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¢. : 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 75¢c. 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. SPECIAL NOTICE All rights for publication of articles in this newspaper are reserved under the copyright laws. 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: "Send Those Entry Blanks In Now . . . Right at this moment James Kozemchak, chairman of the Back Mountain Christmas Lighting contest spon- sored by Dallas Senior Woman's Club, is discouraged. Jim has been a prize winner year after year in these contests. He has artistic ability. He is a photographer whose arrangements have been noteworthy for their beauty. : This year he thought he would like to lend his efforts toward making the Christmas home decorations in the Back Mountain area outstanding. He would not enter his own decorated home in any contest but he would start early and encourage everybody to enter an enlivened Back Mountain Christmas home lighting contest. He has spent hours of work on the project. He has chairmen and committees working. The judges have been selected. ea : : The results? Not one single entry to date. Maybe everybody is too busy with holiday activities. Maybe the money usually ‘spent for home decoration is going to Hun- garian relief this year. We doubt it. But if you are going to decorate your home, why not _ enter the contest now. It will be work, and it will be fun— and the judgés won’t miss viewing your efforts. That can happen only if you make out your entry blank and send in your dollar immediately. : Wherever you live in the Back Mountain area you are eligible for this contest. Give Jimmy and the Woman's Club a break! ONLY YESTERDAY Ten and Twenty Years Ago - In The Dallas Post From Issue of December 13, 1946 Dale Dodson, Shavertown, sails for the Antarctic with Admiral Byrd's expedition. A Nanticoke man shoots a spike buck in doe season and pays $100 fine. Orlando Schooley, father of Dr. F. Budd Schooley, dies at his son’s home on Lake Street. Mrs. Lena Hackling West, Towan- da, formerly of Noxen, becomes the bride of Frank C. Shaneberger, El- mira. Margery McHale, Trucksville, is wed to Gilbert Manchester, Newport, Rhode Island. Removal of price restrictions on meat causes a big swing away from poultry, with two million pounds consigned to cold storage in Penn- sylvania. From Issue of December 11, 1936 Dallas Businessmen's Association considers putting up lights in cen- tral Dallas, as well as erecting a Christmas tree. Daddow-Isaacs is suggested as a name for the Dallas American Le- gion, which expects to establish permanent quarters on one of sev- eral locations now under advise- ment. Henry M. Laing Fire Company discusses a new building. Soccer is suggested as an alterna- tive for football at Dallas Borough. Kingston Township school board retains Edwin Hay as. president at the December reorganization meet- ing. Norman Johnstone says Wyo- ming Valley Motor Club will con- tinue its battle for major highway projects for this area during 1937. Dallas Post continues its drive for toys for needy children of the area. Dr. George K. Schwartz again heads Dallas Borough School Board. Russell Case is reelected presi- dent of Dallas Township School Board. Ninety-year-old Aunt Bessie Wil- bur, Franklin. Street, Dallas, born in the old Linskill school house in Lehman Township, gets written up by John Bush as being a crack shot, as having attended the movies once in her life, and as having cast one vote, Hoover for reelection. And, as being an’ expert at hair-flower making. One superior piece of workmanship contains the hair of one hundred people; plus one dog. William Heath's eleven - room house at Harveys Lake is destroyed by a $20,000 fire. Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Parrish, bride and groom, are honored by a super-size Skimelton, courtesy of the Dallas Businessmen’s Associa- tion, armed with gasoline drums, tin pans, shotguns and whistles, and led by the fire truck with moaning siren. Earliest ice in many years is be- ing cut at Bert Bryant's pond at Meeker, where nine-inches is pres- ent at Raub’s Dam. Arthur Kiefer, Claude Street, fractures his leg in two places in a fall from a ladder. Looking at T-V With GEORGE A. and EDITH ANN BURKE CHRISTMAS ROUND THE WORLD, a series illustrating the celebration of the Yuletime season in foreign countries, begins on “Micky Mouse Club” in the week of December 17-21. CHRISTMAS AT HOME. A spe- cial week-long Christmas edition of “Home,” beginning Monday, Dec. 17, will supplant “Home's” regular for- mat. Christmas through the eyes of children will be presented on Mon- day by ten six-year-old youngsters from St. Dominic's Foster Home, Blauvelt, N.” Y.,, who, with their teacher, Sister Bernadette, will set up a Christmas creche. ‘ Tuesday, the children from the Siloam Presbyterian Church, Brook- lyn, will reenact scenes from the Nativity in a tableau. And so it will be each day of the week, a special Christmas program with the Don Craig Carolers on hand each day. THE LITTLE FOXES on the “Hall- mark Hall of Fame” will co-star Greer Garson and Franchot Tone. It is the story of a ruthless family in the post-Civil War South. Franchot Tone will’ shave the beard he has been wearing for his long engagement in a New York re- vival of “Uncle Vanya.” Born in Niagara Falls, N. Y., the son of the late Frank J. Tone, pres- ident of the Carborundum Company of America, Franchot attended Cor- nell University. It was when he was a member of the college dra- matic club that he decided that he would become an actor. Greer Garson won her education through scholarships to the Univer- sity of London and the University of Grenoble in France. After a brief business career with a London advertising firm Greer decided to make acting her life’s work. (Sun- day 7:30-9:00 p. m.). LORETTA YOUNG BHOW will star Miss Young as a warm-hearted, fun-loving nun whose Christmas re- volves around a boy, a bike and a Christmas tree in the play ‘Three and Two, Please” (Sunday, 10-10:30 p. m.). BARRY JONES, Elsa Lanchester and Richard Derr will star in ‘“Mir- acle at Lensham,” a Yuletide story of how a visiting American motion picture star brought prosperity to a run-down little English town on the Robert Montgomery show Mon- day night at 9:30. THREE STARS, Roddy McDowall, John Laurie and Rex Thompson head the cast for “Raiser Aluminum Hour” drama of two young brothers in love with the same girl. Set in a small Welsh town, the story is related by Sache (Rex Thompson), 11-year-old crippled brother of the two young men who love Gwyneth (Joanne Linville) Tuesday, 9:30 p. m. © OLD LADY SHOWS HER MED- ATS—By overwhelming requests, “The United States Steel Hour” will bring back Gracie ¥Fields in (Continued on Page 3) 7 SAVE UP TO JANUARY 10, 1957 . . . Main Highway, Shavertown, Pa. AND DON'T FORGET TO JOIN OUR 1957 VV CV VV VV Vv VO VO VY CY VY Huntin & f ishin’ with “SQUIRREL” This column is made up of comments of the writer and area sportsmen and from ma- terial taken from contacts with the Pennsylvania Fish & Game Commissions. Area Deer Hunters Have Successful Season . . . BASIL E. FRANTZ, Kunkle, down- ed a 5-point buck weighing 122 pounds on the third day of the season at Centermoreland 2 minutes before five o'clock. With the ex- ception of two years, Basil has killed a deer every season since he was sixteen years of age. The 5- pointer brings his total to 22 deer. BARRY ENGLEMAN, 14 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Engle- men, Noxen, bagged a nice 4-pointer in Root Hollow on the first day. It was his first buck and weighed about 125 pounds hog - dressed. Barry was hunting with seven com- panions who were staying at a cabin GEORGE WILLIAMS, 15, Trucks- ville, shot an 8-point buck in the area near Lovelton on the first day at 7:30. He was hunting with a party of six who were staying at the cabin owned by Bob Hislop. JIM COOKE shot a spike buck on the second day of the season at noon near Orange. FRED DODSON, Dallas R. D. 1, shot a 4-point buck on the first day in Potter County. He was stay- ing at “Cooney” Honeywell's cabin near the Sinnemahoning Dam. GUY ZERFOSS, JR., Trucksville, hunting with his father and broth- ers Donald and Charles on his grandmother’s farm, the Alice Ed- wards place in Mooretown, got his buck the second day of deer season shortly before sundown. This makes his third deer. X CARL GORDON, 19, hunting at noon on opening day on his brother Gordon's farm at Broadway, bagged a 6-pointer, weight about 127 pounds, his fourth buck in five years of hunting. In the party were his father, Lawrence Gordon, Eugene and Bert Gordon, Harold Post, and Joe Long, Speed Elston, Jimmy Croop, brother-in-law Ronald Ken- ney, and his father Freas Kenney. ROBERT KREIDLER of Noxen shot an 8-point buck near Moore- town. ROBERT TURNER, 16 year old hunter of Noxen, shot a buck in that area the first week of season. ROY NEWEL, 17, of Noxen, also downed a buck in his home area. THOMAS BEAN, 14, of Noxen, bagged a buck at 20 Limited, South Mountain, while hunting with his father, Elvin Bean. RONALD SWINGLE, 17, of the ‘Noxen area shot a buck on Rope’s Mountain. STEVEN TOMKO, 14, shot a buck on South Mountain. He is also from the Noxen area. CORIC TURNER, Noxen, downed a buck at the Ide Farm, Harveys Lake. It’s A Sad Story, I Missed One . . . Just as we passed through Terry- town last Saturday morning, en- route for a day of deer hunting at Spring Lake, my hunting buddy and I spotted two deer standing in a field. One was a buck! Till I got the car stopped, fumbled around in my pockets for shells, and finally got my gun loaded, the deer had started to move off down through the field. My buddy got in two quick shots, while I, slower on the draw, only got one. To my knowledge, the buck is still running. I try to console myself that, after all, the buck was about 175 yards away, had a small rack, was a small deer, and anyway I didn’t want to kill one that early in the day, but somehow this kind of reasoning didn’t help me any. I still felt like kicking myself all over the field. I also heard of another hunter who had bad luck. George Hayner, Beaumont, whose name I won't mention, missed one last week. It seemed that the barrel on his gun had a curve in it! Better luck next time, pal. Believes In Starting ’Em Right . . . “Torchy” Wilson, proprietor of the Noxen Inn at Noxen, believes in starting his boys out the right way in hunting deer. Both of his boys, one a 12-year-old, have high-pow- ered rifles. I would like to thank “Torchy” and his wife for the information they have given me on local deer kills made by hunters in the Noxen area. Mail That Big Game Kill Tag . . . Many of the required big game kill reports on bears taken in the recent season have been received at the Game Commission’s Harrisburg: office. But a large number are yet to arrive. All successful antlered deer hunt- ers are urged to mail their 1956 er returns home, the kill card shall be mailed within ticular big game season. Aside from this, the Game Commission gleans ports which help determine Penn- sylvania’s big game management > § Barnyard Notes Yesterday as Clifford Fink, The Dallas Post's superior pressman, was putting the finishing touches on Wyoming Seminary’s attractive Christmas Opinator, I was impressed with the great changes that have come about since we first started printing’ the Opinator more than 24 years ago. The beautiful, two, three and four color covers are still cut from linoleum: blocks by art students under the supervision of Miss V. Helen Anderson, who is probably one of the outstanding artists in this field to be fqund in any secondary school. My mind recalled the many fine young editors—both boys and girls—who have edited the Opinator over these years and even before that time during my student days. I can safely state that more than fifty percent of them are now the outstanding young and middle-aged leaders in Wyoming Valley, one is a Broadway theatrical producer, another is a top-notch author and professor at Williams College and I could go down the list with the names of men and women who showed great promise during their student days and have lived up to that promise in their later life. Wyoming Seminary is a great institution—second to none except in age and snobbishness. Let me point you a few facts. This year more than $52,461 in scholarships was given to 142 students in the College Preparatory Course. These awards were made under the terms of the will of the late Kathleen M. Hunt. In addition six Hunt scholarships, totalling $1,510, were awarded to eighth grade students, five to students in the School of Business, and four in the School of Music. Sixteen other scholarships throughout the schools totaled $4,200. I am not aware of any similar scholarship fund in any other private secondary school in the country. Despite the fact that the school is sponsored by the Methodist Church, those scholarships are granted without regard of race, color or creed. The capacity of the College Preparatory Department is 500 stu- dents. In order to balance the Classes and maintain the 500 enroll- ment, Dr. Ralph W. Decker, president, has set up a schedule as fol- lows: Freshmen, 119 students; Sophomores, 119 students; Juniors, 136 students; Seniors, 136 students. There are seven sections of seventeen students each in the Freshman and Sophomore Classes and eight sections of seventeen students each in the Junior and Senior Classes. : At this early date there are lopenings for the 1957-58 term for only eighty-seven Freshmen; four Sophomores; forty-seven Juniors and six Seniors. Wyoming Seminary has come a long way since the days of its beloved late president, Dr. L. L. Sprague; but it still adheres to the finest ‘traditions of scholarshrip and democracy that make it respect- ~ed and honored wherever its alumni take up their responsibilities as citizens. i All of us know the answers to the simple questions of life, but few of us, will admit that they apply in our case. —) — If a man has learned to use his brain, he can work while riding in a bus, waiting at a station, or listening to a dull speech. That is, he can think up new ideas, make decisions, or review recent events. If I couldn't write, I doubt that I would be heard since the women I know talk so much and listen so seldom. From Pillar To Post . . . by Mss. T. M. B. Hicks With days growing shorter and shorter, and weather about to take a. long slide toward the zero mark, now is the best time in the world to begin thinking about daffodils. ; Less than three months until the first crocus. Three months to the day for the first bluebird. And only two months until the first frost-bitten robin. Can you believe it? Winter isn’t here yet, but spring is on the way. Folks who live in Florida or California can’t possibly have the same feeling about the first tender green shoots of winter bulbs, and ‘that sudden, overwhelming bouquet of purple and white and yellow blooming bravely in a snow bank. For crocuses, you need perspective, and a sense of proportion. One day, there is a melting drift. The next day there is a crumb- ling of the soil, a hidden motion far beneath. 4 And the very next day, there stands the plump little spear, tender but oh, so hardy, holding within its tightly clasped hands the promise of color, preserving its secret until the sun warms it, retreat- ing into itself when the snows pile up again around it, but never deviating from its purpose. swift burst of gold, tulips following daffodils in a dazzling riot of color, The grudging spring of the far northwest starts in January with so slowly that its progress cannot be noticed. In that climate, winter is akin to spring, and summer is cool and springlike, moving imper- ceptibly into fall. It is always cool enough in summer to permit fire- place fires in the long evenings. Seasons should provide contrast. The flaming tapestry of fall, the peace of winter's snow, a time for the world to draw its breath before life crowds in upon it, cool dawn after a hot night, sunshine after rain, a refreshing shower after a long drought, the misty grey of fog along the seashore, clouds lying upon the mountain-tops, the flashing brilliance of an ice storm made incandescent by a shaft of sunlight piercing the sullen snow clouds. A climate that boasts eternal summer may offer an easy ex- istence, but existence is not life. > Life presupposes challenge. And constant change is the very essence of challenge. Maybe it will ‘be a long cold winter. But spring is on the way. corner of the flowerbed, waiting for February 26. It never fails. We're Tops For Heating Comfort PRINTED METERED DELIVERY FOR SPEEDY SERVICE CALL . . . VAlley 2-2188 R.A. DAVIS 18 Scott St. Wilkes-Barre
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