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into the concealing thicket.
What a morning!
day evening two weeks ago.
you have a telephone.
come back.
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BLAME ARMY INFORMATION
Dear Mrs. Hicks:
The picture on page 12 of last
week's issue concerning the Master
Parachutist’s badge, was NOT that
of Major Hillman Dress who is from
here. The caption under ‘the picture
was correct, however.
Oce B. Austin :
Beaumont Correspondent
® Can’t understand it. The cut
was sent to us by Army Informa-
tion Service.—Editor
pa.
MORE ON MONROE ROADS
Dear Editor:
I pay my taxes and licenses for
public roads to other people’s homes.
Why, for 10 years now do our
supervisors need to oppose some
kind of an open public right of way
to mine?
Why not a public road to every
home when desired?
Ernest F. Race
Monroe Township
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FROM HOLLYWOOD
Hello Howard, ‘.
This week, June 17 to 27, I'm
having the privilege of an all ex-
pense paid stay in Hollywood, Cali-
fornia. ;
No, it’s not a vacation, just some
Navy duties here in Hollywood.
I do have a little information
that I thought you may be able to
use in your TV hints.
I've had the privilege of sitting
in on the filming of one of this
summer's new television programs.
It is entitled ‘Those Whiting Girls,”
starring two sisters Margaret and
Barbara Whiting, who are both just
“dolls.” It is a Desilu Production
and written by the writers of “I
Love Lucy.”
The story is of a family consisting
of a mother, played by Mabel Al-
bertson; her two daughters, the old-
est Margaret Whiting, and her sis-
Valve . .
if you have a younger or older sis-
ter you know what I mean.
The show will take the place of
“I Love Lucy,” for the summer and
I believe you folks of the Back
Mountain will enjoy it very much.
The first broadcast on TV will be
July 4th, and every Monday there
after.
" Hope this helps your “TV Hints,”
I have a lot of other things to write
about Hollywood, so I'll see what
I can do with getting you up an
article.
See You
Bob Edwards
WANTS 1892 COPY OF POST
Dear Mrs. Hicks:
In the Post] saw your picture as
you were caning a rocking chair. I
would like very much to have that
chair if you would bid it in for me.
I will get it on Labor Day weekend,
and will send you the purchase
price at once.
In The Dallas Post I saw where
they were tearing down the old
plank house at Huntsville and
found an old Dallas Post addressed
to the late John H. Pelham.
He was my father’s brother . . .
I surely. would love to have that
paper if I could get it. That old
plank house was my Uncle John’s
home. He ran a blacksmith shop
for many years, was Overseer of
the Poor for many years. He died
August 3 1894 or 1895, I am not
sure which year, but it was on my
birthday.
A Mr. Prutzman of Huntsville
bors of my uncle. I don’t remember
Mr. Prutzman’s first name, but
would like to find out. I would like
to know my uncle’s exact age, also
his death date.
My father was the late William
Pelham of Franklin Street, Dallas,
my Uncle John several years older.
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Looking at
T-V
With GEORGE A. and
EDITH ANN BURKE
IS GODFREY THE GREAT MANZ2
When a book sells 10,000 copies it
is a current best seller. But when
a book has 20,000 advance orders
before it even hits the booksellers
that’s really something. Such a book
is Al Morgan’s upcoming novel, “The
Great Man.” Some associate it with
a CBS personality. The publishing
house of E. P. Dutton is capitalizing
on this by distributing advance
copies among (CBS rank-and-filers,
and the word-of-mouth already is
paying dividends. The titular “Great
Man” is given a pretty thorough de-
flationary process by NBIC scripter-
producer Al Morgan. Book will not
appear until mid-August on the book
sellers’ shelves.
$64,000 QUESTION Tuesday night
show on CBS-TV in only. six weeks
on the air spiraled itself into the top
10 summer shows. This is a record
that has no parallel in TV history.
Newspaper coverage is believed to
have outspaced other TV entry—
both here and abroad. Evidence of
the outside U. S. attention given the
show is gleamed from the fact that
the Bronx shoemaker has become a
hero in his native Italy.
WALTER WINCHELL has been
offered $100,000 to appear three
weeks at the Dunes Hotel, Las
Vegas. “What kind of an act could
I do?” Winchell asked. ‘“Do what
you do Sunday night.”
Winchell is thinking it over.
TV DEBUT — James ' MacArthur,
16-year-old son of Helen Hayes and
Charles MacArthur, will be making
what amounts to his TV debut on
CBS. He will appear in the “Climax”
show of August 4, in “Deal A Blow.”
He has been appearing with his
mother in summer stock and has
done walkons in TV.
HARD LIFE—Sometimes we get
the impression that with some TV
personalities it’s all hard work, long
hours and rehearsals. Performing
seems to get into their blood, they
are only happy before an audience.
When they could enjoy a few
months of relaxation during the
summer, they are off to club dates
all over the country. Mary Hartline,
beautiful, blond bandleader with
Super Circus doesn’t fit into this
category. She rehearses from Thurs-
day to Sunday only. The rest of
the week she is free to enjoy the
53-foot, 27-ton yacht she and her
husband own.
Her husband, George Barnard, is
a prominent Chicago attorney.
Every good day, Mary leaves her
lakeside apartment for Belmont
Harbor. A typical day for her, is
to take the yacht out about three
miles and moor it while she and a
swimming party dive off the stern.
At sunset she or rather her first
mate, a veteran of many years in
the naval service, returne to the
harbor. Husband, George, comes
aboard for dinner.
During the summer, most of the
Barnard’s entertaining is done
aboard the yacht. It is only their
second year as owners and the thrill
is still new.
It’s a beautiful boat as we can
testify, all done in white, gold and
pastels. After a party on the “Mary
Hartline” we felt we had met one
TV performer who enjoys both her
TV work and her leisure.
FLASH-MATIC is the latest prod-
uct of the research department of
Zenith Radio Corp. No wires are
involved. The viewer, from across
the living room, aims a trigger-
operated flashlight at one of four
sensitive spots on his new set. With
one ‘‘shot” he can turn the set on,
with another switch channels, with
a third knock the sound out of a
commercial and with a fourth turn
the sound on again or the set off.
All this without leaving his popcorn.
Fortunately for sponsors the price
range on its new 1956 models is
high ($400 to $1,400).
ONLY
YESTERDAY
Ten and Twenty Years Ago
In The Dallas Post
From The Issue of July 27, 1945
Dr. F. Budd Schooley, Dr. J. C.
Fleming, Joseph Purcell and Peter
Malkemes are appointed to the
Food Panel.
Sante Ragno, head of music at
Lehman High School, resigns to ac-
cept similar position at Haddon
Heights, N. J., at an increase in
salary. \
Three teachers resign at Kingston
Township: Otis Rood and Mrs. Min-
nie Benscoter, retirement age, and
Dorothy Weaver.
Insects are injuring local pota-
toes, not blight.
‘Free Methodist Camp Meeting
opens.
Heard from in the Outpost: Arthur
E. Blizzard, Berlin; [Charles F.
time we had the family records.
We now have everything except,
my Uncle Samuel Pelham, who died
in Wilkes-Barre two years before
my Uncle John.
I was Bessie J. Pelham before
I was married.
; Sincere thanks to you,
Mrs. Keith R. Chapin
/ 605 Ashland Avenue
Niagara Falls, N. Y.
J
Z.
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Babson Park, Mass, July 28,
1955—1It is too bad that the news-
papers and broadcasters feel obliged
to present so much bad news—
about crime, foreign complications,
and even auto accidents. Every im-
partial statistician must be an op-
timist, to ferret out the facts.
Always Consider Our.
Population Growth
It is true that these three unfor-
tunate things are on the increase,
and churches and schools are get-
ting the blame for it. But when
crime and accidents are reduced to
a per-capita basis, the figures are
not so bad. Our population is grow-
ing so fast that in reality there has
been a decrease in crime and acci-
dents when adjusted to the popula-
tion growth.
Just think, since Hoover was in
the White House the net popula-
tion of the United States has in-
creased over 40,000,000! This is al-
most equivalent to the entire pop-
ulation of Great Britain. In other
words, if, say, the total population
of Great Britain had been dumped
into the United States in the last
have even more crime and trouble
than we have today?
Automobile Nuisance
T admit that parking problems are
terrible. Unless our city fathers
remedy these very soon, our mer-
chants will suffer. When their sales
decrease, manufacturers cannot sell
as many goods and unemployment
increases. But — considering the
number of automobiles, it is remark-
able that we can find any place to
park our cars!
Yet, should we blame the auto-
mobiles or the ignorance and short-
sightedness of our municipal govern-
ments? What would any city do to-
day without the automobile busi-
ness ? ‘Close up the dealers, garages,
gas stations, and repair shops, and
what would be left? A few black-
smiths would be shoeing horses and
there would be dealers in hay and
oats—but the life of our cities
would be gone. However, we should
have both the auto industry and
sufficient free parking.
We not only have wonderful
crops; but we have a billion bushels
of grain in storage. In addition we
have tons of eggs, butter and other
products in storage. No country in
the world begins to have our bless-
ings. This applies even to the wealth
of the sea and the trees of the for-
ests. Each week as I read a large
Sunday paper I regret the acres of
splendid woodland which were des-
troyed to give me the newspaper.
Yet, I am assured that the growth
exceeds the destruction.
When I learn of the great rivers
Gordon, Pacific Fleet; Paul Carlin,
Oregon; James VanCampen, Crowd-
er.
Hughey and Wrislar reunions
held.
Miss Minnie Fagerstrom, 69,
former Dallas resident, dies in
Philadelphia.
Richard Hess breaks arm while
mounting pony.
From The Issue of July 26, 1935
Ronald Weaver, 5, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Russell Weaver, Trucksville,
was killed in an auto crash when
the family car overturned near Du-
Bois. Maxine, 2, had a broken arm,
Mrs. Weaver multiple lacerations of
the head and face.
Homer Nelson, former Dallas Bor-
ough coach, takes position at Co-
chranton.
Dallas is to have a liquor store.
tion of a 70,000 gallon standpipe on
Machell Avenue hill, to end water
shortage forever.
Add Woolbert, Jr. plays his last
game. Injury to his knee in the Dal-
las-Carverton game will end his
athletic career.
Richard Templin, Richard Disque,
Paul LaBar and Ker.ieth Westover
arrive in the (Canal Zone via Army
Transport Chateau Thierry.
Coffee, 17c per lb.; evaporated
milk, 4 tall cans 25c; pot-roast, 17c
per lb.; stewing chickens 25c; leg
of lamb 25c¢ per ib.
which have not yet been harnessed,
of the supplies of coal and oil which
will last for centuries, and of other
God-given natural resources, I am
both humble and thankful. And we
are just now learning about the
power of uranium which may be
found anywhere and a pound of
which may do the work of 2% mil-
lion pounds of coal. It seems wicked
for any of us to complain about any-
thing. We perhaps are wasting
precious - time even bothering to
look at stock-market quotations or
concerning ourselves about investi-
gations. Speaking of “time,” this is
the only thing of which there is no
surplus. Our TIME is the one thing
which we cannot replace when it is
wasted.
Freedom From War
Of all our blessings, perhaps the
greatest is our freedom from war—
and the possibility that World Wars
may be at an end. Upon the highest
military authority, I forecast that
the hydrogen bomb may be a bles-
sing in disguise. At any rate, we
know that the draft calls are being
reduced, and the orders for much
military equipment are being can-
celed.
ple pessimistic to read the news-
papers; but the very fact ‘that the
newspapers publish no more about
crime and accidents proves that the
bad news is becoming proportion-
ately less. Whenever I get pessimis-
tic, which is very seldom, I read the
history of England or of some other
country. This shows that the world
is getting better fast and that my
job is to keep up with it. If you
have any difficulty being optimistic,
read each day one of the Psalms
of David. There are 150 of these, so |
they will keep you busy for 5
Bob Tales
A pink elephant and a green
snake entered a bar: “You're early
tonight,” said the bartender, “He
ain't here yet!”
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Pheasant hunting should be good
come next bunting season. Eleven
of them crossed the road by the
Dallas Township School in front of
Howard Whitesell and myself on
Friday. Quite a sight.
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Bloomsburg Mills, Fernbrook Park
Plant is discontinuing operations.
It's definite now. It's a shame but
there's a chance we will have a new
industry in this location soon. As
far as Natona Mills is concerned
don’t believe all those rumors you
hear about this plant closing.
They're here to stay.
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With this heat wave we’ve been
suffering through one certainly sees
some strange sights on the streets
and in the yards. All shapes and
forms in every state of undress
that stays just within the law. This
is a great summer for the nudist
camp business.
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“Rogue” the Dallas Post mascot,
was lying in the sand at the foot
of Ralph Rood’s driveway the other
day. Mr. Rood drove down and
didn’t see him. His car went right
over the dog but, fortunately, only
hit him a glancing blow. There was
comedy in the event, after we were
all satisfied our ‘Rogue’ wasn’t
seriously injured, because all that
afternoon he would walk out and
bark at the spot where his near
demise took place.
x * *
It’s been three weeks since the
Auction and Myra says that they
stayed home this Tuesday night for
the first night since they've had
the Thunderbird. After all, Myra,
what fun is a snappy new car sit-
ting in a garage?
* * *
Should Gov. Leader’s bill on state
income tax pass the Senate, as it
did the House, he can kiss good-bye
to a second term for the Democrats.
x x x
From various sources we learn
that Harveys Lake is enjoying its
biggest season in history . . . thanks
to the weather. This heat wave is
good for someone but the rest of
us would like to see some rain.
* * x
One of the crying needs of this
Back Mountain area is the forma-
tion of a business men’s organiza-
tion. The area is still growing rapid-
ly but local sales are not keeping
pace with this growth. A good
merchants group could do a lot,
with the proper kind of promo-’
tion, to stimulate bigger sales back
months. They will be the best pills
you can take. ?
“Now don’t you laugh at this,”
said Ann Stockert over the tele-
phone Wednesday morning, ‘“we’ve
got twenty puppies for sale.”
Twenty puppies? Four litters.
And they have this in common with
the Royal Hawaiian line, their
mothers are obvious, but who can
tell their male parentage?
; But very cute, says Mrs. Stockert,
just right for pets, some of them,
or for good hunting stock, or for a
working dog for rounding up cattle
and sheep. Fed on goats milk, so
in the pink of condition. How could
anybody go wrong at the prices
quoted? See classified ad.
It Pays To Advertise
Mrs. Peter Lomenzo, Elmcrest, re-
ports that she had eight answers to
her “Help Wanted” advertisement,
all of them received shortly after
publication of last week’s Dallas
Post.
here if they would just get together
and iron out some of the major
problems. There are good brains
available among businessmen in
this area and it's time to forget
petty differences. [Surely some one
of you could get the ball rolling and
form a real group to pave the way
for more business and better rela-
tions between business and industry.
* * *
Winner of two free tickets to the
Himmler Theater this week is
Walter Schuler, Box 17-B, Shaver-
town. Come into The Dallas Post
and pick up your tickets, Walt.
Poet's Comer
City Dog
To me it’s such a painful sight
And one that calls for pity,
To see a good dog shut up tight
Inhabiting a city.
A dog should have wide fields to
run,
And soft green grass to roll in;
But in apartments where’s the fun
And ground to dig a hole in?
A good dog needs a boy as friend,
With woods to hunt and roam in,
Not three small rooms, and that’s
the end—
No house to feel at home in.
A city dog knows pampered ease,
A bed that’s antiseptic;
Has soap and powder for his fleas,
And pills when he’s dyspeptic.
But it’s a life without much joy,
And I am sure he’d change it
To take up with a ‘country boy—
If someone should arrange it!
. —Carl Helm
y yourself a lot of
grief this winter. Get a ‘“‘COLAS”
estimate.
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