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Pennsylvania’ s Tax Load
Diiis though it may seem, taxpayers of Pennsylvania will
be called upon to pay a total
hidden taxes as their share of
federal budget proposed by President Truman for the coming
fiscal ‘year beginning July 1.
This estimate of how the Fe
- Chamber of Commerce after an
© ing proposals.
of $3,251,440,000 in direct and
Tue Dawras Post
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
the cost. of the $41,858,000,000
deral Govérnment’s proposed re-
cord high peacetime budget affects Pennsylvania taxpayers—both
individuals and business concerns—has been evolved by the State
analysis of the President’s spend-
The State Chamber's study showed that the share of the one-
year 1950 federal budget cost to.
be borne by Pennsylvania is more
than 3 and one half times the two-year cost of our State Govern-
ment, as measured by total state appropriations and allocations
‘during the current 1947-49 biennium,
Expressed in other ways, Pennsylvania's $3. 2 billion share of
the 1950 federal budget:
(1)—Is over 13 times greater than all taxes paid in 1948 into
Pennsylvania’s general fund,” from which school subsidies, pub-
liciassistance, health, welfare, and the like, aré financed.
..{(2)—Is over nine times greater than the total amount of real
and. personal property taxes, occupation and per capita taxes lev-
ied in 1946 by all local units of government in Pennsylvania.
(3)—Would pay all costs (state and local) of operating the
public schools of Pennsylvania,
ture. for .nearly 15 years.
(4)—Is equal to approximat
salaries received by Pennsylvani
at he present: rate of expendi-
ely: one-third of the wages and
ians in 1947, or more than one
fifth of the income received from all sources by Pennsylvanians
that year.
{(5)—Will mean an average
cost of odors) government for
ig man, woman and child in Pennsylvania of $309, and for
a family of four the cost: would ameunt to $1236.
Commenting on the figures sh
owing Pennsylvania’s share of the
proposed Federal Budget, Leonard P. Fox, General ‘Secretary
of the State Chamber said:
“This is a very stiff tax bill for Yonmeshiatans to pay for fed-
eral services, especially. when we consider that many of the vital
functions of government, such as police, health and fire protec-
tion, public schools, and highways. are primarily responsibilities
of local and state government.
The money handled by Wash-
ington comes from the people in the states, minus, of course, the
administrative costs which are
eral agencies.’
The State Chamber head decl
is <‘not the whole story,”
drained off for operation of fed-
ared that the $41.9 billion budget
saying that:
“In addition, there will be deficiency and supplemental approp-
riations added from time to time, contract authorizations will be
made for projects that will run into more billions before comple-
tion; and still more billions will be added. ultimately if new spend-
ing proposals are adopted.”
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Two or tl
ree weeks ago there was a pathetic little item in Barnyard
Notes about a family of mice which had developed a cozy little home in
the corner of the chicken-house, and we've been wondering at odd times
how they are getting along and how they compare with our own brood
down in the basement.
Field mice definitely belong outdoors in the field, but it is next to im- |
possible to convince a gravid mouse
that an outside burrow affords the
same comfort for the accouche-
ment that a warm corner of the
cellar does, or equal facilities for
subsequent rearing of the young.
There have been signs and por-
tents about the house, mostly in
the mud-room, that we have a
small visitor, but with the over-
supply of black walnuts stored out
there in baskets it seems futile to
| set a trap with anything less tooth-
some than the banquet already
spread and waiting.
To make things easier for all
concerned, the mouse included, and
to act as a bribe designed to keep
her away from the kitchen, we've
been cracking a brace of walnuts
each evening and leaving them in a
handy spot at the head of the cel-
lar steps. This, we felt, would fill
her up so completely that she
would . retire to the cellar in a
state of happy lethargy induced by
‘a full stomach, but we had not
taken into account her need of rec-
reation. :
Last Sunday we took down the
- Christmas tree, still fresh and green
dr
une
r
in its crock of water, but clearly
out-dated a month after Christ-
mas. The small plastic wheeled
. toys, the tiny strollers and rock-
ing horses and wagons and see-
saws, each containing its quota of
small pink rubber dolls, which had
represented the eleven grandchild-
ren under the tree, were placed on
the stairway in a corner well out
of the stream of traffic, ready to be
taken to the second floor by the
first civic-minded traveller, where
they have been studiously ignored
with single purposefulness amount-
ing to genius.
It was Monday morning when
the mouse entered the scene, flat-
tening herself to get through the
» crack under the mudroom door.
I started up the stairs, and there,
on the first step, was the mouse,
gently rocking the pink plastic see-
saw with its tiny dolls at either
end.
Now, Howard and Myra, stand
le back for a real mouse-lover. Have
you ever picked up a mouse by the
tail, watched it buckle in the middle
and start climbing your wrist?
That, friends, takes a steady hand,
plus unlimited confidence in the
mouse. A mouse, desperate from
fright, can drill a hole right through
your finger.
This mouse was not bloodthristy,
but neither was she happy. Having
gotten her by the tail, firmly but
unexpectedly, the problem of dis-
posal arose, good housekeeping in-
stinct warring with sympathy for
all small and frightened creatures.
Furnace? Not on your life. A quick
bash on the head? Equally un-
thinkable. Return her to circula-
tion by dropping her at the head
of the cellar stairs? Good house-
keeping might ignore a mouse for
a while, but the mouse once in
hand, good housekeeping required
some sort of action.
So I opened the front door and
tossed the mouse in a gentle arc
out onto the the grass. She lay
there for a moment, recovering her
breath and her feet, then rounded
the corner of the house on two
wheels and disappeared, doubtless
into her own private entrance to
the cellar.
On Monday evening the custom-
ary bribe of cracked nuts was
placed conveniently at hand on the
landing of the cellar steps. On Tues-
day morning the bribe had disap-
peared.
William Leacacos Is
Winner of Debate Prize
William Leacacos, son of Mr.
and Mrs. John Leacacos of Mt.
Greenwood Road, Trucksville, won
the twenty-five dollar prize given
annually to the best individual de-
| bater in the Amphictyon-Indepen-
dent Societies’ debate January 14,
His Society, the Amphictyons,
however, lost the debate. They were
defending the affirmative on the
subject, “Resolved, That the Pres-
ident should be elected for a single
term of six years.”
Bill is a member of the Senior
Class at Seminary.
Bpply for Law Exam
Harry B. Schooley, Jr., Orange, a
registered student at University of
Pennsylvania Law School, and Rob-
ert Fleming, Dallas, graduate of
Harvard Law School, now in the
office of Atty. James P, Harris,
Wilkes-Barre, have made applica-
tion to be examined at Philadel-
phia in March for admission to the
Bar,
Vol. 59, No. 4
FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1949
Back Mountain Volunteer Firemen Enjoy Dinner
6 CENTS PER CG"
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Representatives of eight Back Mountain Fire Companies and their friends oi down to dinner Tuesday night at Irem Temple Country
Club to discuss common problems. i
Anderson Jerome, Hillside Farms’ nationally famous herd sire,
took the grand championship at Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harris-
burg. Docile and good-natured, Anderson Jerome was a good trouper
and the least of manager Heminway’s troubles during the showing.
Here Mr. Heminway shows Red Beauty O’Springbrook. She won
first prize as senior yearling heifer among the milking shorthorns
at the show.
Hillside Farms Milking Shorthorns
Win Fourteen Ribbons at Farm Show
Hillside Farms Inc., showed eight
milking shorthorns at the Penn-
sylvania Farm Show in Harris-
burg and brought home fourteen
ribbons, including the banner for
the Grand Champion Bull.
This was the first year that milk-
ing shorthorns were shown at Har-
risburg and Hillside won out in
competition against six other herds.
The breed was represented by some
fifty animals from all parts of the
state.
There was a great deal of inter-
est in the breed from farmers in-
terested in milk and the fleshing
tendencies of shorthorns.
Hillside Farms have a select
small herd, started twenty-five
years ago as the Old Orchard Farm
herd. Anderson Jerome the herd
sire is not new to the show cir-
cuits. He won first in class in nine
shows in New England in 1947.
He originated at the Anderson
Farms, Shelbourne Falls, Mass.,
where milking shorthorns have been
bred for 100 years.
Assisting. with the showing on
show day were Mr. and Mrs. W.
L. Conyngham, Guthrie Conyngham,
and Charles Heminway, farm man-
ager, and Warren Sutton.
When the nationally famous pho-
tographers of farm animals, .Stroh-
meyer & Carpenter of White Plains
took pictures of the winners, Mr.
Strohmeyer asked, “Are you related
to the Conyngham’s who exhibit the
beautiful Clydesdales?”” The boys
admitted that the Clydesdales came
from Hayfield Farm at Lehman.
Then turning to Mr. Heminway, Mr.
Carpenter said, “And I know you.
Your father, Rev. F. H. Heminway
was pastor of the Congregational
Church. at Shelbourne!”
Milking shorthorns are an Eng-
lish all-purpose breed. Last year
at Hillside they averaged 8000
pounds of milk, 320 fat on a 4 per
cent test.
At Speakers’ Table
Among those at the speakers’
table were, left to right, Francis
McCarthy, chief, Trucksville; Shel-
don Wintermute, city editor Sun-
day Independent; Henry Peterson,
trustee, Harry Ohlman, president;
Thomas Kingston, assistant chief,
and James Besecker, chief, Dr.
Henry M. Laing Fire Company.
Eight Companies At Get Together
Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Com-
pany played host to 98 volunteer
firemen representing eight Back
Mountain Fire Companies Tuesday
evening “at a Bet-together dinner
at. Irem Temple Country Club.
Called in a spirit of good will to
discuss common ‘problems and to
promote closer personal contacts
among men who protect the lives
and property of 16,000 persons liv-
ing in the 171 square mile Back
Mountain Area, the dinner. was a.
genuine success.
Fire companies represented were;
Dr. Henry M. Laing, Shavertown,
Trucksville, Harvey's Lake, Lehman,
Sweet Valley, Lake Silkworth and
Jackson.
Harry L. Ohlman, president of
Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Company,
was toastmaster, and introduced
Thomas Kingston, chairman of the
dinner committee, who in turn in-
troduced members of his committee:
Alvin Shaffér, © Delmar “Besecker,
Howard Johns and Dean Ide. He
also thanked James Besecker, chief,
who has been identified with the
Laing Company. since 1923, for his
assistance in arranging the dinner.
Jim spoke of the co-operative
spirit that has existed among all
of the companies and introduced
the visiting chiefs seated at the
speaker’s table; Francis McCarthy,
Trucksville; Fred Swanson, Daniel
C. Roberts Company; Howard Wool-
bert, Shavertown; Lansford Sut-
ton, Lehman, Sherman Kunkle,
Sweet Valley and Dennis Bonning,
Jackson. R. R. VanHorn, now of
Dallas; but formerly of Plymouth
No. 1 company, was also introduced
as the oldest fireman present.
Stephen Finney addressed the gath-
ering for the Trucksville Company.
Henry Peterson, trustee of the
Laing Company, introduced Sheldon
Wintermute, city editor of the Sun-
day Independent and assistant chief
of Kingston Company as “a man
who was practically born with a
fire extinguisher in: his hand.”
Mr. Wintermute spoke as a vol-
unteer fireman and as an instruc-
tor in fire fighting in the army
during the war.
“The rural fireman can teach
the paid, city profesional fireman
many tricks,” he said, ‘“besause
the rural fireman has an enthu-
siasm for his job that is unmatch-
ed.”
“I was amazed when I returned
from military service to find that
two Back Mountain companies,
Sweet Valley and Jackson, had high
pressure equipment developing 600
to 800 pounds pressure to the
square inch. I had been told in
the army that such pressures were
top secrets and that we should be
careful to prevent their falling into
enemy -hands.”
Mr. Wintermute presented some
interesting figures relating to the
local companies. “You,” he said,
“protect four percent of all tax-
(Continued on Page Eight)
Gregory Closes
Out Stock And
Will Rent Store
Bowman's Restaurant
To Have Dining Room
In Former Storeroom
Charles Gregory, who has been
in the clothing business for the
past 25 years, sold the entire stock
of the store this week to a Scran-
ton jobber. The store fixtures
were purchased by Joe Hand, who
is planning construction of an addi-
tion to his present store. Mr.
Gregory said he would devote all
his time to the barber shop he has
maintained in the rear of the store.
Charlie has occupied half of the
first floor of the building since he
erected the structure in 1928, but
now that the clothing business is
gone, he will move the barber shop
to the front of the store, and will
let Bowman’s Restaurant occupy
the remaining space.
Mr. Bowman said that present
plans call fora doorway to be
constructed between the restaurant
and the former store, and that the
additional space will be used as a
semi-private dining room. It will
also be available for private parties
and dinners.
Mr. Gregory will have with him
in the barber shop, Sarga Toni, of
Parsons, who has been associated
with him since the latter’s dis-
charge from the service,
E. H. MacPherson, known to
everyone as “Mac”, who has been
with Mr. Gregory for the past 16
years,
Bowman.
Though the clothing business is
gone, Mr. Gregory said he would
continue to specialize in custom-
built suits and shoes of extra nar-
row and extra wide widths.
L. B. Hilbert Buys
Iva's Restaurant
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence B. Hil-
bert, formerly of Allentown and
Alderson, have purchased Iva’s Res-
taurant on Route 309, Shavertown.
Mr. Hilbert said some remodell-
ing would be done, and that new
equipment is being installed. He
hopes that the restaurant, popular
with both local and distant truck-
ing firms, would soon be serving
the general public.
Mr. Hilbert, who for five years
was fire inspector for Farm Bur-
eau Insurance with a territory of
‘36 counties in the state, having
reached the retirement age was not
ready to retire completely, so he
has started here in business.
will be employed by Mr.
BOX SCORE
Back Mountain Highway Deaths and
8erlous accidents since V+) Day .
Hospitalized Killed
2
1
20
2
3
2
1
31
St. Paul's Will
Install Pastor
Sunday Morning
St. Paul's Lutheran Church,
Shavertown, will be the scene of
an impressive ceremony this Sunday
morning at 11:00 when Dr. Emil
E. Fischer, president of the Luther-
an Ministerium of Pennsylvania will
officially install the Rev. Freder-
ick W. Moock, Jr., as pastor of that
congregation. It is an unusual hon-
or to have the official head of the
United Lutheran Church in Penn-
sylvania as the installation clergy-
New Pastor
Rev. Frederick W. Moock, Jr.
man.
Pastor Moock, the recently-elect-
ed pastor of St. Paul's Church,
comes to the Back Mountain com-
munity with many qualifications,
and much valuable experience.
Born in Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, he
received his education in the pub-
lic schools of that city. He also
attended business schools at the
| University of Pennsylvania and at
Temple University, and completed
courses dealing with his employ-
Presiding Clergyman
Dr. Emil E. Fischer 3
ment with one of the leading life
insurance companies of Philadel-
phia, where he was employed by
the same company for 16 years.
During his years in the business
world, Pastor Moock was president
of Luther League, teacher in the
Sunday School, superintendent of
the Sunday School, and member
of the church council of the Luth-
eran Church of the Ascension. :
In 1942 Pastor Moock transferred
his membership from the Lutheran
Church of the Ascension to a newly
{formed mission congregation,
{ known today as the Church of the
Reformation, and he devoted much
time and effort in helping to estab-
lish this mission congregation. At
this church he served as vice-pres-
ident of the church council, coun-
cil member, and Sunday School
Superintendent.
In 1938 he married Annette L.
Basquin, of Richmond Hill, N. Y.
They have a daughter, Pauline
Christina, aged 7.
Impelled by a conviction to serve
the church in a more active capa-
city Pastor Moock entered the Phil-
adelphia Lutheran Seminary at Mt.
Airy in the early part of 1946 and
was graduated and ordained as pas-
tor of the Ministerium of Pennsyl-
vania on Thursday of this week.
It is of interest to note that Pas-
to Moock was baptized, confirmed,
graduated, and ordained in the
Lutheran Church of the Ascension
in Philadelphia. This church is lo-
cated on the Mt. Airy Seminary
campus and the graduation and
ordination ceremonies were held
, there. i