i i | 4 Editorially Speaking: A Tougher Policy It has long been rumored in. Washington, which is the rumor-center of the nation, that Secretary of State Dean Acheson is willing to retire to private life—but that he would not do so while under attack. 1 1 2 MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION BOX SCORE Back Mountain Highway Deaths and Serious Accidents Since V.-J Day Hospitalized Killed DALLAS 10 13 DA 5 ROSS 2 12 If that theory is correct, the Secretary would find it easy to step down now. His work at the Japanese peace treaty meeting has brought him praise from all quarters, including such previously severe critics as Senators Know- land and Taft. So far as public esteem is concerned, this was undoubtedly the high point of his public career. There is more to it, however, than just the Secretary’s conduct as chairman of one brief conference. A rather subtle change has been taking place for a long time in Acheson policies. Holmes Alexander expresses it in these words, “Acheson has gone over to a policy of America first. Or to give the matter another pitch, he has begun to assert American leadership, often to the annoyance of our allies and associates. A good enough example took place two months ago in Madrid. For years the State de- partment had hestitated to irk laborite Britain and near- Communist France by casting an official eye toward Fran- co. But the need of Spanish bases at last outweighed the thought of offending our poor relations in Western Eur- ope, and the deal was opened . . . . Likewise, at Washing- ton and Ottawa, Acheson has been calling the tune among the foreign ministers of the Atlantic pact.” Obviously, this very important change was not Mr. Acheson's personal invention. As Mr. Alexander also observed, it didn’t come about until the Secretary, along with the whole Administration, was given ‘“a good deal of prodding from congress and the country.” For a very long time the State department seemed to be principally motivated by a fear of doing anything that might offend : England or any Western European country. We were paying most of the bills, while the beneficiaries of our largesse were making most of the policies and Commun- ism was making most of the gains. It doesn’t seem pos- sible that such a situation can continue, whether Acheson ° remains at the helm or someone else takes over. Con- gressional and public feeling just wouldn't permit it. The big point is that America is now politely but force- fully demanding that Europe do more, much more, to build bulwarks against the onrush of world Communism. Up to recently, she had done woefully little, considering the enormity and the immediacy of the problem. The Korean War is officially a United Nations effort, but aside from the United States the UN members have sent only token forces there. It is no secret that General Eisenhower has been given all the verbal support on earth in his effort to build a European army at an unprecedented speed— but he hasn't been given much in the way of divisions. And it’s divisions that talk when you deal with the Soviet. So, of necessity, the US toughened up and things are really moving at last. This doesn’t mean, for instance, that the projected Eisenhower army is practically in being, but it does mean that it is considerably nearer realization than seemed likely a while ago. It also means that there will be much less coddling of the weak sisters in the ranks of nations which are supposed to form a solid line against the further spread of Communism. ¢ FROM. PILLAR TO POST By Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr. Who can define with exacti- Who can say the age of miracles is past? tude the meaning of the term? We have experienced a miracle, stemming from the prayers of little children, the supplications of a hundred loving hearts, the sure faith of a mother, the desperate appeal of a husband, and implemented by the: expert knowledge and the skilled _ hands of a physician who would |" "we have fat the awesome pres: GION To Honor Past Commanders ence of the Angel of Death. We have sensed the beating of his Post Schedules sable wings, the awful majesty of his dark contenance, the finality of his beckoning hand. When a man who has fulfilled his Biblical span loosens his hold on life, there is grief and deep depri- vation; but there is the solace that life has been lived to the full, that the brimming cup has been drained, that life has been good and the long rest merciful. But when a young mother trembles on the brink of Eternity, looking back yearningly at her children, the very angels weep. We have experienced a miracle. A daughter who was closing the Gates of Death sadly, finally, be- hind her, lives again. Training Course Planned For School Secretaries Plans have been completed for an In-Service Training course for School Board Secretaries and clerks. The course will be conducted by the Public Service Institute, Depart- ment of Public Instruction. Classes will be held in the Forty Fort High School Building begin- ning Monday, October 22, 1951, at 7:00 P, M. Mr. Stewart Veale, Secretary of the Hazleton City School Board, will conduct the class. This course is organized for six weeks, three hours per session, and is offered without expense to the School Districts or employes. Rain Spoils Festival A number of persons from this area who went to Lock Haven-+last Sunday to attend the Flaming Foli- age Festival were disappointed be- cause the program had to be can- celled on account of rain. The Festival was postponed until next year. Thieves Steal Guns Thieves entered Brown and Fas- set Feed Store at Fernbrook over the weekend and stole a shot gun and two .22 rifles. They made entry through a side door. State Police are investigating. Many Activities Executive Committee of Daddow- Isaacs Post 672, American Legion met Monday night at the Legion Home, Huntsville Road. Comman- der Robert A. Williams presided. Those present included William Baker, Jr., Harold R. LaBar, Arthur R. Dungey, Leonard Harvey, Paul B. Shaver, Frank Ferry, Primo Berrettini, Edward Buckley, Roy Verfaillie, and Richard L. Ash. Appointments were made for the Activities and Program Committees and are being notified by mail. It was also announced that dues for 1952 are now due and that a dozen or so members have already paid, including our lone California member, Past Commander H. Brooke Arnold. : Activities Chairman Edward Buckley and his committee are planning for this coming Christmas season to dispose of three electric train sets. The trains will be set up for viewing in a local store, and the awards will be made at the December meeting. Program Committee Chairman Harold R. LaBar announced that plans are now complete for Past Commanders’ Night to be held next Monday evening at the Legion Home. Immediate Past Comman- der Primo Berrettini will receive a gift and Commanders will be honored. Movies will follow. Lunch- eon and refreshments will be served. Tentative plans for the November 19 meeting include the movie ‘The True Glory,” an air Force picture depicting action during World War II. Further details of future meet- ings will be announced later. Other activities include draping the Legion Flag until November 3 in memory of Past State Com- mander Robert M. Vail. The new flag and flag-pole for Gate of Heaven School are about ready for erection except for painting the pole. Vol. 61, No. 41 Pan-Dowdy Winner Joyce Gordon Joyce Gordon won the elimina- tion contest at Lake-Noxen ‘school on Friday, when Future Home Ma- kers of America competed in pre- paration- of that old Pennsylvania favorite, apple pan-dowdy. This is one of a series of con- tests staged by the State, designed to select a Pennsylvania Apple Queen to reign during National Apple Week, October 22-27. Penn- sylvania Horticultural Society and Appalachian Apple Service are sponsors. Judges were Miss Finney, Dallas Township High School, Mrs. Robert Traver, and James Krum. Frances Stefanowicz placed second, Shirley MacMillan third. Joyce will compete in the county contest at Harter High School, County contest winners will com- pete in the eight regional contests scheduled for the week of October 15, and October 20 will see regional winners competing at Dubois Joint High School, Clearfield County, Each contestant must use the basic and official apple pan-dowdy recipe, but may have a choice of sweetening and flavoring. Helen Sileski “is instructor of Home- Making at Lake-Noxen. Dog Killed, Car Wrecked, Passengers Uninjured John Coon, Overbrook avenue, and his daughter Nancy, on the way into town to business and school Tuesday morning at 8:35, had a narrow escape from death or serious injury when the Buick crashed head-on into Thomas Gra- ham’s stone wall on Pioneer ave- nue. The two occupants were shaken, but completely uninjured. The car swerved suddenly to avoid run- ning over a dog belonging to Ray- mond Baluta, but the dog was killed in spite of the effort and the car, only three weeks from the dealer, suffered extensive dam- age to grill, radiator, and hood. Good news this week for parch- ed residents of the higher areas of Dallas Borough and Township was the arrival of autumnal rains and the announcement of Dallas Water Company that this new 195- gallon-per-minute well, shortly to be tied in to its other lines, will eliminate all shortages of water. Leslie Warhola, general manager, said a new Deming deep well pump, ordered more than three months FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1951 Lt. Conyngham Will Be Forever Grateful For 8 Pints Of Blood Seriously wounded, but maintain- ing his sense of humor, Lt. Guthrie Conyngham, son of Mrs. W. H. Conyngham of Hillside Farm is ex- pected to arrive at a military hos- pital in the United States some- time this week. Lt. Conyngham was hit by ma- chine gun fire late in the after- noon of September 16 while lead- ing a Marine Platoon, formerly commanded by his brother, Lt. Jack Conyngham, against an enemy ob- jective on a 2,700 foot hill in Korea. when he was struck, the bullet piercing his right leg above the knee and splintering the thigh bone. He lay on the field for some time refusing to be evacuated until his men went out. | On the journey to the hospital | he was taken through the battalion | headquarters area where his brother | Jack was sleeping and unaware of | the ‘injury until sometime later. | When he arrived at the station, he .He was in a kneeling position was devoid of clothing except for | bandages, his wrist watch and dog tags. He writes that he will be for- ever grateful to the Red Cross for the seven pints of blood and two of plasma that were given to him. The bullet with his tag on it, ar- rived the day before his brother, Jack’s, birthday. Evacuated from Korea to the hospital at Yokosuka, Japan, he was there visited by Admiral Mec- Manes a friend of Admiral Harold Stark. ‘How did you get to know him?” everybody in the ward asked, “ I don’t” grinned Guthrie. Then he wrote his mother about the incident and how the whole hospital got ready on Saturday as though for an inspection when they heard that a two-star admiral was coming. For the present, Guthrie is com- pletely immobile, incased in ‘a cast which covers his right leg and body extending down to his left knee. He will probably be hospitalized for six months. Borough Grades Collect $753 Magazine Drive Is Big Success Dallas Borough Elementary School wound up its fall magazine campaign with a total of $753.00 taken in, of which $253.30 is pro- fit, designed to go toward the pur- chase of a projector and supplies Fifth grade was high with total receipts of $207.90. Third and fourth grades ran neck and neck, with fourth grade chil- dren turning in $202.80, third grade losing by a hair with $202.05. Sixth grade totalled $139.79. The old music, room is being cleared of its music stands and equipment, and the long narrow space readied for the sereen and the projector. Grade students are giving enthusiastic co-operation with the house cleaning. Mrs. W. E. McQuilkin, fifth grade teacher, is chairman of the maga- zine drive. Two More Hay Wagons The names of Hale Coughlin and Willard Cornell should be added to Back Mountain folks whose hay wagons will appear in the parade sponsored by the Red Feather or- ganizations on Sunday. Jones Is Club Speaker Fourth annual dinner of Carver- ton Rod and Gun Club will be held Tuesday evening at Carverton Grange with Atty. Benjamin Jones as speaker. Everybody Hopes This Is It ago, has not yet arrived, but that the company is going ahead pour- ing foundations for it and laying pipe to connect with mains serving Dallas Heights, Elmecrest, Machell Avenue and New Goss Manor. A 5,000 gallon chlorination tank will also ‘be installed at the well as required by a new State regula- tion for all public water supplies. Mr. Warhola said water from the well has been tested and found 'n Lead Church Program REV. GEORGE NORMAN HIPPEL Dallas Methodist and Free Meth- odist Churches will welcome as leader during the Week of Evangel- ism, Rev. George Norman Hippel, minister of Centenary Methodist Church, Lebanon. Rev. Hippel recommended by his Bishop as one of the leading min- isters in the Philadelphia Confer- ence. He is a member of the Confer- ence Board of Evangelism and sub- district director of Young Adult Work. A graduate of Temple University with a degree in Education, he also received the B. D, degree from the Evangelical School of Theology and has done graduate work at Drew Seminary, Temple University and the Lutheran Seminary at Mt. Airy. Other details of the Week of Evangelism and program for churches are contained in News of the Churches in this issue. pure, but that it must still be chlorinated for a period of twenty minutes at 150 pounds pressure, Last night water consumers met at Dallas Township High School to discuss measures to eliminate all future water shortages in the area. Mr. Warhola said he hopes the new well will do it, but a con- stantly falling water table, and rapid construction of new homes constantly creates new problems, 8 Cents Per Copy—12 Pages Strawberries And Oats Westmoreland Adopts Student Guidance Plan Instruction Deals With Adjustment Problems Of Youth Ten teachers of Westmoreland High School have been appointed to handle guidance problems of students from seventh to twelfth grades, according to a newly in- stituted guidance plan which seeks to help teen-agers to adjust them- selves to community life in school and later in broader fields as adults. In discussing this program, James A. Martin, Supervising Principal, states: “The teaching staff in the high school of the Dallas Borough-Kings- ton Township Joint Schools believe that the school’s guidance program for the student starts in the morn- ing with the bus drivers and school custodians and ends with them in the evening. During the day each subject-teacher, and each home- room teacher is exerting influence in guiding the lives of the students. So that guidance will be a real program dealing with specific prob- lems of the young people, a com- prehensive plan has been activated this fall.” Charts and textbook material as well as bibliography and biographi- cal sketches, personal experiences, and library references are the tools used. This plan takes in the five basic areas of guidance: Educational, Per- sonal, Social, Group Life, Boy, Girl, Career Planning. High School Principal W. Frank Trimble has placed this formal pro- gram in the hands of Walter H. R. Mohr, Director, Mr. Mohr secured his M. A. degree in Guidance from New York University. Seventh Grade, ‘About Growing Up”, supervised by William Roeder, Sony Jones, and Miss Sara Freed- Y- ; ~ Eighth Grade, “Being Teen- Agers’” by Robert Becker and Mrs. Anna Mae Sipko. Ninth Grade, “High School Life” by Miss Dorothy Mattes and Miss Sara Freedly. Tenth Grade, ‘Discovering My- self” by Miss Dorothy Mattes and Robert Becker. Eleventh Grade, ‘Planning My Future” by Mrs, Marietta Gay and Joseph Rakshys. Twelfth Grade, ‘Toward Adult Living” by Thomas Jenkins and Patrick Reithoffer. Toll Gate Lions Ask Help With Scrap Drive A scrap metal drive was ap- proved at the meeting of Old Toll Gate Lions Tuesday evening at Co- lonial Inn, Fernbrook, with J. Lear Darrel Major Here is Darrel Major standing between the strawberry rows of his Vocational Agriculture pro- ject, with two and a half acres of oats .as a background. A junior at Lehman-Jackson, he represented Blue Ridge Chapter FFA last spring at the Poultry Judging contest at Pennsylvania State College, competing with 200 boys from all over the State and winning eighth place and silver medal. Darrel plans to study forestry upon graduation from high school next year, and is taking extra work in mathematics as a preliminary. He ranks high scholastically, plays in the school band, and holds the secretaryship of his local FFA. Governor Rahn To Visit Club Rotary To Be Host At Thursday Dinner Dallas Rotary Club will be host next Thursday evening to Nicholas M. Rahn, Governor of the 262nd District of Rotary International who is making his annual official visit to each of the thirty-six Ro- tary Clubs in Northeastern Penn- sylvania. He will confer with David Jenkins, president, Edward J. Keller, Secretary, and other local officers on Rotary administration and service activities. Mr. Rahn was a former County 7 Nicholas M. Rahn Agent in Carbon County and is a member of Rotary Club of Mauch Chunk. He is one of the 203 Rotary District Governors supervising the activties of some 7;300 Rotary Clubs which have a membership of 350,- 000 business and professional exe- cutives in 83 countries and geo- Wagner chairman. This project is a Triple Scrap Drive with three-fold purpose: First, to assist the Government in the Ipresent emergency by procur- ing much-needed metals; second, to eliminate scrap metals lying around the community; third, through funds derived to promote the pro- gram of Lionism, including sight conservation and other worth- while community projects. Samuel Patner, president, spoke on the patriotic service which the Drive will accomplish, and: results that can be obtained in raising funds for eye-glasses and help to needy families. Those having scrap metals, old tires, etc., are asked to contact Mr. Wagner, Dallas 399- R-7, and arrange for collection. The club is sponsoring a Turkey Party at Shavertown Fire Hall, No- vember 15th, Robert Williams, graphical regions throughout the ® Wherever Rotary Clubs are loca- ted, their activities are similar to those of the Dallas Club because they are based on the same general objectives—developing better un- derstanding and fellowship among business and professional men, promoting community-betterment undertakings, raising the standards of business and professions, and fostering the advancement of good will, understanding and peace among all the peoples of the world. Each year, this world-wide ser- vice organization continues to grow in numbers and in strength. Dur- ing the last fiscal year, for example, 257 Rotary Clubs were organized in 35 countries of North, South and Tuesday elected Brown, vice president; J. L. Alex- ander, treasurer and Tom Nyhart, assistant treasurer. Crothomel, * Mrs. Mrs. Bessie Bunsek, Robert M, Pat- chairman, assisted by Vernon Ash, Joseph Peleak,and Edward Robot- ski. The next regular meeting will be on Tuesday evening, October 23. Natona Employees Form Federal Credit Union Employees of Natona Mills have organized a Federal Credit Union to encourage savings and provide small emergency loans, At the organization meeting on Michael Campbell was president; Mrs. Louise The incorporators are: Emanuel Margaret Polk, Central America, Europe, Asia, rick, Fannie Campbell, Raymond Sires, and the Islands of the Jacobs, and Siegfried Nygren. acific. Members of the supervisory com- mittee are: Mrs. Margaret Polk, Card Party At Shavertown | Willard Harrison and Lawrence Delet-Kanic. Members of the Shavertown Senior Girl Scouts | credit committee are: Seigfried will sponsor a card party October 17, 8 PM at Shavertown Fire Hall. | Nygren, Mrs. Bessie Bunsek and Arthur Gosart.
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