KILLED IN ACTION RICHARD WELLINGTON CEASE, January 29, 1942 KEATS POAD, March 3, 1942 / DONALD FREEMAN, March 31, 1942 : . WALTER CECIL WILSON, June 28, 1942 JOHN P. GLEASON, March 30, 1943 CLIFFORD S. NULTON, November 26, 1943 BOX SCORE Back Mountain Highway Deaths and Serious accidents since V-J Day EI Injured Killed 1 Dallas period, Yo Shavertown ire Trucksville | =. 2 MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION All Others | Vol. 55, No. 47 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1945 6 CENTS PER COPY TOTAL I/743 “li 3 ELWOOD BLIZZARD, March 1, 1944 ROBERT RESSIGUE, April 20, 1944 ROBERT A. GIRVAN, May 14, 1944 SAMUEL GALLETTI, May 23, 1944 OTTO W. HARZDORF, June 1, 1944 JAMES DeANGELO, June 22, 1944 WILLIAM STRITZINGER, July 9, 1944 HERBERT C. CULP, July 12, 1944 JAMES B. DAVIES, August 25, 1944 { | \ DIED IN pug el _ FREDERICK LOVELAND, September 12, 1944 i HARRY BEAN, September 13, 1944 EDWARD METZGAR, October 12, 1944 CHARLES KINSMAN, November 5, 1944 DONALD L. MISSON, WILLIAM J. GAREY, December 12, 1944 JOSEPH YANEK, December 22, 1944 JOHN E. REESE, December 26, 1944 CHESTER GORCZYNSKI, January 10, 1945 THEODORE SCOUTEN, January 12, 1945 HARRY S. SMITH, January 15, 1945 WILLIAM SNYDER FRANTZ, January 22, 1945 EDISON WALTERS, February 1, 1945 LESTER L. CULVER, February 9, 1945 JOSEPH RUSHINKO, March 11, 1945 ~~. DONALD J. MALKEMES, March 16, 1945 ARDEN R. EVANS, March 19, 1945 DANIEL T. MORRIS, April 11, 1945 DAVID DECKER, May 14, 1945 SERVICE GEORGE UTRICH, May 16, 1942 HOWARD A. COSGROVE, July 3, 1942 ROBERT F. REILLY, June 20, 1543 THOMAS CLARK LLOYD, July 4, 1943 EVAN J. BRACE, February 15, 1944 GEORGE S. RACE, JOHN LAITY, January 1, 1945 RAYMOND H LOVELAND, January 8, 1945 JOSEPH POLACHEK, January 22, 1945 ROY G. SCHULTZ, February 19, 1945 LAWRENCE GAVEK, February 26, 1945 HOWARD E. LYNN, April 1, 1945 CHARLES BILLINGS, April 3, 1945 FRANCIS SIDORICK, June 17, 1945 FRANCIS GREY, June 25, 1945 MISSING IN HAROLD THOMAS KEPNER, December 19, 1942 JOHN E. FRITZ, May 7, 1943 ELWOOD R. RENSHAW, August 20, 1944 PAUL S. KOCHER, December 17, 1944 GEORGE H. RAY, January 9, 1945 December 11, 1944 October 26, 1944 ACTION Fditorially Speaking: The Secret Weapon Hitler once told the truth. He said he had a secret weapon. He had, and once he tried it out on France— long before a Nazi boot or gun touched French soil. That weapon was words—lying words, rumors, slanders, prejudices. Hitler called it ‘‘softening them up.” France fell for it—and on account of it. The victory of the allied powers in the war has made it impossible for the Nazis any longer to spread their divi- sive ideals and lying words from their erstwhile propa- ~ ganda centers in Germany. ideas already sown by the poisonous deadly fruit. For the whisperers and But that doesn’t prevent the Nazis from bearing fruit— back-biters—the sowers of hate and division among our people are yet with us. They too have a secret weapon. It is just like Hitler's. It is Hitler's. It is words, lying words and rumors, slanders, and prejudices—directed against Catholics sometimes, against Protestants sometimes, against Jews sometimes — always against Christianity which does not deal in hate —_always against Americanism which cannot live if our people are divided by lies. Are we Americans going to fall for this line of stuff? Are you, American citizens, going to fall for the divisive hate propaganda of the whisper mongers? When you hear a man denounced on account of the Church to which he belongs, on account of his race or color, recognize that for what it is—Hitler’s propaganda repeated even after Hitler is gone. x Remember what your country is—a free fellowship of Protestants, Catholics, and Jews—a country for men— of them of every race and many religions. it is a great country, and we want to keep it that way. Common sense is the best defense against the secret weapon of the disciples of Hitler. That is why Come right back at anyone who spreads rumors and prejudice against the people of any race or religion in America and ask, “Who said that first . . . Hitler or Goebbels. x kx * FROM PILLAR TO POST By Mgrs. T. M. B. Hicks, JR. A few weeks ago on the cover of the “New Yorker” there was a picture of a service-man kneeling on the station platform before a pop-eyed little boy, inviting his son to “Come see Daddy.” There was resistance in every chubby line of the firmly planted feet, and no ‘amount of coaxing was going to make that firm-minded infant abandon his last ditch stance. Day before yesterday the cover of the ‘New! Yorker” came to life on the DL. and W. platform. The train from Harrisburg, running its customary thirty-five minutes be- ind schedule, came grinding into 4 the station and stopped with a cindery sigh. The little boy stand- ing on the mail-truck in overcoat, . helmet, and leggings, watched with sober interest. He knew that some- thing was afoot, by that sixth sense that warns children of earth- shaking events. : A pile of 0.D. luggage mounted ("oh the platform, (and something large and substantial in OD. step- oe ‘interest. ped from the train. By this time the go-between had lifted the little boy from the mail-truck and closed the gap between father and son. The pair regarded each other with The officer dropped to one knee and extended a pair of hands that had seen duty in the South Pacific. The little boy cagily refrained from moving any closer. His expression, translated freely, suggested that this officer might very possibly be an interloper. Just as the deadlock was promising to fade away into something with a (Continued on Page Five) Colored Trio Will Sing At Three Churches Wigden Trio Has Sung Throughout States And Canada Beginning Tuesday, November 27, and ending Thursday, November 29, the Wigden Colored Trio will be at the North Moreland Baptist Church. The Wigdens are an outstanding singing and preaching trio. They have traveled in almost every state as well as Canada. During the summer months they are in great demand at Bible Conferences and Bible Camps throughout the land. Composing the group are three members of a family, a sister and two brothers, which makes them ideally fitted for the work in which they are engaged. Gladys Wigden is a talented singer and an accom- plished pianist and accompanist. Robert and Lawrence, who is man- ager of the group, are particularly fitted for their work. Robert, di- rector of music, is unique in style and delivery while Lawrence is the preaching member of the family. Having had intensive training in various schools and institutes he is readily accepted and acclaimed as a gifted speaker and evangelist. Together, the trio sing many of the well known negro spirituals and hymns which have come to be loved . by everybody. On Friday, November 30, and Sunday, December 2, the trio will conduct = meetings at Beaumont Baptist Church. The Friday meeting will be a Youth Rally in which twenty-five churches’ of the Fundamental Min- isterial ‘Council will participate. Among these churches are young people banded together for a united testimony called the Fundamental Youth Fellowship. Alvin Bartlett of Beumont is president of the Fel- lowship. The Sunday evening meeting will be in complete charge of the Wig- den Trio for a very unusual service. In addition to the week-night meetings there will be the three regularly scheduled services at the following churches on Sunday con- ducted by the Wigdens: West Falls Union Protestant Chapel at 9:30 a. m.; North Moreland Baptist Church at 11 a. m.; Beaumont Bap- tist Church at 8 p. m. West Falls Chapel is located on Center street near the steel bridge at West Falls. The North Moreland Church is located at the crossroads on Route 292 in Center Moreland. Beaumont Baptist Church is. lo- cated on concrete highway No. 309 half way between Wilkes-Barre and Tunkhannock. It is called the Union Building in Beaumont. The public is urged to attend. Shot In Heel Township Boy, Youths Were otlar Rabbits With Rifle Raymond Eckert, 16, ‘Dallas Township High School student, is in General Hospital recovering from a bullet wound in the heel re- ceived last Saturday afternoon while he was hunting on his father’s farm with Freeman Wesley, 14, a classmate. Freeman, son of Mrs. Maude Wesley, had a .22 rifle with him which he loaned to Raymond, who shot at a rabbit and missed. ‘Let me take it a minute,” Freeman cal- led to his companion, “I can hit him’. Raymond reloaded the gun and handed it to him. As he did so the gun discharged, the bullet pier- ced his heavy rubber boot and went completely through his heel. He was treated by Dr. Sherman Schooley who had him removed to General Hospital where he is coming along nicely. Deer Appear Plentiful A herd of buck deer on the State Game preserve near Sterling Farm at Alderson has attracted the ad- miration of motorists during the past few weels. Under-"¥Yater Frogmen SUBMARINE COMMANDOS they called the tough British sailors who volunteered for the risky work of clearing enemy beaches ahead of an invasion: The enemy sowed mines and steel traps to prevent Allied landings: the “frogmen” blasted holes in them off Normandy for the British and American invasion and were preparing to do likewise to Japanese off-shore defenses. Here are two of them coming out of the sea on the English coast wearing their skin-like rubber diving suits and streamlined helmets: their webbed froglike footgear enabled them to swim fast under the water. : Silver Leaf Club Gives 30-Volume Encyclopedia As Soldier Memorial { Kunkle Club’s Gift To Memorial Library Will Benefit All People Of This Region As a memorial to the men and women of Kunkle Methodist Church who have served their country in World, War II, Silver Leaf Club of Kunkle this week gave Back Moun- tain Memorial Library the latest edition of the thirty-volume En- cyclopedia Americana which will come off the press during De- cember. : Each volume will carry memorial book plates bearing the names of the men and women of Kunkle Church who have bee nin armed service. First announcement of the gift which will be invaluable to all boys and girls of the Back Mountain region as well as older persons who will use 'the books for refer- ence work, was made at a meeting of the Library Board on Tuesday night by James Hutchison who at- tended the Silver Leaf Club meet- ing on Friday night. The gift fs one of the first of its kind made by any civic organization in the area. Silver Leaf Club has a member- ship of twenty-eight public-spirited women in the Kunkle area. It was organized some years ago to meet a church and community need, and since that time has taken an active leadership in social and civic affairs of the community. During the ‘winter months it has sponsored the Saturday night dances in Kunkle Community Hall and during the past year has paid for landscaping ‘the church lawn, contributed sixty dollars to the American Red Cross and twenty- five dollars to the Welfare Federa- tion. It also purchased hardwood floors for the Methodist parsonage at Alderson and paid for having the floors sanded and waxed at Kunkle Community Hall. It has performed many acts of neighbor- liness during its existence. At its meeting on Friday night at the home of Mrs. Leroy Hess of (Continued on Page Five) Many New Barns Are Being Built Farmers Make Their Own Post-War Boom Construction of new barns, de- ferred throughout the war by the lack of materials, is the first in- dication that Pennsylvania farmers are making Sir own post-war boom. Robert J. McCall, extension agricultural engineer at Pennsyl- vania State College, reports barm construction under way and plan- ned throughout the State. Braced rafter type barns seem to be most popular, McCall believes. He found that the Shawver truss type of barn construction is also planned in many areas, but that this style is more costly. “Many farmers have been build- ing barns with wood obtained from their own woodlot,” he said. Besides reducing costs, this practice has made possible the use of timber that often was mot otherwise available. Foundations vary from poured con- crete and concrete block to stone masonry, he finds. Only a few of the new barns, he laminated rafters, since these have continued, will include the new only recently become available. Lack of competent carpenters or others experienced in barn con- struction has delayed some new building. The agricultural engineer esti- mates that a 36-foot barn costs ap- proximately $75 per running foot if all supplies are purchased and labor is hired. That rate for the braced rafter type of barn, he said, compares to about $100 a running foot for the Shawver truss type of barn. "ONCE I WAS BLIND" COL. C. A. BUSH Written expressly for the Dallas Post. All rights reserved by the author. Yes, “once I was blind, but now I can see.” And according to the generally accepted meaning of the word, I am still blind. To this I agree. Further, when I contend that now I see, I admit that it, too, is not in accordance with the accepted interpretation. It is true that I can no longer envision the things round about, as once I did. But it is owing to the fact I did, for the major part of my lifé, see the beauties of na- ture, even as you do mow, that I maintain I do now see. Even that it be through the medium of my memory, I readily create a mental picture of this thing or that object, once it be named or de- scribed to me by someone blessed with the faculty of sight. Yes, those memories. How many times during the past ten years have I relived incidents and hap- penings of more than a half- century, and revelled in the reliv- ing. Blessed memories! And I see by the aid of the mir- acle of radio. For me it provides (Continued on Page Five) EE THANKSGIVING DINNER AT LEHMAN CAFETERIA COSTS 12¢c PER PLATE Four hundred pupils in Leh- man Township Schools enjoyed a special Thanksgiving Dinner served by the school cafeteria Wednesday noon. The meal cost each pupil 12c. Here was the menu: Roast turkey and = stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, buttered buns, cranberry sauce, celery, jello and fruit punch. School officials admitted the meal was a little unusual, but said that nourishing hot lunches are served every day in the cafeteria for 12¢, and that the Thanksgiving menu was possible because there has been a “little surplus’ in the cafeteria fund for several weeks. The cafeteria is oper- ated on a non-profit basis, proceeds from the sale of meals going back into the cafeteria fund. NB Be Juniors to Give Dixie Jamboree Proceeds Will Furnish Room in Hospital Wing “The Dixie Jamboree”, an old time minstrel show, will be pre- sented by members of Dallas Jun- ior Woman's Club in Kingston Township High School Wednesday evening, November 28 at 8:15 p.m. Proceeds from the shew will be used to furnish a room in the new wing of Nesbitt Memorial Hospital. The show is being directed by William Burnaford of Shavertown. Accompanist will be Mrs. Oswald Griffiths, interlocutor Charlotte La- Corte and endmen Adeltha Miller, Margaret Robinson, Nancy Nicol, Peggy Brace, Cynthia Poad and Shirley Sanders. Specialty acts will consist of twirling, Kathleen Smith, wocal solos, Sheila Archard and dances, Beryl and June Col- well. : Members of the chorus are as follows: Margaret O'Boyle, Marion Hilde- brant, Beatrice Hildebrant, Lois Bryant, Doris Jones, Mary Mitchell, Eleanor Bartells, Audrey Shupp, Shirley Austin, Alice Austin, Mil- dred Beline, Jane Case, Mary Ben- nallock, Wilma Carroll, Barbara Ringstrom, Eleanor Montross, Janet Nash, Pauline Shaver, Alice Shaver, Stella Misson, Dorothy Niemeyer, Adria Jones, Hannah (Culp, Phyliis Elston, Doris Stookey, Dorothy Reese, Ruth Stookey, Elva Elston, Alberta Oliver, Muriel Garinger, Marjorie Nichols, Doris LaBar, Mar- garet Jones, Bette Jones, Gertrude Price, Roberta Quaill, Elsie Ayre, Rita Cummings. Patrons are: Mr. and Mrs. S. B. G. Arbor, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Austin Sr., Gordon Austin Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bartells, Dr. and Mrs. M. J. Borthwick, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde E. Brace, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar S. Brace, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Case, Grace Cave, Mrs. Lewis Culp Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Currie, Mrs. C. P. Elliot Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Char- les Elston, Mr. and Mrs. G. I. El- ston, First National Bank, Dallas, Mr. and Mrs. John Henninger, Beatrice Hildebrant, Marion Hilde- brant, Betty Kanarr, Doris Kanarr, Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Malkemes, Mrs. Robert . Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Nicol, Mrs. Margaret O’Boyle, Mrs. Ethel Oliver, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Poad, Mr. and Mrs. Luther Powell, Mrs. Frances Quaill, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Ray, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Ringstrom, Dr. and Mrs. S. R. Schooley, Mr. and Mrs. Granville Sowden, Mary Templin, Mrs. Nelson Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Von Stein, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Weid, Mrs. Ralph Whipp, C. A. Stookey, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Labar, Mrs. Robert Phipps, Bettie Sullivan and Jeanne Sullivan. Rev. H. A. Frederick Heads Local Church / Rev. and Mrs. H. A. Frederick of Beach Lake, Wayne County, have taken up residence at the Trucksville parsonage and will have charge of the Trucksville Free Methodist Church. ? The Fredericks are well known throughout the Back ‘Mountain area and already have a good many friends here whom they met at Free Methodist Camp Grounds when Rev. Frederick had the Nes- copeck and White Haven charges. Police Fail To Bpprehend Rural School Robbers Lehman Is Latest 7 Of Twenty-Nine Schools Entered Continuing on their regular Thursday night schedule, robbers for the third consecutive week re- turned to the Back Mountain re- gion last Thursday night and this time entered Lehman Township High School. The Lehman building was the twenty-ninth rural school that has been entered during the past year. The thieves obtained little plun- der—about $15 belonging to the Parent-Teacher Association — but they did manage to do considerable damage to library doors and a steel file safe in the principal’s office. They ransacked every teacher's desk in the grade and high school buildings. All loss to property was covered by insurance carried by the school board. The intruders gained entrance through. a window in the music room and from there are presumed to have entered the principal’s of- fice by means of skeleton keys. In their haste to get on with their work they failed to observe that the steel file safe had been left unlocked, and proceeded to jimmy the doors with heavy screw drivers. There was little in the safe except. 2 small amount of money belong- ing to the P-T-A. Finding little of value they pro- ceeded to unlock all of the class room doors and methodically jimmy ‘and search every one of the teach- er's desks. Thwarted in their ef- forts to unlock the library .doors, they split them apart with heavy tools and broke the lock. State Police and local officers in- vestigated and are still continuing their investigation. They are con- vinced that the: robbery was car- ried out by the same. person or persons who have entered the other schools and are also convinced that the robbers are interested only in obtaining money as they paid no attention to any other articles of value that they might have carried away easily. They are believed to have been in the building about two hours. Last week Dallas Borough, Kings- ton Township High School and Trucksville Grade Schools were en- tered. A week earlier Lake Town- ship was robbed. Bbsence Of Game Blamed On Foxes State Returns $4 Bounty On Réd Fox Experienced sportsmen report that this has been one of the poor- est small game seasons in years. They attribute the scarcity of rab- bits to the prevalence of red and grey foxes. Scores of hunters who mever be- fore saw a fox have seen them this year in the woods and along the highways. Fred Swanson, Chief of Harvey's Lake Police Force, saw a red vixen and four pups in the highway within easy range a few days ago, but didn’t happen to have his gun along at the time. Some trappers in Wyoming County and parts of Luzerne have taken as many as eighty-six grey foxes this season. Olin Terry, vet- eran Wyoming County weodsman and trapper, is said to have taken fifty, and William Wasser, of the Nesbitt Farm has trapped twenty- three red and grey so far. During all of last season he was able to get only seven in his traps. He estimates that he may kill fifty be- fore the end of this year. Increase in the fox population is believed in part to be due to the absence of many hunters from the woods‘ during the war. The State Game Commission has recognized the necessity for greater control and has returned the $4 bounty which it took off red fox some years ago. A bounty of $4 has al- ways been paid for grey fox pelts. Decrease in the number of grouse which are now becoming extinct in this area is also believed to be due in some measure to the increase in the fox population, although the wood tick is also a big factor in their disappearance. Ne
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