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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.
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Any man is a wonder who can sit between two women
through a long dinner and not make one of them angry.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.”