ih { ® x x Editorially Speaking: Your Guess, Is As Good As Ours Last winter it was pretty generally believed that what the economists, who have a language all their own, call a “corrective recession,” would occur in the spring or summer of 1947. This prediction was based on the theory that savings were dwindling, that resistance to high prices or less serious increase in the total of people unemployed was inevitable, and that some of the water had to be squeezed out of the economy. Spring has passed and summer has come and these forecasts have proven close to 100 per cent wrong. Prices are higher than ever, but buying remains at very satisfactory levels. Savings have declined and war bonds have been cashed, at a high rate. But there is plenty of money around, business profits are excellent, more than 60,000,000 people are employed, the stock market has been showing signs of new life, and labor's earnings have general- ly kept pace with price increases and in some instances, notably coal, have far outrun them. The “recession” may be just around the corner, but it certainly isn’t here yet. There are certain black spots in the picture. As an example, construction seems to be one place where resistance to high prices is really holding spending to a minimum. Home construction is practically dormant—prospective builders are wary of starting projects whose estimated cost may be $10,000 or $12,000 and whose final cost may run well over $20,000. On the other hand, there is a good deal of industrial construction going on, inflated prices notwithstanding. Many industries must expand, whether they want to or not, in order to protect their competitive posi- tion and fill their orders. Retail sales go up and down within a narrow range, but show no signs of a serious decline: Exception to this is sales of luxury goods, such as jewelry, which are well ‘under last year. But all the staples, necessities and semi-necessities are finding a ready market. : It might be expected that this ing of confidence in industrial, situation would result in a feel- agricultural and government circles. But it has not. Many of the economists are convinced that the country would be a lot “recession” had occurred on schedule. be heading toward a major bust better off in the long run if the They fear that we may and a real economic depression. Furthermore, the enormous, unprecedented amounts of money that are floating around are a poor indicator of prosperity these days. For instance, farm income this year will be close to three times what it was before the war. But the combination of in- ‘creased taxes, labor costs, and feed and material prices has ab- sorbed most of what otherwise would have been profit. And the factory worker whose pay is at a high of 50 a week finds that it buys as much as $25 bought in 1940. Generally speaking, the price outlook is for further increases. The last boost given coal miners will push up the price of steel some $5 a ton. And when the price of steel goes up, the price of a long list of manufactured goods must follow. This will un- doubtedly result in new wage demands by other groups of workers. If those demands are granted, prices will take another leap forward. So it goes in the wage-price spiral. ; A great many people have not shared in the fruits of the post- war boom, and are in a much worse economic position than in prewar days. People living on fixed incomes have, of course, taken the worst beating of all—their purchasing power has been cut by half or more while their dollar income has remained con- stant. Government workers have suffered—the modest salary increases granted them have not been nearly sufficient to take care of the higher cost of living. And the high-salaried people are hit so hard by taxes that they have much less to spend than in revent it. ¥ x x FROM PILLAR TO POST Br Mzs. T. M. B. Hicxs, J. For a while it looked as if there wouldn't be room enough for both of us in the house. = A dead rat takes up a great deal of space, extending its influence to the remotest corner of the premises. The first day I was hopeful, optimistic even. Probably just a little mouse, I consoled myself, and it surely won't take a little mouse very long to dry up and blow away. By the second day the mouse theory was untenable. No mere mouse could have been that flavorable. At least three pounds of meat, meat in an ad vanced stage of decomposition, must have been behind that almost visible pall that hung over the dining room. By the third day, estimates had risen to take in the possibilities of a woodchuck or a stray cat. Trips through the dining room were made only from grim necessity, at a dead gallop and with a hand held tightly over the nose. There definitely was not room en- ough in the house for both of us. I took my sewing out into the back yard, leaving the rat-cat-woodchuck in possession. There was a time when a live rat, manicuring his fingernails beneath the floor boarding, looked like the last straw, but that was before I gave sanctuary to a dead one. A dead rat, take it from one who knows, is far worse than any live one. There are times when a live rat stops nib- bling the soap, curls his paws, and takes a nap. A dead one never lets up, and as time passes he grows riper. Hungry flies, desperate in their search for the source of the delightful stench, invaded the house and buzzed ceaselessly in the corner where the treasure lay buried beneath the floor boards. What they wanted was to lay eggs. What they got was a dose of D.D.T., double strength. There | probably aren’t any more flies in the neihborhood, for every time a new | delegation arrived I spread the wel come on the mat, swept up the re- mains, and burned them in the Frank- lin stove. Ten days have passed, and the situation is easing up a trifle. The house seems a little nearer normal size, and it is now possible to pass through the dining room at a brisk walk instead of a gallop. Maybe it was just a mouse after all. New Front Installed A blue carra glass frént which was. ordered more than a yer ago hasbeen installed on Dallas Hardwar upply building on Main street. : i) @ Firemen Will |Serve Dinner Shavertown Fair Has Many Features A roast beef supper Saturday eve- nin will highlight the Seventeenth An- nual Community Day, sponsored by Shavertown Volunteer Fire Company. Members of the Fire Company and the Ladies’ Auxiliary have combined talents to present a program which will hold interest from the beginning of the Fair last evening until it winds up Saturday evening. John Butler, general chairman of the Fair, announced that games, a refreshment stand and a fancy work counter will be open all through the fair. Bingo will be played Friday and = Saturday evenings at seven o'clock. Children’s events, to be held Saturday afternoon, will feature bag rolls, a three-legged race and bicycle races. Mrs, William Dierolf, chairwoman for the Ladies’ Auxiliary, said the ladies will conduct a bake and candy sale Friday evening, award cakes each evening and $25 Saturday night, and operate a grocery store and a fish pond for children. Mrs. George Prater, assisted by Mrs. Russell Cease, is plannipg the roast beef supper. Serving will begin at 4:30. Tickets will be numbered as they are purchased and seating will be according to number, Plans have been made to serve 300 suppers. Mr. Butler said the Fire Company cleared $1,000 on its 1945 Fair and $849 last year. Proceeds of the Fair are used for maintenance and purchase of equipment. Two Concerts At Irem Irem Temple Band, composed of fifty musicians’ directed by Peter J. Kleinkauf, will make two appearances at Irem Temple Country Club this weekend, The first will be on Sat- urday afternoon preceding the cere- monial and the second on Sunday evening at 8:15 on the pavilion. T MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION Vol. 37, No. 33 FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1947 6 CENTS PER COPY Back Mountain Highway Deaths and DALLAS BOX SCORE Serious acoidents since V-J Day Hospitalized Killed 2 1 $80 1 Altoona Church Calls Ten Hove Centermoreland Pastor Starts Duties Sept. 7 Rev. John C. TenHove, for the past four years pastor of Beaumont and Centermoreland Baptist Churches and West Falls Union Protestant Chapel, has resigned and will shortly leave to become pastor of Memorial Independ- ent Baptist Church of Altoona. A native of Paterson, N. J., where he was engaged in contracting with his father, he came to: this area from East Binghamton, N. Y., Bethel specialized trainiffg for the ministry at Baptist BE Seminary, «Johnson City, N. Y. Pl While at Zentermorekind, Rev. Ten- Hove was fengaged”in the work of the iL of Christian Churches and was secretary and treas- urer of the Fundamental Ministerial Council of Wyoming Valley, arrang- ing the schedule for the twenty min- isters and churches co-operating in the daily Bible broadcasts over station WBAX. He is chairman of the radio committee of the newly formed Northeastern Pennsylvania Council of Christian Churches of which North- moreland and Beaumont Churches are members. Arthur Shook of Center- moreland is lay member of the Coun- cil. Vey Rev. and Mrs. TenHove have three daughters ,two of them born during their residence at Centetmoreland. He will preach his final sermon on the circuit on August 31 and will assume his new duties September 7. In announcing his resignation Rev. TenHove said this week, “it is with regret that we leave this community where we have always been treated with hospitality, good will, tolerance and respect.” McHose Named Tax Collector cHose; - Sandy Beach, has been appointed tax collector of Aake Township by thé County Gommis sioners to serve fof the ungxfired term of Harold Fiske whe=ifis resigned. Mr. McHose will serve for three years handling the 1947, 48 and '49 duplicates. Mr. Fiske, who operates the merry-go-round at the Picnic Grounds, gave “‘press of business” as his reason for resignation. Mr. McHose has also been appoint- ed by the school board to collect township school tax. A member of the Board for the past four years and with two years yet to serve, McHose has resigned from that body in order to accept his new position. The Board was expected to appoint 2 new member in his place last night. McHose, former principal of Dallas Borough and Lake Schools, is sales- manager for ‘Oliver Motors, Kingston. Scores Of Prizes Await Exhibitors Mrs. Gilbert Carpenter has an- nounced that prizes for the Alderson Flower Show August 20 in Laketon High School auditorium have been decided for all events. Thirty-six first prizes for the twenty-five sections of the show, extras to be used in case of draws, have been donated together with a prize for the outstanding ex- hibit of the show. First prizes for the various sections, pottery figurine vases, complete with growing plants, were donated by Mr. and Mrs. I. Schwazbarth of New York City, summer guests at the lake: J. K. Evans, Nanticoke florist, and the following Harvey's Lake residents: Mrs. George Carey, Mrs. A. Davis, Mrs. A. Rogers, Mrs. Howard Hig- gens, Mrs. M. Winters, Mrs, G. Car- penter and Mrs. Frank Jackson. Second, third, fourth and fifth ribbon prizes will be given in each section. Special prize for the out- standing exhibit is a pottery flower container, filled with prize gladioli, suitable for use as a table center piece or buffet decoration. Mrs. Carpenter announced that $500 was realized at last year’s show. The committee hopes to make more this year to be applied to general church upkeep and re-roofing of the parsonage. Football Practice Starts At Township Dallas Township High School foot- ball squad will begin its fall practice on August 20 under the direction of Coaches. Robert Dolbear and John ' Rosser. The first practice will start at 1 P. M. on the township field. The coaches have asked that all candidates come dressed in old clothes. to attend. 7 Chapel, | where he served as/pastor after taking’ All | candidates for the squad are welcome Lieutenant JOHN F. KENNY street, Kingston, progresses, more tenance of a strong and efficient Naval Reserve force have been accepted as part of the nation’s community life with the rounding out of the first year in the Navy's postwar program. Luzerne County,, with its 60,000 veterans has been singled out by the Federal Government ‘as one of the huge reservoirs of manpower — borne out by the fact that from this area there was supplied during the course of World War II a great number of military personnel for the ‘nation’s land, sea and air forces. Battalion Eighteen, July. 1, Wilkes-Barre, has become part and pracel of the community life with over six hundred men enrolled for postwar Naval training. Back Mountain men make up a goodl tage of total enrollment in Lt. "Cmdr. J visitor to the World War II a‘frequent veteran _.of eavy cruiser, USS Salt Lake City, was appointed Battalion Commander by the Chief of Naval Personnel in late June, 1946, prior to organization and activation of the Battalion. Mx Fay entered the Naval Service in March, 1942, and was on active duty until after the occupation of Northern Japan late in 1945. He was air defense officer aboard the Salt Lake City, and during his duty in the Pacific area participated in eight major engagements including the Battle of Leyte Gulf and the in- vasions of Attu, Iwo Jima and Okin- awa. Following his release to inactive duty in midyear, 1945, Commander Fay was appointed manager of Wilkes- Barre branch of the Pennsylvania Em- ployment Service. Lieut. John F. Kenny, presently re- siding on Ridge Street, Shavertown, after having served with the Navy in the Pacific during the Second World War, culminating in his duty as Di- rector fof Infernal Communications at the Navy's Radio Tokyo, Yokosuka, Japan, was recalled to active duty to serve as Administrative Officer and as the Representative of the Com- mandment, Fourth Naval District in Wyoming Valley. Mr. Kenny has administered the organization and functioning of Battalion Eighteen since June, 1946. ) Following his entry into Naval Ser- vice, Lieutenant Kenny was ordered to communications duty at Harvard University and served with crack Navy fliers at the Naval Air Station, Quon- set Point, R. I. He was a member of Kingston High School faculty for eleven years preceding entry into the service and at present is on leave grantd through th patriotic coopera- tion of Kingston School Directors. In charge of Navy recruiting activi ties in the Luzerne County area is Chief Gunner's Mate Andrew Kozem- chak, native of Dallag’ Township. Mr. Kozemchak first enlifted in the Navy in January, 1927, and was defignated as rl Navy's Wilkes-Barre ofice in December, 1945. Upon the entry of the United States into World War II, Chief Gunner's Mate Kozemchak was serving aboard the battleship, USS North Carolina. At the close ofthe Guadal- canal Campaign in the Solomon Is- lands, Mr. Kozemchak was transferred to the USS Arkansas thence to the battleship, USS New York and the heavy cruiser, USS Biloxi. During the Pacific war, he participated in the Battle of the Coral Sea, the invasions in the Marshall Islands, Truk, Guam, Saipan, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Cul- minating his service in the Pacific battle area, he served during the in- vasion of the Philippine Islands. Dur- ing his tour of duty in ‘the North Pacific, Chief Kozemchak served in the Aleutian Islands as an interpreter while working with units of the Rus- sian military. He presently resides on Overbrook avenue, where he has purchased a home as a permanent resident. Lieutenant Commander JOSEPH FAY Back Mountain Area Supports U. S. Naval Reserve Program The Back Mountain Region is continuing to support the U. S. Navy's local Reserve program and as the new armory on Bennett and more seventeen-year-olds and veterans are taking advantage of the local Naval Reserve program. * Postwar developments in the Naval Service of the United States, Chief Gunner's Mate organized on | 1946, with headquarters in | ANDREW KOZEMCHAK Irem Prepares / Open Air Meet Many Visiting Shriners « To Attend Ceremonial Final plans fand preparations .for the open air ceremonial to be held by membersi of Iemi Temple AAONMS at rem. Femple Country Club on Saturday afternoon are being studied and it is anticipated the largest class of candidates .in years will “cross the hot sands” and be in- ducted into the mysteries of the Shrine. hs Potentate Roscoe B. Smith has an- nounced a full rehearsal of all wuni- formed bodies as well as members of the divan was held at the country club on Thursday night at 7 DST. Recorder Joseph C. Doud has been informed that Imperial Second Cere- monial Master Remmie L. Arnold of Acca Temple, Richmond, Va., will be in attendance as well as several poten- tates and divans from temples in the East. Acceptances have been received from Damascus, Rochester; Kalurah, Binghampton; Salaam, Newark; Jaffa, Altoona; Zembo, Harrisburg, and Rajah, Reading. Saturday afternoon's ceremonial will start at 2:30 with the colorful grand entry of the uniformed bodies, members of the divan and Potentate . Smith, followed by introduction of guests, a drill by the Arab Patrol ‘and the first section. At 1:40, the ceremonial produc- ers will take over. At 5:30, a buffet supper for the members, visiting nobles and candidates will be served by the stewards of the Temple on the pavillion. Preceding the opening of the ceremonial the Temple Band, under direction of Peter J. Kleinkauf, will give a concert at 1:45. A business session will be held in the cabaret room of the Mosque on North Franklin street on Friday after- noon at 4:30 DST with petitions for the class to be in the hands of Re- corder Doud not later than noon of the same day. ; -Potentate Smith has further announ- ced that the country club grounds will be closed Saturday to non-Shriners and women. Returns From Europe Rev. G. Blson Ruff of Philadelphia, former pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Shavertown, has returned ! ness for the Lutheran Church. \ gap i Florida. from Europe where he was on busi- Township Hires 3 New Teachers Record Enrollment Expected This Fall department where Miss Jane Darrow has resigned to.accept a similar posi tion in Kingston Borough Schools. New faculty members are: Charles Rinehimer, Forty-Fort, who will teach science replacing Miss Dolores Borsik of Swoyerville who has resigned after four years in the Township Schools to teach in a girls’ private school in the middle west. Mr. Rinehimer is a graduate of Western Maryland and before the war taught in Plymouth Township. He also taught in Forty Fort and last year attended medical college. He is married. Miss Vida Davis of Kingston, a graduate of Stroudsburg State Teach- ers’ College, will teach history re- placing Miss Marion Thomas of Lu- zerne who headed the department for three years. Miss Davis is this sum- mer acting as swimming instructor at Wildwood, Girl Scout summer camp at Harvey's Lake. Miss Gertrude Mary O'Neil of Mt. Pleasant, a graduate of Stroudsburg State Teachers’ College will replace Miss Eleanor Cooper as teacher of fourth grade. Miss Cooper was mar- ried this summer and is now living in Three of fof vacancies on the. Prothers Escape Death When Car Hits Light Pole _Sunday Morning Crash Second Of Kind In Two Months In Same Area Two Shavertown young smen, Paul and Joseph Gallagher, sohs of Mrs. John Gallagher of 184 fMain street, had a narrow escape frm death and possible serious injury early=Monday | morning when they lost control of = their 1937 Packard coupe and crashed into a service pole on Veterans’ Me- morial Highway just north of Joe Le- Grand’s refreshment stand. s The boys were traveling from Har- vey's Lake to Dallas about 1:30 A. M. when the steering gear apparent. ly went out of commission. The car was completely wrecked and landed upside down with’ its wheels in the air, High tension wires supported by the pole which was cut off trailed so dan- gerously near the ground that police established one-way traffic on the left . side of the road. Both boys were taken to Nesbitt Memorial Hospital by Gordon Evans of 144 Main street, Ashley. Joseph is still a patient there being treated for lacerations of the face. Paul was discharged after treatment of leg abrasions. i Both young men are graduates of Kingston Township High School. Paul, In announcing the appointments, Supervising Principal Raymond Kuh- nert said that he anticipates a record enrollment this fall, especially in the lower grades, and because of the con- solidation of Franklin Township schools which will increase the en- rollment by at least sixty pupils. Last year's enrollment was 540. Work on the new school cafetaria is moving along at a rapid pace. All heavy kitchen equipment has been re- ceived and is ready for installation. Contractor Connolly has completed excavations and is proceeding with carpentry work. If the present schedule is maintained the cafeteria will be ready for operation between | September 15 and October 1. Jackson Meets Wanamie Sunday Club Is In Tie For First Place Jackson Baseball Club of the Valiey League is red hot on the home stretch, After losing four close games in a row, practically eliminating any chance of its entering the play-offs, the club bounced back to win four in a row. This has put the team in a tie for third place. Last Sunday Jackson journeyed to Glen Lyon and to victory over a high- ly favored Glen Lyon club. It was a thrilling 8 to 7 contest sparked by the great pitching of young’ Levi, Jr., who baffled the best LD had to offer. Outstanding fielding by Al Salansky saved the day for Jack son on several occasions. This Sunday Jackson will play Wan- amie in booster game on the Jackson Field. Beside being the last game of the straight season, Wanamie will pre- sent the only team that Jackson has failed to defeat this year. Wanamie leads the league with only one defeat. Jackson is out for blood in this one and the fans have never been more thrilled so that the game is expected to draw one of the biggest crowds in Jackson baseball history. Manager Joe Niezgoda has announ- ced that no matter what happens the Jackson Club will be anxious to meet Dallas Legionaires in a post season series to determine baseball supremacy in the Back Mountain area. Announce Calf Classes For Nepa Field Day Nepa ‘Field Day Committee an- nounced today the set up of classes in Holstein, Guernsey, and Jersey breeds for the NEPA Field Day to be held at the NEPA Central Head- quarters, Old Fair Grounds, Tunk- hannock, on Wednesday, August 27. The classes in which members will ex- hibit their artificially bred calves are: Calves 6 to 12 months old born Aug- ust 1, 1946, to February 1, 1947, Junior Yearlings 12 to 18 months of age born February 1, 1946 to August 1, 1946, and Senior Yearlings 18 months and over born; before February 1, 1946. : : There will be no ‘exhibit of Ayr- shire - calves. Artificial breeding ser- vice for Ayrshires started in December 1946 so that no calves are available. Health rules of the Pennsylvania Bureau of ‘Animal Industry will be observed by all members exhibiting. In conjunction ‘with the NEPA Field Day, there will be held the Northeast District 4-H Dairy Club Show at which top placing members will show the calves raised as a 4-H Sr AEA) 25, served four years with the Navy, and Joseph, 23; served with the Army on Guam. A similar accident occurred in the same area at 1:30 A. M. on June 8 when Howard Broadt of Plymouth ac- companied by Mary Howard, lost con- trol of his Plymouth automobile and crashed into a service pole, causing it to fall across the highway. Lehman Board Names Teachers Stauffer Will Head Agricultural School Robert Stauffer who has been serv- ing as a farm manager in Bethel, Conn., has been appointed to head the new Veterans’ Agricultural School which will be opened in September in Lehman Township Schools. William Keil of Kingston, now with the Veterans’ Administration, has been appointed as his assistant in vocational agriculture, Sauffer is a native of Selinsgrove with eight years teaching experience. He is married and has/four children. Keil's home is in Krigsto uring the war he was a lieutenant with the army in Corsica and Italy.® He is married and has one child. Both men are graduates of Penn- sylvania State’ College. Their sal- aries will be paid out of tuition fees received from the Veterans’ Adminis tration. Changes in the regular Lehman fac- ulty include the appointment of Rob- ert P. Martin of Edwardsville as in- structor in Senior English and assist- ant coach and faculty manager of all athletics. A veteran of three years army experience, Martin is a graduate of Bloomsburg State Teachers’ Col- lege where he served last year as as- sistant coach of the football team. He was one of the outstanding mem- bers of the class which graduaed this spring. , He replaces Edward Hend- ricks who resigned to continue his studies in guidance at Columbia Un- versity under the G. I. Bill of Rights. Two vacancies still remain on the faculty; one in mathematics and one in physical education. They were brought about by the resignation of Bernard Ichler who with his wife will teach in New Hope, N. J, schools, and by the resignation of Miss Lois Yaple of Stillwater who was married this year. Water Sports Feature Lake Silkworth Day Second Annual Lake Silkworth Day, sponsored by the Lake Silkworth Vol unteer Fire Company; will take place Sunday at 2. Included in the full afternoon~and evening of events are _a-Tlog race, canoe tipping contest;~kayak race, single and double canoe race, single and double boat races, surf-board rid- ing, evening water carnival, dance and demonstration of an Army am- phibious Duck. A fireworks display will be given at 9:30 in the evening. John Graham, general chairman, has announced the following commit- tees: David Griffith, events; John Najaka, program; Samuel Rogers, tickets; Chief Joseph Ide, traffic, and R. J. Hughes, publicity. Many Visit Glen More than 2,000 persons visited. Ricketts Glen State Park on a recent project. : Sunday walking through the glens and visiting the waterfalls. ;
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