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The June issue of National Geographic has an article on bird life by
Dr. A. A. Allen, professor of ornithology at Cornell University. The crux
of this publication is on releases of
the various cycles that govern birds
_ in their every move. The kodachrome pictures that accompany this ar-
ticle afford one a minute semblance
ica see in their study of bird life.
There are no nature clubs of this
kind that I know of in our Coun-
try, but we do have many people
who spend hours watching nest
construction by our feathered
friends on limb and in bird houses.
I, and perhaps others, too, have
noted many birds that are strange
to this region, and wondered what
they were and why they are here.
Several years ago ' the fight
against Gypsy Moth was speeded
up from ground crew spraying to
aero-spraying. Many can recall the
spotted cars and windows that
year, but few persons had know-
ledge as to what extent our ani-
mal, bird, aquatic and beneficial in-
sect life suffered. The Moth has
been eradicated but this eradica-
tion program also reduced the
numbers of pollinating insects
(bird food) and bees that have
taken over the task of mass polli-
nation of orchards, pasture and ve-
getable gardens.
The spray program in this in-
fested area was very small in com-
parison to those carried on in our
cotton, wheat and corn belts, The
economy of dusting or spraying
from the air to control corn bores,
boll weevil and wheat rust is with-
out question the primary factor for
the stable price of these impor-
tant commodities.
Of D.D.T. spraying, the records’
show that in an experiment at
Beltsville, Md., laboratory of U.S.
Department of Agriculture, a 1
per cent solution, killed fish and
practically all other aquatic life in
a pond located in the testing area;
birds and animals were also killed,
but no accurate records could be
obtained on this phase of the re- |
search program for many of them
left the area after subjection to ‘the
spray. Raa
Birds throughout the U.S. are
migratory. A release, according to
Professor Allen, and this release,
being the desire to live, causes mi-
gration to areas where food is
available. There is no doubt that
some of the strange birds we have
of what the Bird Watchers of Amer-
&>
seen are native to the aforemen-
tioned belts that are now being
treated from the air. The unfor-
tunate angle, however, is, that all
insect life suffers and birds are
forced into a migration release
that will afford them food for sur-
vival or to perpetuate their species.
If aquatic life suffers in a pond
in the test area, it also suffers in
the streams, lakes and small ponds
in the parts of our nation where
large spray or dusting programs
are carried on,
Only the common house fly has
built up resistance against D.D.T.
and if one wishes to eradicate it, a
stronger acting chemical must be
used. In comparison, our very im-
portant honey bee has developed
no resistance because of its body
structure, being one of the few in-
sects that has its skeleton outside
its flesh. Contact with most any of
our commercial sprays is fatal.
To state the importance of bees
to mankind, first might be men-
tioned their value as pollinators.
If it were not for them, apples
would cost perhaps three dollars
each, and cucumbers two dollars
each, Secondly comes their value
as wax manufacturers. They pro-
duce a wax that cannot be dupli-
cated by man. No one can estimate
the value of this item, for without
tics - that have saved man from
pain, yes and even death for many
years. To mention a third value of
bees you say honey, but this is
only the small. compensation one
gets for his work with them,
A person could study and write
about insects and never get to the
end of his research or writings but
no matter what you found and
wrote, it would evolve into one
basic theory, that with complete
eradication of them, and especially
bees, for they have filled in the gap
of the reduced ranks of pollinating
insect pests, mankind would only
survive for a short time.
it we would be short of pharmaceu-.
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June Exceeded Any
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More Blue Cross members of
Hospital Service Association of
Northeastern Pennsylvania were
admitted to hospitals during June
than in any previous one-month
period in its 12-year history. This
brought the total savings of hos-
pitalized members close to $1 1/
million for the first 6 months of
this year alone, with the total
$1,462,786. 33.
Semi-annual reports presented at
the meeting of the board of direc-
tors: held Thursday, July 26 in
Wilkes-Barre general offices showed
that last month 4635 hospital ad-
missions were processed, in addi-
tion to 1494 Blue Shield medical/
surgical cases, for the record-
breaking total of 6129 cases.
Breakdown of causes of hospital-
ization shows that maternity cases
again are rising, comprising 16%
of all cases handled, which is an
increase of 3% over the same
month in 1950. Tonsillectomies-ad
enoidectomies, on the other hand,
swung sharply down from last
year’s 24% of all causes, to 18%.
Two new sponsoring Member
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6-months’ period, bringing the list
tog 43. Gnaden Huetten Memorial
Hospital, Lehighten,
Providence Hospital, Williamsport.
An increase of 8446 new Blue
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June was noted. Blue Cross mem-
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groups were employees of Glen Al-
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for Blue Cross hospital services and
for Blue Shield medical/surgical
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Valley Coal Company's Hazleton
Shaft for Blue Cross benefits.
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Well, we see by the papers that
our school board and the Noxen
School Board have passed the ‘Not
dangerous” procedure and have
signed up for a two-year in a
jointure. You will remember that
the Harveys Lake Protective Asso-
ciation said it was not dangerous
for them to do this, but before the
Boards go into planning a new
building, should notify Harveys
Lake Protective Association. So we
may presume that if the new com-
bined school district plans an addi-
tion to the Lake school, or a new
building, it will be ‘dangerous’ in
the eyes of the Harveys Lake Pro-
tective Association.
Well, we may as well face the
facts. If anyone thinks that we
can add the high school students
of Noxen, and possibly those of
Beaumont, to our present grades
without increasing rooms in our
present school building, we are not
only kidding ourselves, but also the
Harveys Lake Protective Associa-
tion.
As we see it, if we carried on
alone this year our budget would
be increased because of teachers’
salaries. This is no fault of Direc-
tors Ide, Leinthall, Kocher, Wolfe,
Fisk, or our hard working prin-
cipal, George Taylor, who is striv-
ing to get a school that all may
be proud of. It is just plain State
law. These teachers’ salaries must
be increased. With the jointure
of Lake and Noxen we would re-
ceive from the State almost enough
to pay for these increments.
capacity is concerned, person-
ally we think that we will need at
least six more classrooms to ade-
quately take care of the augmented
pupils. That cost may, be taken
up later with the taxpayers and
the joint school board.
This is where the Harveys Lake
Protective Association could come
in. One of its members, in a series
of questions submitted to Principal
George Taylor asked: “Would it not
be cheaper for the cottagers to
form a Borough from the lake
shore line and 1,000 feet there-
from and pay rent for their stu.
dents to some district (Lehman
or Dallas Township) than to sup-
port any school district?”
lying vacant in either township to
take care of our children. Both
Dallas and Lehman have been over-
crowded for years. The trouble
is children seem to get born, grow
before we, who are crowding age
60, realize it.
What we would like to see is
From the issue of August 1, 1941
This was the ‘famous forty-page
brown edition of the Dallas Post,
with this box on the front page:
For many years we have lain
awake nights wishfully thinking of
the day when we could get out
just one edition of the Post whicls
would top any other paper in the
county .... just one issue in which
we could use all the galleys of type
and equipment in our plant .. one
chance for our staff to show the
community what the Dallas Post is
really able to do when the mier-
chants and the community cooper-
ate wholeheartedly. This time we
think we've done it. We're proud
of our community and have taken
similar pride in this effort to con-
tribute something which we sin-
cerely feel will help to acquaint
the world with the beauty and joy
of living in the Back Mountain
Region.
Not much news, but plenty of
pictures, plenty of ads, plenty of
back-patting from everybody to
everybody, plenty of stories of Back
Mountain concerns from the Ren-
dering Plant at Jackson to new
service stations ‘along the new
highway.
Reminiscences by Burgess Her-
bert A. Smith, pictures of grandpa
cranking the family car away back
when, a photograph of the old
Raub House, nostalgic items from
days when Dallas was a hamlet.
Pictures of new homes going up
in Goss Manor and Druid Hills,
new real estate developments.
Predictions of a building boom to
end building booms, with vast ex-
pansion of population and propor-
tionate commercial growth,
A story on the Lake Louise bea-
ver dam, with C. F. Goeringer re-
commending beavers as pleasant
neighbors.
A page spread of Concrete A-
chievements by the Wyoming Val-
ley Motor Club.
A new postoffice for Dallas still
being talked about.
Much publicity about doing away
with dafacing road signs in scenic
spots.
Back Mountain’s blooded cattle
are among the nation’s best, its
fishing streams have no peer, its
hunting lands are unequalled.
Girl Scouts were organized here
sixteen years ago by Mrs. Fred-
erick Hillman.
Andrew Sordoni serves Scenic
Pennsylvania in a full page spread
on page 25.
Mill-wheels brought business to
Huntsville,
Coon Certified Concrete. No job
too large or too small.
the two school boards appoint a
citizens’ committee and the Har-
veys Lake Protective Association do
likewise and those two groups go
over the school situation thorough-
ly.
We see by the papers that the
citizens. of Beaumont voted last
Tuesday that their school form a
jointure with another district. If
Beaumont wishes to join Lake, then
that matter should be studied. In
fact, the whole State Law should
be given a thorough airing so more
would know what may and may
not be done. The Back Mountain
Citizens’ Committee for Better
Schools has been doing that for
the past year or two, but its teach-
ings haven’t reached a largé enough
circle. Everyone of us should
know more about school law
whether we have any kids of school
age or not. Parents of school age
kids need our help in educating
their children.
As far as our school building
Well, there are no extra rooms |
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§ Brinvard Notes
Why in the name of heaven anybody would be interested in this
column is more than I can understand; but folks do call up when
it's out of the paper and ask if the editor has died.
Seems to me the only person who should be interested in this
literary masterpiece is I, and the only reason I should be interested
is because I have to write it—and that’s something when there's
a blank sheet of newsprint in front of you and forty-two idle keys
on the typewriter—not counting the shift. locks, shift keys and back
spacers which are no earthly use when the mind is as blank as the
newsprint.
This interest in other people’s problems—my problem being this
column—reminds me of the old lady who asked the keeper of the
St. Louis Zoo if the hippopotamus was male or female. “Lady”,
said the keeper mournfully, “that is a question that should interest
only another hippopotamus.”
I am that other hoppopotamus.
yard Notes.
Well, nothing much new has happened since the last writing.
I've got to be interested in Barn-
But life with four dogs and a mother-in-law, all in the same house
can be interesting; and if you have a wife like Myra and a friend
like Harry Ohlman, both allergic to dogs, it can be at times uncom-
fortable.
The five grey squirrels no longer tarry during their trips across
our yard, but make it in a hop skip and a jump three grass blades
ahead of Sandy, whose belly levels the nightwalkers’ castings as he
stretches his short legs for speed. ;
Blaze, the Noisy Bitch, has made life exciting for every venture-
some rabbit on Lehman avenue, and it would be a foolhardy robin
who would search for worms in our garden.
Rogue, the one who started out to be a Springer Spaniel, has
dragged in a flattened toad, a dead snake and a photographer's dis-
carded flash bulb plus a varied assortment of fish heads, a decaying
animal skull and a rag doll.
Buck lounges on the porch sofa and growls when anybody dis-
turbs him.
But, thank the Lord, sleeping arrangements have been changed.
That came about when Granny suggested that I sleep in the cel-
lar and, let the four dogs have my room. It might have gone through
at that if Sandy hadn’t tackled Rogue. Now two dogs sleep in the
cellar, Sandy in the backyard and Buck has the run of the house.
How long this will continue only the neighbors know. Sandy's
the problem. Along about 4:30 a.m. he lets out a mournful yowl that
jolts me from a sound ‘sleep even when the neighbors do miss it.
Three wails and I can usually make it barefooted to the kitchen
and out the back door in time to arrest the half finished fourth
dirge. :
Sandy has a big yard and more freedom than he ever had; but
he's a thirfty and cleanly Scot. So playing a hunch that he is one
who would never appreciate a bathroom in a house, I now let him
roam from supper until late at night. : !
For the past week there have been none of those painful early
morning yowls. ;
Any kid, who has ever eaten green apples and had to get up in
the middle of the night to trek to the outhouse could have told me
Sandy’s problem. - aE
Being clean and Scotch he wanted to get to the garden—and
quick . . . and that unearthly .yowl helped a lot.
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