4 We Remember Be KILLED IN ACTION * RICHARD WELLINGTON CEASE, January 29, 1942 ~~ DIED IN SERVICE ~ GEORGE UTRICH, May 16, 1942 ~ HOWARD A. COSGROVE, July 3, 1942 THOMAS CLARK LLOYD, July 4, 1943 MISSING IN ACTION KEATS POAD, March 3, 1942 WALTER CEASE WILSON, May 9, 1942 HAROLD THOMAS KEPNER, December 19, 1942 JOHN E. FRITZ, May 7, 1943 JOHN P. GLEASON, March 30, 1943. a PRISONERS ‘OF WAR CLARENCE H. MORGAN, May 22, 1942 DONALD FREEMAN, May “22, 1942 FRED WIESTERMAN, April 20, 1943 725 Free Posts to Soldiers this week ° Editorially Speaking: The Champ Comes Home Read this! It will make you feel good! you proud of American initiative! The country’s railroad transportation system, though pressed nearly to the limit of its resources, has been able to meet the demands made upon it by the war effort, accord- ing to the Board of Investigation and Review appointed un- der the transportation act of 1940. “Prior to the war,” re- ports the Board, “it was feared that transportation plants had been built beyond any requirements, but this so-called surplus has proved a lifesaver. Without it the country would have been in a desperate position.” Commenting, the New York Herald Tribune says: “This is interesting as far as it goes. But it is a pretty routine statement of fact. It doesn’t even hint at the real story of the transportation miracle of 1940-’43, which is a hum- dinger. This is the story of how that ‘overbuilt,’ ‘overcapi- talized,” ‘outmoded,’ ‘moribund’ branch of transportation known as the railroads has come back in World War II to show those upstart new competitors of the last twenty years who is top dog when it comes to handling a really big traffic job. “For the railroads haven’t just swung their own share of the war traffic. They have had to take up... .a good share of the loads of their competitors. . . .Geared to handle only a nominal part of the oil movement to the Eastern sea- board, for example, the carriers stepped in when the U-boat struck down the coastwise tanker service, and. . . . . raised their share of this vital traffic from 10,000 barrels a - day to 1,000,000, a 100- old expansion. They took over bodily the war-dammed traffic of the Panama Canal. When wartime restrictions halted the manufacture of motor trucks, they absorbed much of the potential increase here. And, in addition to handling troop movements four times as great as those of World War I, they shared with the “'movorbuses the movement or iuillivis of travelers who found themselves unable to use their private cars because It will make of rubber or ‘gas’ shortages. “There is a touch of drama in this Comeback of the Champion, not only to relive youth. But there is also in have seen it demonstrated. . possesses an emergency. . . but to surpass the deed of his it a profound lesson. . . .We . .that railroad transportation .expandibility which is un- rivaled among its competitors This must be a basic con- sideration when the time comes to formulate a postwar long-term national transportation policy.” X Xx ¥ “Be It Ever So Humble" Who said the grass was greener in the other fellow’s State? It wasn’t the Brooklyn soldier stationed in Florida. Nor the Georgian based in Boston. A Wave from Chicago wouldn’t be bribed to admit that Fifth Avenue had any- thing on Michigan Boulevard’s shopping promenade. The more servicemen and women travel about the coun- try, the more intense becomes their loyalty to the home - town. The place where they were stationed before always benefits by comparison with the later one. Take a poll on any train. Watch the Southerner on fur- lough whistle as he crosses the Mason and Dixon Line. Home again! “God’s country,” he says. Going in the other direction is the Northerner with the same sentiment thumping under his shirt. “God’s country,” he breathes as the train races down the rails between tall buildings and into tightly packed cities. Americans are seeing more of America today than they ever did in peacetime, but they are seeing it under condi- tions that are far from normal. Even so, many are making the most of their opportunities to explore and enjoy new surroundings. Home town however, and “Home, Sweet loyalties remain unshaken, Home” is the theme song of every man and woman in the service. —Christian Science Monitor. * kh 3% FROM. PILLAR TO POST By Mas. T. M. B. Hicks, Jz. Last Tuesday evening, after a mad scramble to assemble luggage, baby, and daughter, we tucked all three on the train in the following quantities: one baby, one daughter, two large suitcases, one overflowing dunnage-bag. Apparently everything in the house was in the dunnage-bag. It zipped up with great difficulty after having suffered minor readjustments. The two suitcases required sitting on be- fore consenting to close. For three days previously the second floor had been stacked with clothing, sorted neatly into piles destined for either of the suitcases or for the dunnage bag. The kitchen sink had been lined with bottles in marching for- mation. As the time approached for the grand get-away, the tempo of the preparations speeded up. More bot- tles were sterilized, more black rub- ~ ber nipples dunked in boiling water and wrapped in a clean paper nap- kin. More triangular one-piecers dec- orated the radiators in the hall. More sleepers with trap-doors hung drying over the bucket-a-day. . (Continued on Page Eight) Grover Anderson, Jr., and Jack Nothoff, of Harvey's Lake, have re- turned from Armenian Mountain, near Wellsboro, where Mr. Ander- son shot a black bear last Friday that weighed 150-pounds dressed. Mr. Nothoff said there were a number of much larger bears killed in that area. The biggest one, weigh- ing more than 400 pounds was killed by a cripple who was walking along a mountain road with a cane and. Tur DaLLas MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION Post Vol. 53 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1943 (Single Copies No. 48 6c) Boards Are Now Calling Up Many Local Fathers Majority of hem rf Have Two/Or M Dependen ildren Fathers, some of them with as many as four children, will soon be leaving for military service from the two local Draft Boards that draw men from .the Back Mountain Region. On Wednesday, Dr. G. L. Howell, examining physician for Draft Board | No. 1, Wyoming, examined 67 men, 50 per cent of whom are married and have children. Of this number, Dr. Howell said, only four were not passed on to the induction center for final examinations. Dr. Howell, who is also an exam- iner at the induction center, said that among 107 men called for final examinations on Thursday, more than 50 per cent were married with one child or more as dependants. Dr. F. Budd Schooley, examining physician for Draft Board No. 5, at Shickshinny, confirmed Dr. Howell's statement that many local men with dependants will soon be entering military service. “Of the men I am examining now”, he said, “the large percentage were born between 1908 and 1910. Contrary to popular opin- ion, they appear to be in excellent physical condition and fully 50 per cent of them have two or more children. I have examined a number of fathers who have four, five and six children. Not more than two or three men who have become 18 years of age are examined each week. Dr. Schooley recalled one inter- esting case of a man 47 years of age who served in the navy during the World War. “He has been turned down a dozen times for re- enlistment ' in" ‘the Navy — most | everything was wrong with him—+ but he is so eager to go that he has been on a special diet for some time and has cleared up all of his trouble except one—rather high blood pres- { sure. He now has that under con- trol and I think he is going to make the grade”. Dr. Schooley indicated that he is impressed with the spirit of fathers. | ‘None of them complain”, he said, “they are all willing to go if it is their turn, but some of them think that men should not be called in the order of their draft numbers, but according to their number of depen- dants.’ They see a number of single men in defense plants and married men without children who are de- ferred and they think those fellows ought to go first.” & PET DEER’S BATTERED BODY FOUND NEAR THE ORCHARD WHERE HE FED A gentle 14-point buck deer that featured in the news last week was found dead Sunday a short distance from the orchard on the Wayne Brace Farm, at Beaumont, where it had browsed most of the summer. The anima] had become some- what of a pet and two weeks ago while being admired and patted by members of the Brace family, became startled and knocked Mrs. Arthur Smith, of Beaumont, to the ground, breaking her arm in two places. When members of the Brace family went back to the farm last Sunday to look for their ac- quaintance, they found him dead in a nearby field. His head was badly battered and split and the condition iof his coat indicated that the gallant animal might have fallen van- quished in a battle to the death with another buck. Lake Men Get Bear; Say Cripple Shot Animal Weighing 400 Pounds & — gun..The big animal ran out in the road ahead of him and was killed and taken out of the woods with almost no effort. A number of others got bears weighing between 275 and 350-pounds. “They shoot up there to eat—not for fun”, Jack added. Anderson and Nothoff were hunt- ing together when Anderson killed his bear. For a time they were Jost and came out of the woods about 18 miles from where they went in. They Have The Hill Winds In Their Veins men of the Back Mountain region who risked and gave their lives in all wars of the Republic. With them were friends and Beneath a bright November sky that smiled its blustery approval, more than 400 Dallas citizens gath-- ered reverently last“ Sunday after- noon at the parkway intersection. on Main street and dedicated their honor roll to their sons and daugh- ters in military service. At the same neighbors from other communities— some who had lost sons in action— who came to pay silent tribute to those boys and girls who had once time they paid homage to those | trod their fields at hunting seasons, ook Wk kh oe dk AR NN FROM ALL OF US TO YOU *R W de ok XK XR ER Men in arms, I salute you! Through the medium of the Dallas Post, I have the privilege of writing to all of you for Thanksgiving Day, 1943. “Although a total stranger to many of you, yet I am a neighbor to your folks back home in the Back Mountain, and feel as though I know you. 4 America will celebrate this traditional holiday with fitting ceremonies, even though our country is engaged in a war of survival. We, too, in this area, will join with our nation in thanking God, our Creater, for the many blessings we have received during the past twelve months. We shall cele- brate Thanksgiving in the form of sacrifices and of blessings from the Lord for His goodness and mercy. We, at home, shall wend our way to church or chapel on that day to offer our thanks to God. And thanks for what? Thanks for you, because you are very near to us—you are our brothers, our sons, our friends. You stand between us and a relentless enemy who is waging a battle for the destruction of all that we hold sacred and dear. When you fight, we are safe; when you win, we are grateful and proud. If you fall, we will follow the news with sadness, and then be thankful that we have known you. We are thankful to God this day—because you stand before our church es, our schools, our homes, prepared to defend them. We are trying to show our thanks not only on this day, November 25th 1943, but every day. In our churches, honor rolls and plaques have been dedicated with relig- ious ceremonies; prayers have been offered—and are being offered to the Divine Commander-in-chief for your spiritual and physical welfare; in our schools, patriotic programs extolling your virtues have been presented to your younger brothers and sisters and to your smaller friends. And at home—Mother and Dad have enshrined your photographs (good resem- blances, too) on the piano, on the end table in the living room. A star in the window reminds us of your absence—for a while. The civil authori- ties, the boys down at the corner have erected plaques and honor rolls inscribed with your names. Your friends in the plants and on the farm have. toiled after working hours erecting the plaques so that the whole world might know that your town, our town has a great battalion fight- ing for us back home in the Back Mountain. You men in service have reason to be thankful on this Thanksgiving Day 1943 to a provident God—for America. You can pray: “God has given me a wonderfully happy life. I owe that largely to Amer- ica, where I was born. America has blessed me with rich, happy years and with health. So now when it needs me, I give my thanks by fighting for the things that America stands for. I thank God that I have this opportun- ity of defending my folks back home, my town and my country. Help me God by Thy grace’. Thanksgiving Day personifies the USA.—A grateful creature to a gra- cious Creator symbolizes our Constitution, the Bill of Rights. America, the spot where our ancestors settled because they were tired of tyrants and laws made for the chosen few. America, where a rail-splitter became a great president, where a breaker boy became a respected leader, where a modest farm hand became a noted surgeon. America—the land of oppor- tunity, of liberty. America is a great land and we thank God and so do you. God, too, will not be outdone in generosity for He will continue to bless us all for that Christian spirit of gratitude. Well might we sing to- day, “God Bless America’ for you are America: We shall follow you with thanks this day. We shall protect you with our prayers. We shall never, as we gather in our churches, in our homes, forget you, the absent ones. We shall be proud of your courage and sacri- fices. We shall be fearful with your fears. The farther war shall take you from our side, the nearer you will be to our hearts. God be with you, men of the Armed Forces of America! trampled their lawns and gardens during youthful escapades and stormed their porches during«Hal- lowe’en pranks. ; A The program opened with Auler~ ica, accompanied by the high school band, and led by David Joseph, fol- lowed by the invocation by Rev. Ernest L. Kratzer, Dallas Free Methodist Church. The flag was ac- cepted by Daddow-Isaacs Post from Boy and Girl Scouts, and raised to the top of the 40-foot flag pole by Commander Joseph Adametz and Legionnaire Claire Winters. Rev. Austin L. Prynn, pastor of Dallas Methodist Church, dedicated the honor roll which was unveiled by members of the Legion. Speakers were Rev. J. J. O'Leary, pastor of St. Therese’s Church and chaplain of Daddow-Isaacs Post; Burgess H. A. Smith, chairman of the honor roll committee; Harold Payne, rep- resenting Andrew J. Sordoni, who was ill, and Supervising Principal T. A. Williammee. The program closed with the benediction by Rev. Krat- zer and the singing of “Over There” and “God Bless America”, accom- panied by the high school band. Howard Risley was master of cere- monies. School Director Harry Ohl- man was chairman of the program committee. At night, following the dedication, the Carra glass honor roll bearing the names of 130 men and women, was lighted for the first time. Parents To Sign Forms Dallas Board of Health is making a special appeal to all parents of ! children aged 3 months to 6 years, to fill out their applications for in- noculations for whooping cough. The Board of Health will buy the serum. It has obtained a special clinic price, but the more serum it buys the low- er the price. James Besecker, secre- tary, has the forms which every parent should sign. Boy Who Captured Scrap Goal For | Everybody Is Asked To Take Part In One Day Scrap Drive its 130 fighting men and women, and as a memorial to those Amer- icans who died at Peari Harbor, Dal- las .Borough has set an unprece- dented goal of 50 tons of scrap effort on National Pearl Harbor Day, Tuesday, December 7. “The goal, the largest ever set for Dallas, is going to be hard to meet,” according to Harry Ohlman, general meet it just like America met the challenge after Pearl Harbor’. “Every school child, every citizen, every fraternal, civic and business organization in Dallas should feel proud to set this one day aside to gather scrap”, Mr. Ohlman said. “We hope the president of the bank, the housewives and everybody else will take the day off to help gather 1 scrap. We want everybody who has a truck, wagon or any other kind of conveyance that will haul scrap to have it on the job early on the morning of December 7. We'll pro- vide drivers for any truck that can’t be furnished with a driver. “All of the scrap”, Mr. Ohlman said, “will be stored in Dallas High School yard. The funds received the community amplifying system Dallas Borough Schools”. Serving on the committee with Mr. Ohlman are: Joseph Wallo, David Joseph, Thomas Kingston, John Roberts, James -Besecker, Henry Peterson, Paul Shaver, How- ard Risley, Leslie Warhola, T. A. Williammee, Rev. Ausita L. P nn, Ralph Paul. All air raid wardens, auxiliary po- lice, Red Cross workers, and air craft observers will be asked to take part in the collection. 3 “Although the goal is big”, Mr. met if we all plug together. The best way to be sure we reach the goal is to spot scrap right now, so that we’ll know where to pick it up on Pearl Harbor Day. : “Since there will probably be no other collection in any other Back Mountain community on that day, we'd appreciate all the co-operation we can get from citizens in other communities. Anyone who wants to help can call me at Dallas 456”. "ONE NOXEN MAN IN TEN HAS NOW ENTERED ARMY OR NAVY OR AIR CORPS ‘With one man in ten in mili- tary service, Noxen, Wyoming County, with a normal popula- tion of less than 1,000, has one of the highest percentages of men in service of any commun- ity Back of the Mountain. Two Noxen families have four men or more now serving their coun- try. Mr. and Mrs. George Siglin have five sons on active duty and Mr. and Mrs. William Wright have four sons in serv- ice. Two other sons, Leonard and Frank Wright, have been called and will be inducted be- fore Christmas. When their sons leave, it is believed that. the Wright family will have estab- lished a record. Pantless Enemy Is Wounded In Italian Campaign A Back Mountain~boy who was tenth to land on the beach between Licata and Gila ‘during the invasion of Sicily, was wounded in action on October 13, according to a delayed telegram from the War Department, received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Lamoreaux, of Dallas R.'F.D. 2 He is Elmer Lamoreaux whose V- Mai] letter giving an account of the capture of 400 Germans without their pants appeared in last week’s issue of The Post. That letter, writ- ten on October 22, was a source of consolation to Mr. and Mrs. Lamor- Rev. Joseph J. Kennedy. eaux this week as they awaited fur- ther information from the War De- partment. The day before she received the telegram, Mrs. Lamoreaux also re- ceived another letter from her son, dated November 4. In it he said thap he was in the hospital and not as well as he would like to be, but that the doctors seemed satisfied. He did not mention that he had been wounded. had been in the hospital for treat- ment of his eyes and feet and Mrs. Lamoreaux was of the opinion that he was still there for that purpose until she received the message on Sunday. Dallas Sets Big Pearl Harbor Day : As material proof of its apprecia- 7 tion of the sacrifices being made by metal as its contribution to the war chairman, “but we are going to A <a ministers, the editor of the paper, | from the sale will be used to pay for which has already been given to a Harold Titman, Ord Trumbower and Ohlman reiterated, “It can easily be Earlier in the fell, he 5 i oi ¥ i fa
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