Editorially Speaking:
FROM.
PILLAR TO POST
WHAT YOUR WORK WILL BUY
: Are you one of the many people who are troubled by the high
- cost of food? If so, an analysis
prepared by The National In-
dustrial Conference Board will come as a surprise.
In 1948, twelve hours of work, by the average worker, would
purchase a week’s food for his
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MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
family—whereas, in 1914, 30
hours of work was required. Putting it another way, the worker
in 1914 had to spend about three-fifths of his total wages on |
food, while in 1948 one-third would take care of the grocery
In the last third of a century, food costs have increased a
little more than 150 per cent while hourly earnings have risen
bill.
sixfold.
- There are many reasons for this—notably the great increases
in pay gained by labor. There is, however, one important factor
which may be overlooked, and that is the enormous increase in
efficiency registered by retailing.
to a greater or lesser extent of
we buy. There has been something resembling a retail revolu-
It was led by the chain systems,
which pioneered the idea of cutting the profit earned on each
sale to the bone, and still earning a satisfactory overall profit by
increasing the volume of business.
adopted the same plan. The result is the store of today, with its
extensive stocks, its attractive displays, its excellent standards of
service, and prices which are as low as conditions permit.
Thus, retailing has made a very real contribution to American
The proportion of income which most workers
tion in the last decade or so.
living standards.
must spend for the basic necessities has gone down
proportion which may be used for savings, recreation, luxuries
or anything else the worker desires, has gone up.
these days to gripe about high prices—but the average man enjoys
a great many more of the good things of life than he used to. Re-
tailing has done much to bring that about.
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What is true of food is true
practically all the commodities
Other kinds of stores quickly
and the
It’s the fashion
By Mrs. T. M.
B. Hicks, Jr.
leg buTed wo Tie
, year.
»
_ outlined with marigolds and zin-
a
Half the feed, and half the hay
Must be on hand by Groundhog Day.
That’s a Chatauqua County saying from goodness knows how many
Chautauqua County, New York State, is roughly two hun-
‘dred miles west of Dallas but only about fifty miles north, so the climate
is not far different from ours, except for the part that Lake Erie plays
in the weather, tempering the climate somewhat in the fall to accom-
years ago.
modate the grape belt, and making
it correspondingly colder in the
spring before the ice moves out.
Probably the same rhyme about
half the corn and half the hay is
applicable hereabouts, though
spring does seem just around the
corner.
One sure sign of spring is the
all up and
ting pencils and making tentative
lists, scratching out this item and
substituting that.
There is a little offering for the
potting of seedlings that is get-.
ting quite a bit of attention this
This is a small pot obtain-
able in lots of one hundred or
more, stamped out of dried cow
manure and promising not only
housing but nourishment for the
baby plants. The statistics on this
item are probably akin to those
printed on a bag of dried cow
manure which we got stuck with
one spring when Tom was raising
prize tomatoes in Kingston in the
middle of the front lawn. The
bag clearly stated that the pro-
duct contained therein was entirely
odorless when dry. This qualifica-
tion should have given us the tip-
off, but we are notably blind in
one eye, the eye which should
have scanned the fine print at the
bottom of the label. After the
first heavy rain, neighbors passed
the lawn on the double-quick, hold-
ing reproachable noses clutched
tightly between thumb and finger.
Those new pots, nourishing as
they well. may be, are probably
just as aromatic when wet as that
sack of Bovung. As my seedlings
are going to be started in the south
window in the dining room, and
without benefit of melting pots,
they can get along in a double
file of two-pound cheese boxes, or
they can wither and die off, for all
of me.
Burpee came across with a nice
little surprise tucked in with the
seeds which were delivered in re-
sponse to the first order from the
catalogue. For being a good girl
and ordering early, I got a bonus
of zinnias and marigolds, one pack-
et of each. Whoever selects the
bonus was singularly lacking in
imagination, for the original order
ran heavily to both zinnias and
marigolds, fool-proof flowers if there
ever were any. The garden will
have a strong flavor if all the mari-
golds mature, each vegetable row
nias. Maybe they'll drown out the
ragweed.
Has anybody around here ever
experimented with encapsulated
seeds? the kind which come all
wrapped in a dissolving capsule
containing food, insecticide and
fungicide? Sounds like a good
idea, but a trifle expensive except
for a very small garden,
~ PS. It is now past Groundhog
Day, and anybody who wishes to
report an early robin may do so
without fear of retaliation in print.
Lake Schools
Organize P.T.A.
Fed Merrill Is
Elected President
eacher Association at
the organization meeting attended
by 150 parents and teachers in!
the high school auditorium last |
Thursday night. Lai
It was the initial meeting of the
group.
G. E. Taylor, Supervising Prin-
cipal, presided. Speakers who had
FRED MERRILL
been engaged were unable to attend
because of inclement weather, so
Mr. Taylor set forth the objects
and spoke at length concerning the
importance of Parent-Teacher Asso-
ciations.
Mrs. Joseph Rauch, president of
the Harvey's Lake Women’s Club,
spoke briefly on the need for a
Parent-Teacher Association.
Fred Merrill also spoke of his ex-
perience with P. T. A. groups in
other communities.
The By-Laws Committee headed
by Mrs. Wililam Deets presented
the by-laws. These were studied
and adopted.
Aubrey Williams, chairman of the
nominating committee, presented
its report. The following officers
were elected: Fred Merrill, presi-
dent; G. E. Taylor, first vice-presi-
dent, and chairman of the hospi-
tality committee; Miss Bettie Sulli-.
van, recording secretary; Mrs. El-
wood Whitesell, corresponding sec-
retary; Calvin McHose, treasurer.
After the adjournment the school
Dramatic Club, under the direction
of Mis Margaret Dunn presented a
play entitled “Teachers are People”.
Next regular meeting of the
Association wil be held in the Aud-
itorium at 8:00 o'clock on the first
Vol. 39, No. 5
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4,1949
Entertain For Retiring Alter and Rosary Officers
Members of Alter and Rosary
Society of St. Therese’s Church en-
tertained on Wednesday night in
the church auditorium for retiring
officers. Mrs, Thomas Jones, re-
tiring president received a crystal
rosary from Mrs. Robert Williams,
newly elected president.
who enjoyed the
uncheon were: Mrs,
s. Joseph Polacky,
Vi
Lohman, Mrs. Joseph Purcell, Mrs.
Bolislaus Luzenski, Mrs. William
Hansen, Mrs. Joseph Gibbons, Mrs.
Thomas Weisniewski, Mrs. Phillip
Coniglio, Rev. Bernard L. Grogan,
Experts Will
Zone Township
Dallas Township Supervisors at
their meeting Wednesday night
voted to employ the Government
Consulting Service, endowed by the
Samuel Fels Foundation, and ad-
ministered by the University of
Pennsylvania, to make a survey of
the township- and prepare recom-
mendations for the enactment of a
zoning ordinance.
Selection of Government Consult-
ing Service follows a series of con-
ferences during which Supervisors
and members of the Township Zon-
ing Commission interviewed three
different firms of experts recom-
mended by the State Planning
Board. :
Selection of a group of experts
to do this work is the culmination
of six months of effort on the part
of the Supervisors and interested
citizens of the Township, during
which time Clarence Laidler acted
as the spark plug. First public
meeting was held at Dallas Town-
ship School on September 18, when
Mr. Patterson of the State Plan-
ning Board outlined the procedure.
Eager to cooperate, the Super-
visors took a forward looking ap-
proach to the whole matter and
appointed a Zoning Commission
composed of Clarence Laidler,
chairman, Archibald Brooks, sec-
retary, Walter Elston, Paul War-
riner and Charles W. Lee.
Because of the cooperative spirit
of the Supervisors and their sol-
icitor, Atty. Donald Coughlin, Dal-
las Township is apt to be one of
the first townships in Northeastern
Pennsylvania to have a scientific-
ally planned and zoned township
to meet future needs and expan-
sion.
Supervisors at their meeting also
opened bids for nine bonds with
which to purchase road working
equipment. Award was made to
Butcher and Sherred of Philadel-
phia, represented by William Gut-
man, at its low bid of $9,115.30 at
2% percent interest. Other bidders
were: Citizens National Bank of
Parsons, $9,000 at two and one-
half percent; Luzerne National
Bank, $9,000 at three percent; First
National Bank, Dallas, $9010 at
Wednesday in March.
) itn a
‘|'three percent.
Mrs. Henry Mastalski, Mfs. Herbert |
wf} or ot
First row: left to right, retiring
sponding secretary; Mrs.
Coniglio, vice president; Mrs.
Michael Chalawich, president; Mrs.
John Dabnick, recording secretary;
Mrs. John Helfrick, %reasurer.
Back row: newly elected officers,
Mrs. Michael Chalawich, Mrs. Rob-
ert J. Williams, Mrs, Leland Guy-
ette, Mrs. Algert. Antanaitis, Mrs.
Clinton Johnson and daughter, Mrs.
Gary Cupples, Mrs. Elizabeth Mec-
Evoy, Mrs. Albert Pesavento, Mrs.
Frank McGarry, Mrs. Clara Kauch,
Mrs. George Z. Keller, Mrs, Stephen
Tkach, Mrs. Joseph Hughes, Mrs.
To Dedicate
Organ Sunday
Ralph Paul Wj
Play At/Blderson
An organ dedication service,
featuring a recital and concert, will
be given Sunday afternoon, Febru-
ary 6, at 3 at the Alderson Meth-
odist Church of which Rev. James
J. Hilbert is pastor.
Ralph F. Paul will be guest or-
ganist and the Girls’ Choir of the
Plymouth Methodist Church will
sing. The choir is directed by Miss
Esther Burk, and accompanied by
Mrs. Arthur Harman.
Rev. Roswell W. Lyon, district
superintendent, will give the ad-
dress and dedicate the organ. The
presentation for the dedication will
be made by Prof. George Taylor.
The program for the afternoon
follows: Prelude, (A) “Idylle”,Wely;
(b) “Solemn Prelude”, Noble; call
to worship, pastor, hymn, congrega-
tion; pastoral prayer; presentation
of organ for dedication, Prof.
George Taylor; dedication, District
superintendent, Rev. Roswell W.
Lyon; organ, “Ode to the Moun-
tains”, Mason; “Will O’-the Wisp”,
Nevin; choir, “Who « Hath Seen
God ?”, Adams; “Answer Our Pray-
er”, Wilson.
Address, Rev. Roswell W. Lyon;
choir, “Abide With Me”, Lincoln;
“The Holy City”, Adams; offeratory,
Ralph Paul, organist, offeratory
“Prayer”, Wely; organ, “Echoes of
Spring”, Friml; “Gothic Suite”,
Boellmann; choral, prayer, toccata.
Choir, “All In The April Evening”,
Roberton; “Were You There?” Wil-
son; hymn, congregation; benedic-
tion, silent meditation, postlude,
“Fanfare”, Dubois.
Kamor To Graduate
The largest midyear class in the
history of Temple University will
be graduated Tuesday, February 15
at 11 A. M. Among the 687 stu-
dents to receive degrees are three
students from Luzerne County.
They are: Frank B. Kamor, R. D.
2, Dallas; John F. Barrett, 1343
Murray street, Forty Fort, and
John W. Wilchek, 6 Regent street,
Wilkes-Barre.
| Mrs. Joseph Gibbons, wvice presi-
officers Mrs. Thomas Jones, corre- | dent;
Philip |
Mrs. Thomas Wisniewski,
corresponding secretary; Rev. Bern-
ard Grogan, moderator; Mrs. Rob-
ert Williams, president; Mrs. Le-
land Guyette, financial secretary;
Mrs. William Miller, recording
secretary.
John Helfrick, Mrs. Francis Barry,
Mrs. Francis Girvan, Mrs. Harley
Misson, Jr., Mrs. John Dobinick,
Mrs. - Francis Youngblood, Mrs.
Henry Metzgar, Mrs. Thomas Jones,
Mrs. Joseph Cullen, Mrs. William
Miller, Mrs. Jacob Beline, Mrs.
Stephen Waldow.
Donald Casterline Is
Student at Penn State
Donald Casterline, employee of
Shavertown Builders Supply, is en-
rolled in a thirty day training
course sfor retail lumberman at
Penn State College.
The course which is open to
only fifty students, started January
31 and will continue until February
25. It provides instruction in forty
different subjects and is designed
to increase the knowledge, effici-
ency and customer appreciation of
‘its students. y
Daughter Born To
Mrs. William Disque
Mrs. Florence, Kelly Disque, Bed-
ford Street, Forty Fort announces
the birth of a
daughter, Jean
Louise, at General Hospital on Jan- |
The child is the second
born to Mrs. Disque and the late
Their other child
uary 22,
William Disque.
is Billy, aged 6.
Mr. Disque, son of Mrs. Henry
Disque of Ashley, formerly of Dallas,
was electrocuted in June while
working as a lineman for Sordoni
Construction Company in New York
State. Both parents graduated from
Dallas Borough High School.
6 CENTS PER Cts**Y
was held last Thursday night with
ity of the library rooms. :
Back Mountain Highway Deaths and
AL
BOX SCORE
Serious accidents since V-J Day
Hospitalized
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Annual Meeting Finds Library
In Healthy Financial Position
Charles Nuss, Lehman, Elected To Executive
Board at Meeting Attended By Seventy Persons
Annual meeting of Back Mountain Memorial Library Association
an attendance that taxed the capac-
Miss Frances Dorrance, president, presided and called for the nom-
ination of directors for a three-year term. Nominated and elected
unanimously were: Mrs. Joseph Schmerer and Dr. FE. Budd Schooley,
Dana Crump, Stephen Davis, Char-
Eighteen New
Windows Given
Dallas Church
Paddock Glass Co.
Expects Completion
Within Two Weeks
Eighteen new ornamental art
glass windows, recently ordered
by the Dallas Methodist Church,
are in the final stage of construc-
tion and will be ready for install-
ation within the next two weeks.
Work is being done by the Pad-
dock Glass Company, Kingston,
widely known architects and manu-
facturers of church windows.
These windows, which’ are being
presented by a former member of
the Dallas church, will sce all
of the windows in the main body
of the church. Eighteen windows,
with ventilators, are to be installed.
While the new windows are some-
what similar to the present ones,
care was taken to preserve the gen-
eral character of the present church
and the windows will be set in
lead against the frames and the
present sashes will be eliminated.
Considerable care was taken by
the committee so that the sym-
bolism in the windows will tell a
consecutive story of the Church.
The first window, which is a large
overarching crescent glass, and will
contain a symbol of Trinity and
Diety, since these come first in
the genesis of the Christian faith.
One group of windows will con-
tain Angus Dei, symbolizing the
Saviour; the Menora, symbolizing
the Holy Spirit; the Ten Command-
ments symbolizing the old testa-
ment; and the Star of the Epiph-
any, symbolizing the pre-Christian
Messianic expectation. These will be
followed by symbols representing
the life of Christ, including the
Gethsemanae Chalice, Sign on the
Cross, and Lily, which represents
the resurrection.
The next group will contain sym-
bols representing the Holy Church
and the Holy Bible, both of which
were the product of the faith in-
spired by the Living Christ.
The final series depicts man’s
response to the Church. These in-
clude the shield, representing Faith;
the anchor, representing Hope; the
heart, representing Love; the Lyre,
representing Worship; and the
Cross and Crown, representing the
way of self-denial and the final re-
ward of faith.
In Serious Condition
Nine month old NF Oliver,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James
Oliver of Lake road, who has been
so critically ill at Nesbitt Hospital
for the past ten days is still in a
serious condition. Friday evening
a specialist flew to the Valley from
Philadelphia to treat her,
Janice was stricken with in-
fluenzal meningitis last Wednesday.
Artificial Breeding Technicians
Travelled 140,000
140,000 miles was the distance
technicians of the
Local NEPA Artificial Breeding Co-
Operative, travelled in 1948. The
technicians are Albert Ide, Dallas;
Orval Haynes, Tunkhannock; Harry
Keeney, Meshoppen; and George
Dymond, Dallas, Their headquarters
is at Tunkhannock and their ter-
ritory includes all of Wyoming
County and parts of Susquehanna,
Lackawanna, and Luzerne Counties.
Tunkhannock local has 950 mem-
bers with 7,454 cows. It is one of
10 locals in NEPA Artificial Breed-
ing Cooperative, which has 6,200
members with 51,473 cows.
Annual meeting of the Tunkhan-
nock Artificial Breeding Cooperative
will be Friday, February 11, at 1 in
Dietrich Theatre, Tunkhannock.
Tunkhannock}
Miles This Year
A door prize, which will be a
| pure-bred heifer calf from one of
the NEPA sires, will be given to
the holder of the lucky ticket. The
winner must be a member of the
local.
Program will include:
Business meeting, election of
three directors. Directors whose
terms are expiring are: Donald
Williams, George Morrow, and Paul
Iffert; .
Report on bulls used in 1948,—
William F. Schafer, Jr., manager
of NEPA Artificial Breeding Co-
operative; Mineral deficiencies that
affect our dairy animals, — A. E.
Cooper, Extension Agronomist, State
veterinarians.
one with three panels, includes an |
les W. Lee, Dallas Township; Wil-
son Cease, James Hutchison, James
Goodwin, Kingston Township; Char-
les Nuss, Samuel Rhoads, Frances
Dorrance, Lehman Township; T.
Newell Wood, Andrew J. Sordoni,
Lake Township; Harold Brace and
John Perry, Franklin Township.
Miss Dorrance then turned the
meeting over to Harry Ohlman,
temporary chairman, who called for
the nomination and election of of-
ficers of the Association: Unani-
mously elected were: Miss Frances
Dorrance, president; Howard Ris-
ley, vice president, Mrs. Fred How-
ell, secretary, and Henry Peterson,
treasurer. Elected to the Execu-
tive Board were Paul Warriner,
Harry Ohlman, Mrs. Lewis LeGrand,
Mrs. Joseph Schmerer, Ray Evans,
Charles W. Lee, Mrs. Archibald
Brooks, and Charles Nuss, These
with the four officers of the Associ-
ation will manage the library dur-
ing the coming year. New-.member
of the Executive Board is Charles
Nuss of Lehman who replaces How-
ard Hendricks, former principal of
Lehman Schools.
At the conclusion of the election
Mr, Ohlman turned the meeting
back to Miss Dorrance. She was
presented with a corsage from the
Executive Board.
Paul Warriner read a memorial
paper in tribute to the late Atty.
Peter Jurchak, who played an im-
portant part in the founding and
organization of the Library Associa-
tion. :
Henry Peterson, treasurer, gave
a summary of :the finapcizl condi-
tion of the library and stressed the
importance of building up the en-
dowment fund in order to meet
future ' contingencies. He empha-
sized that without the revenue de-
rived from the Library Auction it
would be difficult to meet current
operating expenses. :
The librarian gave the following
report:
Our Library is growing steadily,
and faster than any of us dreamed
when we opened in October 1945
with 5,000 books. In 1948 we
added 4,000 and now have a total
of 17,000 volumes. We also have
the use of 2,000 books from the
State Library. Besides these we
have a lot of boys’ and girls’ books
in series which are not catalogued
but have been put into circulation.
The books in the Library in-
clude all types for all kinds of
people. We have a large section of
biography, a whole foom upstairs
of history, all the best standard
literature and poetry, bocks on:
gardening and flowers, politics and
government, travel and almost any-
thing you can ask for. :
We have a great many books on
Pennsylvania history and books by
local authors. .
Memorial Books
Our Memorial section has some
very fine ones. One of the latest
is “Valley Views of Northeastern
Pennsylvania”, written by Gilbert
McClintock of Wilkes-Barre, which
was presented in memory of Peter
Jurchak. Books were given this
year in memory of Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel Townend, Mr. and Mrs, Earl
Keithline, Gayle Kulp, Mrs. Harry
Carey, Lt. Herbert Culp, Sgt. John
Fritz, John Daugherty, Jr., Mrs.
Samuel Woolbert, Miss Frances
Markham, Henry Schultz, and
Sterling Machell.
Books for schools have been plac-
ed in two separate rooms. Here the
teachers can come and select the
number they wish to be sent to
their schools.
Students Use Library
College students in this area find
the library a great help, especially
when they have put off writing
their term papers until the last
minute and find, because of the
greater demand, the books in the
town libraries are all in use. Some
boys and girls have found it better
to ask here first. We have the
National Geographic magazines from
1906 to date and these contain
a. fine source of material on coun-
tries and customs.
A reregistration of borrowers was
College; Mastitis and breeding prob- | taken during 1948 and more than
lems, — a panel discussion by local | 1,000 people have registered. Of
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