Em doing a rushing business the past<®- PAGE TWO “The Totem Pole” THE POST, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1947 KUNKLE Harrisburg, November 13— There is much joyful hand-rubbing and Sunday School Group back-slapping here these days at Republican State Headquarters as the maharajas who ride herd on the GOP elephants continue to bask and roll in the glory of a political fight over and done and won. On the other hand the old wailing wall on Capitol Hill has been . week but matters have tapered off . somewhat by now—a week after . the elections. Most frequently seen at the wall are Democrats who, although hav- ing a bitter and (for them) out- standing fight, emerged from last Tuesday's vote fracas the losers for the most part. Grampaw Pettibone, having re- covered from his election day ordeal wherein he served as chief tester of weights and measures for paper ballots in a-small nearby commun- ity, confessed from his slumped ‘position in his easy chair the other night that this past election was one of, the most spirited in a long time for an off-season year. Visiting some of the boys from Republican’ State Headquarters, he came away convinced that the ele- phant riders: are now pointing to next year—the Presidential elec- tion. “Democrats are pointing too,” Grampaw Pettibone said with a sigh, “but they don’t seem to know exactly where to point.” Fact of the matter is, GOP leaders now are taking their local victories as an indication of strength to back up their hand-waving next summer when the Republicans mob Philadel- Whether Your Home Is Large or Small It should be kept in condi- . « . it is your home. tion. We make F.H.A. Loans ‘to repair and modernize homes . .. and for insul- The cost is $5.00 a year for each $100 bor- rowed. ation. Your application will be given immediate at- tention. THE KINGSTON NATIONAL BANK Kingston Corners phia for their National convention —and incidentally to select their Presidential candidate. “What most of the party boys are overlooking,” Grampaw Petti- bone declared slyly, “is that while the Republicans won in nearly all the local elections last week in the State, they failed to run off the field with sizable and convincing majorities.” Then, too, some Republican seats of authority fell by the wayside in favor of the clamoring Democratic voters, which of course is ideal for the American two-party system. But on the whole, Democratic gains were far inferior to Republican victories. Notwithstanding their successes of last week, Republicans are faced with a problem few of them like to talk about. One old timer has been a buddy of Grampaw Pettibone’s since the days of the horse-and-sleigh, con- fessed between clacks of his store teeth, that ‘“an uprising seems to be in the offing in our ranks.” What he actually meant was that -some of the younger bloods in the organization feel that it is about time they got a whack at becoming wheels in the party machine. “The gravy ladle has been held by the oldsters long enough” is the hue and cry heard from the ranks. “Just about the only way a young whipper-snapper can step into any of the exalted pews is to wait until some gent, who now occupies such a pew, becomes too old to crawl on all fours,” Grampaw Pettibone growled, forgetting for the moment that he himself isn’t quite young enough to qualify for the Olympics. But come what may, many politi- cal observers feel that a change is underway in leadership of both the Republican and Democratic parties. The force of the younger members of the party is at last beginning to be felt. Dallas Victorians Play Tie Game With Scotties A score of 13 to 13 climaxed a thrilling game between a newly or- ganized basketball team in Dallas, “The Dallas Victorians” and the Lehman Scotties Monday evening in Meyers High School. Both teams are members of the Playground As- sociation. Gerrie Sebolka was high scorer for the Victorians with six points. Margery Shiner rolled up five points and Dora LaBar two. . For the Scot- ties, Kramer scored six points, Wentzel five and Ide two. The teams were evenly matched and the game was fast and exciting. Girls on the Victorian team are Gerrie Sebolka, Peggy Kocher, Margery Shiner, Marie Tomasick, Mary Lou Race, Della LaBar, Helen Stookey, Pearl Hopple and Dora La- Bar. If You're Thinking About Buying An ELECTRIC RANGE or WATER HEATER WE - WILL PAY Electric Water Heater. Bsk Us Or Your Electric Dealer Bbout Our Liberal WIRING ALLOWANCE ‘Not to exceed $30 for an Electric Range or $20 for an LUZERNE COUNTY GAS AND ELECTRIC CORP. WIRING CesTS Make Christmas Plans Newly elected teachers and of- ficers of Kunkle Methodist Sunday School met Monday evening, at the home of the superintendent, Joseph Delt-Kanic. Plans were begun for the Christmas program at the church on Sunday, December 21st. Leona Jones, Betty Meeker, Sylvia Brace, Helen Landon, and Letha Race will purchase and pack the Christmas candy boxes. Mrs. Betty Meeker announced that the choir has already begun rehearsals for a Christmas Contata. Arthur Maurer, assistant superin- tendent, was ‘appointed a committee of one to provide “Penny-A-Meal” banks for members of the commun- ity who wish to help in a long-range plan to expand the facilities of the Sunday School. The Sunday School will pay five dollars each month to the confer- ence fund for the purchase of Sky Lake Camp, and the Ministerial Re- tirement Fund. W.C.T.U. Institute Shavertown and Dallas W.C.T.U. will hold an Institute in the Shaver- ber 18. The morning session begins at 10:30 with a worship service by Mrs. Harrison of Shavertown. Mrs. Ed Keen of Forty Fort will be the morning speaker. A W.C.T.U. quiz will be conducted by Mrs. Z. E. Garinger. Lunch will be served by the King’s Daughters Sunday = School class of Shavertown. Afternoon session begins at 1:30 with worship service by Mrs. H. R. Riley, Lehman Memorial Service will be given by Mrs. D. A. Waters. Shavertown. Music will be furnish- ed by a quartet from Idetown. All persons interested in the Temperance cause are urged to at- tend. Your Health The season approaches for that old gas buggy bugaboo—carbon monoxide poisoning. Carbon monoxide gas harmless—it is odorless, and colorless. It is also insidious and deadly. ‘Exposure to carbon monoxide oc- curs in the home through leaks in gas fittings. Carbon monoxide results from imperfect combustion in stoves and furnaces that are improperly con- structed or operated. Carbon monoxide is a product of exhaust gas from automobiles. To be in a closed garage with the automobile motor running is to in- vite carbon monoxide poisoning and sudden death. What is the effect on the human body that makes this gas so deadly ? Carbon monoxide gas prevents oxygen, so necessary to life, from uniting with the red blood cells, and oxygen starvation results. Often carbon monoxide poisoning creeps through the body and causes muscular weakness which prevents the individual from leaving the spot while he is still conscious. The victim should be removed from exposure as rapidly as pos- sible, -and treatment commenced im- mediately. If he is unconscious or breathing with difficulty, artificial respiration should be started at once. While this is under way, oxygen breathing equipment should be sent for. appears tasteless town Methodist Church on Novem- | Address by Rev. H. 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HICKS If you have a horse, shut the barn door when the horse is run- ning around inside. If you have an automobile, open the garage door when the motor is running. DO YOU KNOW? Eleven persons in the United States are killed by an accident every hour; 265 every day, and ap- proximately 97,500 every year. Mr. and Mrs. William L. Ocken- house were guests of honor at a surprise house warming at their new home on Davenport street Sat- urday evening. Present were: Mrs. John Layaou, Mr. and Mrs. Herman LaBar, Mrs. Norman Honeywell, Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Russel Lee Ockenhouse, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Ockenhouse, Mr. and Mrs. William Ockenhouse, Jr., Mrs. Rose Eckert, Miss Delores Bruckman, and the guests of honor. TO THE VOTERS OF I wish to thank you all Director for the second term. FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP for electing me your School THOMAS EARL William L. Ockenhouses, Guests At Housewarming Would you like to own a calibre to finish yourself? | FENBOR or get in SMOOTH FOX TERRIERS dog or bitch—or a fine young dog or bitch of championship Robert Neff, who has bred and judged fox terriers for many years, must curtail his breeding, showing and judging activities considerably because of ill health and has some grand dogs to dispose of at fair but reasonable prices. Contact Mr. Neff direct at— BRUSH HOLLOW ROAD Westbury, L. MERRICOURT KENNELS (MARGARET COTTLE) Shavertown, smooth fox terrier champion— KENNELS I, New York ° touch with Pennsylvania SAFETY VALVE Dear Editor: Danger In Flaming Fabrics 8 year old Mary is a happy little girl as she greets her mother and slides on to a chair to eat her breakfast. Ten minutes later, the terrified child is running to the neighbors screaming for help for her mother whose dress has caught fire. Two days later the little girl's mother has died of severe burns. What caused this terrible acci- dent? It could have been a lighted cigarette or the tiny flame of a match struck to light the gas stove. When a tiny flame contacts the highly inflammable fabric in a house-dress, in a matter of seconds Mrs. Homemaker can become a human torch, and cannot escape severe and often fatal burns. The moral of this story is to be careful about what you wear and when you wear it. All ordinary fabrics will burn. Some fabrics catch fire easily and burn furiously because of their fibers {or construc- tion or a combination of these fac- tors. Other fabrics burn more slowly. Learn to recognize a fabric that will burn easily so that you can be especially careful when wear- ing it. When of a similar or the same construction, fabrics made of wool, silk, nylon, and acetate rayon are not so inflammable as cotton qr other rayon fabrics. Light weight and sheer fabrics burn more readily than heavier fabrics. Napped and pile fabrics burn more readily than heavier fabrics. Coated fabrics of the same types especially those coated with pyroxylin are very hazardous because they burn rapid- ly with an intense flame that is difficult to put out. Although not yet widely in use, there are flame resistant fabrics on the market. Several methods for treating fabrics with flame retard- ants have been developed. These treated fabrics retain their effective- ness after repeated washings and drycleaning. The treated fabrics will char but not flame. Pillows, mattress tick- ing and mattress stuffing also can be treated with the new compounds, which should shorten the casualty list of people foolish enough ' to smoke in bed, But until the time when all fab- rics are flame-resistant, if home- makers will just exercise ordinary care and common sense, there will be little danger of becoming a hu- man torch. Don’t try to save time by slipping down to prepare break- fast in your dressing-gown. You'll get close to the range with the long flowing sleeves and the dang- ling sashes, especially if your gown is made of sheer, napped or pile fabrics. : Lighted cigarettes are particularly dangerous when smokers are wear- ing dressing gowns or hats with veils. And don’t stand around open fires when you are wearing either of those. The advice is the same when you are wearing flannelette nightgowns and robes, and long- napped sweaters of cotton or rayon. When choosing special party cos- tumes, avoid sheer or long-napped materials. Children should be warned especi- ally about the sheer dresses and veils worn on occasions such as church ceremonies when lighted candles are carried or standing near by. A child is usually too panic- stricken to put out a flame or re- move a burning garment. Hospital records show that most injuries to small children from burning cloth- ing come from fabrics that ordinari- (Continued on page seven) If It’s Real Estate WE HAVE IT— Ev WE SELL IT— WE RENT IT— WE APPRAISE IT— WE INSURE IT If you have it and need help, call us. DURELLE T. SCOTT, Jr. ‘54 Huntsville Road Telephone Dallas 224-R-13 after 6 P.M. Member of the Firm D. T. SCOTT & SONS Established 1908 just be inviting disaster when you - were about ‘seventy-five years apart, he concluded tha 1 Barnyard Notes | § GOLDEN EGGS Now that our chicken coop has been rebuilt and painted a neat white, the hens will soon be laying golden eggs. They'll have to if we ever pay for the coop. Although smaller, our coop has about the same architectural perfection as the flock of new homes that are going up in Druid Hills, Jr. The coop has given us a new conception of the value of lumber as well as chickens. GREAT AMERICAN The November issue of The Reader’s Digest contains a condensa- tion of a forthcoming book, “Our Unknown Ex-President” by Eugene Lyons. If you haven't read it, by all means do so. It will give you a new conception of a great man—Herbert Hoover. Born seventy-four years ago in a one-story cottage not far from his father’s blacksmith shop in the Quaker settlement at West Branch, Iowa, his birthplace was only a shade less humble than Lin- coln’s log cabin. Without a father at six, and motherless at ten he nonetheless worked his way through Stanford University and at twenty-three was earning $7,500 a year as an engineer in Australia because he could fill a position that required “the strength of a man of 25 and the experience of a man of 75.” ! x His marriage waited another two years until Lou Henry got her engineering degree from Stanford. : At the beginning of World War I, this orphan boy controlled a substantial part of the world’s supply of lead and zinc. Asked by Ambassador Page to organize relief for seven million Belgians facing almost certain starvation, Hoover, in Quaker fashion, prayed with Mrs. Hoover for guidance. He renounced a great business career and launched a greater career of social service. He was through with mining and money making. “Since then”, says Lyons, ‘Hoover has not kept a dollar in re- muneration from any source for his own use. From the first hour of the Belgian job to the last ofrhis recent mission to Europe, he has paid his expenses out of his own pocket. His salary as Secretary of Commerce he distributed in full to raise the incomes of aides who needed it or to pay for expert personnel not provided by Congress. He sent a check for $300,000—his entire income as President to the Treasury Department on the day he left the White House. from writing or speaking went to private charities.” : Between 1914 and 1924, Hoover raised and distributed five billion dollars and 34,000,000 tons of supplies with every dollar and pound Money accounted for and without a single scandle or taint of profiteering or waste. But read The Digest for the other side of the story of a man who was treated most shabbily by the predecessor of the man who re- cently wrote across one of Hoover's speech manuscripts: “With a keen appreciation—to a great American.”—Signed Harry S. Truman. WINTER SKIES No man can watch the Northern lights shimmer above College Misericordia as they did Sunday night without a feeling of awe. We seldom see them that we fail to think of a night in 1910 when we retused to look at the heavens because Halley's comet was there. For weeks we had lived in fear of its coming and after it came re- fused steadfastly to look at it believing, ostrich like, that if we didn’t see it it couldn’t hurt us. We probably won't be here in 1985 when the great comet returns again, but if we are, there will be nothing we can tell little children who will ask “what was it like seventy-five years ago?” We don’t know because we were afraid to look. The most celebrated comet in history was not discovered by Halley. _ It bears his name because after its appearance in 1682, he computed © its orbit and found it was very similar to those of comets that had ap- peared in 1531 and 1607.4 Since the three date 1531, 1607 s oe t the { comets were three successive appearances of the same object, i that it revolved about the sun once every seventy-five years. He predicted that the comet would reappear in 1759. His successors found that his prédictions were right. Again in 1839 and in 1910— when we didn’t look—it passed around the sun and near the earth. Newspaper stories of the day presaged the end of the world. Lurid Sunday supplements depicted how the end might come. No wonder an impressionable boy refused to look at the phenomenon that might blot out his family. Like savages who worship supernatural gods in the winds, rains and thunder are those who see evil omens in the skies and tremble. The night sky is friendly to those who wish it and who study it. The Northern lights, the paths of the planets, the course of stars -and even the gasses on them are known to man. Helium was dis- covered on the sun by scientists working with the spectroscope long before it was discovered on the earth. And those who work my the atom learned much of its basic truths from the skies. He who has studied the night sky might well say I have lived too long with the stars to be afraid of the dark. 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