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BLOOD IS LIFE
Blood is life. There is no substitute for it. No scien-
tist has yet been able to manufacture it in a test tube.
You yourself are the marvelous laboratory in which
blood is formed. You can give it generously to save anoth-
er life, or you can selfishly withhold it, oblivious to
another’s need.
But if you withhold it after the first of March, you
are incurring the grave danger of not being able to get it
yourself when you desperately need it.
Duty is an unpalatable word. It is easy to allow a
it can be examined later to determine its strength.
But danger is a personal affair. It can take your life
from you, or that of your wife or your children.
If you do not join a Blood Insurance group before the
deadline, you are in danger.
If you sign with one of the groups, you are automati-
cally protected at once. You will not be asked for a blood
donation very often. If you are in poor health, or under
age, or over sixty, you will not be asked for a donation at
all. More robust friends and neighbors will protect you by
giving their own blood.
But if you are in good health, able to give blood, you
will not be willing to let somebody else do your job for
you. It is a matter of pride that you stand on your own
feet, just as it is a matter of pride that you pay your debts.
You have a debt to society.
Too many of us have allowed Blood Donor Days to
come and go without going to the Blood Bank.
Somebody else has protected us.
We have stayed away hecause it was snowing, or
because we had to go shopping, or because the children
were expected home from school.
What we have carefully concealed from ourselves is
that we do not like to be pricked, so we let somebody else
get pricked.
That is the plain truth.
We take our children to the doctor as a matter of
course to get the necessary shots for whooping cough and
tetanus. It’s too bad that Johnnie has to get those shots,
but it is for his protection, so we hold his hands and feet
and he yells for a minute, and all is over.
Children have to be coerced for their own good.
We are adults, and we can march up to the needle.by
ourselves, in order to afford protection for our children,
and our families, and our neighbors who are too old to
contribute —
And ourselves.
of sixty years, have been protecting you for years. Some
of them are past the deadline and can no longer donate.
It is high time that the thirty-to-forty age group
takes over the job and that the twenty-to-thirty age group
Donation Day at Dallas Borough School next Friday,
THIS, TOO, IS IMPORTANT —
There is a possibility that the Teen-Age Baseball
League may have to fold up this season. If it does it will
be because of the indifference of the very people—mainly
parents—who should be most vitally concerned with its
continuance. :
« +The Teen-Age Le&gue forinis an important recreation-
al gap in the Back Mountain area. In the past it has taken
care of about 100 boys in the age group barred from com-
play on Bi-County or Industrial League teams.
These are the very youngsters who need encourage-
ant they need an outlet for their busting energy.
Juvenile delinquency is no problem in the Back
Mountain area: We hesitate to mention it in the same
breath with an editorial on Teen-Age Baseball—but if it
ever does become a problem it will be because of our own
indifference in providing healthy outlets for youngsters in
the Teen-Age bracket.
If you're a parent of a boy who likes baseball, or if
you enjoy the company of boys, why not attend the meet-
ing of Teen-Age League officials at Back Mountain’ YMCA
in Shavertown next Wednesday night at 8 and see what
you can do to help keep this League alive? Maybe the
League can do something for you as well as the boys. It's
worth a try.
Borough's Ash
Supply Is Low
Eipper's Crew Worked
All Night During Storm
Dallas Borough’s supply of ashes
for street cindering is exhausted.
Borough Street Commissioner
Ralph Eipper said yesterday that he
would have to start hauling a new
supply from the Valley.
. “T thought the mountain of ashes
we had stored last fall at the Bor-
ough Building would last for at least
two years,” he added wistfully, “But
frequent snowfalls and need for
continuous ashing have used them
up.”
The Street Commissioner and his
two assistants, Ray Crispell and
William McNeel, did a magnificent
job of keeping streets open and
ashed during the week end storms.
They worked continuously from
2 Friday afternoon, through Friday
night until 4:30 Saturday afternoon.
They were out again Sunday morn-
ing clearing three-foot snowdrifts
on Center Hill Road and from Or-
chard Knob to Whipp’s Corner
along Huntsville Reservoir.
Dale Perry used some of his
equipment _to assist the Street De-
partment on keeping some of the
outlying roads open.
Mr. Eipper said much more ash-
ing has been required this year
than in any recent season.
Si Evans who has private con-
tracts for keeping many parking
areas and driveways open worked
a forty-eight hour schedule from
Friday to Sunday using his Farmall
Super H. tractor with eight-foot
snow blade.
out Kingston, Dallas, Lake and Leh-
and Road crews did an excellent job
in keeping highways open and safe.
las ies a fa a
Speaks To Class
Dr. J. J. Kocyan, well known
obstetrician and gynocologist of
Wilkes-Barre, was guest speaker at
Walter Mohr’s biology class at
Westmoreland High School Monday.
He spoke on “The Endocrine
Glands”. Dr. Kocyan is father of
Mrs. Stephan Hellersperk, West
Dallas.
No Skating At Lake
A heavy blanket of snow has
spoiled skating at Harveys Lake for
the time being, according to Chief
of Police Edgar Hughes. There was
remote possibility, he said, an area
might be cleared this week end in
the vicinity of Deaters and Javers
at the Alderson end.
Snowshoes Needed
With sixteen to seventeen inches
of snow on Red Rock Mountain,
State Game Protectors are using
snowshoes in the mountainous areas
to carry on their work, according
to Carl C. Stainbrook of the King-
ston Office of the Game Commis-
sion.
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VOL. 65, No. .7
The Dallas Post
Telephone Numbers
4-5656 or 4-7676
Blood Insurance
Program Surges
Ahead In Area
Blood Donor Day
Next Friday At
Borough School
The Red Cross Blood Insurance
program caused a tidal wave of in-
quiry and response in the Back
Mountain, following publicity in the
Dallas Post, letters issued to all
school children, and personal ap-
pearance of Ted Raub, district co-
ordinator, at PTA meetings, factor-
ies, and business concerns.
Signing up in advance of the
March 1 deadline, Sordoni enter-
prises have protected their employ-
ees and families, Fernbrook Park
and Natona Mills are in line, but
it is the PTA groups which will
who have no connection with large
business groups.
The response has been so good
that the Bloodmobile schedule for
next Friday at Dallas Borough
School has been . revised upwards,
and collection will be taken from
1:30 to 7:30 to accommodate busi-
ness men and women. Local doctors
will again divide the burden of
duty.
Letters of explanation were sent
home with school children of the
area on Tuesday. By Thursday
morning, eighty of the 400 families
who have one or more children in
the Westmoreland jointure had al-
ready replied. Supervising princi-
pals of Dallas-Franklin, Westmore-
land, Lehman-Jackson-Ross, Lake-
Noxen, and Monroe Township
schools, met with Mr. Raub last
Thursday morning at Dallas Bor-
ough School to discuss the Blood
insurance plan.
Mr. Raub met with PTA delegates
Tuesday night, and spoke in many
of the local PTA meetings during
the past two weeks.
The plan is much like the Blue
Cross plan, in that any group which
is large enough to provide a mini-
mum of ten donors or a maximum
of ten percent of its enrollment,
whichever is larger, may gain for
its members assurance of nccessary
blood transfusion in case of acci-
dent, operation, or illness. Families
are protected by one member sign-
ing with a group. Children, elderly
people, people not in abounding
health and able to donate them-
selves, will be included.
For the benefit of those families
who have no connection with a
Back Mountain PTA group or a bus-
iness group, the coupon published
last week is published again for
their safety. It should be signed and
returned at once to the Red Cross
headquarters in Wilkes-Barre, so
that names may be listed before
the March 1 deadline.
Mrs. Stefan Hellersperk, Back
Mountain Blood Chairman, foresees
a record donation this coming
Friday.
Bergman, Clark
Head Seal Drive
Starts March 10,
Ends On Easter
Three Back Mountain residents
will hold key posts in the 1955 Eas-
ter Seal Appeal to be conducted
state-wide and nation-wide from
March 10 to Easter Sunday, April
10. Justin Bergman, Jr., Briar Hill,
Trucksville, will head the drive for
the greater Wilkes-Barre area;
Peter D. Clark, Dallas, will act as
co-chairman; Dorothy Major Baker,
Lehman, has been appointed publi-
city chairman. Other committee
heads are: Robert Kintzer, clubs
and ‘civic organizations; Robert
Pickup, supplies; Mrs. Raymond T.
Russell, special events; Mrs. Edward
Darling, “500 club.”
Mr. Bergman, president of the
Association, sponsors of the drive,
announces a goal of $16,000. Funds
received will be used to continue
the Cerebral Palsy Clinic which at
the present time serves 108 child-
ren. The clinic is held daily in the
Kirby Memorial Health Center.
The Loan Closet at the Cancer In-
formation Center, Back Mountain
Library Annex, may be drawn upon
for supplies by any cancer patient
in the Back Mountain, states Mrs.
Harry Ohlman, area chairman, and
Mrs. Jack Barnes, chairman of the
Center.
The closet contains Johnny-coats,
pads and rubber draw-sheets for
protection of bedding, bed jackets,
and standard sickroom supplies.
Each week members of the group
make dressings, which will be de-
livered if desired, or may be called
for at the Center on Tuesdays be-
tween 10 and 4. Currently, eight
dozen dressings are being supplied
weekly to one patient in the Back
Mountain.
Mrs. Clyde Cooper is in charge of
the Loan Closet; Mrs. Charles De-
Wees III, transportation and deliv-
ery; Mrs. Lloyd Kear, dressings.
~ More volunteers are needed. Con-
tact Mrs. Charles Flack, chairman,
if interested.
Marshall Nunlist, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. M. B. Nunlist, Oak Street,
Trucksville, will have an important
ballerina part in the Wilkes-Barre
Ballet Theatre presentation of Swan
Lake Monday night and Tuesday
afternoon at Irem Temple. She will
execute a solo and will dance in
the Pas de Quatre with Mary Gawat,
Diane Raker and Susan Frank.
The four little girls will wear the
classic coc feather headdress, and
short white tutus, a replica of the
costume worn by the ballerina,
Roseanne Caruso who demonstrated
for the Book Club last year. Mem-
bers will wear the traditional long
white tutus.
Presentation of Swan Lake in-
volves renting of one of the two
scripts available for orchestration
from the Leeds Music ‘Company.
There is no printed orchestration.
Among the well known musicians
who will accompany the three bal-
lets are Clyde Owens, Chester Parry
and Lewis Savitt, conductor.
Orchestration for “Johnnie at the
Fair” is being whipped into shape
at evening rehearsals, Mrs. Nun-
list's original music having been
written primarily for the piano.
Twenty Back Mountain children
are in the cabts of the three ballets:
Swan Lake, Johnnie at the Fair and
the Judgment of Paris.
Mrs. Barbara Linshes Weisberger,
instructor, states that funds: from
next week’s recital will go toward
establishment of a ballet guild for
furthering of classical and modern
ballet in Wyoming Valley.
Legion Meets Monday
Daddow - Isaacs Post No, 672,
American Legion will hold an im-
portant meeting Monday night at 8
ficers and members are urged to be
present.
Economist Is Speaker
Margaret L. Plunkett, educator
and labor economist, spoke on
“Present Day Developments in the
Middle East” at last night's meeting
of Dallas Rotary Club at Irem Tem-
ple Country Club.
Mrs. Graves Comes
Home On Crutches
Mrs. Robert Graves, Shavertown,
injured in a traffic accident near
Coaldale February 6, returned home
on crutches Tuesday, accompanied
by her son Robert. Her husband,
with leg and head injuries, remains
in the hospital at Coaldale where
all three members of the family
were admitted after their car col-
lided with another on icy roads.
Mr. Graves, with serious concussion,
Teeners Need
Parents Help
League May Fold
Without Support
‘Whether the Back Mountain Teen-
Age Baseball League will continue
another year definitely hinges on
the outcome of the meeting to be
held Wednesday, February 23 at
Shavertown YMCA.
A meeting was called for Monday,
February 14, with only seven in at-
tendance and three teams represent-
ed. It was felt little or nothing could
be done with only two officers pres-
ent, except to make every effort
to get the managers, coaches and
officers out to Wednesday's meeting.
It was brought to the. attention
of those who did attend Monday's
meeting that the league is very
much in debt.
With no up-to-date report from
the treasurer, there was no account-
ing for the funds taken in at last
year’s games.
A sizeable sum is supposed to be
owed to an out-of-town firm for
equipment supplied the Teeners in
recent years.
It is understood this firm supplied
equipment valued in excess of
has been paid. That was three years
ago. Since then more equipment was
bought and more money paid to
the firm, but how much, no one
seemed to know Monday night.
If the Teen-Age League is to con-
organization and the help of every
person interested in Teener baseball
in the Back Mountain area.
New officers will be elected at the
forthcoming meeting and many
items will be discussed. Among them
will be ways in which to raise funds,
establish playing fields, and the pay-
ing of entrance fees.
It is definitely urged that all par-
ents of teeners, coaches, managers,
officers and any person at all in-
terested in the development of the
area’s young boys, attend this meet-
ing. It will be held February 23 at
8 p.m. at the Back Mountain Town
and Country YMCA. Try and make
it.
West Wyoming, Westmoreland
and Dallas were the teams repre-
sented at the meeting Monday eve-
ning.
Those present were Herman La-
Bar, Jim Lohman, L. C. Starbuck,
Clark Ruch, Vic Cross, Dale Shaver
and George 'Shupp.
Directors And
Teachers Dine
In Cafeteria
Board Expresses
Appreciation For
Evaluation Help
Seventy members of the teaching
staff of Dallas Borough - Kingston
Township Joint Schools, adminis-
trators, school directors and their
wives were entertained Wednesday
night at a Turkey Dinner in West-
moreland = High School Cafeteria.
The dinner was prepared by girls of
the Ninth Year Class.
It was planned by the School
Board in recognition of the work
done by the faculty in making pos-
sible the evaluation of the schools
by the Middle States Association of
Secondary Schools.
James Hutchison, president of the
Joint Board, presided. Principal W.
the Middle States Association giving
its approval to Westmoreland High
School.!| Mr. Hutchinson expressed
the appreciation to the Board and
himself to the faculty for making
this approval possible.
Mr. Hutchison called upon Super-
vising Principal James Martin who
introduced Dr. Eugene Hammer of
Wilkes College who spoke on Staff
Morale. “You have good morale,”
he said, “when people are contented
and happy. I sense it in this group
tonight. You must first have a
purpose, then use the skills of the
staff and give the staff recognition.”
Mrs. Charles A. Eberle was din-
ner chairman. Prof. Trimble was
credited with roasting the turkeys
and William Clewell with baking
the cake, though neither would
admit it.
Attending were: Dr. and Mrs.
Eugene Hammer, Mr. and Mrs.
James A. Martin, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles A. James, Mr. and Mrs.
Fredric W. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs.
’
L. L. Richardson, Dr. and Mrs. R. M.
Bodycomb, Mr. and Mrs, D. T. Scott,
and Mrs. William Clewell, Mr. John
F. Wardell, Mr. and Mrs. 5
Eberle, Mr. and Mrs.
Mannear, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ohl
Miss Adaline Burgess, Mrs. Louis
Goodwin, Mrs. Ruth Henwood, Mrs.
Florence H. Hughes, Miss Mabel
Jenkins,” Mr. Thomas H. Jenkins,
‘Mrs. Edythe Kromelbein, Mr.
Theodore Laskowski, Mr. Lester R.
Lewis, Mrs. Antoinette IC. Mason,
Louise R. McQuilkin, Mrs. Eva T.
McGuire, Mr. Walter H. R. Mohr,
Mr. Chester N. Molley, Mr. William
A. Moran, Miss Sophia Morris, Mr.
John ulhern, Mrs. Ruth K. Novy,
Mr. Joseph Park. ;
Mr. Charles R. Poad, Mr. Joseph
Podrazik, Mrs. Rachel Porter, Mr.
Joseph Rakshys, Mr. William K.
Roeder, Mrs. Arline B. Rood, Miss
Esther J. Saxe, Mrs. Florence H.
Sherwood, Mr. Robert Somerville,
Miss Bertha M. Sutliff, Miss Geor-
giena Weidner, Mrs. Dorothy T.
Withey, Miss Marian Young, Mrs.
Janet Barger.
Atty. Roscoe B. Smith
Addresses Book Club
resident, gave a very interesting
talk on Abraham Lincoln at the
meeting of Back Mountain Library
Book (Club Wednesday afternoon.
Meeting was in charge of the new
president, Mrs. Warren Unger. Mrs.
Roscoe Smith and Mrs. Ray Shiber
poured. .
Bird lovers organized informally
at a Thursday night meeting in the
Back Mountain Memorial Library
Annex, Edwin Johnson accepting
the presidency and Mrs. T. M. B.
Hicks the secretaryship at Arnott L.
Jones’ suggestion. Second Thursday
nights were decided upon as meet-
ing dates.
The matter of selecting a name
was deferred for the present, sug-
gestions ranging from Back Moun-
tain Bird Lovers to Bird Brains.
Frank Jackson expressed willing-
ness to jot down names of birds and
locations, with dates, if members or
interested parties would telephone
him when birds first appear.
The burning subject of grosbeaks
arose, with club members claiming
that they were eating the chicka-
dees out of house and home. Forty
years ago, said Mr. Johnson, a flock
of fifteen was considered phenome-
db
Harveys Lake. :
They were first reported in Penn-
sylvania in 1889, mentioned in New
York as something remarkable in
1910, but in Ohio earlier than in
the area farther east.
Mrs. Charles Flack reports a dove,
February 5. Nearly thirty varieties
of birds have been identified since
January 1: Carolina wren, English
sparrow, song sparrow, white
throated sparrow; slate colored jun-
co, goldfinch, pine siskin, purple
finch; evening and pine grosbeaks;
chickadee, cardinal, shrike, robin,
dove, white breasted nuthatch,
brown creeper, titmouse, blue-jay,
crow, hawk, hairy, downy and pil-
eated woodpeckers, screech owl,
pheasant, grouse, sparrow hawk.
Present were: Edwin Johnson,
Mrs. Harold Flack, Mr. and Mrs.
son, Mrs. A. H. Van Nortwick, Frank
Jackson, Harry B. Allen, Mrs. T. M.
B. Hicks. !