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Editorially Speaking:
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1 Truth Stranger Than Fictim
The public knows that Federal Bureau of Imestigation is a
great deterrent to crime because of the efficiency with which it
runs down lawbreakers. But too few know wha an aid it is in
noncriminal investigations that affect people in many walks of
life. : I
In the mammoth files of the Identification Diviion of the Bur-
HE Darras Post
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
Back Mountain Highway Deaths and
BOX SCORE
Serious accidents since V-J Day
Hospitalized Killed
Vol. 58, No. 19
FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1948
6 CENTS PER COPY
DALLAS | 2 | 11
LEHMAN | 1 1
KINGSTON TOWNSHIP | 20 4
JACKSON TOWNSHIP | 2
MONROE TOWNSHIP 3 | 1
ROSS TOWNSHIP 2 |
LAKE TOWNSHIP yin
TOTAL | 81 | 17
eau in Washington, there are more than 107)00,000 sets of
fingerprints. Over 80 per cent of such prints ire in the non-
criminal file which includes members of the arme( forces, govern-
ment employes, persons fingerprinted in applying for jobs in im-
portant national defense plants, and persons whq voluntarily had
their fingerprints recorded as a means of identification.
A typical case is that of an old man who in April, 1946, asked
the Los Angeles Police Department for Ee in locating
two sons and a daughter from whom he had not leard since 1903.
He believed his sons had served in World War I. An appeal was
made to the FBI. In its files it found fingerprnt cards bearing
names and dates of birth reasonably agreeing with the information
furnished by the father, together with informaiion as to places
of employment of the individuals in 1942 and 1143. The father
was thus enabled to contact his sons, through yhom he located
the missing daughter. Three months after he fist called on the
police, he gratefully acknowledged the help that had been given
him.
This closed one of the thousands of incidents n which the FBI
has helped in ‘the identification or location of missing persons.
FROM
PILLAR TO POST
By Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr.
It is pretty disheartening, in view of a ploughed but still unharrowed
garden plot and a steady drizzle, to receive jubilant news from North
Carolina that the peas are not only well up but actually podded, and
that within a matter of two weeks a Sunday dinner featuring green
peas and tiny new potatoes is in prospect. It leads to vain wondering
why you settled down in the frozen ®
. clip. One of the more communica-
north, but a look out of the east
window lightens your spirits.
Maybe the peas aren't even
planted, but there is a flowering
pink tree on the far hill, the maples
are fiery red, the rhubarb is
flourishing, the ‘grass is ankle-deep,
the daffodils are shining through
the raindrops, the tulips are heavily
budded, the lilac bush promises
more blossoms than ever before,
and the strawberry plants and rasp-
berry canes have been delivered
from the nursery with imperative
instructions to plant immediately.
Maybe the folks in North Caro-
lina have peas and new potatoes,
but they also have ticks. At the
present writing, everybody below
the Mason and Dixon Line and also
some people in southern Pennsyl-
vania, are lining up for tig
and ano:ating their an a
kerosene before venturing into
brushy territory, to discourage
chiggers. The hills around Dallas
are not infested with either ticks
or chiggers. Residents of the south-
ern bank of states resemble pin-
cushions by the time they have
submitted to their spring round of
preventive serums.
Last year you couldn’t get a
small garden ploughed for love nor
money, but this spring the Trad-
ing Post is featuring this service,
with two men advertising their
willingness to oblige, one with a
tractor, the other and more recent
advertiser with horses. If Palmer
Updyke’s schedule is any indication,
both he and Mr. Van Horn will
have all the ploughing they can
handle.
Having made a note, of Mr. Up-
dyke’s advertisement early in
March, we. called him up when the
strawberries arrived. Mr. Updyke
said he was ploughing in Trucks-
ville and Shavertown, but could
come in a few days. What about
the strawberries? If the straw-
berries had come from a good
nursery the plants would still be
dormant, properly packed, and
would hold out for a week or ten
days without damage. An inspec-
tion of the inside of the strawberry
package corroborated this. Where-
as the outside had said plant with-
out delay, the instructions on the
inside said that the plants would
last for several days without plant-
ing if kept in a dark cool place.
Three days later a small tractor
bustled past the window, apparent-
ly heading for Demunds at a rapid
tive neighbors was on the phone
at the time, and by the time I
had yelled “Here's the tractor” and
had banged down the receiver, the
tractor was passing the red barn
the
Merchants To
Make Reports
Credit Information
Will Be Available
First steps in the formation of
a Back Mountain Credit Bureau
were taken at the sixth meeting
of Dallas Business Association Mon-
day night in Back Mountain Mem-
orial Library. ,
Dr. R. M. Bodycomb, chaifman
of the credit conty 51 co mittee,
reported that a fifance# company
had offered to buy fap delinquent
accounts of membefs. This pro-
. and Harry Lee
of the committee,
redule of rates from
ming Valley Credit Bureau and
showed how the merchants might
use the facilities of that organiza-
tion. The committee will make
further contact with the Credit
Bureau and report back at the next
meeting.
On motion of Grace Cave, sec-
onded by L. L. Richardson, it was
decided to have all members of
the association list delinquent ac-
counts on credit control cards and
present them at the next meeting
for comparison.
Members were given a month
in which to warn delinquent ac-
counts that their names will be
listed unless they make satisfac-
tory settlement.
Highway Department
To Remove Obstructions
Representatives of the State De-
partment of Highways and a com-
mittee from Kingston Township
Veterans’ Association made a tour
of inspection of highways in Dallas,
Dallas and Kingston Townships, on
Monday with a view to removing
dangerous obstructions to traffic.
Harradon H. Smith, superinten-
dent for the area, assured the com-
mittee, that private driveways ex-
tending into the State Highway on
Carverton Road and Pioneer avenue
where they endanger lives, will be
removed—if necessary with High-
way Department bulldozers.
He also assured the committee
that the Department will cooperate
in every way possible to keep the
highways clear of obstructions. The
veterans pointed out spots at the
Y in Trucksville and at Birch Grove
where drainage overflows the high-
ways. Mr. Smith said that new
drains would be installed to take
care of the situation.
at the Maples. Frenzied yelling
from the middle of the road was |
barren of results. The tractor dis-
appeared around the bend, to |
appear half an hour later, trailing!
its equipment in the rear like the |
tail of a kite.
Fortified by the comforting note!
that no garden plot would be con-
sidered too large or too small, we
discussed the size, shifting the
stakes farther and farther apart as
we talked. The garden grew in
‘prospect by leaps and bounds.
Strawberries and raspberries and
sweet corn and potatoes take up
an astonishing amount of room,
much more than anticipated.
We were impressed with the ap-
proach to the job. ‘I'll make a
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Packers Strike
Affects Tannery
Shortage Of Hides
Slows Production
Shortage of hides {due to s
in the major meat} packi
of the country hasic
duction at the Noxen plant of Ar-
mour Leather Company.
The 200 employees of the Noxen
plant, now working on a five day
week, have lost five days of work.
South American hides, but of re-
cent years only domestic hides
A capecity audience greeted the
opening last night of Kingston
Township Schools’ two-day Music
Festival in celebration of National
Music Week.
The program in the high school
auditorium was presented by music
students of Shavertown and Trucks-
ville Grade schools under the direc-
tion of Verus Weaver, head of the
music depattment. The Junior
Band and Glee Clubs of both schools
had leading parts. Tonette Bands
and Rythm Bands from the lower
grades were also on the program.
Tonight’s program will be pre-
sented by the Senior Band and by
the Senior High School Chorus.
If last night's performance is any
indication of what to look for, the
Kingston Township High School Band In Concert Tonight
“standing room only sign” will be
up long before the performance
starts. In less than two years time,
Mr. Weaver has developed a well-
trained and outstanding musical
organization composed of some of
the youngest players in any school
band in the area.
The whole musical program of
the schools is planned to keep
training young musicians to step
into places in the Senior organiza-
tion. The majority of those in the
Band are junior high school and
grade school pupils. Robert Shewan
and Robert Antanaitis are student
directors with John Werts and Rob-
ert Antanaitis sharing the role of
commentator. Thomas H. Jenkins
is faculty manager.
gram is being planned by Daddow-
Isaacs Post, American Legion and
Kingston Township Veterans’ Asso-
ciation with services in the Vet-
erans’ plot at Evergreen Cemetery,
Shavertown. Joining in the ser-
vices will be Girl and Boy Scouts of
the Area and Veterans of Foreign
Wars.
As now planned, all organizations
will assemble in avertown and’
march to the cemetery. Alfred
Milliner-Camp has/ arrangements of
music, and Dalla} Township High
School Band walle play. #The com-
mittee hopes sed_tg Hove another
band in the line of march.
The program at the gemetery
will include a bugler and the echo,
and a firing squad, in uniform, com-
posed of two members of the Legion
and two from the, Veterans’ Asso-
ciation. The color guard will also
be in uniform and composed of
veterans of both organizations.
Atty. Vivian Edwards will be the
speaker, and after the flag is raised
the veterans will place a wreath
at the flagpole. Paul Shaver will
be parade marshal.
F. F. A. Judging Contest
Held For Two Counties
On March 31 the F.F.A. organi-
zations of Lackwanna and Luzerne
counties met for a judging contest.
About ninety boys entered these
contests.
The poultry contest was held at
Henney’s Poultry Farm. The live-
stock judging was at Hayfield farm,
while the dairy contest was held
at Orchard Farm and Hillside Farm.
This contest was held to give
the boys practice in judging and
acquaint them with the judging
contests that will be held at State
College June 8-11.
Coach Badly Damaged °
When the steering gear of his
1939 Pontiac coach failed to oper-
ate, Andrew M. Bendick, 34, Larks-
ville, crashed into the guard rails,
Wednesday morning, near Fern-
brook Park.
The car overturned and was bad-
ly damaged. Chief Russell Honey-
well investigated. Bendick was
treated for minor abrasions by Dr.
F. Budd Schooley. Riding in the
machine with Bendick was William
Woodman, who was uninjured.
Noxen Alumni Dinner
Scheduled At Club
Noxen High School Alumni Asso-
ciation will hold its annual dinner
at Irem Temple Country Club on
Wednesday evening, June 9.
All former students whether
graduates or not are invited to
attend. There will be music for
dancing. Dress will be optional.
Officers of the Association are
Severn Newberry, president; Paul
Kraft, vice president; Louise Wyant,
secretary; Grace Case, treasurer.
To - insure reservations, call
Louise Wyant, Harvey's Lake 3490,
have been tanned there.
Veterans’ Groups Plan Joint
Services For Memorial Day
A community Memorial Day pro-:
Crowned: Queen
MILDRED BORTON
Mildred Borton, a senior at Dal-
las Township "High School, was
crowned May Queen at the annual
May Day Festival held yesterday.
Peggy Martin was Maid of Honor.
Other attendants wére: Nancy
Anderson, Daisy Bellas, Mary Carey,
Phyllis Kunkle, Clara Ann Evans,
Jacqueline Mahoney, Nancy Deibert,
and Lois Anne Klein. Flower girls
were: Patsy Keener, Elloise Holm-
gren, Elaine Kozemchak, Barbara
Kozemchak, Carol Wagner, Sharon
John, Ann Dorrance, Mildred Pru-
ett, Betty Harris, Charlotte Shonk,
Audrey Race, Geraldine Miller.
Barry Landmesser and Carl Ide
were Train Bearers; and Arnold
Williams was the Crown Bearer.
Girls from the Junior and Senior
Classes formed an Honor Guard.
$6,000 Is Pledged
A report meeting of Jackson
Volunteer Fire Company will be
held Monday night at Rome School
at 8 o’clock.
A new Ford F.C. 2-ton chassis
purchased from Motor Twins was
delivered to the John T. Bean Com-
pany at Lansing, Michigan, last
weekend by Dennis Bonning and
Elmer Laskowski. They left Friday
and returned Sunday.
The Bean Company has promised
that the new high pressure fog fire-
fighting equipment will be ready
for delivery on May 28. Three
members of the company will be
delegated to go to Lansing on May
24 to attend a two-day fire-fighting
school to learn how to operate
the equipment. They will return
with the equipment on May 28
in order to take part in the Sweet
Valley Parade on Memorial Day.
The equipment will cost more
than $6,000. All canvassers and
workers are urged to collect as
much as possible within the next
two weeks. Total amount pledged
to date is $6,247, with $2,700 paid
in cash.
To Hold Banquet
A Mother and Daughter banquet
will be held in the Demunds Church
Many Local Men
To Get Degrees
Hundreds Of Masons
Gather At Bloomsburg
Twenty-four local men will be
among more than 150 candidates
who will receive degrees and be-
come members of Caldwell Consist-
ery at Bloomsburg thig week.
The reunion start¢d Tuesddy
night and continued with c Tring
of degrees on Wednesday and yes-
terday. Concluding degrees will be
conferred this afternoon and eve-
ning.
Among those receiving degrees
are: Dallas, Jack C. Barnes, Alan
J. Bisbee, Constantine G. Condoras,
Sandal C. Hunt, Elmer S. Hunt,
Herbert E. Marley, Richard Y.
Oliver, Richard G. Phillips, Patrick
E. Reithoffer, Robert E. Van Horn,
Arnold R. Yeust; Trucksville, Bern-
ard S. Bush, Samuel B. Dilcer, Rus-
sell W. Johnson, George A. Parker,
John H. Parker, James Shepherd,
Robert Shepherd; Shavertown, Johr
M. Fink, Budd C. Hirleman, Hay-
den D. Williams; Alderson, Thomas
G. Comstock; Wyoming R.F.D.,
George F. Metz; Wilkes-Barre, Rev.
Francis Freeman.
Lehman May Queen
BETTY IDE
Under a bright blue sky and sur-
rounded by all the colorful pagean-
try of spring, youth had its fling
yesterday afternoon at May Day
exercises on Lehman School
grounds.
Betty Ide, whose service to the
school and whose outstanding spirit
of citizenship has made her an out-
standing student, was crowned May
Queen. Twenty-eight girls from the
upper grades bearing an honor
chain, preceded the queen and
formed an avenue of color through
which she proceeded to her throne.
Marilyn Williams was her maid
of Honor.
A novel feature was the Fairy-
land float with its throne and back-
ground of clouds and blue birds.
Everywhere there was a profusion
of beautiful spring flowers, nar-
cissus, sweetpeas, daffodils, carna-
tions and sprays of apple blossoms
before May 20.
Friday evening, May 7.
To Show Shicep
At Tunkhannock
Five Local Breeders
Will Exhibit Bnimals
Northeastern Pennsylvania
Field Day,
sheep
breeders’ Monday at
Alex Tough, Hayfield Farm, atitfor-
ity on livestock, will#§how a group
of Cheviots. “Other local breeders
participating are John Perry, Or-
ange; Truman Brunges, Center
Moreland.
As an added attraction Kenneth
Moore, Bradford County, will show
his 2-year-old ram, grand champion
at the 1948 Pennsylvania Farm
Show. The exhibit will include
purebred Dorsets, Cheviots, Shrop-
shires, grade ewes, cross-bred ewes
and two Blackfield Highland ewes.
A sheep shearing demonstration
j and school, run by Robert Stock-
holm, Montrose will start at 10
a. m. The afternoon will be de-
voted to the exhibition and judg-
ing of sheep. William Connell,
State College, an expert on all
phases of sheep breeding, will be
in charge.
Lehman Band Wins
Fourth In Finals
and quince.
Winning a rating of “good” Leh-
man High School Band stood fourth
among seven contestants in Class
C in the State Finals of Pennsyl-
vania Music and Forensic League
Tax Collection
Sets New High
105 Have Failed To
Pay Personal Taxes
Tax collections in Dallas Borough
for the current year are the highest
on record according to Arthur R.
Dungey, collector. Ninety-five and
one-half percent of all property
taxes have been paid.
Land returns for the year
amounted to $65.08 on borough
taxes and $1,020 on school taxes.
Most of the taxes returned were
on vacant lots.
Mr. Dungey said that only 105
persons have failed to pay their
$5 per capita tax, but that steps
will be taken immediately to col-
lect them. The new State law
makes it mandatory for the collec-
tor to attach the husband’s wages
for both his own and his wife’s de-
linquent per capita. This also en-
tails considerable extra expense
and costs for the taxpayer. De-
linquents will be given until May
15 before action will be pressed.
Church Honors
Nepa Headquarters, Tunkhannock.
Fred F. Boote
Grand Old Man
Now Ninety-Two
Fred F. Boote, 92-year-old resi-
dent of Trucksville received a gold
lapel cross from Rev. Robert T.
Webster at the Morning Services
at Trucksville Methodist Church.
The presentation was a public
tribute in recognition of his long
and faithful service to the Church.
Mr. Boote was born in England
| and“Came to this country in April,
1908. He has been a member of
the Trucksville Church since July
1909 and served as usher and head
usher for 27 years since 1915. He
still attends services/ regularly,
served his ninety second birthday
anniversary on April 26.
During a 27-year period, 1909-
1936, Mr. Boote was head gardener
at the Conyngham Estate. He still
expresses a love of the soil al-
though he cannot be among his
flowers as much as he would like
to.
His fondness for walking serves
both as entertainment and exercise.
He takes long daily walks and is a
familiar figure to the residents of
the Trucksville-Carverton road.
Mr. Boote lives with his daughter
and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Houghwout, Carverton road,
Trucksville. His granddaughter,
Miss Jean Houghwout, is supervisor
of Music at Lake Township Schools.
He has five sons and two daughters
in this country and two brothers
in England.
Eight Dallas Students
Win Athletic Awards
at Oil City last weekend
Among the individual winners In a school assembly presenta-
Wilma Hess, twi at Dallas | tion, seniors Charles Brobst, Glenn
Township Schools received a “super- | Roberts and Paul Shaver were
ior” rating, being one of three| awarded sweaters by Dallas Bor-
twirlers in the State to receive
that distinction. Betty Ide of Leh-
man was among a number of con-
testants who won an “excellent”
rating.
John Miluskas, Lehman senior,
won an “excellent” rating as stu-
dent conductor. Only two other
leaders surpassed him with ‘“‘super-
ior” ratings.
ough Athletic Association for boys’
basketball.
Awarded gold basketballs for the
girls team were seniors Beverly
Cundiff, Polly Lou Cooper, Joan
Gay, Marge Elkins, and Ethel Culp.
To be eligible for awards students
must play at least two varsity
years. The awards are given an-
nually. \
Hundred And Seventy-Five Persons
Join Fire Company Within A Week
One hundred and seventyfive
new members have joined Shaver-
town Fire Company within tHe past
two weeks as the result of th
pany’s renewed efforts to have
“every citizen a member.”
Increase in membership is even
more remarkable, because visitation
crews have covered only one-third
of the community—the area to the
left of Main street. Druid Hills
and ‘the area to the right is still
to be covered.
The company at its last meeting
turned down a generous offer for
the sale of its fire house and sur-
rounding property. President Ted
Poad announced yesterday, “Our
property is not for sale. The mem-
bership is definitely opposed, feeling
cellent one with access to two
highways and centrally located for
quick response to fire alarms.”
|The. firemen will have a short
business meeting on Monday night
which will be followed by a report
meeting of all committee chairman
for the Field Day which will be held
on June 24, 25 and 26.
Shavertown has never had a
Field Day like the one we are
planning, Poad announced. “This
is really going to be something and
we want every member of the com-
munity as well as everybody in the
Back Mountain region to join with
us and enjoy it. The Community
dinner will be a place to renew
acquaintances and the entertain-
ment and music features will be
that our present location is an ex-
outstanding.” :
weather permitting, ough he is
deaf and experiencesfgreat difficulty”
in hearing the ser e ob-
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