Editorially Speaking:
Our Public Trust
Saipan, Truk, Bikini are familiar names, but who has heard
of Lib, Ngoli, Kapingamarangi?
now the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
They are all within what is
This Trust Ter-
ritory, comprising the Marshall, Caroline, and Mariana groups
of islands, extends about a thousand miles north from the equa-
tor and includes a greater part of the area from Hawaii to the
Philippines—two million square miles of water surrounding a
myriad of tiny and larger tropical islands. Only 117 of them
are inhabited by a total of 50,000 natives of Polynesian or Mi-
Formerly under German control, they
cronesian extraction.
Tue 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. 37
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1948
6 CENTS PER COPY
DALLAS ime
LEHMAN ] 1 i 1
KINGSTON TOWNSHIP 120 {iy
JACKSON TOWNSHIP ] 2
MONROE TOWNSHIP [ 3 1
ROSS TOWNSHIP [ey
TAKE TOWNSHIP | 1 |
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP | fe 0
TOTAL on FoeN9T
were mandated to Japan following World War 1 and are now
under our official wing.
Placed under Naval Military government following the con-
clusion of World War II, a program for bettering conditions was
immediately started. Every village, no matter how small, over
this vast area, was officially visited and complete data gathered.
It was determined that what was needed was not military dom-"
ination but friendly aid and cooperation to help these people
become self-reliant, establish better health and sanitation, ele-
mentary education, safeguard their lands and resources, develop
their trade, industry and agriculture, and the physical restora-
tion of war damaged property.
For the past two years, this plan has been materializing under
the able guidance of Rear Admiral C. H. Wright.
Dubbed by
the Saturday Evening Post, “Admiral of the Atolls,” he is highly
regarded by the natives of the whole area.
Vaccination and immunization is provided. Yaws is under
control and anti-tubercular work is progressing. Native medical
and dental practitioners and nurses are being trained.
Seven
dispensaries of from 25 to 80-bed capacity are located through-
out the area.
for island schools.
A training program is supplying native teachers
A trading system provides them with needed
© goods, while at the same time marketing their produce—prin-
cipally copra and handicraft.
accomplished or underway.
These are just a few of the things
A most admirable phase of this whole program is that the
natives are not asking for or getting handouts.
We are giving
them medical assistance and help in instances of calamity, but
otherwise they are rapidly getting on their own.
A truly commendable operation, the Navy is carrying it out
speedily, efficiently, without fanfare, and withdrawing its official
hand as rapidly as circumstances permit.
FROM
PILLAR
TO POST
By Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr.
The furore about the local robberies is leaving “us pretty cold, as we
have the uneasy feeling that if robbers should awaken us in the watches
of the night to inquire as to the whereabouts of our valuables, we would
be inclined to get out of bed and help them hunt, agreeing to split every-
thing on a fifty-fifty basis. However, along the line of solid citizenship
we are parking our sawed-off
shotgun back of the kitchen door
in case of need. On general prin-
ciples, we do not care to be pushed
around.
Obviously, no burglar with a
grain of common sense would come
within a mile of a house whi
bu, gting ith small childre
would be disquieting to a
- hard-working burglar to raise a
screen and fall smack into a crib
containing all the potentialities for
a three-alarm fire.
Somehow it seems completely out
of the picture that a quiet neigh-
borhood such as Dallas should be
obliged to give serious thought to
the fastening of doors, the pur-
chase of a watchdog, and the close
scrutiny of any stranger or casual
motorist in need of directions.
Two well dressed men came to
our back door a day or so ago, in-
quiring for directions to a certain
house, and we found ourselves
looking them over pretty thorough-
ly before giving them the green
light. This atmosphere of suspic-
ion is foreign to the community at
large, and is deplorable.
According to Dr. James Hepbron,
an authority on juvenile delin-
quency as well as more mature
criminals, there is no such thing
as a criminal type. Dress any bus-
iness man in a tasty suit of stripes,
placard him with a long serial
number, take his picture fore aft
and amidships, and you will have
an exhibit that will cause any
group of club women to gasp at
its sinister appearance. Most
criminals look exactly like other
folks. If they could school them-
selves to act completely casual,
they would get by indefinitely un-
less caught red-handed in the act.
Dr. Hepbron himself posed for
such a picture, garbing himself for
the experiment in a suit of stripes
going round and round instead of
up and down. This picture, slip-
ped into a folder containing pic-
tures of bona fide criminals and ex-
hibited to various organizations,
brought forth varied reactions.
Whereas some of the criminals
were passed as looking like solid
citizens, the faked picture invari-
ably evoked shakings of the heads.
Surely this was the portrait of an
arch criminal, a big time forger, a
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Executive Committee
‘To Map PTA Programs
Dallas Township Parent Teacher
Association will hold its first meet-
ing on Monday evening, September
20, under the leadership of Clarence
Laidler.
Members of the executive com-
mittee composed of Mr. Laidler,
president; Raymond Kuhnert, sec-
retary, and Mrs. Paul Goddard,
treasurer, will meet Tuesday night
to map programs for the year.
Heads New Department
Miss Bettie Sullivan of Goss
Manor, Dallas, has been engaged
to introduce the new Commercial
Department of Lake Township
High School. Miss Sullivan is a
graduate of Misericordia College in
1946. Since then she has con-
tinued her study at Misericordia
Summer School and also at Wilkes
College. During the time she was
attending Misericordia she
numerous offices, chief of which
were: Teachers’ Bulletin Staff,
Thinker’s Digest Staff, member and
officer of the Secretarial Science
Club and also the Glee Club. Since
graduation she has taught for two
years in the Kingston Borough
School. Most of her time was oc-
cupied by the teaching of Com-
mercial Business subjects in the
Veterans’ Business School at Kings-
ton. At Lake Township she will
teach the commercial subjects and
will be affiliated with the year-
book.
With the addition of the Com-
mercial Department to the course
of study, the Lake Township School
rounds out a complete program of
studies including Vocational Home
Economics and Agriculture together
with Practical Arts and all sub-
jects required by the State De-
partment in the Junior High
School. A student now has a choice
of four fields of study in the Senior
High School: General, Academic,
Vocational, and Commercial.
Made Lieutenant
(Special to The Dallas Post)
Harrisburg, September 8—(PNS)
The appointment of 1st. Lt.
‘Harry B. Williams, Luzerne avenue,
Dallas to that rank in the Pennsyl-
vania National Guard and his as-
signment as assistant S-2, and Re-
connaissance and Survey Officer,
967th Armed FA Battalion, has
been announced by the State De-
partment of Military Affairs.
held!
Police Have
No New Clues
To Robberies
Eight Homes And
One Business Place
Entered In 8 Days
State, Borough and Township
police are on the alert for the
clues that will lead to the ap-
prehension of house breakers who
have kept the Back Mountain
Region on edge for the past two
weeks. #4
But up wp press time yesterday
they had be 516" to uncover
a single lead or get a good des-
cription of what the intruder or
intruders might look like.
The pattern of the crimes in all
instances was the same. Only those
houses were entered where occu-
pants were away.
Retracing the pattern since Sun-
day August 28 police found:
Murray Scureman home. on
Huntsville Road, entered sometime
between 10 AM. and 12:30 P.M.
Sunday. Entrance made by cutting
window screen in front of open
window on side porch in full view
of surrounding homes, but con-
cealed by a porch screen behind
which intruders worked. Camera
and small amount of change taken.
All dresser, and desk drawers
opened and ransacked but returned
to original condition to allay
suspicion. Mattresses and pillows
lifted on all beds.
The home of Mrs. Lewis Culp,
opposite the Christian Church at
Huntsville, was entered sometime
between Sunday noon, August 29
and last Saturday while she was
visiting her son, Lewis in New
Jersey. When she came home
Saturday she discovered that
thieves had gone through dresser
drawers and had visited eyery
room in the house including the
third floor. Taken was a strong
box containing the deed to her
property, title to her son’s auto-
mobile, and defense bonds.
The thieves cleverly replaced a
broken lock and surrounding wood
in the front of one of her bureau
drawers so that she was unware
that it had been entered until the
lock’ fell out at her touch.
Entry is believed to have been
means of a skeleton key which the |
thieves also used to lock the door!
when they departed. Screen doors |
-on all other doors were hooked
from the inside, Mrs. Culp said.
It is believed that the robbery
was committed shortly after Mrs. |
Culp left her home on Sunday and |
probably after the Scureman rob- |
bery and before the thieves visited
the Edwards home. Mrs. Culp lives |
on a side road which would have
been natural route from Dallas to
the Edwards place for those who
wished to avoid the main ro
Harry Edwards home at Hunts- |
ville entered between 12:30 P.M.
and 7:30 P.M. same day. Entry:
made by a skeleton key. Dresser |
and desk drawers opened and’
ransacked. New Bell and Howell
motion picture camera: and $80
taken. :
Frank Gossart home in Jackson
Township entered between 11:30
AM. and 10:30 P.M. Entry made
in side door. Foodstuffs in refrig-
erator consumed. Nothing else dis-
covered missing.
Velton Bean home further down
the road from Gossart place. Here
thieves attempted to make entry
between 3 P.M. and 7:30 P.M. Sun-
day by cutting wire screen on back
door. Nothing taken. Intruders were
apparently frightened by the ap-
proach of Albert Splitt, Mr. Bean's
stepfather who saw a man who had
been cutting the screen run from
the back porch. Mr. Splitt had
come across the fields to visit his
stepson. |
Home of Dennis Bonning, Jack-
son Township constable, was enter- |
ed sometime Sunday. Entry made
through a door. Several dollars in
change stolen from a church bank.
Although several persons along
the route, which led in a straight
line to the Nanticoke-Lake Silk-
worth road, said they saw two
suspicious characters walking along
the road, none could give a clear
description.
Friday afternoon, some one
entered the home of Frank Warner
on Pioneer Avenue while the family
was in the backyard and stole
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made through the back door by|
Posts $1,500 As
Bail For Fraud
Mrs. Gertrude Howey
Operated “Gift Shops”
A former Dallas and Shavertown
“gift shop” operator is ats liberty
under $1,500 bail posted last week
before United States Commissioner
Harry A. Kolb in Scranton for her
appearance in Eastern District Fed-
eral Court in Philadelphia.
The woman is Mrs. Gertrude
Howey, 42, alias Gertrude Howe,
alias Gertrude Transue, of Main
Road, Shavertown. :
Postal Inspector Charles R. Reese
is the prosecutor.
She arged with obtaining
large qugfntities of merchandise
from Phfladelphia stores through a
schem¢ designed to establish false
credit ner" |
Her operations for a number of
years were public knowledge in
Dallas and much of the merchan-
dise she received from manufactur-
ers and distributors was sold not
in her “gift shops” but to second
hand dealers and others in Wyo-
ming Valley.
Mrs. Howey was indicted at the
April term of Federal Court in
Philadelphia and a warrant for her
removal was received in Scranton
on May 21.
She was found on May 24 in
Nesbitt Memorial Hospital where
Deputy U. S. Marshal E. A. Cor-
coran said he was informed she
was suffering from a “tumor”.
Her attorney, John A. Gallagher
of Wilkes-Barre promised to pro-
duce her when her condition per-
mitted.
Harness Purses
Almost $50,000
Bloomsburg. Fair
Opens September 27
Ninety-fourth Bloomsburg Fair,
opens September 27_.and continues
night and {ooy thfough Saturday,
October 2. A
During t
summer, extensive
‘improvements were made to the
grounds, and additional land added
to the parking lot. This lot, in-
cidentally, is ribboned with stone
roads so that cars cannot become
mired. New light towers have
been erected that will turn night
into day for fair parkers.
The night revue will be staged
this year by George A. Hamid. His
“Grandstand Follies” promises to
be one of the finest shows ever
attempted in this section.
Nearly - $50,000 in harness rac-
ing purses will be awarded, with
the four stake racing events for
two and three-year-olds, totaling
‘almost $40,000, making this the
largest racing purse ever offered
in Pennsylvania. Racing starts
Tuesday and continues through Fri-
day, with two stake races presented
on Tuesday and Wednesday after-
| hoons.
Endy Brothers Carnival will set
up on the Midway.
Entries in all departments in-
dicate a record-breaking Blooms-
burg Fair this year.
Workman Killed Luzerne & Wyoming Milk Producers
In Plunge From Want Commission's Ruling Corrected
120-Foot Stack
Brother-In Law In
Serious Condition
At Neshitt Hospital
, Wantaco,
stantly killed
er-in-law, Francis
Bradley, 40, also of Wantaco, was
seriously injured Wednesday morn-
ing in a 120-foot plunge from the
top of the new twin stack being
completed at Natona Mills.
Cedarblade was unmarried and a
veteran of World War II. Both
men were employed by the Amer-
ican Chimney Company of New
York and have had years of ex-
perience in their line of work.
Bradley is in critical condition
at Nesbitt Memorial Hospital. He
has a deep cut in the head and
other injuries, the extent of which
have not yet been determined.
The two men were working on
a platform on the top of the stack
which would have been completed
in a day or two. Cederblade was
on the outside of the stack and
his brother-in-law was on the in-
side.
Assisting them on the ground
handling bricks and mortar were:
Roscoe Ray, 39, 274 West 140th
street,” New York City; Henry
Dorsey, 35 3734 N. 15th street,
Philadelphia, and James Jones, 25,
271 Lincoln street, Wilkes-Barre.
All colored.
Bricks and mortar were hoisted
to the bricklayers at the top of
the stack by means of two buckets
inside the stack which were at-
tached by ropes to the cross arm
of a ‘“gin-pole” which in turn was
fastened for several feet down the
inside of the top of the stack.
Power to hoist the buckets was
supplied by a horse hitched to
ropes which ran from the buckets
up through the stack to pulleys on
the “gin-pole” thence back down
the stack to other pulleys and
through a manhole to the hitch on
the horse.
As Cedarblade and Bradley con-
tinued their work on their lofty
perches, the ground crew filled the
buckets and gave the signal for
the horse to hoist the load.
The stack is about ten feet in
diameter at the base and four and
a half feet at the top. Up its en-
tire height on the inside are iron
rungs at two foot intervals in the
bricks so that workmen can climb
to the top of the stack.
As the driver signaled the horse,
the buckets moved up the stack
until one of them apparently caught
on a protruding rung. The horse
continued to strain at the tugs,
weakening the “gin-pole” at the
top where it was attached to some
of the most recently laid bricks.
The bricks gave way under the
pressure and the scaffold supported
by the bricks suddenly collapsed.
Cedarblade grasped to support him-
self on the “gin-pole” which had
already given away and the two
men plunged 120 feet to the
ground.
The driver of the horse sensing
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i rows «sone ai 52 Supervisors Take First Steps
‘Toward Zoning Dallas Township
First steps toward establishment
of a zoning commission in Dallas
Township were taken at a meeting
of Township Supervisors on Friday
night at the home of H. J. Major.
Clarence Laidler, president of
Dallas Township Parent-Teacher
Association, was appointed tem-
porary chairman of a mass meeting
of all township property owners to
be held Tuesday night, September
28, in Dallas Township High School
Auditorium.
At that time all residents will
be given an opportunity to express
their opinions on zoning and town-
ship planning and if enough people
are in favor, the Supervisors will
appoint a commission composed of
five citizens to draft zoning regu-
lations for the township.
Discussing the forthcoming meet-
ing, Mr. Laidler said: “Act No. 567
passed by the recent Legislature,
makes it possible for the super-
visors of second class townships to
appoint their own zoning com-
mission. This commission can set
up different zoning regulations for
differént sections of the township.
a zoning in second class
townships was handled by the
County Commissioners, now all that
is changed; we can set up our own
regulations to meet our own needs.
I cannot stress too much how im-
portant it is for every interested
citizen to attend the meeting on
September 28.”
Mr. Laidler recalled that only a
few months ago property owners
living in the vicinity of DeMunds
were perturbed by the rumor that
a fertilizer firm was about to est-
ablish a plant there. “There was
nothing these citizens: could do,
Mr. Laidler said, ‘because Dallas
Township had no zoning ordinance.
They did go to Allentown to fore-
stall the firm; but had the company
decided to establish a plant in
Dallas’ Township everybody would
have had to take it and like it.”
“With the growth of this com-
munity we need some sort of
regulation on unrestricted develop-
ment. Zoning will make it possible
for all of us to get along together.”
——
Between 300 and 400 Dairy Farmers Expected
To Attend Meeting At Lehman Monday Night
Council Cuts
Debt To $2,000
Kulp Seeks Extension
Of Pine Crest Avenue
Dallas Borough Council author-
ized the payment of $5,000 on its
17,000 obligation at First National
Bank, Tuesday night at a meeting
in Back Mountain Memorial Lib-
rary.
The payment reduces to $2,000
the $14,000 indebtedness incurred
a few years ago to resurface streets
after the W. P. A. constructed
storm sewers.
Council also approved payment
of current bills in the amount of
$1,088.33.
7 ;
Arthur Dgngey, tax collector, re-
ported colléctions on the current
duplicate ami ing to $8,787.98.
$350 was also received from the
State Liquor Control Board as a
refund from local liquor licenses.
2
Burgess George Williams reported
thirteen arrests Chief of Police
Russell Honeywell made for traffic
law violations. Four were fined
$5 each and one fined $1. $21 was
turned over to Council.
Justice-of-the Peace James Be-
secker turned in $25 from fines
received from arrests brought in
by State Police.
Petition was read from residents
of Lake street requesting installa-
tion of a street light. A request
was also read from Douglas Kulp
to have the extension of Pine
Crest Avenue taken over by the
Borough and made into a hard
surface street. Mr. Kulp said. that
he will build two $12,000 homes
there on eighty foot lots as soon
as the street is completed. "The
matter was referred to the street
committee.
Bids were received for surfacing
material for repair of Center Hill
Road this fall. A resolution was
passed to rent County Road re-
pair equipment wherever possible.
All members of Council were
present with the exception of Wil-
liam Davis.
Two Youths Killed
When Car Hits Tree
Two young men were killed and
a third injured Friday night at
Orange when the automobile in
which they were returnifig from an
outing at Perrins Marsh weheBut |
of control on a steep ill and
crashed into a tree on a curve.
The dead were: Jerome: Chernef-
ski, 21, Dupont, and Cyril Chormey,
23, Duryea. Not seriously injured
was Francis Hantz, 21, Duryea. He
was treated at Pittston Hospital.
The car was traveling at high
speed when it hit the tree near
the main intersection of the roads
leading to Center Moreland and
West Wyoming.
Both youths who remained in
the car were instantly killed.
Hantz’s life probably was spared
by the fact that he was thrown
from the car before it struck the
tree. : ’
State Policemen John J. Laskos
and James Klass investigated.
Firemen Get $100
A score or more of applicants
for membership will be voted upon
at tonight's meeting of Dr. Henry
M. Laing Fire Company.
Witihin the past few weeks many
new residents of the community
have filed their applications for
membership. ;
The membership will also be ad-
vised that Col. Dorrance Reynolds
has contributed a check of $100
to the company in appreciation for
its services at the time the matern-
ity barn on Goodleigh Farm was
damaged by fire.
New Beauty Shop
Mrs. Mildred Richards Ljites ‘who
with her family has spen i the past
nineteen years in EndicofgeN. Y.,
has returned to Lutes Corners,
Monroe Township, where she has
opened a new beauty shop.
She is a graduate of the Derma
Milk producers of Luzerne and
Wyoming Counties will meet in
Lehman High School auditorium
Monday night at 9:00 D.S.T.
All producers are invited to at-
tend to hear reports on develop-
ments attending the protest regis-
tered with the Pennsylvania Milk
Control Commission on milk price.
The Commission at a public hear-
ing in Lackawanna Court House,
Scranton on June 18 heard testi-
mony by Pennsylvania State Col-
lege economists that the average
cost to produce 100 pounds of 3.5
milk was 6.04% cents and agreed
in a tentative order to a $6.15
Class I price for Northeastern Penn-
sylvania. This order was later re-
voked by the Commission in a split
decision and the price set at $5.70
34% cents below cost of produc-
tion.
1500 Farmers Protest
Northeastern producers called a
protest meeting in Scranton on
August 17th with 1500 in attend-
ance and demanded the removal
of two Commissioners; appointed
a committee to see the Governor;
directed that the producers rees-
tablish the $6.15 price by direct
action.
The producers committee has
acted as directed snd committee
members will report on progress
made in pricing; Se ir of the
conference with Governor Duff and
steps to be taken to guarantee the
removal of Commissioner Snyder
and O’Laughlin.
Shipping Wisconsin Milk
Milk producers in this area are
a part of the New York City me-
tropolitan area milk shed. This
area is six million quarts per month
short of supply now and milk from
Wisconsin is drawn upon to meet
the area needs. Wisconsin is
Chicago shed area and the Federal
price there is 6.15. This puts Wis-
sonsin milk in New York at $8.15
due to shipping charges. While
the actual return to the farmer
here is not the Class I price but a
blend price for July of $4.18 per
100 or $1.23 below cost.
Farm Costs Up
Advancing operating costs out of
proportion to increased return have
milk producers here worried. It is
responsible for the keen interest
shown by the committee members,
dealers and producers alike in all
steps being taken to end political,
bureaucratic, and arbitrary control
of the life of 6500 producers of
milk in the nine county area, con-
cerned with the decision, by just
two men who choose to ignore the
evidence of fact.
The program as being developed
for the meeting will embrace a
break down analysis of costs; haul-
ing and actual return. A series
of resolutions will be offered and
future course of action plotted by
the producers assembled all to the
end that an orderly supply of milk
shall be assured for the area.
Legion Carnival
Attracts Crowds
Prizes To Be Chanced
Oft Saturday Evening
Scores of exciting gifts, among
them a Columbia bicycle valued at
$60, a wool blanket of well known
brand, baskets of groceries and a
large tiered cake made by Ss.
Millie Smith will be chanced{off at
the American Legion carnival on
the Oliver lot Saturday evening
between the hours of 10 and 11
o’clock.
The carnival, replete with enter-
tainment for old and young, has
been drawing large crowds every
night this week.
Bob Brown, Dallas’ foremost chef,
has been working at top - speed
concocting his famous barbecue
sauce for the hot dog stand. The
Ladies Auxiliary have beeen bak-
ing cakes and furnishing the
goodies for their refreshment stand.
Al Davis and Al Jones have been
busy taking in the money for the
amusements and Bob Moore, gen-*
eral chairman of the affair, Bill
Baker, treasurer, Harold Brobst,
Tom Reese Jr., Paul Klug, Bob
Price, have been doing the heavy
work.
hand every night to do what the
others forgot to do.
Way Beauty School in Elmira, N.Y.
Frank Ferry has been on