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BEN R.
UST and judicious
NLY World War II Veteran
aspiring for
County Bench at this time.
EVER before held or sought
elective county office.
QUIPPED by training, temper-
ament, and more than 20
years experience as an active
Luzerne County lawyer.
TUDIOUS by nature, sure in
decision, sound in character.
FOR ORPHANS COURT
JUDGE
ON REPUBLICAN & DEMOCRATIC BALLOTS
PRIMARY ELECTION, TUESDAY, JULY 24
the Luzerne
Faith Kept With The People
Commends Sheriff Sherrock
Veteran of Great War Put
Youth and Fidelity In His
Career as Chief Officer
Of Law Enforcement
SERVES MANY IDEALS
County-wide crusades against or-
ganized gambling and commercial-
‘ized vice have distinguished the
public service of Robert Sherrock
who has been endorsed by the Lu-
zerne County Republican Party for
a second term as Sheriff. A native
of Hazleton, a product of its public
schools, long a church and social
worker as well as prominent in
county-wide and state-wide civil
activities, Sheriff Sherrock repre-
sents the Pennsylvania Association
of Sheriffs in the Civil Defense Or-
ganization recently completed across
Pennsylvania in advance of any
emergency brought about by war
in Korea.
Only 34 years old, Robert Sher-
rock has a distinguished war rec-
ord. For four and one-half years
he served with the United States
Army, and for almost three years
of that service he was with the
combat forces that defeated the
Nazi-Fascist Alliance in World
War Two. He was in the Nor-
mandy invasion. A resident at 237
Muir avenue, Hazleton, Sheriff
Sherrock is married to the former
Mary McElwee and they are par-
ents of two sons. Mrs, Sherrock
also has lived all her life to date
in Hazleton.
Graduated from Hazleton High
School with the class of 1934, Rob-
ert Sherrock joined his father,
Joseph, and his brother, Edward,
in the automobile business in
Hazleton. At the outset of war he
joined the army and remained in
uniform until after the formal sur-
render of both Germany and Japan.
Appointed by Governor James H.
Duff as Sheriff when the incumbent,
David Vaughn of Nanticoke, died,
Mr. Sherrock won the Republican
nomination and went on to victory
in the 1947 elections. Several
weeks ago he was unanimously
endorsed for a second term by
ATTENDS TO DUTY
SHERIFF ROBERT SHERROCK
committeemen and the county exe-
cutive committee. ;
A former State Director of Na-
tional * Sheriff's Association and a
member of the Legislative Com-
mittee of the Pennsylvania Sheriffs
Association, Mr. Sherrock also is
associated with Hazleton Post 76
of the American Legion, Drake-
Wear Post 589 of the Veterans’
of Foreign Wars at Hazleton, Hazle-
ton Kiwanis Club, Knights of Col-
umbus, Hazleton Chamber of Com-
merce, Hazleton Elks Lodge 200,
and the congregation of St. Mary's
Greek Catholic Church, Hazleton.
Distinction won by state-wide
association with civic enterprises
recently brought to Sheriff Sher-
rock appointment to the honorary
duties of a citizen and public of-
ficer in Civil Defense. In that
group he will have charge of the
activities that will represent the
Pennsylvania Sheriffs’ Association
and the National Association of
Sheriffs in formulating policies for
emergency guardianship and rescue
of civilians in the event of any
enemy attack upon this common-
wealth.
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THE POST, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1951
Christian Herald Writer Warns |
Of Hoodlum Crime In Small Towns
New York, July 9—Small
town and crossroads village are
open to a new terror—crimes
against people. Writing in Christian
Herald magazine for July, Howard
Whitman starkly warns that we
have passed from the era of big
city dealers in violence to the era
of muggers, rapists, molesters of
children and psycopathic killers
who strike anywhere and every-
where.
“The professional gangster, vile
though he was, didn’t pick on wo-
men and children,” the noted
author points out. ‘“Today’s hood-
lum does, and his depredations are
as’ likely to burst forth in the most
gentle, well-ordered community as
in a swarming city.”
America’s frightening crime pat-
tern has increased faster in rural
areas than in heavily populated
districts, the Christian Herald story
shows. F.B.I. reports for 1950 in-
dicate a city crime upswing of
0.4% against a rural increase of
4.4%.
Small Towns Complacent
Mr. Whitman's findings are the
result of a two-and-a-half-year
survey that took him across the
country. He talked with judges, po-
lice officials, clergymen, educators
and parents. He found small towns
shockingly complacent.
“Each time I dug into serious
crimes in the smaller cities and
towns, I found the local residents
incredulous,” he reports. “They be-
lieved Los Angeles, Chicago and
New York had a corner on crime,
They had been lulled by the wish-
ful lullaby, ‘It can’t happen here.’
It did happen in Burley, Idaho,
town of 5300 inhabitants, he shows.
Seven-year-old Glenda Joyce Bris-
bois was found dead in an. irriga-
tion ditch, criminally attacked, her
head streaked by three deep crim-
son gashes. “A man in a car called
to Glenda,” her playmate broke
the news. “He talked to her a little
bit, and then Glenda got in the
car and the man drove away.”
Police departments have added
a new phrase—‘‘Automobile Sex-
kidnaping”’—to their lexicon of of-
fenses, Mr. Whitman reports. He
states that smaller communities are
even more vulnerable to it than
our mammoth cities, because wo-
men and children in small cities
and towns ‘more frequently walk
along sparsely settled roads on
their daily chores. There are easily
accessible back roads and deserted
barns to which the criminal can
flee with his victim.
“In my coast-to-coast survey I
found the pattern repeated hun-
dreds of times,” Mr. Whitman
writes. “Nearly every community
had its example of automobile sex-
kidnaping, the hoodlum era’s hor-
rible successor to kidnaping-for
ransom,
Republican Candidate
SHERIFF
JOSEPH F.
BONFANTI
THE MAN for THE JOB
John J.
ALLARDYCE
Republican Candidate
for SHERIFF
of LUZERNE COUNTY
, : Your Vote and Support Will be Appreciated
PRIMARY ELECTION JULY 24, 1951
“In Red Lake Falls, Minnesota,
a seven-year-old girl was abducted
in a car, attacked, and left semi-
conscious in a haystack in near-
zero weather. In Whittier, Califor-
nia, a forty-five-year-old woman
was snatched into a car by five
young hoodlums. In Lake Placid,
New York, a six-year-old girl was
assaulted by a man who picked her
up in a station wagon outside St.
Agnes Church just ten days before
Christmas—on the pretext that he
was ‘one of Santa’s helpers!”
Christian Herald’s story lists the
“no reason attack” as today’s se-
cond most prevalent crime. Psy-
chiatrists agree that violence has
become a neurotic end in itself.
Assault for Thrill
Says Mr, Whitman, “I found
cases where mere kids of 12 to 16
have swooped down upon innocent
pedestrians and beaten them up
just for a thrill.”
Near Holland, ‘Missouri, a 15-
year-old farm boy sawed the lock
off a railroad switch and wrecked
an oncoming passenger express.
The engineer was killed, the fire-
man seriously injured. “I just
wanted to see a train wreck,” the
boy. told police.
The major by-product of the
hoodlum ers is murder, Mr. Whit-
‘| man finds.Since World War II the
toll has run from 6,990 to 8,442 an-
nually. Murder victims were once
rival gunmen. Today they are often
innocent people minding their own
business. During an average day,
293 people are killed or assaulted,
162 are robbed, 1,100 burglaries
are committed, and 45 women and
girls are raped—somewhere in the
United States. 3
What You Can Do
“You can help to, keep the
scourge from your town, “Mr.
Whitman declares in Christian
Herald, and makes three sugges-
tions.
First, get acquainted with your
police chief. “You and your neigh-
bors,” says Author Whitman, “can
help your police department 'in-
crease its coverage by doing part-
time volunteer work. I do mean
actual crime fighting or patrol—
but indoor work, clerical work, li-
censing, switchboard operating, re-
port making, filing and the dozens
of routine chores which sap so
much of the strength of a police
department. For each hour of work
you do, you release a trained po-
lice officer for crime prevention
duty on the streets. Talk with your
chief. See how he thinks you can
help.”
Second, encourage the protection
of crime victims from any and all
notoriety... A town ¢ can’t fight
crime if it doesn’t know what
crimes are being committed. Thou-
sands of crimes, especially those
against children, are never reported
to the police, and dangerous cri-
minals are free to roam at will. An
estimated 50% of rape cases are
never reported to the police, and
in cases of molestation of children,
probably eighty to ninety percent
are not reported, Mr. Whitman
found. Victims shy away from the
mire of cheap publicity. Their an-
onymity must be protected.
Step number three is education
—of parents, children, and even of
police. Squeamishness is a luxury
that threatened people can no
longer afford.
He suggests that a competent
speaker, doctor, psychologist, or
to address the local P.T. A. Parents
themselves must educate their
children to life's dangers. ‘“‘Proba-
bly half of the sex crimes of recent
years could have been avoided if
the innocent child had known at
least enough to protect himself
from falling into a trap,” the
Christian Herald article says.
Police "are accustomed to crimes
against property, larcenies and bur-
glaries.They must be educated too
on crimes against people. ‘Perhaps
your town could send an outstand-
ing local officer to a first-rate po-
lice academy such as the F.B.L
Clara Ohlman’s Brother
Dies While On Visit
Mrs, Harry Ohlman’s brother,
Clarence F. Johnson, 68, here in
the East on a visit to his mother
and relatives, died suddenly in
Wilkes-Barre Monday morning.
The body was sent to Cincinnati
for burial yesterday, after private
funeral services at a funeral home
in Wilkes-Barre.
Born in Wilkes-Barre, he has
a
PAGE NINE
been .a resident of Cincinnati for
the past 35 years.
He is survived by his wife, Ruth;
two sons, Gerald and Melvin; sis-
ters and brothers, Mrs. Harry L.
Ohlman, Dallas; Mrs. George Fogg,
Mrs. Herman Mailander and Mrs.
Mildred Strittmatter, Wilkes-Barre;
Mrs. H. M. Young, Kingston; Ed-
ward, Albert and Paul, Wilkes-
Barre; his mother, Mrs. Minnie
Johnson, Wilkes-Barre; four grand-
children and one great grandchild;
several nieces and nephews.
National Academy in Washington,
for a full course or even for two
weeks,” Mr. Whitman suggests.
“When he returned he could brief
the rest of the force. It would pay
dividends.”
Hoodlum crime will not be
curbed by waiting, warns Christian
Herald. “If we do nothing, it will
get worse, The hopeful part of the
picture is that we need not do no-
thing. There is a job for each of
us.”
Read the Classified Column
Voters Of
Dallas Twp.
There are usually a lot
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offices, at the primaries.
Before you choose the
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LOOK INTO HIS REC-
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This CANDIDATE,
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HE WILL SERVE YOU WELL
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vote
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for
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@® Son of Labor
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TO THE VOTERS
of
LUZERNE COUNTY,
Pennsylvania . . .
I wish to call your at-
tention to the fact that
I am a candidate for the
office of Sheriff of Lu-
zerne County at the com-
ing election. While hold-
ing the office of constable
of Kingston Township in
~the past I endeavored to
conduct the office with
dignity, fidelity and jus-
tice to all. This, I think,
I have fulfilled consci-
entiously, and if I am
successful in the election
I will faithfully perform
the duties of the office
with honesty and equal-
ity.
your vote and earnest
I, therefore, solicit
support.
Thanking you, I am
Respectfully yours,
LOUIS BANTA
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