The Cow Story Up-To-Date
It doesn’t make any difference whether you are a Republi-
can, a Democrat or an Independent, the following article from
the Bernice, La., News- Journal is good for all to read who wish to
see our American system of representative government survive.
Capitalism: {If you have two cows you sell one and buy a bull.
Socialism: If you have two
your neighbor,
Communism: If you have two cows, you give them to the
government and the government
Fascism: If you have two cows, keep the cows and give the
milk to the government.
New Deal: If you have two.c€
other, then pour the milk down theyd: fp
Fair Deal: If you have two cows, you let them starve so
you can buy your milk in cans,
FROM
cows, you give one of them to
gives you milk.
Tae Darras Post
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
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Vol. 60, No. 12
FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1950
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Back Mountain Highway Deaths and
Serious assidents since V.é Day
Hospitalized Killed
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1989 hoot one, milk the
thus making business better.
PILLAR TO POST
By Mrs. T. M.
If you want to meet your friends and neighbors in a chummy sort
of way, sign a blood donor card. You are practically certain to meet
somebody from the Back Mountain in the Red Cross Blood Donor Sta-
tion, awaiting the inevitable with outward calm or trepidation according
to their kind or former experience.
B. Hicks, Jr.
The first person I spotted Tues-
day was Mrs. Byron Creasy. Mrs.
Creasy, arrayed in a most becoming
outfit featuring a cap and apron,
was not on the donating end of the
line, nor yet on the receiving end,
but occupied a comfortable middle
station half way between, a living
welcome on the mat. She it was
who deprived me of my coat, and
then belatedly recognized me as
the person who had fallen upon her
last week’s information about the
suicidal grosbeaks and turned it
into a column. Things were touch
and go for a minute, but about
that time, somebody else came in,
and I was free to approach the
desk and divulge personal misin-
formation about my age.
Somebody across the room said,
“Hello there, Mrs. Hicks”, and there
sat Mrs. Raymon Hedden. Ap-
proaching from another angle was
Dorothy Hodgson. Mrs. Hedden said
that her husband would be coming
shortly, but that she would not
need to wait for his release, that
if I needed transportation home she
would oblige. Raymon could come
out later in the station wagon after
replacing his pint of blood with a
pint of orange juice.
Mrs. Hedden disappeared behind |
the iron curtain and I moved up to |
the anxious bench.
Now it was my turn. Very mon-
otonous, this inquisition. To every
question, the answer was no, no,
no, with increasing fervency. The |
officiating cap and gown looked dis-
appointed. Nothing interesting at
all, no history of yellow jaundice,
no mesalaria, no Malta fevi @e no
thrills and chills, The final pro-
nouncement uttered with an ill-
concealed sigh of bafflement, “Mrs.
Hicks, you don’t realize how lucky
you are.”
“Oh yes I do”, I muttered, on my
way to the beckoning nurse and
the small glass of orange juice,
“It’s just plain providence that I
am as strong as a horse and have
nointeresting maladjustments,
mental, emotional or physical”.
That, with a mental eye on fifteen
grandchildren, the annual grist of
spring sewing, the costumes for the
Easter Parade Float, and the mile
and a half of indifferent highway
connecting the Pump House and
the cross roads in Dallas.
At this point a figure appeared
in the doorway, said “next” in a
terse and business-like voice, and
disappeared into the inner sanc-
tum, the main works. Here a cross-
section of the population of Wy-
oming Valley and environs lay
stiffly upon a stretcher apiece, each
pair of feet covered modestly with
a sheet, an arm attached to a pint
bottle by a length of rubber hose.
Each stretcher had a guardian an-
gel to prevent the donor from ris-
ing suddenly and going away from
there.
Invited to mount a stretcher, I
said I had always been taught that
shoes should be removed before
getting into bed, but this feeble
sally got me nowhere. If I would ar-
range myself on the stretcher, the
attendant would veil my feet.
Mrs. Hedden, across the aisle,
reared up her head and asked me
how I was doing. Already attached
to a bottle. she was giving her pint
for humanity and was about ready
to call it a day, the bottle practic-
ally full in the few minutes that
had elapsed. She said she would
have a cup of coffee in the canteen
and furnish transportation to the
Pump House as soon as I should be
at liberty.
At about the time I swung my
feet from the cot and started for
my own cup of coffee, Mr. Hedden’s
feet were being snugly covered with
a sheet and he was baring his arm
for the sacrifice.
It doesn’t take long, and it
doesn’t hurt, in case anybody feels
qualms about giving that pint.
Almost everybody, finding the
process a chained lion (see Pil-
grim’s Progress) signed up for an-
other date in two months.
Nothing to it. Be sure to sign up
with your local organization, or
freelance it to save a life by parting
with a pint of blood which you
can easily replace with a little extra
drinking of fluid within the three
days following the experience; may
not be as dramatic as rescuing a
child from a burning building, but
it is a lot easier and adds up to
the same thing.
How do you know it might not
| district meeting Tuesday at Lewis-
phoma wl #07 elly
be your own life? Or your child’s ?
Elected Director
HAROLD PAYNE
Harold Payne, vice president and
general manager of Commonwealth
Telephone Co., Bradford County Tel-
ephone Company; and Luzerne Tele-
phone Company was elected a di-
rector of Pennsylvania Independent
Telephone Association at its eastern
burg.
Mr. Payne is. one of eleven di-
rectors of the Pennsylvania Inde-
pendent Telephone Association,
Semes~ iv.»
thirds of the area of the State, rep-
resenting more than 400,000 tele-
phone subscribers and encompass-
ing 5,000 employees.
Other directors are. L." R. Thurs-
ton, Harrisburg; George B. Parry,
Jr., York; C. E. Eaby, Ephrata; J.
K. Stoltzfus, Birdsboro; R. A. Smith,
Bangor; Harry Engle, Erie; Allen
M. Gibson, Sheffield; B. H. Cravens,
Meadville; A. N. Sweard, Butler and
John M. Horn, Vendergrift.
Township Girls
Defeat Dallas
Mary Kozich Is
High Scorer
Dallas Township girls put the
finishing tcuches on the quest for
the Back Mountain League crown
with a 35-22 wictory over Dallas
Borough Tuesday at Kingston
Township gymnasium. The three
playoff games were necessitated
when both halves of the league
ended in a tie—Dallas Township
and Dallas Borough tied for the
first half and Dallas Township and
Laketon tied for the second half.
Mary Kozich, Dallas Township's
stellar forward, connected for 22
points to match the entire output
of the Borough team. Elsie An-
deres and Marjorie Mattie account-
ed for the remaining 13 points.
Halftime score was knotted at 15-15
with both teams playing hard, bril-
liant ball, but unexpectedly the
Borough folded in the second half,
scoring 7
{ points in the third quar-
ter while Dallas Township scored |
20. This win gives Dallas Township |
a three-wins-out-of four record
against Dallas Borough this season. |
In the playoff for the first half |
title, Dallas Borough was 22-17 vic- |
tor over Township on the basis of |
fine defensive play by the guards
and the accuracy of Priscilla Coop-
er’'s corner shots. The second half
playoff was won by Dallas Town-
ship 28-24 over Laketon, when |
what promised to be a runaway for |
Township was turned into a thriller |
by the persistence of the Laketon |
girls.
Mrs. Mary Mulderig coaches Dal- |
las Township assisted by June Kist- |
ler. Florence Park coaches Dallas |
Borough and Florence Worth, Lake- |
ton.
Breaks Rib |
Herbert Payne suffered a broken
rib and painful bruises this week
when he bumped into a counter at
his store at Loyalville while mov-
ing a heavy arm load of merchan-
dise. In addition he is confined to
bed with a virus infection.
Silver Leaves
Give $740 To
Kunkle Firemen
Has Also Aided Church, |
Community Building,
And Memorial Library
Silver-Leaf Club of Kunkle has
voted $740 to the Harry Smith Fire
Company, Kunkle, as announced at
the Tuesday meeting held at the
home of Mrs. Dorothy Dodson.
Silver-Leaves will enjoy hot
water for dish-washing for the first
time at the Kunkle Community
House when they clean up after
their Easter Party, April 21. The
hot water is the culmination of two
years of fund-raising to finance the
drilling of a deep well, installation
of plumbing and an electric pump,
and finally a bucket-a-day.
Hostesses for the meeting were
Mrs. Dorothy Dodson, Mrs. Eliza-
beth Hess, Mrs. Florence Klimech.
Mrs. Arline Kunkle presided, devo-
tions led by Mrs. Helen Landon.
The special prize was donated by
Mrs. Klimech.
Refreshments were served to:
Mesdames Dorothy Dodson, Eliza-
beth Hess, Myrtle Hess, Florence
Klimech, Arline Kunkle, Helen Lan-
don, Florence Hoyt, Betty Meeker,
Virgie Elston, Agnes Elston, Dor-
othy Henney, Marie Rydd, Emily
Traver, Anna Weaver, Nell Ells-
worth, Erma Ellsworth, Ella Brace,
Sylvia Brace, Grace Ide, Arline Up-
dyke, Naomi Ashburner, Irene Tran-
sue.
Easter Egg Hunt
(rains Momentum
Baskets For Crippled
Children of Area
Crippled children of the area,
twenty-five or thirty as estimated
off-hand by Lou Banta, will not be
cheated of their fun in the Easter
egg hunt on April first, Though
they may not be present in per-
son, each child on this list will
receive an Easter Basket filled
with eggs and candy and a presiding
Easter Bunny as a consolation prize.
According to Lou, this will be the
largest Easter Egg Hunt in Penn-
sylvania, if the number and char-
acter of prizes offered is any eri-
terion. The list is not yet com-
plete for release, but values range
from thirty dollars down, some
cash prizes included.
All Kingston Township P.T.A. or-
ganizations are cooperating in the
project with donations of money
and eggs. Posted on school bulle-
tins this week are notes asking for
donations of eggs, with the request
that all mothers donating them will
see to their boiling and coloring.
Mr. Banta’s own household did this
last year, but with five thousand
eggs planned, cooperation is essen-
tial.
Toll-Gate Lion’s Club has offered
services in taking names of child-
ren, organizing the frolic and lend-
ing a hand wherever needed.
Barn Collapses
Under Wet Snow
Small Tractor Buried
Horses, Dogs Escape
Clifford Space, Huntsville road,
lost a sizeable portion of his red
barn when the annex, three sides
of an open square, 120x50, col-
lapsed under the weight of heavy
snow Thursday morning at 8:30.
Dick Johns, Space’s son-in-law,
stated that complete destruction
followed within seconds after first
warning crack.
No animals were injured, though
six valuable breeding dogs, short-
haired German shepherds, liberated
by the falling of a side wall, took
flying leaps to safety from their
kennel enclosure. Four horses, two
Belgians and two hunters, narrowly
escaped death.
One small tractor was buried un-
der debris, but a large Farmall
Tractor, within inches of the aval-
anche, survived and a Pontiac car
and truck could be jockeyed away
from danger of further structural
damage.
Mr. Space says that the wreck-
age will be cleared, but that the an-
nex will not be rebuilt, as the main
barn is large enough for all practi-
cal purposes.
Men Postpone Meeting
Men’s Club, Shavertown Metho-
dist Church, announces postpone-
ment of March meeting, originally
scheduled for the 28th, There will
be a regular April meeting.
Ready For The
Harold J. Cook of Trucksville is
here shown astride the ancient bi. |
cycle which will be ridden in the |
Back Mountain Gay Nineties Easter |
Parade by Eddie Tinklepaugh of |
Dallas.
The bicycle, approximately sev-
enty-five years old, was owned by
the Kingston pharmacist’s father,
George Cook, and was ridden by
him seventy-three vea¥s ago in a
Easter Parade
cycle contest from Blossburg, Pa.,
to Syracuse, N.Y.
While he was a boy Harold had |
his choice of a new low-wheeler
or of his father’s high wheel bi-
cycle. He chose the latter and
never rode any other. He rode it
during the Boston Store's 50th An-
niversary in 1933 and also rode it
in all of the Easter Parades until
a few years ago.
Playground Fund
Buys Apparatus
Dallas P.T.A. Finances
Recreation Equipment
Fund-raising activities among
members of Dallas Borough P.T.A.
culminated Monday night in the an-
nouncement that $630 had been ex-
pended for play-ground equipment.
The recently expanded play-yard
will now house a Temple gym, a
see-saw, a slide, and back boards
for basketball.
In ilustration of the new cur-
riculum as explained by Charles
James, principal, Mrs. Louise Col-
well, fourth and fifth grade teacher,
spoke on the current fish project
on which her class is working this
term. She showed how the project
starting with different species of
fish, one fish to a child, involved
English, geography and spelling,
each subject feeding the other in
a correctly balanced curriculum.
Second grade for the sixth time
was awarded the banner for top at-
tendance of P.T.A. parents. Com-
mittee, Al Gibbs, Homer Moyer, |
Charles James, Durelle Scott, Jr.
Named Chairman
—— wa |
Peter D. Clark of Dallas has been
appointed chairman of the Cooke
campaign for governor in Luzerne
County and has already received
assurance of support from many
Back Mountain citizens.
George Frantz
Dies In His Car
At Trucksville
William Parsons Finds
Body While Taking His
Dog For a Late Walk
George L. C. Frantz, Lehman, was
found dead in his car late Wednes-
day night in front of the Trucks-
ville Post-Office.
A heavy snow, starting earlier in
the evening, was still falling, and
the roads were slippery. Before at-
tempting the long grade, Mr. Frantz
had drawn to the side of the high-
way and persuaded a passerby,
John Engler, 18, to adjust chains.
Mr. Frantz stepped from his car
to facilitate this, and was taken ill
while standing there. He got back
in the car and collapsed on the back
seat, leaving the door standing open
and his feet protruding.
John asked Mr. Frantz if he
should call a doctor, but Mr. Frantz
said he would be all right, would
rest a few minutes before attempt-
ing the hill.
William Parsons, a passenger on
a belated bus, overdue because of
the storm, left the bus at Carverton
road at midnight and walked up the
hill to his apartment above the
Pesavento store, noting in passing
the peculiar position of the occu-
pant of the car.
At twelve twenty-five, William
walked his dog, and seeing that
the car was still standing at the
side of the highway, investigated.
He reached into the car to touch
Mr. Frantz on the shoulder and ask
if he were ill, noted that something
was wrong, and called Dr. R. E.
Crompton. Dr. Crompton’s lights
were still on and he came at once.
Death was certified as due to
heart-failure, though Mr. Frantz
had left the Franklin Club, Wilkes-
Barre, in apparent perfect health
at eleven P.M. after watching a
bowling tournament.
Lou Banta, summoned by Dr.
Crompton, arrived at twelve thirty-
five aid ook charge. ‘
Mr. Frantz, known to all inti-
mates as Bud, was the main-stay of
the Glen Summit Water Company,
Forty Fort, according to William
Quinn. He was treasurer of the
company, had been among the or-
iginal members to incorporate in
1929.
In his youth at Wyoming Sem-
inary he had been prominent in ath-
letics playing on football, basketball
and baseball teams, and was later
for a short time a professional
basketball player for Wilkes-Barre.
Mr. Frantz had celebrated his
sixty-fifth birthday last Saturday.
His grandson, Chinker, son of
Mrs. Ann Apgar, New York, who
has made his home with him for
some years, a boy of thirteen, has
a paper route in Meeker and it was
Mr. Frantz’'s pleasure to help him
cover it on stormy days. On Thurs-
day morning the Times-Leader
called the Glen Summit Water Com-
pany to express regret that because
of the storm no truck could reach
Lehman, and heard the news for
the first time.
The Frantz family have made
their home in the Back Mountain
area for ten years, having left
Wilkes-Barre to come to Meeker,
and eventually to Lehman three
years ago. Mr. Frantz was a mem-
ber of a prominent Wilkes-Barre
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First Row, left to right: Marian
Parsons, Virginia Brungess, Pat
Sheehan, Theresa Polachek, Lois
Second Row: Mary Mulderig, |
(coach), Lois Ward (Mgr.), Bar-
bara Brace, Marjorie Mattie, Eil-
Third Row: Ernestine Martin, Sue
Parsons, Nancy Martin, Augustine
Haradem, Beatrice Race, Joy Kel-
Anne Klein (co-captains), Elsie An- | een O’Boyle, Helen Ondish, Wini-|ler, Jessie Carey, Naomi Veitch,
deres, Mary Kozick, Julia Updyke. | fred Decker (Mgr.), June Kistler,
(coach).
Shirley Welsh.
Civic Center
Is Still Far
From Reality
Club Representatives
Question Authority
Of Present Association
In spite of bad weather a
goodly representation of sev-
eral Back Mountain organiza-
tions attended a meeting
called by Dr. F. Budd School-
ey to discuss a proposed Back
Mountain Community Center
Wednesday night in Dallas
Township High School Li-
brary.
Dr. Schooley opened the meeting
by reviewing the work done by the
old committee prior to the war and
asked the entire Back Mountain
Region to disregard boundaries, old
prejudices, creeds and politics in
order to bring about a center
worthy of the expanding area.
Miss Mary Weir acted as tem-
porary secretary, having been ap-
pointed according to Dr. Schooley,
by the Board of Directors at a
recent meeting.
Dr. Schooley reread the old con-
stitution which he said was based
on the American Constitution and
written by the late Atty. Peter P.
Jurchak.
He explained that the Asociation
had a competent Board of Advisers
from Wyoming Valley who had very
graciously consented to direct the
venture and would watch with in-
terest the elimination of prejudices
which would convince them that
the Back Mountain area was sincere
in its aspirations to have a com-
munity center.
Dr. Schooley spoke of the tireless
effort he had put forth in present-
ing the proposition to Back Moun-
tain folks in soliciting something
over $2,000 that now awaits the
project in First National Bank and
of the rebuffs that had “torn a
part of his heart away” when he
presented his plan to unsympa-
thetic community officials ang--se=
ganizations.
“At times”, he said, “I am
ashamed I live in Dallas Borough.”
Dr. Schooley explained that the
meeting was called to select a site
for the new building, plans for
which were drawn up some years
ago and changed from time to time
by Lacy, Atherton and Wilson. He
explained that an option has al-
ready been placed on a piece of
land in Dallas Township and it is
imperative that it be exercised
within the next thirty days.
He said that the Board of Direc-
tors had concluded that a suitable
site should be selected somewhere
between Fernbrook Corners and
Dallas Township.
He said the location of the op-
tioned site could not be revealed
because it might jeopardize later
sale by the owners.
He appointed the following to act
on a site: Charles Nuss, Daniel Rob-
inhold, Paul Warriner, Clarence
Laidler and Mrs. Arthur Newman.
Then Dr. Schooley asked if there
might not be some questions from
those gathered to discuss the Cen-
ter.
Mrs. Fred Howell, one of those
representing Back Mountain Mem-
orial Library, asked if she might in-
quire who composed the Board of
Directors. Dr. Schooley replied that
the Board is composed of the presi-
dents of all Back Mountain civic
clubs and organizations, representa-
tives of churches, and municipal
bodies.
She then asked when this Board
had met and Dr. Schooley implied
that there had been a meeting in
Harry Schooley’s apartment in
Wilkes-Barre.
It came out during further ques-
tioning that the Board as a whole
had never met.
Mrs. Harris Haycox said that as
a representative of Dallas Woman's
Club she and others of the com-
mittee had no authority to author-
ize the purchase of a site, having
been instructed to attend the meet.
ing only as listeners and report back
to their club.
At this point representatives of
other organizations, Francis Am-
brose, Edward Keller and Daniel
Robinhold of Dallas Rotary Club;
Atty. Mitchell Jenkins and John
Parsons of Dallas Kiwanis Club;
Charles Nuss, Clarence Laidler and
others, asked pertinent questions
from the floor which revealed that
the Back Mountain Community
Center Association is a mythical
set up, with constitution and by
laws that are outmoded, indefinite
and incomplete (and that no one,
according to Atty. William Valen-
tine, who spoke later, could tell
whether he was a member of the
Association or not. Atty. Valentine,
although he is solicitor for the
Association, said that he was at a
disadvantage in interpreting them
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