THE DALLAS POST “More than a mewspaper, a community institution” ESTABLISHED 1889 Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers’ Association A non-partisan liberal progressive mewspaper pub- lished every Friday morning at the Dallas Post plant, Lehman Avenue, Dallas, Pennsylvania. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Dallas, Pa., under the Act of March 3; 1879. Subscription rates: $3.50 a year; $2.00 six months. No subscriptions accepted for less than six months. Out-of-state subscriptions: $4.00 a year; $2.50 six months or less. Back issues, more than one week old, 15¢. 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Transient rates 75¢. i Local display advertising contract rate, 60¢ per column inch. Political advertising $1.10 per inch. Advertising copy received on Thursday will be charged at 85¢ per column inch. . Classified rates 4¢ per word. Minimum charge 75c. All charged ads 10¢ additional. Unless paid for at advertising rates, we can give no assurance that announcements of plays, parties, rummage sales or any affair for raising money will appear in a specific issue. Preference will in all instances be given to editorial matter which has not previously appeared in publication. Editor and Publisher—HOWARD W. RISLEY Associate Editors—MYRA ZEISER RISLEY, MRS. T. M. B. HICKS Advertising Manager—ROBERT F. BACHMAN Photographer—JAMES KOZEMCHAK Editorially Speaking: THE LONG HARD ROAD The election this week of Peter D. Clark of Dallas as chairman of the Republican Party in Luzerne County completes a cycle started more than twenty years ago to make the County organization respectable and worthy of the support of decent citizens as well as politicians. At times during those years, Pete fought an almost single-handed battle. There were discouragements and there were periods when it looked as though self-interest and cynicism ‘would triumph over the most rudimentary idealism. But Pete learned to play practical politics and keep his eyes on the ideal of decent government at the same time. When the County organization led by John Fine be- gan to crumble from its own corruption; when men with decent standards, like Newell Wood, felt that they were strong enough to challenge the old leadership; Peter Clark was the man to whom they turned for encouragement and who organized the fight to make the Republican Party the party of all the people in Luzerne County. The Republicans who were led to victory by Peter Clark are now doing a magnificent job at the County Court House. No one knows, better than they, how far from their goals; but they are on their way and they know it. So do the people of Luzerne County! In the days ahead when some of their moves may not be so popular as they are right now, it will be well to re- member that the County Organization headed by Peter Clark is working for all of the people—the decent hard- working citizens—not the jail birds, patronage seekers, and corruptionists. From the Issue of June 14, 1946 Dallas Township plans school for veterans. ' : Hail and wind storm does exten- sive damage, felling trees, and crushing Hillside green house. A lightning and burned. : Caddie LaBar expects to break ground shortly for his new service station on Memorial Highway. Teen-age League is up against a problem — no baseballs available. Anybody got a baseball ? Bread and flour are in short sup- ply, due to exportation of basic foodstuffs to war devastated coun- tries. ; William Patterson and Stewart Rose, veterans, have purchased the Dropshinski farm in: Lehman, and with their Puerto Rican brides, sis- ters, plan to raise chickens, Rev. Fred M. Sellers, former pastor of Shavertown Methodist Church, dies in Staten Island. Samuel R. VanHorn, 76, former resident of Outlet, dies. Frank Wesley Blossom, Buck- wheat Hollow, 70, dies of a stroke. Margaret McHenry, Dallas, is wed to Howard Wallace, Missouri. Marie Hudak, Overbrook Avenue, ‘becomes the bride of Michael Silic, Shavertown. Maude Jones, Goss Manor, is wed to Max F. Johnson, Andover, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Line, Dallas, will celebrate their Golden Wedding on Tuesday. From the Issue of June 12, 1936 Farmers face heavy loss from drought, following heavy frosts ear- lier in the spring. Creeks are very low. Judge William McLean dismisses the injunction against Dallas Bor- ough school board. Dismissal of Dinger, he says, is authorized. Leafie Ferrel, Dallas RD, and John Millard, Noxen, were married before an audience of 2,200 in the Wilkes- Barre Armory, by Rev. Charles Gilbert, as one of the features of the Home Show. Second link in the Tunkhannock highway may be improved beyond the Luzerne County line this sum- mer. At this end the highway is in very bad shape. Dallas” Township ends tie for championship with a 2 to 1 victory. Bowmans Creek, closed for stock- ing with trout, will be opened again for fishing on Saturday. Mrs. John Kennan, Trucksville, is buried at Evergreen. HE PLAYS THE HORSES by Robert Peterson TWO BRIGHTLY painted hobby horses in front of a white stucco house a few miles from Myrtle Beach, Ga., caused us to slam on our brakes as we were driving by last month. Here: was something different. Most roadside stands along this busy New York-Florida highway feature such prosaic. pro- ducts as woven baskets and chenille bedspreads. But here was an item blessed with a little originality. “I’ve been making ’em for a coup- le years now,” said the horsemaker, Mr. George Upson; 72,” when we found him amid sawdust and shav- ings in the garage adjoining ‘his pin money when I retired but I've been doing all right with my horses.” # * * * WE ASKED how he got started. “It was the usual story,” he replied. “I didn’t know what to do with my- self when I retired. My wife gave me some woodworking tools but they sat idle here in the garage for a year. Then one day my daughter came over with a hobby horse she bought at an antique shop for $45. I was shocked at the price she paid for it and told her I could duplicate it for $5. I did too. Pretty soon her friends were wanting me to make hobby horses for their youngsters. “It’s sort of funny looking,” he (Continued on Page Four) Babson Park, Mass., June 14 —1I meet many interesting people, es- pecially when in Florida where, dur- ing the winter, brilliant minds gravitate. As I have just returned to Massachusetts, I wish to mention five such men. What About World War III? One of these men is an interna- tional oil expert who has just re- turned from Arabia. He states that a small area in the Far East con- tains more oil than all other sec- tions of the world. He doesn’t be- lieve that World War III will happen during our lifetime; but if it does, the war will be for the control of this fabulous wealth of oil. He says: “Arabia is where the United Na- tions’ Headquarters should be lo- cated!” Another very interesting man, one of the nation’s greatest “funda- mental physicists,” is interested only in studying atoms. He thinks that our banks, factories, and stores are mere ‘peanuts’, and that I should not waste time studying them. He talks of the marvelous possibilities from rearrangement of atoms so as to make anything the securing of free power from or through the air. Archeologists Make You Think Another interesting man is one who has just returned from ex- cavating the great city of Carthage in Northern Africa. Here are found seven layers of cities, averaging some seventy-five feet, one below the other. All were once rich and powerful; all but the last have been destroyed. This man would not own any property in any valuable large city. He says: “The safest invest- ment is a small, fertile, well-water- ed farm in the center of the United States.” Based on all previous his- tory, he foresees within one hun- dred years a complete collapse of our ‘experiment with’ Democracy,” to be followed by a Dictatorship and later a Monarchy. My next choice is a famous para- psychologist from a leading univer- sity. He is studying the most ad- vanced methods of psychic com- munication, including clairvoyance, telepathy, and other extrasensory powers. He hasn't much use for telephone wires or even present methods of broadcasting, To hear him talk, you would think we were still living in the “Stone Age,” with little realization of our powers to think or communicate, What Is Beauty? My last visitor was a shabbily Loniine at T-V With GEORGE A. and EDITH ANN BURKE CHARLIE APPLEWHITE who took time out from the Army for last week's G. E. Theatre, will be on TV again this summer when Ed Sullivan presents his third annual “All Army Talent Contest.” The contest gets under way in January each year and includes all Army units in this country and overseas, with the exception of Trieste and the Far East Command. There will be between 12 and 14 acts featur- ing the tops in Army talent. Pri- vate Gary Crosby and Richard Hayes will appear with Charlie. VICTOR BORGE—Did you get the feeling that you were in a huge theater when you watched the Vic- tor Borge one-man show on Thurs- day? To achieve this feeling the cameras were stationed behind the audience in the first three rows of the former Hammerstein Theatre, now ICBS Television Studio 50. So the television audience was sitting only a few yards from the foot- lights, front and center. DIANA LYNN who hasn’t been seen in a TV play in many months will star with Dewey Martin in this week’s story on ‘Climax.” Diana plays Hilde Frazer, wealthy young woman who is released from a mental hospital only to find her- self trapped in a lonely house with a homicidal husband and a phan- tom prowler in “To Scream at Mid- night.” PATTY McCORMACK who is probably the best known child ac- tress on television will play the starring role in “Alien Angel,” on the “General Electric Theater’ Sunday. Eanne (Patty), a youngster has | been very friendly with an old wo- man named Googy. Before Googy died, she gave Eanne five pounds with the request that when she died, the child should buy an angel and put it over her grave. Unable to secure one, she settles for a mis-shapen angel. The angel is set up in the cemetery. Because of its appearance it incites a storm of protest and the authorities de- cide to remove it. But Eanne goes directly to the Archbishop of Can- terbury. WALLY COX will return from a long absence from TV. In the Fall he will star in a new half-hour comedy film series titled “The Ad- venture of Hiram Holliday.” It will be on the NBC network Wednes- days at 8 p. m. Cox will portray a quiet newspaper proofreader. dressed man who had traveled over a thousand miles to discuss ‘“Beau- ty,” which to him included archi- tecture, paintings, music, jewelry, and even perfume. “These,” he said, “are the few things which we find in the oldest tombs of the wealth- iest [Egyptian Pharaohs.” He be- lieves these are the best invest- ments today. To enjoy these things, he claims that they do not need to be heard, or seen, or touched; but that Beauty is something we enjoy through our thoughts and that, like gravity waves, it can penetrate any enclosure. When I praised certain rich men like Andrew Mellon for buying fam- ous paintings and establishing great art museums, he considered me very materialistic and frowned upon the thought that Beauty could be “purchased.” His parting words were: ‘Read your Bible, especially the twelfth chapter of Ecclesiastes and the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians.” Looking Centuries Ahead The actual Bible which I read was published in 1549 by my ancestor, Reverend John Rogers, who later was ‘burned at the stake” in Lon- don for looking ahead. After review- ing these five visitors, I wonder if there may not be a time ahead of us when the possessing of some- thing not now considered of value may be recognized as the only true wealth. The Old Testament Pro- phets may have had it in mind when they talked about “JEHO- VAH”; Jesus, when He talked about “LOVE”; and the Early Church leaders when they wrote of the “HOLY SPIRIT.” Most religions now use these words in their creeds; but very few of their followers, includ- ing those of us who call ourselves “Christian,” treat these unseen forces as wealth. This is not sur- prising, as it took our ancestors a million years to awake to the power of electricity! It is even possible that the atoms of the physicists may also be “peanuts.” I don’t know. Rigas I am inclined to believe that too many of us are wasting our lives in things that do not really help to give us health, happiness, or power. Perhaps real wealth is some- thing that cannot be touched, or seen, or even deposited in a bank or kept in a safe-deposit box. I do, however, forecast that the time will come when it will be recognized that wealth is not what nearly everyone now considers “wealth” to be. ADVENTURE THEATRE, a new suspense series of half-hour film features made in England and never before seen in this country will star Saturday, Jnue 16 on NBC-TV (10:30) and continuing through Sept. 1 when the Hit Parade re- turns. dell—the Gillis—will move back as neighbors of the Rileys in “The Life of Riley.” DANNY KAYE—Some of the most worthwhile broadcasts we have heard were those of Danny Kaye explaining his work for the United Nations Children’s Emerg- ency Fund. Edward R. Murrow must have heard them, too, for he assigned two camera crews to fol- low Danny through 11 European countries where he entertained at medical and nutritional installa- tions of the international child help organizations. Early next Fall, Murrow will pre- sent a special 90-minute telecast of Danny’s goodwill tour on his “See It Now” series. The occasion will mark the official TV debut of the world-famed entertainer. PATTI PAGE takes over for four weeks for vacationing Perry Como. It appears most likely that Patti will play the role of Betty Compton in “The Jimmy Walker Story,” with Bob Hope. CHAMPION MUSIC—On the $64,- 000 Challenge,” music is piped into the champion’s booth while the challenger is answering the ques- tion. The producer figures this dis- tracts the champion’s attention and keeps any information from filter- ing into his booth. Rimsky Korsakov’s ‘‘Schenhera- bade” is used each Sunday night. To Resume Story Hour Mrs. H. W. Smith will conduct a children’s story hour at Back Moun- tain Memorial Library today, Fri- day, from 2 until 3 p.m. The group will meet under the big maple tree on the side lawn. “Hello, Mr. Rooter? ... How about a guaranteed annual cainfall for us farmers?” By “BOB” Don’t you want your portable Birth’s Esso Station on the Main Highway unclaimed. All you have to do is come up with the missing numbered ticket. It is 009616. Reading a pamphlet titled “Shop- lifter Racket, Tricks of the Trade”, put out by the Acme Stores for all their managers, I came across some interesting items. Didn't realize folks would go to such extremes to steal food. For example, “We still hear of customers buying four rolls of toilet tissue, unwrapping one end, jamming a stick of butter into each roll, then rewrapping the ends nice and neatly”, or “occasionally a safe- ty razor is used to slit the cello- phane on two prepack meat items, to permit switching the lower price tag into the higher priced item”. If these folks would use their in- genuity for more worthwhile pur- suits they would be making enough that it wouldn’t be necessary for them to steal. The new increase agreed upon by the group of Back Mountain hair- dressers will curl your hair without an appointment, but these folks have to live too. You can’t buy Many of the group that make up the congregation of the Prince of Peace Church are scratching their heads over where the $50,000 will come from for their proposed ad- dition. We understand that Clyde Cooper has purchased another dairy . . . is that right Clyde? Speaking of dairies, if you want to see one of the finest in this area ask Sherm Harter to take you through their newly-equipped plant at Hillside. It’s really a honey! This isn’t just my opinion . . . Harter’s “The Pyramid”, a magazine pub- lished by the Chester-Jensen Com- pany. The old back roads are becoming rather crowded these days .. . es- pecially after dark. Young lovers like seclusion. One of my haunts in the “old days” was a little road leading into the orchard overlook- ing Posten’s Pond, just off the dirt road going up the hill past Bulford’s barn. Pretty wonderful on a moon- light night, wasn’t it dear? Wouldn't advise you to seek out this place now though ’cause it has become too well known and traffic is too heavy. Prediction: By July 15th the Brooklyn Dodgers will again be at the top of the heap in their league. And how about that Dallas Leg- ion team? These boys play the finest brand of ball you can witness anywhere in this area. Wanted: Young college, prep- school or high school grads who have access to an automobile and who would enjoy getting a group together, with a hammer and a few tacks, and riding out in the coun- tryside to tack up the Auction posters. Please apply The Dallas Post. You won’t get paid of course, but think of the fun you’ll have. Winner this week of two free tickets to The Himmler Theater is Dan Shaver, Shavertown. Come into The Dallas Post and get your tick- ets Dan. Little Lost Pup By ARTHUR GUITERMAN He was lost!—not a shade of doubt of that; For he never barked at a slinking cat, Ay But stood in the square where the wind blew raw, With a dropping ear and a tremb- ling paw And a mournful look in his pleading eye And a plaintiff sniff at the passer by That begged as plain as a tongue could sue, “O Mister! you?” A lone, wee waif of a tawny brown Adrift in the roar of a heedless town— Ah, the saddest sights in a world of sin Is a little lost pup with his tail tucked in! please may I follow Well, he won my heart (for I set great store On my own red Bute—who is here no more), So I whistled clear, and he trotted up, And who so glad as that small lost pup! y Now he shares my board, and he owns my bed, And he fairly shouts when he hears my tread; Then, if things go wrong, as they sometimes do, And the world is cold and I'm feel- ing blue, He asserts his right to assuage my woes, With a warm red tongue and a nice cold nose And a silky head on my arm or knee" And a paw as soft as a paw can be. When we rove the woods league about, He’s as full of pranks as a school let out; For he romps and frisks like a three-month colt And he runs me down like a thun- derbolt. for “a Oh, the blithest of sights in the world so fair ] ; {he air! Ni WHERE PROFITS COME FROM The average manufacturing company spends most of the working day paying off the costs of doing business, and only about 19 minutes are left in which to earn profits, according to an editorial in the publication “SERVICE.” “In the normal eight-hour working day, 19% minutes are a pretty small part. It is close to quitting time before these few min- utes, all that is left of the day, are ‘minutes for profit,’ in the average manufacturing company,” says the magazine. “Further, only about half of the 19% minutes result in dividends for the owners. The rest of the profit minutes are used for reinvest- ment in the business.” Three hours and 55 minutes will be used to pay for materials and supplies, “SERVICE” estimates. Assuming the working day begins at 8 AM. that takes until 11:55. To meet wages and salaries will take two hours and 19 minutes. With one hour for lunch, the clock moves to 3:14. “To pay all taxes, federal, state and local, uses up another 43% minutes,” the magazine observes. “It is 3:57%. Repair and replace- ment of facilities will require 29 minutes. For reseach and promotion, 14% minutes more are used up. By now it is 19% minutes before the day ends, at 5 P.M. In this short time, the company must earn the profits it must make in order to stay in business.” OPOSSUM IS GOOD EATING A reader who is apparently having ‘possum trouble sends us the following: “Though you might like the enclosed article, written by: Ken Kimball, camp cook, and published in a Colorado paper—Denver Post if correct—adds another game animal to the sportsmen’s table, as the animals are becoming very numerous. “Northerners do not know how to clean and dress an opossum. To a gallon of boiling water add about a half cup of lime and scald opossum quickly. Pull off hair, scrape at once, and remove innards, tail, eyes and ears. Cleanse thoroughly with hot water. Remove opossum, dry, cover with cold water, add a half cup of salt and let stand for 12 hours. Remove from’ salted water and pour over hot water almost to cover. Boil until skin is tender. Let stand in broth for an hour, then bake with sweet potatoes, placing opossum flat in roasting pan and adding salt, pepper and a little stock.” SPRING BOUQUET — 6 years old Hands clasped tightly behind his back And a sparkle in his eyes He asks me to guess what he’s hiding there And it’s sure to be a prize. Is it a fish that he has caught in the brook Or a riddle for me to explain — Or is it a choice bit of candy he saved for me? Never the right one do I name! “Do you give up,” he proudly asks? As I can’t guess it time after time. I have to “give up,” because I'd never guess Its a bouquet of dandelion! CORSAGE — 10 years later “Order a corsage of roses for the prom,” he said But gee Mom, I sure wish it was orchids instead. I forgot to ask her the color of her gown As he looked at me with his assumed manly frown. “Do you think this tie will go well with this ‘suit, “Oh golly Mom, I bet she’ll look cute.” “Do you think the flowers will come on time,” he said ? And I reassured him with a shake of my head. The time sure has flown since that day in spring When the corsage of dandelion to me he did bring. —By Miriam Herbert Williams u - a ry Pillar To Post . .. by Mes. T. M. B. Hicks Either the poison ivy is more virulent this year, or the kids were more enthusiastic in their attack upon its stronghold down in the woods. In any event, after that battle with the pine needles, hurled from two opposing forts built of hastily garnered brush and trailing vines, the small and practically naked urchins started scratching. All over. Not just in spots, but everywhere. The long and lanky twin suddenly became globular, his face twice its original size. His ears stuck out straight from his head, and he viewed his surroundings through slits instead of eyes. Coated with Calamine, he walked about in a daze, trying not to scratch. Scratching, explained Barbara, with a surreptitious dig at her swollen ankle, would spread the trouble. \ The rest of the seven children were not in such a plight. Their poison ivy was confined to smaller areas. : The clock-watcher escaped entirely, except for one small patch on his knee. And how Scotty developed that, is a mystery, unless he used somebody else’s towel. Scotty’s idea of a vacation, at eight years of age, is to gallop through one library book after another, timing himself by the kitchen clock. Cowboys and Indians, he approves of, but only on T-V or in the movies, where a spectator may watch from a comfortable sitting position. Repelling marauders from a fort leaves Scotty completely cold.” It burns up too many calories, which must then be replaced by forced laying aside of the current work of fiction and application to the plate at the dinner table. It was fortunate indeed that the seasonal trip to the amusement solid week the kids had to stay out of public places for fear somebody might leap to the conclusion that they were suffering from measles, chicken pox, or a mild case of leprosy. In times like these, the outdoor movies are simply wonderful. Waiting until it is almost dark, and then lining up in the traffic jam at the entrance, is the accepted technique when escorting children who are not at the moment socially acceptable. Nobody has time to inspect the passengers. The manager says, “Anybody here over twelve years old?” and punches out two adult tickets. The kids get in deadhead, poison ivy and all. The day they started back to Virginia, the kids looked human again, though still scaly with calamine lotion, nearly enough restored to normal so that gas station attendants would not feel the urge to shrink back and cover their eyes. ; How do you get rid of poison ivy? Treat it with clorox? kero- sene? weed killer? The woods are full of it. ” » Do You Have. Any Work For A POWER SAW? * Trees Gut * Trees Trimmed * Fireplace Logs Cut Ask For Free Estimate On Work BERTI & SONS Phone Dallas 4-5731 ARERR en TRG . re RA ———
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