Editorially Speaking:
You Wouldn't Hurt Her—Would You?
Dear Driver:
Today my daughter who is seven years old, started to
school as usual.
She wore a dark blue dress with a white
collar. She had on black shoes and wore blue socks. Her
cocker-spaniel whose name is “Scoot”, sat on the front
porch and whined his canine belief in the folly of educa-
tion as she waved ‘“goodby’’ and started off to the halls
of learning. :
Tonight we talked about school.
She told me about
the girl who sits in front of her—the little girl with the
yellow curls—and the boy across the aisle who makes
funny faces.
She told me about her teacher, who has
eyes in the back of her head, and about the trees in the
schoolyard and about the big girl who doesn’t believe in
Santa Claus.
dously vital,
We talked about a lot of things—tremen-
important things; and then we studied
spelling, reading and arithmetic and then to bed.
She is back there now—back in the nursery—sound
asleep, with ‘Princess Elizabeth” (that’s a doll) cuddled
in her right arm. You guys wouldn’t hurt her, would
you? You see I'm her daddy. When her doll’s finger is
cut, or a leg is broken I can fix it—but when she starts
to school, when she walks across the street—well—then
she is in your hands.
_ She is a nice kid. She can run like a deer and darts
about like a chipmunk. She likes to ride horses and swim
and hike with me on Sunday afternoons.
But I can’t
be with her all the time—1I have to work to pay for her
clothes and her education.
So, won’t you please look
out for her and the other children? Please drive slowly
past the schools and intersections—and please remember
that children do run from behind parked cars.
Please don’t run over my little girl. Thank you.
“ANOTHER SAFE DRIVER”
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PILLAR TO POST
By Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr.
Whenever we hear the shriek of the fire siren and realize that
another nit-wit has been burning trash in a high wind, with nothing to
contain the flames or restrain the flying sparks, we remember a time
in Virginia when we were equally oblivious to results and lacking in
common sense.
It was such a beautiful day. A®
soft little breeze was blowing to-
ward the shore of the cove, and it
seemed an excellent time to burn
off a bit of sedge-grass, with the
water to stop the flames and three
people bringing up the rear with
brooms and rakes and wet burlap
sacking.
We wouldn’t really need the wet
burlap, ‘we thought, but it was
wise to take precsutions.
Five minutes after we lighted
the fire, the wind changed, and
the little flames started to lick
along a widening semicircle.
At first it was easy enough to
control it. Fun, in fact. It -would
do no harm, we called to each
other, to let the fire burn over the
area where we planned to have a
garden. Much easier than swishing
the dry weeds with the swisher,
and the virgin isoil, thin and sandy,
really needed ashes to sweeten it.
We rested on our brooms and
exchanged pleasantries.
The wind freshened, and a bit
of blazing sedge went sailing
through the air.
The next instant we were bat-
tling to keep the blaze from run-
ning toward the cedar grove with
its tangled underbrush. ;
There was no volunteer fire de-
partment to bring its smothering
chemicals. Control of that terrific
thing was up to us.
We did it, but we must have
drawn superman strength from
somewhere.
Twenty minutes later the fire
was reduced to a smoldering ash,
perilously near the cedar grove.
We looked at each other. Our
faces were blistered, our palms raw
from frantic beating with the
brooms. We collapsed on the fea-
thery ash, our hearts pounding,
our knees India rubber. :
Fire in the country is no joke.
Fire anywhere is no joke. It
brings with it its own draft, and
given enough head start, it is ir-
resistible.
If anybody is in any doubt as to
what fire, unbridled, can do, get
a copy of “Fire”, by James Stewart,
and refresh your memory on how
small a spark it takes to set off
the explosion.
And in the meantime, give the
volunteer fire-fighters a break.
After the tenth grass fire in one
afternoon, they have a right to
wonder if Back Mountain folks
were born crazy or if they got that
way from living in the Back Moun-
tain.
Ned Kent, in a recent column,
asked for stronger support of the
fire companies. We ‘echo his ap-
peal, and supplement it by asking |
for a little more common sense on
the part of the gardening public.
Having been responsible for a
grass fire ourselves, and having
learned better the hard way, we
feel competent to hand down ad-
vice. .
Don’t, for pity’s sake, as long as
the dry weather holds and the
brisk winds blow, burn anything
out of doors except in a protected
trash burner.
And the volunteer fire com-
panies, run ragged during the past
two weeks, will rise up and call,
you blessed. ;
Lehman-Jackson School
Schedules Band Concert
Lehman-Jackson joint school will
present the annual Band Concert
Friday evening, May 2, at 8.
Both junior and senior choruses
will participate, along with junior
and senior bands.
A number of specialties are on
the ‘program. Marlene Cease will
dance; Kenneth Meade, Carol Heuer
and Joel Rood will give piano solos;
Florence Sobieski will sing; Bev-
erly Bogert will play the Marimba;
and the Kenneth Meade-Mella Tot-
ten comedy team will perform.
Birthday In Korea
PFC AARON D. SUTTON
Pfc. Aaron D. Sutton, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Leslie Sutton, Lehman,
will celebrate his nineteenth birth-
day, in Chunchon, Korea, on Sun-
day.
Recently advanced to Pfc.,, he
serves with the Military Police, 9th
Corps.
Aaron has been in Korea since
December 11, his brother Leslie,
stationed at Pyonyang with the
Artillery, since, February 25.
Eastern Star Plans
May Rummage Sale
Eastern Star plans a rummage
sale for May 15-16-17 in the Lare
Buildjng, Luzerne. Myrtle Rineman
is chairman.
Those having rummage are asked
to contact a member of the com-
mittee before opening day, so that
materials can be picked up in ad-
vance. Committee members are
Helen Crispell, Ann Roberts, Jus-
tine Lipfert, Eva Hendershot, Gol-
die Ide, Clara Nuss, Alice Adams,
Mary Galka, and Clara Nulton.
To Present Operetta
Dallas Borough elementary stu-
dents are rehearsing for the annual
operetta, to be presented in the
auditorium May 2, at 8.
Principal characters in ‘Sunny’,
are Harold Oaks, as (Cyril, the Glad
King of Happyland; Sondra (Clark
as Coralie, the Queen; Robert Cross,
[Court Jester, Tickletoes; Mary Dora
Scott as Sunny, the King’s Laughter;
Neil Smith, Grumbo, an old beggar;
Sandra Sprout, Gramiel, the (Court
Magician; Joyce Oliver as the South
‘Wind; and Zena Strub as the Queen
Bee. To
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VOL. 62, No. 17
Mills Circus
To Show Here
Date Will Be
Set Shortly
Mills Brothers Three-Ring Circus
has given assurance to the Back
Mountain Town and ICountry Branch
YMCA that it definitely will set a
place on its 1952 schedule for the
Back Mountain Area. The exact date
is being agreed upon between the
two groups.
This is the same circus that per-
formed so well last August for
the same sponsors; the first time a/
fully equipped circus had ever been
brought to the Back Mountain.
The circus will be sponsored, as it
was last year, by Back Mountain
YMCA and Dallas Kiwanis Club. It
is understood that there jhas been
a slight drop in the adult price of
admission. H. W. Ahrhart, Jr., ad-
vance agent for the circus, indicates
that the 1952 tour will feature an
entirely new perfermance and their
experience last year in the Back
Mountain Area was a happy one
and they want very much to return.
Know Your Neighbor |
Mrs. Marshall B. Nunlist
‘When we telephoned Mrs. Mar-
shall Nunlist to make a date for a
Know Your Neighbor, she said she
was washing dishes, but would
gladly throw a clean tea-towel over
the remains and sidetrack the job
for something more interesting.
But, she said, she simply had to
finish fixing the dump-truck before
letting down completely.
“Dump-truck ?” we inquired.
“It dumps all the time”, she ex-
plained, “even when Mark wants it
to cant sand from the sand-pile.”
So now we knéw, and revised
downward our estimate of a five-
ton dump truck with an energetic
mechanic, female, lying on her back
under the chassis and rolling out
covered with oil, We figured it
would be a canary yellow, and sure
enough it was. Most children’s steel
toys are painted fin primary colors,
with yellow following closely upon
FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1952
Dallas Township Police Spring
Speed Trap On Sunday Motorists
Over one hundred cars were
stopped on Pioneer Avenue last
Sunday afternoon when balmy
weather brought out everything on
four wheels. Folks who planned to
avoid heavy highway traffic by tak-
ing the upper road were caught in a
speed trap.
James Gansel, Police (Chief of Dal-
las Township, assisted by Carl |Ger-
man and William Lancio, stationed
themselves unobtrusively along the
highway, using two cars with tele-
phone wires connecting them for
exchange of information,
[Cars ignoring the newly erected
speed limit signs were halted.
Drivers who had been making only
a little more than the legal thiry-
five miles per hour were warned.
Those scorching along at fifty were
given tickets.
This is the third time officers
have clocked traffic on this stretch
of newly surfaced road, with Sun-
day resulting in the largest haul.
Trucksville, Shavertown, Dallas,
Kunkle and Noxen wvoluriteer fire-
men battled a blaze on the ridge
back of the Roushey Plot Sunday
afternoon and evening, and Dallas
men responded twice to a call at
Hays Corners.
In both instances, fire swept into
wooded territory which is the pro-
vince of Pennsylvania State forest
fire fighters, with local companies
supposed to stand by to protect
residences.
An extensive acreage was burned
in both secticns, with the fire at
Hays Corners officially out at 6:45
Back Mountain Volunteer Firemen
Battle Blazes Sunday Afternoon
after a 12:30 start, anid the fire be-
The gaunt steel skeleton of the
new building at College Misericordia
is being clothed in brickwork to
match the present buildings. Work
is progressing rapidly, and the
building is expected to be ready for
occupancy. by opening of the fall
term.
Expansion of student body and
the heels of red as preference.
“Brace yourself, you're about to
be interviewed”, we countered, “and
if you haven't got the dump truck
fixed by the time we get there, we’ll
point the bone at it and get it in
condition while you reiax and do
the talking”,
The dump truck was cured, and
parked in a corner of the sunny
downstairs playroom by the time
we arrived, but if we had not lost
our way on Harris Hill Road and
found the Dallas Post station: wagon
headed for the open country instead
of the dead end on Oak street, we
might have had a chance at the re-
pair job.
We, too, have a way with dump
trucks.
Mrs. Nunlist said it had been a
long time since she had been inter-
viewed, and were we sure it wasn’t
her prominent husband who was
wanted for a column and mot his
wife ?
We explained that Mr. Nunlist
had had his picture in the Record
only last week, in consequence of
having taken on the job of Public
Relations at Glen Alden in addition
to the original position of controller,
and that he had had enough pub-
licity for the nonce.
And besides, we said, Harvard
graduates hereabouts are supposed
to hide their lights under a bushel,
this being Pennsylvania instead of
Massachusetts. Our own Tom, we
continued, had just about [lived
down the stigma. ;
So we settled down to talk about
the ballet, and the (Children’s Ballet
Theatre, and music, and how to raise
or not raise children.
Toward the end of the discussion,
with blue-eyed Mark bobbing cheer-
fully in and out, his. ears pinned
back, and filled with the classic
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curriculum has made necessary the
Mr. Gansel states that with erec-
tion of speed limit signs three weeks
ago, officers can mow enforce the
law, and that he plans to hold down
speed through residential areas.
He and his fellow officers, he says,
will appear unexpectedly day or
night; and nobody will know in
advance what roads will be covered.
Speed trap information has a way
of spreading. Toward the end of the
afternoon cars were crawling along
on their hands and knees, and by
seven P.M. it was cbvious that no
brash driver would dare to speed
on Pioneer Avenue,
The officers rolled up their tele-
phone wire and left, but theyll be
back.
Folks who have made a practice
of speeding on the upper road since
resurfacing last summer will be well
advised to hold down their enthu-
siasm, because Jimmie means busi-
ness.
hind the Roushey Plot out at 10 P.M.
Norti Berti, in charge of the Dr.
Henry M. Laing fire company in the
absence of James Besecker, chief,
reports that somebody used Mr.
Besecker’s name in summoning com-
panies from territories at a distance
from the Trucksville-Shavertown-
Dallas area, saying that Mr. Besec-
ker had said the fire was out of
control and more help was meeded.
After a spreading fire reaches the
woods, Mr. Berti says, its control is
out. of the hands of local companies,
who have mot the equipment to
fight it.
huge addition, which will house not
only a gymnasium, an auditorium,
lobbies and recreation rooms, but
living quarters for resident students.
One residence hall, St. Joseph's
cottage, will be abandoned upon
completion of the new building.
The college has passed the 600
mark in enrollment.
Puppet Show Planned
At St. Stephens
Valiant
A puppet show, “The
Little Taylor”, will be presented by
Lesselli Marionette Company, Sat-
urday, May 3, at St. Stephen’s club
house,
South Franklin Street,
Reading left to right, seated: Tom
Kingston, Harry Ohlman, Atty.
Joseph L. O'Donnell, James Besec-
ker, and Joseph Schuler.
Standing, Rev. Robert D. Webster,
Captain Luke (Corrigan, Captain
Edward B. Williams, and David
Schooley. 4
That’s Norti Berti, assistant Fire
Chief, looking around at the photo-
grapher.
~ One hundred Back Mountain fire-
men, representing twelve companies;
Wilkes-Barre.
Two performances, sponsored by
the Junior League, will be given,
the first at 10:30, the second at 2
P.M. Tickets are available at Trucks-
ville, 'Shavertown, Dallas Borough,
Dallas Township and Lehman-Jack-
son schools.
8 Cents per Copy—Twelve Pages
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CONFINE YOUR DOGS
OR BE FINED SAYS
CHIEF OF POLICE
Russe ll Honeywell, Dallas
Chief of Police, warns that dogs
running at large, licensed or
unlicensed, will be picked up
by State authorities, and the
owners fined.
Dogs, he says, have been al-
lowed to run again upen the
dying down of the rabies scare.
There is still danger of dogs be-
coming infected, or of their
finding poisoned bait.
' Added to this, people are
planting gardens, and dogs are
a nuisance. Russ says he has
been swamped with complaints
for the past week.
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Decorated In Korea
CAPTAIN LAURIS D. GRAVES
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Graves, Church
Street, Dallas, and brother of J. N.
Graves, Shavertown, is on the high
seas on his way home from front-
line action in Korea, after having
received the Bronze Star and Oak
Leaf Cluster for heroism in action.
Captain Graves, surgeon of 2nd
Battallion, 7th Regiment, 3rd Divi-
sion, moved wounded men to safety
and made first aid dressings in the
face of lethal artillery and mortar
barrage near Yaksan-Dong on
September 26.
The Oak Leaf Cluster was earned
November 23, when he established
a first-aid station and evacuated
wounded near Kowang-san under
heavy fire, withdrawing with his
forces and the wounded. :
When a counter-attack was set
up, Captain Graves established a
second first-aid station immediately
behind the lines.
Captain Graves volunteered for
service January 15, receiving pre-
liminary training at Camp Edwards,
Mass., was transferred to Fort Sam
Houston, Texas, and selected from
400 fellow officers to go to Korea
in June as first Lieutenant. Cap-
Born into a family having among
its members many doctors, Graves
attended medical college at Hah-
nemann after graduation from the
University of Alabama. Secondary
school education was at Kingston
Township. Fie
Since completion of interneship
at Tennessee Coal and Iron Hos-
pital, Fairfield, Alabama, he has
practiced medicine with his cousin,
Dr. 3. D. Davis Il, in Talladega,
Alabama.
He is married,’ and has two
Volunteer Firemen Enjoy Entertainment By Magician
held their annual association dinner
at Irem Country [Club Tuesday
evening. Guest were Captain Luke
Corrigan and Captain Edward B.
Williams, Wilkes-Barre.
James Besecker, chairman, was
introduced by president Joseph
Schuler, and ail fire chiefs were
acknowledged.
Rev. Webster gave the invocaltion,
and Harry Ohlman made a few re-
marks.
Principal speaker was Attorney
daughters, Judith and Deborah.
PHOTO BY KOZEMCHAK
O’Donsell, and entertainment was by
a recognized magician, Ned Du-
month, brought from New York
City for the evening.
It was announced that a Fire
School embracing districts from the
entire Northeastern Pennsylvania
will be held in early June at Har-
veys Lake, chairman James Be-
secker. Latest equipment and
methods will be onstrated dur-
* riod.
Back Mountain Highway Deaths and
Serious Accidents Since V-J Day
Captain Lauris D. Graves, son of
taincy was attained in September.
BOX SCORE
Mrs. Ray Henney
Badly Burned
Static Electricity
Sparks Anti-Freeze
Mrs. Ray Henney, Kunkle, was
painfully burned about the face,
neck, ghest, hands and lower arms
shortly after noon on Saturday
when static electricity generated by
cleaning of a paintbrush in her
garage exploded a can of anti-freeze.
She is in the Nesbitt Hospital un-
der the care of Dr. Malcolm Borth-
wick, bandaged so completely that
only her eyes were showing when
visitors called on her Sunday after-
noon.
Unable to get service on the-tele-
phone, and suffering too acutely to
wait, Mrs. Henney drove her car to
Fred Dodson’s Store to get help. The
Harry E. Smith Fire Company, re-
sponding to the alarm, found that
the flash explosion had burned only
a bench in the garage and that
neighbors had quickly extinguished
the flames.
Mrs. Dodson drove Mrs, Henney
to the hospital,
Book Committee Makes
Selections For April
Thirteen. books selected by the
Book Committee for shelves serving
the Book Club, Back Mountain Mem-
orial Library, include a variety of
subjects; with interesting mon-fic-
tion predominating.
The -Sundowners, by J. Cleary,
concerns the wandering life of the
Australian sheep drovers.
Elizabeth, The Queen, M. Craw-
ford, is a splendid life story of the
young queen from birth to ascen-
dancy of the throne. ;
The Doctors. Jacobi, R. Traux, is
a dual - biography of Abraham and
his wife Mary Jacobi.
Gods, Graves and Scholars, Ceram,
is ‘Archeology done up in a fascin-
ating package. If you shun non-fic-
tion, try this. It’s stranger than a
novel.
Through Charley’s Door, Emily
Kimbrough. Folks who read “It
Gives Me Great Pleasure” will be
delighted to read another book in
the inimitable Kimbrough style.
Long, Long Trailer, C. Twiss, is
the story of travels in a trailer and
This Crooked Way, by E. Spencer,
is about the Mississippi hill country.
Air Bridge, H. Innes, will appeal
to everybody who followed accounts
of the Berlin Air-Lift in the early
days of occupation of Germany.
Bright Procession, John Sedges, is
a religious picture of a public re-
lations man and his conquest of
family troubles.
Gown of Glory, A. S. Turnbull, is
full of charm and human interest.
Little Mule, J. Burgess, is a story
of a small boy with an iffinity for
trouble. ;
Bill Reminisces On
Overdue Subscriptions
Bill Lance, Chase, in discussing
folks who are backward about com-
ing forward with their subscription
payments, says that once upon a
time he subscribed to the Mount
Union Times for six months, and
cancelled ithe arrangement at the
end of the period.
At the end of fourteen and a_ half
years he was still receiving the
paper regularly. ‘The Times, in look-
ing over ‘its records, offered to split
the difference with Bill. Eighteen
and a. half dollars would be about
right to wipe: the slate.
Bill implored ‘the paper to please,
please stop coming, but it came
right along for four more years,
when the slug bearing Bill's name
was apparently dropped to the
floor of the composing room and lost
forever. Ei
Hofman; Warmouth,
In Wilkes Play
Two Wilkes College students
from Dallas are appearing in the
Cue 'n’ Curtain production of “Ah,
Wilderness!” tonight and tomorrow
night at the college gymnasium on
South Franklin street.
They are William Hoffman, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hoffman,
Lake Street, and Dale Warmouth,
son of Mrs. Eva Warmouth, Hunts-
ville. Hoffman is a freshman, and
Warmouth a sophomore.
This is Hoffman’s first acting
job, playing the part of a debonaire
traveling salesman in the O’Neill
comedy. Warmouth, now an “old
hand” at Cue ’'n’ Curtain after
appearing in three major produc-
tions and several one-act plays, has
the role of an irate father.
Drawn For Jury Duty
Jean, Kuehn, Machell Avenue,
Dallas, has been drawn for the
criminal jury panel May 26.
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