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.
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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
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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
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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
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Serious Accidents Since V-J Day
Hospitalized Killed
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TOWNSHIP
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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
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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
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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-
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