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LET GEORGE DO IT
Back Mountain has made a disgraceful showing in the
matter of blood donation. Today there is a chance to re-
trieve our reputation for civic mindedness, for today the
Bloodmobile is once more stationed hopefully at Dallas
Borough School.
People use the flimsiest of excuses. It is summer, and it
is hot—or the weather is damp and we might get our feet
wet.
We have signed up for blood donation, and our names
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are at headquarters as having offered. So when two hun-
dred of us get a personal appeal postcard, eighteen of us
reply, and six out of the eighteen appear for the donation.
The men who are wounded on the battlefield in Korea
are not very comfortable, either. The sun beats down on
them, and the rains drench them. When they are rescued
and taken to the hospital,
plasma.
they need transfusions or
The plain, disgraceful fact is that blood supplies are low
because people are too lazy to go to the blood center; be-
cause they are squeamish about the sight and sound of
blood; because it is a hot day and they'd rather go swim-
ming.
BECAUSE THEY PLAIN
DON'T CARE IF" THAT
WOUNDED BOY LIVES OR DIES. .
» Let George do it.
Do you realize who George is? George is that balding
man who has grown sons and six grandchildren. Life is
important to him. He thinks it is worth saving.
' George is that silver-haired woman, fast nearing the
deadline in age which will forever bar her from contribu-
ting her blood to a dying boy who might be her own
grandson, given ten years more and another World War.
She knows what life is worth. She has given it in travail
and in pain. If a pint of blood will save some other mo-
ther’s son, she has it to spare.
Seldom do you find George in the twenty-thirty year
old group, the group that can best afford to part with the
life-giving fluid, the best able to regenerate it.
Go to the Dallas Borough school this afternoon and
look at the people waiting
quietly for the preliminary
questionnaire and the prick of the needle.
George and Mrs. George are middle-aged and beyond.
They have donated again and again. :
They would appreciate some assistance.
FROM
PILLAR TO POST
By Mrs. T. M.
B. Hicks, Jr.
If you get out of painting your house with only a gallon of spilled
paint instead of a broken leg, you're doing well. That's what Tom and
I concluded after he had kicked the bucket last Saturday.
The gallon looked like a total loss, flowing sluggishly away under the
weeping willow, but we pursued. it
with a large enamel cooking spoon
and scooped it up into a spare con-
tainer. When the major part of it
was again in the bucket, diluted
with willow leaves, small stones,
bits of stick, and pine needles, Tom
laid a large tombstone over the
remains to prevent our trailing
through it.
Then he selected the other buck-
et, the one without the leaves in
it, and once more mounted the
ladda 4 »
This, 1 realized, was a perfectly
masculine reaction, and after all
I could cope with the leaves with=
out turning a hair. Leaves, I had
discovered long ago when rescuing
some paint of my own, don’t come
up along with the paint on the
brush. They remain in the bot-
tom of the bucket, the solution
becoming more and more satura-
ted with debris as the bottom is
neared.
The leaves and I started paint-
ing the upper section of the sleep-
and the episode was
over.
It was pretty sulphurous while
it lasted. ' Tom thinks maybe he
will switch to galluses instead of
pinning his faith to a belt which
occasionally lets him down. It was
the belt sagging an extra inch
which caused his pants to trail
on the ground at the time he was
stepping back from adjusting the
ladder. The muscular effort in-
volved had shifted his center of
gravity slightly upward, and the
pants had followed the line of least
resistance by moving correspond-
ingly downward.
Trapped by his pants, Tom was
in no condition to elude the paint
bucket which was lying in wait
for him. It threw him for a total
loss, and for a moment the air
was blue while he watched the
paint flowing from the bucket.
“Pick it up quick, what's left of
it,’ was the shriek from the sleep-
ing porch.
Tom righted the bucket with its
half pint of paint, tightened his
belt, remarked philosophically, now
that he was fresh out of vocabu-
lary, “Well, there goes our paint”,
and resigned himself to no more
painting for the weekend.
That was where he made his
mistake. I started scooping, Tom
started offering good advice, and
finally he was told, in the firmest
of tones, that he had had his fun
and he could now go away and
soak his head, preferably in tur-
pentine, while I had mine.
In fifteen minutes all was over,
the tombstone applied, the buckets
once more filled with paint, and
the ladders shifted.
It’s all in the day's work, when
amateurs start painting a house.
4-H Club Week At State
Bobby Rice, Orchard Farms, Dal-
las, and Roy Evarts, Lehman, at-
tended 4-H Club Week at State
College August 13-16, part of a
group of 1100 boys and girls from
all over Pennsylvania.
Bobby and Roy are members of
Luzerne County - Dairy Judging
Team, Bobby as a regular member,
Roy as an alternate. This is the
second year that they have attend-
ed the summer session of fun and
work. 3 iets
Clark Is Best
Boy Handler
Award for best boy handler in
the dog show on Sunday went to
Dickie Clark, Lehman Avenue, Dal-
lew, wie an uécond ‘best -hundier
award last year: with the ‘same
Boxer. Nancy Fisher, Sunbury,
took first award for girls. - Oswald
Griffiths, formerly = of Dallas, now
resident of Wilkes-Barre, judged.
Best adult dog in show went to
Laurence Powell, © Sutton Creek,
who showed his St.
O’Brien’s Kings Rasko. Best puppy
was a three-month Boxer, Gallant
of Seven Springs, shown by its
owner, George A. Wilford, Tama-
qua. This class was judged by
John Roberts, Dallas.
John - Roberts’ pre-school son
Richard took third for handling.
Second in boy's class was Clif-
ford Melberger, West Pittston,
fourth Edwin Bossert, Mountain
Top.
Another pre-school child, Sally
Fultz, Berwick, showed in girl's
handling, taking fourth. Her older
sister,” Betty = Anne took third,
Joyce Stout, Mountain Top, second.
Dog owners entered their dogs
from as far away as Bethlehem
and Williamsport, Sunbury and
Towanda. The show, held at Irem
Temple Country Club, was ad-
judged a success by Kennel Club
officials.
Ginger Clark Killed
By Hit-Run Driver
Don Clark’s beautiful Boxer,
Ginger, was killed Wednesday
afternoon at Wyalusing Rocks when
she was struck by a hit-and-run
motorist driving a Michigan licen-
sed car.
Mr, Clark, who frequently took
Ginger with him on business trips,
had stopped for a moment to let
her run when she was hit. He
gathered her in his arms and took
her to a veterinarian in Wyalus-
ing, but she “was dead when he got
there. He was so overcome that
he gave no thought to notifying the
police to apprehend the driver, and
drove home immediately with
Ginger’s body. :
Ginger was a cheerful and well-
behaved companion and loved not
only by the Clark family but by
everybody on Lehman avenue. She
just recently had a litter of five
puppies, ‘all fortunately weaned,
and on Sunday she took top awards
at Back Mountain Kennel Club’s
sanction match where her young
master, Dickie Clark, was adjudged
best boy handler.
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enjoy a long week's vacation, the
Dallas Post will be printed on Wed-
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and reporters are urged to send
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Bernard,
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Work Progresses
Lehman-Jackson
On Schedule
Three Rooms Ready
Fire Escapes, Fire
Doors Installed,
Three classrooms at Lehman-
Jackson School, located in the old
gymnasium, will be ready for oc-
cupancy by September 10. Instal-
lation of sound-proofing tiles in the
ceilings is now under way, and
fluorescent lighting ready to install.
Until completion of the shop
wing and of the projected Home
economics room, classrooms will
necessarily be crowded, some of
them doing double duty. Temporary
installations will be made for vo-
cational agriculture and shop work,
also for home economics until per-
manent quarters can be completed.
Fire escapes for the grade
school building are now being in-
stalled, with apertures ready and
iron work delivered. A fire door
has been built between grade and
high school buildings on the second
tloor.
A very large room, 38x75 feet,
above the three classrooms repla-
cing the gymnasium, with plenty
of head space, is available for
storage. 7
Walls for the immense gymna-
sium are going up, with deep ex-
cavation for showers for both boys
and girls under the high platform.
Floors will be laid on a subfoun-
dation of asphalt with planks im-
bedded in it, construction that au-
tomatically preserves the wood.
Behind the shop will be class-
room and office for vocational agri-
culture instructors. Both shop and
gymnasium will be outstanding ex-
amples of school building in this
section.
Metal bleachers are already on
hand for athletic events. For bas-
ket ball games, supplementary
bleachers can be erected on the
platform, holding an additional
150-200 spectators, above the 500
accommodated on the main. floor.
Pre-opening house cleaning has
included repainting of the ‘eafe-
teria kitchen with rubber-base
paint, more resistant to steam than
other wall coatings. The kitchen is
painted twice a year, white with
green trim. Equipment is stainless
steel. Lester Squier, supervising
principal, states that a second
steamer will be installed in the
near future, to care for the extra
load placed upon the cafeteria by
admission of Jackson grade school
children.
Floors are being refinished in the
and extra desks in-
stalled to handle the added enroll-
ment.
Fire Damages
Idetown Home
Oil Stove Causes
Explosion In Cellar
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Wal-
ter Mead, on the Lehman-Idetown
Road, next to Idetown Church, was
damaged to the extent of several
hundred dollars Saturday noon by
smoke and fire caused by flames
from an oil stove.
Dr. Henry M. Lang and Daniel
Roberts fire companies responded
and soon had the flames under
control but not before smoke had
filled the entire house.
The fire originated when a pan
of water boiled over on the two-
burner stove causing flames to
shoot to the cellar ceiling. Mrs.
Mead called her neighbor Mrs,
James Brace, and Loren Keller,
who was gathering corn nearby,
came running with a fire exting-
uisher but the flames were out of
control and leaping up the stair-
way. Joists, stairway and wiring
were badly damaged.
Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Com-
pany arrived shortly and the fire
was brought under control with
water from the booster tank used
by a veteran crew of firemen com-
posed of Thomas Kingston, James
Gansel, Fred Templin, James Be-
secker and Don Bulford. Bulford
received a nasty cut on the hand
when he broke a cellar window to
admit the hose.
Community Band Plans
Two Concerts For Week
Kingston Township-Dallas Bor-
ough Community Band will play
on the athletic Field at Kingston
Township High School Wednesday at
6:30, and again on Thursday on
Dallas Borough High School grounds
at the same hour.
The band, composed mainly of
high school students under the
direction of Lester R. Lewis, prac-t
ticed for the first time as a unit
Wednesday morning.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1951
Future Farmer's Project
Abe Slater, Lehman-Jackson Vo-
cational Agriculture student and
member of Blue Ridge FFA, poses
/| with the registered Ayreshire calf
awarded him by Young Farmers
of America. In the center is Joe
Skopic, president of YFA, and to
the right is Warren Mekeel, who
supplied the calf.
"This is the second calf supplied
by MeKeel from his own herd. It
is Bangs-tested. An eligible calf
must be from a dam who has pro-
duced 10,000 pounds of milk per
year and 400 pounds of butterfat.
Abe is a sophomore, one of sev-
eral who entered the. calf contest,
open - to sophomores in Russell
Ruble’s course. Candidates fill out
an evaluation sheet and write a
one hundred and fifty word ex-
planation of “Why I am interested
in dairying”. Entries are submit-
ted to a committee which checks
them and gives each boy a personal
interview.
Young Farmers, organized in
1947, now have 46 members from
several townships, meeting Monday
evenings under supervision of Wil-
liam Keil, instructor in agriculture
for Veterans program, Raymond
Searfoss, and Russel Ruble, adviser
for Blue Ridge Chapter of Lehman-
Jackson High School.
Young Farmers feel that they
are giving a student a start in
one of the most stable phases of
farming. Last year’s award, won
by Charles .Gardecki, was shown
at the recent Patterson Grove Dairy
Show in connection with a farmer’s:
picnic.
Korean Interpreter Says Joe Wallo
Is Making Good As General's Driver
Dallas boys can make good any
where, but one of them is espe-
cially appreciated in Korea, That is
the gist of a letter received this
week by Mrs. Elizabeth Wallo
whose son, Joe, has been with Gen-
eral Ridgeway’s forces for several
months, He is driver for General
Soule, and has frequently driven
Admiral Jay and General Van
Fleet.
The letter written by a native
Korean boy is published here com-
plete, just as he wrote it.
Dear Mrs. Wallo:
Before I start I like to introduce
myself as General's interpreter.
As I like Wallo I minded to
write to you. He is driving Gen-
eral’s jeep not so long time as you
know, but General and aides like
him very much. So do myself.
He is very fine man. I thought
most drivers are rough and dare,
but I don’t see any point like that
with him.
Probably you heard from him
that General succeded to cross the
flood road. They made a picture
and sent it to General's wife. Gen-
eral is big proud of his driver that
time.
I used to ride with General all
the time, and watch the drive. We
stay same tent altogether and
when he gets in the morning he
calls me as Kim Sang. That means
Mr. Kim.
One thing to be gratulated is
that he is going to make Staff
Sergeant himself. I wish he make
it before long.
As I can’t make good English,
you will be hard to read my first
letter, but I hope you understand
all right,
I would like to write you again
if you don’t mind.
Well I guess I must make the
end of this letter around here, be-
cause we have supper right now.
Goodbye for now
Sincerely yours
Kim
Berti Baby Suffers
Dislocated Elbow
Little Hazel Myra Berti, two-year
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norti
Berti, Main street, dislocated her
elbow Wednesday evening at 9:30
while playing with a small compan-
ion. She fell violently against a
chair, apparently snapping the el-
bow out of place and immediately
back again, with a cruel bruise as
a result.
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Free Methodists
Hold Conference
Eastern Area Meets
At Camp Grounds
FREE METHODIST CHURCH AN-
NUAL CONFERENCE is being held
at East Dallas Camp Grounds with
Bishop M. D. Ormston, Spring
Arbor, Michigan, Bishop of eastern
area presiding. He preached
Wednesday evening, addressing the
conference sessions each morning,
and will preach Sunday morning.
Bishop Ormston is chairman of
Missions and has traveled exten-
sively,
Rev. E. C. Snyder, also of Spring
Arbor, is attending. He has spent a
term of years as missionary to the
Dominican Republic. Missionary
rally is scheduled for Sunday
afternoon, with Rev. Snyder as
speaker. He will speak at various
times during the conference.
Paul M. McGaffic, New Castle,
noted church layman and prohibi-
tion party figure, will speak at a
prohibition rally this afternoen at
2.
Rev. R. E. Bohall, Cattaraugus,
N. Y., active in prohibition party
work in New York State, will
speak at the open air service Sat-
urday night at Harveys Lake.
Ministers from four districts,
Wilkes-Barre, Windsor, embracing
the Catskill Mountain area; New
England, and New York, will re-
port, take part in committee work
and receive appointments for the
coming year.
New ministers are Rev. Donald
Baker; Buffalo, N, Y., graduate of
Greenville College, and John Wes-
ley Seminary, Wilmore, Kentucky,
and Rev. Russell Vanderhoof, Dal-
las, Texas, graduate of the same
schools.
Dr. M. G. Smith, president of Ro-
berts Welseyan College, North
Chili, N. Y., is attending. Rev. L.
E. Seeley, superintendent of Gerry
Homes, Gerry, N. Y., will report on
work of the Homes.
Propose New Bus
Route To Dallas
Frank Calaman, speaking before
the meeting of North Mountain
Association on Friday night, said
he would be glad to operate an
earlier Dushore to Wilkes-Barre
bus through Lehman to Dallas as
a special service to Mooretown area
residents who are employed in Dal-
las and Wilkes-Barre.
He added that arrangements
could also be made to have the
Dushore bus meet the Nanticoke
bus at Pike's Creek to transfer
passengers. Laymon Harmon agreed
to ‘transport passengers from
Mooretown to Nanticoke.
The meeting was called by
North Mountain Association in an
effort to obtain transportation fa-
cilities that would aid employment
for residents of the Mooretown
area and to stimulate interest in
its project for a community
building.
It was pointed out by the
speakers that residents of the Leh-
man area would possibly be inter-
ested in the new bus service and
that they should contact the Asso-
ciation to aid it in determining the
number of people who would use
the bus and what hours would be
the most convenient.
The bus would not be able to
pick up passengers living in the
Dallas area where Wilkes-Barre
Transit Company has a franchise.
Wandell Reunion
The Wandell Reunion will be
held at Dunlop’s Grove, Mehoopany
Sunday, August 26.
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Back Mountain Highway Deaths and
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Martin Advises
Parents Not To
Push Chidren
Warns Of Danger
To Emotional And
Social Security
A revolutionary bill signed by
Governor Fine, relative to admis-
sion of beginners below legal age
of five years, seven months, if such
children are mentally and physic-
ally equipped for the first grade,
is making school history, and re-
sulting in a flood of telephone calls.
James Martin, Supervising Prin-
cipal of Dallas Borough-Kingston
Township Schools, in commenting
upon the bill and its complications,
says: ;
“Bach year parents of children
who seem old for their age, who
are large and well developed, and
whose playmates are entering
school | in September, urge that
such children be admitted to the
first grade, though their age is less
than the legal requirement of five
years and seven months.
“This year provision has been
made for such cases, by directive
of Francis Haas, Pennsylvania State
Superintendent of Public schools,
through E. S. Teter, Luzerne Coun-
ty Superintendent.
“But I wish to give a word of
warning to parents. A child who
is notably smaller and younger
than his fellows, even though his
mentality may equal theirs, will
not make satisfactory emotional
and social adjustment in the group.
He will inevitably establish in him-
self a habit of following instead
of leading. Placed in the first
grade a year later, when he is a
little above instead of below aver-
age age, he will have opportunity
to develop habits of leadership.”
Legal - age for beginners starts
at 5 years, 7 months. Examina-
tions for children of a mental age
level of six, though younger in
years than legal age for first
graders, may be arranged through
application of the supervising prin-
cipal to the county superintendent’s
office. A
Provision for refusing admission
to children of legal beginner's age
who have not yet reached the five
year mental level is also made by
Harrisburg. :
Once a child is enrolled, he is
subject to compulsory attendance
rules. Mr. Martin points out that
a child under age cannot be en-
rolled as an experiment to see
whether he likes it, and then re-
moved.
Eighty-Seven On Tuesday
SIHYOW HITIV "SUN
Another milestone will be added
to the life of Mrs. Allie E. Morris,
wife of the late Frank Morris, Tues-
day, August 28 when she celebrates
her -eighty-seventh birthday anni-
versary quietly at her home on
Franklin street.
Mrs. Morris who was born and
reared in the home occupied by
Oliver Motors, Main road, is the
oldest living native of Dallas. Her
father, Ira N. Shaver originally
built and operated the store now
occupied by Dixon’s Market. She
has lived for the past fifty years
on Franklin street where she has
watched Dallas grow from a wil-
lage of 200 to several thousand.
There are three surviving chil-
dren: Ira of Washington, D. C,
Charles of Huntsville, ' Ala., and
Carrie Caperoom, at home. An-
other son, Russell died last fall.
Mrs. Morris looks forward to nice
chats with her two lifelong friends,
Amy DeWolfe and Amanda Yaple
and hopes they and other friends
will drop in on Tuesday.
Flower Show Planned
For September Sixth
WSCS of White Church on the
Hill will hold a Flower Show in
the Trucksville Fire Hall on Thurs-
day, September 6. Entries may be
made the evening of Seprember 8
and up until 11 AM the day
the show.