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THE POST, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1951
(Gen, Gon
Gleather
By William J. Robbins Jr.
Nearly every week I am asked
a perennial question. The word-
ing might be different but the basis
remains the same.— ‘What good,
"can be derived from organized
Sportsmen ?”’—To answer this, I
have asked for additional space to
publish twenty-five Resolutions of-
ficially adopted by the Federated
‘Sportsmen of Pennsylvania at the
October meeting in Harrisburg.
These Resolutions cover Game,
Clean Streams, Dogs, and items
of General Nature beneficial to all
residents of this Commonwealth.
GAME
BE IT RESOLVED, That in any
future doe season declared by the
" Game Commission be set for AFTER
the BUCK season.
Resolved, that the State Feder-
ation urge the Game Commission
to keep coons OFF THE UNPRO-
TECTED LIST in 1952, for the sake
of the sport of the many coon hun-
ters in Pennsylvania.
RESOLVED, That the State Fed-
eration urge the Pennsylvania
Game Commission to CONTINUE
WATER-FOWL propagation and
distribution in the State.
RESOLVED, That we refer to the
Forestry Committee of this Feder-
ation the matter of urging the De-
partment of Forests and Waters to
Cooperate with sportsmen to make
more provisions for game in Penn-
sylvania forests.
RESOLVED, That the fee for a
doe permit be waived for men and
women in the armed forces in ac-
tive duty and on furlough—for the
same period as free hunting li-
censes are now issued.
RESOLVED, That the daily trout
limit be changed from ten to
eight.
BE IT RESOLVED, That Penn-
sylvania Fish Commission dis-
approve any application to the Fe-
deral hatcheries for fish to be
stocked in waters not open’ to pub-
lic fishing, excluding farm ponds.
WHEREAS, The fishing’ regula-
tions = applying ‘to’ 'WALL-EYED
PIKE in that portion of the Dela-
ware River between Pennsylvania
and New York State has provided
the supply. Therefore be it re-
solved, that the Pennsylvania Fish
Commission consider the adoption
of the same regulations for that
rportion of the Delaware River be-
tween Pennsylvania and New Jer-
sey.
WHEREAS, The Pennsylvania
Game Commission has been succ-
essful in having Sportsmen’s organi-
zation and landowners raise phea-
sants from the day old chick stage
by providing part of the cost as an
incentive, now THEREFORE BE IT
RESOLVED, that the Pennsylvania
Fish Commission investigate and
study the possibilities of a similar
program for raising fish from the
fingerling stage even if on a con-
siderably smaller proportion of the
known cost of raising such finger-
lings to a stocking size.
RESOLVED,That the State Fed-
eration petition the Department of
Revenue to issue more durable li-
censes that will not fall apart like
those issued in 1951. There has
been a dam on Brokenshire Creek
at Columbus for over one hundred
years, until the spring of 1947 when
a portion washed out, and WHERE-
AS, repair is desired by a majority
of Columbus Township citizens and
whereas the lake created by said
dam did and would again carry a
good supply of game fish, THERE-
FORE, BE IT RESOLVED, That the
PFSC join the NW, Division appeal
to the Pennsylvania Fish Comm-
ission to join with the citizens of
Columbus in paying for the repair
of Columbus dam to create again
the 50 acre lake for the enjoyment
of residents and non-residents.
WHEREAS, The lamprey is in-
creasing in large numbers in the
inland waters of the Common-
wealth, and WHEREAS, the lam-
prey is a deadly enemy to certain
species of fish and especially trout,
and WHEREAS, the lamprey is
being spread to inland waters by
fishermen using them as fish bait,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOVED,
That the Federation of Sportsmen's
Clubs be petitioned to support legis-
lation to make it unlawful to trans-
port, sell or use lamprey as fish
bait in any inland waters of the
Commonwealth.
RESOLVED, That this federation
support House Bill No. 1099, as
amended. (This measure would
permit public fishing in any source
of community water supply where
the water is properly treated be-
fore human consumption).
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YOU KNOW ME
Al, Himself
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The trouble with this world, as
we see it, is that it doesn’t appre-
ciate belly dancers. What's wrong
with a belly dancer? We wouldn't
bring this subject up if we hadn't
overheard a radio program our wife
insisted on listening to last Friday
morning. A man and his spouse
were carrying on a conversation
over the breakfast table in which
they advertise everything from
eggs to the New York Herald Tri-
bune. The wife mentioned the com-
ing marriage of playboy, Sheppard
King, an American, and we pre-
sume a Christian, to belly dancer
Samia Gamel, a follower of Mo-
hammed.
“I don’t ever want to hear King’s
name again,” said the male voice
on the program, “He is a disgrace
to his mother, his sister and his
country. How he could ever marry
a belly dancer is more than I can
understand.”
So the female voice apologized
for mentioning the coming marri-
age.
Well, after listening to this pro-
gram, and realizing that it went
out to millions of people who may
sympathize with the broadcaster’s
attitude, we immediately were on
the side of the belly dancer.
This was quite a decision for us
to make for we were brought up
by a strict mother who never
allowed us to say belly. Stomach
was proper, said mother. We re-
member how disgusted she was
when we first mentioned the belly
band our wife had around our
first baby. (A belly band, girls,
in our day, was a cloth wound
around a baby for the first year of
its life that moved gradually up
around the neck).
Now, belly is a good English
word and when a lady can wiggle
that part of her body we think
it quite an accomplishment. We
i
we've always been intrigued by
persons who can wiggle things.
We remember attending a birth-
day party for “our girl” when she
was twelve. We were about the
same age. We played games. She
was chosen to smile to the pret-
tiest, bow to the wittiest and kiss
the boy she loved the best. When
she smiled at a little boy with
curly hair and long eye lashes
that didn’t annoy us a bit. He
couldn’t fight very well anyway,
but when she bowed to a guy by
the name of Blauvelt (we shall
never forget his name) as the wit-
tiest (because he kept everybody
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YESTERDAY
From The Post of ten and
twenty years ago this week.
From The Issue of
December 5, 1941
Retail milk prices are up a cent
to 14 cents a quart.
A. N. Garinger has recently
bought five pairs of racing pigeons
to add to his breeding stock.
Clyde Lapp, accepting presidency
of Dallas Borough school board for
the second term, congratulates the
board upon its freedom from poli-
tics.
The State has reopened negotia-
tions for purchase of Ricketts Glen.
Gordon Kocher’s home at Har-
veys Lake was burned to the ground
Wednesday morning.
Four hydrants will be installed
by next week in Dallas. Goss Manor
residents are considering buying
their own plugs.
Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire truck
was badly damaged in a run to a
fire in Orange, when it jumped a
ditch in the fog.
Dr. C. L. Boston, dean of Back
Mountain doctors, died Monday
night, shortly after he had attend-
ed his last patient for the evening.
He had practiced fifty-six years, in
Sweet Valley, Centermoreland, and
Noxen.
This is the poorest deer season
in many years.
Dorothy Williams, second grade
Dallas Township teacher, has an-
nounced her marriage to George
J. Yeager, Philadelphia.
Arthur Hadsall, Lehman,
buried on Monday.
Frank Andrews, retired lumber-
man, died at the home of his dau-
ghter, Mrs. William Meeker, Shav-
ertown, Tuesday night.
For rent in Dallas, six room
house, bath and lights, $18 per
month. Garage, garden and chick-
en coop.
Pea coal, $6.75 per ton.
Mrs. Bertha Reynolds
To Have 80th Birthday
Mrs, Bertha S. Reynolds, former
Mt. Greenwood Road resident,
Trucksville, will celebrate her eigh-
tieth birthday anniversary in Ze-
phyr Hills, Fla. Friends and rela-
tives are sending her a “shower”
of birthday cards.
Mrs. Reynolds still participates
in Tourist Club activities, Woman's
Club, Eastern Star and all church
was
was a “spotter” for Civilian De-
fense.
She is naturally interested in
flying as she has a son who is a
captain on American Airlines and
two grandsons in the U. S. Air
Force. Captain Phil Reynolds re-
cently witnessed the explosion of an
A Bomb while flying over Nevada.
events. During World War 2 she |
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- MUST BE VIGILANT
Back Mt. Protective Association
has postponed the public meet-
ing scheduled for Wednesday eve-
ning, December 12th, due to pre-
holiday activities, and will meet
the following month on January
10th, Thursday evening, at 8:00
P. M., in the Annex of Back Moun-
tain Memorial Library.
Please make it one of your duties
to the community to be there to
learn about the great strides which
have been made to improve the
water facilities for this section,
not only for the present months and
on through to spring but through
the summer, as well.
Let us not court an experience
like the last one, an entire summer
without adequate supply of water.
Do continue your interest in the
Association’s efforts and make it
your business to attend each and
every meeting which will help, not
only you as an individual, but
every one in the community, in
general, to reach the goal we have
set for ourselves—‘‘an adequate
supply of good, healthy water at
reasonable rates to each consumer
at all times.”
Just because the faucets in your
homes now emit the supply of
water needed to care for your
daily chores, please do not lose
sight of all the hard work, the
surveys, the meetings, etc., which
went into the achievement of get-
ting that stream into your pipe-
lines; don’t, at this point, let a
lethargic mood envelope you re-
garding this all important matter,
‘the continuation of efficient water
facilities” in your homes, inasmuch
as the present facilities are not, as
yet, ample to service sufficiently
the community’s needs much longer
than into the few months just
ahead, possibly carrying over into
the springtime when old mother
nature will then take over the con-
trol, more or less, of the allotment
going into your homes for just a
little while longer.
We must insist upon more wells
to care for the growing needs of
Back Mountain, at least until such
time when a proper water author-
ity or some type of utility is adopt-
ed for the permanent solution to
the water shortage. We have list-
ened to the possibilities of Harveys
Lake, Huntsville Dam, also to the
suggestion of the large pipe line
from Hillside, but any one of the
above would require extensive
study, surveys, and a hundred and
one other steps
along with quite an over-all cost
to the individual consumer. Time
is the other element involved here
and it could be a very long period
to wait—in the meanwhile there
must be a supply of water to care
for our everyday necessities.
Industries in our community re-
quire millions of gallons of water
each month for their operations,
thus making a further strain upon
the already inadequate number of
wells which make up the general
water system for our region. Also
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LS
Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto is not my favorite opera, but it is tune-
ful and I believe anybody can enjoy it whether he knows much
about music or the story.
As for the story, I can agree with the youngster whose mother
complained about comic books. ‘Mom,” said he, “they're tame com-
pared to the murders you hear every Saturday afternoon on the
opera broadcasts.” The kid was right. Most opera stories are pretty
sadistic, but there is always the music, and the music is beautiful
after you have heard it a few times. I don’t believe anybody enjoys
all of it the first time he hears it. That goes for much popular music,
too. ’
What I don’t know about music and the opera would fill several
shelves at Back Mountain Library; so it may be presumptuous for
me to say that you can learn to love the Saturday afternoon broad-
casts from the Metropolitan Opera House.
At this point those who listen to the opera broadcasts and enjoy
them might say, “what right has Howard Risley to write about the
opera.” My answer to that would be, “None.” I couldn’t talk five
minutes with a high school music student, without getting in over
my head; but I thoroughly enjoy the Saturday broadcasts, and some
reader who doesn’t now listen might say, “If that bird can enjoy
them, I can, too. I'll try listening for an hour this Saturday after-
noon.”
So here goes for the fellow who's willing to try it. We'll get
away from the Barnyard and the compost heap this Saturday after-
noon and maybe the chap who wrote in that doesn’t like to read
about dogs, bees, birds and bugs will come along, too.
The curtain will rise on the first act of Rigoletto, the hall in the
Duke’s place at Mantua, at 2:06 Saturday afternoon. As he strolls
among the courtiers who throng the ballroom, the Duke of Mantua
(sung by Richard Tucker) boasts of his many conquests, His hunch-
back jester, Rigoletto (sung by Leonard Warren) suggests that his
master, The Duke, win the Countess Ceprano (sung by Anne Bol-
linger) by imprisoning her husband. Ceprano (Lawrence Davidson)
is furious and vows to abduct a young girl whom he believes to be
Rigoletto’s mistress, in revenge. Another elderly noble, Monterone,
whose daughter has been seduced by the Duke, forces his way in and
curses Rigoletto for his cynical mockery. The jester broods over
the curse, as the curtain falls on Act 1.
Montrone is an aging gentleman, easily the most admirable figure
in the opera, and he appears only twice, but his curse in the first
act sets the theme for the entire tragedy. Here are his words: “Oh
both of you be accursed! To set your dog upon a dying lion is vile,
O Duke—and you, serpent, (meaning Rigoletto) you who laugh at a
father’s grief, be accursed.”
This scene and the one to follow throws into relief the conflict
between the two aspects of the hunchbacked Rigoletto’s character—
the bitter vengeful cynicism born of his deformity and the intensely
possessive love for his daughter, Gilda, who alone makes his life
worth while. Heed the music as Montrone utters his curse, then
watch for the theme throughout the rest of the opera.
Act II, The House of Rigoletto, approximate time of broadcast 2:21.
Late at night Rigoletto returns home down a deserted street to the
doorway, beyond which lies his garden. Before opening his gate he
is addressed by the professional assassin, Sparafucile, but dismisses
him, reflecting as he recalls the curse, that his own tongue works
as much harm as the other’s dagger. Rigoletto softens as he meets
his daughter Gilda, (sung by Hilde Gueden, soprano from Vienna,
Austria, who is this season makingsher debit with therMetropolitan). - ;
Summoning her nurse, Giovanna, he warns them of possible enemies.
As he leaves, the Duke himself slips past him and into the garden
where he makes passionate love to Gilda, telling her that he is a
poor student. | After he leaves, she dwells tenderly on his name and
then retires. Meanwhile the Duke’s cynical courtiers intercept
, Rigoletto in the street, blindfold him, and bid him to help them ab-
duct Ceprano’s wife. In his confusion he places a ladder against
his own wall. The courtiers laugh at this chance to outwit Rigoletto,
break into his own house and carry off his own daughter. Rigoletto
tears off his blindfold and discovers Gilda’s scarf. The curse has
fallen and so has the curtain on Act IL
Act III, a room in the Duke's Palace (broadcast about 3:36). The
Duke paces a room in his Palace, fearing that his courtiers have
robbed him of Gilda. Soon they return to tell him she is in an
adjacent chamber. He rushes away to join her. Rigoletto now
comes in search of her, frantically begging the courtiers to help him
find her. At last Gilda runs to her father, and as the crowd with-
draws confesses the long courtship and treachery of the Duke. At
this point Monterone, makes his second appearance as he is led
by a guard through the room to prison, and the broken-hearted
Rigoletto, sensing how the curse is working, promises to redress his
wrongs, but Gilda tries to stop him from planning any harm to the
Duke because she loves him.
Act IV, (broadcast about 4:20) the House of Sparafucile, the
assassin. On a dark night Rigoletto and his daughter, Gilda, wait
outside the lonely inn where Sparafucile and his sister Maddalena
kill their victims. Rigoletto forces Gilda to watch the Duke who has
come to flirt with Maddalena, an attractive wench, sung by mezzo
soprano Jean Madeira. He laughs at the inconstancy of women, sing-
ing the famous “La Donna e Mobile.” (Women are Fickle).
As Maddalena leads on the Duke whom Rigoletto has previously
arranged with Sparafucile to murder (remember his promise to Mon-
terone at the end of Act II) Rigoletto comforts Gilda’s grief while
they wait outside in the shadows. (Gee, Whiz, talk about comic
books). Rigoletto tells Gilda to dress herself as a boy and escape
to meet him in Verona. He then pays Sparafucile his fee and de-
parts. Meanwhile Maddalena urges her brother to spare the Duke
and kill Rigoletto instead. Sparafucile refuses, but promises her that
he will find some other victim. The next arrival is Gilda, who over-
hears the plot and gladly sacrifices herself to save the Duke she
loves. When Rigoletto returns he is given a sack by Sparafucile,
but on hearing the voice of the Duke trolling his familiar song, he
cuts open the sack and finds, instead of the Duke, the body of his
daughter. The curse is fulfilled. .
Next week, Massenet’s Manon with Licia Albanese.
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