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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-
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jointure or as the