of the year. 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. Gil 7}, May 14, 1944 SAMUEL GALLE (TI, 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 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 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 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 The Passing Of The League Of Nations By Congressman Daniel J. Flood Mr. Speaker: Today is the last session of the League of Nations in Geneva, and I should like to say to the shades of those who twenty-five years ago sponsored this League that it is not dead, that it is not forgotten, because from this League there is reborn a new spirit of international co- operation among the nations for world peace. We do not say good-bye to the idea of the League, but we say “Hail and farewell!” to a society of nations and welcome a new spirit of cooperation to the United Nations for collective security and world peace. True it is that the first great opportunity of a practi- cal plan for world peace was missed by the nations of the world, and this fact will linger in the minds of the na- tions’ representatives in Geneva today as they ring the curtain down on the League of Nations. to add that the curtain has already been rung up on a new society of nations, dedicated to the age-old dream of peace on earth good will among men and the prevailing of law and order in our society. It is significant that this event takes place in the spring Because this new concept of world cooper- ation, as found in the charter of the United Nations, is in the springtime of its life, and all mankind hopes and prays that the budding United Nations will have the viril- ity and the long life so fervently hoped for in all mankind. This is not the end of what the League of Nations was born to accomplish. This is not the finish of its embodied hope. Rather, this is the “end of the beginning,” as Wins- ton Churchill said not long ago of a changing phase during This is not the end of a family or the end of a line of ancestors with great traditions. This is not the terminal point of a proud geneology with no off-spring to carry on. Because born from the trials and tribulations of the old League of Nations the newly born United Nations firmly hold aloft the torch of life for a new world, and it has already weathered and survived League was not a failure. (Continued on Page Eight) Tue Darras Post Back Mountain Highway Deaths and Serious accidents since V-J Day BOX SCORE Injured Killed Dallas Von Ci Shavertown | 1 | ; Trucksville Wn MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION OF rH ther Communities | Vii Vol. 56 No. 15 FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1946 6 CENTS PER COPY TOTAL bods] 4 |Few Serious | almost instantly. Contact with Forest Fires Towerman Has Seen Only Seven So Far So far the season looks faverable for a minimum number forest fires, according to Herbert Loh- mann, towerman at the" Club Tower, operated by the State Department ‘of Forests and Waters | Mr. Lohmann has been on duty eight. hours a day since March 24, and since that time has ahserved | only seven fires—most of them onli the east side of the river and out-! side of his jurisdiction. The worst | fire locally was on Luzerne Moun- tain. Mr. Lohmann enjoys the lonely life of a towerman and spends con- siderable time reading. He likes especially to read poultry maga- zines. Few visitors get up to the tower except on Saturdays and Sundays. Then sometimes he has a dozen in a group. On clear days, the observer says he can see ten to fourteen miles distance. Although there is always a breeze around his lofty perch even on quiet days, it is always comfortable in’ Mr. Lohmann’s glass enclosed penthouse where he can study his maps and locate a fire other firetowers is maintained by telephone and short wave radio. Mr. Lohmann is a licensed operator and can contact any tower in about three minutes. He has been in charge of the Country Club Tower for six years. Canadian Is On Church Program But we hasten its first storm. The Its success is proclaimed be- cause of its successor, and the thing that lends emphasis to this fact is the much more significant fact that the greatest of the nations which did not join the old League is now the leader in the organization and the direction of the new United Nations—the United States of America. The thing that is clear today as tHe member nations preside at the disolution of the old League of Nations is the established fact that all nations and all peoples every- where have reached the inescapable conclusion that peace among nations can result only from unity among those nations to achieve and maintain that goal. Let us pause to salute the memory of the great Wood- row Wilson for his spirit and his followers must get great joy and satisfaction from this transmitting of the unfin- ished business of the League of Nations to the United This is vindication at its fullest. And finally, as was said by the brilliant writer of the New York Times, Anne O'Hare McCormick, “Woodrow Wilson will be re- membered in the valedictory of the League, not as the leader of a lost cause, but as a prophet who was honored at last in his own country.” { Truly can those who survive today and who were pres- ent at the original meeting a quarter of a century ago, pronounce from the fullness of their hearts the belief that: | Church will conduct a rummage “They are not dead, As we that are left shall die, Age shall not weary them, Rev. Edmundscn To reach In Wisconsin i avertown Bible Church plans special services for tonight and next week. This evening Rev. Ger- ald Stover, Benton Street Baptist Church, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, will preach at 7:45. Rev. Stover is well known throughout this country as a Bible teacher and is very popular at Summer Bible Con- ferences. He is also in great de- mand as a Youth for Christ speak- er. Not only will he be at the Shavertown Bible Church tonight, but on Saturday he‘will preach at the Wilkes-Barre Youth for (Christ Rally. Starting Thursday, April 18 and for the remainder of the week in- cluding Easter, April 21, Dr. J. Oliver Buswell will be the speaker. Dr. Buswell is a well known Bible expositor. He was formerly a col- lege president, a seminary profes- | sor, and is now president of the National Bible Institute of New York City. Dr. Buswell is a unique teacher of the Word of God which he reads direct from the original Greek. His theme will be Bible Prophecy. The meetings during the week will be held at 7:45 and on Sunday at 7:30 P. M. Rev. Russell Edmondson, pastor of Shavertown Bible Church will be conducting * special evangelistic services at Haze] Green, Wisconsin, April 16 through April 28. He will also preach at several Youth for Christ Rallies in Wisconsin. Upon the return of the pastor from Wis- ‘consin the Shavertown Bible Church will hold its first anniver- sary services. Shavertown Bible Church is now affiliated with the Fundamental In- dependent Churches of America, which is not a denomination but a fellowship of Bible preaching churches throughout America. The Fundamental Independent Churches of America is a member of the American Council of Christian Churches. Pass Shorthand Test A group of Dallas Township girls recently took the one hundred word a minute test in shorthand and re- ceived certificates from Gregg. They were Betty Whitesell, Ethel Shultz, Cecelia Oblen, Romana Meeker and Carrie Foote. Rummage Sale Ladies of Huntsville Christian sale on April 23 and 24 at 451 Main Street, Edwardsville. ‘Anyone having contributions to make Knows Russia MISS ROSE MAURER Russian Orthodox ‘“R” Club, the Osterhout Free Library, the Y. W. C. A. and the Y. M. C. A. will sponsor Miss Rose Maurer, April 16, at St. Stephen’s Church House, speaking on “Understanding Russia Today.” That the peoples of the United States and the USSR meed the con- fidence of knowledge and under- standing to deal with each other is' widely recognized. Miss Maurer’s interest and work is to promote that understanding. Miss Maurer learned to speak Russian before she went to Russia on a two-year Cutting Fellowship from . Columbia University from 1936-'37. She studied, interviewed officials, travelled and visited throughout the country. Since her return she has devoted herself to writing and lecturing on Russia and is one of the experts of the country. She will talk in terms of the com- mon people of both countries. Miss Maurer has lectured on | American-Soviet Relations, Family and Child, Welfare iit the USSR, the place of the USSR in World Offairs. Everyday Facts about Russian Life and Government, Soviet Design for Living, and many topics of current and background interest. Among the various clubs, churches, colleges and organizations in the United States and Canada. Special tickets are . available to students at half price. Three Choirs Give Cantata Program Sunday Night At Methodist Church The three choirs of Dallas Meth- odist Church will present a Lenten Cantata, Penitence, Pardon and Peace by J. H. Maunder on Sunday evening at 7:30. The solo parts will be taken by Mrs. Thomas Robinson, soprano, Mrs. Henry XKraybill, contralto, Raymond Kuhnert, baritone, and William Baker, baritone. Members of the «Chancel Choir are: Nancy Antrim, Virginia Brun- gess, Ann Mae Shaffer, Barbara Ide, Olwen Roberts, Jessie Carey, Nancy Carey, Frances Siley, Naomi Veitch, Jeanne DeRemer, Nancy VanArx, Nancy Kraybill, Nancy Schooley, Lee White, Russell Honeywell, Shepherd Moore, Russell DeRemer, Thomas Peirce, Billy Berti, Carl Bailey. Junior Choir: Estella Ide, Barbara Clark, June Colwell, Claire Griesing, Nancy Hislop, Dianne Llewellyn, Beryl Colwell, Clare Gross, Marjorie Elkins. Senior Choir: Mrs. LaVerne Race, Mrs. Henry Welch, Mrs. John Rob- erts, Mrs. Richard Robbins, Mrs. J. C. Fleming, Mrs. Thomas Robin- son, Miss Ruth Scott, Peggy Brace, Janet Garinger, Mrs. Floyd Ide, Mrs. Antoinette Mason, Mrs. Laur- ance Peirce, Mrs .Raymond Kuh- nert, Mrs. Henry Kraybill, William Archard, John Roberts, Floyd Ide, Raymond Kuhnert, John Joseph, William Baker, Bud Nelson. The three choirs will also be at the morning service and sing the Psalms. To Present Minstrel Dallas Chapter Odd Fellows and Teen Age Center will sponsor a minstrel show in the Dallas Bor- ough High School May 14 and 15. Jack Roberts is chairman of the man, Mrs. Lloyd Kear and Tom should call Mrs. Ralph Frantz, director. 1 or 2 affair: assisted by Mrs. Harry Ohl- Band Prepares Spring Concert Two Musicians Home From Military Service Dr. Henry M. Laing Community Band is holding semi-weekly re- hearsals in preparation for its an- nual spring concert which will be held Friday evening, April 26 in Dallas Borough High School Au- ditorium. Conductor Howard Cosgrove has prepared a difficult program for his twenty-six musicians and is con- fident that the concert will be one of the best.ever presented by the organization. At last year’s con- cert the band played. before an en- thusiastic capacity audience. Frank Kuehn, home from the turned to the band as clarinet solo- ist and will appear at the concert. Grayden Mayer, 1st cornet, has al- so returned from service in Hawaii where he played with a popular military orchestra, and will take part in the concert. : A number of out-of-town guest musicians will also be on the pro- gram including William Christian xylophone soloist, and a vocal quartet. ‘With the exception of Josephine Eleck of Ashley who has been one of the band’s most faithful mem- bers, all of the members are resi- dents of the Back Mountain area. Ralph Paul is president, and Wil- liam Thomas is assistant director. Mr. Paul plays the French Horn and Mr. Thomas plays clarinet, 1st cor- net and bass. Young People Give Program Youth For Christ Group Appears Here A deputation team composed of talented young artists from the Youth for Christ program in Wilkes Barre appeared last might at Ide- town Methodist Church before an enthusiastic audience. On Tuesday might 7:45 the same group will present a program at Lehman Methodist Church. Rev. Bob Matthews of Gospel Center Wilkes-Barre is the director. Members of the team are Wilbur Helmbolt and George Traub trom- bone soloists. Helmbolt is an army veteran and Traub was recently discharged from the navy. Rev. Carl Klein, director of music on the Youth For (Christ program, leads the singing and directs a girls’ quintet. - Miss Arlene Jones, Youth for Christ pianist, is also with the group. Rev. Matthews has issued a speci- al invitation to all Back Mountain Youth to attend the Youth for Christ program in Irem Temple on Saturday night. Rev. Gerald Stover of Canada will be the speaker. With him will be Rev. Henry Murdock, famous Scotch Gospel singer. Township Plans 'Memoxial Fénce A movement is under way in Dallas Township to erect a Memori- al Fence around the school athletic field. The athletic committee of the Parent Teacher Association is sponsor, and Mrs. Arthur Newman is chairman. The drive will be launched at the School Athletic Dinner and Dance on May 4. As now planned the enclosure will be built of cyclone fence with | stone pillars bearing ' memorial plagues. A memorial program will be produced in connection with the dedication and members of the committee are now urging all per- sons who have old photographs of the school to turn them in to Prof. Raymond Kuhnert. Especially wanted are pictures of the school building at the time of dedication in 1927 or of the building after the gymnasium was added but be- fore it was finally completed. Pic- tures of athletic teams and school boards will also be appreciated. They're Here Again - Townsfolks on ithe to and from work have been gladdened this week by the jolly little patches of golden daffodils nodding from the front yard of Clyde Lapp and navy on thirty-day furlough has re-! Mason To Talk On Jungle War Rice Will Show Films ~ Of Naval Operations War in the Jungles, a lecture in narrative form, will be presented by Attorney J. Gordon Mason, Tues- day might, April 30, at Dallas Bor- ough High School Auditorium under the sponsorship of the Parent- Teacher Association. Attorney Mason, a veteran of World War 1, was stationed with the Pennsylvania Hospital Unit in Burma during World War II. He enlisted as a buck private, refused a commission, and at the comple- tion of his service was discharged as a chief warrant officer, the high- est non-commissioned officer in the army. Attorney Mason's talks are infor- mal and deal not only with the war against the enemy in the jun- gle but with the war against dis- ease waged by the medical units. His talk is illustrated with hun- dreds of incidents of camp and hos- pital life and relationships with the natives. With Attorney Mason will be Granville Rice, who was a navy photographer attached to Admiral Nimetz's staff. Mr. Rice will show motion pictures taken during some of the most important naval op- erations. Those who have heard Attorney Mason say that his story of his per- sonal experiences is one of the most entertaining and informative talks that they have heard given by any one on the war, A nominal admission will be charged, the entire amount being turned over to the Parent-Teacher Association. Kids Baseball League Planned Caddy LaBar Will Head Kiwanis Circuit L. A baseball league composed of six teams of boys under 14 years of age is being sponsored by Dallas Kiwanis Club with Lieut. Caddy La- Bar, recently returned from the Teachers Want Pay Increases Bbove Minimum Kingston Township” Teachers’ Group’ Meets With Directors Probing the possibility of obtain- ing additional salary increases amounting to $3 a day or $540 an- nually, Kingston’ Township teachers met Friday with the Board of Ed- ucation to study the school budget and to determine whether the Dis- trict is able to pay more than the $100 increase which will be granted under State Law. ' Chairman of the group was Pearl Averett, who outlined the teachers’ problems created by increased liv- ing costs. Other spokesmen for the teachers who are the heads of fam- ilies said that it is impossible to maintain the standards expected on present salaries. Directors, all of whom were pres- ent, listened attentively to the teachers’ arguments and countered by explaining that township taxes will have to be raised at leas 5 mills to take care of the $100 salary in- creases already granted each teacher in the new budget. President Ralph Hazeltine pointed out that the Board has fol- lowed a program of improving teacher salaries wherever possible and that the past five years the salaries of some of the teachers have been increased as much as 70 per cent. It was also explained that Kingston Township is one of the few Fourth (Class Districts in the area where sick leaves are granted. This item alone will amount to more than $500 this year. Other teachers are paid for supervising | AXtra-curricular activities and in many instances ithis adds materi- ally*'to teacher's - salaries,, Mr. Hazeltine said this’ item amounts to $900 a year. Although ithe meeting lasted for several hours, mo decisions were reached, the concensus of opinion being that taxes will have to be raised 5 to 10-mills even without additional salary increases beyond those already granted by the State. The teachers admitted that they had entered the meeting under the impression that the State was tak- Army Special Services, as president. Teams will be organized in Dal- las, Shavertown, Trucksville, Fern- brook and Dallas Township and a schedule of two games a week will be played for 10 weeks starting May 1st. Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Athletics has promised to send Big League motion pictures here to be shown at a big rally of prospective players on April 24. The place of the meeting is to be announced later, but all boys 14 or under who want to join a team and elect man- agers and captains are urged to at- tend. League games will be six innings and will be played during the early evenings. The League winning team will have an opportunity to play under the floodlights at Artil- lery Park and will also . be ithe guests of Kiwanis at a League Wind-Up dinner. Kiwanis already has a committee locating suitable sites for baseball diamonds and working out plans to have suitable grounds graded. Players will furnish their own equipment, but Kiwanis will provide Big League base balls and shin guards and cages for the catchers. a YOUNG JOE POLACHY HAS DAY OF ALL AROUND BAD LUCK When he went to plug in his bed-side radio last Wednesday evening, young Joe Polachy, aged ten, son ‘of Postmaster and Mrs, Polachy of Huntsville road, ripped ithe floor wire loose and received painful burns to both hands. Joe, who had had a bad day anyway and been sent to bed to do his homework, said the current gripped so that he couldn’t 1+" open either hand—much as he tried. Screams of pain brought his mother to ithe bedroom where young Joe had finally managed to free himself. Gen- erous doses of amertan helped make things right with the world again. ; Kingston. Stanley Davis will be| Margaret McLean on Machell Ave- nue. : » \ p ing care of the $100 increase and that the school board could there- fore, do something for the teachers on its own account. : Under present Law teacher's sal- aries will increase $100 annually until a minimum salary of $2,100 is reached. Salary schedules in Kings- ton Township now range from $1,600 to $2,150, the average salary being $1,800. Some teacher sal- aries are higher than appears in the budget because of remuneration for supervising extra curricular ac- tivities. = In one instance this a- mounts to $350; and in others to $100 and $50. ; Borough Schools Start Physical Examinations Physical examinations as re- quired under a new Pennsylvania Law were held in the first grade of Dallas Borough Schools on Mon- day. All students, teachers and employes of the School District must be examined at sometime during the school year. Dr. F. Budd Schooley, assisted by Mrs. Grace Moore, school nurse, is conducting the examinations. Notices of the time of examinations are sent out by the school principal, and parents are urged to be present during the examination. Dr. Carl Hontz will take care of the dental exami- nations. No Parking Signs Arrive A shipment of mew No Parking signs has been received by Dallas Borough IStreet Department and will be placed at strategic points along the State Highway in Dallas Borough where motorist are now violating the Borough's No Parking ordinance. As soon as the signs are erected the regulation will be vigorously enforced and violators arrested. Named Chairman Mrs. Fred M. Kiefer has been named chairman of the Salvation Army’s Drive funds in the Back Mountain Area. This will be the Army's first general campaign for funds since its founding.
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