Se § - - Editorially Speaking: ? Think It Over “The government,” says U. S. News and World Report, “has become the biggest source of income in the country. single year to end next June 30, timated $46,000,000,000 in cold Tre Darras Post \ MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION In the the Treasury will spend an es cash. This means that $1 out of every: $6 spent in the United States will be spent by the gov- ernment.” _ The biggest item in the The magazine then goes into considerable detail as to how this money is to be divided. : on oe i budget—$17,300,000,000—is ac counted for by benefits and subsidies of many diverse kinds. Nearly half of that amount—=$8,300,000,000—will go to vet- . erans and is one of the payments we are making because of past wars. 000,000 in direct payments and government crop Large sums will be paid to the old, the blind, price supports. Then farmers will come in for something over $2,000, loans and and the unemployed. Finally, $5,600,000,000 will be paid out to foreign governments and for foreign-aid purchasing. Item number two—=$10,200,000,000—will go for salaries. It will go to 3,700,000,000 people, the number of civilians and military personnel now on the federal payroll. As the U. S. News points out, this does not include those who work indirectly for government, such as the men and women employed in plants producing materials for federal agencies. Third is a $10,000,000,000 item for goods. This includes an enormous number of items, running all the way from airplanes and tanks to paper and ink. Interest on the public debt will require the sum of $4,100, 000,000. That will be a cash payment, and does not include the interest accruing on war bonds and saving bonds. Services, such as printing, rent and utility bills, will cost the taxpayers $2,400,000,000. And something like $2,000,000,000 will be used for loans and investments. The above items cover the major expenses of the government. Perhaps the most striking fact is the great increase in the number of individuals who now live off the Federal Treasury. U. S. News again, “Ten years To quote ago, when the New Deal was pouring out billions for direct and work relief, fewer than © 20,000,000 persons were getting checks from public agencies. In the period that has followed, the make-work programs of government have disappeared. Prosperity has taken over. Per- sonal incomes trebled. Yet . . in whole or in part, jumped 29 per cent.” The implications of this can persons living on public dollars, be argued indefinitely. But it indicates the reasons for the uneasiness of those who wonder how much more government the country can stand. x x x FROM. Tagg marke, This ves into neat piles unde as if somebody with a mat together. It is a national disgrace to allow good food to go to waste. ~ PILLAR TO POST By Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr. for humus. It does see ought to put two and two The fact that food is allowed to rot in the fields and orchards when there are plenty of people who could use it, is an indictment against common sense and probably antiquated methods of distribution and con- sumption. There is an answer somewhere, and it does not lie in letting George do it or in dumping the surplus on the government, which being translated means everybody in the tax-paying brack- ets, 3 In the case of apples, there is ‘the solution of canned apple-sauce. There is a constantly growing de- mand for this, with baby-food man- ufacturers way out in the lead. Baby-food apple-sauce is just plain apple-sauce packed in bite-size cans and bringing three times as much revenue as if packed in family size tins. The smaller the can, the larger the price, Label anything “baby”, and you have a market. Folks cheerfully pay an inflated price for tastless glop which they could easily stew up on the kitchen stove and run through a Foley Mill or a strainer, but such is the nature of the buying public. Out in Seattle, when the Wenat- chee Valley Orchards promise too large a crop for ordinary market- ing, the surplus frequently goes in- to dried apples as well as apple- sauce. Wenatchee apples, dried, are not as good as Pennsylvania apples dried, for the original product, though long on looks and glossy perfection, is short on flavor, Why doesn’t somebody here- abouts start dehydrating apples? Dried apples bring a good price in pound bags. The demand could easily be boosted by a campaign to popularize small cellophane bags for the snack trade. Dried apples satisfy the yen for candy, and have the advantage of being neither fattening nor sticky to handle. Dried in small enough slices, they would not produce digestive com- plications in the young even if swallowed whole. Everybody over fifty remembers the strings of dried apples that once festooned the attic rafters. There were several apple-bearing attics in my childhood. Uncle Frank's attic yielded not only dried apples in quantity, but dried beef which could be whittled off with a jacknife. The combination induced a thirst to end thirsts, and the end result was usually. a stomach ache, with both dried apples and dried beef swelling according to the laws of physics. Goodness knows how many bush- els of apples went into those lav- ish strings or how many woman and child-hours they represented, each slice patiently attached to its (Continued on Page Eight) Give $300 To Building Fund Church Auxiliary Holds Bake Sale Auxiliary of Prince of [Peace Church met Tuesday evening’ at the home of Mrs. Paul Gaddérd, Goss Manor, and turned over a check of $300, obtained from bake sales and sales of novelties, to the church building fund. Mrs. Stanley Fredericks presided. Attending were: Mrs, Ben H. Ed- wards, Mrs, Roscoe Lee, Mrs, James Lacy, Mrs. N. J. Cave, Mrs J. Shel- don Cave, Mrs Harold Flack, Mrs. Donald Clark, June Colwell, Mrs. Albert Gibbs, Mrs. Frank Nelms, Elizabeth Andrews, Mrs, C. W. Lee, Mrs. Warren Luger, Mrs. Elwood C. Hudson, Mrs, Ben Hightower, Mrs. Eugene Considine, Mrs, A. S. James, Mrs, Fred Schmitt, Mrs. John Sheehan, Mrs. Howard Young, Louise C. Miller, Mrs. Paul R. Daily, Mrs. Sheldon T. Evans, Mrs. Paul Goddard, Mrs. Donald J. Ev- ans, Mrs, Fred Gracely, Mr. Mar- cus Lunt, Betty Ransom, Mrs. Mur- phy and Mrs. York. It was announced that Mrs. Don- ald Evans won the guess cake and Mrs. Albert Gibbs the English cup and saucer at the bake sale held Saturday afternoon. It was also an- nounced that a dinner will be held at Shavertown Fire Hall late in November, Dallas Borough Seniors To Give "Off the Track” “Off the Track”, a rollicking three act comedy, will be presented by members of the Senior Class of Dallas Borough High School Tues- day evening at 8 o'clock. Directors are Shirley Allen and Pete Duda. Mrs. Murray Scureman is adviser. Members of the cast are: Charles Calkins, William Peirce, Joan Bro- kenshire, Elizabeth Berrettini, Pat- ricia Patsey, Mavreen Kelly, Car- ol Monast, Bruce Roberts, Robert Monk, Robert Bodycomb, Nancy Bowman, Elizabeth McQuilken and Priscilla Cooper. Active behind the scenes are: George Schooley and Leonard Stoner, properties; Donald Beseck- er, sound effects; Frank Michel, and Paul Duda; program and tick- ets; Burton Sickler, prompter; Music between acts will be fur- nished by Lois Wood, pianist and ci ; cs raat 1 the Vol, 59, No. 46 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1949 6 CENTS PER COPY BOX SCORE Back Mountain Highway Deaths and Serious accidents since V-i Day Hospitalized Killed 11 TO AL Board Appoints New Cafeteria Staff of Four Kingston Township To Start Serving Lunches November 28 In preparation for the opening of its new high school cafeteria and dining room on Monday, Novem- ber 28, Kingston Township School Board at a special # eeting. ~Tues- day night appointe Sertetainia staff. Ri 3 Morris King, a graduate of the Army Cooks’ and Bakers’ School during World War 1, will be chef. A resident of Kingston Township, Mr. King has had years of exper- ience as a cook for Girl and Boy Scout Camps, Health Camps and for the tobacco camps in Connecticut. Assisting him will be Mrs. Eliz- abeth Billings of Trucksville, Mrs. Billings is the mother of two child- ren and is a war widow. Another assistant will be Mrs, Dorothy Cul- ver, also of Kingston Township, mother of three and a war widow. Mrs, Bess Grant, whose son is in the Navy, was appointed as a sub- stitute. All will take health and physical examinations before assuming their duties on Monday. It is expected to take a week to get equipment in order and stocks arranged before starting regular cafeteria service the following Monday. : Miss Anna Mae Pagniat¥, head of the Home Economics Department, will be cafeteria director and ar- range the menues. About 300 high school students will be served luncheons daily for {15¢ per meal, Faculty members will pay 25¢ because no government subsidy applies to their meals, About 150 students can be seated in the dining room at a time so that senior high school students will be served at one seating and junior high school students at an- other. Eventually Serve Grades ~The Board hopes that by next ear arrangements can be made so that students in both Shavertown and’ Trucksville grade schools can be served hot lunches, By that time it is hoped that Jackson Township and Lehman Township will have progressed far enough on their joint district so that Jackson Township students will be attending school in Leh- man, This will permit the use of one room for a dining room in each of Kingston Township grade buildings. Food can then be trans- ported to these buildings by truck in special containers from the main kitchen in the high school build- ing. This kitchen is now set up with ample facilities to take care of the grade schools. Its 40-cubic foot re- frigerator and automatic dish wash- ing machine with a capacity of 500 lunches an hour were obtained three years ago from the govern- ment at no cost to the district. The Board has announced that the Cafeteria, Dining Room, new Home Economics department and new Commercial department will be open for inspection on Friday af- (Continued on Page Five) Cracks Neck In Accident Al Gould Wears Plaster Cast Albert Gould, who sustained a crackéd body in the third vertebra at the base of the neck in a foot- ball accident on October fourth is well on the way to recovery, Al and ten or twelve other young men were playing touch football in a vacant lot on Machell Ayenue. One of the boys fumbled and as Al fell on the ball several o Ahe play- ers piled on top.fHis ngék was bent and Gould says{he #€t and heard the snap. However, he got in his car and drove himself home. Later he appeared in Dr. Mas- cali's office, After an examination the doctor sent him to Nesbitt Hospital where his neck was set in a plaster cast. which Al still or loss of sleep, he is looking for- ward to getting rid of his uncom- fortable high, stiff collar. It should be removed within the next month. Al served five years in the Army Air Force and was in Italy as a mechanic when the war ended. During his service years Al played many football games with his Army buddies at tackle without re- ceiving any more serious injury than the customary bruises. At the time of ‘the accident, Gould was on his way home from work. He is employed by contractor Carl Hedden, accordianist. Yo Bud LeGrand. {1Sweeney, Mrs. George Keller, Mrs, jon the shelves for some months wears, Although suffering no pain National Parent-Teacher Associ- | ation for the Sixth District of | Pennsylvania will hold an all-day school of instruction for officers and members of Parent-Teacher Associations on Wednesday, Nov- ember 30, at Dallas Borough High School. > It will be the first time that anything of this size and scope has been held in the Back Moun- tain Area. Members of Associations from Luzerne and Wyoming coun- ties have been invited to attend. The program, starting at 10 a.m. and concluding at 3:15 P.M. will be in charge of Mrs. Arthur Hughes, of Moscow, president of the Sixth District, and will include talks by several outstanding lead- ers in Parent-Teacher work, Address of “welcome will be by Mrs, Charles James, followed by a talk on procedures by Mrs, Hughes. A model meeting will be conducted by Mrs. Hughes. Both Dallas Township and Kings- ton Township lost last weekend to superior Luzerne County Confer- ence teams, Kingston Township bowed 27-7 Saturday afternoon to the second place Wyoming eleven while Dallas Township went down in defeat 35-18 Thursday night be- fore the fourth place Forty Fort Flyers. Both teams will be idle this weekend in preparation for the season’s biggest tilt—the annual Turkey Day Classic. For the first time in many years Dallas Town- ship goes into the Thanksgiving Day contest as a definite favorite. But past records and odds mean nothing in a game like this for with both teams keyed up any- thing can happen and usually does. Last year an underdog Dallas Township eleven held Kingston Township in check for three per- iods before bowing 14-0 in the last quarter, Left end Bill Morgan's touchdown pass to right end Dick Handley, followed shortly after- ward by another six-pointer on Mec- Avoy’s plunge which was set up by the interception of a Dallas Town- ship desperation pass, became the deciding plays in an otherwise evenly matched encounter. On the basis of comparative scores against mutual opponents, Kingston Township rates better with Forty Fort and West Pittston while Dallas Township has the edge on the Lehman and Tunkhannock games. As host, the Orange and Black from Kingston Township will be set to perform before a large crowd in search of its first victory of “the year, while Dallas Town- ship will be looking for its third victory for it has lop-sided wins over Avoca and Dupont to its cred- it. Internal dissention on the Dal- Parent-Teacher Officials To Conduct School of Instruction Dr. Evelyn Nichey, State Chair- man of High School Service, will talk on Program Planning. Other speakers will include Mrs. George Bosak, Parent Education; Mrs, Fruehan, National Parent- Teacher Publications; Mrs. Eugene H. Smith, State Council Adviser, Pottstown; and Clarence Ollendike, State Chairman of Juvenile Protec- tion, Scranton, During the noon recess, students of the Domestic Science Depart- ment of the Borough Schools, will serve luncheon. Coming on the heels of the for- mation of the Back Mountain Par- ent-Teacher Council, Mrs. W. E. McQuilken, president of Dallas Bor- ough Parent-Teacher Association, said, “the school of instruction should be of great assistance in Parent Teacher work, Parents who can do so should be sure to attend these sessions.” Dallas and Kingston Township Teams Prepare For Final Tilt the Redskins from realizing their best potentialities but a victory over Kingston Township will go a long way towards salving the wounds. Township-Forty Fort A stage-struck Dallas Township team waited until too late before it got in gear to strike back at a larger but not too, superior Forty Fort eleven. Scorihg three touch- downs in the Jdast quarter Dallas Township showed some of the fight displayed a week ago against Tunkhannock but it was a case of too little and too late and Forty Fort came off with a rousing 35- 18 victory. All three Redskin scores were set up by Jay Bloomer's rifle-like arm on passes to Red- mond, Carpenter, Belles and Creamer. The actual scores were made on an end run by Redmond, a Bloomer to Belles pass, and a plunge by Redmond. Dallas Town- ship was ahead in first downs ten to nine and. was nearly even in total ‘yardage gained but a disas- trous first half hurt the Dallas chances with three Forty Fort in- terceptions stalling the Redskin’s vaunted aerial attack, KT-Wyoming Game Kingston Township ran into a brick wall Saturday afterndon at Wyoming and was crushefl 27<7. The Katies were the victini® of a rugged ground offensive which smashed out 243 yards to their own 20, Kingston Township’s lone tally came in the fourth quarter when Jack Pesavento gathered in a pass from Carey and went 40 yards for the touchdown. John- son made the extra-point. Ray Murdock, elusive young back, was outstanding for Wyoming as he scored three of his team’s four touchdowns. las Township squad has prevented Forty Women Disc Forty members of the Back Mountain Library Book Club met at the Library Wednesday after- noon for tea and an informal dis- cussion of current best sellers. Sev- en new members were accepted: Mrs. F. W. Reinfurt, Mrs. Melvin W. F. Newberry, Mrs, Clarence Woodruff and B. B. Lewis. There was a lively discussion of “Rage to Live” by John O’Hara. Some held that such books should be barred from the library while others thought it would be difficult to invoke any form of censorship. The book, however, will not be because there are so many reser- vations for it. Plans were discussed for erect- ing a Christmas tree. Folks visit- ing the library between now and December 12 are asked to bring Christmas ornaments. Any one wishing to donate the tree should Student, faculty and athletic rep- resentatives of Lehman High School attended the funeral in Edwards- ville Wednesday afternoon of Wil- liam J. Martin, 55, father of Rob- ert Martin, assistant coach and fac- ulty manager of Lehman schools. Mr. Martin, a mine foreman, lost his life last Saturday afternoon at tion were unaware that Mr. Martin was in the section. He was an ex- pert mining man and had been o uss Current Best Sellers At Book Club Meeting get in touch with Miss Lathrop. Mrs. Wesley Himmler presented the Library with a first aid kit and equipment. Present at the meeting were: Mesdames Ray Hedden, Ralph Gar- rahan, George Keller, W. F. New- berry, R. M. Scott, Hugh Murray, Stephen Tkach, Preston Sturdevant, Ray Shiber, J. Stanley Rinehimer, Frank Slaff, Robert VanHorn, Jo- seph Schmerer, John H, D. Fer- guson, Clarence Woodruff, HA W. Smith, T. M. B. Hicks, Jr., Edward Hartman, Mitchell Jenkins, Harry Stublmuller, Harold Titman, A. D. Hutchison, Dana Crump, Paul God- dard, Raymond Kuhnert, 'Edgar Brace, C. A. Hoffman, Lewis Le- Grand Sr., L. V. Lacy, J. C. Lang- don, J W. Camp Jr., Ralph Dixon, Herman Thomas, Walter Elston, Dan Robinhold, Harris Haycox, Gerald Dettmore, Mrs. Henry Peter- son, Mrs. Jack Hughes and Mrs. Fred Howell. Lehman Instructor's Father Is Killed In Mine Accident employed by Glen Alden for more than forty years. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of Bethesda Congrega- tional Churel; Jr. OUAM.- and Woodward #/Hill Fire Company, Beside his wife © former Ann Phillips,/of outh, he leaves his son, ;, one grandchild and a Woodward Colliery, when he|sister, Ruth Martin, Wilkes-Barre, walked into a chamber just as Lester B. Squier, supervising six dynamite charges were set off.|principal; Anthony Marchakitus, The men employed in the sec-|coach, and Arthur Nuss, Letter- man’s Club were official represen- tatives of the school. Legion's Club License Is Still Held Up Control Board Will Await Decision of Superior Court Although Judge Frank L. Pinola reversed the Liquor Control Board and ordered a club liquor license granted to Daddow-Isaacs Post Am- erican Legion for use in its pro- posed new home at Castle Inn, the Board this week refused to grant the license when representatives of the Legion appeared, in~Harrisburg for it. The Board has refused to take any action on the license until the State Superior Court finally decides whether private clubs are within the liquor quota law, The lower courts have been dis- agreeing among themselves for ten years ower interpretation of the 1939 Liquor Control Act. This week the Court heard ar- guments on an appeal of the Good- will Volunteer Fire Company of Bethlehem from a Lehigh County Court decision upholding the Liq- uor Control Board's refusal to grant a club license because the quota of one license for each 1,000 people has been exceeded. The Court's decision is expected to settle the fate of a club license for Daddow-Isaacs Post as well as for other clubs throughout the State, Liquor Dealers’ Associations throughout the State have thrown their weight behind the Liquor Control Board in an effort to have definite limits placed on the is- suance of club licenses. In the meantime Daddow-Isaacs Post will bide its time until the Court decision before it exercises its option on Castle Inn, and John Panco, owner will continue to op- erate his business under his own license serving steak, chicken and seafood dinners as well as alcohol- ic beverages, PTA Will Hear Four Speakers Mrs. Nunlist Will Give Parents’ Views November meeting of Dallas- Franklin Township Parent-Teacher Association will be held Monday evening at 8:15, Teachers will meet parents to discuss report cards from 7:45 until 8:10. There are a number of important reports to be presented by the com- mittee chairmen. The program committee will pre- sent’ a timely and interesting dis- cussion. A committee of teachers will discuss “What the teacher ex- pects of the home”, A parent, Mrs, Marshall Nunlist, will give the viewpoint of the parent on “what the parent expects of the teacher and school.” Raymond Kuhnert, supervising principal, will talk on “What the principal expects of the teacher, parents and school.” Floyd Chamberlain will present “What the school board expects of the teacher and parents”, Refreshments will be served, Buys Registered Jersey Fred Risch, Orange, has pur- chased ‘a registered Jersey, Honor- able Buttercup, from the Wayne C. Ervine herd, Montrose, Board Meeting Executive Board of Dallas Junior Woman's Club will meet Tuesday at the home of Mrs, Ralph Garris. ~] PLENTY OF TURKEY AND TRIMMINGS FOR LEHMAN TWP. STUDENTS Lester B. Squier, supervis- ing principal of Lehman Schools believes some of his students’ eyes are Wigger n their stomachs foe those who have bought two lunch tickets at 15c¢ each, for the big Thanksgiving Dinner that will be served in the school cafeteria next Wednes- day noon. And here’s the reason, On that day the cafeteria will serve cranberry sauce, roast Back Mountain Turkey with Lehman dressing, mashed po- tatoes, gravy, ice cream and beverage. Portions will be extra large because the cafe- teria director has purchased seventy-five pounds of turkey more than used last year, New Committee Refuses To Discuss Zoning Goeringer Heads Group Opposed To Any Restrictions Dallas Township's new committee on zoning which was appointed to help work out an ordinance that would be satisfactory to body, refused last Thursday night to discuss anything with the orig- inal zoning board. i Although Charles Cella, repre- sentative of Fell's Chair for Local and State Government of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, had come here from Philadelphia for the meeting, he and Clarence Laidler, chairman of the original board, were told there was nothing to discuss. Mr, Cella and his group were em- ployed some monthse ago by the supervisors to make surveys of the township and recommendations for a zoning ordinance, The cost of Mr. Cella’s trip from Philadelphia will be borne by Dallas Township. A representative of the new com- ‘mittee stated that his group had not had an opportunity to meet and was not prepared to discuss zoning with the old board. At the town meeting held on October 25, recommendations of the original board for a zoning or- dinance were voted down after re- marks from the floor by Attf, Ar- thur James and Harry SL real estate man, Boe On motion of Mr. Goeringer, the Supervisors were empowered to table all of the work done by the old board and its technical advi- sers and appoint a new committee to work along some other line of approach, This motion had the effect of dissolving the old zoning commis- sion composed of Mr, Laidler, Wal- ter Elston, ‘Paul Warriner, Charles Lee and Arch Brooks. On the sur- face it would also appear to dis- card the work done by Mr, Cella and the Institute of Local and State Goverpment at . considerable pense to the township. Members of the newly appointed committee, two of whom are not residents of - the township, are: Harry Goeringer, chairman; L. A. McHenry, Clarence Myers, Harry Martin and Ted Wilson. From citizens of the township not officially involved, it is learned that the antagonism between the two groups springs from entirely different viewpoints on zoning, The original group favors some form of protection for the old timers and property owners while the second group is inclined toward no restrictions, Lee Ohlman Injures Ear Horse Steps On Him As He Falls. Lee Ohlman, young son ‘of Mr, and Mrs, Harry Ohlman, Machell avenue sustained a serious injury last Thursday afternoon when he fell from a horse near his home, Lee was being given a ride by Billy DeReemer, on a horse rented from Jerry Machell’s riding stable when he lost a stirrup. Leaning over to reset his foot, Lee lost his balance and falling, was struck by the horse’s hoof. The boy was taken to Dr, Mas- cali’s - office. for immediate treat- ment. lobe up to almost the top, neces- sitated eight stitches. There are no indications of com- plications, and the young horseman is expected to be out in .a short time. CROP Campaign Gets Under Way Wesley Lewis, Chairman of the Luzerne County CROP committee, which means Christian Rural Over- seas Program, for the relief of Catholics, Protestants and Hebrews in Europe, has anouficed that the campaign will coptinue until Nov- ember 25, This program is t i its kind where Protestants, Catholics and Hebrews have gotten together on a relief program. In most parts of the country there will be a soli- citation of rural folks asking them to contribute, and this may be al- located to whatever disbursing agency the donor ‘wishes. This pro- gram is national in its scope and is well organized throughout Pennsyl- - vania, Most of the rural ministers are cooperating with CROP by mak- ing announcements and some of them are assisting by appointing S IN | committees for the solicitations, 4 every- ex- The jagged tear in Lee's» A ear, cut from the thick part of QUE ni A » 1