PAGE SIX
THE LISTENING POST
‘By THE VETERAN
A truth that is being given practical demonstration at the county court.
house might: be made to survive to the public's benefit. As many as five
men have been taken out of a single office and without necessity of re-
placements. Indeed, officials have made open statements of their purpose
to continue the vacancies, first as a matter of patriotism in face of the
need of young men at the front, and,
secondly, for economy.
There is ro department of the
county service that is not over-
manned. If the three-million-dollar
. corporation of Luzerne were under
private instead of political manage-
ment there would be a reduction of
forces to at least half of what pres-
ently will be seen on the payroll.
In fact, there have been occasions
when practiced accountants offered
the elected officials to take over the
conduct of all offices on a proposi-
tion of being paid only one-quarter
of the amount saved.
Lost Neither Plane Nor Man
That adventure cartoon which ap-
peared in Wilkes-Barre Record last
* Monday morning, depicting an
epochal moment in the lives of Jim-
mie Doolittle and L. H. Heffernan
bore reference to a pioneer Wyo-
ming Valley ajrman. He is Leo
Humphrey Heffernan, native of
Pierce Hill in old-time Plymouth
Township, graduate of both Ply-
mouth High School and West Point.
He entered the Army as a lieuten-
ant of cavalry, joined with five oth-
ers in organization of the first U. S.
Army Air Corps, flew dispatches of
the Pershing Expedition into Old
Mexico and then with forty-nine
others entered the job of training
twenty thousand pilots for World
War I. His brother, George, flew
with the Royal Air Force. Of the
six men who began the air force for
the U. S. only one other lives. He
is General Rolfe of the A. E. F. in
Australia. Of the fifty men in the
corps at the beginning of World
War I there are only eighteen sur-
vivors. Among students trained by
Heffernan was Clair Chennault, now
General of American forces in China.
First of the pioneers to be re-
tired, at a cost of dropping from
Colonel to Major, Heffernan lives in
Hollywood. He attempted to go
back to service for this war but was
told he was too old. Citations in
the War Department at Washington
show that he was the first man to
employ the tactic of the falling leaf,
the first to achieve a speed of two
hundred fifty miles an hour, the
only high-ranking officer who never
lost a plane and never lost a man,
either in war or peace. He com-
manded the flight office at Paris
during World War I.
Guests of Marines
‘Fred and Edna Kiefer, with Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Frohm of Wilkes-
Barre, are guests this week of the
United States Marines at Quantico,
Virginia, thirty-four miles outside
Washington. Frohm is the Number
One marksman of Luzerne County.
All four were early in the work of
Defense and have contributed tre-
mendously of their time toward
training of men and women in all
manner of tactics dealing with any
possible development of conflict on
this continent.
The United States Marines have
taken it upon themselves to give two
days of special instruction to the
Defense workers, followed by two
other days of association with mili-
tary strategy as practiced by the
Marines themselves. So, when Fred
and Edna Kiefer return they will
be among the few in Wyoming Val-
ley with complete knowledge of
what is the militant duty of the
American on the home front.
Weitzenkorn New Play
Dispatches picked up in the col-
umns of New York Times and New
York Herald-Tribune indicate that a
play of Louis Weitzenkorn has been
bought for the famous Jane Cowl
and will be produced some time in
| September for the coming New York
season. Present plans are indicated
to include a premiere in Philadel-
phia, although there was hope that
the production could be given its
first showing somewhere in this
neighborhood.
Mr. Weitzenkorn came to fame
as a New York editor first, then as
playwright who conceived the
smash success, “Five Star Final.” He
has been a frequent visitor to The
Dallas Post and to the Kiefer home.
Also, he was among the faithful at-
tendants upon the trial of the Wil-
liamson case, in which Jennie S.
Roberts of Kingston sought to ob-
tain a wife’s share of the millions
of the late “baehelor” John S. Wil-
liamson.
Unsettled Property Dispute
A golden wedding anniversary on
Monday, featuring Mr. and Mrs.
Addison F. Pringle, brought to mind
a property dispute never settled and
dating back to the colonial days of
Wyoming Valley. Mr. Pringle, one-
time building contractor and later
building superintendent for Luzerne
County, is the direct heir and the
last one surviving of the original
Pringles who settled nearby Ply-
mouth Township, gave the title to
Pringle Hill and owned one of two
farms that took in all of Main street.
Plymouth, while stretching from the
river brink clear back through
Larksville mountains. The other
farm was owned by the Barneys,
after whom several streets of the |
valley are named.
The dispute over the property
started with a loan of three hundred
dollars, made by Henderson Gaylord |
to the original Barney family. The
original Pringle went along with
his friend Barney in -offering se-
curity for the loan. At any rate, it
developed that some years later
both the Pringle and Barney farms
were seized to the benefit of Gay-
lord. Contentions of Gaylord were
that the farms were forfeit to the
loan; insistence by the Pringles was
that the occupation of the farms
was to extend only so long as would
be required to harvest crops to the
value of the loan and interest.
What made the matter interest-
ing was that the two farms later
became the basis of mining opera-
tions from which came the wealth
of the Geisingers, Edwardses, New-
ells, Woods, Parrishes, Conynghams
and Turners. Many descendants of
old-time families called upon Addi-
son Pringle and his wife on Monday
to felicitate them on. their golden
wedding anniversary.
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