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Thanksgiving is a state of mind,
with stuffing. At this season of the y
as well as a roast turkey crammed
ear, when the word “thanks” is pin-
tries of the world.
thing to do, to decry our customs,
our exuberant national youthfulness,
to compare our straightforward citi-
zens unfavorably with the suaver
product of other lands.
The Readers Digest, for example,
is dubbed a propaganda medium,
in quotes: ‘It's theme song is that
this is the best possible country in
the best possible world of the best
possible universe.’
{What's wrong with that kind of
propaganda ?
Don’t we truly believe that this
is the best country in the world?
And if we don’t, why are we living
here and enjoying its benefits when
we might be walking a chalk-line
somewhere across the ocean?
And this world we are living in
is the only one we have. Who says
it isn’t the best there is available?
Pretty nice universe, too. Sun and
moon and stars held together by a
mysterious force® more suns beyond
human knowledge. # *
' True, the conceptign of the -
as one great happy lamily is a
way off. Even normal smal A
units have their frictions. Until the
lion. is able to lie down with the
lamb without endangering the
lamb, there will be world friction,
plenty of it, while the world stum-
bles toward universal brotherhood.
- Communities in the same area do
not invariably see eye to eye. There
is bickering over thé back fence.
Neighbors’ dogs tear up the
den, and there are hard feelin
On a larger scale, this spells war.
People have to learn to get along
together, but it takes time
thousand years ago was la
the first conception of a wg
where people were kind to
other instead of a world where
eye was demanded for an eye,
a tooth for a tooth. 3
Family loyalty on a grand sca
Our family, our town, wr state,
our. country—and our world. ;
We have so much to be thankful
enough land to feed us. If fields do
not produce enough, our scientists
er yield. We have fuel. We have
rolling plains and virgin forests.
One look at the crowded high-
ways, a glance ‘into a farmhouse
kitchen, and we know that we have
luxury beyond the wildest dreams
of other countries.
But what we do need, and need
vitally, is an increasing sense of
thankfulness that these things are
so. Too many of us accept without
a thought the product of our fore-
fathers’ labors and hardships, their
incredible courage in the face of
We forget that these
things were bought with a price.
Thankfulness should not be ster-
ile. -As faith without works is dead,
Thanksgiving should be dynamic,
not passive, leading to glad and
capable acceptance of responsibility
for keeping our own house in order
and lending a willing hand to
others.
Sweet Valley
School To Be
Ready Dec. 20
Pupils To Visit
New Classrooms
Before Holidays
Ross Township elementary pupils
will not return to their one-room
schools after Christmas, but will go
directly to the new ' building in
Sweet Valley. If the present sched-
ule is maintained, with completion
December 20, pupils will have a
chance to acquaint themselves with
their new quarters even before
Raymon | ‘Hedden, 4 ntractor, e
delayed. Heating units are now in
every room, and heat has been
turned on for some time. Walls are
tinted, two-tone, varying with every
room. Asphalt tile floors are being
Furnishings are on the way,
an chair units, readily mov-
ldren will take trays to their
' classrooms at first, until the
ral purpose room is cleared of
icles at present stored there.
Cafeteria plans include : installation
of folding dining tables in this
Members of Hots Township School
Board, and Supervising Principal
man-Jackson-Ross Township join-
ture, met with Ross Township Au-
thority Board, George Bronson, Ba-
sil Steele, Caleb Hoyt, Robert Gray,
and McKinley Long, at the new
school Monday night to inspect fin-
ished work and make blans for the
official opening.
Teeners League To
Dine On December 7
Players, managers, coaches and
umpires of the Bi-County Teeners
Baseball League will be honored
guests at a dinner to be given Mon-
day night, December 7 at 6:30 at
Kunkle Community Hall.
All parents and friends are in-
vited to attend. A silver offering
will ‘be taken.
There will be special entertain-
ment and George Gay will show
motion pictures. F
Friends, parents and others inter-
ested in the welfare of boys are
asked to contribute foodstuffs,
hams, vegetables, coffee, sugar, etc.,
for the dinner. They may make
their contribution. by calling Victor
Cross or Herman Kern.
Commonwealth Is
Fourth In Size
The merger of the Tioga County
Bell Telephone Company, Wellsboro,
with ‘Commonwealth Telephone
Company brings together two tele-
phone companies that have worked
closely together over the years.
With the addition of Tioga’s 10
exchanges and approximately 6,000
telephones in parts of Lycoming
and Tioga Counties, the Common-
wealth Telephone Company will
have 54 exchanges and almost 36,-
000 telephones serving parts. of 10
counties in Northeastern Pennsyl-
vania. Of the 150 independent tel-
ephone companies in Pennsylvania,
Commonwealth now ranks fourth in
number of telephones and 37th in
size of the more than 5,000 inde-
pendents in the nation.
The former headquarters ex-
change at Wellsboro will become the
seventh District Office of Common-
wealth and Ross Kimball, former
wire chief for Tioga, will be the
Thomas P. Garrity
Edward W. Hall
They are: Thomas Garrity, Har-¢
veys Lake real estate man; Edward
W. Hall, Shavertown druggist; How-
ard W. Isaacs, Trucksville Chrysler-
Plymouth dealer, and L. L. Richard-
son, Dallas Dodge-Plymouth dealer.
The announcement followed the
election Tuesday of the four men by
the Board of Directors of Miners
National Bank after their momina-
tion had been presented by the
Dallas Branch Advisory Committee.
All are active in the commercial
and community life of the Back
Mountain = area. Their election
gives wider representation to all
sections of the Back Mountain area
and increases the size of the Ad-
visory Committee from seven to
eleven members. Other members
are: W. B. Jeter, vice president;
Frederick J. Eck, assistant vice
president; A. C. Devens, Clifford
Space, Harold Titman, David
Schooley, and Howard Risley.
Thomas Garrity is an outstanding
young real estate and insurance
man who has been active in the
civic and fraternal life of the Har-
iN Lake community ever sine
I discharge from the Air Force
we conclusion of World War II.
The son of the late Patrick J.
and Bernadine Williams Garrity, he
is a member of an old Back Moun-
tain family. His maternal great,
great grandfather was one of the
first school teachers in Lake Town-
ship. After the death of his par-
ents, he was reared by his uncles,
the ‘late Fay and Lyman Williams.
He was graduated from Lake
Township schools and took addi-
tional work at Pennsylvania State
School of Aeronautics, and electri-
cal engineering at Pennsylvania
State Extension School.
During the war he was a lieuten-
ant in the Eighth Air Force, seeing
service in England and later piloted
E-29s.
Mr .Garrity is Adjutant of the
9543 Volunteer Air Reserve Train-
ing Unit Squadron. He is a mem-
ber of Daddow-Isaacs Post, Ameri-
can Legion and is Vice Commander
of the new Harveys Lake Legion
Post. He is trustee of Daniel C.
Roberts Fire Company; vice presi-
dent and director of Harveys Lake
Lions Club; treasurer of Lake Town-
ship Ambulance Fund; chairman of
the Board of Directors of Harveys
Lake Rod and Gun Club, and’ mem-
ber .of Greater Wilkes-Barre Real
Estate Board.
His wife is the former Mary De-
laney of Harveys Lake. He is a
member of Lady of Victory Parish
and a member of its Holy Name
Society.
Edward Hall has been a practic-
ing pharmacist since his graduation
from Philadelphia College of Phar-
macy in 1917. He is past presi-
dent of Luzerne County Pharmaceu-
tical Association and is presently
chairman of the Committee on Con-
stitution and By-Laws of the Penn-
sylvania Pharmaceutical Associa-
tion.
He is vice president and director
of Rural Building & Loan Associa-
tion.
Born in Dickson City, he first
entered the retail drug business in
Forty Fort before coming to Shav-
ertown in 1933. His present air-
conditioned store is one of the most
modern in Pennsylvania.
He and Mrs. Hall, the former
Ccrdelia Weiland of Dickson City,
have three children: Theodore, elec-
trical engineer with General Elec-
tric at Pittsfield, Mass., Jack and
Ann, in business with their father,
at home.
Mr. Hall is a member of Forts
Fort Methodist Church and all Ma-
sonic bodies.
Howard Isaacs is one ‘of the lead-
ing young automobile dealers in
=
Luzerne County, having been Chrys- |
ler-Plymouth dealer in Trucksville
new district manager.
for the past nineteen years.
He is past president of Wyoming
Valley Junior Chamber of Com-
merce; director of Wyoming Valley
Motor Club; past president of Wyo-
ming Valley Automobile Dealers’
Association; member of Pennsyl-
vania Automobile Association, and
has taken an active part in the
business life of the community.
He is director of Rural Building
& Loan Association; past president
of Dallas Kiwanic Club, and is a
member of Westmoreland Club and
all Masonic bodies.
The son of Ethel and the late
Ray Isaacs, his family has for sev-
eral generations been associated
with the Back Mountain area. He
is a graduate of Kingston Township
High School where he was a leader
in student activities.
His wife is the former Lois Mow-
ery of Kingston. He has one son,
George. .
L. L. Richardson who is serving
his ‘second term as member of Dal-
las Borough School Board, has been
active in’ ‘all phases of civic and
commercial life of the ‘Back Moun-
tain area since 1938 wtien he estab-
in Dallas. He is past president of
the Dodge Dealers’ Association of
Pennsylvania and is a member of
the Dodge Dealers’ Advisory Con-
ference of the New York region,
an organization which promotes
closer relationship between factory
and dealer.
He is treasurer of Dallas Borough
School Board, and of the Joint
School. District. He is past presi-
dent of Rural Building & Loan As-
sociation and ‘is a director of the
Back - Mountain Teeners Baseball
League.
Born in Scranton, he graduated
from ‘the Johnson ‘School. = ‘His wife
is the former Grace Kane of Scran-
ton. They have three boys, Tommy
and Bobby, twins, outstanding ath-
letes at Westmoreland High School,
and Jimmy a pupil in Dallas Grade
School.
Mr. Richardson is a member of
Dallas Methodist Church, Dallas
Rotary Club and all Masonic bodies.
Band Fund Drive
Canvass From Door
To Door A Success
Westmoreland Band Parents As-
sociation, meeting Monday night at
the High School, reported approxi-
mately $350 collection from Satur-
day morning’s membership drive.
There will be a few extra member-
ships, as those residents in Dallas,
Shavertown and Trucksville who
were not at home when band mem-
bers called, are contacted. The fund
last year by sale of membership
tickets with no house to house can-
vass.
Westmoreland band members not
all being available for = Saturday
morning soliciting, three boys not
in the band but taking lessons from
Lester Lewis, director, were pressed
into service. Joey Peterson, Durelle
Scott, and Dickie Clark scoured
their immediate neighborhood and
turned in a sizeable amount.
Mrs. Don Clark and Mrs. Alton
Sprout were in charge in Dallas,
using their cars for band members.
Mrs. William Strauser and
Donald Perrin handled Trucksvill
and Harold Croom and Mrs. Ne
McDonald, Shavertown.
Mr. Croom, president, wi
thank residents for their coo
tion. The fund will be us
finance some bass horn equipm
needed by the band, and to
the annual spring banquet
Driver Faces
Serious Charge
Joseph Hogan Posts
$500 Bail For Court
Joseph - Hogan, Lehigh Street,
Wilkes-Barre, whose $25.50 fine on
a reckless driving charge was re-
turned: last week by Justice-of-the-
Peace James Besecker after Judge
W. Alfred Valentine and appeal
taken on a technicality by Hogan’s
attorney, James L. Brown, was re-
arrested Friday by Chief Russell
Honeywell on a drunken driving
charge.
Hogan, father of ten children, was
driver of an automobile owned by
Louis Banta which featured in a
collision with an automobile owned
by Viola Headman a week ago Sun-
day morning at the intersection of
Route 115 and 309 near Casper’s
Restaurant.
When arrested on the new charge
which carries a possible fine of $100
and loss of driver's license, Hogan
bail to appear before Luzerne Coun-
ty Court.
.
Schools Close Today,
Open December First
Public schools in the Back Moun-
tain will be closed for the first day
of deer season, Monday, November
30. Students will have five days
for the Thanksgiving recess, start-
ing today (Wednesday) at 2 p.m.
Lehman-Jackson-Ross schools will
be delayed fifteen minutes in clos-
ing, because of a matinee perform-
ance of the senior play, “Spring
Night.”
Dallas Borough-Kingston Town-
ship jointure, in making out its
calendar, left a choice between
Armistice Day and first day of deer
season for a holiday. Students at-
tended school on Armistice Day,
along with the rest of the Back
Mountain.
Poor Turnout
Francis Ambrose, chairman of the
committee in charge of erecting
Christmas lights in the borough,
was the only member who reported
at the Post Monday night for the
first meeting of the season.
L. L. Richardson
—
THANKSGIVING DAY
— Be
Governor John S. Fine has issued
the following Thanksgiving Procla-
mation:
“Our Father, we thank Thee.
“These simple words will be on
our lips as we join this year in the
traditional observance of Thanks-
giving Day, Thursday, November
26th. They will rise in a great
chorus from hearts overflowing with
gratitude for the countless blessings
which have been bestowed upon us.
“The observance of Thanksgiving
Day dates from 1621, when the Pil-
grims, at Plymouth, set apart a day
for thanksgiving immediately after
their harvest. From that day of the
Pilgrims to the present, reverent
Americans have been thankful for
the blessings bestowed upon ther.
“Let us all be thankful that we
breathe the air of freedom, secure
in the heritage won for us by the
faith and courage of the pioneers,
who pushed back the wilderness,
extended our frontiers, and founded
a great Nation in the New World.
“Let us be thankful that we live
by the teachings of the Holy Bible
and in the faith of our fathers.
“Let us be thankful not bnly for
our material progress, but for the
increasing spiritual strength of our
people, our churches, our schools
and our homes.
“THEREFORE, I, John S. Fine,
Governor of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, do hereby proclaim
Thursday, November 26, 1953, as
a legal holiday and as a day of
Thanksgiving in this Common-
wealth. I call upon our people to
observe the day in their homes
and in their places of worship in
humble and grateful remembrance
of the blessings that the citizens
of this great State are privileg
to enjoy.
“FURTHERMORE, I ask that the
Flag of the United States be dis-
played from all appropriate places
to symbolize our patriotic loyalty
and devotion to the ideals of lib-
erty, justice, and equal oppertun-
ity which America holds forth as
an example to the world; and that
the Flag of Pennsylvania be dis-
played as a token of our apprecia-
tion of the many blessings which
residents of this Commonwealth
enjoy.” E
The Back Mountain Region will
be out to break all previous records
for contributions to the March of
Dimes when the Mothers’ March
gets underway Tuesday evening,
January 26, under the chairmanship
of Mrs. James Trebilcox of Trucks-
ville.
The Mothers’ March, successfully
used in hundreds of other commu-
nities, has never been tried here
before.
Mrs. Trebilcox explained this week
that the Back Mountain Community
has been divided into districts with
charge: Dallas Borough, Mrs. Harry
Ohlman; Lehman, Mrs. Dorothy Ma-
jor Baker; Huntsville, Mrs. D. L.
Edwards, and Mrs. Harry Edwards;
Harveys Lake, Mrs. Malcom Nelson;
Shavertown, Mrs. Frederick Eck;
Trucksville, Mrs. Willard Garey and
Mrs. Richard Staub; Kunkle, Mrs.
Walter Elston; Jackson, Mrs. Rus-
sell Lamoreaux. Chairmen are still
to be appointed for Carverton, Or-
Purpose of the Mothers’ March,
said Mrs. Trebilcox whose son
Harry was stricken with polio last
ear, is to collect contributions from
all homes in the Back Mountain
where porch lights are turned
during the evening of January
assist in this work, but none will
be asked to call on more than ten
or a dozen homes. Any woman
who wishes to take part should
contact her district chairman and
volunteer her services:
Block leaders will make their re-
turns that night to their district
leaders who in turn will make their
returns to their local police head-
quarters.
Chief of Police Russell Honeywell
of Dallas Borough has charge of the
organization of police departments
man; Chief Jesse Coslett, Kingston
Township; Herbert Updyke, Kings-
ton Township; Chief Edgar Hughes,
Harveys Lake; Chief James Gansel,
Dallas Township.
Mrs. Trebilcox said the entire
set-up will be explained at a meet-
ing of all workers and police Tues-
day night, December 8 at Back
Mountain Memorial Library. At-
tending the meeting will be Robert
Pickup, president Luzerne County
Chapter, National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis; Robert Kintzer,
chairman 1954 March of Dimes, and
Mrs. C. W. Bigelow, chairman of
Women’s - Activities. The Helen
Hayes film on the 1954 Mothers’
March will be shown. Miss Hayes
lost her daughter, Mary MacArthur,
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Directors Vote
To Stick With
First Petition
State's OK Hinges
On Monroe Release
By Wyoming County
Fifteen Dallas-Franklin and Lake-
Noxen school directors voted unani-
mously Friday night to stand by
their previously submitted petition
for school jointure.
This petition requests the County
Board of Education ‘to allow the
formation of a separate school joint-
ure to consist of Lake-Noxen, Dallas-
Franklin TFewnship and Monroe
Township, if the latter is released
from Wyoming County. ;
E. S. Teeter, county superintend-
ent, has promised the boards that
a request for a survey of the pro-
posed jointure will be forwarded to
the State Council of Education by
the County Board. This is a reversal
on ‘the part of the county superin-
tendent since he had previously
stated that he would not recommend
the petition of this separate jointure
to the County Board.
The Dallas-Franklin, Lake-Noxen
directors have asked ‘that this sur-
vey start after December 3, at which
time it is expected a decision’ con-
cerning the “release. of Monroe
Township will be handed down by
the Wyoming County Board of Ed-
ucation.
original plan to form a separate
jointure, apart from - one which
would include Dallas Bordugh-
Kingston Township, throws out the
possibility of sitting in committee
with members of this latter jointure
as was suggested by Teeter at the
November 12 meeting. These com-
mittees were, to have studied a
larger jointure to include five town-
ships plus the Borough.
According to Raymond Kuhnert,
supervising principal at Dallas-
Franklin Township, this action by
the various boards does not, in any
way, shut the door on a possible
larger jointure, at some later date,
with the Borough and Kingston
Township.
Several of the school board mem-
bers stated that it was their im-
pression that Dallas Borough- Kings-
ton Township boands were interest--
ed in a larger jointure but could
not participate at this time in a
building program. Consequently it
was felt that, if crowded conditions
at Dallas-Franklin and Lake-Noxen
were to be. relieved, the two joint
boards would have to act independ
ently.
Should Monroe Township be per-
mitted to become a part of this new
merger, by securing release from
Wyoming County, the pupil enroll-
ment of the proposed jointure will
administrative unit.
PTA Head At Meeting
Charles Rineheimer, president of
‘Dallas-Franklin Township Parent-
Teachers Association, told the direc-
tors that the members of the asso-
ciation are anxious to be informed
of the latest development and “that
present move.
‘A discussion of the new jointure
will be on the agenda of the Jan-
uary Dallas-Franklin Township PTA
meeting.
Few Apply For
Postmaster Job
Tuesday Is Last Day
To File Applications
Tuesday, December 1, is the last
the U. S. Civil Service Commission
for the postmaster = position in
Trucksville. “
According ‘to an announcement
by the Commission in Washington,
received so far has not been suffi-
cient for adequate competition. The
current examination was announced
under new qualifications standards
agreed upon by the Post Office De-
partment and the: Civil Service
Commission. Officials of both of
these agencies hope that the new
examinations will attract a larger
number of well-qualified applicants
than has been obtained in the past.
Application forms and further in-
formation on the ‘examination are
available in the post office. The
forms must be filed by the deadline
with the Civil Service Commission
in Washington, D. C.
Football Mothers
Football and Cheerleaders Moth-
ers will meet at the home of Mrs.
Robert Shotwell, Hillcrest Avenue,
Shavertown, Money Sveding at 8
p.m. ;