Read This, Joe, and Think
Possibly one good reason for hesitancy on Russia's part
to attack this country directly is the unquestionable cer-
tainty that the Kremlin knows the extent of American
industrial capacity far better than the average American.
Following are reports of leaders in key industries:
Steel:
of the world put together.
“Today we have more capacity than all the rest
Since the last war started,
we have built as much new steel capacity as existed in
Germany when that war began.
sufficient to meet the present demand.”
This excess capacity is
Clarence B.
Randall, president of Inland Steel Co.
Rubber: “Today we have not one but two raw materials
—natural and synthetic rubber.
Before World War II we
could turn 85,000 tons of rubber into finished products
each month. Now we can process 110,000 tons a month.
Before World War II our industry had about 150,000 em-
ployes.
Today, we have over 200,000.”
Harry E. Hum-
phreys Jr., president of United States Rubber Co.
Oil:
demand expands substantially from present levels.
“There is no need for rationing, even if military
Since
the end of the last war, the petroleum industry has in-
creased its capacity by more than 25 per cent.”
Dr. Rob-
bert E. Wilson, chairman of the board of the Standard
Qil Co. (Indiana).
Electric Power: “Right now the electric utility industry
has one-third more generating capacity than at the end of
the last war, and by the end of 1953 will have three-.
quarters more.”
lina Power and Light Co.
Textiles:
Louis V. Sutton, president of the Caro-
“With cotton and synthetic-fiber textile pro-
duction far ahead of last year, there will be plenty of
clothing available in the coming months.
Total output
of broad woven goods made of cotton is expected to ex-
ceed last year's
yards.”
dale Mills.
Machine Tools:
production by 1,500,000,000 square
Donald Comer, chairman of the board of Avon-
“The industry has far larger capacity
than at the start of the second war and could be expanded
to meet twice the present demand.”
Charles J. Stilwell,
president of Warner and Swasey Co.
Food:
ing of foods.
than ever before.”
Products Refining Co.
“There is absolutely no reason for panic buy-
We have a more abundant supply on hand
Morris Sayre, president of the Corn
In response to queries of officials charged with the task
of insuring the nation’s security, American industry has
virtually said to the government,
—we can fill the order.”
FROM.
“Tell us what you want
PILLAR TO POST
By Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr
We were cutting up the dead. pine when the darkness fell on Sunday,
Tom with a saw and I with helpful suggestions and by remote control.
All of a sudden the sky turned olive green, with the clear yellow streak
close to the horizon that foretells a cold night.
There was a murky
churned look about the clouds, and the sun shone through for an in-
stant, pale as a ghost, like a full ®
moon that had lost its way.
It was only about four P.M.
standard time, but dark as Egypt.
Tom apandoned the log project,
gathering Up au is
us “Saw
wedges and his maul by tne toucu |
system. A few minutes later, while
buuaing the fireplace nre with
small logs from some of the season-
ed upper branches, it occurrea to
us that we had not actually meas-
ured that fallen trunk, merely esti-
maed it as sixty feet.
John Tibus, swarming up the
trunk like a steeple-jack on Satur-
day, had topped the trunk rougaiy
haif way up and swung the upper
section down to the ground witn
a block and fall. What remained,
denuded of stubs and branches,
looked about thirty feet tall.
So we each took a flashlight and
groped our way back through the
side yard to the corpse, Tom un-
folding a six-foot rule as he went.
Looking like a pair of industrious
fireflies, we measured the two sec-
tions of trunk, estimating the twigs
that had been lopped off at the
top, and adding six feet for the
butt section which had already
been cut into rounds, split and
reduced to thirty fireplace logs. It
added up to sixty feet. Then, still
by flashlight, we counted the rings {
on the stump, and found that the
rings matched the height, sixty of
them.
Passersby, already impressed
with the oddity of the early dark
and all too willing to suspect
atomic demonstrations, a premature
eclipse of the moon in what should
have been broad daylight, or a visi-
tation from Mars, chalked up. the
wandering flashlights to part of
the phenomena and hurried off
home to consult the radio and the
crystal’ ball and doubtless the
Farmer's Almanac.
Apparently the smoke from Can-
adian forest fires which blanketed
the northeastern states and mush-
roomed as far south as Virginia,
worried a good many people into a
state bordering on collapse.
All it did to us was deprive the
woodpile of thirty more logs which
could easily have been added to
the stock in the time remaining
before sundown, and precipitate an
early dinner hour. Once in the
house, Tom goes sniffing about the
kitchen, suggesting that there is
still half a huckleberry pie on hand
and that there is no time like the
present. Woodchopping is whole-
some outdoor exercise,. productive
of an appetite.
90-Year-Old Guest
Mrs. Lydia Casterline, ninety
years old in August, a resident of
Wilkes-Barre for fifty years but
now living in Chester, is visiting
William Joseph and his two sons,
Billy and Bobby, who are entertain-
ing their great-grandmother with
comic books and the radio. Mrs.
- Casterline drove up with Mr. and
Mrs. Isaac Joseph, also guests at
the Joseph home.
Misericordia
Tops Record
Enrolls Largest
Class In History
College Misericordia opened its
doors on Monday to the largest
student body in its history. New
students from Massachusetts to
Georgia have been registered, from
the Bahamas and Haiti to Puerto
Rico and as far abroad as China.
Among the upper classmen are
girls from the Netherlands, West
Indies and from British Guiana.
One Chinese student graduated last
year, three replace her.
Day students in the upper classes
were registered on Wednesday, all
resident upper classmen on Thurs-
day. All freshmen, both day and
boarding, on Friday.
W.S.C.S. To Hear
Dr. Ralph Decker
Shavertown, Dallas,
To Meet Jointly
Dr.
Wyoming Seminary, will address
Shavertown Methodist Church W.S.
C.S. this evening at eight. Mem-
bers of Dallas W.S.C.S., husbands,
and friends of both chapters are
invited to attend.
Dr, Decker has been in the min-
istry since 1929, has taught at
Wesleyan University; Unionville,
Kentucky; and Boston University
before accepting his present. posi-
tion. He is listed in “Who's Who
in New England” and in the World
Biography. He has traveled 'ex-
tensively, and as a student was in
Germany at the time of annexa-
tion of Sudetenland and Czecho-
slovakia and invasion of Albania.
He is a member of American So-
ciety of Biblical Literature, Nation-
al. Association of Biblical Instruc-
tors, American Association of Uni-
versity Professors, and the Torch
Club.
Harvest Festival
Jackson Grange No. 1312 will
hold a Harvest Festival ‘in the
Grange Hall, October 7, beginning
at 2 o'clock. At 5 pm. a ham
supper will be served and at 8
p.m. produce will be auctioned off.
A harvest queen will be crowned
from those present.
Pink For Girls
Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Heft,
Carverton, announce the birth of
their second daughter, Gretchen
Louise, at Nesbitt Hospital, Friday.
Elfriede Marie, big sister, is five
years old.
Ralph Decker, President of |
Tx: Darras Post
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
BOX SCORE
Back Mountain Highway Deaths and
Serious Accidents Since V-J Day
Hospitalized Killed
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Vol. 60, No. 39
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1950
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Region D,F.H. A
To Visit Lehman
All Day Session
Saturday, October 7
Lehman-Jackson school will en-
tertain 300 members of Pennsyl-
vania Future Home-Makers of
America, chapter mothers, and
chapter advisers on Saturday, Oc-
tober 7, from 9:30 until 3 P.M.
Lunch will be served in the school
cafeteria.
Region D comprises thirteen
counties. The area conference is
meeting in Luzerne County for the
first time. Miss Catherine Birth,
Luzerne County Home Economics
head, was instrumental in extend-
ing the invitation.
Welcome will be extended by
Grace Barrall, president of Lehman
F. H. A. and Dr. Pauline Sanders,
State adviser, will speak on “The
Year Ahéad in F. HL A” A pro-
gram of work will be developed
by Lake Township chapter, Treva
Traver president.
After lunch the business meet-
ing will be held, and following it
a Mother-Teacher meeting, discus-
sion sessions, a kitchen contest, a
basement and attic contest, a con-
test for radio script and a forum
on parliamentary procedure and
publicity.
Miss Ruth Shellhamer is director
of Home Economics for Lehman,
and faculty adviser for members
of F. H. A.
Seminary Enrolls
Local Students
Register From 8th
To Graduate School
Twenty-nine new students from
the Back Mountain Area have reg-
istered at Wyoming Seminary for
the first semester.
In the Dean School of Business
are: Donald J. Evans, Dallas; Rich-
ard F. Searfoss, Harveys Lake;
Roxie I. Hoover, Dallas R. D. 1;
Carol G. Huray, Shavertown; Sylvia
A. Jones, Dallas, Noreen J. Lamb,
Lehman; Margaret L. Elliott, Chase;
Nita D. Williams, Truckswille; and
Thelma V. Wilson, Dallas.
Seniors include: Harold C. Birth,
Trucksville; Delmar K. Fisk, Har-
veys Lake; John H. Nulton, Dallas
R:D. 2
Juniors: John S. Hope, Dallas;
J. M. Llewellyn, Dallas Township;
Alan GG. Watkins, Shavertown;
Eileen O’Boyle, Dallas; and Mary
Lou Runstall, Harveys Lake.
Sophomores: Bernard C. Banks,
and Marilyn Lezy, both of Harveys
Lake.
Freshmen: Roger K. Paget, Dal-
las; Suzanne Ferenbach, Trucksville
R. D.; Sally Ann Ide, Dallas; Sara
M. Kear, Dallas; Laura R. Perkins,
| Trucksville; and Myra E. Reiss,
Dallas.
Eighth Grade: Timothy H. Mulli-
gan, Star Route, Dallas; James
H. Wheatcroft, Dallas; Leon A. Wil-
ison, Noxen; and Louise M. Loucks,
Dallas.
' Prince of Peace Wins
| Softball League Title
Prince of Peace won the Back
Mountain Church League playoffs
last Wednesday evening by de-
feating St. Paul's Lutheran 1-0 in
an extra-inning game on Memorial
Field. St. Paul's had won the
regular season pennant while
| Prince of Peace finished in fourth
place in the straight season's stand-
ings.
Prince of Peace previously elim-
inated Dallas Methodist “A”, num-
ber two in the league, in one semi-
final while St. Paul's was doing
likewise to Dallas Methodist “B”,
in third place.
Ralph Anthony and Dale Zimmer-
man hooked up in a pitcher's duel
which was amazing for a softball
game. Defensive play by both
teams was outstanding. Al Shaffer
drove in the winning run, when
with no outs and Ralph Anthony
on second and Dave Cairns on
third, he laced a sharp hit to cen-
ter to score Cairns.
Members of the victorious Prince
of. Peace team were Ralph Anthony,
Don Shaffer, Al Shaffer, Don Nay-
lor, Dave Cairns, Lou Jenkins,
Francis Stolarick, Ken Shaffer, Bob
Considine and F. Disque. St. Paul's
fielded a squad of Dale Zimmerman,
Willard Lozo, Obie Hontz, B. Boyce,
Art Kitchen, Merritt Wagner,
Johnny Fink, Don Beline, and Brad
Kitchen.
Fernbrook Girl
Wins Scholarship
Miss Jones To Study
Physical Therapy
Miss Aleatha R. Jones, Terrace
street, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Raymond J. Jones, Fernbrook, has
been awarded a scholarship in phy-
sical therapy under the nationwide
professional training program of
the Infantile Paralysis, Robert W.
Jones, Eastern Pennsylvania repre-
sentative for the Foundation an-
nounced yesterday.
Miss Jones graduated from Col-
lege Misericordia this spring after
previously attending St. Mary's and
Dallas Township Schools.
While 1443 scholarships have
been awarded to date through the
National Foundation alone, it is
estimated that 15,000 physical
therapists are needed to meet the
ever-increasing demand for their
highly-skilled professional services.
Since the first physical therapy ap-
propriation of $55,000 was made in
1942, the organization has allocated
more than $2,000,000 in March of
Dimes funds to support the pro-
gram.
Miss Jones. is studying at. Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, Philadel-
phia, one of many schools and in-
stitutions throughout the country
approved for this type of training
by the American Medical Associa-
tion’s Council on Medical Education
and Hospitals.
In. announcing her award, Mr.
Jones explained that physical ther-
apists trained under the National
Foundation program are not obliged
to confine their work to treatment
of infantile paralysis exclusively.
He pointed out that best protection
against the disease, since no one
can anticipate where it will strike,
is to have trained physical therapy
technicians readily available at all
hospitals and agencies where polio
patients may be treated.
Francis Quare
Is Improving
Cast Applied To
Broken Back
Francis Quare, the most critically
injured of the Back’ Mountain boys
who were in the end coaches of the
wrecked troop train on September
11, is making progress, according to
his mother, Mrs. Michael Quare.
Mrs. Quare . returned on Sunday
from a week with her son at Co-
shocton Memorial Hospital, chang-
ing places at his bedside with her
husband who had gone to Ohio
immediately after receiving news of
Francis’ injury.
While Mrs. Quare was with Fran-
cis, he was placed-in a cast, which
now makes ‘it possible to move him
gently with no fear of further in-
juring the fractured vertebrae.
With this immobilization Francis
is now for the first time able to
retain a soft diet. He still suffers
a great deal of pain, alleviated
with opiates. He will be moved
to Wright-Patterson Hospital, Day-
ton, as soon as the Columbus spec-
ialist feels it is safe.
As Francis will require hospital-
ization for many months, the
Quare family hopes that he will
eventually be transferred to the
newly constructed Veterans’ Hos-
pital on East End Boulevard.
DALLAS RESIDENT OWNS
FORTY-FIVE STAR FLAG
MADE BY HER PARENTS
Dallas has a firty-five star
flag, too, sharing honors with
the flag which has recently
made headlines in Wilkes-
Barre.
Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks remem-
bers . her father and mother,
Doctor and Mrs. M. L. Todd,
making the flag on the family
sewing machine, Doctor Todd
cutting out the five-pointed
stars with a pair of surgical
scissors, ninety of them,
enough for both sides of the
blue field, and Mrs. Todd
seaming up the long strips of
red and white wool bunting,
then applying the stars to the
field with criss-cross machine
stitching.
The flag, now badly faded
from use and old age, was dis-
played at the time of the
Spanish American War in
1898, above the white marble
steps which characterize the
brick houses of Old Baltimore.
Rev. Richard Fearing
Pastor Richard Fearing, in Dallas
this past summer connected with
the Hoffman-Fearing Evangelistic
Company, left this week for Read-
ing where he will be associate
pastor of the Reading Fleetwood,
Seventh-day Adventist churches.
Mr. Fearing was song director
of the series of Bible lectures at
the Bible Auditorium, Church street
during the summer. John E. Hoff-
man, pastor of Wilkes-Barre
Seventh-day Adventist church, was
director of the Bible Auditorium
series.
Fearing, who came to Dallas after
graduating from the Washington
Missionary College, Takoma Park,
Md., in June 1950, was president
of his senior class.
Bible lectures were held by the
evangelistic duo in the Bible Aud-
itorium building, located in the old
Mountain Evergreen Company
building completely renovated up-
stairs to form an attractive chapel.
An electric organ, courtesy of
Schall Bros., was installed and used
during the singspiration preceding
each "lecture.
Final baptismal service was held
Monday evening in Wilkes-Barre
Seventh-day Adventist church.
Twenty-two individuals have been
baptized by Evangelist Hoffman this
year.
Elder Hoffman and pastor Fear-
ing returned Sunday from a four-
day Ministerial Council of the East
Pennsylvania Conference of Adven-
tists in Wescosville. Ministers,
Bible workers, and other confer-
ence workers formed .a Council lay-
ing plans for aggressive church
membership growth. Mr, Hoffman
reported on missionary activities
of the local church in a talk last
Saturday afternoon.
Monroe Schools
Make Headlines
Dr. Hoag Commends
90% Lunch Program
Faculty of the Beaumont Schools
was recently honored with a letter
from the Department of Public In-
struction School Lunch Supervisor,
Dr. Francis L. Hoag who commend-
ed the group on having achieved
better than a ninety per cent pupil
participation in the lunch program
during 1949-1950.
Dr. Hoag requested a letter from
the group to be used in the School
Lunch Bulletin explaining how this
rate was achieved. The concensus
of the faculty was: first, the meals
are ‘well planned and prepared by
two cooks who have the students’
respect; second, the entire faculty
has a part in the program, with
committees on menu planning
record keeping, ordering, and
banking, so the enthusiasm of the
faculty is carried over into the
home rooms.
The students have committees
too, sharing in the program’s suc-
cess.
Printed menus are sent weekly
to the homes where parents get
ideas on meal planning and appre-
ciate what the student is getting
for eighteen cents with no added
cost for ‘“‘seconds.”
It might be added that the work
of making tables, cutting partitions
for the kitchen, painting, and ac-
quiring ‘equipment 'was done by
students and faculty working to-
gether at no added cost to the
taxpayer.
Plan Hallowe'en Party
Trucksville Firemen’s Auxiliary
will hold its annual Hallowe'en
Party and Dance at Kingston Town-
ship High School gymnasium on
Friday night, October 27.
' when the
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FIVE BANDS TO PARADE TOMORROW
Booster Day Parade Will Start
Promptly at 1:30 From School
Thirty-Eight Horsemen Will Be In
Line of March; 600 To Attend Dinner
o>
Woman Killed;
Companion Is
Slightly Hurt
Second Fatality In
Seven Weeks On Big
Curve Near Nursery
Mrs. Arthur Hontz, 44, 84 Acad-
emy street, Kingston, was instantly
killed at 3:27 yesterday morning
Buick sedan in which
she was a passenger struck a light
pole in front of Rave’s Nursery,
ricocheted across the highway, and
threw her out on the pavement,
crushing her head.
Dr. Louis Reese, Coroner, sum-
moned by Lester Fiske, Borough
officer, pronounced death instan-
taneous, and State Police permit-
ted removal of the driver, William
P. Bonser, West Pittston, to Nesbitt
Hospital for treatment of severe
laceration, of hands, face, and but-
tocks after aid by Dr. H. G. Gal-
lagher.
The wrecked 1950 Buick was
towed to Oliver's Garage. It suf-
fered damages estimated at $600,
the entire front caved in.
William Bonser, prominent Pitts-
ton businessman, president of Pitts-
ton Chamber of Commerce and of
Red Cross, Director of Wyoming
Valley Motor Club, will be charged
with involuntary manslaughter, ac-
cording to Chief of Borough police,
Russell! Honeywell. Further in-
vestigation will be made’ upon his
release from the hospital.
Mrs. Hontz, the former Myrle
Rodda, Nanticoke, daughter of Mrs.
Anna Rodda and the late Albert
Rodda, leaves her husband, Arthur;
her mother; a brother Robert, Nan-
ticoke; and a sister, Mrs. Wilma
Temerantz of Tucson, Arizona.
There are no children. Her hus-
band is employed by Wilkes-Barre
Transit Company.
Bronson Funeral Home, Sweet
Valley, is handling arrangements,
having been called to the Wool-
bert Funeral Home in Shavertown
where the body was first taken
by ambulance.
Junior Board Meets
Executive Board, Dallas Junior
Woman's Club, met with Mrs. Alva
Eggleston, Vernon, for a covered
dish supper and business meeting.
Plans were discussed for further
work in Back Mountain Baby Clinic
and possible sponsorship of a Girl
Scout Troop.
Money-raising card parties were
held during the summer by Mes-
dames Helen Eggleston, Robert
Moore, Robert Garris and ‘Ralph
Garris.
Board members present were:
Mesdames James Oliver, Harold
Brobst, Ralph Garris, Wilham Stew-
art, Robert Brown, Roy Verfaille,
Wilson Garinger, Sherman Harter,
Alva Eggleston, Harry Gallagher,
Allen Montross, Roger Owens, Rob-
ert Rogers, Harry Clark, Robert
Lewis, Robert Moore, Robert Gar-
ris,» Howard Jackson, Patrick Reit-
hoffér, and Robert Fleming.
Junior Women To Meet
In Trucksville October 3
Dallas Junior Woman's Club will
meet Tuesday, at Trucksville Hose
House, a change of location made
necessary by remodelling of the
American Legion Home. Two
movies will be shown, one on the
Red Cross, one issued by the March
of Time on building better schools.
Eastern Star Plans
Banquet At Club
Eastern Star members will give
a banquet at the Country Club,
October 6, in honor of Worthy
Matron Jean Wheeler.
Booster Bake Booth
Booster Day Bake goods should
be in the hands of Mrs. D. J.
Joseph on the Dallas Township
school grounds by 1 P.M. tomor-
row. If personal delivery is im-
possible, phone Mrs. Joseph.
All" five Back Mountain High
School bands, Lehman, Lake, Dal-
las, Dallas Township and Kings-
ton Township, will march in the
Booster-Day Parade tomorrow, the
first time in regional history that
they have appeared together. Dyke
Brown is Parade Marshal, Jim
Gansel chairman.
Red Cross Bloodmobile will be
featured, and will be stationed on
the school grounds for the after-
noon.
Parade starts from Dallas Town-
ship School at 1:30 and makes a
circuit of Church street, Memorial
Highway, Mill street, Main street,
Lake street; and Center Hill road,
returning to high school grounds.
500 tickets have been sold for
the turkey dinner at 5 P.M. The
evening dance, sponsored by Junior
Woman's Club, will feature five
squares of folk-dancers from Jack-
son Township, with both modern
and square dancing for everybody.
Response to all advance ticket
sales, according to Norman Smith,
president of the association and
Mrs. Arthur Newman, chairman of
Booster Day, has been excellent.
Luzerne County
Teachers Meet
Plan To Establish
P.S.E.A. Units
Executive Board of Area 6, Lu-
zerne County Teachers’ Association
met at Kingston Township High
School last Thursday to plan for
the coming year. Area 6 includes
schools in Dallas Borough, Dallas,
Exeter, Lake, Lehman, and Kings-
ton Townships. Robert Martin of
Lehman is president.
Plans call for establishment of
local units of Pennsylvania State
Educational Association in all local
districts. Locals at Lehman and
Kingston Townships have already
been reactivated and a local branch
organized at Laketon.
Robert Dolbear, membership
chairman, reported that all districts
in the area have 100% Pennsyl-
vania State Educational Associa-
tion membership and that Lehman
and Laketon teachers have 100%
membership in the National Educa-
tional Association.
Plans are underway to establish
chapters of Future Teachers of
America in local high schools. A
Lehman Chapter is being organized
under the leadership of Miss Han-
nah Culp and sponsored by the
Lehman local. It is probable that
chapters will also be formed in
Dallas and Kingston Townships.
This organization encourages cap-
able young: people to enter the
teaching profession.
David Price, President of Lake-
ton P.S.E.A., announced that Lake-
ton will be host school for the Fall
get-together of Area 6 on October
12! Plans call for: presentation of
new teachers -by local presidents,
explanation of legislative affairs by
George Taylor of Laketon, election
of a new area secretary, and a
social hour with refreshments to
follow.
Altar and Rosary Society
To Meet Wednesday, 7:45
Business meeting of Altar and
Rosary Society, St. Therese's will
be conducted in the auditorium by
Mrs. Robert J. Williams, following
recitation of the rosary by Rev.
Edward J. Haggerty.
Rev. S. J. Citu, newly appointed
assistant pastor will be welcomed.
Mrs. A. R. Teufel, Forty Fort, mem-
ber of C. Y. C. speakers bureau, is
the guest speaker. Mrs. Albert
Pesavento will give a reading, “At
a Parish Society Meeting.”
Hostesses are Mesdames Joseph
Purcell, William Boyd, Clinton
Johnson, Alexander Wazeter, and
John Bush.
Youth Council Rally
Fundamental Youth Council of
Wyoming Valley will hold its
monthly rally at Shavertown Bible
Church Saturday night, at 7:45.
Guest speaker will be Rev. E. D.
Hettinger, pastor of the Plymouth
Baptist Church. Song leader will
be Rev. Louis Falk, pastor of the
Kingston Baptist Church. All are
welcome,