5 FROM. x x PILLAR TO POST By Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jz. BOX SCORE Back Mountain Highway Deaths and Serious Accidents Since V-J Day La Hospitalized Killed DALLAS [C10 |g DALLAS TOWNSHIP 1% 3 LEHMAN 1 Rd : KINGSTON TOWNSHIP | 42 5 JACKSON TOWNSHIP 2 MONROE TOWNSHIP 3 1 ROSS TOWNSHIP 2 MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION LAKE TOWNSHIP 12 1 FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP 2 TOTAL 76 26 FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1952 8 Cents per Copy—Twelve Pages VOL. 62, No. 23 We are never likely to be asked to give a commencement address, due to our habit of keeping a tongue in the cheek, but at this point we could not feel more serious and less facetious. Graduation is a serious business, marking the boundary between an era when mesponsibility is worn lightly amd easily abandoned, and another life where getting down to brass tacks is the expected thing, and shirking of responsibility frowned upon. When a child graduates from kin- dergarten, he leaves the “Try it, baby dear”, atmosphere to enter the “Youre a big boy now” classi- fication, Upon this leaving elementary school to enter secondary, he meets the “Get at it, young man’ attitude. When he graduates from High School, the world says, in effect, “It's your oyster—if you can open it.” 3 Graduation is period, paragraph, and chapter, with a new leaf which must be turned. There are certain lessons which the fortunate young man has learned in school, and which the un- fortunate one may mow learn pain- fully if he is to progress. One of these is that no amount of good intention or excuse is equi- valent to producing the goods, that a convenient alibi will no longer be acceptable, and that if he wants to get somewhere in, his chosen field he has to buckle down to the job. This is always a jolt, but it is a constructive cine. Muscles, brain or otherwise, don’t develop unless they are occasion- ally overworked, pushed beyond the point of fatigue in order to stretch them. There is nothing quite so satis- fying as kinowledge of a job well done, a job just a litle more exact- ing than the one before, one that has employed some unused muscles and leaves ms pleasantly tired. There is nothing like accomplish- ment, nothing like realizing that another hurdle thas been cleared, and that we were competent. Personnel offices will all agree that it is difficult to get anybody to accept responsibility; that assist- ant managers can be easily pro- cured, but that managers are hard to find. Folks are afraid of responsibility. It’s one of those things that has to be cultivated by self discipline, and it is something that cannot be wished upon a man or woman. It has to come from the inside out, mot the outside in. Sweet Valley Memorial Day Parade Has Fair Weather For Sixth Year Blessed with fair weather sixth ennual Sweet Valley Memorial Day Parade attracted its usual tremen- dous crowd, with thirty acres of parking space set aside to handle the cars, and visitors lined up along the main roads hours before the starting time of 2 P.M. The second day, with field events scheduled, was {not clear, but the drizzle was so slight that it did not interfere greatly with activities, and acted rather as a help, lbecause farmers who would have utilized a second clear day for delayed soil preparation were mot able to get into their fields. Six high school bands marched in the parade, which originated at the Baptist Youth Camp at Forest Hills, and took an hour and a half to pass the reviewing stand. |At the new Ross Township School grounds, Pennsylvania State College Drill Team went through its paces, following the parade, ainld the school bands put on an exhibit. Winner of first place for (floats sponsored by businessmen was Sweet Valley Flower Shop, (Carl Drapiewski, proprietor. The float showed a rainbow with the pot of gold at the foot, and seven girls dressed in rainbow colors. Muhlenburg Methodist Church won first prize for church floats. Muhlenburg PTA won high place for lodges and organizations, with a float featuring the little old schoolhouse, complete with bell. Foss Restaurant was first for comic entries, with little Red Riding Hood and the wolf. Daughters of America had a float featuring Abraham Lincoln giving the Gettysburg Alddress, which took first prize. Agricultural high went to Center Hill Hereford Farm, and showed Maggie amd Hiram taking prize cattle to the fair. They were accom- panied by Huck Finn, completely in character with a red bandanna a- round his toe—a cow had stepped on him. Alfred Bronson placed first for English riding horse, Madeline Stevens first for Western entry. Henry Trumbore, driving a three- horse hitch, and hauling the old fire engine from Nicholson, a beautifully polished job gleaming with brass, took a first. The second day's activities in- cluded a wide range of events, with rides for the children while men entered wood-sawing contests and pitted their teams against compet- itors, Winners in the light-weight team pulling contest were: James Allen, Canton, Pa., first; Pete Kessler, Tola, second; ' third, Gene Kessler; P. Chamberlain, fourth, Hartford, and John Slater, Athens, fifth. In the heavy pulling teams con- tests, Harold Daniels of Newark Val- ley, N. Y. won first place; C. Brain- and, Harford, second; George Gord- ner, Millville, third; Faye Wilbur, Unadilla, N. Y., fourth and (Clifton Darrow, Towanda, fifth. Wood-sawing first was won by Jacob and Schuyler Sult state chiam- pions from Bentcin; second by Stan- ley Sult and his brother; third by Gene Kessler and Bob Houseknecht, Millville; and fourth by Grant Gord- ner. Charles Fiske, chairman for [Sat- urnday, says that thirty teams had been lined up for the pulling con- test, but that only twelve showed up because of bad weather. One of the horses in the Daniels team was in a team which broke the State Cham- pionship record at the Farm [Show in Harrisburg in 1950. The trained (Chimpanzee, Bingo, entertained with a variety of acts including walking a wire and play- ing the piano. Grasslands Festival Attracts Huge Throngs For Forage Demonstrations Thind of a series of five (Grassland | Noxen High School Band, there was Field Days' sponsored by Penmsyl-!a short program of speeches with vania ‘State College. Tuesday's fes- tival embraced fourteen counties of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The second sunny day in a row, the fields and pastures at [Senator A. J. Sordoni’s Sterling Farms had dried enough to make possible dem- onstrations of sod-destructions and renovation, green forage cutting and raking anid baliag of hay. Eight thousand people visited the demonstration patches of new for- age crops, watching the demonstra- tions 'of heavy machinery, taking in the weed control exhibits and the Home Economics Building. Governor John Fine, on hand for lunch at Huntsville (Christian, (Church Booth, expressed himself as highly pleased with the program of grass crops leading toward erosion control of erosion. 2 Not able to spend the entire afftter- noon, the Governor returned by plane to Harrisburg before the speaking program started. The crowd gathered around the speaker’s truck early in the after- noon showed some notable gaps. A good many farmers who were there last year were absent because of a sunny and drying day which made mandatory getting into their own fields after an exceptionall wet May. Following a concert by Lake- Jim Hutchison as master of cere- monies, J. Martin Fry, rounding lout his thirty-fifth year with Pennsylvania State College as head of Agricul- ture Extension work, was man of the day, with the Grasslands Festi- val dedicated to him in acknowledg- ment of his services. Mr. Fry spoke of the value of grasslands and forage, and ‘the in- creasing willingness of farmers to try out mew techniques and var- ieties. Miles Horst, Secretary of Agricul- ture for three terms, extended thanks to [Senator [Sordoni. Mike Farrell, [Agricultural Re- search Director, announced that it was due to spectacular strides in conversion to grasslands that Penn- sylvania has the honor of being host to the [International Grasslands Congress at State College, August 18-23, at which sixty-five foreign nations are to be represented. Herbert Albrecht, head of Agro- nomy, and in charge of the experi- mental grass plots layed out in ad- vance at [Sterling Farms, said that the research program was a live one, leading to improved fertility and stronger sod, together with plant breeding of forage crops de- signed for specific conditions. Lena Van Tuyle Dies Of Stroke Had Taught School Thirty-Five Years Miss Lena Van Tuyle, town, for thirty-five years a tea- cher in Dallas Township elementary schools, retiring in October, 1950, was buried in Fitch Cemetery Lock- ville Monday afternoon. Immediate cause of death in Wilkes-Barre General Hospital Thursday afternoon was heart fail- ure following a stroke. She had been a patient for ten days. Services were conducted from the Elmer Williams Funeral Home by Rev. Frederick Reinfurt, assisted by Rev. John R. Austin, retired. Her favorite hymn. ‘Lead Kindly Light”, was sung, and floral offerings were many. Members of the WICTU held a ser- vice Satunday evening at 8. Pallbearers ‘were cousins, Walter and Richard Brunmges, Floyd, Daniel and Leslie Dymond, and Thomas Earl. Miss Vian Tuyle is survived by a sister, Miss Emma Van Tuyle, mat- ron at the Nurses Home, General Hospital, Wilkes-Barre. Born in North Moreland Town- ship, daughter of the late Corey A. and Rebecca Dymond Van Tuyle, Miss Vian Tuyle had spent most of her sixty-five years in the Dallas area. She graduated from Wyoming Seminary after finishing elementary school at Lockville; attended Penn- sylvania. State College, where she studied music; and University of Pennsylvania, again for a music course, Her teaching did not begin at Dallas Township. She taught prior || to that in North Moreland schools, West Wyoming, and Exeter and Kingston Townships, A teacher in old Goss School, she was active in promoting the new school building and much interested later in con- solidation, She and her sister both taught in that old white school, Former students remember with affection that the Misses Van Thiyle quietly saw to it that no child ever went without a Christmas present when school gifts were exchanged. Known to fellow teachers ‘and principals as a perfectionist, Miss Van Tuyle was unwilling to do a sloppy piece of work. Her penman- ship remained to the last of her teaching career, far beyond the nor- ma] time for retirement as precise as ever and this attitude was re- flected iin her work with her pupils. She expected the best effort from them, Her heant had been troubling her somewhat even before retirement, but she had not allowed it to inter- fere with what she conceived to be her duties. Final Rites For Gustave Splitt Jackson Director Buried At Lehman Gustave Split, 72, former Jack- son Township School Board Secre- tary, died at his home Monday, 5:30 AM., from a heart attack com- picated by asthma. He had been in poor health, retiring from forty- five years of mining thirteen years ago. The day before his death he paid respects to his brother-in-law, William Hazel, Edwardsville, who was buried on Monday. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Frank Abbott Thursday at 2 from the Bronson Funeral Home, with burial in Lehman Cemetery. Pallbearers were Dennis Bonning, Robent Scally, James Roushey, Huey Swelgin, Thomas Cease, and Harold Elston. . Grandchildren were flower car- riers. Mr. Splitt was a native of Ger- many, coming to the United [States as a young man and entering Sus- quehanna Collieries, Though a mem- ber of St. John’s Lutheran [Church, Nanticoke, he attended Jackson Methodist (Church with this wife, the former Maude Bulford, who died on New Years Eve 1947. Mrs. Splitt had been a school teacher in Jackson Township, meei- ing her husband when he was a school director. lA daughter, Mrs, Norman Frank- lin, Philadelphia, survives; also a son, Durwood, at home, and: three grandchildren. Mrs. Ella Harvey, Franklin Street, is his sister-in-law, younger sister of Maude Bulford, Grange Advanced Mountain Grange will meet this Saturday night at Carverton Grange Hall instead of next Saturday might as previously planned. Shaver- | | Dalllas-Franklin Township High School graduated forty-one seniors at exercises Tuesday evening with Donald J. Evans presenting diplomas to the graduates, and John F. Ros- ser making awards. In the front row, lett to right, are Geraldine Puterbaugh, Nancy L. Carey, Margaret Mattie, Elizabeth Davis, Richard Wileman, John Stof- Westmoreland graduates are shown in academic cap and gown for the first commencement Dallas Borough-Kingston Township Joint School District. First row reading left to right: Bruce Joseph Berrettini, John Wil- liam Farrell, Margaret Anin Malke- mes, Barbara Ann Davis, Nancy Ruth Schooley, Joan Iris Kibbler, Glenda May Hendershot, Frances Emily Siley, Esther IChristina War- ren,Louise Kann, [Carolyn Lorraine Shafer, Elinor Elsie Downes, Myrtle Lillian Kenney, Joan Anderson, Hilda Ann. Sutton, and Dilys Patricia Rowlands. Second row: William Roger Olney, ‘Charlotte Elizabeth Michel, Beverly Jane Morgan, Janis Lee Graves, John Paul Garrah, Romona Mary z Sponsors And Speakers At Grassland ila, Roy Tryon, Lance Walker, James Broomfield, Beverly Hill Naomi Veitch, Patricia VanCampen, Alice Detsick, and Lorraine Wasser. Second row: [Carole Honeywell, Shirley Yeust, Janet Gramley, Bar- bara Lewin, Regina Klein, Mary Louise Lipp, Mary Ann [Polacheck, Joan Davis, Nancy Marti, Anita Em- manuel, Mary Patricia Wilscin, Mari- Balut, Elizabeth Arzula Johnson, Margaret Janet Stuart, Robert Dain- iel Edwards, Roland LeBar Kester, Doris Louise Ockenhouse, Frances Mabel Moss, Carol Ann Fehlinger, Nancy Claire Williams, Paul Phil- lip Coniglio, William Awdrew Long, and William John Berti. Third row: Edward Daniel Carey, John Bernard ‘Stoner, Richard Paul Lavelle, William James Fine, Vic- tor Joseph Spaciano, Johia DeWitt Richards, Bernard Joseph 'Sherin, Lorraine Edith Owen, Barbara Jane Malkemes, Celeste Jo Ann, Machell, Bobby Lee Crews, Glenn Dale Carey, Russell Arthur DeRemer, Donald Raymond John Watchulonis, Eugene Joseph Prushko, Carl Joseph Young- blood, Jr., and Russell Davis Honey- well, Big Committee To Solicit New Auction Goods First Meeting To Be Held Tonight At Dallas Post Sixth annual Back Mountain Memorial Library ‘Auction which is to be held July 10, 11, and 12, will get off to a flying stant tomorrow night when members of the New Goods Committee meet at The [Dal- f | las Post Building on Lehman [Ave- § | ue. lyn Rogers Therese Chukinas. Standing are: Ernestine Martin, Robert Harris, Robert Belles, Her- bert Wertman, Donald Lewis, Lee ‘White, Harold Mugford, Olin Race, John Williams, Robert Stair, Carl Dymond, Neilan Garinger, Freder- ick Shultz, and Marcia Trimble. Westmoreland Graduates Class Of Fifty Wednesday Evening Glenda May Hendershot gave the Valedictory address at Westmore- land High School graduation exer- cises Wednesday night, Myrtle Lil- lian Kenney the Salutatory. Awards presented by Frank Trim- ble, High School Principal, includ- ed scholarships to Misericordia won by Charlotte Elizabeth Michel and Bobby Lee Crews. Glenn Carey, winning an, award for leadership, has a scholarship to Wilkes ‘College. Edward Carey was awarded a competitive scholarship to Kings College. Rev. Aurance Shank, Berwick, spoke on ‘“Life’s Ventured Trust”. Diplomas were presented by Harry Ohlman, president of the Joint School District, to fifty graduates. Field Day The notables at the June 3 Grassland event are shown here. Left to Right: Senator A. J. Sordoni; J. M. Fry, Director of Agricultural Extension of Pennsylvania State College; Dr. Michael Farrell, Director of Agricultural Research at Pennsylvania State College; Professor Herbert Albrecht, Head of the Agron- omy Dept. at Pennsylvania State College; James Hutchison, Luz. Co. Agricultural Agent; Hon. Miles Horst, Pennsylvania’s Sec’y of Agriculture; Prof. Michael Darizas, Geography Dept. of University of Pennsylvania, a world-wide traveller and personal friend of Senator Sordoni. Phone Numbers Chan ged Today At Lake Commonwealth Telephone Com- pany has announced that all num- bers at Harveys Lake will be changed on Monday lat 8 to enable subscribers to dial Dallas numbers after the forth coming Dallas Dial conversion on July 21st. The company will appreciate it if Harveys Lake subscribers will make arrangements so that telephone crews can gain access to their pro- perties today and Saturday to change telephone number plates and supply temporary directories. Members of the committee are: Harry Allan Jr., Francis Ambrose, Thomas Andrew, Edward Atkins, Robert Bachman, Jack Barnes, Atlee Beagle, Walter Black, Dr. R. M. Bodycomb, Norwood Brader, J. B. Carr, W. E. Chamberlain, Peter D. Clark, Gus Condoras, William (Con- yngham, Harold J Cook, Harden William Cutten, William ICushner, Ralph Davis, Gerald Dettmore, Boyd Dodson, Lawrence Drabick, James J. Durkin, Vern Groff. D. L. Edwards, Ray Evans, Shel- don Evans, Donald Evans, Dwight K. Fisher, Ralph Flanmigan, Robert Fleming, Charles Frantz, David Hall; John M. Hewett, James D. Hutch- ison, Herbert Hill, (Clinton Ide, Henry L. Jones, David Jenkins, Mitchell Jenkins, G. H. Keller, Frank Kova- litz, (Clarence Laidler, William Lamb, John N. Landis, Ralph Garrahan, Paul Gross, William Guyette, Robert Hale, Sherman Harter, Raymon Hed- ‘den, Fred B. Howell, Sev Newberry, Bud Silverman, Harold L. Smith, H W. “Chick” Smith, Harrison Smith, Harry Lee Smith, Herbert A. Smith Jr., Granville Sowden, Dr. P. J. Sturdevant, Thomas, Harold L. Titman, H. R. Weaver, Fred Wilkens, Rev. William Williams, Robert Wallace, Robert Lewis, [Charles (W. Lee, Jay M. Llew= ellyn, Herbert Lundy. : Joseph MacVeigh, Peter M. Mal- S. Maturi, Melvin Mosier, Paul Mul- Pau! Phillips, Ted [Poad, Col J. Rice, L. L. Richardson, Robent Rine- heimer, Howard Risley, John HL. Roberts, Daniel Robinhold, Thomas Robinsop, Jack Roddy, Arthur Ross, John G. Ruggles, David Schooley, Harry Schooley, .and John Yaple, Area Fails To Meet Its Quota Given For Cancer Less Than $1,000 The Back Mountain Region has the current Capicer Drive, Even with an extension of the campaign's closing date, this area has contributed less than $1,000 ac- cording to Mrs. Harry Ohlman, chairman. Cancer cans which wene in evi- dence on counters of Back Mountain business places for several weeks, were opened on Tuesday with dis- appointing results, Mrs, Ohlman attributes the poor showing in the area to indifference and forgetfulness. “Many of my friends have told me that they planned to give but have forgotten it or mislaid the letters with self- addressed envelopes which they re- ceived. “Contributions,” she said, “can still be sent to W. B. Jeter, presi- dent of First National Bank, Dallas, who is treasurer of the local fund.” Collection stations will also be established in the mpost-offices at Dallas, [Shavertown, and Trucksville on Tuesday morning, where those who have “forgotten” can contri- bute. : “Two bright spots appeared in the local collection,” Mrs, Ohlman said: “Natona Mills and school ichild- ren did a swell job. The rest of the community fell down miserably.” In September a permanant Cancer Information and Dressings station will be established: in Back Moun- tain Memoria] Library ‘Annex. Much of the financial assistance for this station will come from the Cancer Fund, tases If you haven't contributed your share to the fund, do it mow. Send your check to W. B. Jeter, Dallas, to aid those who are less fortunate than you are now. Remember Can- oe knows no, age, class or individ- ual. WSCS Wednesday Kunkle Methodist Church, WSCS, will meet Wednesday evening at the home of Mrs. Anna Weaver. Coon, Clyde ‘Cooper, [Arthur Culver, Herman * Henry Pool, Robert Rave, Kenneth 2 kemes, F. Gordon Mathers, Robert ey, Che Nuss, Harry Ohlman, « mes | ‘Oliver; Join. H. Parkeri © e A. Parker, Henry Peterson, fallen far short of its $2,000 quota in
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