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Incensed
cism of the Back Mountain Area,
an Qld Timer dropped into the
office of The Dallas Post this week
to give vent to his feelings and to
answer the following item which
appeared recently in a Wilkes-Barre
newspaper.
In the present discussion regard-
ing increased taxation, comment of
one of the Dallas residents who
built a new home in the area is
pertinent. He said (prior to recent
increased assessments):
“I formerly lived in the lower end
of Wilkes-Barre. I had paved
streets, sidewalks, city sewers, paid
police protection, paid fire protec-
tion, street lights, adequate water
supply and my children attended
Elmer L. Meyers high school: I
walked to work in a few minutes
without any expense.
Quite A Contrast
“Now I have no paved street, no
sidewalk, no sewers, no police pro-
tection, only volunteer fire protec-
tion, no street lights, questionable
water supply, and I send my chil-
dren to a private school at big ex-
pense. I have to maintain a car to
drive to work and have lengthened
my day away from home.
“And when I receive my tax cards
I was dumbfounded to find I have
to pay mord taxes than I did in the
city. If I had realized all of these
things I would never have moved
out here.”
Okay For Some Folks
While some wealthy people who
could live anywhere may live here
from choice regardless of expense,
most of the residents have to con-
sider relative expense compared
with living in the valley.
Heretofore property values and
therefore rents and taxes have been
maintained to allow a resident a
little margin to cover carfare and
transportation.
Any attempt to make taxation
on the level prevalent in the valley
may in the long run slow up resi-
dential build-up.
~ from Sunday Independent
Killing The Silly Goose
Dear Editor:
How would you like a serving of
roast goose ?
I see by last-Sunday’s dispatches
from the city that they is some
fear we are “Killing The Goose”
because ‘they is amongst us some
that ain’t satisfied with our way
of living out here in the woods and
is busting into old man Gutenberg’s
type complainin’ about how costly
it is to boast: “I live in Dallas.”
Such fellas give me a prolonged
pain: in the place where my pants
Darned . if I.don’t like to hear
the lonesome call of a whippoorwill
at dusk a lot better'n the con-
tinual morning-to-night croaking of
these city birds what is always
singin’: “if you don’t look out
you're going to lose me.” Who the
h--- cares?
They is some of us unregenerate
heathen who has lived (with a
capital L) in these Back Mountain
fields and meadows for fifty years,
and we ain't asking no city to send
us any evangelists and mission-
aries to convert us more or less
into going back to South Wilkes-
Barre where they is sidewalks,
street lights, paved streets, paid
firemen, uninteresting sewers, a sa-
loon on every corner, and the fancy
year around smell of Martz diesel
buses. Nope we gota different kind
of religion. It’s old fashioned and
it's good enough for us!
We ain’t out here because it’s
cheaper to live here or because
Nell thought she'd like to tell her
bridge club that she lived in Dallas.
We're here because we love it
and had elbow room before a lot
of folks began shovin’ us around—
tryin’ to change the country into
Little New York or maybe South
Wilkes-Barre.
We're here because we got woods
to tramp, fields to roam, birds and
squirrels to feed. We can watch
the seasons change from spring to
Anthracite Is
Modern Fuel
By BERNARD NOVICKI
Trucksville
Heating Engineer
udson Coal Company
With the recent development of
both domestic and commercial heat-
ing, virtually all of the old objec-
tions against solid fuel have been
overcome. Modern automatic an-
thracite equipment is now being
manufactured and sold which draws
the fuel from the bin, burns it auto-
matically with hitherto unbelievable
efficiencies, and deposits the ash in
dust free containers. All this is
done virtually by push button con-
trol, or the simple adjustment of
a thermostat in the living room.
Combined wth. equipment of this
type are water heating coils which
provide an almost unlimited supply
of hot water for baths and showers
and laundry machines, at a cost
far below any other means of water
heating.
In the past the handling of ash
has been a rather unpleasant chore
but with the development of mod-
ern equipment which places the ash
automatically in receptacles ash re-
moval has become a very brief task
which takes but a moment or two
of the home owner's time. One
leading manufacturer of automatic
anthracite equipment has estimated
that in this area every small can
of ash removed from modern an-
thracite heating equipment repre-
sents a saving of $2.64 in cash, as
compared to the use of any other
so-called automatic fuel.
In addition to being both auto-
matic and convenient, anthracite as
a fuel has many inherent qualities
which are unequalled by any other
common fuel:
1. Anthracite is the safest fuel,
since it cannot explode or catch fire
by spontaneous combustion.
2. Anthracite is the most health-
ful fuel. When used in automatic
equipment anthracite gives the most
steady even heat at any desired
temperature, with no peaks or val-
leys which many doctors say often
lead to discomfort and colds during
the winter heating season.
3. Anthracite is clean heat. There
is no known way to burn anthracite
tr» make soot hence anthracite
leaves no oily greasy film in the
home. “In commercial buildings
such as schools and hospitals and
governmental agencies the cleaning
bills are kept at an absolute mini-
mum when anthracite is used as a
fuel.
4. Anthracite is most economical
especially in this particular area
where fuel bills with anthracite are
approximately one-half those for
the next competing fuel. Every
single’ ton of automatic anthracite
used for home heating in our neigh-
borhood represents a cash saving
of many dollars.
5. The supplies of anthracite are
winter. We can run our fingers
through the warm spring earth and
catch a glimpse of cedar waxwings
working the blossoms of the apple
trees.
But that ain't all—we can get
the satisfaction of working together
in a small community, to make it
better than the city we left—to
avoid the mistakes of the K past—
and work. for a better future!
We ain’t offering anything on a
platter to anyone (not even roast
goose). Nope, we ain’t for killin’
the goose — we're just wonderin’
how the silly critter ever wandered
into our back yard in the fust
place!
“Yours with the low down
summer; summer to fall and fall to
An Old Timer
Now Built In
“is covered with a yellow plastic
material. The hood is of copper.
To Serve Turkey Dinner
The American Legion and Legion
Auxiliary of Daddow - Isaacs Post
672, will serve a country-style tur-
key dinner at the Legion Home on
Huntsville Road, Dallas, tomorrow
night, Saturday, November 2lst,
from 5:00 until 7:30.
Menu will include roast turkey,
dressing, cranberry sauce, mashed
potatoes, gravy, chopped vege-
tables, pickles, celery, carrots, cof-
fee, and ice cream.
Tickets are available by contact-
ing Mrs. John Garbutt, Dallas.
At Bloomsburg
Among those taking part in the
reunion of Caldwell Consistory at
Bloomsburg this week were: Harold
Birth, Trucksville; John N. Conyng-
ham, Shavertown; Milford H. Gould,
Dallas; Harry B. Hughey, Dallas.
Thomas J. Neyhard, Dallas. Richard
C. Ostrum, Dallas; Theodore Roose-
velt Ruff, Dallas, and John W. Par-
ry, Dallas.
abundant, with reserves estimated
in the ceuturies. No other fuel
commonly used in the United States
has reserves comparable to coal and
very recently the Natural Resources
Committee of the federal govern-
ment estimated that by 1975 pres-
ent fuels other than coal would be!
critically diminished.
6. Anthracite can be stored in
the home or office building in large
quantities in complete safety with
a very minimum of expense. It
cannot leak or deteriorate, offers
no fire hazard and requires no ex-
pensive equipment for its storage.
The average home owner using any
of the popular budget plans can
store a full year’s supply of an-
thracite and be supremely confident
of the safety and security of his
family with only a very modest
drain on the family budget. There
is no surer way to guarantee your
winter heating comfort.
Recently the value of the an-
thracite industry to our own local
economy has become more and
more apparent and community lead-
ers are developing programs to in-
crease the sale of this most valued
fuel. Because anthracite is a local
product every single ton produced
contributes to our own local income
and means dollars in the pockets 6f
our own tradespeople, storekeepers
and tax collectors. Without the
tremendous contributions of the
miners we could mot possibly have
the large well-policed, well-governed,
well-protected communities which
are our home. It well behooves
each of us to do our part in using
anthracite in our own homes and
encouraging its use among our
until January I, we
to the week’s lucky
will give away
number holder.
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CHICKENS
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PACKERS BEST
BACON
bh 69c
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KRAFT’S
SALAD DRESSING
& 40
A BIG BARGAIN
FRESH KILLED
TURKEYS
Beltsville White
READY
FOR
mh 6c
READY - TO - EAT
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PORK
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MAIN HIGHWAY
SUPER
MARKET
TRUCKSVILLE
neighbors.
MEN’S & WOMEN’S
BEDROOM
SLIPPERS 99¢
REG. 1.98
CHILDREN’S, HEAVY
$1.00
MEN’S HEAVY RIB
UNION SUITS
Short Sleeves
1.719
REG. 2.99
HEAVY, WHIPCORD
PANTS
2.49
REG. 3.45
MEN'S & BOYS’
DRESS SHOES
3.69
REG. 6.98
MEN’S or BOYS’
SOCKS
or $1.00
BOYS’
ACKINAWS
$3.99
" REG. 12.50
CHILDREN’S
ARCTICS
69
1
MEN’S GABARDINE
and WOOL
PANTS
52.99
PANTS
99
REG. 3.98
HEAVY, WINTER
JACKETS
$4.99
REG. 15.00
ODD LOT
SWEATERS
$1.69
REG. 2.98
Men’s Sanforized
WORK
SHIRTS 99¢
REG. 1.69
All Children & Ladies
DRESSES
$1.00
REG. 2.98
COWBOY
BOOTS 3.99
OVERALLS
1.99
Everything
for the
Red “Hunting
| CAPS
98.
smerny
SOCKS
89.
i2 or 16 Gauge
RIFLED
SLUGS
box 4,60
er
Work and Hunting
Gloves
39c- 59.
—— ie
Tempered Steel
Hunting |
Knife
with 98:
sheath
Plastic
License
Holders
each » 25¢
DRAG
90:
In Plastic. Bag
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Phone 4-3888
Main Highway, Shavertown
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