- fiorially Speaking: On TRIAL? The following editorial is reprinted from the Bristol, Rhode Island, Phoenix: “A prominent American, John S. Knight, speaking before a group of advertising men in Chicago recently, had some very pertinent remarks to make about our so-called capitalistic system. “ “There is a subtle campaign underway in this country,” he said, ‘minority rights. ‘to discredit the press and render it less able to defend ** ‘Perhaps we have failed to do a good selling job just as I suspect the advertising profession must confess that it has failed somehow to sell the capitalistic system to our own people. **1, ‘for one,’ of hearing how the capitalistic system is on trial. what? declared Mr, Knight, ‘grow exceedingly weary On trial for “ ‘Has any other system accomplished as much or provided ‘better standards of living? “ “Why isn’t socialism on trial in England or communism in Russia? “If capitalism is through, why are we asked to provide the food, the money and the tools to rebuild Europe? * ‘Thoughtful Americans should be on guard against the in- sidious efforts being made to discredit a system that has been re- ponsible for this nation’s continued growth and progress.’ “No economic system is perfection but it is a bit sickening to hear references made to our system being on trial, the implication being that if it should fail, it would be supplanted by communism or some other ism. What have they got that even comes close?” ¥* Xx x FROM PILLAR TO POST By Mgrs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr. I had not meant to start an argument, but when I gasped in dismay at the slaughter of the trees along Wyoming Avenue, I found myself in the midst of one. The woman sitting next to me on the Dallas-bound bus hitched her bag of groceries more closely to her ample figure and let go with both barrels. Didn’t I approve of progress, she wanted to know, and would I let! a few old trees stand in the way of progress ? My reply to this was that I ap- proved of progress, but why should progress, even with a capital P, in- volve cutting down trees that had been giving grateful shade for over a hundred years, trees that were an asset to the community while standing, but a definite liability when lying on the ground, shame- ful corpses with their limbs lopped off preparatory to being hauled away to the public dump. It seemed to me, I ventured, that we already had a plethora of filling stations, but that if progress de- manded another one on that partic- “ular corner to run competition to the filling station across the Avenue, thoughtful planning on the part of the oil SOMIDARY eoild have ar- e St gpo O g station which offered shade on a blistering summer day as contrasted with one which afforded only a blaze of concentrated sunshine with heat waves shimmering above the concrete. My fellow passenger regarded me in a manner which suggested that she thought I was ready for a strait-jacket and a padded cell, and called up the reserves, still clinging to the original theme of progress. She now addressed the woman across the aisle. The woman across the aisle, wrestling with a refractory child who objected audi- bly to sitting on her mother’s lap during rush hour, expressed herself as totally uninterested in trees or progress. Her glare of concentrated venom indicated that she wished only to get off the bus so that she could spank her child without drawing down upon her head the dirty looks of the passengers. The man in the next seat but one raised his eyes from his eve- ning paper long enough to inquire what was the row about? The interlocutor, a fanatical gleam of battle in her eye, took up a census of the passengers on the bus. Most of the passengers cagily refused to commit themselves one way or another, but one indiscreet soul replied that he liked trees and hated to see them unnecessarily sacrificed. His opinion was that you could have both progress and trees, that there was plenty of room in the world for both. This was immediately construed as an attempt upon the part of the bloated capitalists to grind the faces of the cringing proletariat in the mud, a phenomenon difficult of accomplishment during the recent drought. ' Me? I turned up my collar around my ears and went into the silence. There is no more frustrated spec- tacle than that of a woman who has been cheated of an argument when she was thirsting for blood, just anybody’s blood and in what- ever cause you care to mention. The woman flounced off the bus at the intersection of the upper and lower roads, her back stiff with outrage, fury in every jolting step toward a treeless progress. I still like trees in spite of having been shown the error of my ways. I still think that people who denude’ a property of trees are crazy. I still think that people whose idea of beauty is to level off the slope around a foundation and substitute a pair of dwarf evergreens for the murdered elms and maples should have their heads examined. Those beautiful old trees have seen more progress than we will see in the normal course of a life- time, and they are entitled to a rich old age: Douglas Culp, $69,258 Worth Of New Homes Going Up Here Council Building On Tuesday Night Building permits amounting to $88,258 for new construction . in Dallas Borough were approved by Dallas Borough Council at its meet- ing Tuesday night in Back Moun- tain Memorial Library. Permits represent the following properties: Thomas T. Smith, Perce Kingston, Hay 400, two dwellings, Parrish street; B. B. Lewis, $6,250 dwelling on Cemetery street; D. M. Litz, $6,250 dwelling on Maplewood avenue; Harry Hed- don, $16,620 home on Machell ave- nue. The Dale Realty properties are in addition to those already erected along Center Hill Road. Deer Kill Is Heavy In Area Sweet Valley Hunters Turn In Best Record While scores of hunters went to far corners of the State in search of deer, those who hunted in the vicinity of Sweet Valley turned in the best records. ~ Among the men of that com- munity who obtained deer were: McKinley Long, Albert Hontz, Earl Kyttle, Herbert Ross, Wayne Rosen- crans, Raymond Shaw, Jesse Hann, William Smith, Warren: Boston, Floyd Wolfe and Stanley Evanoski. Out Demunds way, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sidorek each brought home 6-point buck deer shot inthe vi- cinity of Mountain «8prings. Mr. Sidorek haggsdel™s deer about an hour after Mrs. Sidorek made her kill. York Swartwood of Orange got his deer while hunting with a party at the Orange Rod & Gun -Club cabin in Sullivan County. With him were Robert Syvder, Leonard Snyder, Arthur Ernst and Edward Dorrance. Corey * Besteder and Conrad Honeywell of Kunkle each got 8- point bucks while hunting with Chief Russell Honeywell, Emory Lezer, John Honeywell, Ralph Hoyt. and Primo Berrettini. Al Morse, Trucksville, = former Army airman and now a student at Wilkes College, got his first buck while hunting with a party from Trucksville, but H. C. Sutton of Trucksville and George Bruederly of Wilkes-Barre, were not so fortunate when they brought down a wounded deer on Red Rock Moun- tain only to have it taken away from them by a six-man hunting party. Board Retains Otfigérs Harry Ohlman wasf reelected MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION Back Mountain Highway Deaths BOX SCORE Serious accidents since V-J Da Hospitalize DALLAS 2 LEHMAN 1 KINGSTON TOWNSHIP 20 JACKSON TOWNSHIP MONROE TOWNSHIP Vol. 57, No. 49 Anderson Takes Seat On Board Currie Made President In Kingston Township At its reorganization meeting on Monday night, Frederick Ander- son of Carverton was seated as a member of Kingston Township School Board replacing Ralp Hazel- tine who was defeated in the Pri- maries. Robert D. Currie was elected president; Thomas Ayre, vice pres- dint, and Stanley Henning was elected to fill the unexpired term of Mr. Hazeltine as treasurer. He will serve until the first Monday secretary, his appointment having been for four years. After his election President Cur- rie appointed standing committees with each board member as chair- man of at least one committee and with every member serving on at least two committees. Directors granted permission for Shavertown and Trucksville basket- ball teams of the Back Mountain Sunday School League to use the gymnasium for their games on two Saturday nights each month. Trucksville team was granted per- mission to use the gymnasium for practice Monday nights. Church League _|Opens Saturday Three Games At Dallas; Two At Trucksville Final plans for the opening of Back Mountain Sunday School Basketball League for its second season were laid at a meeting of team managers Tuesday night at the home of Howard Woolbert, League president. Ten teams are now entered in the competitions which will be played arday nights in Dallas Township, as Borough and Kingston Town- ; igh School gymnasiums. The | in Lehman gymnasium will be played on Monday nights because of a conflict with other schedules. Teams and managers are: Dallas Methodist A team, Victor Cross; Dallas Methodist B, Paul LaBar; Shavertown Methodist, Al Mont- ross; East Dallas Methodist, Tex Wilson; Kunkle Methodist, Marvin Elston; Trucksville Methodist, Har- old Croom; Alderson Triple Church, Joe Gerrity; Lehman Methodist Gilbert Tough; Huntsville Christian, John Roberts. St. Therese’s, Jack Youngblood. Saturday’s games at Kingston Township will be Trucksville vs Shavertown and East Dallas vs Huntsville Christian; at Dallas Borough, Kunkle vs Alderson; Dal- las A vs Lehman and Dallas B vs St. Therese’s. There will be no admission charge but a free will offering will be taken. Each team will play two games with every other team League according to present sched- ules and all games will be handled by P.IA.A. officials. At the conclusion of the season there will be a League dinner for all players and managers. Fire Causes $300 Damage Thursday Blaze Damages Ashley Home Fire starting from an overturn cigarette lighter caused dapfage amounting to $300 to the of Dr. Charles Ashley, ckson Township, Thursday morning about 9:45. The fire ate its way through living room and bedroom partitions and underneath a stairway but was kept under control with home fire extinguishers until Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Company arrived and finally extinguished it. Lehman Volunteer Fire Company also responded. Observes Birthday Today For more than thirty years one of Dallas’ most popular butchers, Fred Mintzer will celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday anniversary to- day. Mr. Mintzer has long been identified with church work and was missed last year in the com- { munity when he was in the hos- pital for-four weeks and away from “work for six months. He is president of Dallas Bough School Board at the reorgani%zati et- | now in good health but plans to ing on Monday night. Richardson was named vice presi- dent and Atty. John Hessel, solici- tor. L. “Ly retire next year; but today he’ll be receiving congratulations at his old stand behind the counter at | Dixon’s Fairlawn Store. in July. Clyde Brace continues as’ in the. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1947 i Ray Bartow, past president of Back Mountain Kennel Club hands a check for $265 to Paul Warriner, president of Back Mountain Me- morial Library Association. This contribution represents 50 per cent of the profits made by the Club Thirty-third Annual Meeting of © Luzerne County Agricultural Exten- sion Association will be held on Wednesday, December 17 at 1:30 P. M. in the Auditorium, third floor of Lazarus Department Store, South Main Street, Wilkes-Barre, announ- ces Floyd Wolfe, of Bloomingdale, President of the Association. The Agricultural Extension Asso- ciation is directly affiliated with Pennsylvania State College, and is organized for the purpose of Adult and Youth Education, carrying the work of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural College and the Experi- ment Station to the farmers through the medium of meetings, demonstrations and bulletins. The varied program of the Extension Association, in Home Economics and Agriculture, reaches most farms in the county. All farmers and their wives are invited to attend and to participate in this Annual Meeting. There will be short reports, election of officers, and an interesting address - “What Is Ahead For Agriculture” - by Dr. Kenneth Hood, Agricultural Exten- sion Economist. If you want to bag a doe don’t waste your dough on bullets for bucks. The Pennsylvania Game Commis- sion has ruled that a nimrod who bags a buck between Dec. 1 and Dec. 12 cannot down a doe on Dec. 13. This novel arrangement is de- signed to decrease does to the de- sired level to reduce damage to farm crops. “Deer these days,” Game officials said in announcing their ruling,” are “likely to be found anywhere, in- cluding many places they do not belong.” Not only must does depart from view on Dec. 13 if they value their deer lives, but hunters too were warned that they must be careful if they value their dear lives. Nim- rods were cautioned to wear plenty of bright red and to look before they shoot so that the banging Miss Anne E. Ryan, daughter of John Ryan of Chester, Pa., became the bride of Howard G. Kyttle of Dallas, RD, in the Lehman Metho- dist parsonage Saturday, November 29. Rev. Frank K. Abbott per- formed the double ring ceremony. Attendants were Miss Alberta Gen- sel of Alderson and Lawrence Steltz of Sweet Valley. The bride wore black satin street- length dress with pink ostrich feather hat and gloves. Her shoul- doy “bouquet ‘was of "pink roses. Re Library Receives Check From Kennel Club at its recent Dog Show in Kingston Armory. The check is one of many fine gifts made to the library by Back Mountain Kennel Club which is rapidly becoming one of the out- standing Kennel Clubs in Pennsyl- vania. Agricultural Extension Association To Have 33rd Annual Meeting |Casterlines Celebrate Fortieth Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. George Casterline of Idetown celebrated their fortieth wedding anniversary Sunday with an open’ houge®and a family dinner at six, ner guests were: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Casterline, Mr. and Mrs. William Casterline, Mr. and Mrs. James Casterline, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Malkemes, Mrs. Louise Suska and son Richard. Indian Family To Visit At Noxen Tabernacle The Claus Indian family will be at Gospel Tabernacle, Noxen, Sun- day afternoon, December 7, at 2:30 and in the evening at 7:30. Of pure blooded Indian origin the Claus family is nationally known and loved for its faithfulness preaching the gospel in word, song All are in and musical instruments. welcome to attend. If You Want To Bag A Doe Don't Waste Shot On Bucks and blazing barrage bags the doe and not the doughty doe hunter. Reports from field offices indi- cate that there is a very definite surplus of antlerless deer in many counties. In southeast Pennsyl- vania this condition prevails mostly in Berks, Lebanon and northern Dauphin counties. The surplus also is pretty well scattered throughout the northeastern part of the State. | Among the big wooded areas in central and northwestern Pennsyl- vania, where there are too many antlerless deer, are the counties of Lycoming, Sullivan, Bradford, Tioga, McKean, Potter, Clinton, Jefferson, Venango, Forest and Warren. In southwestern Pennsylvania they are most plentiful in those areas margi- nal to cultivated farmlands, due to the scarcity of browse in the nearby mountains. All of which deprives the farmer of dough. Miss Anne E. Ryan Becomes The Bride of Howard Kyttle / CL” Miss Gensel chose powder blue dress trimmed with silver sequins. Her corsage was of red roses. Following the ceremony a dinner for members of the immediate fam- ilies was held at the home of the bridegroom’s sister, Mrs. Leonard Shilanski. Mrs. Lewis Kyttle, Mrs. Walter Kyttle, Mr. and Mrs. Willard Gen- sel and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Shonis, members of the wedding party, Jerry Shilanski ‘and the hostess. Present were: Mr. and | 6 CENTS PER COPY Merchants Meet To Form New Organization Group Will Elect Officers At First Meeting In January center, eid -seven Dallas busi- nessmen met last Monday night at First National Bank and discussed the organization of Dallas Borough Businessmen’s Association. Howard Risley acted as tempor- ary chairman of the meeting which took the form of an open forum on community and business prob- lems. | With but few exceptions, each of the businessmen presented problems and ideas which will come up for action at later meetings. Dan Robinhold, Ralph Paul and Frederick Eck were appointed as a nominating committee to present nominations for officers of the or- ganization at a meeting to be held on the first Monday in January at the Bank. Jack Richardson, Harry Smith and Joseph Hand were appointed as a committee to co-operate with Jack Roberts in seeing to it that Christmas street lighting is in- stalled. Members of this committee on the following night received the agreement of Borough Council to pay for the current consumed. Council also agreed to underwrite the cost next year from' the Mon- day after Thanksgiving until New Year. ROSS TOWNSHIP LAKE TOWNSHIP s TOTAL | 31 Attending were: Jack Richardson, ! Karl Kuehn, Lillian Kuehn, Jack’ Hazeltine, Henry Mastalski, W. B. Jeter, Frederick Eck, James A. Oliver, Joseph Hand, Dr. Bédycomb, Ralph Paul, Herbert Lundy, Grace Cave, Earl Monk, Robert | Ralph Dixon, James Durkin, John | Hislop, James Slavin, Leslie War- hola, Atty. Burt Lewis, Lawrence ' Updyke, Harry Smith, Clark Hilde- brant, Dan Robinhold, Don Ide, A. | C. Devens and Howard Risley. Word . time out to state that Christmas 3 was received from Wesley Himm- ler expressing his desire’ to joiXk the group and regretting his in- : ability to attend because of recent illness.. Lake Mother Dies In Sleep Mrs. William Hausch Buried On Thursday Largely attended funeral services were held for Mrs. Lulu Hausch at the homé of her daughter, Mrs. Raymond /Garinger of Laketon, Thursday afternoon at two o’clock. Rev. William Schell of the Imman- uel Mission and Rev. Arthur Hontz of Carbondale officiated. Burial was in Kocher Cemetery at Rug- gles. # Mise] Hausch, the former Lulu Kocher, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Kocher, prosperous farmers, had spent her entire life at Laketon. An enthusiastic church . worker she had served as teacher, secretary of the Sunday School, and treasurer of the church off and on over a period of twenty years. Death, the result of an operation, came at General Hospital Monday night at 12:30 and was a severe shock to her many friends. Pallbearers were Carl Auvil, George Kocher, Rodell Kocher, Jas- per Kocher, Milo Oney and Harry Rossman. Flower carriers, all girl scouts in her daughter, Mrs. Ray- mond Garinger’s troop, were: Vir- ginia Price, Roseadell Grey, Janet Grey, Jean Gray, Florence Truska, Louise Javers, Jean ° Bialogowicz and Jessie Armitage. Arrangements by Nulton. Besides her husband she is sur- vived by three daughters: Mrs. Ray- mond Garinger and Mrs. James Worth, of Laketon; and Mrs. Harold Kline, of Kingston; a son, Lyman Hausch, of Laketon; four grand- children and two brothers, Michael Kocher, of Laketon and Edward Kocher of Lehman. Coast Guard Test Dates Announced Congressman Mitchell Jenkins, Trucksville announced in Washing- ton this week that entrance examin- ations for cadets to the United States Coast Guard Academy at New London, Connecticut, will be held on February 16, 17, 1948. This is a much earlier date than such examinations have been held in the past. Any young man interested in tak- ing this examination, Congressman Jenkins stated, can obtain detailed information as to the requirements by. writing :to: the. Commandant, U. S. Coast Guard, Washington 25, D. op 2 3 2 To Mark Six Anniversary Pearl Harbo Legion To Lead Memorial Services Sunday Afternoon William Jenkins of the facu of Wilkes-Barre Business College will be the principal speaker Sun- day at Dallas Borough High School during the observance of the sixth anniversary of Pearl Harbor Day. The program which is being sponsored by Daddow-Isaacs Post, American Legion, will start with a parade at 3 P.M. Members of the Legion, civic, religious and fra- ternal groups will form at Sunset Hall and march behind Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Company Band to the Dallas Honor Roll where they will pause for a brief memorial service and place a wreath. The parade will then continue up Machell Avenue to - Spring Street, up Spring Street to Lehman Avenue and thence to the High School Auditorium where the for- mal memorial service will be held. Paul Shaver will act as parade marshal. Other members of the committee are: Joseph Adametz, Frank Ferry, Robert Moore, Jr. Robert Price and Wilson Garinger. Polacky Tells How To Mail Christmas Cards Postmaster Thinks First Class Method Is By Far The Best As Christmas mail began to flood into Dallas Postoffice this week Postmaster Joseph Polacky took greetings mailed at the third class rate, one and one-half cents, in unsealed envelopes are not entitled to the free forwarding privilege accorded those mailed in sealed envelopes at the first class rate. Consequently, Mr. Polacky said, many of the senders never know whether the cards are received by those to whom they are addressed. This would not occur if the greet- ings were mailed at the first class rate. Greetings mailed at the first class rate may be sealed and con- tain written messages which, of course, makes them more highly appreciated by those who receive them. First class greetings are dispatched first, given directory service and, if necessary forwarded without additional charge. If un- deliverable they are returned to the sender without charge provided the sender’s address is shown on the envelope corner. On the other hand, Mr. Polacky added, greetings mailed in un- sealed envelopes at third class rates which cannot be delivered as addressed because of the removal of the addressee or for some other reason, must be destroyed as waste causing disappointment to the sender. Mr. Polacky thinks that many patrons of the Postoffice would gladly pay an extra two cents to insure prompt delivery by air mail 3 of their greeting cards before Christmas day. In air mail, the Pdstoffice has a means whereby Christmas greet- ings can be sent across the coun- try over night. Bible Church Will Broadcast Carols A small steeple is being erected on top of Shavertown Bible Church Tabernacle to house two loud- speakers of the recently completed amplifying system. The steeple is being built by William Hanna Sr. and the 60-watt amplifier was built by Ralph Fitz- gerald, factory research engineer for Teleradio Corp., Wilkes-Barre, and also Richard Seymour, chief tester for the same company. The amplifier has been in use since the first of October and can be heard in Shavertown and im- mediate vicinity. It is used Thurs- day and Sunday evenings from 7:30 to 7:45. Final arrangements have been made to use it every evening a week prior to Christmas for Christmas Carols. A mobile amplifying unit is being built by William Hanna Jr. to be installed in the truck recently pur- chased by the church. It is planned to use this in outdoor services and in house .to house distribution of Gospel tracts through out the Back Mountain Area.
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