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By William J. Robbins Jr.
The rapid spreading of Oak Wilt
in Pennsylvania since the first in-
festation threatens the destruction
of this valuable timber producer.
In one year, from September
1950 to September 1951 from an
area in McVeytown, Mifflin County,
the disease has spread to Green,
Alleghenny, Huntingdon, Franklin,
Erie, Adams, and Perry Counties.
The species of oak that have been
attacked by wilt are, to date, Red,
Pin, and Black.
The State of Wisconsin, in 1943,
was the first to recognize the in-
fection as a distinct disease that
would require some form of com-
bating. Prior to this date, in the
early 1930's a’ large number of
dead oaks were cut down in Iowa.
At this early date the cause of dis-
ease was unknown, and not much
has been learned since. Minnesota
and Wisconsin were the first States
to start research into the cause,
and records of these States show
that measures were being taken
to curtail the spread as far back
as 1940. :
Knowledge of just how the dis-
ease is transmitted or carried from
one area to another, is the stumbl-
ing block to full control. Some
authorities are under the impres-
sion, and I say impression for it
hasn’t been proven yet, that root
grafts are one means of trans-
mission. Others believe that birds
such as wood-peckers and boring
insects are the common carriers.
This theory too, is only a supposi-
tion. My ventured guess would be,
that the spore is carried by the
feet of birds.
Several State Agencies, namely
the Game Commission, the Depart-
ment of Forests and Waters and
the Pennsylvania State College have
undertaken a survey the past year.
A compilation of their findings has
not yet been published, consequent-
ly little is known. It does seem
strange however that these agencies
that could obtain it for the asking,
would not consider full scientific
assistance from the U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture. Perhaps ‘po-
litical indifference, is the basis for
this attitude. : Instead of Federal
aid it was learned that an Expert
Tree Surgery Company- was’ solieii-
ted for as much help as possible.—
To your columnist, this method of
WE'RE NOT SO MODEST
November 12, 1951
Dear Mr. Risley:
v Lots of people have told me all
sorts of nice things about the
Voter's Guide you published. I've
been so busy asking them to please
tell you, too, that I now discover
I haven't done so myself, All said
it was a splendid service, and since
you wouldn’t, I was happy for the
opportunity to stress the part your
cooperation and generosity played
in making possible a Voter's Guide
for the Back Mountain.
Your cooperation is equalled
only by your modesty. Publishing
of a Voter's Guide free of charge
as a public service, is a distinction
‘held by only four newspapers in
the country. Besides the Dallas
Post these are the Hazleton Stan-
dard-Sentinel and (as far as can
be learned from League of Women
Voters national headquarters) the
Louisville Courier-Journal and the
Christian Science Monitor,
It’s maddening that you have not
seen fit to tell the Post readers that
appearance of driving a spike with
a tack hammer.
One has only to recall the chest-
nut blight that removed from our
State in a few short years, this
important timber and nut producer.
Money and facilities were available,
but departmental buck-passing and
pure negligence: caused us this
drastic loss.
The tide of public indignation
was so great on this particular in-
cident that it caused the enact-
ment in 1937 of the Plant Pest
Act. © The Bureau of Plant In-
dustry, (that up to that time did
nothing in particular, and did it
very well) was charged with the
responsibility of setting up survey
programs for the controller eradic-
ation of plant pests which were
new or not widely distributed in
the State. The interpretation of
this law was, and has been, warped
out of shape many times since its
passing. For example,—work can
be curtailed until an infection has
assumed gigantic proportions at
which time surveys would authen-
ticate any part, or all, Department-
the interest ‘of good government.
But without people like you we
wouldn’t have it.
Sincerely yours,
al reports. This would tend to Margie K. Stout
automatically invalidate all re- L iw Ni .
sponsibilities of the Bureau of Plant GAgUe [0 omen oters ©
Industry. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
To delve into the importance of
the oak tree from either the Con-
servationist or Sportsman point of
view would require more than the
alloted space but will be discussed
in a later issue.
Suffice to say, some one better
get on the ball, for in gone year
this disease has spread into eight,
and perhaps by the time of this
writing, several more of the sixty-
seven Counties of our State.
November 6, 1951
Hi Folks:
We are still enjoying ourselves
at Spring Lake Ranch. Each Sat-
urday I get to see some football
game. Have seen the Dartmouth-
Fordham, Dartmouth-Syracuse,
Dartmouth-Army games as well as
Norwich and Middlebury play. We
are about 50 miles from each
place.
: ; We have had one snow storm
Van Horn And Hedden but its nice again now, just like
On The Bir At WILK [swine
y : Hope all are well.
Robert Van Horn and Carl Hed-
den, members of Wyoming Semin-
ary freshmen class and residents of
Dallas, will be on: the air tomorrow
morning at 11:30 over station
WILK. The Civics Class, under di-
rection of Professor Willard E. Sy-
mons, is sponsoring a broadcast on
“Youth In A Democracy’.
A number of students in the
class will read essays, illustrative
of work they. have been doing in
class. . :
Norm Smith
Spring Lake Ranch
Receives Promotion
Merton Hoffman, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Hoffman of Shaver-
town has been appointed foreman
inspector for the General Electric
combating a dread malady, has the
Company at Johnson iCty, N. Y..
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this area.
Main Office
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The Second National Bank lends more dollars to individuals
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* Lending money is our business. More than ten million dol-
lars of Second National loans are now in use by our custom-
ers to operate their businesses, buy their homes and for
hundreds of other legitimate purposes.
When you need money . . . come to either office of the bank
that leads the field. :
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YESTERDAY
From The Post of ten and
twenty years ago this week.
From The Issue of
November 14, 1941
Warren Hicks, summer associate
editor of the Dallas Post, has won
the Intra-Mural Golf championship,
chalking up a 75 against his op-
ponent’s 79. Hicks is a senior at
Syracuse University.
Dallas Woman's Club, with forty-
nine new members, is torn between
limiting the membership, and form-
ing a junior club for accommoda-
tion of younger members.
Street project in Goss Manor,
financed by WPA funds, is com-
pleted after a year and a half of
work. Six streets have been hard
surfaced and curbed.
Smaller towns than Dallas have
up-to-date Community Centers, says
Dr. F. Budd Schooley, quoting from
a bulletin received recently from
the United States Department of
Agriculture.
(Continued on Page Ten)
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This week we are writing about
a number of things, none have any
relation except as they concern us.
When we were a little boy our
mother was always concerned why
we were continually coming home
with black eyes garnered from the
fists of other boys and yet had
such a love for flowers, We were
brought up in Brooklyn, close to
one of the entrances of Prospect
Park, but Prospect park was a
large place. The park botanical
gardens were five miles from home
and many a time mother brought
supper to our bed where we had
been ordered by our father after
a licking around nine o'clock, four
hours after regular meal time. We
had spent the whole day in the
gardens just looking at flowers
we had seen many times before.
When we met Judge Hourigan
ten years ago, he told us about his
garden at the lake. We thought it
peculiar that he took the trouble
to explain to us that his garden
was his only recreation. What more
could a man want, we thought,
than just a small plot to plod
around in.
Every time he passed our house
and saw us digging away in the
dirt, he'd stop and talk about our
few flowers and ask when we were
coming to see his. At last we went
and we have been there every
year at least twice. Every time we
have strangers visiting us we take
them to Judge Hourigan’s garden.
We were always welcomed, so we,
for one, will miss this garden. The
judge has sold his property to the
Scranton diocese and a church will
be built there. Well, to us, there is
only one excuse for destroying a
beautiful garden and that is to re-
place it with a church, so we can
be consoled there, but we shall
surely miss this garden:
There are other beauty spots
around the lake, Frank Jackson's |
is one. We never tire of viewing
the array at Carey's, and one day
we are going .to accept the invita-
tion of our good friend, Bud Gar-
inger again and watch him till the
soil and turn Mrs. Burnside’s prop-
erty into a little bit of heaven.
Another thing we'd like to write
about is women’s gloves. We like
women to wear gloves. A woman
may have a new pretty hat, a
dream of a dress and coat, hose,
shoes and bag to match, but she
never seems fully dressed unless
she wears gloves.
We will confess that we like to
see the washable kind kept clean,
but we'll even put up with a soiled
pair in preference to none at all.
It seems to us, though, there is
one place where a woman could
dispense with her gloves ‘as she
does her coat and that is in
church. We don’t know whether
you know it or not, but when one
goes to church one is supposed to
open one’s mouth occasionally and
make a loud noise. You can’t do
this in harmony with the rest of
the congregation unless you have
the correct place in the hymnal.
As persons get older, very often
their eyes do not have the same
focus as their companions and it is
necessary to use different hymnals.
It is disconcerting to us to be on
the third stanza making as loud
a noise as possible and have our
companion still turning the pages
because of the handicap of gloves.
We'd like to open the book for
her, but she is generally an inde-
pendent creature whether she be
four years old or fifty. The solution,
of course, is not to wear gloves in
church, but you try to tell em, and
while we are on the subject of try-
ing to tell ’em something, that re-
minds us of the third thing we
wish to write about.
You know cars are wider these
days than they used to be and we
are getting older. Then there is
the post to consider that is always
adjacent to the rear door when you
get the car safely in the garage.
In order to get bundles out from
the back seat one has to climb in
the front door, lean over the front
seat thereby getting away off bal-
ance, gather up the bundles and
then try to get back into a posture
that will let him get his feet on the
floor without a heart attack. The
simple solution, of course, is to put
all bundles neatly in the trunk.
Look! You go shopping. The first
purchase you make you carry out
to the car, open the trunk and
place the bundle therein. Then you
pick up the grocery order, that
goes in the trunk, The laundry
comes next, in the trunk it goes.
Now, when a man gets the car in
the garage all he has to do is open
the trunk. There everything is. His
feet are on the ground. No heart
failure. No griping. Everything is
serene.
We will admit that is is difficult
for a woman to open a trunk lid
while her arms are full of bundles.
We advocated long ago that trunk
lids should be opened by pressing
a button with the elbow, but all
these automobile makers think of
now-a-days is adding new gadgets
that raise car prices, BUT we think
it is better that a woman open a
trunk’ lid than have her husband
spend from $3.00 to $5.00 on doc-
tor bills and medicine trying to
get his heart back to normal after
the calisthenics he has to go
through to remove bundles from
a back seat via the front door.
Well, we guess we'll go to bed,
maybe we will feel better in the
morning.
NJ Barnyard Notes fe
I am enjoying life as usual, going about my business and com-
plaining about the costs of government and a few other minor irri-
tations, when I am conscious something is wrong between my left
hip and my knee which ought to be working better than it is.
~ In fact'I have never been conscious of that knee before, except
now and then at Communion maybe, or once in a while when I have
stumbled over an object left by careless folks in the way of hurry-
ing pedestrians.
For fifty years it has been a most conscientious
knee and served me well, but this morning it refuses to cooperate
with all the other joints that are going about their usual business.
And the other joints have much difficulty performingthe daily
tasks while this joint growls and complains. p
And as the day wears on, this knee joint influences the hip joint
and then the ankle joint and the first thing you know the whole
left leg is doing more to hinder progress than it is to help with get-
ting out the paper. And whilst the finger joints are willing to run
the typewriter and do the other little chores required to produce
the Barnyard Notes, there is so much insubordination in the left
leg that nobody can get down to work.
Soon I am convinced—after much light banter about wooden
legs etc.—that this is no growing pain, or the result of heavy chores
but something more interesting and a new acquaintance in my
family of troubles, and after consulting with some old timers who
have had a long acquaintance with arthritis, neuritis and rheuma-
tism—that I am due for a hard winter, no matter how thick the
bands are on the woolly bears.
Before long I am well launched toward becoming a chronic in-
valid, and the kind words of friends as they see me hobble about is
no help, but makes me think of what an added care I will be to
Myra and the family. Everybody I meet has a cure for arthritis.
Aunt Nellie was cured by pow wow; Johnny went to a doctor 200
miles away; Grandma Patterson gathered the roots of herbs; Bill
Jones had his veins shot full of gold. ’
Then Mrs, Hicks, whose father was an Army doctor, suggested
sleeping on an ironing board. That might be called the last straw
by some folks; but when there is pain in your left leg and there is
an ironing board within reach, it would be a most ungrateful suf-
ferer who would not try it, if the night before he had used every
sleeping position known to the mattress people without success
and then thrown up the sponge to sit in his bathrobe, smoke cigar-
ettes, and try to read the new edition of the Farmers’ Almanac.
By now, too, I am being treated with much concern and kindness
by those of the household whose wont it is to greet me of an evening
as I cross the threshold after a day of problems at the office with
I am overwhelmed by this solicitude and
a list of undone chores.
say as much.
Then I ask, “Where is the ironing board, and can I take it to bed
with me?” and I am warned that I can have it for one night only
as there is a big wash to iron tomorrow.
I am in no condition to carry the ironing board upstairs, but my
faithful, wife now burdened with an invalid, maybe for life, wrestles
it through the doorway and up the stairs.
Shortly it is placed between the springs and mattress which I
now notice for the first time bears a label “Not to be sold for less
than $69 and I am appalled by the price of mattresses and for a
time forget the pain in my left leg for there are two such mattress
in this room, there being twin beds when it would be much cheaper
to sleep in one bed, and less laundry to do. ;
By now the bed is remade and all those disagreeable little wrinkles
in the sheets are smoothed out that have a way of feeling like Rocky
Mountains to a pain in the left leg sufferer.
to find the electric heating pad and the hot water bottle has a leak,
which is a way hot water botkles have.. But we find the heating pad
where some former patient Has stored it for safe keeping and mend
the leak in the bottle and everything is ready for a good night's
rest except me who is sitting on the edge of the bed directing traffic
which is by this time heavy what with Granny offering advice, two
dogs watching the proceedings and Myra doing the work.
I have much difficulty getting out of my pants, but by lifting my
left leg with both hands, and using the good joints to baby the com-
‘plaining ones, I am finally in bed after the fashion of a derrick load-
ing steel rails on a flatcar.
The heating ‘pad is on my knee, the hotwater
thigh and the ironing board is under all of us—and I am settled for
But we are unable
bottle is on my
the night, except that I must swallow two big pills large as walnuts.
Then the lights are turned low and at 6:30 I am where I have not
been since I was a child.
And just before I fall to sleep, downstairs I hear a great rattle of
newspapers on the dining room table. It is Granny looking through
many back issues which she has brought in from the cellar, to find
that Boston Store ad for bed boards at $5 per.
She wilt have me a bed board at once.
Made especially for folks
enjoying a pain in the leg. For in spite of Hell and arthritis that
ironing has got to be done tomorrow!
Its nine-feet wing-spread makes
the condor the largest bird that
flies.
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