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Opportunity Days
Today and tomorrow are Opportunity Days in Dallas.
Although every day is opportunity day in the Back Moun-
tain Region, these two days have special significance.
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
Darras Post
They mark the first all-out cooperative effort on the part
of Dallas merchants to call attention to the growing im-
portance of Dallas as a shopping center.
Over the radio, by circulars, and through the medium
of this newspaper they have called attention to the con-
venience of shopping in Dallas, to the range of merchan-
dise carried in stock, to the courteous service, and the low
prices that prevail because of lower operating costs.
And as a special invitation to newer residents to
become acquainted, today and tomorrow they are offering
special attractions and special prices in all of their stores;
and tomorrow afternoon at
5 will award many valuable
merchandise prizes to those who have visited their stores.
Good towns are better
stores and good merchants.
towns if they have good
The way to get them—and
the way to keep them—is to support them every day!
Those are the real Opportunity Days.
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PILLAR
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By Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr
Blue babies they were, both of them, but not afflicted with the weak-
ness and lassitude that ordinarily accompanies that state of health. In
fact, their voices were so raucous
that everybody in the Dallas Post
office recommended ear-muffs for the personnel or as an alternative, a
gag apiece for the baby blue-birds
We hadn't really expected blue-®
birds that morning, had made no
preparation for their housing or
feeding, but should have known
what was coming when Bud Le-
Grand’s truck paused before the
door in a strictly non-parking zone.
We begin to get suspicious when
Bud backs out of the truck, es-
pecially when he does not seem to
have the use of his hands but fum-
bles for security with his feet.
Those hands have a way of con-
taining small items from the deep
woods, though up to date there
have been no baby skunks. This
time it was blue-jays, much ruffled
and demanding food.
Once it was a squirrel with a
cerebral hemorrhage, the result of
falling forty feet when the tree con-
taining his nest was felled. That
squirrel lived a couple of weeks on
pablum and warm milk, and was
mourned upon his passing. Next
time it was a chipmunk, which
grew from babyhood to adulthuod
in less time than it takes to tell it,
escaped from his cardboard box,
and frisked lightsomely all over the
house before being captured and
released outdoors.
This time it was blue-jays. The
orphans stated that they could use
insects and worms and anything
else of a nourishing character; but
that they were accustomed to hav-
ing their mother do the swallowing
for them. Confronted with food
scattered on the floor of the can-
ary cage hastily preemted for their
their usage, they viewed it with
indifference, and retreated to the
perch in baffled disgust. They
didn’t care about the china con-
tainer of water, either.
Howard and Myra opened a fresh
can of dog-food, ‘supported a ruf-
fled twin in one hand, pressing
gently upon the jaws to open the
bill, and inserted a crumb of dog-
food with a pair of tweezers.
The victim became even bluer
in the face, but eventually, with a
smothered gulp, he swallowed, and
the crumb of dog-food went down
the gullet, plainly visible from
without. After the first orphan had
been forcibly fed with three mor-
sels, he was returned to the cage
and the second took his place in
the receiving line. Exhausted with
emotion, recent bereavement, and
dog-food, the twins balanced them-
selves upon the lowest perch and
slept.
But not ‘for long. Baby birds ex-
pect a refill every fifteen minutes.
They opened their beady - eyes,
shook their plumage, opened their
beaks in an outraged squawk, and
said, “When do we eat?”
Howard looked at Myra, Myra
loked at Howard, and there was a
world of meaning in that matri-
monial exchange. Then Howard
lifted the phone and asked to be
connected with the Game Commis-
sion.
The racket intensified as the af-
ternoon wore away. Came the
Game Commisisoner in the midst
of an especially violent outpouring
of wrath and frustration. He put
himself on record as to intentions.
No, he would not wring the blue-
birds’ necks as soon as he left the
environs of Dallas; yes, the birds
would be fed; yes, the birds would
not only be fed but treated as
honored guests; a photographer
would probably take pictures of
them to use in a woodland series
of shorts.
The ruffled orphans left in a
box with holes punched in the cov-
er, on their way to a movie career.
As soon as the box was closed and
the babies were enveloped in dark-
ness, they subsided.
And about then, everybody re-
membered simultaneously that the
way to hush a vociferous canary
Is to drop a dark cloth over its
cage. Next time we house baby
blue-jays, we'll know how to make
the world safe for the staff and
casual customers.
Signal Honor For
William Morgan
Seminary Graduate
Wins Cornell Award
William Morgan, son of Rev. and
Mrs. David Morgan, formerly of
Harveys Lake but currently of
Courtdale, has been awarded a
comprehensive scholarship to Cor-
nell, valued conservatively at
$5,000. Twenty-five such scholar-
ships are prorated to the entire
United States, available to students
of unusual ability. Studies at Cor-
nell will embrace premedical work,
for Morgan plans to become a sur-
geon.
Graduating from Wyoming Sem-
inary at he age of seventeen, Billy
haz hoag up a record for himself in
athletics as well as scholarship. He
holds the 121 class wrestling
championship for states east of the
Mississippi, and has been outstand-
ing in track and dramatics.
At. Seminary commencement ex-
ercises Tuesday morning he was
given the Bible Award for four
years of preeminent work in Bible
studies. At the conclusion of his
junior year he won the Davenport
Award, which financed his senior
year in both tuition and dormitory
accommodations.
The Morgans are a family of
teachers and ministers. Mrs. Mor-
gan is one of nine children, all of
them teachers. She taught at Dal-
las Borough school for two years,
filling the post of home economics
withdrawing in February of this
year. Rev, Morgan taught English
at Wilkes College for a semester
and has done substitute work in
Dallas Borough. Billy is a nephew of
Charles James, supervising princi-
pal of Dallas Borough Schools.
The younger brother, John, fam-
iliarly known as Cookie, has just
graduated with honors from Court-
dale eighth grade, giving the vale-
dictory as a parting salute. Last
year he won the American Legion
award, but this year, not eligible
to succeed himself, contented him-
self with the valedictory. He plans
to attend Wyoming Seminary, but
not for premedical work. Cookie is
going to be an engineer.
Heights Service
Being Checked
Response To Bus
Schedule Is Fair
Response to recently instituted
Pus service to Parrish Heights, es-
; timated up to date as fair by
Wilkes-Barre Transit Company, is
being checked this week under
supervision of J. H. Wright from
the main office, Kingston. Indica-
tions, according to Mr. Wright, point
in the direction of a response not
comparable with patronage of a
similar service to Goss Manor.
Double Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. George Shaver Jr.
of Fernbrook will celebrate their
fourth wedding anniversary ,Mon-
day, June 19, on the same day that
Mrs. Shaver’s maternal grandpar-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Harrison
will celebrate their forty-ninth an-
niversary. The Shavers have one
son, Skippy.
Shooting Match
Overbrook Gun Club will hold
a shooting match starting Sunday
afternoon at 1:30. There will be
prizes.
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Vol. 60, No. 24
Car Passes Truck
On Blind Hill
$30 Worth of Buick
Towed From Scene
Tunkhannock highway opposite
Sev’s Signs was the scene of a
traffic accident Wednesday morn-
ing at 10:30 that classifies as a mir-
acle because nobody was killed. Fig-
uring in it were a 15-ton coal truck
and a 1938 Buick sedan impatient
to pass.
It was raining steadily, and there
was a steady drip of oil from the
truck as it labored up the long
hill. The driver of the Buick, Don-
ald B. Maltby, 24, of Audubon, N.
J., blew his horn and pulled out to
pass the truck. Abreast of the truck
he saw a car rounding the curve at
the top of the incline,and swerved
to pull back into line. The com-
bination of rain and oil caused the
car to skid wildly when brakes
were applied, and the sedan nosed
itself under the rear of the truck,
reducing itself to thirty dollars”
worth of junk.
Lou Banta, summoned to the
scene, took the occupants of the
car to Nesbitt Hospital for first-
aid. Maltby’s fiancee, Jane Hovey,
26, of Watsontown, N.J., his
mother and Mrs, William Phoenix,
57, were treated for lacerations of
the legs and head injuries, but dis-
missed after dressing. The other
passengers, Maltby’'s step father,
Phoenix, was uninjured, and Maltby
himself escaped with’ minor con-
tusions.
Banta rescued the luggage from
the wreck, and escorted the vic-
tims to the bus station where they
took a bus for Audubon, N.J.
Luzerne Motors towed the wreck
from the scene.
Sterling Farms
To Play Hosts
Field Day Program
Scheduled Friday
New helps in solution of farm
forage problems are in prospect for
farmers of northeastern Pennsyl-
vania at a field day announced by
Luzerne County Agent J. D. Hutch-
ison, of Wilkes-Barre, today,
10 a.m. at Sterling Farms, Har-
veys Lake.
Focal points for the occasion will
be the forage variety trials being
conducted by research agronomists
of Penasylvania State College.
These trials, of which there are
to be seven different varieties, were
seeded a year ago, and this will be
the first time they will on general
view for farmers.
A. J. Sordoni, owner and opera-
tor of Sterling Farms, who is co-
operating in .the forage research,
will be host. County Agent Hutchi-
son will preside. The plantings, in-
cluding both legumes and grasses,
will be explained by the research
staff, including Drs. H. R. Fortmann
and H. I. Carnahan of the College.
County agents and farmers from
surrounding counties have been in-
vited to attend along with Luzerne
farmers.
Species in the plots are alfalfa,
birdsfoot. trefoil, ladino clover, red
clover, crimson clover, bromegrass
and timothy. All replicated four
times on plots five feet by twenty
feet. Records will be kept cn the
performance of all species each year
for three or four years to check
their yield and hardiness against
winter kill and draught.
This is one of several such for-
age variety trials conducted by the
College in different parts of the
State in order to check against
variations in climatic conditions,
different soils and other factors.
Seed was obtained from a number
of different sources, including Can-
ada and a number of European
countries. All of the plots have
been adequately fertilized.
Particular interest attaches to
the trials since they are part of
an extensive and intensive forage
research program being initiated by
Penn State. Results will serve as a
guide to farmers as to species and
seed sources.
Four New Homes Going
Up On Machell Farm
A new road leading from Machell
avenue to Center Hill road, Sterl-
ing avenue, has been opened by
Mrs. Sterling Machell on her farm
and lots have been sold to Dr. W.
H. M. Imhoff and family of Wilkes-
Barre and to Fred Simmons of
Forty Fort. Bud LeGrand has al-
ready started construction of the
Imhoff home.
Lots facing Machell avenue have
been sold by Mrs. Machell to Ar-
thur Ross of Wilkes-Barre and to
Ray Hedden. Ray is building the
Ross home.
FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1950
Lehman Show Grounds To Be Improved
Lehman Horse Show is now the
oldest continuous horse show in
Luzerne County. The picture above
is an overall view of last year’s
crowd and shows the old arrange-
ment of the ring. This yetr the
ring will be completely changed
with the judges’ and announcers’
stand on the western side of the
field opposite the box seats. A
new 100-foot tent will be used
for stabling horses, and box stalls
6 CENTS PER COPY
have been obtained from Irem
Temple Country Club. Bleachers
have again been obtained from Wy-
oming Seminary and Dallas Town-
ship Schools.
Beauty Contest
Is Lions’ Club
Summer Project
James Godtfring
Talks On Town
And Country YMCA
The Harveys ‘Lake Lions’ Club
president, Calvin McHose, appoint-
ed co-chairmen Sheldon Cave and
Thomas Garrity to head a commit-
tee which will plan an extensive
program aimed at choosing a ‘Miss
Harvey's Lake” from hundreds of
beauty contestants. Any merchant,
social club, or any one group of
persons who wish to sponsor a con-
testant are urged to get in touch
with either of the chairmen or any
regular Lions’ Club member for
further information.
Members of the Harveys .Lake
Lion's Club were treated to an en-
lightening address by James H.
Godtfring, Executive Secretary of
the Wilkes-Barre YMCA. The sub-
ject of Mr. Godtfring’s talk was the
Provisional Town and Country Y.
M.C.A.; plans for which are being
executed to apply to our Back
Mountain area. Lewis LeGrand, who
ably assisted Mr. Godtfring assured
the members that this project in
no wise conflicted with the pro-
posed plans for the Back Moun-
tain Community Center.
In addition to its scheduled pro-
gram the Lions’ Club nomination of
officers was held. Inasmuch as the
club was officially chartered on
April 12th of this year and that the
club’s fiscal year begins July 1st
the nominating committee pro-
posed that all present officers be
reinstated for the new term. This
proposal was carried with but two
exceptions. Due to illness Joseph
McCaffrey, treasurer, tendered his
resignation, and Walter Weir was
chosen as the new treasurer. As a
result of circumstances beyond his
control, David Geraghty, tail twis-
ter, asked that another member
be chosen to take this office. John
Zorzi was voted new tail twister.
Reunion For
Class of 1948
Will Hold Dinner
At Castle Inn
Dallas Borough Class of 1948
will ‘hold its first reunion on June
24, Castle Inn. Dinner will be
served at 8 p.m. followed by a pro-
gram of entertainment and danc-
ing, with Joe LeGrand as Master
of Ceremonies.
Guest of Honor is William A.
Moran, class adviser during the
senior year. Peggy Daring is gen-
eral chairman, Polly Lou Cooper
has charge of reservations.
Razing Barn
Jerry Machell and Ben Jenkins
have been doing a good job tear-
ing down the old Machell barn on
Machell avenue to clear it for build-
ing lots.
Girl Scouts Tour
Print Plant
Get Extra Credits
Toward Badges ,
Eleven members and guests of
Girl Scout Troop 54, directed by
their leader, Mrs. W. E. McQuilkin,
toured the Dallas Post plant Mon-
day afternoon, taking in everything
from the Intertype machine to the
lead-melting furnace in the base-
ment and tHe press in action. They
were impressed, as visitors always
are, with the sudden flare of flame
that dries the printed page as it
slips from: under the huge roller
and down the incline to augment
the stack of finished pages at the
foot.
Girl Scouts who visited the Post
are: Charlyn Reinfurt, Sandy Smith,
Annmarie Dunham, Jeanne Estus,
Peggy Ann Maza, Gladys Wilson,
Sally Lasher, Jannette Moss, Jo-
anne Lewin, Susan Wileman, Louise
Loucks.
Charles Layaou Is
Eighty Years Old
Charles Layaou, Harris Hill road,
Trucksville, celebrated his eightieth
birthday anniversary Tuesday.
Sunday a number of his relatives
and friends entertained at a buffet
dinner in his honor.
Mr. Layaou spent the greater
part of his life in the homestead
where he now resides with his son,
Joseph. Other children are Mrs.
Elmer Davies of Scranton and Mrs.
Michael Tully of South Wilkes-
Barre. His grandchildren are Ruth,
Jean and John Tully and Jane,
Roger and Jacqueline Davies.
Other guests at the party were:
Mr. and Mrs. William Youngblood,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Youngblood,
Mrs. Margaret Youngblood, Mr. and
{ Mrs. William Walsh, Mr. and Mrs.
{ William McCauley, Mr. and Mrs.
Louis Youngblood, Elmer Davies,
Mrs. Jane Davies, Mr, and Mrs.
Edward Marsteller, Michael Tully,
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Youngblood,
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Youngblood and
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Anstett.
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THRIFTY SHOPPERS WILL
VISIT DALLAS STORES
TODAY AND TOMORROW
Thrifty housewives will do
their shopping in Dallas during
Opportunity Days, today and
tomorrow. There will be scores
of merchandise prizes at 5 p.
m. at the Wishing Well on
Kuehn’s Parking lot. Each Dal-
las merchant is awarding one
of the prizes. To be eligible for
his prize a shopper must have
purchased some item in his
store during one or the other
of Opportunity Days. The spec-
ial prices advertised in the
Post by Dallas merchants are
for these two days only. Join
the fun—shop in Dallas today
and tomorrow.
Harold Payne, New President
Of Back Mountain PTA Council
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At a regular meeting of the
Back Mountain Area P.T.A. Council
which was held in the Dallas
Township School last Monday eve-
ning, Harold Payne was elected
president for the coming year.
Other officers elected were: Meade
McMillen, vice president; George
Taylor, secretary; Louise McQuil-
ken, treasurer.
Mr. Payne, who was recently
elected to the office of President
of the Lake Township Parent-
Teacher Association is Superinten-
dent of the Commonwealth Tele-
phone Company in this area. He
is also very active in community
work, at the present time serving
as Secretary of the Daniel Roberts
Fire Company, an officer of the
Masons, and as member of the
Dallas Rotary Club.
Prime object of the meeting was
to get acquainted with the new
presidents of the local units and
reorganize the council for the com-
ing year. The following officers
were introduced: Durrell Scott,
Dallas Borough; Harold Payne, Lake
Township; Robert Fleming, Dallas
Township; W. G. Gross, Trucksville;
Robert Disque, Lehman; Meade
McMillen, Shavertown.
The balance of the evening was
spent in discussing the purposes
and goals of the local council and
making preliminary plans for the
program for the coming year. Two
outstanding activities of the council
this year have been the Training
School which was held at the Dal-
las Borough School early in the
year, where seventeen different
local units were represented. In
April,
addressed the Parent-Teacher
Groups of the area in the Dallas
Township School.
Workers Report
Fine Response
* Ruction Solicitors
Welcomed Everywhere
Back Mountain residents working
toward the Library Auction, July
7 and 8, met at the Library Wed-
nesday night to compare notes, ex-
change information, and make fur-
ther plans.
Miss Mary Weir, chairman of the
refreshment committee, stated that
plans for feeding the crowd were
well in hand, and that arrange-
ments had been made to provide
for a series of shifts in personnel
during both days of the sale, re-
leasing hard workers to join the
crowd around the auction stand.
She suggests that in addition to
franks and hamburgers, the usual
picnic fare, the committee will
serve a cold platter flanked by hot
baked beans and a beverage, so
that the auction crowd will not
need to disperse for the evening
meal.
Mrs. Joseph Schmerer, head of
solicitation for used goods, met
with chairman of odds and ends,
candy, baked goods, antiques,
plants and produce, at seven, in
Judge Little of Montreser
Sack Meuntain Highway Deaths sms
Series nosidients sinoe V4 Day
Hospitalised Killed
Pony Will Be
Given Away At
Lehman Show
Sixth Annual Horse
Show Is The Oldest
In Luzerne County
Many bright new features will
be added to Lehman Volunteer
Firemen’'s Sixth Annual Horse
Show which will be held on Leh-
man School Grounds starting at
10:15 on July 4.
Not the least of these, in the
eyes of young America, will be the
presentation of a handsome, gentle
pony to some boy or girl at the
conclusion of the show. The pony
will be given as a gate prize,
Other new features will include
box stalls obtained from Irem
Temple Country Club and a big
hibitors can house their horses.
Every provision is being made for
the convenience of exhibitors and
the best care of their horses. Alex-
ander Tough of
heads the stabling committee which
is providing these better facilities.
be rearranged with the judge's and
announcer’'s stand on the western
side of the ring opposite the box
seats. Bleachers once again have
been obtained from Wyoming Sem-
inary and Dallas Township Schools.
Show Grounds are in charge of
Arthur Ehret.
Diagram of the box seat ar-
rangement is now open at Lehman
School office. More than 100 boxes
will be available each containing
six chair seats. Prices of boxes
will remain at the same low price
of $10, and all boxholders will this
year be listed in the program. A.
Kupstas and Arlean Vanderhoff
who have charge of box seats and
have reported the largest advance
sale in the history of the show:
As in previous years parking and
traffic will be handled by a com-
mittee headed by Joe Ide and L.
E. Beisel,
and ease of parking has been one
of the features of the Lehman
Show for years and has won the
appreciation of all show goers.
Three veteran horsemen are
handling the management of the
show ring. They are M. J. Brown,
H. R. Bittenbender and Gilbert
Tough. Many entries are already
coming in from nearby as well as
distant stables.
The trophies are better than ever
and Mr. and Mrs. Harry /damy
who have always'taken a keen in-
terest in the show, though now
living in New Jersey, have sent
word that they want to give one
of the trophies.
Not the least of the attractions
of the day will be a country style
roastbeef dinner served at noon
in the high school auditorium by
the Women’s Auxiliary of the Fire
Company. All the facilities of the
school kitchens and cafeteria will
be available for the preparation of
this delicious meal. During dinner
Lehman High School Band will
give a concert on the school
campus.
General chairman is Lester B.
Squier. Walter Chamberlain is
show chairman and Charles Nuss
is show treasurer,
Harry W. Smith of Coopersburg,
near Allentown, will be show judge.
Traffic Lights
At Danger Spot
BRutomatic Type
- Replaces Blinks
Two brand-new automatic traf-
fic lights have guarded the inter-
section of Center street and Me-
morial Highway, Shavertown, since
May 29, replacing the pair of
blinker lights mowed down in a
traffic accident over a month ago.
According to Louis Banta, in-
surance - took care of replacement
and also of the cost of hiring an
extra traffic officer to handle rush
hours while lights were out of
commission. - Mr. Banta states that
automatic lights are far superior
to the original blinkers and should
ga a long way toward making this
interesection less dangerous to
cars and pedestrians.
Celebrate Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. George Shaver Sr.
of Main road, Trucksville, -cele-
brated their 33rd wedding anniver-
sary Monday, June 12. They, with
their son and daughter-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. George Shaver Jr. drove
to Bethlehem to visit their daugh-
ter and son-in-law, Mr. and: Mrs.
Charles Conklin, They brought their
grandson, Charles Conklin back
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with them to spend the summer.
tent 100 feet long, in which ex- '
Hayfield Farm -
The entire show grounds will also
Absence of congestion