Editorially Speaking: " ‘Dusty’ Was Children’s Friend” More than one small boy and girl and many adults were sadden- ed this week to learn of the death on Sunday of “Dusty,” Sally and Jud Hauck’s ten-year-old St. Bern- ard. “Dusty” was a village character, whose gentle disposition endeared her to parents and children alike. Though she enjoyed company of grown folks she loved the compan- ionship of children, often waiting for them on their porches until they arose in the morning. In summer and winter she watch- ed them, following them faithfully or resigning herself to a mauling by a dozen encircling arms or as many young riders. She was a faithful attendent at the library story hour where she listened attentively to Janet Smith read Mother Goose stories as she does in the picture above. When Joe Peterson went to Charlie Gregory's for a hair cut, “Dusty” waited, her huge bulk sprawled on the floor in front of Arlie Bowman’s cash register next door. No amount of coaxing by oldsters could move her; but a sharp “Here, Dusty” from a little boy half her size, would rouse her to immediate obedience and the two would saunter out of the way of grown folks. Dusty died alone and quietly sometime Sunday. Jim Besecker saw her on his porch, where the kids congregate, early Sunday morning; but when Jud and Sally, John and Kitty Hauck got up, she was no where to be seen. That evening John found her stretched out on the cellar floor of their home on Norton Avenue—dead of a heart attack. Joe Peterson waiting on the doorstep at the Post Monday morn- ing broke the news to the editor. These were his words: “I've news for you, Mr. Risley—sad news. Dusty is dead.” FROM. 0 POST By Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks, JR. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Harding of Raleigh, North Carolina, on May 28, a daughter. Mos. Harding is the former Barbara Hicks, daughter of Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks of Dallas. Died, on May 30, Major M. Major Todd was the father of Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks. Carolina. L. Todd, of Charleston, South There is an awesome cycle to this business of life and death. A child is born, thrusting himself eagerly through the gates of life. A weary traveller knocks gratefully wpon the gates of death. To the child, the joy and the burden of living; to the invalid surcease from pain, the knowledge that life has been lived to the full, that the lights of the harbor are in sight. The unknown at either end of the life span. Kingston Township May Queen And Court Reading left to right: Anne Griffiths, Margaret Morgan, Anna Mae Durbin, Sally Dawn Edwards, Jeanne Johnson, Ann | George Robert Pinchak, Marilyn, Cooper, Betty Smith. Forty-Three To Graduate Tuesday From Kingston Twp. High School Forty-three seniors of Kingston Township High School will graduate at this year’s 38th Commencement which will be held Tuesday, June 8, in the high school auditorium at Trucksville. The class roll: Raymond 'Henry Ackerman, Robert John Antanaitis, David John Cairns, George Hamil- ton Cleasby, Robert Joseph Coons, Lawton Sheldon Culver, Eugene Evans, Floyd Elliot Evans, William Richard Glace, Wayne Andress Graybill, Robert Marshall Gregory, William Howard Hanna, Jr., John Calvin Holdredge, William David James, 3rd, Robert Henry Kem- merer, Paul Jacob Laux, Jr., Wil- liam Robert Long, Milton Elwood Lutsey, Howard John Miller, John George Novicki, Robert Shewan, Clinton Augustus Smith. Norma Jean Anthony, Betty Lor- Casterline, Vivian Marilyn Aurelia Helene Fabian, raine Cooper, Anne Louise Griffiths, Jean Louise Madeline Kaleta, Cecelia Kasaba, Doris Mae Kem- merer, Shirley June Kleigleng, Margaret Ann Morgan, Nancy Lois Myrick, Nancy Louise Ness, Esther Viola Pyrvin oria Florence Sick- ler, Elizabeth Jane Smith, Kathryn Joanna Smith, Nancy Ingrid Smith, Mafalda Spaciano, Lorraine Gert- rude Turner, Marilyn Elaine Young- blood. Carroll D. Champlin, professor of education at the Pennsylvania State College, will be the commencement speaker on Tuesday night at 8 in the Trucksville High School Audi- torium. Prof. Champlin, author of numerous articles and studies deal- ing with international, social and cultural problems and who has toured internationally both before and after World War II, will speak Johnson, Marie (Continued on Page Five) KING Vol. 58, No. 23 FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1948 6 CENTS PER COPY DALLAS 2 Tue Darras Post! MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION MONRO BOX SCORE Back Mountain Highway Deaths and Serious accidents since V-J Day Hospitalized Killed 11 1 20 4 2 TO 1 TO K. T. Students To Get Awards Two Programs To Be Held This Afternoon Annual awards for scholarship and extra curricular activities in the Junior and Senior high school will be made this afternoon 'at special assembly programs in Kingston Township High School. The program for the Junior High School will start at 1 o’clock. W.C.T.U. awards will be made by James Martin, supervising principal. The American Legion Award to the outstanding eighth grade boyand girl will be made by Black Diamond Post No. 395, American Legion. Art awards will be made by Dor- othy Teresinski. The program for the Senior High School will start at 2. The Vet- erans of Foreign Wars Award, Post 283, will be made to the senior boy and girl with the highest scholastic average in social science, and the Daddow-Isaacs Post, Amer- ican Legion Award will be made to the outstanding senior boy and girl. Mr. Martin will present the W.C.T.U. Awards. American Red Cross Home Nursing awards will be made by Mrs. Samuel Buckman. Other awards and those who will present them are: music, Verus Weaver; athletics, Ted Martz and George McCutcheon; cheerleaders, George McCutcheon; Dorothy Teresinski. art, Dallas Seniors Receive Awards Four Graduates Have Straight A Average Prize winners among the twenty- three seniors whe graduated from Dallas Borough/ High School at Commencement’ exercises Tuésday night were: Sheila Kelly, “valedic- torian, Miser Scholarship, Readers Digest and PTA award for highest scholarship. Miss Kelly al- so won the Frank H. Hemelright Memorial Essay prize. The American Legion award for boys was received by Paul Shaver Jr. The American Legion award for girls went to Beverly Cundiff. | The PTA award for most improve- | ment went to Nancy Hislop. Mild- red McNeel received the second prize in the Frank H. Hemelright Memorial Essay contest. The W.C.T.U. for the best senior essay on temperance went to Ethel Culp. Ten members of the class ob- tained a straight B average or better for the year. Four of this number obtained straight A. aver- age. They were: Sheila Kelly, Beryl Colwell, Ethel Culp and Joan Gay. : William Schmoll Dies Suddenly Was Former Borough Street Commissioner William H. Schmoll, 67, died sud- denly at his home in East Dallas Wednesday evening of a heart at- tack. Apparently in good health, though he had been ill some weeks ago, he had gone to the barn to tie up his dog when he was strick- en. He died before he could be taken to the house or given medical aid. Born in Ceasetown [in 1881, he followed the blacksmith trade. For some years he opergted bis“ own shop in Luzerne and later“in Loyal- ville. For a time he served as road commissioner in Dallas. About six years ago he and his family moved to East Dallas where he busied himself with his flowers and garden. He was a member of Loyalville Church. Besides his wife, the former Viola Shupp of Pike's Creek, he is survived by the following children: Mrs. Hazel Kocher, Dallas; Claude of Huntington Mills, Glenn of Willjamsport, Willard of Hunlock Creek and Mrs. Donald Clemow at home. Also these brothers, Ed- ward, Melvin, Ralph of Kingston, Harry of Elmira and Sterling of Philadelphia. He leaves eight grandchildren. Funeral services will be held from the home Saturday at 2:30 in charge of Rev. Lee Brehm and Dallas Borough High School Graduating Class Left to right, first row: Jean Tre- dinnick, : Ethel Culp, Beryl Colwell, Joan Gay, Marjory Elkins, Sheila Kelly, Margaret Daring, Beverly Cundiff, Velma Payne, Nancy His- lop, Polly Lou Cooper. Second row: Paul B. Shaver, Jr., Glenn Roberts, Joseph, LeGrand, Allen Knecht, Charles Brobst, Rob- ert Broody, James Lavelle, Donald Shaffer, Ralph Harrison, William Hill Top Farm, owned by Alfred Bronson, had this float in the Sweet Valley Parade on Monday. Driving the team is Lawrence Smith, farm manager, and his father Harry Smith, while Mrs. Lawrence Smith is the milk maid. The cow is one of the farm’s pure bred Holsteins. There were more than forty floats in the parade which lasted almost an hour and a half. According to persons witnessed the ‘parade. firms. way Diner. Pennsylvania State Police, Veterans’ organizations and the bands from high schools in Shickshinny, Lehman, Dallas and Kingston Township all were received with acclaim. The pictures above are among more than 100 taken by Elwood Hudson, Post photographer. Mr. Hudson, worth of colored movie film to produce movies of the parade which will later be shown by Sweet Valley Firemen. Lehman's Mother Goose Float Pictured above is one of nine Mother Goose Scenes depicted in a series of floats which made up one of the man shows Little Miss Muffet and the giant Spider as well as Curly Locks. Mrs. Bryce Major had charge of its production. Meeker entered Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary and Ten Little Indians. The flowers in Mary’s garden were little girls in flower costumes. ton’s float showed the Days of the Week while Pike’s Creek’s entry was Old King Cole with his Fiddlers Three. Sweet Valley entered four, Peter Kettle On, Little Boy Blue and the which the old lady lived was more Farm Float In Sweet Valley Parade Granges from Jackson, Lehman, Bloom- ingdale and Roaring Brook had attractive floats as did many business One depicting a seashore resort scene was entered by the High- State Police estimate almost 10,000 with two assistants, also used $100 Intelligence Officer Capt. Alfred M. Camp of Lehigh street, Trucksville, holder of the Silver Star Medal for gallantry in action, has been assigned Intelli- gence Officer and S-2 of the 967 Armored Field Artillery Battalion, Wyoming Valley’s newest army unit to be activated here. Capt. Camp enlisted in Head- quarters Battery of the old 109th Field Artillery Regiment in June, 1931. He worked his way up through the ranks and was com- missioned Second Lieutenant in 1935 and was assigned to Battery D. He was inducted into Federal Service in 1941 with the 28th Division. He served in the Pacific Theatre of War with the 401st Field Artillery group and the 158th Regimental Combat team. Besides the Silver Star Medal, Capt. Camp holds the Bronze Star Medal, American Defense Campaign Medal, American Theatre Medal, Asiatic and Pacific Medal with Bronze Arrowhead and three Battle sections. This one entered by Leh- Lake- Peter Pumpkin Eater, Polly Put the Old Lady in A Shoe. The shoe in than 15 feet long. Irem Horse Show Is Cancelled A caldron that has been seething for some time boiled over at a bus- iness meeting of Irem Temple in Wilkes-Barre Wednesday night, and the third annual Horse Show of Irem Temple’s Mounted Patrol scheduled for July 29, 30, 31st and August 1st has been called off. For some time the Mounted Pa- trol has wanted to obtain a long term lease of the Country.~Club grounds on which the show has been held so that the Patrol could develop more ambitious plans. Those opposed to the lease con- tended that the Patrol is a part of Irem Temple and that the show has been conducted as a Temple project obstensibly for charity and Vacation Bible School Will Open June 14 Vacation Daily Bible School of Dallas Methodist Church will open Monday, June 14 at 9 o’clock and continue for two weeks. All boys and girls between the ages of four and twelve are invited. Transportation will be furnished to any young folks on the Heights who care to attend. Mrs. Edward Stair is dean of the school and head of the Junior Department. Mrs. Dan Waters is superintendent of the Primary De- partment and Mrs. Ord Trum- bower of the Kindergarten Depart- ment. Business Group To Meet There will be a meeting of Dallas Borough Business Association Mon- there is no reason for any Temple Rev. Carl Brandon. unit to act independently. day night at Back Mountain Me- morial Library. i Stars, Victory Medal and the Army of Occupation Medal. The S-2 section of an artillery battalion is an important one. This section is responsible for the sur- vey of positions and target area which is essential to make artillery fire effective. This section is also charged with the setting up and maintenance of observation posts, which without artillery would not be able to fufill its mission. The gathering of maps, overlays, keep- ing up with the friendly . and enemy situations is another im- portant function of this section. Capt. Camp is the music super- visor for Dallas Township Schools. Chief Advises On Fire Calls Procedure Outlined For Jackson People Jackson Township Volunteer Fire Department announces that its new fire truck is now available for serv- ice in the community. Chief Dennis Bonning has asked that the following procedure be followed for the guidancewof the citizens of Jackson Township and vicinity in reporting a fire. First call the Dallas operator. Second, ask for the Jackson Town- ship Volunteer Fire Department. Third, remain on the line, if pos- sible, to give the location of the fire to the perSon answering. The cooperation of all citizens in observing the above procedure will be helpful in handling these calls promptly and accurately. Train Destroys Two Car Convoys Valued At $8,000 Delbert Meade Of Sweet Valley In Altoona Hospital Damage estimated at $8,300 re- sulted when a Pennsylvania Rail- road train smashed into two convoy trucks, owned by George Wesley, Sweet Valley and Willard Suttler, Shickshinny, at 3:45 A. M., Tues- day in Tyrone, 22 miles northeast of Altoona. drivers missed the road signs and came out on a dead end road just when No. 48 passenger train came through the crossing. Herbert Ross, Shickshinny, driving Suttler’s truck jumped in time and escaped with minor bruises, but Delbert Meade, Sweet Valley, Wesley’s driver, was in his cab when the train hit and suffered a fractured collar-bone and numerous other lacerations and bruises. He is now in the hospital at Altoona. Mr. Wesley, who returned Thurs- day from a two day stay in Tyrone, where he inspected the damage and visited his driver, says that the spot where the accident occurred is one of the worst he has ever seen. The road comes to a dead end and is blind in all directions. He tells us that the accident can’t be understood unless the spot where it took place is actually seen. Wesley’s Studebaker tractor and trailer were completely demolished while Suttler’s trailer is destroyed beyond repair, but his tractor ‘sub- stained damage amounting to about $500. Mrs. Darte Gives Firemen $1,000 Schuyler Kase Will Conduct Fire School Mrs. Frank G. Darte, North River Street, Wilkes-Barre, and the owner of two properties in Jackson Township, has given Jack- son Township Volunteer Fire Com- pany a check for $1,000 to help pay for its new fire truck. Mrs. Darte’s contribution is the largest received by the company. The new equipment received much favorable comment during its first public appearance at the Sweet Valley parade on Monday. It was brought here last week from Bonning, Robert Cooper, cox and Elmer Laskowy several days of fire fights ing while in Lansing, including in- struction in combatting wood, oil, gas and electrical fires. Next meeting of the company will be held Monday night June 6 at Rome school when Schuyler Kase will be present to enroll students for a sixteen week’s State Fire Fighting School. The public as well as all members are invited to attend. To Receive Master's Degree In Retailing Miss Joan Kastor of R.D. 1, Dat) las, will be a candidate Aor the tailing at New York University’s 116th Commencement exercises to be held Wednesday morning, June 9, it was announced today by Dr. Charles M. Edwards, Dean of the New York University School of Retailing. Miss Kastor is a graduate of Cornell University where she re- ceived the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1947. Red Hot Minstrels To Show At Lehman Carverton’s Red Hot Minstrel presented by Mountain Grange on three successive nights in April to capacity audiences will be re- peated on Friday, June 18, in Leh- man High School auditorium under the auspices of the WSCS of Jack- son Methodist Church. The chorus is directed by Sam Davis. End men are Asparagus, James Sands; Beets, Steve Kitchen; Cabbage, Charles Houch; Dock, Her- man Coon; Endive, Bert Coon; Figg, Kermit Sickler. Ralph Sands is interlocutor. The trucks were headed for Tole- do, en Route to pick-#p a load of cars when due to heavy — degree of Master of Sciencé-in Re-._ .om