A By William J. Robbins Jr. PRIZE BEAR KILLERS Of the 429 legal bears bagged in Pennsylvania during the six-day season last November, there were 11 that weighed 400 pounds or more, rough-dressed. At least, so say individual reports made by the How many of these bears were actually weighed is mot known, but on the basis of weights shown on kill tags the largest bear, a male 545 pounder, was taken ‘in Pike County by Robert (A. Beers, of R.D., . Nazareth, Pa. ; Still going on. weights submitted, the secomid prize went to John J. Kucinski, Erie, Pa., for a 501 pound bruin killed in Warren County. Third place was taken by Samuel Norris, of ICurwensville, Pa., who bagged his prize, a 465 pounder, in (Clearfield County. The 11 big fellows were taken in 9 different counties. Only one of ' them was a female. DEFENSE AGAINST RABBITS Cottontail rabbits perennially an- noy residents of [Pennsylvania towns sand cities with their flower and bulb eating in early spring and their | vegetable garden raiding ‘later: Game [protectors and trappers em- ployed by the Game Commission re- move tens of thousands of these un- wanted bunnies from municipalities every winter, thus reducing the’po- tential rabbit damage. But some al- ways remain to plague gardeners. | However, with choice foods avail- able it is almost impossible to bring | rabitts to trap in late spring and summer. Many gardeners become incensed at ‘the bunny depredations, but re- lent when they realize that if a mother rabbit were taken from her tiny young they would perish. The best way to beat the problem appears to be more defense spend- ing In ‘the ‘case of small gardens, where the outlay is within reason, 18-inch mesh' wire, 6 inches of it buried in the ground to prevent burrowing under, solves the protec- tion problem. Openings in the mesh must be no larger than one inch if ~ little rabbits are to be kept out. Sprays and dusts, such as dried blood, rotenone and ‘tobacco dust, sold by merchants handling seeds Directions on effective repellents. the package shculd be followed im- plicitly. A line of moth crystals, poured around ‘the garden border, often proves an effective bar to the invasions of Brer Rabbit. FUR BEARER CRUELLY SLAIN Irwin ‘A. Meibel, Jr., Susquehanna game protector reports this despic- able incident: “On, Sunday evening, April 20,” he says, “I went to the outlet of Montrose Lake to view a dead ani- mal a man reported finding while fishing, Sorry to say, I found it to be a large male otter. Its skull had been crushed, possibly by someone fishing the stream.” Two Umbrellas Gone Mrs. Robert Kubasti, Fernbrook, would appreciate information about two brand-new umbrellas, left at the [Pen-Fern Service Station for the mse of her sons during a heavy rainstorm, but would appreciate still more deeply the return of the umbrellas, THE POST, FRIDAY, JUNE E————— In the Swim BLONDE Marilyn Monrcz2, who has been recently linked romantically with Joe DiMaggio, prepares to cool off at a pool in Hollywood. Marilyn displays here some of the charms that have prompted film folk to call her the most exciting blonde to come along since Jean Hentai Intamnntiongl Exclusive) Read the Classified Column Myer oS Se NN © WE STATE oF OREGON HAS A RIVER “THAT EMPTIES INTO A CREEK . (ROARING RIVER _ | EMPTIES INT CRABTREE CREEK.) “THE WHITE HOUSE WAS GROVER CLEVELAND « THE CEREMONY TooK. 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Cash Immediately Available. 3. Saves Time And Trouble. Canceled Checks Are Permanent Receipts. 5L. Low Cost Record Of Income And Expenditures. You, Too, Can Enjoy The Pleasure and Efficiency of a 2nd National Checking Account. Aecond. in Wome MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORP. Wyoming Ave. / Kingston Office Wyoming Avenue \ at # Union Street ONLY "YESTERDAY From The Post of ten and twenty years ago this week. From The Issue Of June 12, 1942 Peter Clark elected as Republican chairman by a narrow margin, 37 votes against Arnott Jones, 35. Howell Rees, former editor of Dal- las Post, speaks at Memorial Day Committee Dinner on the Bahamas, where he has spent the past two years. A tie between Merle Shaver and Floyd Chamberlain for Middle Dist- rict ICommittemain, was decided by a drawing in favor of Shaver. Elwood Davis, Marine, is leaving for the War Zone after a 25 day leave. Bill Casterline escapes death by narrow margin when truck body pins him to cab. Bill, after escaping from near-drowning last February when his truck went through the ice at Sunset, says, ‘I'm getting used to this sort of thing”. Large supply of road-oil, frozen by government, delays road work in Dallas. Onions, 3 lbs for 10 cents; new beets, 5 cents per bunch; spaghetti, two cans for 25 cents; bread, two large loaves for 17 cents; solid cab- bage, mew, 5 cents per lb; fancy red salmon, 35 cents tall can. Helein Boice marries Fred Hoover May 29. Helen Kirkendall announces en- gagement to Robert D. Appleton. Harry Kresge, feed merchant of Fernbrook, was buried Thursday in. Mill City Cemetery. Harry Hoover celebrates his eightieth birthday with an open house. Mrs. Anna Parks mourned at Ide- town. Patrolman Fred |Swianson got an orangeade shower at. Harveys Lake when the restrained a violent woman, near Sunset Saturday aftter~ noon. From The Issue Of June 10, 1932 Text of Rockefeller's plea for change in prohibition law published. Dallas Post, entering a new field, has completed publishing of King- ston High School Year-Book, Misericordia graduates thirty-five. Gliders, $12.50. Sheldon, Mosier graduates from State (College. Jim Hutchison says (bouquets placed in trees will help in pol- lenation. Dallas Borough graduates mine, Kingston Township holds com- mencement. “The Man Who Played God”, with George (Arliss, at Himmler Theatre. It's a four page paper. 13, 1952 ; ’ SAFETY VALVE Dear Editor: Bert Stitzer's ‘Sharpshooters’, the best team this side of Paradise, takes ‘this opportunity to accept the challenge of Back Mountain Lumber and Coal Company’s ‘Playboys’ for a three-game playoff on a neutral alley. The ‘‘Sharpshooters” hope the prize will be a dinner or some other award suitable’ to their ability. Bert Stitzer for the [Sharpshooters TAKES EXCEPTION Dear Editor: Two weeks ago in your valuable paper there appeared quite a boner in, Fin, Fur and Feather about the offspring of the English [Sparrow and the Starling which I would like to «call to your attention. ? It was stated that the Grackle was a cross between the [Sparrow and the Starling. Now the Sparrow which is of the Finch family was introduced into the United States in, the year 1850 and the Starling was introduced in 1890. Mr. Audubon who died in 1851 drew beautiful pictures of four idif- ferent (Grackles during the early part of his life—say about 1825— and John Burroughs who once was one of America’s outstanding or- nithologists and was consulting edi- tor of ‘Birds of America” states on page 270 of “Birds of America” that the (Grackle was named Jackdaw by our early settlers of the country on account of its superficial resem- blance to the European Jackdaw which of course is an entirely dif- ferent bind. The three Grackles which we have here at Harveys Lake are the Boat- Tailed Grackle. the Purple Grackle and the Bronzed Grackle. Now you name the one which is a cross be- tween the [English Sparrow and the Btarling for me. [Sincerely yours Frank Jackson Harveys Lake. FIRE IS NO JOKE Dear Editor, Fire in the country is a dread- ful thing because ‘of lack of ad- equate water supply, and because by the wery mature of the volunteer system a certain amount of delay is almost inevitable, The Back Moun- tain Fire companies get to a blaze with phenomenal speed, but dis- tances are long and hills are steep. [Seeing a house in flames is a ter- rifying thing. It is easy to vision ‘Jour own house going up in smoke, your prized possessions stacked on the lawn, your bedding amid clothing flying out of an upstairs window to lie smouldering beneath the ladder while a fireman chops holes in the siding and lets out another burst of flame, and smoke curls from the eaves. Unless a switch could be made to chemicals, the crux of the situ- ation seems to be water amd more wiater. It is only in the centers of popu- lation that fire plugs are available. In times of drought when fires are the most likely to occur, it is doubt- ful if there would be enough pres- sure on top of the high hills to make fire plugs practical for the outlying districts. We seem tio remember that some years ago it was suggested that a large tank truck be financed for the use of all Back Mountain Fire (Com- panies, filled and waiting for an emergency call in some central loca- tion. It is true that such a truck would move fairly slowly, but the fire companies ‘could hold things in check until it got to the scene, and once there it could furnish enough water to make speedy work of put- ting out the fire. I have a very selfish viewpoint on this. I am located on Pioneer Avenue in ‘an area where there are no fire-plugs, where there is no city water, where home-owners either have their own drilled wells, powered by automatic electric pump, rent water from a neighbor's supply, or subscribe to one of the several private water companies. I feel that with Borough taxes, water company water should be available. As it is not supplied, and there are mo fire plugs, I would feel a lot better if there were a large tank truck in readiness to supply enough water to save my home if my own bottled gas tank ever lets go, as was the case in the recent fire on the Roushey Plot, with the New- berry home gravely endangered from an explosion. I will subscribe twenty-five dol- lars here and now to such a tank truck, if the other folks out here will go along on the proposition. It is very moderate insurance against total loss. No amount of insurance ever covers the actual loss by fire. Let’s see if it isn’t possible to start something. Two bad fires in as many weeks are two fires too much. Hopefully yours Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks. columns. Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks had SKUNK HOLLER NEWS Deer Mr. Edytor. Mrs. veterinariun. Doc taped up her j hit—about hit not bein’ any wor spouse back. Bessie Pilsner run argyment. was. more’n my old foxhound, but you She sed, Hit's a downrite lie and man. You acted hasty. Alben sed Yep, Bessie, Alben kilt thet old between me and my spouse. burnt his little self. The Skunk Holler Wimmin’s tea this afternoon. § Barnyard Notes fe The Post this week welcomes a new correspondent to its hardly covered her typewriter for a two-weeks sojourn at the Columbia University School of Jour- nalism in New York City when this new contributor arrived: with his column of news from Skunk Holler. received it without editorial tampering on our part. Here it is just as we BY HUGH SMELME II Here's my news for this week. Jacob [Stonecob had the misfortun’ of dislocatin’ her jawbone wile talkin’ away at a laidees aid meetin’ other aftermoon. Her jawbone slipped slonchwise and the wimmin had to call the aw so’s she kaint talk none fer a few days. The Hon. Mr. Stonecob, who is air belovud presydent ov the Skunk Holler First Nationul Bank, shore is happy about se’'n hit is. Alben Pilsner has axed me to appeel nashun wide to get his off a few weeks ago after an Alben sed him and Bessie got to talkin’ about how fat she He sed, I bet you air heavier’n air old brood sow rite mow. She sed, I hain’t neither and I bet you luv thet old sow more'n you do me. He sed, Thunderashun thet hain’t so. I even luv you shore air heavier’n thet old sow. you know hit. Rite heer is whar Alben admits he flew off the handle. I was stedy up to then, he sed, fer I was statin’ only facts and I stand on my facts. What made Bessie leeve was the next statement of Alben. Why don’t you go weigh? he shoutud. A Bessie Pilsner, wharever you air, you kin cum back to yor eld go weigh, not go a-way. So cum @ on back so’s your man kin have somethin’ to eat beesides sowbelly. hog. He sed, No sow kin cum Little Mort Smelme, the youngust of the Smelmes, learnt hisself a big lessun this week. He set on the kitchun stove and club will close the seeson with a Tee time two ten. The rain last week sartinly was apprecyated by the farmers. Only thing, hit rained so hard hit floated the chapul from route 1 to route 2. So, reemember nabors, Sunday schul at 9, preachin’ frum 10 to 12. Don’t go to route 1 and xpect Deacon Wulker to fer onct. Mr. and Mrs. Chester, White he’s still as gud as any yung whi naborhood. show up. Hit’s route 2 whr he'll be. Let's all git to church on time war honored on their 50 years ov wedded bliss last Sunday with a surpriss potluck. Chester proved ppersnapper in the Holler and et the most. Mrs. White et little. She jist sat there, bless her sole a-thinkin’ back 50 yars, and a-shakin’ her hed. Lots ov indeegestun in the naborhood. : Mrs. Lola Loon had 2 teeth tuk out. They was her last 2 teeth. Gingur, thet’s my spouse, sed thet with them last 2 tobaccy-staned teeth gone, Mrs. Loon now has won ov the sweetiest smiles in the BS! Poet's Comer at -— The following poem was lent to the Post by Mrs. Marvin Elston who thought some of our readers would enjoy it and wish to clip it for their scrapbooks: My Grandmother, she at the age of eighty three, One day in May was taken ill and died; And after she was dead, the will of course was read By a lawyer as we all stood side by side, To my brother, it was found, she had left a hundred pound, The same unto my sister, I declare; But when it came to me the lawyer said, “I see she has left to you her old armchair. How they tittered, how they chaffed, How my brother and my sisters laughed. When they heard the lawyer de- clare Granny’d only left to me her old armchair, I thought it hardly fair, still I said I did mot care, And in the evening took the chair away. My brother at me laughed, the lawyer at me chaffed, Ang said, “It will come useful, John, some day. When you settle down in life, Find some girl to be your wife, You'll find it very handy, I declare, On a cold and frosty night, When the fire is burning bright, You can sit in your old armchair.” What the lawyer said was true, For in a year or two, Strange to say 1 settled down in married life, : I first a girl did court and then a ring T bought, Took her to the church, and then she was my wife. Now the dear girl and me Are happy as can be, And when my work is done, I de- clare, I ne'er abroad would roam, But each might I'd stay at home Amd be seated in my old armchair. One night the chair fell down, And when I picked it up I found The seat had fallen out upon the floor. And there before my eyes I saw to my surprise = A lot of notes, ten thousand pounds or more. When my brother heard of this The poor fellow, T confess, Went nearly wild with rage and tore this hair. : But I only laughed at him, And T said unto him: ‘Jim, you wish you had the old armchair 7” No more they tittered, no more they ichaffed, No more my brother and sisters Ww laughed, : When they heard the lawyer declare Granny's only left to me her old armchair. Westmoreland Seniors Enjoy New York Trip Forty-eight members of the gradu- ating class of Westmorelanid High School left by bus early [Tuesday morning for New York under the chaperonage of Walter Mohr and Robert (Somerville. In the city, part of the students took a boat trip around the island and the others toured New York in a bus. They attended a play in’ the evening and returned to their homes early Wednesday morning. IT.COULD BE YOURS | WITH A LOAN Thinking of buying a car? Our low-cost auto loans will save you money. 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