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VOL. 65, No. 38, FRIDAY,
Jim Hutchison
To Be Honored
At Testimonial
Expect 500 To Attend
October 8th Dinner
In Wilkes Gymnasium
James D. Hutchison, Trucksville,
retiring County Agent, will be hon-
ored at a Testimonial Dinner Sat-
urday night, October 8 at Wilkes
College Gymnasium.
The dinner is sponsored ‘by farm,
civic and service groups as well as
individuals who have come to know
and admire the man who has meant
so much to agriculture in Luzerne
County during thirty-five years of
service,
Among his outstanding ac-
complishments in recent years have
been the creation of NEPA Arti-
ficial Breeding Co-operative, Toma-
to Auctions, Farmers Night Market
more contoured farms in Luzerne
than in any other county in the
northeast, a fact that may have had
much to do with the minimum flood
loss in the county during the recent
Hurricane ‘Diane.”
Among the guests at the dinner
will be outstanding agricutural lead-
ers from surrounding counties, as-
sociates of long-standing from Penn-
sylvania State University as well as
hundreds of town and country folk
indicate that more than 500 will
attend.
Some tickets are still available in
the following locations: Charles
Long, Sweet Valley; Devens Milling
Co., Dallas; The Dallas Post; George
Bulford, Trucksville; Huston’s Feed
Service, Fernbrook; Payne’s Store,
Loyalville, Crispell Farm Service,
Noxen; Snyder's Garage, Orange;
Gay-Murray and GLF Store, Tunk-
hannock.
Dallas Chest Workers
To Meet Thursday
Mrs. James Lacy, Captain of Dal-
las Borough Community Chest
ers at Back Mountain Memorici
day.
Harvest Home Sale
Vernon Grange No, 842, located
at Center Moreland, will hold a
Harvest Home Sale and Auction of
all types of fresh fruits, vegetables,
canned and baked goods, eggs and
poultry Tuesday evening at Center
Moreland. Proceeds will be used to
improve the Grange Hall.
SEPTEMBER 23, 1955
Doe Licenses
To Go On Sale
Monday Moming
They Can Only Be
Purchased From
County Treasurers
Antlerless deer licenses for the
1955 season (December 12-13) will
go on sale, at the offices of county
treasurers, the only place such
licenses can be obtained, next Mon-
day, September 26.
The Game Commission points out
that the 240,250 “doe” licenses
available to hunters is the largest
number ever issued for an antler-
less season in Pennsylvania, It
therefore appears likely that any-
one who wants to hunt antlerless:
deer this year will find a license
available in some county of the
Commonwealth.
The game authorities again call
attention to certain northern coun-
ties where the antlerless license
quota is high, the need for reducing
the herd is great, and the likeli-
hood of obtaining a license is best.
These counties are: Warren, Mec-
Kean, Elk, Forest, Bradford, Pike,
Susquehanna, and Wayne.
It is recommended that the
sportsman who. plans to hunt ant-
lerless deer in a county other than
the one in which he lives, give
early consideration to obtaining a
license in a high quota county.
Blank application forms may be
obtained from any agent who issues
the ‘regular’ hunting license.
S. A. Edward Burnaford
Arrives Home On Leave
S. A. Edward F. Burnaford, son
of Mr. and Mrs. William Burnaford,
Mt. Airy Road, Shavertown, is
spending a two week leave at home
following completion of the recruit
training at the U, S. Naval Training
Center, Bainbridge, Md.
After his leave, he will report to
Newport, R. I. for three months of
schooling.
Girl Scout Troop 9
Shavertown Girl Scouts, Troop 9,
enjoyed a wienie roast Monday eve-
ning at the home of Mrs. Herbert
Hill. Present were leaders Peggy
Kitchen, Mrs. Richard Culver, and
Nancy Lozo; members: Brenda Man-
near, Brenda Cleasby, Beatrice Ell,
Marie Wahlgren, Nancy Jane Jones,
Janice Roberts, Betty Chogale. Bev-
erly Kintzer.
FROM.
flavor lasts.
Then something whoofles under
A customer expransed it pretty
well.
“Is that dog a cross between an
opossum and a dog, or just a new
breed ?”
We all feel pretty sheepish about
Rogue’s tail. It is a tribute to his
affectionate disposition, plus inborn
inertia.
It’s like this. Rogue loves us all
dearly, ever since he made con-
nections with his first square meal
being a man about town for many
months, That's what makes his tail
wag.
But what makes it wag on the
floor instead of up in the air where
it belongs, is a disinclination to
stand up. Rogue prefers to lie down.
Reclining at his leisure, he beats
the tail back and forth in a sweep-
ing motion, and friction does the
rest. The plume started to disap-
pear several months ago.
“That's what a dog’s tail looks
like when it has no hair on it,”
marvel chance customers, viewing
the plump base and the meagre ap-
pendage with interest.
“That dog must be pushing twen-
ty years,” opines another customer.
This is a base and unfounded libel.
Rogue is a mere kitten of a dog, not
more than five or possibly six years
old at the outside. Hig figure is due
to his inability to pass up food
wherever and whenever he can get
it, after a year when food was hard
to come by.
But there is hope.
Hair tonic is getting in its licks,
and there are now three hairs on
promise of better things to come,
high up on the bulge where it joins
the well padded rump.
It won’t be long until folks who
come into the office will be able to
say, “What a beautiful long bushy
tail. Where's that dog you used to
have around here, the one whose
ma dreamed of an opossum?”
Zi
ley,
chick, Elston,
Johns’ Champion
In Dog Annual
German Shorthair
Is Tops In Field
The 1956 edition of the Dog
Annual now on all newsstands has
an excellent picture of Dual Cham-
pion Valkyrie v. Grabenbruch, by
Field Champion Blick v. Graben-
bruch ex-Champion Katinka of Sy-
camore Brook owned by Richard
Johns, formerly of Dallas but now
of Benton R.F.D.
A beautifully made German
Shorthaired bitch, Valkyrie is a
bench champion in addition to her
prowess in the field. Out of twenty-
one field trial starts she has =a
record of seventeen placements.
Seven of her wins were made in
German Shorthair competition.
Mr. Johns has shown her annual-
ly at Madison Square Garden.
Last week a recently imported
bitch, Xilla Oranien-Nassau, owned
by Dick’s sister-in-law, Mrs. Louise
Space Lurba, McLean, Virginia, and
handled by him took the featured
open shooting dog stake at the Le-
high Valley Pointer and Setter Club
Field Trials at Allentown. She won
out over twenty-six setters and
| pointers, an accomplishment that
won the acclaim of some of the
outstanding showmen in the coun-
try.
These dogs will be shown during
the October 14 and 15 Field Trials
of the Pennsylvania German Short-
‘ hair Pointer Club at the Jonathan
Valentine place on Sutton Road.
Rinehimer Leaves Mill
Charles Rinehimer, assistant gen-
eral manager of Natona Mills has
resigned after eight years to become
associated with Air Products Com-
pany, a new Wyoming Valley in-
dustry that will shortly begin pro-
duction in the former Vulcan Iron
Works plant. on Carey Avenue,
‘Wilkes-Barre.
Blood Donation Day is scheduled
for next Friday at Dallas Borough
School from noon to 6 p.m. A don-
not damage that person in the
slightest, and will save a life.
Of the 187 pints collected on
Blood Donor Day in February at
Dallas Borough School, 115 return-
ed direct to the area in the form
of transfusions. At the same time
the Veterans Hospital
pints, some of which had to come
from this supply. Blood was sent to
Philadelphia and other large medi-
cal centers where local residents
were facing operations.
The Blood Bank is scraping bot-
day to day donations, to cover
case of catastrophe, says Ted Raub.
ated March 1, 1955, is working
well, but it must be kept up, with
responsibility of seeing to it that
its members remain on the safe
side, with a minimum of ten per-
{
cent of the enrollment contributing
every six months.
To clarify the situation, a man
suffering an accident or needing a
transfusion for other reasons, may
still get it by means of a promis-
| sory note in which friends or rela-
tives promise to replace the blood
used, even if he has no connection
with the group blood insurance.
| But the blood must be there be-
fore it can be used, to avoid waste
of precious time in an emergency.
The Blood Bank must have funds
.on which to draw.
| There are a number of types. Not
| all blood can be given to all people.
| A transfusion of the wrong kind of
blood can be fatal.
| A victim who has on his person
a blood donation card is in better
shape to get a donation quickly
than one who does not. The card
will show his type of blood, and no
time need be wasted in testing it.
Call Ted Raub, Dallas 4-4528, or
Mrs. Stefan Hellersperk, :srea rep-
resentative, Dallas 4-0744,) for in-
formation.
Elston, Mary Dom-
Ransom, Lola McGuire (Austin),
Margaret Bennett (Mrs.
Anna Franklin (Mrs.
Arthur Wilcox, William Franklin,
Harter, Lila Shaver, Edna Sorber,
Gregory, Claude Shaver.
Ray Harter, Payne Elston, Keith
unidentified, Belva Sorber, Mary
Paul
Further plans for the commercial
expansion of the Memorial Highway
section of Dallas Borough were re-
vealed this week with the an-
Herbert Hill have purchased the
last remaining parcels of land on
the east side of the highway from
Ray Shiber.
Early this week Mr. Hand had
Norti Berti and others on hand
clearing trees and underbrush from
his 100-foot lot. He expects to build
a second men’s clothing store there,
specializing in - sports wear and
summer goods. As now planned he
will maintain his Main Street store
as well.
Mr. Hill said that he will not
develop his fifty-foot lot immediate-
ly but may eventually build a store
there devoted to the sale of pot-
tery, plants and cut flowers.
The two lots have a depth of 300
feet to the right of way of the |
| Lehigh Valley railroad and lie De
tween Ray Shiber’s home and Gos
sart’s Cash & Carry Market.
Other business places on that
side of the street are Gus Walters’
Swan's
Service; Caddie’ LaBar's
Service Station; L. L. Richardson
Used Car Lot and Tibus Son-
Mountain Ice Cream and Seafood
Kitchens. ;
On the opposite” side of the
street, the new Gulf Service Station
being built by Dale Parry ‘is rapid-
ly nearing completion. At this writ-
ing the property is still available
for lease.
Farther along is Richard Disque’s
modern funeral home and beyond
that toward Center Hill Road Joe
Katyl’'s recently opened Dallas
Radio and TV Store and the new
American Legion Home.
Cancer Society
Honors Ohlmans
Husband And Wife
Elected To Board
A Dallas husband and wife re-
ceived a precedent breaking honor
Wednesday night at Kirby Memorial
Health [Center with their election to
the Board of Luzerne County Unit,
American Cancer Society. They are
Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Ohlman,
Machell Avenue.
In presenting their nomination,
Dr. Max Tischler, chairman of the
nominating committee, pointed out
the unique situation. “In this case,”
he said, “each merits selection be-
cause each has done such an excel-
lent job for the society.”
Mr. Ohlman was chairman of the
1955 campaign which raised $48,-
376.26 and oversubscribed its goal
for the first time in history. Among
other cancer society activities, Mrs.
Ohlman has been in charge of the
Back Mountain unit with headquar-
ters at Back Mountain Memorial
Library.
Atty. Henry Greenwald is presi-
dent of the Unit.
First Boy In Two
Generations Born
Wednesday P.M.
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Stoner,
Pennington, N. J., announce the
birth of a son, John Bernard,
eight pounds, eight ounces, at
General Hospital, Wednesday,
September 14.
Mrs. Stoner is the former
Dilys Rowlands, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Rowlands, of
Trucksville. Mr. Stoner is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Stoner, Dallas.
John Bernard is the first boy
in two generations in the Rich-
ard Rowlands family of five
girls, Frances, Dilys, Wilma,
Betsy and Judy. Up until now
the only grandchildren in the
family were girls, Sandra Mil-
Jer, daughter of Irving and
Frances Rowlands Miller and
Marilyn Fennell, daughter of
Bert and Wilma Rowlands Fen-
- nell.
Many Identity
Crispell Store
Joe LaVelle Calls
Editor At 7 A.M.
The first person to identify Claude
Crispell’s Farm Service Store at
Noxen was Joe LaVelle, Dallas pos-
tal clerk, who got the editor out
of bed at shortly after 7 o'clock
Friday morning to hear this an-
nouncement over the phone: “I'm
not going to be late this week as I
have been every other week, it's
Claude Crispell’s Farm Service at
Noxen.”
Others who either wrote or called
were: Ralph Rood, Mrs, William
Reese, Mrs. Earl Crispell, Janet
Lamoreaux, Mrs. Mabel Murphy,
William Dymond, Mrs. Seth Howell,
Ernest Gay, Willard Gensel, Milo
Oney, Mrs. Edward Crake, James
Huston, Claire Winters, Romayne
Daubert, Mrs. Edward Trumbower,
Mr. McCutchen, Roland Bulford,
James Traver, Joan Dixon, Mrs.
Pearl Scott, Mrs. Sara May, Carlton
Kocher, Mrs. Lynn Johnson, Fred
Javer, John Sidorak, Andrew Race,
Ernest Dendler, Richard Traver,
Harold Smith, Floyd Milbrodt, Wal-
ter Hoover, Francis Keller, Mrs.
Clifford Ide and Ray Stevens.
Lost For Second
‘Time In Month
Posse Searches
Fields For Child
Two-year-old Douglas Johnston,
Huntsville, had the community in
an uproar Friday noon when he
disappeared for the second time
this ‘summer, taking French leave
with his Collie, Cuddles. He was
discovered by his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Archie
later, fo
his way toward
fatigue, and “hunger.
Neighbors, volunteer firemen, and
Dallas Post staff joined in the
search, circling through the woods
and investigating a nearby swamp.
Among the rescuers were Al Shaf-
fer, ‘Russell Honeywell, James Bes-
ecker, John Tibus, and Howard
Risley.
Reconstruction of the child’s ac-
tions indicate that he heard shots
from the rifle range where State
Police do target-shooting, abandon-
ed his little wagon in the Perrego
yard, and followed the sounds to
find out what all the popping was
about.
Albert Perrego’s grandchild was
found last time by Andrew Kozem-
chak, who called the Dallas Post
with a description of his small visi-
tor, registering his find a few min-
utes before Mr. Perrego made the
identification.
Luzerne Electric & Gas
Wins Safety Certificate
Luzerne Electric & Gas Division,
United Gas Improvement Company,
Kingston received a certificate of
merit Group 2 this week at the
Pennsylvania Electric Association’s
48th annual meeting in Philadel-
phia for having the lowest number
of lost-time and fatal shock and
burn accidents per one million man
hours worked.
James Jones Jr.,
Fractures Wrist
James Jones, Jr., Lehman Ave-
nue, broke his left wrist Wednesday
afternoon while playing football
during Physical Education Class at
Westmoreland High School. Jimmy
ran backward to retrieve the ball
and in doing so toppled over the
wall that extends along one side of
the field.
Forty-Five Years
Forty-five years ago Dan Waters’
picture appeared on the cover of
the October 15, 1910 issue of the
Saturday Evening Post.
Dan was the model for a picture
drawn by the late Rob Robinson
of a tow-headed youngster with his
shirt stuffed with stolen apples.
Robinson’s homespun drawings
were then as popular on the Post
as the similar current art of Nor-
man Rockwell.
Dan recalls that Robinson spent
one summer with his cousins the
Wyant family across the street
from the Waters home on Rice
street. He maintained a studio in
Ago Next Month
a barn on Center Hill Road near
where John Jeter now lives.
Dan posed for a number of pic-
tures that summer at what he then
considered a high fee of $1.50 per
day for such light work.
One picture which Robinson sold
to Brown & Bigelow, or some other
calendar firm, Dan isn’t sure, was
of a group of boys at the old swim-
ming hole. Dan was all of the boys
— “dressed, half - dressed, naked;
light-haired, dark” haired, tanned,
freckled and fair.”
Just the other day, Dan brought
the faded cover in for the Post staff
to see.
Mill Plans To
To Main Street
Thread Drawing To
Be Temporarily In
Gregory Building
Natona Mills has rented the for-
mer Ritter Paint Shop owned by
Charles Gregory and, after some
renovations to the building and
grading of exterior approaches for
easy access of trucks, plans to move
a section of its Thread Drawing
Department there within the next
two weeks.
The temporary move is made ne-
cessary while a new chemical
thread drawing process is being set
up in the present Thread Drawing
Department at the main plant on
Memorial Highway.
Between 125 and 150 women are
employed in this department head-
ed by James Gallagher and are
under the supervision of Mrs. Har-
riet Thompson. She directed the
original group of women when the
department was first set up in the
Gregory Building in 1947, some
months before the opening of Na-
tona Mills.
Since that time the department
has provided almost uninterrupted
employment for scores of Back
Mountain housewives. Thread draw-
ing, which is one of the finishing
processes for the lace goods, has
been an almost entirely manual
operation until recently.
A less efficient chemical system
has been in operation at the mill
since its opening, and presently a
considerable amount of thread
drawing is being done by this pro-
cess or by outside contractors to
whom lace manufactured here is
sent for finishing.
It is expected that the new
equipment will consolidate these
jobs and keep most of the work
within the local plant.
Installation of the process which
requires costly equipment and com-
~ As soon as it is Wn apetation t
is expected 'that the Thread Draw-
ing Department employees will be
returned to the main plant.
Jordan Dahlias
“ Win Sweepstake
Trucksville Man :
No Longer Amateur
‘Dr. Lester E. Jordan, Trucksville,
took a sweepstakes award this
week for the second year running
in the American Dahlia Society ex-
hibit at the Essex House in New
York. He also won two other med-
als and twelve ribbons. Winning a
disqualifies him for future amateur
competition. Next year he will
show against professionals.
His reddish-orange Leander, thir-
teen and a half inches in diameter,
was placed in the Court of Honor,
and a group of five pinkish orange
Croyden Masterpieces was featured.
Dr. Jordan took a blue ribbon for
seedlings, in which category he won
a medal last year. After three years
of running true to form, a seedling
may be named and marketed.
Dr. and Mrs. Jordan arrived in
New York at 1 a.m. Tuesday, and
finished setting up the exhibit at
5:30. The transportation involved
hiring of a trailer to carry large
florist boxes filled with flowers and
ice. One prize specimen of Autumn
Blaze travelled in a bucket of water
in the back of the car but collapsed
on arrival. The Jordans returned
late Wednesday night after the
two-day show.
Dr. Jordan has been growing
dahlias for five years, showing for
two. The drought got 100 out of
his 700 plants this year, but his
garden is still a riot of bloom in
spite of threat of frost.
He started growing dahlias as a
hobby five years ago out of spite
against three plants which refused
to bloom. They'd bloom, or else.
Against professional growers who
raise 30,000 plants a year, Dr. Jor-
dan feels the cards will be stacked
against him next year, though his
Leander was the third largest dah-
lia in the show, which attracted
blooms from as far off as California.
Westmoreland Biology class, con-
ducted by Walter Mohr, instructor,
will view the gardens today if frost
has not struck during the night.
Lost Drill Delays Well
After a week during which dril-
ling operations were held up by a
lost drill, Creswell Drilling Company
well at Natona Mills without reach-
ing any water of consequence.
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