aaa DIED IN We Remember KILLED IN RICHARD WELLINGTON CEASE, January 29, GEORGE TUTRICH, May 16, HOWARD A. COSGROVE, July 3, 1942 THOMAS CLARK LLOYD, July MISSING IN ACTION KEATS POAD, March 3, 1942 WALTER CEASE WILSON, May 9, HAROLD THOMAS KEPNER, December 19, 1942 JOHN E. FRITZ, May 7, 1943 JOHN P. GLEASON, March 30, 1943. PRISONERS OF WAR CLARENCE H. MORGAN, May 22, DONALD FREEMAN, May 22, 1942 Pg FRED WESTERMAN, April 20, 1943 725 Free Posts to Soldiers this week ACTION 1942 SERVICE 1942 ~ Tur Darras Post MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION 1943 Vol. 53 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1943 (Single Copies 6c) No. 50 4, 1942 1942 Editorially Speaking: No Thank You This country newspaper has little sympathy with the efforts of the small newspapers, through the National Edi- torial Association, to obtain Federal monies in the amount of $15,000,000 for war bond advertising in dailies, semi- weeklies, tri-weeklies, and weekly newspapers of general circulation in communities of less than 10,000 and for non- dailies in larger cities. We never believed in government handouts and subsi- dies for others and we don’t believe in them for ourselves; much as we could use several hundred dollars of extra rev- We are aware that ‘the government asks a great deal from the daily and weekly press, and we are also aware that we as editors can still refuse to run any- thing the government wants, if we do not agree with it. If the government plans to use a general advertising campaign throughout the country in the newspapers that can give them the best results—advertising purchased on a merit basis—then we are for it; but we are for no subsi- dies in the guise of advertising: For we know the pressure that would be applied and the political strings that would be pulled by those papers that were left out of the sched- ule. So we say forget it! We'll contribute the space to sell the bonds, to win the war so that we can have an admin- istration and a country where men are free. “We are proud of the field of journalism and the ideals that motivate most country editors. We feel resentful of the fly-by-night sheets that spring up for the sole purpose of getting legal and political advertising. And we know, too, those country papers that exist only as stepping stones to further the ambitions of an editor who has his eye on a postmastership or seat in the Senate—and whose paper is not and never has been representative of the | enue annually. true country press. {. No, let us sell advertising on a business basis in competi- tition with other free enterprises. Leave ‘us free to speak our own minds—"unawed by influence, unbribed by gain”. Therein lies the salvation of the real country press and of a * Kk % Home Talent Ain't Good Enough We hope it is no foreboding of things that are to come that Dallas Borough School Board found it necessary Mon- day night to hire a lawyer from outside the Back Moun- tain region to handle its complicated legal work. The small $150 fee paid to its solicitor is an indication of the mighty decisions its lawyer has to make, and if there are to be more involved legal entanglements it might be well for the board to hire Philadelphia or New York Until the board proves that it does anticipate future weighty legal opinions, we see no reason for ap- pointing an attorney from outside Dallas and the Back real America. council. Mountain region. Local folks attend the athletic events, contribute to the band, gather the scrap, support the local Red Cross, pay the taxes, help keep the town clean, support the fire com- pany, buy the honor rolls, send their kids to these schools and generally boost the Back Mountain Region, and we somehow feel that there is some attorney back here smart enough to keep Dallas School Board out of jail. Maybe we ought to elect school directors from Wilkes-Barre, too. FROM._ PILLAR TO POST By Mzs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr. The lecturer was sketching with deft strokes the character of Winston Churchill as seen through the eyes of the agent who had managed the fu- ture Prime Minister on a lecture tour of the United States in nineteen- thirty. He began his talk with hardy perennial, the quotation to the effect that Winston Churchill is undoubtedly the most popular British Prime Min- ister the United States has ever had, and he concluded his lecture with that shortest of Churchill speeches, the reply to Chamberlain’s report “on the outcome of the Munich con- ference: “You were offered your choice of war or dishonor. “You chose dishonor. “You'll get war.” Midway of the lecture, elaborating his subject with fact and fancy, Mr. Alber came to Mr. Churchill's pref- erences in wet good.s Some of them, it seemed, had been difficult but not impossible ‘to satisfy in a prohibi- tion era. Mr. Alber stopped, clutched his throat, and repeated himself. “Mr. Churchill”, he croaked, “talked best on Champagne. Now I have always been a teetotaller, and I talk all right on ice-water. Some- times it is amost impossible to get ice-water.” He gave the empty table a mean- ing look and struggled on, as a man (Continued on Page Eight) Council Orders Steps Removed Engineer Says They Are Traffic Hazard Herbert Lundy, proprietor of Lundy’s Restaurant, was- asked to remove two concrete steps at the Mill street entrance to his Banquet Room, Tuesday night, at the meet- ing of Dallas Borough Council. Bor- ough Engineer, John Jeter, said that the steps.protrude 20 inches out into narrow Mill street and constitute a traffic hazard. Warden Kunkle, vice president, presided at the session which was uneventful and included only -rou- tine business and the payment of bills. Council President, Joseph Mac- Veigh, was absent, having forgotten about the meeting when he consent- ed to show his colored motion pic- tures at a church benefit. Council- men Davis and Roberts were also | Police Still Investigating Lake Stabbing Frequenter, 60, Held Loyalville man was stabbed and the Sunset section of Harvey's Lake thrown into a turmoil late Sunday night following a drunken brawl centering about the affections of Barefoot Annie, Mrs. Anna Zamins- key, who conducts a notorious es- tablishment in the location formerly known as Meehan’s Cafe next door to Sam Koslofsky’s store. Joseph Jejunis, 60, Swoyerville, is being held without bail at Luzerne County Prison, pending action of the next grand jury on charges of stab- bing Kenneth Farrell, 30, Loyalville lumberman, with a knife during an argument near the saloon. Ferrell whose lower chest wall near the heart was punciared with a three-inch gash was dis. harged from Nesbitt Memorial Hospital where he was taken early Sunday morning by Chief of Police, Fred Swanson of Harvey's Lake. Jejunis also required treatment for face and nose injuries from a pummeiing ad- ministered by Farrell who went “completely wild” after the stabbing until he fell in the road exhausted from his wounds and was carried to Sam Koslofsky’s store where a call was put in for Chief Swanson. Harvey's Lake Police and Penn- sylvania State Police are investigat- ing the case. According to the police version, Ferrell and a com- panion, “Red” Campbell of Kunkle, had argued with Jedunis, a frequen- ter of the establishment, probably at the.instigation of the proprietress who had grown tired of the elder man’s attentions and wanted him put out. When ‘police arrived at-the scene the saloon was securely locked, all lights out, and Campbell, who had deserted Farrell lying in the road after the stabbing was in the estab- lishment and refused to come out until police threatened to force an entry. Cows Are Saved Rs Barn Burns Flames Raze Structure Friday Night At Kunkle Fire, which is believed to have originated in a short circuit in an automobile stored in an adjacent shed, completely destroyed a large barn Friday night, at 7:15, on the farm of the W. S. Kunkle Estate, at Kunkle, operated by Philip Kunkle. The structure was stocked with 30 tons of hay, 200 bushels of oats and. housed twelve head. of cattle, a team of horses and farm machin- lars’ worth of farm machinery—dif- ficult to obtain because of war pri- orities—were lost, although partly covered by insurance. The twelve cows and team were removed from the blazing structure through the quick work. of Philip Kunkle and neighbors before the flames cut off their exit. The auto- mobile was destroyed. Mr. Kunkle, who lives with his mother, Mrs. Mary Kunkle and sis- ter, Mrs. Stanley Kunkle, said that ner when one of them saw the flames shoot through the barn. Aft- er rescuing the cows and horses they found the heat too intense to save anything else. Daniel C. Roberts and Henry M. Laing Fire companies were sum- moned, but the flames had gained such headway that little could be done to save the 32 to 40 foot shed. Both companies ran lines of hose from nearby Leonard’s Creek nearby homes and the barn of Wil- liam Brace, which were seriously threatened as well as on the blaz- ing barn. For the time being, Mr. Kunkle is keeping his cows in the barn owned by Mrs. John Isaacs and the team is being kept in the barn owned by Mrs. Carrie Kunkle. Tons Collected More than 2 tons of waste paper and 12 tons of scrap metal were collected in Dallas Borough on absent. x : t Pearl Harbor Day. Mrs. ert Scott. Frances Lewis, chairman, and Mrs. George Stolarick, chairman of the Woman’s Club Waste Paper Campaign, in Lehman Town- ship, check weights of the tons of paper brought to Lehman schools by student collectors. Lehman’s record collection of 35,186 pounds won the contest among. Back Mountain schools. So enthusiastic was the student drive that on many days, stacks of magazines, newspapers, books and cardboard filled school corridors to the ceilings and all but blocked stu- dent passage. Pictured in the foreground left to right are: William Shock, Roland Ginsel, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. Stolarick. In the background, left to right: William Kern, Donald’Kemmerer, Polly Lou Cooper. Under the scales: Rob- Weighing In Waste Paper At Lehman assistant “We fellows who fought in France ery. Unestimated thousands of dol-' members of the family were at din-! structure or the adjoining silo and , during 1917 were just a bunch of [ cowboys compared ~to- the boys “in ithe army today—these ‘guys are really trained.” That is the way Sgt. | “Red” Hontz, of the Seabees, home for a furlough, compared the pres- {ent army with that of twenty-five years ago. Sgt. Hontz ought to know, for he served twenty-two months in for- ‘eign service during World War I, | and has been stationed at Camp | Perry and New River for the past six months. “Red” formerly operated a garage in Dallas and drove the Dallas Star Route when his home was in Centermoreland. For the past six years he has lived in Tunkhan- { | { 1 | nock. One of the first places he visit- ed in Dallas was at the Lehigh Val- | ley station where he wanted to chat | with his old friend, Al Culbert, who is now on vacation. | The pink-cheeked husky Seabee i made a rugged appearance in his | Marine green uniform with scarlet | sergeant’s stripes. His cheerful grin belied the fact that he is the father | of five children and slightly over | age for most branches of service. "We Were Cowboys In1917 Compared To Soldiers Now", Says Sgt. Hontz Red decided to join the Seabees aft- er he had spent several months as a-steel worker on construction jobs throughout the South. Explaining the organization, he said: “the army has always had en- gineer outfits, but the navy has al- ways depended on civilian construc- tion workers. At Pear] Harbor those civilian navy workers grabbed guns or anything else they could fight back with against the Japs. It has been that way throughout the whole Pacific area. . “Had any of them been captured armed and without uniforms, they would have been shot and not treat- ed as ordinary prisoners of war. That's one of the reasons for the Seebees. . .and don’t you think that Seabees can’t handle a gun as well as a bulldozer or riveting machine. “Today when a soldier goes in the field he is trained to perfection. He gets that training through motion pictures, class work, books and prac- tice in the field—that’s why I say, we were cowboys during the World War. We didn’t "have the training even if we did have the spirit.” ‘Arnold Returns ‘To Army Service Dallas Man Served In First World War | Brooke Arnold, past commander of Daddow-Isaacs Post, American Legion, and for the past nine years a resident of Elizabeth street, Dal- las, has re-entered the service of the | War Department. He enlisted in the Marines on August 2, 1917, and was discharged some months later by special order of the Marine Commandant to en- i ter the Intelligence Sepvice of the War Department. After the war he was with the Secret Service. Mr. Arnold will leave for his new , assignment on December 15. A na- and played streams of water on: tive of Oklahoma, for the past six years, he has been employed with the Hazard Wire Rope Company, Wilkes-Barre. Mrs. Arnold will remain in Dallas. Shoot 4-Point Buck Ralph Rood, of Lehman avenue, and Ernest Keller, of Shavertown, were members of a party that shot a nice four-point deer at Red Rock on Saturday. Harry Hirlinger, broth- er-in-law of Mr. Rood, made the lucky shot. Football Player Dies In Hos Attended K. T. Banquet Last Wednesday Night Corey Miers Perrin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Perrin, of Shaver- town, died Monday evening in the Nesbitt Memorial Hospital from complications, following an appendi- citis operation. He was fifteen years old on September 9th. A Freshman at Kingston Town- ship High School, the youth was well-liked by classmates and faculty alike. He was a member of the foot- ball squad and attended the foot- ball banquet last Wednesday eve- ning. ; Besides his parents, he is survived by three sisters, Jane and Louise, at home, and Laura Jean, of Middle- town; three brothers, Wallace, Jr., of Allentown, and Howard and Wayne, at home; his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Corey Miers, of Kunkle, and paternal grandmother, Mrs. Fred Perrin, of Trucksville. Funeral services were held from the Hugh B. Hughes Funeral Home, in Forty Fort, yesterday afternoon. Death Car In Scrap The death car, in which three persons were killed some weeks ago, in Dallas, went into the Pearl Har- bor Day scrap pile. It weighed 2,- ious condition at Mercy Hospital, Wi William Monk Killed As Coal Truck Collides With Bus Load Of Local Men E Eleven Workmen En Route To Berwick Plant Are Tossed On Highway At West Nanticoke William Monk, 24, Elizabeth street, Dallas, was killed and James Kieper, Ollie Mason and George Bellas, the latter two of Fernbrook, are in a ser- lkes-Barre, as the result of a collision 2 miles beyond West Nanticoke, yesterday morning, at 7 o'clock, between a careening 10-ton coal truck and the frail, improvised plyboard bus in Local Men Form Corporation For Hatching Chicks Mammoth 65,000 Egg Capacity Incubator Set Up At Tunkhannock Farmers’ North Star, a corpora- tion owned by Back Mountain and | Hicholson, Wyoming County, busi- nessmen is installing a mammoth electric incubator with a capacity of 65,000 eggs, in the old Jennings & Stark bakery and ice cream factory, at Tunkhannock. The hatching plant will have a weekly output of 17,000 day-old chicks, based upon an 80 per cent hatch, and will be under the supervision of Stanley L. Moore, of Trucksville Mills. When installations are completed, the hatchery and its associated feed, equipment and supply store will be one of the largest hatcheries in this part of Pennsylvania. Members of the firm are: J. H. Hauck, Fred M. Kiefer and Addison Woolbert, Jr., of North Star Dress- ing Plant, Shavertown; Stanley L. Moore, of East Dallas, and J. F. Bush, Purina dealer, of Nicholson. Eggs for the Tunkhannock hatch- ery will be furnished by breeders who operate their flocks under a controlled feeding and breeding program, and. prices for eggs will be paid on a merit basis. ~/ yd The old Jennings & Stark Bakery is Jocated on Tioga street, the Main street of Tunkhannock, and is oppo- site the Wyoming National Bank. The enterprise, according to the in- corporators, will probably eventually be tied in with the North Star Dress- ing plant, at Shavertown, Trucks- ville Mill and the Bush feed store, at Nicholson. Mr. Hauck has been identified with Purina Mills for a number of (Continued on Page Seven) | Former Associate Editor Of Post Writes From India I heard from my favorite con- tributing . editor of the Post that you can’t make up your whether to be just aggravated or damned good and mad at your rov- ing and entirely faithless war cor- respondent. The magnificent total of one small article in a span of well over a year makes me out to be ‘a pretty dismal specimen of a newspaperman. And yet, foolish as it may sound after all these long and stubborn months of silence, I have fully intended all along to get out a series of columns for you—if for no other reason, in profound gratitude for my soldier’s subscrip- tion to the Post. (And I do, of course, have other reasons. I still feel warmly possessive about the weekly paper I helped put to bed so many years; I guess, in a way, I still consider myself a part of the Post, even if I haven't shown by so much as a line of copy that I ever give its ingratiating columns a second thought). As of yore, How- ard—and how well you know it!— getting” my good intentions into print is a singularly long and labor- ious process. . .and then again, it may well be that a certain reluc- tance to the written word is an in- heritance peculiar to those who have toiled against Thursday’s deadline and Harry Post’s wrath in your rus- tic sweatshop. For last Spring the redoubtable Howell Rees, editor emeritus of the Post, and myself were stationed .but thirty miles apart in the sunny climes of Flor- ida. For three months we religious- ly vowed to get in touch with each other, and just as assiduously avoid- ed it; our total exchange in that period was two short notes and a post card. We were both enthus- iastic at the time, by the way, in the idea of writing a joint “it’s-a- small-world-after-all” letter to you and yours. . . 500 pounds. (Continued on Page Six) mind : which the dead and injured were riding to their work in Berwick, employees of the Multiplex Manu- facturing Company. with “Jeff” Wagner, was thrown from the machine head first against a ledge of rocks and died 7 min- utes after admission to Nanticoke State Hospital, with a crushed skull. The three injured men were rushed to Mercy Hospital. George Bellas, bleeding profusely, suffered internal injuries. “Jimmy” Kieper, bleeding from the back, received spinal injuries and Ollie Mason was badly cut and bruised about the head. According to Wagner, the driver of the bus, the bus was travelling along the right side of the Main State highway, beyond West Nan- ticoke, when “Billy’’, seeing the | approaching coal truck some dis- called out, “Hey, what's that fellow trying to do?” Wagner pulled the bus far to the right so that his wheels traveled on the berm a con- siderable distance before the coal truck, owned by Chapin Coal Com- pany, of Nescopeck, sideswiped the rear left wheel of the bus. The fragile body, torn from the chassis, disintigrated as it hurtled through the air and landed in a ditch. Motorists immediately came to the assistance of the men and helped remove the dead and in- jured from the debris, under which some of them were buried. About 6 min ‘ac ] i tha Seqr Yak scene of 1 h parked cars and trucks, and was un- aware of his son’s injury until he ar- rived at his work at the Multiplex plant, in Berwick. He reached the Nanticoke Hospital several minutes after the young man’s death. The bus in which the workmen were riding was owned co-operative- ly by the group and was driven on alternate days by Kenneth Brobst, Jeff Wagner and “Billy”. Ordin- arily, fourteen men would have been making the trip, but yesterday there were only eleven. Victor Polk, Harold Gibbler and Kenneth Brobst EZ 28 machine parts that were being made for the Multiplex Company at the | Colly Machine Shop. Those who were on the bus at the severely shaken up, were: George Bellas, Ollie Mason, Henry Randall and “Red” Stewart, of Fernbrook; James Kieper, Jeff Wagner, Charles Tredennick, William Ferry, James Atkinson, Paul Fiske and William Monk, of Dallas. Most of them said that they didn’t know how any of their lives were spared. When they saw the collision coming, some of them crouched in the middle of the bus or grabbed hold of anything they could reach. Robert Walton, superintendent of the Multiplex Company, drove to the scene to investigate the accident and then to Dallas to offer condo- lances to Mrs. Monk and the Monk family. William Monk was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Monk, of Pine Crest avenue, Dallas. He had been em- ployed on the maintainance staff of the Multiplex Company, manufactur- ers of shells for the government, for the past two years and, before that time, was associated with his fath- er in the plumbing business. He was a young man of quiet hab- its and winning personality and a careful mechanic. He attended Dal- las Borough Schools and was a mem- ber of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Shavertown. He is survived by his wife, the former Florence Hazeltine, his parents, and the following brothers and sisters: Robert, Ruth, Doris, Jean, at home, and Mrs. An- drew Denman, of Kingston. Also by his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Anna Johnson, of Scranton. The funeral] will be held from the par- ent’s home, on Pine Crest avehue, but the date and time were not known as the Post went to press. Appointed School Nurse Mrs. Robert Moore has been ap- pointed school nurse on the recom- mendation of the Board of Health. “Billy” Monk, riding in the cab tance ahead veer across the road, had stopped in Kingston to pick up" time of the accident—all of them a with seven other Back Mountain
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