a - We Remember KILLED IN ACTION RICHARD WELLINGTON CEASE, January 29, 1942 KEATS POAD, March 3, 1942 CLIFFORD S. NULTON, November 26, 1943 ELWOOD BLIZZARD, March 1, 1944 ROBERT RESSIGUE, April 20, 1944 Tur DaLras Post MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION Vol. 54, No. 44 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1944 6 CENTS PER COPY SAMUEL GALLETTI, May 23, 1944 | JAMES DeANGELO, June 22, 1944 i WILLIAM STRITZINGER, July 9, 1944 FREDERICK LOVELAND, SEPTEMBER 12, 1944 / HARRY BEAN, September 13, 1944 EDWARD METZGAR, October 12, 1944 » 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 GEORGE S. RACE, October 26, 1944 i MISSING IN ACTION WALTER CECIL WILSON, May 9, 1942 HAROLD THOMAS KEPNER, December 19, 1942 JOHN P. GLEASON, March 30, 1943 JOHN E. FRITZ, May 7, 1943 | ALFRED E. MAURY, February 5, 1944 ROBERT A. GIRVAN, May 14, 1944 OTTO W. HARZDORF, June 1, 1944 HERBERT C. CULP, July 12, 1944 ELWOOD R. RENSHAW, August 20, 1944 j JAMES B. DAVIES, August 25, 1944 IRVIN C. DAVIS, JR., September 15, 1944 3 PRISONERS OF WAR CLARENCE H. MORGAN, May 22, 1942 DONALD FREEMAN, May 22, 1942 FRED WESTERMAN, April 20, 1943 EDWARD SMITH, April 14, 1944 PETER SKOPIC, May 29, 1944 RAYMOND F. SUTTON, May 29, 1944 PAUL F. NULTON, Jr., July 19, 1944 1002 Free Posts to Soldiers this week. FROM. Gs PILLAR TO POST There is a type of war-time article dealing with the service-man which should definitely be discouraged by a counter-barrage of common sense.| In time of national Jupheavel, near-Psychologists invariably uncork, their fountain pens, run a preliminary hand through those thinning locks of hair which have replaced a luxuriant mane, and get down to, what they 3 The tacks whi nds heavier, broader of shoul- a supply of r, more érect of carriage. He 1 astonish his family: by address- ing the Old Man respectfully as “Sir.” The articles warn solemnly that there will be a great deal that the! returning men will not wish to dis-| cuss with their wives and families. Well, that all depends upon what! kind of 'a boy went into the fight. If he was always a Dead-End Kid,| he will take a delight in recounting! tales of horror. If he was a normal] boy with normal decent instincts, he will not draw too liberally upon his memory of things which he would prefer to forget as quickly and painlessly as possible. Unless pressed too avidly for details, he probably will be reticent. And so what? the most part: for the real thing. ear-psycholo- gists have to dramatize a situation. In so doing, they plant very dangerous ideas in the immature mind, and even in minds which have had the experience of a life- time behind them and ought to be able to distinguish the false from the true at any number of places you'd like to mention. Call a problem child a problem child, and he at once steps over the boundary line, spanning that tenuous barrier between normal behavior and problem behavior in one easy stride. Tell Little Johnny that his failure to eat his scrambled eggs in the morning is giving you gray hairs, and Little Johnny will go cheerfully | a - Don’t all of us, if we have a par- and devilishly on, releciing Scram- ;cle of consideration, spare the] bled segs and Helting 2 tremens! soslings of others? Do we relish dous fuss over taking enough) | Tv unpleasant happening at the galgries %o fesp bin well-rounded’ cus dinner table ? and in the pink. Not only that,| : but he will bring up the subject of} Oh, you do? Well, stand in the scrambled eggs in company, lisping corner with your face to the wall. a request to his mother to tell Mrs. | You ought to be ashamed of your-| Jones all about the time when he self. The dinner table is the place upchucked his scrambled eggs and for the recounting of all the funny how ever since that historic epi-| things that have happened, em- sode he has been unable to keep broidered if necessary, but calculat-| . them in his little tummy. ied to produce a pleasant frame of, | mind and an easy flow of gastric ‘juices. Lay off on the baby’s fall-: ing down the cellar steps. After Just keep on talking about the scrambled eggs, and. you develop a genuine idiosyncracy against eggs, all, that occurrence is in the realm Meets Approval” | land weekly reports ‘offices, but will also cut down driv- | Borough | Henry M. Laing Fire Company Com- Plan For Later | Mail Collection Isaacs Says Cost ~ Of Night Pick-Up ‘Would Be Trivial The movement set on foot by | Dallas Kiwanis Club for later week ' day mail collections as well as a mail collection on Sundays from! postoffices in Dallas, Shavertown and Trucksville is meeting with | favorable response throughout the! Back Mountain Region. | Businessmen, salesmen and oth-! ers who have been inconvenienced | for years and who in the past have been forced to make evening and Sunday trips to Luzerne, Kingston and Wilkes-Barre to mail their daily are enthus- iastic in support of the Kiwanis Club’s action. Residents of outlying districts have also given their hearty approval for later mail col- lections will not only benefit those served by the three mentioned ing distances for all Back Mountain residents who have late outgoing : mail. Howard Isaacs, president of the club, estimated this week that the cost of such service to the Postoffice Department would not be great. Mail trucks already make evening collections in Luzerne and the cost of sending that truck on to Dallas would be far overbalanced by the convenience afforded to, between 5,000 and 9,000 people living in the area. “The latest daily pick up in this area is now 4:30 p. m. Our Club is working to have another collection sometime between 8 and 9 o'clock every day of the week.” At the Club's meeting on] Wednesday night, members of the committee working on the project, reported definite progress. : Past President Frank Warriner had charge of the dinner program which was in the form of Kiwanis Education for new members of the club. The Club now has twenty- eight members and an active mem. bership committee is working to obtain a full quota by January 1. Recently admitted to membership are: Sherman Harter, manager of Trucksville Dairy and Samuel Thompson, Dallas, cashier, Kings- ton National Bank. Crowd Enjoys Annual Frolic Masked Band Leads Hallowe'en Parade Main street of Dallas was the scene of excitement and confusion Tuesday evening, as a large. crowd gathered for the fourth annual Hal- lowe’en Parade and block dance under the auspices of Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Company and Dallas and Township Parent- Teacher Associations. The parade was led by the Dr. munity Band. Each member of the band was masked. Directly behind were masqueraders of every de- GEORGE An indication of the manner in which the United States Army is taking care of its soldiers wounded on the battlefield of Germany and France was revealed in two letters received from the War Bepartment during a two weeks period by Mrs. Dorothy M. Swire of Dallas, whose husband, Pvt. Amos Swire, was ser- iously wounded in action some weeks ago. The first letter written for Adjut- ant ‘General J. A. Ulio and mailed from Washington on October 26 stated: “I am pleased to inform you that the latest report from the theatre of operations states that on October 9, your husband, Pvt. Amos H. Swire, was making normal improve- ment.” “You have my assurance that when additional information is re- ceived concerning his condition, you will be notified ' immediately.” The following day the Adjustant General wrote a second letter as follows: The funeral of Miss Margaret J. Kunkle, 71, lifelong and highly respected resident of Kunkle, who burned to death a week ago Monday morning in the fire that destroyed the family home in Kunkle where she lived with her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Olin Kunkle, was held Wednesday after- Died In Service - Albuquerque, N. M. January 30, 1922—October 26, 194 Army Keeps Wile Informed Of Husband's Hospital Progress letter from her husband written in Woman Who Died In Flaming Home At Kunkle Is Buried In Dallas— in any form whatsoever, an 1aio-} of ancient history. His nose is, scription, shape, and size.’ Next syncracy no less real because 3} Skinned, but no bones are broken.| came three ponies, proudly carrying lives only in the imagination. Peo- 0 \ 4. you won't leave him their masked riders, and last, the ple can die of imagination, mdi tering on the landing at the parade’s only float, an out-of-date frequently do. ¢ head of the cellar stairs while you and very noisy car, decked with The articles dealing with read- fix the furnace. | cornstalks and laughing boys and > a : idle. ustment to civilian life are flour- : in the SIF : a in every magazine, every And. the war experierices, In the} Following the parade was a pro- mind of the average boy, will classi- bond . A 1 hich before tis sole: Wne the iste: rovel inithe! ‘gram of band music, group singing place which before its sale was DERopen Columnists rev (fy as water-over-the-dam ongs they un der the direction’ of Davi Jo. Kunkle homestead. A member of BI Se ; are safely Dm 2 ig seph, several tall stories by Billyja pioneer Back Mountain family The general theme is that. John-| back with unbe le to the y Goode, and several accordian num- she expressed her loyalty through ny will be oh so changed when he once crouched In the fox-ho ® > bers by Fddic Yerrish. |her devotion to ‘her brothers and comes marching home, i that Som i i Sire Sas Prizes were awarded to the fol- sisters and in her many acts of he will look with a jaundice eye, struggling each. y £ |lowing: For the most original—Ist, kindness to her neighbors and upon a normal household and 2 self, Could that really have een ie Andreas; 2nd, Eugene Cundifl; frtends, Her disposition and habit normal family life. The assump- Johnny? Most humorous of always thinking and doing for ra al |3rd, Ruth Elston. tion is that Johnny, having lived The overwhelmingly large per-|—Ilst, Thomas and James Rogers; others before herself won her a in a fox-hole in the midst of a tor-| . | centage of the boys who come back|2nd, Nancy and George Schooley; community of friends beyond the rential downpour for a period of| ror overseas or from intensive 3rd Grace Allen and Bessie Oney.! confines of her own hamlet. time, will be overcome with 2 training in this country are going| Best dressed—I1st Diane Jenkins; Miss Kunkle never married and mighty desire to dig a fox-hole or to be so glad to get home that they 2nd, Eileen O’Boyle; 3rd, Donald for almost fifty-five years lived with ‘a slit trench in the back yard and op astonish everybody, including Besecker and David Joseph. Best the members of her family in the continue to go native. | themselves. | groups—1st, Anne Marie and De-lhome where she met her tragic Of course Johnny will be a They are not going to constitute lores Cullen; 2nd, Joan Lewin, Bar-| death. On that night she retired changed man when he comes home.| problem to anybody, unless prob- bara Lewin, Joan Brown and Doris, to her room on the second floor Naturally. A young man changes; = propaganda is fed to them and Brown; 3rd, Ruth Drake and Wan- rear of the house. Abut 2 A. M. constantly, and the younger he isi, poe vio oo constantly that da Culp. Special prizes were award- her sister-in-law, Mrs. Lillian Kun- the more he will change. A boy of, common sense is unable to take ©d to the Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire kle, awakened by the odor of smoke high-school or Junior College age core of the ‘situation. Company Community Band; to ran down stairs to search for the changes every day of his life. He is, : | Stanley Bloziek, Velma Davis and source. She could see no flames growing up, and change is inev-| Johnny will change. He went! joseph Davis. : but could hear them crackling in itable. The change is less marked! away a boy, he will return a es | Both children ‘and adults partici-|tBe cellar. She ran back up stairs when it goes on constantly under|But the man who returns will have pated in the dancing that took summoned her husband and called the family eye, but it is there. a deeper appreciation of what home| 1006 in the street after the pro-| Miss Kunkle, who answered, to Johnny will be some fifteen (Continued on Page Eight) gram. | leave everything and come at once. { 3 noon at 2 from Brickel’s Funeral Home in Dallas. Rev. David Mor- gan’ pastor of Kunkle Methodist Church, of which Miss Kunkle was an active member, officiated. Daughter of the late Charles D. and Hester Baird Kunkle, Miss Kun- kle was born on the old Kirkendall S. RACE “I regret to inform you that the latest report from the theatre of operations states that on October 14, the recovery of your husband, Pvt. Amos H. Swire, was not pro- ceeding satisfactorily. “It may be comforting to you to know that some of this country’s Terrace Drive, Shavertown. finest doctors dre assigned to the many excellent hospitals maintain-|" ed at our overseas bases, and that’ he is receiving the very best of medical care. “---When any additional infor- { l Dies Fighting While In Italy Youngest of Four Brothers In Service Edward Metzer, 19, youngest of four brothers in military service was killed in action in Italy on October 12, according to a telegram from the War Department received on Sunday morning by his parents Mr. and Mrs. Henry Metzgar of Edward entered the army on Jan- uary 3rd of this year and received his basic training at Camp Bland- ing, Florida. He left Fort Meade; Md., on July 18 for Italy. Prior to his enlistment he was enployed by Jacob Laux Manufacturing Com- pany of Shavertown and Blue Rib- bon Cake Company of Kingston. Only three days before his death in a letter dated October 9, the young soldier wrote his mother, “I'm getting along fine. I'd rather be over here now than later on.” In none of his letters did he ever speak of action or hardships but was always filled with high spirit for the adventure that lay ahead. In his relations with his family and friends he was loyal and de- voted and won scores of friends wherever he might be. Besides the following brothers and sister; Alfred, Schenectady, N. Y.; Harry| with the Air Corps in Kansas; Sgt. Donald, with the Quartermaster Corps in England; Charles at Aber- deen, Md.; Mrs. Harry Cobleigh, Chester; William, who registered for the Draft on 'Sunday, at home; Francis and Carl also at home. Hundreds Give To Dewey Drive Back Mountain Area his parents he leaves | Exceeds Its Quota The dollar drive in the Mountain Region Back, is now at its { Edward Metzgar |George S. Race Dies In Crash Of Army Plane 1 A Vertown Lad Was | Body Brought Here For Military Burial Yesterday Afternoon Killed when an army plane he was checking crashed and burned on Tuesday, October 26, within six flying miles of Kirtland Army Air Base, Albuquerque, N. M., the body of Sgt. George S. Race 22, son of the late George S. Race and Mrs. Laverne Race of Davenport street, Dallas, was brought here for burial. yesterday afternoon. : Escorting the body was Staff Sgt., Martin Milkulski of Plymouth who had enlisted in the army with George on September 10, 1944, and who accompanied him through the Army Air Corps Technical School at Chanute Field, Ill, and later to Barksdale Field, La. They had been roommates until six weeks prior to the crash in which George and his pilot, 2nd. Lt. William Skelton of Tahlequah, Okla., lost their lives. Sgt. Milkulski was crushed on learning of the death of his friend with whom he had frequently come home on furloughs. The boys to- | gether with Robert Race who is! [now in the South west Pacific, had spent Mother's Day here this year. In relating the events leading up to the plane crash, Sgt. Mil- kulski, said that George, a skilled aviation mechanic, had been work- ing on P-38's that were grounded because of technical difficulties, and that he believed that it was one of these planes that he and the pilot were testing when it suddenly crashed and started to burn. He spoke highly of the character of his comrade, stressing his de- pendability and the preciseness and accuracy with which he carried on his work. ‘He kept the whole barracks in an uproar with a big Model of a B-29 on ‘which he was working and in which he had in- stalled a gasoline motor.” Vit George was a graduate of Hersh- ey Industrial School, Hershey, Pa. lin the class of 1940. Shortly after his graduation and just before he entered service he became a memb- mation is received it will be top. { sight: With just two days to 20 er of Dallas Methodist Church, and warded to you without delay.” Just before receipt of the second letter Mrs. Swire received a V-Mail { his own hand and dated the latter |G. O. P. women are intensifiying on the d their campaign efforts to marshall a quota of fighting dollars to keep this State in the Republican column! and send the Dewey-Bricker ticket! ay he left for training he went alone with his mother to the church and knelt at the rail to take communion. The family has been unable to part of October. In it Pvt. Swire| @ Victory it the polls on Tuesday.| reach his brother, Bob, who is with said that he was still flat on Bis! back in an English hospital with! a shoulder injury, but he appeared to be in good spirits and confident that he was making a good recovery. Then she summoned Dr. Henry M.! Laing Fire Company by telephone.! Just then the dining room burst! into flames. There were still no, flames on the second floor, but Mrs. | Kunkle was blocked in her efforts, to reach her sister-in-law by dense smoke and flames that were now, lapping at the stairway. | Whether Miss Kunkle was strick- en with a heart attack resulting house on fire or whether she was overcome by smoke and flames! as she. left her door no one will ever know. Her burned and brok en body was found hours later by firemen probing in the debris of the cellar directly beneath her room. So rapid had been the progress| of the flames that her younger bro-| ther and sister-in-law escaped only in their night clothing and without! saving any of their personal posses- sions. The cause of the fire has| not, and probably never will be,| determined. A new furnace and recent electric wiring preclude the! possibility that it may have orig} nated from those sources. Neighbors and friends were gen-| erous in their offers of assistance | to the stricken family who are now living with their daughter Mrs. | William Frederick of Fernbrook, ! where Mrs. Kunkle was confined; to bed until Tuesday suffering from! shock and burns. (Continued on Page Eight) ) Pi At Air Mechanics School from the shock of discovering the The Dallas committee with Mrs.| | Nelson Thompson as chairman has already forwarded $100 to the State Committee and will have well over, $200 by the time the campaign last-minute whirlwind Mrs. to return. the Marines in the Pacific. Besides his mother he leaves a brother, Robert, in the South west Pacific, a sister Mary Lou at home Palen and his maternal grandmother, Mrs. {closes on Saturday night. Assisting. jp (her in a !climax to the campaign are Mrs. E. Race of Kingston. | Clifford Ide, Mrs. Joseph Adametsz, | Thomas Kingston and Mrs.| _&lorence Phillips. It will probably not be possible! | for the committee to call back at all of the homes where persons were! out when it made its first calls, or| to all homes where it was requested | Mrs. Thompson has| therefore asked that persons Who | Dallas High School attended in a ary Willams of Plymouth, and his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Mary Largely attended military services were. held yesterday afternoon at Dallas. Methodist Church with Rev. Francis Freeman, former pastor, in charge. Daddow-Isaacs Post Amer- ican Legion provided a military escort and had charge of services at the grave. The first three classes, Senior, Junior and Sophomore, of want to contribute even up to as body. late as Saturday night, either call her or Mrs. Florence Phillips of Norton Avenue. Pvt. Warren Ward Hoover Pvt. Warren Ward Hoover, son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Hoover who! enlisted in the A.AF. June 1944 Miss Kunkle was laid to rest in' has: completed his basic training limb and that after a period of rest the family plot in Warden Cem- etery were her brothers Fred and; Stanley and sister Mrs. Nell Makin- and is now enrolled in Aerial Mech- anics School at Keesler Field, Miss. Pvt. Hoover is a graduate of Lake Township High School. Among the many floral tributes was one from the men at Kirtland | Army Air Base. | It consisted of a air Corps insignia with wings of gold fashioned of bronze crysanthe- mums above a white air corps star of pompons and a red center of carnations. Pallbearers Staff (Continued on Page Eight) were: Sgt. | Wounded Soldier Returns To States Word has been received here that Pvt. John Macullough has returned to the United States aboard a hos- pital ship and is now at the U. S. Army Station Hospital at Camp Edwards, Mass. John lost a leg below the knee and was severely wounded in the other while fighting in ‘France on July 31. Since that time he has been in an English Hospital. In a letter this week to his mother, Mrs. Dearl Moore of Jackson street, Johnny displayed good spirits and said that he expects to be home shortly so no one should come up to Camp Edwards to see him. Mem- bers of his family believe that he has already received an artificial he will be home for a short fur- lough before returning to the hos- pital for further rehabilitation. x ied oo uns “rt
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