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THE POST, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1951
Erosion of our lands though not
always seen by the untrained eye,
sometimes takes on the mantle of
catastrophe, such as floods, caused
by rapid drainage of our barren
lands, or dust storms that are agi-
tated by a shortage of water on
land ‘that is improperly cultivated.
Several years ago an example of
visible erosion could be seen above
Noxen where a large portion of the
slid into Bowman's
creek. More recently a slide . of
land that could have been a catas-
_ trophe if a train were in the area,
or motor traffic heavy, occurred
just south of West Nanticoke on
U. S. Route 11. Thousands of tons
of earth and rock rumbled down
from the side of what appeared
to be a perfectly solid mountain.
Several more slides of smaller di-
mension could also be seen along
~ Harvey's Creek, on the West Nan-
ticoke-Lake Silkworth road.
Another example of what quick
drainage can do is visible on a
farm at Vosburg. A torrential
storm removed all top soil from
several acres of good tillable farm
land and left clay and boulders
exposed on never-to-be- reclaimed
farm land.
Going back many years to a per-
iod when the nomadic Susquehan-
nock Indian travelled the eastern
Pennsylvania, our valley of Wyo-
~ ming was a great lake from moun-
tain to mountain, formed by the
mountains crossing the present
Gorge from West Nanticoke to the
Honey Pot or East Nanticoke side
and extending as far north as
Pittston.
After many centuries of water
wear, the softer shell rock gave
way and drained the valley! of
water: The level of soil being per-
“haps fifty to seventy-five feet be-
low our present elevation. The
shell rock wearing so gradually left
a natural span of Pottsville Con-
glomerate rock across the river to
form what was considered one of
the wonders of this area. This
bridge was used for many years
by the Indians and was the cross-
_ ing point of Warrior Run or Saug-
e-an Maus-ke-hanna Trail.
"The bed of the river during this
ran through the valley
starting near Forty Fort Airport
and travelled south down our pre-
sent Wyoming Avenue,
After many years of erosion at
the span ends of. this bridge the
weight became so great that it col-
lapsed into the river channel form-
ing a dam that caused inundation
of our valley once more. Sand and
soil settled into the bottom of the
second lake and when the rock that
formed the breast of this lake
wore through enough to drain the
water, the ground level was raised
to our present elevation. The river
channel however had moved some-
what to the east and travelled
through the valley starting at the
Sgarlet gravel pits in Forty Fort
and south through the part of
Kingston that is still known to
some of the older residents as the
Blue Ponds.
Many more years of bank cutting
erosion caused the gradual shift-
ing of the river to the easterly side
of our valley.
Wyoming, or Maugh-We-o-wam-
ma, a Mohawk Indian sentence
meaning foggy broad plain, was
settled by several tribes of peace-
ful Indians who were content to
farm the level lands of the valley,
land that after many generations
is still so fertile that many of our
truck farmers are reaping good
crops of early top quality vege-
tables.
(To be continued)
Staub And Lyons Home
From Camp Breckenridge
Two young men from Kingston
Township, Richard Staub, Trucks-
ville, and Robert Lyons, Shaver-
town, are home from an eight
month tour of duty at Camp
Breckenridge, Kentucky, where
they trained with the 101st Ajr-
borne.
Both Lyons and Staub served
five years in World War II, Lyons
with the 93d Artillery in the Euro-
pean theatre, Staub with a chem-
ical warfare division, also in
Europe. They both belonged to the
reserves, and were called on active
duty with the minimum of notice.
They are now released from ser-
vice, probably permanently, as of
August 1.
At Breckenridge,
master sergeant, Lyons sergeant
first class. In civilian life, Staub
travels for the American Chicle
Staub was a
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Wholesale Killings Must Stop
Dear Editor:
To the average uninformed mo-
torist, an unposted highway means
a 50-mile an hour speed.
Trucksville, Shavertown, and
Dallas were a few years ago con-
“Back Mountain Commu-
nities.” They were served by an
electric trolley and a winding nar-
row road leading to town.
Today the picture is different.
These same: towns have grown to
suburban proportions. We call
them built-up areas. The narrow
winding road has been superseded
by a three and four lane State
highway. With the advent of the
modern concrete road came an in-
flux of .new arrivals. Homes were
built by the hundreds and business
establishments came to meet the
public demands. Schools have al-
ready coped with the
needs and churches have enlarged
their buildings for the additional
members,
The “Back Mountain Area” is
now ready to say— ‘POST THE
HIGHWAY AT 35.” We are a con-
gested area—we admit it. There- |
fore Township Commissioners and
State authorities—take heed. The
question is—How many lives must
be lost, including innocent lives,
due to a 50-mile an hour speed
through' the heart of our Commu-
nities? The ‘Red Tape’ must be
cut by the scissors of common
sense.
The Rev. Frederick W. Moock, Jr.
On Dean's List
Two Back Mountain area stu-
dents were named to the Dean's
List for the second semester of the
1950-1951 school year at King's
College in Wilkes-Barre. They are
John Comer, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Victor Polk, 51 Parrish Street, Dal-
las, and Joseph Bower, son of Dr.
and Mrs. E. J. Bower, Noxen.
Comer is majoring in accounting
at King’s College and Bower is en-
rolled in a science course.
company, Lyons represents DuPont
in technical service.
Mrs, Staub is advertising for a
small house in this issue, hoping to
make the Back Mountain the fam-
ily’s permanent home. Richard was
brought up in Trucksville and at-
tended Kingston Township schools.
The Lyons are newcomers to the
area.
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YESTERDAY
From The Post of ten and
twenty years ago this week.
‘| wages and spend it.
From the issue of August 15, 1941
The crime wave at Harveys Lake
was terminated Tuesday afternoon
with the apprehension of three
small boys at the picnic grounds.
Chief Ira Stevenson made them re-
turn the forty cents.
William Brickel is the third
teacher to leave the Dallas Bor-
ough high school since June. He
will be with the Scranton Country
Day School at a substantial in-
crease in salary.
Governor James has inspected
the proposed site of a state park at
Ricketts Glen, but purchase is still
uncertain.
Nine offenders of the sanitary
code have been made to clean up
their property at Harveys Lake,
and two camps have been warned.
Kiwanis and Rotary clubs will
sponsor formation of school sa-
fety patrols, decision following
showing of a safety film by the
State Police.
A barn floor collapsed on Ed-
ward Mokychis, employee of Wil-
son Ryman, East Dallas, on Tues-
day. His chest was pierced by a
tooth of the cutting bar of a
mower. He is at the Nesbitt
Hospital.
A road construction worker was
stabbed in a drunken brawl Sat-
urday night by Friend Mitchell,
Hays Corner.
Marvin Kunkle Ryman, 86, ve-
teran of the lumber industry, was
buried from his home in Maryland,
July 30. As a young man he
worked in lumber camps all over
the Back Mountain district.
Local dairymen have been paid
30% increase for their milk this
year.
Margaret Louise Culp became the
bride of Robert C. Hull, Washing-
ton, D. C., August 8.
Catherine Davis will marry Ho-
ward Tinsley on Saturday.
Meeker WSCS Invites
Other Three Charges
Meeker WSCS has issued an in-
vitation to the other three chur-
ches in Rev. Henry Kiessel’s
charge, Mooretown, Maple Grove,
and Loyalville, to join in a WSCS
meeting on Wednesday at 8, at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. William Dra-
bick. Members who expect to at-
tend are asked to inform Mrs, Dra-
bick or Mrs. Morton Connelly in
advance.
Family social night for the four
charges will be held at Mooretown
Thursday night at 8 in the church
hall. Eighty were present at the
last family. night.
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We
stupid some persons elected to high
offices think the general public is.
The latest gem from some of our
not too bright Senators down in
‘Washington, according to the news-
papers, is a plan to raise the per-
centage of taxes in the lower in-
come groups in order to stop in-
flation. They say that thet man
getting low wages actually spends
all he makes—thus, draining off
more in his taxes would produce a
direct - cut in the spending that
tends to boost prices. Then these
Senators continue with the theory
that the higher paid group bank
some of their money so they won't
raise their taxes as much because
saving money tends to lower prices.
Well, we never claimed to be
much of a financier, but we can’t
see where this idea would stop
spending. If Uncle Sam in getting
this extra money from the poor
would save it, yes, but he can spend
it faster than any poor guy we
know that is working for a few
dollars a day, so the same amount
often wonder just how
of money will be distributed, there- |.
by endangering the country toward
inflation, as it would if the poor
man were allowed to keep all of his
The only dif-
ference’ would be that if Uncle
Sam spent it, the low wage bracket
man would have less food in his
stomach. Then take the idea of not
taxing the "higher paid man so
much because he banks some of his
wages. Do these Senators think
that banks place these savings in
vaults and let it lie there? They
do not, they loan that money out
to suckers like us, and we spend
it. In our opinion, some of these
Senators, with their silly ideas are
driving the country closer to in-
flation than the common ordinary
guy with a take-home pay of thirty
bucks or less.
Now, let’s skip from Washington
up to Harrisburg. There's another
group who thinks it’s kidding the
public. The first thing Governor
Fine did was cut off the one cent
a bottle soft drink tax before he
knew where his other tax money
was coming from. He acted just
like a man chucking up one job
before he got a new one. The
soft drink tax hurt very few per-
sons. The next thing he did was
appoint two men at high salary
jobs to plan on the defense of our
State in case of war. May we ask
just who held down these jobs
when the country was at war with
Germany, Italy and Japan, and
just what was their salary com-
parable to that of the men in
those jobs now? It seems to us
that if war does come that we have
enough patriotic citizens in this
State to volunteer their services
for its defense.
We know money is getting
scarcer. We find it just as difficult
as Harrisburg and Washington does
to raise enough to meet these spir-
aling prices, but we are not kidding
ourself about it and we resent
office holders trying to kid us.
The business men at Harveys
Lake are having their troubles, too,
when it comes to selling enough of
their wares to meet expenses. The
weather hasn't been too kind to
them on Sundays this summer. We
talked to a few this week when
we were endeavoring to sell tickets
to the Alderson Methodist Church
flower show being held this Wed-
nesday at the Lake school. One
merchant told us that he saw a
father slap one of his kids because
the boy demanded a double dip ice
cream cone when the parent
thought one ball of cream was all
he could afford. Yes, things are
tough, but we can all still have fun.
We've got the lake, a good school,
some fine churches, and the sun-
shines on week days. Flowers
grow, thanks to the Sunday rains
and a little sweat, so let’s all go to
the school this Wednesday after-
noon and evening and enjoy the
flowers that nature has provided.
The W. S. C. S. of the Alderson
Methodist Church has plans for 28
sections which will accommodate
334 different displays of flowers or
vegetables, including special ar-
rangements of wall niches,
Beside displays by amateur adults
the program allows for arrange-
ments for children under eight
years of age and from eight to
twelve.
Corinne Gregory Weds’
Lt. G. Guthrie Conyngham
Announcement has been made of
the marriage, July 13, of Miss Cor-
inne Gregory, daughter of Mrs.
Benjamin F. Gregory, Hanover
Township, and Lt.” G. Guthrie
Conyngham, son of Mrs. William
H. Conyngham and the late Wil-
liam H. Conyngham of Hillside
Farm. Rev. E. B. Wallin performed
the ceremony.
Mrs. Conyngham is a graduate of
Meyers High School and has been
employed by Fowler Dick and Wal-:
ker. Lt. Conyngham is a graduate
of Yale University and was assis-
tant manager of Eastern Pennsyl-
vania Supply Company before his
recall to military service, He ex-
pects to leave shortly for service
with the First Marine Division in
Korea.
§ Barnyard Notes
Virginia is still my favorite vacation spot. I can say that after
spending Saturday, the hottest day of the year, in Williamsburg.
So don’t let hot weather keep you away from the Old Dominion.
Virginia is the site of the.first white settlement in America, the
scene of her early colonization, an important battleground of the
Revolution, and the major battlefield of the Civil War.
Even without its background of history, Virginia would still hold
a charm for the Northern visitor. Right now the crepe myrtle, in
all its varied shades of red, is at its height along Virginia’s highways
and in her dooryards. The holly berries are, a lush green, and -the
last of her flaming trumpet vines, so profuse from the first to the
fifteenth of July, are blooming along her fences and hedgerows.
Cardinals and mocking birds sing from every shrub, and from the
tall turpentine pines, vultures flap lazily down along well-travelled
highways or along the desolate sandy stretches of red earth that
lead back to James River plantations.
Perhaps it is because I discovered Virginia later in life—long after
I had enjoyed New England,—that it has so much appeal for me;
for Tidewater Virginia—the area between the James and Potomoc
Rivers, and back to their fall lines—is rich country for the student
of history, a high road to adventure and romance.
There are somehow, places where it is easier to be a good Amer-
ican than others; Monticello shortly after sunrise is one of them;
the Lewis and Clark Memorial in Charlottesville; the old church at
Jamestown on a summer evening when the frogs croak and a Vir-
ginia deer timidly crosses your path. You get the same feeling walk-
ing along the Confederate lines at dusk at Gettysburg or looking
out over the quiet waters of Lake Champlain at sunset from the
battlements of Fort Ticonderoga, or on approaching for the first
time the South Carolina monument at Gettysburg.
Virginia is like that everywhere. It does something for you if
you are of the breed who reads history on winter evenings. To visit
Virginia only for a good place to eat, sleep, swim and relax—Vir-
ginia Beach for example—is like going to a movie in New York City
when you could see the same picture at home a week later. And to
drive only over her main highways—like US No. 1—is no different
from any through highway in any other State; the shortest distance
between two points, but revealing nothing. To enjoy Virginia—
take the bypaths. Unless you do you will never see plantation homes
like,” Shirley, Carter’s Grove or Brandon. The men who built those
places travelled by river boat, horseback and carriage—not by motor
car. ;
My travelling companion will journey any distance to see an old
home and its gardens; but she rebels at “looking at a spot” or redd-
ing a monument or ‘roadside marker. Fortunately the Virginia De-
partment of Highways has taken care of that problem very prettily.
It has issued a booklet giving the text of every roadside marker
in the State. As you speed by an historical sign, just yell to your
companion, “What was the number?” Then at her leisure let her
look it up in the book and read it to you. By that time you will
have passed another. Virginia is covered with highway markers.
Outside of Richmond—at Seven Pines—the scene of McClellen’s
early Peninsula campaign to take the city—there are seven in one
row in a distance of not more than twenty-five feet.
Last winter in this column I mentioned a five-day trip to the
historical Shrines of America which I would take if I were the father
of a boy. It would of course be mostly in Virginia with important
stops in Pennsylvania and Maryland. But if I were to take him to
one place and no other, it would be Williamsburg with surrounding
trips to Jamestown, Yorktown and then home by way of Route 17
to Wakefield, Washington’s birthplace; Stratford, Lee's birthplace
and Mt. Vernon, Washington's home.
No where can ‘you obtain so much concentrated history.
where can you get sn much for so little.
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