~ Editorially Speaking: "This Is What The People Think Everyone knows what our military and political leaders think about the war crisis. o y BOX SCORE Back Mountain Highway Deaths and ' Serious Accidents Since V-J Day DALLAS Hos 18 DALLAS TOWNSHIP |. .5 | 8 LEHMAN I 1 1 KINGSTON TOWNSHIP | 42 5 B JACKSON TOWNSHIP 2 i MONROE TOWNGHLP 3 ¥, ROSS TOWNSHIP 2 MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION ._LAKE TOWNSHIP 12 i FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP 2 Vol. 61, No. 2 FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1951 Tora: SRR 6 CENTS PER COPY Or, at leastp we know the endless statements, ranging from the reassuring to the grimly pessimistic, which they have issued for public consumption. But no one knows what the voters— the people who, sooner or later, determine the policies of this country—are thinking. Holmes Alexande:, “2 Washington columnist, recently decided to do something about this lack of information. He made a ‘“shoe-leather survey’ which consisted of in- terviewing a number of senators and finding out what their constituents were writing about. He learned that six widely-held ideas are now dominant in the volumin- ous senatorial mail. Briefly summed up, here they are: 1. Acheson must be dismissed—even if that can be achieved only by the impeachment of the President. 2. We must pull out of Korea completely and stop use- less sacrifice. Apparently the opinion, expressed by some top military men, to the effect that it is feasible to hold defense lines in South Korea has met with little public acceptance. 3. There is a strong lack of confidence in the Truman Administration. Mr. Alexander cites this as a typical message: “I am proud of my country, and of my boy in the navy, but not proud of the men who represent us in Washington . . manship.” . . We are desperately in need of states- 4. The United Nations must be either strengthened or abandoned. Here Mr. Alexander prints the following comment as typical: “This UN stuff is so much foolish- ness as long as we let any iron curtain country foul it up . . .. Are getting only token help from UN members while Asiatic hordes massacre our boys.” 5. Russia, not China or North Korea, is our real enemy, and if there must be war it should be directed with full vigor against the Soviet Union. : 6. We should mobilize to the hilt at once. And the A-bomb should be used if it will help our troops in Korea. Various other views of great significance were found in the letters Mr. Alexander read. For one thing, not a single letter expressed actual terror at the thought of another war and the possibility of A-bombs being used against us. attempted appeasement of aggressors. War, the tenor of feeling ran, is better than Then Mr. Alex- ander wrote, “What we have here, all told, is a situation of total confusion . . . . The administration is in the posi- tion of a government which has ‘fallen’ from popular esteem, but it must remain in office for more than two years to come. The letters quoted . . . . Could not go through the mail except in a country that valued its free- dom. But the great Federal establishment which guar- antees all our freedoms is bogged down with lame ducks in Congress, in the White House and in the cabinet.” Mr. Alexander’s sampling is in accord with a view ex- pressed by many newspapers, many commentators, and a few leading public figures—namely, that the people are ahead of their government in their thinking; that the people are perfectly willing to face the facts, and don’t need to be fed vague, equivocal and essentially meaning- less qratory by their leaders, and that the people will -- “ rise to this crisis, bitter as it may be, as they have risen ’ \ - Force. ‘healthy, and the nearer zero the to all others. PILLAR TO POST By Mgs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr. The landscape looks like a Christmas card again, with birch trees pencilling blue shadows across the drifted snow and hemlocks laden with white. We needed a blanket of snow to keep the rosebushes and strawberry plants from heaving, and to replenish the water table, low- ered by steady encroachment of city upon country, felling of trees, and robbing of the soil with conse-© quent erosion and heavy run-off. An open winter may be easy on the fuel bills, but it is hard on the land. There is always that backlash of cold weather when spring’ should be with us, to com- pensate for the prolonged Janu- ary thaw and the unseasonable warmth of Groundhog Day. An- nual temperature has to equalize itself, and it is a happy arrange- ‘ment all around when the cold weather comes at a time when it js due instead of after the crocus buds are opening. Chances are, if we get enough snow this winter, the grass will come out from under it in March as green as an emerald, instead of being seared from the roots as it was last spring. This seven-inch snowfall is a vast improvement over the soiled Borough Teacher Takes State Job Mrs. David Morgan Rehabilitates Blind Mrs. David Morgan, wife of Rev. | David Morgan, Courtdale, until re- cently a teacher in Dallas Borough school, has made a connection with the State Department of Welfare which will keep her busy twelve months a year, working out of Harrisburg and Wilkes-Barre. On | January 1 Mrs. Morgan started a program of investigation leading to rehabilitation of young blind children in’ 23 counties of Eastern slush along the edges of the roads'| Pennsylvania. - last week, and a break for the - small fry who got sleds for Christ- mas as well as for the adults who pant for good skiing weather. Ho-hum, that discharges our ob- ligations to the weather. “The other day Howard, muf- fled to the ears and beating his : fingertips, enlarged upon the joys of walking to work in the morn- ing, now that the staff transpor- tation has enlisted in the Air ; ‘He weather, the less likelihood there was of there being any virulent ~ bugs floating in the frigid air. He said that longevity depended largely upon sufficient exercise in an Arctic temperature and that he envied us our mile hike, fore an aft. This, we felt, was stretching it | a trifle, crowding the mourners, ! gilding the lily, or what have you. ‘We emitted a Bronx cheer and advised him to find another swine before which to cast that partic- ular pearl. We said we liked winter fine. We liked it from a snug berth in ~ front of the fireplace where we could get a view. of the mercury crawling down into its bulb out- side the window. We liked it when ~ frost ferns formed on the inside (Continued on Page Eight) § said walking Was | started the annual Harveys Lake | Flower Show ten years ago when | Rev. Morgan was pastor at Alder- Her work will entail visits to hos- pitals and institutions as well as schools and private homes. Before entering the four year course at Mansfield, Mrs. Morgan took work at Beaver College which laid the foundation for the type of Welfare work she is now en- gaged in. Mrs. Morgan has taught in Hat- field, Lake Township and Dallas Borough. It was Mrs. Morgan who son. William Morgan, eldest son 1of the couple, won a competitive four year scholarship to Cornell this year. Two other sons are at Wyoming Seminary. Mrs. Morgan is sister to Mrs. Charles James, Dallas. Licenses Suspended The Liquor licenses of two Har- veys Lake Taverns have been sus- pended for twenty-five days by .{ the State Liquor Control Board for Sunday sales. They are the tav- erns of John Nothoff and Mrs. Mae Brennan. FIREMEN TO MEET There will be an important meet- ing of Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Company tonight at the fire house. Eipper Berates Those Who Want Joint Schools Thinks Township Is Competent To Handle Problems By Itself Editor Dallas Post: It is good to know that there is a paper in the Back Mountain region that will print both sides of a question and that neither party will have to stand up before a firing squad for having his own opinion. In other words this is America and not Russia. In reply to Dr. Jordan I will say that the good doctor did ex- actly what I hoped he would do, but could not see how, a man with his education, intelligence and standing in the community in which he lives could stoop so low as to use gutter politics to put his program over. The people in Dallas Township are not nit wits and they do not want to buy a cat in a bag. Now that the bag has been opened and we have seen the cat as well as the tactics used by the one making the sale, we want no part of it. When the good Doctor lost his equilibrium and resorted to threats as he did in item 10 of his summary, his temperature and blood pressure must have been at an all time high. Dr. Jordan knows that all the members of the Rotary Club did not see eye to eye with him and his commit- tee, and when a very important cog in the wheel resigned from the club, the committee took the name of the Back Mountain Citi- zens’ Committee. By doing that they thought they could keep the Rotary Club out of it. Dr. Jordan admits that he does not know the cost of this Utopia that he is advocating. I do not know either but I can make a good guess. If I wanted to put a product on the market and ad- vertise it as costing no more than what you are now using, but would give better results, I would first find out the cost and then go out to sell. Dr. Jordan is try- ing to sell something with no price tag attached and that could be the reason why the people in Dallas Township do not fall as easily as he and others would like them to. In 1925 we got the first dose of something for nothing and it came from one who should have known better. In other words the State Department of Public In- struction. We were told that by closing our one room schools and consolidating them under one roof we could save money and cut taxes. Two years after, the taxes were increased ten mills. When one of the School Direc- tors was asked about it, he said the man from Harrisburg had only talked about the good part and left the rest for us to find out. This committee is doing the same. Please do not think that I want to go back to one room schools. Dr. Jordan says, that due to pre- vious plans of the Dallas Town- ship School Board that have not materialized the committee has not been able to make the pro- gress in Dallas Township that they had hoped to make. I have seen no progress in any district unless holding a few gabfests in -each district is called progress. So far no one has signed on the dotted line. And if memory does not fail me, this committee asked the Dal- las Township board not to form a jointure with Franklin Town- ship, until they had more time to (Continued on Page Five) Hendricks To Speak At Bnnual Meeting Howard Hendricks, supervising principal of Millersburg Public Schools, formerly supervising prin- cipal at Lehman and a former member of Back Mountain Library Executive Board, will be the speaker at the annual meeting of the Library Association on Thurs- day evening, January 25, at 8 at the Library. Mr. Hendricks will show colored slides of his recent tour through the western United States. In addition to Mr. Hendricks illustrated talk, Directors and Friends of the Library will hear a discussion of plans for expan- sion of the library and the renova- tion of the recently purchased Parrish property for library pur- poses. There will be an election of Directors, officers and Executive Board in which all members of the Association who have paid $1 an- nual dues will be entitled to vote. “year. Big Brass Bell Rings In Belfry Lehigh Valley Parts With Steam Relic The Prince of Peace bell tower is now furnished with a bell. It rang for services for the first time on Sunday morning, but residents of Pioneer avenue might have been forgiven if they had leaped to the conclusion while it was be- ing hoisted to position on Satur- day that the Lehigh Valley had constructed a spur track ‘and had reinstated a steam engine in place of its modern diesels. When it developed that the bell from the historic Goss School, dis- mantled with the aid of Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Company and de- livered to the church grounds well in advance of dedication services, could not be swung in the tower without benefit of a derrick and a stone-mason, a search was institu- ted for a bell of more suitable size. Edward Meneeley, a member of the congregation, and a longterm railroad man located what was needed up in Sayre, and through the offices of the trainmaster, J. Johnnke, rounded up an engine bell from a dismantled Lehigh Valley locomotive. The engine bell, its brass polish- ed to mirror brightness, was hung in the belfry by the combined ef- forts of Howard Young, Willard Parsons, and Jack Sheehan, who made preliminary preparations; A. J. Sordoni who lent equipment for hoisting the bell into the tower under the oversight of Clarence Woodruff; and Charlie Lee and Harry Snyder who assisted in the actual operation. © The bell-rope, thirty feet in length, was pur- chased at the Library Auction by Ralph Davis and presented by him to .the church for the belfry. And it was Fred Renard who rang the bell on Sunday morning for the first service. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Young presented him with a bouquet in recognition of services rendered. New Vestrymen Begin Duties Rev. Williams Names Committee Chairmen Newly elected vestrymen of Prince of Peace Episcopal Church began their duties Tuesday night at the vestry meeting in the Par- ish Hall. They are: Calvin C. Hall, Ralph Davis, Floyd S. Sanders and Thomas Andrew. Business transacted was under chairmanship of the rector, Rev. William R. Williams. Minutes of the last vestry and annual con- gregation meeting were read by Secretary Alfred S. James. Treas- urer’s report was submitted by J. Sheldon Cave. Next order of business was ap- pointment and election of officers to serve on the vestry for one Rev. Willams appointed Charles W. Lee, Senior Warden, and Paul Goddard Junior Warden. ‘Vestrymen elected Alfred S. James who will serve a second year as secretary. The new treasurer will be Calvin C. Hall, and Ralph Davis will be accounting warden. Rev. Williams created a series of committees which will function with one vestryman as chairman and with committee members from the congregation. Committee chair- men will be: Building and mainten- ance, Paul Goddard, chairman, assisted by John Sheehan and Wil- lard Parsons; grounds, Charles W. Lee; finance, Calvin C. Hall and Ralph Davis; youth work and church school: Thomas Andrew, assisted by Donald C. Clark; mem- bership J. Sheldon Cave; ushers, Shelton T. Evans, assisted by John F. Sheehan; furnishings, Alfred S. James; servicemen and service- women’s committee, Elwood C. Hudson, and Constitution and By- Laws, Donald J. Evans. A committee headed by Elwood C. Hudson for serving the needs of the young men and women of the Parish who will serve in the Arm- ed Forces is newly created. Ar- rangements will be made to have a plaque bearing the ‘names of all members of the church entering the Armed Services, along with a service flag. Every young man and young woman will receive from the church a combination prayer book and hymnal, and tiny cross. The church’s weekly bulletin will also be mailed .to persons in ser- vice. Heart Chairman Frederick Eck, cashier of First National Bank, has been named chairman of the annual Heart Campaign in the Back Mountain area. Richardson Elected Head Of Rural Building & Loan L. L. Richardson was elected president of Rural Building & Lean Association at its seventeenth an- nual meeting Monday night in First National Bank of Dallas. He succeeds Albert G. Groblew- ski of Trucksville who succeeded the late George T. Kirkendall, sec- ond president. First president of the Association was the late Har- old Rust of Trucksville, Elected to the Board of Direc- tors was Howard Isaacs, Trucks- ville automobile dealer. He suc- ceeds John N. Hislop, who has been unable to serve because of illness. Other officials reelected were: ‘Edward Staub, vice president; G. Wilbur Nichols, secretary; W. B. Jeter, treasurer and B. B. Lewis solicitor. Directors are: Mr. Richardson, Mr. Groblewski, Mr. Nichols, MF. Firemen Plan Annual Dinner Eleven Companies To Be Represented Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Com- pany will sponsor its third annual Get-To-Gether Dinner for all fire- men of the area at Irem Temple Country Club on Tuesday, Janu- ary 30. Thomas Kingston is general chairman. Other committee mem- bers are: James Besecker, Henry Peterson, and Harry Ohlman. In charge of the distribution of tickets are: Fred Swanson, Harveys Lake; Warren Chamberlain, Leh- man; Norti Berti, Dallas; S. D. Fin- ney, Trucksville; Jack Graham, Lake Silkworth; Fred Dodson, Kunkle; John Chappel, Shaver- town; Kenneth Cuddy, Noxen; E. A. Dorrance, Orange; Sherman Kunkle, Sweet Valley and Harold Bertram, Jackson. Committee chairmen are: invita- tions to fire chiefs, James Besecker; speakers, Henry Peterson; dinner, Harry Ohilman; program, James Besecker and Thomas Kingston. Final Rites For C. H .Tremayne Dies Monday At 80 After Brief Illness C. H. Tremayne, Yeager Avenue, was buried yesterday in Denison Cemetery after funeral services conducted by Rev. Norman W. Clemens, Wilkes-Barre, and Rev. Robert W. Yost, Shavertown. Mr. Tremayne would have been 81 in March. He had been acutely ill since the Monday before Christ- mas, and had rallied during that period with expectation of re- covery. He died on Monday at 2:30. Since retirement in 1938 from the wide-spread grocery business he had built up from small begin- nings in Ashley until it embraced a territory reaching from Moun- tain Top to Forty-Fort, with stores in Ashley, Kingston, Nanticoke and Parsons, Mr. Tremayne had made an attempt to retire gracefully, but found that life-long ac- tivity had spoiled his taste for leisure. After almost five years of inactivity, he accepted a position in the Registration Department in the Court-House Annex, and held it until his last illness. : Mr. Tremayne was a native of Cornwall, England, son of John Henry and Ellen Rowe Tremayne. At the age of 17 he came to Amer- ica and settled in Ashley, first tak- ing employment as a carpenter and then becoming interested in the grocery business. Fire destroyed a large store in Ashley, but Mr. Tremayne rebuilt at once. Residents of Hedge Place, Kings- (Continued on Page Eight) Jeter, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Staub, Herb- ert H. Hill, Harold L. Titman, Daniel R. Richards, Dr. F. B. Schooley, Frederick J. Eck, Thomas G. Reese, Edward W. Hall, D. G. Rebinhold and Mr, Isaacs. The Association is under the supervision of the State Depart- ment of Banking and has more than $114,500 in first mortgage loans plus $2,600 in stock loans. Installment shares amount to $74,828.00. Discussing the growth of the Association and the place it fills in the community, Mr. Richardson said, “more people in the Back Mountain Region should buy shares, because they are a good invest- ment and an easy way to accumu- late savings over a periad of years. It is a local organization and all of its directors are local men. Lions Hear Plans For Area C of C Al Bowman Speaks On Organization Harveys Lake Lions Club held its first meeting of the new year at Herman Kern's Restaurant Wednesday. “Formation of a Back Mountain Chamber of Commerce” was dis- cussed by Arlean T. Bowman, Dal- las businessman. According to Bowman, plans are being made to lay the groundwork for such an organization as an outgrowth of the present Dallas Businessmen’s Association. The speaker made it clear that this newly proposed Chamber of Commerce could exist and function properly only if business and pro- fessional men from the entire Back Mountain were represented. Har- veys Lake Lions enthusiastically endorsed the proposed organiza- tion. Business and professional men and women in this area are in- vited to attend a mebLiing Monthy, January 15,2 P., M. at Bowman's Restaurant to further discuss crea- tion of a Back Mountain Chamber of Commerce. Lions Club members were in- vited by Mr. Bowman to attend a joint meeting with Kiwanis and Rotary Clubs during February, to hear an address by internationally famous Dr. Stephen C., Y. Pan, Ph.D. Doctor Pan is author of “China Fights On” and longtime Chinese Adviser at United Nations Security Council. Next meeting of Harveys Lake Lions Club will be held Wednes- day, January 24, at Herman Kern's. Speaker will be Andrew Ruskin, Assistant County Superin- tendent of Schools. Mrs. Brooks Speaks At Trucksville PTA Mrs. Archibald Brooks of Back Mountain Memorial Library execu- tive board, spoke on the advant- ages of the library at the meeting of Trucksville Grade School PTA on Monday night. The Association voted to donate a total of $210 or $30 in each grade school room for the pur- chase of educational strip film for the school projector. It also discussed roping off cer- tain streets for sleigh riding for children. The Township supervisors to designate the streets. Refreshments were served by parents of Miss Georgiena Weid- ner’s third grade pupils. Borough PTA Meeting Dr. Robert Bodycomb and Dr. Robert Berman will present a pro- gram ‘Care Of The Teeth” under sponsorship of the Luzerne County Dental Society at the Dallas Bor- ough PTA mnieeting Monday eve- ning at 8 P. M. Tax Increase Of $10,299 Looms If Housing Units Are Untaxed Kingston Township School Board has taken exception to statements appearing in public print, appar- ently emanating from Luzerne County Housing Authority, that the State contributes the bulk of school costs in that township. Auditors’ reports show that actually local taxes account. for 53.43 per cent of the costs; tuition 5.07 per cent and State Appro- priations 41.50 per cent. Cost to maintain a pupil in Kingston Township Schools for one year is $193.00. Of this; amount $102.29 is paid by local taxables; $9.65 comes from tuition, and $79.13 from State Appropria- tion. If 100 pupils enter the schools from homes built by Luzerne Coun- ty Housing Authority, $10,229 in taxes will have to come from those homes, or other taxpayers of the township will annually have to pay the bill. The State De- partment of Public Instruction has given no indication that it will make up the deficit. Luzerne County Housing Author- ity refuses to make any contract that it will pay any county, town- ship or school tax. Dallas Bank Hit 4 Million Mark During November 3 Stockholders Hold Forty-Fifth Annual Meeting On Monday “Deposits have increased approx- imately $300,000 during the past year and total assets reached a seasonal peak of slightly more than four million dollars in No- vember,” W. B, Jeter, president of First National Bank of Dallas, told stocksolders at their forty- fifth annual meeting Tuesday morning. “Loans still continue high,” Mr. Jeter added, “as a result of our growing community and if our de- posits and loans confinue to in- crease, it may be wise to increase our capitalization to keep the ratio in proper proportion.” ¢ “The surplus account was .in- creased $25,000 in July to a total of $200,000 and with undivided ° profits give the stock a book value jof $80 a share as compared with $75 at the beginning of the year.” Mr. Jeter explained that the Board of Directors has put into effect a pension plan for all em- ployees. He announced the resignation of William Neely from the Board of Directors because of ill health and the election of Ralph Brickel to his place as a, vice president of the Board. The stockholders voted to limit the Board of Directors to seven members for the current year, and did not elect a director to fll Mr. Neely’s place. Those reelected were: W. B. Jeter, A. C. Devens, R L. Brickel, Harold Titman, Herbert Hill, Clif- ford Space and Frederick Eck, Kenneth Hughes Critically Ill Fractured Skull In Coasting Kccident Kenneth Hughes, 4, son of Mr. and Mrs." Thomas Hughes, 4 Birch street, Trucksville, is in critical condition at Nesbitt Hospital after a sledding injury on Sunday at 4:20 P. M. Kenneth, with his three year old brother Tommy, had been sledding in company with Mrs. Hughes. When Tommy asked to go home because he was cold, his mother took him, expecting Kenneth to follow. Kenneth took one more slide, but this time from the crest of Lehigh street which joins Harris Hill Road at a sharp angle screen- ed by stone walls. His sled gather- ing speed, he shot into the inter- section and collided with a car driven by Robert Davis, Rice street, Trucksville. The child's skull was fractured, with a piece of bone driven into the brain, necessitating immedi- ate operation following admission to Nesbitt Hospital, where he was taken after preliminary diagnosis by Dr. Charles Perkins. He has regained consciousness occasionally, but remains in a state of shock. Some improvement was noted on Tuesday, but on Wednesday Kenneth had slipped back into a precarious balance be- tween life and death. Local Enlistees Leave For San Antonio Base Among the 238 Air Force en- listees shipped by special train to Lackland Air Force Base, San An- tonio, Texas, Monday were several Back Mountain boys: Kenneth Glen Roberts; David T. Joseph, Jay H. Bloomer, - Martin Pugh of Dallas; Robert J. Koons of Shavertown; Ronald L. Hutchinson, Sweet Val- ley and John G.- Gunton, Noxen, R. D. ’ The shipment, largest in the history of the local recruiting sta- tion left at 4:15 in nine pullman cars and diner and arrived at the Base Wednesday night. Earl Craig Succumbs To Pneumonia At 60 Earl Craig, 60, Courtdale, father of Mrs. Dolores Trumbower, Hunts- ville Road, and well known in the Back Mountain because of summer residence in Dallas, died in the General Hospital Wednesday night at 10 from pneumonia complicated by a weakened heart. He had been admitted twenty-four hours earlier. Burial will be in Maplewood Cemetery, with funeral services conducted by Rev. S. M. Nichols on Saturday at 2 from a Luzerne Funeral Home. 2
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