against the mailbox because of its
"ed, a good substantial thirty-eight,
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Editorially Speaking:
A THANKSGIVING EDITORIAL
CHRIST IS THE ANSWER
By F. Ww. MOOCK, Jr., Pastor St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Shavertown.
One of the outstanding tributes to the apostles is in Acts
4:13,
“Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and
perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they mar-
veled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with
Jesus.”
of sinful men. Now they were
“They had been with Jesus.”
they had forsaken their Master and left Him to die at the hands
Only a short time before
dominated by the living spirit
of the risen Lord and went forth eagerly to tell the story of His
love.
been an active persecutor of Christians, led the way.
caused this change? Our text
been with Jesus.” They were no
ance.
Peter, who had denied his Lord, and later Paul, who had
What
gives the answer. “They had
longer bound by fear and i ign
Now their lives were dedicated to the advance ot
God's kingdom and they feared not the pomp, nor the scoffs, nor
the threats of men.
No prisons could hold them. Persecution
and death were powerless to stop them from telling others of
the saving power of God’s grace.
Such, in brief, is a portrayal of those early Christian men.
The divine power that drove
the disciples out of the syna-
gogues, away from their sacred city of Jerusalem, and into every
corner of their known world, is
our ears and listen to the Voice.
are going forth
; there are those who are supporting our
call of the Master, who
throughout the world
callidg us if we will only open
There are those, heayfng the
into mission fields
churches with their gifts and talents and who have dedicated their
lives and their possessions for the advancement of God's king-
dom.
And why, you may ask, do people
do such things? What
power has caused them to be absorbed in such an undertaking?
There is only one answer—the same answer that the early dis-
ciples would have made, the same answer that consecrated people
are making today— "Christ is the
answer.” In a world that needs
Him so much, let it be your answer and mine.
FROM.
ur Darras Post
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
LE
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PILLAR TO POST
By Mgrs. T. M.
B. Hicks, Jr.
Remember that nice old lady who made out an order for five yards
of silk in her cramped handwriting,
and got a notice from the local
freight station that her fifty-foot silo was in the shed, knocked down
and waiting delivery ?
There was a pleased letter from the mail-order
house thanking her for her valued patronage and acknowledging receipt
of the down payment for the silo.
I used to think that this in-
cident was a figment of somebody’s
imagination, dreamed up strictly
out of the head and lacking back
ground. That was in the days be-
fore the great pink-flannelette
fracas.
How anybody lives without a
Sears Roebuck catalogue parked on
the dining room table for easy
reference is a mystery to me. It
comes in handy for light reading
while the potatoes are baki
the results of sending in a
are spectacular. That ten-p
package, swathed in brown paper
and girded with a substantial rope
the equator, propped
around
bulk, is apt to contain almost any-
thing, even at times the exact item
you ordered.
About a month ago I made out
an order calling for five-yards of
pink flannelette, sanforized, best
quality, suitable for night-gear for
the young, along with the inevit-
able ten yards of brown corduroy
for overalls. The brown paper
package on this occasion dis-
gorged the corduroy, but in place
of the pink flannelette there was
a small plaid wool skirt, size five.
This laid the basis for a brisk
correspondence. I suggested to the
piece-goods department that the
customer 'who had received the
flannelette was doubtless as baffled
at the substitution as I was, and
though I felt pleased and flattered
at the estimate of my size, I could
make no practical use of the small
wool skirt. I measured, I explain-
and the skirt, though perhaps ade-
quate for a collar, was all wool and
therefore itchy. Please send five
yards of flannelette, pink, sanfor-
ized, best quality.
Comes a wounded letter. We are
sorry that you are dissatisfied with
the goods as delivered, but we like
to keep our customers happy. Our
policy is to satisfy the customer.
A letter from me. {Remember
me? I'm the customer who or-
dered five yards of pink flannelette
and got a small wool skirt. Puh-
lease send on the pink flannelette
before you are fresh out of it and
I have to take blue. The Christ-
mas sewing calls for pink. Let's
Letter from the concern. A
tracer is at work, and results may
be expected.
. Response from me: “Five yards
of pink flannelette or return check
for same. Period.”
At about this time, worn out
with correspondence I shut up shop
and made a trip to Charleston,
leaving orders that all packages
should be held at the post-office
until my return.
When I got back home late last
week, the rural carrier staggered
up the slope in a pouring rain, his
back bowed under various bundles,
among them two medium sized
bundles, identical in size and shape.
Each package contained five yards
of pink flannelette.
The first package expressed itself
(Continued on page five)
Prices of Feed
Are On Decline
Milk Production In
State Also Drops
Dairy feed prices—along with
milk production—are on the de-
pounds, down 15 cents from Sep-
tember and 75 cents less than
October 15, 1947, according to the
State Department of Agriculture.
Compared with a year earlier,
the average price received by
farmers for milk cows on October
15, at $235 per head, was $40
higher, but butter at 74 cents a
pound was 3 cents lower; and
milk at $5.70 per hundréd pounds
wholesale was 40 cents higher.
Inadequate rainfall and several
nights of freezing temperatures
during October caused pastures to
be dry and grass short on No-
vember 1. Winter feeding started
earlier than usual on Pennsylcania
farms and in northeastern coun-
ties may result in some shortage
in roughage next spring, the De-
partment said. Some dairymen in
The Back Mountain Area were
hauling water for stock as water
supplies remained low.
Milk production on United States
farms in October was estimated at
8.8 billion pounds, about 1 per
cent below a year ago and smallest
for the month since 1943.
A new November 1 record was
established when production aver-
aged 17.2 pounds of milk per cow
for the day, slightly above the
previous high mark reached on
the same date last year.
During October the number of
cows averaged 951,000 or 3,000
fewer than in the same month of
1947.
Frank Edwards Is Guest
On His 79th Birthday
Frank Edwards celebrated his
seventy ninth birthday anniversary
with a number of relatives and
friends Monday, November 15. Pre-
sent were: Mr,/ “and Mrs. Harry
Hirlinger of Hed Rock; Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Swingle, Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest Keller, Miss Helen McCord
of Shavertown; Audrey Williams,
Phyllis and Meredith Williams, Mrs.
Mary Bowman of Loyalville; Dr.
and Mrs. L. C. Rummage of Nan-
ticoke; Mr. and Mrs. Lee Bittenben-
der of Plymouth; Mrs. Keziah Ed-
wards and the guest of honor.
Entertains Card Club
Mrs. Victor Cross entertained
members of her card club at her
home on Bulford road last Wed-
nesday evening. Present were:
Mary Reese, Roberta Quaill, Betty
Ide, Stella Bulford, Rita Cummings,
Helen Antrim and the hostess.
Vol. 58, No. 48
Library Adds
Many New Books
List of Titles Is
Announced by Librarian
Among more than 100 new books
recently added to the shelves at
Back Mountain Memorial Library
are the folowing titles announced
last week by Miss Mirjam Lath-
rop, librarian. 2
Allen, Hervey, Toward Morning;
Allen, Roses for» Every Garden;
Berryman, Pioneer Preacher; Cham-
berlain, Snare for Witches; Cronin,
Shannon’s Way; Doner, Ravens-
wood; Gilberg, Eskimo Doctor; God-
den, A Candle for St. Jude; Hob-
art, The Cleft Rock; Hogner, Sum-
mer Roads to the Gaspe; Huggins,
The Red Chair Waits; Howard,
Sailmaker; Jenkins, We Gather To-
gether; Kane, Bride of Fortune;
Karr, Grace Livingston Hill, her
story of her writings.; Nesbitt,
White House Dairy, Maughn, Cat-
alina; Noble, Woman With a
Sword; Parkington, The Wash-
bournes of Otterley; Partridge, Big
Freeze; Platt, Our Flowering World;
Schoonover, The Burnished Blade;
Skinner, Cornelia Otis, Family
Circle; Smith, Betty, Tomorrow will
be Better; Smith, I Capture a
Castle; Topp, Smile, Please; White's
Political Dictionary; Wilder, Bright
Feather; Woodbury, John Groff’s
Mill; Wouk, The City Boy;
New Children’s Books
Bridges, True Zoo Stories; DeJong,
Reurn to the Level Land; Dickson,
Bramble Bush; Berry, Seven Beav-
er Skins; Frost, Sleigh Bells for
Windy Foot; Fish, Children’s Al-
manac of Books and Holidays;
Gould, Jane; Henry, Always Reddy;
Henry, Benjamin West and his Cat
Grimalkin; Johnson, Gay, A Shet-
land Sheep Dog; Kerr, The Girl who
ran for President; Lawson, Robbut,
a Tale of Tails; Maney, It’s Fun to
Make it Yourself; O'Neill, Picture
Story of the Philippines; O’Brien,
Margaret, My Diary; Pfeiffer, Cath-
olic Picture Dictionary; Savery,
Dark House on the Moss; Seamen,
The Charlemonte Crest; Self, Rid-
ing Simplified; Stevenson, Paul
Revere, Boy of Old Boston; Vin-
ton, Flying Ebony.
No Bear Shot
By Local Hunters
* Three Cubs Killed
On Dutch Mountain
Bear season got off fo a good
start last Monday with geveral-bear
reported killed in the Division “B”
area, but none by lgcal hunters.
John Mazzanti, Plaj sville, killed
a 400-pound bear inf thes Acinity
of Effort Mountain, and one was
reported killed on Game Land 57,
at Dutch Mountain, near Red Rock.
Carl C. Stainbrook, Division B
Supervisor of the State Game
Commission at Forty-Fort stated
that 39 legal bear and 7 illegal
bear (cubs) were killed up to
last Thursday afternoon.
Three of the cubs were killed on
Game Land 57. They were with
the mother bear, and when she es-
caped, the hunters killed the cubs.
The men are now being prose-
cuted by the Game Commission.
Mr. Stainbrook said, “The Game
Commission has no sympathy for
hunters who kill illegal game and
after being caught say they didn’t
know what they were shooting at.
It is actions like this that cause
so many human beings to be shot.
The Commission will prosecute wio-
lators to the full extent of the law.
Discuss Purchase
Of Resuscitators
Dr. Henry M. Laing Fife Com-
pany and Auxiliary will Mold a joint
meeting tonight at th€ hose house
to discuss thef p ase of a re-
suscitator.
Various demonstrations have
been given by the Emerson and
Stevenson companies on the oper-
ation of resuscitators, and recog-
nizin gthe need for equipment of
this type in this area, the fire-
men are making plans to obtain
one.
The cost of the unit will be $365.
50, including apparatus and tanks
for working on two people at the
same time.
Definite action will be taken to-
night on the purchase of the mach-
ine, and also on the program to
raise the necessary money.
‘Betty Jane
FRIDAY,
NOVEMBER 26, 1948
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It's A Problem In Engineering
Two Back Mountain -collegians,
Bob Henney, left, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Henney, Dallas Township,
and Homer Middleton, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Homer Middleton, Leh-
joring in electrical engineering and
man, assist Wilkes College’s only
girl engineering student, Mildred
B. Baker, in ‘a laboratory problem.
| Miss Baker and Middleton are ma-
Forty Back Mountain Students
Now Enrolled At Wilkes College
. Forty students from the Back?
Mountain region are currently en-
rolled ig Wilkes College's largest
studentf body in history.
Inclided in the grofip are 12
members of the freshman class.
The ‘e upperclassmen.
eir college careers
this Ster are Beryl A. Colwell,
Ridge street, Bachelor of Arts; Earl
C. Crispell, Noxen, Bachelor of Sci-
ence in . biology; John W. Griffiths,
Church street, Bachelor of Science
in eommerce and finance; William
G. Hart, Machell avenue, Bachelor
of Science in chemistry; Mary Iva
Lamoreaux, Trucksville, Bachelor
of Arts in history; Richard F. Laux,
West Main street, Trucksville; Ola
Mae Montross, Dallas, Bachelor of
Science in commerce and finance;
William G. Nelson, Dallas, Bachelor
of Science in commerce and finance;
Robert F. Richards, Idetown, Bach-
elor of Science in commerce and
finance; John L. Ridall, Trucksville,
Bachelor of Science in commerce
and finance; and Henney and Mid-
dleton.
Upperclassmen include Ralph C.
Antrim, Jr., Dallas, Bachelor of
Science in biology; John F. Banks,
Dallas, Bachelor of Science in civil
engineering; William C. Beck, Shav-
ertown, Bachelor of Science in
chemical engineering; Gwen Ruth
Clifford, Trucksville, Bachelor of
Science in‘ commerce and finance;
John M. Culp, Jr., Dallas, Bachelor
of Science in education; Royal J.
Culp, Dallas, Bachelor of Arts in
English; David S. Davis, Trucksville,
Bachelor of Science in chemistry;
Carl H. DeWitt, Trucksville, Bach-
elor of Science in commerce and
finance; Paul F, DeWitt, Trucksville,
Bachelor of Science in commerce
and finance; Sheldon P. Fahringer,
Trucksville, Bachelor of science in
education; James F. Farrell, Shav-
ertown, Bachelor of Science in com-
merce and finance; John M. Fink,
Shavertown, Bachelor of Science in
commerce and finance; Charles D.
Flack, Dallas, Bachelor of Science
in commerce and finance; David D.
Fritz, Noxen, Bachelor of Arts; Dar-
rel. Lee Harding, Tunkhannock,
Bachelor of Science in commerce
and finance; Naomi Mae Hons,
Shavertown, Bachelor of Science in
business education; Albert L. Morse,
Trucksville, Bachelor of Arts in
Mathematics; John P. Nelson, Dal-
las, Bachelor of Science in com-
merce and finance; Samuel LeRoy
Owens, Trucksville, Bachelor of Sci-
ence in commerce and finance;
Donald W. Perrego, Dallas, Bache-
lor of Science in civil engineering;
William H. Perry, Dallas, Bachelor
of Science in physics; Thomas C.
Phipps, Dallas, Bachelor of Arts in
law; Mary Z. Porter, Shavertown,
Bachelor of Arts in social studies;
William F. Purcell, Trucksville,
Bachelor of Science in biology;
Rebennack, Dallas,
Bachelor of Science in biology;
Preston J. Sturdevant, Dallas, Bach-
elor of Science in chemistry; Rob-
ert W. Templin, Dallas, Bachelor of
Science in chemistry.
Coming Event—
Dallas Chapter, O.E.S. will pre-
sent a variety show in the Kings-
ton Township High School Decem-
ber 10.
Henney is a mechanical engineering
student.
Wilkes College freshman class.
Photo by Ace Hoffman.
‘Sons Guests
Of Rotarians
Coach Wolfson Talks
On Sportsmanship
Dallas Rotary Club conducted a
father and son night last week at
Irem Temple Country Club.
Following the dinner, served in
the main ballroom, an athletic pro-
gram was presented under direc-
tion of Don Clark. Mr. Clark intro-
duced the speaker of the evening,
Ben Wolfson, of Scranton, well
known to sports fans, especially
in the field of football. A former
coach at Lafayette College, Mor-
avian College and Catasauqua H.
S., Mr. Wolfson is coach at Scran-
ton School of Physical Education.
He stressed the importance of a
strong competitive spirit plus the
character building traits which par-
ticipation in sports can bring to
young people. He related the war
experiences of former athletes who
were better fighting men because
of their football, basketball or base-
ball experience.
Present were: Charles W. Lee,
president of the Dallas Rotary Club;
Don Clark, Dicky Clark, Ben Wolf-
son, Donald J. Evans Jr., Terry S.,
Evans, Donald J. Evans, Dr. F.
Budd Schooley, George B. Schooley,
Sheldon Mosier, Allan Mosier, Har-
old Titman, Billy Shaffer, Daniel
R. Richards, Danny Richards Jr.,
Tommy Richardson, L. L. Richard-
son, Robert Richardson, James W.
Cross, James K. Cross, Theodore B.
Common, Timothy Common, Char-
les Brook, Dr. R. M. Bodycomb,
Richard Bodycomb, Robert Body-
comb, David S. Williams, Walter
C. Williams, Paul Mulcey, A. N.
Garinger, Robert Garris, Jack Yeis-
ley, W. J. Yeisley, George F. Metz,
Thomas F. Metz, Attorney Wil-
liam A. Valentine, Oswald Griffiths,
Meade J. McMillen, Floyd W.
Chamberlain, Lee Culver, Raymond
R. Hedden, Carl Hedden, Les War-
hola, Don Ide, Dennis Ide, Warren
S. Taylor, “Skipper” Drake, Ralph
Hallock, Ralph Fitch, Jr., Donald
Besecker, Bobby Besecker, James
Besecker, Danny Robinhold, Dan G.
Robinhold, David Jenkins and Ben
Jenkins; Present also as guests of
honor were the four coaches rep-
resenting Dallas Township, Dallas
Borough, Kingston Township, and
Lehman township schools. They
are: Thomas M. Edwards, Bernard
Rockovich, Ted Szela and Anthony
Marchakitis.
Fractures Elbow
Burton Roberts, 31, 24 School
for the Glen Alden Coal Company,
was admitted to Nanticoke State
Hospital Tuesday morning with a
fractured left elbow, suffered when
he fell 40 feet from a telegraph
pole.
Mr. Roberts has been employed
by Glen Alden since his discharge
from the Marine Corps three years
ago.
Mr. Roberts is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Roberts, Main Street,
i Dallas.
CarOccupant |
Hurtin Crash
Hip Injured at Kingston
ed for slight injuries Tuesday morn-
ing at 12:50 at Nesbitt Memorial
Hospital following a two-car colli-
sion at the intersection of Wyoming
avenue and Union street, Kingston.
She was released following treat-
ment.
Mrs. Ruth Sheldon,
avenue suffered a contusion of the
of Pioneer
right hip when a car driven by
Robert J. Fiaski, 18, of 235 Welles
street, Wilkes-Barre, crashed in-
to the rear of the automobile in
which she was a passenger with
her husband, Howard M. Sheldon,
aged 50, driver of the machine.
Kingston police reported that
both vehicles were traveling north
on Wyoming avenue at the time
of the accident. Sheldon slowed
down for the light at Union street
and when it turned green attempt-
ed to turn left on union. When he
did the Fiascki car crashed into
the rear of ‘the Sheldon vehicle.
Both cars suffered damages esti-
mated at $200 each.
House is Completed
Within Ten Weeks
The $100,000 home bulding pro-
ject of Natona Mills is rapidly
nearing completion.
Douglas Kulp,
that just ten; WwW
Contractor, said
s from the start
sooMr.- and” Mrs.
erbrook, formerly of
Rhode Island, moved into their new
home this week.
The deer season opened early
for Chief Fred Swanson of Har-
vey’s Lake.
Sunday morning persons going
to services at Laketon Lutheran
Church observed a deer swimming
in the middle of the lake. As they
watched they saw it get up on
the shore in the far distance, then
it re-enter the water and
swim to a point near the Lawrence
B. Jones property where it stag-
gered up on shre and out on the
highway.
Loren Keller and. Joe McCaff-
ery who were nearby, observed
that it was exhausted—possibly
chased by dogs and seriously in-
street, Shavertown, an electrician | vestigate.
.__~Tjured. They notified Chief Swan-
son who came immediately to in-
He had hardly arrived
when the beautiful doe died.
Chief Swanson’s investigation
showed that the doe, which had
probably been suckling a fawn,
had been badly torn in the hind
quarters by a high powered bullet
that had entered its under side and
come out near the base of the
tail. Chief Swanson dressed the
deer, hung it nearby and notified
the State Game Commission, who
are now investigating.
Later the same day, Chief Swan-
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Back Mountain Highway Deaths and
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Deer Season
Opens Monday
Half Million Men
Expected In Woods
Seven A. M., Monday, Novesber
29 is “D” Day in Peacetime Pe!
sylvania.
D-Day, . however, will mean
“Deer Day’—the opening of the
annual deer season in Pennsyl-
vania.
Fretting and fussing officials of
the State Game Commission,
worrying as well they might be
over the prospects of careless
hunters shooting each other, pre-
dict that upwards of half a million
hunters will be a-field.
Indications are good, one official
said, that the kill this ‘year’ will
be high in view of the good supply
of deer now in forest and field.
Last year, it was recalled, nim-
rods slaughtered 31,474 bucks and
63,568 antlerless deer.
The warning was. sounded to
hunters that only bucks with two
or more points to one antler may
be shot legally, this season, with
one deer per hunter and six per
camp or hunting party of six or
more.
Commission spokesman expressed
the hope that hunters would re-
frain from road hunting which has
been so prevalent the past several
“years. This practice is especially
true of the one-day hunters “who
haven’t the stamina or desire to
compete with more hardy, deter-
mined hunters because of the dis-
comfort or inconvenience to them-
selves.”
A deer must’ be tagged within
one hour after it is killed and
before it is transported from the
place it was bagged. Hunters were
urged to report to a Game Pro-
tector the game law violations they
observe or any illegally killed deer
they find.
Band Association Plans
Card Party And Bake Sale
Committee members were named
for the card club and bake sale to
be held in the near future at the
meeting of Kingston Township's
Band Association held in the High
School Monday evening. Committee
members are: Bernard Bush, Har-
old Rose, Sam Davis, Harold Croom,
John Dana, Mrs. Charles Perkins,
Mrs. Henry Kahn, Mrs. Burdette
Crane and Mrs. Elwood Dymond.
Present at the meeting were:
Mesdames George Davis, Henry
Kahn, Richard Reese, Cedric Grif-
fith, D. Culver, Burdette Crane,
Algert Antonaitis, Charles Perkins,
Elizabeth Billings, Albert Williams,
John Dykeman; Harold Rose, Verus
Weaver; Mr. and Mrs. Bernard
Bush, Mr. and Mrs. Eric Vrheil,
Mr. and Mrs. John Dana, Mr. and
Mrs. James Dick, Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Croom, Mr. and Mrs. Rich-
ard Mathers, Mr. and Mrs. Sam
Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Dy-
mond, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Birth
Next meeting will be held in the
High School December 27.
Swanson Accounts For Two Deer
Week Ahead of Hunting Season
son received a call from Rev.
James Hilbert of Alderson Metho-
dist Church, who said that he had
injured a buck on the Alderson
Buckwheat Hollow Road, near the
Sterling Farm.
He said the deer had jumped
across the path of his automobile
so abruptly that he had failed to
notice it until the crash. The front
end of Rev. Hilbert’s automobile
was demolished. The damage
amounted to about $200. The min-
ister asked Fred to go at once to
dispatch the wounded animal lying
in the road.
The Chief went to the spot but
found no trace of the deer. He
walked seventy yards off the road
into neighboring fields but still
found no evidence of the animal.
distance in the underbrush, and
found a majestic four point
buck desperately crawling on the
stumps of three broken legs to-
ward the safety of Sterling Farm.
Chief Swanson mercifully shot him.
The buck had been a familiar
sight in the vicinity of Sterling
Farm for many months, coming
out in the open pasture near the
highway to feed.
Then he heard a thrashing some
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