- refrigerator ‘Himmler Theatre, FROM. PILLAR TO POST Tue Darras Post MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1951 BOX SCORE Back Mountain Highway Deaths and Serious Accidents Since V.J Day Hospitalized Kfited DALLAS o20 los DALLAS TOWNSHIP | 6 3 LEHMAN |) 1 KINGSTON TOWNSHIP | 42 5 JACKSON TOWNSHIP 2 MONROE TOWNGHIP 3 1 "ROSS TOWNSHIP 2 LAKE TOWNSHIP 12 1 FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP 2 TOTAL 6 CENTS PER COPY Eman BK By Mgrs. T. M. B. Hicks, JR. We laid it at first to personal magnetism but about half way down on Franklin Street came to the conclusion that the Post dog was follow- ing us because he scented hamburg at the end of the line. We thought we had lost him several times, once when the newsboy went past and at our request whistled at him while we made tracks over the crest of the hill, and once at the Hay- cox yard where he became en- amored of a tree trunk and cir- cled it slowly and with rapt at- tention. But by the time the turn was made into the main drag, there he was again, bounding playfully ahead and returning every few yards to get another whiff of the hamburg. This was OK with us. We could stand his whiffing the hamburg, but what upset us, both literally and figuratively, was when in an access of enthusiasm he darted between our ankles with great det- riment to balance and dignity. This, we felt, was going too far. It began to look as if we had us a dog, as the distance between the . Post and Pioneer avenue widened. A car shot by, coming around the curve at an exhilarating rate of speed, and slammed on its brakes as Rogue tucked in his tail and made for the ditch. “Why don’t you keep your damn dog out of the road?” yelled the driver as he made a detour around the dog, now seated amiably at the roadside searching for an elusive flea. We proceeded around the curve, Rogue coursing from side to side of the road and following interest- ing scents left by red squirrels and chipmunks. A small streak shot across the road, steering itself by its tail, Rogue in hot pursuit. An- other car slammed on its brakes, another face bursting with rage, showed at the window. We looked the other way and plodded on. Arrived in the yard, Rogue said he would now come in the house. The black Tomcat, inside, fluffed up his tail and prepared to repel boarders. By an adroit maneuver we distracted the dog’s attention and slipped through the door, to be cursed fluently by the cat for "bringing home a dog. Rogue sat on the steps and lifted his voice. We hastily searched the to find something widgh would relieve his pain, Presented with a bowl of cat-food, he ‘took ‘one sniff and mentioned hamburg. He kept on mentioning hamburg, padding up and down the back porch dnd rearing him- self on his hind legs to peer hope- fully through the storm door. We looked in the ice box again, and threw a sop to the wolves, a pickled pigs foot that had been around for some time and had lost its first youth. Rogue wolfed it in two gulps and panted for more. That was when we called Myra on the phone. Five minutes later we were helping her confine a cyclone in the station wagon, and all was over. Boy Scout Troop 281 Continues To Grow Troop 281, Dallas Boy Scouts, met Monday evening with 26 mem- bers present. Another new mem- ber has joined the ranks of a fast growing troop, now numbering thirty-eight. Patrol contest on signalling was won by the Flying Eagles. Next week’s contest will be map making. John Haycox, Wayne Bolton, Al- lan Root, and Paul Balshaw passed tenderfoot tests. Robert McQuil- kin was awarded a badge of merit for pottery; William Reeves, coin collecting; Leslie: Barstow, stamp collecting; Donald Roeske, marks- manship. William Reeves, Donald Roeske and Robert McQuilkin were made Star Scouts. Explorer group is planning a hike Saturday under supervision of John Reeves, committee chairman, Clarence Butler, scoutmaster, and Leslie Barstow, assistant. Schoolboy Hunts Scrap, Finds Stolen Hub Caps Four chromium hub caps, stolen several weeks ago from Sev New- berry’s Cadillac, parked near the have been re- covered from underneath the Franklin Street bridge in Shaver- town, spotted by a Dallas Borough schoolboy in his hunt for scrap metal. They were not in the water, but placed high under the bridge where they could be retrieved later. Kunkle WSCS Plans St. Patrick Tea Kunkle Methodist WSCS mem- bers are planning a St. Patrick's Day tea for March 14, 8 PM in Kunkle Community Hall. A hand- kerchief sale will be an added at- traction. Members are asked to contact their friends and solicit handkerchiefs. There will be a program, and refreshments. Every- body is invited. Mrs. Russell Miers Little League Needs Support Asks Sponsors For Two More Teams Back Mountain Little League, starting late in the season last year and unable for that reason to obtain a charter, nonetheless pick- ed an all-star team and defeated all comers in the Wyoming Valley Area. Equipped now with a charter, the gift of Dave Schooley, the Lit- tle League will be able to enter the National field. According to Charles Steinhauer, commissioner, and Al Gibbs, presi- dent, if two more teams can be sponsored, bringing the number up to eight, 200 Back Mountain boys can be accommodated in the Little League. Little League baseball is said to be one of the strongest foes of juvenile delinquency, and is being sponsored all over the United States. Boys from 9-12 learn good sportsmanship, the value of group activity, the reason for rules, as well as having a lot of fun for themselves and their fans. Donations, reported at a Sunday afternoon meeting at the home of Al Gibbs, are coming in steadily, and before the season starts there will be enough to buy uniforms. It takes $200 to sponsor and outfit a team. Last year’s teams included out- fits from Shavertown, Trucksville, Dallas, Fernbrook, Lehman-Jackson and Carverton. Douse Grass Fires Dr. Henry M. Laing Volunteer Fire Company responded to two alarms on Sunday, both of them graos {itos, bold quickly extin- guished. The first alarm, shortly after 11:30, warned of a fire at Harry Carey’s, Demunds Road, which had leaped the bounds of the inciner- ator, The second, at 3:45, was the re- sult of children playing with mat- ches back of the Hardware store on Bulford Street, a small grass fire right around the corner from the fire station. Township Girls Win Play-Off Dallas Township girls won the Back Mountain League champion- ship for the second year in a row by defeating Laketon 38-36 Tues- day night on Kingston Township floor. The Township girls sparked by Mary Kozick, who garnered 30 points, were in top form. Laketon won the first half of League play and Dallas breezed through the second half undefeated necessitating the playoff. A goal by Mary Kozick in the closing minutes decided the con- test. Laketon gave a good account of itself and featured Bialgowicz who got 20 points, no small total for a. girl's game. ' Smith Appoints 130 Aides For Defense Set-Up Kingston Township Is Preparing For Wartime Emergency During recent tests, Kingston Township was acknowledged to have one of the best Civil Defense set-ups in Luzerne County. This week Arthur F. Smith, Director for Kingston Township, announced the names of the workers and the areas they cover. Working with him as assistants are, Theodore A. Poad, assistant director and Francis McCarty, Chief of Police. Committee members are: Educa- tion and welfare: James A. Martin, and W. Frank Trimble, Security, Francis McCarty, Evan Evans, Louis Banta and Robert Metzger; Communications, Harold Payne and John Landis; Utilities transporta- tion, Clarence Myers, Walter Shav- er and five Kingston Township trucks; Medical service, Dr. Sher- man Schooley, Dr. Carl Bradbury, Dr. Charles Perkins, and Dr. Mal- colm Borthwick; Evacuation, Philip Pascoe; Engineer, John Earl. Auxiliaries, Mrs. S. M. Silver- man, Mrs. Wallace Perrin, Mrs. Pascoe, Mrs. Russell Cease, Mrs. Fred Nicely, and Mrs. Glen Sick- ler; Steering Board, Arthur Smith, Philip Pascoe, William Hewitt, Wil- liam Myers, Theodore Poad, Harry Spare, Ralph Hazeltine, Isaac Brace, Dana Sickler, Charles Eberly. Fire Department, Joseph Schu- ler, David Schooley, Howard Wool- bert and Vought Long. Air Raid Wardens are: Carver- ton: Edgar Sutton, Raymond Har- ris, Glenn Sickler, James Sands, Jack Danna, Thomas Gay, John Dymond; Maple, Chestnut, Holly, Charles Perkins; Cliffside avenue, Robert Greenley; Lehigh street, Robert Gregory; Sutton road, Dan- iel Roberts; Warden avenue, John- son, Al Groblewski; Bunker Hill, Lloyd Protheroe, George Novieki, | Chester Glahn; Trucksville: Mt. | Airy, Marvin Moss; Davis street, Albert Pesavento; Stafford, Vonder- heid, Edward Hartman; Zinn, John- son, Archie Baker; Lewis Avenue, Adam Young; Harris Hill Road, Bruce Long; Carverton Road, Char- les Nestor, Edgar Sutton; Main Highway, George Shaver Sr. Earl Henwood, Sr., Bruce Ackerman; Trucksville Gardens, Nick Staub, William Clewell; Lohman street, Harold Yorks; School, Grove, George Parry; Orchard street, Shel- don Bennett; Main highway, Bert Fennell; Hillside, Sam Dilcer, Jack Cannon, John Rinehart; Holcomb’s Grove, Elwood Swingle, Chester Nesbit, Robert Clark. Shavertown: Center, Summit, James Inman, Walter Gosart, Fran- cis Youngblood; Ridge street, Wal- ter Cook, Bert Stitzer, Lehigh street, Luther Powell, Clyde Brace; Terrace Drive, Tommy Andrew, K. G. Laycock, Johnson Miers; Spring street, Jerry Frantz; West Center street, William Eicke, Robert Wil- liams, Percy Hart; Shagbark Drive, Sam Spaciano; Franklin street, Ross W. Nigerela, Charles Kish- baugh, William Dierolf; Druid Hill, John G. Henninger, George Jacobs, Stewart Casterline; Zinn street, James Eckerd; Main street, Charles Gosart, Sr., Harry Ritts, Alan Johnson; Ferguson ave., Stephen (Continued on Page Ten) Quick Sand Halts Construction Of New Commonwealth Building Quick Sand, seventy-four feet deep, has temporarily halted con- struction of Commonwealth Tele- phone Company’s new office build- ing on Lake Street. : Yesterday only a skeleton force of eight workmen was on the job, but Albert Glahn, superintendent in charge, said construction will be resumed just as soon as piling ar- rives early next week. “Test boring,” Mr. Glahn said, “failed to show the presence of quick sand, but we've run into plenty of it. We've had lots to contend with—mud, water and quick sand.” “Nobody would have forseen it in this location. I thought we'd go down about twelve feet and strike rock, instead we went down seven- ty-four feet at this end before we struck any thing solid and twenty- four feet up near Lloyd Kear’s be- fore we struck rock.” “We had to stop everything and change the designs for the footings. This is going to be a pretty heavy building so we'll have to sink piles.” o Mr. Glahn said all of the equip- ment is set up and rigged, and a steam boiler has been moved on .complicated formula, but it’s cer- the ground to furnish steam for the pile driver which will sink twenty-foot creosoted piles. In areas of the greatest stress, fourteen piles will be sunk in ten foot squares. There will be about thirty of these areas. Piles wil § also be sunk four feet apart all along the footing, then the foot- ing will go in, the walls on top and the brick on top of that. Where the piles are set in fourteens a concrete blanket will go over the top before the footing goes in. How deep the piles go, Mr. Glahn said, depends upon the blows per foot required by the 16-ton pile driver to drive the piles into ths ground. This is worked out by a tain that they will go down until they strike something solid. Sordoni Construction is not the first to strike difficulty with quick sand in the Lake street area, L. L Richardson ran into it when he was constructing the new addition to his building and Jim Besecker recalls that, “we had a lot of trouble years ago to get a solid footing for one corner of the build- ing now occupied by Mr, Richard- son.” Mrs. Amanda Yaple Receives Hawaiian Lei William Evans presents a garland of fifty orchids to Mrs, Amanda Yaple of Claude street who through her continual good cheer and happy spirit is an inspiration to all. The genuine Hawaiian lei was received by Evans Rexall Drug Store in an air shipment of orchids from Hawaii. x Mrs. Yaple, one of the oldest residents of the Back Mountain com- munity, was selected to receive it becguse in her daily living for more than eighty-five years she has exemplified the spirit of cheerfulness, courage and good neighborliness. Mr. Evans, himself, will be eighty-two on April 29. Yaple can teach this community on how to grow old gracefully. Mrs. Both he and More than 500 women received free orchids at the Evans store on Saturday. Firemen Hear Judge Flannery At 6th Lehman Annual Banquet Guest speaker at the sixth an- nual banquet of Lehman firemen, held February 21 in the school auditorium, was Judge Harold J. Flannery, who spoke on the future of the Back Mountain. George Stolarick, president, gave the address of welcome, Rev. F, K. | Abbott the invocation. Gilbert Tough served as « toastmaster. Homer Middleton gave a humorous reading, and Russell Ruble, assisted by Vera Whitesell at the piano, led in group singing. A quartette, Peggy Sponseller, Goldie Ide, Rus- sell Ruble, and Garwin Tough, sang. The annual dinner, with ladies present as guests instead of host- esses for the second successive year, was cooked by girls of the Home Economics Department un- der the chairmanship of Grace Barrall, served by boys of the agricultural course. There was a choice of roast beef or fish. Present were: Judge and Mrs. H. J. Flannery, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Middleton, Rev. and Mrs, F. K. Abbott, Mr. and Mrs. George Sto- larick and Tommy, Gilbert Tough, Vera Whitesell, Alex Tough, Gari- vin Tough, Miss Peggy Sponseller, Russell Ruble, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Major, Miss Dorothy Major, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Nuss and Susan, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Davenport, Miss Goldie Ide, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Ide and Leonard Jr., Eleanor, Mr. and Mrs. William Tretheway, . Bar- bara, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ellsworth and Louise and Kenneth, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Searfoss, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Squier, Carl and Roy, Mr. and Mrs. L. Beisel, Mrs. Alice El- ston, Mary Lou, Mr, and Mrs. L. V. Ide, Alice, Mr. and Mrs. A. Van- derhoss, Janet, Lois and Charles, and Mrs. Howard Ehret, Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. O. Lamb, Janice, Mr. Mrs. Arthur Ehret, Dr. and Mrs. H. A. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Barrall, James and Margaret, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Chamberlain, Rob- ert, Mr, and Mrs. Harry Edwards, Mrs. Verna Miers. Wealth Of Talent For Spring Concert Quality and variety of talent for the Fourth Annual Community Concert to be held Friday evening, April 4 at Kingston Township High School auditorium will surpass any previous concert. While it is hoped to have all Back Mountain Communities repre- sented, it is impossible to use all who have offered to take part so that only the most outstanding adult and juvenile artists will be on the program: Established primarily to encour- age a greater interest in good music the Community Concert has grown steadily over the the past four years. x As in previous years it is being sponsored by the Auxiliary of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church with Mrs. | Paul Winter in charge of program | and arrangements. A large patron | list is already forming, ' Baby Ducks Due Monday Monday will see the first hatch of the season at the Wayside Duck Farm, Demunds. Paul Warriner says that this will be a very small hatch, only 600, but that succes- sive crops will be larger and larger. ¢ Rurand Gives Informative Talk On Advantages of Consolidation Hundred and Fifty Interested Citizens Hear Former Lehman School Principal , Orris Aurand, one-time principal of Lehman High School, currently holding the chair of Education at Penn State Col- lege, spoke on problems of education Monday night before a group of 150 Back Mountai Kindergarten Poll Gets Under Way Petition Circulated By Five Mothers Five petitions for establishment of a kindergarten to open next fall in the joint district of Kingston Township-Dallas Borough, are being circulated under the chairmanship of Mrs. Charles Eberle. Petitioners are women who have children of kindergarten age, or who have younger children eligible within the next two years. A petition was circulated at a joint meeting of Shavertown and Trucksville Grade schools PTA held at Kingston Township High School last week, with 23 signatures ob- tained. Some members had already signed one of the other petitions. Women contacting petitioners are Mrs. Robert Williams, Davenport Street, Dallas; Mrs. Gilbert Austin, Terrace Drive; Mrs. William Davis, Shaver Avenue; Mrs. Clyde Brace, Lehigh Street, and Mrs. Charles Eberle, West Center Street, Shaver- town. RButo Thief Gets Car Merritt Wagner's car was stolen from the parking area in front of Evans Drug Store, Shavertown, Sunday night between 9:30 and 9:40. The car, a 1938 Plymouth sedan, black, four door, was left with the keys in the ignition while Wagner entered the store to make a pur- chase. He remained to talk for a few moments, and when he went out, found his car was gone. Think- ing it possibly a joke, he waited for five minutes, then called Banta and the State Police. Three loiterers were noted hang- ing about the parking space. The time of theft is bounded by the time Wagner entered the store and the time another car drove into the lot at 9:40. The car was later found at Harveys Lake. Aged Pony Dies At Hayfield Farm Donald, Hayfield Farm Pony is dead. For almost thirty-eight years, he roamed the meadows, a pampered pet delighting succes- sive generations of children. As late as last summer, children climbed on his back; but by then he was aging fast, his feet break- ing down" and his sturdy Welsh body sagging. Donald has been a part of the Hayfield Farm picture ever since his purchase . twenty-nine years ago from Billy Bulford. His run- ning-mate, Buster, died two years ago. James Billings, whose special charge he was, says that the place is not the same without Donald, but that in May the big barns are expecting two blessed events in the shape of Sardinian donkey foals, who will help close up the gap. Baked Goods, Dyed Eggs Senior Girl Scout Troop Com- mitteewomen announce a Bake Sale for Saturday, March 24, the day before Easter, at Boyd White's Shop, Main street, Dallas. In ad- dition to baked goods, home-made candy and dyed eggs will be of- fered for sale. Reading from left to right: Miss Vera Whitesell, Judge Harold J. Flannery, Mrs. Flannery, Gilbert Tough, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Middleton, Mrs. F. K. Abbott. 08 al n residents in Dallas Township auditorium. © The meeting, sponsored by Citi- zens’ Committee For Better Schools, brought to a sharp focus the local question of speaker preferred to term it, con- solidation. Mr. Aurand supervised consolida- tion of schools of Steelton, Pa., under a program carried out by the Carnegie Foundation and was able to discuss benefits and draw- backs with authority. “What kind of a school do you want?” inquired the speaker. It is up to the citizens to decide. “The usual ten points given as an acceptable school program may be boiled down to three types of service giving young people the tools of success, including not only factual education but health and physical vigor, self reliance, and courage to face reality. “Fostering of social ease and citizenship, group technique and ability to get along with people. “Stimulation of a desire for higher standards and fuller living, along with a solid respect for work and a realization that accomplish- ment by one’s own efforts is more satisfying than results attained as a hand-out.” “The school program,” continu- ed Mr. Aurand, “should embrace the dispensation of facts which could not otherwise be known in a lifetime of personal research; it should act as a social leveller, stressing equal opportunity before the law; act as a link between the generations; a cohesive force between adjacent communities; be a power for progress.” “This adds up,” the speaker said, “to a clear picture of The Ameri- can Dream. The children of the nation are the future sf the na- tion. It is through the children that barriers will be broken down and a freer world emerge from the present chaos. “How well have the schools per- formed their task ? “As dispensers of facts, not so poorly. As forces for citizenship and development of higher stand- ards of personal conduct, not so well.” The speaker sketched briefly the advantages of concentrating pupils in larger foundations, pointing out that travel conditions had to be taken into consideration and that any plan which worked hardship in overlong bus transportation would not work. “Jointure will not work”, said Mr. Aurand, “un- less it is planned for a long enough period to give it a fair trial. If there is building con- templated, the period should be twenty years. With no building, a shorter period of trial is adequate, but there should be a long term plan.” “Consolidation does not guaran- tee better schools.” Consolidation Removes Handicaps “Consolidation removes handi- caps which militate against better schools, provides the tools neces- sary for progress. But in the final analysis better schools are up to the citizenry. If schools are im- portant to the population as a whole, the schools will be good. If considered of little importance, they will be inferior. “A jointure should never be so large that it takes the school away from the community. “Jointure does not guarantee cheaper schools. In the vast ma- jority of cases the cost per pupil is lowered. In cases where a lo- cality has had very poor schools, the cost per capita will be higher, but the pupils will benefit from wider curriculum and better facil- ities. “Schools,” Mr. Aurand empha- sized, “are the only places where political, religious and social - bar- riers can be hurdled. Varied in- terests are able to hold pupils who would normally leave school before . finishing, increasing their chances at success in life. The schools are not preeminently de- signed for students who will have the future advantage of a college education. They are meant to give every student, of every grade of mentality an education which will fit him for life.” Students who shrink at writ- ing an essay or translating Latin will leap at the opportunities of- fered by a well equipped shop. Schools must offer a varied diet . | under certified instruction. School property, often the butt of pupil mischief, will not suffer if pupils are so interested in their work that they have a civic con- (Continued on Page Seven) jointure or as the