PAGE TWO Bin, Gun avid eather By William J. Robbins Jr. Without previous warning this note turned up in the morning mail, “Fin, Fur and Feather is going to take a vaca- tion for two weeks to get in a little fishing and wild life study” (Signed) W. J. Robbins Jr. Since then we have seen neither hide nor hair, fin, fur nor feather of Mr. Robbins. Most any day now we hope to receive his column by Indian runner, carrier pigeon or smoke signals. ........ Editor WOODCHUCK HUNTING No matter what people call him— woodchuck, groundhog, whistle. pig or marmot—ithe little burrowing game animal ‘will face a three- month Pennsylvania season .begin- ning July 1. Daily shooting hours (Sundays excepted) are from 6 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., Eastern Standard time. The daily bag limit is 5. There is no season limit this year. Gunners who possess a small bore rifle, particularly “those who own a varming rifle that mounts a tele- scope, spend many pleasurable hours outdoors hunting woodchucks in the off season, Beneficial as he is in providing escape cover and protection from severe weather for small animals and birds, the chuck sometimes causes damage to farmers’ fields or endangers their livestock through his burrowing lactivities. Many sportsmen realize this damage ele- ment and accordingly help their farmer friends by removing un- wanted “pigs” in agricultural areas, meanwhile enjoying ‘their sport. Unfortunately, groundhog hunting is not so safe as one would assume, judging from casualty figures of recent years. In 1949, the Pennsyl- vania record shows 6 persons killed and 95 wounded while hunting chucks. In 1950, the score was 4 fatals and 27 non-fatals, Last year, it was 4 and 22. Obviously, some distinctive color, such as a bright, light-reflecting or white cap, at least, should be worn in self-protection by those hunting whistle pigs. And again the time- worn but ever important warning: ~ BE [SURE IT'S A WOODCHUICK BE- FORE YOU SHOOT, What can be more tragic than a life unnecessari- ly lost? ; VICIOUS DOGS KILL DEER “Any dog owner who could see a doe deer heavy with fawn torn to pieces and virtually eaten alive would certainly keep his dog con- fined, if only during the fawning season,” so says Game Protector Donald G. Day, Susquehanna County. Day tells: ‘Not long ago Frank Hallstead reported that dogs were chasing deer on his farm, in the vicinity of Elkdale, When, T arrived Mr. Hallstead related he and his son had heard dogs on the hillside near- by Knowing dogs were in the habit of chasing deer they rushed out armed with rifles, The deer, a doe was already down, and a volley of shots [frightened the dogs away. Flanks chewed almost to the bone and the ribs laid bare, the deer was taken to the barn to be treated for its injuries. The animal was too far gone; it died that night.” BAND TO FIGHT RABIES On June 2 and 3, wildlife officials from 11 eastern states, including Pensylvania, and the District of Columbia, met in Wiashington to discuss the widespread rabies men- ace. The conference was called jointly by the U. IS. Public Health [Service and the U. IS. Fish and Wild- life Service. Reason for the growing concern, is clearly shown on a map and state- by-statte report issued March 15 of this year by the Research Aldmini- stration of the TU. IS. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Animal In- dustry. The report is titled “Inci- dence of Rabies in, tthe United States, Calendar Year 1951.” A glance at the map shows rabies in all states, except New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode/ Island, [Con- necticut, New Jersey, and Delaware. and the District of Columbia, in the east, and Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, and Utah in the west. The report tells that, other than humans, 20 species of, animals contracted the disease. en Alaska reported 3 rabid dogs in 1951, and Puerto Rico listed among its victims dogs, cattle, horses, swine, goats, land mon- gooses. As evidence that states in the eastern part of our country are be- ning to think seriously about rabies control or eradication, those represented at Washington organ- TE ized themselves under the name Eastern Rabies Control Council. The ‘purpose was cooperation among the states in combating the widespread, serious menace. The consensus was that eastern states presently don’t wish to learn to live with the dan- gerous and costly disease; it is their desire to rid themselves of it and not suffer because of the inaction of neighboring states. On his return from the Washing- ton rabies meeting, Tom Frye, Ex- ecutive Director of the Game Com- mission, gaid, “It is evident ‘that the rabies situatoin is so widespread that we must have complete cooper- ation, understanding and coordina- tion of effort among the states. That is the only way this always fatal disease will eventually be stamped out.” YEARLY BOUNTY REPORT During the last fiscal year of the Game Commission, ending May 31, bounty paid out of the game fund on noxious binds and animals totaled $226, 014. Rewards were paid on the legally submitted skins of weasels, gray foxes and red foxes, land the bodies of great horned owls in, that 12-month period. The number of claims paid in the last fiscal year totaled 18,830. Potter County led the state with $11,046 in bounty money received. Tioga was close behind, with $9,570. Bradford received over $8,000. Mc- Kean, (Crawford and ‘Somerset got over $7,000 each. Clearfield, Erie, Warren and Greene received over $6,000. Jefferson, Lycoming and York Counties got predator bounty in excess of $5,000. COYOTE CAUGHT Game Protector Glenn A. Kitchen formerly of Alderson reports that a full grown male coyote was caught in his district early in April by John Myers, of RD. 1, Weatherly, Pa. Kitchen says fthe animal weighed parts of deer, rabbit and chicken. Trapper Myers was very pleased with his catch, as ‘was the member- ship of the Hudsondale Rod and Gun Club which sponsored its own predator control program. Returns From Hospital Charles Morris returned to the family home om Franklin street yesterday after two weeks at Nes- bitt Memorial Hospital where he un- der went a serious surgical opera- tion and where for a time little hope was held for his recovery. He was treated by Dr. Charles Perkins who has been highly commended by physicians and laymen for the way he handled the case. Mr. and Mrs. Morris had just arrived here from their home in Huntsville, Alabama, when he was stricken. Kingston Dffice Wyoming Ave. SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES Now Available In Both Of Our Offices! Both of our bank vaults are fireproof and honeycombed with foolproof alarm devices . . . they're virtually impreg- nable and afford absolute protection for your valuable papers and possessions. Can you duplicate it at home? We think you'll agree that this low cost security pays big divi- dends in peace of mind, and we hope you'll be in soon to arrange for the rental of your box. HAVE YOU TRIED THE NEW FREE PARKING LOT AT OUR KINGSTON OFFICE ? Main Office Market and Franklin Streets Wilkes-Barre Kingston Office Wyoming Avenue at Union Street Hamme Only | MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORP. 36 pounds. Its stomach contained | THE DALLAS POST “More than a newspaper, a community institution” ESTABLISHED 1889 Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers’ Association A non-partisan liberal progressive newspaper pub- lished every Friday morning at the Dallas Post plant Lehman Avenue, Dallas Pennsylvania. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Dallas, Pa., under the Act of March 38, 1879. Subscrip- tion rates: $3.00 a year; $2.00 six months. No subscriptions accepted for less than six months. Out-of state subscriptions: $3.50 'a year; $2.50 six months or less. Back issues, more than one week old, 10c. Single copies, at a rate of 3c each, can be obtained every Fri- day morning at the following news- stands: Dallas—Berts Drug Store, Bowman’s Restaurant, Donahues Restaurant; Shavertown— Evans’ Drug Store, Hall’s Drug Store; Trucksville, Gregory's Store; Shaver’s Store ;ldetown, Caves Store; Hunts- ville, Barnes Store; Harveys Lake: Lake Variety Store, Deater’s Store; Fernbrook, Reese's Store; Sweet Val- ley,, Britt's Store When requesting a change of ad- dress subscribers: are asked to give their old as well as new address. Allow two weeks for changes of ad- dress or new subscription to be placed on mailing list. We will not be responsible for the return of unsolicited manuscripts, photographs and editorial matter un- less self-addressed, stamped envelope is enclosed, and in no case will this material be held for more than 80 days. National display advertising rates 68c per column inch. Transient rates 70c. Local display advertising rates 60c per column inch; specified position 70c per inch. Political advertising $1.10 per inch. Advertising copy received on Thurs- gay. will be charged at 75¢ per column inch. Classified rates 4c per word. Mini- mum charge 75c. All charged ads 0c additional. Unless paid for at advertising rates, we can give no assurance that an- nouncements of plays, parties, rum- mage sales or any affairs for raising money will appear in a specific issue. Preference will in all instances be given. to editorial matter which has not previously appeared in publication. Editor and Publisher HOWARD W, RISLEY Associate Editors MYRA ZEISER RISLEY MRS. T. M. B. HICKS Sports Editor WILLIAM HART Advertising Manager ROBERT F, BACHMAN ONLY - YESTERDAY From The Post of ten and twenty years ago this week. From The Issue Of June 19, 1942 {Aircraft Observation Post 672-A, originally maintained: at Harveys Lake, will be transferred to new quarters jnow under construction in Dallas. A store-room iat Lundy's is being remodelled into a shop which will be occupied by Grace (Cave. : Bob [Feming wins his Navy Wings at Jacksonville. Enrollment for canning sugar con- tinues at the Borough School. Fernbrook hermit, who had kept himself from contact with human folk las far as possible, died Tuesday evening at Nesbitt. Frank E. Wes- ley left a large estate. Wesley Baer’s home on (Center Hill Road is [damaged by fire. Chief of Police Walter (Covert is awarded a gold badge and a new cap, Joseph MacVeigh making the presentation. Sergeant Donald Freeman and Corp. [Clarence H. Morgan, in the Philippine Theatre of War, are re- ported missing in action. The mames, birthdays, and home addresses of 250 Back Mountain, sol- diers are on file at the Post. Mrs. [Charlotte Monk Harkins and Andrew R. Denmon will be married Sunday. Fred Osborne, employed by the Noxen Tannery for forty years, was buried Thursday afternoon in Orcutt Cemetery. [Fishing licenses, Evans Drug Store. : Shirts for Fathers Day, $1.33. Want to trade homes? Will swap city property for country property. Carrots, 2 bunches, 9 cents; Ritz crackers, 21 cents; steak, 39 cents per lb; cheese, 2 1b. loaf, 53 cents; appe butter, large jar, 10 cents. Barbed wire is released. Expecting shipment of nails, wire, * fencing. Gay Murray, Tunkhannock. Ban lifted on guns. no ‘waiting, From The Issue Of June 17, 1932 Governor Pinchot asks fishermen to help protect bass. One of the strongest arguments in favor of consolidation of Dallas Borough, Dallas Township and King- ston Township schools is ‘the com- mencement stories in last week’s Post, with forty-one students grad- | uated from the three schools. Monday is the last day for admis- sign of children, to the free tonsil clinic sponsored by Mt. (Greenwood Kiwanis, : THE POST, FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1952 * \ SAFETY VALVE WHY THE LIBRARY AUCTION Dear Editor: Why the annual Back Mountain Memorial Library Auction? Is it merely a yearly fund-raising cam- paign—just to buy more books—pay administrative amd maintenance cost—or is it a modern version of the old-fashioned neighborly get- together of folks who came to buy or not to buy, but come they do in great numbers for two ‘whole days of entertainment and fun? Yes, the Auction is all of these things and much more. It is an American custom which was strong- ly entrenched long before the American Revolution. Along with house-raisings, husking-bees, revival meetings and other simple plea- sures, the Auction was an important item of Americana which never failed to brighter the drab lives of many early Americans. * The public library is, most em- phatically, an American Institution. Its creation was largely the result of the yearnings of many of our ancestors to learn, and then learn Some more. Most of them were untutored and unlearned, Formal education—such as we take for granted today— was reserved only for the prive- leged wealthy. For the vast majority of poorer peoples, the Holy Bible was their refuge and their comfort. The more fortunate families might have, mot only the Bible, but sev- eral volumes of iclassic literature handed down from family to family, and guarded most zealously by them. For the underprivileged, knowledge was a never-ending quest. Those who could read the printed word borrowed the little stock of books from friends and neighbors. Those who could not read petitioned the services of ‘the reader in the community, and he read to family groups or larger gatherings of neighbors. His posi- tion—due to this ability to read— was unique, and he was treated with high, respect and deference by those who depended upon this tal- ent he possessed. Soon—ithose peoples who were fortunate to own a few books joined with others who also had books, and there began the humble origin of the public library. Sometimes a borrowed book was accompanied by a small -fee, but in most cases one book was exchanged for another. Thus, a larger store of reading material became available to a lar- ger group of people, and as they ex- hausted their little collection of books they looked in other com- munities to lend what they had read in onder to acquire books new and strange ‘to them. The public library is the valued heritage of the American people. Generations of persons have bene- fitted from it, and have sought every means to preserve it for generations of persons to come. Both Institu- tions, the Library anid the Auction are symbols of America and its peoples. 4 Donald Evans Poet's Corner THE TOUCH OF + THE MASTER’S HAND "Twas battered and scarred, and the auctioneer Thought it scarcely worth this while To waste much time on the old violin, But held it up with a smile. “What am I bidden, good folks?” he cried, “Who'll start the bidding for me? A Dollar, a Dollar’; then “Two! Only two? Two dollars, and who'll make it three 7” “Three dollars, once; three dollars, twice; Going for three—” But mo, From the room, far back, a gray- haired man ; Came forward and picked up the bow; And wiping the dust from the old violin, And tightening the loose strings, He played a melody pure and sweet As a caroling angel sings. The music ceased, and the auc- tioneer, With a voice that was quiet and low, “Touch Test ‘sear a or § Barnyard Notes Lo SKUNK HOLLER Deer Mr. Edyter. Pleeze use this. Hit’s speshul. 8 Won ov the citizuns frum the Holler has ben mad at me fer a spell. His mame is Delburt Oss. I mispelt his mame. As keerful as I am with Spelin’ I slipped. If I had a misspelt sumwon else’s name hit wud have ben al- rite, fer everwon knows I aim to to be keerect. But not Delburt Oss. Delburt is a unusual sensitiv citizun, who wunts to be an artust. Ever little thing gits him all upsot. Delburt at first wanted to whup me, but he is bilt like a peenut so he cudn’t do thet, fer wich TI am grateful. Then he wudn’'t speek to me. Next he went around the Holler claimin’ he was goin’ to brake me if hit tuk him ferever. Hit cut me to the quik to hurt Delburt, and hit stung me to the bone wen he begun a-makinn’ all them threts. So, finly, I went over to this shed and apolygized. Delbutr, I sed, I am. sorry I mispelt your name, but hit cud have happened to any won. % Hit mabe cud have, Delburt sed, but I kaint afford in my perfeshun to have my name kicked around. My mame fis my fame. I kin see thet, IT agreed, but you know I didn’t mispel yore name de- liberut. Tel you wot I will do. I will rite a speshul kolyum about you fer nashun-wide ¢cornsumpshun,, a-cor- rectin’ my misstake and a-makin’ the name ov Delburt Oss famus over the U.S.A. Thet hit home fer Delburt, and we sshuck hands: I shore was ree- leeved, fer I didn‘t know if he keered fer publicity. Most folks air retycent about havin’ there names plunked in the paper. So thet everwon wil know how sensitiv a artust Delburt Oss is (and I wunt his heer mewspaper to be blamed keerful in hanldlin’ his name frum mow on) I will tell you ov a little incydent wich tuck place ja few: vars back. Air Sunday schul teecher rote Delburt’'s name wrong on the blackboard, and Delburt pointed hit out to him. Now air Sunday schul teecher prides hisself on bein’ an rpurt on the Bible and never bein’ rong. He claimed he had speled Delbert’s name rite and thet he cud prove hit by the Bible. But Delbert sed he ot to know if his own name was speled rite air not, and if the teecher wudnt change hit Delburt sed he wud leeve the class and never cum back. The teecher made the misstake of sayin’ Delburt shud be seed and not heered,, so Delburt up and left. But he was worried, fer air ‘teecher’s reputashun fer known’ the Bible is knowed thruout the Holler. I jist kaint believe thet all these heer vars I have mispelt my own name inkeerect, Delburt sed. Two yars later to the Holler’s grate reelief, the -teecher called Delburt back to Sunday schul. I am wrong, 'he sed. I have red the Bible over and over and I kaint find your name anywhur in hit, so I will have to take your word for hit. Hit is more blessed to fergive than to hold a ‘gruge, the teecher sed, so cum back to ‘Sunday schul for th sake of your immortul sole. Everwon in the Holler was plum tickled, fer we knowed Delburt wud have gone rite smack into perdishun afore he wud have give in. I hope no won ever agin misspels his name and endangers his immonrtul sole air his perfeshunal reputashun. I have spelt his name keerect in this heer kolyum, but so there will be no doubts I will give hit both ways. The wrong spelin’ is DELBERT OSs. The rite spelin’ is DELBURT OSS. Rev. George Roberts Resigns To Take Presbyterian Position Rev. George A. Roberts, former pastor of Trucksville Methodist Church and more recently pastor of West Nanticoke-Slocum Metho- dist churches, has resigned from the Methodist ministry and will become assistant pastor at West- minster Presbyterian Church, Scranton. Rev. Roberts will assist Rev. Dr. Peter K. Emmons in pastoral work, and will also have supervision of the Young Adult program of the Scranton church. : Rev. Roberts, who was pastor at Wyoming from 1948 until his transfer to West Nanticoke by the Wyoming Annual Conference in Said, ‘What am I bid for ithe old violin,” And he held it up with the bow. “A thousand dollars, and ‘who'll make 1t two ? Two (thousand! And who'll make it three, Three thousand once, three thou- sand, twice, And going, and gone,” said he. The people cheered, but some of them cried: “We do not quite understand What changed its worth?” Swift came tthe reply: ‘The touch of a master's hand.” And many a man with life out of tune, 1 And battered and scarred with sin, Is auctioned cheap to the thought less crowd, Much like the old violin. A “mess of pottage,” a glass of wine; A game—and he travels op. He is “going’’ once, and “going” twice, He's “going” anid almost “gone”. But the Master comes, foolish crowd Can mever quite understand The worth of a soul and the change that’s wrought By the touch of the Master's hand. —Myra Brooks Welch Window Broken The large show window at Ho- ward Isaacs Show Room, Trucks- ville, ‘was shattered Tuesday might by a rock. The supposition is that the rock was thrown by a passing truck. and the = DEMAND sai. DOME wos POSITIVE Yorps’ MORE." You apg buy BETTER ©1952 B8.8.CO. g May, is a native of Johnson City, N. Y. 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