simple.
ii
Sip
.
to write against it,
- split handily
tor at High Street
an impressive job, that
unt must be kept and ren-
Such a sum is inevitably
swallowed bv the bank, where it
immediately becomes anonymous, a
Hi mere entry on a blue slip, a sub-
stantial and welcome addition to
a balance which is disbursed
monthly by check for such unin-
spiring items as three tons of coal,
four weeks’ worth of electricity, a
phone bill swollen beyond all ex-
~ pectatoion by offspring far from
home who call collect and chat on
and on with no regard for the egg-
timer which sits on the telephone
stand.
All of this is legitimate, a head-
ache recurring regularly on the
first of each succeeding month, but
IA stirctly busines and belonging in
the Ho-Hum Department. No fun
about ‘it. Dip your pen in ink and
watch your balance shrink. This
monthly heart-scratching leads to
a determination to warn the absent
ones that all C. O. D. phone calls
will be refused; that they can jolly
well start two days earlier with
their gems of communication and
‘employ a three-cent stamp and
the services of the rural mail-car-
jer. This hard-boiled pronounce-
ment in the face of the certain
| imoviedne that by the end of the
month, with the memory of last
‘month’s phone bill a shocking but
fading memory, the sound of the
actual voice will seem all-important
that the voice will be encouraged to
go on and on for ten minutes or
more, with the reproachful egg-
timer hidden hastily under the
table.
Ten dollars, just a bill, no checks
no commit-
ments. It won't lift the mortgage
“on the old homestead,
finance a new car. Hurray. -
of ‘dpenaing a snowy evening, toes
stretched toward the fire, the hol-
Ti iB low in the easy chair padded out
with a plump cushion to pamper
‘ a plump back, catalogue on knee,
the flopping of pages, the occasion-
al jotting down of an item, the
painful addition of a total, the es-
~ timation of parcel post fees, the
juggling to make the amount come
out to exactly ten dollars even.
Ten dollars can be translated in-
‘. to a trip to town with an eye peel-
‘ed for bargains, a lavish jaunt
through the five and ten in search
of small bits of kitchenware, a
certain variety of can-opener, a
pack of bright colored construc-
tion paper for a small boy. a pot of
~ small-leafed ivy to replace a cas-
~ ualty of the first heavy freeze of
the winter.
Ten dollars will finance a bliss-
ful morning in the Wide-Awake
Bookshop, furnishing adequate ex-
cuse for dipping into every new
volume in the place, a careful
nr weighing of biography against fic-
| tion, essay against poetry.
This particular ten-dollar bill ?
I've had my fun with it, spent it
in at least twenty different ways,
“and now I shall make two blades of
grass grow where only one grew
before. That ten dollar bill will
into two freshly
starched fives, so that two girls
may have just as much fun as I
have had with the original ten.
os Borough Out of Debt
Starting the new year completely
out of debt, Dallas Borough Coun-
cil, paid a few current pills and ad-
journed its meeting Monday night
Sromplly at 9.
© Mrs. Lillian Rood Oliver, former-
ly of Shayvertown has been ap-
pointed organist and choir direc-
Methodist
Church, Binghamton, N. Y.
Mrs. Oliver has been active in
~ musical circles throughout Wyom-
ing Valley during the past sixteen
years and was for some years or-
. at Shavertown Methodist
‘Church. She has conducted a music
studio at 40 Lehman Avenue where
‘she will continue to teach three
days a week.
~ She assumed her duties on De-
i; cember 1 and will spend four days
a week in Binghamton where she
will supervise the music activities
|
st had a delayed Christmas windfall, a Christmas card folded
crisp mew ten-dollar bill. No strings attached, blow-money,
Tiars, or something under it, is exactly right for a present. A
ler’ involves responsibility, a feeling that an impressive amount
By Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr.
1a ro post THE DALLAS P osT
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
ROSS
LAKE
it won't
~ The possession of ten dollars
low-money leads to a lengthy
survey of the new Sears Roebuck
sales catalogue, a comfortable way
order blanks and sharpened pen-
cils conveniently at hand. There is
Lillian Oliver To Supervise
‘Music at Binghamton Church
“tor
Five Agents Get
School Policies |
Township Board Gives
$80,000 Fire Insurance
Dallas Township School Board,
at its meeting Tuesday night voted
unanimously to increase fire insur-
ance on the high school building in
the sum of $80,000.
This new figure raises fire in-
surance protection to $232,000 or
80% of a new property appraisal
submitted recently.
Board action was motivated, not
alone from inflated building costs,
but from a serious consideration
of nearby school building fires in
recent months. Adequate insurance
coverage will provide for possible
partial or total loss if it should
ever occur.
All of the policies, which will
carry extended clauses, were placed
with Back Mountain agents; $16,
000 each was awarded to Arthur
Gay, Harry Goeringer, Harold Flack,
James Robinson and George Turn.
The Board received reports from
supervising Principal Raymond E.
Kuhnert on progress, of the new
storage room now being /excavat-
ed by contractor, Joh / Connelly.
The room, which willbe ready in
two weeks, is a combination dress-
ing room and for storage of ath-
letic equipment,
Permission was granted to Back
Mountain Inter-Church Basketball
League teams to use the school
gymnasium for its scheduled games.
Following a motion approved to
pay all bills, the meeting adjourned.
Next regular meeting will be held
Tuesday evening, February 1st.
Present were: Donald J. Evans,
who presided; Stephen N. Davis,
rloyd™w. Chamberlain, secretary;
Thomas S. Moore and Walter J.
Elston, board members; also attor-
ney Jonathan C, Valentine, board
solicitor, and Prof. Raymond E.
Kuhnert, supervising principal,
To Install Officers
Recently elected officers of
Shavertown Fire Company will be
installed on Monday night at 8 at
the Fire House. Officers are: Fred
Nicely, president; Jack Gaugan,
vice president; Bert Stitzer, secre-
tary; Stanley Davis, treasurer and
Howard Woolbert, chief.
BRUCE LONG RESIGNS;
SMITH IS APPOINTED
A Kingston Township supervisor
for the past seventeen. years, Bruce
Long, senior membet of the Board,
has resigned. ‘Mr. Long's resigna-
tion became effective on January 1.
His action, Mr. Long said, is
motivated by ill health and because
of a controversy with certain ele-
ments in the township over main-
tenance of roads.
Arthur F. Smith of Trucksville |
Gardens has been appointed to suc- |
ceed Mr. Long for a period of one
year. Other supervisors are W, F.
Myers, Shavertown, and Philip
Pascoe, Carverton.
To Talk at Torch Club
Prof. Charles March, English
teacher at Wyoming Seminary,
and summer resident of Harvey's
Lake will be the speaker at the
meeting of the Wyoming Valley
Torch Club at Y.M.C.A. Monday
evening. Prof. March is taking the
place of L. Verne Lacy, Shaver-
town, who has been called out of
town. «
of the church and its three choirs.
Rev. Felix Zaffiro, formerly pas-
at Shavertown = Methodist
Church has been pastor at High
Street for the past three years.
Mrs. Oliver, the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Rood of Dallas, is
a graduate of New England Conser-
vatory of Music and has taken ad-
vanced work at Washington Uni-
versity, St. Louis; and Bucknell
University.
For a number of years she has
studied under Harold §S. Briggs,
organist and choir director at Elm
Park Church, Scranton. She is a
member of Mozart Club and Pi
Mu Musical Society.
Vol. 39, No. 1
Smith Elected
President Of
Business Group
Store Hours, Credit
And Advertising Are
Discussed at Meeting
Harry Lee Smith, owner of
Smith’s Economy Store, was elected
president of Dallas Business Associ-
ation at its annual meeting“Monday
night in Back Mountaifi, Memorial
Library.
Other officers elected were Law-
rence Updyke, vice president;
George Turn secretary and James
Besecker treasurer. Retiring Offi-
cers are Howard: Risley, president,
and Mrs. Karl Kuehn, treasurer.
The meeting drew a compari-
tively large attendance and there
was an interesting discussion of
many problems facing the merch-
ants.
James Besecker led a discussion
on a proposal for an increase in
annual dues, and discussed a plan
for co-operative advertising in
charitable, school and church pro-
grams,
He brought out that many out-of
town police organizations solicit
advertising in the Back Mountain
region under threat of arresting
drivers of local firms’ trucks if
the proprietors do not support their
fund raising projects. Many bus-
inessmen, Mr. Besecker said, spend
as much as $100 annually under
duress. .
Frederick Eck, cashier of First
National Bank suggested that the
Association go on record as op-
posed to such solicitation and ask-
ed for united action—even legal
action if necessary—to prevent any
threats from out-of-town police.
Mr. Besecker was appointed as
chairman and Frederick Eck and
Sheldon Cave as members of a
committee to prepare a list of local
organizations approved to receive
y brogram advertising.
Lawrence Updyke led a discuss-
ion on store hours. He urged es-
tablishment of uniform closing
hours, especially before holidays.
There was considerable difference
of opinion on the desirability of
having all stores open on Friday
or Saturday nights.
A committee composed of Mr.
Updyke as chairman with Grace
Cave and Ord Trumbower as mem-
bers was appointed to make a sur-
vey of merchant and customer op-
inion and report at the next meet-
ing.
W. B. Jeter, president of First
National Bank, who was to have
given a report on the operation
of the Credit Bureau, was unable
to attend, but members reported
that it was functioning well, All
Merchants were advised to contin-
ue sending in monthly reports of
delinquent accounts. They were al-
so urged to make sure that the
names of delinquents are removed
from the list as soon as complete
payments are made.
Members were asked to invite
any Back Mountain business man
who feels that the Association can
serve him, to join the association
and to ask their fellow merchants
to attend the monthly meetings.
Present were: Frederick Eck,
Dean Shaver, Sheldon Cave, Ralph
Paul, Ord Trumbower, Dr. A. A.
Mascali, Grace Cave, L. L. Rich-
ardson, Wesley Himmler, Al Bow-
man, Joe Hand, Jack Hazletine,
Timothy LaBar, Dr. Robert Body-
cohmb, Lawrence Updyke, James
Besecker, Howard Risley, George
Turn, Lillian Kuehn and Harry Lee
Smith.
TOWNSHIP MAN HURT
IN MINE EXPLOSION
John Maculis, 29, who lives in
the old Dallas Fair Ground section
of Dallas Township, is on the
“danger list” at General Hospital
as the result of burns and shock
received in an explosion which
killed two men and injured another
Tuesday morning at South Wilkes-
Barre Colliery of Glen Alden Coal
Company.
A locomotive helper, Maculis,
was seated in the slope engine
room when the explosion of gas oc-
curred that killed Hugh Cavanaugh,
slope engineer, and George Hassick,
locomotive engineer, both of Wilkes
FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1949
Annual meeting of the congrega-
tion and election of officers for the
coming year was held in the base-
ment of Huntsville Christian
Church Thursday evening, Decém-
ber 30, John Roberts presiding. A
covered dish supper was enjoyed.
Milton Culp led devotions and
gave a short talk. The following
secretaries gave reports for their
groups:
Mildred Major read the minutes
of the 1947 annual meeting.’ Rev.
C. H. Frick reported for the com-
mittee selected to plan 1949 ac-
tivities and presented a tentative
schedule of the coming year for
approval. Mildred Major summar-
ized the report of the church for
1948. Mrs. Ralph Frantz reported
on church missions; Mrs. Lewis
Shaver on the missionary society;
Mrs. John Roberts on the Ladies’
Aid Society with additions by Mrs.
Ralph Frantz; Mrs. H. J. Major
gave the Sunday school report; and
in absence of Mrs, William Eckert
Mrs. Walter Covert reported on
the year’s activities of the CF Class.
Officers to serve through 1949
are: Elders: Milton Culp, Herbert
Major, Harvey Moss. Trustees:
Milton Culp, Herbert Major, John
Roberts. Deacons: Dale Warmouth,
Wiliam Davis, Charles Elston, Bur-
The finishing division of Natona
Mills has now developed to the
point where all of the finishing
of lace products manufactured’ in
the six mills of Native Laces &
Textiles is being done in the Dallas
plant.
In order to speed up this work
and take advantage of the many
new chemical processes that have
been developed in “the past ten
years, John McCusker, plant man-
ager; will shortly be placed in com-
plete charge of the finishing
division and another man will be
placed in charge of manufacturing,
auxiliary equipment and mainten-
ance departments of the mill—two
distinct divisions,
Mr. McCusker has had a life time
| finishing department.
/W. Shafer,
Barre.
of experience in the finishing end
and originally came to the Dallas
plant as general manager of the
A year ago
he agreed to take over temporarily
the responsibility of getting the
entire plant into production and
has now asked to be relieved of
that responsibility to return to his
chosen field.
New Officers Seated
By Dallas Kiwanians
Dallas Kiwanis Club installed its
officers for 1949 Tuesday night at
Irem Temple Club with A, W.
Shafer, Jr., presiding.
Rev, Howard Harrison was in
charge of the installatioh cere-
mony and inducted president, Don-
ald M. Harris; vice president, Sher-
man H. Harter; secretary, John F.
Parsons; treasurer, Clarence E.
Shaver, Jr.
Harold Flack presented to A.
outgoing president, a
gold ring with Kiwanis emblem in
appreciation for his services as
president in 1948.
After acceptance of the gavel by
Mr, Harris, a short business meet-
ing was held outlining a program
for the new year.
McIntyres Here On
Visit From London
Mr. and Mrs, William McIntyre
are spending the New Year season
and a month in Dallas. They ar-
rived December 17 on the U.S.S.
America ¥ from London, England,
where Mr. McIntyre is Telecom-
munications attache at the Ameri-
can Embassy. They spent the
Christmas season: in Philadelphia
and will spend some fime in Harris-
burg and Washington, D. C. before
returning to London in mid March.
Before entering the U. S. Navy
and later the diplomatic service,
Mr. McIntyre was plant manager
of Commonwealth Telephone Com-
pany.
May Buy Airport
Robinhold and David
Jenkins are negotiating for the
Daniel
purchase of Bloomsburg Airport,
Huntsville Christian Church
Selects Officers For New Year
ton Roberts, Carlton Hadsall, Rich-
ard Culp, Jack Culp. Deaconesses:
Mrs. H. J. Major, Mrs. Frances Culp,
Mrs. Elva Warmouth.
Church Clerk and treasurer: Wil-
liam Davis; assistant: Jack Culp.
Director of Music and Pianist: Mrs.
Walter Covert; assistant: Patricia
Clark. Church Missionary secre-
tary: Mrs. Ralph Frantz. Bible
School officers: superintendent: Mrs.
C. H. Frick; assistant: Carlton Had-
sall. Secretary and treasurer: Mrs.
H. J. Major; assistants: Barbara
Culp, Virginia.
Pianist: Patricia Clark; assistant:
Mrs. Walter Covert. Children’s
Division: Hannah Culp. Cradle Roll:
Mrs. Frances Culp.
Present: Mrs. Ralph Frantz, Mrs.
L. M. Culp, ‘Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Elston, Mrs. Bertha Jenkin, Rich-
ard L. Culp, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley
Culp, Mildred Major, Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Covert, Mrs. Robert Culp,
Virginia Ann Culp, Mrs. Elva War-
mouth, Dale Warmouth, Harvey
Moss, Patricia Clark, Barbara Mar-
ian Culp, Mary Ellen Clark, Joan
Warmouth, Mr. and Mrs. Milton
Culp, Mr. and Mrs. John Roberts,
Rev. and Mrs. C. H. Frick, Elma L.
Major, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert J.
Major, Mrs. Lewis Shaver, Miss
Addie Elston.
. American H
Natona Mills Is Now Finishing
Goods Manufactured In Six Plants
No one has yet been secured as
general manager of the manufac-
turing division.
In textile parlance, ‘manufac-
turing” involves the production of
gray, or unfinished, goods up to
the time it comes from the big
machines. “Finishing” involves
dyeing, bleaching and finishing the
goods ready for market.
With the big plant now rolling
into full production, no one man,
Mr. McCusker believes, is able to
give both divisions the attention
they deserve.
He comes from a long line of
finishers and should know. His
father, born in Scotland, came to
this country with his grandfather.
Both were finishers. At East
Braintree, Mass., he established the
original family plant. Today all
of Mr. McCusker’s brothers are en-
gaged in ‘finishing in their own
plants at East Braintree, Mass.
Norwood, Mass., and at Kingsport,
Tenn., and within two weeks his
brother Thomas B., treasurer of
the company, will open the Brook-
field Mills at Brookfield, Mass.
Top Ranking Show Horse
Honey Gold, a walking horse
owned by Senator T. Newell Wood,
Harvey's Lake, has been acclaimed
one of the natjoh’s top ranking
show animals,” #according to the
ihe Shows" Association
\
in New Yorkhes="
The winners were chosen on
points at 1948 AHSA shows,
Shown bb re is the iniature
landscape which Fred Welsh has
developed under his Christmas
tree in the living room of his home
on Center Hill Road.
owned by Senator T. Newell Wood.
Fred has spent more than thirty
6 CENTS PER C(##¥
New Dress Plant
At Sweet Valley
Open Next Month
Building is Near
Completion.. Monk
Has Heating Contract
Work is progressing rapidly on
the new building for Sweet Valley
Frocks at Sweet Valley.
The 50x112 foot concrete block
structure is now under roof“and the
floor is being laid by a crew of
fifteen men under the direction of
Charles Bonham.
Earl H. Monk, who has the
plumbing and heating contract,
started installation of the steam
heating = plant on Monday. The
building will be heated with Vul-
can fin-type radiation.
A new deep well has been drilled
and pump installed.
When completed the building
will have modern rest rooms, and
offices. The lighting will be the
most modern for factory purposes
and lighter than day where the em-
ployees work.
The management hopes to have
the plant in operation by February
1 and expects eventually to employ
200 women in the manufacture of
women’s frocks and suits as well
as children’s clothing.
Nathan Ember of Kingston and
Herman Rich of New York City
are members. of the operating firm.
They urge all women who may be
interested in employment to make
application at once. At the present
time applications for positions are
being received at Bronson’s store,
but within a few days the firm
will have a representative at the
plant to accept applications.
$30,000 worth of machinery ar-
rived Thursday and will be
stalled as quickly as possible.
Total cost of the building with-
out equipment is cxpected to be in
the neighborhood of $24,000. This
amount is being raised through
popular subscription in the form
of $100 bonds. Practically all of
those who have helped to con-
struct the building as well as Sweet
Valley and Back Mountain busi-
nessmen have purchased bonds.
Confident of the success of the
venture, a Wyoming Valley bank
recently wrote to the officers of
the building group and asked to
purchase several bonds.
Weekly meeting of the Sweet
Valley Improvement Company will
be held Friday night at the home
of Alfred Bronson. All persons who
may be interested in the project are
invited to attend. The Improvement
Company is composed of business-
men of Sweet Valley and surround-
ing area.
in-
New Year's Day Accidents
Trucksville was the scene of six
automobile acidents that occurred
New Year’s Day.
Four acicdents were at the traf-
fic light in Trucksville, while the
other two were at Hillside.
#2 Fred Welsh's Christmas Tree Delights Youngsters
years collecting the materials with
which to delight the eyes and
hearts of youngsters of all ages.
So that all youngsters may have
an opportunity to view it, the dis-
play will be left in place until
DALLAS
LEHMAN
KINGSTON TOWNSHIP
[JACKSON TOWNSHIP
MONROE TOWNSHIP
FRANKLIN
TOTAL |
BOX SCORE
Back Mountain Highway Deaths and
Serious accidents since V-J Day
Hospitalized
TOWNSHIP
TOWNSHIP
TOWNSHIP
First National
To Expand [ts
Banking House
Ritter Building On
Main Street Bought
From A. C. Devens
First National Bank, Dallas, has
purchased the former Ritter build-
ing on Main Street from A. C.
Devens and will, shortly start on
a building expansion program
which will double the working and
office space of the bank, W. B. Jet-
er, president, announced yesterday.
Employment of an architect and
working out of final plans for the
expansion will not take place un-
til after the annual meeting of
stockholders next Tuesday morning,
Mr. Jeter said, but work on the
building is definitely slated to start
this spring.
The present banking house, erect-
ately $55,000, was opened for busi-
ness in January 1932 and was be-
lieved to be adequate for many
years to come. But of recent years
increased volume of business and
increase in personnel have made
the building too small.
In 1932 the total resources of
the bank were $658,000, Today,
those resources have increased to
$3,228,000. Surplus was then $50,
000. Today it is $150,000. Four
employees handled the bank’s bus-
iness in 1932. They were W. B.
Jeter, then cashier, Frederick Eck,
then teller, Harry Garrahan, de-
ceased, and Rosa Bennett, book-
keeper. Present staff of nine is
composed of Mr. Jeter, president,
Mr. Eck, cashier, William Baker
Jr., teller, Francis Berry, Mrs. Paul-
ine Roth, Carrie Foote, Mrs. Mary
Lou Robins, Dolores Adamshick and
Mrs, Frank Davies.
The bank’s volume has increased
steadily. Deposits amounting to
less than a half million in 1932 are
now close to three million.
Another graphic example of the
bank’s expansion is evidenced in
its safe deposit boxes. In 1932 its
vault housed 160 boxes, not all of
them rented. Today it has 1,000
boxes, most of them rented.
Purchase of the adjoining prop-
erty will give the bank a frontage
of approximately 85 feet. Mr. Jeter
said it is not definite just how the
expansion will be made but there
is a possibility that the new build-
ing may provide a night deposi-
tory, drive in deposit window and
third floor offices for professional
men. All these proposals will be
considered by the directors.
Banta Has No Arrests
Chief Louis Banta, Shavertown,
announced that there have been
no arrests of
town since before Christmas,
“Motorists are driving very sen-
sibly due to the condition of the
January : 15. :
roads.”
will care-
hen Fre
fully dismantle the tree, pack the
tiny figures, three railway trains,
and miniature villages in their
boxes to await their awakening
again next Christmas.
ed in 1931 at a cost of approxim=" hana
mt “going
through the red light at pg