or +A ~ - 5 X : 7 % Tur Darras Post Back Mountain Highway Deaths and MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION Editorially Speaking: Trees and Fellow Townsmen | (Guest Editorial) Serious Accidents Since V-J Day : 4 - Hospitalized Killed DALLAS 10 13 D TO 3 1 With the advent of town-dwellers to the Back Mountain I : region there come those who regard their new homes as surrounded by too many trees. ; A spell of wet weather causes our new friends to lop limbs and fell trees—forgetful of the scriptural dictum that “The sun shines on the just and the unjust” and that without the sheltering shade the July suns shines as hot » in Dallas and Harveys Lake as in Kingston or Sugar Notch. HE To denude one’s land of trees creates not only the dis- comfitures of hot afternoons leading to still more rest- _Mo "ROSS TOWNSHIP LAKE 5 1 42 2 8 2 12 Vol.. 61; No. 31 Kennel Club To FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1951 Fifteen Sunday Schools Picnic 8 Cents Per Copy—Ten Pages Pretty Equestrienne Two Local Polio less nights but also creates large problems of land drain- age. and ‘‘spare that tree”. Take the advice of a countryman and long-time resident Consider carefully the destruction of your shade. It is not easily replaced and surface water unabsorbed by roots and branches runs off pricipitously causing wash in tender lawns at least and flash-floods at the worst. The following verse sets forth our admonition— A hundred years it stood Within a vernal wood A thousand times it paid Sweet comfort with its shade, Its lofty top raised high Cathedral of the sky Its trunk, a hundred rings ~~ Wind through its branches sings. Take care, O thoughtless man Before its bark you span With biting, cruel steel That makes the giant reel. Consider; be not loathe To contemplate its growth Regard its age, its height Ere you lay low its might. July 30, FROM. 1951—Joseph E. Pooley. PILLAR TO POST Hold 7th Show Sanction Match At Irem, BRugust 19th Back Mountain Kennel Club is preparing for its seventh annual Dog Show (A.K.C. sanctioned match) to be held Sunday, August 19 at Irem Temple Country Club. Mrs. Bart Callett is general chair- man. The show affords an opportunity for local owners to gain exper- ience in showing and handling young and novice dogs before the fall circuit of shows begins. Entries will be taken from 12 noon on August 19 up until show time starting at 1:30 P. M. No championship points will be given. Additional information may be obtained by calling the Show Se- cretary, Mrs, Thomas Robinson. Benefit Memorial Library. David Parsons Embarks On Six Weeks Cruise Midshipman David E. Parsons, USNROTC, son of Mr. John F. Parsons, Dallas RFD 1, a student at the University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, will leave Norfolk, Va., Friday, on a six-week cruise of East Coast and Caribbean ports as a part of the Navy's annual sum- and Mrs. | Tomorrow Noon At Harveys Lake Back Mountain Sunday Schools will hold their annual picnic to- morrow at the picnic grounds, Har- veys Lake, with a number of special attractions planned for old and young, married and single. Games will be in charge of Vic- tor Cross, Dallas, with contests starting at 1:30, following luncheon at noon. * A wood-sawing contest for women and a needle-threading race for men will furnish comic relief; two peanut hunts, one for chil- dren under six, one for children six to twelve; a tooth-pick race; a nail-driving contest for women; and an apple relay contest, in addi- tion to the classic sack races and three-legged races, will furnish plenty of laughs. Asher Weiss, superintendent of Trucksville Methodist Sunday school, says that fifteen schools have been lined up, predominantly Methodist, but including Hunts- ville Christian Church School and St. Paul’s Lutheran, Shavertown. Mr. Weiss reminiscences about Sunday school picnics in the past when people took the open trolleys to Harveys Lake and a steamer across the lake to the picnic grounds. Children are compen- sated for lack of a steamboat ride these days by having free rides on the amusements at the park. Each Sunday school will have an arrangement for giving tickets for rides to its own pupils. The day will start with a big noon lunch, end with a five o'clock supper and a short Vesper Service led by Rev. Frederick Moock Jr. at 6:30. The committee expects and plans to entertain the largest num- ber of. participants since the pic- nic’s revival some years ago. Toll Gate Lions Want Local Speed Limit Set At 35 Miles Efforts to establish a thirty-five mile speed limit through Shaver- town and adjoining communities were discussed at the meeting of Old Toll Gate Lions Club Tuesday Sponsoring a safety program for the main highway will be acted upon at the next meeting of the executive committee. A brief talk on Communist activ- Dainty Ursala Niklaus, Swiss Patients Make Good Progress Susie Lamoreaux w Carol Sutton Are At Contagious Hospital Two cases of Infantile Paralysis reported in the Back Mountain area are making good; progress at Wilkes-Barre Contagidus Hospital where they are getting every at- tention of their physicians and Wyoming Valley Crippled Children’s Association. They are Susie Lamoreaux, 4- year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Lamoreaux of Jackson Township, and Carol Sutton, 5%- year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Sutton of Carverton. Susie was stricken a week ago last Thursday with a headache, pain in the back of her neck, a temperature, sore throat and gen- eral symptoms of grippe. treated by Dr. Z. L. Smith of West Nanticoke, and tests made at Kirby Health Center revealed that she had polio. Her left foot is slightly effected and her right a little less. She is making good progress and was expected to leave the Con- tagious Hospital yesterday for Gen- eral Hospital where treatment will She was « By Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr. ital z i ny night at Colonial Inn, Fernbrook. |ities in the local area were given | dancing Palomino pal, Goldie, | Pe continued. mep iraining ‘programe{ior reserve Excessive speed and . resultant | by P. M. Winter in which he show- | e i isi is i iri : } i i : : uy | equestrienne, and her precision- Carol is in good spirits and is To round out a week at the Dallas Post made hme Dgens officer candidates ; ; accidents were discussed by Rev. |ed the club a roster of 1,100 dues- er tt i rates Ho Hs i y 4.8 gloss for sidio on af exploded furmnce, » los dog, a sich igen, an The cruise will ‘provide varied | Frederick W. Moock Jr. director | paying members of the Communist Top” when the Mills Brothers |of Lehman and Dr, J. T. Millington a misplaced swarm of bees, Tuesday brought an anonymous offer of | on-the-job training and is required | and chairman of community better- | Party in Luzerne County as of Three-Ring Circus. plays here on |She has no paralysis. Her Symp a snapping turtle. : of all reserve midshipmen. Some | ment committee. It was decided 1938. August 31. Performers from | tims were similar to Suslo’s: except Telephone conversation brought out the information that it was a | 1600 midshipmen are scheduled to | that a petition should be prepared Milton Richards, District Gover- | eighteen countries will be number- | she had no sore throat and com- ! large ‘one, between twenty-five ®— go on this cruise. Approximately | calling upon state and local au-|nor for this area, will speak Tues- | ed among the dancing horses, | plained of aches in her hands and and thirty pounds; that it had a lethal beak and slashing claws; that it was coldly resentful of imprison- ment in the largest picnic basket, and that it was for free, to any- body who could figure out what to do with it. Faced with twenty-five pounds of solid meat, slightly flavored with fish, the staff took counsel. ; Ralph Rood said he wouldn't like to discourage anybody, but that he had picked up a large snapper by the tail near Hunts- ville Dam one night, had immnred it in the space between the front and back seats of the car, and Civil Defense Booklet Issued The State Council of Civil De- fence announced today that the first of more than a quarter million Federal booklets, “Emergency Ac-} tion to Save Lives” had been shipped out to County Directors of Civil Defense in Pennsylvania. “The booklet is not a first aid course,” Dr. Richard Gerstell, State Director ‘of Civil Defense empha- 9000 midshipmen will have trained this summer when all the cruises are completed. The schedule of classes for the fifth annual Lehman Flower Show August 18 at Lehman Fire House is ready for distribution, accord- ing to. Show Chairman, Dorothy R. Major. Any amateur grower is eligible to enter the Horticultural thorities to establish a thirty-five mile speed limit and place signs on the highways. “Flowers In A Woman's Life"; Theme of Lehman Flower Show nouncement (centerpiece); 6. Bride’s Table (reception); 7. “May I bring the boss home to dinner, dear?’ (Emergency arrangement); 8. Arrangement with one flower for Garden Club tea; 9. 25th Wed- ding Anniversary (silver); 10. Gold- day night, August 14th. His sub- ject will be “Lionism.” Anthony Broody Entertains 150 Florists And Friends Gather At Farm Anthony Broody entertained 150 florists of . Luzerne County and their wives and friends at his clowns, and elephants in the cir- cus which is being brought here by the Dallas Kiwanis Club and the Back Mountain Branch Town & Country YMCA to help raise funds for the Youth Welfare Fund of both organizations. Two shows will be held on August 31—an afternoon show at 2 p.m. and an evening show at 8:00. The circus grounds will be on Harveys Lake Highway on the Harry Goeringer Estate, near Idetown. Doors will be open one hour before each show- ing time. L. W. LeGrand of the Back Moun- legs. She was taken ill Friday night and the case diagnosed the following morning. ) Both mothers in a telephone con- versation with a Post reporter said they could not praise too highly the care and attention given the children by the Crippled Children’s Association. They also said that they had been told that many children de- velop the symptoms of polio but have no paralysis and therefore their cases go unreported. These children and their families are are and may never again contract never aware of how fortunate they s . 3 : : : tain YMCA and Fred Anderson of : sized. “It is what to do in an Specimens division and also the | en Wedding Anniversary. A acreage in Beach Haven, where he . T the disease, although : : : : 3% . - h th h had been so overpowered by be emergency, how to stop a person | Fruits and Vegetables division. At a special meeting of the | raises fifteen acres of gladiolus for the Dallas Hi Club 3 el during the pod oe Liner Tig : fragrance within a tenth of a from bleeding to. death, helping : i 4 : ve | sale. Rain threatened Tuesday | D8 8 co-chairmen in charge o It is not necessary for the ex- | Friendship Class held Monday e that he had stopped the car and gratefully released the prisoner. people with bad burns, doing the hibitor to grow the flowers used ning at the home of Dorothy Ma- afternoon, but held off so that the the . circus presentation which is ness give the disease to others. Mrs. Sutton said some authori- : : . gs ! ord the 12th anniversary tour for the | . Bob said his wife did not know Might thing with broken bones |i, ‘the Arrangement division of |jor, final plans for the Show were Re Comfortably at | Mis Brothers Circus. ties hold to the theory that polio how to: make turtle soup: shock, sutiocation. HOW 10 NANCIE | the show. The schedule may be | discussed. There will be the usual p et up 1 the | in. week the Associated Press] may be spread by carriers. She Howard's reaction to ‘Do you wanna turtle?” was to the point, injured people. “To really be of some use to obtained from any member of Friendship Class of Lehman Meth- home baked goods on sale and food will be served throughout the shade, flanking a huge outdoor fire- place. carried the following dispatch from Bourbonnais, Ill., concerning an un- advised all parents to read an ex- cellent article which appears in the and phrased in two short words. yourself and your family, take a |odist Church. day; families are invited to enjoy James Hutchison, Luzerne Coun- rehearsed act put on by Mills current issue of Parents Magazine M : said doubtfully that her | Red Cross First Aid course as soon | mp. [ehman Show this year will | their Saturday night supper at the | ty farm agent, was on hand to dis- | Brothers circus: giving answers to 100 questions on i used to have a recipe for | aS you can. But this booklet is}; i. arrangements to be made in | Flower Show. the contour plowing which AD Disaaidh polio. turtle soup. good for emergency actions for un-{ supplied by the committee Prizes will be awarded for the | had made the twenty-five acre plot P! There are now five polio patients We returned to the phone. “How do you kill it?” That, said the persuasive voice at the other end of the line, was the easiest part of the whole thing. There was a hook imbedded in the lower jaw, and with a spot of traction the head could be drawn out and the neck extended for the ax. Or the whole business could be plunged head first into trained persons-to take. It will save lives, whether the injuries are from atomic attack, or from an unex- pected accident in the home.” The supply of booklets is being sent to all Pennsylvania counties and Federal government authorizes reproduction locally. Copies may be individually purchased from the Superintendent of Public Docu- ments, Washington 25, D. C. at under the heading of ‘Flowers in a Woman's Life.”” Since the num- ber of niches'is limited, it is nec- essary for those interested in en- tering to make reservation for a niche not later than August 11. The following arrangements will be judged on artistic arrangement and originality, accessories permitted: 1. A Little Girl Arrives; 2. Birth- day Party (6 years old); 3. Center outstanding entry in each section with a door prize drawing Satur- day evening between 8:30' and 9 o’clock. Present at Monday's meeting were: Mrs. Charles Ely, Mrs, Char- les Nuss, Mrs. Earl Eustice, Mrs. Bryce Major, Mrs. A. M. Major, Mrs. Conrad Miller, Mrs. Russell Coolbaugh, Mrs. Alice Elston, Mrs. Francis Lewis, Mrs. Leonard Adam-/ the sandy soil free from erosion, and to give ad- vice on soils. Contour plowing was done last year on advice from the department of agriculture, Guests toured the various plots, admiring the prize gladiolus and the early blooming asters. Planting includes not only flowers, but corn, tomatoes, cantaloupes for which is excellent, and cucumbers. Townsfolk of Bourbonnais got a free show today when a circus lumber truck overturned and three of the show’s stars righted it in their own ponderous way. A convoy of some 30 trucks of the Mills Brothers’ Circus was en- route from Chicago to Lafayette, Ind., when a 1% ton lumber truck driven by Harold Dykstor, 23, of St. Louis, turned turtle on a curve. pital. Mrs. Sutton said the nurses, who are cheerful and devoted to their young charges, would like to have small portable radios to place at the children’s bedsides. Any one who would like to contribute such a radio can do so by calling The Dallas Post. 2 William Cairl a steaming caldron, like a lobster. | five cents each. piece for Teenagers’ Hallowe'en | schick, Mrs. Lester Squier, Mrs. The picnic started at 3 P. M. Policeman Kenneth Kyrouac ask- This seemed tough on the turtle, Party; 4. Valentine Flowers for | Joseph Ellsworth, Dorothy R.|when guests arrived with their |ed Dykstor if he wanted a tow 5 but after all the execution would Monday Is Last Day Sweet Sixteen; 5. Engagement An- | Major. basket suppers. Supplementary re- | truck called. Holds His Own take only an instant, and nobody freshments were served by Mr. “No thanks”, the uninjured wastes time bewailing the fate of a hard crab or a raw oyster. With the thought of turtle soup in mind, we suggested contacting the restaurants. ; This, said the fisherman despon- dently, had already been done. Re- actions had varied from explosive howls of “No, not that” to fears that the turtle might be left on the doorstep in a spirit of good clean fun. All restaurants concurred in pre- ferring to get their turtle soup out of a can instead of a carapace. None of them bit on the bargain of a caldron of turtle soup on the hoof. : There is a lot of meat in a turtle, For Camp Registration Monday is the last day for reg- istering in the Back Mountain YMCA Da-Camp. It is the begin- ning of the last two-week period. To date Da-Camp has carried the following members: Jean Newell, Joan Newell, Eileen Crispell, Carol Saidman, Larry Jackson and Terry Lord of Noxen; Betty Ann Chappell, Bonnie = Ruth Jenkins, George Jacobs, Tod Eberle, James Eckerd, James Morgan, Richard Thomas, Douglas Cooper, Donald Stroud, Greg Harris and Tommy Jenkins of Shavertown; George Williams and William Weber of Trucksville; Larry Creasy, Stefan Hellersperk Follows Dad's Footsteps and Mrs. Anthony Broody and their daughter Jean; Mr. and Mrs. George Broody; Mrs. Robert Broody, Sophia Kamcher, Wesley Broody, and Sam Ashley, who ma- nages the Broody Floral Shop on the Harveys Lake Highway. Conducts Meeting driver replied, “We have our own equipment.” Another circus truck was brought up and out lumbered three ele- phants. One steadied the over- turned truck while the other two rolled it over. Betsy B. Platt, Killed In Automobile Accident Local Friends who farted to know her on her frequent visits with her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph MacVeigh, Center Hill road, were saddened by the un- timely and tragic death of Miss Betsy B. Platt, 22 of Wallingford After Operation Monday Morning William F. Cairl, Sr. who was taken hurriedly to Nesbitt Hospital the day before his sixtieth wedding anniversary, is holding his own after a serious operation performed on Monday, ten days after ad- mission. Members of the immediate fdwm= ily who had gathered for a quiet family dinner in honor of the oc- casion, were saddened by the sud- den heart attack which prevented Mr. Cairl from attending. It was last year, at a Golden seven different kinds, according to and Bruce Murphy of Dallas. and Princess Ann, Md. a week | Wedding dinner given at Dallas popular belief. Sorted out into A well rounded program under ago Friday morning. Betsy, dau- {Methodist Church, that Mr. and trays labelled beef, pork, veal, | the supervision of Miss Karen ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip G. | Mrs. Cairl were unable to attend lamb, chicken, and what have you, a large snapper would go a long way toward balancing the budget and curbing inflation. Nobody was in a mood for bar- gains. The fisherman sighed regretfully. He said he’d call some other people. He said the State should offer a bounty for turtles, that the rep- tiles were a pest to the fisherman and a menace to small fish. That the one that had gotten away at Ford Lake week before last was as big as a table top and had de- voured the string of fish hanging over: the gunwhale to keep fresh. He said that he had a real stake in this present turtle, because it had snapped. up two dollars worth of night-walkers at two cents a snap. ’ : Lamb of Lehman and E. L. Wyant of Noxen has been operating to its full extent. So far two trips to Sandy Beach and one to the Noxen Swimming Hole have been enjoyed. The boys were active in fishing, swimming, wood craft, hiking, out- door games to include organized sports and free play. The girls dwell on handicraft, hikes, hot dog roasts, etc. This has been the first time a program of this nature has been introduced. L. W., LeGrand, Chairman of Back Mountain “Y”, feels it has met with much success. Awarded Contract Raymon Hedden has be awarded a $266,000 contract for the construction of an addition to Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hos- DANIEL J. Daniel J. Stenger, son of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Stenger, Jr., Shaver- town, graduated from the United States Naval Radio School at Nor- folk, Va., on July 27th and has been assigned to the Naval Radio Station at Boston, Mass. STENGER WBAX greatly enhanced his know- ledge and his assignment to a shore station is a coveted duty. He is following the footsteps of his father who served in World War I as Chief Radio operator aboard the Destroyer Shaw with REV. HENRY BLACK Rev. Henry Black of Los Angeles is the evangelist for the Union Tent Meeting being held near the Mo- hawk Riding Academy at Sunset, Harveys Lake. The meetings, which began Aug- ust 2, will continue through August 12. Services are at 8 each evening. Rev. Black is a widely known Platt and graduate of William and Mary College, was returning from a swimming party with two boy friends when she was instantly killed in an automobile accident. Neither boy received a scratch. The MacVeighs, who started for Princess Ann as soon as they heard of the accident, had to turn around at Saylors Lake and return when Charlotte became ill. They missed the funeral but spent from Tues- day until last Saturday with the Platts. Shepherds Find That Bass Are Biting Mr. and Mrs. George Shepherd, of Goss Manor and Detroit, have returned from a fishing trip along because of sudden illness of Mr. Cairl.. He has been in reduced health for some months, but car- ried on his work as custodian of Dallas Methodist Church until the week of his heart attack. The weather was hot, and Mr. Cairl, intent upon finishing his duties before the weekend, over- exerted himself. He will be eighty- three this month. Advised by his physician that he should give up his work, he was unwilling to do so though realizing that his heart was badly weakened. Tr ee Ruction Notice There, are -still several bake dishes, pyrex dishes, enamel pans etc., at the Dallas Post which were brought to the Library Auction " He rang off. pital at Wellsboro. Total contract | Before leaving for the Navy on | service in European waters. Daniel authors evangelist. ioiand + Aworld the Susquehanna, and report that | with food in them. Some have On Wednesday morning he rang |is for $420,000. The addition will | January 12, 1951 he was a control {is now home on ten days leave of %: Be h : {the bass were biting. Mr. Shep- | names on, some do not. If you have i up again. engineer for WBAX in the employ traveler. ere. Wi e special ' herd is associated with Austin En- (Continued on Page Eight) vi ® increase the bed capacity of the hospital. pi of his father. His experience at absence. “ singing each evening, gineers Company in Detroit. - is not already called for yours, kindly do so as soon as possible. x [at Wilkes-Barre Contagious Hos- : Fis #
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