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Editorially Speaking:
KEROSENE
CAN KILL! ;
Misuse of kerosene, or coal oil, causes hundreds of deaths
cach year, to say nothing of a heavy waste in property. And
most of the damage is done in rural areas, where kerosene heat-
ing appliances are widely used.
The National Board of Fire Underwriters has issued some
sound advice on how to reduce this hazard. First and most im-
portant, kerosene should never be used to start fires.
vaporizes when poured into a warm stove, and this vapor may
igniting clothing and furniture.
explode,
destruction may then follow..
Kerosene, like other liquid fuels, is frequently used in port-
It is all-important that these devices
be cleaned frequently, be handled with care, and repaired at once
They should never be filled indoors. They
should be placed where they will not be accidently knocked over.
able, open-flame heaters.
when defects appear.
The liquid
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Vol. 58, No. 49
FRIDAY,
DECEMBER
3, 1948
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DALLAS | 2 | 11
LEHMAN 1 | i
KINGSTON TOWNSHIP 20- 4
JACKSON TOWNSHIP 2
MONROE TOWNSHIP | 3 i
ROSS TOWNSHIP | 2 ]
LAKE TOWNSHIP | 1 { 1
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP | { 2
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And—of paramount importance—they should never be used in
tightly-closed rooms, or left burning in bedrooms after the occu-
pants have retired, because of the asphyxiation hazard.
Precautions such as these, simple as they are, show the road
to safety from fire.
And fire can be prevented. For example,
. Elizabethtown, Pa., with a population of 5,000; has had but one
home fire in fifty years.
Such fire prevention is the result of
constant vigilance, and a strong sense of individual responsibility
on the part of everyone who lives there.
All communities, if they
have the will, can emulate this splendid example.
FROM
PILLAR TO POST!
By Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr.
With the mind inevitably turning toward the toy department at this
season of the rolling year, it occurs to me to ask whatever became of
the good old fashioned doll, the one that featured no biological frills,
not even a blatted ‘Mama’ when inverted or paddled ?
There used to
be rows and rows of such dimpled darlings on the toy shelves, dolls
which smiled quietly and serenely,
dolls which left something to the
imagination of the happy child who
found one tied to the tree or in-
serted snugly into the top of the
Christmas stocking hanging before
the fireplace.
There is a growing tendency to
duplicate nature all too faithfully.
‘There is something faintly shock-
ing to a descendent of Puritan an-
cestry in the newest type of doll,
the one which has been sweeping
the country and taking the toy
buyers by storm for the last few
years. Delicately speaking, you
put it in one end and get it out
of the other. Then the conscien-
tious Little Mother rinses out the
damp diaper and pins it to the
line. This is supposed to give the
L. M. a great kick, but does it?
of
the
After washing a dozen sets
diapers in quick succession,
L. M. begins to reflect, in cox
older and much m
sister, that life is just ones dia;
after another. At this point she
excavates in the toy-box, finds
year-before-last’s Christmas doll,
the model with no biological ten-
dencies, and relaxes. This old doll,
is the restrained type, asking noth-
ing more than to be rocked and
cuddled.
Like a mechanical train which
is discarded when the spring is
broken or the key lost, in favor of
the old wooden job which can be
pushed around with much chuffing
and blowing and whistling. on the
part of the pusher, the bottsy-
baby or the wetsy-petsy, or what-
ever the trade name happens to be,
_ loses its attraction after it loses
its novelty. A wetsy-petsy calls for
a bottsy, and inevitably following
the bottsy there is that sopping
diaper to rinse. Ho-hum. There
isn't much you can do with a
wetsy-petsy except mop it up, and
mopping up grows tiresome in play
as in real life.
Then there is always that varia-
tion on the theme. Sooner or
later the L. M. experiments with a
bottsy of real milk. After about
three feedings of real milk the
didie-dolly develops a pronounced
case of B. O. Cottage cheese, day
before yesterday’s cottage cheese,
confined in a small space and ex-
posed to room temperature, gets
whiffy.
, And don’t delude yourself for an
instant that the bottsy-baby or
the wetsy-petsie, or the didie-dolly
is referred to by those euphonious
terms among the members of the;
pinafore set. These dolls are called
casually by the simplest of Anglo-
Saxon monogyllables used as an
adjective. Your little treasure has
never been exposed to such terms,
perish the thought? Skip it and
be your age. Children, no matter
how treasuresome, absorb such
words by a process of osmosis the
instant they enter the portals of
the local school, whther it be pub-
lic or private. The recent trend
in toys, including the very latest
thing in toy dogs, the one featur-
ing a zipper which unzips to dis-
gorge a litter of puppies, does noth-
ing to combat the osmotic action.
Let’s use a little common sense
in the selection of the Christmas
toys.
Truckeville PTA
Trucksville Elementary School
PTA will meet Monday evening at
8 o'clock in the Fire Hall. Hostesses
will be parents of Miss Weidner’s
room, with Mrs. Allan Grey as
chairman. Every one is urged to
attend. i
Township Seniors
To Give Comedy
Members of the Senior Class of
Dallas Township High School will
present a three ‘act comedy, ‘‘Act
Your Age” December 10 at 8 p.m.
in the school auditorium under the
direction of Miss Margaret Kane
and Daniel Williams.
The cast includes: Jacqueline
1 Mahoney, Charlotte Peeke, Barbara
Hope, Irene Wilson, Mariella Sulli-
van, Clara Ann Evans, Lee Honey-
well, David Parsons and Edward
McCusker.
Committee chairmen are: prop-
erties, Florence Tondora; promp-
ters, Peggy Gramley; stage crew,
Jean Hart; stage managers, Donald
an pid Harry Bellas; pro-
ladvs Prudhoe; usherettes,
yublicity, Elizabeth
, Pat Carpenter.
Bellas and Brace Orchestra
The
will play between acts.
Robert Lewis and
Martin Shock Jailed
Two men are being held in con-
nection with the robbery of a Ross
street, Wilkes-Barre repair shop.
Listed as Robert Lewis, 25 of
Alderson RD 1, and Martin Stook,
21, Shawanese, they were taken
into custody on Saturday by /De-
tectives Stanley Raykowitz and
George Williams, with the cooper-
ation of Chief Fred Swanson of
Harvey's Lake, and State Troopers.
Police said Lewis and Stook
came to Wilkes-Barre Saturday
night, November 13 and that Lew-
is forced the door of the Harry
Cohen Shop, 16 East Ross street.
Lewis, police said removed a
machine and papers from the shop
and placed them in the automo-
bile driven by Lewis to Wilkes-
Barre.
The shop owner returned to as-
certain whether he had locked the
door, and saw Lewis leave the
shop and go to the machine, pol-
ice said.
On sighting the shop owner,
Lewis and Stook left the machine,
believed to have been stolen, and
disappeared.
Both men are now in Luzerne
County Prison awaiting trial.
Eight Motorists
Pass Red Lights
Police Chief Louis Banta, reports
that eight tickets have been issued
to motorists this week who have
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gone through the x Aight at |
Shavertown. nA |
Banta said drivers are beginning |
to speed up again on that section !
of the highway and that tickets |
will be issued until the speed limit :
and the traffic light are respected.
A Real Sportsman!
A fine buck, special friend of the
D. L. Edwards family, who used to
drive to their farm at dusk to watch
him and his companions caper and
cavort, was maliciously shot Mon-
day morning and degutted right
by the house—though the land
was thoroughly posted.
The same kind of sport who
chooses the loveliest bit of country-
side for his Sunday picnic—then
leaves the garbage and eggshells as
calling cards!
Four Involved
In Collisions
Main Street Bad
Place On Saturday
Main Street, Dallas, the
scene of two automobile accidents
early Saturday evening.
The first at 4:55, involved cars
owned by Peter Bedford, 195 West
Broad Street, Nanticoke, and John
Penn Street, Kingston.
Edford was backing out of the
driveway at Oliver's Garage when
his car was struck by Bedford's,
travelling south on Main Street.
Edford’s car escaped damage,
while the right front fender of
Bedford's car was damaged to the
extent of $50.
The second accident at 7:30, in-
volved the taxicab of Alexander
McCullough, Jackson Street, Dallas,
and the car of William Whipp,
Church Street, Dallas.
Whipp was travelli ing north .on
Main Street and McCullough was
coming down Huntsville Road when
the cars collided at the intersection.
Damage to the left front fender
and wheel of Whipp’s car amounted
to $100, while damage to the taxi-
cab, including the right fender and
grille amounted to $75.
Mrs. Clyde Cooper Heads
Woman's Kiwanis Club
Mrs. Clyde Cooper was chosen
president at the meeting of Wo-
men of Kiwanis held at the country
last week. Other officers:
first vice-president, Mrs. Charles
Smith, second vicef president, Mrs.
Kenneth Rice, tredsurer, Mrs. Dav-
id Joseph, recording secretary, Mrs.
J. W. Reardin, corresponding sec-
retary, Mrs. Walter Elston.
Birthday gifts were given by
Mrs. Robert Hale and Mrs. Her-
bert Griesing and won by Mrs.
Reardin and Mrs. Cooper.
Mrs. Frank Werner, Mrs. Robert
Hale and Mrs. David Joseph par-
ticipated in the program. Mrs.
Jack Laux entertained with vocal
selections acompanied by Mrs. Wil-
liam Baker. Mrs. Sherman Harter
was welcomed as a new member.
was
Committee members for the next !
meeting wil be Mrs. Fred Ander- |
son, Mrs. Melvin Mosier and Mrs. |
Sam Thompson.
Present were:
Cooper, Leroy Troxell, Al Shafer,
Herbert Griesing, Walter Elston, J.
W. Reardin, Clarence Shaver,
Stephen Panet{i, Earl Hess, Rob-
ert Hale, Donald Harris, Sherman
Harter, Kenneth Rice, Charles
Smith, Fred Anderson, H. A. Smith,
Frank Werner, Melvin Mosier,
Jack Laux, Wililam Baker, John
Henninger, David Joseph.
To Elect Officers
Officers for the coming year will
be nominated at the meeting of
Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Company
on Friday night, December 10.
iin various ways,
Mesdames Clyde |
:
Misericordia’s $32,000 Disposal Plant
| Mattie,
Wilkes Students Plan Cuban Holiday
Mary Porter, 91 Shaver avenue,
Shavertown, seated at the extreme
right, .has been selected as one of
the eight students comprising the
committee arranging for the third
annual Christmas vacation tour of
Cuba by Spanish students of Wilkes
College and their friends.
Miss Porter, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Martin Porter, is majoring in
social studies leading to a Bachelor
of Arts degree at Wilkes College.
She is directing the itinerary for
Future Farmers
Confer Degrees
Honor Charles Long
Bnd Luther Hunter
Nineteen candidates: received de- |
grees and two received honorary
degrees, at the meeting of Future
Farmers of America held at Leh-
man High School Tuesday evening.
Charles Long, Sweet Valley farm
machinery dealer, who sponsors the |
chapter’s annual award consisting
of a gold wrist watch, and Luther
Hunter,
particularly in
getting the Purebred Duroc Swine
Club organized, received the honor-
ary degrees.
Students on whom grees were
conferred were: Lehm apter,
R. L. Ruble, adviser; Donald Bom-
bick, Thomas Roberts, Frederick
Disque, Art Carichner, Carl Rood,
Joseph Ginter, Phil Scavone and
Donald Gross; Dallas Township,
Sheldon Mosier, adviser; Andrew
Willard Race, Anthony
Sosnowski, Robert Parrish and Joe
Shields; Laketon, C. W, Paden, ad-
viser, Ronald Traver, Bernard Sult,
Forest Sorber, Ted Rankowsky and
Leonard Harding.
Newly constructed sewage treat-
ment plant at College Misericordia,
has recently been placed in com-
plete operation, providing abate-
ment of pollution at the head-
waters of Toby’s Creek. Construc-
tion of the plant was undertaken
| voluntarily by the college in ad-
vancement of the Clean Streams
drive of the State Sanitary Water
Board.
The treatment system comprises
an Imhoff tank, in which solids
are settled out and from which
the liquid passes to ‘an’ aeration
sprinkling bed where further re-
moval ' of impurities takes place.
The solid material is drained from
the Imhoff tank to a glass covered
sludge bed and, after drying, is
removed to a dump or may be used
as fertilizer.
From the spraying bed the liquid
passes to a final settling tank
where the effluent is treated
through chlorination. The solid
material still remaining is pumped
back into the original tank to pass
again through the treatment pro-
cess, and the liquid passes to the
stream as clear effluent.
Sewage treatment at the college
was previously accomplished by the
use of septic tanks. When they
became inadequate and additional
dormitories at college had been
decided upon, Mother Mary Pierre
Desmond insisted upon the installa-
ation of the new treatment plant,
Sister Gonsaga of the college as-
sisted in making the plans for its
construction.
The plant is designed to provide
sewage treatment for a college pop-
ulation of 500 persons, having a
capacity of 50,000 gallons a day.
It was constructed at an approxi-
mate cost of $32,000.
who has aided the chapter |
the tour which will begin the day
after
in Cuba.
from Wilkes-Barre to Philadelphia
by bus, then to Miami by train and
Cuba.
Returning from Havana to Wash-
ington, D. C. by air, the students
will arrive on the Wilkes College
capitol on January 2.
| demands upon growers have ¢
stepped-up some shipments by at
least two weeks.
Early displays by
gifts and toys are believed to be
the major reason for early cutting
shipments. :
| and
| The State Department of Forests |
and Waters is prohibited by law
from growing or distributing trees
for commercial Christmas tree sale,
but the Commonwealth nonethe-
less maintains a deep interest in
the numbers and types of any trees
that are cut for any purpose.
Based upon'the studies of cutting
practices the Department has esti-
mated approximately
trees will be cut for Christmas
decorations.
They will represent a commercial
valuation of about $5,500,000.
This does not include strings of
laurel, crowsfeet, bittersweet or
redberry branches, wreaths of
holly, tree-tops or branches. This
type of decoration may reach a
value of another half-million
dollars.
For Pennsylvania's Christmas
tree this year, 17 different species
will be offered for sale, with the
Balsam Fir, shipped into this State
—not cut here—as probably the
most popular. The Department
estimates 44 per cent of the total
Christmas trees will be Balsam
Fir.
Of the local, or Pennsylvania
variety, the Scotch Pine, will ac-
count for another 20 per cent of
the total number used.
Other species include Red Pine,
Norway Spruce, Virginia Pine,
Douglas Fir, White Pine Red Spruce,
White Spruce, Pitch Pine, Hem-
lock, Austrian Pine, Blue Spruce,
Black Spruce and Red Cedar, their
popularity in purchases by Penn-
sylvanians in the order named.
Although nearly three-quarters
of the total number of Christmas
trees’ used in Pennsylvania are
shipped into the State from other
areas, including Canada, this State
produced about 1,000,000 of its
own trees last year.
In Pennsylvania Christmas trees
are grown for this particular pur-
pose by private land-owners, with
specific plantations accounting for
about 64 per cent of the total
number used.
About 17,000 acres of Pennsyl-
vania are planted to Christmas
trees. The State's farmers account
for about 52 per cent of this total
number, raising the trees as a
“sideline” in many instances.
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2,260,000 {
Christmas and include visits | pictured with Miss Porter,
to historical and educational locales | left to right, are Lorna D. Cough-
The trip will be made | lin, Forty Fort, Lois W. DeGrew,
| Sensing: Arthur Spengler, Kings-
from there by airplane to Havana, | ton, Ned McGhee, Shamokin; Rich-
Few Deer Killed
By Local Hunters
Sportsmen In Woods
Storm Monday Hampers
Starting off with a heavy snow-
fall, deer season got under way
| Monday with a small number of
deer killed. This, in part, was due
to the heavy snow hanging on
trees. There were not too many
hunters in the woods.
Some of the local hunters who
have had luck this year are: Jimmy
Inman, Shavertown, who got an
eight-point buck; Caddie and
Jimmy = LaBar, Dallas, who each
got a seven-point buck; Alex Ma-
honey Jr., Fernbrook, who bagged
a sevenpoint buck; Mike ‘Kosick,
Demunds Road,, who got a six-
point buck; Bill Compton, Minnie
Sidorek, and Tommy Rogers also
got their deer the first week.
Hunters travelling up Red Rock
Mountain road were held up by
Other members of the committee,
seated
Batler, N. J.,, and Miss Porter.
ard Todd, Wilkes-Barre, Michael
Ficke Jr., Blakely, Miss Martha Sil-
seth, - instructor of Spanish at
Wilkes ‘College, and Virginia D.
campus by bus from the nation’s Meissner, Kingston.
Christmas Trees Appearing Now
In Pennsylvania Communities
A six million dollar Pennsylvania seasonal industry has again
“opened its doors for business” with the annual sale of Christmas
greens beginning early by popular demand.
| Cut trees, as a rule, do not begin to appear on street corners for
| retail sale until well after the Thanksgiving holidays, but Huis year
merchants of '
Miss Football
Miss Shirlee Allen, Majorette,
Dallas, won the “Miss Football of
Wyoming Valley” contest, conduct-
ed by officials of the Wilkes-Barre
professional football team.
She competed with majorettes
from all parts of Wyoming Valley
during the halves of the Bullets
home games at Artillery Park.
Shirlee’s outstanding perform-
ance was done with one and two
batons.
She will leave soon for a trip
to New York City, which was one
of the prizes she won.
Shirlee is an accomplished
musician and wrote the entire
script for “Amateur’s Delight,” the
program presented Wednesday
night at Dallas Borough High
School to raise funds for the
Dalite, school yearbook, of which
she is junior editor. When it ap-
peared impossible to continue the
book because of insufficient fi-
nances, Shirlee got busy. Wednes-
day night's performance raised
slippery roads Monday morning.
Ord Trumbower, Huntsville road,
Dallas, said he was delayed for
an hour and five minutes,
“Numerous violations of the
rules and laws regarding safety
have been reported,” said R. D.
Parlaman, of the State Game Com-
mission office at Forty Fort.
“Hunters are shooting too close
to buildings, are shooting at marks,
and are sighting-in guns in the
woods, a job that should have been
done before the season opened”,
Parlaman stated.
“The game laws prohibit shoot-
ing at any unprotected target dur-
ing big game season.”
“Sportsmen”, said = Parlaman,
“are getting a black name, because
too many hunters are lax, careless,
and killing illegal game, Unless
the geodsportsmen help straighten
out these few hunters, it will be
necessary for the Game Commission
to enact stronger and more string-
ent game laws.”
Reports indicate a light kill of"
deer, but this shows that hunting
is becoming more a sport and less
a slaughter.
Navy Reserves
To Take Cruise ~
Local Men Will Train
In Southern Waters
Lt. John F. Kenny, assistant in-
spector-instructor at the Naval Re-
serve Training Center in Kingston
and a resident of Ridge street,
Shavertown, said yesterday that
members of Battalion 18 are urged
to ‘take the training cruise planned
for January which will take par-
ticipants to ‘“‘warm waters” as a
special feature of the duty afloat.
Lt. Kenny, upon his return from
Philadelphia, said Fourth Naval
District officials are paying partic-
ular attention to encouraging naval
reservists to participate in the
training program afloat.
* “Through this medium,” ‘Lt.
Kenny said, “can the full realiza-
tion of the Naval Reserve training
program ashore be realized.”
Applications will be accepted at
the Naval Training Center in Kings-
ton until the middle of this month,
Lt. Kenny announced.
The cruise will begin at New-
port, Rhode Island, on January
9 and end January 22 at the same
point. Training aboard a battle-
ship, cruiser, and aircraft carrier
will take place in southern waters.
Lehman Seniors
To Present Play
Lehman High School Seniors are
now rehearsing for a play to be
held December 10, in the school
auditorium, under the direction of
Mrs. Reed Travis, assisted by Jane
Brown and Mary Dargoy.
The cast: Richard Ide, Adeline
Towernicki, Albert Aston, Anne Ide,
Kenneth Bonning, Leona Lord,
Charlotte Culp, and Janet Wright.
Committee chairmen are: pro-
gram, Mary Dargoy; properties,
Bill Kern; stage, William DeRemer;
curtain, Robert Lasco; business
manager, James Kern; financial
manager, Garner Parks; advertis-
ing, Joann Lukasavage; seat ar-
rangement, Albert Aston; usher-
ettes, Louise Owens; costumes,
Alice Culp; make-up, Joan Cool-
enough money to assure publica-
tion for the next two years.
baugh; entertainment, Mary Joan
Williams.
py