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BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET YOU KNOW ME
Gold Tipped Ciggies Put End Al Himself
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To a Romance; Start a Career || wa. oe nin cuision
By BILLY ROSE
Yesterday, at one of those cocktail parties where only pedigreed
olives are used in the Martinis, I met a movie actress who used to
a square-cut that looked like the s
boat.
“Glad you're doing so well,”
dance in one of my chorus lines back in the ’30’s. She was sporting
earchlight on the old Albany night
I said. “You've really gone places
since the days when you made a fast forty a week.”
“Have I changed much?’ she asked, lighting a gold-tipped.
cigarette.
“Well, for one thing,” I said, ‘you
never used to smoke buck-a-pack
ciggies.”
“You mean . these Sobranies?”’
said the actress. ‘Matter of fact,
I started smoking them while I was
working at your club. One of your
customers intr o-
duced me to them.”
“Boy friend?”
“Yes, if a- man
in his 50’s can be
called a boy. Re-
member Big Joel?”
“The oil fella?”
“That’s the one,”
said: the s-t-a-r.
“Know something?
I'probably would be
Billy Rose
married to him today if not for
these Sobranies.”” :
“Tell me about it,” I prodded.
“WELL, IT’S not much of a
story,” said the actress. “One night
Big Joel threw a party at the Cen-
tral Park Casino for a bunch of his
pals—Jimmy Walker, Billy Seeman,
Jules Glaenzer and that crowd. And
it was quite a shindig—guinea hen
under glass, buckets of champagne
and gold-tipped Sobranies on every
table. I was one of the girls invited
—but what I didn’t know until later
was that Joel intended to surprise
me and announce our engagement
that night.”
“Were you stuck on the big lug?”
“Not particularly,” said the
star, “but be was a nice enough
fella and bad he made the an-
nouncement 1 don't doubt
but that 1 would have gone along
with it.”
“What stopped him?”
“It was one of those things,” said
the actress. ‘A little after mid-
night, when I came back to my
table after a dance, I found my
pocketbook was missing. I started
to look for it, but Big Joel told me
to relax and handed me a hundred
bucks. I thanked him but kept right
on looking, and when he asked me
why I was so worried about the
pocketbook I told him there was
three hundred dollars in it.
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“] HAD HARDLY gotten the
words out of my mouth when the
woman who worked in the ladies’
room came up and handed me my
purse—said she had found it under
the make-up table.
“Big Joel looked at me and
grinned kind of funny. ‘It ain’t that
I don’t trust you, honey,” he said,
‘but a man wants to be awfully sure
about the lady he’s going to make
his wife. Forgive me, but—would
you mind opening that bag and
showing me the three hundred?
“Naturally I did no such thing.
1 picked up my bag, gave him one
of those ‘how-dare-you’ looks and
walked straight out of the room.”
“In other words,” I small-joked,
“Big Joel caught you with your
purse down.”
“Nothing of the sort,” said the
movie star. “Matter of fact, I bad
been paid off that afternoon for
a series of modeling jobs and bad
closer to four hundred than three
in my bag”
“Then why didn’t you open it?"’
“How could I?” said the actress.
“He'd have seen the ten packs of
Sobranie Gold-Tips I had swiped off
i the tables.”
CREEL LIMITS
Regulations governing fishing in
| Pennsylvahia during 1951 remain
the same as during the 1950. An
Act of the Pennsylvania Legisla-
ture (1949) prohibits fishing of all
kinds in any waters of the state
from midnight, March 14th to April
* 15th except in rivers, lakes and
ponds not stocked with trout.
“Any person violating any of
the regulations shall upon convic-
tion be sentenced to pay a fine of
$20.00 and in addition may be
fined $10.00 for each fish caught,
in possession.
The daily - creel as published in
the Fishing Regulations establishes
the number of fish which may be
legally caught in any single day.
The possession limit at any time
is fixed at one day's creel limit,
that would mean six bass which is
the daily creel limit would by the
same token be the possession limit
and would include the bass one
may have caught earlier and have
in refrigeration. If a fisherman
caught three bass today and kept
them in his refrigerator and then
the next day caught six more, he
will’ be in violation of the law by
Phaving lee more bass than the
legal possession limit allows him
at any one time. If the fish were
trout the number would be ten
and so on.
The possession limit
does not prevent the
from having ten trout, six bass,
etc., but does fix the limit at
twenty-five of the combined species
at any time. A pamphlet of the
fish laws reflecting these regula-
tions will accompany each license
issued in 1951.
~ TURKEY FEEDING—
SPORTSMEN’S PROJECT
There have been many. hearten-
ing reports that sportsmen have
fed wild turkeys this winter in
areas where these birds need -ear
corn as supplemental food. In re-
cent weeks, deep snow and crust
have prevented their reaching
natural sustenance. Some hardy
outdoorsmen have ‘packed in” on
snowshoes or skids; others used
toboggans, jeeps and even tractors
to reach turkey flocks.
Game Protectors welcome this
assistance in the tremendous task
of feeding the wide-spread turkey
however
fisherman
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when buying or selling
real estate.
The principal interest
of a realtor is to see
that the transaction,
large or small, is com-
pleted in an intelligent,
ethical manner.
Your loeal realtor
D. T. SCOTT JR.
Dallas 224-R-13
D. T. SCOTT
and Sons
REALTORS
10 East Jackson Street
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
flock. They say that hunters who
observed wild turkeys while seek-
ing big game will perform a real
service by reporting their location
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At Kingston Corners
FOUNDED 1896
(Member Federal Deposit
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THE POST, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12.1051
Last Sunday it snowed and snow-
ed and snowed and the Russians
may thank Mrs. Warren Dennis |
for that. It seems that July 25
is St. Jacob’s Day and Mrs. Den- |
nis says that she read in an ar-
ticle in the New York Times on
prophesies for 1950 which said
that for every cloud in the sky
on St. Jacob’s Day there would
be a snowfall the following. winter.
So she marked the calendar for
that day. Her husband scoffed at
it, which husbands are apt to do.
Her friends called on her during!
the spring and early summer of |
last year and noting the large!
mark ’ circling July 25th asked |
why, and were told about the St.
Jacob’s Day prophesy. They left
shaking their heads, and one or
two murmured, ‘poor Warren,”
but lo! on July 25 Mrs. Warren
Dennis: looked into the sky and
there was not one bit of blue, the
whole heavens were one big cloud
and if we haven’t had just one
big snow storm this winter we'd
like to know what you call it.
We never heard of St. Jacob.
Of course, we knew of Jacob in
Genesis, one of the Hebrew patri-
archs. He it was who saw the
angels ascending and descending
a. ladder from earth to heaven; he
was the one about which we had
a fight with some kid outside of
Sunday School one day because
we claimed that ladders were not
invented in Jacob’s time.
But this Jacob couldn’t be a
saint, first, because of his record
and second, if we remember our
Bible, all the saints were in the
new testament—so who is this St.
Jacob that brought us all the snow
this winter ?
We looked him up. All we
could find in the libraries at Dallas
and Wilkes-Barre was that he
governed the church of Toul for
a few years in the 8th century.
There was nothing in our text
books connected with him about
snow or the twenty-fifth of July.
Probably the New York Times
writer gathered his information
from the libraries of Washington
or New York. At any rate, we
are glad to know that if there
are clouds in the sky on that day
just as many snow storms will
occur the following winter.
Before this the only way we had
of forcasting winter weather was
in the last eight weeks by the
ground hog’s shadow on February
2nd. This information was too
late for us. You see, we want to
spend our winters in Florida or
California, after we retire in five
more years, and there was always
an argument in our house whether
to leave the lake before or after
Christmas. We finally agreed to
decide by the severity of the win-
ter. If we waited until February
2nd to find out, we might as well
stay at the lake all winter. Along
comes Mrs, Dennis, and now we
can predict the winter in July.
Our hats are off to St. Jacob.
Many persons at the lake can
predict the weather, not as well
as St. Jacob, but good enough for
us. When we lived in New York
City we could tell a day or two in
advance. An east wind, meant
rain within twenty-four hours, but
up here the wind may come from
the east for days and no rain. We
learned to interpret other signs,
but they mean nothing here, so
we depend on old timers to tell us,
Harry Allen, the elder, knows
when it is going to rain in a day
or two. Squire Davis and the
Jacksons are others. Some of the
farmers can tell long before the
buds appear whether we will have
a large fruit crop. Now, if we
contemplate taking a holiday trip
in 1951 we are going to ask Mrs.
Dennis what the saints say.
Well, let's hope next July 25
will be without a cloud in the
sky—if it is, does anyone know
where 'we can sell a nice set of
tire chains ?—only used one winter.
Shavertown Lumber Co.
Employees Are Dined
The employees and staff of Shav-
ertown Lumber Company were
guests at a dinner party given by
the proprietors, Ralph Garrahan
and George Ruckno at Irem Tem-
ple Country Club on Thursday
night.
Cards and games were enjoyed.
Group singing ended the evening's
entertainment. Ruth Earl accom-
panied the singing, and Mrs.
Stephen Johnson conducted the
games. ;
Mrs. Ralph Garrahan and Mrs.
George Ruckno each received a
vase of yellow rosebuds from the
employes.
. Guests were: Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Garrahan, Dallas; Mr. and Mrs.
George Ruckno, Forty Fort; Mr.
and Mrs. Stewart Casterline, Mr.
and Mrs, Malcolm Kitchen, Mr.
and Mrs. Stephen Johnson, Mr.
and Mrs. Ben Earl, Mr. and Mrs.
Allan Kittle, Mr. and Mrs. James
R. Bertram, Atlee Kocher, Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Randall, Mr. and Mrs,
Robert Price, Mr. and Mrs. John
Southwell, John Southwell, Jr.
Shavertown; Mr, and Mrs. Donald
Casterline, Mr. and Mrs. Merton
Rifenbery, Tunkhannock.
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ONLY
YESTERDAY
From The Post of tem and
twenty years ago this week.
Ten Years Ago in the Dallas Post
From the Issue of
January 10, 1941
Dallas Postoffice, serving a rap-
idly growing community, may be
eligible for second ' class rating,
thus placing all clerks under civil
service and paving the way for
door-to-door delivery in the vil-
lage. Postmaster Polacky states
that the Dallas Postoffice has just
handled the biggest year’s volume
of mail in its history.
Cement was poured this week
for the bridge over the Trucks-
ville-Dallas section of 6 the new
highway at Overbrook avenue.
A $35,000 WPA street drainage
project for Dallas was approved by
the Borough Council Monday
night. Work which will include
stone curbs and box culverts on
Spring, Norton, Lehman, Center
Hill and Franklin streets will start
at once,
Many contributions have been
made to the fund for new uniforms
for Dallas Borough High ‘School
Band.
Plans for Dallas-Harveys Lake
three-lane highway have been
drawn and are ready to go to the
bidders. Construction, scheduled
for this summer, may be postponed
if threats of war make eonstruc-
tion of defense highways impera-
tive.
Fred Kiefer outens with a short-
short about Flasher the Ferret.
Fred Welsh has the most elab-
orate and best organized ‘putz’
in the Back Mountain. For fifteen
years he has been collecting mini-
atures for the Christmas tree dis-
play, enough to fill two rooms. He
will let the tree stand until Feb-
ruary 1, to give everybody a
chance to see it.
Harvey's Lake
Mrs. Joseph Rauch will enter-
tain the members of the Executive
Board of the Harveys Lake
Women’s Club on Tuesday evening,
January 16 at ‘8 o’clock. !
William Cromley and sons
returned to Newark, N. J.
spending ten days with Mrs.
Shultz.
have
after
Kate
Elijah Cromley is visiting rela-
tives in Danville. }
Mrs. Stanley Kapson has re-
turned to her mother’s home from
Nesbitt Hospital, with her infant
son David George, who was born
January 1. Mother and baby are
doing nicely.
Bradley Rauch is ill at his home
with bronchitis. :
In Memoriam
In loving memory of Thomas
Kingston who tragically departed
this life December 23, 1947.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thom-
as Kingston and his sisters.
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QUESTIONS DESERVE ANSWER
Howard W. Risley
The Dallas Post
Dear Mr. Risley:
In reference to your editorial in
the December 29th issue of The
Dallas Post, you will find in the
December 30th issue of the Wilkes
Barre Record an item on Scran-
ton Housing Authority for 1%
million State Housing Project, cost
of the site to be $75,000.
The New Dealers passed legis-
lation whereby ‘Authorities’ can
be set’ up.
I understand that these Author-
ities do not need the approval of
home owners or the taxpaying
public.
You have asked some pertinent
questions relative to the Luzerne
County Housing Authority and
these questions should be an-
swered for the benefit of the Tax-
paying public.
Yours sincerely,
C. H, Matthews
Dallas, Pa., R. F. D. 1
January 2, 1951
SUGGESTIONS FOR JOINTURE
Dallas, Pa.,
January 9, 1951
To The Editor
The Dallas Post
The controversy between Kings-
ton. Township School Board and
the Housing Authority, in which
I am on the side of the School
Board, brings to mind the import-
ant. question of school finances.
At every investigation in the
past it has been found that Dallas
Borough was in a more favorable
financial position per pupil than
any of the surrounding districts,
expecting Lake Township and this
is probably still the case notwith-
standing the wails of woe from
the school directors and rumors
being circulated. This is due to
the circumstances of no transpor-
tation expense, and relatively high
valuation of property for which
we are paying in taxes,
If the school directors are going
to effect a jointure in spite of
these conditions I offer the follow-
ing conditions which I believe are
fair and I think the people of Dal-
las should insist that they be in-
cluded in the contract.
{ To begin with, unless the law
has been changed in the last few
years, there is no such thing as
a joint school district in Pennsyl-
vania. I assume they mean “Joint
School” which I will use for re-
ference purposes. It would be op-
erated by what I will call a “Joint
School Board.”
Jurisdiction of Districts
and The Joint School Board
The participating districts shall
retain their identity and the re-
spective school boards shall per-
form all functions which may prop-
erly be performed by such boards
excepting the actual operation of
the schools. The districts shall
enumerate and transport pupils,
levy and collect taxes, prepare
budgets, repair buildings, pay
debts, and all other functions not
herein assigned to the joint school
board.
The relation of the Joint Board
to the District Boards shall be
the same as an outside party. The
Joint Board shall keep records and
accounts the same as a district
board.
The income of the Joint Board
shall be tuition from the participat-
ing districts as computed by law.
To provide funds for the operation
the first year each district shall
make advance payments to the
Joint Board based on its own ex-
penses the preceding year as
follows:
(a) July 1 and monthly there-
after salaries of all employes on a
twelve month basis excepting
teachers with contracts starting
payments September 1;
(b) September 1 and monthly
thereafter one-sixth, of the total
expenses the preceding year for
teachers’ salaries. After six months
actual requirements to be estima-
ted and pro-rated between the dis-
tricts in the proportion of pupils
enrolled.
(c) September 1 and monthly
thereafter prior expenses for the
corresponding month for light,
heat, gas, electricity, and tele-
phone. Fuel in bins to be inven-
toried and the value credited
against this payment.
(d) October 1 lump sum pay-
ment equal to prior years actual
expense for textbooks, instructions
supplies janitor supplies, and any
other items commonly chargeable
to operating expsénes.
(e) March 1 sufficient funds to
cover the expenses of the Joint
Board to June 30. At the end of
the year refund to be made if
either district has paid more than
its tuition would require.
Note: I do not believe any re-
sponsibile school official or anyone
with school board experience will
say that this school will save
money. I am of the opinion it will
cost far more than at present.
In general the district boards
shall expend funds commonly
chargeable as follows:
Actounts A, General control;
E, Maintenance; F, Fixed Charges;
G, Debt Service; H, Capital Outlay;
B-12, Tuition. y
The Joint Board shall expend
funds chargeable to B Instruction;
D. Operation of Plant. Expenses
under Account C, Auxiliary Agen-
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To 12-year-old Tay MacArthur,
Who owns a beautiful German Shepherd:
Barnyard Notes
NO ROOM IN HEAVEN FOR DOGS
(An answer to a letter asking for information)
I am sorry your Sunday School teacher told you “there is no
room in heaven for dogs.” I can understand that this statement
has bothered you considerably. : % ;
Heaven is a big place because heaven is God and God stretches
from the sun to the moon, to the stars, and back to earth. ’
Heaven must be a big place to hold all the good people who have
died in the many years since the world began. As‘ angels have
wings, heaven must give them plenty of space in which to spread
these wings and fly from one shining cloud to another. : 3
The millions and millions of folks who have owned dogs and
gone on to their heavenly home, surely would feel lonely without
their dogs. And as there is no lonliness in heaven, God has made
provision for man’s best friend to dwell therein. We are certain
of this, for it was God who named the dog by spelling His own name
backward. ? .
Yes heaven is a big place, with lots of shady spots, long lanes
banked with flowers, fountains bubbling up out of the earth, good
little rabbits munching on golden carrots, and by their side good
dogs, big and little, dozing in pure sunshine of celestial spaces.
It would be surprisingly strange, were there no dogs in heaven, y i.
for I believe that Christ had a little dog which followed Him back E wp
and forth from Nazareth to Judea, through the streets of Jerusalem,
and cuddled trustingly in, the boat when He crossed the stormy
Sea of Galilee. : 3 :
It seems to me I can see, on that tragic afternoon on Calvary,
as Christ cried out “Why hast Thou Forsaken Me?” a little dog
whining vainly at the foot of the cross to lick His bleeding hands.
I believe that today this same little dog can be no other place than =
in heaven with Christ his master, lying contentedly at the foot of
the throne of God. : ;
I am sorry indeed that someone gave you the misinformation
that “there is no room in heaven for dogs.”—Will Judy, Editor of
Dog World Magazine.
THE CALF-PATH
By Sam Walter Foss
One day through the primeval wood
A calf walked home as good calves should;
But made a trail all bent askew,
A crooked trail as all calves do.
Since then three hundred years have fled
And I infer the calf is dead. )
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» But still he left behind his trail,
And thereby hangs my moral tale. .
The trail was taken up next day
By a lone dog that passed that way;
An then a wise bell-wether sheep
Pursued the trail o'er vale and steep,
And drew the flock behind him, too,
As good bell-wethers always do.
And from that day, o’er hill and glade,
Through those old woods a path was made.
And many men wound in and out, c |
And dodged and turned and bent about, : i
And uttered words of righteous wrath
Because 'twas such a crooked path;
But still they followed—do not laugh—
The first migrations of that calf,
And through ‘this winding wood-way stalked ™*
Because he wobbled when he walked.
This forest path became a lane,
That bent and turned and turned again;
This crooked lane became a road,
Where many a poor horse with his load jos
Toiled on beneath the burning sun,
And travelled some three miles in one.
And thus a century and a half
They trod the footsteps of that calf.
The years passed on in swiftness fleet, :
The road became a village street; ; aN
And this, before men were aware,
A city’s crowded thoroughfare. * TRE
And soon the central street was this )
Of a renowned metroplis;
And men two centuries and a half J
Trod in the footsteps of that calf. : #50 =
Each day a hundred thousand rout
Followed this zigzag calf about ¢ i
And o'er his crooked journey went
The traffic of a continent.
A hundred thousand men were led
By one calf near three centuries dead. : 3
They followed still his crooked way. ? <
And lost one hundred years a day, ’ . : s Se
For thus such reverence is lent !
To well-established precedent.
A moral lesson this might teach
Were I ordained and called to preach;
For men are prone to go it blind A X HY Fos,
Along the calf-paths of the mind, dn
And work away from sun to sun VL:
To do what other men have done. Rit
They follow in the beaten track, : g
And out and in, and forth and back, : ‘
And still their devious course pursue, 37 ; I
To keep the path that others do. i mbps if 3
They keep the path a sacred groove, :
Along which all their lives they move;
But how the wise old wood-gods laugh, 2 ; : Yo
Who saw the first primeval calf. f
Ah, many things this tale might teach—
But I am not ordained to preach.
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