DIED IN KEATS POAD, KILLED IN ACTION RICHARD WELLINGTON CEASE, January 29, 1942 GEORGE UTRICH, May 16, HOWARD A. COSGROVE, July 3, MISSING IN ACTION WALTER CEASE WILSON, May 9, 1942 CLARENGE H. MORGAN, May 22, 1942 DONALD FREEMAN, May 22, HAROLD THOMAS KEPNER, December JOHN E. FRITZ, May 7, 1943 JOHN P. GLEASON, March 30, 1943. SERVICE 1942 y 1942 March 3, 1942 1942 19, 1942 Zditorially Speaking: < A Thing of Beauty Dallas, and the young men and women who represent it in the armed services, deserve a better honor roll than the one that now commemorates their loyalty and devotion to the nation. We have never approved the present honor roll nor its location and withheld our support at the time it was be- ing planned and erected; for certain patriotic, though mis- guided people in the community, insisted on going ahead with. the board without thought to beauty of design or lo- cation. = The result of this half-cocked planning is the present board. Ugly to look at, poorly located; incomplete and un- representative of a fine community like Dallas. Probably half our citizens pass it with a feeling of dissatisfaction and humiliation. This is not to detract from the enthusiasm of those spirits who engineered the board or worked alone and with little community support to erect it. But it is to censure the bull-headedness of anyone who single-handed attempts to railroad something on the community as important as an honor roll. This isn’t a one, or a two, or a three man job. It’s a community job in which everybody should want to have a part and be downright unpleasant if they aren't given a chance to participate. This community wants an honor roll or some form of commemoration that will reflect the pride we hold for our men and women in service and the pride we have in our town. That means that no matter what type of honor roll other communities have, no matter how costly, or how elaborate, we must have one—costly or inexpensive—that fits our surroundings, that is in good taste and that symbolizes through its simplicity and dignity the honor we pay to our sons and daughters and selves. the respect we owe to our- Some of the most beautiful memorials are the least costly in terms of money spent but are effective because their designers have taken into account natural settings + and backgrounds; “they=laeve made the memorials part of their surroundings. Unlike many communities in Wyoming Valley, we need no garish honor roll, out of keeping and out of harmony with our rural setting—standing out like a freshly painted beer signboard against our green hillsides. Let’s capitalize on our own native beauty, let’s plan something different, but not extreme and then all work together to make what- ever we choose a thing of beauty and a joy for ever... a real memorial long after this conflict is over. FROM PILLAR TO POST - By Mgrs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr. The continued existence of the one-room schoolhouse, popularly painted red in song and story, but far more often white or pumpkin yellow in real life, is hanging precariously in the balance, and from all present indica- tions, may very possibly be decided The trend toward centrally locat- ed schools, serviced by busy buses making long trips night and morn- ing through the surrounding coun- try-side, has been one which is doubtless in keeping with modern times, but which is to be regretted ~ on several points. So long as gasoline was plentiful, it was practical to make these ex- tensive trips, but the present short- age poses a real problem. Gasoline for tractors and for farm machinery is no longer obtainable in sufficient quantity in some sections, though private cars still seem to manage in some unexplainable fashion, to go hurtling down the highways at a criminal rate of speed, burning up not only gasoline, but essential rub- ber and irreplacable engine parts. There seems reason to suppose that the next cut in consumption may well be in the allotment for school buses, with children from re- mote rural sections sawed off on a limb. Such an interruption of transpor- tation would result in a correspond- ing interruption of education, or a return to the one-room school house. Granted that a one-man school- house does not possess the most modern of facilities, it has a flavor a'l its own. With the gradual clos- ing of these small schoolhouses, rural districts have lost a unique in- stitution. There is something so cal- lously impersonal about a large cen- tral school. The small school brought out the personality of its students in a way that is apparently impos- sib’'e in the larger institutions. There was a time when almost every young girl, upon the comple- ee (Continued on Page Six) by the gasoline shortage. Officer Pinned Under Tractor City Policeman Injured At Lehman Caught beneath a tractor which overturned while he was plowing Sunday on the farm of his brother- in-law, Conrad Miller, of Lehman, Patrolman Orville L. Allen, of the Wilkes-Barre Police Force, received several fractured ribs. Allen had been plowing some- time when the tractor hit an ob- struction and turned over and pin- ned him beneath it. Miller, who was nearby, succeeded in releasing the injured man and aided him to the farmhouse where he was given medical treatment. . | Hoffherr, daughter of the late Ed- Tur DaiLras Pos MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION BACK UP YOUR BOY Buy an Additional Bond Today Vol. 53 FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1943 = (Single Copies 6c) Rives Matthews | Post Columnist Is In The News Conducts One-Man Campaign Against Pleasure Driving Rives Matthews, former Dallas | Post columnist, whose Somerset, | (Md.,) News is outstanding among crusading weekly newspapers, this week came into national promi- nence when both the Associated Press and United Press carried stories of the suspension of the per- sonal gasoline ration of Maryland Comptroller J. Millard Tawes, and a_ special three-man panel of the Office of Price Administration or- dered that Mr. Tawes’ official motor fuel rations be reduced to a “mini- | ” mum’. The decision came after Matthews had carried on practically a one- man campaign against pleasure driv- ing by State officials in State-owned automobiles on the Eastern Shore of | Maryland. Week before last the dauntless editor devoted an entire issue of the News to the revelation that Tawes, big shot Maryland politician, had | made a 2,000-mile trip in a State- | owned automobile to his son’s wed- | ding in Georgia. In the same issue | Matthews reproduced copies of let- | ters he had mailed personally to high Government officials calling their attention to this infraction of | i the pleasure driving ban. Among | them were letters to President | Roosevelt, Harold Ickes, Prentiss | Brown, J. Edgar Hoover; Herbert R. | O’Conor, Governor of Maryland, | and Maryland State O. P. A. offi- | cials. > Throughout the ran pictures of the State Comptrol- | ler over the single caption, “Morale Builder”. On other pages there ap- peared small ads: “A -iot of heels will be walking soon”. In black face type at the end of almost every paragraph in the newspaper there appeared these lines: “Comptroller and Mrs. Millard Tawes could get enough gas to go about 2,000 miles last week (about 250 gallons). Typical was this one: “Last week (Continued on Page Eight) Mrs. G. S. Sawyer Taken By Death Red Cross Nurse During World War A brief four-we€ks’ illness came to a close yesterday morning at 9 with the'death of Mrs. George Saw- yer of Church street. Born in Marseilles, France, on January 3, 1893, she was Marguerite ward and Marie Hoffherr, members of an old French family. Her father was the manager of one of the larg- est breweries in Marseilles. A grad- uate of a French University and a trained nurse she served with the French Red Cross during the World War at which time she met her hus- can Forces. At the conclusion of the war and after he had returned to America she came to Boston where they were married at his home in August, 1920. Later, when Mr. Sawyer became associated with the Scranton Spring- brook water company, they moved to Kingston and came to Dallas on August 1, 1925. They have two daughters, Janine and Marguerite, both at home. A delightful woman, she will be missed greatly by her friends and neighbors, whose dull and discour- aged moments she brightened with (Continued on Page Eight) Acting on complaints received in the District Attorney’s office, County Detectives Henry Jones and. John Loughney, assisted by Harvey's Lake Police, swooped down on twelve Harvey's Lake business places early last Thursday morning in a search for slot machines. Two machines of the “iron horse” variety—one a 25 cent machine and the other a nickel machine, were | Harvey’s Lake is relatively clean.” Three Slot Machines Confiscated In Early Morning Raid At Lake confiscated at Jack Nothoff’s Grotto and another “high hand” machine apparently out of order was taken from the cafe operated at the Picnic Grounds by Mrs. Julia Edwards. Both proprietors will be prose- cuted by the District Attorney's office. Commenting on the raid, Chief Fred Swanson, of Harvey's Lake Police Force, said, “The results of the raid prove once again that band, a lieutenant with the Ameri- | ‘Joyce Kyle, “Angels of Mercy Go No. 25 Forming Betsy Ross Company U. S. Army and WAAC Recruiting Officers and enlisted members of the Corps participated in the opening of “WAAC Week on KYW” for the enlistment of 150 women from the Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania District to form the Betsy Ross Company of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps. Seated at the KYW mic- rophone in the opening broadcast are (left to right) Major Jack B. Dunn, Recruiting Officer, Third Service Com- mand; Captain Dorothea M. Wilson, senior WAAC officer, formerly of Wilkes-Barre, now of Philadelphia dis- | trict; and Colonel Charles T. Easterday, in charge of the personnel division, Third Service Command. In the background are three members of the WAAC who will assist in recruiting the new company. Captain Wilson was frequently entertained in Dallas when she was stationed at the Wilkes-Barre WAAC Recruiting office. Miss Anna M. Richards Retires Interviews Prospective Waves Ensign Esther Odell, USNR., who has opened headquarters at the Ho- tel Sterling, Wilkes-Barre, to inter- view applicants for both commis- sions and enlisted ratings in the Womens Reserve, U. S. Naval Re- serve. Miss Odell is receiving ap- plications from women of Lacka- wanna, Luzerne and Wyoming counties. Beatty Dimit Speaker At Joint Session Jackson and Pomona Granges Hear Crop And Canning Talks Betty Dimit, State Overseer, gave members of the Pomona-and Jackson Granges Saturday after- noon four peace points Mor every American to think over, first, aban- don hate; second, plan to heat, feed and rebuild; third, abolish racial discrimination; and fourth, demand an international relationship. Also inc’uded in the program were a talk on canning and textile mater- ials by Miss E. Nitzkowski; an ad- dress sby Luzerne County Farm Agent, J. D. Hutchinson on the crop out-look; an accordian solo by Fran- cis Gaytz; a comedy by the Miller brothers, of Wilkes-Barre; a solo by Marching On’’; devotions by Mrs. L. W. Case; reading by Mrs. Ernest Keller, of Center Hil Grange. The afternoon session was in charge of " waisers! After 43 Years As Teacher Anna M. Richards, whose cozy Colonial home stands. on Pioneer avenue, has resigned after 48 years spent as a teacher in Plymouth and Dorranceton schools, 30 of them as principal of junior high schools in those communities. Miss Richards is one of the best known instructors on the West Side and for that matter in this section of the State, and her resignation, presented to the Plymouth School Board, on Monday night, was ac- cepted with regret and sadness, not only by the Board, but by students and faculty alike. She entered the service of the Plymouth District in 1885, shortly after her graduation from the schools of that community and con- tinued her profession there for 18 years, to 1913, when she resigned to become principal in Dorranceton. She remained there for 11 years when the Plymouth Board insisted on her return to become principal of the new Junior High School, erected that year. Throughout the years, Miss Rich- ards found time to take post grad- uate work at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia and Univer- | sity of Rochester. At the latter school she studied under Dr. Koos, outstanding authority on secondary schools, and when she returned, she patterned the new Plymouth school after his famous Washington Junior High School, in Rochester. While at Plymouth, students un- der her direction purchased $2,000 worth of motion picture equipment, without any cost to the school dis- trict, and the Junior High School was one of the first in the country to adopt visual education as a regu- lar part of its courses. In 1928 a school library was established and more than $1,000 worth of books were purchased, without cost to the dictrict. Asked what she would do, now that she will no longer be teaching, Miss Richards replied, “There's plenty to do in a beautiful commun- ity like Dallas”. One of her hobbies is making a motion picture record of the habits of birds, another is weaving rugs. For the past couple years she has made the daily trip to her duties in Plymouth with two of her old stu- dents, John Durbin, of Dallas, and William Boyes, of Kingston Town- ship. “I enjoyed those trips”, she said. “I shall miss the daily contacts with both of them.” Joins Marines Carl Roberts, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Roberts, of Main street, spent the weekend in Philadelphia taking examinations to enter the marines. He passed and will report to Parris (Continued on Page 3). Island Saturday, June 26. Canteen Unit Serves Meals Shavertown Women Are First From Area Canteen workers of the Shaver- town Unit got some valuable ex- perience last week when they served luncheons, at cost, to volun- teer workers at.the Red Cross Chap- ter House, in Wilkes-Barre. Between 30 and 60 workers were served each day and the Shaver- town women worked in groups of 6 on different days. Next week the Dalias Canteen Unit will serve the luncheons and the following week the Trucksville Unit will be in charge of meals. Mrs. Oscar Dymond is chairman of the Shavertown Unit and Mrs. A. D. Hutchison is vice-chairman. Mrs. Harold Flack had charge of planning and Mrs. Karl Kast had charge of preparation. Other members of the unit were: Mrs. Newton Ness, Mrs. John Hen- ninger, Mrs. Ray Warden, Mrs. John Stenger, Jr., Mrs. I. L. Brace, Mrs. W. W. Boyes and Mrs. Fred Howell. Observation Post Is Streamlined Over Forty Observers To Receive Diplomas The streamlined in more than one way. Dallas Observation Post is A shiny new two-toned blue inter- ior, through the labors of Chief Ob- server Paul Shaver and Atlee Koch- er, is one that all the observers will be glad to hear about. Now it is up to them to keep it that way. Secondly, twenty-five observers passed the Airplane Identification tests and will receive their diplo- mas. The course which they took taught them how to identify fifty- four planes, and included sixteen hours, two hours twice a week for four weeks. Those who didn’t at- tend the course still have a chance (Continued on Page 3) Dress Company Is Anxious To Locate Here Firm Might Employ Between 200 and 300 Local Women A New York manufacturer of wo- men’s dresses is making a survey of the Back Mountain area to deter- mine whether there are between 100 and 200 women here who- would be available to work in such a plant, if he should decide to establish his business in Dallas. The firm has all machinery neces- 4 sary to operate such a plant and ; has viewed two possible locations in Dallas and several in Luzerne Bor- ough. At the present time it em- ploys more ‘than 200 women in d New York City. fa Like many other similar firms, / located in large centers of popula- tion, much of its trained help has been drained off into defense in- dustries making it increasingly diffi- cult for them to operate. In recent months several of these firms have moved into Wyoming Valley where there is apparently an abundant supply of help that can be trained to operate power sewing machines and do the finishing on women’s and girls’ cotton dresses and sportswear. In an interview this week repre- sentatives of the firm said they would prefer to locate in Dallas, if they could be assured of an ade- quate labor supply. There are at least three possible buildings in the community that could be used, al- though two of them are somewhat smaller than desired. Other possible locations are in Luzerne Borough, but these representatives said they | would give Dallas the preference, because of its rural location, health- ful surroundings and opportunities for future expansion. = Learners, he said, are paid a good hourly wage and, after they have been thoroughly trained, are placed on a piece work basis. i Women who are interested in such a project are asked to notifiy the Post by mail which will give the representatives some idea of the number of persons available for plant work. These replies will also be useful to a group of local citizens who have been working for some time to interest other firms in Dallas as a location. All replies will be held in confidence. Medal Awarded Missing Airman John Fritz Cited For i Attack On Destroyer Pech. Sgt. John E. Fritz, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Fritz, of Ide- town; who=has=be6h” missing in ac- tion since May 4, in the Southwest Pacific Area, is one of four Penn- sylvanians who were this week awarded the Air Medal for meritor- ious achievements during bombing attacks. \ John was a member of the crew 3 of a heavy bomber which attacked - | a Japanese destroyer in Rabaul Harbor, New Britain, last October, dropping eight 500-pound bombs from medium altitude and scoring two direct hits. According to the Associated Press, the crew members were cited for courage and perse- verance in the face of adverse weather conditions. His parents have not yet been officially informed of the award nor : have they received any word other than that he has bene missing in action since May 4. Has Tonsil Operation Billy Wolfe of Lehman avenue submitted to a tonsil operation at Mercy Hospital on Tuesday. He is at the home of his aunt and uncle. Dallas Township Man Will Win Pilot's Wings At Texas Field Pampa Army Air Field, Pampa, Texas, (Special)—Soon to receive his silver pilot's wings here at_the Army's twin-engine advanced flying school is Aviation Cadet Frank E. Matukitis, 26, son of Mr. Joseph Matukitis, R. D. No. 3, Dallas, Pa. Prior to his appointment as a cadet in September, 1942, Matukitis graduated from Dallas Township High school and was employed by the Hazard Rope Co., Wilkes-Barre, Pa oo : 3 HE “He received his primary flight - training at Chicasha, Okla., and his basic flight training at Enid, Okla. At the climax of his rigid training he will either be assigned to a com- bat unit or will become an instruc- tor.
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