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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.
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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.
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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.