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Sandel Hunt Owns Eight Bushes
But Buys Gardenia At Auction
Sande] Hunt, owner of eight gar-
demia bushes in La Habra, Califor-
nia, made it across country in five
days in order to buy a gardenia cor-
sage for a dollar at the Library Auc-
tion.
Mr. and Mrs, Hunt will be in the
neighborhood for two or three
weeks. They are staying with Mr.
and Mrs, Donald Peglow, Parrish
Street.
The Hunts made it to Lordsburg,
New Mexico the first night; Okla-
homa (City the second; St. Louis, Mo.
the third; (Columbus, Ohio, the
fourth; and Dallas [Saturday after-
noon, in time for an evening at the
auction. Some of the stretches were
over 700 miles.
The Hunts moved from Tucson,
Arizona, to La Habra in April, find-
ing @a [California style house situ-
ated on a lot that has an avocado
tree, five lemon trees, and an orange
tree, all the vitamins weady for the
plucking,
(With a daughter and scn-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Creager, living
right around the corner from them
with their two children, and a son,
Elmer, home for vacations from
University of Arizona, the Hunts
have plenty of contact with their
family. There is still a daughter
living in Tucson, wife of Rev. Henry
Meredith.
Mr. Hunt thinks [California is a
grand place to live. (Says he eats an
avocado every day, and points to
his expanding waistline as proof.
Lemon juice on the avocado? No,
just salt. No true Californian would
dream of mucking up an avocado
with lemon or salad dressing.
Anybody who has lived in [Cali-
fornia for over three months classi-
fies as a son of the soil and an early
settler,
A
Purely Persona
Mr. and Mrs, Abram Nesbitt, Lake
Catalpa, will entertain Saturday
might at a small dinner party in
honor of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Kil-
burn who are weekend guests of Mr.
and Mrs, John Coon, Overbrook
Avenue.
Mrs. Allen 'Scattergood, former
Lois Mosier of Dallas, is in Wilkes-
Barre ‘General Hospital recuperating
from an operation. She is coming
along very nicely. :
Lt. Col. and Mrs. Frank Townend
and children, Cynthia, David, and
Stephen, have returned from Ger-
many to their home in Shavertown.
Barney Laskowski, fancier of rat
terriers, placed in the Dallas Post
a classified ad for twelve rat ter-
riers, six of them 'young puppies.
He sold all of them. It pays to ad-
vertise! :
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THE POST, FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1952
|Back Mountain Area Is Lashed
By Freak Triple-Threat Storm
The John Engel home in Trucks-
ville was damaged early Tuesday
morning, when a torrent swept
through the town, flooding base-
ments and undermining foundations.
Repairs had just been made follow-
ing a fire four months age.
Mrs, Engel, who was away with
her family came home to find her
side porch in {Snake Run, ‘the side
wall above it sagging. Six years ago,
she says, a similar cloudburst
washed out retaining walls along the
creek bed.
The retaining wall is gone again.
On the other side of the now rapidly
shrinking stream the J. D. Richards
garage was undermined, with one
of the two cars tipping almost into
the stream bed through a yawning
chasm in the concrete flooring. Mrs.
Richards says twenty-five men put
their shoulders to the task and lifted
the car to safety.
Many houses were struck by
lightning in the area, without much
damage, but most telephone and
electric service was not interrupted,
even at the height of the freak thun-
derstoom which struck the Back
Mountain, in three installments,
from late afternoon to early morn-
ing.
Spectacular cloud effects and
weird lightning effects combined
with almost constant thunder to
keep residents wakeful.
Trucksville area was hardest hit,
with the focus of the third storm at
Meadowcrest housing development.
A cloudburst ran down over the de-
nuded hills like water off a slate
roof, with nothing to stop it. In a
matter of minutes Snake Rua car-
ried a flash flood, close on the
heels of a tremendous run-off earlier
in the night,
It was this flash flood that swept
away’ the plank bridge above the
Ben Johnson home, and hurled it
against the tottering kitchen porch,
cut across the arc of the circle, and
turned the place into an island,
with the little family marooned and
plunging to their death when they
attempted escape.
Mrs, Earl Monk’s home on Parrish
Heights was struck by lightning,
during the first storm Monday affter-
noon at 4. The bolt came in through
the television connection, jumped to
the radio and descended to the base-
ment where it blackened two insul-
ators,
The Gerald Frantz home on Par-
rish Street was also struck,
Edward Staub’s dam in Trucks-
haby talk
If I felt any better—
I'd charge admission
Say—a bottle of that ex-
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ville was not washed out, as at first
reported. Damage to the soft fill
alongside, where water spread out
over the lowland, apparently did
not occur until the worst of the
floodwater from the highlands had
gone on downstream.
Experts agree that the dam had
nothing to do with the water level
in the lower stream, that it served
rather to lessen than to increase it.
The Meeker Methodist Church was
struck in the belfry, with slight
damage.
Happy Birthday To You
THEODORE J. BOSTON
Boston is celebrating his 20th
birthday today aboard USS Jarvis,
off the coast of Korea. Based in
Norfolk, he will mot be back in the
country until December.
Ted, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald
Boston, Dallas RD 2, graduated from
Lake High iSchool in 1951. He has
recently been married to the former
Marie B. Backo, daughter of the
late John and Mary Backo, Sr..
Swoyerville,
Michael Quare Sails
For Rome Wednesday
Michael Quare, Center Hill Road,
sailed for Rome Wednesday on a
steamer of the {Italian line to
visit relatives. Born in Pittston, this
is Mr. Quare’s first visit to the home
of his fathers,
Francis Quare, his son, seriously
injured in the tragic train wreck
of the 109th, September 11, 1950,
is improving. He has recovered suf-
ficiently from the broken back so
that the is able to walk, but not for
any distance.
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