We Remember "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 HAROLD THOMAS KEPNER, December 19, 1942 JOHN P. GLEASON, March 30, 1943 JOHN E. FRITZ, May 7, 1943 CLIFFORD S. NULTON, November 26, 1943 ELWOOD BLIZZARD, March 1, 1944 ROBERT RESSIGUE, April 20, 1944 ROBERT A. GIRVAN, May 14, 1944 3 SAMUEL GALLETTI, May 23, 1944 | : OTTO W. HARZDORF, June 1, 1944 hy 3 JAMES DeANGELO, June 22, 1944 WILLIAM STRITZINGER, July 9, 1944 HERBERT C. CULP, July 12, 1944 JAMES B. DAVIES, August 25, 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 PAUL S. KOCHER, December 17, 1944 JOSEPH YANEK, December 22, 1944 JOHN E. REESE, December 26, 1944 GEORGE H. RAY, January 9, 1945 ; CHESTER GORCZYNSKI, January 10, 1945 x 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 'WILLIAM PHILLIPS, May 4, 1945 DAVID DECKER, May 14, 1945 RICHARD E. JONES, May 27, 1945 BURTON E. BONELL, August 28, 1945 DIED IN SERVICE GEORGE UTRICH, May 6, 1942 HOWARD A. COSGROVE, July 3, 1942 ROBERT F. REILLY, June 20, 1543 THOMAS CLARK LLOYD, July 4, 1943 3 EVAN J. BRACE, February 15, 1944 GEORGE S. RACE; October 26, 1944 ‘ 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 - MICHAEL W. O’'BOYLE, December 29, 1945 MISSING IN ACTION ELWOOD R. RENSHAW, August 20, 1944 Food For Thought Speaking before the Commonwealth Club Luncheon in San Franciscossome weeks ago, Henry Ford II, presi- dent of the Ford Motor Company, had the following to say. The Super Deluxe Tudor is the most popular of our Ford cars. In 1941 a Super Deluxe Tudor Ford just rolling off the final assembly line represented a total manufacturing cost of $512. It took 87 hours to build. Material costs were $304, direct labor costs were $76 and overhead amounted to $132. Now this same car rolling off the assembly line twelve ‘ months later—1942— represented a total manufacturing Co cost of $681 instead of $512. Why the increase? Well—it took 15 more Roars to assemble the 1942 car than the 1941. Direct labor costs instead of being $76 were up to $124. Material costs had gone up from $304 to $343 and overhead from $132 to $214. Ford production of pleasure cars had to halt for the war, so it is necessary to skip for any comparisons to November 1945 three months after V-J Day. That, by the way, is the month in which we expected to get back into full post-war production. By that time we hoped to be turning out enough cars to get our costs down— because, as you know, a big mass production operation is economical when it is running at top speed, but it is a mighty expensive way of producing a very small number of cars. Looking at the November 1945 cost records on the comparatively low, we find that the total manufacturing cost of this most popular of all Ford models added up to $962—41 per cent more than in 1942 and 87 per cent per cent more than in 1941. The car which it had cost $512 to build in 1941 and $681 in 1942 cost $962 in 1945. The breakdown is this— Instead of building the car in 87 hours, as we did in 1941, or in 102 hours, as we did in 1942; it took us 128 hours. That’s an increase of 47% over 1941. These figures, by the way, demonstrate pretty well why we have sought assurances of increased worker output from the union. Our search for ever lower costs has no chance of - success if this trend of decreasing productivity is not sharply reversed. Labor costs, in short, rose to $152—almost 100% more than in 1941, and ‘overhead costs increased to $354 or 167% more than in 1941. “Overhead” includes cost of plant maintenance during work stoppages. Bear in mind that the figures I have been quoting you are merely manufacturing costs. They do not include the costs of sales and distribution, nor anything for profit. ; Adding all these other factors, ‘but allowing ourselves nothing for profit, our total costs, as many of you will probably have estimated already, were at least $1, 000. As a matter of fact, they were $1,041.26. It will interest you to know that in that same month — November, 1945, we were authorized by the Office of Price Administration to sell for $728 this car which cost us—without profit or anything “to grow on”’—$1,041. \ Fe cen : { Hi Ee ih BOX SCORE ; | - : Sg Back Mountain Highway Deaths and : 2 wt Serious accidents since V-J Day A ped Killed Dallas I {od Tur Dairas Post|- Trucksville zx. | 2 MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION Other Communities : 1 Vol. 56, No. 11 FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1946 6 CENTS PER COPY "TOTAL Ido] nd Veterans Raise $1,800 Toward Building Fund Trucksville Fire Turn Over $220 From Night Of Fun Party Three weeks of canvassing has netted Kingston Township Veterans Association more than $1,800 for the purchase of its building, the former Kelly Funeral Home, Main Road, which it has occupied since it was vacated last year by the Teen-Age Center. Included in this total is a gift of $220 from Trucksville Volunteer Fire Company, proceeds from the Night of Fun Party held at the Fire House March 2. More than one hundred patrons attended. President Theodore Poad expres- sed satisfaction at the drive's suc- cess, saying that he is sure that the goal of $3,000 needed to buy the building will be met by the end of the year. The addition of a bowling alley is also planned to provide recrea- tion for the veterans. Already the building - contains such equipment as a shuffleboard, ping pong tables and a Canteen. More ;than 150 belong to the or- ganization, and the large number of returning veterans is expected to swell the enrollment. Meetings were held at Kingston Township High School. State Forester To Visit Site Meeting Called To _ | Sterling, Super Deluxe Tudor Ford when production figures were Name Memorial Drive Highway Regional Forester, ‘is ex- pected to arrive in Dallas late next week to inspect the proposed site of the Memorial Park to be estab- lished ‘this spring along the Har- vey’s Lake Highway in the general area of Center Hill Road. Harold Flack, chairman of the committee to name the drive, will call a meeting at Back-Mountain Memorial Library" Tuesday evening to choose the name. Committee members are Paul Warriner, Mrs. Charles Lee, Ches- ter Burnham, Joe MacVeigh, F. J. Ferry, Howard W. Risley and sup- ervisors of Dallas Township, Dallas Borough, Kingston Township and Lehman. The memorial drive, fitting trib- ute to the veterans of World War II, will be planted from trees pro- vided by the State from its Belle- fonte Nursery. More than eight- hundred trees, one for each man or woman who served, will be planted. Show Horse Arrives From Kentucky A three-gaited show horse, Beau recently purchased by Mountain Evergreen. Stables, ar- rived here from Kentucky last week. . The beautiful gray has an admirable record of winnings, in- cluding the three-gaited champion- ship at Owensboro, Kentucky, and first in his class at hferiuchy State Fair. The Sollowing = was said of him at the sale in Kentucky. “There is not a weak or coarse fiber in his wonderful conformation. He pos- sesses poise and. animation second to no living horse. He has beauty and ability ‘to perform each of the three-gaits gracefully and cor- John T. (Clark, Allentown, State} The lucky star of Lewis E. Tracy, Interlaken, N, Y., must have shone brightly Sunday night. without a scratch from this overturned truck at Mount Greenwood. Tracy ran into mud on the highway and spun into the ditch. New York Coal Truck Overturns On Trucksville Highway Photo by Ned Gardner, Shavertown He escaped Failing to see a warning barricade, RED CROSS WORKERS RAISE ONE-FIFTH OF LOCAL QUOTA Mrs. Harry Ohlman, colonel off the Red (Cross Drive in the Back Mountain area, announced yester- day that $865—almost one-third of | ‘the quota—has been raised. Goal for Area 8 is $2,800, dis- tributed as follows: Dallas Borough, $650; Dallas Township, $400; Frank- lin, $100; Jackson, $250; Lehman, $300; Lake, $200; Shavertown, 400, and Trucksville, $500. Lehman = with contributions of $250 leads with five-sixths- of its quota. Dallas iin with ~ contribu- tion: of 824.10, - next,’ with almost fifty percent of ‘its quota raised. Next is Shavertown with $184.50— slightly less than half its quota— and fourth is Trucksville ‘with $107 reported. Reports for other dis- tricts have mot been made by their captains. Organizations’ butions to date ‘Woman's Club, $50; Dallas Junior ‘Woman's Club, = $10; Durbin 'Sun- day School Class, $25; Jessie A. Brickel Sunday School Class, $10; Dallas Borough P-T-A, $6; ‘Women of Rotary, $10; Daughters of Amer- ica, $5; Dorcas Bible Class, Shav- erton, $10; Trucksville and Shaver- town school faculties, $93.50; Leh- man PTA, $10; Lehman Faculty, $53. Lehman Fire Company Responds To Brush Fire A brisk brush fire caused con- siderable concerm in the Lehman- Meeker area” Thursday morning about ten g@'clock, when brush and tree cuttin 5 being burned-by Larry Drabick on This f father’s farm got out of control. Friends and meigh- bors turned out en masse and man- aged to get the blaze under con- trol by the time Lehman Volunteer Fire Company, reenforced by doz-’ ens of stalwart Lehman High School boys arrived—rarin’ to go. The Drabicks are deeply grateful and wish to express their apprecia- tion to all who came to their as- sistance. and their icontri- are: Building New | Home T. Sterling Williams, Wilkes- Barre, is erecting a bungalow-type house on Huntsville Road, below the Nulton home. Thrilled over prospects of living in Dallas, the Williamses are going to live in a cottage at the Country Club until their new home is ready this fall. This week the cellar was excavated and contractors began laying the foundation. W.C.T.U. NOTICE W.C.T.U. will meet Tuesday at 2 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Clark rectly.” Charles H. Cooke, Dallas Town- ship Senior, enlisted in the Navy last month and during his pre-in- duction examinations passed the difficult Eddy test which has earn- ed him the right to a $5,000 edu- cation. in ‘higher mathmatics, elec- tronics, physics and radio. The Eddy test is one of the stiff- est offered to Navy recruits. Many college graduates fail to pass it and only one out of forty to fifty applicants make the grade. The test determines which men are able to train as radar technicians. Now stationed at Camp Peary, Virginia, Hildebrant, Machell avenue. CHARLES COOKE D.T.HS. SENIOR PASSES NAVY'S STIFF EDDY TEST Charles wil] leave shortly for. the Great Lakes Naval Training Station where he will take the ten to twelve month course in radar. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Cooke of Fernbrook and the grandson of the late Charles Cooke of Dallas, well-known civil engineer. When Chief Gunner's Mate An- drew Kozemchak, navy recruiter, learned of his young protege’s suc- cess, he was enthusiastic. He tele- phoned both the Cooke family and the Dallas Post. ‘Gee, to think” Lhe said “a boy from my own town- Dallas Senior | Killed In Action LIEUTENANT BURTON BONELL Burton Benell Declared-Dead Former Township Man Piloted Fighter Plane A former Fernbrook ' resident, Second Lieutenant Burton Bonell 23, missing in action since August 28, 1945, has been reported killed in action, according to official word received last week by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. ‘George Bonell, 23 Ransom street, Forty Fort. Lt. Bonell, pilot of a China-based fighter plane, was last seen by his wingman within a half-hour of his base while returning from a mission over Te Shima. It was reported that the plane had developed engine trouble and was falling out of for- mation. ‘Cause of the trouble, whether by enemy action or me- chanical difficulties, was never de- termined. When the plane was last seen it was believed that the pilot had parachuted, but an intensive search of the area revealed no trace and eventually the search was given up. Lt. Bonell went overseas in April, 1945, and participated in many mis- sions. Ironically, his last flight was the day after American troops be- gan the occupation of Japan. He was born in Kingston April 4, 1945, and lived five years of his youth in Fernbrook, graduating from Dallas Township High School in 1940 with a fine scholastic rec- ord. He was the second member of his class to die in action. Hig classmate, Staff Sgt. William Strit- zinger, also of Fernbrook, was killed at Cherbourg, France, July 9, 1944. Both boys played on the line in varsity football. Besides his parents, Lt. Bonell is survived by his wife, the former Betty Mae Bennung of Philadelphia; a daughter, Barbara, one year old; three sisters, Mrs. Virginia Disvel- apro, New York City; Doris and Lorraine, at home; and a brother, George, Jr., Philadelphia. Painting Wins Prize Olin Shaver, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Shaver, Elizabeth, New Jersey, former residents of Shaver- town, plans to enter a state-wide art contest after: winning first prize in a county competition recently. The high school senior’'s water color painting ‘won him $50 cash, ship did such a swell job. Am I proud ?”’ a $50 Victroy Bond and a scholar- | ship at Pratt Art School. Young Driver Escapes Injury Empty Coal Tn Overturns Sund _ An Interlaken, New York, truck driver, Lewis E. Tracy, narrowly escaped injury about 9 o'clock Sun- day night when his eight-ton 1946 Ford coal-truck overttrned at Mt. Greenwood after skidding on loose into the high- last week’s heavy mud which flowed way following rains. Tracy, a driver for Vince Crain and Son, Interlaken coal dealers, was headed: toward Luzerne with the intention of arriving that eye- ning at Harry E Colliery—a prac- tice followed by long distance haul- ers to assure early loading the fol- lowing morning. Failing to see the warning barricade, he struck the mud and spun across the road, col- liding with a [Chevrolet sedan owned by Andrew A. Anglovich, Larksville, and driven by Verne Kaprali The right front fender was torn from the sedan, damaged and the tire ripped. The truck ‘hurtled to the left side of the highway and ended upside down, the cab fortunately injured and after recovering from a bad scare, went to Kozy Korner Restaurant, Shavertown, where he awaited a fellow driver who fol- lowed him from New York. : Only damage to the truck was one shattered headlight and: a de- molished box. It was righted Mon- day noon and taken to a Luzerne garage for inspection and repair. Russell Cease, Kingston Township police, investigated. Fire Damages Home Near Harvey's Lake Daniel C. Roberts Fire Company, Alderson, was called to Bear Hol- low Sunday afternoon to extin- guish a fire in’ the upper story of a house owned by Miss Lillian Hebron. Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Company was also called out but the flames were extinguished before it arrived. Cause of the fire was reported to be an overheated stove pipe which ignited the woodwork near the chimney. Damage was $150. At Tuesday noon, the Roberts Fire Company extinguished a fire caused by ignited soot in the chim- ney of the Foster Smith home, Sterling Farms. the wheel fitting into a ditch. Tracy was un- On 3-Day Trip To Philadelphia -Group Will Be Guests Of Teachers’ College And Temple University In high spirits despite the early hour and anxious to be off to see some of the many wonders in their own State, thirty-four Lehman High School Seniors left yesterday morn- ‘ling at 6 AM. by Martz bus to visit points of interest in Harris- burg, Hershey, Millersburg, Lancas- ter and Philadelphia. They were accompanied by Miss Delilah Kistler and Joseph Ellsworth of the High School faculty, and will make the return trip to Lehman Saturday night. Funds to defray expenses of the trip were raised through various Senior activities during the past few months so that no senior will ye to pay more than a mominal Boy out of his own pocket for the week-end educational tour. Supervising Principal H. L. Hen- dricks said the trip is being made while the travelers are still mem- bers of the Senior Class and under the jurisdiction of the school rather the Seniors are no longer members of the student body. - “When they come back they will have some interesting things to tell the rest of the student body.” First port of call for the group, where Hon. Harold Flack, represen- tative from the Sixth Legislative District arranged a conducted tour through the Capitol Buildings and other points of interest. Later in the afternoon they visited the Her- shey chodblate' plant-.at Hershey and then went on to Millersburg where they were guésts of Millers- burg State Teachers College for the evening and might. . Joseph Rodriguez, a Lehman graduate, who is-now- a student in his second year at Millersburg, was their guide. The Seniors had an opportunity to use the college swimming pool which ‘is considered one of the finest in the State, and after a period of relaxation had dinner in the College dining room with the student body. The boys spent the night in the boys’ dorm- itory and the girls were guests of Millersburg girls in their dormi- tories. After an early morning breakfast with the students, the Seniors will leave Friday morning for Lancaster where they will. visit the huge plant of the Armstrong Cork Company. This afternoon they will wisit points of historic interest—Indepen- dence Hall, Betsy Ross House, City Hall—in Philadelphia. The evening will be left open for those who wish to attend the theater. ' They will spend the night at St. James Hotel. Saturday morning they will at- tend the (Career Forum sponsored by Temple University. There they will attend the various sections of the Forum suited to their individ- ual tastes. © Some will hear out- standing engineers of the country, physicians, lawyers, photographers, and others discuss the problems and opportunities confronting young people entering those careers. * In the late afternoon the Seniors will be guests of the University at a luncheon and tea dance and will board the bus for home and the (Continued on Page Eight) VETERANS FIND Four young Noxen veterans .Jearned that it dosen't pay to heave beer bottles through windows after they were arrested last Friday by Chief of Police Fred ‘Swanson for shattering eleven plate glass win- dows and a large glass showcase in a Harvey's Lake establishment. The men, Edward Smith, Holden Newell, Jr., Robert Hackling and Elmer Race, each twenty-one, were given a hearing before Squire Ralph Davis on a charge of a disorderly conduct, malicious mischief and property damage. All but Race, who had mot participated in the bottle throwing, were ordered to pay costs of $19 each for damages. Fines of $10 each were suspended. According to Chief Swanson, the NO SCARCITY OF BEER (BOTTLES) AT LAKE men developed a grudge against Mrs. Julia Edwards and her son, John, proprietors of a Harvey's ing the place early Friday morning the defendants smashed a window and then proceeded to heave sev- eral empty bottles through the win- dows of an adjoining property own- ed by Charles Lord of Luzerne. In they mistook the closed summer stand, owned by Lord, for property belonging to the Edwards. Swanson said $10 fines were sus- pended because of the veterans’ good war records. Smith was a former prisoner of war. At the hearing they couldn't remember why they were cross at Mrs. Ed- wards. : Lehman Seniors | - than at the end of the year when said Hendricks, was at Harrisburg Lake drinking establishment, Leav- their anger, according to Swanson,
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