I LL ES PAGE SIX om THE POST, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1944 : methods and ‘taught her how to| om 4% | this one was front-page news. life, just any kind of life.’ It| til the beds were in alignment. 7 u 1 Contact take care of. herself and her pati- People gathered on Boston Com.-|seemed to her that this time she I was overcome with curiosity. Y cksville Mothers For Service Men ents in the field. From mon and compared notes for days.|had tempted fate too far and that| Boston and its environs blossoms| TO Meet October 11 = Be Lt. Piatt is a graduate of Jeffer- Folks located on the upper floors|she might be about to get her wish. | with peculiar ideas, but this seemed son Medical College Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa. She enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps on November 1, 1940. As a graduate of the military Training Center, she is eligible for assignment to an Army general or station hospital in this country or to an organization slated for over- seas duty. s+ (Continued from Page 2) the American Theatre of Operations Ribbon, the Good Conduct Medal, and the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Ribbon with four bronze stars for his participation in the East Indies, Papuan, New Guinea, and the Bis- marck Archipelego campaigns. He was also a member of the .Red Raiders when this organization was * x ® awarded the Presidential Unit Ci- Another Battle Star tation for extraordinary achieve- ment in the Papuan campaign. At A 12th AAF B-25 Base— Award of a bronze battle star for his units participation in the French campaign has been made to Ser- geant Gordon Sweppenheiser, of Dallas, it was announced at 12th Air Force Headquarters in Italy recently. The B-25 Mitchell bomb group to which he is assigned played a major role in softening up southern France for invasion by launching an aerial assault against commun- ications and defenses 11 days prior Sergeant Simpson is material In- pector for the Red Raiders. In civilian life he was employed as a grower for J.N. Connyngham of Lehman. * * ¥ Private First Class J. Russel Bertram has arrived somewhere in England, according to word re- ceived recently by relatives in Chase Russel is with an Anti- Aircraft outfit and was stationed at Camp Stewart, Georgia. He is one of many anti-aircraft men from} to D-Day. the Back Mountain Region who Sergeant Sweppenheiser is serv- were sent overseas a few weeks|ing as Chemical Warfare Specialist ago in a great exodus to help stem|with the battle-seasoned Mitchell the robot bomb menace. During| group. 2 one week The Dallas Post received more than thirty address changes of anti-aircraft who were being transferred to England. Cpl. George P. Johnson Jr. writes from France that he is re- ceiving the Post quite regularly. He has been in France since the * ® 0% Completes 51 Missions Miami Beach, Fla.,—1st Lt. Wil. loam Watlock, 21 of Dallas, Pa., has arrived at Army Air Forces Redis- tribution Station No. 2 in Miami Beach for reassignment processing invasion and forgot to change his| after completing a tour of duty address but the Post followed him |outside the continental United just the same. States. * * * . | Arrives in India Word has been received PFC. Loren Fiske, son of Mrs. Edith Fiske of Davenport street has arrived sifely in India with an Air Transport Command. Loren entered the service April 19, 1943 and for the past year and a half had been stationed at several air bases in the Southern states, also in Michigan and New York. Pfc. Fiske is a graduate of Dallas Borough High School in the class |the European theater for of 1940." Before entering the ser-| months and flew on 51 missions. vice he was engaged in general | He holds the Air Medal with three hauling. oak leaf clusters. His wife, « x * Ethel Watlock, resides at Dallas. Sgt. Madera “Soap” Krieger of Trucksville, is still in an army hos- pital overseas. He recently sent his mother the Purple Heart Medal. | Sgt. Harry P. Beck who has been “Although it is very pretty and we. with the 1st Evacuation Hospital are proud of it”, she says, “we |on New Guinea has returned to realize it cost him a lot of suffer-| the United States after thirty ing”. A few days before “Soap” was months over seas. He is at pres- wounded he sent a package con-! ent. a patient at the Woodrow taining a German helmet, cap and: Wilson Hospital in Staunton, Va. - leggins and a German flag. Sgt. Beck is the son of Mr. and ; =A Mrs. Harry C. Beck of East Center Receives Special Training Street, Shavertown, and was ‘em- Camp Rucker, Ala.—Captain El- len E. Piatt, ANC, daughter of E. W. Piatt of Trucksville, has suc- cessfully completed her basic military training and was recently graduated from the Basic Training Center for Army Nurses, an Army Service Force facility, at Camp Rucker, Alabama. Leader in the corps of cadets with The four week's course Lt. Piatt the rank of Aviation Cadet Sergeant completed was designed to supple- at the Army Air Forces Pre-Flight ment her professional civilian | School at Maxwell Field, Ala. where nurse’s training with specialized he is compléting an intensive course Army study and practice. It fam-'in military, academic and physical iliarized her with Army hospital training. Medical examinations and class- !ification interviews at this post, one of three redistribution stations operated by the AAF Personal Dis- tribution Command for AAF returned officers and enlisted men, will determine his new assignment. He will remain here about two weeks, much of which will be de- voted to rest and recreation. Lieutenant Watlock, son of Nick that * * * Back In U.S.A. pany before his enlistment. Made Squadron Leader Maxwell Field, Ala.—William J. Snyder son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. Snyder, 45 Claude St. Dallas, Pa. has been appointed a Squadron Only Quality Cleaning is good enough for your clothes SEND THEM TO | CIRCLE Cleaning & Dyeing Co. To contact driver, Call Dallas 300 987 Wyoming Ave., Forty Fort Kingston 7-1645 _—— COAL-O-MATIC STOKER) Butomatic Heat At Its Best Summer Hot Water Attachment Coal-0-Matic Stoker Company Trucksville, Pa. Dallas 407 Watlock, 15 Blackman St., Luzerne, Pa., was a Flying Fortress pilot in! eight Mrs. | ployed by the Kraft Cheese Com-' of tall apartment buildings had ex- perienced a real thrill. The roller- coaster effect had knocked pictures from the walls, china from the Pillar To Post (Continued from Page One) shelves, and had stopped grand- maps with cunningly shaded areas|father clocks in their outraged with X marking the spot. tracks. But it was a nice earthquake| One elderly woman, somewhat while: It Tastedi A “giant tand crippled with arthritis and peren- grasped the footboard of the bed quence, had been bewailing her lot and drew it compellingly from|and praying for deliverance. Life, north to south for perhaps eight|she felt, was not worth living. Her seconds, while the pitifully thin|son, who had listened patiently to erast of troarth all of this before, made soothing stretched tightly over the vast in- sounds. : Came the earthquake. ner turmoil of the globe trembled The tall apartment house took and shuddered. its place in a stately dance. It People who have lived on the! dipped, it swayed, it curtseyed to | Pacific Coast are accustomed to its partner. The foundations gave such tremsxs. The newspapers: forth a hollow groan. as each suc- mention them on an inner page,|cessive wave passed under them. and superficial playing down their own local] The elderly woman once more quakes and playing up those of | took a keen and active interest in An earthquake in Te Angeles is described in the Los An- geles press as having occurred four their rivals. hundred miles south of San Beans cisco. People from the Lesser Antilles! think of earthquakes as the ror like dog-days or weather-breeders, or a full moon or high tide. Boston experienced an earth- quake some twenty years ago when earthquakes on the Atlantic| Coast were practically unknown ex-| cept as a wavering line on the sei-| | mograph. The same tremor or series | of tremors was doubtless felt the! {entire length of the Seaboard, but | { Boston took the earthquake to its! 7 . chilly heart and spoke of it tender- | : ens 7 ie a ime ly as its own. Boston had not had | youll be broke 2 la quake for years and years, and| EARL FOR. COUGHS DUE TO COLDS Hard to say, isn’t it? ji forever. I EL) IT’S EASY TO Ee NO) slowing up. What then? Sure. . go right? { invested in War Bonds. Here's why: [1] JF OF YOUR world. a decent old age. reason of ail! &] VIR { J ) 1 JUS ERLE K RATION SHERMAN R. U.S. VICTORY [phn D. L. WASTE PAPER [= TERT ITH: {ANU CAMPAIGN Re veeroer WAAL CAPER cavouveny nally low in her mind in conse-| In fact, you haven’t given it much thought. Things are going well now. The job pays fine, and it looks as if it will last But suppose it doesn’t? Suppose, in the years after the war, you find things . maybe a good man can always get a job. But isn’t it a great thing to have a nice soft cushion to fall back on if and when things don’t And right now, if you’re in the Payroll Plan and tucking money away regularly, week after week, you're fashioning the best kind of cushion you can possibly have, a big wad of money War Bonds are the safest investment in the War Bonds give you $4 back ten years from now for every $3 you invest. : War Bonds are your stake in the good things 4 of tomorrow — security, independence, travel, ; And today, War Bonds give you a chance to put your money into the fight—the best Think that over. And when you get your check , . . chuck a good portion of it into Bonds . - - even though you're buying them already. Buy War Bonds—and hang onto them. OND Have and to Hold She grasped her son’s arm in a firm and healthy grip, and announced that she had changed her mind. She said that she had found that she did not care half so much about dying as she had supposed she~did. I have often wondered about earthquakes. Do people create them, dreaming them up out of the circumambient ether or evolving them from the inner consciousness ? Certain it is that the Boston earthquake followed closely upon the heels of two ex-tropical damsels who had moved their Lares and Penates into our house, setting up a modest little apartment in two rooms on the second floor. Their first concern, it appeared, was the lay of the land. The less enderly of the two fished a small compass from an overflowing hand- bag and laid it on the floor. North and South established, the ladies pulled and hauled on their beds un- This advertisement is sponsored by the following Back M message is highly important to the furtherance of the ali-out wa DEMUNDS HARMONY CLUB DON WILKINSON REV. CARL BRANDON HAROLD E. FLACK WALTER ELSTON ROBERT CURRIE HENRY PETERSON W. O. WASHBURN HERBERT A. LUNDY DALLAS HARDWARE & SUPPLY SORDONI CONSTRUCTION COMPANY SCHOOLEY, M. D. EDWARDS JOSEPH MacVEIGH STANLEY MOORE (Your name will be gladly added to this list to be the payoff. “Would you mind telling me,” I ventured, “just why you want your feet pointing toward the South and your head toward the North?” “Oh, just in case of earthquakes,” replied the younger nonchalantly. “Earthquakes?” I echoed faintly. “Why yes, of course,” elaborated the senior member of the firm, “you know how earthquakes are. If you are lying North and South, you don’t roll out of bed. You just wave up and down.” And the very next day we had that earthquake. It came in the daytime, so that the earth-wave was clearly visible. It passed like a series of ripples on a pond down the length of the front lawn with its enormous central oak tree, across Kirkland street with its scurrying traffic, and under the apartment house on the far side. The apartment house rose ponder- Service Mothers will meet in the Trucksville Hose House all day and in the evening if necessary Wed- nesday, October 11 to pack Chris- tmas boxes. Come at 9 o'clock and t bring shredded celoplane or white paper for packing and several comic books. Over 70 men and women of Trucksville are now overseas and the mother of each is asked to come and pack her son's box. If your son or daughter’s correct ad- dress has not been given to the secretary bring it with you Also addresses of your neighbor boys or girls serving overseas. ously but with dignity into the air, subsided, and the wave passed on. The ex-tropical ladies watched with academic interest from the front steps. “See? ' Just in case of earth- quakes,” they announced placidly and in perfect unison. ountain citizens and business firms who believe that its r effort in their home community. COMMONWEALTH TELEPHONE COMPANY HARVEY'S LAKE LIGHT COMPANY DALLAS WOMAN'S CLUB PETER D. CLARK F. BUDD SCHOOLEY, M.D. DR. ROBERT BODYCOMB HARRY OHLMAN T. NEWELL WOOD F. GORDON MATHERS SHELDON EVANS HOWARD W. RISLEY R. M. SCOTT THE BOYS AT THE TALLY HO JACK HISLOP “JUD” H. HAUCK if you approve of this &
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