right to express itself and be con- 20 + with three members of the “tion. 2 : “could be ‘learned “by this reporter, ~ group paying 80'‘per” cent’ of’ the SE PAGETWO By Al, Himself From where we sit, it looks very much as though the proposed jointure of Lake Township and Noxen schools has hit the greased skids laid by the Harveys Lake Protective Association, but the situation may be saved by a little educating. The Governing Board of Harveys Lake Protective Association met at Irem Temple Country Club Thursday night with a few mem- bers of the Lake School Board and Principal George Taylor as their guests. After Mr. Taylor explained that the preliminary step of the jointure is binding only for one year, “It was the consensus,” according to an article in Saturday's Wilkes- Barre Record, “That joining with Noxen Township for a year was not dangerous; but all felt that any definite, permanent arrangement binding Lake Township with an assessed valuation of $1,485,617 with Noxen Township, valuation $396,000, should be investigated thoroughly before effected. It was felt that the association has a sulted because it represents approx- imately 80 per cent of the valua- tion in the Township.” A resolution was passed ‘That the association request Lake Town- ship School Board at its meeting July 20 to refrain from taking any action that would commit the township to the erection of any building or buildings, or bind it to any permanent arrangement with Noxen Township, until the school board has explored the various ave- nues available to it, to determine which is best; and before any per- manent arrangement is made, that the school board consult with the Harveys Lake Protective Associa- tion.” . “The Lake School Board met July | association and the Noxen School Board as guests, and no action was taken on the association’s resolu- The Noxen School Board met last Monday night and ‘our board met the’ following ‘evening ‘in separate executive gatherings and’ as far as no decision has “been made. " “We believe thoroughly that any taxes of a township should have some say as to how’ its‘ money ‘shall ‘be spent, and ‘we are aware that ‘defeating the’ wishes ‘of “this group would be a difficult task. |. “We are not sure, though, that the “Harveys: Lake Protective Associa- “tion; as a’ whole, ‘are against school. ~-jointures; so ‘it "is up ‘to the citi- last ® zens here to educate them that a jointure with Noxen would be a good arrangement. It is unfortunate, in our opinion, that the association stepped in so late, and it is certainly embarras- sing to our school directors who invited Noxen to form this jointure. The news of such an arrangement has been published in the public press for months. A citizens’ com- mittee formed from the Parent- Teacher Association of Lake school after studying the matter, as to state laws, etc., decided that a jointure with Noxen would form a better school for both districts; would give our pupils an opportun- ity to study such subjects as a modern language, a privilege de- nied our children now. E. S. Teter, county superintend- ent of schools, okayed the plan. We sent our principal, George Tay- lor, to Harrisburg and he came back with the blessing of the State Board of Education. Noxen School Board met and agreed to the join- ture.” Our board met and did like- wise. One of the members of our board running for re-election an- nounced in the public press that he favored jointures. A budget was set up that proved, if figures mean anything, that it will cost our school district $9,000 :less this year under a jointure than it will if we continue alone. The difference will be made up by State taxes. Some ask, “Well, don’t we have to pay State taxes?” Sure we do, but we are going to pay those taxes anyway for other townships to form jointures, so we may as well get back some of our money here. Yes, we are quite certain that the Citizens’ committee and the combined ‘school boards of ‘Lake and Noxen can prove to most of the Harveys Lake Protective Asso- ciation that the better thing ‘for us to do now is form a jointure with Noxen, and when we do we are sure that we will have the association with us, Naturalized citizens of the United States are entitled to all privileges. Government run by women is called gynarchy. St THE POST, FRIDAY TE TAT , JULY 27, 1951 Re SAFETY VALVE NINETEEN DONORS The Dallas Post, Dallas, Penna. Mr. Risley, This week’s Post tells of nine- teen pints of blood being collected at the Lake. Nineteen pints of blood given to the Red Cross Bloodmobile! What a record for our community at the Lake! Are we too busy, is it in- convenient, or are we scared it'll hurt, to give a pint of blood? Do we realize what blood means to some one who needs it? Ask Mr. Harry Allen, Alderson, who recently had a leg amputated. He can tell you it meant life instead of death to him. How do we know we'll not be the next of the com- munity to need blood? I wonder how many eligible don- ors passed the school house, at the Lake, on Monday, July 16, and could have stopped and given a pint of blood. Let the Red Cross doctor and nurses decide if you are eligible. All but nineteen missed their chance at the Lake, but it isn’t too late to make an appointment and go to the Blood Center, and give your pint of blood —which you won't miss and which will mean so much to some one who needs it. It seems to me a disgrace to our community, to read in the Post “Nineteeen pints were collected.” Mr. Risley, this is what went through my mind when I read your record of the Lake donors. It is directed to the folks in the Lake vicinity. I think the Post reaches a good share of these folks, so I put it on paper, and addressed it to you. Sincerely, One of the Nineteen Mrs, C. B. Kocher RECREATION CENTER Mr, Howard Risley, Editor and Publisher The Dallas Post, Dalas, Pennsyvania Dear Sir: The astounding success of your Library Auction has answered a question which has been in my mind « since moving here from a mid-state community of about the same size as Dallas. Namely, has Dallas any community spirit? The answer, of course, is now known to be a definite yes. But that merely raises another question in my mind. Which is, why has not this town any facilities for rec- reatiori of its members within the community limits? The other town of which I speak (Continued on Page Nine) local hospitals. RED CROSS BLOOD CENTER OPEN FRIDAY 12 Noon to 6 P.M. Main Office Market and Franklin® Streets 1 EVERYONE (Between The Ages Of 19 & 58 Inc.) Should DEPOSIT In The BLOOD BANK! % To save the lives of our boys fighting for us in our Armed Forces % To help the veterans in our local Veterans Hospital. % To help our relatives, neighbors and friends who are sick in our Our local Red Cross Blood Center is 639 pints short of the quota set for July. It costs nothing but a little effort to give . . . Will you help? Wilkes Boise he | : in I / / v Vain Street ' MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORP. RED CROSS Blood Center Located At 156 SO. FRANKLIN ST.—W.-B. Kingston Office Wyoming Avenue at THE DALLAS POST “More than a newspaper, 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. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Dallas, Pa., under the Act of March 8, 1879. Subscrip- tion rates: $3.00 a year; $2.00 six months. 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We will not be responsible for the return of unsolicited manuscripts, photographs and editorial matter un- less self-addressed, stamped envelope is enclosed, and in no case will this material be held for more than 80 days. National display advertising rates 63c per column inch. Local display advertising rates 50c per column inch; specified position 60c per inch. Political advertising $1.00 per inch. Advertising copy received on Thurs- day will be charged at 60c per column inch. Classified rates 4c per word. Mini- mum charge 75¢. All charged ads 10c additional. Unless paid for at advertising rates, we can give no assurance that 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 Editors 'MYRA ZEISER RISLEY MRS. T. M. B. HICKS’ ‘Sports Editor WILLIAM HART Advertising Manager ROBERT F. BACHMAN ONLY YESTERDAY From The Post of ten and twenty years ago this week. From The Issue of July 25, 1941 Mothers of draftees will meet on Tuesday in the American Legion Home, Wilkes-Barre, to form a Mothers’ Association. a Nine local men are far up on the draft list in the recent draw- ing, with George Hunt, Dallas RD 3, second. Burgess Herbert A. Smith is un- opposed for reelection in the primaries. : The fight for tax-collector in the Township is between Herbert Lundy, the present incumbent, and Wilson Ryman, Township auditor. Harry Williams, employee of Oliver's Garage, saved a seven year old boy from death at the Horse Show in Kingston on Sunday by snatching a runaway’s bridle. Margaret Bodycomb, aunt of Doctor Robert Bodycomb, authority on rehabilitation of the deaf, spoke before the Rotary Club Thursday night. 3 Twin-Lake waterway, paralleling the course of the new highway, may possibly have its course changed before construction is com- pleted. : Raymond E. Kuhnert, principal for thirteen years at Meshoppen, will take on the supervising prin- cipalship at Dallas Township Schools August 1st. Rev. Thomas Smith, retired Red Rock minister, 81, killed a nine- rattle snake on his front porch with a stick, not wishing to mess up the paint with a gun’? Helen Grace Lewis, Askam, be- came the bride of Ralph Warrell, Dallas, on June 28, at a ceremony performed by Rev. Francis Free- man. Announcement has been made of the marriage of Grace Mahler, Plainsville, and Royal Lyne, Jr., Trucksville. Lake Protective ssociation is be- ginning a campaign for new mem- bers. Mrs. E. E. Trumbower Has Broken Shoulder Mrs. Edward Trumbower, Shaver- town, mother of Ord Trumbower, manager of the Acme super market in Dallas, remains in the Nesbitt Hospital, where she is resting com- fortably. after a bad fall Friday afternoon. Mrs. Trumbower slipped on a throw-rug on a waxed floor, and fell heavily, fracturing her shoulder. She was taken to the hospital for X-Rays and treatment, and will probably remain there for some time. ™ Know Your Neighbor —5 MISS MIRIAM LATHROP “Here comes the liberry,” shriek the school children when Miriam Latrop’s car, filled to overflowing with books, happens to visit a rural school at recess time. Big boys lift out the cartons and carry them into the one-room ischool, little girls delve hopefully into the boxes. Miss Lathrop’s visits are always a high spot in the school term. The Back Mountain librarian makes a careful selection with an eye to ro- tation of books, so that each school will enjoy new material, It takes a lot of time, it means eternal mending of greatly loved books, and endless handling in prepara- tion for the visits, as well as sort- ing and stowing away on shelves after the books have been in cir- culation. But Miss Lathrop likes it. The rural schools are close to her heart, for she knows that many pupils do not have access to enough books at home, and the library fills this need. She has been a librarian for thirty years, so when it is a ques- tion of cataloguing, or routine of running a library, our Back Moun- | tain librarian knows what she is talking about. Cataloguing over ' twenty-five | thousand volumes is no mean task, but fortunately Miss Lathrop did not have that many to cope with when she took. over the Back Mountain Library as its first li- brarian in June, 1945. It is only recently that the shelf population has increased to such an impress- ive - figure, making expansion = of shelf space in the newly acquired building next door a necessity. Miss Lathrop’s first library was in Springville, a community affair in one room of the brown-shingled Community Building. across the street from Dr. Lathrop’s home. Books were collected from private libraries, accumulated - from the neighboring bookshelves, and dis- tributed free of charge to Spring- ville citizens, with a non-paid li- brarian in charge, The library outgrew its quar- ters, so on the death of Miss La- throp’s father, Dr. Homer B. La- throp, the books were moved to his former office, with Miss Lath- rop still officiating. When she de- cided to take a library course at Pennsylvania State College, her aunt, Miss Emily Avery, stepped into her place and kept the home library going for a few more, years. At the end of that time, the li- brary was closed, and the books distributed, part to the High School, part to private individuals, part to second hand bookstores. A few volumes of enduring interest are now in Back Monutain Memor- ial Library. , After completing her course at Penn State, Miss Lathrop worked at the desk at the College Library, going to Rutgers University in 1928, where for seventeen years she worked in the cataloguing de- partment. Rutgers Library is man- ned by a staff of thirty, and has 200,000 volumes. During her stay at Rutgers, she recatalogued many of the Dapart- ment of Agriculture Extension book from Newark. Her decision to leave Rutgers and take over the Back Mountain Library was partly due to chance partly to the weather. The property was acquired in January, 1945. In March of that same year there was an unseason- ably hot spell in New Jersey, with residents of the lowlands swelter- ing in the premature summer heat. Miss ‘Lathrop, her car newly re- leased from gas rationing res- trictions, made for the highlands, and drove through Dallas on her way to Springville, delighting in the cool fresh air and the budding life of early spring in the moun- tains, She promised herself that come next summer, she’d be somewhere else besides in New Jersey. About that time Howard Hen- dricks, then Supervising Principal of Lehman Schools, but a former resident of Springville and lifelong friend of the Lathrop family, asked her if she would be interested in a library job in Dallas. One thing led to another, and by the first of June she was installed in the apart- ment above the library, with workmen milling about below, and books accumulating in cardboard cartons. ; 3 There ensued a hectic period, (Continued on Page Nine) Bin, Bur owed Gleather By William Robbins The problems of obtaining and retaining live bait or shiners; the confusion on law interpretation of bait fish and fish bait, so that a Fish Warden might find one over the legal number and slap a fine on you; are the major factors in the decline of live bait fishing. Many fishermen, I believe it’s safe to estimate eighty percent, are now using fly rods and as lures, the very popular Hairy Frog and Feathered Minnow for taking bass and blue gills. Twenty-five or thirty years ago I can recall, in the basement of our home in Wilkes-Barre, there stood five large barrels. In “each were approximately two thousand shiners that my Dad, and I netted at Meadow Run ice dams, on the road to Bear Lake. These shiners were known to the fishermen of that era as golden shiners. Solid, and two to three inches in length, The price of this attractive bait was two cents each or one hundred and twenty-five for two dollars. There was no problem of keeping them alive for chlorine and copper sulphate were not used on the same scale as today. A bucket of fresh tap water, and perhaps one stop at a spring or water trough would suffice for a trip from Wilkes Barre to Lake Carey. During bass season it was a cus- tom, almost a family tradition, to spend Tuesday or Friday mornings, sometimes both, at a spot that was closed to public fishing. (We snuck in, too). With fifty or so of these golden shiners, a few creek chubs and some crayfish, we stood a fair -_ SUN WARMS SWARM, BUSY BEES TAKE OFF IN WAKE OF QUEEN BEE Lost, one swarm of bees, Monday, in‘ Shavertown. Bill Robbins, wild life authority, arrived with the hive just one hour too late to house the buzzing insects - which = had clung to Mrs. Robert Lyons’ small blue spruce tree over the weekend. : Bil, when contacted by phone, had opined that the swarm might take off if the sun came out, and sure enough it did and they’ did, leaving with their queen amid a great thrumming of wings, headed, for parts unknown, NN Idetown Class Makes Plans For Country Fair Confidence Class of Idetown Methodist Church will hold a Coun- try Fair on Shavers’ lawn Wednes- day. Mrs. John Garringer is gen- eral chairman, assisted by Mrs. David Ide, Mrs. Bruce Williams, Mrs. Louis, Schultz, Mrs. Dean Shaver, Mrs. Lloyd Jennings, Mrs. Harold Titus, and Ethel Ide. There will be a bake sale, fancy work counter, parcel post and white elephant sale. Baked ham supper will be served at 5:30 followed by entertainment. NN YOUR PRIVATE SAFE A Sofe Dopastt Bou in our Feo-ond-Theft-Proof Voults Protects veluables ot toss than te @ dey. ® Piet Floor = Siveet Laval —No Steins ‘@ "WYOMING NAT'L BANK or WILKES: BARRE 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 REALTORS ~ 10 East Jackson Street Wilkes-Barre, Pa. & chance of getting a stringer of what would now be considered prize fish. I saw Mother reel in many five-pound bass. This fishing was done from daybreak until the whistles blew at the colleries in the valley. Occasionally we would keep a few fish alive and place them in the bait barrels when we reached our city home. This would afford us fresh fish most anytime we desired it. ’ Please forgive me for turning my thoughts back through the years. It is little wonder then that the trend is to artificial lures. The worries of netting live bait, the thoughts of unintentional violation of the bait fish law, the difficulty of finding water that will not cause bait to turn belly up in the bait. pail and the ease of attaching an artificial lure to a line have caused to become, almost passe, the real sport of live bait fishing. The average angler of today spends hundreds of dollars on fish- ing gear, transportation etc! —but if he has the real Ike Walton zest to take a few, it might not be a bad idea to pool the five or ten dollars he would normally spend on the several trips, and when the amount of fifty or seventy-five dol- lars is attained, take the whole family to the St. Lawrence for a week with the assurance that he will have a day or two to give vent to his pent up desire to ‘reel ‘em in’. Regret to say, I have not received, as yet, a report on the Fish Survey at Lake Harvey. 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