PAGE TWO You Know Me By Al, Himself After two poor Sundays, Har- veys Lake business men got a break Decoration Day. The day was hot and the holiday crowd turned out. ~ Last Sunday wasn’t too bad either even if the storm in the early eve- ning did send most of the pick- nickers scurrying home. Despite the fact that the crowds sometime make it unpleasant for some cottagers we like to see a good business day. It is no fun lay- ing in tons of food and then having the weather give you a kick in the pocketbook. Years ago our parents-in-law owned a hotel at a resort in Brook- lyn. We remember them telling about the gamble of hiring about fifty waiters, packing big walk-in ice boxes full of food and then would come a rainy Sunday or holiday. In those days there was no such thing as freezers so steaks, chops and lobsters by the hundreds of ppunds would have to be given away or spoil. Yes, we like to see business make money, but we wish that the picnickers would take advantage of the parking places around the lake and not jeopardize the lives and . property of those here who have invested in homes, Memorial Day, cars were parked in front of the Picnic Grounds with rear bumpers sticking out over the road causing a mental hazard that slowed other autoists so that it took hours to circle the lake. If these conditions continue through- out the summer, many will cease coming to the lake. There are many parking spots here where one may safely leave his car for as little as fifteen cents for the whole day. We were invited to view the Charles heavyweight fight at Jerry " Rosengrant’s home Memorial Day. The fight was on television at 10:00 P. M. We left our home, two city blocks distant from Jerry's, in a car at 9:40 and almost missed the first round because of the delay caused by thousands of cars parked on both sides of all roads. Of course it wouldn't have been a ca- lamity if we'd missed the whole fight as it was that poor, but we wondered, as we pulled into a side road what would have happened if a fire broke out or an accident re- quired an ambulance. There was just one narrow lane for others to get through for a distance of two undred yards. We wiggled through but in the twenty minutes it took us we wished we'd left our car at home. We doubt if an ambulance could have made it and are posi- tive that our fire truck couldn’t. We have heard considerable cri- ticism of our supervisors and po- lice previous summers because of these conditions. We do not think that the entire fault lies there. If we did, we would tell them instead of writing about it. The three su- pervisors and three cops are just six good natured neighbors who are as anxious as we are to see bu- siness come to the lake. No, we blame a few of the business men. If a cop or a supervisor tries to better ‘conditions he is promptly told he is interfering with busi- ness. Don’t these business men know that a person who is so care- ful of his funds that he won’t spend fifteen cents to park off the road won't spend any money anywhere else? . Merchants at the lake should in- sist that our ‘No-parking-on-the- road” ordinance is enforced. Busi- ness here has complained for years because of poor returns on its in- vestment. In our opinion the big- gest detriment to business is the thousands of cars that block the roads, forcing the real spenders to go elsewhere. We wish someone would do something about this. We'd try if we weren't too tired. Garden Party Planned For Frank Werner Lawn The annual garden party spon- sored by Kings Daughters Class of Shavertown Methodist Church will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs, Frank Werner, Pioneer ave- nue, June 21, at 2 p. m. Committee members are: general chairman, Helen Kishbaugh, co- chairman Idabell Manear, tickets, Rella Eckert and Verna Davis, tick- et distribution, Miriam Gearhart and Ruth Poynton, programs, Mar- ian Clark and Mary Souden, pat- rons, Catherine Hirleman, refresh- ments, Alice Borthwick and Meryl Coolbaugh, tea table, Aletha Low- ery and Alberta Coolbaugh, pos- ters, Tony Dolbear and Mary Yeager, hostesses, Ruth Shotwell and Betty Griffith, publicity, Ann Crocker, transportation, Irene Mosier, church announcements, Polly Edwards. THE POST, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1951 | pa Know Your Neighbor Francis Ambrose Francis Ambrose, more commonly known as “Red”, has been living in the community only since 1946, when he retired from the position of principal of Collingdale High School, ‘but ‘he classifies as Back Mountain stock by virtue of having spent two years as a boy at Leh- man before finishing at Coughlin. The high keen air of the hills was a strong drawing card after a bout with pneumonia which left Mr. Ambrose with the feeling that he could take students, but not in such wholesale lots as in a big high school. What he is doing now, out at Sunset at Harveys Lake, ex- poses him to more children in the course of a season than would pass through a high school in two or three years, but he says that they are outdoors and on pleasure bent instead of in pursuit of an educa- tion, and that he can view his customers with a dispassionate eye. In spite of a business which takes up the slack in his spare time even after the season closes, because of repairs and upkeep on the buildings and cottages, Mr. Ambrose is primarily an educator, with the public school system in the foreground of his thoughts. It was registration of his daugh- ter Annabelle, now eight years old and in the second grade of Dallas Township, that precipitated forma- tion of the Citizens Committee for better schools. Red, faced with his yearly program for Dallas Rotary Club, said his piece about over- crowding in Back Mountain schools, (Continued on Page Seven) Serve Main Office Market and Franklin Streets Wilkes-Barre From $20.01 to $50.G0 From $50.01 to $100.00. .... -35¢ « SECOND NATIONAL B MONEY ORDERS The Same Pur- | pose as Postal Money Orders —Except The Rates Are * Much More Reasonable Here’s What the Post Office Charges You: From .0lc to $5.00......... -10¢ ~ From $5.01 to $10.00. ...... -15¢ From $10.01 to $20.00..... -25¢ Exactly 25¢ From $100.01 to $150.00....9()¢ From $150.01 to $250.00... -25¢ Over $250.00 1/10 of 19, Here’s What the 2nd National Bank Charges You: From .0lc to $20.00........ 10¢ From $20.01 to $100.00.... ‘15¢ Kingston Oftice Wyoming Avenue at # Union Street THE DALLAS POST “More than a mewspaper, a community institution” ESTABLISHED 1889 Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers’ Association A non-partisan liberal progressive newspaper pub- lished every Friday morning at the Dallas Post plant Lehman Avenue, Dallas Pennsylvania. 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We will not be responsible for the return of uneolicited manuscripts, piotegraphe and editorial matter un- less {f-addressed, stamped envelope fs enclosed, and in no case will this material be held for more than 80 days. National display advertising rates 6c per column inch. _ Local display advertising rates 50c per column inch; specified position 60c per inch. Advertising copy received on Thurs- i will be charged at 60c per column Classified rates 4c per word. Mini- mum charge 75c. All charged ads 10c additional. Unless paid for at advertisin we can ve NO assurance at an- nouncements of plays, parties, rum. mage sales or any affairs for raising money will appear in a specific issue. Preference will in all instances be given to editorial matter which has not previously appeared in publication. Editor and Publisher HOWARD W. RISLEY Associate Editor MYRA ZEISER RISLEY Contributing Editor MRS. T. M. B. HICKS Sports Editor WILLIAM HART Advertising Manager ROBERT F. BACHMAN rates, ONLY YESTERDAY From The Post of ten and twenty years ago this week. From the Issue of June 6, 1941 Melvin Mosier was fatally in- jured Saturday night, when his truck collided with another car driven by Daniel Murray Edwards, Alderson, on the new Tunkhannock highway near Dallas Township School. This is the first fatal ac- cident on the new road. Dallas Junior Woman's Club is sponsoring a dental clinic for chil- dren, with Dr. Robert Bodycomb director. Goss Manor residents have sign- ed a petition to have bus service extended to their area, Residents of Dallas are advised to buy their stamps in Dallas if they want a new postoffice build- ing. Faith Kocher becomes the bride of John Honeywell at Ruggles Methodist Church. Violet Kline and Harry Snyder were married in Shickshinny May 30. PTA, Dallas Borough, is planning pre-school examinations, with diphtheria inoculations available. Phillip Templin, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. W. Templin, was named as junior at Susquehanna who has had the most wholesome influence on his fellow students and the school. Sheldon Hoover Joins Navy, Is In Bainbridge Sheldon D. Hoover, son of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Hoover, Pike's Creek, enlisted in the Navy last Tuesday and is now stationed at Bainbridge Island, Maryland at the Naval Training Center. wife is the former Shirley Boston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Boston, Pike’s Creek. SAFETY VALVE FROM OUR HERB Camp Gordon, Georgia Dear Mr, Risley: I think it is about time I drop my old home a line. I am now in the ‘Peach State’’—Georgia. I am taking two months of Air Police schooling and will then re- turn to Offutt, Neb. This camp is run by the Army and once again its rough and tough. We are learning advanced judo, first aid and many other things in our classes. It’s hard to stay awake in class because it is so hot and the classes run two hours. This is a large base and it re- minds me very much of Lackland. We are about ten miles from Aug- usta which is all army. I was in town last week and enjoyed my- self. They have very good meals and cheap. We had steak, three kinds of vegetables and potatoes for 90 cents. I met several army boys from Wilkes-Barre and they all said “If we only had joined the Air Force.” The army and Air Force make men out of boys in a short time. A week this Monday we will live in the field for two weeks. We play war just like when we were kids. We MP’s are guarding an imaginary Air Field and an- other group tries to take it. We carry small flour sacks and throw them at each other, and if we get hit that’s the end. It should be fun. The only trouble is lots of rattlesnakes (don’t publish any- thing about snakes because mom would hit the ceiling). The soil is all sand and after judo classes we look like Pennsylvania coal miners. How are the garden and flowers coming along? Did these beautiful flowers in front of the house come up again this year? I received The Post today. Tell Bob Bachman he’s doing a wonder- ful job. Tell him to say hello to Mrs. Johnson at Shavertown Lumber; George Bulford and Miss Pollock at Artley’s. I enjoyed reading The Post. Glad to hear Ted Cobleigh moved to Dallas. I hunted deer with him last year at Troy. Those ads are tops. Give my regards to the gang. Was glad to know Mr. Rood is out again. Give everybody my good wishes. Herb Dreher Squadron 1 MP RTC 8801-1 TSU Camp Gordon, Georgia SOLDIERS NEED PAPER Dear Howard: Will you in all kindness read this letter sent to me by Joe Wallo who as you know is serving our country in Korea. (Continued on Page Three) LOOK For The Name REALTOR 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 local realtor D. T. SCOTT JR. Dallas 224-R-13 D. T. SCOTT and Sons Sheldon’s | REALTORS 10 East Jackson Street Wilkes-Barre, Pa. INCOME TAXES INSURANCE PR] AHRENS EDUCATIONAL TUITION i NY Barnyard Notes ir Now there are only four baby grey squirrels in the hollow maple. I picked up the warm lifeless body of one of them Friday morning in the middle of Huntsville Road. That evening in the street in front of the house I found the soft warm body of the young rabbit that has nibbled without fear at Myra’s lettuce. Minor tragedies in a world where men die in foxholes and little children are maimed by automobiles—but tragedies nonetheless. Now the roses are beginning to bloom. Never was a Back Moun- tain spring more lovely than this has been. From the week of May 12 when the apple blossoms spread their perfume until now we've had a price war on beauty. I hope you had an opportunity to forget the price of steak and gather in some of the bargains that even a beggar could have had for nothing: the delicate beauty of the wis- teria at the Wyckoff place and at Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Wakefield's home on Center Hill Road; the color of Marge Lee's tulips on Ter- race street; and of Mary Smith’s Red Empérors on Pioneer Avenue; the flaming beauty of Madge and Elwood Hudson’s azalias on Davis street, Trucksville; Ray Hedden’s informal tulip plantings on Machell avenue—there were some bargains that would have put Macy's and Gimbels to shame. Alice and John Yaple can be proud of the delicate blue iris around their garden pool in Goss Manor. up there and take a look. It will be worth your time to drive Right This Way For Bidders On Melodeon And Corner Cupboard This year’s Library Auction will have as special attractions a rose- wood melodeon in perfect working condition, and a small sized corner cupboard for dishes. The rosewood melodeon has a lovely cabinet, and its works are intact, something rare in melode- ons. It came from a private home at Nicholson, where an elderly woman was disposing of a house- ful of antiques, some of them museum pieces. The cupboard is butternut wood, painted inside natural wood finish- ed exterior. It is a convenient size, usable even in a small apart- ment, with shelves above and a closed cabinet below. In the barn is an outsize Norge refrigerator in perfect condition, porcelain inside and out, given to the auction because the owner was installing a newer model with deep- freeze compartments. In an aban- doned horse-stall there is a stack of iron beds, single, three quarter and double, with good springs, ready for somebody’s paint brush to make a welcome addition to a summer cottage or that extra room in the attic. There are sturdy tables and chests of awers, and a big desk in blag®™walnut. . There is a ten gal- 1 crgek with a cover, just the thing to house doughnuts for the annual invasion of grandchildren. There are all sorts of jugs and crocks, with or without covers; kerosene lamps for those occasions when the electricity goes off; pic- ture frames in all sizes and shapes; a tea wagon; a large baby carriage in wicker, perhaps heavy to push uphill, but exactly right for the infant’s nap on the screened porch, nontippable and wind resistant; and as all auction flyers state, many other articles too numerous to mention. Blind Artists Play For Lighthouse Fund Blind concert artists of inter- national reputation will perform in Irem Temple, June 12 and 13, for the benefit of a building fund for a Lighthouse For the Blind. Luzerne County Federation for the Blind, organized in June, 1929, is handicapped by having no perm- anent headquarters for its work of adult rehabilitation and no social center, for nearly two: thousand blind adults in the Anthracite Re- gion. A major part of the program of the Federation of the Blind is directed toward those above school age. A constructive effort is made to diagnose needs, and to correct or readjust the effects of sudden blindness on the individual and the home. To make™the lifevof 4 blind per- son fuller, richer and happier is the goal of the federation, accord- ing to Frank Lugiano, executive secretary since its founding, PN Call GAY ARTHUR GAY INSURANCE ® Farm Bureau Mutual Auto Ins. Co. ® Farm Bureau Mutual Fire Ins. Co. @® Farm Bureau Life Ins. Co. CENTERMORELAND 62-R-12 or 62-R-3 ® ERNEST GAY Home Office: Columbus, Ohio CLEARER ERITREA RRRRRCRRRRCRT RTO 00 le For to pay for it. The secret of buying anything is to have the money The secret of having enough money, is to save con- sistently a little of what you earn in a savings account at The Kingston National Bank. “Ve KINGSTON NATIONAL BANK Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Ose Friday Afternoons Until 5 P. M. 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