Editorially Speaki
ng:
ball game, etc.
panies put their best brains
onto the job of working out
improvements.
in there because they had no
choice. It’s a mighty big one,
ing:
tax with each gallon.
ting for your money when
you say “a dollar’s worth,
Watch the pump grind
net price next time you pull
this “tax” right in with the
up to your service station.
one . . . but everybody buys
FROM
TAXOLINE.
PILLAR
By MRS. T.
TO POST
M. B. HICKS
poetic outpourings from this
frozen soul, but right now a
world.
‘Since the banishing of the family
teakettle to the junk yard and the
installation of modern hot water
heaters, most people take a con-
tinuous supply of hot water for
granted, and as for cold water, that
just grows like the leaves on the
trees. Turn a tap, and there it is,
unlimited quantities of it.
Read about your neighbor's
drought in the paper, and the item
ing. Until it happens at home.
‘ The night the pipes froze up,
Herb appeared with two large
buckets of water, one hot, one cold.
Herb, his face wreathed in smiles
and the right hand bucket wreath-
ed in steam, tapped on the door.
“Think this will hold you until
morning ?”’ he wanted to know.
Like a drowning man grasping
for a straw I grabbed the bucket
of hot water.
“Herb, go on home. This will fix
me up just dandy,” I gabbled, my
mind on a hot bath.
Herb quibbled. “Now that buck-
et,” indicating the cold water, “is
not for drinking purposes. It's for
other things.” And then, abandon-
ing delicacy and the oblique ap-
proach, “How about my filling the
tank upstairs and going back for
another bucket for the downstairs
tank 2”
“Herb, this is plenty. Alone in
the house the way I am, and gone
all day during the week, I don’t
need too much water.”
“Well, I'll go home and bring
you a pitcher of drinking water.”
“I don’t drink water once in a
blue moon.” ?
“You'll need some for coffee.”
“For Pete’s sake, Herb, get going
before that bucket of water cools
off. IT AM GOING TO TAKE A
BATH.”
Herb retired and I raced upstairs
with the treasure.
Who says you can’t get a bath in
a bucket? Circus people do it all
the time. Not only that, if you're
thrifty enough you can dunk your
socks and lingerie in the bath water
and rinse them in the half bucket
you thriftily poured off before start-
ing ablutions.
And cooled off, the water just
about fills the tank.
That's what is called making two
blades of grass grow where none
grew before.
Nothing like learning first hand
how the submerged tenth gets along
without running water. It leads to
of why people used to take a bath
once a week instead of every night.
In case anybody else gets frozen
pipes, take a tip from one who
knows: the way to get that hot
bath is to set the bucket into the
tub, step in alongside and do it
piecemeal, with the tub catching
the splash. Don’t try pouring it into
the tub, it cools off too fast.
Bet the plumbers are doing a
land-office business after this suc-
cession of zero nights, especially
those who have the electric pipe-
thawing equipment.
Drat that ground-hog. Out Punx-
sutawney way, where ground-hog
second of February, the wretched
rodent saw its shadow at 7:30 a.m.
and retired for another spot of
shut-eye, leaving the frozen East
holding the bag for another six
weeks. eh
Chapman Hired
To Shoot Dogs
To Visit Borough
As Regular Routine .
Burgess H.. A. Smith announced
yesterday that Daniel G. Chapman
of Kingston has been employed to
handle the surplus dog problem in
Dallas Borough.
Mr. Chapman is licensed by the
State of Pennsylvania, Burgess
Smith said, to perform this service.
dogs and impound all licensed dogs
found running at large within the
Borough. ~
Impounded dogs will be released
to their owners upon payment of a
$2 impounding fee at Mr. Chap-
man’s dog pound, Walnut Street,
Kingston.
Burgess Smith said his patience
has grown thin with dog owners
who cannot or will not take care
of their animals. “Both Chief Hon-
eywell and I receive complaints
every day of dogs that are running
loose. We have received many com-
plaints from the schools. On one
day this week there were eleven
dogs running in the school yard.
This is a hard problem for Chief
Honeywell to handle because many
of the owners are his friends. He,
likewise, does not like to shoot
dogs. Therefore we have employed
Mr. Chapman.
“Disposal of stray dogs is his bus-
iness. He is currently employed by
many Wyoming Valley communit-
ies, among them Kingston Bor-
ough.”
Mr. Chapman is paid $2. for every
pair of dog ears sent into the State.
He will be in Dallas at varied in-
tervals every month.
Selected For Jury
Back Mountain residents selected
for jury duty during Common Pleas
Court starting March 14 are: Mrs.
Jane DeWees, Shrine View; Frank
Gosart, Jackson Township; Betty
DeWitt, Elmcrest; Mrs. Frank Park-
hurst, Idetown and Mrs. Mary Seig-
fried, Carverton Road, Trucksville.
VOL. 65, No. 6
The Dallas Post
Telephone Numbers
4-5656 or 4-7676
Triple Jointure
Board Meets In
Routine Session
Squier’s Illness
Puts Damper On
Evenings Business
Due to Lester Squier’s illness,
Lehman-Jackson-Ross school board
meeting Tuesday night was largely
routine, dealing with payment of
bills, requests to board members to
attend a meeting of supervising
principals and directors at Luzerne
County Office February 21 at 1:30
ing of the triple jointure with Lake-
Noxen directors and supervising
principal Robert Belles, with E. S.
Teter.
The Building committee reported
lowering of the coal door at Ross
Township school to permit chuting
instead of shovelling of coal. Myron
Moss, principal of Ross, reports that
with one janitor it is difficult to
keep the building warm enough in
sub-zero weather. Mr. Moss person-
ally superintended thawing of a
frozen water-pipe and insulation of
pipes threatened by freezing during
the recent cold snap.
Automatic heat was tentatively
suggested as a solution, with in-
quiry into cost proposed this spring,
well in advance of next winter's
problems.
Purchase of necessary cafeteria
equipment was referred to the
Building Committee, with findings
to be reported to the Finance Com-
mittee for consideration.
Discussion of the recent meeting
with Lake-Noxen directors, carried
out at the proposal of E. S. Teter,
County Superintendent, revealed
the triple jointure board as in a fog
of bewilderment, wondering what
had been accomplished by the meet-
ing and indefinite as to the future
of a possible jointure promoted by
the County Office.
Present were: Edgar Lashford,
president; Lewis V. Ide, secretary;
Dean Shaver, Laing Coolbaugh,
George Bulford, Arthur Ehret, Sam-
uel Rhoads, William Naugle, Vern-
on Cease, Charles Leng, Paul Crock-
ett, William Birth, Jesse Hann, Ar-
thur Bronson, John Fielding, Myron
Moss.
Tamaqua Couple Hurt
Bs Car Skids In Slush
Mrs. Sterl Williams was dis-
charged from Nesbitt Hospital
Wednesday afternoon, her chest
tightly strapped to hold down move-
ment and protect broken ribs sus-
tained in an accident Sunday after-
noon on the upper Demunds Road.
Her husband, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Williams, Noxen, suffered a
broken jaw. The couple had recently
moved to Tamaqua, and were on
their way home from visiting the
family during the downpour which
made roads treacherous with slush
and underlying ice.
Indian On Program
Dr. Rustum Roy of Calcutta, Ind-
ia, assistant professor of Geo-chem-
istry at Penn State University, will
be the third speaker in the “Our
World” series at Shavertown Meth-
odist Church on Sunday evening at
7:30. Mrs. Carl Hontz is chairman.
Dr. Roy comes from one of the
oldest Christian families of North
India. He is married to an American
who has her PhD in the same field
of research as he. They have two
boys.
Blind To Meet
The Luzerne County Federation
of the Blind will meet, Sunday, Feb-
ruary 13, at the ILGWU Hall, 41 S.
Washington Street, Wilkes-Barre, at
2 p.m. Following the Business meet-
ing a social hour will follow with
games and prizes, and also refresh-
ments will be served.
With her fractured leg in a cast
and still nursing other injuries re-
ceived in the auto accident Sunday
afternoon in which her husband
and young son were also injured,
Mrs. J. Robert Graves, Shavertown,
was discharged yesterday morning
from Coaldale Hospital to attend
the funeral of her father in Phila-
delphia.
Her husband remains a patient at
the same hospital where he is re-
covering from head and leg injuries,
a lacerated face and other bruises.
Their son, Robert, who has a hand
injury, was discharged with Mrs.
Graves.
Mrs. Graves’ father who has been
seriously ill for sometime and whom
she had been attending last week in
Philadelphia before starting home
Sunday at 1 with her husband and
son, died shortly after the Graves
were hospitalized.
The accident in which they were
injured occurred early Sunday af-
Graves’ machine skidded on the ice
and crashed into another car occup-
ied by a man and women. Both of
the occupants of the other car were
hospitalized.
Mrs. Graves and her son are ex-
pected to return to their home on
East” Center Street, Shavertown, to-
day or tomorrow.
Her husband is the district rep-
resentative for Gerber Baby Foods.
Both are active in community af-
fairs, he as a member of Dallas
Rotary Club and Mrs. Graves as a
member of Dallas Woman’s Club.
Both participated in the Woman's
Club Minstrel.
i
Family Hound
Snaps At Child
Sandy Elston Has
Plastic Surgery
Her face badly bitten by the fam-
ily coon-hound, five year old Sandy
Elston submitted to plastic surgery
at General Hospital Tuesday after-
noon. She will remain for several
days longer, to eliminate danger of
infection. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Gene Elston of Noxen, say that
there is no question of rabies, as
the dog is in excellent physical con-
dition, and as much surprised as
anybody to find that he snapped his
little playmate.
Sandy, lonesome for her sister
Bonnie, a big girl in the Noxen first
grade, supported the coon-hound’s
head on a pillow and started feed-
ing him a doll’s bottle. The dog,
resenting the indignity of a nipple,
growled and snapped, tearing
Sandy’s nose and cheek in his huge
jaws.
Dr. Lester Saidman said it was a
case for an expert plastic surgeon,
and sent Sandy to the hospital,
where she is so well adjusted in the
children’s ward that she invited her
Daddy to go home Tuesday night,
saying she wanted to go to sleep.
Heart-Aid From
Dairy Drivers
Only Area Using
Bottle Collars
Back Mountain, says Nancy Brad-
er, Heart Drive Chairman, is the
only place in the Wyoming Valley
area where milk bottle collars will
aid collections. The plan has been
highly successful for the past sev-
eral years, replacing any house-to-
house canvass for funds.
Eight local dairies, and two
Wilkes-Barre dairies which have
local routes, are cooperating. Collars
entine Day, and donations may be
placed in empty bottles. The driver
turning in the largest amount of
money will win a prize.
Signed up are these local dairies:
Shady Side, Dallas, Elston’s, Hart-
er’s, Chase, Orange Farms, Orchard
Farms, Forty-Fort. From Wilkes-
Barre, Woodlawn and Purvin’s.
Jenkins Meets Old
Friends At Nesbitt
“It was just like Old Home Week
at Nesbitt Memorial Hospital on
Monday’ according to Atty. Mitchell
Jenkins who is a patient there for
treatment of a liver condition.
Other patients included Samuel
Thompson, cashier of Kingston Na-
tional Bank and former Dallas man,
who broke his arm when he slipped
while walking along Rutter Avenue;
Mrs. Oswald Griffiths who was re-
covering from an operation and
who has since returned to her home
on DeMunds Road.
Kyle Cundiff Should
Go For Crystal Balls
Or Irish Sweepstakes
What happened to Kyle Cun-
diff is as improbable as draw-
ing an Irish Sweepstakes win-
ner. That boy ought to go into
the business. He enlists in the
Air Force, and guess what his
serial number turns out to be?
AF 12345678, in perfect se-
quence. It couldn’t happen in a
million years.
Kyle, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Kyle Cundiff, of Maplewood
Avenue, Dallas, was with the
General Electric in Cincinnati
when he decided to get his ser-
vice years over with, called his
parents to inform them, and
wrote his first letter with the
fantastic serial number as a
header. -
He is at § Air Base.
x
Sr TG,
Donations Meet
Expectations
Ambulance Drive
Not Yet Complete
Dallas Community Ambulance As-
sociation, with 1200 homes already
canvassed and 600 left to go as of
last Sunday, has already raised $2,-
446 cash, plus $150 pledged, a little
better than the average of $2 hoped
for from each subscribing family.
No definite goal was set. Leslie Bar-
stow for Dallas Borough and Jack
Stanley for Dallas Township, report-
ing to William T. Morgan, drive
chairman, state that they confident-
ly expect a fund of $4,000 by the
time returns are all in.
[Solicitors will meet at Dallas Bor-
ough Building to report results Sun-
day afternoon at 1:30. The drive
has gone one week beyond schedule
originally planned, because of dif-
ficulty in finding families at home
when solicitors called, making many
return trips and much telephoning
necessary.
Robert Laux, president, states
that he considers a sinking fund es-
sential, to build toward a new am-
bulance in the future. Receipts in
excess of maintenance and equip-
ment expenses will be earmarked
for such funds.
Toastmasters
Meet Thursday
Four Speakers To
Be On The Program
The Back Mountain Toastmaster’s
Club will hold an interesting and
instructive meeting next Thursday
night at 8 in Back Mountain Lib-
rary. Atty. James Harris, Jr., presi-
dent, will preside.
The program will be as follows:
Invocation, Paul Monahan; Toast-
master, Joseph Simpson; Topic Mas-
ter, W. H. Derolf. Speakers will be
Robert D. Shepherd, Clayton Kla-
boe, William H. Morgan, and Ralph
Marshall. Robert Laux will be gen-
eral evaluator.
In recent months many local men
have joined the Toastmasters and
all citizens interested in public ex-
pression are always invited to at-
tend. The programs have been ex-
ceptionally instructive and interest-
ing and residents of the Back Moun-
tain who are interested in public
questions have an opportunity to
give public utterance to their ideas.
Three Local Girls
On Two TV Shows
Residents of the Back Mountain
region were featured this week on
television programs originating in
Binghamton, N. Y. and New York
City.
Sally Ide, Elmira College Fresh-
man, was musical director of a
group of Elmira students who help-
ed to observe the 100th Anniver-
sary of the College by singing and
modeling Monday night from Sta-
tion WNBF Binghamton. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton
Ide of Huntsville.
On Wednesday morning Beatrice
and Frances Hildebrant, daughters
of John Hildebrant of East Dallas
appeared as guests on Jack Parr’s
Morning Show from New York City.
Hosts Before Dance
Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Harter,
Trucksville, will entertain a num-
ber of friends before the Woman's
Club dance tomorrow night.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Sekera and Mr.
and Mrs. Francis Ambrose will en-
tertain before the Woman’s Club
dance tomorrow night.
Has Broken Shoulder
Mrs. Clarence Laidler, Pioneer
Avenue, is confined to her home
with a broken shoulder received
when she slipped on the ice while
leaving Shavertown Methodist
Church Sunday evening. oe
Westmoreland
Otters Course
In Nursing
Sponsored by
Red Cross, Taught
By School Nurse
Thirty-six hours of training in
home nursing under guidance of
Eleanor Austin and sponsorship of
the Red Cross is now offered senior
girls at Westmoreland, according to
James Martin's report to members
of Dallas Borough-Kingston Town-
ship joint school board Monday
night. Upon completion of the
course, each girl will receive a cer-
year it is possible the course might
be offered to sophomores, as a help
to them in baby-sitting, and assur-
ance to mothers leaving their chil-
dren that the babies would have in-
telligent care.
William Kistler, president of Shav-
ertown PTA, appeared with Ralph
Gerhart and Johnson Miers, as
spokesman for his organization, to
put it on record as solidly behind
the board in whatever action should
be taken on school bus stop signs.
He expressed himself as horrified to
find that a loophole in the traffic
laws permits a driver to pass a
stopped school bus in a limited speed
zone,
Earl Gregory stated his case for
erection of 100 feet of wire mesh
fencing to prevent children from us-
ing his lawn as a shortcut to
Trucksville Grade School grounds.
He plans to plant a living fence as
soon as there is protection for young
plants. The matter was referred to
the Property Committee, following
a motion by Mrs. Charles Eberle.
Charles A. James, Supervisor of
Instruction, reported on the East-
ern Area Conference held last Fri-
day at Lehigh University, where 200
educators gathered to discuss re-
vitalizing of the educational program
along broader and more forward
looking lines.
A meeting of supervising princi-
pals and school board members is
called for February 21 in the Lu-
zerne County Superintendent's of-
fice, to assay revised criteria for
payment of supplemental income to
schools meeting certain standards.
Discuss Jointure
Mr. James sparked a discussion
concerning the larger school join-
ture proposed for this area by Coun-
ty Superintendent, E. S. Teter, in-
quiring into underlying causes for
delay. Prior to drawing up a budget
for next year, it seemed proper to
board members to find out what
the local situation might be within
the next few months. Attorneys
have been working on the plan,
but up to daté the jointure remains
where it was in December, voted
for by each of the four boards con-
cerned, Dallas Borough, Kingston
Township, Franklin Township and
Dallas Township, but with nothing
further to go on. Mrs. Eberle and
D. T. Scott were delegated to visit
the County Superintendent’s office
to inquire.
Three College Misericordia seniors
are doing practice teaching: Con-
stance Vohar, Trucksville Elemen-
tary school; Mary Theresa Purcell,
music; Patricia Sullivan, English.
Bids for supplies for general, art,
industrial arts, science, health,
physical education, janitor, coal and
school bus transportation will be
advertised, and bids opened March
25,
Mr. Martin was authorized to con-
tact for diplomas, programs and
caps and gowns for commencement.
The Baccalaureate speaker remains
to be announced.
Routine matters were handled.
Present were James A. Hutchison,
Dr. Robert Bodycomb, Lewis Le-
Grand, Charles Mannear,
Scott, William Clewell, John War-
dell, Mrs. Charles Eberle, L. L. Rich-
ardson, James Martin, Charles
James, Eleanor Jones.
Greenhouse Eats Coal
In Sub-Zero Weather
Two tons of anthracite every
twenty-four hours for six days run-
ning during the recent sub-zero
cold snap, went up in smoke at the
Goodman Greenhouses in Idetown.
Mr. Goodman and assistants sat up
nights to keep the fires burning.
Worst spell in years, says Mr. Good-
man, with a reminiscent eye on the
thousands of square feet of glass
heating up all outdoors in an effort
to keep tender plants from freezing.
Harry “Buck” Edwards of Hunts-
ville Nursery also claims he never
shoveled so much coal in his life
in order to keep the “greenhouses
green.” He spent this week recup-
erating.
Delivers German Car
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Meeker of
Kunkle Motors drove down to New
York this week to pick up a newly
arrived Mercedes-Benz which they
delivered to Edward Welles of
Wilkes-Barre.
A. ]. Sordoni Jr.
Heads Company
Founded By Dad
Served As Fighter
Pilot In Pacific
During World War
Board of Directors of the Sordoni
Construction Company at their an-
nual meeting elected Andrew J.
Sordoni, Jr., president of the cor-
poration, succeeding his father to
that position. At the same meeting,
Andrew J. Sordoni, Sr., was elected
Chairman of the Board.
Until this time, Jack Sordoni has
served the past five years as Execu-
tive Vice-President and General
Manager of the Sordoni Construc-
tion Company.
The Sordoni Construction Com-
pany, founded in 1910, is composed
of two divisions, the one, Building
Construction; the other, Electric &
ANDREW J. SORDONI,
Telephone Line Construction. Both
its divisions are known throughout
the East for the many building and
line construction projects they i
completed, and are presently en Es
ed in. The company’s headqua
are maintained at 45 Owen Street,
Forty Fort. Its line Division has of-
fices located in Binghamton, N. Y.,
Reading, York and Johnstown, Pa.,
and in Dover, N. J.
In addition to his new post, Mr.
Sordoni, Jr., serves as president of
many of the other Sordoni Enter-
prices, including the Commonwealth
Telephone Co., the Harveys Lake
Light Co., National Tree Surgeons,
Public Service of Pennsylvania and
the Sterling Engineering & Manu-
facturing Company. He is also Vice-
President of the Andrew J. Sordoni
Foundation, and of the Montrose
Inn, the Arlington, Sterling, Alta-
mont, Americus and Hamilton Ho-
tels, comprising the Sterling Hotels
System. He has also developed and
serves as president of the Valley
White. Truck Company, and Wyo-
ming Valley Equipment Division,
Kingston and Forty Fort.
Active in community and civic
endeavors, he is a Director of Luz-
erne County Manufacturers’ Asso-
ciation, Pennsylvania Independent
Telephone Association, Pennsylvan-
ia State Chamber of Commerce,
Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of
Commerce, Wyoming Valley Hos-
pital and of Wyoming Valley Veter-
ans Building, Inc. <
He is a member of Landmark
Lodge 442 F & A M, Keystone Con-
sistory, Irem Temple AAONMS of
Wilkes-Barre, Rotary, Union League
of Philadelphia, Metropolitan Club * .
of New York, American Legion,
V.F.W.,, Lodge 109 B.P.O., Elks,
Pennsylvania Society.
During World War II, he served
as a fighter pilot in the Army Air
Force, with the 35th Fighter Group,
5th Air Force, on active duty in the
Pacific Theatre. Entering service in
January, 1941, as an enlisted man,
with the 109th Field Artillery, he
was discharged in February, 1946,
as a Captain in the Air Force.
Commands Squadron
Major Charles R. Rinehimer, as-
sistant plant manager of Natoma
Mills, has been appointed command-
er of Flight F of the 9543rd Air Re-
serve Squadron which will meet
twice monthly at Wilkes College for
specialized studies under the super-
vision of Dr. Charles B. Reif.
Major Rinehimer was assistant
operations officer of the 446th
Heavy Bombardment Group of the
8th Air Force based in England dur-
ing World War II.
It Pays To Advertise
Dallas Post classified ads gets re-
sults. Five minutes after one adver-
tiser unfolded her Dallas Post last
Friday, the car she was offering
was snapped up, sight unseen. And
James Kozemchak, advertising for
a good home for a little white dog,
was swamped with replies from
Beaumont, Harveys Lake, Noxen,
Wilkes-Barre and Dallas.