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“You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging
thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening
the strong. You cannot further the wage earner by pull-
ing down his wage payer. You cannot further the brother-
hood of man by encouraging class hatred. You cannot
help the poor by discouraging the rich. You cannot estab-
lish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep
out of trouble by spending more than you earn. You can-
not build character and courage by taking away man’s
initiative and independence. You cannot help men per-
manently by doing for them what they could and should
do for themselves.”
— ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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THE CHOICE OF TWO PARTIES
Seldom have the American people had an opportunity
to vote for a President who was the choice of two great
political parties.
This time they have that privilege. General Dwight
Eisenhower was offered both the Democratic and Repub-
lican nominations.
He chose to become the standard bearer of the Re-
publican party and received it over the opposition of old
line politicians because of the tremendous groundswell of
approval by all Americans—Democrats as well as Repub-
licans.
Eisenhower chose the Republican rather than Demo-
cratic philosophy because he believes in individual free-
dom as opposed to the all-powerful super state.
That choice makes the difference in the reaction of
Democratic politicians, but it has made no difference in
the character of General Eisenhower. He is still the great
leader, the great humanitarian and great administrator
who led the World's greatest army to victory in Europe -
— without a word of censure of his conduct.
Would that the little men who applauded him then
—and before the nomination—but who have since sought
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VOL. 62, No. 44
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1952
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to defend him—could point to such a record! Eisenhower
"brought honesty and honor to the office of Supreme Com-
mander. They have debased the greater office of Presi-
dent of the United States and have put cheap politics
above country and integrity.
These hacks would have free-born Americans believe
that Eisenhower has neither the ability nor character to
unite all Americans—Ilabor, farmers, industrialists—in a
common ‘front against the enemies of the Republic from
within and without. What are they talking about after
seven years of Truman and Acheson?
Here is a man who has been proved by great respon-
sibility—not a bankrupt haberdasher, a Pendergast
heeler, loyal only to his friends, corrupt or otherwise—
but as a leader of men loyal to a cause above all else!
Here is a man who has brought diverse armies and
divergent countries into powerful union behind a common
cause in Europe. His philosophy has been “Unite and
“Win” for individual freedom rather than ‘Divide and
Rule” for personal or phlitical power. AE
But individual freedom is a phrase and a philosophy
some in America cannot understand. They would have
you believe that the only blessings—the only good—comes
from the Democratic Party; that an individual's posses-
sions, home, attainment of goals, health, morals, security
—but not yet life itself—come from centralized power
and the super state. That before 1932 the United States
was the dark continent without its Washingtons, Jeffer-
sons, Lincolns, Websters, Clays and Wilsons; without its
pioneers building cities and conquering new frontiers.
They would hoodwink you into believing that the
State created man, rather than man the State. They for-
get—or never knew—that the State can give back only
what it takes away!
For the past seven years they have taken away our
respect for men in high office and our confidence in the
Washington administration and substituted in its place
a shoddy code of morality that now festers in every phase
of American life.
They cannot give us back what they have taken
away. Only General Eisenhower and a new administration
picked by him can restore our faith in the integrity of
our leaders.
General Eisenhower can restore our confidence in
them and in ourselves and in our ability to face the entire
world without cringing. j
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I place economy among the first and most important
virtues and the public debt as the greatest of dangers to
be feared. To preserve our independence, we must mot
let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make
our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and
servitude. If we rum into such debts, we must be taxed
in our meat and drink, in our mecessities and in our com-
forts, in our labors and in our amusements. If we can
prevent the Government from wasting the labors of the
people under the pretense of caring for them, they will be
happy. The same prudence, which in private life would
forbid our paying our money for unexplained projects,
forbids it in the disposition of public money. ’
—Taomas JEFFERSON (1818)
FROM.
PILLAR TO POST
By MRS. T. M. B. HICKS
The more Hallowe'en parades and school Hallowe'en parties I attend,
the more I am convinced that girls of high school age need instruction
in ballet dancing, or if family taboos forbid dancing, call it recreational
therapy. Up to the fifth and sixth grade, little girls and boys march along
without self-consciousness, backs straight, feet touching the pavement
lightly, arms swinging freely.
Beginning with the seventh grade, ®
muscles rippling with leashed ener-
girls start to slouch and boys to
shamble, Gone is the lithe grace of
the little «children. Boys have out- |
grown their muscles, and are in a
perpetual state of fatigue—except
on the football field or the basket-
ball floor, where they turn into
cyclones of energy, lapsing once
more into a state of suspended ani-
mation with the final whistle. Two
more years puts them on their feet
again, strengthened bodies reaching
toward full maturity, lassitude gone,
Eee
gy, back straightened, chests ex-
panded.
That's normal, and to be expected.
It’s the girls we are worried about.
What is it that turns happy and
energetic little girl into a changeling,
converts a child with flying feet
into a girl who can’t lift her toes
off the floor?
And don’t bother to give us that
old eye-wash about adolescence.
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Two Area Men
Will Head Boy
Scout Council
J. S. Mitchell, Orange
Will Be President; Bob
Weaver, Vice President
Two Back Mountain, men will as-
sume high offices in Wyoming Val-
ley Council, Boy Scouts of America
mext January 1. They are John S.
Mitchell, Orange, who will become
president and H. Robert Weaver,
Dallas, who becomes vice-president.
Mitchell, the father of three boys
in Scouting is a graduate of Wash-
ington & Lee University. [At present
he is a member of the Scouts’ Execu-
tive Board and has been active in
the developement of (Camp Acahela,
the Council's summer camp. His
business is in Pittston, where he is
an executive of la wholesale grocery
concern.
Weaver is a former Scout and
veteran camper in the local Council
and for the past year has served
as chairman of the Activities Com-
mittee and a member of the Board.
He, too, sees the Scout program
at work in his home, his oldest son
having entered the Cub [Scout pro-
gram a few months ago. lA graduate
of Lehigh University, he is presi-
dent of Wilkes-Barre Clay Products
Company,
They were elected at the Annual
business meeting and planning con-
ference of the Council held last Mon-
day evening at the ‘Wyoming Sem-
inary Day School.
Parade Starts
Tonight At 7
Many Local Concerns
. Cor‘*ribute To Prizes
“Financial contributors to tonight's
Back Mountain Hallowe'en ‘Parade
uclude® Ddllas Borough, Dallas-
Franklin Township, and Shaveritown
PTA’s; Dallas Rotary and Kiwanis;
American Legion, Harveys [Lake
Lions, Dallas Woman's (Club, Jun-
iors and ‘Seniors.
‘Acme Market, Carl Merritt, Dal-
las Water (Company, Joe Hand, Don
Evans, Dallas Hardware, (Caddy La-
Bar, Herbert Lundy, (Clyde Cooper,
First National Bank, Robert His-
lop, Charles Gregory, Harry Smith,
Bert’s Drug Store, L. L. Richardson.
Back Mountain Lumber Company,
Dallas Dairy, Arlean Bowman, Sick’s
Store, Kuehn’s Drug Store, Grace
Cave, Hislop's Economy, Henry's,
Commonwealth Telephone Company,
Duke Isaacs, White’s Hardware, F.
A. O'Neill, Dodson ‘and Hudak, Phil
Cheney, Flannigan’s Furniture, Rob-
ert Hale, J. F. Besecker, [Casper’s
Drive-In,
Judges are Clarence Laidler, Dave
Williams, (Charles Roberts, Sheldon
Mosier, Harry Schooley, John Ros-
ser, Mrs. Alice Yaple, Mrs. Freda
Hughey, Raymond Kuhnert, Mrs.
Hannah James, Mrs. Arline Rood,
Mrs. Antoinette Mason, Mrs. W. E.
McQuilkin, Mrs, Louise Colwell, Mrs.
Harriet Stahl, Mrs. Jeane Jones,
Miss Cornelia Davis, Mrs. Ruth Novy,
Mrs, Rachel Porter, and Charles
James.
Parade will start at 7 sharp from
formation point on Lake [Street, pass
the reviewing stand in front of
Oliver's Garage, make the circuit
of Main, Mill and Memorial High-
way, and pass the reviewing stand
again, disbamding immediately
thereafter. Dallas-Frianklin Township
Band will lead.
Herman Kern will lead community
singing, accompanied by Jack Titus
on the piano accordion. [Francis
Ambrose and Henry Peterson, are co-
chairmen.
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HALLOWEEN VANDALS
ENDANGER MOTORISTS;
OBSTRUCT HIGHWAYS
Hallowe’en vandals, boys of
high school age from the Dallas
Heights area, kept police and
property owners on the hop
Wednesday and Thursday
nights.
Without regard for the safety
of motorists, they dragged
stumps and rocks out onto the
highway at the intersection of
Pinecrest and Huntsville Road.
Road.
Then they rolled a concrete
pipe, three feet in diameter
down Huntsville Road where it
struck a telephone pole below
Norton Avenue which fortun-
ately prevented it from rolling
down to Main street where it
might have struck an auto-
mobile, a pedestrian or crashed
into Flannigan Furniture Store
windows.
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DON’T LET THEM TAKE IT AWAY
Now is the time for the Women of America to pit
our strength in an alk out effort to defend NOT the Re-
publican Party—NOT the Democratic Party—but our
own flesh and blood, which we have sacrificed for years
on end, for what!
I am not speaking about the Revolutionary War—
where the “Essence of Freedom’’ was won—or the Civil
War—where the ‘Equality of Man” was defended be-
cause men knew it was RIGHT, but I am speaking about
the present ‘Police Action” in Korea, which is a con-
tinued hamburg social, from profits jousted from World
War II, with our own flesh and blood as the ammunition.
Oh, yes, I know what I am talking about, and it is
the first time in the history of my existence that I have
made my outcry—at election time . . . why?
Because my two sons are in Korea today—the only
two boys I have—fine, strong, clean young men—sitting
in filth, serving their time, and all the while our Chief
says, “There is no war!” :
Women—Ilook at your boys—from one to fifteen
years of age. Think of them in a few short years, coming
out of high school with no jobs, draft age and no plans
but military objectives!
Do you think that it is only because my sons are in
Korea that I'm fighting? Oh, no—I have endured the
ravages of war for years. I had two brothers in the First
World War—several nephews and my own son-in-law in
the Second World War—and now two sons in Korea—
but that isn’t all. I visited my daughter recently and
looked into the eyes of my grandson, six years of age, and
then the pot boiled over. How long, I thought, will this
holocaust last?
Women fought for years for their own rights, and
won the right to vote, It isn’t a matter of selecting the
man who can throw the most mud, or make the most
promises, but we've got to have a military man who
knows what the score is . . .
a man who has the insight to
normal life for our sons . . .
a man who will salvage a
create a solution to these inhuman wars.
It is like grasping for the last straw—to save our
boys. It's only for four years, but it might be a woman's
salvation, and a young man’s dream come true.
Women use the rights
VOTE! VOTE!
you have won—and VOTE!
A Lehman Mother
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Breaking It Gently: “Your House
Was On Fire, But
It's Out Now."
When Mr. and Mrs. Charles De-
Wees 3d walked into Hislop’s Wed-
nesday might to dial their. home
phone and let Dolly Spiel, the baby-
sitter, know their whereabouts, a
neighbor said, ‘Ilit’'s OK, Mrs, De-
Wees, the fire's all out.”
“What fire?” "
“Oh, didn’t’ you know your house
was on fire?” \
The DeWeeses generated sparks,
flying up the hill to Shrine View.
Everything was quiet, the Dr. Henry
M. Laing Fire Company about to
leave, the blazing box spring ex-
tinguished, sitting on tthe lawn, after
being hosed down by the fire de-
partment.
Dolly, 18, calm and collected after
quick action which probably saved
the whole house from going up in
smoke, explained.
The boys, (Curly and Fred, had
been in bed land supposedly asleep.
‘At 10:15 Dolly smelled smoke. Curly,
9, and Fred, 7, were trotting back
and forth from kitchen to ground-
floor bedroom with glasses of water.
The burning candle, surrounded by
a puddle of melted wax, was on the
floor under the bed, and the box
spring was blazing. Fred, the guilty
party, had tried to put it out him-
self, recognized defeat, and alerted
Curly in the next room.
Dolly called the fire department,
and within five minutes everything
was under control.
Fifteen minutes later, with the
panicked parents bursting into the
house, Fred was bedded down in
Curly’s room, and the baby, in a
far room, hiad slept through scream-
ing sirens and ithe entire fire-fight-
ing activities,
Fred had carved a Hallowe'en
pumpkin Wednesday afternoon. The
fact that it lacked a candle was
weighing upon him and keeping him
awake, [So he remedied matters,
melting the end of a candle to im-
bed it in the pumpkin.
“This is the third fire he’s
started”, explained Mrs. DeWees,
“one in a wastebasket and one in
Ohlman Elected
To County Board
Harry [L. Ohlman, Dallas Bor-
ough schoo] director, was elected
a member of the five-man County
School Board at the sixty-third an-
nual meeting of Luzerne County
Schoo] Directors Wednesday,
Mr, Ohlman replaces Russell
Hoover formerly a member of Lake
Township School Board, William
Sommers, Dennison Township was
elected to succeed Harry F. Richards,
Mountain Top. The other three
members are Lee H. Peters, Wap-
wallopen; James Hannigan, Forty
Fort, and Walter J. Bujno, Mocan-
aqua. ;
the middle of the kitchen floor.”
“Have 'you a good stout paddle,
or do you believe in self expression
on the part of the young?”
‘Believe me, that kid's rear is
absolutely calloused. And he still
finds matches around, goodness
knows where, He puts a couple in
his pocket, and they breed in there
in the dark.”
Memorial Rites
For Capt. James
This Afternoon
Pilot Swept Away
In Hudson River
After Plane Crash
Captain (Alfred S. James, 32,
abounding health and happiness last
weekend when he visited his par-
ents in Trucksville, will be honored
in a Memorial service this afternoon
in the chapel at Stewart Air Force
Base. Up to time of publication,
his body, swept away by a strong
current in the Hudson River om
Monday, had not been recovered.
The two-engined C-54 which he
was piloting pancaked in the Hudson.
almost immediately after taking off
from the air strip enroute to Bur-
lington, Vit. The six occupants stood
on the wing until the plane sub-
merged, then dived into the icy
stream. Three are listed officially
as missing, three made it to shore,
only 150 yards away, after battling
the current to the point of collapse.
Captain James, with his wife and
two little boys spent Saturday and
‘Sunday in Trucksville, his boyhood
home. A graduate of Kingston Town-
ship schools, he had played football
on the team and had done out-
standing work in art. He attended
Wyoming Seminary following gradu-
ation.
"He served overseas in Europe, re-
ceiving the Air Medal, Presidential
Citation, ETO ribbon with four stars
and bronze arrowhead for amphib-
ious landing. In 1946 he was com-
missioned 2nd Lieutenant. He re-
cently spent eighteen months in
Korea, returning last spring, and
was assigned to Lawson Field,
Georgia,
A sister, Mrs. J. P, Wynngaarten,
North (Carolina, slated to accompany
her husband, an officer in the Mar-
ines, to Italy late in November, ar-
rived in Trucksville on Tuesday
after being informed of the tragedy.
The family went to Stewart Air
Base,
Captain James’ parents are Mr.
ann Mrs, A. S. James, Hillside Ave-
nue, Trucksville. His widow is the
former Doris Madden, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs, Lawrence E. Madden,
Slocum ‘Street, Forty Fort.
Forest Fires
Break Out In
Wyoming Area
Thick Haze Blankets
Region From Virginia
To Canadian Border
A thick haze hung over the Back
Mouintain Region on Monday blot-
ting out surrounding hillsides and
creeping down, intio the valleys caus-
ing scores of persons to telephone
The Dallas Post to learn if there
were nearby forest fires,
Inquiry at the Harvey Fire Tower
back of Irem Temple Country Club
revealed the Towerman William
Harlos was in constant radio com-
munication with other towers
throughout the State, but that no
forest fires of any consequence were
then burning in Pennsylvania.
The explanation, wias that the haze
was covering all of Pennsylvania
as well as states from Virginia to
Canada, and was probably drifting
in from forest fires in Virginia and
other mearby States.
Later in the day fires did break
but in powder dry mearby woods.
One fire, reported at 5:40 P.M. in
the Carverton area burned over five
acres before it was extinguished at
8 P.M. by two forest fires crews of
six men each under the directicin’ of
Nelson Burgess of Carverton and
Jake Novidky, fire wardens.
Another broke out at 12:05 and
burned ‘over sixty acres in the viein-
ity of Wyoming Camp Ground. Be-
tween forty and fifty men under
the direction of Nelson Burgess,
Vincent Ramage and Andrew Nagy,
wardens, assisted by twenty marines
and their captain stationed at the
Marine Training (Center, Wyoming,
had the fire under control late last
night.
While the Wyoming fire was in
progress another broke out at 8:05
on Luzerne Mountain, This was
brought under control by a crew
under the direetion of. Jake Novicky
after burning over three acres. .
These fires Were all within the
area of the Harvey Tower.
‘Another serious fire under the
jurisdiction of the Wyoming Tower
at Mehoopany broke out Tuesday
night after 5:30 in the Root Hollow
area of Wyoming |County. Tt burned
over 100 acres with flames leaping
high up the mountain side before it
was extinguished,
Both towermen Harlos at Harvey
Tower and Harry Bronson at Wy-
oming Tower reported that there
had been relatively few forest fires
in their areas unitil Tuesday, but
that absence of rainfall made con-
ditions treacherous,
or “we
BEAR AND HER TWO
CUBS PUT ON ACT
FOR FIRE TOWERMAN
Towerman Harry Bronson at
the Wyoming Fire Tower, Me-
hoopany, reported this week
: that the lonely life of a tower-
man has had its compensations
this fall, with the autumn foli-
age more beautiful than ever
before.
The Wyoming Tower is lo-
cated at the head of three ra-
vines, Bowman Hollow, Root
Hollow and Sugar Hollow. There
the towerman has an wunob-
structed view for hundreds of
miles of woodland,
Nearer at hand, however, in
fact at the base of his tower,
Bronson said, he had observed
“quite a show” on several oc-
casions this fall. A mother bear
and her two cubs had put on
their acts. “My how she bossed
them around and cuffed them .
when the playful cubs misbe-
haved”,
Lehman Senior Makes
Good Showing As Judge
Darrel Major, president of the Leh-
man High School F. F, A., placed in
the upper third as a judge of poul-
try lat the National F. F. A. ICon-
vention held in Kansas City last
weekend. Representatives who
judged poultry, alive and dressed
as well as eggs, came from every
state in the Union.
Darrel, son of Mr, and Mrs. Homer
Major of Trucksville R.D. and mem-
ber of the Semiior Class at Lehman
won the [State F. F. A. judging con-
test held at Penn State College
this spring.
The trip was made with several
other boys and the agriculture
teacher of Wellsboro. They enjoyed
the Mississippi River, seeing great
herds of steers, visiting the Chicago
stock yards, spending a day on a
huge panch near Kansas City, and
taking pictures of the Truman
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‘home in Independence, Mo.
Henry M. Laing
Firemen Select
New Fire Truck
Decide On Larger
American LaFrance
750-Gallon Model
Purchase of an (American La-
France 750-gallon capacity pumper
was decided upon at Monday night's
meeting of Dr. Henry M, Laing Fire
Company in the Library Annex.
Action was taken after a brisk dis-
cussion of relative merits of a smal-
ler 500 gallon pumper, and opening
of sealed bids for smaller models,
Henry Peterson gave it as his
considered opinion that if a consid-
erable expenditure is made to buy
new equipment, it should be the
best obtainable, holding that pur-
chase-is-a community venture with
the company responsible to the com-
munity for the best return on its
investment. If the [Fire Underwriters.
who made the survey state that the
standard for communities of com-
parable size is a 750-gallon model,
then nothing less should be comsid-
ered.
Ohlman Sketches History
ln making the motion for megotia-
tion with American [La-France,
Harry Ohlman, sketched progress of
the fire department since 1939, with
spectacular lowering of fire insur=
ance rates since installation of fire
plugs, bringing protected areas into
class C.
A T750-gallon, per minute pumper
having been recommended, Mr. Ohl-
man suggested ‘that it would be the
height of folly to compromise with
a smaller fire truck, which could
result in increased fire insurance
rates for the area.
Ben Edwards replied to this that
the smaller models would have ac-
ceptance by underwriters, that the
160-horsepower models would in
fact develop two hundred. The ans
wer to this was that nobody knew
what a new board of underwriter
would do, and that the specifi
200 horsepower to be a matter of
record, mot of assumption.
Prior to the motion to purchase
a larger truck, it was moved that
all bids for a 500 gallon pumper be
scrapped and bids opened once more
for a 750-gallon, model. (Crozier Wile-
man suggested ‘that bids were al-
ready at hand for 750-gallon pum-
pers, and there was no percentage
in ‘starting from scratch, as bids
would doubtless be honored, even if
somewhat dated,
Bid of American; La-France was
the highest, $15,907 for a 750-gallon,
pumper developing 204 horsepower,
but it was considered the best piece
of apparatus offered, both fin ease
of handling and performance. It had
been on display in Dallas the pre-
ceding Thursday night and several
drivers had had a chance to sit at
the wheel,
Following opening of sealed bids
for 500-gallon pumpers, representa-
tives from Mack and Ward La-
France companies explained their
specifications end answered ques-
tions, with Ward La-France repre-
sentative slinging the hooks liber-
ally into the Mack Company, and
holding that what was good enough
for New York City ought to be good
enough for Dallas, 3 pil
\Fire (Chief Besecker brought up
the fact that a fine truck could be
purchased from [Civilian Defense,
probably a ‘GMC, and that the gov-
ernment would defray half the cost
at the outset instead of half the
cost after the entire amount had
been paid. This truck, he said,
would be complete with hose,
nozzles, and wall accessories, at a
cost of approximately $13,250,
Motions to jettison bids on 500-
gallon pumpers and to select the
American La-France model of 750-
gallons were opposed, but carried
by a majority.
Henry Peterson, presiding before
arrival of Dan Richards, president,
reminded members that with 1500
homes serviced in the community,
a $2 per year membership from each
family would roll up a neat backlog
for the fire company, making pos-
sible excellent upkeep and expan-
Peterson reminded members that
they would be responsible, as in
former years, for helping marshall
the Friday night Hallowe'en: parade.
Besecker Reports
IChief Besecker, in giving his re-
port, stated that there had been
three fires since the last meeting,
two grass fires and one at ‘College
Misericordia, which, due to wooden
rafters and beams above the floors
in the attic would have been dis-
astrous if not brought under con-
trol and confined to the one room.
He also stated that due to necent
fire drills and student instruction,
Dallas-Franklin Township schools
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