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If the house collapses into the basement, that will prove, A. thatVol. 62, No. 4
there has been an atomic bomb explosion, or B. that the flagstone floor
in the kitchen was a mistake.
' There had been talk of a flagstone floor for several years, but when
the children were small it was decided, regretfully, that a stone surface
would be lacking in resilience if a child should take a header, and that
the upkeep in band-aids for lacerated knees would be something terrific.
There was a synthetic stone
floor in the house in Lincoln, Neb-
raska, developed with a pot of
paint as a top dressing for some
badly worn linoleum. It looked
authentic on casual inspection, but
did not stand the test of close
scrutiny. It had its advantages,
though, in that it was not hard on
the knees or the heads when a raft
of children came rocketing through
the porch door and braked to a
sudden stop.
We had not really expected to
have a flagstone floor at all. But
the linoleum began to look tacky
and something had to be done.
There were too many things with
legs in the kitchen, we felt, to
make linoleum a good choice. It
would have taken hours of cut-
ting and fitting, unless the equip-
ment were uprooted bodily and re-
installed on top of the linoleum.
Besides, we had asphalt tiles in
mind for some time, nice little
pieces that would fit around the
laundry tray legs and under the
radiator and the gas heater like a
jig-saw puzzle. And we¢ would do
it ourselves.
It would be fun.
So we inquired about asphalt
tiles and got a bucket of cold water
right in the face.
Asphalt. tiles, the dealers con-
curred, were not recommended for
yes.
For bedrooms, yes. For rumpus
rooms, yes. But not for kitchens.
Grease, it seems, does something
to asphalt tiles and they are never
the same again.
‘Home again, with no asphalt
tiles, Tom’s eyes lighted on the
Stach of thin flagstones on the ter-
race, the ones he ordered in a
mood of lavish abandon last sum-
mer, two tons of them.
Tom said, “How about a flag-
stone floor in the kitchen?”
The obvious reply to that was,
“Where do you plan to get the
steel girder you will need to sup-
port the kitchen floor?”
Tom sat down with a paper and
pencil and jotted down figures,
dipping into a large Sears Roe-
© back ‘catalugue from time to time
for ammunition.
Fifteen minutes later he came
up with the answer.
“If we should install a large
deep-freeze”, he announced, ‘and
an automatic washer, and a new
electric stove and a new refriger-
ator, the whole business wouldn't
weigh any more than a flagstone
floor.” .
“And who,” we inquired, ‘is
thinking at this point in terms of
a deep-freeze? or an automatic
washer? or a new electric stove?
or a new refrigerator? Though
goodness knows,” we added, “we
could use a larger size than the
sample we have been stuck with
for the past ten’ years.”
“Nobody is suggesting that we
buy a deep freeze’, retorted Tom.
“What good would a deep freeze
do us? We haven't a garden”.
He drew a long breath and
started in again.
“The flagstones’”, he explained
patiently, ‘would not weigh any
more than the equipment. As we
haven't a Chinaman’s chance of
getting the equipment, and have
on hand a supply of thin flag-
stones, what are we waiting for?”
And with that, Tom lifted the
receiver from its cradle and
called the Back Mountain Lumber
Company for sand and cement.
Not just plain old sand and ce-
ment, but white sand and mortar
cement.
The stones, he said, were bought
and paid for, and we might as well
splurge on the trimmings.
He is laying the floor over the
weekends, a little at a time, in
order to allow the house to adjust
itself to the strain. With the first
ominous rumble of grinding. foun-
dations or the first shriek of ren-
ding timbers, he promises to stop.
Tom says it is hard on the knees,
getting under the laundry tubs
to fit little rocks around the legs.
We tell him it is lucky it's the
laundry legs that are getting fitted
to rocks, and not his own.
He is also beginning to wonder
what he will do when he reaches
the porch door, cut off the bottom
to fit it to the new level, or ar-
range a sloping ramp to lead
gently down to the present sill.
We comforted him about that
point.
by the’ time he reached the
door, we said, he would be fresh
out of flagstones, and he could
build a dam across the kitchen,
finishing out the lower level with
linoleum.
Or, as that section is well away
from the stove, with asphalt tile.
Dead Fox Found Positive For Rabies,
Victim Starts Pasteur Treatments
The grey fox which attacked
Mrs. Harold Dixon of East Dallas
on Monday, has been reported by
the State Laboratory in Harrisburg
as suffering from Rabies. Mrs.
Dixon had the first shot in the
Pasteur treatment, administered
by Dr. Charles Perkins Wednesday
night. :
The head was cut off and sent to
Harrisburg for analysis by Dr.
Thomas Shoemaker, Wyoming,
after Mrs. Dixon had choked the
maddened animal to death.
She had to choke it. There was
J no other way of forcing it to re-
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turn her finger.
But Mrs. Dixon says she wouldn't
wear a fox fur now if it had dia-
mond eyes. :
Mrs, Dixon had parked her car
in the garage at 11:15, and was
following her five-year old son
Harold 3rd to the house, when
she heard a spitting sound, and
turned just as a grey fox leaped
for her.
She hurled her handbag at the
fox, and it slunk away under the
chicken coop. Then Mrs. Dixon
started to run for the house, cast
a shoe in her haste, and fell head-
long.
Instantly the fox was upon her,
freezing to her finger. Mrs. Dixon,
with only one hand to work with,
gripped the fox’s throat and held
on, shutting off its wind. The
jaws slackened, and Mrs. Dixon
withdrew her finger.
The fox appeared dead, but Mrs.
Dixon took no chances, beating it
on the frozen ground until she was
sure it would not recover.
The index finger of the left
hand was punctured to the bone.
Mrs. Madeline Riaubia, Mrs. Dix-
_on’s sister who lives close at hand,
drove Mrs. Dixon to Nesbitt Hos-
pital for treatment.
The vicinity of Orange has been
over-run with rabid foxes ever
since early fall.
The first incident on record was
when a rabid fox attacked Ken-
neth Larish’s dog, which later de-
veloped rabies and was shot. Soon
after that a dog belonging to
- Anthony Matakitis was bitten, and
shot on suspicion. John Feher’s
dog was the next victim.
~ Within the past month a fox
came up on the porch of the Larry
Smith home on the Harry Schooley
farm. Mrs. Smith, hearing a rum-
pus, opened the door to call in
the dog, and got it closed just in
time to shut out the fox. Mr.
Smith shot at the fox and missed,
with considerable damage to the
porch railing. The fox came back
and yapped around, but was not
killed or captured.
Mr. Smith tied up the dog which
had been bitten, but it broke away
and in spite of a frantic hunt for
it, did not come home for two
days, when it crawled home to
die. During its absence it pre-
sumably bit other dogs, for George
Schallenberger’s hound dog, kept
tied after the hunting season, de-
veloped rabies and was shot.
Irma Goldsmith shot and wound-
ed a fox which was threatening
her dog. The fox escaped but was
later tracked down and killed by
the game warden, and its head
sent to Harrisburg, with a report
of positive for Rabies.
Eight foxes have been trapped
to date.
Speaker For Eastern Star
ROBERT HAIMES
Robert Haimes, Wyoming, will
speak at the annual banquet of
Dallas Chapter No. 396 O. E. S.
honoring worthy matron, Mrs.
Sowden; to be held at the Irem
Temple Country Club, January 30
at 6:30.
Reservations must be made by
Monday, January 28, with Mrs.
Ann Roberts or Mrs. Thelma
Lamoreaux.
Rain or shine, fifth and sixth
j graders from Dallas Borough School
guard the approaches to the ele-
mentary school, stopping traffic
while small children make a safe
passage of the crossings.
Five new wyellow oilskins and
hats as well as large yellow flags
lettered in black, have recently
been purchased by Dallas Borough
Wins Silver Medal
DONALD LEWIS
Donald Lewis, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Lewis of Carverton,
and a senior at Dallas-Franklin
Township schools, came home from
Pennsylvania State Farm Show at
Harrisburg on Friday with a silver
medal. A gold medal and a silver
medal are awarded annually for
results, both in acreage and profit,
from a farm project by a vocation-
al agriculture student..
Donald’s project was an acre of
tomatoes, most of which were sold
green through the green tomato
auction. He placed first both this
year and last in the bi-county con-
test entered by Luzerne and Lack-
awanna County students. He was
the Luzerne-Lackawanna delegate
to the Farm Show this year.
Lewis is not only president of
the Future Farmers’ of America,
cational Agriculture under Shel-
don Mosier, but interested in ath-
letics. He plays in the line in
football, and as a guard on the
basketball team.
He is at present raising a heifer
calf, product of N. E. P. A, breed-
ing program, a gift from his father
who raises Guernseys,
Library To Hold
Annual Meeting
Book Club To Serve
At Open House
Annual meeting of Back Moun-
tain Library Association will take
the form of an open house in the
Library Annex Thursday night at
8. All friends of the library and
all directors are invited to attend.
Refreshments will be served by
the Book Club, with Mrs. Dan
Robinhold and Mrs. Raymond
Kuhnert as chairmen.
Miss Frances Dorrance, president
of the Association, will preside,
and receive reports from the li-
brarian, the treasurer, the Book
Club, and the committees. There
will be no formal program.
Fifteen directors will be elected.
IMPORTANT MEETING
Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire
Company election of officers
tonight at 8 at Library An-
nex. All men of the commun-
ity are cordially invited.
Refreshments. Entertainment.
Television.
“| gift. from his children.
maintaining a high average in Vo-'
FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1952
Here
PTA for use of the patrol.
All members of fifth and sixth
grades have their chance at wear-
| ing the slickers, but if a child
proves untrustworthy, he loses his
place. It is an honor to be a mem-
ber of the school patrol. Fifth
and sixth grades alternate in sup-
plying personnel.
Left to right, front row, shows:
Local Library
Scoops Osterhout
Has Owned Prize
Books Since Fall
When Wednesday's Wilkes-Barre
Record carried a story on a dona-
tion of two volumes of “Life in
America” to the Osterhout Li-
brary, patrons of the Back Moun-
tain Library started telephoning
the Dallas Post.
“Life in America” has been in
Back Mountain Library ever since
publication in the” fall. It was
one of the pre-publication books
shown by Mrs. Emma 'Beinert at
the October meeting of the Book
Club. :
Mrs. Dana Crump arranged for
its purchase for the Memorial
Shelf in memory of her father,
the late Charles Tremayne, as a
Earl Tre-
mayne, Shavertown, and Theo-
‘dore Tremayne, Williamsport, co-
operated with Mrs. Crump in mak-
ing the gift.
In reviewing the volumes, the
New York Times says:
“These volumes constitute an
able marriage of text and pic-
tures. The thousands of judici-
ously chosen and admirably repro-
duced illustrations will inevitably
receive first attention, but readers
will miss the larger worth if they
do not read the quarter million
words with care.”
The New Republic says:
“These fascinating volumes,
sponsored by the Metropolitan
Museum, exemplify a new kind of
history.”
Dallas Borough Lowers
Green Safety Pennant
Dallas Borough elementary
school has lost its green pennant.
Lloyd Bishop, fifth grade, is not
injured in‘ any way, and his
bicycle has lost only two spokes,
but Friday's incident classifies as
a traffic accident, with suspension
of green pennant privileges for six
weeks.
Lloyd, son of Mr. and Mrs. Al-
len Bishop, followed his grand-
mother’s car too closely and
coasted into it Friday after school
when Mrs. Joseph Ransom made a
left turn onto Norton Avenue.
Pfc. Leon Galavitz, who lowered
the green pennant Wednesday
morning, made the rounds of the
school rooms to explain the situa-
tion, accompanied by Captain
Bradley Updyke and Lieutenant
Harold Ochs, safety patrol leaders
for the current week.
Green pennant regulations are
that no traffic accident, no matter
how small, remain unreported.
Any accident involving a student,
whether at home or at school,
means forfeiture of the pennant
and loss of the green pennant pins
for six weeks.
To Junk Fire Truck
At their January meeting held
in the Fire Hall, members of Shav-
ertown Fire Company voted to dis-
mantle the old Fisher truck and
sell it for junk. In charge will
be Howard Woolbert, John Chap-
ple, Jack Jones and Ted Poad.
First in 1952
Al Austin was the first new
member to join the Shavertown
Fie Company in 1952.
Conrad Hislop, Edward Moore, Ron-
ald Fitch, Larry Creasy, Carl Shot-
well, Elwood Myers, Beverly Bar-
stow, and Neal Smith.
Second row: Beverly Bergstras-
ser, Robert Cross, Harold Ochs,
Richard Rudy, James Kelly, Mary
Dora Scott, Gail Jenkins, Robert
Moyer, Lloyd Bishop, John Van
Horn, Barbara Ralph, and Severn
Charles Hemenway Reports Farm
Show, Commends
8 Cents Per Copy—Eight Pages
Newberry.
Back row, Sandra Nash, Judith
Robinhold, Ann Black, Louise Der-
by, Jeanne LaValley, Sondra Clark,
Bradley Updyke, Ronald Cundiff,
David Evans, James Daubert, San-
dra Sprout, Janice Harris, and
Mrs. Louise Colwell, principal and
fourth grade teacher.
Photo By Kozemchak
Local Exhibitors
Senior Of The Month
LANCE WALKER
Lance Walker has been elected
by students of Dallas-Franklin
Township Schools as Senior of the
Month, in accordance with Rotary
Club standards. Each of the four
high schools in the Back Mountain
has now made its choice. Next
month the honor goes back to Leh-
man-Jackson, which will select its
second candidate, with Westmore-
land, Lake-Noxen, and Dallas-
Franklin following in rotation.
Walker is vice-president of the
senior class, president of .the Key
Club, secretary of the Hi-Y Club,
and a member of the yearbook
staff. He is on the basketball
team, and has earned letters in
both football and baseball, qualify-
ing for all-round ability in many
fields, and satisfying requirements
laid down by Dallas Rotary in
selection of a Senior of the Month.
Lance, son of Mrs. Mary Risch,
Carverton, attended the Mountain
School in Franklin Township, en-
tering Dallas Township when ready
for the eighth grade. He is tak-
ing the Academic course and
plans to enter Lehigh University
to study Business Administration.
His name was put in nomination
by the Senior Class, with the en-
tire senior high school body par-
ticipating in the election.
Donald M. Williams
Dies In Canandaigua
Donald M. Williams, 51, a na-
tive of Loyalville, died at his home
in Canandaigua of a sudden heart
attack Wednesday evening at 6.
Funeral services will be held from
the Kennedy Funeral Home, Bristol
Street, Saturday afternoon at 2,
with interment following in Can-
andaigua.
His widow is the former Flor-
ence Davenport, Pikes Creek. There
are two daughters, Joanne and
Janet. ’
Numerous relatives live in the
Back Mountain area, among them
Mrs. Ralph Rood, Dallas, who is
his aunt.
Mr. Williams suffered an em-
bolism five years ago, causing his
retirement from employment at
the Veterans’ Hospital in Canan-
daigua.
By Charles Hemenway
The thirty-sixth Annual Penn-
sylvania Farm Show is over, one
of the most successful and largely
attended in Farm Show history.
Many people in Pennsylvania do
not appreciate the significance of
this week in the Agriculture and
Industries of the State.
One of its most unusual features
is that admission was free, and all
entertainment is free to those for-
tunate enough to get in.
One of the most interesting
things is the activity of the young
folks of Pennsylvania, the Future
Farmers of America and the 4-H
boys and girls with their many
projects and exhibits.
Though Luzerne County is not
one of the largest agricultural
counties in the State, it was well
represented in a number of exhi-
bits.
Young folks exhibited animals
in the Baby Beef section and Dairy
Calf section. Bobby Rice won 2nd
place with his Hereford steer, and
placed third in the 4-H class, fifth
in the open class with his Ayre-
shire heifer. He was also accorded
the honor of being selected as one
of ten boys to compete for show-
manship with his Hereford, an op-
portunity highly coveted, win, lose
or draw,
Hillside Farms, Inc., Trucksville,
exhibited twelve animals in the
Milking Shorthorn classes, winning
fifteen ribbons. The snow-white
junior yearling bull, Hillside’s
White Mascot, won second place
and favorable comment from the
judge. .
The Milking Shorthorn exhibit
has shown increasing improvement
in quality during the past four
years.
Ralph Sands exhibited ten head
of Holsteins in one of the largest
and best shows ever held in Har-
risburg. His animals were young
and practically all bred by Mr.
Sands. It is worth noting here that
Ralph’s success in the show ring
and with his herd has been
through the happy choice on a
succession of fine herd sires.
Luzerne County can be proud of
a number of herds of fine dairy
cattle and a growing interest in
beef cattle.
If you haven't seen the Penn-
sylvania Farm Show, you should
plan now to attend next year.
You may be surprised to see what
a great State you live in.
George Z. Keller
Funeral Today
Death Terminates
Long Illness
George Z. Keller, Jr. 'will be
buried this afternoon in Oaklawn
Cemetery, following services con-
ducted from Doron-Hughes Funeral
Home in Kingston by his uncle, |i
Rev. John W. Laird, Philadelphia.
Mr. Keller, 41, son of Mr. and
Mrs. George Z. Keller, Kingston,
had been incurably ill for some
months at his home in Goss Manor.
He died Tuesday afternoon at 2:15.
His life was wrapped up in his
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Back Mountain Highway Deaths and vt
Serious Accidents Since V-J Day
DALLAS
DALLAS
Darras Post
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
KINGSTON TOWNSHIP
MONROE
Artificial
BOX SCORE
Hospitalized Killed
10 13
5
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42
2
8
2
12
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Heart Campaign
Opens Tuesday
With Lecture
Clinic Director
To Give Talk On
Bheumatic Fever
Dr. Mary L. Richardson, director
of Rheumatic State Health Clinic,
Harrisburg, will make her first ap-
pearance in Wyoming Valley Tues-
day night, January 29, at 8:15 at
Irem Temple. The lecture is spon-
sored by Northeastern Pennsyl-
vania Heart Association, of which
Dr. Russell A. Stevens, Wilkes-
Barre, is president. :
Chairmen of Back Mountain
Heart Campaign committees are
Howard Risley, Dallas; Don Evans,
Dallas Township; and Robert Wil-
liams, Shavertown and Trucksville.
Dr. Richardson will speak on
Present Day Aspects of Rheumatic
Fever.
Dr. John F. Giering, Kingston,
chairman, announces that the lec-
ture will be known as the Dr.
Ralph L. Shanno Memorial lecture.
A graduate of University of
Colorado Medical School, 1938, Dr.
Richardson came to Philadelphia as
resident at St. Christopher’s Hos-
pital for Children in 1940. Except
for an interval of a year as pedi-
atric director of one of the Henry
Kaiser hospitals in Portland, Ore.,
she remained at St. Christoper’s
until becoming chief of Rheumatic
Fever Division, Department of
Health, Harrisburg, in 1949,
Breeders Plan
Annual Meeting
NEPA Local To Meet
Saturday, February 16
Annual Meeting of Tunkhannock
Breeding Cooperative
will be ‘Saturday, February 16, 1
to 3 p. m. at Dietrich Theatre,
Tunkhannock.
Directors of the Local are:
President, Donald Williams, Tunk-
hannock;
Hallock,
Treasurer, John B. Henning, Tunk-
hannock; John B. Sheehan, Me-
hoopany; Karl Sherwood, Meshop-
pen; C. W. Carpenter, Clarks Sum-
mit; George Morrow, Clarks Sum-
mit; Paul Iffert, Meshoppen; Wil-
liam N. Lane, Tunkhannock; and
Norman Lewis, Pittston RFD.
A. I'S,
Secretary-
Vice-President,
Laceyville;
Technicians of the local are: Al-
bert Ide, Dallas; George Dymond,
Dallas,
nock; Harry Keeney, Meshoppen;
Donald Gumaer, Clifford, RD.
Orval Haynes, Tunkhan-
Ayrshire Sire Committee mem-
bers are Kenneth Rice, Dallas; Roy
Greenley,
Reichers, Tunkhannock.
Tunkhannock; Warren
Donald Williams, A. S. Hallock,
C. W. Carpenter, and John B. Shee-
han represents Tunkhannock Local
on the NEPA Board of Directors.
This local has 1,413 members
with 11,416 cows.
William N. Lane, Norman Lewis,
and George Dymond have been
appointed by the president to ar-
range for this seventh annual
meeting of the local.
Herbert Hunter, Falls, and J. T.
Harding, Tunkhannock, are select-
ing calves for the door prize,
Girl Scouts
To Speak to
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Lady Baden-Powell, Chief Guide
of the World Association of Girl
Guides and Girl Scouts, will speak
at the annual meeting of Wyo-
ming Valley Girl Scout Association
tonight at 8 in First Presbyterian
Church, Wilkes-Barre,
A reception will follow the meet-
ng, with Mrs. Harris Haycox,
chairman of the Dallas District,
and Mrs. Robert Weaver, both of
Dallas, in the receiving line.
The guest of honor is on a lec-
ture tour of Canada and the United
States. Her topic will be, “Today’s
Boys
Leaders.”
and Girls — Tomorow’s
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