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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
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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
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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.
”
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