FROM
buy bargains in bulbs.
Alongside the
for five dollars.
his subject.
Tom easing his aching arms, sug-
gested spreading a canvas on the
ground, lying on the canvas, and
rising when the falling crop shut off
respiration by sheer weight. The
four corners of the canvas would
make a handy carrying basket for
the nuts.
By this time, it was daffodils, pink
trumpet with a white perianth.
“What's a perianth?” Tom in-
quired ;
“Must be the petals around the
You know, peri around?
Look up your Latin. Oris it
Greek 7”
Tom seized this opportunity to
stretch. Looking over my shoulder,
he stalled for time. “We really
ought to order some of those pink
daffodils. Make a nice change from
so many King Alfreds. What's its
name ?”
“Mrs. Backhouse.”
~~ Tom looked stunned. “Must be a
typographical error. probably it
started out as Blackhouse or Block-
house. If it didn’t, I bet all the little
Backhouses have to fight their way
through schenl. But maybe, what
with modern plumbing and all, the
current crop of children never
heard of a bzckhouse.”
That washed up the pink daffo-
dils, but right aleng side the flower
ads there wus an item which
seemed to have nothing to do with
the garden page.
‘“ What's a paint- -peeler doing in
this section?” / o
“Lemme have a look.”
Tom grabbed the paper, made a
note of the price and rummaged
around for the Sears Roebuck cata-
logue. Then he returned to the or-
iginal, one dcliar less expensive
than the one in the catalogue and
sturdy.
“We really ought to have one of
these. It says you can take off three
down to the wood, in a minute, and
the paint remnants are dry and
chippy, not wet and droozly. Just
consider how much paint remover
we have used on the dining room
floor, and how much elbow grease.
This little combination heater and
scraper is the cats.”
‘Tom prepared to suspend opera-
tions. By next week, he said, we'd
have the paint peeler and the job
would go like a breeze.
“And we're to live in this mess
for a week while the paint-peeler
comes parcel-post? Let’s be realis-
and who can blame you. We'll try
something else!”
Down came the electric iron and
out came a stack of old newspapers.
If heat would do it, what's the mat-
ter with an electric iron?”
The team started functioning.
One member slapped down a square
iron, the other stood by to scrape
off the blisters. It worked like a log
job, but there were occupational
hazards.
Tom reared back on his heels,
flinging out an arm to correct his
balance. “Dearest,” he proclaimed,
sucking his wounded fingers,
really have to be more careful
where you put that iron.”
Or words to that effect.
I unplugged my ears. I promised
to equip the iron with a red light
and siren.
Tom cooled his blisters under the
kitchen tap, and returned to the job
with a longing glance at the por-
celain topped table.
“When do we get to eat the
pie?” he inquired between grunts
over an especially ‘tough spot of
paint removing.
“After we finish this patch. And
watch out, because I'm blistering
up a section right behind you.”
Tom said, “I can’t crouch down
this way without getting a cramp
in my leg.”
He demonstrated. There was a
scent as of October bonfires, min-
gled with singeing wool. “Some-
thing’s burning,” he stated with in-
terest; nose in the air like a bird
dog.
Then he rose as on wings. “It's
me,” he howled, “And that finishes
me for the evening. The only thing
that will salve this blister is apple
pie. With ice cream.
to apply it locally. After all there
are limits beyond which nobody
a
SET CLOCKS BACK
ONE HOUR BEFORE
RETIRING SATURDAY
Daylight Saving ends Sunday
morning at 2 a. m. Back Moun-
tain residents are reminded to
set their clocks back one hour
before going to bed Saturday
night, to insure getting to
church at the right time in-
stead of one hour early. Resi-
dents will now be able to make
up for that one hour of sleep
they lost during the early mor-
ning hours of ithe last Sunday
in April when Eastern Stand-
ard Time bowed to Daylight
Saving,
Sale Of Dress Factory
At Noxen On Monday
Representatives of the Federal
Government will hold a sale on the
premises of the former Miranda
Dress Factory in Noxen, property
of Siexi~* Hirshberg, Monday,
= |
September 28.
Prisoners Of War
Repatriated prisoners of war have
been instructed not to give too
much information about conditions
in Korean prison camps, according
to Sgt John Vavrek, Demunds.
Though desirous of cooperating, and
letting citizens of Back Mountain
know how things stood over there,
Jack’s first concern upon being in-
terviewed was that prisoners of war
still remaining in Korea should not
suffer because of any revelations.
So Jack compromised by saying
that the thirty-three months
seemed endless, as any similar per-
iod of time would be, shut off from
normal associations, news from
home, and customery contacts.
Wounded through the upper
chest, Jack was takén prisoner at
Kunri, November 30, 1950. He was
one of thirty-one soldiers left behind
to blockade the road while the 38th
Regiment, Second Division, made
its retreat. He admits his fellow
prisoners were taken to Camp Three
near the Yalu River.
He had medical care after reach-
ing prison camp. His loss of thirty
pounds is not due primarily to in-
jurics, but to the circumstance that
native Korean diet, which was pris-
on fare, is not adequate by Ameri-
can standards. Boiled rice, millet,
barley and cracked corn, supple-
mented occasionally by broth, leads
to deficiency complaints, such as
loss of calcium in the teeth and
bones.
Asked if any of his associates ac-
cepted Communist propaganda, Jack
said there was a certain amount of
this, but that personal bravery was
variable, and the lure of extra con-
sideration or early release was too
much for some of the captives.
Jack was released with a group
of 150, their names read the day
before actual release. They were de-
livered to Freedom Village, and fol-
lowing day sent to Inchon, where
James Kibler
Heart Victim
Stricken Wednesday
While Buying New Car
James C. Kibler, 47, of Pike's
Creek, died of a heart attack Wed-
nesday night at 8 at Warren Bos-
ton’s salesroom at Pikes Creek
where he and Mrs. Kibler had gone
to take delivery of a new Chevrolet.
Mr. Kibler was seated at a table
signing the final papers; the car
had been serviced and was await-
and expired without uttering a
word. Dr. Lester M. Saidman of
Noxen was called, but Mr. Kibler
was dead before he arrived.
Born at Ricketts where he lived
for fifteen years, Mr. Kibler was
the son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Wilson Kibler. He lived for a num-
ber of years in Wyoming Valley
and moved to Pikes Creek 24 years
ago.
For a number of years he was
engaged in the poultry business
raising large flocks of broilers and
during a part of that time was
associated with Trucksville Mill and
the North Star Hatchery at Tunk-
hannock.
For the past five years he had
been manager of the Mill of Back
pany, where he worked as usual
on Wednesday. He had, however,
been in delicate health for some
years having suffered a first severe
heart attack about two years ago.
At the time of his death he was
Justice of the Peace in Lake Town-
ship.
He and Mrs. Kibler, the former
Alice King of Kingston, celebrated
their 25th wedding anniversary in
June, 1952.
Active in Masonic circles, Mr.
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Not Free To Give
they rested before sailing for home
on the USS General William Black.
Japan was first sighted en route,
but San Francisco was the first
port. The ship steamed through the
Golden Gate and into the harbor
at about the hour Wednesday when
Mrs. Anna Vavrek, Jack's mother,
came to the Dallas Post to say her
son would arrive by plane the foi-
lowing day.
Necessary processing was speeded
up to allow returned prisoners to
start home as soon as possible. Jack
landing ot LaGuardia Field, N. J.
found the plane for Avoca started
from Newark. A traffic jam in the
tunnel caused him to miss connec-
tions, delaying him several hours
at Newark Airport, so it was late
in the evening before the waiting
throngs at Avoca could welcome
him, and ceremonies at East Dallas
Methodist Church carried out upon
arrival of the motorcade.
Since coming home last Thursday,
Jack has been welcomed in so many
different places that his mother has
to keep his schedule straight on a
large calendar, and his uniforms
make trip after trip to the cleaner’s.
Sgt. Vavrek will go to Camp
Meade for medical checkup October
21, with probability that he will be
honorably discharged from the serv-
ice. He wears a Purple Heart, recog-
nition of wounds in combat.
Leaving Dallas-Franklin Township
schools before graduation, Jack en-
listed in the Army in October, 1948,
when he was seventeen. His mother
had not seen him for almost five
years. Letters were entirely lacking
for a long time, with no way of
knowing whether he was alive or
dead. News that he was living came
by roundabout means in the latter
part of May, and a month later
there was a personal letter.
Mrs. Vavrek was informed August
28 that he had been released.
Frost struck portions of the Back
Mountain early Friday morning,
nipping here and there, but doing
no great damage.
Tommy Kingston reported a
swath cut through his tomato
patch, seventy feet of damage, with
the remainder of the vines left un-
touched. Peppers were killed in the
same location.
Skipping Pioneer Avenue, frost
appeared at the upper end of
Franklin street and on Lehman Av-
enue, whitening the roofs and kill-
ing nasturtiums.
Meeker, subject to early frost, es-
caped without much damage, but
Mrs. Arthur Ehret reports actual
ice on the windshild one morning
earlier in the week.
EN ih is spa APS. is Eh ks
Residents of Harveys Lake report
no frost. 3
Bert Bryant, Meeker, adjoining a
pond, says the temperature did not
go below 39 degrees, the body of
water tempering the cold.
Mrs. Ross Amos, Demunds Road,
reported no frost, but so heavy a
dew that it looked like it on the
shed roofs.
At Chase, no reports of frost were
received. Reading of 39 at 4 a. m.
was noted.
At Hunstville, the reservoir sta-
bilized tke temperature. There was
a heavy fog over the water, and
drenching dew.
Job Hadsell reported a heavy
frost at Beaumont, first of the sea-
son, but with not too great damage.
Ten Back-Mountain students rep-
resenting four high schools, are
among the freshman class at Wilkes
College this fall. Shown above they
are, left to right in the first row:
Robert M. Gregory, 194 Lehigh St.,
Shavertown; Janet Hooper, R. D. 2,
Shickshinny; William Davis, R. D. 1,
Harveys Lake; Lena Misson, R. D. 3,
Dallas; James R. Ide, 60 Mill Street,
Dallas.
Second row: Edward A. Thompson,
Marcytown, Luzerne; Frank Fischer,
R. D. 3, Dallas; Robert Hontz, 74
Franklin Street, Shavertown; Sam-
uel Dilcer, Jr., Main Road, Trucks-
ville; and Anthony Greener, Davis
Street, Trucksville.
Gregory, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
R. B. Gregory, is a graduate of
Westmoreland High School, and will
work toward a Bachelor of Science
degree in Chemistry at Wilkes. Miss
Hooper, a two years student in Bi-
ology, is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Beach Hooper,
Garrison High School in Shickshin-
ny.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
Davis, Davis was graduated from
Monroe Township High School and
is majoring in Business Administra-
tion. Scholarship winner Lena Mis-
son, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph J. Misson, is a product of
Dallas-Franklin High School. She
will take a Bachelor of Science
course in secretarial education with
a major in Mathematics.
Ide, who is majoring in Political
Science, is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Marcus B. Ide, Sr., and is a gradu-
ate of Westmoreland High School.
Young Thompson is the son of Mrs.
Helen Thompson, a graduate of
Westmoreland High School, and will
major in chemistry. Fischer is the
son of Mrs. Elsa Fischer and a grad-
discussion group of Back Mountain
residents heard a talk on ‘Natural
Resources as Indicated by Relative
Strength of the Great Powers,”
given by George Elliott, M.A., of
Wilkes College faculty, in the Li-
brary Annex Friday evening.
Dr. J. G. Tilem, Harveys Lake,
was moderator, introducing the
speaker and directing the discus-
sion.
Guns and/or butter was the
theme. Mr. Elliott warned against
underestimating the Soviet Union,
pointing out that natural resources
such as coal and iron ore are stra-
tegically located in many sections,
making possible construction of
new factories close to basic raw
materials. Since the start of in-
dustrialism in 1928, the Soviet has
made prodigious strides. It has
easy access to some of the most
productive oil fields in the world.
Geography, he stated, is not
static. It can be coerced into serv-
ing a nation. North and south riv-
ers in the Soviet are being steadily
connected by a canal system.
Transportation on the almost plain-
like vastness of the Soviet can be
built up to a colossal degree, with
few mountain ranges to interfere.
Drawbacks to economic progress
include the extreme northerliness
of so large a proportion of the ter-
ritory—25 percent above the Arc-
tic Circle.
Technical knowledge among So-
viet scientists is second to none.
Planned poverty plows back into
the Soviet resources for war pro-
duction, with consumer goods
strictly limited. Gross production
increases 7 percent per year, as
compared with 3 percent in the
United States. The Soviet started
rapid economic development only
twenty-five years ago, as compared
to this country’s post-Civil War
spurt of development.
Ignorance, warned Mr. Elliott, is
the most potent fifth column. The
Soviet is now stronger in resources
than Hitler's Germany. By 1970,
at its present rate of growth, it
could match the United States in
industrial strength.
Discussion, participated in by
Charles Eberle, Odus Moore, and
Thomas Hicks, emphasized that it
was not economic development of
the Soviet that constituted a men-
ace, but leadership. A vast empire
expanding its resources under be-
nign leadership adds immeasurably
to world progress, while one using
its resources for domination or de-
struction is a world menace.
The group will meet again this
evening. A discussion ipanel of fif-
teen is manageable, but if that
number is to be assured, a regis-
tration of thirty is desirable. The
membership is open to anybody
who is interested.
Present at the first meeting were
Dr. and Mrs. Tilem, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Eberle, Mr. and Mrs.
George Jacobs, Mr. and Mrs. Odus
L. Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Russell
Steele, Mr. and Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks,
Mrs. Lewis LeGrand, ‘and Calvin
McHose.
Forty-Seven Transfers
In Jointure Schools
Forty-seven children from other
localities or schools have been en-
rolled this fall at Dallas Borough-
Kingston Township schools, some of
the most distant newcomers chil-
dren of Air Force personnel sta-
tioned at Red Rock and living in
Meadowcrest.
Dallas has fifteen: from Kings-
ton, one; Lehman, one; Day School,
two; Gate of Heaven, two; Dallas
Township, two; Courtdale, three;
Waterport, N. Y., three; Amarilla,
Texas, one.
Shavertown elementary, six: From
Wilkes-Barre, two; Dallas Township,
one; Forty Fort, one; Luzerne, one.
Trucksville elementary, ten: from
Mildred, one; Luzerne, two; Leh-
man, two; Day School, two; Hones-
dale, one; Pueblo, Colo., one; Wil-
mington, Del., one.
Westmoreland High School, six-
teen: from Wilkes-Barre, three;
Dallas Township, two; Luzerne, one;
Lehman, two; Kingston, one; Plains,
one; Albion, N. Y., two; Roslyn,
N. Y, two; Fort Pierce, Fla., one;
Fort Myers, Fla., one.
Wheatcrofts Plan
Connecticut Home
The Arthur C. Wheatcrofts plan
to sell their home at 10 Gordon
Street; Goss Manor, and move to
Stamford, Conn., where they have
purchased a new home. Mr. Wheat-
croft has been commuting back and
forth from New York weekends for
two years. Their son, 17, a student
at Wyoming Seminary, is expected
to dock from a summer vacation
in Europe on Tuesday. Immediately
after meeting him in New York, the
family will complete arr§ngements
for moving. Stamford is within easy
commuting distance of New York,
forty-five minutes by train.
At Nesbitt Hospital
Charles W. Lee, Country Club
Road, is a patient at Nesbitt Memor-
ial Hospital where he was admitted
Friday night. Although showing
improvement, he is allowed no vis-
itors or telephone calls.
eS ae Sc
High School. He tco is majoring in
chemistry.
Hontz, who won basketball and
band letters at Westmoreland High
School, is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Hontz. He is majoring in
journalism.
Dilcer is studying chemistry at
the college. He is a graduate of the
then Kingston Township High
School and Wyoming Seminary
where he played varsity football.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. S. B.
Dilcer. Greener is a graduate of
Westmoreland High School, study-
ing toward a Bachelor of Science
degree in Biology. While in high
school, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Har-
ry (Greener earned a total of seven
varsity letters in football, basketball
and baseball.
All Local Teams
To See Action
This Saturday
Westmoreland Host
To Lehman; Dallas
Twp. Goes To Avoca
By Dave Robertson
All three Back Mountain High
School football teams will be in ac-
tion tomorrow. Two will meet for
the first time this season when Leh-
man travels to Trucksville to meet
Westmoreland.
Dallas Township will meet Avoca
at Avoca.
Last weekend, with i three
lettermen back, Westmoreland went
up against a powerful Tunkhannock
team and came out on the short
end of a 25-0 score.
The Mustangs did not offer a sin-
gle serious threat, the game being
a scoreless duel during the first
quarter with neither team able to
get started.
In the second quarter, Glenn who
later became a thorn in the flesh
of Westmoreland, stepped back and
threw to Passmore for the first tal-
ly. Jay Keller scored the only extra
point of the afternoon on a pitch-
out. The Mustangs held the Tigers
for the rest of the quarter, but
could do nothing themselves.
Westmoreland fumbled the sec-
ond half kick-off to set up the sec-
ond touchdown. Glenn again tossed
and connected with Shaffer who
went over from the five.
Glenn set up the next two touch-
downs, one in the third and the
other in the fourth quarter. Both
times it was Dinsmore who went
over for the tally. These touchdowns
gave the up river boys a total of 25
points and their first win of the
season.
Westmoreland stopped three
Tunkhannock bids for touchdowns
when the line, led by Gene Brobst
and Ernie Widmann stopped Jay
Keller a yard short. A weak Mus-
tang line on offense didn’t allow
quarterback Dick Evans time to get
away passes or handoffs.
The key to the Tunkhannock vic-
tory was its passing attack in which
it completed eight of eleven passes,
two for touchdowns for 100 yards
through the air.
While picking up fifteen first
downs they gained 140 yards on the
ground for a total of 240 yards for
the afternoon.
Westmoreland’s aerial attack was
stymied. They completed two
ted and netted fifteen yards in the
ir. The ground attack was ineffec-
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The Dallas Post
Telephone Numbers
4-5656 or 4-7676
Resigns From
Lake-Noxen
Goes To Larger
School System
Near Carlisle
George E. Taylor's resignation as
supervising principal of Lake-Noxen
Township Schools was accepted at a
special board meeting Saturday
night. Robert Belles, principal, will
take over until definite replacement
arrangements can be made.
Mr Taylor will assume supervision
of South Middleton Schools in
Cumberland County, on the out-
skirts of Carlisle, October 1. En-
rollment there is 1500.
South Middleton’s School Board
visited Lake-Noxen schools last
Monday, spending the entire day
talking to students, teachers, custo-
dians, office staff, and business men
of the community. Satisfied with
their findings, they held a special
meeting and arrived at the decision
to offer Mr. Taylor the job, replac-
ing the former supervising princi-
pal who had moved to Harrisburg.
Wednesday night at 11, after de-
livering a talk to the PTA, Mr. Tay-
lor received a telephone call from
South Middleton making a definite
offer of such proportions that it
could not well be refused.
This position was not of Mr.
Taylor's seeking. President of the
board contacted him late in Aug-
ust, suggesting a visit to South
Middleton at the board’s expense.
Mrs. Taylor accompanied him, and
was impressed with both school
and community.
The family will locate there as
soon as a house can be procured.
Mr. Taylor is active in community
affairs as well as Luzerne County
school direction. His resignations
will include trusteeship in Alderson
Methodist Church; secretaryship of
Harveys Lake Lions; directorship of
Back Mountain Library.
Mr. Taylor ‘would have taken of-
4: as president of Luzerne County
Supervicing Principals’ Association
this fall. He has been solidly be-
hind the move toward larger join-
tures for the county.
It was due partially to his repu-
tation for. looking ahead that he
received the present offer, as well
as to notable accomplishment dur-
ing his eight years at Harveys
Lake.
Chest X-Ray Schedule
Wyoming Valley Tuberculosis Soci-
ety will continue today at Dallas
Borough Elementary School be-
tween 4 and 8 p.m.; Dallas Town-
ship School, Monday and Tuesday;
East Dallas Methodist Church,
Wednesday; Lehman-Jackson School,
October 1; and Huntsville Christian
Church, October 2. Hours for all
are 4 and 8 p.m.
A large number of X-rays have
been taken this week and entire
families are turning out. The
X-ray program is being sponsored
by Dallas Senior and Junior Wom-
en’s Clubs.
Boy Burned Bhout
Face And Eyes
David Cook, 14, son of Mrs. Wil-
bur Ross, was seriously burned
about the face and eyes by refriger-
ator fluid under pressure on Satur-
day, when he was assisting his fam-
ily to get furniture ready for mov-
ing from Beaumont to Factoryville.
William Kern, on whose farm Ross-
es lived, rushed the boy to General
Hospital, Wilkes-Barre, where he
remains a patient, in danger of los-
ing his right eye.
Westmoreland Alumni
Association To Form
There has been no active alumni
group for Westmoreland Schools
since the Dallas Borough-Kingston
Township consolidation. :
Feeling there is a need for such
a group, several members met
briefly this week and set a date
for an organization meeting. All
former Dallas Borough and Kings-
ton Township alumni are urged to
attend this meeting at 8:00 p.m.
Tuesday, October 6th at the Dallas
Borough building on Huntsville
Road.
On the agenda will be the pro-
posed get - together at Westmore-
land after the Exeter football game.
Also an annual banquet and awards
to the graduating high school
classes will be discussed.
To Meet October 2
First fall meeting of the Nesbitt
Hospital Auxiliary will be held in
the Library Annex Friday, October
2 at 2 pm. Mrs. William Bond will
preside. Mrs. Charles Perkins has
been appointed chairman of the