We Remember
KILLED IN ACTION
RICHARD WELLINGTON CEASE, January 29, 1942
KEATS POAD, March 3, 1942
WALTER CECIL WILSON, May 9, 1942
CLIFFORD S. NULTON, November 26, 1943
ELWOOD BLIZZARD, March 1, 1944
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
ROBERT RESSIGUE, April 20, 1944
SAMUEL GALLETTI, May 23, 1944
JAMES DeANGELO, June 22, 1944
WILLIAM STRITZINGER, July 9, 1944
FREDERICK LOVELAND, September 12, 1944
HARRY BEAN, September 13, 1944
EDWARD METZGAR, October 12, 1944
CHARLES KINSMAN, November 5, 1944
DONALD L. MISSON, December 11, 1944
WILLIAM J. GAREY, December 12, 1944
JOSEPH YANEK, December 22, 1944
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Vol. 55, No. 5
William Frantz |
Dies Of Wounds
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WILLIAM SNYDER FRANTZ, January, 1945 {
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
RAYMOND H LOVELAND, January 8, 1945
JOSEPH POLACHEK, January 22, 1945
MISSING IN ACTION
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
JAMES B. DAVIES, August 25, 1944
KARL M. KUNKLE,’ December 5, 1944
EDWIN A. BURKHARDT, December 17, 1944
PAUL S. KOCHER, December 17, 1944
ALFRED J: BROWN, December 17, 1944
WELFORD SCOUTEN, December, 20, 1944
JOHN E. REESE, December 26, 1944
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
IRVIN C. DAVIS, JR., September 15, 1944
WILLIAM GENSEL, October 16, 1944
Fditorially Speaking:
Three Faiths — One Purpose
A story has come out of the war about three boys who
“grew up in the same country, went to the same school,
played on the same football team—and died in the same
war for a common cause.
Their names were Kehoe, Foster, and Ross—one a
Catholic, one a Protestant, one a Jew. The Daily Evening
Item of Lynn, Massachusetts, which reports their story,
says that they were inseparable friends during their days
at Swampscott High School where all three of them dis-
tinguished themselves on the football team.
Swampscott had a great team in the Fall of 1939, due
in large measure to the fact that Kehoe, Foster, and Ross
played on it.
a shock to his many friends of this |
whole area. He is the first of the!
men in service from Orange to!
give his life in battle.
William Snyder Frantz Mo. MM |
2/c died of wounds received in|
action somewhere in the Philippines |
area. He was the son of Mrs.!
Mildred Snyder Jones and made
his home with his grandparents!
Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Snyder of;
Orange. It was here that the word
was received Sunday January 28
of the death of the young sailor.
William Frantz was born April |
22, 1922. He attended grade school
in Exeter Township and in 1940
was graduated from West Pittston
High School. “Billy” as everybody
called him was always interested
in mechanics of all kinds and espec-
ially in Diesel engines. He was
fond of tinkering with the varieties
of machinery around the garage,
farm and machine shop of his
grandfather, Fred Snyder. For two]
years before entering the service.
William worked at the Sun Ship-'
building Co. in Chester, and learned |
to use the welder’s torch in welding
and burning. It was only natural,
therefore, that he should select
Diesel engine work in the Navy.
He took his boot training at Samp-
son N. Y., later going to Melville
Rhode Island where he received
his PT boat training. He had been |
in service since October 1943.
Billy was never one to stress
the dangers of his work. In fact
he often reassured his people that
the real dangers were far away
from him. It was only by resting,
between the lines that one would]
know that he was often in the!
thick of things. It is perhaps not
only characteristic of Billy Frantz
but of most of our American fight-
ing men that he ‘didn’t want to
kill anybody”. He told this to
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His Project Wins
1939 was a fateful year. Hitler marched into Poland
in the Fall of that year—during the very days when
Kehoe, Foster, and Ross were making football history
at Swampscott. The war then seemed far off to most
Americans. Perhaps, it seemed far off to these three
boys, too. Who knows?
But, if the war seemed far off, the reality of democracy
was very close to them. On the athletic field of an Amer-
ican high school they were learning what democracy
means. They were not of the same religious faith. But
no one seemed to think that that made any difference to
the part each one of them played in giving Swampscott a
great football team in the Fall of 1939—when Hitler, who
persecuted Jews, Protestants, and Catholics, marched into
Poland.
Strange thing, isn’t it? If Swanpscott in 1939 was
going to have the best football team at its command, it
would have to use the talents of a Catholic boy, a Protes-
tant boy, and a Jewish boy. Strange thing, isn’t it? If
America in 1945 was {o have a strong army to defend
and to preserve democracy against the Nazis and the Jap-
anese, who are committed to its destruction, it would
have to be an army of Catholics, Protestants, and Jews.
But not strange at all when you come to think of it.
For America is not a country for the people of one race
or one religion. America is a country for mankind.
Do we understand this truth even yet? How can any-
one, facing the facts, condemn Catholics, or Protestants,
or Jews—or raise the voice of slander against them? The
point is that no one can—who faces the facts!
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PILLAR
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By Mgrs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr.
There's one thing the area won't
winter, and that is the weather.
have to worry about any more this
Come the second of February, the day
will be overcast and gloomy, and the groundhog will emerge from his
winter burrow, survey the landscape,
From the second of February on,
and see no alarming shadow.
the balmy winds will blow, the snow
will melt, and the maple sap will®
start to run.
How do I know all this? Well,
it is very simple. I have made
sacrifices to the weather-man.
For the last couple of months
there has been a too generous
amount of snow. Snow is all right
in its place and at a suitable season,
but this snow situation has gotten
out of bounds. If allowed to con-
tinue, it will result in a flood to end
floods, a torrent that will remorse-
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Kiwanis Hears Talk
On Pharmacy At War
“What is being done by Phar-
macy Houses to promote the war
effort” was the subject of a talk
presented by John Hughes of Lee
Park before Dallas Kiwanis Club
at its weekly dinner meeting Wed-
nesday night at Turner's Restaurant |
Joseph A. Hardisky |
Joseph A. Hardisky, a senior at
Dallas Township High School placed |
third in the State and was the]
winner of a bronze medal at the |
Pennsylvania State Farm Show for |
his project in small fruits. Joseph;
raised 369 quarts of red straw- |
berries on his % acre plot of land |
and made a profit of $114. During!
the summer he operated four pro-|
jects on which he made a total
net profit of $473.35.
He was ninth in yield in the
State on his potato project and
eleventh on the project as a whole.
He grew 314 bushels to the acre
making a profit of $344.
he made $15.35.
His fourth project was raising
a calf. On this project he had to
expand profits made on his other
enterprise. He purchased his calf
from Sterling Farm and says its a
dandy.
Joseph is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Andrew Hardisky. He has
been president of F.F.A. for the
past two ‘years and finds time dur-
ing the suinmer to play with the
Centermoreland Baseball Team. He
has received the Keystone Degree,
which is the State F.F.A. degree,
and expects) to try out for the
American Farmer Degree in nation-
al competition. Joe gives a lot of
credit to hié Vocational teacher,
Sheldon Mosiqr, for the things that
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1945
Died In Service - On Leyte
JOHN LAITY
March 21, 1913—January 1, 1945
He also!
had four colonies of bees on which
Killed In Action - The Philippines
WILLIAM SYNDER FRANTZ
April 22, 1922—January 1945
One Hundred And Ten Persons
Give $6,500 To Library Fund
One hundred and ten persons Mountain Memorial Library”. What |
have contributed $6,500 in indivi-
‘dual subscriptions of $50 or more
{to the rapidly growing fund for a
{ Back Mountain Memorial Library,
| Harry Ohlman, treasurer of the
Association, announced last night at
a library meeting in Lundy's.
| “Of this amount”, Mr. Ohlman
said, “more than $3,500 has already
been deposited to the Library ac-
count in First National
Dallas.”
With contributions at a peak
this week, there appeared to be no
diminishing of the enthusiasm that
is sweeping the entire Back Moun-
tain Region for the project.
As solicitors went about their
work they were encouraged by
letters and verbal endorsement
from scores of residents through-
out. widely scattered sections of
the area:
From Sweet Valley Mr. and Mrs.
Alfred Bronson wrote:
Memorial Library Association:
It isn’t often that one thanks
the solicitor for soliciting, but we
have helped Him fo ma®r pn
ne showing + 2PProve of this
w+ “ly are proud to help boost
weekly series of messagac the “Back
Bank,
a boon to youngsters and oldsters
alike!
From this small beginning who
knows what fine memorial may
develop, especially if the thought
expressed on page 8 of The Dallas
Post is kept in mind.
Our best wishes go with this
(check enclosed)
Alfred and Mildred Bronson
Sweet Valley.
Following is the paragraph to
which the Bronsons referred:
The library group said it was
its intention to work in harmony
with any post-war plans for a Com-
munity Center. It said that it had
no preference for the location, but
that it should be centrally located
and meet the needs of the entire
Back Mountain Region rather than
any one community. The group
was definitely not interested in
politics nor in any single organiza-
tion, group of organizations, persons
or person receiving credit for es-
tablishing a library. This, it point-
ed out, was to be an unselfish com-
munity venture aimed as a mem-
orial to men and women in service
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Outlet Soldier
Dies On Leyte
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| gv Laity, 31, a medical |
| co¥ man with the 77th Infantry |
{ Division, died on Leyte Island in |
ithe Philippines on January 1st ac- | Open In This Area
{cording to information reaching his
Boys and girls of high
wife, the former Margaret Cook of | girls of high, school age,
€ bY | representatives of youth organiza-
Idetown, proprietor of Laity’s store tions, and their- dads and mothers
ips Sulla on the Lehman-Harvey’s | are invited to attend a meeting
ake & i | Sunday afternoon at Shaver-
Pvt, Laity was inducted into the|town Fire House to discuss the
| army on December 7, 1943, and | establishment of a Teen-Age House
i received his basic medical training | or Houses in Kingston Township.
| at Camp Grant, Ill. Prior to enter- 3
| ing service he was employed for 2% Harry Hersh, Siate director of
[the teen-age program of the Office
i : s
1 years in defense work with the] as :
| Metal Hose and Tubing Company. Civilian Defense, will be the
Parents Discuss
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Teen-Age House
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“For Shavertown
Youth Center May Be
First Of Several To
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| of Dover, N. J. He was home for:
| six days in April and left for over-|
| seas in June. He was with the 77th,
! Division at Ormoc on December 7
| and took part in the invasion of!
| Leyte. |
In letters written on December |
112, 22, and 24th., he said that he|
| speaker.
Plans will be discussed
for establishing a Teen-Age House,
complete with juke box, milk bar,
games and other accessories in the
small, unused grade school build-
ing on the Shavertown Grade
School grounds.
First meeting to discuss the pro-
| had lived in a foxhole for fifteen 'Ject Was held Monday night in the
{nights and that it had rained every Chapel of Shavertown Methodist
night. He said that the troops Church. At that time there was
| were giving the Japs plenty tolenthusiastic approval of the idea
| worry about but that he had come | and after considerable discussion
‘through the worst of the battle|Cf the question “Is there a need?”
safely. On ‘December 24 he wrote | it was agreed by the group that a
| that the soldiers would celebrate Deed exists in the Back Mountain
{Cristiane on Thursday instead of area for a youth center or centers
Monday so that they could all be | and that a meeting should be held
together. His letters were cheerful | Sunday afternoon to get the opin-
and full of praise for the “wonder-! ion of youth and its parents as well.
ful job the troops were doing.” i Those who attended the Monday
For a number of years, Pvt. Laity night meeting were: Mr. and Mrs.
conducted the - Atlantic Service Robert Currie, Rev. Felix Zeffiro,
Station at Hillside which he owned Stanley Davis, Rev. Charles Gil-
and operated himself. | bert, Prof. James Martin, Rev. Her-
Besides his wife, he leaves his| bert Frankfort, Edgar B. Sutton,
father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Earl, James Wheeler, Mrs.
John Laity of Edwardsville, and Martin Porter, Mrs. Granville Sow-
five brothers, Donald of Edwards- den and Misses LaBar, Hunt and
ville, Harold of Larksville, Cpl. Nichols of Dallas Junior Woman's
Harold with the Third Army on the Club.
Western Front and Robert and Carl
at home. Re
| Pvt. Laity was educdted fe WARD. tent’
wardsville Schools and was a mem the meeting, the costs ot establish
ber of Courtdale Methodist Church, ing a Teen-Age HoUSe aré trivial.
| Experience of communities “where
{such centers are operating show
| that these centers are practically
self-supporting.
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At Valley Forge
In order to assist the local group,
{and provide background material
{for study, the executive committee
{of the Towanda Teen-Age House
| which has been in successful oper-
ation for two years, this week for-
warded copies of its constitution to
Mr. Currie and a letter explaining
the operation of the center. The
constitution and explanatory letter
follow:
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Birthday Overseas
Cpl. Martin J. Weir
Cpl. Martin J. Weir, 20, tail
gunner on a B-17 bomber that;
crashed on August 9, in the Azores!
killing two members of the crew,!
is in Valley Forge General Hospital!
where he last week underwent a
serious surgical operation to save |
his leg.
Martin is the son of Mr. and |
| Mrs. Martin J. Weir of Maplewood, |
N. J., and a nephew of Miss Mary
Weir of Goodleigh Farm. His father|
‘was a fofmer Wilkes-Barre news-!
paper man, and his mother was §
the former Nan MacDonald of N.| :
Main street, Wilkes-Barre. Pfc. Richard W. Prynn
For ‘the past 14 years Martin] Pfc. Richard W. Prynn of Car-
spent his summers at Goodleigh|verton will observe his thirty-third
Farm where he helped with the birthday anniversary on February
farm work and during the labor|4 with the Eighth Air Force in Eng-
shortage of’ 1942 did practically all{land. It is his second birthday
of the farm work with a tractor. anniversary overseas. He is sta-
He entered military service through tioned at an air depot and does
Draft Board No. 1 at Wyoming in| electrical work on bombers.
December 1943. He trained with] Pfc. Prynn is the son of Daisy
the Air Corps at Coral Gables, Flor-! Wilson Prynn and the late Willard
ida, Westover Field, Mass., and Mit-| Prynn of Demunds. His wife is the
chell Field, N. Y. On the flight| former Naomi Besteder of Carver-
overseas his plane pancaked against, ton. He is a graduate of Kingston
a mountain mear Lisbon, Spain, and | Township High School and was
broke in two. Cpl. Weir received active in base ball circles through-
serious arm and leg injuries, and out the Back Mountain Region be-
fractured ribs. After seven days | fore entering service.
in a hospital in the Azores he was} After his induction in July 1943
flown to a hospital in Florida and pe was stationed at South Kelly
thence by plane to Valley Forge. | Field, San Antonio, Texas, for one
While a resident of Dallas Town-| month and then went overseas. He
ship Martin used to coach athletics! has not been home since entering
during the summer months at Dal- | service. A brother, Robert, seaman
las High School grounds. He at-|first class, is with the U.S. Navy
(Continued on Page Five) in the Philippines.