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Editorially Speaking:
Ell Work and No Play
We were surprised to learn from the city press this week
that the employees in the County Court House work thirty hours
a “weg. -Pifteen would have been our guess.
Not all of course—but we're willing to wager that there are
many weeks when fifteen hours
pretty: good guess; or how else could there be so much visiting,
running tothe water cooler, and talking over the results of last
of productive lobor might be a
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
night's fight or’ the standing of the Cleveland Indians. :
- What's needed on a county level is a thorough reorganiza-
tion of our methods of ‘handling county business. We all know
it.» But nobody has done anything about it or is likely to. Penn-
sylvania- needs a Hoover Commission to create efficiency in the
county offices. Only a democracy, and a public willing to squan-
der money like a drunken sailor, can afford the luxury of the
type of business management we get in every county of the
state.
Sr
i Dallas Township
Takes the Lead
i. The Supervisors of Dallas Township deserve the congratu-
lations of the entire community for their forward step in employ-
ing the Government Consulting Service of The Institute of Local
and State Government to help
them in making a survey and
planning a zoning ordinance for Dallas Township.
The Institute was established at the University of Pennsyl-
vania through the generous grant of Samuel S. Fels, who has
long been interested in the improvement of municipal and state
government. It is governed by a board composed of administra-
tive officers of the University and of persons prominent in Penn-
sylvania civic affairs..
A few of the Pennsylvania towns is has served include Hav-
erford, Kennett Square, West Chester, Whitemarch, Pottstown,
and Ridley Park.
Under the terms of ‘the Fels gift, the Institute is not per-
mited to. make a profit on its services; but is allowed to charge
only its actual expenses.
Through the good sense of the Supervisors in \ selecting ex-
perts to zone and plan their township, even though it costs hard
money, Dallas Township will probably be the only municipality
in Northeastern Pennsylvania that has gone about planning for
the future in the right way. The future development of Dallas
Township along a carefuly thought out plan is apt to be a mem-
orial. to, Charlie Martin, Herbert Major and John Jerista long
after other Township Supervisors are forgotten.
While the Institute is working here it would be economical
and good sense for taxpayers of other municipalities to see to it
that their officials also consult them on zoning.
FROM
PILLAR TO POST
By Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr.
St. Valentine has played me a dirty trick. The incidence of his birth-
day on the fourteenth of this month, making him a February notable
along with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, made necessary
his inclusion in a short play written by Annette Evans and presented
for the February meeting of the Wyoming Valley Woman's Club on Tues-
designing a costume which wou
day of this week.
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Mrs. Hicks was the costume com-
mittee, and it was she who
to battle with the proposition.
portray St. Valentine as a Gilb
and Sullivan “Monk instead of a
confection of scarlet heart trans-
fixed by a gilt arrow and frosted
with lace paper.
It was quite a proposition, though
the infant connection of Mrs. Rup-
precht’s who went happily about
the neighborhood broadcasting that
Auntie Ruthie was going to be
Cupid, threatened for a time to
reduce it to the simplest terms.
The neighborhood with one accord
made up its collective mind to be
present at the meeting, legally if
guest tickets could be procured by
hook or crook, illegally if storming
of the doors should be indicated.
St .Valentine emerged as a fif-
teenth century monk, authentic as
to design and cut of cowl and robe,
but with certain liberties tak-
en with color by way of po-
etic license. The robe, as de-
veloped for the play, was white
instead of brown, made up in
snowy white flannelette with scar-
let sateen facings on sleeves and
hood, and a scarlet cord around
the middle. As Mrs. Rupprecht her-
self would be the first to admit
that she is no sylph, it is no breech
of confidence to state that the
capacious garment swallowed ten
yards of flanelette, spurlos ver-
senkt, the yardage providing, in
all honesty, for a very deep hem
and a lined hood, details designed
to give body to the robe and make
it hang correctly. The one compro-
mise with Valentines Day as cel-
ebrated in the five-and-ten was a
large scarlet heart stitched firmly
to the left sleeve where hearts are
ordinarily worn on leap year.
The braided scarlet cord, a frantic
last-minute addition to the cos-
tume, was made hastily from a
red-flannel bandage split into three
sections lengthwise and braided
while the overture was being play-
ed. That bandage was scheduled or-
iginally to play a far different part
"as a border for the braided rug
which has been hanging fire for
the past year and a half.
And what was the reward of
the costume committee?” A sibilant
hiss from the front row as St. Val-
entine barged up the aisle:
“Here comes the Ku Klux Klan.”
Observes Thirtieth
Year in Ministry
Rev. Charles H. Gilbert, onl
of Carverton, now of Maine, cele-
brated 30 years in the ministry last
Sunday.
Owe Only $3,309
On All equipment
Jackson Volunteer Firemen at
their annual meeting elected the,
following officers for the current’
year:
Vol. 59, No. 6
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1949
6 CENTS PER CG®»Y
Back Mountain Highway Deaths and
DALLAS 11
Tur Darras Post:
NROE TOWNSHIP
TOWN
TOTAL
BOX SCORE
Serious accidents since V-J Day
Hospitalized Killed
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Louis T. Wilcox, president; Ed-'
ward Kropp, vice president; Norman
Smith, Secretary; James Twaddle,
Treasurer; Dennis Bonning, Fire
Chief; Elmer Laskowski, Trustee (3
year term); Walter Palmer,
Gross, Alden Wagner, Vernon Cease, '
and Robert Cooper, Ways & Means
Committee; Walter Palmer, Theo-
dore Laskowski, Alfred Swelgin,
Auditors; Paul Snyder, Fire Board.
Trustees elected in 1948 were:
Harold Bertram, Earl Balliet (3
year terms).
Appointments made by the pres-|
ident: Membership Committee: Rob-
ert Culp, Dennis Bonning, Sr. and |
Edward Kropp; Publicity Commit- |
and Louis T. Wilcox.
Appointments made by the Fire
Chief, Truck Drivers: Robert Cooper,
Harold Bertram, Walter Palmer,
Malvin Wagner, Paul Snyder, El-
mer Laskowski, Edward Jeffrey,
Kenneth Cooper, Alfred Swelgin and
Walter Reakes.
Assistants to the Fire Chief: Rob-
ert Cooper, Harold Bertram and El-
mer Laskowski,
The financial report of the com-
pany, presented by Walter Pal-
mer, Theodore Laskowski and Al-
fred Swelgin, auditors, shows what
can be accomplished when a com-
munity really wants fire protection.
Total resources of the company are
$10,929 as compared with current
liabilities of $3,309.26.
Included in resources are: Cash,
$293.89; trucks, $7,707; auxiliary
pump, $302; hose, $515; other ap-
paratus, $52, and balance on out
standing pledge, $2,058.
Liabilities note First National
Bank of Dallas, $3,215. 65 and cur-
rent bills $93.61.
Total receipts for the year, in-
cluding $5,000 borrowed from First
National Bank amounted to $12,
286.23. Total expenditures were
$11,992.34.
The next meeting of the company
will be held at the home of Wal-
ter Palmer on Monday evening at
8. Membership for 1949 is now
pen. Dues are $2. and all.citizens
of the community are invited and
urged to support their Fire Depart-
ment by paying back dues and
tee: Norman Smith, James Twaddle! | Have Blood T
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Paul
pledges now.
Six Hundred
Attend Opening
Of Dress Plant
Sweet Valley Frocks
Work Monday With
Pilot Force of 33
More thn 600 persons attended
ing of Sweet Valley Frocks
at Sweet Valley on Thursday even-
ing.
Operation of the machines and
their types were explained by Na-
than Embre, general manager, who
was assisted in greeting the visitors
by Messers Rich and Riccabonno
of the operating firm.
Alfred Bronson was general
chairman and introduced fellow
townsmen who had a part in the
building program. Among those who
spoke was Sherman Kunkle, who
with Mr, Bronson was one of the
prime movers in the establishment
of the project in Sweet Valley.
More than a score of business
firms throughout the area sent flor-
al displays.
After the formal program, re-
freshments were served to about
450 persons in Church of Christ
Hall, which was taxed beyond ca-
pacity.
On Monday the plant started
operating with a pilot force of 35
women. Thirty five will be added
each week until all are trained. The
firm now has applications from
more than 200 workers,
Returns From
Mexican Visit
Mr. and Mrs. Wagner
Were in Train Wreck
State's Profit From Liquor
Sales Is Fifty-Seven Million
By Pennsylvania News Service
Drinkers of wines and distilled
spirits in Pennsylvania last year
drank the Commonwealth into a
neat profit of $57,390,060.29.
The State Liquor Control Board
—in checking its bulging cash reg-
ister — made this disclosure this
week and in a breakdown of funds
in the till said that $38,481,663.10
was net profits from the sales in
the State Store System, while the
ten percent State Tax yielded $18,
908,397.19.
The profit is the highest in the
history of the board.
Actually, however, total sales vol-
ume dipped slightly last year with
sales for 1948 listed as $208,172,
473.02—or $217,711.39 under 1947.
The highest dollar sales volume
National Winner In Photograph Contest
in the history of the board was re-
corded in 1946 when merchandise
worth $234,300,832 was sold to the
public and retail licensees.
As for the liquid itself, sales of
distilled spirits and wines last year
amounted to 19,085,467 gallons —
an increase of seven percent over
1947. The gallonage sales for 1948
were the highest except for 1942
and 1946.
In 1940 the combined sales of
distilled spirits and wines amount-
ed to 15,800,767 gallons.
Interestingly, sales of distilled
spirits alone last year totaled 9,
860,096 gallons—a decrease of 1.6
percent from 1947, but wine sales
amounted to 9,225,362 gallons, or
an increase of more than 18 per
cent.
G. Harold Wagner, Auditor Gen-
eral of the Commonwealth of Penn-
sylvanja lias just returned to his
office after a six-week trip throug
Mexico and Southern States. Mr.
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iand Mrs. Wagner were accompan-
ied by three other couples who had
also attended the national conven-
tion of State Treasurers and Aud-
itor Generals. Mr. Wagner told of
many interesting experiences the
| party had during their stay in Mex-
ico.
Kenneth, his son, is a sophomore
at the University of Miami, His
son, Hal is a polio victim and had
a serious operation during the past
year. His condition is very much
improved.
The Orange Blossom Special, in
which Mr. Wagner was a passenger
on his trip back to Pennsylvania,
wrecked, causing many injuries to
riders. Hal was in the dining car
at the time of the accident and es-
caped with shin lacerations and
contusios. He was among the four
out of nineteen in that car who
were not hospitalized.
| Women’s Club Will |
yped
Harvey’s Lake Woman's Ser-
vice Club entertained their hus-
bands at a Valentine party at the
Rex Dining Room recently,
Mrs. Joseph Rauch presided.
A short business session was
held and plans for a ham raffle
to be held in March were made.
The president announced that
any Club Member who is interested
can have her blood typed at the
April meeting, and that sixteen
new members can be taken in at
the March meeting.
A delightful floor show was giv-
en by the Juvenile Choir from the
Welsh Baptist Church of Edwards-
ville.
Mrs, Danny Meeker of Kunkle
gave several readings.
Lunch was served to the follow-
ing:
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Swanson, Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Rauch, Mr. and
Mrs. C. E. Shaver, Jr., Mrs. For-
est Sorber, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Bialogwicz, Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm
Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Kit-
chen, Mr. and Mrs. Donald D. Smith,
Mr .and Mrs. Guy Scouten, Mr.
and Mrs. John Stenger, 3rd.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Swanson, Mr.
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and Mrs. Allen Kistler, Mr. and
Mrs. Albert Armitage, Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Deets, Mrs. Earl Fitten,
Mrs. John Edwards, Mrs. Del Win-
tersteen, Mrs. Cornelius Smith, Mrs.
Stanley Gregg, Mrs. Phyliss Have-
well, Mrs. Harold Gebbler, Mrs.
Anna Fitten, Mrs. Robert Payne,
Mrs. David Price, Mrs. James Gar-
YOUNG NESBITT GARINGER :
' Four year old Nesbitt Garinger,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Gar-
inger and grandson of Mr. and
Mrs. Nesbitt Garinger of Dallas,
won fourth national award and first
local award in the fourteenth Nat-
ional Children’s Photography Con-
test held recently. The photograph
above was the winner.
Young Nesbitt competed with
thousands of photographs taken of
Girl Scout Cookies
Girl Scouts have done a pretty
good job of canvassing the town
for cookie buyers this week and
last.
State Rabbit Trappers Neglect
To Visit Box Traps For Days
Representatives of the Pennsyl-
vania Game Commission arrived in
Dallas last Thursday with a truck-
load of new wooden box traps to
capture surplus rabbits living in
vacant lots along residential streets:
Ostensibly the purpose was “tes
catch the rabbits in good condi-
tion and transfer them to areas
where they are less plentiful.
Those who set the traps on pri-
vate property asked no permission
of any property owner but went
about their work with zeal and
set possibly a hundred traps baited
with bits of apple.
One Friday morning the truck
returned and the trappers made
a thorough round of their traps
picking up a number of rabbits.
They reset the traps and went on
their way. That was last Friday
morning.
Six days later, representatives of
the Game Commisison had not re-
turned to look over their traps,
and residents of Dallas wondered
what might be happening to any
imprisoned rabbits.
The ordinary sportsman or trap-
per who is engaged in trapping is
required by law to visit his trap
line at least once every thirty-
six hours. The game Commission
had waited 166 hours to visit its
traps.
«Staifbrook
On Tuesday, 96 hours after the
Dr. Owens Opens
Dental Office
Was Resident Dentist
At Girard College
Dr. Roger M. Owens has opened
his office for the practice of dentis-
try in his home on Spring street,
Dallas.
DR. ROGER M. OWENS
Dr. and Mrs. Owens purchased
the Sandel Hunt property some
months ago and have renovated
it, added office space and installed
dental equipment.
Mrs. Owens and their two child-
ren, Susan and Sherrill, have been
here several weeks but Dr. Owens
just recently closed his office on
Broad street, Philadelphia and mov-
ed his x-ray and dental equipment
here.
In addition to his private practice
in Philadelphia, Dr. Owens has been
for the past three years resident
dentist at Girard College, and prior
to that time was with Philadelphia
Mouth Hygiene Clinic where his
work brought him in contact with
thousands of patients annually.
A native of Plains, Dr. Owens
graduated from Plains Memorial
High School. He took his under-
graduate work at Temple Univer-
sity and graduated from Temple
University Dental Schoo! in 1944.
Having lived at Harvey's Lake
Merchants Put
Thumbs Down On
Contributions
Committee Prepares
List Of Approved
Local Organizations
In order to protect themselves
a proposal to limit advertising in
programs to approved local organiz-
ations was discussed at the meet-
ing of Dallas Business Association
on Monday night at Back Mountains
Memorial Library.
The proposal which will be re-
vised and later acted upon by the
Association was presented by a
committee composed of James F.
Besecker, Frederick Eck and Shel-
don Cave.
Under the plan all Back Moun-
tain Churches, schools, college, fire
companies, Girl or Boy Scout or-
ganizations will be .approved for
one advertising solicitation per
year Any further solicitations by
these groups will require the ap-
proval of the secretary of the Bus-
iness Association, before merchants
will consider contributing.
The only organizations outside
the area which ‘are suggested for
approval are: Community Chest,
March of Dimes, Cancer Drive, and
Pennsylvania State Police, *
While merchants may contribute
and advertise wherever they choose,
they will not be apt to contribute
to any organization that does not
have the approval of the Business
Association.
Grace Cave and Lawrence Up-
dyke reporting for the committee
on store hours, said that requests
for preferences of store hours from
customers had so far met with
indifference that any hours the
merchants set will probably be ac-
cepted by’ customers. It was sug-
gested that all stores close on Wed-
nesday afternoons during the sum-
mer months. An effort will be made
to contact the heads of the chain
stores to have them join in the
where his family has a summer
cottage, Dr. Owens has always felt
that he would like to establish'a
practice in Dallas. Five years ago
children all over the United States.
Judges were Harry Conover, Bid
Collier (radio “Superman’), Jack
Barry of “Juvenile Jury” and
Maude Tausey Fengel, noted illus-
trator.
Grandmother and Granddad Gar-
inger have two other grandchildren,
Donna Lee Garinger, Aged six
and Ricky Garris, aged one.
Erect Steel Framework
Workmen this week erected .the
steel framework fo new Acme
Market being built on the former
Oliver Used Car Lot in Dallas.
traps were originally set, a repre-
sentative of the Dallas Post called
the State Game Commission offi-
ces in the Forty Fort Bank Build-
ing and talked with a Mr. Stain-
brook who was in charge. Mr.
appeared concerned
that the traps had not been at-
tended to and asked if the Post
could give him the names of the
trappers or locations where the
traps were set.
He said that frequently the
Game Commission issues permits
to sportsmen to catch rabbits for
transfer to other areas and that | fault of bail when given a hearing
certain of these permits are also]
issued to others who make a live-'
lihood from trapping. In the latter
instances the Commission pays 75c
for every rabbit captured.
Mr, Stainbrook said investiga-
tion would be set in motion im-
mediately. - Thursday morning a
Game Commission representative
collected the traps, many of them
in front of homes where citizens
had piled them. He said that he
had sprung all the traps on Sat-
urday morning so that no rab-
bits could get in them, while he
was away; but the kids (big and
small) on the streets said that
they had removed the bait; sprung
the traps, and piled them along
the road on Friday evening,
{ gener of that city.
he attempted to find a location
here but houses were unavailable
and he started his practice in Phil-
adelphia.
His wife is the former Claire Spi-
His office hours will be from one
to five daily and six-thirty ta nine.
Also by appointment.
Trucksville P.T.A.
Wesley E. Davis, assistant county
superintendent of schools, spoke on
“The Philosophy and Purpose of
Elementary Education” before a-
bout eighty parents at the Trucks-
ville Grade School PTA .meeting
Monday evening in the Trucksville
Hose House.
Dr. Carl Bradbury, president, an-
nounced that the Farmer Dance
would be held in the Kingston
Tomwnship High School March 11.
Sixteen new members were tak-
en into the association.
Refreshments were served by.
mothers of Miss Lenore Wardan’s
fifth grade.
Getz Goes To Jail
For Lack of Bail
Charged with aggravated assault
and battery by his wife, Charles
Getz, 44, totally deaf mine worker
of Jackson Township was commit-
ted to Luzerne County Jail in de-
before Justice of the Peace Robert
Culp of Huntsville early Tuesday
morning.
Getz was charged with lacerating
the face and throat of his wife,
Laura, 44, with a hack saw. The
couple live on the Mollock farm
and have several children.
Firemen's Bake Sale
Jackson Volunteer Fire Company
will hold a Bake Sale Saturday,
February 19, from 10 until 4:30
pm. in Paul Gross’s storeroom,
next door to George Bulford’s big
International store at Hillside,
There will be a wide variety of de-
licious foods for sale as some of the
best cooks in the country live in
Jackson Township.
Wednesday afternoon closing. Fri-
{ day nights were suggested as the
most popular for evening hours.
Harry Lee Smith, president, re-
ported that practically all collec-
tions for street lighting are .in.
Because of the volunteer work of
several of the merchants in help-
ing to erect the lights this year,
expenses were held down, and there
will be a sizable amount left in the
treasury for even better community
lighting next year.
Georeg Turn, secretary, was in-
structed to communicate with Dal-
las Borough Council thanking that
body for its cooperation and for
paying for the electricity consumed
which amounted to about $100,
There was also discussion of a
need for borough regulation to pre-
vent out-of-the-area hucksters and
peddlers from establishing stands
at the Y along Harvey’s Lake High-
way, in competition to local mer-
chants.
Dues which are now payable
were set at $3 for the current year.
Lawrence Updyke, vice president,
will head a committee to carry on
an intensive membership cam-
paign to bring all merchants of the
Back Mountain Region into the
Association,
Many members expressed the
opinion that the expansion and
slowing up of credits, makes it man-
datory for every businessman to
join the Association to obtain the
pertinent credit information that
is now available through the Asso-
ciation’s Credit Bureau.
Americanization is
Program Theme
Wilkes-Barre Lions Club will
present its fourth annual American-
ization program at the Kingston
Township High School on Friday
night. It has been arranged by
Thomas H. Jenkins, W. Frank
Trimble will introduce the speak-
ers,
The address of welcome for the
Lions Club will be given by Dep-
uty County Controller William H.
Davis. Louis J. Purvin will intro-
duce the main speaker, Dodie Haas,
who will talk on “The Lincoln of
Today.”
Music will be furnished by the
Kingston Township High School
chorus.
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