Abditorially Speaking:
Providing For Old Age
The problem of providing
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for the elderly part of our
population has become a very difficult and serious one.
It will become much more serious as time wears on. For,
due to the progress of medical science and other reasons,
the percentage of those past 65 is rising with great
rapidity.
Even now, Herbert Hoover said in a recent address,
“We have less than 70,000,00 providers in this group
(persons aged 20 to 65)
and they must provide for
80,000,000 children, ‘aged, sick, nonproductive govern-
ment workers and their wives.
It is soley from the en-
ergies of this middle group, their inventions, and their
productivity that can come the support of the young, the
old and the sick—and the government workers.”
How to deal with the case
of the elderly has been com-
manding the intense attention of industry and the labor
unions.
The unions have concentrated on an effort to
gain retirement pensions for their members of $100 or
more a month, social security payments included. They
have signed a number of highly favorable contracts, not-
ably with U. S. Steel, Chrysler, and General Motors.
According to Walter Reuther they hope, in 10 years, to
make $200 a month the standard pension.
However,
whether or not this occurs, few believe that such pension
plans are anything like a complete solution.
For one
thing, the majority of workers are not unionized, and it
is hardly likely that they would be willing to do without
adequate pensions while relatively small group reaped the
harvest.
For another, no one has yet figured out a way
by which the thousands of smaller businesses of the coun-
try could guarantee an acceptable pension plan.
For still
another, even when large companies are involved, there
are great complications and imponderables—the state
of business in the future; how many employes will die
or resign or otherwise become ineligible before reaching
retirement age; how long the average pensioner will live;
what the investment yield will be on funds set aside for
pension purposes; what rules to establish to determine
the benefits various classifications of workers are entitled
to, and so on.
Nor can we yet be sure how much a pension plan will
add to the cost of a company’s product. On the debit side,
it may increase the labor cost of each employe by 10 cents
or more an hour.
On the credit side, however, as the
treasurer of Eastman Kodak has pointed out, “There are
definite savings.
efficient basis . .
The organization is kept on a more
. . A sense of security is brought to the
older worker and there is a good effect on the younger
worker as well.
ployes and in the community . .
be lower.”
So much for the pros and cons.
There is a better feeling among the em-
. . Labor turnover will
Basically, the prob-
lem is to find a way to assure the old a comfortable re-
tirement without depressing the economy, forcing com-
modity prices to ever-higher
en of taxation insuperable.
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PILLAR
TO POST
By Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr.
It looks like an old-fashioned attic now, with a hooded cradle pushed
back under the eaves, an ox-bow high-chair, a high-chair whittled from
apple wood with a rush seat, a high-chair with a caned seat, flanked by
a couple of nondescript jobs of more recent manufacture; two little maple
rockers, caned seats and backs, and a rush-bottomed rocker made in the
family workshop for some small moppet well over a hundred years ago.
And of course a spinning wheel.
How could you have an attic with-
out a spinning wheel? And trunks?
And gilt picture-frames?
Ten days ago it looked like a
junk pile, but last weekend was
providentially cool, and a few hours
under the roof were enough to re-
duce the chaos to something ap-
proaching order, with frequent es-
capes to a first floor that felt like an
ice-box in comparison.
The exasperating thing is that
every last antique will eventually
have to come back downstairs, but
in the meantime nobody is stubbing
his toes on cradle rockers or falling
over misplaced matter on the stair-
ways.
If a move were reckoned in man-
hours and woman-hours, including
those spent in the middle of the
night mentally reorganizing the
furniture and fitting it into more
convenient locations as well as
those hours spent in the actual
physical horsing around of the
heavy pieces, the total expenditure
of time would be incredible.
Windows and’ radiators take up
such a lot of room. The melodeon
that fitted so neatly between two
windows at the Pump House, the
piano ‘that buried itself so unob-
trusively behind a door where its
lack of finish was not so apparent,
and most of all that big pine chest
that once held remnants for over-
alls and small plaid shirts and
smocked gingham dresses—those
things do not feel at home. They
act like three cats in a strange gar-
ret, refusing to adopt themselves
to circumstances.
It takes a long time to soothe
outsize pieces of furniture and per-
suade them to melt into the back-
ground.
Venetian blinds, which take up
absolutely no room when installed
on the window frames, make an
imposing pile when stacked in the
attic. Shifting them is hazardous.
The cords let go and the blind un-
rolls itself with a clatter, raising a
cloud of dust which should have
been brushed off before removing
from the original window frame, a
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Training Must
Begin At Home
Lions Club Hears
Professor Pooley
At its meeting Wednesday night,
Harveys Lake Lions Club was ad-
dressed by Professor Joseph Pooley,
Harvard graduate, writer, educator
and philosopher. ‘
The subject of Professor Pooley s
talk was “Education Begins at
Home". It was his expressed opinion
that too much emphasis is placed
on pre-nursery, nursery, and kin-
dergarten training rather than hav-
ing mothers and fathers be respon-
sible for basic training of their
children in the pre-school years.
Discipline, a foundation stone to
happy and useful child growth is
too often allotted to teachers rather
than parents.
Professor Pooley, a resident of
Madison, N.J., has spent 47 sum-
mers at Harveys Lake and states
that, “I never expect to get nearer
Heaven here on earth than I do at
beautiful Harveys Lake.”
Deadline For Entries ;
In Motor Boat Races
Any one wishing to take part in
the motor boat races to be held
Sunday August 20 at Lake Silk-
worth, must register his or her
boat and motor. The dead line for
registering boats and motors will
be August 16. Any entries Te-
ceived after that date will not be
entered. Entries may be mailed
to Lake Silkworth Fire Company
or William Rushin, chairman. En-
try blanks will be available at any
of the stands at the Lake and at
the fire house. The following may
enter, first group seven to seven
and a half H. P.; second group ten
H. P.; third group twenty two and
a half H. P.; forth group forty-
five to sixty-five Inboards. Any
one not registered will be ineligible
for the races. 8
Modern School
To Replace Six
One-room Schools
Will Close Doors
Six more one-room schools will
close their doors sometime before
1953, if present plans for consoli-
dation of grade schools in Ross
Township are carried through.
Bloomingdale, Broadway, Center,
Hook, Mooretown and Mott would
be affected, with a centrally located
school in Sweet Valley handling
children from all six schools from
first to sixth grade. Seventh and
eighth graders would be accommo-
dated in Shickshinny Borough and
Lehman.
The projected building would
cost approximately $143,000 and
would be erected under the State
Aid Plan.
Specifications call for a six or
seven room building, completely
modern in character, with up-to-
date plumbing and heating and a
cafeteria. The three school busses
already in operation in Ross Town-
ship could presumably handle the
school load, with the possible addi-
tion of a fourth. The tract of land
on which the school is to be built
is situated between the Harvey-
ville and Muhlenburg roads. The
school board purchased this acreage
some years ago in anticipation of
consolidation.
All of the present one-room
school buildings are in need of ex-
tensive repairs, their heating and
water supply primitive, their ‘'san-
itation non-existent. Consolidation
of schools, with improvement of
facilities and a chance for an ex-
panded curriculum, is in the air.
A kindergarten is not contem-
plated at the present time according
to Alfred Bronson, secretary, but
may be a thought for the future.
The one-room schools have been
overcrowded, and population shows
an upward curve. Considerable jug-
gling of students has been required
to evenly distribute the load of 180
pupils.
Charles Long and Alfred Bron-
son presented the petition to Lu-
zerne County School Board, which
will act upon it at the next meet-
ing.
Members of the Board are:
Charles Long, president; Paul
Crockett, treasurer; Alfred Bronson,
secretary; Jesse Hann and William
Birth.
One-room schools are: Mott, Ar-
thur Curtis, teacher, with six grades
and 34 pupils; Mooretown, D. W.
Hines, teacher, eight grades and
42 pupils; Hook, Mrs. Clarence La-
Bar, five grades and 47 pupils;
Broadway, Mrs. Bessie Waterstripe,
teacher, eight grades and 31 pup-
ils; Ross Center, Myron Moss, eight
grades and 31 pupils; Bloomingdale,
Miss Celia Hortop, teacher, eight
grade school, with registration
largely 7th and 8th grades, 20
pupils in the higher grades, 7 in
the lower.
Sutliff Packs
Green Tomatoes
Moves Machinery
To Lancaster Area
Willard Sutliff, Sweet Valley, is
educating the Pennsylvania Dutch
population surrounding Lancaster in
the ways of the green-tomato pack.
Always an enormous growing
area for the canneries, the region
has never gone into the green tom-
ato field until this year, when
Sutliff moved his packing machin-
ery into the district and started
packing for the Southern market.
There are 35,000 acres of tomatoes
around Lancaster, and the season
is three weeks earlier than in the
Back Mountain.
A green tomato pack serves to
siphon off large tonnage of toma-
toes which if allowed to ripen would
cause a glut on the market. Sutliff
reports that the Pennsylvania
Dutch growers, Mennonites and
Amish are slow to understand that
culls must be taken back and dis-
posed of, that only perfect fruit
can be accepted for packing.” In
the case of ripe tomatoes, canneries
make deductions for ‘imperfections,
but are able to accept over-ripe
fruit for tomato puree and juice,
and growers are reluctant to take
back their green culls.
Sutliff plans to return to Sweet
Valley for the local crop, leaving
him enough machinery to wind up
the green tomatoes in Lancaster.
He did not take with him the wax-
ing machinery wHich applies the
film of wax to the washed tomatoes,
mandatory when fruit is to be
preserved for some time. Lancaster
tomatoes will appear on the Florida
markets in quantities sufficient for
complete disposal and no carry-
overs. ;
ful social events of the season.
Planning Battalion Dance
Francis Barry, SA, Dallas, Florence Crump, CS2, Yeager Avenue, and Lt. (j.g.) G. A. Kabeschat, Ply-
mouth, make plans for the annual mid-summer semi-formal dance of Naval Reserve Battalion 18 at Irem
Temple Country Club on Saturday night, August 18.
While the committee was loathe to issue any statement this will probably be the last Naval Reserve
Dance for sometime. All friends of the Navy are invited to attend the affair which is one of the most color-
Major Hicks At
G.H.Q. Tokyo
Helps Map Out
Korean Conflict
Major Thomas M. B. Hicks, 3rd,
son of Mr. and Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks,
Dallas, stationed in Tokyo for the
past three years, has been trans-
ferred from his former .post with
the Economic Development of Post-
War Japanese Industry to General
MacArthur's Headquarters, where
he is currently working on plans
for the Korean campaign,
Major Hicks graduated at the
head of his R.O.T.C. unit at the Uni-
versity of Nebraska in 1940, and
has been with the armed forces
ever since, serving with the Second
Division in San Antonio as recep-
tion officer for recruits, later with
the 81st in Alabama. He was among
the landing forces on Anguar; re-
turned on leave after the Pacific
war was over, and was stationed
briefly in Omaha before being sent
to Japan.
His family is with him in Tokyo.
His wife is the former Eleanor
Gruesel of Omaha. There are three
children, Tommy the 4th, seven
years old, Mary Eleanor, five, Bar-
bara, almost four.
Tom the third worked one sum-
mer on the Dallas Post during va-
cation from college, in collaboration
with his brother, Warren Hicks,
Dallas Beats
Shavertown, 3-2
Dallas heads the Back Mountain
Little League after Tuesday night
when it won over Shavertown, 3-2.
Until the ninth inning, Dallas led 3-
0 when Shavertown scored two with
the bases loaded until Billy Shaver
pitched the third man out for Dal-
las to win.
James J. Durkin, manager of Dal-
las named Bruce Berrettini and
Victor Cross as his assistants. In-
creased enthusiasm due to these ap-
pointments has brought out many
more candidates for the team.
Acknowledgement is made for
donations to the team: Bowman's
Church each contributed $25; Na-
tona Mills, $100; Mr. and Mrs. Har-
ris Haycox contributed green caps,
jerseys and catcher’s outfit. Further
donations for advancement of the
team will be thankfully received by
Al Gibbs or James Durkin.
Woolbert's Bus
Extends Service
Laceyville Gets
Better Deal
GI. Bus Line, recently purchased
by Howard Woolbert, Shavertown,
from Dan Hontz, Tunkhannock, now
services Laceyville for two complete
round trips to Wilkes-Barre under
a slightly revised schedule.
Busses, driven alternately by
Woolbert and Russell Edmondson,
leave Shavertown at 6:45 a.m.
reaching Laceyville at 12:45, Wilkes-
Barre at 10; leave Wilkes-Barre at
10:15, Laceyville at 12:45, Wilkes-
Barre 2:15, Laceyville 5 p.m. Pas-
sengers. are picked up on the quick
unscheduled trips night and morn-
ing between Shavertown and Lacey-
ville, connecting with Wilkes-Barre
Transit at Fernbrook.
For the present, no change of
name is contemplated.
Restaurant and Prince of Peace:
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Rood To Hold
Open House On 30th Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph H. Rood
will celebrate their fiftieth wedding
anniversary Tuesday, August 15
with open house for their friends
and neighbors from 3 until 5.
The Roods were married by the
Rev. Ferris D. Cornell in 1900.
They have two children living, Mrs.
Wesley Oliver, organist and choir
leader of High Street Church
Binghamton, and Captain Harold
who has spent the past three years
in Germany. A second son, Gray-
don, was killed in a motorcycle
accident on the old Dallas Fair
Grounds at the age of nineteen.
Mrs. Rood, the former Elizabeth
Williams, was the daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. David Williams
of Loyalville, prosperous farmers.
Before marriage, she taught school
and served as organist in the
Loyalville Church. After coming
to Dallas, she became active in
the Ladies Aid and when her chil-
dren were young, was superinten-
dent of the Primary Department of
Dallas Methodist Sunday School for
many years.
Mr. Rood was the son of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Crawford Rood,
Bloomingdale farmers. As a youth,
he studied at Bloomingdale and at
Pleasant Hill Academy and inter-
mittently taught school in Lake,
Ross and Salem Townships while
working for his degree at Stroud-
sburg State Teachers’ College. Last
year he returned to Stroudsburg
for his fiftieth reunion and had
a nice visit with twenty-seven of
his one hundred and eleven class-
mates.
The Roods started housekeeping
at Beach Haven where Mr. Rood
was in charge of the grade school
for three years. From there they
moved on to Pleasant Hill Academy
and finally to Dallas Borough where
he headed the grade and high
schools, then housed in the present
grade building.
With the opening of the Dallas
Bank in 1906, Mr. Rood gave up
his teaching career and became
its teller and bookkeeper. He had
served as cashier for seven years
when he left to take the position
of paying teller at the Dime Bank
Title and Trust Company in Wilkes
Barre. He held this position until
the Bank closed in 1931 when he
returned to Dallas Schools as
teacher of sixth grade and com-
mercial subjects, which position he
held until his retirement in 1947.
Always interested in music, Mr.
Rood recalls with pleasure his boy-
hood days when he served as a
member of the old Irish Lane Band
and later with the Pike's Creek
Drum Corps. His dad who had
assisted in organizing the Bloom-
ingdale Drum Corps just after the
Civil War had been his teacher.
Like his wife, he too was a devout
church worker, and served as Sun-
day School Superintendent at the
Dallas Church for twenty-two con-
secutive years, attending over one
thousand sessions.
The Roods, though not as young
as they used to be, live a very full
and rich life. Up until two years
ago, they spent their summers at
the Bloomingdale homestead where
Mr. Rood planted and tended a
tremendous garden and Mrs. Rood
“did up” the winter's supply of
fruits and vegetables. Come fall,
Mrs. Rood could be seen bustling
around at housecleaning and Mr.
Rood taking care of his six to ten
colonies of bees and getting his
beloved setter, Mike, in shape for
a week’s hunting at the Quiwaum-
ick Camp in Pike County. Both
enjoy reading and Mr. Rood is an
invaluable neighbor of the Post's
whenever it needs authoritative
help on correct spellings of tricky
words, proper grammatical con-
| structions, careful proofreading and
detailed information about any
Back Mountain oldtimers. At the
Bauer sale a few years back he
bought for two dollars a set of
Stoddards’ Lectures which he had
wanted all his life and has got a,
tremendous kick out of reading.
Though Mr. and Mrs. Rood pro-
tested vigorously when Arline and
Lillian first suggested the open
house, calling it “all foolishness”,
they are looking forward to Tues-
day afternoon and hope all their
friends and neighbors will drop in
for a cup of tea and a good old
fashioned visit. Incidentally, Lil-
lian and Wesley, will celebrate
their twelfth anniversary on the
same day.
Transues Take Course
At Sky Lake Camp
Mrs. Irene Transue and her sis-
ter-in-law, Madeline, both of
Kunkle, attended a. week’s labora-
tory course at Sky Lake Methodist
Camp the last week in July. Adult
registration for that period num-
bered 108, with thirty studying
the laboratory course in vacation
Bible School teaching.
Rev. Ruth Underwood was in-
structor in the primary laboratory
school. Classes were conducted in
both Methodist and Presbyterian
churches in Windsor, and in the
Community Hall. -
Sky Lake Camp is open all sum-
mer, catering mainly to youth
groups, but offering one week for
people over 65 and one week for
adult instruction.
Richard Home Again
Richard, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Russell Achuff, Trucksville, injured
by falling from Vaughn's Bakery
truck on July 26, and admitted to
Nesbitt Hospital for treatment, was
discharged last Friday.
Lehman YMCA Group
Has Good Leadership
Lehman Township Advisory Com-
mittee of Back Mountain Town and
Country YMCA “lists among its per-
sonnel splendid leadership. Under
the direction of Orman K. Lamb
and Russell Ruble, both of whom
represent Lehman Township on the}
‘Y’ Board of Management, the Com-
mittee has been convened and is
presently making its Township
solicitation. In addition, Lehman
may well boast of Charles Nuss,
treasurer of the entire project. Sub-
committee chairmen within the
Township are: Lake Silkworth: Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Morgan; Meeker:
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Steele; Hunts-
ville: John T. Roberts. Other mem-
bers assisting in the work, up to
date, are: L. B. Squier, Edward
Oncay, Lee Brown, Mrs. Alice Els-
ton, Lewis Ide, Gordon James, Mr.
and Mrs. Ray Searfoss, Gilbert
Tough, Albert Ide, Edgar Lahr, and
Randolph Wright.
The next report meeting is set
for Tuesday at 8:30 P.M. in Leh-
man Fire House.
4-H Dairy Calves
To Show Today
Kiwanis Sponsors
At Patterson Grove
Dallas and Wilkes-Barre Kiwanis
Clubs will sponsor a 4-H Dairy Calf
Show at Patterson Grove this after-
noon at 2.
All entries will be on the grounds
at one and will remain at the hitch-
ing rail until 4:30 for the benefit
of spectators. All entries will be
given some cash token as award,
special prizes will be awarded by
Donald Fairchild, Berwick, breeder
of Holsteins and Jerseys. Awards
ting. Prize for showmanship is open
to any boy or girl entering.
Each animal shown is registered
in the name of the 4-H club, and
each has passed health tests re-
quired for entrants to dairy shows,
according to Dr. Edward Kutish, vet-
erinarian. Many of the entrants
will be shown later at the NEPA
show in Tunkhannock.
The Patterson Grove Show, as
announced by L. G. Yearich, assis-
tant county agent, R. H. Royer,
agricultural chairman of Wilkes-
Barre Kiwanis, and Kenneth Rice,
Dallas Kiwanis, is the first dairy
cattle show to be presented in this
region for some time.
Entries are: Ayreshire, Junior
calf, Bobby Rice, Dallas. Guernsey,
Junior Yearling, Danny Bell, Pitts-
ton; Holstein, Junior Calves, Wil-
liam Lamoreaux, Trucksville; Frank
vin, Shickshinny;
Holstein Junior Yearlings, Frank
Prutzman, Trucksville; Edward On-
cay, Lehman; Ray Evarts, Trucks-
ville.
Holstein Senior Yearlings, Al-
thea Disque, Dallas; Richard Lewis,
Pittston R.D.
01d Toll Gate Club
Plans Beauty Contest
Members of Old Toll Gate Lions
Club at their meeting at Colonial
Inn Tuesday night outlined plans
for a bathing beauty contest to be
held at Harveys Lake on Labor
Day. Contestants must be single,
between the ages of seventeen and
thirty and from the Dallas-Shaver-
» sane
town-Trucksville-Fernbrook area,
Applicants will contact George
Prater or Robert Williams.
Officers of the club: president,
George T. Howe; secretary, George
Prater; treasurer, Theodore Poad;
first vice president, Charles Wag-
| ner; second vice president, Sam
Patner; third vice president, Robert
Moock Jr., Paul Winter, J. Lewr
Wagner and Al Pesevento.
Meetings of the club will be held
every other Tuesday evening start-
ing with dinner at 6:30.
Warden, Whitne
Fish Yellowstone
Warden Hooks
Trout-0f-Week
Ray Warden, Shavertown, and
Bernard Whitney, Kingston reen-
acted in July a fishing trip they
had taken two years ago, taking
in Colorado, Montana, and Yellow-
stone Park. The pair, driving in
Whitney's car, went first to Dur-
ango, Colorado, where Warden has
a married daughter, Mrs. David
Johns. Here Warden distinguished
himself by catching the trout-of-
the-week, a 22% inch model which
weighed just shy of four pounds
after an afternoon’s dehydration in
the back of the car. Both Warden
and the trout appeared over the
local radio station.
The fishermen spent a week in
Colorado mountain streams, then
headed for Yellowstone Park, where
they spent two weeks on the lakes
and streams. Yellowstone Lake
yielded : four cut-throat trout in
an hour, a small stream just off
a main highway a full catch of
eastern brook trout. The pair set
up a tent for their stay in Yellow-
stone, relied upon wayside accom-
modations for the remainder of the
trip through Montana and back to
Pennsylvania.
Work Started On
New Acme Market
Back Mountain Lumber and Coal
Co., started - excavation Monday
for the new Acme Market building
in Shavertown. The structure will
have a frontage of eighty feet and
a depth of seventy-five. It will be:
one story with modern glass front:
and set back forty feet from the
highway in line with the Back
Mountain Lumber and Coal Com-
pany building. :
will be based upon type and fit-
Prutzman, Trucksville; William Mar-
| J. Williams; directors,- Rev. F. M.
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