I> RS on DALLAS, PENNSYLVANBA Buy Your Own Cannon, And Go Into Business For Yourself By RALPH WeDITT In a little Pennsylvania town near Bethlehem, there lived one of the usual small town characters, who got in everybody's hair. He was from across the tracks, so to speak, and not very bright, in fact he never got beyond fourth grade in school. His name was Andy Pervis. He grew up to be about eighteen years old, with an unsatisfied appe- tite for candy and ice cream, and having no occupation or visible in- come he bedeviled merchants and townsmen by constantly begging for nickels and dimes. He became such a nuisance that a group of the merchants around the public square in the center of town got together and made a job for the boy. There was a huge brass cannon in this park, near the flagpole, a relic of the Spanish-American War. The merchants made a deal with Andy, telling him if he would polish the brass cannon every day, rain or shine, six days a week, they would give him ten dollars a week, and he could collect from Mr. Par- minter, the village druggist every Saturday night. Andy accepted at once, since ten dollars sounded like a lot of money to him. Andy began work the following Monday and it took him almost all day to finish the polishing job on the cannon. The merchants fur- nished the polish and rags for the work. The cannon took on a spic and span new look and everybody complimented Andy on his good work, and he felt very proud of himself and was soon sporting a new pair of blue jeans. SWEDEN’S FINER ECONOMY CAR SAAB by the builders of JET AIRCRAFT Complete Parts Service Immediate Delivery KUNKLE MOTORS KUNKLE, PA. OR 4-2019 D. E. MEEKER WILLIAMS ELECTRIC SERVICE (Licensed Contractor) Adequate & Medallion Home Wiring for . Living Better Electrically With Full Housepower Commercial & Industrial Wiring Small Appliance Repairs 124 Pringle Street KINGSTON BU 71-3567 AUTOMATIZ HEATING Sales and Service will Install complete © MODERN Auntha-Glo AUTOMATIC COAL All went well for about five months, Andy never missed a day, and each Saturday night he went around to the druggist who was treasurer for the group, and col- lected his pay. Shortly after the end of the fifth month Andy turned up at the drug store on a Saturday night, with a clean shirt and a brand new pair of overalls. After he received his ten dollars for that week he said to the druggist, very sadly, “Mr. Parminter, well this is my last week, I'm quittin’ tonight.” Mr. Parminter was taken by sur- prise and asked Andy, “You've been doing such good work Andy, don’t you like the job?” Andy replied, ‘Yet, the job is very good, and has been steady too.” Mr. Parminter then asked, “Isn’t the salary commensurate?” “What's that?” said Andy. Rephrasing the question, Mr. Par- minter said, “Isn't the pay all right 2” Andy replied quickly, “Oh yes the pay was all right, and you ain’t never missed one pay day.” “Well then,” Mr. Parminter in- quired, “Just why are you quitting the job?” Andy hung his head and con- fessed, “You see it's this way Mr. Parminter, since I've been working so steady, and gittin’ all this money I started savin’ up, and today I bought ME a brass cannon and I'm goin’ in business for myself. Don’t you think that's a smart thing for a feller to do while he’s still a young man?” Clark Mosier Registers At Southern Prep (Special To The Post) Chatham, Virginia, August 25— Clark Mosier from Dallas, Pennsyl- vania will attend Hargrave Military Academy during the coming school session. The 17 year old basketball star coached ' by Clint Brobst at Dallas Area Joint Schools has chos- en to study a college preparatory course at this private school for young men. For his outstanding basketball ability Clark was awarded trophies in the Rodgers Basketball Tourna- ment. which his team won, and in the Bloomsburg Tournament, Class A, which his team also won. In the latter he was named to the All-Star team. The 6’ 1” Dallas point maker scored more points than any player on his high scoring team. In the Tunkhannock game he collected 28 points as his team lost. He was tremendous in the entire Blooms- burg Tourney, collecting 26 points in the championship game. Hargrave, which is located in the heart of beautiful Pittsylvania County, Virginia, is known for its work in preparing young men for college. The school also takes pride in its fine basketball teams and athletic program in general., After Hargrave, Clark plans to attend college. Save A Life—Drive Carefully For As Little As $10. Per Month — COAL or OIL Oil-%le AUTOMATIC OIL Bowling News By DORIS MALLIN The 1958 season began in ful swing this week at Crown Imperia: Bowling Lanes. Several leagues put this week’s games on record, other: were bowling for averages. Many bowlers got together for the first time since last season ended and everyone seemed enthusiastic about the coming games ahead of them. Most of the faces I saw this week were familiar, but a few were new and I wish them and everyone else lots of luck this year. I shall be glad to print news from all leagues. Have your secretary or some other member take down notes, high games, etc, and leave them at the desk at Crown Imperiai Lanes or send them to Bowling News in care of this paper. St." Paul’s Lutheran Brotherhood League starts tonight at 9:15. Natona Girls are back, but the leagueis bowling for averages an- other week. It will begin league play September 16th. The County League games went on record Tuesday night. Three teams are starting out in first place and three teams in second. Stull Brothers took 3 points from West Side Building; Dallas Dairy took 3 from Circle Inn; and Bocar Manu- facturing took 3 from Wilson and Son Lumber. Dallas Dairy team was high when it scored 727 pins in the second game; Stull Brothers had high total pins of 2013. ; Liz Weale and Ruth Stair went on record for high individual series with 458 each, while Mary Dim- mick led the high games with a 173. Other high games were bowled by Lorry ‘Selcher, 167; Liz Weale, 165; Flossy Lewis, 164; Ada Han- son, 161-154; Ruth Stair, 159-163; Tessie Rodriquez, 158; Tooties Den- mon , 156; Marie Ciccarelli, 156; Clara Shupp, 155; Alice Ide, 154; Myrtis Funke, 153; Mary Shook, 151. "It seemed to be the night for con- verting splits. Clara Shupp made a T7-6-10 split; Jean Wilson swept. off a 5-10; and Casey Selingo hit a 7-3. All the girls extend a welcome to three newcomers to the league, Ada Hanson, Tessie Rodriquez, and Lorry Slecher. Robert Ash Stationed In The Bahamas Robert Ash (he's Harold R. Ash in the Navy) is stationed in the Bahamas on Grand Turks Island with the Seabees, where he is en- gaged in special construction work, using the big machines he became accustomed to while working with his father, Harold Ash, of Shaver- town. Robert, 19, a 1957 graduate of Westmoreland, entered the Naval Reserves as a senior, and got his boot training out of the way before starting his two years of active duty five weeks ago in Brooklyn, and a week later at Cocoa Beach, Florida, next door to Cape Canaveral. He was sent to the Bahamas two weeks ago, where he will remain for two years. After that, he will be at home again, but in the active reserve, for eight more months. His address is: Harold R. Ash, CP, 516-90-56, MCB, No. 7, Mazey 104, Fleet Postoffice, New York, NY. 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Backs Drive Aga [Supporting a state wide drive against Litterbugs and thoughtless hunters and fishermen, Harveys Lake Rod and Gun Club, Inc., unani- You'll be pleasantly surprised and | mously approved the following res- aot a little amazed if you make a trip to the museum conducted in Pleasant Valley by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wiant. No present relics ? It’s a safe bet you'll develop one after a visit to the museum and a talk with the Wiants. The museum, located one and a half miles north of Patterson Grove Campground, houses a magnificent conglomeration of objects used by American Indians who lived in and vandered through the American Southeast. Mr. and Mrs. Wiant spent more than thirty-five years collecting their unusual display and in that ;ime developed not only a genuine iking for Indian relics but a back- zround of knowledge concerning Indian tribes which makes them authorities in that field. The bulk of displays which jam the three good-sized rooms which make up the museum consist of sev- eral thousand arrowheads of every size, shape and description, toma- hawk and axe heads, trading beads, wampum, and mortars and pestles which the Indians used for grinding grain. In addition, Mr. Wiant has mounted more than a hundred birds—mostly waterfowl, from the southern states—a beautiful collec- tion of moths and many small ani- mals. Friends, neighbors and visitors have added to the objects on view at the museum by contributing an- tiques and numerous Civil War relics. 2 The hobby of collecting Indian relics started in 1916 when Mr. Wiant joined the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries with which he was asso- ciated for thirty-four years. A good part of that time he was super- intendent of hatcheries in four southern states. His first job with the bureau was in Tupelo, Mississippi, and he spent most of his days off and weekends exploring the nearby countryside. On his walks he occasionally found arrowheads and over the years de- veloped a real interest in them and in 1925 he and his wife took up Indian relic collecting as a serious interest in Indian "| hobby, devoting all of their spare time to expeditions which. took them through all the rural and wooded areas of the south. The Wiants, unlike most Indian relic hunters and archeologists, nev- er excavated for their. treasures. They found all of them on the sur- face of the land which they covered meticulously. At first, Mr. Wiant says, it was a hit and miss proposition and he spent several years looking in the wrong places. Then by trial and error he and Mrs. Wiant came to know the signs which pointed to campsites and burial grounds which the Indians had used when the land was theirs. The hills, where Mr. Wiant says most people make the mistake of looking for arrowheads and the like, contain few relics. He found lowlands near creeks, the best places to search, with slight rises in the earth indicating the spots where the Indians had lived. In such spots the Wiants found perhaps ten thousand arrowheads and the many other items which they display. The arrowheads are beautifully mounted on velvet in wooden frames with glass covers. The color- ing of the arrowheads in each in-|will teach this winter. olution on Monday evening: “A re- ward of $25.00 is offered by the Harveys Lake Rod and Gun Club, Inc., for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a person or persons guilty of discarding gar- bage or trash in the Back Mountain area, or for hunters or fishermen wantonly destroying property, land or stock.” The yearly outing report was given by Malcolm Nelson, followed by an announcement of the prize winners of the day. First prize, George Thier; second prize, J. R. Smith; third prize, Walter Wesley. inst Litterbugs President Carleton Kocher thanked the committee for its efforts in making August 10 one of the most successful outings in the club’s his- tory. John Buck, Fish Conservationist for Luzerne County, spoke on the newly established Motor Boat Com- mission. He also spoke on the sur- vey of the North Branch of the Susquehanna River carried out by Fish Commission personnel. Mr. Buck concludes that there are at present enough boat launching sites between the New York State line and Falls, Pa. (Club turkey shoots are scheduled to get under way in late September. Dates will be set so as not to con- flict with activities of other clubs in the area. even arranged some to make pic- tures. ‘One striking display of heads makes up a bowl containing a bou- quet of flowers. The arrowheads are made of var- ious stones such as jasper and white quartz and even shark scales. The jasper heads, plentiful in the south, are highly colored and were used by the Chicksaw, Choctaw and Chero- | kee tribes. White quartz was a favorite of the Creek Indians of Alabama. Shark scales were used, of course, by the coastal tribes, par- | ticularly those who lived along the | Gulf of Mexico. | Finding a certain type or make of arrowhead in a particular spot, Mr. | Wiant says, does not necessarily | indicate which tribe might have lived or camped there. Indians were great traders and arrowheads, being their most valued possessions natur- | ally also their most traded objects. All tribes seemed to have a plenti- ful supply of each type head. Among the thousands of arrow- heads in the Wiant collection are | dozens of styles requiring intricate tedious work and craftsmanship on | the part of the Indians who had | only the crudest tools with which to fashion the heads. After thirty-five years of collect- ing and retirement from his Bureau of Fisheries job, Mr. and Mrs. Wiant returned in 1949 to Pleasant Valley, where both were born and raised. They found their collection was big- ger than their home could contain. In 1951, the Wiants constructed a building, next door to their home, in which to store their relics. It wasn’t long before friends -and neighbors began dropping in to view the collection and all were pleased with what they saw that each visi- tor suggested the place be opened to the general public. In 1956 the Wiants opened the museum to visitors with regularly scheduled hours on Wednesdays and Saturdays during the spring, sum- mer and fall months. From now until’ the weather gets too wintry it will be open on Sunday after- noons. But the Wiants, who live next door, are glad to show anyone through the museum at any time if they just stop to ask. The hobby of collecting Indian relics provided much pleasure for many years for Mr. and Mrs. Wiant and now both are deriving similar satisfaction in their new roles as curators of their own museum. Safe In Germany Mr. and Mrs. Ornan Lamb, Ma- chell Avenue, Dallas received a cablegram from their daughter, Janet, saying she had arrived safely in Frankfort, Germany, where she To celebrate, dividual display. Mrs. Wiant, who the Lambs spent several days this obviously has an artistic bent, has week in Williamsburg, Va. PAINT Buy B.P.S. 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Dallas had plenty of runners on base and in scoring positions but was unable to deliver the scoring punch when needed. Fosko pitched a good game and Manager Grose came up with some good plays around the keystone sack. Grose also led in hitting picking up two hits in four times at bat. Dallas was outhit 12-7 as Clem Kovalich, Molatoris and Winterstein came up with three hits each. It was a ball game all the way and Dallas had the bags loaded in the ninth only to have the rally nipped on a close decision at first. This Sunday will start the league play-offs: Dallas meets Hanover in the best-of-three while ‘Mocanaqua plays Pringle on the same basis. Winners will play to decide the play-off champs. Dallas has won the regular pen- nant twice in three years but never won a play-off, could be this is the year. Lots of good baseball left for you fans so watch your paper for time and place. Westmoreland High School News Introduction Hi! We're back again this semes- ter with one change: We're all in one building as Westmoreland Senior High School which includes grades ten, eleven and twelve. For a few weeks everything is going to seem strange to us, but time will soon mend this. Teachers and students will soon become well acquainted. Football and band practices, football games, assem- blies, dances, and most important of all our classes will help to hasten the acquaintance. As school commenced Wednesday, things were in quite the first day flurry. . Everyone. seemed a little frightened and even backward about the thought of school begin- ning especially since this is the first semester for the two Senior High Schools, Dallas-Franklin and Westmoreland, combined in one building. We imagine things were much the same way in our Junior High School at the Dallas Township building. We again will serve as your Sen- ‘jor High School correspondents and ask the help of everyone to supply information. If you have any school news, please make sure we get it! We are both seniors and hope we can make our column interesting. Summer Science Classes A few of our Senior High School students took time during their summer vacation to attend morn- ing - and afternoon science. classes instructed by Anthony Roan, biol- ogy teacher , and Thomas Carr, chemistry and physics teacher, at Dallas Township and our school. Many places of toured during the four-week period. Probably most thrilling of the tours were Avoca and Forty Fort Air- ports where approximately thirty students, two by two, went for an airplane ride while Mr. Roan sup- plied a little information concerning pilot instruction. Daring and His- lop Sausage Kitchen provided much interest as did the tour of Com- monwealth Telephone and Dallas - Post. As show of ap- preciation, a note of thanks was sent to those establishments toured. The class performed many lab interest werefl PAGE BEVEN Mrs. Florence Roberts Taken To Mercy Hospital Mrs. Florence Roberts, 45 Daven- port Street, suffered a stroke early Monday evening, and is on the criti- cal list at Mercy Hospital. Seized by a premonition, Mrs. Roberts tele- phoned to a neighbor on Davenport Street, Mrs. John Hopple, at about 4 pm. to say she was feeling ill. Mrs. Hopple summoned Dr. Galla- gher, and later that same evening, Mrs. Roberts became critically ill. She was taken to Mercy Hospital by the Dallas Community Ambul- ance, staffed by Leslie Barstow Sr., Leslie Barstow Jr. and Steve Hart- man. experiments, took long hikes through wooded area, made explor- | ations of creeks and ponds, an identified insects, leaves, etc. be Another whole day was spent a Nay Aug Park, Scranton, wher students visited the museum, 200, and planetarium. Many carefree Thursdays were spent at Harveys Lake as the students and their in- structors enjoyed the warm sum- mer sun and swimming off the Alderson dock. Gr Events as just mentioned made the science classes end almost too quickly. The students will agree on all the fun they've had and knowledge they've gained in thi science class informality. We wish | to thank Mr. Roan and Mr. Carr for their time devoted to the classes and making the science progre worthwhile to us. At the same time we want to thank Dallas Ro- tary for sponsoring the program. DR. BERGER EYESIGHT SPECIALIST Optemetrist ® EYE EXAMINATIONS Company | ® FITTING OF GLASSES © ZENTFH HEARING AIBS 27 Machell Avenue CALL ORchard 4-4821 SURE I ¥ WISECRACK ... } But, I get serious, too. And when it comes to facts, I stick right to '’em. I'll be seeing you regularly soon and hope get to be good YOU BRIKG I. TERIOR 208 EXTERIOR PORCH and FLOOR EXAHE. 4 . SECTION AND BRING IT IN! 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