Editorially Speaking:
General Eisenhower Is Choice
Of Young Voters In All States
Youth Is Convinced "War Or Peace” Is Issue
And They Want A United Country To Face It
D arias Post
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
D.
JA
ROSS
LAKE
By BRUCE H. ZEISER
Dwight D. Eisenhower has emerged as the overwhelming favorite
of young people of America in this year’s Presidential race.
I have spent the last four months traveling around the United
States talking with young people and organizing Youth for Eisenhower
clubs in cities and towns, farms and factories, ahd on college and high
school campuses. East,
Far West lor South, it seems to make
no difference—the young people
choose Ike by a margin more lop-
sided than has ever been accorded
to any other candidate for President
in recent political history.
Téa the colleges, for example.
At latest report, there had been 96
mock Presidential polls amd 67 mock
Republican conventions = held by
college students, participated in by
492 colleges and universities with
an estimated total student body of
over 1,000,000 students. Ike was
“nominated’ in everly one of the 96
polls and in 61 of the 67 mock con-
ventions, and rolled up a 3-1 vic-
tory over this nearest (opponent, [Sen-
ator Taft, by polling over 48,000
votes to Taft's 16,000. Tke's victory
margin on the campus was better
than 2-1 over all Republican oppon-
ents combined. And these figures
are representative of all young
voters—in all Gallup Polls and in
each of primary elections of New
Hampshire, Minnesota, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania and [South Dakota. The
voters under 30 years of age picked
Eisenhower by margins ranging
from 2-1 to higher than 4-1.
One of the most significant Eisen-
hower victories was at the mock
convention at Washington and Lee
University, where the student dele-
gations were required to vote as the
states they represented will vote at
the Chicago convention. On the
third ballot Ike had 460 votes and
Taft had 447 votes, at which time
Pennsylvania delegation, which had
been splitting its vote, swung al-
most solidly to Eisenhower, thus
insuring this momination. One in-
fluentia] Virginia Republican, mow
a delegate to ‘Chicago, told me be-
fore the mock convention that these
college boys rarely missed picking a
winner and that he for one would
definitely be influenced by the out-
come of the balloting at 'Washing-
ton and Lee.
Tke's showing was most spectacu-
lar in Ohio. I spent a week in that
so-called Taft stronghold encourag-
ing Tke clubs to make an old-fash-
toned college try for their candidate,
and the result was far better than
I had expected. Out of 15 Chio col-
leges participating in mock Repub-
lican ‘Conventions 14 chose Tke and
the other chose Governor Warren.
The most embarrasing setback for
Senator Taft occurred at Hiram
College mock convention at which
Tafft- himself delivered the keynote
address. The convention chose
Dwight D. Eisenhower for President
on the thind ballot. To top all this
off, Ohio State University held its
own “primary” on the same day as
the state’s primary and nominated
Ike, who got more votes than all
other Republican opponents eom-
bined. I think this is am indication
of what might have happened had
Eisenhower's name been on tthe bal-
lot in the Ohio primary.
Youth for Eisenhower is dedicated
to the purpose of demonstrating to
the Republican Party in igeneral and
to the delegates to (Chicago conven-
tion in particular that the young
voters in this country want Dwight
Eisenhower nominated for the [Pre-
sidencdy. The above record doesn’t
leave ‘much room for argument on
that conclusion. But several influ-
ential Republicans here in Luzerne
County have asked me why the
young people like Ike. I want to
answer that question because it is
one of the most important political
questions of 1952.
Young people are looking for a
candidate with what some of them
have termed ““ a capacity for leader-
ship”. Such a quality is harder to
define than to recognize in a can-
didate. I believe the young voters
are disgusted with the present in-
cumbent of the White House largely
Midwest,
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bruce H. Zeiser, national col-
lege director of Youth for Eisen-
hower, is a grandson of Mrs. H.
H. Zeiser of Dallas and the late
Harry Zeiser former superinten-
dent of Wilkes-Barre City
Schools.
During the past few months
he 'has visited college cam-
puses and youth groups in prac-
tically every eastern, central
and mid-western state.
This week Mr. Zeiser inter-
rupted his flight to Chicago
where he will be engaged in
pre-convention daties for Gen-
eral Eisenhower, to spend three-
days with his grandmother and
to confer with Luzerne County
political leaders and newspaper
men.
A graduate of Harvard Uni-
versity and Harvard Law school,
Mr. Zeiser during World War II
was a Lieutenant in the U. S.
Navy with a communications
unit in the Pacific. From 1948
until 1950 he was president of
Rhode Island Young Republi-
cans, and, until his present
leave, was assistant counsel for
the Armed Services Petroleum
Purchasing Agency of the De-
partment of Defense in Wash-
ington, D. C.
A veteran, as a student of
politics since childhood, and as
a young man—he is twenty-
eight—he is qualified to speak.
for the younger voter. Editor
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because they do mot consider him
a big enough man for the job. They
seem to be seeking ia man whose re-
cord has been fome of positive
achievement rather than of opposi-
tion (even though that opposition
be highly skilful and partly of a
positive variety). They are not
greatly concerned with the field of
‘endeavor in which a candidate has
become a leader because they are
generally convinced that the quality
of leadership transcends occupa-
tiona] lines. For a variety of reasons,
the young people in this country
yearn for a President in whom they
can place their trust and confidence
as a leader of a united people.
Young people want a man who
knows the ins-and-outs of war, Most
voters under 30 were more or less
intimately connected with World
Wiar II and practically none of them
are far removed from the present
“police action” in Korea (which
most of them term “war” with no
hedging). I find a strong . belief
among my contemporaries that our
present economic and military com-
mitments in Europe have kept the
Soviet Union from starting World
‘War III and therefore are a meces-
sary unpleasantness; but , that our
present position in the Far East is
the result of a dreadful series of
blunders and that the status of the
Korean War has now reached the
utterly ridiculous. They are convin-
ced that the major issue of 1952 is
“War or Peace ?”’, and that a leader
with intimate experience with Eur-
ope and the Soviet Union is their
best insurance against World War
III ‘and their best guarantee that the
investment they made in their coun-
try in World War TI will not be frit-
tered away again.
Lastly, I find that the young
voters of the United States tend
more strongly than ever to place
their trust and confidence, and cast
their vote, in and for @ man rather
than a political party. It is, of
course, a political fact that about
30% of the electorate (about 15,-
000,000 voters) deny party mem-
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FROM.
PILLAR TO POST
By Mgrs. T. M.
B. Hicks, Jr.
Maybe you think it was hot here in the hills last week. You should
have been in New York, dressed in a wool suit which looked like the
proper thing when school at Columbia first opened, but rapidly became
passe as the thermometer zoomed.
Along with the men who were invited to shed their coats as the
sessions steamed up and the fans whirled faster and faster, we shed our
own good old blue flannel job and settled down to business feeling much
better.
We think that a candid camera
shot of the feet under the big oval
conference table would be a revel-
ation, Directly across from us there
sits a tall gal who wears striped
cotton play shoes. Her legs are too
long to accommodate themselves,
so her feet turn over and lie on
their sides, first in one direction
and then in another.
Next to her is a tiny girl who
wears a reversible grey cord skirt
with a crimson lining. Or is it scar-
let? She sits on her feet.
Alongside her is the plump
blonde who slips off her pumps as
soon as she sits down, and goes
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VOL. 62, No. 25
FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1952
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Dr. Henry M. Laing Firemen Report On Drive For New Truck
Reading left to right, kneeling
William ‘Compton, Elton [Sprout,
Richard Owens, Robert Weaver, Ger-
ald Dettmore.
Second row, standing Bob Lewis, Wileman,
Fred Price, Joe Jewell, R. IC. Neal,
Mrs. Goddard's Pet Lovebird
Explores Pringle Possibilities
“It’s strictly for the birds,” ac-
cording to Mrs. Paul Goddard, Goss
Manor. This bird story begins about
a month ago when Mrs. Goddard
bought a lovely green parakeet in
Coral Gables, Florida.
On her return North she was fol-
lowing a Redcap through Pennsyl-
vania station in New York, carry-
in the cage with her new pet, when
suddenly the bottom of the cage
slipped and the bird squeezed out
somehow to fly to the ceiling of the
huge waiting room. The few min-
utes that remained before the train
left were not long enough for Mrs.
Goddard to regain her bird, and so
she left it sitting thigh in the sta-
tion. v
Not at all discouraged, Mrs. |God-
dard bought another green ‘love-
bird” at the Pet [Shop in Kingston.
But this one was to suffer an even
worse fate, The Goddards had the
bird for about two weeks, and it
was just becoming tamed, learning
to fly around the house and light om
the family’s shoulders. But one sad
Sunday, the Goddards went to the
Prince of Peace Church, and re-
turned to find that their boxer,
Fritz, had devoured the bird.
Now Mrs. Goddard was deter-
mined to keep and tame one of the
Major Places
Third At State
Will Judge Poultry
At Kansas City
A Jackson Township boy placed
third in the Poultry Judging con-
test conducted as part of the an-
nual State Future Farmers of
America Convention held at Penn-
sylvania State College last week.
Darrel Major, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Homer Major of Trucksville RD 1,
will participate in the National FFA
Convention at Kansas City this fall
as a result of his outstanding per-
formance in a field of 132 contest-
ants. \
The contest consisted of judging
classes of live poultry as layers
according to pigmentation, molt
and handling quality; also one class
of 10 birds was judged on a ‘keep
or cull” basis by sight. A class of
live market birds and one of
dressed fowl; 50 eggs to be graded
for exterior defects in 31% minutes
and 10 eggs to be candled for inter-
ior defects completed the contest.
Darrel is a Junior at Lehman-
Jackson Joint School, where he
is an “A” student of Vocational
Agriculture. He has held the post
of Secretary of the Blue Ridge
Chapter of the FFA and is now
President of that organization. His
project program in Vocational Agri-
culture has been large in the past
and he is continuing in that fash-
ion, hoping to become a farmer
upon graduation from school.
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Last Of Kozemchak
Family Is Married
June 7 was the day when the
tenth and last of Mrs. Rose
Kozemchak’s children was mar-
ried. Walter, though not the
baby of the family, was the
last to leave the family fold
when he married Nancy Smith.
Mrs. Kozemchak, a widow for
years, is an inspiration to any
young mother faced with the
problem of keeping together and
supporting a large family alone.
The Post will do a know your
neighbor on her shortly.
elusive birds. [She bought another
one, this time a blue one, hoping
that the change in color would
bring a change in luck. But tno. The
next morming David, 15, and Tommy,
12, tthe Goddard boys, were playing
with the bird when, it flew away.
On Monday night, it visited the
Harry Howells in Fernbrook. The
bird had a band on its leg, contain-
ing the words Number “75”, so the
Howells released the bird in the
morning, sure that it would return
to its home. Unfortunately, the
parakeet wasn't ready to return to
the Goddards. It flew on to Pringle.
In the mean time, Mrs. (Goddard
had placed an advertisement in the
paper for the return of her missing
bird. Since there had been no ans-
wer, she bought a fourth bird, a
Colbalt ‘blue one. No. sooner had
she brought the bind home than she
received a call from Pringle on ‘Wed-
nesday evening. The missing bird
had been. found.
And so the Goddards have two
beautiful blue parakeets, “Petey and
'Chico”. If she can keep these two
for longer than a week, Mrs. God-
dard plans to buy a female and
raise little “lovebirds” to get them-
selves lost or eaten.
East Dallas In
Three-Way Tie
Junior Leaguers Meet
Westmoreland Today
East Dallas teen-agers won their
second straight game in the Bi-
County Junior league on Saturday
defeating Carverton at Carverton.
Stritzinger pitched two hit ball
for East Dallas while his team-
mates collected six from [Sholtis
and Verl.
This puts East Dallas in a three-
way tie with Westmoreland and
Turrell Motors of Tunkhannock for
top position and leaves Jackson,
Carverton, and Reese’s of Tunk-
hannock each with one win and
two defeats.
East Dallas will meet West-
moreland at East Dallas this Sat-
‘urday- The game starts promptly
at 2:30 p. m.
Reese’s will play Carverton to-
morrow at 2:30 p. m.
Come out and boost your teen
age boys.
BOX
East Dallas:
SCORE
Coolbaugh, 3b,
Shaffer, 2b,
Thomas, c,
Stritzinger, p,
Belles, ss,
Robertson, cf,
Richardson, 1b,
Richardson, If,
Holmgren, rf,
HOOHOWOKR OB
NOOOOHHHONR
coo O0O0O0O0O0OON
Carverton:
Sholtis, p,
Fowler, 1b,
Mehal, 2b,
Gosart, 3b,
Michaels, c,
Switzer, rf,
Shultz, ss,
Dixon, cf,
Sands, If,
Verl, p,
OCOO0COO0COHOHKOY
OCO0COOOOOOHHK
OCOOHOOOOOKD
Batteries:
Dallas: Thomas and Stritzinger.
Carverton: Michaels, Sholtis, and
Verl.
E. Dallas:
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Carverton
Charles Flack, Ross Lewin Crozier
Ben Edwards, Sterling
Williams, H. L. Smith.
Revival Speaker
Rev. Thomas Hermiz, pastor Trin-
ity Memorial Church, Endicott, N. Y.
is the speaker for services at Outlet
Free Methodist Church beginning
yesterday through June 22nd at
8 p.m. each day except Saturday.
Saturday night he will speak at
the open air service at Harveys
Lake. y
‘An opportunity to hear Rev. Mr.
Hermiz's testimony and life story
will be given Sunday afternoon
2:30. He was born in Turkey of
Assyrian Christian parents. During
the first World War when the Turks
were killing thousands of (Christians
his mother was among those mar-
tyred. As a small boy he was adop-
ted by a Mohammedan family and
reared in their faith until the end
of the war, when, through his father
and the American Red Cross, he was
brought to this country, where he
was later converted to Christ and
answered the call to preach.
The church is located on the Leh-
man-Harveys Lake road.
Workers’ Names
Are Announced
Solicit For Ruction
In Kingston Township
Mrs. Herbert Smith Jr., co-chair-
man of the Library Auction Solici-
tation Committee, has announced
the following solicitors for Kings-
ton Township.
Shavertown area: Mrs. James
Edwards, chairman; Miss Jenny
Hill, co-chairman; Mrs. Sheldon
Evans, Mrs. Theodore Poad, Mrs.
Herbert Stark, Mrs. Sterling Fiske,
Mrs. Jack Jones, Mrs. Anthony
Novy, Mrs. Donald Powell, Mrs.
James L. Brown, Mrs. Gerald
Stout, Mrs. Raymond Stroud, Mrs.
Gilbert Austin, Mrs. William Davis,
Mrs. George Jones, Mrs. Ernest
Caryl and Mrs. Eleanor Baker.
Trucksville area: Mrs. Warren
Unger, chairman; Mrs. Willard
Garey, Mrs. Robert Keeler, Mrs.
G. H. Keller, Loretta Olver, Mrs.
Lowther Brown, Mrs. Frank Kova-
letz, Mrs. S. B. Dilcer, Mrs. William
Lipfert, Mrs. Carl Bradbury, Mrs.
George Bessemer, Mrs. Herbert
Jenkins, = Mrs. James Brownlee,
Mrs. Harvey Sink, Mrs. Robert
Williams, Mrs. Robert Anderson,
Mrs. Dorothy Banta, Mrs. J. Har-
ley Gritman, Mrs. James D. Hut-
chison, Mrs. James Gross and Mrs.
Milton Clemow.
Sgt. Herbert Dreher
Herbert Dreher, Dallas, has been
promoted to sergeant in the U. S.
Air Force. He is stationed at the
Offutt (Air Force Base in Omaha,
Nebraska.
Herb is a former employee of the
Dallas Post. ue :
Rear, standing on fire engine, Dan
Richards, James Besecker, WNorti
Berti, Al Schaffer, Tom Kingston.
William Higgins,
Estate Manager,
Burial Tomorrow
Life Long Resident
Succumbs To Sudden
Attack Wednesday
The funeral\ of William A. Hig-
gins, highly respected and lifetime
resident of the Back Mountain Com-
munity, will be held tomorrow after-
noon at 2 from the late home off
Pioneer Avenue, Dallas.
[Services will be in cha e of Rev.
William Heapps, pastor -of Dallas
Methodist Church, assisted by Rev.
Frederick Reinffurt, former pastor
of Dallas (Church, now if Unadilla,
New York. ) »
The death of Mr. Higgins from a
sudden = heart attack . Wednesday
afternoon at 2:30 came as a distincts
shock to the community in which he
had spent his sixty-eight years, forty
of them with the Newberry family
as estate manager,
Although Mr. Higgins had suf-
fered a heart attack some years ago,
he had apparently recovered and
there was mo warning of the ser-
iousmess of fis condition until he
was stricken with the fatal attack
at 11:30 Wednesday morning while
alighting from this car in which he
had driven his daughter Mrs. Earl
Weidner to Dallas IChurch to prepare
for the tea that evening. Recently
he had not been feeling quite up to
par and last week had visited his
phlysician who told him to “take it
a bit easy”, as he had probably
overworked a bit.
Born. March 10, 1884 at Outlet,
Harveys Lake, “Bill” Higgins was
the son. of the late Miner and Argie
Higgins,
He was early embued with a love
for all living things, particularly
trees, and the grounds about the
beautiful estate on [Pioneer attest
to that devoticn throughout a life-
time. He was considered an au-
thority on apples, and the fruit
grown, on the estate was among the
most perfect produced in this area.
Besides his wife, the former Silvia
Case with whom he celebrated his
forty-eighth wedding anniversary
on Saturday, Mr. Higgins leaves two
daughters, Mrs. Earl Weidner. Dal-
las RD, and Mrs. William Gregg,
Trucksville Gardens; a sister, Mrs.
William iSorber, Outlet, and four
grandchidren, Richard, Donald, 'Wil-
liam and Wilma Weidner.
Mr. Higgins, though not a mem-
ber, contributed to and attended
Dallas Methodist ‘Church. 5
Intermemt will be in the family
plot in Warden ‘Cemetery. Arrange-
ments are by Elmer T. Williams,
Dallas.
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Lake Association
Plans Annual Meeting
A report on Chief Fred Swan-
son’e resignation will be given at
the annual meeting of Harveys
Lake Protective Association to be
held next Thursday night at San-
dy Beach Pavilion for the election
of new officers and directors. Rob-
ert M. Rogers, president ‘will pre-
side.
Future course for Association
activities will be discussed since
responsibility for police has been
taken over by Lake Township Su-
pervisors.
Dance And Bake Sale
Dallas Township Civic Club is
sponsoring a dance and bake sale at
Dallas Township High School every
Saturday might at 8 o'clock. Abe
Belles is caller.
The first unescorted girls are
| admitted free. : \
Baok Mountain Highway Deaths and
DALLAS
KINGSTON TOWNSHIP
BOX SCORE
Serious Accidents Since V-J Day
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TOWNSHIP
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Idetown Woman
Critically Hurt
Crossing Road
Mrs. Jennings
Is In Oxygen Tent
At Nesbitt Hospital -
Surrounded by her family, Mrs.
Margaret Jennings, 55, R.D.1, Dallas,
is still in critical condition, in an
oxygen tent at Nesbitt Memorial
Hospital. She was struck at 7:40 -
Wednesday morning in Idetown by
an automobile driven by Morris H.
Wasserstom, Harveys Lake.
Mrs. Jennings was on her way to
work at Natona Mills and was walk-
ing to meet Mrs. Mona Montross who
was waiting for her in a car near
Cave’s (Store. As she walked across
the road between, two cars she was
struck and ‘thrown into the air.
Mrs, Edith Boice and Doris [Spen-
cer, companions of Mrs, Montross,
rushed to her aid. Mrs. Boice covered
her while Miss [Spencer phoned for
Dr. H. G. Gallagher, Dallas, and the
Harveys Lake ambulance,
At Nesbitt Hospital it was re-
vealed that her skull was fractured,
her right leg broken in several
places, and there was a possibility
of severe internal injuries.
The three women accompanied
their friend to the hospital and then
notified her family of the accident.
Mrs. Jennings, a widow, lives
with her eighty year-old mother,
Mrs. William Weaver. [She has three
sons, ‘William. John, Lloyd, and Rob-
ert, and a daughter, Mrs. Willard
Roberts, Plymouth. Her brother,
William Weaver, is also employed
in the boiler room at Natona Mills
and as plant traffic officer.
Local Shriners
On Pilgrimage
William Evans Is
_ Oldest In Group
Nineteen. Shriners from . the
Back Mountain area are among
those making the pilgrimage from
Irem Temple to the Imperial Coun-
cil sessions in Miami, Florida-
Several are accompanied by their
wives. : f
The pilgrims are Harry L. Ohl-
man, potentate, Mr. and Mrs. Rob-
ert M. Bodycomb, Richard Y-.
Oliver,’ Severn B. Newberry, Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Stookey, Dallas;
William Evans, Harold K. Ash,
Donald E. Hutchison, Herbert H.
Hill, J. Lydon Connor, R. Leroy
Dourand, Theodore F. Hinkle, and
Byron E. Harlos, Shavertown; Mr.
and Mrs. French L. Jones, Mr. and
Mrs. Elwood C. Hudson, Mr. and
Mrs. Bertram C. Fennell, Walter
H. Steinhauer, and Fred L. Wil-
liams, Trucksville; and John F.
Wardell, Carverton Road. . ?
The Shriners left the Lehigh
Valley Station Sunday morning at
7 in eleven private cars. In Miami
they are staying at the Normandie,
Strathhaven, Whitehart, and Bel-
mont hotels during the Council
sessions. They will leave Miami to-
morrow morning at 7:30 and re-
turn to Wilkes-Barre late Sunday-
The convention is being at-
tended by Shriners from (fifty-six:
temples in twenty states. There
were two parades scheduled. At
the one Tuesday morning the po-
tentates released pigeons as the
Shriners passed in review before
Imperial Potentate Robert G. Wil-
son, Jr. The pigeons bore mess-
ages to the mayors of the respec-
tive cities of the Shriners. Wilson
Garinger, Dallas, provided the one
for the Wyoming Valley group.
William Evans, 83, Shavertown,
is one of the oldest and liveliest
Shriners on the Pilgrimage. He
will be joined in Miami by his
grandson, Damn, Evans, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Daniel Evans, Danville.
Dan graduated from Annapolis
last year and is now an Ensign
Flyer in the U. S. Navy, stationed
at Pensecola.
Welcome Wagon Floats
Lead Two Parades
Welcome Wagon hostesses from
Pittston, West Pittston, Bloomsburg
and the Back Mountain Area led the.
parade at Bloomsburg Monday even-
ing when the town opened its sus-
quecentennial celebrations.
Memorial Day [Sarah Mathers,
Welcome Wagon hostess, entered
a baby float, Flo Garrahan a com-
plete gift float amd Nan Dodson,
Back Mountain, a ‘‘welcome to our
town” float in the Sweet Valley par-
ade.
Lehman Auxiliary
IA special meeting of Ladies Aux-
iliary of Lehman Fire (Company will
be held in the Fire Hall Monday
night at 8.