CAEL SR A : Editorially Speaking: The Great Debate It is common for great debates to generate more heat : than light. That is true of the great debate over foreign policy which reached its explosive stage with General MacArthur's removal. In many minds, the real differ- ences have been obscured by a passionate emotional feeling. No one seems to feel objectively toward General MacArthur. People either enormously admire him or heartily dislike him. Fortunately, the two main figures in the latest stages of the great debate, General MacArthur and Secretary Marshall, did not descend to the type of argument in which personal rancor dwarfs logic. Those who read the hundreds of thousands of words of testimony these two men gave before the Senate committee had a rewarding experience. Both of them are soldiers of the highest rank, prestige and accomplishment. Both have had wide exper- ience outside the military sphere. Both are patriots with the finest motives. And both answered the almost end- less list of questions put to them frankly, clearly and ef- fectively. Some people think that MacArthur and Marshall dis- agree about practically everything connected with the Korean war, Eastern strategy, and the world situation in general. This is not so. The area of agreement is very much greater than the area of disagreement. But where they do differ, and sharply, is over four extremely im- portant and absolutely fundamental questions. First, General MacArthur believes that intense air and naval action against the Red China bases would bring the war to an end in the forseeable future. Secretary Mar- shall believes this might have small influence on the con- flict for the reason that Red China offers few important targets and has no major industrial concentrations. Second, while not overlooking the ‘importance of Eur- ope, General MacArthur believes that Asia is the more important of the continents now, as it is here that the communists are making their bid for world supremacy. Secretary Marshall believes just the opposite—that Eur- ope must come first and that nothing must be allowed to interfere with our military implementation of the North Atlantic pact. Third, General MacArthur realizes the importance and desirability of allies, but thinks that, if necessary, we can and should go it alone in Asia. General Marshall believes it would be fatal to alienate our allies, most of whom seem to be willing to go to any length to avoid all-out war with China. Last, but certainly not least, General MacArthur does not believe that attacks against Red China proper would necessarily lead to greater Russian intervention and the start of World War III on a global scale. General Mar- shall thinks it might very well do just that, on the grounds that Mao is Stalin’s best friend and could not be abandoned without causing the U. S. S. R. to lose all prestige in nations where it has been making its most potent gains. All the name-calling to one side, these are the issues— and these pose the questions that only time can decide. The MacArthur dismissal brought them to a head. The MacArthur-Marshall testimony, buttressed by the testi- mony ‘of a few others, has taken them out into the open. * * * Vol. 61 No. 22 Back Mountain Schools Name Honor Students Dallas Township And Lake Speakers Also May Queens Round-up of June valedictorians and salutatorians shows. Joan Bruns and David Kunkle repre- senting Dallas Borough in the last class” which will graduate from the high school before it becomes part of the joint school system with Kingston Township. JOAN BRUNS FROM. PILLAR TO POST By Mgrs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr. This is the season of the year when old graduates attend alumni ban- quets and reflect upon the youth and inexperience of the graduating class, while the graduating class sizes up the ancients from ten years back and mentally recommends wheelchairs. We remember with considerable amusement that we too, heady with the new wine of a diploma and a® prize for literature, and smugly self satisfied with a recently delivered commencement oration (they were orations in those days and not speeches), regarded the alumni with a dispassionate and tolerant eye. What had these old folks to live for, we asked ourselves. Most of them were over thirty, some of - them were clearly doddering into their forties, and there were a few who had passed the great divide and were on the weather side of fifty. Filled with noble sentiments from the commencement exercises, we made inroads on the chicken ' salad and the ham sandwiches pro- vided by those same alumni, snapped at the ice-cream, and made our getaway. Remembering a speculative gleam in the eye of a twenty-five year reunioner, we belatedly won- der if the old graduates were as bored with us as we were with them. Lately, we haven’t had much time to spend on attending re- unions and reflecting on how poor Sylvia has gone downhill and Ber- nadette has taken on a spare tire around the middle. We go hastily past our own full length mirror, preferring the one that shows a bit of neck and face to the one which shrieks expanding waistline. We hang our ear to the phone and listen to proud Mamas re- tailing the intellectual prowess of their graduating young. } We. make a layout of graduating pictures, find that there will be a vacant space, and suggest that the class sponsor’s photograph be used to fill the gap. We read proof on May Queens and grade school operettas and va- ledictorians; we offer slim and non- valid apologies for an inversion under a picture which credits one candidate for May Queen with the ~ name of her runner-up. if And we wonder how to spell Ba- ccalaureate. It had two C’s last J year, we think, Or was it two L's? Bi We write it both ways, and both versions look wrong. We apply rules of spelling, but there are too many exceptions to make reliance upon them infallible. We consider its derivation. The DAVID KUNKLE At Dallas Township the valedic- torian is Louise Brzyski, this season's May Queen, and William Goddard, salutatorian, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Goddard,. Hillside Farm Buys Milking Shorthorns Annual meeting of Pennsylvania Milking Shorthorns Association, at- tended by Mr. and Mrs, William Conyngham and C. S. Hemenway, Hillside Farms, was held in Harris- burg Wednesday evening May 24, prior to the sale in the Farm Show Building. : Guest speaker was William J. Hardy, secretary of the national association with offices in Spring- field, Missouri. Mr. Hardy says Pennsylvania has produced some of the most moted animals in America, and that the supply of breeding stock: is far below the demand. Breeders were present from all parts of the State, from Maryland, Virginia, and New Jersey. John Sparkman, field man, Bur ton Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Parks, assisted in sale arrange- ments, coming from Dover, Ill. Hillside Farms, Trucksville, con- signed two animals to the sale, also purchased four of the top animals. LOUISE BRZISKI Commencement Speaker Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, President of State Teachers College, Blooms- burg, Pa., will address the Senior Class of Lake Township School at the Thirty-eighth Annual Com- mencement in the High School Au- ditorium, June 5 at 8:15 P. M. Superintendent E. S. Teter will present the 27 graduates with their diplomas. Class Night Program is Monday evening, May 28, 8:00 P. M. A full three-act play will be presented featuring all members of the Senior Class and senior talent in the writ- ing of the play. Rev. Rosewell W.. Lyon, District Superintendent of the Methodist Church, Wilkes-Barre area, will give the Baccalaureate sermon Sunday evenig, June 3 at 7:30 P. M. in the High School Auditorium. WILLIAM GODDARD Anne Palmer and Ronald Nuss were almost tied for the honor at Lehman-Jackson, Anne Palmer leading by a narrow margin. Kingston Township announces its valedictorian and salutatorian as Ronald Scott Woolcok, Jr., and (Continued on Page Five) laureate is easy enough, first cousin to the poet, which automa- tically cancels out a double L. Two. C’s then. - Who hid the dictionary ? FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1951 Janice Rose Is Crowned Queen Kingston Township Has Perfect Day May Day at Kingston High School on Friday was crowned with beautiful weather, warming sufficiently after a chilly week to make both participants and spec- tators comfortable. The closely guarded secret of the May Queen’s identity remained un- disclosed, even to the Queen her- self, until fifteen minutes before the ceremony, when the white sa- tin gown was slipped over Janice Rose’s head, and the long train and white bouquet adjusted. Janice is daughter of Harold Rose, Shavertown, on the staff of the Sunday Independent. Attendants, wearing pastel gowns and carrying pastel bouquets, were Joan Sherrin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sherrin,Trucksville; Ruthe Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Johnson, Trucks- ville; Nancy Reese, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Reese, Trucks- ville; and Doris Bush, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Bush, Trucks- ville. The remainder. of the senior girls formed the court of honor. | Sophomore girls led the procession as guards, and performed a sword dance. Train-bearers were first-graders: Alyce Anne Donachie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Donachie; and James Keeney, son of Mrs. James Keeney. Alyce, a blonde, wore a shirt white organdy dress, James, brunette, a”white suit. Elinor Downes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Downes, Shaver- town, member of the Junior class, crowned the queen, For the first time in the school’s history, a completely integrated program was offered, with all dances and entertainment contri- buting to a common theme. Janice E. Nagle, physical education in- structor for girls, worked out the various parts of “The Coming of Spring”, with both Kingston Town- ship grade schools represented. Lunch was picnic style, with a choice of hot dog or tomato and cheese sandwiches offered. A ball game with Lehman followed. Students from Dallas Borough Schools ' were all-day guests, arriv- ing by bus before the festivities and remaining for lunch and field day events. Church League Will Try Again Back Mountain Church Softball League attempted to open its ’51 season Tuesday evening. Last Tuesday’s games were cancelled by the sporadic showers. Two games are scheduled, one at Dallas Town- ship and one at Kingston Town- ship. Prince of Peace, last year’s play- off winner, will visit Kingston Township to play Trucksville Meth- odist. St. Therese’s will be host to St. Paul's regular season champs last year, at the Dallas Township diamond. Shavertown Methodist, the remaining team in the league, draws a bye for the opening round. Dallas Township will be the home field for Prince of Peace and St. Therese’s. St. Paul’s, Trucks- ville Methodist and Shavertown Methodist will use Kingston Town- ship as their home field. National Association Softball rules will govern all games. The games will be seven innings long and the official league ball must be used. Also each team will con- sist of nine men and spikes may be worn. High school ball players may participate in the league this season. 5 HE Darras PosT MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION 8 Cents Per Copy—Eight Pages James Keeney, Poss! "LAKE Kingston Township High School May Queen Rules Her Court Members of the court of honor at Kingston Township May Day last Friday, were: left to right: Elinor Downes, Junior crown bearer; Doris Bush, Ruthe Joh nson, Ann Donachie, Joan Sherin, Nancy Reese. Janice Rose, Queen; Alyce BEAUTIFUL WEATHER PREVAILS AS THOUSANDS WITNESS PARADE Fifth Annual Memorial Day Event At Sweet Valley Is Largest And Best ~ Work Goes Rapidly On Parochial School Since shipments of structural steel have been obtainable by Cur- tis Pethick Company, general con- tractors, work has progressed ra- pidly on Gate of Heaven Parochial School building, on Machell avenue, Dallas. All steel is in place, and brick laying is going forward fast, with steel casements already topping the ground floor courses. Asbestos in- sulating mats are already in place above the second floor rafters. Plans call for classrooms with the outside walls almost completely glazed. May Queen MARY ALICE LEWIS Mary Alice Lewis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Lewis, Leh- man Township, was selected by popular vote of students from 7th to 12th grades at Lehman-Jackson Township school to wear the May Queen’s crown for the annual fes- tivities on May 22, Mary Alice is immensely popular with everybody from the first grade to the graduating class, unfailingly pleasant, a good mixer, as well as a good student. Majoring in Home Economics, she made her own dress of sheer white material and white lace, not dreaming that she would also wear the long train of the May Queen and the flower crown. Train-bearers were James Spen- cer and Jack Ottaway, crown- bearer Billy Oncay, from first grade. Flower girls, also from 1st grade, were Sylvia Behrent, Judy Gross, Marie Hardisky, Susan Nuss, Gloria Lyons, and Delphine Sut- ton. Maid of honor and crowner of the queen was June Lord. Grace Barrall, Carolyn Berdy, Carolyn Major and Alice Ehret were at- tendants, and the rest of the Sen- ior girls formed an honor chain. Narrator was Kenneth Meade, junior class, reading a script pre- pared by Margaret Woolcock, in- structor in Latin and English. A field day in which the juniors won a trophy for points was held at 9 A. M. as a preliminary to May Day. A picnic lunch was served at noon, and a ball game with Tunkhannock followed. Dallas Boys Enlist Harold Souder, son of Mrs. El- len Souder, and Herbert Brobst, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Brobst, Dallas have enlisted in the Air Corps and are now stationed at Sampson, N. Y., for (boot training. A crowd of between forty and fifty thousand lined the parade route and jammed Wolfe's Grove on Memorial Day to see Rural Com- munities on Parade at Sweet Val- ley. For. the fifth consecutive year no rain fell. Floats assembled in the large field opposite the Baptist Youth Center to eliminate traffic conges- tion on the highway. Passing the reviewing stand op- posite the Post Office were entries grouped under six headings: Rural bands and churches; rural lodges and organizations; rural business firms; agriculture; comics and clowns; patriotic groups. Churches were in the van, with Christian Church and Church of Christ, both of Sweet Valley, rep- resented by appropriate floats. Back Mountain high school bands were interspersed throughout the parade, their locations drawn by lot, Shickshinny put on its. cus-, tomary intricate drill, pausing be- fore the judges’ stdnd to juggle lighted batons, give the mounted kettle-drums a workout, and go through a twirlers’ routine. Dal- las Borough, Dallas Township, Lake, Kingston Township, and Lehman- Jackson bands paraded. Washington crossed the Dela- ware on board the Sweet Valley Daughters-of-America float was the entry that won first prize and the Donald Hunter Memorial Trophy in the patriotic division. Some beautiful floats were enter- ed in the businessmens’ group, pre- eminently the lovely pastel float representing Sweet Valley flowers. Livestock, always a hit in a par- ade was plentiful. Three black sheep were entered by Emory and Mary Wolfe from their Karacul sheep farm; two beautiful cows from Orchard Farm, and twin sheep from Bloomingdale 4-H. There was a large horse and pony division, with riders ranging from six years up. The usual one-hoss shay, an anc- ient democrat, and a pony chaise were seen. A Stanley Steamer, vintage 1914, was driven by Bruce Fester, Berwick, among other antique cars including a staunch Model T Sta- tion wagon owned by Duke Isaacs of Trucksville. Specialties and comics included everything from clowns to Li'l Ab- ner and the Yokum family, a bouncing ‘automobile, and Snuffy and Jughead. Kentucky rifles were on parade, with Fred Moss, Myron Gregory and Myron Moss as sharpshooters, and Carl Seward and Silas Gregory carrying the bear. The bear, re- cently a rug, was shot in 1925, and weighed 350 pounds. Morris and Updyke strawberry float was outstanding. A truly rural lad and lassie leaned against an old rail fence and ate straw- berries the size of June apples, with outsize berry plants, blossoms and leaves at their feet. No parade would be complete without the tall bicycle ridden by Bert Brink. Lehman and Idetown Girl Scouts made an impressive appearance. Historic pieces of fire apparatus were shown by Montrose Fire Com- pany, including old “hose cart, pumper, and parade wagon dating from 1867. Wyoming Fire Com- pany featured a German band as a foil for its ultra-modern equipment. Plymouth, Swoyerville, Kunkle, Franklin Township, Noxen, Leh- man, Jackson, Huntington Mills, and Shickshinny companies were in line along with Sweet Valley, which brought up the rear. Old and new types of agricultural implements were contrasted, flails (Continued ¢ on digit Five) Lor DALLAS DALL KINGSTON TOWNSHIP 4 BOX SCORE Back Mountain Highway Deaths and Serious Accidents Since V-J Day Hospitalized Killed i3 5 3 1 1 2 5 2 - 3 2 TOWNSHIP 'AL Memorial Day Sees New Flag Parade Visits Roll Cemetery and School in Dallas Wednesday morning at 9:15 when the parade which had formed at Dallas Borough High School paused at the Honor Roll in central Dallas for a brief prayer and Taps, with the flag at half mast. Edwin R. Creasy substituted for Rev. Joseph Sproule, who was ill and unable to attend. At Wardan Cemetery, Richard Vanderbrouck, Daddow-Isaacs Post der Primo Berrettini welcomed the gathering; and Atty, Robert Flem- ing gave the address, taking as his theme the fact that nine out mained untouched by war in the we should be ashamed to criticize the allies who have been the chief sufferers, with homes wiped out and civil population killed. The band played several selec- tions, and Taps as final tribute to the dead, its echo heard faint and far away from a concealed bugler. A firing squad led by Roy Verfaille leys. marched back to the grounds, where a new flag and flagpole, gift of the American Le- gion and the Legion Auxiliary, Mrs. Paul Shaver and Primo Ber- rettini. It was received on behalf man. erick Reinfurt, was raised by four Boy Scouts from Troop 281, Jack Yaple, Bob Van Horn, Bill Reeves, and Donald Roeske. Invocation was by Rev. J. J. O’Leary, benediction pronounced by Rev. William Williams, with the Band once more playing the Star Spangled Banner. In the parade line-up were mem- bers of the American Legion, Dad- Girl: Scoutsjin. vniferm znd carrying their fags; Brownies; members of the Ladies Auxiliary; the band; and the Fire Company. Buglers were Charles Tredinnick and Louis Kitchen. Members of the firing squad were: Thomas Reese, Robert Moore, Harold Brobst, Don Verfaille, Kenneth Gross, Leonard Harvey, and Richard Ash. Henry M. Laing Former Lehman Resident Is Honored By Company Walter Swetland Ide, Tuckahoe, N. Y, son of Mrs. Anna Ide of Tunkhannock, and the late Arthur B. Ide, life-long resident of Leh- man, completed twenty one years service as an organic chemist with roughs Wellcome and Co.,a phar- maceutical manufacturing company, on May 15 and was presented a wrist watch by the company and several other lovely gifts by his associates. High School, of Wyoming Semin- ary, of Susquehanna University and of Duke University. He re- ceived his Masters’ Degree from field of organic chemistry. Second Night For Open Air Market Market will be open for business season, in its new and greatly ex- Connecting Railroad on Pierce Street, parking problems are solved, and crowded conditions prevailing at the former location on Water Street completely cured. Few seasonable vegetables and fruits are available so early in the year, ferings included rhubarb, scallions, radishes, lettuce, asparagus, nach, and apples, in addition to flats of vegetable plants and bed- ding flowers. The market will be open from now until frost on Mondays, Wed- nesdays and Fridays. Lake Teachers Elect Next Year's Officers James Krum has been elected president, Mrs, Florence Worth vice president, Mrs. Thelma Culp, secretary, and Bethia Allen treas- urer of the Lake Township Teachers’ Memorial Day observance started Tk chaplain made a brief prayer for peace; American Legion Comman- of ten of our population have re- last three world conflicts, and that with the National Anthem sounded the traditional three vol- The parade formed once more and school were presented to the school by of the School Board by Harry Ohl- The flag, dedicated by Rev. Fred- dow Isaacs Post 672; Boy Scouts and Dallas Borough High School = the research laboratories of Bur- Mr. Ide is a graduate of Lehman : Duke in 1929. He has published, in collaboration with associates, ap- proximately forty articles in the Luzerne County Farmers’ Night tonight for the second night this but Wednesday night's of- spi- Association for the com- ing year. Brak : 2 Zh 4 i ot panded location in Kingston. With = four acres of land rented from the = Tad 3
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