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The Family Reunion
Guest Editorial—By Joseph E. Pooley
Harveys Lake
This is the time of year when families elect to get to-
gether—For the most part they are a conglomeration of
people who by blood or marriage have a common lot.
They exemplify and tend to preserve that greatest of in-
timate cementings of that great body of Americans. Fam-
ilies are the most fundamental social unit.
Units may be Sewing Circles or Lions, Missionary So-
cieties or Elks, Junior Leagues or Rotary Clubs, most
excellent expressions of man’s sense of gregariousness;
but nothing can supplant the solidity of The. Family.
“Blood is thicker than water”.
In fact, one of the greatest differences between the sys-
tems of Communism and Democracy is the very emphasis
laid upon the evolution of the monogomatic concept of
the Family—“He was a Hickenlooper”; “She was a Sear-
foss”; “He was a Campbell’; She was a Whitesell” —
each of these statements has fundamental meaning.
Our Mayflowers III and IV have brought the Soman-
skis, the Chimolowiczs, the Vittorios and the Cacavellis
these too are perpetuating their lines and taking pride in
the stock that has flourished in good American soil.
A family reunion—ah! A Reunion—To be sure the
chief activity is eating and renewing bloodships; but—
“Have you had any of Aunt Cora’s fried chicken? She
came from Maryland, y'know, where all the secrets of
frying chicken have been preempted for generations.”
“Oh yes! But have some of Cousin Priscilla’s real Bos-
ton Bake—How did she get down here in Wolfe's Grove?”
“Why she married a Sorber when he was stationed at
New London. She's a good cook and baker and she does
something to beans that Mr. Heinz ought to find out.”
“Stella, your cole-slaw is lovely. How do you make it?”
“Well, I put plain cabbage in it with common salt,
pepper, sugar, and celery seed. Of course my recipe calls
for a pint of rich half soured cream.”
And so it goes. Good food, good company, fond mem-
ories and recollections, sympathetic hearings of major
operations and minor ills. Once in a while a tale of stark
tragedy, quietly, even slyly told, lest it dampen the spirits
of the day:
The Family, the undergirding of our democracy linked
together with the hot rivets and the hoops of steel of
common origin and blood relationship sets itself apart for
specific identification at the “Family Reunion”.
Others Find Way To Consolidate
Announcement was made this week that five townships
and Tunkhannock Borough in Wyoming County have
formed a joint school board.
Districts involved are: Washington, Eaton, Northmore-
land, Lemon and Tunkhannock Townships and Tunk-
hannock Borough.
For the present all school buildings in operation in the
respective districts will be used but ultimate plans call
for a tweig--classroom addifion to Tunkhannock High
School and construction of a twelve to fourteen-room
elementary building.
The districts involved lie within an approximate ten-
mile radius of Tunkhannock with Lemon on the north
and Centermoreland at the south at the farthest distance.
The jointure was effected easily and without serious
opposition at a meeting of directors and interested par-
ents on Monday night.
Apparently Wyoming County School Directors and
parents are more interested in the educational welfare
of their children than they are in maintaining fictitious
township and borough lines or in perpetuating their own
tenure.
The ease with which the jointure was brought about
contrasts sharply with the progress made toward con-
solidation in our own area where there is considerably less
distance between most of the schools.
Here we are not so concerned about education as we
are in winning a point or in perpetuating old prejudices
at the expense of our own and our neighbors’ children.
But there are good signs in the offing. If our elected
directors are unable to provide the leadership to bring
better schools about, the people can.
Paul Mulcey and David Williams, of the Rotary Club’s
Committee for Better Schools, point the way in this
week's Safety Valve. Shortly their committee will spear-
head a movement to form a local committee of parents
and citizens to become affiliated with the National Citi-
zens’ Commission for Better Public Schools.
This Citizens Committee which will exclude from its
membership those professionally connected with educa-
tion, religion and politics, can go a long way toward build-
ing up public support for better schools. There are enough
unselfish citizens and parents in this area to make their
weight felt once they are organized. From this group
will come the leadership and the direction to give us
better schools. There are still more people in the Back
Mountain area interested in their children than they are
in politics and prejudice.
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FROM.
Vol. 60, No. 31
Camp Arranges
Sportsmen Show
Marksmanship And
Casting Events Listed
A fall sportsmen’s show with
competitive shooting, fly casting
demonstration, marksmanship ex-
hibitions and displays of sporting
goods by national manufacturers
is being planned for September by
Harveys Lake Camp United Sports-
men.
The show 'will be held on the
Sportsmen's camp grounds at Al-
derson. Plans for the event were
discussed Monday night at a well
attended meeting presided over by
John Hewitt, president, at Herman
Kern's Tavern.
The Club also discussed its an-
nual Outing to be held at the
Camp Grounds on August 27. Plans
are underway to purchase the six-
teen acre camp grounds on the
Congdon Farm at Alderson which
the club now has under five-year
lease with option to buy.
As soon as the transaction is
complete the Club plans to build
a club house and install all kinds
of traps and moving targets for the
use of its membership.
Guest speaker at the meeting
was Charles Gavanonis, president
of the head camp, who spoke on
the possibility of establishing a
Federal Fish Hatchery in this area.
One of the chief requirements, he
said is a flow of 3,300 gallons of
water a minute at an average
temperature of 55 to 60 degrees.
He suggested that this temperature
could be obtained near Ricketts
or at Stull by sinking artesian
wells to supplement the other
water supply. Bass and trout
would be the fish raised in the
hatchery.
It was also brought out at the
meeting that this area is now with-
out a game protector since the
resignation of Protector Latimer to
enter business after serving here
only a matter of weeks.
Lehman Band
To Practice
All Members Urged
To Come Thursday
FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1950
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Crispell and
his father, Elmer Crispell, all of
Noxen, have returned: after a six
and one-half week's trip to the
West Coast during which they
visited twenty-six states and
Mexico.
The trip was in observance of
Earl and Helen's twenty-fifth wed-
ding anniversary and included
along the route stops for chats
with many former Noxen boys and
girls.
On the tiip out which was over
the Southern route through Louisi-
ana and Texas with a side trip to
Mexico, they visited at Brownsville,
Texas, with Mr. and Mrs. Bernard
Goba. Mrs. Goba is the former
Elba Jones, daughter of Fred “Peg”
Jones, well known Noxen. sports-
man and mason. Elba has three
children. Her husband manages
several citrus groves.
In Redwood City, California, the
Crispells visited with Mr. and Mrs
C. J. Hastings, Walter Dendler and
Edward Dendler. Mrs. Hastings is
the former Bina Dendler a sister
of Walter and Edward, all the
children of Mrs. Albert Dendler
New Fire Engine
Gets Work-Out
Responds To Alarm
Of Two Blazing Bams
Kunkle’'s new fire engine, the
result of concerted effort by every-
body in the community, got its first
work-out last Friday when a severe
electric storm set fire to two barns
in quick succession.
The Harry S. Smith Fire Com-
pany was hampered in its services
by delay ‘in notification of the
barn blaze at Denmans, Beau-
mont. The Denman telephone was
| knocked out by the bolt of light-
ining, making necessary a trip to
Beaumont to notify the fire com-
pany, while the blaze made head-
way. From Haas’ store in Beau-
;mont the telephone line to Kunkle
| Fras still out of order, but con-
nections were made through Fred
Swanson, Harveys Lake Fire Chief.
The Harry S. Smith fire truck,
Frad Dodson at the wheel, thunder-
ed to the scene, picking up twenty
volunteers en route, only to find
that the barn was now beyond sal-
All members of Lehman School
Band, including those who gradu-
ated in June, are requested by
to come to the
Thursday evening, August 10, at
7:30, to practice for
performance at the Lake Silkworth
Water Carnival, August 20th. There
will be another practice on Thurs-
day of the following week, August
17, and a third session, date to be
announced. :
school building
Field Day Draws
Supper Crowd
Shavertown Fire Company's 20th
annual Field Day got under way
last night with a meat-loaf supper
served by the Ladies Auxiliary,
Mrs. Russell Cease president and
supper chairman.
The three-day affair, will
feature bingo, and refreshments
will be on sale. Back Mountain
Band, director John Miles will be
the attraction Saturday night.
Plans are going forward for Lake
Silkworth’s fifth annual water car-
nival and Lake Silkworth Day,
PILLAR TO POST
By Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr.
Three moves is supposed to be the equivalent of a fire. Fifteen moves
applying that standard, adds up to an earthquake, a volcanic explosion,
or an atomic bomb, with very little of the original:dunnage surviving
the experience.
It is astonishing, however, how much dunnage replaces the treasured
objects collected away back when
rushing in to fill the gaps on the
principle that nature and house-
holders abhor a vacuum. A sol-
emn resolution never to replace a
single outworn piece of furniture,
never to accumulate letters from
the family, never to buy another
pretty remnant of chintz, comes
to absolute zero in the face of a
library auction.
That crib we fell for. We didn’t
actually need another crib, but
there it was, hair mattress and all,
waiting hopefully on the block in
Late Potato
Blight Here
potatoes,
Yesterday, late blight of potatoes
was found in the Hobbie Commun-
ity in the Rural Russett variety
County Agent J. D. Hutchison
suggests that growers of potatoes
and tomatoes should immediately
change over their spray material to
the Bordeaux Mixture, using 8-4-
100, which means 8 lbs of copper
sulphate, 4 lbs, of lime to each
Sunday, August 20, for the benefit
of Lake Silkworth Volunteer Fire
Company.
The water carnival depicting
scenes from Storyland will get
underway at 3:15 with fifty. en-
tries expected. Last year more
carnival which then had thirty-
six entries mounted on floats de-
picting scenes from the “Months
of the Year.” Winners were:
March, a St. Patrick's Day scene;
November “Over the river and
through the Wood,” a horse and
sleigh scene; the “Goose that Laid
Contrary.”
rafts. Last year for the first time,
others than cottagers entered floats.
Sweet Valley Firemen had one.
This year the committee will wel-
munities.
(Continued on Page Five) 100 gallons of water.
Lester Squier, supervising principal,
the band’s |
than. 12,000 persons witnessed the
the Golden Egg” and ‘Mary Quite
Floats were mounted on rafts
built on row boats or on navy
come commercial floats as well as
floats from other resorts and com-
.In addition the carnival will in-
clude motor boat races and a water
ballet in which many Lehman High
vation. Damage was estimated at
| $2,000. Daniel C. Roberts Fire
| Company joined in the futile fight.
It was while the fire engines were
operating at Denman’s that the
| call came to battle a barn blaze in
| Buckwheat Hollow, on the road
[leading from Sterling Farm to
! Noxen.
Kunkle and Harveys Lake Fire
Companies collaborated at ' the
Perry ‘Patton farm in an attempt
to save a huge bara which had
just received its last load of hay
from the fields. Ordinarily accom-
modating sixteen head of cattle,
the barn was empty, except for
one cow, which was saved. The
barn was a total loss, estimated
at $15,000, part of it covered by
insurance.
No Firemen's Meeting
Back Mountain Volunteer Fire-
men’s Association will hold no
meeting during August. The next
meeting will be the fall meeting
at Trucksville Fire House in Sep-
tember.
Story Book Characters Will Ride
Floats In Fifth Water Carnival
School students will take part. Leh-
man High School Band will also
provide music.
In the evening there will be a
semi-formal dance at Vincent's
Pavilion with Jack Melton’s orches-
tra providing the music. The King
and Queen of Carnival will be
crowned at the dance. There will
be no fire works as in previous
years because of the dance.
General chairman of the Water
Carnival and dance is Mrs. Ho-
bart F. Kash, to whom much of
the credit for the success of last
year’s carnival goes. She will be
assisted by Ruth Shellhamer, head
of the Home Economics Department
of Lehman Schools.
This Saturday the Lake Silk-
worth Day Committee will enter-
tain all children at a free mas-
querade Party at the Fire House
from four until eight. The, party
is in the nature of a kick-off affair
to start the ball rolling for Lake
Silkworth Day.
All entries for the carnival must
be in the hands of the committee
no later than August 18. Trophies
will be wall plaques engraved with
the names of the winners.
Crispells Meet Many Former
Noxen Friends On Trip West
of Noxen. Mr, Hastings is employ-
ed in th. aircraft industry and
Bina is supervisor of Nurses at
Redwood City Hospital. Both Wal-
ter and E.lward are in the restaur-
ant business.
At Spokane, Washington, they
met Mr. and Mrs. Harry Blizzard.
Harry is parts manager in an auto-
mobile ajercy and has two fine
boys. He is the son of Walter
Blizzard of Noxen.
At Headquarters, Idaho, center
of the lumbering industry, they
met Geo~ge Rauch, son of the Mrs.
Rauch and the late Dr. George H
Rauch of Nexen. George has five
children and is a graduate forester
with the U. S. Forestry Service.
George and Lawrence May, sons of
Mr. and Mrs. Albert May of Noxen
are also located at Headquarters.
Lawrenc: has two sons and is dis-
trict manager for Standard Oil
Company, and George who has a
little daughter is in the Jumber
industry at nearby Potlash.
The return home was over the
northern route with stops in
Chicago and other points of inter-
est along ‘the way.
Dallas Indians
Find A Sponsor
Harris Haycox Will
Furnish Equipment
Through the good offices of Har-
ris Haycox who is a Little League
Fan, Lazarus Department Store in
Wilkes-Barre will sponsor the Dal-
las Indians baseball team in the
Little League. >
The store will furnish T-shirts
and caps as well as a catchers
breast protector for the team this
year, this being all the equipment
the local League teams are using
this season. Next season they ex-
pect to have complete outfits.
The Indians defeated Trucksville
on Monday night before a crowd
of 200 spectators on the Devens
Diamond ‘on Lake street.
The Indian publicity agent,
“Billy” Shaver had this to say of
the game. In a thrilling contest
Monday night, the Indians defeated
Trucksville Tigers 5 to 4. Trailing
4 to 1 coming into the sixth inning,
Dallas came up with 4 big runs to
go on to win,
“We urge every one to come out
and watch us play. We'll really
show you how it is done. Under
the management of James Durkin,
Dallas hopes to go all the way in-
cluding to Williamsport. The In-
dians have a good start with two
wins one loss.”
The Indians team is composed of
Billy Shaver, third base; Burt Ber-
rettini, first base and pitcher;
Jimmy Thomas, catcher; Chuck
Allabaugh, pitcher, and third base;
Danny Richards, second base; Jack
Yaple, short stop; Bob Piznar, cen-
ter field; Lee Ohlman, left field
and Dick Vanderbrouck, right field.
At a meeting Saturday night in
Trucksville Fire House Charles
Steinhaurer of Trucksville was elec-
ted League Commissioner and Al-
bert Gibbs,” Dallas, was elected
president.
Two other teams are being or-
ganized at Fernbrook and Lehman.
Other officers are: Merton Cool-
baugh, vice president; William
Thomas, secretary and Verne Prit-
chard, treasurer.
This Saturday night there will
be a meeting of all team members
officials, parents and others inter-
ested at Trucksville Fire House at
8. Three motion pictures will be
shown: “The Little League”, “In-
ternational Air Races” and ‘Soap
Box Derby”. The public is invited.
1950 Ford Meets
Ornamental Fence
Hearing a crash across Harveys
Lake while examining Judge Thom-
as Lewis’ boathouse at noon on
Tuesday for clues to a breaking
and entering, Chief of Police Fred
Swanson got into his car and ran
around the Lake to the home of
Mrs. Stanley Freeman, where he
found her 1950 Ford smashed
against the ornamental iron fence
at the foot of the lawn. The car
had slipped its brakes and started
down the gentle grade, gathering
speed as it went. Headlights and
fenders were damaged.
Lions Club To Hear
Sgt. Robert Letteer
Sgt. Robert Letteer, of Troop B,
Third Squadron State Police, will
explain the duties of a State Police-
man at the dinner meeting of Old
Toli Gate Lion’s Club on Tuesday
night.
The club meets the second and
fourth Tuesday of each month.
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Prohibition
Rally Draws
Large Crowd
Blews and Crispell
Urge Voters Not To
Become Discouraged
Dr. Richard R. Blews, Prohibi-
tion nominee for Governor of Penn-
sylvania spoke at a largely attend-
ed mass meeting at the Dallas Free
Methodist Camp Grounds on Satur-
day afternoon. Dr. Blews was in-
troduced by Rev. H. D. Olver, Jr,
district superintendent of the Free
Methodist Church.
Dr. Blews spoke of the two
greatest advances in moral legis-
lation made by the United States.
“After the question of Slavery had
been left unsolved by the framers
of the Constitution, the people
rose to great moral height when
President Lincoln issued his im-
mortal Emancipation Proclamation
Nominee For Governor
RICHARD R. BLEWS
and the Congress of the United
States and the States approved
the Emancipation Amendment.
Once again the people of the Uni-
ted States rose to great, Moral
height in the overwhelming ap-
proval of the Prohibition Amend-
ment. It was approved by forty-
six states, Rhode Island and Con-
necticut being the only two that
did not ratify.”
Dr. Blews emphasized
moral legislation without
enforcement is insufficient. “We
must have honest enforcement.
We need an administration that
is pledged to Prohibition ‘and that
will wipe out the greatest curse
in America today.” Dr. Blews
stated that there are one million
that
honest
alcoholics in America. “There are
from four to five million hard
drinkers.” Dr. Blew, if elected
Governor on November 7, wishes
to emancipate the people of Penn-
Sylvania from the curse of liquor.
Others who spokz were Mrs.
Edward Keen, president of Luzerne
County Woman's Christian Temper-
ance Union; Francis A. Smith,
chairman Luzerne County Prohibi-
tion Committee; and Albert J.
Crispell, Prohibition Party nominee
for Lieutenant Governor of Penn-
sylvania.
Mr. Crispell urged the people to
take a long range view and not to
be discouraged if on November 7
Prohibition candidates are = not
elected. “I am personally look-
ing forward to the year 1960 when
our Party may be able to elect its
first National Candidate to office”,
said Mr. Crispell. “It was just
100 years previous to that date
when the new Republican party
elected its first Presidential candi-
date, Abraham Lincoln.”
Mr. Crispell urged the people to
think of their vote cast for Pro-
hibition candidates as a monument
erected to the ideals in which they
believe. He expressed the hope
that between now and 1960 the
Party may be able to develop the
necessary organization and leader-
ship required to carry out the prin-
ciples of the Prohibition Platform.
Pet Parade To
Offer Prizes
Every dog in town will have a
chance to be a hero to his master
Wednesday, August 23, when Dal-
las Business Association sponsors
a Pard Pet Parade to be judged
at the Acme Parking lot.
Pedigreed pooches and “just plain
dogs” will walk side by side and
will have an equal chance at a long
list of awards. The only qualifica-
tions are that the dog be accom-
panied by his master, and that he
be properly entered in the parade.
Entry blanks and rules for the
jostnde may be obtained from Dal-
las merchants.
: DALLAS
DALLAS TOWNSHIP 1
"LEHMAN 1 1
KINGSTON TOWNSHIP |_s8 5
: JACKSON TOWNSHIP 2
MONROE TOWNSHIP 3 1
"ROSS TOWNSHIP 2
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTIGN LAKE TOWNSHIP 12 1
: FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP 2
TOTAL 64 22
Court Rejects
Mill Ordinance
Luzerne County Court en banc
| yesterday handed down a decision
finding the ordinance illegal that
would bring Natona Mills into Dal-
las Borough.
The case was tried some months
ago before Judge Frank Pinola and
argued. before the court en blanc
ick, Lewis and Flannery on June 8.
In handing down its decision the
court found that “the map of the
Borough showing the boundary
after the annexation is not a cor-
rect representation of the descrip-
tion because the beginning point is
incorrectly located on the southerly
side of ‘the State highway.
“The point of beginning of Par-
cel 1 of the land described in the
ordinance, to wit, ‘the interesection
of the northerly side of Car Ave-
nue and Warden Street as laid out
in the plot of lots allotted by In-
man Realty Company’ is not ‘on
the southerly side of the State
Highway. from Dallas to Harveys
Lake’ but is 7.22 feet cistant there-
from.”
The court found t:.at the area
annexed contains narrow strips of
land owned by Wilkes-Barre Rail-
way Company and Howard Warden.
Since Dale Realty Company is but
one of the free holders the petition
freeholders.
Atty. Jonathan Valentine repre-
senting . Dallas Township School
Board, had challenged the legality
and propriety of the Borough's or-
dinance.
The court ruled that the petition
for annexation being ‘signed by
but one of the freeholders whose
property is included in the descrip-
tion and the map relieves us of the
necessity of passing on the prop-
erty of the ordinance.”
William Young
Buried Saturday
As surely a casualty of World
War II as if he had died in prison
camp or fallen on the rocks of
Corregidor, Wiliam H. Young, 45,
late of Tunkhannock, passed away
Thursday morning at 2; at Robert
Packer Hospital ph Sayre where
he had been a pifient for the past
month. oh
He is buried in quiet Overfield
cemetery at Meshoppen, in sight
of the river he had dreamed about
while in a Japanese prison camp
for an interminable three years and
three months, first at Santo Tomas
and later at Los Banos in the
Philippines. An enthusiastic fisher-
man, he had a summer cottage
near Meshoppen.
Associated with the Far Eastern
Division of National City Bank for
twenty-five years, Mr. Young had
held posts in Singapore, Tokyo,
Yokohama, Kobe, Dairen, South
Manchuria, and Manila. It was
during the attack on Manila that
he was taken prisoner at Corregi-
dor. During his internment, he
was chosen by popular vote to ad-
minister the prisoners’ affairs. Mal-
nutrition and hardship at this time
laid the foundation for future ill
health.
to the United States on leave, in
1945, he returned to Manila at the
termination of the war at the
specific request of General MacAr-
thur, to assist in reopening the
National City Bank and restoration
of stable currency. Taken ‘gravely
ill at this time he came home on
a freighter, accompanied by his
wife, the former Martha Shepherd
of Goss Manor, who had flown out
on the first Clipper after being in-
formed of the situation.
Hospitalized in San Francisco,
Mr. Young eventually came east
by train, and the couple made their
home, for a year with Mrs. George
Shepherd, Goss Manor, later pur-
chasing a home in Tunkhannock
after retirement from business.
Mrs. Young had lived in Manila
prior to hostilities, but the bank
had evacuated all dependents to
safety in America before war actu-
ally struck the Philippines.
Mr. Young, a native of Schenec-
tady, N. Y., son of Mr. and Mrs.
John W. Young attended Union
College and Harvard International
Law School. Mrs, Young is a grad-
uate of Goucher.
Residents of Dallas were sadden-
ed by the news of his grave illness
and death. Prayers were offered
at Prince of Peace Chapel on Sun-
day, at the request of Charles
Flack.
He is survived by his wife, Mar-
tha; his father, John W. Young,
Lake Carey and St. Louis; an aunt,
and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were conducted
from the funeral Chapel in Tunk-
hannock Saturday afternoon at 2,
Rev. William D. Schmidgall, Epis-
copalian rector, and Rev. William
Jones of the Presbyterian Church,
officiating.
composed of Judges Pinola, Apon-
does not represent a majority of the
Rescued in 1945, and returned’
mr So da ppt