” Editorially Speaking: What Makes AB Good School Director? The voters of Dallas Township who care about the future of the community and of the nation—and we feel sure this includes the great majority—will be asking themselves this question before primary election day. Naturally, no two persons will come up with identical answers. However, there are certain basic points which probably will be generally agreed upon. That which is most needed at present is good, strong leadership of the open minded, clear thinking and co- operative type. This calls for men with integrity and imagination who can look ahead and at the same time face everyday facts; men who will keep the community informed concerning the progress of the schools; men who can get along with others in the interest of good educa- tion and good administration. The last point is important. Cooperation is what has made our nation strong and it is the only course of action which can make the community strong. It is an ideal which must be learned by our school children if they are to become successful citizens. the right example is set by their elders. It will be well learned if The attitude of the School Board can exert much. influence for good or evil. We have mentioned some of the basic requirements for a good School Director. Whether a candidate measures up well against these standards can be determined by his public utterances and his general attitudes on questions of importance. If he thinks only in terms of the past and has no clear plans for the future, he is no longer a leader. weak leader. If he adopts a “wait and see” attitude, he is a If he appeals to the uncooperative emotions of a small segment of the community, his leadership is dubious at best. If he straddles the major issues and only makes up his mind when it is too late, he is no leader at all. Of the five candidates for Dallas Township School Board membership the voters should have little difficulty in selecting the two candidates best qualified to work for the common good. * x * FROM PILLAR TO POST By Mgzs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr. We feel that though somewhat belatedly, we should place a modest wreath upon Father's brow, something on the order of a halo worn jauntily over one ear. We knew that Father was due for his spot on the Calendar last Sun- day, but we didn’t get around to writing about it, due to this and that, and especially to taking time out to search for a small boy at the time a column for Father should have been in our thoughts, simmer- ing away for future typewriter copy. With most of us mothers elbow- ing fathers out of the yictiay jatiier aoes not get much of a break. If he draws down a hand- painted tie he is doing well. Most fathers do not get enough credit. Cartoonists contribute to this public opinion poll by pursu- ing father from the time he waits anxiously outside the delivery- room door, to the time when he snaps his galluses and hands out sage bits of unsolicited advice to his grandchildren. Fathers are pretty solid citizens. They perform the modern miracle of paying the milk bill and the coal bill and making payments on the house, they see that Susie has dancing lessons and Jimmie a base- ball mitt, they allow themselves to grow threadbarg so that the Jun- jor Miss may have a Junior Prom gown, and they stand back and allow the women to absorb the glory of bringing up the family. Most women have not the slight- est idea what a man is up against in providing for his family. Women know about food bills, but they have no conception about the over- all cost of supporting a family. Little Naomi from across the street has a pair of white shoes, little Susie feels left out, so father takes up another notch in his belt, does a spot of figuring, and Susie gets the white shoes, though her patent leather slippers are in good shape and will be too small by the end of the summer. Every girl, for the good of her soul and for her future husband’s ease of mind, should in our opin- ion be trained to earn her own living and support herself for a time before marriage. This might give her a faint idea of what a man is up against. Most men work hard. Theirs is the responsibility, theirs the head- aches, and in these modern days, theirs the stomach ulcers. Competition is keen, the future uncertain, the strain of supporting and educating a family of -chil- dren almost ovérwhelming. While tears to relieve the strain are al- lowable to a woman, her helpmate must ~'* his teeth and take an- other shot of bicarbonate of soda. Convention allows him to kick the cat or slam the door until the dishes rattle, but not to shed a tear. Fathers lead a tough life. Natona To Close July 7 For Annual Vacations Natona Mills will be closed dur- ing the week of July 7 to give all employees, except those in the maintenance department, their an- nual vacation. Post Closed Saturdays The office of the Dallas Post will be closed Saturdays during July and August, Ernest Wood Dies Suddenly Vridely Known Music Instructor Was 67 The community was shocked last Saturday afternoon to learn of the sudden passing of Prof. Ernest Wood, 67, one of the area's most respected and widely known music instructors. For more than 40 years, Prof. Wood had been organist at Me- morial Presbyterian Church, Wilkes Barre. He numbered among his friends, hundreds, now grown to manhood and womanhood, who ob- tained their first love of fine music from him. For some 20 years he was or- ganist of the Elks Club and he was also pianist at Rotary and Exchange Clubs of which he was a member. Born in England, he was choir- master and organist for eight years at Independent Methodist Church of New Springs, Wigan. He came to America on April 16, 1911 and followed his profession here for the rest of his life. Gentle in disposition, kindly and softspoken, he was a true gentle- man and kindly and loving father, and husband. In failing health for several months he was stricken with a heart attack while seated in an arm chair in the garden of his home on Rice street, and died a short time later as he was about to recline on his bed. The funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at 3 from the family home with Rev. Frederick Reinfurt of Dallas Methodist Church in charge. His son, Alan, with the Air Force at Kelly Field, Texas, telephoned from Buffalo, while en route home, asking that interment be delayed until he arrived. A prayer was held at the home after his arrival and interment was made at 5 at Woodlawn Cemetery, Dallas. Surviving are his wife and the following children: Ernest Wiant and Lois Wood, at home; J. Allan Wood, in the U. S. Air Force at Kelly Field, Tex. and Mrs. Royal Culp, Huntsville; sisters and brothers, Mrs. Samuel Wane, West Pittston; Mrs. J. Sproston, Mrs. J. Allan Cooke, Mrs. Fred Edge and Silas Wood, all in England. Pallbearers were: Ralph Eipper, Herbert Morley, Howard Womer, Elbert Lemmon, J. Henry Morgan and H. N. Stark. Strawberry Festival : To Aid Noxen Firemen Ladies Auxiliary of Noxen Fire Company will conduct an old- fashioned strawberry festival and amateur night on Noxen Baseball Field Saturday. The amateur show will be for youngsters between the ages of 3 D aLLas Post MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION DA Vol. 61, No. 25 Plan To Open New School On September 1 Busses Will Serve Pupils From Three Local Parishes Brick exterior walls are progres- sing rapidly so that the limestone trim is being installed on the front of the new Gate of Heaven Paro- chial School on Machell Avenue. Work .is moving ahead on sched- ule, according to Rev. Francis Kane, administrator of the parish, with September 1 as the objective for opening the building. The heating plant has already been installed and concrete floors in the main building are being poured. The roof is completed. About fifty men are being em- ployed. ¢ When completed the building will have nine class rooms and an auditorium and will serve children embraced by Gate of Heaven, Our Lady of Victory and St. Therese’s parishes. Father Kane said many pupils will be transported by bus. A church census and house-to- house visitation are now being con- ducted to determine how : many pupils will be enrolled when school opens. Father Kane said he could give no estimate of enrollment at this time because the project is new and any estimate would be fluid. He was delighted with the beauty of the school’s location and said the building itself will be a decided asset to the community. Flower Festival For Alderson WSCS To Feature Early Flowers An early season Flower Festival, sponsored by Alderson Methodist Church WSES and scheduled for Wednesday, June 27, is a new ven- ture this year, planned for this date to take advantage of early roses and Delphiniums, not too late to interfere with the annual Flower Show. The Festival, explained Mrs. G. N. Carpenter, chairman, was a brain child of Frank Jackson, who considers early flowers as well worth exhibiting as later ones. Classes will include common and rambler roses, delphiniums, old fashioned spring flowers, specimens of hybrid teas, potted plants in- cluding foliage varieties. Flower arrangements range from miniatures and framed groupings, to table arrangements and mantel- piece settings, taking in both Vic- torian and modern arrangements. There is a Teacher's Desk ar- rangement for children up to twelve years, and a small table ar- rangement for Juniors, 12—16, FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1951 Three Airmen Visit Here On Routine Flight Three Kingston Township air- men, stationed at Keesler Field, Biloxi, Miss., paid a surprise visit to their families early Sunday morning. : - They were: First Lt. Carl Dyke- man, Second Lt. Albert Morse, and First Lt. Glen Loveland. All are veterans of World War II, Lts. Loveland and Morse having recent- ly been recalled to service. The boys were on a routine train- ing flight in a twin-engined Army Bomber piloted by Lt. Morse. The big ship landed at Avoca Airport at 5 AM. where it was met by Mr. and Mrs. John Dykeman and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Post, father and mother-in-law of Lt. Morse. The airmen had previously telephoned from Middletown Air Base that they were en route to Avoca. Mrs. Dykeman was so excited that she embraced Lt. Loveland, to the merriment of everybody, before she realized he was not her son. During their brief stay here, Lts. Dykeman and Morse visited the new government project at Red Rock Mountain. Lt. Dykeman is a specialist in the type of work which will be done there. The trio departed from Avoca in the late afternoon, taking with them a vacuum cleaner which Mrs. Morse had left at home when she and her husband were ordered to Mississippi. The boys said they had plenty of room for more goods in the bomb bay. At Middletown Air Base they planned to pick up several other airmen for the re- turn to Keesler. Twenty-Five Players Organize Lake Band Twenty-five people interested in band music turned up for practice at Lake Township Music. Room Friday night, in response to a class- ified advertisement “in the June 1 Dallas Post. Leader is John Milus. Last year, there were forty-six players, a number which Robert Scott thinks will be equalled this year. Mr. Scott, leader of a four-piece outfit of his own, plays the drums with the Lake band. Last year, he says, the band played in Mooretown and Sweet Valley churches, at the Noxen fire- men’s parade, and at the Harveys Lake Flower Show, to name but a few engagements. This band is the outgrowth of the old Ruggles Band. It is Sher- man Hoover, an old-time member of the Ruggles Band, whose wife has ‘pieced a lovely quilt in flower- pot design to chance off for the benefit of the band. While mem- bership is free to all comers, band music runs high, and costs must be met. Band practice will be on Mon- day evenings at Lake School Music Room. Three Speakers Talk On Flower Arrangements Library Book Club met at Back Mountain Memorial Library Wed- nesday afternoon and heard Mrs. Franklin D. Robinson, Adelia Stevens and Helen Crane talk on flower arrangements. Mrs. Joseph Schmerer presided. Book Club Auction chairmen gave their reports. Four new members were wel- comed, Mrs. Thomas Cease, Mrs. Russell Frantz, Mrs. M. D. Laycock and Mrs. Melvin Estey, * Attending were: Mrs. Lewis Le- Grand, Mrs. Edgar Brace, Mrs. J. Franklin Robinson, Helen Crane, Adelia Stevens, Mrs. Mitchell Jen- kins, Mrs. Joseph Schmerer, Mrs. Peter D. Clark, Mrs, H. W. Smith, Mrs. R. R. Hedden, Mrs. Arthur H. Ross, Mrs. Gerald Dettmore, Mrs. Herbert Smith, Jr., Mrs. Ray- mond Kuhnert, Mrs. G. E. Stout, Mrs. Ralph Garrahan, Mrs, Thomas E. Heffernan, Mrs. Herman C. Thomas, Mrs. Charles R. Smith, Mrs. A. D. Hutchison, Mrs. Dana Crump, Mrs. Charles B. Gates, Miss M. E. Gates, Mrs. M. J. Brown, Mrs. Donald J. Evans, Mrs. Paul God- dard, Mrs. John A. Girvan, Anna W. Kutzner, Mrs. H, A. Stuhlu- muller, Mrs. Thomas E. Cease, Mrs. Stanley B. Davies, Mrs. Harold Tit- man, Mrs. Russell Frantz, Mrs. W. E. McQuilkin, Mrs. William W. Thomas, Mrs. Clyde N, Cooper, Mrs. Thomas B. Robinson, Mrs. Fred B. Howell, Mrs. James C. Langdon, Miriam Lathrop, Louise Owen, Car- oline Kutzner. Visitors were: Mrs. M. J. Brown, Caroline Kutzner and Anna Kutz- ner. Wet Weather Retards Corn Cool, wet weather prevailed dur- ing the first half of the week, hindering harvesting, cultivating and field work generally. Despite sunny days the latter half, maxi- mum temperatures for the week averaged 9 degrees deficient in east portion and 4 degrees deficient in west portion. Precipitation was above normal for the 4th succes- sive week. Lack of sunshine and warmth slowed growth of .corn until past mid-week when weather favored rapid development. Stands and color are good. Cultivation of corn and other row crops is progressing rapidly as soils dry out. Condition of wheat is fair to good. Much in northern counties is in head. Cool wet spell favored rapid spread of rust—continued dry weather is needed to minimize losses. The oats crop developed nicely and much early planted is heading. Wet ground delayed cutting of barley— some has lodged and will be diffi- cult to harvest. Potatoes made exceptionally fast growth and tubers of earliest plant- ings are attaining fair size. Trans- planting of tobacco is in full swing. Rainy weather delayed drying of alfalfa, clover and timothy and much harvested was of low quality. Automobile Tire i Automobile Battery ........._ Automobile (used) Auto Back Up Lights (2) Baby Ducks ilo Bird Houses and Feeders _. Bananas Black Leaf 40 (gal.) Congoleum Rug (9x12) Corsages (value $125) Charcoal Chickens (crate) Chickens (4 roasters) Coal (4 tons) _.. Crushed Stone (4 tons) Chest of Drawers (val. $125) Clock Ducks Duplicating Machines (2) Desk Radio Dry Cleaning ($10 value) Dry Cleaning Enamelware Faucet (Dual Mix, val. $14) Garden Tools & Fertilizer Lawn Mower Lavatory - (porcelain) _.. Magazine Racks (2) Peanuts (bagged) Playhouse (large) and 15. There will be prizes. Pressure Cookers (3) James R. Oliver, Inc. . Tulaney Produce Penn State Seed Co. Bond ($200 value) Daddow-Isaacs Post Amer. Legion . Trucksville Sid Hayes Town Hall Service Post-O-Graf Mfg. Co. Dog Food (several bags) .... Blue Streak Dog Food Co. Dogwood (pink) and Evergreen Tree, Hall's Nursery Brown & Fassett Fuel oil (200 gallons) or equivalent in gasoline... Purcell Oil Company Shavertown Lumber Co. Ladies Suits (several new) ... P. & R. Clothing Co. ... David Schooley Membership (val. $7.50), Wyoming Valley Motor Club Obici Peanut Shop Phillips Frozen Foods Rabbits Rabbits Rabbits _. Jack Williams pn Ralph Davis . Lester Pontiac .. Paul Warriner . Frank Jackson Toilet Set Tool Box (steel) Ti Pen John Nash Hill the florist Motor Twins Henry Pool Mill Vacuum Cleaner Henry Jones Radin John Marley Davis Cleaners . Peoples Laundry Cream Mack Supply Co. ? King Floral Co. Lewis & Bennett Joe Hughes Ray Hedden Permanent Wave Roll Roofing (5 rolls) Simonize Job Soap (144 cakes) Septic Tank (large) Sheep (Black lamb) Suit or coat (men’s val. $45.95) ___ Crawford Clothes Sewing Stands (Mahogany 3) Top Soil (large load) Top Soil (large load) Tumbler & Coasters (24) .... Greenwald Furniture Co. Vigoro (several bags) Chocolate Milk and Milk Chocolate Milk and Milk Chocolate Milk and Milk Chocolate Milk and Milk Partial List of New Merchandise for Auction Anthra-Flo Heating Unit _... Coal-O-Matic Stoker Co. Anthra-Flo Installation ($50 toward) .... Earl H. Monk Anthra-Flo Free Interest on Unpaid Balance, ... First National Bank, Dallas Druid Hill Beauty Salon Thomas Andrew Henry Jones William Bertels General Roofing Co. Ray Chappel Tucks Drug Store C. E. German & Son Herman Thomas David Schooley Cooks Drug Store Frank Henry A. Hudak Yellick Brothers Trucksville Radio Service Miner-Hillard Milling Co. M. Jd. Brown & Son {Waffle Tron 22... 08s kl Andrew Fisher Coon Construction Co. | Watermelons _. James Thomas LON A Friend [Chocolate Milk and Milk .._._______ Harters Dairy Forty Fort Dairy Orchard Farm Dairy Dallas Dairy Shady Side Dairy Woodlawn Dairy Boyles Inn Brokenshire Harveys Lake Hotel Sheldon Cave Torchy Wilson 0 Marty Walsh Hislop’s Tally-Ho A Shrineview Friend Herman Kern Char Herbert Lundy Masonis Beaumont Inn John Nothoff Castle Inn Atty. Roscoe Smith . Bowman’s Early American Restaurant Checkerboard Inn Richard Brace 8 Cents Per Copy—Ten Pages Legion Gives Library $200 Defense Bond Buction Chairmen Ere Pleased With Early Collections The Barn on Lehman Avenue was gradually beginning to fill this week with hundreds of pieces of old furniture for the Library Auc- tion on July 6 and 7. Many were antiques. J There were also truck loads of miscellaneous items ranging from portable electric sewing machines to curved early American mirrors surmounted with eagles. The big influx of old merchan- dise will really get underway next week when the transportation committee, headed by Phillip Cheney and Ray Evans, starts its trucks moving to all parts of the Back Mountain area on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. The Solicitation Committee head- ed by Mrs. Mitchell Jenkins and Mrs. Herbert Smith, and composed of 100 members of the Book Club has about completed its work of visiting every home so that collec- tions can start in earnest on Mon- day. Persons who have not been con- tacted should telephone the trans- portation committee Dallas 9090 if they want their goods picked up on the first three days of the week. D. T. Scott Jr. and Henry Jones, chairmen of the New Goods Solici- tation Committee, reported on Monday night that their ‘commit- tee now has more merchandise on hand than for any previous auction. Dozens of merchants, they said, are taking advantage of the adver- tising value of the auction and are giving better items than ever before. =~ “If this continues?’ Mr. Scott" said, ‘“we will more ‘than double our goal of $2,000 for new goods.” The total goal for the Auction this year is $10,000. Harry Ohlman, and Howard Risley, co-chairmen, said they be- lieved this figure might be exceeded if those interested in the Library continue their outpouring of gener- osity as they have during the past week. They called special attention to the gift of $200 Defense Bond from Daddow-Isaacs Post of American Legion, and the offer of the Le- gion to ‘put its shoulders to the wheel” and help the Auction in every way possible. The gift came as a complete surprise to the Auc- tion Committee and Library Board and was entirely unsolicited. Also unexpected was the sugges- tion from two large firms that they may contribute all of the soft drink, buns and hot dog rolls used at the refreshment stand. This will go a long way toward helping the committee to achieve its slogan, “Everything given-nothing bought for the Library Auction.” There was also a report unveri- fied at presstime, that all ice cream sold at the auction will be contributed. Last year the Auction Commit- tee incurred expenses of some $600 for these items. DALLAS KINGSTON MON ROSS TOW) LAKE BOX SCORE itil Back Mountain Highway Deaths and Serious Accidents Since V-J Day TOWNSHIP Bir Raid Test Is Scheduled For Tomorrow Airplane Observers Will Also Man Posts For All Night Test fense has arranged the fourth air raid test warning for Saturday, be- tween 2:00 and 4:00 P. M. DST. James C. Poff, Chief of the Divi- sion on Communications for Lu- zerne County, and Attorney James Hiscox, Air Raid Warning Specia- list, have ordered all District and for the test probably near 3:00 PM. The Sirens and'whistles through- out the County will again give the test warning to accustom the people to the signal, which con- sists of a three-minute period of Red alert, or danger signal. After an intermission, the all clear or White signal will be given, which consists of three one minute blasts of a whistle or a siren, se- that is, a blast for one minute, then two minutes of silence, a se- cond blast of one minute, then two more minutes of silence, and then a third blast of one minute. The whistle and siren operators are cautioned to note the difference be- tween the Red alert and the White alert signals, : Attorney Hiscox instructed all district and municipal coordina- tors to indicate that this is a test warning, only, by preceding the three minutes of short sharp blasts, the Red alert, by three sin- gle short sharp blasts. These three short sharp blasts which precede the three-minute signal indicate that it is a test only. Should the three-minute signal occur without the three short sharp blasts pre- ceding it, the citizens are to know wiemy attack. There will be no interruption of traffic or of normal activity during this test. It is mainly to instruct the people as to the type of signal which is being used nation wide. Airplane Observers At the same time, Attorney Paul { R. Selecky, Chief Airplane Obser- ver for Luzerne County, has been plane observation posts in tre County to man the observation posts, for the first time, for an all night test. The test will begin Sat- urday morning, at 9, and will ex- tend all through Saturday, all Sat- urday night, and all day Sunday until 6:00 P. M. All the sixteen posts will be manned by volunteers in shifts of two to four hours each, in teams of two observers, who will follow the instructions on how to report airplanes at the desighated tele- phones to the filter centers, where the flights of all airplanes will be mapped throughout the State. Special army airplanes will be sent into the air for these tests, along with the normal passenger airplanes which will continue to operate during the test. The var- ious veterans posts are directed to see that their airplane observations posts are properly manned. League Of Women The Dallas Post on July 20 as a public service will publish a Voter's Guide for the Back Mountain area, using material gathered by Back Mountain members of the League of Women Voters. Candidates for the offices of School Director and Councilmen in Dallas Borough, and for School Di- rector and Supervisors in Kingston, Dallas, Lehman, Lake and Jackson Townships have been sent ques- tionnaires. These questionnaires ask the candidates for background qualifications for the offices .they seek and for their views on how they will meet the desires of the voters for community betterment. Dallas Borough councilmen and township supervisors have been asked: What do you think would be the best methods (consolidation ? Boro Planning Commission ? Town- ship or borough manager?) to pro- vide the needs (zoning? fire pro- tection? sewage disposal? water supply?) of our growing commu- nities ?. School directors have been asked: Do you believe that larger school administrative districts and attendance areas are desirable? If not, how would you set out to improve our schools? How could these improvements be financed? The League of Women Voters is Donahue Restaurant a non-partisan organization with Voters Will Publish Local Guide July 20 a year-round program of Voters Service. The League does not sup- port or oppose any political parties or candidates but strives to pro- mote party participation and vot- ing in every election. In gathering the material for a Voters’ Guide it hopes to reach the maximum num- ber of potential voters with infor- mation that will make them want to vote and help them to vote in- telligently. Although a Voters’ Guide has been published by the League for several years in Wilkes- Barre prior to each primary and general election, this is the first time a full-scale canvass of Back Mountain candidates has been at- tempted. It marks also the first time a newspaper has published the Guide as a public service, It has been explained to those candidates who were sent quest- ionnaires that no material will be used without their signed consent. However, the League reserves. the right to state in the Guide if a_can- didate has failed to return the questionnaire. Back Mountain members of the League who are cooperating in the publication of the Guide: Mrs, Le- roy Bugbee, Mrs. C. A. Eberle, Mrs. Williams Evans, Jr., Mrs. Stefan Hellersperk, Mrs, Mitchell Jenkins, Mrs. Arthur Ross, Mrs. Gerald Stout, Mrs. Robert Walsh. The State Council of Civil De- Municipal coordinators to be ready short blasts of a whistle or war- bling sound of a siren; this is the parated by two minutes of silence, that that is a real warning of an. ordered to instruct all sixteen air-.