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.
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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
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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.
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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,
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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.
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YOUR PRIVATE SAFE
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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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