KILLED IN DIED IN GEORGE UTRICH, THOMAS PRISONERS 798 Free Posts to We Remember RICHARD WELLINGTON CEASE, January 29, HOWARD A. COSGROVE, July CLARK LLOYD, July MISSING IN ACTION KEATS POAD, March 3, * WALTER CEASE WILSON, May 9, HAROLD THOMAS KEPNER, December JOHN E. FRITZ, JOHN P. GLEASON, March 30, 1943. CLIFFORD S. NULTON, November 26, 1943 CLARENCE H. MORGAN, May 22, DONALD FREEMAN, May 22, FRED WESTERMAN, April 20, 1943 Tue Darras Post MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION ACTION 1942 SERVICE May 16, 1942 3, 1942 4, 1943 1942 1942 19, 1942 May 7, 1943 OF WAR 1942 1942 Soldiers this week. Editorially Speaking: " “We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains mo reward and thrift no priv- ileges.”—Winston Churchill. *x kk * ~The editors want to express their appreciation to Pot. Frank H. Billings for the following editorial sent to us from the South Pacific isle where he is sta- tioned with an anti-aircraf t unit. Frank is the son of Walter Billings, of Trucksville. The editorial was writ- ten by one of his buddies. "I Understand” It is nice to hear from you after such a long time, but it is unpleasant to learn of your living conditions, which I can readily understand from the change in my own living conditions. It is too bad that you are limited in the use of the car. I know how it is to walk through miles and miles of swamp and jungle. So I understand. It is too bad that your choice of food is so limited. I have experienced that too, only there is no choice here. understand. So I It is too bad that Willie has to work so many hours a day at the defense plant. I have to work nights as well as days at our defense. So I understand. It is too bad Willie has so little time for amusement. I am deprived of that, too.” So I understand. It is too bad that you have portation. I have to wait in to wait in the rain for trans- the rain on the post and my ~ transportation and destination is uncertain, too. So I un- derstand. It is too bad th ‘ing so hard. I onl 2 stand. ar Winning this war is hard hours and so do I. ne paid so little for work- on all of us. You work long So I understand. But during these hours I get shot at. Do you understand? : x x x PILLAR TO POST By Mzs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr. ‘We are thinking of going into the junk business, realizing that fortunes have been amassed from much smaller beginnings than our own stock- pile. There is a passion amounting to fanaticism in the family for throwing nothing away. We remind ourselves of pack-rats or magpies, but the in- stinct is too deep-rooted to combat. We have had our fingers burned so frequently. We keep remembering that on several occasions when we were busy with the spade and the crowbar, uprooting the family vine and fig-tree, we threw articles away with a prodigal hand, pressing them upon the neighbors and the Salva- tion Army. And we remember that when we did so, one of two things invariably came to pass. A. The article in question turned | up in the American Wing of the | Metropolitan Museum, a genuine and authenticated antique of consid- erable monetary as well as senti- mental value. B. In attempting to replace the squandered treasure, its value en- hanced by its loss, we paid double | and even triple the original outlay. | But on periodic inspections of the household through the detached eye of an outsider, we wonder why on earth we so carefully preserve ob- vious misfits and rickety antiques on which nobody can sit comfortably or without danger of a catastrophe. The accumulation of small clutter is astonishing. A halcyon state of af- fairs would be to get it all under cover and out of the dust, but the articles have minds of their own. Put away in the top bureau drawer, they develop motive power and ap- ‘pear once more on the marble slab, basking in the reflection from the mirror and gathering dust content- edly. ! We have grimly bought chest aft- er chest and bookcase after book- case in an attempt to keep up with the surging tide, but to no avail The chests fill up on arrival, the bookshelves accommodate the books which have been ranged on the win- dow sills and stacked in a corner of the study, but there is still a sur- plus of dustcatchers. ~ (Continued on Page Eight) Vol. 54, No. 4 Industrial Nurse From Carverton Dies In New York Nurses From Nesbitt Hospital Hold Florence Nightingale Services Florence Nightingale services were held by six nurses from Nesbitt Me- morial Hospital at the Scureman Funeral Home Tuesday afternoon, for Miss Florence Michaels, indus- trial nurse whose home was in Car- verton. Miss Michaels had been ill since Christmas time, and died Fri- day afternoon at the Woman's Hos- pital, in New York, of complications, following an operation. Born in Carverton twenty-three years ago to Mrs. Minnie Michaels and the late Porter Michaels, she was a graduate of Kingston Town- ship High School. She received her training at the Methodist Hospital in New York City, and took. post- 1 graduate work at Woman’s Hospi- tal in New York. For a time she was supervisor at Bushwick Hospi- tal] and later at Lutheran Hospital, both in New York. She specialized in obstetrics before taking a posi- tion as industrial nurse for Pratt- Whitney in Hartford, Connecticut, where she was employed before her illness. Miss Michaels was well thought of by her fellow-workers, and was con- sidered exceptional in her profes- sion. Two nurses who worked with her at Pratt-Whitney, Miss Dorothy Hewitt, of New Jersey, and Miss Marian Scott, of New York, (the lat- ter also trained with her at Metho- dist Hospital in New York), accom- panied the body to Carverton and spent several days at the Michaels home. Miss Michaels was a member of the Carverton Methodist Church and Pomona Grange. She is survived by her mother and one brother, Al- bert. Rev. ‘Harry Rundell, of Nosh. officiated at the services, assisted by Rey. Charles Gilbert, of Carver- ton. Pall bearers were: Ralph Sands, Norman Lewis, Wesley Lewis, Laird Frantz and Bert Coon. Interment was in Carverton Cemetery. Sell Apples In Florida Alva Eggleston and his father, Clyde Eggleston, of Vernon, will re- turn from Florida next week with a truck load of oranges. They took a truck load of apples down with | them a few days ago and found a! ready market, selling them within a few minutes after they stopped in a Florida city. With the exception of | a few crates, their entire return load has been sold to the Farmhouse Market, in Kingston. Rhoda Veitch Wins Citation For Her War Department Work Miss Rhoda Veitch, an employee in the Casualty Branch of the Adju- tant General's Office, in Washington, D. C., has received the Weekly Four Star Award of her department for “‘cooperativeness, resourcefulness and industry.” = In the citation sent by the officer in charge to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Veitch, was the follow- ing: “She is habitually diligent. . . and has demonstrated an ability to i initiate and accomplish helpful ac- tion at all times. A copy of this letter and the award has been placed in the employee's personnel file as a permanent War Department record.” Miss Veitch goaducted from Dal- las Borough High School in 1941 and has been employed by the War De- partment, in Washington and New- ark, N. J. Her roommate is Marie Sidlowski, of Lehman, an employee of the Navy Department, in Wash- ington. Something of the nature of Miss Veitch’s work is contained in the following Associated Press dispatch out of Washington this week. Thousands of Letters Thousands of letters are pouring into the casualty branch of the ad- jutant general’s office these days— all pathetic evidence of the emo- tional distress that follows that grim message of war: “We regret to inform you—" Some are frantic pleas for more news, some are hurt and angry pro- tests about the limited information or mistakes, some are expressions of acceptance of a bitter loss. What- lever its nature, each letter gets a BE- personal reply. In fact, the original message is a | personal one, not a “form’ 'telegram. 4 Inevitably, the same phrases are . used in thousands of messages. But | no mimeographed forms are used | § (Continued on Page Eight) DR. H.-A. BROWN GREETS BRAND NEW GRANDCHILD AT NESBITT HOSPITAL ‘Among more than 3,000 ba- bies Dr. H. A. Brown, of Leh- man has brought into the world during his forty years of practice, none was more wel- come than his first grandchild when she arrived at Nesbitt Hospital on Monday, January 17. The little gir] is the daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Brown, of Elmhurst, N. J, where her daddy is naval in- spector of aircraft instruments for Koolman Instrument Co. Her mother, the former Helen Gorham, of Luzerne, was sur- gical nursing supervisor at Nes- bitt Hospital before marriage. Dr. Brown has delivered all of his own children and is pretty proud of the record, but his wife is especially proud of the new granddaughter who is the first great grandchild of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Ma- jor, of Forty Fort. The mater- nal grandmother, Mrs. Agnes E. Gorham, formerly of Luzerne, is a resident of Trucksville. J FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1944 Have Situation Well In Hand Sw Sgt. Elwood Davis, of Alderson, (middle rear row) and members of his Marine Corps line crew pose cheerfully against the tropical back- ground of an island somewhere in the South Pacific. Sgt. Elwood Davis Marine Sgt. Elwood Davis, 27, son Aldérson, is “the kingpin of the tele- phone crew serving the crack Ma- rine gunners, protecting New Georgia”, according to a story re- cently sent to newspapers of the country by the Public Relations Sec- tion of the Marine Corps Headquar- ters in Washington, D. C. “Woody”, runs the story, ‘is an- other of the unsung heroes of bat- tle after battle—a telephone line- man’. He was an expert in the art of climbing trees long before he joined the Marines, gaining much of that experience with the Common- wealth Telephone Company and Sordoni Construction ‘Company. With a pair of telephone line- man’s climbers he has learned to scale the highest banyan, mahog- any or swaying cocoanut tree with the same ease that he used to swing up the poles along the highways of the Back Mountain Region. But climbing tropical trees is only half of his job, Sgt. Davis and his crew hold an unofficial record for stringing telephone lines over the roughest terrain in the Solomon Islands. In November 1942, when the Ma- rines landed on Gavutu Island, in the Florida group, virtually alone, Elwood set up the present com- munication system there. Then he went to Guadalcanal where three months of untiring efforts stringing lines “through jungle, over rivers and swamps and through fields of Strings ‘Phone Lines Under Fire In The Solomons Johnson grass eight to ten feet! of Squire and Mrs. Ralph Davis, of | high” brought him his corporal’s : stripes. Recalling those early days on Gavutu and Guadalcanal, Elwood wrote his parents on Christmas Day, 1943: “everyone seems to have more spirit here this Christmas and there's a good turkey dinner in the making. This makes the second Christmas holiday spent in the ac- tion zone. The last one was spent in. Guadalcanal and New Year's Day was spent in Gavutu. A year ago foday our artillery opened up with a 24-hour barrage. Today there is a lot of air activity. Some mail came in - this morning. . That's ‘goed news’. The mail situation has sure improved since last year. We are camped near the ocean and plan a little dip this afternoon. This morn- ing a colored chaplain had charge of. combined church services. With him was a small colored choir. I am sure that the services were the most | impressive I have ever attended.” Elwood could look back on the past year with satisfaction for it was a year during which he had had some very close brushes with death and come out of it unscathed. On June 30 he took part in the initial assault on Rendova Island while AA gunners were providing the cover for the assault on Munda. During both the July'3 and July 4 enemy bombings of Rendova Har- bor, he was caught in the target area and bombs landed only a few (Continued an Page Eight) CLAYTON CAIRL + A Dallas Father and son who ate serving in the armed forces with distinction are. Capt. William F. Cairl, Jr., of the army signal corps and his son, Clayton, an aviation cadet, stationed at Maxwell Field, Ala. A veteran of the World War where he fought in several major engagements, in France, Captain Cairl was commissioned a lieuten- ant in the signal corps at Fort Mon- mouth, N. J., on April 10, 1943, and has since been stationed at Camp Haan, Camp Stoneman, Ogden Ar- senal and at other assignments throughout the 9th Service Com- mand. ] On January 10, after supervising the installation of a new automatic } central office switchboard and dial type telephones throughout the post Father And Son In Service WILLIAM CAIRL, JR. at Ogden, he was promoted to the rank of captain. Captain Cairl is considered an outstanding expert in this line of work, having had charge of all switchboard and dial installa- tions and maintainance for the Commonwealth Telephone Company, before entering service. Aviation Cadet Clayton Cairl, who is 19, graduated with the class of! 1943 at Dallas Borough High School. An aviation enthusiast from child- hood, he worked before and after school hours and during vacations at Wyoming Valley Airport. He en- tered the service on June 26 and has received his cadet training at Amherst, Mass., Nashville, Beloxi, Miss., and Gunter Field, Montgom- ery, Ala., before being transferred 6 CENTS PER COPY League Teams Wind Up First Half Tonight Dallas Boys’ Team And Lehman Girls Hold First Places LEAGUE STANDING Boys’ Teams ‘Won Lost Dallas Borough 4 0 Harter 3 1 Dallas Twp. 3 3 Kingston Twp. 2 2 Lehman 0 4 Lake 0 4 Girls’ Teams Won Lost Lehman 4 0 Dallas Borough 3 a Lake 3 1 Dallas Twp. 1 3 Kingston Twp. 1 3 Harter 0 4 Tonight’s Games ~ Lehman at Lake. Dallas Borough at Kingston Twp. Harter at Dallas Township. Teams in the Back Mountain Bas- ketball League will wind up the first half of the season’ tonight. Lively contests are scheduled at Laketon, where the plucky second position girls’ team will battle it {out for a tie with the League-lead- ing quintet from Lehman. Sharing the spotlight with the girls’ contest will be the battle between Lehman and Lake boys’ teams, now in a tie for the cellar position. Harter and Dallas Township boys’ teams in a tie for second place will furnish an exciting exhibition at Dallas Township gymnasium, with the odds slightly in favor of Harter. Harter girls will attempt to tie for the cellar position. an easy victory against Kingston , the loss of its high-scoring Grose | to the army during the week may change the picture. Unless there is an upset, Dallas girls’ team with three wins to its credit looks to a victory over the Kingston Township for third place in the League with Dallas Township. ' Dallas Borough Girls Last Friday night Dallas ghls clashed with Harter jin an unevenly | matched contest. Whalen had a to- tal of six points for the Harter team and Lucille Disque starred again for the winners. The score: 47-11. On January 18, the only Tuesday game in the first half, Dallas Girls dropped a hard-fought game to Leh- man, 27-22. Ehret starred for the winners with 12 points. Dallas Borough Boys On January 18 the Dallas Borough boys defeated Lehman, 60 to 23. DALLAS BOROUGH Pts. Urban 10 Bogart 4 Roberts 6 Quaill 0 Brobst 18 Nelson 4 Grose 10 Besecker 2 Casterline 2 LEHMAN Pts. Stolarick 13 Sobieske 2 Stolarick 0 Tough 0 Kern 8 Newhart 0 Salansky 0 Corneh 0 Referee—Leo Levey. Dallas Borough and Harter had a hard game on January 21, with Dal- las winning, 42 to 26. DALLAS BOROUGH Pts. Urban 19 Roberts 0 Brobst 14 Grose 6 Casterline 0 Moore 3 HARTER TWP. Pts. Tereshinski 2 Maciejick 2 Harris 6 Kaminski 0 Madura 12 Demboski 4 Laketon Girls On Friday night, January 15, Laketon Girls beat Dallas Borough, 27 to 14. High scorers for the win- to Maxwell Field. Dallas Borough hopes to romp to | Township, ‘on the latter floor, but girls who will go into the game tied | War Bond Sales Exceed Quota In First Week Dallas Community Center Invests Its Funds In War Bonds With the sale of 69 War Bonds amounting to $8,850, and War Sav- ings Stamps amounting to $59.25, making a grand total of $8,909.25, Dallas Senior Woman’s Club has ex- ceeded its goal by $1,409.25 during the first week of the Fourth War Loan Drive, and will strive during the remainder of the campaign, which ends Feruary 15, to double the original quota set for this dis- trict. Among the sales that helped to shatter the goal this week were the purchases of two $1,000 bonds by two community organizations. The Dallas Lodge of Odd Fellows purchased one of the bonds and Dal- las Community Center Association, through its treasurer, W. B. Jeter, purchased the other. Other com- munity organizations have promised to buy bonds during the coming week. Commenting on the campaign to date, Mrs. Nelson Thompson, chair- man, said, many of the women in the club are working for the white ribbon pin and blue brigade star awarded to those who sell ten or more individual bonds, totalling $1,- 000 or more. Those who had charge of the | booth in the postoffice during the week were: Monday morning, Mrs. Oswald Griffith; Monday afternoon, Mrs. Edward Hartman and Mrs. El- wood Hudson; Tuesday, Mrs. Wil- liam Bonn; Wednesday morning, | Mrs. Niles White; Wednesday after- noon, Mrs. Floyd Chamberlain; morning, Mrs. James Huston. On Tuesday of next week, Nes- jie Hospital will again have charge of the booth. The auxiliary also has its own quota to sell and also ex- i pects to exceed its goal. ‘Local Men Sell Control Of Paper Frantz Brothers Owned Stroudsburg Record Edward J. Breese, editor and manager of the Phoenixville Daily Republican since 1924, has acquired a controlling interest in the Monroe Publishing Company, which owns and operates the Srouisiigd Rec- ord. Present officers of lente Publishing Company are: President, C. A. Frantz, president of First Na- tional Bank of Dallas; secretary, N. A. Frantz, publisher of the Record, and treasurer, S. P. Frantz, Chase farmer. The Record has long been one of the outstanding inland daily papers of the State. All three of its own- ers were born and reared in the Back Mountain Region. N. A. Frantz is the only one of the three broth- ers who has had active direction of the policies of the paper. Mr. Breese plans to take over di- rection of the company on March 1. Places High In State Albert Hardisky, 15, East Dallas, until recently a sophomore at Dal- las Township High School, was’ Harrisburg in a State-wide contest for his potato growing project of last summer. Hardisky grew 312 bushels to the acre on his plot in East Dallas, and "had the fourth highest yield of any vocational boy in the State. He received second place for his project as a whole be- cause of his accounting records, yield and management. Awarded High Degree Believed to be the only Future Farmer in this section of Pennsyl- vania to attain the distinction, Ralph Snyder, Dallas Townshp High School senior, received the Keystone Degree in that organization last week, in Harrisburg. The degree is given for leadership, scholarship and vocational work and is to Future Farmers what the 33rd degree is to Masons. The young man has since (Continued on Page Eight) (Continued on Page Eight) Th Gordon Ma oon, Mrs. Mili day, Nes- bitt ; Saturday awarded second place last week at «33 2
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