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Contour sheets stay put,
you work the corners of the mat- |
wrzus into place. You can bounce
a penny on the taut expanse of
white, the standard of bed-making
in the navy.
But how does
them ?
Time was when we ran crib
sheets through the ironing machine
at a steady rate of one every thir-
ty seconds, cot sheets, bunk sheets
and double sheets taking propor-
tionately longer.
But no more, There is absolutely
no way of folding a sheet so that
the mitered corners are smooth,
unless you stand the length of the
room away from the ironer, you
can’t hold the sheet so that the
turned under portion does not skid
anybody iron
Tt used to be so simple, Fold a
large sheet into quarters, across
the grain, and run it through the
mangle with the top hem against
the heated shoe, reverse and run
through again, and there you were.
It is a lucky break that we
stopped with contour crib sheets
and contour bunk sheets instead
of going modern and mitering
everything in the linen closet. We'd
be going crazy as a climax to go-
ing ‘modern,
Of course we know why manu-
facturers invented those sheets. It's
elementary.
Did the designer have any deep-
rootzd feeling for the harried house-
wife who makes the beds?
Uh-uh,
He designed that mitered atro-
city purely and simply to save ma-
terial, It takes far less muslin for
a mitered sheet than for one that
requires 'a workmanlike boxed cor-
ner and a good ‘tuck-in at head
and foot and both sides.
In these days of packaged pro-
duets, cake-mixes, pie-mixes, pota-
to pancake-mixes, women now have
w have packaged beds,
A generation is in the making
that will produce girls who can’t
cook, can’t sew, can’t wash, can’t
And can’t iron a contour sheet.
Who can?
Our safest bet is that the laun-
dries are doing a land-office busi-
ness.
Three Arrested For
Passing Red Lights
Three drivers were arrested Sun-
day by (Chief Russell Honeywell for
passing red lights at the Main
Street intersections. They were: Jo-
seph J. Sistola, 114 Lake Street,
Dunmore Robert Slaff, Wilkes-Barre,
and Enrico Eincolani, 13 James
Street, Plains. All were fined $
and costs,
Crowds Attend Fiesta
Large crowds attended the Gate
of Heaven Fiesta held Wednesday
evening and last night on the
church grounds,
Back Mountain
All Stars Qut
For State Title
Fans Consider This
Years Team The Best
In League History
With a string of three smashing
victories against stiff competition
under its belt, Back Mountain Little
League All Stars last night met
Newport for the District 3 title at
the Tripp Street diamond of Forty
Fort Little League.
The winner of last night's tilt
will meet Stroudsburg, District 4
finalists.
Considered one of the best de-
fensive teams in local Little League
history, the All [Stars also have
the competitive spirit that makes
them a fast , scrappy aggregation
that can carry the battle to the
best of them.
Coaches were at first concerned
that the pitching staff might not
be able to match up against the
stiffer competition of All Star teams
from the metropolitan area, but
their fears have been allayed by
the excellent defensive support of
their team mates. The work of the
pitching staff, too, has been every-
thing the coaches could ask for.
In the North End game which
the All Stars won 4 to 1, Don Stroud
allowed only four hits. In the close
9 to 8 victory over Nanticoke,
Barry Landmesser permitted only
six hits, and in the semi-finals with
Plains, Donald Goodwin held the
losers to ‘three hits giving the All
Stars a 4 to 2 wictory,
Delighted with the showing of
president of Back Mountain Little
League, none-the-less, had about
him last night an air of cautious op-
timism. ‘I ‘think we are as good
as Newport, if the boys will just re-
main steady. Win or lose, I know
it’s the (best team we've ever put
on the field.”
The winner of last night's game
will play Stroudsburg, Mr. Stein-
hauer said, and the winner of the
Stroudsburg game will play the
winner Districts 1 and 2, compris-
ing [Little League teams of the
Scranton and northern Pennsylvania
area before playing for the State
title at Williamsport.
He said that this has been Back
Mountain Little League's most suc-
cessful season with an average of
1,200 to 1,400 fans attending the
local games. He also expressed his
thanks to all citizens for their re-
sponse of the [League's door bell
campaign which has brought in
$700 to date. This will be used to
entertain the major leagues on a
trip and to provide a picnic for
major and minor leagues.
Barring unfavorable weather, the
League will close on August 22.
Park on August 15th.
Fourteen All-Star teams repre-
senting 14 Teeners Leagues through-
out the country, will meet in this
TeenlAge World Series to decide
the mation’s champions,
Local All-Star Players
[The [All4{Stars from this league
were chosen by a secret ballot sub-
mitted by the managers of each
team.
The players chosen (follow.:
Player Team
Robert Richardson East Dallas
Lee Eckart ‘Westmoreland
Martin Michaels W. Wyoming
William [Carter Tunk, Reeses
John Johnson Westmoreland
James Thomas East Dallas
Thomas Richardson East Dallag
Richard Reese Tunk. Reeses
Frank Fosko W. Wyoming
Raymond Dymond Westmoreland
Arthur Bellas East Dallag
‘Stephen Balut Westmoreland
Charles Allabaugh Bast Dallas
All-Star Practice Game
Holmgren and his staff will pick
a strong team from the remaining
players for a practice game ‘with
the AlldStars. This game, which
promises lots of action, will give
the All-Stars their first chance to
play together as a team. Game
starts at 6 p.m. on Friday August
7th and the public is urged to at-
tend.
New Directors Hear Report
Herman Kern, president ‘of the
league, read the latest financial re-
port to the mew directors, Jack
Richardson, Edward Buckley, Dan-
ie] Richards George Gay and Bob
Bachman,
Kern stated that, regardless of
the shaky start the league had last
year, all outstanding bills should
be cleared up by the end of this
season, He emphasized that the
league needs more support from
local fans to build as it should
Commonwealth
Mails 13,000
Directories
Landis Cautions
Changes In Lake
And Valley Calls
Thirteen thousand new telephone
directories are being mailed this
weekend to Commonwealth Tele-
phone Company subscribers in the
Dallas, "Tunkhannock and Shick-
shinny Districts.
They are part of 28,000 that will
eventually be mailed to all sub-
scribers served by the Common-
wealth system.
John N. Landis, District Man-
ager, said that the new directories
should not be used before mid-
night, Saturday night, and called
attention to several changes ef-
fecting local line subscribers at
Harveys Lake and Wyoming Valley
calls.
Cautions Lake Subscribers
He especially cautions party line
subscribers at Harveys Lake to be
sure to read very carefully the in-
structions on page 16 of the new
telephone directory, because the
code number has been changed
from 8 to 5. “To call another party
on your own line,” he said, “first
listen for the dial tone, then dial
5 (not 8 as formerly) followed by
the last digit of your telephone
number, then the last digit of the
telephone number you wish to
reach. Next—hang up your re-
ceiver and wait for your bell to
ring—which will continue—as will
the bell of the called party until
the telephone is answered—when
will be ready to talk. If there is
“no answer,” just lift your own
receiver and quickly replace it and
the ringing will stop. Sounds a lit-
tle complicated maybe, but if you
will remember. to start by dialing
5 instead of 8, you will SEperience
no difficulty.”
Mr. Landis also calls attention to
all subscribers in the Dallas District
that the Wilkes-Barre and Kingston
listings appearing in the back of
the new directory contain the new
central office names for all tele-
phone subscribers served by those
exchanges — which include such
boroughs as Forty Fort, Luzerne,
Swoyerville, Edwardsville, George-
town, Ashley and other adjacent
locations. On and after midnight
of Saturday, August 1st, all sub-
scribers in~ the Dallas District
should first consult the new direc-
tory for the desired number—then
be sure to dial the operator and
give her the exchange name then
the’ newly added central office—
followed by the telephone number.
For example, Kingston, BUtler
8-4070 and Wilkes-Barre, VAlley
2-9182. There is a sticker, printed
in red, on the outside front cover
of your new directory to aid the
subscriber—but this may get torn
off in delivery and cause you de-
lays and difficulties that may be-
come irritating. If all customers
will carefully follow the printed in-
struction in and on the new direc-
tory, everything will go along even
better than before these changes
were made.
Surrounded by representative
Masons from the Back Mountain
Region and Wyoming Valley, John
F. Shechan, Master of George M.
Dallas Lodge No. 531, is here shown
Monday evening with shovel break-
The services included a ritual-
istic reading by Mr. Sheehan and
a prayer by Ralph Hazeltine, Past,
Master,
With Local Famili
es For A Month
Valley on Saturday will live for a
Mountain Region in an Experiment
month with families in the Back
in International Living under the
The students, four young men®
and six young women, will spend
a year in the United States at-
tending a number of different col-
leges and universities, but they
will first have a month’s home
stay with families in Wyoming
Valley and the Back Mountain
Wyoming Valley was chosen for
the home stay because of the close
association with this area of Mrs.
Elliott Speer, director, who for-
merly lived in Wilkes-Barre.
The families with whom the
seven will spend a month are: Mr.
and Mrs. Edmund Dana, Harveys
Lake; Mr. and Mrs. Leo Mattes,
Harveys Lake, Mr. and Mrs. Wil-
liam Evans, Harveys Lake; Mr. and
Mrs. John Wilson, Sutton Road,
Trucksville; Mr. and Mrs. Stanley
Davies Jr., Dallas; Mr. and Mrs.
Roswell Patterson, Dallas, and Mr.
and Mrs. Alden Wagner, Hunts-
ville.
“The Experiment in International
Living believes that ‘the only way
to learn to live together—is to live
together’,” Miss Annette Evans, lo-
cal chairman said.
Other members of the local com-
mittee are: Mrs. John Doane, Mrs.
George T. Bell, Mrs. Eugene Far-
ley, Mrs. Leroy Bugbee, Mrs. Hor-
ace Kramer, Mrs. Bruce Payne,
Marion Hogg, Ruth Campbell and
Mrs. George Krauss.
Demunds Picnic
Demunds Sunday School will
hold a covered dish picnic supper
beginning at 6 p.m. Wed. Aug. 5.
No Increase
On This Line
Myers Foresees None
In Immediate Future
‘While most. folks who travel
daily on buses between Wilkes-
Barre and the Back Mountain Re-
gion are braced for the new three-
cent increase in fares, there is one
group that isn’t worried a bit
about fare hikes.
They are the patrons of Myers’
Bus Line, operated between Wyo-
ming Valley and up river towns
by Clarence Myers. You can still
ride to Wilkes-Barre on his line
for a quarter, and Mr. Myers says
he forecees no rate hike in the
immediate future.
Not all Back Mountain residents
can avail themselves of Mr. Myers’
lower rates because his buses are
not permitted to pick up passen-
gers southeast of Casper’s Restau-
rant at the intersection of Route
309 and 115. But all residents of
Dallas Borough, Goss Manor and
Dallas Township who care to walk
out to Route 309 can still ride to
Wilkes-Barre for 25c¢ twice during
the day.
The bus from Tunkhannock for
Wilkes - Barre passes Goss Manor
and Caspers about 9:45 every
morning. There is also another
bus in the afternoon. It leaves
Martz Bus Terminal for the return
at 2:45 p.m.
Jorn Pa To Tool i the benefit of these youthful
Robert Coolbaugh East Dallas beliplayers.
Paul Heslop Westmoreland Present Standings %
Joseph [Charney W. Wyoming Team W IL Pct. GB| Win, lose or draw this is the
Spencer Holmgren, East Dallas {East Dallas 8 1 888 — | finest aggregation of All Stars pro-
manager, was chosen to manage | West Wyoming 8 2 .800 2 |duced by Back Mountain Little
the All-Stars since it was his team | Westmoreland: 713 700 1% | League. It is also one of the smallest
which won the most games last | Jackson 8:6 333 5 All ‘Star teams in competition and
season, Assisting him will be Wil- | Tunk. Turrells 2 8 .200 63% | that it one things that gives Back
liam Gaylord, Fred Cesk and Ziba | Tunk, Reeses 19 .100 7%:
Mountain and rival fans a thrill
when it rings up a victory. z
Martin,
From left to right, front row:
David Davis, pitcher; Harold Ochs,
pitcher; Teddy Hontz, Roger Belles,
Ben Weaver, Don Bellas, Victor
Salansky, pitcher; back row: Don-
ald Stroud, pitcher; William Stein-
hauer, Barry Landmesser, pitcher;
Richard Cummings, Donald Good-
win; pitcher; Alan Burnaford, Rich-
ard Malak.
On the left is Paul Steinhauer
who was assistant coach the first
game in the absence of Frank Hem-
enway, manager, who was unable
to be present. On the right is Larry
Newhart, coach.
Contractor A. O. Yocum expects
to complete the building within
three months.
PHOTO BY HUDSON
Shavertown May
Buy New Pumper
With State Aid
Firemen Had Plans
Approved Before
Expiration Date
Faced with the need for modern
fire fighting equipment to replace
its present antiquated apparatus,
all residents of Shavertown have
cuss with Shavertown Fire Company
Pirsch truck with [Federal aid.
The Office of [Civilian Defense has
already approved the Pirsch speci-
fications and will contribute $5,600
toward the $14,800 purchase price.
The equipment carries 1,000 gal-
lons of water, has a 750 gallons-
per-minute Hale pump and a 200
horse power motor. Tt is complete
with additional disharge wvalve at
the rear of the truck and. carries
a three-section 35-foot aluminum
ladder.
The present equipment carries
1,200 gallons, has a 350 gallon-per-
minute pump and 75 horse Powe:
motox.
The Pirsch Company located in
Kenosha, (Wisconsin, is one of the
oldest in the country having been
under the active management of
one family for almost a century.
It will observe its 100th anmniver-
sary in 1957.
Some weeks ago when firemen
learned that the offer of Civilian
Defense to assist local fire com-
panies in the purchase of needed
equipment would shortly expire,
they asked the major manufacturers
for specifications, Few responded in
time to have their specifications
presented to Civilian Defense for
approval. The Pirsch specifications
were complete and in detail and
were the only omnes approved, Had
they not been, Shavertown would
probably have lost the opportunity
for Federal assistance,
"Officials of the company said this
week that if the community ap-
proves the purchase, additional
funds will be raised by pledges to
be paid over a two year period.
They also said that they might
borrow from the Relief Fund with-
out interest. They believe that pres-
ent equipment could be sold for
about $1,500.
Shrine Ceremonial
Shrine [Ceremonial Saturday at
Irem Temple Country Club will at-
tract hundreds of visiting Shriners.
Contractors To
Build 30-Unit
Motel In Dallas
Buys Snowdon Land
At Intersection Of
Routes 309 and 115
1t was reliably reported yester-
day in real estate circles that a
new 25 to B80 unit motel, costing
in - the neighborhood of $75,000
will be constructed before winter
on land opposite Casper’s Restaur-
ant at the intersection of Route
309 and Memorial Highway in Dal-
las Borough,
The site is adjacent to Oliver's
Used Car Lot on land recently
owned by Harold Snowdon, Wiyom-
ing Valley Funeral Director, who
has sold it to Morris Rosenthal and
associates, Mr. Rosenthal, whose
ton, is the owner of S & S Con-
struction Company,
Though Mr, Rosenthal was out
of town at presstime, his attorney
Joseph Serling who handled the
transaction with George Huey,
realtor, said the motel will be one
of the most modern to be found
anywhere. He said construction is
expected to start almost immediate-
pleted before winter,
The site has a frontage of 100
feet on Memorial Highway and a
depth of 150 feet, During Mr. [Snow-
don’s ownership Toby’s (Creek was
rolocated to the rear of the lot
and the entire area brought up to
grade,
Laing Firemen
Buy 2,000 Feet
Government Hose
Also Order Dozen
Pairs 0f Boots
And Rubber Coats
Dr, Henry M. Laing Fine (Company
has ordered 1.500 feet of 2% inch
hose and 1,500 feet of 1% inch hose
from the United States Govern-
ment at a cost of $600.
The hose is made available
through the Office of (Civilian De-
fence anid would cost approximate-
ly $2,000 if purchased directly from
the manufacturer.
The fire company now has about
500 feet of each size but some of
it is of no use because of age.
The company also ordered a
dozen new rubber coats and pairs
of boots on which # will receive
a Government subsidy of $103,
the Library Annex, it was decided
to paint seventeen fire hydrants
and three alarm boxes. The work
will be done by volunteers from
the company. :
Henry 'W. Peterson announced
that there are a number of out-
standing pledges on the new fire
equipment and that these should be
paid immediately in order to take
care of operating expenses. All mem-
bers who have outstanding pledge
cards in their possession are urged
to hand them in to Robert Lewis,
secretary.
The company authorized James
Besecker, chief, to purchase a new
storage battery for the auxiliary
fire equipment, which will be dem-
onstrated this week to Glendale Fire
Department who are in the market
for this used equipment. The com-
$350 to the Glendale firemen,
Because the coal heater in the
fire house is no longer of any use,
the firemen asked that anyone who
has a used heater available notify
them. They will be glad to make
arrangements to pick it up.
Demunds Church School °
Demunids Sunday School meets
each Sunday at 10 ‘A.M. [Sheldon
Frantz, superintendent.
Is Suspended For
A proposed electric power rate
boost that would have adversely
affected Bloomsburg and Natona
Mills, two of the Back Mountain
Region’s major industries, and 31
other industrial consumers of Lu-
zerne Electric and Gas Division of
U.G.I. was suspended this week by
Public Utility Commission for six
months until January 28.
“ Bloomsburg and Natona Mills
along with five other West Side
industries filed formal protest
against the proposed rates that
LE ae a
py a op
Next Six Months
would cost them thousands of dol-
lars annually, contending that the
new rates would place them at a
competitive disadvantage with simi-
lar plants in other parts of the
State and in the South.
Other protestants were: Liberty
Throwing Co., Kingston Cake Co.,
Duplan Corporation, Fortune Fab-
rics, and Atwater Division of Hess
Goldsmith Co.
Under the proposed increases 33
firms would be asked to pay $272,-
000 prslly.
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