Editoriglly Speaking:
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Angther Factor on The Red Side
In an editorial on the Korean war, the Portland Ore-
gonian, a newspaper of internationalist views, said, “The
fact is that}in Korea we are up against almost exactly the
situation which confronted
people ar
us in China so far as the
concerned. The people are living under corrupt
and ineffectual .governments-—ancient tyrannies masque-
rading a of
the north
so litthe to lose that they are
care ‘who eats them?
democracies. Down come the Communists from
like the wolf in the fable, and the sheep have
indifferent. Why should they
J “If we are to oppose the aggressions of Russia, and
stall maintain our democratic policy of letting other
Peoples come to their own decisions, we can only lend
and Italy, though there are
onomic organizations in the
was “apathetic.”
It was clear from the outset
ourselves to the parties in power in any country where
the Russians choose to strike or bring pressure. So we
lend ourselves in France, Turkey, Jugoslavia, Iran, Greece
factors in the organizations
of these countries which make the democratic flesh crawl.
All over the globe history has tricked us into the position
of supporting rotten-regimes and stubbornly ancient ec-
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name of democracy.
This was inspired when the editor of the paper made
telephone contact with an American in Seoul who is with
the ECA. He said that, though he could hear the sound of
artillery from the battlefront, the attitude of the people
Tere is nothing new in this apathy. It has character-
ized he grim series of Communist successes in China.
that there was no real pop-
ular support, or even interest in, the Nationalist govern-
ment. Its own past corruptions and brutalities helped
destroy it. The peasants, in their millions,
that the Communists could not be worse.
. Here—in this apathy—is one of the strongest weap-
ons the Soviet-controlled world possesses, and it is using
it to the utmost. The Russians are masters at cashing in
obviously felt
on it. With the aid of it, they have won victory after vic-
tory at a small cost. And there can be no doubt that they
intend to go on, in an attempt to make all of Asia, in-
cluding perhaps even the Philippines, a solid red bastion
with huge reservoirs of manpower and natural resources.
What is the solution? The Oregonian suggests that we
may be forced to adopt political imperialism—that is to
take an active hand in the governments we assist in order
to make them into something
at least resembling democra-
cies. But it is certain that a vast wave of opposition: would
be thrown against such a policy if it were proposed on the
top governmental level. Many men of power in Congress
would fight it to the bitter end.
The point is, of course,
that some of the best minds
in the Western world have devoted themselves for years in
a search for a solution and have not found it. In the mean-
time, one of the gravest developments is the sharp decline
in American prestige abroad—in Europe, no less than
in Asia. The feeling grows that our talk will not or cannot
be matched with Adequate lotion,
PILLAR ‘TO POST
By Mrs. T. M.
B. Hicks, JR.
Free advice to anyone who bought a chair minus a cane .seat at
the Library Auction: learn how to cane it yourself. The charges on such
work are atrocious because of the
"chair is perfectly simple, and once
time and labor involved. Caning a
the rhythm is established with the
“fingers, thegmind can be allowed to wander far afield.
Down in Raleigh, N.C. the rate
has recently leaped from five gents}
per hole to seven cents, and owners
of Hitchcock type chairs in need of |
reseating are frantically ering
for courses in hand-craft at the |
university. The price of one cane |
seat at the current figure just |
about equals the cost of a course in |
evening instruction. Five cents per |
hole sounds modest. at first glance, |
but not after simple arithmetic has |
entered the picture. A small high- |
chair seat recently figured at twelve |
dollars. There are a lot “of holes |
in a cane seat.
The easiest ones to do are the |
Mcctangular ones with clearly de-|
fined corner holes and diagonals. Al
circular or semicircular seat is more |
complicated. If you got stuck with |
a circular seat at the auction, side-
track it until you have gained ex-
perience on a simpler frame where
one hole matches another directly
opposite.
There is a plastic cane on the
market, available in all hand-craft
supply houses, which is much easier
to work with than the regulation
cane, looks almost exactly like it
when finished, and is cheaper. Plas-
tic cane is the best kind to exper-
iment with, for it needs no soak-
ing, only a touch of an oiled cloth
to make it slip smoothly through
the strands. It comes in all regu-
lation widths from very narrow to
binding.
But having experimented with
plastic cane on a chair that has no
antique value, sidetrack it for reg-
ulation cane when dealing with an-
tiques. An antique chair loses its
resale value if not caned with the
original and accepted materials. It
is a bit more complicated, because
strands instead of being delivered
in one five-hundred foot spool come
in short lengths and must be fre-
quently spliced underneath the
frame. Then, too, the material must
be kept wet in order to slide
smoothly in and out of the initial
grill work. This means working
with a small tub close at hand,
perfectly feasible if there are no
children of paddling age around,
but not so good an arrangement if
you have to keep mopping up the
floor.
Canes are easily fastened under-
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Buyers Expect
Big Tomato Crop
Atlantic Commission
To Open In August
The season may be a little later
than usual this year, on account
of a cold spring and a great deal
of rain, but green tomatoes will
again pour through the Atlantic
Commission Packing Warehouse at
{ Devens' Mill in quantity from the
first weeks of August until the last
green tomato is harvested.
The tomatoes, purchased by the
truck-load at green tomato auc-
tions in Benton and Carverton, are
unloaded at one door of the mill,
inspected while the truck-owner
waits, then run through a machine
which washes, waxes, and wraps
them, out the far door into a trailer
truck which will carry them to
their destination. Bud Holloway
comes up every year from Florida,
accompanied by his wife and little
boy, to superintend this process.
Produce other than green toma-
toes is handled through the Atlan-
tic Commission organization, but at
Jong distance on the phone, and
shipped by the carload, not deliv-
ered to the mill itself for redistribu-
tion.
Florida accounts for a large part
of the market for tomatoes, its own
tomato season well over before
the northern fields start producing.
Phjladelphia and New York are also
heavy consumers of the local pro-
duct.
Last year the drought held down
the crop considerably. . Tomatoes,
failing to ' make their maximum
growth early in the season because
‘of lack of moisture, grew tremend-
ously during the early fall rains
with cracking as a result. Only per-
fect tomatoes can be used for the
green tomato trade. This year there
has been plenty of rain, with pros-
pect of a bumper crop.
Makes Dean's List
Charlotte Peake, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles T. Peake, Shav-
ertown, a freshman at Mansfield
State Teachers College, has made
the Dean’s List.
Tue Darras Post
» MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
Back Mountain Highway Deaths and
BOX SCORE
Serious Accidents Since V-J Day
Hospitalized Killed
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Smith Second
With Javelin
Dad Still Holds
College Record
Parris Island, S.C.—Marine
ond Lt. Robert N. Smith,
Col. Norman W. Smith, Huntsville,
{ participated in the 1950 all-Marine
Corps track meet held at the Mar-
ine Corps Schools, Quantico, Va.,
Sec-
as a member of the Marine Corps
Recruit Depot
Team.
Lieutenant Smith participated in
the meet as a javelin thrower. He
qualified for the meet with a throw
of 163 feet, and finished second in
All-Marine Meet with a throw of
172 feet. His father, Col. Norman
Smith still holds the college record
at Rhode Island State with a throw
of 176 feet 10 inches made in the
spring of 1925 in a triangular meet
with Brown University and Boston
University,
An outstanding athlete, Smith
Seminary, where he was captain
of the football team, Cum Laude,
president «of the senior class and
graduated in 1944. He continued
his athletic career at the U.S. Nava!
Academy, Annapolis, Md. He played
football with the Quantico all-Mar-
ine Championship team in 1948 and
1949, and participated -in the 1948
and 1949 all-Marine- track meets.
Lieutenant Smith is presently a
company officer in Headquarters
Company, Headquarters and Ser-
vice Battalion of the Marine Corps
Recruit Depot here.
Mrs. Smith is the former Jane
Maccombs of Alexandria, Va.
Arrests Clear Up
Local Robberies
Series Begun Feb. 11
Comes to Sudden End
The arrest of two young men
from Trucksville early Saturday
morning may have solved a series
of mysterious entries of local
schools and business concerns as
well as robberies widely scattered
through greater Wyoming Valley.
Raymond Keen and Harry C. Hard-
ing made one break too many, at
the Kraft Cheese Company office in
Forty Fort, when a neighbor heard
the crash of glass and summoned
the police.
Harding was arrested on the
spot, Keene ran from the safe and
escaped, to be apprehended later
in the day.
Both young men are held without
bail at Luzerne County Prison, on
14 counts. They have admitted their
robberies, explaining that they used
a motorcycle for transportation. The
plea is not guilty.
The pair have to their credit
breaking and entry of Kingston
Township, Dallas Township and
Kingston Bofough high schools,
theft of $540 at Kingston Town-
ship, the largest haul in the Back
Mountain.
Klinetobs Enjoy
Vacations Together
Mr." and Mrs. Homer Middleton
of Idetown spent the past two
weeks at Mohawk Lake, N. J. with
members of the latter’s family. For
the past fourteen years the five
brothers and sisters of the Kline-
tob family, together with their
mother, Mrs. -H. L. Klinetob of Ber-
wick have vacationed. together for
two full weeks every summer. Dur-
ing the war and resultant gas short-
age they met at Lime Ridge and at
Lehman. But they met!
Members of the family are: Dr.
A. B. Klinetob of Milton; Darwin
Klinetob of Wilmet, Ill.; Mrs. Ren-
na MacNair of Winston-Salem, N.
C.; Mrs. Modesko Shoemaker, East
Orange, N.J.; Mrs. Reka Middle-
son of
was a four-letter wan at Wyoming |
FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1950
Wyoming Valley Tuberculosis So-
Borough High! School for a mass
survey which will be followed next
week by a similar program in Dal-
las Township. Hours are from 1 to
4 today,#and tonight from 7 to 9.
So that the service is available to
ciety’s mobile chest X-ray unit has| all residents, transportation is being
been stationed this week at Dallas! provided for those who require it.
Edward
Pugh, of Kirby Health Center, assist-
| ed by Mrs.
health education secretary for Wy-
Technical operator is
Florence Frantz,
R.N.,
6 CENTS PER COPY
Left to right: Dr. R. M. Body-
comb, Mary Lou Thomas, Dr. F.
Budd Schooley, Edward Pugh,
Charles James, Florence Frantz, in
doorway of mobile unit; Mrs. Rob-
ert Moore, Miss Della LaBar. Front
row: Nancy Schooley, Frances Siley
oming Valley Tuberculosis Society. | and Beverly Hill.
Plenty of Sugar
In Country
i But War Situation
Starts Panic Buying
“Go and have a look
neighbor's attic” was. the advice
given a disappointed customer by
Ord Trumbower, standing in front
of : the empty shelves in Acme
in your
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Ord ‘was disgusted. Last'week, he
that access to the storage room at
the back of the Acme was blocked
by it. All of a sudden,~panic buying
started, and the sugar vanished.
Another ton and a quarter, deliv-
two hours. Customers had loaded
their cars with sugar, and had gone
on to other stores to increase their
supply.
According to Lamborn and Com-
pany, Inc., New York, said by Ralph
ers in the world, there i8 no sugar
shortage. Production of sugar all
over the world is increasing, with
tremendous stocks of beet. sugar in
the west and raw cane sugar in
Cuba. Refineries. are working at
top speed. But nothing can satisfy
the demands of panic buying. If
people are determined to lay in a
six months supply of sugar in ad-
vance, there are a lot of other
people who will have trouble meet-
ing their day by day requirements.
All local markets are enforcing
informal rationing until the supply
hoarders. On Wednesday Hislop’s
Market was able to supply regular
customers with sugar in five pound
lots.
at Acme was doled out in two-
pound sacks, all of it gone by 2
p.m. Dixon's Market was getting
supplies regularly, but buyers were
snapping if. up.
Rattler Strikes:
Gets Struck
Kresge Spends Week
In Nesbitt Hospital
Harry Kresge, Bowman's Creek,
bitten by a rattlesnake in his back
yard last Thursday has been a pa-
tient at Nesbitt Hospital for a
week, may possibly be discharged
tomorrow.
The rattler, three feet long,
struck Harry on the calf. His
mother killed the snake with a
club, applied a tourniquet above
the puncture, and kept the wound
open. Harry Kresge, Sr. summoned
hastily from work in the tannery at
‘Noxen, rushed the 18 year-old boy
to Kingston for hospitalization,
Here delay ensued, because no
snake anti-venom was on hand, and
drug house after drug house had
none in stock.
Residents of Noxen have reported
Market ordinarily. devoted to sugar. |
said, he had five and one half tons |
of sugar on hand, so much sugar
ered on Saturday, was gone within |
Dixon to be the largest. sugar brok-
On Tuesday a short supply !
seeing an unusual number of rat-
ton, Idetown.
tlers this season.
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of refined sugar catches up with the |
Edward Tutak
Studies Abroad
Former Dallas Boy
Assists NYU Dean
Edward Tutak,
and Mrs, Edward Tutak, all former
Jr.,, son of Mr.
residents of Dallas, departed for
Europe on July 10, to study abroad.
A graduate of Dallas Borough
High School, class of 43, he is tour-
‘Thomas Reese Sr.
Painfully Burned
Grease in Fryer
Explodes In Pace
Thomas Reese, Sr., Franklin
Streefis- who... was painfully burned
last Friday while helping Mrs. Har-
old Bobst extinguish a grease fire,
will be in bed for some weeks
There is no infection in the second-
degree burns of both hands and the
right side of fdce, but they will heal
slowly.
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The deep-frying pan caught fire
in the Kitchen. Mrs. Brobst wound
1a towel about her hand and carried
the pan to the open air, calling for
help to her neighbor. Mr. Reese at-
tempted to extinguish the fire with
sand, but the sand proved ‘to be
damp, .and the blazing grease ex-
ploded over him. His hair was
covered by a cap which protected
the top of his head, and his cloth-
ing, saturated with perspiration
from lawn-mowing, repelled the
burning grease, but unprotected
areas caught the full force.
He was rushéd to Dr. Budd
|
ing Western Europe with a group of |
students from New York University
under the direction of Professor
Herbert A. Tonne. Ed has completed
his Bachelor of Science Degree at
the University and is now studying
for his Masters’ Degree.
After a flight by plane from the
United States, the group arrived
in Luxembourg to begin their trav-
el through Holland, Belgium, France,
Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Eng-
land and Ireland. The purpose of
the trip is to study how foreign
methods compare with American
procedures, and what influence they
have had upon the business pro-
grams ‘of schools in the United
States. The title of ‘the course is
Business Education in Western Eur-
ope.
Ed has taken a leave of absence
from his position as administrative
assistant to Dean Agnew, School of
Education, New York University, in
order to be able to study abroad
this summer.
Fire Destroys
An Ice-house which had stood
empty for two years at the rear of
Mrs. Florence G. Meyers’ property
on Dallas-Demunds Road, brought
out the Henry M. Laing Fire Com-
pany Sunday afternoon when it
caught fire from causes unknown.
A pillar of dense black smoke
from ‘the tarred roof of the stone
building led spectators as well as
firemen to the site. When the fire-
men arrived, the roof was already
caving in, filling the structure with
blazing beams and burning sawdust.
The incipient blaze may have been
smouldering for some time, in the
opinion of James Besecker, fire-
chief. There was no electric connec-
tion in the ice-house.
| Schooley’s office and given first
aid. Mrs. Reese; absent at the time,
! came Home just after her husband
had been taken for treatment. He
was not hospitalized, but put im-
mediately to bed in his own home.
Joseph Allens Located
In Lusk, Wyoming
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Allen, five-
year residents of Trucksville, are
keeping in touch with former neigh-
bors in the Back Mountain by a
subscription to the Dallas Post sent
to Lusk, Wyoming, by Mrs. Grace
Wilson.
Mr. Allen, long-term member of
the Kresge chain store organization,
severed his connettions with the
company because of ill health, and
rested for a year before moving to
Wyoming. Much improved,’ and not
wishinz to retire completely from
business he has made connections
with a hardware concern.
The Allens are located within
sight of year-round snow covered
peaks of the Rockies.
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Executive Board
Weighs Expansion
Library Crowded
Needs Extra Space
That Back Mountain Memorial
Library is outgrowing its present
facilities was the conclusion of the
Executive Board at its July meeting
Tuesday night. The matter of fu-
ture expansion was discussed, with
several possibilities weighed. It was
voted by the Board to get in touch
with architects and contractors for
estimates on the cost of an addi-
tion to the library, possibly located
at the rear in the form of a wing
large enough to house meetings of
local groups and provide space for
workrooms and extra needed shelf
space for books,
Funds raised from four library
auctions and turned into U.S. bonds
provide a sufficient nucleus for ex-
pansion. The concensus of the Board
was that the library has about
reached the limit of its growing
space, and that a rapidly growing
community - rates diversification of
services.
Reports from the treasurer, Henry
Peterson, show that proceeds from
the annual auction have increased
from year to year, and that this
year's take grossed nearly $6,500
dollars.
Miss Miriam Lathrop, librarian,
served red raspberries’ and home-
baked sponge cake to Board mem-
bers at the conclusion of the busi-
ness meeting. Present were: Miss
Frances Dorrance, president; Miss
Miriam Lathrop, librarian; Henry
W. Peterson, treasurer; Mrs. Fred
Howell, secretary; Mrs. Joseph
Schmerer, Mrs. H. W. Smith, Charles
Nuss, Howard Risley, Harry Ohl-
man, Mrs. Lewis LeGrand, Mrs. T.
M. B. Hicks.
Plan Joint Picnic
Will Spend July 29
At Harveys Lake
Eleven Sunday Schools, with pos-
sibility of two more, are lined up
for the mass Sunday School picnic
July 29, as against nine for last
year. Transportation will be ar-
ranged by individual Sunday
Schools, with buses leaving church
grounds at 10 a.m. and proceeding
to the Harveys Lake picnic grounds.
Contests for children will be held
at 1:30, soft-ball for adults. Com-
bined vesper service and commun-
ity singing will be held at 7:30.
Asher Weiss, Trucksville, is gen-
eral chairman, Addison Woolbert
Jr., secretary. Sunday schools par-
ticipating are: Shavertown Luther-
an, Huntsville Christian, Harveys
Lake Lutheran, Trucksville Metho-
dist, Shavertown, Dallas, DeMunds,
East Dallas, .Alderson, Carverton,
Orange, - Mount Zion, Huntsville,
All Sunday Schools are invited.
Camp Meeting
Opens Thursday
Free Methodists Meet
In East Dallas
Free Methodist . Camp Meeting
opened yesterday on Demunds road,
East Dallas and will continue until
July 30. Speakers are Rev. Julian
Rose, evangelist, holding daily
meetings at 2:30 and 7:45; Rev. W.
V. Miller, Florida, daily at 10:30
on Bible instruction; Miss Pearl
Reid, on furlough from China, on
missionary work.
Rev. James Taylor, Greeneville
College, will direct youth activities;
Miss Mary Johnstone, Brooklyn, will
children’s camp meeting; = Rev.
fens Payne will direct the sing-
Kiler Updyke En Route To Rejoin
His Old Company on Korean Front
Pfc. Kiler Updyke who sailed
from San Francisco about two weeks
ago te rejoin his company of in-
fantrymen after a seventy-four day
furlough with is parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Palmer Updyke of Kunkle, has
probably now arrived in the heart
of the fighting zone in Korea.
Just prior to sailing from ‘San
Francisco, he phoned his father
asking him if he had seen the pic-
tures of seven American boys who
had been shot with their hands
tied behind their backs by the
North * Koreans. They were mem-
bers of his company and buddies.
Kiler, who will celebrate his
twenty-first birthday anniversary in
September, left Dallas Township
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High School some years ago to join
the Navy Engineers. After serving
with them in Philadelphia for a
year and a half he was discharged
when ‘authorities discovered he was
under age. He then joined the 19th
Infantry and served three consecu-
tive years in Japan. Just before
coming to the States for his fur-
lough this summer he reenlisted on
March 21, which means that he
must rejoin his old company, a
Vehicles Mortor Company, even
though he may have to be para-
chuted into the fighting lines.
The Updykes have no other boys;
three girls: Mrs. Joseph Payne of
Philadelphia, Mrs. George Hack-
ling of Noxen and Julie at home.
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direct Bible School sessions of the -