Editorially Speaking:
Quack Medicine
The New York World-Telegram and Sun recently ran
an editorial on President Truman’s suggestion to Con-
gress that small business is in need of help. The Presi-
dent said that this situation was the result of a serious
lack of adequate venture capital for small business, and
proposed that the government come to the rescue with a
five-point program including insurance of small-business
Tue Darras Post
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
bank loans, broader lending powers for the RFC, govern-
ment promoted and charted national investment com-
panies, and other palliatives.
The newspaper said, “Mr. Truman’s message, how-
ever, does not go into the reasons why the ‘traditional
sources’ of venture capital for small business have dried
“The chief of those reasons is excessive government
taxes, collected by a system which gives people who might
invest in small business enterprises compelling reason to
fear that the possible gain is not worth the risk of loss.
“More useful than any of the President’s five points,
or all of them, would be determined action to cut down
government waste and extravagance, stop squandering
so much of the people’s money, reform the tax system
and take less capital away from private enterprise, small
and large, through taxation and borrowing.”
Venture capital is just what the name implies.
It is
the money that goes into new businesses, most of ‘which
begin in a small way. The investor knows that he is tak-
ing a risk of losing all or most of it.
Therefore, the in-
vestor naturally wants the possibility of earning a good
return if the enterprise is a success.
When excessive
taxation destroys that possibility, capital dries up.
This is a much more serious matter for the new than
for the old business.
its markets.
The latter is established.
It has capital and credit.
It has
It has the legal,
statistical and accounting departments which are able to
cope with all of the present-day government red tape
and form-filling.
which grew that way in the name of the “little man
So big, all inclusive government—
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and
the “little enterprise”’—actually harms those it is sup-
posed to help.
In the same issue of the World-Telegram, Dave Boone,
a paragraph writer, said, “The government, which makes
it tough for anybody to run a business today, now pro-
poses loans of millions to folks who want to go into bus-
iness.
That's like a doctor keeping a patient in bed and
offering a jackpot to anybody who will get in with him.”
And that’s the size of it.
The investor wants a chance
to make a profit, not mortgage his future to the govern-
ment for a loan.
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FROM.
PILLAR TO POST
By Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr.
Everybody in the community seems to be getting behind the Library
Auction in a big way. Solicitors have been greeted with a welcome on
the mat, and up to date there have been no refusals. With thousands
of green and yellow flyers distfibuted in"advance, it would have taken a
hermi: to escape ‘ews of the ‘Sielioni®eo everybody knows about the
auction, everybody is contributing,®
and everybody is coming. That
should ad up to the biggest auction
the library has ever staged.
The library itself will be closed
for July 7 and 8, so that all atten-
tion may focus upon the Barnyard
and the auctioneer.
Things are coming into the barn
in advance of collection days sched-
uled for June 16 and 17. Garfield
Jackson called this morning to say
he had an Eary American bed to
contribute. Garfield is the one who
makes those authentic replicas of
early American furniture, benches,
Boston rockers and the like.
There is a pair of bright red
sleds and a bright red seesaw,
freshly painted, on the theory that
sleds do not ring any bells in July
unless they look like a.fire-cracker.
They should bring fifty cents apiece
on the block, having had fifty
cents’ worth of red enamel and
two and a half dollars’ worth of
time squandered on them. But that
is what an auction is for, to place
articles where they will do some
good, to give the buyer a bargain,
and to accumulate money pain-
lessly for the library.
In case anybody is wondering
where those sleds came from, they
were the two sleds that were
brought to Kingston five years ago
in answer to an ad in the Trading
Post for sleds for two small boys.
Five years ago sleds were practi-
cally unobtainable. The two little
boys dont’ live here any more, so
there is a surplus of sleds. Com-
bined with a left-over can of chi-
nese red enamel, they are guaran-
teed to stop a clock. There was
enough enamel left to dress up
the seesaw, so that, too, is blush-
ing in advance of its appearance on
the block.
People are slipping their geran-
iums like mad, and potting small
perennials for the Plant and Pro-
duce stand. Good cooks in the com-
munity are hunting through their
files for special recipes for cakes
for the Baked Goods Booth.
If our mud-room is any sample,
folks who have been wallowing in
spring house-cleaning have been
laying aside small items for the
auction. There is a huge corrugated
box atop the porcelain table, hold-
ing practically everything but the
kitchen stove, and if ‘we run out
of bottled gas ‘before the auction,
we'll include the stove. The criter-
ion in selecting articles for the auc-
tion was: “Has this thing been
used for five years?” If the answer
was no, the box got another cus-
tomer. Why do we need five coffee
pots, especially as we have switched
to instant coffee? There go three
surplus coffee pots one of them an
electric model, one a brand-new
white enamel, the other a non-
descript affair worth probably
twenty-five cents. We considered
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Peterson Heads
Underwriters
Dallas Man Honored
At Hershey Meeting
A Dallas man, Henry W. Peter-
son, special agent of the Spring-
field Fire and Marine Insurance
Company with offices in Wilkes-
Barre, has been elected president
of the Underwriters Association of
the Middle District.
This group promolgates the fire
insurance rates for New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Maryland and Del-
aware.
Mr. Peterson was elected at the
annual meeting of the Association
held last Thursday at Hotel Her-
shey, Hershey, Pa. More than 100
members of the Association at-
tended the meeting which was de-
voted during the morning to a
business session; in the afternoon
to a trip through the Hershey
plants and in the evening to the
annual dinner, at which Mr. Peter-
son served as toastmaster. The
speaker was Commissioner Leslie
of Pittsburgh, member of the Penn-
sylvania Insurance Commission.
Mr. Peterson has served for two
years as member of the Executive
Committee of the Association and
is considered an authority in the
underwriting field. In his duties
with the Springfield Fire and Mar-
ine Company, he serves twenty
Northeastern and Central Pennsyl-
vania counties.
He entered the insurance field
immediately after his graduation
from Brown University where his
daughter, Ann, is now a student.
Post Produces
Sixth Yearbook
Seminary Annual Won
Top Honors In 1949
Wyoming Seminary’s big 176-
page yearbook rolled off the Dallas
Post presses this week and was dis-
tributed on the Seminary campus
Wednesday afternoon,
Completion of the 1950 ‘“Wy-
oming” brought to six the number
of school yearbooks produced in
the Dallas Post Plant this season;
among them Lehman High School's
“LeVista”, Wilkes-Barre Day
School’s “Tatler”; Swoyerville High
School’s “Sailors’ Log”; Black Creek
Township High School's “Laurel”;
and Mining and Mechanical Insti-
tute’s “Minamek”.
Last year’s Seminary annual,
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Vol. 60, No. 23
TWO
First row, left to right: Harold
Clyde William Birth, Robert James
Richards, J. Bruce Cleasby, Myrtle
Anne Pascoe, Lois Mae Lamoreaux,
Delphine Rachel Rees, Margaret
Ann Webster, Beverly Ann Atwell,
Shirley Mae Johnson, Harriet Jean
Williams, Bernice Mae Kritzberger,
Anabel Biggs, Isaac Samuel Whis-
pell Jr., John Stuart Cottle, Carl
FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1950
Granville Henning.
Second row: Donald Peter Mer-
olla, Joseph Peter Youngblood,
Sylvia Ann Jones, Alice Sandra Or-
loski, June Marie Molecavage,
Dorothy Ruth Houser, Beverly Mae
Jones, Jean Winifred Frank, Mar-
ilyn Jayne Spare, Elizabeth Ann
Mericle, Charlotte Ann Gregory,
Nita Delphine Williams, Frederick
Zercoe, Harold Harrison Cook.
Third row: Kenneth Lee Mal-
kemes, Charles Dale Steinhauer,
John Engler, Jr., Harry Gilbert
Trebilcox, Paul Burnette Huey, Carl
Edwin Johnson, Edward John
Charney, Donald Glenn Case, Wil-
lis Dean Johnson, Richard Warren
Haughwout, Carl Wayne Perrin.
PHOTO BY HUDSON
Win Awards At
Lehman-Jackson
Commencement
Monday night marked the first
commencement of the Lehman-
Jackson Joint School, the fortieth
for Lehman Township. Addresses
were given by four graduating sen-
iors; Donald Gross, Valedictorian;
Robert Hontz; Andrew Harrison;
and Donald Britt, speaking on as-
pects of “Three Pillars of Success”,
home, church, and school.
Highlighting the graduation was
presentation of special awards to
Madeline Havrilla, Donald Gross,
Fred Disque, and Carl Rood.
Madeline Havrilla, daughter of
Mrs. Joseph Havrilla, Trucksville
R. D. received the Julius Long
Stern award, a gold wrist watch,
for Vocational Home-Making, Mad-
eline, a vocational home-making
student for the past three years,
has been active in student affairs
For the past two years she has
entered the state farm show con-
test and won awards.
Donald Gross, son of George
Gross, Ross Township, won the
Charles Long F. F. A. Award, a
gold watch for outstanding achieve-
ment in vocational agriculture. He
won the State Project contest this
past year, has been given the
Reader's Digest award, and the
Danforth Foundation award. And
he is class Valedictorian. Gross
lives on a ninety-acre farm, and
plans to farm at home.
Fred Disque, son of Mrs. Phillip
Disque, Hunlock Creek, wins the
American Agriculturalist award
for outstanding achievement and
leadership in Vocational Agricul-
ture. He is president of Future
Farmers of America, Luzerne, Lack-
awanna County Area, treasurer of
Blue Ridge F. F. A. He has had
supervision of visual equipment at
Lehman school.
Carl Rood, son of Carl Rood
Sr., Sweet Valley, a senior in vo-
cational agriculture, was a close
runner-up for the Charles Long
F. F. A. award. He received an
engraved placque through
courtesy of Mr. Long. He won
the State project contest in whole-
sale truck gardening this past
year.
Ruth Katchmar won a leadership
award, Arthur Nuss received the
Lettermen’s award, Robert Hontz,
the academic key Danforth Found-
ation. Awards for leadership
went to Carol Wagner and Don-
ald Gross.
Kiefer Accepts Position
With American Weekly
Fred M. Kiefer, Shrine View, has
been appointed to an executive pos-
ition with the Trade Expansion Di-
vision of the American Weekly in
New York City. The American
Weekly is the largest advertising
medium in the world appearing in
all Hearst Sunday papers and many
others. 2
Mrs. Kiefer and the children will
continue to reside permanently at
Shrine View.
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Award Winners
CARL ROOD
DONALD GROSS
MADELINE HAVRILLA
Twenty-One Get
Their Diplomas
Priscilla Cooper
Heads Dallas Class
Dr. Ralph W. Decker, president of
Wyoming Seminary, was the speak-
er at the Commencement exercises
of Dallas Borough School on Tues-
day night.
Three seniors speaking on the
general theme: The Challenge of
the Mid-Century were: Priscilla
Cooper, valedictorian, “Winning our
Rights’; Elizabeth Berrettini, “Prob-
lems Facing Us”; and Patricia Pat-
sey, “Our Acceptance of Duties.”
Rev. Frederick Reinfurt gave the
invocation and benediction. Super-
vising principal Charles A. James
presented the class and Harry L.
Ohlman, president of the Board,
presented diplomas.
There were twenty-one in the
class. High honor students were:
Priscilla Cooper, Patricia Patsey,
Elizabeth Berrettinii, Mavreen
Kelly, Elizabeth McQuilkin, and
Carol Monast,
MacVeigh To Head
"Y" Fund Campaign
Joseph MacVeigh has accepted
the chairmanship of the general
committee which will shortly con-
duct a financial campaign for the
Back Mountain Town and Country
Y.M.C.A. according to Lewis Le-
Grand Sr., chairman of the Back
Mountain “Y” management. Exact
dates have not yet been set for the
Drive but each Borough and Town-
ship is making needed preparations
for the event. Personnel of the
committee will be announced next
week. The “Y” Board will hold its
regular meeting Monday night at
8 at Back Mountain Memorial Li-
brary.
Mrs. Thompson's
Father Buried
Fred M. Myers, 80, foster father
of Mrs. Nelson Thompson, Dallas,
died Tuesday morning at his home,
358 Wright Avenue, Kingston after
a lingering illness. For the past five
and a half months he had been
nursed by his granddaughter, Cora
Steele.
Born in Kingston in 1870, Mr.
Myers was a graduate of Wyom-
ing Seminary and Syracuse Uni-
versity where he took architecture:
His family formerly owned large
acerage in the vicinity of the old
Dallas Fair Grounds and the Sandy
Beach section of Harveys Lake.
The funeral was held Thursday
at 2 with Rev. Charles W. Phillips
officiating.
To Vote on Consolidation
By action of Noxen School Board
at its meeting Wednesday night a
referendum vote will be held in
Noxen Township late in July or
early August to determine whether
citizens approve consolidation of
noxen Township High School with
Lake Township.
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attractively arranged displays
tance of Dallas as a shopping
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Sack Mountain Mighway Deaths amd
Serious sesidents since V5 Day
Hospitalised Killed
OPPORTUNITY DAYS NEXT WEEK
All Dallas Merchants Join
To Offer Outstanding Values
Samples, Novelties, 25 Valuable Prizes
To Be Given Away During Two-Day Event
Hundreds of housewives and shoppers who trade in Dallas
will benefit during Opportunity Days next Friday and Satur-
day when Dallas merchants will feature special prices, have
of new merchandise and give
away more than twenty-five valuable prizes in order to make
Back Mountain folk more conscious of the growing impor-
center.
24 Years Service
MISS BELLE RUCKEL
Retired Teacher
Tendered Dinner
Miss Belle Ruckel
Honored By Lehman
Belle Ruckel, retiring after 24
years on the Lehman faculty, was
honored at a dinner at Irem
Country Club Tuesday night at
which every member of the staff
at Lehman-Jackson was present, in
addition to members of the school
board.
Miss Ruckel is not abandoning
the teaching profession but will
continue to employ her talents in
tutoring.
Presentation of a table lamp by
members of the faculty was the
high light of the evening. Master
of Ceremonies was Anthony Mar-
chakitus, president of Lehman Edu-
cational Association.
Russell Ruble, head of vocational
agriculture gave the invocation,
Mrs. Mildred Weidner spoke for the
elemntary teachers, Lester Squier
for the school as a whole, taking
as his theme the building of a per-
sonal monument during a lifetime
of service and helpfulness. Charles
Nuss, speaking for the joint school
board, spoke on “a job well done”.
A toast was offered to “The teach-
er who never grows old”. Dr. Harry
Brown recalled school days at
Bloomsburg, where he was a
schoolmate of Miss Ruckel.
Telegrams were received from
former Lehman supervising prin-
cipals: O. H. Orand, now supervisor
at Steelton; Austin Snyder, Sayre;
Howard Hendricks, Millersburg.
Bernard Garrity, supervisor of
Lehman music department, wrote
an extra verse to ‘Dearie’, featur-
ing Belle, and this was sung by
men of the faculty.
Iris used for tables decorations, a
huge bouquet, was presented to
Miss Ruckel at the conclusion of
the dinner.
Committee for dinner and ar-
rangements comprised: Mrs. Alice
Elston, Miss Hannah Culp, Mrs.
Ella B. Lewis, Miss Ruth Shelham-
mer, Miss Estella O’Donnell,
Present were: Guest of honor,
Miss Belle Ruckel, Mr. and Mrs.
Lester Squier, Mr. and Mrs. Wil-
liam Keil, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Sear-
foss, Dr. and Mrs. Harry Brown,
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Ide, Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Nuss, Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Ruggles, Mr. and Mrs. Wal-
ter Shouldice, Miss Jule Bartley,
Gerald Hoover, Lillian Burgess,
Frances Austin, Hanna Culp, Mr.
and Mrs. Bernard Garrity, Mr. and
Mrs. Jesse Lewis, Willard Lloyd,
Mr. and Mrs. Allan Major, Mr. and
Mrs, Anthony Marchakitus, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Martin, Miss Dor-
othy Mattes, Mrs. Frances Perrego,
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Ruble, Frank
Scott, Miss Ruth Shelhammer, Ed-
win Stolarick, W. Snyder, Mrs.
Mildred Weidner, Miss Marjorie
Downing, Mrs. Ruth Simms, Mrs.
Frances Culp, Mrs. Glendoris She-
lanski, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Howell,
Anna Havrilla, John Sudimak.
Final plans for the two-day
event—the first large scale pro-
motion ever attempted by all Dal-
las merchants—were made Mon-
day afternoon at a largely attend-
ed meeting of Dallas Business
Association in Bowman's Restaur-
| ant.
Preparation for the event has
been underway for two months so
that merchants have had an op-
portunity to get the cooperation
of manufacturers and distributors
who will assist them with dem-
onstrations and special displays of
merchandise.
One of the big attractions of
Opportunity Days will be the Wish-
ing Well which will be set up on
Kuehn'’s Parking lot and where the
twenty-five valuable prizes will be
awarded at 5 o'clock on Saturday.
They will be drawn from the
especially constructed old fashioned
well by Lois Spiel, Dallas Town-
ship High School May Queen.
Among the prizes she will award
are: a beautiful Yardley's Gift Set,
from Kuehn’s Drug ‘Store; $10
merchandise certificate from The
Grace Cave Shoppe; a ham from
Bowman's Restaurant, a ham from
Hislop’s Economy Market; a bunch
of bananas from Smith's Economy
Store; four complete oil changes
with Esso Extra Motor Oil from
Richardson's Garage, a large color-
ful clothes hamper from Dallas
Hardware and Supply; a nationally
advertised Speidel Wrist Watch
Band as featured on Stop the
Music, from Henry's Jewelry; a
600 x 16 Firestone Champion Tire
from Caddie LaBar’s Service Sta-
tion.
While all prizes will be awarded
at the Wishing Well, in order
to be eligible for an individual
merchant’s prize, a shopper must
have stopped in that business place
during Opportunity Days and re-
ceived a coupon to be deposited in
that store’s bucket. Shortly be-
fore the opening of the wishing
well on Saturday afternoon, each
merchant will parade to the well
with his bucket of coupons, and
Miss Spiel will draw one lucky
name from each of the twenty-
three buckets of the cooperating
merchants. Under this system a
person may win more than one
prize simply by visiting all of the
stores and obtaining a coupon in
each of the stores. The more stores
visited the greater opportunity to
win more prizes, the fewer stores
visited, the fewer prizes for which
the shopper is eligible.
Throughout the two days, gifts
and novelties will be awarded to
children in many stores. There
will be plastic novelties at White's;
balloons at Caddie LaBard’s Service
Station; lollypops at Henry's Jew-
elry and The Dallas Post, to men-
tion a few. Acme Market will
have many free samples, so will
Dallas Hardware, Smith's Economy
Store, Dallas 5c, 10c and $1 Store
and Hislop’s Market.
Attending Monday’s meeting of
the Association were: Arlean Bow-
man, Grace Cave, Lillian Kuehn,
Mrs. Henry Mastalski, Ralp Dixon,
Harry Smith, L. L. Richardson,
George Turn, Herbert Dreher, Joe
Hand, Don Roberts, Lawrence Up-
dyke, Ord Trumbower, Eugene
Sick, Ray Daring and Howard
Risley.
Mrs. Madge Freeman
Slightly Injured
Rev. Francis Freeman, pastor of
Dallas Methodist Church from 1933
to 1941 and Mrs. Freeman escaped
with slight injuries in a truck-car
accident near Binghamton this
week,
Rev. and Mrs. Freeman were
taken to Wilson Memorial Hospital
for a check-up, and were released
after Mrs. Freeman’s bruised knee
and ankle cap were dressed.
Rev. Freeman is pastor of Sara
Jane Memorial Methodist Church,
Johnson City.
Luz. Medical Vets
To Dine June 14
Medical Veterans of Luzerne
County will hold their annual spring
dinner at the Kingston House,
Kingston, Wednesday, June 14, 9
p.m.