged 18 To 20
Register On Tuesday
Fifth registration stations for
men born on or after January 1,
1922, and on or before June 30,
1924, who will register for Selec-
tive Service on Tuesday, June 30,
have been established in this area
by Draft Board Number 1 of Wyo-
ming and Draft Board Number 5
of Shickshinny. All stations will be
open from 7 A. M. until 9 P. M.
With the exception of the use of
a grey registration card the regis-
tration proceedure will be the same
as in the four previous registrations.
Board No. 1 stations: Town Hall
Building, Wyoming, with Prof. John
Piatt in charge; Dallas High School,
Prof. T. A. Williammee in charge;
Kingston Township High School,
Prof. J. A. Martin; Exeter High
School, John Campbell; West Pitts-
ton High School, Prof. R. J. W.
Templin.
Board No. 5 stations: Local Board!
Office, Union street, Shickshinny;
Lehman High School, Lehman; Har-
ter High School, West Nanticoke;
Ftorkowiski’s Store, Harveyville.
Dallas Road Oil Is
Frozen By Government
A ten-thousand-gallon tank of
Colas, road surfacing material, pur-
chased by Dallas Borough Council
for treatment of Dallas streets has
been frozen by government order
and has been placed in storage tanks
of Mathers Construction Company
at Trucksville.
The material was to have been
used on Norton, Spring, Center Hill
road and Church street to complete
W.P.A. projects. Whether the Gov-
ernment will release it for use on
these Federal projects is a problem
that has Council baffled.
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Vol. 52
FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1942
No. 26
Eight Stations
Established To
Rid Casualties
All Will Be Staffed
‘By Attending Doctors
‘And Trained Nurses
Dr. G. L. Howell, chief surgeon in
charge of First Aid and Casualty
stations in District 9 comprising the
Back Mountain area, has called a
meeting of all local physicians for
Monday night at his home in
Trucksville to lay plans for activi-
ties during all future - blackouts.
Seven casualty stations have al-
ready been established and one is in
the process of organization. Sta-
tions will be staffed by an attend-
ing physician and by nurses from
the Nurses’ Emergency Service as-
sisted by persons who have com-
pleted work in Red Cross First Aid
Classes. Mrs. David Thomas is in
.| charge of the Nurses’ Emergency
Service in this area and is co-opera-
ting with Dr. Howell in the selec-
tion of personnel for each station.
At a recent organization meeting
of the Emergency Service Mrs. David
Armstrong was elected treasurer and
Mrs. Paul Muspratt, secretary. In
order to equip supply closets in cas-
ualty stations with First Aid mater-
ials, the service had planned a ser-
ies of benefits to raise about $20 for
each station for materials. The Ser-
vice will go ahead with this program
to meet needed expenses even though
the Luzerne County Commissioners
may later decide to provide First Aid
supplies.
Casualty stations and personnel
follow: Trucksville Hose House—Dr.
G. L. Howell, physician in charge,
key nurses, Mrs. Mildred Fish, Mrs.
Ruth Pritchard; staff nurses, Mrs.
Mary Wood Dick, Mrs. Helen Gard-
ner, Mrs. Jennie Walter Sweeze,
Mrs. Rodman Derr, Mrs. Parkinson,
Mrs. Jacob Beline, Miss Susan Pal-
mer... g
Shavertown Hose = House—Dr.
Sherman Schooley, physician in
charge; key nurses, Mrs. Sherman
Schooley, Mrs. Charles Wagner; staff
nurses, Mrs. Esther Hoffman, Mrs.
Paul Muspratt, Mrs. Blodwen Cragle,
Mrs. Keiffer, Mrs. Ruth Houser, Mrs.
David . Armstrong, Miss Christine
Kocking, Miss Arvilla Swan, Miss
Helen McCord, Mrs. Fred Eck.
Jackson Grange Hall (this location
will be changed for one more cen-
trally located)—Dr. Charles Ashley,
physician in charge; key nurse, Mrs.
Joseph Gibbons; nursing staff, Mrs.
Alverna Carey, Mrs. Geraldine
Franklin.
Carverton Grange Hall — Dr.
Charles Perkins, physician in charge;
key nurses, Mrs. Bachman and Mrs.
DeWolfe.
Lehman I. O. O. F. Hall—Dr. H.
A. Brown, physician in charge; key
nurse, Mrs. Ruth Simms; nursing
staff, Mrs. Ruth Rogers, Mrs. Marie
Wolfe, Mrs. Bryce Major.
Orange (not yet organized)—
Nursing staff, Mrs. Eudora Gay
Baird, Mrs. Terry.
Harvey's Lake, Daniel Roberts
Fire House—Dr. F. Budd Schooley,
physician in charge; key nurse, Mrs.
Fay Williams; nursing staff, Mrs.
Martha Elston, Mrs. Esther Don-
nolly, Hilda Allen.
Dallas, basement of Methodist
Church—Dr. J. C. Fleming, Dr. Mal-
com Borthwick, physicians in
charge; key nurses, Mrs. Helen Laz-
arus, Mrs. Mildred Johnson; nurs-
ing staff, Mrs. Daniel Sutch, Mrs.
Oliver Ellsworth, Mrs. Robert Moore,
Mrs. Margaret Coates, Mrs. Alice
Borthwick, Mrs. Josephine Moyer,
Mrs. Benjamin Brace, Mrs. Gleason,
Miss Helen Czulegar, Myra Carlin.
Mrs. F. Gordon Falls;
Breaks Shoulder Bone
Mrs. F. M. Gordon of Norton ave-
nue fell from a ladder Thursday
while washing her kitchen windows
and broke a bone in her shoulder.
She was taken to the General Hos-
pital where her right arm and shold-
der was X-rayed and the break was
found. It will be necessary for her
to stay at the hospital for a few
days.
Injured Cutting Brush
When an axe with which he was
sharpening pea brush on Tuesday
afternoon slipped, Walter Kitchen
of Idetown suffered painful lacera-
tions of the wrist requiring four
stitches to close. Dr. H. A. Brown
of Lehman treated Mr. Kitchen.
lines in the Mediterranean.
Plane-Killers
THE 581ST ENEMY AIRCRAFT destroyed over Malta since the war
began, was shot down the night of June 6th. Anti-aircraft artillery alone
got more than 100 during the month of April, and this recent picture
shows a crew of Scotsmen, with their Bofors gun at a vantage point
above Valletta Harbor. Though they have inflicted more than 2300 bomb-
ing raids on this tiny island, Nazi air strength has been considerably cut
down and the fortress is still in there fighting, harassing the Axis supply
Writer
Of High Schools
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CASTING A CATCHY LINE
FOR A CATCHER CLAIMING
HE CAN CATCH CATFISH
Harry Allen, a Harvey's Lake
catcher, was the envy of every
sportsman in the district when
he caught two catfish on one
line three different times re-
cently. Was it a miracle? Mr.
Allen says not, but we are in-
clined to disagree with him.
His catcher’s luck seems to be
with him all the time for it is
nothing unusual for the Allen
icebox to contain a seven-pound
wall-eyed pike or a five-pound
big-mouth bass. ‘The differ-
ence between a catcher,” ex-
plains Mr. Allen, “and a fish-
erman is that a fisherman fishes
for fish and a catcher catches
them.”
BS
Few Streets Are
Without Signs
Seven Solicitors Have
Not Turned In Reports
Practically every street in Dallas
Borough from which contributions
have been received now has at least
one new street sign erected and ad-
ditional ones in the process of com-
pletion. Residents of many streets,
overlooked when solicitors were ap-
pointed, have voluntarily made col-
lections and paid their contributions
so that their streets, too, can have
signs.
The campaign for street signs
started on April 24 with an editorial
in the Dallas Post and quickly met
i the approval and support of resi-
dents on every street. James Stile
of Davenport street contributed his
time toward the construction, letter-
ing and erection of the signs from
materials purchased from contri-
butions which amounted to a little
less than $50. In two months time
citizens have raised the money, seen
signs constructed and erected, for a
community project which had been
discussed for ten years without any
| previous results. It remains now for
j those who live on streets where
there are no signs to bring in their
|
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Takes Exception To Use
For Dancing
Believes Youth Can Best Be Served
In Places Of Its Own Choosing
The problem of providing a suitable spot for dancing and general
sociability for the High-School crowd has been successfully met in several
communities, without infringing in any way upon the rights of the younger
generation or the comfort and peace of mind of the adults most nearly
concerned. The opening of the High-School gymnasium or auditorium is
unfortunately not the solution. It
seems like a shocking waste of space
and tax-payers’ facilities to let these
large rooms stand vacant, but psy-
chology is against their use for any
dances other than those sponsored
by the school itself during the school
term.
Boys and girls in their teens have
a right to their own social centers,
uncontaminated by any hint of
school or of school discipline. There
is another approach that is followed
by much better results.
In every community with the in-
terests of its young people at heart,
there should be an easily accessible
gathering-place. The shortage of
rubber and of gas precludes ten-mile
jaunts in search of a dance-floor,
and many parents are breathing
easily at night for the first time in
some years in consequence.
The social center should be run by
private enterprise, and not by a
Parent-Teachers’ Organization or a
Woman's Club. It should be a
strictly business and strictly imper-
sonal project.
There should be the dearly-be-
loved music-maker, grinding out its
succession of Hit-Parade dance rec-
ords and fed by a constant stream
of nickels. There should be a soft-
drink bar, specializing in cokes and
sodas and milk-shakes, with facili-
ties for banana splits and other
high-powered sundaes of an indi-
gestible character. There should be
a grill for hamburgs and hot-dogs,
with the classic bowl of pretzels de-
signed for promoting a thirst.
Beer should be completely out of
the picture. People who feel the
need of beer with their pretzels
should be invited to go elsewhere.
This set-up is for young folks only.
In every High:School there are
half a dozen Junjors or Seniors who
are looked up to by the other stu-
dents, whose word is law, whose
opinions are respected, who are imi-
tated by underclassmen, who lead
while the rest of the school follows.
These leaders should form a house-
council for the social center, and
should lay down the basic laws for
its discipline,
High-School boys and girls have a
great deal more common sense and
recognition of the fitness of things
than is generally understood by
their harried parents. Give them re-
sponsibility and they will come
across. They will prefer a place of
their own where they can reign su-
preme under their own laws than a
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Man Killed When
Clyde Trowbridge, 20,
is in a critical condition at Nesbitt
This Is Last
Week To Obtain
Canning Sugar
Second And Final
Allotments To Be
Made At Boro. School
Last opportunity to obtain sugar
for canning this summer will be next
week when a second registration for
late season fruits and vegetables will
be held in Dallas Borough High
School building.
Those who wish to enroll for ex-
tra canning allotments will have an
opportunity on July 1 and July 2.
Hours on Wednesday will be 10 to
4 and 7 to 9 P. M., and on Thurs-
day from 10 to 4.
Registration will be only for per-
sons living within the jurisdiction
of Board 40-1, which includes Dal-
las Borough and Township, Shaver-
town and a part of Trucksville. All
who desire additional sugar are urg-
ed to bring their ration books with
them. Those who have already reg-
istered for the first allotment of
sugar for early season canning must
apply at the second registration in
order to obtain sugar for late season
canning.
More than 600 persons enrolled
for extra sugar at the first registra-
tion which closed on Wednesday
night. The largest amount granted
to any one family during that per-
iod was 220 pounds.
Ruto Use Stamps
Are Now On Sale
New Issue Valid
Until June 30, 1943
Joseph T. McDonald, collector of
the Bureau of Internal Revenue,
Scranton, has asked the Post to in-
form its readers regarding the Fed-
eral tax stamp for the use of Motor
Vehicles.
Mr. McDonald said stamps may be
purchased at any United States
Postoffice or office of any collector
of internal revenue. The tax is $5,
he said, and covers the period from
July 1, 1942 to June 30, 1943.
If an auto, truck, or any motor
vehicle is used on the public high-
| way during the month of July, the
tax will be due for the entire Fis-
cal Year. However, if the motor ve-
hicle is not used during the month
of July, the tax is not due and no
liability will apply until such time as
the motor vehicle is put into use.
The tax in such cases is computed
from the month during which the
motor vehicle was first used to the
end of the fiscal year.
Section 322.21 provides as follows:
“Stamps evidencing the payment
of the tax on the use of motor ve-
hicles may be purchased at the office
of any collector of internal revenue
or at any post office in the United
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Skidding Car
Crashes Into Harvey's Lake Tree
Loses Life And
Richard Engleman Is Seriously Injured
Clyde William Trowbridge, aged 20, of Birchardville, Susquehanna
County, is dead and his companion, Richard Engleman, 19, of Noxen
Memorial Hospital after a wild ride
around Harvey's Lake that ended abruptly when: their borrowed 1929
Ford coach skidded 108 feet, crashed into a tree and caught fire at Point
Breeze Wednesday night at 11:10.
In company with Bill Murphy, 17,
of 4 West Market street, Wilkes-
Barre, Trowbridge and Engleman
had spent most of the afternoon in
Wilkes-Barre where Trowbridge, an
employee of Banks Construction
Company, drew his pay of $19.80
and paid a few bills before return-
ing to the Lake. Zoe
Chief of Police Ira Stevenson said
Murphy later told him in a Lake
establishment that Trowbridge and
Engleman had borrowed his car
without his knowledge about 8:30
when they had stopped in a place
“for a drink.” Murphy later had
made several telephone calls in an
effort to locate his car. LO
Piecing together other information
Chief Stevenson learned that Trow:
bridge and Engleman had picked up
two girls, Irene Pembleton and Dor:
othy Gray, and driven them to
Slim’s Inn on the Noxen Road, but
the girls refused to accompany them
further and left them there about
10:40 o'clock.
A few minutes later Robert Rob-
erts of 76 E. Landon street, King-
ston, and Thomas Watkins of 503
Market street, Kingston, saw the
two youths swing their car out of
the Noxen road and on to the high-
way around the Lake. Sensing im-
pending disaster the Kingston boys
followed the careening coach but
they were unable to keep within
sight of it, until they reached Point
Breeze and came upon the flaming
wreckage scattered over the high-
way. f
Dr. Benjamin Davis of Plymouth
and Atty. Frank Pinola were the
first men on the scene, the acci-
dent occurring on the border line
between their summer homes. i
Police said Trowbridge, the op-
erator of the car, was thrown com-
pletely from the car, his head strik-
ing against a tree causing almost
instant death. A part of his scalp
was still there yesterday.
Dr. Davis and Atty. Pinola, aided
by other cottagers, pulled Engleman
from the flaming wreckage. After
being given first aid and medical
treatment by Dr. Davis, Harvey's
Lake police rushed him to Nesbitt
Memorial Hospital where his con-
dition was reported ‘critical’ late
yesterday afternoon.
Police disclosed that a shoe be-
longing to Trowbridge and missing
from his right feot was lodged be-
tween the brake pedal and the ac-
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Walter Wilson |
Among Missing
Parents Notified
By War Department
The War Department. disclosed
this week that Walter Wilson, son
of Mr. and’ Mrs. William Wilson of
Franklin street, Dallas, is one of
the many United States soldiers,
sailors and marines missing in ac-
tion in defense of the Philippines.
The letter from the War Depart-
ment arrived too late for the Post
to carry a more complete story in
this issue.
Tom Robinson has a good story
to go with the pair of black eyes he
has been exhibiting this week and
what is more Tom is actually proud
of the injury because—so he says—
of the interesting people he met as
the result of his injury.
+ Tom’s story goes something like
this, On Sunday he drove to Phila-
delphia to meet his wife who had
been spending a few days with her
mother. At the same time he de-
cided to attend the Phillies-Cincin-
nati ball game. As he entered the
ball park he heard someone yell
from the grandstand “Hi-ya Robo’.
He knew by the call of that familiar
nickname that it was from a Blair
Academy classmate he hadn't seen
for twelve years. He made his way
through the crowd to his friend and
had just started discussing old days,
when someone near at hand called
“look out!” Tom turned to look and
How Tom Robinson Got His Shiners
was hit smack between the eyes by a
baseball thrown by McCormick, first
baseman, in an infield warm-up.
Dazed for a minute, officials and
players swarmed around the Dallas
man and took him to the Phillies
dugout where his injuries were
treated by the team’s trainer and
physician. Both were amazed that
his nose was not broken.
After his injuries were dressed
Tom met the members of the team
and received a score of slaps on the
back as though he were a conquer-
ing hero. To help make things even
one of the players suggested that
he ought at least to have the ball
that hit him in the nose as a
souvenir.
That’s the story Tom told his wife
when he turned up late for his ap-
pointment with a patch of adhesive
plaster across his nose and two
beautiful shiners.