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From The Issue of June 28, 1946
Clyde Cooper plans to build a new
plant on his property in Fernbrook,
to serve as a processing base and a
retail store for ice cream and dairy
products. bn
H. Lewis Chambers, for the past
four years instructor in Vocational
Agriculture at Mehoopany, end Ed-
ward Keller, Ransom farmer, will
teach at the Veterans Training
School, Dallas Township.
Free Methodists will rededicate
their newly remodelled edifice on
Mill Street at next Sunday's ser-
vices.
Jackson loses its first game, now
in threeway tie for first place.
Dallas defeats St. Michaels.
Andrew M. Harvey, 56, former
resident of Bethel Hill, dies at Geis-
inger. :
Simous F. Wagner,
dies at the age of 90.
Mrs. Ada Hice, 88, “The Maples,”
Demunds Road, passes away.
Beaumont leads in.the Bi-county
League.
Huntsville,
Loy Antrim, and Lewis Ide, both
of Dallas, will be married on Satur-
day.
Rotary Women start a Cancer
Fund.
From The Issue of June 26, 1936
Harveys Lake Issue.
John E. Whipple's sawmill at Hop
Bottom was destroyed by fire early
Friday morning, at the height of a
severe electric storm,
Court en banc affirms Judge Mc-
Lean’s decision upholding Dallas
Borough School Board’s right to
cancel Norman Dinger’s contract
and install Harry L. Tennyson as
supervising principal. Injunctions
were the outcome of a bitter po-
litical hassle.
Cheese, 19¢ per lb.; canned apple
sauce, 3 for 19c¢; pink salmon, tall
cans, 3 for 29c¢c; honeydew melons,
19c; ginger snaps or fig bars, 2 lbs.
for 15c; little neck clams, 100 for
29c.
Mrs. Ottelia Wenger, 59, of Hill-
side, dies after a long illness. \
By Robert Peterson
A FORMULA FOR RETIREMENT
THE WORD HAMS generally
means food or actors. But the let-
ters also designate a famous form-
health, adjustment, money, and
something to do.
If you are past 40 and are won-
dering whether your plans for the
future are sound, check them
against the following:
HEALTH. The family medic
should be giving you a detailed in-
spection at least once a year. There
are various diseases apt to hop
aboard in middle age which, unless
detected in their early stages, may
give you serious trouble in the
future. While your M.D. can’t make
any promises, he can outline the
most likely path to follow if you
have your heart set on exceeding
the Biblical three score and ten.
ADJUSTMENT. You should be
getting used to the idea of being
an older person. Instead of camou-
flaging your maturity and loathing
each birthday, you should start
adopting the philosophy that grow-
ing older means growing in wisdom
and tranquility.
MONEY. If you anticipate a pen-
sion and social security, you should
have a pretty clear idea how much
these sources will total when you
retire. You should also have a real-
istic idea of how much money you
will need to finance the kind of old
age you want. Will you have e
ough? If not, you'd better map out
a personal financing plan for retire-
ment right away. .
SOMETHING TO DO. You should
start taking a keen interest in sev-
eral stimulating hobbies that you
can continue in retirement. It is a
good idea to have both outdoor
hobbies, such as gardening or hik-
ing, and indoor ones, such as play-
ing bridge or writing short stories.
With such diversity you'll have
something absorbing to do in rain
or shine.
* * *
BERNARD BARUCH REMARKED
on his 85th birthday that, ‘“Proper-
ly managed, the later years can be
exciting and rewarding.” In man-
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Babson, Park, Mass., June 28 —
The only way I have made money
in the stock market has been by
selling stocks and taking profits at
times like this, depositing the mon-
ey in banks, and waiting until the
bottom of the next decline. When
the market crash finally comes, I
buy stocks.
Buying Into New Industries
In this way I am not a speculator,
but am like the ice man in the
North who gathers ice in wintry
weather and stores it up for people
to use during the summer. This
same principle, in reverse, applies
to those who can fruit and vege-
tables in summer when they are
about to spoil. We all perform a
real service and are entitled to be
rewarded. We have the courage to
sell stocks or buy fruit when’ others
lack the courage to do so. People
who go with the crowd make con-
ditions worse. Those who go con-
trary to the crowd are in a position
later to make conditions better
when there is much unemployment,
no new building, and when com-
modities are selling below cost.
Others make money in the stock
market by performing another kind
of service—that is by helping new
industries when they are unpopular
and taking profits when these in-
Those who follow this second pro-
gram have the additional advantage
of diversification. They also always
keep their money working, whereas,
under my method, my money is idle
about a third of the time. Buying
into new industries each year and
selling the stocks of a few maturing
Any investor who desires to follow
such a program should be prepared
to pay an Investment Counselor for
thermore, although General Motors,
necessary both to get into the right
industry, and also to buy the stock
of the right company within that
industry.
Wisconsin University’s Program
Although swapping maturing in-
dustries for new industries is ex-
ceedingly profitable when done in-
telligently, very few individuals or
even institutions have the ability
and courage to act on this principle.
One college, however, has had a
most interesting experience in this
connection. I refer to Wisconsin
University, which, on its typical
Board of conservative college Trus-
tees, had also some bright chemists
and engineers. These younger men
so failed in getting the conservative
Board to adopt a more courageous
investment policy that they formed
a separate Trust — The Wisconsin
Alumni Research Foundation. They
got together seven men who con-
tributed eighty dollars or so apiece,
making a total of $585 to start with
on January 1, 1926. They increased
this small sum by the purchase and
sale of “Growth Stocks” so that, at
the present time, this $585, with
accumulated dividends and profits,
amounts to over $17,000,000 with a
market value on December 31, 1955,
of $36,000,000. Approximately $6,-
000,000 received from Patents and
Royalties they gave back to the
University for new buildings and in-
creased salaries.
I might also give the names of
individual clients which my organ-
ization has helped along these same
lines. I could also cite a member of
my family who during fifty years
increased $600 to over $1,000,000
by putting the dividends and profits
back into newer industries when
they were popular and selling these
when they became popular. Mean-
while the fund was kept well diver-
sified with only a comparatively
small amount in each industry, so
this required, however, considerable
work as the entire fund was turned
over probably once in ten years.
In this case, no attention was given
to general market conditions or to
the investment cycle.
Let me close with a story which
one of my valuable associates, John
D. Riordan, tells. It concerns a
the patient was lying on the couch
and telling of his early life, the
psychiatrist said, “I understand
what got you into all this trouble.
The first thing you seem to remem-
ber is your mother rocking you in
lo, Baby.’ You interpreted this to
mean ‘Buy low-Buy low! ” :
SAFETY VALVE
Dear Mr. Risley:
Jack and I had a grand time at
the 25th reunion of our class at
Wyoming Seminary. It's always
nice to see some familiar faces fro
the Back Mountain. :
Some of them, like Mrs. Palmer,
Betty Lee Farr, recognized us, but
Melania Hellersperk and the Perrys
weren't quite so sure. I know
Charlie Perkins didn’t know us.
Guess we'll have to go on a diet
for sure. ;
We had another brief reunion at
my sister-in-law’s in Trucksville,
Ruth Reynolds. My big brother,
Ehrman Reynolds and his wife were
there. Ehrman just had a nice pro-
motion and they are moving from
Pittsburgh to Stamford, Conn. He
is the new assistant chief engineer
for Socony Vacuum Company in
New York (City. Their son, Don,
and his new Japanese bride, Yum-
iko, will be with them for a while
as Don is just starting as pilot for
the American Airlines. Bill is a
pilot for Alcoa Steel and lives in
Pittsburgh.
Lots going on here. Fred just
graduated from Jenkintown High
[School and will study metallurgy
at Drexel.
Hope you all have a swell sum-
mer.
Cordially, :
Helen Reynolds Conrad.
Looking at
T-V
With GEORGE A. and
EDITH ANN BURKE
DAVE GARROWAY, our guest
columnist for the second week of
our vacation asks a question that
has puzzled us and a number of
his viewers.
HOW TO RISE AND SHINE
" By Dave Garroway,
Star of NBC-TV’s “Today”
Ever since the TODAY program
began back in January of '52, there
‘How do you get up
at 4 o'clock every weekday morn-
ing 7”
Well, I think guest writing this
column affords me a fine oppor-
tunity to answer this question.
Actually, it’s a process—this wak-
ing-up business— to which I have
given a considerable amount of
thought—so much, as a matter of
fact that I think I literally have
it down to a science.
It’s all done with electronics.
I've built myself an instrument
panel which is an arm’s length
from my bed. Here’s how the sys-
tem works:
Sinatra record begins to spin auto-
matically. Musically speaking, I
find Sinatra provides the easiest
listening. While he’s singing, the
lights fade on automatically. By
this time I'm propped up on an
elbow with one eye open. Now
I'm ready for the first alarm clock
which is set off. Another one rings
about ten minutes later. The music
and lights seem to take the edge
off the nerve-jangling effects an
alarm clock can have. The second
alarm is across the room, so I have
to get up to shut it off. Now I'm
ready for the coffee, which started
percolating when the music began.
This way I wake up gradually,
and it’s really a pleasure. I can’t
stand in front of a TV camera at
seven o'clock in the morning with
a sour face and expect the audience
to stay with me three minutes, let
alone three hours. That's why I
built this contraption. I used to
wake up with only an alarm clock
banging away. Sometimes the shock
would start me off in a bad mood,
which might last for several hours.
Actually all I need is the four
hours’ sleep I average a weekday
night. After five hours I find my-
self a little groggy, and eight hours
are poison. I remember reading a
statement made by some doctor
who made a study of these things.
He claimed that, in effect, the im-
portant thing in waking up in the
morning—no matter how early the
hour—is purpose. A man should
have a purpose, a phychological
purpose, like a love for his work.
After more than four years of get-
ting up before dawn Monday
through Friday, putting in a ten-
hour day, and almost 3,000 hours
in front of the TV cameras, I still
look forward to each “Today” tele-
cast. I even find the job relax-
ing . . . once the “system” gets me
off to the studio.
=
. . And I Quote . .
“The way some girls figure, the
best way to hold a romance to-
gether is with a girdle.”—Arthur
Nagy.
“We had a couple back home who
got married and divorced four
times. It was a small town and
they kept getting introduced.”—
Herb Shriner.
“We are all entitled to the pur-
suit of happiness—but not at 90
miles an hour!’—Arnold Glasow.
“Any politician will tell you—the
trick is to hit the taxpayer without
hitting the voter!”—Jewell (Kans.)
Republican.
Every tomorrow has two handles:
we can take hold by the handle of
anxiety, or by the handle of faith.
It doesn’t do you any good to sit
up and take notice if you keep on
sitting.
A man should never be ashamed
to own he has been in the wrong,
which is but saying, in other words,
that he is wiser today than he was
yesterday.—Pope.
As if you didn’t know—-20 million
of the 57 million passenger car
drivers in the U. S. are women.
Experience is something that
helps you recognize a mistake when
you make it twice.
| Bob Tales |
By “BOB”
You've heard of left hand monkey
wrenches and other such imaginary
tools but here's a new one . . . a
left hand checkbook . . . only this
isn’t imaginary, they have come out
with them now for left handed
folks. The stubs are on the right
side and the books open to the
right rather than the left. Any-
thing to make it easier for lefty’s
to spend their money.
I got the real story from Ralph
Hazeltine about the trout we used
to catch in Toby’s Creek. They
were put in there by the late John
Miller and the late Asa Shaver,
both former residents of Trucks-
ville. These trout stayed in the
creek for some time because there
was a lot less pollution and not as
many fishermen in those days.
Alice Gordon informed me yester-
day that she remembers eating a
nice mess of trout many times that
her brother also caught in Toby’s.
Every year at Auction time, the
stories begin to circulate about how
much money this one or that one
is making on the Auction but,
frankly, most of the talk centers
around Howard Risley. He has
been accused of most everything in
connection with the Auction, from
how much rent he gets for keeping
the stuff in his barn, to how he
|rigs the sales so he gets what he
wants, and any number of similarly
ridiculous accusations. You may
not know anything about me, or
whether what I write here is the
truth, but this I will wager you,
(as Harry Ohlman did with another
doubting Thomas) . . . that I will
put up my house and all the cash
I have against your $5.00 if you
can prove Howard ever got one
penny as rental, commission, or
from rigged sales at any one of the
nine Auctions.
Pe 0) these rumors himself
but he doesn’t choose to make an
issue of them, but it burns me up
when I hear it because this I know
... the only things Howard Risley
gets from each year’s Auction are
of sleep, criticism .and ..property
damage.
Sure he has lots of fun, he bids
on what he wants, and a lot that
he doesn’t want. Myra, Mrs. Hicks,
John Tibus and myself all get tied
up in the Auction and the business
of The Dallas Post suffers as a re-
sult, and there are a host of other
ways in which Howard contributes
each year but he doesn’t care. He
doesn’t care because he, believes
this town needs a library and this
I'll tell you . . . many people de-
serve credit for our fine library
but no one more than this fellow
you heard all these stories about.
So if you hear folks talking this
way, just tell them to bring their
$5.00 around, I'm taking all comers.
Yes, I know, you say I work for
him, and I do, that’s how come I
know what I'm talking about.
As long as I'm in the mood I
might as well talk about another
type of person that is just about
as lousy as the gossip mongers I
just mentioned. This other type is
the one who drops off his dog out
in the country when he doesn’t
want the poor creature any more.
Such as the owner of a very gentle
looking female Beagle hound who
threw her out of his car on Bunday
near Don [Smith’s home in East
Dallas. She isn’t a young dog and
has probably served her master well
as a hunting dog, but now she is
expecting a litter of puppies and so
this fine fellow suddenly doesn't
want to bother with her. Can you
imagine how lonely and heartsick
this mother dog must feel ?
Don and his wife fed her,—she
was starved,—and fixed up a bed
for her for the night. They have
a big dog, and a cat, which is as
much as they can handle so they
called me to see if I knew what to
do with the dog. What would you
tell these folks? A nice hound,
whose only crime was becoming
pregnant, must end up with a .38
calibre bullet screaming through
her brain ’cause the police is the
only answer. Her owner must be
a real nice fellow . . . I would like
to meet him.
To get away from this train of
thought I'll tell you what Bill Mor-
gan, Shavertown insurance man,
told me today which I thought was
pretty good. He said, “Don’t drive
on the Fourth with a fifth or you
may not be around on the sixth.”
Rather original don’t you think?
My thanks to Richard Joos, Dick
Clark, Bobbie Moyer, Lee Ohlman,
Billie Berti, Les Barstow, Jr., the
Bodycomb boys and the other
young fellows who so readily an-
swered our call for workers on the
barn and {transportation commit-
tees, and “Shook” Ashburner and
his gang who put up sighs. And
others who help, and never get
much mention on committees, are
Jake Anderes who’s doing a swell
job on pick-ups and Sev Newberry
who painted signs and Sam Holvey
who painted the ox-bow, to say
nothing of all the gang at Denmon’s
who washed the Austin-Healey for
free and have it on display in their
new parking area. This could go
on and on because the list of folks
who do the little things is inter-
minable but it’s all
things that make the Auction what
it is. And every other town that
has tried to match our Auction
wonders how we do it. It’s not a
few big wheels, it’s a lot of folks
doing a lot of little chores that
adds up to success.
During the nine years I have been associated with it, I remember
none when the barn was not practically empty a week before the big
event. This year is no exception!
The stuff that has come in is clean and good, but there is not
much of it and the pick-up crews have practically completed the work
of gathering in the items uncovered by the general solicitation com-
mittee under the chairmanship of Clara Ohlman and Margaret
Robinson.
There will be a great variety of baked goods at the Auction,
according to Grace Bachman, chairman, who is aware that there has
ever been enough in the past to go around; but the Auction does
need old furniture and items of all kinds from attics and storage
rooms to give it color.
Without these items to go over the block, the two-day event
would just be another bake sale, fair, carnival or what-have-you—
with none of the real color and mellowness that give it its appeal.
Therefore, if you have something that has outworn its usefulness
for you but still is usable and might have considerable value for
others, won't you bring or send it to the barn?
Each year hundreds of your neighbors do that very thing the
last few days before the Auction; but the committee can never be
sure that they will do it until the stuff is in the Barn. We need these
things this year more than ever because last year the Auction was
held an extra day in order to clean the barn to the walls. Little of
value was carried over as in some previous years.
The Auction committee does not need any more kitchen ranges,
fruit jars, vacuum cleaners, or stove pipe. It does need lawn and
porch furniture, chairs, tables, picture frames, children’s toys, garden
tools, books, plants, vegetables, and any piece with an antique flavor.
The refreshment stand is in need of a quantity of instant coffee
and anyone who would like to contribute some should contact Sheldon
Evans at Evans Drug Store.
There is also a need for livestock of all kinds. Up to now very
little has been promised!
The same is true of hams which in the past have been popular
contributions from lawyers, real estate men and tavern owners.
There is a need for men to work at the Barn during Auction
Days and for young men to act as runners in front of the Auction
Block.
In fact if you are not already a contributor, serving on a com-
mittee, or having a houseful of company for the weekend why don’t
you get in the thick of things. Just call The Post and you'll soon be
working for the Auction and having the time of your life meeting
new friends. ;
Remember the Auction is bigger than any individual or organ-
ization connected with it. It is the community at work. And what
a job the community has done for the past nine years.
From
Pillar To Post... .
by Mgrs. T. M. B. Hicks
Now is the time to give the attic that last minute once-over, in
search of things for the Library Auction, July 6 and 7. Not rummage,
but usable things that will sell over the block, and bring in funds for
support of our Back Mountain Memorial Library. Furniture, lamps,
dishes, toys, small children’s chairs, all bring good prices. The more
varied the assortment, the more fun the Auction is for everybody.
Whether you have been asked to give something or not, makes
no difference. There-may have been blank spots in the solicitation,
where house-holders were out or .engaged when the phone rang or
the solicitor for the neighborhood called in person.
The thing that makes the annual Auction a success is the wide-
spread community feeling that this is one event which everybody can
push. There is no class, church, political, or race distinction at the
Library Auction. The Library serves everybody on an even footing.
Every group in the Back Mountain can contribute, and take a pride
in doing so.
The auction, like the library, is unique. Most communities or
groups which set an auction in motion, find that it is a tremendous
burden, and abandon it after the first year.
This auction goes on year after year, sparked by a wholesome
community spirit that refuses to be discouraged by obstacles. It is a
big job. Everybody who works on the auction puts his whole self
into the labor of love, without thought of reward. People who can
ill afford the time, rearrange their schedules and give hour after hour
of service.
What is done with the money?
Every once in awhile somebody says, “What do you want all
that money for? You've already got more books than you can house.”
It costs money to run a library. Salaries have to be paid. Coal
must be bought. There must be a caretaker to tend the furnaces in
main building and annex and mow the beautifully terraced lawns.
The buildings need repair and painting.
And eventually, the library will need to build an addition. Al-
ready the main meeting room has proved too small for many organ-
izations. Money must be laid aside each year for that time.
So . . . for the one thing in the community which everybody
can wholeheartedly support:
Bake a cake.
Whip up a batch of fudge or sea-foam.
Sort over your books and see what you can spare for the book
booth.
Pack a dozen fresh eggs in a carton.
And get down those dustcatchers from the attic.
If it is small, bring it to the auction yourself when you come
next Friday. If it is big, call for a volunteer truck and driver.
But bring it yourself if you can. It is more fun, and it gives you
a chance to see what the neighbors are bringing.
Dr. A. S. Lisses
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