ra - 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 Tue D aLLas Post MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION DALLAS 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 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 ELWOOD R. RENSHAW, August 20, 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 8. 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 8. 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, 1343 THOMAS CLARK LLOYD, July 4, 1943 EVAN J. BRACE, February 15, 1944 GEORGE S. RACE, October 26, 1944 JOHN LAITY, January 1, 1845 RAYMOND H LOVELAND, January 8, 1945 JOSEPH POLACHEK, January 22, 1945 ROY G. SCHULTZ, February 19, 1945 LAWRENCE GAVEK, February 26, 1845 HOWARD E. LYNN, April 1, 1945 CHARLES BILLINGS, April 3, 1945 - FRANCIS SIDORICK, June 17, 1945 FRANCIS GREY, June 25, 1945 RALPH FLOWER, October 13, 1945 t . mosphere minus static. MICHAEL W. O’BOYLE, December 29, 1945 Most ‘of us would like to believe that nobody in Dallas would ever do anything to hurt a neighbor. Everybody, all of us would like to think, measures up to the high re- gard in which most citizens of the Back Mountain Region are held. Unfortunately, however, there are among us ‘those who will cheat, lie and steal. That may sound cynical, but it is a fact of life that all of us must recognize. Men and women are not all naturally honorable even if they do live in a fine community like ours. Most of the merchants have long since learned this truth and are careful where they extend credit. : But Dallas merchants are learning other facts of life. Within the past few months dozens of valuable items have disappeared from the counters of a number of stores. In a few instances this has been “kid work”, but in others the suspicion points to older persons from good families. A comparison of notes among the merchants points definitely to the offenders; and needless to say these shoplifters are being closely watched. " It will be embarrassing for a number of persons when they are apprehended—the culprit, the merchant and the newspaper—for we shall have to publish their names. And while we are on the subject, it might be a good idea to suggest that Back Mountain merchants form a Businessmen’s Association where they can share common knowledge concerning those who cannot be trusted and those who continually avoid paying their bills. It would be . interesting to see how frequently the same names appear on each merchant's list; for a-deadbeat is a deadbeat with whomever he trades. x x x FROM PILLAR TO POST By Mgrs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr. Wher you clean out your attic this spring, ‘remember the Auction [Sale for the benefit of Back Mountain Memorial Library, to be held on June the seventh at the great and only Barnyard. Those surplus wedding presents which have been gathering dust for lo these many years can now be persuaded to earn their board and keep. Maybe Aunt Jennie sent you, something in the way of 2 a standard lamp which does not fit Mrs. Carl Sickler Is Hostess to S.S. Class in with your scheme of decoration, or which is too easily tipped over in the course of normal family life as lived in a household featuring active children. That lamp may be just the ticket for Mrs. Jones, living as she does in a peaceful at- Mrs, Jones will bid on the lamp, and the rev- enue will swell the coffers of the Back Mountain Library Fund. Your husband will no longer bark his shins on the lamp. while digging for his fishing tackle, and every- body will benefit. You probably remember that geod old yarn about the woman who said that she could now ‘see some ad- vantages to housecleaning. She had (Continued on Page Five) Mrs. Car] Sickler of Centermore- land entertained the Fidelis Class of Centermoreland Methodist Church on Thursday night, March 20. Those attending: Marion Brunges, Helen Frantz, Nona Schoonover, Elizabeth Enke, Viola Heitsman, Helen Besteder, Ruth B. Montross, Florence Weaver, Alice Lamoreaux, Myrtle Fassett, Bessie Kelley, Emily Harris, Ruby Besteder, Vivian Dy- mond, Maude Armstrong, Ruth W. Schoonover, Bernice Nulton, ‘Sarah Brehm, Lois Heitsman and the hos- tess, Mary Sickler. Games were played and a St. Patrick’s Day luncheon was served. Vol. 57, No. 14 Meters May Be The Solution To All-Day Parking Council To Appoint Commission To Study Main Street Problem The parking problem on Main Street, Dallas, created® by local businessmen who persist in park- ing there all day long to the ex- clusion of others who come to Dallas for fshort periods to do business or to/shop was discussed again at the. meeting of Borough Coungil*“on Tuesday night. a Councilman FregsMelsh suggested the installatj of parking meters. is et with hearty approval from other Council members until Burgess George Williams suggested that a Traffic Commission composed of two businessmen and two auto- mobile owners be appointed to make a survey and recommendations to Council. ‘Council will then act on their findings and if parking meters are the solution, Council will take action to have them installed. The Burgess asked for extra policemen to handle heavy sum- mer traffic, but little provision has been made for this extra expense in the budget. . Burgess Williams also outlined plans for the formation of a Junior Police organization within the Borogh. On motion of Councilman Tim- othy LaBar seconded by Council- man Clyde Veitch, Council approved the installation of a new street light in front of Caddy LaBar’s gas- oline station on Memorial Highway. Borough Engineer John Jeter re- ported that mopt streets have come through the winter in good shape with little damage done by frost or heaving. Departme thways a Main street intersections with Church, Lake, and Memorial High- way. [This will bring the total number of lights in that area to seven. All Councilmen were present ex- cept Warden Kunkle who is ill Local Students Leave For Cuba Bucknell Students Fly’ To Havana Feeling that the«only way they were going geo” learn Spanish lan- guage and” customs is to go where both are prevalent, Nelson E. Nel- son, Dallas; Naomi Hons, Shaver- town, and Henry W. ‘Anderson, | formerly of Dallas, left yesterday morning at 7:45 from the Lehigh Valley Railroad station with forty- five students of the Spanish depart- ment of Bucknell Junior College for a week's educational tour of Havana, Cuba. After a brief stop in Philadelphia the group will continue on to Mi- ami, Florida, where it will board giant Pan-American Airways trans- ports for the remainder of the journey to the Cuban capitol. The local group will arrive in Havana some time late in the afternoon of April 4. Miss Martha J: Silseth, head of the Spanish department of Bucknell Junior College, has been informed by officials of Pan-American Air- ways, as well as American and Cuban consuls that ‘every minute of the stay in the Latin city has been planned so that the students will witness the most gay and historical sights. The Cuban travel agency has’ in- formed the Junior College Spanish department that the local students will be in (Cuba in time for the spring fiesta, The group, which will be in the Cuban capitol over Easter, has made plans to attend mass at one of the oldest churches in the country, a 250-year-old Catholic (Cathedral. [Students will visit Manuac Beach, which is the site of the most fash- ionable summer resorts of Havana, and many other historic places. They will attend lectures and tour the campus at the University of Havana. The Music Department of the University has extended an in- vitation to the Wilkes-Barre stu- dents to be its guests at a concert of Latin music in the afternoon. FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1947 Smith Sisters Award New Ford Colliery Foreman Delighted With Luck Frank Danna, 185 Sixth street, | Wyoming, a foreman for the Frank- lin Collery, Old Forge, received the new Ford Bedan awarded Tuesday night at Luzerne Motor Company show rooms by the Smith College Club of Wyoming Valley. Mr. Danna, who owns a 1939 Ford.on which he recently had a $300 repair job dope, was delight- ed when he was informed of his luck at his home in Wyoming. In fact, he had forgotten that he was taking part in the competition. The award was part of a nation- wide campaign being carried on by graduates of Smith College, North- ampton, Massachusetts, to raise a $3,400,000 endowment fund for their alma mater which is one of the oldest and second largest women’s college in the United {3tates. From coast to coast and from the Canadian border to Mexico as well as in many foreign countries, grad- uates of Smith are taking part in concerts, (bazaars, merchandising plans and various other forms of activity to raise their quotas. The quota for the twenty-seven graduates in Wyoming Valley was $7,000—and until it is raised their husbands, fathers and sweethearts will probably wish they had never heard the name of Smith . . . and so will a lot of folks who bear that name, for in New York (City every Smith in the telephone directory is being called and asked for a dona- tion from ten cents up to perpetuate the name—as if there were danger of race suicide in that clan. rs. John Jones Buried Sunday Funeral services. for Gladys Gra- ham Jones, 19, held Sunday, March 30, at the home” of her parents, Hunlock’s Creek, were largely at- tended by her many friends in this area. Mrs was a graduate of Lehmay/ Township High School. ‘She was last November” and worg’ her wedding’ gowp#in death. condition, Sh¢/ died of prs since chi / Surviving Sides her’ husband, ohn, aregfher parents, Mr. and Mrs, J Graham; a sister, June and o brothers, Thomas and tkie, all at home. Services wefe conducted by Rev. W. A. Gilbride of Plymouth. Pall- bearers ‘were William G. Neilson, Edward Maxwell, Gordon Davis, Kenneth Evans, Robert and William Eveland. Flowers were carried by the following young people of the community: Muriel Lloyd, Martha Croop, Rosina Jones, Jane Brown, Donna Croop, Jeanne Coniff, [Shirley Walters, Donald Walters, Donald Richardson, Bernard Mont, William Morgan, Arthur Lloyd, Joe Draper- ski and Jimmie Brokenshire. Ar- rangements by Bronson. $2,415.54 Raised Here For The Red Cross The Back Mountain region con- tributed $2,415.54—201 percent of its quota—in the Red Cross drive just closed, according to Mrs. Ed- ward Mulligan, chairman for this area. Amounts by communities were as follows: Dallas Borough, $413.90; Dallas Township, $355.15; Franklin, $86.56; Jackson, $104.51; Lehman, $296.50; Lake, $249.25; Shavertown, $304.12; Trucksville, $605.55. Inspector Resigns ‘Special to The Dallas Post Harrisburg, April 3.—(PNIS)—The resignation of Stanley G. Williams of Trucksville as a junior construc- tion inspector at a salary of $1,932 has been announced by the Depart- ment of Highways. Change In Schedule Lehman Township Schools ‘will resume classes after the [Easter holiday on Tuesday, April 8 instead of Wednesday April 9 as previously announced. The change in schedule will avoid one day in a new week at the end of the school year. Club Retains Franchise In Valley League Jackson Club Issues Call For Baseball Players’ And Umpires Co-managers Emil Fedor and John Nigzgoda have announced that Jackson Baseball Club will re- tain its franchise in the Valley League during.the«€oming season. In order to become a member of the Valley League each team is carefully selected and must have proven that it can compete in fast company and play a fast second class [brand of ball. A franchise in the League costs $40 and $10 must be deposited as good faith money for a total of $50. Jackson, according to its man- agers, is highly complimented to be in this League. Last year the team proved its worth with its fine drawing power and by giving all opposing teams terrific battles. Jackson will soon start practice sessions. Any fellow who would like to play with the team is asked to get in touch with the club by notifying Emil Fedor, Hunlock Creek RFD. 1 or John Niezgoda, Dallas 409-R-3, According to Niezgoda there: will be many Big League scouts looking over the boys in the League this season and surely there is some good materia] in the Back Mountain region. “Here is a chance in a life time for local players to be looked over by the scouts”. A number of boys who played in the League last season have now entered organized baseball and are training at differ- ent camps. Manager Niezgoda has also issued a call for umpires. The pay is $5 behind the plate and $4 on the bases. The League president will assign umpires to the various games, League Officials To Meet At Beaumont President George Gay of Tunk- hannock has called a meeting of all ~APersons interested in the Bi-County Baseball League to be held Thurs- day night at Beaumont High ISchool. Last year the League was made up of teams from Dallas, Beaumont, Tunkhannock, Vernon, Carverton, Mehoopany, Noxen and St. Michael's but since that time Dallas and Tunkhannock have dropped out. Tunkhannock will probably enter the Abington League and Dallas is considering $igning up in the Susquehanna League. League secretary W. A. Austin of Beaumont is anxious to have representatives from the Harvey's Lake area and from Dallas Towh- ship attend the meeting. Tt 4s hoped that teams from those areas can enter the League, Big Trees In Glen R. IC. Wible, district forester at Ricketts Glen has supplied the in- formation that there is in that area a hemlock fifty-seven inches in di- ameter, also a red oak forty-six inches and a ‘white pine forty inches in diameter. The hemlock is es- timated to have 4,251 board feet of lumber in it if it were to be sawed. A real old-fashioned Country Fair, chock full of excitement and fun for young and old alike, will be held at Dallas Township High School for the benefit of the athletic fund Wednesday, April 30. Among the spectacular features will be a mock wedding, gift table for a township couple celebrating a twenty-fifth anniversary the day of the fair, prizes for youngest mar- ried . couple, for newest bride, and for largest family present. Ladies of the Township have been brushing up on their favorite cake recipes for the baking contest with girls. of the Home Economics Course. Other goodies will also compete and be sold at the fair. There, will be games for young and old. Sixty-Six Sign Club Charter nited Sportsmen Hear ervation Lake Camp No. 274 Monday Harvey's United ‘Sportsmen met night at Herman Xern’s Tavern. Thomas Garrity, vice president pre- sided in the absence of president Glenn ‘Spencer. Committees were asked for reports. : Walter Elston was named. chair- man of a Ways and Means com- mittee to be assisted by the follow- ing members; Dean Shaver, Peter D. Clark, Bernard Whitney and Ray Warden. A game committee ‘was appointed with W. J. Robbins Jr., as chairman, assisted by Fred Swan- son. [Entertainment committee is headed by Herman Kern. Atty. William Valentine was elected as representative to the head camp. Charles Gavenonis, president of the Head Camp, made the presenta- tion of the Charter and gave a few remarks on the appointment of fish and game committees. Herman Kern announced ‘that 66 ‘members had signed the Charter as follows: : W. J. Robbins Jr., Sheldon Cave, William Lewi§, Dean Shaver, Rich- ard Wililams, Roy Brunner, John Weaver, Myron Williams, - Lyman Williams, Lloyd Garinger, Joseph Garrity, Marion Avery, Arthur Kitchen, Thomas Garrity, F. J. Rogers, Roy Rogers, Herbert Kem- mer, Glen Spencer, James Martin, Herman Kern, George Cook, How- ard Isaacs, Charles Cavill, Viola Cavill, Wesley Moore, Dale Oney, Howard Risley, Lewis Crisman, Wil- liam Hasse, Mrs. W. J. Robbins Jr., Mrs. Herman Kern, Charles Tredin- nich, William Hill, Mrs. William Hill, Ralph Vandenburg, Robert Payne, L. IC, S. Sutton, ‘Charles Smith. W. K. Smith, Ruth Williams, Mar- jorie Kitchen, Bruce Williams, Olin Weber, Peter D. Clark, John ‘Steng- er, Ray Warden, Charles Gavenonis, Charles L. Murphy, James LaBarr, Cecil ‘Sutton, oJseph Walton, Walter Elston, Harold Donnelly, Bernard Whitney, George Kitchen, Ralph Weaver, Mildred Devens, Rodney Ingram, Alex Kocher, W. ‘A. Valen- tine, Lee Wentzel, John Borton and Burton Steltz, W. IS. Kitchen. District supervisor Jay IC. Gil- ford of the IState Game Commission, gave interesting suggestions that will tend to increase the game population and lighten the task of those in charge of law enforcement and game distribution. He also stated that the ‘State is divided into seven districts and that by rights this area is entitled to a fraction better than fifteen per cent of the game purchased and raised by the Game Commission, but we have had or will receive twenty-five per cent. Robert Parlaman, public relations officer spoke briefly on his newly acquired duties in this district. There was a unanimous feeling that this office will promote closer rela- tions between sportsman and game commission, Gordon Llewellyn, gave an inter- esting talk on Game Conservation and the crisis which it now faces. He mentioned many factors that have a tendancy to reduce the al- ready small fish and game popula- tion. He also gave a brief resume of conditions in other States throughout the country. 'A general discussion was followed by a social hour. {Raymond Kuhnert; Goss Best Cake Bakers In Township Will Compete April Thirtieth Committee members are: De- munds Corners to Roushey plot, Mrs. John Anderson, Mrs. Ted Wil- son, Mrs. ‘Carl Gries, Mrs. Robert Fowler, Irene Moore, Mrs. Wilson Ryman, Katie Wilson, Mrs. Al- verna Lamoreaux, Jessie Moore, Mrs. Margaret Hartman, Mrs, Freda Aplinski, Mrs. Woicekowski, Mrs. Jane Case, Mrs. Fisher, Mrs. Pat- ner; Overbrook avenue, Mrs. Guy Dunham, Mrs. Robert Dolbear, Mrs. Manor, Mrs. Arthur Newman, Mrs. John Girvan, Mrs, Wylie Veitch, Mrs. ‘Walter Brunges, Mrs, Harry Bellas and Mrs. Hayden Lancio; West Dal- las, ‘Alderson and Kunkle, Joseph Delet-Kanic chairman, committee not yet selected. Back Mountain Highway Deaths and BOX SCORE Serious accidents since V-J Day Hospitalized Killed 2 10 1 15 _2 2 1 3 Auctioneers Are Named For Library Sale Miss Dorrance Names Committees To Handle Big Springtime Event Three auctioneers— Howard Sands of Tunkhannock and Herman and Ralph Sands of Carverton— will handle the Library Auction on June 7th, members of the general committee learned at their meeting Sunday afternoon in Back Moun- tain Memorial Library. All three are among the best known auctioneers in Northeastern Penngylvania and have had years of experience calling vendues and public sales of all types. Howard Bands has become renowned as one of the busiest farm and cattle auc- tioneers in the State. The sale is expected to consume a full day and may have to be ex- tended into the night hours if con- county continue to pour in. Henry . Peterson, chairman of the grounds committee, is making provision for such a contingency by having Paul Bhaver, a member of his committee, install flood lights at the Barnyard on Lehman Avenue where the sale will be held. Serving with Mr. Peterson are Charles Wheaton Lee, Charles Nuss, Atlee Kocher, Jack Richardson, Joe Hand and [Stanley Rinehimer. Their duties will include check- ing all material as it arrives at the Barnyard and seeing to it that it is properly stored, and guarded until the sale, Mr. Peterson said that he is mak- ing arrangements with Borough Council to have Lehman (Avenue blocked off and will also seek per- mission to use the Borough School Grounds and Buildings to handle different phases of the activities in connection with the sale. : Charles Nuss in Lehman has ob- tained a large barn for auxiliary storage of goods to be auctioned and [Fred Swanson is looking for a similar building in Lake Township. Transportation Committee Working closely with Mr. Peter- son is the transportation committee headed by Mrs. Arch Brooks, Mrs. C. W. Lee and Mrs. Lettie Culver. They will dispatch the trucks that are to pick up materials from farms, homes and business places. Among those who will provide the trucks are, Dallas-Shavertown Water Com- pany, James Besecker, Thomas Reese, Harold Titman, Andrew Bit- tenbender, Root Transfer, Kenneth Kocher, Dallas Borough, Bud Mit- chell and The Dallas Post. A telephone solicitation commit- tee headed by Mrs. Fred Howell of Shavertown will contact everybody in the Back Mountain Region to make sure that they will attend the auction as well as contribute to it. ‘All members of the Book Club are on her committee with Mrs. Harold Flack, Mrs. A. D. Hutchison, Mrs. Lewis LeGrand, Mrs. Nelson Booth, Mrs, Stanley Rinehimer, Mrs. A. C. Baltimore, Mrs. Robert M. . Scott, Mrs. Zelma Porter and Mrs. Harry Smith taking an_active part. Special Gifts Heading special gifts solicitation is Harry Ohlman whose full com- mittee is yet to be mamed. They will contact farms and Ibusiness places for contributions of animals, grain, seed, hay, fertilizer or any other farm products that may be available. Business places will be asked to contribute goods for the sale as well as food stuffs and meat for the community dinner which will probably be held on the school grounds. Miss Mary Weir is chairman of the food and concession committee and has not released the names of its members although Dallas Wo- man’s Club will probably be asked to play an active part in assisting her. Mrs. Paul Warriner and Mrs, A. D. Hutchison are cochairmen of the glass and antique committee. : Miss ‘Frances Dorrance, ge chairman, has done a grea work in organizing her~Committees and has high hopés of making the sale unique in the history of Dal- las and one of the biggest events of its kind ever held Back of the Mountain. Members of the Board of Direc- © (Continued on Page Five) 1 1 tributions from all parts of the tors and others who are willing to take part in the work of conducting
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