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POST, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1943
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THE OUTPOST
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the Biblical prophet into his court
and later cast him to the lions; how
Esthor became the beloved wife of
king Anasuerus and as a conse-
quence saved Persian Jewery from
the projected program of the arch-
villian Hema: how Alexander the
Great marched triumphantly
through this region 300 years be-
fore Christ was born and how one
night as a consequence of particular-
ly hard drinking, burned to the
ground the nobles palaces that the
great Persian kings had created to
stand as lasting memorials to their
power and glory. Of these events
you have only read; but to the evi-
dence of these events I have access,
At Shush—the ancient Susa—
is the tomb of Daniel, the site of
the Esther story, and the remains
of Alexander’s occupation. There
history can be traced 6000 years.
At Persepolis are the great and still
magnificent ruins of the palaces of
the king; at Hamadan' is the tomb
that are made to stand for centuries.
When one visits Teheran, the streets
are paved and new cars are to be
seen. Cars that have cost anywhere
and dollars, a lot of money con-
sidering the prices over in America.
No where can one buy articles as
cheap as they can in the states.
Everything is dear, no matter what
you want they will always jack the
percent even going as far as two
hundred percent in all things. The
Queen’s castle is also located in
Teheran.
Not to be forgotten are the
flower gardens that one can see
almost anywhere. The Persians are
great lovers of flowers—almost as
great as their love for wine and rest.
One can see that love in the con-
stant repetition of the flower motif
in all forms of decoration. Flower
gardens are a natural growth from
that love of flowers in particular
and of beauty in general. In these
gardens the flowers grow in pro-
fusion of colors—orange marigolds
and nasturtiums combined with pink
(and purple petunias, with larkspur
and asters, strawflowers and sweet-
peas. Seeing these flowers here re-
minds me of home. But that is
| another story to be told later, at
of Esther and her loyal uncle Ner-',p ther time.
dochai. But more than the remains
of things long dead, are the ever
present reminders of a civilization
that has decayed. :
I have visited a few of the towns,
and by describing the scenes that
I have seen in these places, I can’t
give a true enough picture. But
I can try. You have no doubt seen
. slums in the states, and heard about
the “Oakies”, the poor whites and
the Negroes in the South. I can
honestly say that I have never seen
nor have I expected to see filth and
such degradation of the human race
. as I have seen since I arrived here.
Going from camp to town what may
seem a bundle of rags cast off by the
side of the road will move and prove
itself a human’ form. The poor
natives and they are the poorest of
the poor—are merely hunks of flesh,
covered with tatters, their features
and their bodies marred by sores
and scars of every disease known to
man. Venereal disease flourishes
here in all its vicious form, but
typhus, cholora, small pox—all the
‘diseases that are bred of filth—
flourish right alongside. Not only
are the natives dirty, but they,
naturally contribute to the atmos-
phere of the town as well. Even if
I were blind, I think that I could
tell by the smell that I was in a
Persian town. I can’t describe that
smell—it is a mixture of every dis-
gusting and evil odor ‘in the world.
~ The press of the natives in the
bazaar makes it necessary to bathe
with good strong soap or else carry
the smell along with you. It is like
a thick syrup that floats through
the air, sticking to everything and
contaminating all. .
But there is beauty in Iran, more
that that. Even amidst a'l the filth
and ugliness that exists here, the
people have an innate sense of
beauty and an appreciation of the
beautiful. .
One needs only to pass through
the bazaar to see this. The varied
colors of the material in the mer-
chants’ stalls, the colorful paintings
done A with exquisite charm and
chaftsmanship. The silver work
when it is done well can hardly be
surpassed anywhere in the world.
And you have heard of the famed
Persian rugs, I have seen them and
I can only say that it is necessary
to look upon them with your own
eyes and feel them with your own |p.t when a pilot has a crew which
hands to really appreciate their
beauty and delicacy.
Comparable to the beauty pro-
duced by man is that which God has
placed here. It is true that there
are baren deserts, almost as hot in
the summer. as hell is supposed to
be; and it is true that many of the
once great forests have passed into
building lumber and food for para-
sites. Yet there remains the great
ranges of mountains that almost
completely incircle the central part
of Iran, forming the great Iranain
plateau. These mountains viewed
from the level of the desert are
truly monarchs. Standing in all
their dignity and power. Snow cap-
ped the year around, and with their
stooply rising cliffs, they guard the
heart of this ancient kingdom.
Dizful, the city that is built with
three underground towns that have
been built one upon the other as
time passed on. Three fourths of
the people of this town are blind.
Due to the diseases that are prevail-
ant in this community. Crossing the
once great bridge that Alexander
the Great had built centuries ago,
it still stands a monumont to that
great man. The’ bridge crosses
over the once great river that flows
past the town. Dark alleys are all
over the town where one with a
Jeep can just go through. Native
children running in front of the
trucks yelling.
The capital of Iran is Teheran,
one of the most modern cities in the
Middle East, German architecture is
Fred.
So leng for now.
fc. Fred Harris
Somewhere in Iran
® We thoroughly enjoyed your
long and interesting letter on Persia,
It’s rather quiet on Lehman
Avenue right now. A two-inch rain-
fall yesterday flooded the street near
our barn. Your mother has answer-
ed one of our prayers and given us
two bushels of walnuts from the
trees in your yard. Floyd is helping
us here at the Post and is proving
to be the best darn fireman we ever
had. The windows shine, too, and
the place is taking on a brisk ap-
pearance under his care.
stand you received seven Posts all
in a heap a short time ago.
folks on Lehman avenue including
I under-
All the
Ann Booth and her mother send
their greetings to Lehman avenues)
own representative in Iran. Good |
luck to you, your next door neigh-
bor.—The Editor.
Proud of His Crew
Dear Editor:
A few months have slipped by
since I've written you. But, it isn’t
a sign of forgetting. The Post has
given me lots of news of the peo-
words may give you a mental pic-
ture of my Air Corps life to date.
Back in May I received an oppor-
tunity to join ‘the newly organized
weather reconnaissance squadron
forming in Madison, Wisconsin. So
off I went. After a month’s training,
I received a crew, myself as first
pilot and a B-25 bomber. Our des-
tination was to fly the North Atlan-
tic air route to England. A few of us
were chosen to fly between Maine
and Greenland, the rest from Green-
land to England.
However, we trained a few weeks
in Maine. I was fortunate enough to
fly to Newfoundland and Canada,
not mentioning flights in the States
down as far as New York and
Wright Field.
" We can’t say much about our
type of work, other than it’s weath-
er reconnaissance. In the past four
months I have flown to Labrador
and Greenland. Suffice to say, the
coldness wasn’t as bad as had an-
ticipated. Nevertheless, we have en-
countered all kinds of weather. And,
when you think how much water is
under you from Labrador to Green-
land—makes you shiver, doesn’t it?
he thinks is the best in the Air
Corps, and a B-25, what more could
a guy ask? These fellows are from
all over the U. S., but that makes
no difference. It's a team I'm proud
to be a member of.
There are always gay sides and
good fun. Boy, these Army “jeeps”
certainly furnish a heap of fun. And,
since we have nearly ten inches of
snow, our skiis give us some good
times, as well as falls. Incidently,
we caught a few delicious eating
salmon trout in Greenland, not men-
tioning our primitive methods of
capture. The fjords, glaciers, ice-
bergs and rocky shores of Greenland
furnish beauty of their own, too.
Thanks a million for your paper,
and “Keep it Comin’ ”.
Best Regards,
| Stewart C. Yorks,
Ist LE AC,
Wea. Recon. Sqdn.,
A. A. B., Presque Lake,
Maine.
® Got a kick out of that Bangor
postmark. How do they say it up
there, “We’a goin’ dowen ta Ban-
ga’. Brother, Maine is great
country. By the way, you may run
into Master Sgt. Charles “Chuck”
Remphrey up that way one of these
days. We thoroughly enjoyed your
interesting letter. It's easy to see
that you're getting a kick out of the
army and out of life.—Editor.
Taking It Easy
Dear Editor:
from five thousand to fifteen thous-
prices up to one hundred and fifty |
i preciation for the. Post. I started get-
! ting my Post a few days back and
{it’s been coming regularly since. I
could never say in words my appre-
ciation for your paper. Believe me,
I'm always looking for my next
copy. i
The State of Washington isn’t
bad, except that it rains all the
time and I mean all the time, day
| and night. If the sun shines here,
they celebrate. The fellows are argu-
ing as to which state is the best,
but I never argue. I already know
Pennsylvania is.
I see that Benny Johnson is at
Camp Edwards, Massachusetts, but
is that his complete address. If not,
I'd like to have it.
From the scuttlebutt I've gath-
ered, K. T.’s football team isn’t do-
ing so good. What seems to be the
trouble ? Is it a green team or what ?
I sure had a swell time when I
was home in July. But I see where
one certain guy didn’t like the Back
Mountain the last time he was
home. He seems to like Savannah,
Georgia, better. But that’s probably
because he is able to say the last
time he was home instead of the
only time. So I guess he wouldn't
appreciate the old home town as
much as I did.
Well, Editor, I must close now,
thanking you again,
f£ I remain,
»" Pvt. E. H. Evans,
U.S. M.C,
Puget Sound Navy Yard,
c/o Marine Barracks,
7 So”
houses, ete. From a Vegesack, Ger-
many raid, where we destroyed a
rubber factory, we came home on
three engines with fighters swarm-
ing at us from all angles. At
Romilly, ‘France, I had a close call
when a 20 M. M. missed me by
about a foot. It came through the
bomb bay, radio room, hit the first
engineer at the waist gun and ex-
poded at the tail gun position. My
plane was called the ‘Heavyweight
Annihilators”’, carrying a crew of
ten, five of us being wounded.
were a lot of fun and excitement,
but it sure felt good to set foot on
good old U. S. soil again. Guess I
was just lucky. I was sent back,
along with others, to be an instruc-
tor and am now at Scott Field, II-
linois, teaching radio and giving the
students some idea of what they will
run into on the other side of the
pond.
My new address is:
{19th Academic Squadron,
L" T/Sgt. Glen Kessler,
A. S. N. 13025946,
Scott Field, Illinois.
® A long Back Mountain cheer for
Glen Kessler, son of Ralph Kessler,
formerly of Kingston Township. A
graduate of Kingston Township High
School in the class of 1941, this
slight, fair-haired youngster (he
weighs 115-pounds) enlisted at the
age of 19°and was among the first
American fliers to land in England.
During 9% months in the British
Isles, he saw action from which only
All my experiences over there,
LEHMAN
!
| Mrs. Susan Rogers is at the Gen-
| eral Hospital suffering with a frac-
| tured hip.
Mrs. Anna Ide, of Tunkhannock,
| spent several days at the home of
| Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Johnson and
| visited friends and relatives at this
! place.
| Mr. and Mrs. Francis Lewis enter-
| tained at dinner on Monday eve-
ning, Miss Ruckle and Miss Aus-
| tin, teachers at Lehman School.
T/Sgt. Howard J. Johnson, of
Bolling Field, Washington, is spend-
ing a three-day pass with his par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Johnson.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Disque and
| daughters visited Mr. and Mrs. T.
Whitesell and family at Phladelphia
recently.
Arthur Ide, Jr., and Mrs. Anna Ide,
of Tunkhannock, spent Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Harlos.
Mr. and Mrs. John Nulton enter-
tained Mrs. Ida Nulton and Mr. and
| Mrs. John Rice and family, of Forty
Fort, on Sunday.
|. Mrs. H. A. Brown and "Louise
| Brown spent the weekend in Phila-
| delphia, visting Mr. and Mrs. Emer-
{son Brown.
Mrs. Arthur Major spent a few
| days recently visiting her aunt, Mrs.
|B. A. Montgomery, of Chester. She
| also spent some time in Philadel-
phia. Dorothy and Billy Major spent
the weekend with their aunt and ac-
| companied Mrs. Major home.
|
parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Caster-
20 per cent of his comrades re-| James Agnew has been promot-
turned. His modest description of | ed to the rank of Corporal.
for tae, Te Bnd Liberty in Savenmal those combats and his superlative | A. R. M. Loren McCarty, who has
oo : ' | understatement in his letter above | been stationed at Jacksonville, Fla.,
and I'll take the Back Mountain any indicate the type of chap he is. So! is spending a week with his parents,
wy, And maybe jets Goad, but I'm we repeat, a long Back Mountain | Mr. and Mrs. Kirk McCarty, after
willing to stay there il they bury cheer for Glen Kessler, a lad who, { which he will leave for California.
i. ; 3 a with another arch conspirator, Dr.| Lt. Warren J. Lewis has been
® Don't take what Earl Williams |g 7, Howell, adroitly gyped us out | transferred to Florida. His wife and
says Seriously. He's got a girl in of our best story of the year when | family expect to join him there
Philadelphia—not Savannah. Ben |Glen visited Trucksville during the | soon.
Johnson's address: Battery C, 135 last week in August. Though it's William Elston is somewhat im-
A. A. A. Gun Bn, Camp Edwards. | hard, we forgive them both. The | proved.
Had a swell visit with your dad a|deeds speak more eloquently than | Nancy Lamoreaux has returned to
few days ago at Bob Leonard's. He's
Bremerton, Washington.
P. S. And you can tell Earl Williams
ple back home. Undoubtedly a few |.
any story.—Editor. New York after spending some time
proud as a peacock, and got a right
to be with three swell boys in serv-
ice.Martha says she bets you like
Washington State a lot better than
the South Pacific. How about it?
—ZEditor.
He Has Seen War
Dear Editor:
Now back from overseas combat
duty and settled here at Scott Field,
Illinois. I would very much like to
have the Post sent here to me.
While in England I received many
with her parents, Mr. ahd Mrs. Eu-
gene Lamoreaux. Mrs. Lamoreaux,
Elsie and Janet, and Mr. and Mrs..
Irvin Parsons spent Sunday at Ves-
tal, N. Y., with Mrs. Lamoreaux’s
daughter, Mrs. Clayton Randall.
Mrs. Susan Rogers is very ill in
the General Hospital with a frac-
tured hip, received in a fall.
Mr. and Mrs. Nesbitt Sutliff spent
last Sunday at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Stolarick.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lamoreaux, of
Manlius, N. Y., spent last weekend
with the former’s parents.
William Elston. is ill at his home.
Men's Bible Class held a supper |
Wednesday night in the church.
NOXEN
Pfc. William Siglin, of Camp Dix,
N. J., visited his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. William Siglin.
Miss Susie Casterline, who is em-
ployed at Harrisburg, visited her
line last week.
Miss Dorothy French, who is a
member of the Waves, stationed at
Boston, spent the weekend with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Myron French.
Mrs. Francis Lord and children,
Timothy and Francis, visited Mr.
Lord, who is employed in Philadel-
phia.
Mrs. John Bryne was a guest last
week of her mother, Mrs. Della
Jones. !
Pvt. Edward Blizzard has returned
to camp after spending a furlough
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam
Blizzard.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Lord and
daughter, Barbara, and Mrs. Della
Jones were guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur Jones at Vestal, N. Y., re-
cently.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dendler and
family have moved to Bethlehem.
Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler Hess were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hess,
of Kunkle! on Sunday.
RUGGLES
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sutton,
daughter, Shirley, and Mrs. Fannie
Sutton, of Endicott, called on Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Kocher, Sunday
afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Russell,
of Wilkes-Barre, were Wednesday
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Kocher.
Mrs. Orrison Kocher visited Mrs.
Laura Brislin, of Laketon, on Tues-
day.
Theodore Davis, son of Mrs. Jen-
nie Davis, returned to camp after
spending a short furlough with his
mother, other relatives and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Kriedler and
family, of Idetown, and Mrs. Fran-
ces Hoover, of Hunlock Creek, were
Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Sherm Hoover and family.
Eugene Kocher, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Rodell Kocher, who is stationed
in Maine, was home on a weekend
furlough.
Dean Kocher, son of Michael
Kocher, returned to South Carolina
after a weekend furlough home. Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Oberst and Deans’
wife accompanied him as far as Har-
risburg, on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sorber have
a new son, Claude Anthony
Miss Marion Kocher, of Wilkes-
Barre, visited her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Gordon Kocher, on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Smith and
family visited Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Smith and family, of Huntsville,
Saturday night.
Fine
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FOOTBALL SCORES
for the Men In Camps And Overseas
copies which I appreciated very
much. x
I was stationed thirty-eight miles
north of London, made several trips
there, saw bombed areas, also took
a few pictures. In my nine and a
half months in England the airfield
where I was stationed was never
bombed but the Jerries did drop
flares a couple times to take
pictures. At times I could hear
London being bombed and see the
sky a brilliant red.
People here in the States squawk
about being rationed so strictly... In
England every little article is ra-
tioned including a ‘bar ' of soap, |
handkerchiefs, towels, etc. They
get one egg a month, hardly any
fruit, meat, or dairy products and
no ice cream at all. If this war is
to be wontby us and won soon, we
had better stop grumbling! What
the boys, who are over there risking
their lives every day, think about
these large labor strikes is not a
pleasant subject to be mentioned
here, except that they would gladly
exchange jobs any day. War is no
fun, and it's about time we begin
to realize such.
I participated in twenty-five
bombing missions, ten of which
were over Germany, the other fif-
teen over France, Belgium, and
Holland. Anti-aircraft and enemy
fighter planes put up plenty of stiff
opposition. February 4th over
Emden, Germany, I was wounded
with a 7.9 M. M. from a F. W. 190.
I am still carrying the slug around
in my left shoulder. I received the
Purple Heart for that, also I have
the D. F. C., Air Medal, and three
Oak Leaf Clusters. Another time
we came back from St. Nazaire,
France, on two engines: with the
pilot, bombardier and navigator
wounded. : All of my missions were
made in a Flying Fortress (B-17).
They were daylight precision bomb-
ings where we hit submarin€ pens,
railway yards, factories, power
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Football Results
WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 6
SCHOLASTIC
Monday
West Pittston 26, Exeter 7.
Duryea 33, Jenkins Twp. O.
Jessup 7, Old Forge O.
Pittston
Friday
Forty Fort 12, Kingston Twp. O.
Twp. 2, Dupont 0.
Plains 27, Luzerne 6.
Tunkhannock 27, Scr.
JV 12.
Pottsville 13, Tamaqua 6.
Hazleton 33, Coaldale 7.
Saturday
Dallas Twp. 18, St. John’s 12.
Meyers 0, Berwick O.
Coughlin 14, GAR 6.
Hanover 13, Newport O.
Nanticoke 6, Kingston O.
Larksville 13, Plymouth O.
West Pittston 45, Pittston O.
Swoyerville 19, W. Wyoming 12. \
Exeter 19, Wyoming 12.
Taylor 12, Jessup 6.
Wyoming Sem. 20, Scranton In-
formals 6.
Allentown 20, Easton O.
Reading 7, Lebanon 0.
Steelton 14, York® 7.
William Penn 21, Williamsport 19.
Lock Haven 38, Bellefonte O.
Lansford 39, Nesquehoning 0.
John Harris 39, Lancaster 7.
Mercersburg 20, Kiski School 12.
COLLEGIATE
East
Notre Dame 26, Army 0.
Holy Cross 42, Temple 6.
Bucknell 13, Lakehurst NTS 0.
Willow Grove NTS 21, Muhlen-
berg T.
Navy 24, Penn 7.
Worcester 19, Coast Guard 12.
Rutgers 13, Lafayette 0.
Dartmouth 47, Columbia 13.
Tufts 6, Bates 0.
Ohio State 46, Pitt 6.
Bethany 20, Oberlin 0.
Harvard 14, Camp Edwards 7.
Brown 21, Yale 20.
Cornell 13, Penn State O.
Villanova 45, Princton 22.
RPI 68, Brooklyn College 0.
F&M 7, Swarthmore 6.
Bainbridge NTS 54, Curtis Bay O.
W. Virginia 53, Lehigh 6.
South
Rice 20, Arkansas 7.
Texas Tech 40, Texas Christian 20.
Texas A&M 22, SMU 0.
Duke 75, N. Carolina State O.
Camp Lejeune 55, Norfolk Ma-
rines 6.
Clemson 26, Davidson 6.
N. Carolina 21, S. Carolina 6.
Cornell Coll. 18, Macomb Techs. 12. °
Wake Forest 20, N. Caro. Na-
val 12. .
Virginia 39, Maryland 0.
Southwest Louisiana 20, Arkansas
A&M 20.
Case 19, Baldwin Wallace O..
Langston 48, Houston 0.
Georgia Tech 42, LSU 7.
Howard 42, Alabama Informals 6.
Depauw 42, Fort Knox 0.
Camp Davis 31, Fort Monroe 6.
Central