7 ARK PAGE TWO THE DALLAS POST “More than a newspaper, a community institution” ESTABLIS HED 1889 Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers’ Association A non-partisan, liberal, lished every Friday mornin progressive newspaper pub- g 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 sub: scriptions 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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National display edvertising rates 84¢ per column inch. Local display advertising 75¢ per column inch. Political advertising $1.10 per inch. Preferred position additional 10c per inch. Advertising deadline Tuesday 5 P.M. Advertising copy received after Tuesday 5 P.M. will be charged at 85¢ per column inch. Classified rates 4¢ per word. Minimum charge 85c. 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 — LOUISE C. MARKS Sports—DONALD CLARK Photographer—JAMES KOZEMCHAK SAFETY VALVE . .. DOG ‘LICENSES Dear’ Editor: There were 30,000 people who licensed their dogs in Luzerne Coun- , ty in 1957. When you buy a license for your car and pay taxes on your gasoline you get good roads to drive on, police protection, -and other benefits. The benefit you get from licensing your dog is negative. It merely keeps your dog from being shot if he hasn’t got one. What be- comes of the 30,000 odd dollars taken in is not known. It definitely does not go for the good of the dogs, or their owners. : If everyone who licenses his or her dog in 1958 would send $1, or better still $2, to the newly organ- ized S.P.C.A. of Luzerne County we could maintain the best organized and finest society for humane work in the United States? If your dog is lost we will return it to you. . If your dog is hurt we will send our ambulance for it, care for it, and notify you. If you have a dog you cannot care for we will take it without charge, find a home for it, or have it merci- fully destroyed at the Shelter if you so desire. We will investigate and prosecute all cases of neglect and cruelty to any animal. / But we must have support for all this. We must have money to build Da CHIVALRY IS NOT DEAD "To the Dallas Post: | Having read in a recent issue of | your paper of the difficulties of a woman driver, who made a trip to ‘Nanticoke to pay her respects to a departed relative, and upon com- ing out of the funeral home couldn’t get her car to start, and when it did start getting it caught in a snow drift, and of the dozens of passing males no one offered assistance, in fact all to whom she appealed seemed to have no time to help or simply gave her a rude “no”, I would like to tell about my exper- ience this past week, the morning the fresh snow fell, again making driving rather difficult. 3 T ‘started to work that morning, wearing dungarees under my uni- (form, and also wearing my ‘Puss | in boots” golashes. I dressed so as to be ready to get out and shovel cinders if I should become stuck, for I leave for work rather early and the snow plows had not been | through yet. | On my way down toward West | Nanticoke, just below Ceasetown, I passed a station wagon, driven by a gentleman, with two other gentle- men passengers. | Before I reached West Nanticoke I noticed the road was nearly bare, and knew I would have no trouble A "FATAL AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS AND INJURIES SINCE JANUARY 1, 1957 Hospitalized Killed Se TTT Dallas Twp." | 6/1 2°] Franklin Twp. | 3 | Lake | 3 1 Kingston Twp. | 2 1 Monroe [x 1 Noxen Ross 1 Total | 17 |e MOTOR LAW VIOLATIONS Arrests Convictions Dallas } | Dallas Twp. | Franklin Twp | Total | RA 4-2121 Looking at T-V With GEORGE A. and EDITH ANN BURKE : SHIRLEY TEMPLE’S STORYBOOK feature of March 23 is the rags-to- riches story of “Dick Whittington and His Cat.” It is the orphan boy who went to London to seek his fortune and lived to become Lord Mayor of London for three terms. Although only 21 years old, Jack Dimond, who plays the role of Dick Whittington has made nearly 800 television appearances. In his role of Dick Whittington, he is supposed to be an enterprising young fellow with an eye for business. No less so is the real-life Dimond, who has into a paying business. His mosaic THE DALLAS POST, FRIDAY, MARCH 21 oe $ s ha Rambling Around io THE OLDTIMER | At the junction of two branches of Tobys Creek in the middle of town on the eastern side of Mill Street stood the old grist mill which was one of the busy places in earlier times and may have been one of the reasons a town grew up here. Within the writer's period of knowledge it was owned by Hay and Honeywell, then by Gregory and Heitsman, later Charles D. Gregory father of barber Charles B. Gregory, Mrs. Ruth Gregg, Mrs. Claude Shaver, and others. Mr. Gregory came to Dallas as a young man and lived on Cemetery Street where Frank Barry lives or maybe it was next door. Later he moved to the Rice house adjoining the mill barn where Charles Gregory now lives and where the family has re- sided for a long time, it must be sixty years. About fifty-five years ago the mill burned one night, but the writer completely missed the fire. In those nights of kerosene lamps and no electricity no one stayed up half the night listening to the radio, looking at TV, or reading books and maga- zines. Night was the accepted time for sleeping and there were no sirens to wake anyone up. Mr. Gregory was active in many local enterprises and kept the papers in his mill office and safe. Among the papers burned were all the records of Dallas Bor- ough School District of which he was secretary at the time. He rebuilt the mill which is the present build- ing across the street from A. C. Devens’ office. ¢ A couple of years later occurred the most spectacular fire Dallas ever had. The Highland House, a large three-storied wood structure which stood on top of the hill across the road from Dallas Township School was completely destroyed one Satur- day night. This stood on one of the highest points between Chestnut Ridge and Kingston Mountain, the night was clear, and the fire could | ' be seen for miles in every direction. ' | No comment was made among the ! ! spectators about any loss of life and | | dim recollection leads me to believe i the fire was not in the busy summer season. Next day the cellar wall | stood half filled with ashes, old pipes {and radiators, iron beds, hardware, | fused glassware and kitchen utensils | and dishes some of which surpris- turned a hobby of making mosaics | ingly enough were unbroken. The | Moreland, is honored on her eighty- i building was never rebuilt but the tables and wall engines Love been | spring oo ined gi sich was so popular he will open a shop to one Oo € major attractions was sell shortly in the Hollywood | open to Phiseey for years. When area. ast tasted by this writer it was ex- ASHLEY COWAN, who has tay bitter, maybe more so role of Gooley, the merchant's vil- | Fri in normal times from long lainous apprentice in “Dick Whit- | : : tington and His Cat,” has played in| : 3 . fire os scen The the 60 feature films and TV roles since: 2 oun Te ir his acting debut in 1941. He has never worn modern street clothes | Wardan SATS oumad porhars i for a ‘role. He has always been | Toe 2 pies ory ae Ty she garbed in period costumes or uni- 5 forms, In this telecast he wears | College Farm and was unoccupied at 43 1 + English | the time if my recollection is correct. te 2th Century Fnghy The College had already acquired the property or did shortly there- TTL AL | 11 EB MOON OF BAN, an | after and never rebuilt the house. original television play by James: Costigan to be colorcast by “Hall- > house was built of wood throughout, mark of Fame id Sn Mem | probably native pine for which the 130-11 p.m, EST), with Julie Har- | region was noted, and both build- ris, Christopher Plummer, | Like the Highland House the farm- | and maintain our Shelter; money to’ getting through. purchase an ambulance, to pay a man to drive it, to keep trained The snow falls always seem to be much lighter down that way. I decided to pull off personnel in the Shelter, care for and supplies for our little hospital; ' to keep records of all dogs brought | in and sent out, of all donations and expenses. In other words to run an efficient and helpful organization. . We appeal, not only to you who license your dogs, but to all who love animals to help us in this serious work which will be a service to the entire community. Aside from the benefit to the dogs themselves the removal of stray and injured | animals from the highway will pre- vent many a serious accident to | motorists and be a source of relief to all kind hearted people. Respectfully Those Who Care To become a permanent member of this organization dues are as follows: Associate $2 Active $5 to $10 Supporting $10 to $25 (or over) Life Membership $200 Junior Membership 50c Your contribution may be sent to SPCA, Box 68, Wilkes-Barre. A re- ceipt and membership card will be forwarded. Sign in a gas station—“Use Our ‘Easy Credit Plan — 100 percent down; Nothing Each Month.” the injured, buy food for the dogs, | the road and pull off my dungarees before going any farther, for I hated to show up at work wearing overalls under a white uniform, and didn’t want to remove them at the park- ing lot near the hospital where I work. I made my mistake when I tried to pull them off without | first removing my boots, for no | matter how hard I struggled they | simply wouldn’t come off. While I | was engaged in the battle of the ots, the station wagon with the three gentlemen passed, went down around the bend in the road and turned around and came back, stop- ping on the opposite side of the road from where I was parked. One of the men got out and came across the road to see if I was having trouble of any kind. Yes, I sure was having trouble, but nothing he could help me with. You can imagine how red my face must have been as I stammered “Oh, no, thank you, I'm just waiting here for my brother to come along, I promised him I would wait for him.” So you see, there are some well meaning, kind hearted, thoughtful men in the world. The trouble is, they don’t show up when you really need sthem. Or should I say they come around just when you DON'T need them. : RT. Do You Have Any Work For A POWER SAW? i * Trees Cut * Trees Trimmed * Fireplace Logs Cut Ask For Free Estimate On Work BERTI & SONS Jones, Frank Conroy and George Peppard co-starred, gets its title from a line in an earlier set-in- Ireland drama. In J. M. Synge’s “Dierdre of the Sorrows,” Dierdre’s young man is killed and she is left standing be- | side his open grave, and she says, “I see the trees naked and bare, and the moon shining, Little moon, little moon of Alban, it’s lonesome you'll be this night and long nights after....t2 The new Costigan play is set in Dublin in the time of “The Troub- les,” the Irish Rebellion of 1916-21. It is the story of a deeply-religious young woman, Brigid Mary—to be played by Julie Harris—whose faith is shaken by the deaths of her father, her brother and her lover. It deals with her struggle to regain her faith, her search for peace of mind, and the test to which her devotion is put when she is sent as nurse to an enemy hospital. OSCAR-WINING songs of the past ! will be sung by Bob Hope, Frank | Sinatra, Mae West, Tony Martin, | Jane Russell, John Raitt and Mitzi | Gaynor as the opening feature of the 30th annual Awards ceremony ! of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Wednesday, March | 26 (NBC-TV, 10:30 p.m.—12:15 a.m., | EST) ROCK ‘N’ ROLL hits Fort Baxter. | Opportunity seems forever destined | to knock at the door of Sgt. Baiol Bilko, and when rock ‘n’ roll singer Elvin Pelvin is inducted into the Army and sent to Fort Baxter, Sgt. ' Bilko is waiting for “opportunity” with both arms. (CBS-TV, Friday, 9 p.m. EST) PAUL TAUBMAN, musical direc- tor of “Dough Re Mi” was the suc- cessful bidder last week for one of the most famous stamp collections based on music. Taubman purchased at an auction the Theodore E. Stein- way ‘‘Music in Philately” Collection, which has been exhibited in many major cities of the U. S. Included in the collection are a Jan Paderewski stamp, with a pho- tograph of the pianist, as well as his signature; the Richard Wagner stamp, with the original title page (in Wagner's own handwriting) of “The Grand Festival March for the Opening of the Centennial Celebra- tion of the Declaration of Independ- ence of the United States of North America”; a Chopin stamp and a Phone ORchard 4-5731 || Franz Liszt stamp. Barry | . ings burned like kindling wood. Another fire which the writer did not witness was the! Davis home on i the lower side of Main Street below ! Brickels, a few houses up the street I , 1958 i ONLY YESTERDAY Ten and Twenty Years Ago In The Dallas Post T From The Issue of March 19, 1948 | Cancer Fund drive will start April 1, with Joseph MacVeigh, W. B Jeter, and Mrs. Fred Howell heading the campaign. February book circulation, reports Miriam Lathrop, Back Mountain Lib- rarian, is at the highest level since the library was opened three years ago, with college and high school students making good use of refer- ence works. Rotary elects unanimously these officers: Charles Wheaton Lee, presi- dent; Oswald Griffiths, vice presi- | dent; Dan G. Robinhold, treasurer; Donovan Ide, secretary. | Jackson Volunteer firemen collect | pledge cards amounting to $1,973. Louis Banta, wounded veteran of | World War I, is appointed Dolict| officer . by Kingston Township, to guard the Centre Street intersection in Shavertown. | An apartment above Salansky’s| store at Harveys Lake suffers $700 ' damage when an over-heated stove | ignites furnishings. | Harveys Lake Women’s Service Club celebrates its first birthday with a dinner at the Rex Dining- | room, and initiation of twenty-two | members. | aN Harrison, in the second. grade! at Lehman, has the part of | Pud in Wilkes-Barre Little Thea- | tre’s presentation of “On Borrowed ! Time.” Millard Kocher, Dallas, and Ferris | Fuller, also of Dallas, waive hearings | and will appear in court to answer | charges of reckless driving. i Charles Long prepares for his sec- | ond big auction sale of used farm machinery, to take place next Sat- i urday. . John Fowler Sr. of Orange, wins awards for his bantams at New York | Poultry Exposition. Dallas Junior Woman’s Club in- stalls new officers: Peggy Davis, : president; Mrs. Alva Eggleston, vice president; Mrs. John Jewell, secre- tary; Rita Cummings, treasurer; Mrs. Robert Garris, corresponding secre- tary. | Mrs. Jestie Schoonover, Center fourth birthday by a gathering of | friends at Center Moreland Metho- dist Church. | | Book Club welcomes thirteen new members. : Florence Jackson, Center More- land, is married to J. S. Greenley of | Tunkhannock RD 2. Howard Rinker’s home in Sweet | | Valley is badly damaged by ‘fire, | starting on the second floor from a' defective chimney. 4 P. M. Malkemes is appointed to fill a vacancy on the Kingston Town- ship school board, caused by resig- nation of Thomas Ayre, who has moved to Gettysburg. : From The Issue of March 17, 1938 A two-story annex is planned for Dallas Borough School, to take the place of the old frame building which was built sixty years ago as a private school, in protest against the inadequacy of public schools of the area. Dallas Borough came into being on the question of better edu- From | Pillar To Post . . . by Mrs. T M. B. Hicks This is National Library Week. There are a number of things about our own local library which may interest newcomers to the Back Mountain, questions which are often asked. Where is the library ? The library is on Main Street in Dallas, housed in two gracious frame buildings with wide porches and lawns. ; = Is it the Dallas Library ? No, it is not the Dallas Library. It is the Back Mountain Memor- ial Library, serving the entire area from Sweet Valley to Center Moreland, Trucksville to Noxen. Is it free? ’ Yes, it is free to any resident of the area. How does one join the library? Miss Miriam Lathrop, librarian, will make out a card for any responsible person. How many books may be drawn at a time? Any number from one thin volume to an armful. Is there any exception to this? Yes. Members of the Book Club, who contribute to purchase new books, have a shelf of their own which is closed to borrowers who ' do not support the Book Club. Books on this shelf are transferred to the regular shelves and available to all borrowers after members of the Book Club have had a chance to read them. What is the Book Club? The Book Club is a group of men and women who are interested in books. It meets in the Library Annex every third Wednesday at 2 pm. for a program and tea. Is Book Club membership open to anybody ? Yes, anyone may join the Book Club by payment of the yearly dues. Miss Lathrop has information at the Library. Do Book Club members have to attend the meetings? Many Book Club members do not attend meetings at all. They join because it is worth $3 a year to them to have access to the latest books. But the meetings are very interesting, and for new- comers in the area a fine way of making friends who have simila interests. . ; Are children welcome in the Library? Yes indeed. Miss Lathrop has a marvelous assortment of child- ren’s books. Some of them are on shelves, and some of them on low tables for easy browsing. The children’s section is right in the front of the main building. Children from the nearest school have regular + library hours. They go to the library under guidance of their teachers. This is a big help when they reach high school age where reference work is required, because they are taught how to use the library from the second grade up. What is the Memorial section? Many people feel that a beautiful book for the Library, inscribed in memory of a loved one, is a better tribute than flowers which fade after two or three days.| Memorial books are carefully selected in accordance with the tastes of the deceased, and are inscribed with the name of the donor. Some exceptionally valuable volumes are: for use only in the library, and cannot be taken out. How is the library supported ? The Annual Library Auction contributes the main body of the support. It is the high spot of the summer in Dallas, attracting visitors from many states. Without it the library could not exist. Does the State or the County contribute to support? No. This library is supported by its many friends. How can I help keep up the library? ; By joining Friends of the Library, and by helping with the Auc- tion. It costs $1 a year to belong to Friends of ‘the Library. There is no limit to the amount. Many friends contribute much more annually. This covers membership in the Library Association and entitles the subscriber to vote in the annual election in January. The Auction is where you meet everybody in the area. Ask to be put on a committee. It is more fun to work for it than it is just to bid on an article that attracts you. But everybody who works, also bids. It is impossible to resist. > When was the library founded ? It was founded in 1945. It has grown by leaps and bounds. It started in the main building; but soon had to expand to a building next door, to provide a meeting place for organizations and extra space for books. d 5 Is there plenty of room now in the library? It is bulging at the seams, and expansion is again indicated. Is there parking space? | Plenty: of parking space behind the library, reached by way of Huntsville Road and Rice Street. It is not yet hard-surfaced, and at this time of year it is smart to park on Main Street. Heavy snows have left the red ash pretty soft. The library belongs to everybody in the Back Mountain. Come and see what it offers. cation for children of what was at from where Pete Roushey now lives. The elderly Widow Davis was burned to death. A middle aged son, Caleb, (had left in early morning to his | work in the valley. He subsequently left town, There was no fire protection in | town at the time of the above fires. | The Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Com- pany was organized at a meeting | called by Council Président Roland ! Stevens in the old Raub Hotel which his father owned about thirty years ago, or a little more. Probably everyone remembers the fire at the American Legion Home { on Huntsville Street which occurred lin fairly recent years as well as the historic home fire in the Fernbrook area when one of the neighborhood women would not surrender the use of the telephone long enough to have the fire company called. SUCCESSFUL INVESTING... by ROGER E. SPEAR Investment Advisor end Asalyst READER IS ADVISED ON SOME GROWTH INVESTMENTS FOR A SMALL GRANDSON Q. J. H., Pennsylvania, writes: We wish to invest $1000 for our one-year old grandson. What do you think of Canada Dry which seems to be popular at this time. Naturally we want a growth stock. We have invested in Standard Oil of New Jersey, American Brake Shoe, Sin- clair Oil and Philadelphia Electric. We would appreciate your opinion of these stocks. A. As an income producer and as a stock that generally turns in a good defensive performance, I like Canada Dry. The market likes it too, for the same reasons and has that time called MecClellansville. Parents felt that their children should have something better than a backwoods schooling, and under- Read The Classified Column lined their convictions with cash to i finance a school, building it practi- cally next door to the township schoolhouse which had superseded | the original log structure. When | 90% of the pupils were attending the private school, leaving only a handful in the school which was still being supported by the tax-payers, the break was made with the Town- ship, and the foundation laid for a bitter feud which persists to this day. | Incorporators of the Dallas High School Association were: Leonard Machell; James Garrahan, Ira D. Shaver, William J. Honeywell, Theo- dore F. Ryman, Chester White, Jos- 'eph Atherholt, William Snyder, Joseph Shaver, Jacob Rice, James G. Laing, C. A. Spencer, A. Raub, George W. Kirkendall, and William P. Kirkendall. No protest is voiced by Borough Council against Wilkes-Barre Tran- sit Company’s proposal to abandon trolley tracks and substitute buses between Harveys Lake and the city. A barrel of cider extinguishes a fire in the Albert Ruff home in Noxen, when water runs low in the Harveys Lake fire department ap- paratus. ; ¢ Local farmers will attend a meet- ing at Lehman to discuss the cur- (rent 1938 farm program on con- servation. Mrs. Frances Finch, Main Street, Dallas, celebrates her eightieth birth- day. Three stores change location in Shavertown: Charles Gosart, Main . Street, purchases the Acme Store location; Acme will open a store in ' the building now occupied by Isaac | Brace; Mr. Brace will build a new i store and gas station on property New and softly pink... Stuns AR 12 napkins... 59¢ 3 See our display for free introductory offer EVANS "EXALL STORE SHAVERTOWN recently pushed the shares up mod- | originally used for the Quoit Club. erately to new 1957-58 highs. I don’t| Kingston Township High School feel, however, and here the market ' receives the football trophy in recog- is also in agreement, that there is | nition of Back Mountain champion- any real growth trend to be found ship. in a stock of this character. The | Kingston Township school board high recently registered looks good | collects $46,900 insurance on the but it exactly matches the high for grade school building in Trucksville, 1955-56 and is below the peak levels burned several months ago. No ac- YOUR SALADS WILL TASTE TWICE AS 600D MADE WITH ITS SLIMMING, SATISFYING, AND SO LOW IN CALORIES, of ten years ago. The fiercely com- tion is yet taken on construction of (Continued on Page 5) ‘a new building. : ORDER FROM YOUR PURYIN MIXMAN “a
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