» Editorially Speaking: Spare The Rod And Spoil The Fun At a time when every effort is being made to conserve food stuffs, scrap and labor, it is inexcusable that a few high-spirited and destructive older school boys in this community should be permitted wilfully to destroy property and make general nuisances of themselves. 4 This community has been pretty good to its boys and girls. It has given them good schools, it has given them band equipment, it has provided them with Hallowe'en parties, and it has co-operated with them in their scrap drives. Now a few of their number bring discredit on the whole group . . and this fault lies not with the schools but with parents who condone them and who pass their actions off lightly as the natural outlet for youthful exuberance. One of the best friends the boys and girls have in Dallas i$ Ralph Rood. Tuesday night some of the older overturned two of his beehives. alecks” “smart The same night a couple of young sneaks smashed out windowlights. Not long ago a few bright boys hurled rotten tomatoes at women attending a Junior choir rehearsal. Valuable porch and lawn furniture has been carried off and persons who have labored long and hard during the summer to do their part with victory gardens have seen the fruits of their labor strewn over village streets. Twenty windows in a private garage have been shattered and not long ago a youthful mob ransacked a vacant house on the Heights. One look at the Payne property on Lake street will con- vince anybody of what happens to a property that remains idle for long in Dallas. Sunday night a trio of brigands cut down a new pulley clothes line, destroyed guard posts and deliberately twisted and bent a newly planted shade tree at the home of Mrs. Albert Parrish. There is not a thing clever about such destruction. No one is even slightly amused. The rattle of shattered glass, the snap of a breaking shade tree, the thud of cabbages hurled against a front porch or the busy hum of an over- turned hive of bees is not music to the person who foots the bills. This community expects fun and pranks on Hallowe'en but it doesn’t expect destruction or even pranks a week ahead of Hallowe'en . . destruction . . a day before or a day after, or every week during the year. . and if boys who abuse property rights Pranks it expects but not run into jams they can expect no sympathy from the community nor from their best friends. While their older brothers, cousins and many of their classmates are fighting to save this country—to protect the right of every boy and girl to guide his own destiny— to have fun when it does not molest the rights of others— these young destroyers cannot expect this community to be tolerant of their wanton playfulness . . . a playfulness that is costly to country, community and individual alike. If youngsters must show-off by abusing the privileges of youth, then we of an older generation reserve the right to give their misdeeds the widest publicity despite the pleadings of parents or the offenders themselves. If their lust for destruction cannot be curbed by local police authority or parental discipline, then there are ways— costly ones—by which they can be taught the value of the other fellow’s property. * * * Any man is a wonder who can sit between two women through a long dinner and not make one of them angry. * I" %* wer Those Missing Fire Hydrants About one half of Dallas Borough is now well protected with fire hydrants giving Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Com- pany at least an even chance to save most properties. But Parrish Heights is still unprotected and will remain unprotected if Dallas-Shavertown Water Company has anything to say about it. In spite of repeated efforts on the part of the fire company to bring the installation of hydrants on the Heights to a head, the water company ‘has delayed giving any answer until now, with winter just around the corner, it turns the proposition down with the excuse that the system “wasn’t built to handle fire protection.” If this system wasn’t built to handle fire protection, the other plugs that have been cut into its lines are cer- tainly doing a swell job. We think there would be little complaint among Heights residents if they should have to go without water for household purposes for even a day or two if the use of water for fire-fighting purposes ever makes it necessary . . they have gone without water many times in the past for less worthy reasons. It is plain to be seen that the only way this community is going to get the complete fire protection that it needs is by fighting for it, and in this fight residents of the Heights will have to take the lead. This is not the first time the water company has told us that it couldn’t furnish what we want. The time to act is now—not after the next fire. OM. FR PILLAR TO POST By Mzs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr. That manure-pile under Howard's barn, the one that Donnie crawled over enroute to the hidden cache of scrap metal, would be very welcome on our own personal humus pile. collected leaves and grass-clippings, For several years we have methodically packing them closely in a secluded spot in the back yard and sprinkling them with an occasional bottle of Twenty-Three Local Students Now Attend Wyoming Seminary ammonia to hasten decomposition. But we lack the necessary live- stock, and we are beginning to sus- pect that our front yard, with its ‘substrata of furnace ashes and tin cans will never blossom like the rose until we can make connections with a barnyard. We have even considered instituting that classic gift of a load of well-rotted manure, come Christmas, but so far have "not been able to bring ourselves to . exchanging gifts so lacking in romance. We are sneaking up on it, how- ever, and the war is hastening the process. With the government ask- ing us to cut out useless frills and limit ourselves to the bare necess- ities, perhaps our humus pile will be gladdened by the addition of the real McCoy along toward the end of December. The last wedding anniversary was celebrated on strictly utilitarian (Continued on Page 8) The Darras Post MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION Vol. 52 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1942 No. 43 Lo, The Peaceful Tank Pictured above is the Community Chest’s peaceful ta nk that will never fire a gun but that captured the ramparts of indifference and stormed the citadels of selfishness Wednesday when it visited Back Mountain : At Dallas Borough, Lehman and Dallas Town ship schools, students capitulated willingly and enthus- schools. iastically. Bands welcomed the approach of the tank in the Borough and Township and at Lehman students pledged the $59.07 they had received from the sale of scrap to the War Chest. Back Mountain Hunters Await Opening Of Small Game Season Five Saturdays Are Included In Season Which Opens On October 31 Brown stubble fields, dry, rusting rows of fodder rustling in the autumnal air, crisp, clear days and frosty nights—this is the time for the approach of the hunting season game season opens earlier than has in Pennsylvania. This year the small been the usual custom—it gets under way October 31 and closes November 28, having been advanced from Dallas Crossing Yields Old Rails Lehigh Will Salvage 100 Tons On Branch Lehigh Valley Railroad track crews, their forces expanded by sev- eral local men, were busy this week along the Bowman's Creek re- moving extra rails from all cross- ings so that the steel could be added to the nation’s dwindling reserve of metal for the war effort. Rails were removed’ from the Lake street crossingsin Dallas early in the week and others will be re- moved from crossings at Alderson, Hay’s Corners, Lehman, Fernbrook, Shavertown and other points along ! the line. The old rails were placed in the crossings during peace time to (Continued on Page 8.) Ted Wilson Receives Painful Nose Injuries Ted Wilson received painful in- | juries to his face and nose Friday | morning while he was cranking the | engine that drives his saw mill. The engine backfired throwing the heavy | iron crank in his face with such force that his nose was crushed so that the bones pierced the flesh. Fellow workers picked him up while | he was still unconscious and brought | him to Dr. J. C. Fleming’s office for treatment. Later the crank was | found imbedded in three inches of | earth and Mr. Wilson’s hat was | picked up about eight feet from the place where he was struck. Mrs. Wilson had just left by bus for | New York when the accident oc- cured and neighbors at first thought that they would have to call her back. Twenty-three students from the Dallas area are attending Wyoming Seminary this year. Many are tak- ing part in extra curricular activ- ities and some are making outstand- ing records One, John K. Davies, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Davies of Parsonage street, is editor of “The Opinator”, student literary magazine. Ernestine Banker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Banker of Hay’s Corners, is also a member of “The Opinator” staff and has contributed many of its leading articles. Among those enrolled are: Trucksville—George T. Budd, Don- ald Cope, Albert G. Groblewski, F. in scholarship. Prentice Lacy, Frank G. Mathers, | 3rd, Robert N. Smith, Janice Lacy, Claire J. Malkemes and Norma | Smith; Shavertown—dJohn H. Grif- fith, 2nd, and Russell Houser, Jr.; Dallas—Peter D. Clark, Jr., John K. Davies, Raymond Goeringer, John V. Gregson, William R. Hoag, Don- ald Innes, Henry L. Lee, Richard G. Phillips, David H. Schmerer, Dorothy Ann Weaver and Ernestine Banker. Most . of these students are en- rolled in the college preparatory course for which Wyoming Semin- ary is famed throughout the coun- try. November 1 in order to give gun- ners an extra Saturday to be afield with gun and dog after ruffed grouse, rabbits, wild turkeys, ring- neck pheasants, squirrels, quail and other small game. Ag a matter of fact the small game hunter this season will ‘have live Saturdays to hunt if he cannot get away any other days in the week. Reports are that the season will again be an exceptionally good one. That hunters are anxiously await- ing the opening day, is indicated by letters being received by the vaca- tion bureau of the State Depart- ment of Commerce requesting copies of the hunting accommodations booklet which is.now being dis- tributed to all inquirers. The book- let contains the names of hotels, inns, farm houses, camps and other places where hunting accommoda- tions may be obtained. It also in- | cludes the complete game laws and the names and addresses of all State Game Protectors. For weeks hunters have been overhauling equipment, oiling shot- guns, greasing their boots, talking over plans with boon companions of the. hunting trails. Dogs have been taken to the fields for prelim- {inary training and the gunners, ‘ themselves, have been looking over covers here and there where they | may expect to find the game of their | choice when the opening day rolls | around. | Last year, 1941, nearly 700,000 | residents were issued hunting li- | censes in Pennsylvania and there | were approximately 12,000 non- | resident hunters who came from other states, each applicant for a license paying a fee of $15.00 for | the season. Based on reports received by the | State Game Commission from ap- | proximately 98 percent of the li- | censed hunters, the total game kill (last season was . approximately | 6,500 tons. Hunters who tramped the woods and fields for small game | brought down more than 5,665,000 | individual specimens. | All shooting hours are based on | Eastern War Time and are from }8 a. m."to 6 p. m. daily, with the exception of the opening day, Octo- | bor 31, when hunting will not be permitted before 9 a. m. | The bear season opens November 118 and closes November 21, both "days inclusive. The deer season opens November 30 and closes De- cember 12. This year only male deer with two or more points to one antler are legal. Back-To-School Night About 50 members 6f the Lehman i Methodist Church attended the party last Wednesday evening held by Mrs. Simms department of | W.S.C.S. The party, which took the form of a “Back-to-School Night”, was lots of fun for oldsters who had to brush up on their readin’, writin’ and ‘rithmetic. Schools Obtain $240 From Sale Of Scrap Pile Citizens Resent Sale Of Firemen's Scrap For Private Purposes The last of 35 tons al ‘scrap gathered by Dallas _Bor6ugh Schools during the Scrap for Victory Cam- paign was hauled away Wednesday by old metal buyers. Immediately thereafter a corps of students set to work gathering nails, rubbish and other debris that might make the ing purposes and by the end of the week that part of the yard that has been a beehive of activity for the past two weeks will have regained its usual composure, The schools received just a few cents short of $240—$239.24 to be exact—from the sale of the scrap. Firemen Sell Scrap On Wednesday scrap metal men { also began removing the big col- lection on Main street that had been brought in by Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Company. Earlier in the week some who had donated to the big pile, complained that certain articles —Ilawn mowers, horseshoes and oth- er knick-knacs had been sold to local residents for further use. One man who noted his discarded lawn mower being rolled away said: “I gave that mower to be made into war material to help my sons who are in the army and I want it re- turned right where it was.” A woman who has a son in the air corps also objected to the use as curios of some of the scrap she had donated. : “It’s plain to be seen that the man who got such a kick out of those old horseshoes, hasn't got a son in the army” is the way she put it. How this material that had been donated to the scrap pile got into private channels is still a matter that many persons are attempting to clear up. Wardens Want Better Alarms Local Officials Will Be Asked To Buy Them In an effort to prevail upon town- ship supervisors aid school directors to have additional air raid alarms installed in Dgdllas Township, sixty air raid wardéns met Monday night in Primitive Methodist Church, Fernbrook, and-formed a permanent organization. Russell Case was elected presi- dent, with Clyde Hope as vice-presi- dent and Sheldon Fahringer as treasurer. Wardens Moore, Hartman and Major were named on a com- mittee to contact the supervisors and school directors and outline plans which they think will give Dallas Township an adequate warn- ing system. Jackson Township supervisors have already taken steps to secure two new sirens and the Dallas Towrghip wardens are convinced that - similar sirens should be in- stalled in a number of locations in their township. Not everybody with a dollar = to spare can shoot a gun S straight—but everybody can shoot straight to the bank and buy War Bonds. Buy your 10% every pay day. Gala Hallowe'en Parade and Party Will Attract Hundreds of Revelers Costume Parade. Will Be Climaxed With Block Party On Main Street There will be no rationing of fun and merriment on Saturday night, October 31, when boys and girls from every Back Mountain school invade Dallas to take part in the Second Annual Hallowe'en Parade and Block Party. The Block Party is a new feature this year and will take the place of the festivities which concluded the program last year in Dallas Firemen's Job Is Hampered By Lack Of Water Reynolds Fire Proves Immediate Need For school (grounds: unsuitable: for-park: A Hydrant On Heights Handicapped at the start by lack Dr. Henry M. bis) Shey won a plucky-tw6-hour fight against a stubborn attic fire Monday after- neen and saved the two-story stucco cottage owned by Miss Edith Reynolds of Bear Creek and oc- cupied by Miss Grace Clift and her two nurses. The fire apparently started under the eaves from an overheated chimney, according to Chief Leslie Warhola, and smoldered there for some time before one of the nurses smelled smoke and notified the fire company. Flames were lapping through the roof when firemen ar- rived. Lines of hose supplied from the booster tank and chemicals were used to check the fire blazing through the attic but not before dense smoke and heat forced fire- men to use smoke masks. A second floor bedroom suffered some damage where the fire broke ‘through the ceiling and side of the house but the greater part of the damage resulted in the attic where timbers were charred by the in- tense heat. There was little or no damage from water as firemen carefully removed rugs and many valuable antiques including six Hitchcock chairs to places of safety. A bucket brigade kept the booster tank filled with water from a near- by deep well power pump. The Reynolds cottage sits some distance from Huntsville Road in an isolated pine thicket adjoining the W. F. Newberry property. It was occupied for a number of sum- mers by Miss Reynolds and’ her mother and more recently has been leased to Miss Clift, daughter of the late C. E. Clift, Woolworth executive, and Mrs. Clift. In spite of its isolated position firemen could have easily reached the house with lines of hose from the proposed location for a fire hy- drant on the Heights. Only recently efforts to have a hydrant located in that region were turned down by Dallas-Shavertown Water Company. Had there been water, damage would probably: have amounted to considerably less than the $1,000 which Miss Reynolds will now have to spend to put her property back in shape. Republican Women Republican women of the Back Mountain area are urged to attend the meeting of Republican women at Hotel Sterling Saturday, October 31. There will be an interesting program of Republican speakers. of fire hydrants on Parrish Heights,.. Borough High School Auditorium. Members of the General Commit- tee met early this week and decided on the change because the auditor- ium will be too small to handle the expected crowd. For the same rea- son the committee also decided to do away with refreshments and de- vote all contributions to bigger and better prizes for costumes ‘and Jack-O-Lanterns. ; David Joseph is chairman of the Block Party which will be held on Main street following the parade. He and his committee are working out a program of musical numbers, "games, dances and other entertain- ment features. Specialty acts, min- strel numbers and musical novelties will be presented from a platform to be erected on Main street by Clyde Veitch, chairman of properties, and his committee. . Special Police Unless unfavorable weather in- tervenes this year’s parade and party will attract the greatest crowd ever assembled in Dallas Borough, Chief of Police Walter Covert and his committee will have extra officers on hand to handle the crowds, cut off traffic, and promote the safety of the revelers. Parade Plans Plans for the parade have not been entirely completed by the marshals, James Besecker and Harry Ohlman, but marchers are ex- pected to assemble on Lake stree at Warden Cemetery at 6:45. The three divisions will form along Cen- ter Hill road each headed by a high school band. Dallas Borough, Dallas Township and Lehman Bands (Continued on Page 8) Abbott Leads Draft Group 14 Local Men Leave From Local Board 5 Fourteen of twenty-eight young men inducted into the army on Monday by Local Board No. 5 of Shickshinny were from the Back Mountain country. \ Leader of the group was Freeland Knight Abbott, son of Rev. and Mrs. Frank K. Abbott of Lehman. A graduate of Wyoming Seminary he has spent the past four years in Boston where he graduated cum laude this spring from Tufts College and won a fellowship to the Fletch- er School of diplomacy and inter- national law conducted jointly by Tufts and Harvard University. Others in the contingent were: Harold Long Freeman, Sweet Valley; Doyle Sorber, Hunlock’s Creek R.F.D.; Jacob A. Maciejezyk, Hun- lock’s Creek R.F.D.; Leo Yascur, Trucksville R.F.D; George Halowich, Alderson R.F.D.; Royal J. Culp, Dal- las R.F.D. 2; Albert Vernon Garrin- ger, Dallas R.F.D; Leonard Charles Stortz, Trucksville R.F.D.; George Calab Bray, Alderson R.F.D.; Steven Samuel Prehatin, Alderson; Clifford Harry Davis, Dallas R.F.D.; James Milton Cease, Trucksville R.F.D., and Walbridge E. Lienthall, Alderson. Fifty-Five Frozen Hudson Cars Are Put In Permanent Storage Fifty-five new Hudson automo- biles, owned by James R. Oliver and frozen by Government order, were placed in permanent storage this week. Nine of the machines are stored in the Odd Fellows Garage, eighteen in Mr. Oliver's warehouse and twenty-eight in a warehouse in Kingston. Under Government regulations and the eye of a Federal inspector the cars were given a complicated 14-point checking before they were jacked up. Here are just a few of the operations. Cars washed and paint cleaned, windshield wiper blades removed, upholstery and floor covering cleaned and moth- proofed, all chrome plated parts waxed and oiled, tires deflated, spark plugs removed, oil drained from engines and engines rust- proofed, engines sealed, exhaust sealed, battery removed, cooling system rust proofed, brakes check- ed, hood and door latches lubri- cated, all doors and windows closed, cowl vent left open if screened. Commenting on the steps taken to insure the proper care of the machines during what may be a long storage period, James R. Oliver said, “It would be a good idea for every motorist who plans to store his car for the duration to give his automobile the same de- tailed attention. If he follows the plan carefully his car will be in just as good condition when he takes it down off the jacks as it is when he puts it in storage.”
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