VOL. 65, No. 30, FRIDAY,
JULY 29, 1955
FROM
cat, though a novice at the job,
knows all the answers.
The new little cat must have
parted with at least eight of her
allotted nine lives last week. She |
adopted the family at about the
time of the Library Auction, insist-
ing upon being the family pet. Bill,
five years old and fond of cats,
championed her cause, smuggling
her into the house and feeding her
from the cream jug. By the time
Bill left after the auction, Binky
was firmly established, and Pinky
was feeling disgruntled, but accep-
ting the situation. Pinky said he
got here first, and was entitled to
prior rights. Binky calmly went
about her business of polishing off
the cream, and said in effect, the
ly useless creatures.
But somewhere along the line,
Binky’s foot must have slipped, be-
cause the slight bulge which was
diagnosed in its early stages as too
much unaccustomed food, revealed
itself in its true colors.
“That cat,” announced Chuck in
loud ringing tones, ‘‘is going to have
kittens.”
“It can't,” we countered
“it’s too young.”
Came the day when Binky dis-
appeared. “Well, thank goodness,
the problem is solved. She's gone
back to her own home.”
Three days later, in staggered a
wraith of a cat, weaving from side
to side with weakness, mewing
feebly for something to eat.
Operation Kitten had not gone
according to schedule. Two were
located under the side steps, two
more were goodness knows where.
The complexion of the kittens kept
changing. A maltese kitten died of
malnourishment, and was replaced
with another maltese kitten.
Those two kittens disappeared.
The f2llowing #nornings there were
the kittens again, and the little
Mamma cat on the porch asking for
milk. Fed lavishly, she picked up
the kittens and transferred them to
other quarters. :
She couldn’t make up her mind,
but nature told her there was some-
thing amiss, and with the last rem-
nant of her failing strength she
dragged two kittens back again to
their nest under the steps. Half an
hour later the entire family was
gone again. That night there was a
terrific storm. Curtains for kittens,
we told ourselves regretfully. Out
in that storm they'd be drowned.
The following morning, here came
the mamma cat. No sign of the
kittens. “She’ll get over it,” we
soothed ourselves. “Kittens come
and kittens go, and cats are philo-
sophical ebout the whole thing.”
Two days later there was a
breathless phone call from the
house. }
Chuck said jubilantly, “You know
those kittens? Well, there are two
of them in the cellar window-well
and their mother is taking care of
them.”
And there they are, nested in dry
leaves, Binky patty-pawing end pur-
ring, still staggering a bit, but com-
ing out of her days of daze and
suggesting that her kittens are the
most beautiful in the world. There
is one Maltese kitty and one tiger
striped, but not the original pair.
John, a naive child, suggested that
she’d probably just had another set
of kittens to replace the dead ones.
It was explained to him that such
is not the nature of cats, that it
takes two months, but he remained
unconvinced. “Why not?’ he want-
ed to know.
P.S. They're gone again!
Marshall Enters
Canadian Event
Plays In Alberta
This Coming Week
Ben Marshall, Irem Temple Coun-
try Club champion, will take a crack
at the Canadian Amateur Golf title
next week before leaving for service
with the Army Air Force.
Ben just lost out in the Pennsyl-
vania State Amateur semi-finals
last Sunday falling by the wayside
on the 19th hole at Johnstown after
being five under par for five rounds
in the tough State classic.
In company with his father, Dr.
J. B. Marshall, Ben left Wednesday
for Calgary, Alberta, to take part
in the Canadian contests.
He is scheduled to report to the
Army Air Force in Birmingham,
Alabama, during August. He gradu-
ated from University of Pennsyl-
vania School of Dentistry last
month. ¢
feebly,
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Adopted By Club
KIM EUN SOON
Womans Club
Adopts Child
Korean Girl Plans
To Become Teacher
Kim Eun Soon, Korean child,
shows in her stance and her ex-
pression that she has been through
the horrors of war and of a refugee
existence. A shy, quiet little girl of
ten, she wants to become a teacher.
The Dallas Senior Woman's Club,
through an anonymous donor, has
arranged to take Eun Soon as its
foster-child, sending funds for her
support and education. Mrs. Paul
Kautz is club chairman of welfare.
Through International Headquar-
ters of Foster-Parents’ Plan For
War Children, Eun’s name was sent
to Mrs. Harris Haycox, president of
the Womans Club, and membership
voted approval at the May meeting.
The basic fee is $180 per year, but
the club will supplement this
amount by sending packages of
clothing, books, food, etc. Christmas
bundles must be sent early, to guar-
antee arrival, and all such packages
must go through headquarters.
Checks for Christmas must be at
hand by September 1.
Cash gifts, according to head-
quarters, are very valuable, as they
permit cheer for the entire family
of a foster-child instead of being
localized on one recipient. Checks
have the advantage of arriving on
time while packages are frequently
late, disappointing the child.
Eun Soon was born in Changtan.
There is a married sister, and four
brothers, the eldest serving in the
ROK Army, the youngest seven
years old. The mother is ill and
unable to work. The father died
after the return to Seoul from a
Keumchun refugee location in 1952.
The family lives with the married
sister, whose husband, a laborer in
a printing plant, struggles to sup-
port them all on a totally inade-
quate income.
Dallas-Franklin,
Monroe, Vote On
Triple Jointure
State, Counties,
Approve Action
0f School Boards
Dallas- Franklin and Monroe
Township’s school directors voted !
jointure this month, Monroe July 7,
Dallas-Franklin at Tuesday night's:
board meeting. Members from school
boards of all three school districts
will meet Tuesday evening at Dallas-
Franklin to settle details and vote
upon the final agreement. If passed, |
pupils affected will attend Dallas
Franklin High School beginning in
September,
was procured July 15, when super- |
vising principals Raymond Kuhnert
and William A. Austin, accompanied |
by Elmer Daley and C. W. Smith of
the Monroe Township Board, drove |
to Harrisburg to clear the decks for |
action with Dr. J. K. Bowman, head |
of Consolidation and Transportation,
Luzerne County Board gave per
mission July 19, contingent upon
the three boards reaching an agree-
ment. :
Residents of Beaumont voted in
favor of jointure at last summer’s
general election. Jointure has been
in the wind for a long time, Monroe
residents preferring to cast their
lot with the Dallas area rather than
accept the offer of Tunkhannock.
Beaumont, like Noxen, is situated
on the border of Wyoming County,
but more closely allied culturally
and physically with the Back Moun-
tain than with Tunkhannock, and
released by Wyoming County to
join with Luzerne.
William A. Austin, supervising
principal of Monroe Township ex-
plains that difficulties in effecting a
jointure are practically non-exist-
ent, as the amount budgeted per
pupil per year is approximately the
same in both areas, about $220.
Sixteen of the forty-six senior high
school students affected are already
students at Dallas-Franklin on a
tuition basis.
There is no present plan to send
elementary students
Beaumont. The junior high school |
will take over facilities formerly
used by senior high school students,
leaving more room for a growing
population of elementary pupils. |
Sixth grade was moved away from '
the grade school building last year,
with chances that fifth grade will
soon follow.
Mr. Austin sees this first step in
building the adjacent school dis-
tricts together as a necessary pre-
liminary to the inevitable senior
high school which would draw its
students from at least five school
districts. It will relieve congestion
at Beaumont, but increase popula-
tion of students at Dallas-Franklin
where the new four room and shop
addition will be adequate to handle
the enrollment for a time, but not
permanently.
Approve New Black Top
Dallas Borough Council this week
approved plans of the State High-
way Department to resurface Route
115 through Dallas Borough from
Devens Mill to a point near Richard
Disque’s Funeral Home on Mem-
orial Highway.
The State plans to advertise for
bids for resurfacing this summer all
of the highway from Casper’s Res- |
taurant to Hillside.
Dates for Wyalusing’s outdoor his-
torical drama, “Buckskin end Vel-
vet”, are set for Thursday, Friday
and Saturday, August 18, 19 and
20th, and last minute preparations
are rapidly being completed. Work
on the temporary amphitheater, its
broad stage and equipment, is ex-
pected to be finished within the
next two weeks at the Restoration
site of French Azylum.
“Buckskin and Velvet” was orig-
inally planned as a pageant in the
strictest sense of the word, but as
the full strength of the story of
French Azilum became more and
more inspiring, scenes were added,
more characters introduced, and a
thread of continuity connected the
years from 1793 to. 1803 into a stir-
ring dramatization.
Written by William W. Keeler
and J. Richard Burnett, the script
portrays the struggle of early
French refugees from their Revolu-
tion to build a village in the rugged
wilderness surrounding French Azil-
um, and gives a deep insight into
the emotional, mental and spiritual
character of those who settled there.
Seventeen thrilling scenes run the
gamut of human emotions, and
bring out the tremendous problems
faced by the settlers and the cour-
ageous solutions which they found.
With the narrator setting the!
tone for these varying episodes,
forty-two members of the cast fall
into their character and actually
seem to feel the presence of these
famous French personalities, giving
sincere meaning to their portrayals.
Background music adds its own
color to the scene.
Four dance groups will appear,
and special songs are featured, with
original lyrics written by William
Keeler of Wyalusing. Choral singing,
by the Wyalusing singers, tells its
own part of the story.
Directed by J. Richard Burnett
of Towanda, the cast has measured
up to the challenge of presenting a
moving, sincere dramatization of
the ten historic years of the French
Azilum colony showing a memor-
able picture of life as it was lived
here one hundred and sixty years
ago.
To reach the Restoration site
where “Buckskin and Velvet” will
be presented each of the three
nights at 8:30 E.D.T., turn off from
Route 6—309 at Wysox, Rummer-
field or Wyalusing, and from Route
220 at New Albany. Follow direc-
tional signs to French Azilum-—over
hard surfaced roads.
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the Derby.
BE SE
For Soap Box Derby
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Shavertown; Bobby Graves,
Bruce Ercolnia, Plains;
Shavertown.
Sordoni Will
Support Wood
Move May Close Ranks
In Republican Party
Former State Senator Andrew J.
Sordoni has pledged his support to
his ex-political foe former State
Senator T. Newell Wood in his cam-
paign this fall for Luzerne County
Commissioner.
Sordoni was quoted by the Asso-
ciated Press in Washington as say-
ing:
“He’s got the Republican nomin-
ation. We've had our differences,
but we're all straightened out now.”
. Wood expressed pleasure at
hearing Mr. Sordoni’s comment
lican perty in Luzerne County.
Wood this spring led a successful
primary fight against Governor
John Fine’s Republican organiza-
tion which has the support of
Sordoni.
Shrine At Williamsport
Uniformed Units of Irem Temple
will participate in the parade at
Williamsport on Saturday evening.
They will leave the Mosque on
North Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre
at 1 o'clock.
309 Resurfaced
Work of widening and resurfacing
Route 309 is moving along smoothly
with considerable distances between
Dallas and the Wyoming County
line already resurfaced with asphalt.
Closed On Saturdays
The office of The Dallas Post is
closed all day Saturday during the
summer months. Daily hours are
We
Garbage Rates
Are Going Up
Truckers To Provide
New Dumping Place
Confronted with the need for im-
mediate action because of the clos-
ing of Dallas Township's public
dump on August 1, Back Mountain
garbage collectors met this week at
American Legion Home and made
plans to seek some other place or
means for garbage disposal.
They will meet again tonight at 8
at the Legion Home to discuss their
findings.
Because of the longer hauls that
will be required and additional costs
for the disposal of their loads, it is
certain that the costs, of garbage
disposal for all householders will be
increased.
A spokesman for the truckers
said: “It is too bad that none of
the municipalities is able to solve
this disposal problem, but since it is
left up to private enterprise to find
a way out, we're sure it will be
handled efficiently and in a sanitary
fashion.”
Because of the longer hauls and
in order to keep local highways
clean, we ask all persons to tie their
papers in bundles or place them in
cardboard containers.
Damage At Sweet Valley
High winds early Sunday morning
blew down several trees, flattened
field crops and blew off barn roofs
at Sweet Valley. They also destroy-
ed a silo on the George Wesley
farm.
Going To Key West
Tax Collector and Mrs. Louis Wil-
cox of Jackson Township will leave
Monday for a vacation at Key West,
Florida. \ :
Bloomsburg Mills
To Discontinue
William Sword Says
Industrial Fund Will
Power Boat Races
At Lake On Sunday
Power Boat enthusiasts of six
eastern states will compete Sun-
day afternoon at Harveys Lake
in six classes and twelve events
sanctioned by the American
Power Boat Association. The
races will start promptly at 2
from Russell Smith’s hydroplane
hangar. A local boy who has
made an outstanding record
among powerboat racers is
Sherwood Wilson of Sutton
Road, Trucksville. He is enter-
ed in Class D. Utility and Class
O Hydroplane.
Safety Drive
On At Lake
Traffic Violations
Cut During July
Reckless driving and going
through stop-signs at Harveys Lake,
has been cut down materially since
the drive against traffic violators
started June 1, reports Chief Edgar
Hughes. During June, ten arrests in
cases of reckless driving were made,
all carrying a fine of from $10 to
$25 plus costs, and thirteen arrests
for going through stop signs. Dur-
ing July, four reckless drivers paid
fines, seven for ignoring stop signs.
But parking violations remain
about the same, thirty-six in June,
thirty-eight so far in July, due,
Chief Hughes thinks, to the extreme
hot weather which brought more
bathers to the Lake.
Carl Swanson, supervisor, and
Chief Hughes, warn motorists not
to park with wheels on the pave
or bumpers protruding over it,
thereby causing traffic hazard.
There: will be a special drive for
safety this weekend, as the motor-
boat races will bring thousands of
people to the Lake. Supervisors are
backing the police department 100%
in the drive for safety, and speed
has been noticeably diminished on
the nine-mile drive around the
curving lake shore.
Frightened Pony
Drags Joan Ann
In Hospital With
Bad Brush Burns
Joan Ann Reese, 4, was thrown
from a pony and dragged 500 feet
Sunday afternoon at 3, when the
pony took fright and bolted. Joan
caught her foot in the stirrup and
could not loosen it. Clad only in the
briefest of sun-suits because of the
scorching weather, she suffered ex-
tensive brush burns over most of
her body, and her face was badly
bruised. She was taken to Nesbitt
Memorial Hospital where latest re-
ports indicate she is more comfort-
able. There were no broken bones.
Joan Ann, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest Reese of Fernbrook, was
one of a group of children riding a
gentle pony belonging to John
Carey, using a dirt road branching
from Demunds Road for their horse-
manship. Joan was riding in front
of Nancy Williams, 8. Nancy, with
no stirrups to hold her, fell off, and
the pony took fright. Nancy's fath-
er, Bob Williams, caught it, extrica-
ted Joan, and drove Joan and her
mother to the hospital.
Hay Fire Doused
By Tank-Sprayer
Quick Action Saves
Moore's Wagon
Two young men going past with
a tank-spray apparatus quenched a
fire in a load of hay Monday night,
before Shavertown and Dallas Fire
Companies could reach the scene.
Ray Moore’s hay-load was ignited
by a spark from the tractor which
was pulling it at Ketchum’s Corner.
The hay was a total loss, the wagon
bed charred.
Quick action on the part of Ken-
neth Conklin and Roy Thomas, of |
the Leon Emmanuel spraying ser-
vice in turning the wagon over and
dousing it with the spray, saved
equipment from complete loss. The
tractor was undamaged.
Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Company
members, dismissed from a meeting
after a short business session at the
Borough Building, were on hand to
take out the apparatus without de-
lay at 8:30, when the siren sounded.
When orders on hand have been
filled, possibly within two or three
weeks, Fernbrook Park Plant of
Bloomsburg Mills, Incorporated, will
close and the building will be offer-
ed for sale, Jack Weber, president,
announced yesterday from the firm’s
headquarters at 525 Seventh Ave-
nue, New York City.
Higher wages, lower workloads
and high electric power rates “do
not allow us to compete with goods
produced in the Southeastern
states,” Mr. Weber said in announ-
cing that “in spite of having a mod-
ern plant and machinery we find
it impossible to operate our Fern-
brook plant at a profit.”
Mr. Weber said he had hoped
“these cost factors would gradually
become equalized over a period of
years but the opposite has taken
place in Pennsylvania.
“The community “has been so
friendly and cooperative that at
great sacrifice to ourselves we have
been trying hard for several years
to make a go of this enterprise but
we are now compelled to state that
we shall discontinue production af-
ter the orders now at the mill have
been run out,” Mr. Weber said.
“We shall sell the machinery and
offer the building for sale and we
sincerely hope to be able to attract
another industry to the area.”
Mr. Weber said an electronics
firm, reported to have found the
local labor situation favorable, had
been interested in acquiring the
Fernbrook mill but nothing had
been heard recently from the con-
cern and he did not know whether
the company had changed its mind.
The Fernbrook plant was erected
in 1948 and at one time employed
about 300, equally divided between
men and women. It now has 175
workers finishing manufacture of
fabrics. The building cost between
$1,250,000 and $1,500,000. It is on
an 18-acre plot, has 135,000 square
feet of floor space on one floor and
is air-conditioned.
Bloomsburg Mills, Incorporated,
operates other mills at Bloomsburg
and Lock Haven.
Now that Bloomsburg Mills, Inc.
is about to close its plant at Fern-
brook the Industrial Fund will try
to find a new tenant if the building
is made available at “a fair price,
commensurate with its cost,” Wil-
liam O. Sword, fund chairman, said,
after hearing Mr. Weber's announce-
ment. :
Mr. Sword said he was sure the
Industrial Fund would be able to
put the building into use again as
a source of local employment. He
took issue with the comment on
power rates. Both PP&L and Lu-
zerne Gas & Electric rates are com-
parable with private company rates
throughout the country. Mr. Sword
said. “Private companies cannot
compete with government subsid-
ized TVA’s,” he added.
The Industrial Fund donated the
land for the Fernbrook mill of
Bloomsburg company, Mr. Sword
stated. He regretted to see Blooms-
burg go and clearly was hopeful
that he would have the cooperation
of its management in making the
plant available.
He was pleased, he said, to see
Mr. Weber's comment that labor
relations were good at the mill and
that he had had the cooperation of
Charles Sobol, director of the textile
division of AFL. Mr. Weber did not
say as much for some of the people*
under Sobol.
Shaver Jailed
Without Bail
Trucksville Man To
Get Sanity Tests
Arthur Shaver, 23, Mt. Green-
wood Road, Trucksville was com-
mitted to Luzerne County Jail with-
out bail this week after a hearing
before Justice William H. Roberts
of Kingston.
Shaver was discharged from Nes-
bitt Hospital Tuesday morning. He
had been a ‘patient there since he
was shot by a State Policeman dur-
ing the early morning hours of July
11 while attempting to flee after
entering Roberts Gasoline Station
at Hillside.
Shaver was a recent patient at
Retreat State Hospital and it is ex-
pected that District Attorney Louis
G. Feldman will move quickly to
have him given sanity tests.
Harveys Lake Dance
Annual dance for summer resi-
dents of Harveys Lake and their
guests will be held at O’Connell’s
Twin Lakes under the auspices of
Harveys Lake Protective Associa-
tion on Wednesday night, August
10.