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The American System Of Government
Why should any one waste their time, or breath on "State
Rights” and “White Supremacy?”
It is a tragedy that these
live and bitter questions are being made an issue in the South.
The fundamental responsibilities of the National Government
remain today as they were set
Jefferson and their co-founders.
All the States have their rights'—but they have no right to
defy the higher authority of the United States Government. The
forth by Washington, Adams,
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rights of all of us were ratified by the 13 original States,, includ-
ing Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia.
The powers and ambitions of the Government are definitely
stated in the preamble of the Constitution, which reads: “We,
the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect
Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide
for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure
the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our postrity, do ordain
and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
The Constitution clearly defines the purposes of Congress and
the Administration, which gives the Federal Government su-
preme, definite powers.
The so-called ten Original Amendments
were made in December 1791 in order to patch up a few loop
holes in the original draft of the Constitution.
But we cannot overlook the fact that at the conclusion of the
war between the States that the continued insistence, down to
1948, of the South on “State Rights” was a challenge to the
authorities of our Federal Government.
We owe it to ourselves to recognize that the war between the
States was a great mistake.
Grant and Lee lamented the supreme
tragedy when they sat down at Appomattox and arranged a just
peace which they believed would reunite the North and the
South.
But in the present campaign some of the Southern States are
still in rebellion and have gone off the handle in insisting upon
misnamed = “State Rights” and
“White Supremacy.” These
partisans who have broken away from the Democratic and Re-
publican parties never have chummed around socially with the
Negroes—because they don’t want to.
care to chum around with the Whites.
And the Negroes don’t
So ‘let them keep their old-fashioned rebel notions—providing
they ‘administer their authority over the States, given to them
by the Founders of our country.
The National Government belongs to all the people and when
Governor Thurmond of South Carolina explains his issues any
true American has a right to call him and his followers Unrecon-
structed Rebels.
The Thurmond party is doing nothing worth
while by making its attacks upon the Federal Government.
FROM.
PILLAR TO POST
By Mgrs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr.
This is a plea for common humanity to redheads.
There is a firmly rooted myth that children born with red hair ard
born with tempers to match, and amused bystanders are on the watch
for proof.
Actually, of course, a child born with something unusual in
the way of pigmentation is born with the same manners and morals as
children with less eye-arresting at-
tractions, but friends and relatives
i rimisee- to it thatv thi Bari stete old
unawareness is not allowed to con-
tinue.
Try taking a copper-haired child
into a store. The most harmless
salute is “Hi, Red”. The child has
been prepared for this tribute to
his thatch, and takes it in his
stride. But there is always and
forever some well-meaning woman
who pauses as if by compulsion,
ruffles the hair, sighs gustily and
enviously, and gives tongue. Some-
times the remark is' innocuous,
something like, “My, I'd ‘give a mil-
lion for hair like that.” Then, by
a natural progression of thought,
“Where did you get that hair, little
boy ?"
Now it is reasonable to
that a brunette leading a
infer
red-
haired child probably has a red-|
headed husband somewhere in the
background, the endelian Law
being what it is, but people deal
in the obvious. Once more the
child has been prepared, and he
states, with boredom but with suf-
ficient politeness, “My daddy has
red hair.”
But there is no known method
of preparing him for remarks: such
as, “Gosh, what a mop”.
That exclamation, born of aston-
ishment and envy, registers on the
child as a criticism of his looks.
He hds no way of knowing that
the well meaning lady means to
imply that the mop is gorgeous.
Repeated often enough and by en-
ough different people, it bites into |.
the inner poise, and presently the
victim views approaching strangers |
with something like animosity,
“Here it comes again”, he reflects,
noting the hypnotized gleam in
the eye, the hovering hand, and
he ducks.
Take it from one who knows,
children do not like to be touched
by strangers. Be as wary about
laying your hand on a strange
child as upon a strange dog.
Many adults are convinced that
children are not only blind but
deaf, and they make remarks about
a child's appearance in the same
tone in which they would discuss
the statuary in a public park. Chil-
dren are people. They have feel-
ings. They are hypersensitive to
anything that smacks of criticism.
They are learning painfully to bridge
the gap between the loving secur-
ity of family life and the hard-
boiled attitude of the wide wide
world. It does them inner damage
to suspect that they are being rid-
-iculed. Remarks about personal ap-
pearance are invariably translated
as ridicule.
When my father was a little boy,
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Parade Wii I
Bicycle Class
Dancing And Singing
Will Follow Parade
A new class of competition for
entries in the Hallowe'en parade in
Dallas next Saturday night was
announced today by Henry Peter-
son. Prizes will be awarded ,for
entries with the best decorated
bicycles and trigycles.
Therd will be’ group singing after
the parade, and Main Street will
be blocked 4ff from Mill Street to
Memorial Highway to permit street
dancing.
Refreshments will be served to
all children and students participa-
ting in the parade.
An open invitation to all children
and students in the entire Back
Mountain area to take part in the
parade is extended by the parade
committee. :
Present plans call for the parade
to start at 6:45 P. M. sharp.
Book Club Buys
New Silverware
Mrs. Haycox Reviews
White House Diary
Book Club of Back Mountain Me-
morial Library met Wednesday
afternoon at the Library.
A column of news for the Post
was discussed and members worked
‘on designs for a heading. All mem-
bers were asked to contribute
ideas.
Trays, spoons and . forks were
purchased for serving refreshments
to members at meetings.
Mrs. Harris Haycox gave a well
received review of a ‘White House
Diary” by Henrietta Nesbitt.
Mrs. C. N, Booth, who recently
returned from Turkey and Italy,
will talk on her travels/at the next
meeting, which will*be open to
any one who wishes to attend.
Tea and cookies were served to
the following: Mrs. Edgar Brace,
Mrs. H. W. Peterson, Mrs. N. T.
Berti, Mrs. Fred Howell, Mrs, Harris
Haycox, Mrs. A. D. Hutchinson,
Mrs. L. Kear, Mrs. C. N. Booth,
Mrs. J. Stanley Reinhimer,
C. L. Albert, Mrs. Harry Ohlman,
Mrs. Hugh Murray, Mrs. L. W. Le-
Grand, Mrs. Theodore Poad, Mrs.
Laverne Lacy, Mrs. Dana Crump, | Clark, Mrs. Alden Dietz, Mrs. Char-
Mrs. William Deibert, Miss Miriam
| Lathrop, and Miss M. E. Gates.
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Mrs. |
| Enlowing assisting: Mrs. Harry
Vol. 58, No. 43
School To Tax.
Highway Signs
Tax Ranges From $25
To $120 Per Sign
In an attempt to raise further
revenues to help finance Kingston
Township School District's new
school cafeteria, the Board of Direc-
tors has added billboards and signs
along the public highways to its
list of items that will be taxed.
Revenue from this source.’alone
is expected to rum more than $3,000
annually. Conservative” estimates
place the number of" billboards in
the township #f more than 100.
All billboards, highway signs or
advertisements up to ten square
feet will be taxed $25 annually;
signs ten square feet to twenty
square feet will be taxed $50. Those
above twenty square feet will be
taxed $120.
The School Board has filed its
intention and has instructed its
solicitor Atty. William Valentine to
advertise that it will hold a special
meeting on Wednesday, November
18 to pass the resolution imposing
new taxes for general school pur-
poses.
Included will be a 10c per ton
tax on all coal prepared, mined,
stripped or sold in the township.
There will also be a 10 per cent
tax on all amusements, and a $25
flat tax on all coin and non-coin
operated amusement machines, in-
cluding pool tables and shuffle
boards.
Deisel Engine
Hits Eck’s Car
No Flagman Was At
Shavertown Crossing
Frederick J. Eck, cashier of First
National Bank, Dallas, narrowly
escaped injury Wednesday after-
noon when his gar was struck by
a deisel locomotive ofthe Lehigh
Valley Railroad, at the Center street
crossing in Shavertown.
Mr, Eck was on his way home
for lunch when the engine, re-
turning,to the main line from a
siding, hit the right rear side of
his car.
The siding, directly alongside a
building of the Shavertown Build-
er’s Supply Company, is completely
blind for any one going up Center
Street.
Don Casterline, an employee of
the building company who saw the
accident, said there was no flag-
man at the crossing, and that the
engineer did not blow the whistle
for the crossing.
Mr. Eck did not see the engine
until he was on the crossing. His
car had enough forward momentum
that, after the crash, it continued
along the road for a short dis-
tance. The engine, though travel-
ing slowly, could not stop in time
to prevent the collision.
The crew of the train, engineer
John Coleman and conductor
George Dombert, said the whistle
was blown for the crossing. |
Damage to the car was estimated |
at $50.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1948
Joseph MacVeigh, Chairman, Discusses Plans For Navy Week
Back Mountain Folk Take Active
6 CENTS PER COPY
Interest In Plans For Navy Week
Joseph MacVeigh, Center Hill
hands with Captain V. E. Korns,
Road Dallas, is pictured shaking
director of Naval Reserve in the
Fourth Naval District, prior to a discussion of Navy Day plans of
which Mr, MacVeigh is general chairman.
Left to right, are Lt. (jg) Robert®
W. Davis, head of the Battalion
18 Naval Reserve Band; Lt. Edward
J. Rowan, communications officer
of the battalion; Mr. MacVeigh
Captain Korns, Captain H. R. Stev-
ens, director of Welfare and Train-
ing for: the Naval Reserve in the
Fourth Naval District, and Lt. John
F. Kenny, inspector-instructor at
the Naval Training Center in Kings-
ton and an administrative assistant
in the Fourth Naval District. Lt.
Kenny is a resident of Shavertown.
Captain Korns informed Mr. Mac-
Veigh that Rear Admiral Charles
C. Hartman would come to Wyom-
ing Valley for the Navy Week ok-
servance which begins Sunday with
Open House at the Naval Training
Center in Kingston. Admiral Hart-
man, USN, assistant Chief of Naval
Personnel, will speak at a joint-
luncheon of Wilkes-Barre Kiwanis
and Rotary Clubs Tuesday after-
noon, October 26.
Members of the Dallas Kiwanis
club will honor the Navy at the
organization’s weekly meeting
Thursday night, October 28 at Irem
Temple Country Club. Mr. Mac-
Veigh, Lt. Cmdr. Joseph E. Fay,
commanding officer of Battalion 18,
and Lt. Kenny will be the speakers.
Irem Temple Country Club will
be the setting for the Navy Ball
on Wednesday, October 27—Navy
Day.
Mr. MacVeigh today issued an
invitation to all residents of the
Back Mountain region to attend
the Open House on Sunday at the
Naval Training Center at the corn-
er of West Bennett street and Mer-
cer avenue in Kingston.
“The Back Mountain region has
‘a large representation of men in
Raise Funds For
Salvation Army
William A. Austin
Heads Beaumont Unit
“Results have been excellent on
the personal appeal for funds to
The Salvation Army by our Beau-
mont Service Unit Committee” re-
ports William A. Austin, chairman.
The Army has established in
Beaumont and Monroe Township a
unit which handles its own portion
of funds raised on the campaign,
conducts its own health and wel-
fare program and officially repre-
sents The Army in this district.
A goodly percentage of every
dollar collected will remain here.
The good which will be done with
these funds cannot be recounted
in newsprint. Shoes, clothing and
food, are but a few of the many
uses to which the money will be
put. The committee urges all per-
sons contacted to give generously
to help the needy in the area.
The committee comprises Mr.
Austin as chairman, Mrs. William
A. Austin as treasurer with the
les Smith, Mrs. Hope Smith, and
Mrs. Dorothy Johnson.
Battalion 18 and the facilities for
their training will be open to the
public for inspection at Open
House,” Mr. MacVeigh explained.
He said the Open House event will
begin shortly after noon on Sun-
day and continue until 5:30 in the
evening.
Mr. MacVeigh is being assisted
in the Navy Week observance plans
by a number of Back Mountain re-
gion residents, including Donald
Evans, Church street; John Coon,
Overbrook avenue; George Gleason,
Shrineview; John C. Bush, Church
Street; Thomas BE. Heffernan,
Huntsville; Howard W. Risley,
Huntsville Road; W. Rodman Derr,
Center Hill Road; George Mascolini,
Fernbrook; Donald E. Davis, Center
Hill Road; and Durelle T. Scott, Jr.,
Huntsville Road.
Mayor Luther T. Kniffen of
Wilkes-Barre is honorary chairman
of Navy Week.
Bert Smith Has Birthday
Former Burgess Herbert A. Smith
celebrated a birthday anniversary
on Tuesday, He and Grace have
been identifieds with this commun-
ity for the “ years
thirty-five, but
whatever/t niversary The Post
wishes him well ‘and many con-
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- tinuous returns of the day.
(Great Eduardo
At Lake Party
Hallowe'en Program
Scheduled Wednesday
Lake Township High School will
sponsor a Hallowe'en party Wed-
nesday in the High School Audi-
torium beginning at 7:30 p. m.
The Grand Parade will get under
way at 8 and will be divided into
four parts: grade one through
grade five; grade six through grade
nine; grade ten and up; teams—
this group will consist of any group
of two or more.
Many good and substantial prizes
are being offered for the best char-
acterization, funniest, most attrac-
tive or prettiest, homeliest, and
most original.
In order to get refreshments it
will be necessary to present a ticket
at the refreshment stands, of which
there will be four. Each of these
stands will be decorated in four
different colors, red, green, yellow,
and white, to correspond to similar
color tickets to be given at the door.
The music for the March and as
part of the program .will be pro-
vided by Ruggles €6mmunity Band.
Immediately“following the parade
will besthe special attraction of
the evening, magic by The Great
Eduardo, who will be present with
his magic team and equipment.
Eduardo has shown in this locality
and over an extensive area for
many years and is considered as
one of the best in his profession.
Protective Association
To Meet Thursday Night
Back Mountain Protective Associ-
ation will meet Thursday night at
8 at Dallas Township High School
to discuss its plan of attack against
higher water rates charged by Dal-
las and Shavertown Water Com-
panies.
An examiner of the Public Utility
Commission will sit at, Luzerne
County Court House on November,
18 to take testimony on consumer
protests.
Oil Tank Explodes
August (Gus) Walters, owner of
Dallas Portable Welding Company;
received injuries to the face ahd
both arms last Friday aft oon,
when the fuel oil tank on which
he was working exploded.
Gus was working at the home of
Dr. Preston J. Sturdevant at Hunts-
ville, when the heat of his torch
caused oil vapors to explode with
such a force that the huge lid of
the tank was blown 100 feet up
the side of the hill.
The explosion set fire to a near-
by tool house and The Dr. Henry
M. Laing Fire Company of Dallas
responded.
Fire Chief James Besecker esti-
mated damage to the tank and
building at $600.
[Township PTA
Hears Reports
Votes To Pay $2635
Balance on Uniforms
Monthly meeting of Dallas-
Franklin Township Parent Téachers
Association was held/Monday night
with a large. attendance of mem-
bers. /
~ The necessary
being done so t
chased record pla may be put
to use. A large portfolio of records
will be purchased so that the ma-
chine can be used for instruction
in the first to ninth grades.
$5.00 was voted to the Hal-
lowe’en Parade in Dallas,
It was reported that more than
$500.00 was on hand from the
recent Country Fair. Miss Kist-
ler’s class was the first one to re-
port a 100% enrollment of parents
in the PTA.
The new band uniforms were on
display and received many favor-
able comments. Since only a bal-
ance remained of $265 necessary
to complete the payment of a total
bill of $2,591 for fifty-five uniforms
the PTA voted the sum of $265.
There now remains a canvass to
complete payment for five addition-
al uniforms. Raising of this large
sum is an indication of what a
strong community organization can
do when it is faced with a chal-
lenge.
An opportunity to inspect the
newly equipped Home Economics
room was given parents. Miss Gene
Hart recent winner of the Parade
of Progress college scholarship was
honored guest and gave a brief
summary of her winning essay.
Following the business meeting
the movie “Pennsylvania” was
shown.
The next meeting will beé held
November 15 when teachers will be
in their rooms at 7:30 to interview
parents following the receipt of
report cards.
Five Named On
Zoning Board
Township Group Will
Organize Wednesday
Five men have been appointed to
Dallas Township Zoning and Plan-
ning Board according to ah an-
nouncement made thi eek by
the Township Supervisors.
They 7 are Clarence Laidler,
Pioneer Avenue, chairman Charles
W. Lee, Hay’s Corners; Walter Els-
ton, Kunkle; Arch Brooks, West
Dallas, and Paul Warriner, De-
Munds.
Members of the Board represent
all sections of the township. Their
duties will be to draw up a zon-
ing ordinance for approval by. the
Supervisors and the electorate.
Later a three-man Board of Re-
view will be appointed.
Chairman Laidler has called an
organization of the Board for
Wednesday evening at Irem Temple
Country Club.
Appointments were made last
Thursday night by supervisors, H.
J. Major, Charles Martin and John
Jerista meeting at the Major home.
DALLAS | 2 | 11
LEHMAN | 1 | 1
KINGSTON TOWNSHIP | 20 4
JACKSON TOWNSHIP | 2
MONROE TOWNSHIP | 3 1
ROSS TOWNSHIP | 2
LAKE TOWNSHIP | 1 |
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP | | 2
TOTAL | 31 | 19
Many Hunters
Take To Woods
On Opening Day
Game Protectors
Report Woodcock
. Bnd Doves Plentiful
Northeastern Pennsylvanid' hunt-
ers enjoyed a fine opefiing day’s
shooting of woodco and doves
last Saturday accofding to reports
vania Game Commission at Forty
Fort.
Reports from the District Game
Protectors indicate that there were
many native or local birds avail-
able. It is doubted that the flight
birds have arrived from the North
yet. The fact that doves remained
for the opening day provided some
real sport. The early opening day
and the mild weather kept them
here.” Usually, doves are gone be-
fore Pennsylvania hunters have an
opportunity to bag them. The
woodcock and dove season will
continue until November 7.
Daily bag limits are 4 birds for
woodcock and ten for the dove.
Two days’ possession limit is per-
mitted. Shooting hours are one-
half hour before sunrise to sunset.
Hunters are urged to read the reg-
ulations provided with the hunting
license.
Shotguns, pump action type, must
be plugged so that they are not
capable of holding more than three
shells. This applies to migratory
bird hunting only. Pump shot guns
btised for hunting small game need
not be plugged, but may not con-
tain more than three shells. Duck
and goose hunters will go into ac-
tion beginning at noon on October
15th.
Stainbrook, stated that many
hunters are neglecting to wear red
or some color that will be seen
by the other fellow. Due to the
warm weather, many were seen
wearing tan and other blending
colors. One hunting accident was
reported, when a woodcock was
shot at while in line with another
hunter. Careless and thoughtless
hunters can expect the full penal-
ties of the law, according to Stain-
brook.
Judge James C. McCready, Pres-
ident Judge, Carbon County recent-
ly handed down a decision after
hearing a case of shooting human
beings in mistake for game. Judge
McCready sentenced Allen T. Noth-
stein, Weissport, to pay all hos-
pital expenses, wages lost, a fine
of $200, loss of hunting privileges
for a five year period and one year
in jail for shooting Elmer H. Sch-
weibinz, also of Weissport, in mis-
take for a groundhog. The jail
term was suspended.
Builds Hotel
Beyond Kunkle
Two-Story Structure
Will Have 16 Rooms
A two-story brick hotel is being
constructed just north of Kunkle
on Route 309 by Peter MaSonis,
Luzerne restauranteur.
and steel construction faced with
red brick, and will have sixteen
rooms on the second floor,
Mr. Masonis who owns sixty five
acres in that area, expects to have
the hotel open for operation early
next spring.
Broken Main
Closes School
A broken water main at the
intersection of Center street and
Memorial Highway, Shavertown,
sent pupils of Shavertown Grade
School home early Wednesday
morning.
The break, ten feet below the
surface, occurred sometime . be-
tween 2 and 7 A. M, according
The school was entirely without
water until employees of Shaver-
town Water Company connected an
auxiliary line to the school water
system,
Officials of the company said
pressure of a highway drain located
break. : :
from Carl C. Staifbrook, Field Di-
vision Supervisor of the Pennsyl-
F
The structure is of ila
directly above the main caused the"
nos
to Police Chief Louis Banta. _ ;