] Wy MISSING KILLED IN ACTION RICHARD WELLINGTON CEASE, January 29, 1942 KEATS POAD, March 3, 1942 CLIFFORD S. NULTON, November 26, 1943 DIED IN SERVICE GEORGE UTRICH, May 16, 1942 HOWARD A. COSGROVE, July 3, 1942 THOMAS CLARK LLOYD, July 4, 1943 EVAN J. BRACE, February 15, 1944 IN ACTION WALTER CECIL WILSON, May 9, 1942 HAROLD THOMAS KEPNER, December 19, 1942 JOHN E. FRITZ, May 7, 1943 : JOHN P. GLEASON, March 30, 1943 ELWOOD BLIZZARD, March 1, 1944 ROBERT RESSIGUE,; April 20, 1944 PRISONERS CLARENCE H. MORGAN, May 22, 1942 DONALD FREEMAN, May 22, 1942 FRED WESTERMAN, April 20, 1943 EDWARD SMITH, April 14, 1944 910 Free Posts to Soldiers this week. MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION OF WAR 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 no reward and thrift no priv- ileges.””—Winston Churchill, vo ode The Double Standard Any red-blooded American who stops long enough dur- ing these busy days to think for himself must be disgusted with the record of strikes and yapping being made by his fellow Americans. Right now—on the eve of invasion—the strike curve in this country is on the uptrend. the 1943 record of 3752 strikes being broken this year. Associated Press dispatches indicate that in the last two years the strike peak was reached in June and July. 1944 figures appear to be following the same pattern but for the first four months the total is 42 percent above the same period of 1943 and Tl percent above those same months for 1941. Man-days of idleness are up 48 percent this year over last and total workers involved are up 16 percent. with a total of 435 strikes set the record for any month since Pearl Harbor and the May figure is expected to be still higher. That’s a record to ponder over at a time when practical- ly every family has someone dear to them in one or more ~ disputes. out on their war jobs. For all its vast production, for all of the unselfish effort | of millions of its workers, this is the picture that is being | built up by labor in the minds of other millions of Amer- This is the picture that tears at the heart of the men who are doing the fighting and the dying. How in the name of God can one American ask another to die for an ideal when we have no ideals at home? What icans. manner of men are we? xix x Let's Show Appreciation Is America appreciative of its servicemen? man comes home from the fighting front, for a brief fur- lough, under existing regulations he is allowed a paltry He can’t go fishing, he can’t go hunting, can’t visit friends, can’t renew himself by trips five gallons of gasoline. to the country. He may well doubt our interest in him when he sees countless civilians and public officials allowed ample gas “essential” activity. What is more ‘“‘essential”’ than relaxation for a weary serviceman when he is on leave, and freedom from petty official an- X Xx x rations because of their noyance? by grievances over wages and In the past two months men who call themselves Ameri- cans, men who buy war bonds and attend patriotic rallys, men who have sons and brothers crawling in blood through Italian fields and on South Pacific beaches—men who would tear a pro-German to shreds—have laid down their tools and refused to work on vital war materials all because they wanted another union to deliver bottles of pop to them in the war factories of Detroit. I tr portation lines have been tied up because of jurisdictional Good but timid Americans have been threat- ened and intimidated by hot-headed leaders and have run Indications point to The April Vital trans- When a PILLAR TO POST By Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks, Ja That aristocratic couple, the Lord and Lady Bilgewater, have recently spent a weekend devoted to rest and relaxation in our plebeian menage. Regularly once a year they emerge from the fastnesses of the Canadian Northwest and the Yukon, to catch up on night life in New York. When night life in New York palls, they ordinarily descend upon us, heralded by a series of contradictory tele- grams. One telegram leads us to believe that they will be arriving on the eleven-forty train Thursday night, though the wording is vague and indicates only that they’ may be expected almost any time during the next twenty-four hours. At twelve-thirty we turn off the hall light and hit the sack. The next night another telegram arrives, somewhat apologetic and conciliatory in character. It has been possible to secure tickets for a Broadway smash-hit, and the Bilgewaters are staying over for another day. However, they will surely be in Wilkes-Barre by the (Continued on Page Six) Free Bird Books Through the courtesy of Repre- sentative Harold E. Flack, The Dal- las Post has for distribution a. num- ber of copies of Pennsylvania Bird Life by Leo A. Luttringer. These will be distributed to the first who call in person at our office for them. ~~ A Hottest May / With an average maxim tem- perature of 81% degree ay 1944, May on record. ay 1936 had the next highest temperature 79.2 de- grees, but the average maximum temperature for 1943 was only 74.1 { his life in that area. degrees. Vol. 54, No. 22 Crushed Under Runaway Tractor Lake Man Dies Harry Zacharias Is Fatally Injured At /Beaumont On Tuesday Fatally “injured when he was throwat” from a runaway tractor at Bestimont on Memorial Day after- noon, Harry Zacharias, 50, of Al- derson R. D. 1; died Wednesday afternoon at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital where he had been rushed in a semi-conscious condition short- ly after the accident by William Wright of Noxen and Walter Pilger of Beaumont. The runaway occurred about 3 o'clock on the Lake Hill Road while Mr. Zacharias was on his way to MacDougal’s Gasoline station to obtain air for a tire. As he at- tempted to change to a lower gear on his new Massey-Harris 101 medium tractor, the machine got beyond control and raced down the hill at a speed estimated at fifty to sixty miles an hour. Mr. Zacharias clung to the steer- : ing wheel in a vain attempt to hold the heavy tractor on the road and was successful until it crossed the Tunkhannock-Dallas Highway at the intersection of the black top road leading to Monroe Township High School. There the machine hurtled over an embankment and ; came to rest on top of the driver. One of the first to reach the in- jured man was Clarence Hilbert, Beaumont hatcheryman. With the help of neighbors and motorists he removed the badly damaged ma- chine from Mr. Zacharias’ body. Bystanders observed that his con- dition was grave and he was im- mediately taken to the hospital where examination revealed a frac- tured spine, severe internal injuries and lacerations ‘of the head. A native of the Beaumont-Alder- son area, Mr. Zacharias had until recently been employed by Rilco Laminated Products Company of Wilkes-Barre. Home for Memor- ial Day during a brief lay-off, he decided to help with the farming |? and started out with the tractor with which he was not too familiar. Born in Lake township he was the son of Julia and the late Mil- ton Zacharias and spent most of Beside his mother he leaves his wife, the former Libbie Kresge, six daugh- ters, Mrs. Norman Shannon, Sha- vertown; Mrs. Wendell Carpenter, Grand Haven, Michigan; Mrs. Lawrence Race, Noxen, Mrs. Fred Shupp, East Dallas; Mrs. William Pulsiver, Alderson; Hilda at home, and a son Harry, Jr. at home. He also leaves a brother George of Alderson and several grandchildren. Prof. Bugbee Is Laketon Speaker Twenty-One Students In Graduating Class Commencement exercises will be held at Laketon High School on Wednesday, June Tth, in the audi-| torium. The speaker will be Pro- fessor Leroy Bugbee of Wyoming Seminary. livered by Helen Szaffron, valedic- torian and Mary , Delaney, saluta- torian. Baccalaureate services will be conducted in the high school audi- torium June 4th at 7:30 p. m. Rev. Joseph Fiske of Pikes Creek Metho- | dist Church will deliver the Bac- calaureate address, The names of the twenty-one graduates submitted by the Super- vising Principal, Walter E. Roberts, and approved by the Board of Edu- cation are: Walter Bronson, Anna- belle Crispell, Mary Delaney, Do- lores Dendler, Lois Gray, Genevieve Gulitus, Sarah Harris, Ellis Hoover, Warren Hoover, Benjamin Hum- mell, Jean Newhart, Glen Rogers, Anthony Shiner, Benjamin Smith, Lawrence Steltz, Betty Sutton, Helen Szaffron, Walter Wesley, Hendrick Williams, Myron Williams and Helen Zosh. Commencements Tonight Dallas Township and Kingston Township will hold their Commen- cement exercises this evening. Orations will be de-: FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1944 Awarded Degrees By Misericordia Graduation Exercises Will Be Held Monday Two Back Mountain girls, Marian Jones and Rhoda Thomas, will re- ceive degrees at College Misericor- dia’s commencement exercises to be held next Monday, June 5th, at Irem Temple. Miss Jones, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Jones of 51 Carverton road, Trucks- ville, will be awarded the Mus. B. degree, and Miss Thomas, daughter of Mrs. Winifred Thomas of Rice street, Dallas, will receive the B, S. degree. MARIAN F. JONES RHODA THOMAS Miss Jones majored in public school music, and minored in Eng- lish and piano. She was very active in afl the college’s musical organi- zations, was accompanist for the Liturgical choir and glee club, a member of the orchestra, and one of the students recently honored by Trinity College, London. She was a member of the staff of Miss Recor- dia and Thinker’s Digest; the French Club and N. F. C. C. S. She was class secretary-treasurer; pres- ident, secretary and publicity man- ager for the W. A, A.; and president of Montani. Eighteen Local Troops Have PartInRally Girls Scouts Will Give Demonstrations Of Merit Badge Work Eighteen Girl Scout troops from the Back Mountain area will be re- presented tomorrow night at Kings- ton stadium when Wilkes-Barre and West Side troops present their biggest and best rally in years. Many of the troop leaders will participate in the demonstrations. The program will start promptly at seven so that Brownie troops tak- ing part will be able to leave early. A list of the local troops, and their leaders, together with the particular badge work which they will demonstrate follows: Troop 9—Eleanor Bartels, Com- munity Activities, Office Assistants, Senior, Shavertown Troop 13— Mrs. Claude Agnew, Lehman—Outdoors, Woodchopping, Scrap Collection, Community Act- vities. Troop 16—Mary Bennallack, Fernbrook—Community Activities, Hospital Favors and Toys, Child- care, With Brownie pack. Troop 19— Mrs, Grover Sayman, Trucksville—Homemaking, Laundry Troop 30—Mrs. Harry Rossman, Idetown—Homemaking, Gardening and Canning. Troop 54—Mrs. Dallas—Outdoors, Childcare. Troop 56—Mrs. Richard Prynn, Carverton—Homemaking, Garden- ing and Canning. Troop 62, Senior—Mrs. Harry Rossman, Alderson—Outdoors, Lean To. i f Troop 64—Mrs. Glenn Billings, De- munds—Homemaking, Cook. Troop 65—Florence Hausch, Al- derson—Community Activities, Out- doors, Scrap Collection, Woodchop- ping. Troop 66—Mrs. Granville Sow- den, Shavertown—OQutdoors, Fire Building, Childcare. Troop 86, Senior—Mrs. Edgar Sutton—Community Activities, Of- fice Assistants —Carverton. Troop 90, Senior—Jane Case, Fernbrook—Outdoors, Lean To. Troop 75—Mrs. Phillip Cheney, Shavertown—Homemaking, Sewing. Brownie Troops listed below are playing ¢Go In And Out The Wind- ows” with 2 Scouts from the troops doing “Childcare” above teaching and guiding the game: Troop 102—Mrs. George Metz, Trucksville. Troop 105—Bette Owens, Shaver- town. Stanley Davies, Blanket Roll, (Continued on Page Figd) Capt. Jéhn S Arinonine, son of Mr. and Mrs. . Stanley Rinehimer of Lehmah venue, is one of a group of cers and enlisted men of a United States army general hospital unit stationed at a new hospital in England, who are doing double duty, taking care of the wounded during the day, and “prettying up” the grounds after hours. When the unit first arrived at the newly-built brick hospital, they were appalled, for not only was the | terrain in the most rugged condi- tion imaginable, but the many buildings, although designed for hospital use, had been a continous bivouac area for innumerable units. Then these men pitched in, doc- tors, nurses, dentists, sanitary en- gineers, enlisted medical men, all. They levelled large areas of the surrounding plot, carefully adjusted top soil, and prepared for the sow- ing of grass. Draining facilities were installed, a circle area in the center of the hospital grounds was conditioned and a tall flagpole in- stalled. The inside was brightened up, too. Tables and chairs were paint- ed cheery colors, and the nurses tried their hand at interior decor- ating. Capt. Rinehimer, who has charge of two wards in the hospital, enjoyed the painting most of all. He believes the best is none too good for the boys who are wounded at @ Captain John Rinehimer Helps Reconditioh Hospital In England Troop 108—Mrs. W. Garinger, Dallas. Troop 115—Mrs. Claude Cooke, Fernbrook. the front. He has been stationed in England for three months. A Wyoming Seminary graduate, he received his medical training at Pennsylvania State College, and Temple Medical School. He served his junior interneship at Nesbitt Hospital, his senior interneship and as resident physician at General Hospital. Before entering the ser- vice, he practiced in Tunkhannock for one year. NELLIE AND THE LATE PETER PIG ARE PROUD PARENTS OF WONDERCHILD “It ain’t human!” It’s a pig! He can walk on two legs, too —’cause they're all he has. Born on Thursday, May 25th, to Nellie, Stanley Hilbert’s part Berkshire and part Chester White sow, and the late Pete, 310 pounder, the little porker has only two front legs—the others just aren't there. But his twelve brothers and sisters will tell you he can get around just as well. Nellie, the momma, was one year old on the eleventh of May, and was raised from seven weeks at the Hilbert farm. Pete, the poppa, became 6 CENTS PER COPY Government Asks Chick Hatcheries To Close Through June And July Broiler Industry Also Requested mene To Curtail Summer Production Mourned HARRY J. HARTER Harr¢ Harter, Stroke Victim, Buried Today Services To Be Held At Three O'Clock At Wednesday morning at his home in Hillside. Fifty-five years old, he was born on August 15, 1888, on the same property where he died. He start- ed his dairy in 1907 in the kitchen of his home, purchasing milk from Joe Schooley (three generations of the Schooley family have furnished milk for the dairy, Joe, his father and grandfather) and Jacob Rice, then delivering it to homes in the valley. Today, Trucksville Dairy is one of the most modern of its size in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Mr. Harter found time, though,, while his business was progressing, to become acquainted with his com- munity and neighbors. He liked to trail deer on North Mountain with Guy Downer, Willard Durbin or Herm VanCampen, play a game of pitch with Jim Oliver or land the big fish with Dan Shaver along the Jersey coast. Deep-sea fishing was his greatest joy—next to his Boston bull terrior, ‘“Jillie’—and he just returned a few weeks ago from a trip to Florida with his friend, Bill Rooney of Wilkes-Barre. He was interested in community affairs, too. He was a member of Trucksville Methodist Church; George M. Dallas Lodge 531, Free and Accepted Masons; Shekinah Royal Arch Chapter 182; Dieu Le Veut Commandery 45, Knights Templar; and Irem Temple. He was at one time active in the Toby Creek Lodge, I. O. O. F., and a member of Kingston Township school board. He was a life mem- ber of Wyoming Valley Motor Club, its vice president and assistant treasurer. He served on Luzerne War Price and Rationing Board, was director of Dairies Cooperative Federation and a member of Penn- sylvania Milk Dealers Association. Mr. Harter leaves his widow, Marian, and a son, Sherman, both of Hillside; and a brother, Frank Harter of California. Interment will be Cemetery. : Sgt. Lewis Rave With Famous Liberator Unit Word has been received here that Sgt. Lewis F. Rave, Jr. is a member of Kensmen, a B 24 Liber- ator unit serving in New Guinea and holding the record for enemy ships sunk. They sank 108 vessels and damaged 150 others. in Wardan Sgt. Rave, a former resident of Shavertown, is a graduate of Kings- ton Township High School and State sausage last fall. 3 R=] { [ College. He' has been overseas February 1942. i Hn ye Shi ve pie fn ld EGA A 3 sd i ner ht EE USS SR Well-informed local poultrymen this week foresaw a better than even chance of all commercial hat- cheries closing down operations for a 60-day period this summer, prob- ably between June 15 and early August. At the same time that the War Food Administration asked hatcher- ies to close on a voluntary basis to balance excessive flock numbers against a very short feed supply, it also recommended that broiler producers stop starting broilers during the three months of June, July and August. Clarence Hilbert of Beaumont one of the largest local hatcherymen, announced this week that his hat- chery will be closed after June 15. Joseph Davis of LeRaysville, an- other hatcheryman who has sup- plied a large part of the demand in this area has also suspended hatches for July and August, while North Star Hatchery at Tunkhan- nock operated by Stanley Moore of East Dallas, has indicated that it will probably close after June 15. In addition to the hatchery close- down and broiler suspension the Government has also asked for a broad scale culling campaign which will call for the removal of 100 million birds from farm flocks be- tween now and August 1. If suc- cessful the culling campaign will reduce laying flocks nine percent under a year ago for August 1 as compared with the current six per cent increase. Home in Trucksville Harry | J. er, Truclsville dairyma yuried this m noen wi atthe ho three o’ arter was with a s a week ago, and’ a year ago and May 1 bookings dropped under half of the 1943 de- mand for the nation. In many in- stances hatcherymen destroyed thousands of chicks through drown- ing or asphyxiation. Local hatcherymen, however, claim that their sales for the first four months of this year exceeded last year’s record production of baby chicks. ; Most poultrymen were prone to blame their troubles on government attempts to meddle in the meat and feed industries, claiming that wher- ever the government attempts to set up artificial barriers chaos is the final result. All are aroused at the govern- ment suggestion which will mean money out of pocket for hatchery- men, broilermen and eggmen ac- customed to operating on a year- round basis and some even went so far as to predict that they ex- pect a government order to force a stop in all chick and broiler pro- duction within the next two weeks. Reinhardt Gets New Assignment Pittsburgh Area Put Under His Management / Howard K. Reinhardt of Orange, manager for Cities Service Oil Com- pany in Wilkes-Barre district, which extends at present from Washing- ton, D. C.,, to Courtland, N. Y., will also have under his supervision, ef- fective June 1st, the Pittsburgh district. The newly expanded dis- trict will include Western Pennsyl- ania and West Virginia. Mr. Reinhardt is a native of Phil- adelphia and a graduate of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. He form- erly managed fuel oil sales in Northern New Jersey, supervised the Cities Service stations in Phila- delphia and South Jersey and man- aged tire and auto accessory sales in New York and Pennsylvania prior to his becoming Wilkes-Barre dis- | trict manager in 1939. His present assignment places him in complete charge of one of the ' largest districts in the Cities Service Oil Company. Mr. Reinhard’t head- quarters will remain in Kingston. In Wilkes-Barre district there are twenty-two tank stations located in Virginia, West Virginia, Mary- land, Pennsylvania and New York. These tank stations supply petro- leum products to more than 2,000 dealers, commercial and fuel oil ac- counts.
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