Editorially Speaking:—mmm™
A Perennial Problem
Center Street in Shavertown presents the perennial problem.
Who is responsible for keeping it clear of snow and ashed these
winter mornings?
One of the most travelled streets in the township, it is yet the
last to receive the attention of the snow plows and cindering
| Crews.
rt The several side streets adjoining are frequently made clear
for traffic long before Center street is more than a rutted single
track through the snow.
Maybe it’s nobody’s fault.
Maybe it is just indifference; but
that doesn’t satisfy those who have to use Center Street to get
to work, go to school and do the family shopping.
Center Street is a secondary State Highway and so it is not the
Kingston Supervisor's responsibility to clear it of snow and ash
it. It is the State Highway Department’s. Since it is a secondary
Highway, however, it receives consideration only after the main
State Highways are cleared.
It would seem that some system could be worked out between
the Supervisors and State Highway Department to clear this
important thoroughfare for trafic as quickly as other less im-
portant streets in the Township.
It’s true that snow plows’and cinder trucks can’t be every-
where as soon as snow flies; but it is equally true that the mopt
heavily travelled streets should
be cleared first. Those who use
Center Street have waited a long time for this to sink in.
Doing A
Good Job
It was a nice tribute Dallas Township School Board paid Don-
ald Evans Board president, a few nights ago.
Don was reelec-
ted president of the Board for the second term, shattering a pre-
cedent that has been in vogue in the Township for a number of
years.
Although he is one of the youngest and newest members of the
Board, he has done much to create harmony and accord among all
the members. ~ A college man
and parent, his first interest is
to provide good schools for the students of Dallas Township,
Since coming to this community a few years ago, he has taken
an active interest in all civic enterprises. This community needs
more men of his stripe who are willing to tackle a job and handle
it well when it is thrust upon them.
FROM.
PILLAR TO POST
By Mgrs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr.
It happened in Maryland in one of those government housing projects
where great stress is laid upon community spirit and the pleasing fi¢tion
that all the residents are just one
big happy family. In pursuance of
this Utopian state of mind, the co-op sponsors various community get-
togethers, pageants, baby parades,
One of the recent food-shows
featured a cake-baking contest and
entries began coming in by the
dozen, de-luxe models four stories
‘high with decorated icing, housed
a» sparkling glass” cake containers
it} ‘transparent domed lids to
"magnify their ‘beauty and present
it to the public to the best ad-
vantage.
One such entry was clearly far
and away the best looking as well
as the most delicious when cut
_ and tasted solemnly by the panel
of hungry judges. The cake was
moist and rich, perfect in texture.
Its four layers were put together
with a _ superior variety of fudge
frosting which rose to a mouth
watering design of swirls and peaks
. on the top. All in all, it looked
exactly like the kind of a cake,
done in color photography, which
should be banned /from the pages
of a home magazine in justice to
a reducing public.
The judges gathered around and
divided the spoils, leaving a small
token wedge upon the plate, X
‘marking the spot. Then they
pressed the first prize upon the
happy exhibitor. Knowing that
most good cooks keep a secret or
two up their sleeves and seldom
t with a pet recipe in its en-
irety, the judges inquired diffident-
ly if Mrs. Whozit, for the good of
the community and the advance-
ment of culinary arts therein,
would be willing to part with her
cherished recipe.
Mrs. Whozit was delighted. Shift-
ing the baby to the other hip and
pinning to his snowsuit the blue
ribbon of merit, she gesticulated
with the spare hand. No secret at
_ all, she breezed. You just get two
packages of cake-mix from the
grocery, any brand will do, they're
all about alike, buy a package of
fudge frosting, and follow direc-
tions.
The judges were in a quandary,
but the baby was already chewing
up the blue ribbon and it appeared
that nothing much could be done
about the situation, The judges
retreated in confusion.
With this in mind, and with a
second batch of fruitcake in pros-
pect, I threw convention to the
winds. Eggs are high, butter may
be somewhat reduced in price be-
cause of consumer resistance, but
®t is still too high for use in cook-
ing. I did a little problem in simple
arithmetic, then bought two pack-
ages of cake-mix. When the cakes
were in the oven in their paper-
lined pans, the Mighty Woodsman
came in from the back yard where
he had been busily reducing cord
wood to fireplace logs.
Where, the M. W. wanted to
know, was the mixing bowl? Last
Sunday the mixing job’ on the
food-shows, and whatnot.
hour, and about an hour right now
was what he had to spare. So
bring on the eggs and the butter
and get going on flouring the fruit.
Tom flexed his muscles remin-
‘iscently.. Too hard a job for a
woman, mixing fruit-cake, he
stated.
I opened the oven door a cauti-
ous two inches, allowing a heady
fragrance of fruit and spice to es-
cape. How did I get it ready for
the oven so fast? I broke down
and told him the facts of life, a la
Greenbelt, Maryland.
Babson's Forecast Will
Bppear On January 7
The Dallas Post will publish
Roger W. Babson’s Business and
Financial Outlook for 1949 on Jan-
uary 7. You will find it on page
one.
We are bringing this article to
your attention because we feel that
our readers deserve the best and
most accurate material available.
Therefore, because of Mr. Babson’s
outstanding record for accuracy in
his Annual Forecasts we are pub-
lishing this feature again this year
to help you chart your course for
the coming year.
Mr. Babson’s 1949 Outlook will
contain 50 Forecasts covering such
important topics as: General Busi-
ness, Commodity Prices, Taxes, Re-
tail and Foreign Trade, Labor, In-
flation, Farm Outlook, Stock Mar-
ket, Real Estate, Politics.
Fowler Takes Five
Firsts At Rochester
John Fowler of Orahge who has
been sweeping the shows with*his
prize-winning Bantams§_ tok five
firsts with six birds at the Roches-
ter, N. Y,, show. !
Mr. Fowler took first with a
black and red cock, black and red
cockeral, black red old English
cock, black and red old English
cockeral, and black old English
cock.
Bank In Festive Dress
The feminine touch is evident
at First National Bank. The girls
on the staff, headed by Pauline
Roth, have arranged a cheerful
Santa Claus, sleigh and several
reindeer in front of /the tellers’
windows. ed ribbons = stretched
between the Windows serve reins
for Santa to “guide his reindeer.
Yesterday Paul Shaver hung
strings of Christmas lights over the
front of the bank building. The first
time in its history that ‘the old
lady of Main Street” has appeared
in such gaudy attire at Christmas
fruitcakes had taken about an
time.
— Tur DALLAS
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
Post
BOX SCORE
Back Mountain Highway Deaths and
Serious accidents since V-J Day
Hospitalized Killed
Vol. 58, No. 51
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1948
DALLAS | 2 Jin
LEHMAN | 1 1
KINGSTON TOWNSHIP {00 4
JACKSON TOWNSHIP | 2
MONROE TOWNSHIP | 3 | 1
ROSS TOWNSHIP \ 2 |
LAKE TOWNSHIP | 1 | 1
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP | | 2
6 CENTS PER C@*- TOTAL foal: fee
Church League
Announces Its
Team Rosters
Games To Get Under
Way This Saturday
And Monday Nights
The Church Basketball League
will definitely get under way this
| Saturday with all the teams see-
ing action on Saturday or the fol-
lowing Monday.
John Roberts, chairman of the
schedule committee, has announced
that teams playing this weekend
will be drawn at random, as will
their opponents. After the first
set of games, a regular weekly
schedule ‘will be made up.
Each team is allowed fifteen men,
with each member of the team pay-
ing a dollar entrance fee. There
will be organized officiating. Dallas
Township, Dallas Borough, Kings-
ton Township, and Lehman gyms
will/'be used for the games.
/ CHURCH LEAGUE ROSTERS
"Huntsville Christian
John Roberts, Mgr.
Al Davis, Bob Price, Harry Grose,
Ken Grose, Bob Grose, Al Jones,
Bob Garris, Wilbur Davis, Johnny
Jewel, Carl Roberts, Burton Rob-
erts.
St. Therese’s Catholic
Bob McGarry, Mgr.
Bob Youngblood, Jack Young-
blood, Steve Sedlar, Tom Mackier-
avitz, Bill Hart, Bob McGarry,
i Mickey Insalaco, Joe Wallo, Ted
Szela, Jake Duda.
Dallas Methodist “A”
R. W. Brown, Mgr.
Bob Moore, Fred Drake, Warren
Brown, William Hanna, William
Baker Jr.,, Harold Brobst, Clint
Brobst, Tom Reese, Austin Bis-
bing, Charles Brobst.
Shavertown Lutheran
James Inman, Mgr.
Art Kitchen, Willard Lozo Jr,
John Fink, Don Bolene, Larry New-
hart, Chas. Eberly, Earl Fritges.
East Dallas Methodist
Tex Wilson, Mgr.
Harry Martin, Ted Wilson, Mel-
vin Morris, Warren Stanton, Harry
Hughey, Darrel Harding, Bill Shae.
Dallas Methodist “B” ¢
Vic Cross, Ray Kuhnert Jr., Dick
Pierce, Tom Edwards, Al Knecht,
Ralph Templin, Paul LaBar, Don
Shaffer, Norm Stair, Jack Quaill,
Eugene McCarthy.
Lehman P.T.A.
Has 541 Members
Plans To Purchase
New Wire Recorder
Lehman Township PTA held.-its
December meeting on_.Monday
night with the lorgest Attendance
of the year.
Major part of the business meet-|
ing was devoted to a demonstration |
of a wire recorder. As one of its
financial projects for the year, the
association plans to purchase a
recording machine for school use.
The following committee was ap-
pointed, and given authority to
act for the association: Lester B.
Squier, chairman; Lewis Ide, Ches-
ter Barrall, Mrs. Reed Travis.
Edward Oncay, of the Boy Scout
committee, reported “on plans to
organize a local troop as soon as
the new Scout executive has as-
sumed his duties.
Final report on the membership
drive shows 541 members, an all-
time high. Basil Steele, president,
thanked all the pupils for their
cooperation during the drive and
awarded prizes to the following
pupils who enrolled the greatest
number of members;
Elementary;
ist prize. Janet Cornell;
2nd prize ...Francis Sutton
3rd ‘prize... Johnny Steele.
Junior-Senior High School;
Ist prize... Eleanor Konigus;
2nd prize... Marlene Cease;
3rd prize... Janie Boice and
Betty Morris.
Janet Cornell, sixth grade pleased
the audience with a piano recital
in her usual fine style. Fourth, fifth
and sixth grade pupils gave a pan-
tomine of the Christmas story.
Harry Rood was narrator,
The Boys’ Chorus sang several
Christmas carols, accompanied by
Janet Cornell. The program closed
with Tommy Coburn, sixth grade,
singing “All I Want for Christmas
Is My Two Front Teeth.”
ed. g
Surviving besides his parents,
are these brothers and sisters:
Irene, Margaret, Nicholas, Helen,
John, Judy, and Ann Marie, all
at home, and his maternal grand-
mother, Mrs. Mary Cebrick, of Mill-
ler Street, Luzerne,
Mr .and Mrs. James A. Frank-
lin are celebrating their fifty sixth
wedding anniversary quietly at
their home on Franklin street to-
day. 3
The big celebration, Beton. will
come on Christmas Day when they
expect their children, their grand-
children and the great grandchild-
ren to bring a full course turkey
dinner to the homestead and eat
it with them.
Mrs. Franklin is the former Em-
ma Demond, daughter of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Demond for whom
Demonds Corner was named, and
incidentally, that’s the correct way
to spell it. Orphaned at the age
of three, she made her home with
a great aunt and uncle, Mr. and
Mrs. William J. Honeywell in the
house now occupied by the Albert
Parrish family om Main road. When
she was eighteen, she married her
schoolmate, James, in the Dallas
parsonage and the couple started
housekeeping in an apartment in
the Kelly home on Main road,
Shortly after, they moved to the
Franklin street house where they
now live. .
Mr. Franklin, son of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Franklin, lived on
the Space farm. For forty years
employed by the Traction Company,
he is now retired—though by no
Mrs. Walter Gulitus and Mrs.
Walter Wesley were honored at a
pre-season Alumni Basketball game
at Lake Township High School Fri-
day night.
Three sons and two daughters of
Mrs. Gulitus have starred on the
Laketon team for several seasons.
During these eight years Mrs. Guli-
tus. has never missed a game at
home or ‘away.
Two sons, Walter and Dorne
Wesley, of Walter, Wesley have
likewise been varsity members and
Mrs. Wesley has not missed a game
since Walter began to play back
in 1940.
At the beginning of the half of
the girls’ game, Mrs. Wesley and
Mrs. Gulitus were called to the
center of the floor where George E.
Taylor, Supervising Principal, spoke
briefly concerning the fact that
players are the ones we usually
Through cooperation of Pennsyl-
vania State College Extension Ser-
vice, members and friends of Har-
Jvey’s Lake Camp United Sports-
men, will hear Randolph H. Thomp-
son, wild life specialist of Pennsyl-
vania State College when they
gather Monday evening, at 8:30 in
the camp rooms at Herman Kern's
Tavern.
Mr. Thompson has had wide ex-
perience in conservation and will
have as his subject, “Conservation
of wild life with the cooperation
of the farmers and hunters.” As
a special feature his talk will be
augmented with pictures of wild
life which he has taken through-
Body of Beaumont
Mr. and Mrs. James Franklin Today
Observe Fifty-Sixth Anniversary
TWO FAN MOTHERS HONORED
AT LAKE BASKETBALL GAME
Sportsmen To Hear Wild Life
Specialist On Monday Night
day School Class of older women
regularly every Sunday at the Dal-
las Church and has a thriving
business of chair caning in his
own home during the week.
Grandma Franklin, as she is
affectionately called by the young-
sters of the neighborhood, is the
original baby ‘sitter Back of the
Mountain. For years she has been
taking care of young folks for days
and sometimes weeks while their
parents vacationed, She has just
finished cooking for her son, Arthur
and three other hunters for two
full weeks—getting them off with
a substantial breakfast some morn-
ings as early as three o'clock. And
even, admits she’s a bit tired right
now.
The Franklins lost a grandson,
Charles Kinsman, in the Battle of
the Bulge in World War 2;
They have three children, Wil-
liam of Endicott, N. Y., Arthur B.
of Avenel, N. J. and Mrs. Anna
Kinsman of Luzerne. Also grand-
children, Mrs. Joseph Bytheway of
Swoyerville, Mrs. Thomas Landon
of Kunkle, James Franklin, student
at Clarkston College at Pottsdam,
N. Y. and William of Avenel and
great grandchildren, Tommy Lan-
don and Charles Bytheway.
' honor and that we sometimes
neglect to show our appreciation
to the fans, and particularly to the
mothers ‘of our players. He then
presented them with a special
token and a Season Pass.
“The girls’ game was continued
and the varsity easily won over
the Alumni with a score of 16 to
12. Twenty girls participated.
" In the line-up for the Alumni
were several old stars, chief among
Dick Williams, Tom Garrity, Al
Gulitus, and Kenneth Davis. Dan
Gulitus and Zosh led the varsity
team with 13 and 12 points re-
spectively. The game was close
all of the way until near the end
of the game when the superior
playing and better condition of the
varsity told and the K Alumni were
defeated 33 to 25.
out the state.
The Club has selected Sunday,
January 16 for its annual fox hunt.
Interest in last year’s event was
so great that arrangements are be-
ing made to accommodate 400 to
500 sportsmen. Prizes will be
awarded to those who bring in the
first fox, the largest fox, and the
most foxes. Regulations governing
the hunt will be published later.
Plans for the annual venison din-
ner to be held on Monday evening,
January 31, 1949 will be com-
pleted.
All persons interested are ex-
tended a ‘cordial invitation to at-
tend this meeting.
Office Moved Again
Hero Arrives Thursday
The body of Maring Pvt. Joseph
Rusinko, Jr., of Beaumont, who
was killed at Iwo Jima, March 11,
1945, arrived at the “Lehigh Val-
ley station in Tunkhannock yester-
day afternoon and was taken to
the home of his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph W. Rusinko, Sr., Beau-
mont, from where the funeral will
be held Monday morning at 8. A
requiem mass will be celebrated
in St. Nicholas Church, Swoyer-
ville, and interment will be in St.
Nicholas Cemetery, Shavertown.
Pvt. Rusinko, who was 19 when
he lost his life, was graduated
from Beaumont High School in
May, 1944, and enlisted in the
Marines on June 28 of that year.
With him in action at the time
he was killed were Kenneth Lillie
of Tunkhanock and Merle Biglow
of Beaumont who was also wound-
y made evident again this week when
Need for suitable office space for
professional and business men was
Wayne Gordon’s temporary office
was moved from the site of the
new Acme Market to a spot back
of Dallas Service Station.
The building was formerly the
Dallas waiting room of the Wilkes-
Barre Railway Company. - When
that firm abandoned | its_ trolley
service, the late James Oliver pur-
chased the building and moved it
to his used car lot where it was
used for a number of years as shel-
ter for the nightwatchman,
Starts Excavation
Charles Berretta Construction
Company of Exeter moved a power
shovel on to the Oliver plot Tues-
day and started excavation f6F¥ the
cellar of the new Acme Market
which will be built by Shavertown
Builder's Supply.
Scout Christmas Party
Troop 149 Girl Scouts will en-
tertain their mothers at a Christ-
mas party in the Dallas Metho-
dist Church Wednesday, Decem-
means inactive. He teaches his Stn-
whom were Thomas Cadwalader, : ‘
Two of the biggest commercial
Residential Construction
Remains At High Level
Commercial Building Includes Acme Market
And Back Mountain Lumber Co. Structures
While there may be some tapering off of building activity in other
sections of the State the trend continues up in the Back Mountain
area—especially in residential construction.
ventures now underway are a new
store building for the American Stores Company in Dallas, and Back
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SHAVERTOWN BUILDERS
HAS CHRISTMAS DISPLAY,
THANKS TO MRS. JOHNSON
| Santa Claus has arrived on
the roof of Shavertown Build-
ers Supply Company in Shaver-
town. A three-foot high
lighted sign, sixteen feet long,
extends the “Season’s Greet-
ings” to all passersby, while
Santa Claus stands near a
chimney and lighted Christ-
mas tree.
Inspiration for the display
was furnished by Mrs. Stephen
Johnson, who keeps things
humming in the firm’s office.
She made the suggestion to
Ralph Garrahan who said: “If
you can get Bill Strange to put
up the: lights, Atlee Kocher,
mill man, to build the sign,
and Sev Newberry to paint it,
we'll go to town this Christ-
mas.” Mrs Johnson had no
difficulty getting everybody to
co-operate, and now the kids
on Center Street are having a
swell time.
[ake Seniors
To Give Play
“Going Places” Is
A Lively Comedy
Senior Class of i.t
will present on
‘Going Places” a
act comedy, which amusingly por-
trays the difficulties of getting into
college.
Warfare over athletics versus
education, among the Dartford Col-
lege staff, doesn’t ease the situation
when football star Chuck fails to
pass a college entrance exam in
history. But he must be admitted.
So, with typical ease, the students
plot schemes that very nearly rock
| the foundations of the school.
They inveigle Prof. Stubbs to
readminister the exams. Only Cuth-
bert Lee, a history whiz, takes it
in place of Chuck Malley. Dr. Kim-
abll discovers the fraud and Prof.
Stubbs is fired.
Failure on the first round doesn’t
stop the gay dissemblers. Their
next project is to pretend that
Chuck’s millionaire aunt will en-
dow the college, if Chuck is admit-
ted as a student. The plot really
thickens from here on.
Participating in the play are
Wayne Hoover, Gertrude Harding,
Rita Nichols, Robert Harlos, Joan
Shiner, Albert Rebennack, Andrew
Zosh, Sheldon Hoover, Shirley
Boston, Mary Javer, Ada Gordon
and Carol Scouton.
The play is being directed by
Miss Margaret M. Dunn.
Rotary Christmas
Party This. Saturday
Rotary Christmas Party for
members’ children and friends, will
be held this Saturday at 5 in Dallas
Methodist Church Social Rooms.
Donald J. Evans chairman of the
committee, announces that there
will be a program of carol singing.
Films, depicting Santa Claus
and Christmas, will be shown. Gifts
will be distributed to the children
by Santa Claus. Refreshments “will
be served by a committee com-
prising wives of Rotarians, under
direction of Mrs. Charles W. Lee.
Highway In Bad Shape
route 316 in Monroe Township
complain because the road has
been given little or no attention
by the Township Supervisors dur-
ing the past two years. If con-
ditions are not remedied a com-
plaint will be turned over to Wy-
oming County District Attorney
Robert Trembath for actien.
NE +
Mis Esther Whitlock, formerly
of Orange, will celebrate her
90th birthday on Saturday, De-
ber 15 at 4 o'clock.
.
cember 18.
‘Mountain Lumber and Coal Com-
pany’s big project in Shavertown.
Three other developments are
Paul Laux’s expansion of his ma-
chine shop on Pioneer Avenue with
a 40 x 65 addition of concrete and
steel construction; the Dallas
Post’s two story 26 x 36 addition
on Lehman Avenue, and the new
one-story concrete and brick retail
store for Henry's Watch and
Jewelry on Main Street, Dallas.
Completed but not put into full
use is the new concrete, brick and
steel addition extending the length
of Himmler Theatre by thirty-four
feet. A delay in deliveries has
prevented the management from
installing all of the 196 new seats
which will increase the theatre's
capacity to 500. The new screen is,
however, in use.
Residential building includes
three new homes for Shavertown
Builder's Supply Co., one on
Pioneer Avenue next door to Dr.
Borthwick’s home and another
large one on Center street. The
firm has just completed a 4-room
bungalow on Evergreen street.
Earl Johnson is building a fine
new home for resale at Druid Hills
near Robert Currie’s home, and
Harold Lloyd is building a new
home on Main Road Shavertown.
Earl Johnson and Paul Richards
have two homes under construc-
tion on Franklin street, Shaver-
town.
| Ray Jones of Glenview is build-
ing a bungalow on the opposite side
of Franklin Street from Johnson's
properti
avenue an
house with unfinished attic is be-
ing completed by Douglas Kulp on
the corner of the same street.
Ralph Garrahan is building
on the corner of Hilldonia and
Saginaw streets in Goss Manor.
The structure will be ranch type
with attached garage and will be
seventy feet long. There will be
two rooms on a second floor.
C. A. Leighton and Lester Hoover
have completed new homes in
Trucksville Gardens. Hoover con-
templates construction of another
shortly.
George L. Ruckno has broken
ground for a new home for Carl
Merritt, West Side druggist, near
the property of Willard John Jr.
in Goss Manor. Another home is
well under way for Dr. James Cor-
win of Wilkes-Barre. It is being
built by Mr. Ruckno on the lot ad-
jacent to the home of Willard John-
Sr. ‘
Ground has also been broken for
another home on the lot owned
by Hume Daron next to John
Yaple’s property. It will be for
resale.
Twenty-two homes that were
either started or completed this
year can be seen from Douglas
Kulp’s home in Goss Manor.
Mr. Kulp has just completed two
homes on Parrish Heights and has
another to complete on Tunkhan-
nock Highway. Seven of the homes
which he has been building for
Burndale Realty Company, real es-
tate subsidiary of Natona Mills, are
now occupied. Three others will
be finished before January 1. He
has no further construction under
consideration for the winter, and
all but seven of his large force
have been laid off until work starts
again in the spring.
Four beautiful new homes are
under construction at Ben Banks’
Elmcrest Development where more
than 300 lots are available. This
is considered one of the top ten
Residents living along Townshipédevelopments in the State.
East of Tunkhannock highway,
a large plot is being opened by
Peter Jurchak, Paul Selecky and
Lloyd McHenry, who originally
developed Goss Manor. A drive
in the shape of a half moon has
been cut out and filled with red
cinders ready for black top sur-
facing. Trenching has been com-
pleted for water lines. Fourteen
hundred feet of four-inch main,
laid more than 20 years ago by
Dallas Construction Co., will also
supply this plot.
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