SECTION A — PACE 2 THE DALLAS POST ESTABLISHED 1889 “More than a mewspaper, a community institution” 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¢. When requesting a change of address subscribers are asked to give their old as well as new address. Allow two weeks for changes of address or new subscription to be placed on mailing list. 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Advertising copy received after Tuesday 5 P.M. will be charged at 85c per column inch. Classified rates 4c per word. Minimum charge 85c. ads 10¢ additional. Unless paid for e* advertising rates, wz can give no assurance that announcements ot plays, parties, rummage sales or any affair tor 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 Publisher—ROBERT F. BACHMAN Associate Editors—MYRA ZEISER RISLEY, MRS. T. M. B. HICKS : Advertising—LOUISE C. MARKS Photographer—JAMES KOZEMCHAK Editorially Speaking: THE QUESTION 7 Just about everything in this country has been get- ting bigger. This trend, the economists confidently tell us with hardly a dissenting voice, is not only sure to continue but to accelerate. They blueprint a future. of ever-increasing incomes, ever-improving living standards, the mass enjoy- ment of luxuries which would have been beyond the imag- ination of man not long ago. We are on the verge of explosive break-throughs in physical sciences. The age-old mysteries of space are being - fathomed, and soon will be mysteries no more. The mir- acles of nuclear physics are at hand. Longer, healthier, happier lives for all are promised. And we are not alone. ~All over the world, peoples and nations are sw&pt along, “to varying degrees, in the same tida. 3 ; This is fine. Almost everyonel wants more money, ¥ Rore of tthe things tMat moun ‘can JJuy, more of what we . know by the word | “progrés”. py Yet a nagging question arises — the biggest unan- swered question that confronts the changing world. While just about everything is getting bigger, is the greatest resource of all getting smaller? That resource is the in- ~ dividual. Not just people in the mass, but individual - people—each different, each unique, each a spirit as well as an appetite. Is the individual in very real danger of - being dwarfed by the bigness around him, and of being “reduced to a statistic? It’s easy enough to say that it can’t happen here, even though we have all seen it happen in vast reaches of the earth. Easy enough, but untrue. This nation was founded on certain concepts—the fullest freedom for all, an unflag- ging sense of the spiritual nature of man, a passionate regard for the worth of every individual human being. But these, like all other concepts and philosophies, will wither away to nothingness unless they are eternally prized beyond all else and faithfully protected. They must . be supported in absolutely specific ways. They demand the highest degree of individual independence and respon- sibility. If, for instance, we give to government the in- . itiative and the power to regulate and dominate our lives in the name of security, the ultimate end will be the se- ' curity of the penitentiary. Power once granted to govern- ~ ment must always be balanced against a greater power in the hands of the people. We pride ourselves on ~ But pride can result in a deadly blindness. Other nations, our material achievements. ~ whose concepts are utterly opposed to ours, are producing their own wonders. Communist Russia and Communist China, so to speak, moving mountains. The whip and the ~ chain, used with dedicated ruthlessness, can also get out ~ the goods, while the soul of man dies. It took centuries of turmoil, war and revolution to establish the rights of man—the rights of the individual. They can be lost overnight by sins of omission no less than sins of commission. A people whose eyes and minds are fixed on material ends alone will not long remain a free people. They will become merely instruments of power. * There is no foreseeable limit to what we, through our economic, social and political organizations can achieve. It will be the ultimate irony if, in the light of this, we sur- render the individual to material bigness — whether in * government or anywhere else. We never had a more urgent need to uphold age-old principles and convictions that make for the only worthwhile kind of progress—con- ~ fidence in something, faith in ideals, fairness, the determ- ination to defend what one believes to be right. Walt Whitman wrote, a century ago: “The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual—namely to You.” Man in the mass must never hide the face of the individual man. SAFETY VALVE APPRECIATES PUBLICITY Dear Editor: Please accept my personal thanks and that of the Board of Manage- ment for the wonderful publicity you have given the Back Mountain YMCA «in your paper, The Dallas Post, during the past year. It was an excellent medium of . conveying our program to the peo- ple of the Back Mountain area. Seasons Greetings to you and the staff of the Dallas Post. Sincerely, George B. Pickett x Executive Secretary Sa of Back Mt. “Y” Harveys Lake Pack Has Christmas Party [Cub Pack 531, Harveys Lake, held its Christmas party at the Sports- man’s Hall in Noxen with Cub- As- sisting were Myron Williams, Boy Scout Dean Games were played and the Christmas tree was trimmed by Den Mothers, Mrs. Lillian Sarmonis, Mrs. Ruth Patton, Mrs. Grace Keiper, Mrs. Arline Tra- ver, Mrs. Jean Denmon. Gifts were exchanged and refresh- ments served. Cub Scouts present were Peter Sarmonis, Allen Keiper, Ricky Ruff, Thomas Keiper, Terry master Mal Nelson presiding, committee chairman and Shaver, treasurer. FATAL AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS AND INJURIES SINCE JANUARY 1, 1957 Hospitalized Killed Dallas I 1°}. 1.1 Dallas Twp. | . 8 | 3 | Franklin Twp. | 4 | 1 | Lake { 2.412 | Lehman Twp. | 38 | i Kingston Twp. |. 12 | 3 Monroe. =». 2]. 2 Noxen | Ross foal 8 “Total I 24 | 44 EMERGENCY PHONE State Police .......... -. BU 17-2185 Looking at -V With GEORGE A. and EDITH ANN BURKE EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION — Within 10 years, at least half the nation’s students on every grade level, will have had at least some exposure to education via television, says Dr. Edwin P. Adkins, coordina- tor of “Continental Classroom’ the early-morning atomic age physics course. Dr. Adkins expressed his views on education via television to news- men at a press conference Thursday, December 18. Asked if increased use of TV edu- cation would prove an answer to the teacher shortage, Dr. Adkins said: “Definitely not. There is no substitute for the teacher in educa- tion. The academic life, association with and learning from others, is still a vital part of the education process and our present program was conceived to aid teachers them- selves. We're trying to put into the hands of the high school teacher, ! the latest information on his or her field.” Designed primarily to effect an improvement in science education in the country’s schools, the nation- wide physics course is produced by NBC, in cooperation with the Amer- ican Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and financed by the Ford Foundation and the Fund for Advancement of Education, with supplementary assistance from the Bell Telephone System, the General Foods Fund, International Business Machines, the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Foundation, United States Steel and the Standard Oil Company of Cali- fornia. Seeing the number of people in- volved in sponsoring this television course it must have taken consider- able ‘managing to set this program in operation. THE VELVET ALLEY is the title of the Rod Serling’s story that will star Art Carney on ‘Playhouse 90” January 22. Leslie Nielsen, Katharine Bard, Jamk Klugman, Bonita Granville, George Voskovec and Alexander Scourby make up the outstanding east. In “The Velvet Alley,” Serling’s first teleplay for “Playhouse 90” this season, the three-time winner traces the career of a writer, Ernie Pan- dish, played by Carney, from impov- erished beginnings through the “vel- vet alley” of wealth, fame and ruth- lessness. Katharine Bard plays Pat, the writer's wife. Miss Bard, incidental- ly, also played Art Carney’s wife in “The Fabulous Irishman,” the story of Dublin’s Lord Mayor Briscoe on “Playhouse 90” last year. JOHN COMPTON, star of the new ‘| NBC series “The D.A.’s Ma.n” which made its debut on Saturday, Janu- ary 3 is a bachelor with a vegetable garden and some bee-hives. His bees helped to get him his present TV assignment. Compton — with some 200 bee stings covering his arm—sat in the office of Jack Webb (producers of the series) for an interview. Webb had noticed the swollen and lumpy forearm and asked John what hap- pened. Compton rolled up his shirt- sleeve and revealed the rest of the stings. He explained that some of his bees, which he raises on a ranch near Santa Barbara, stung him. Webb said: “If you can take that, you ‘can take anything. You're hired.” He was born John Compton Tolley on June 21, 1923 at Lynchburg, Tenn. He is a bachelor and lives in a small house in the Hollywood Hills. He owns a 40-acre alfalfa ranch North of Hollywod and is part owner of a million honey bees on a ranch near Santa Barbara. He dabbles in real estate on the side. One of his ambitions is to get rich producing royal jelly. ; Shook, Lowell Patton, Robert Mun- katchy, Dennis Evans, Brent Caster- line, Lynn Denmon; Boy Scouts Richard Sarmonis and Osbert Pat- ton. Guests present were Mr. and Mrs. William Evans, Mr. and Mrs. Os- mond Casterline, William Hollos, G. A. Shook, Otto Sarmonis, Mrs. Flor- ence Ruff, Mrs. William Munkatchy, Mrs. Mal Nelson, Larry Denmon, Linda Evans, Darlene Casterline. About 3% of our national income goes to elementary and secondary education today in the U. S. Russia is currently spending 11% to 12% of her income for this schooling. THE DALLAS POST, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1959 SUCCESSFUL INVESTING... by ROGER E. SPEAR Investment Advisor and Analyst 1959 SHOULD BE A GOOD YEAR FOR STOCK SPLITS— SOME CANDIDATES LISTED Q. F. S., Massachusetts, asks “just what is a stock split and why does it make a stock move up? I own Great Western Financial which just split 2%-for-one and the shares rose 14 points, although there was no dividend increase. I would appreciate seeing a list of stocks that may be split in the com- ing year.” A. A stock split occurs when a corporation gives each shareholder an increased amount of shares, the par value of which has been cor- respondingly reduced. A 2%-for-1 split, as in Great Western, will give you 1% additional shares for each share you hold but will not increase your proportionate interest in the corporation. Of itself,a stock split is of no benefit to a shareholder since it simply gives him two or three pieces of paper in the place of one held before. There are three reasons why a | stock moves higher when it is split. These are (1) splitting the shares brings the price of the stock down to a lower ‘and much more popular level, (2) a stock split is usually accompanjed by a divided boost and (3) a split announcement gets wide publicity and brings new buying power into a situation that has hith- | erto been neglected. In the case of Great Western, no dividend raise is intended so factor (2) does not apply. However, at present levels the indicated price of the split shares will be in the low 30’s, where there is more buying interest. And also, the split dramatized the fact that Great Western is a unique fin- ancial enterprise that enables vou to share in the profits from savings and loan operations in California. Hence the rise in price of the shares. I will be glad to give you a list of candidates for stock splits in the year ahead. Before I do so, I would like to give you a word of warning. Don’t buy stocks solely on the grounds that they may be split. And I would be very careful about buy- ing any issue that has run up sharp- ly in anticipation of a split. Now for a few likely split candidates. Two Rubbers Are In Line Two of the four major companies, Firestone and Goodyear, are about due to split their shares again. Both took similar action in 1955 and 1951. Whether or not they split, both stocks are excellent growth purchases. A particularly good can- didate for a split would be Bell & Howell. This company is a leading manufacturer of high-quality movie cameras and still cameras. There are only about 655,000 shares of stock outstanding, much of it closely held. I believe this is a good stock to own, and if it splits, it will be an even better one at a lower price level. Some Lesser-Known Candidates Among lesser - known companies that may take split action, I would include American Photocopy. The company makes equipment for re- production of single’ copies of ma- terial. This is a very fast-growing segment of the office equipment field, and American Photo has been growing rapidly with it. Earnings have moved up steadily since 1952 and were up 23% in the nine months ended last August 31. There is a relatively small capitalization and with the stock up now in the 70's, a split looks logical. This is a very good little growth stock, whe- ther or.not it splits. Now that Warner-Lambert has decided not to merge with Reynolds Tobacco, I like the prospects of a stock split in this situation. Like American Photocopy, Warner has never split its shares. The company is a very aggressive unit in the/field of cosmetics and has increased its position in ethical and proprietary drugs. There has been a steady rise in ‘earnings and dividends here since 1951. You can buy this issue as a sound = growth holding, with a chance to improve the market value of your holdings if a spit should eventuate. In the same general cat- egory, I would include Merck, a mighty good stock to own. Merck split 3-for-one in 1951, 2-for-one in 1949 and 3-for-one in 1941. Looking at its rising earnings and high price level, it seems to me that history may be about to repeat itself. (Send your investment questions to’ Mr. Roger E. Spear, c/o this paper.) BACK MOUNTAIN CHURCH _ BOWLING LEAGUE First Half Standings: Team Points Shavertown B ..........._....._. 44 Lutheran i 0 tail ars 39%, Shavertewn C oi. ini. 38 Pallas Boos ogg ire 35% Carverton B..... 0nd] ..35 Dallas) A oti 32 Trucksville 'B: «i... non 32 Priucksville: Con ann ow 31% Lehman i% i rE 3 Trucksville A... oo ony 30 Oranges. han L...29% Huntsville Christian 24 Shavertown A 5. 5 23% Mount Zion Carverton A East Dallas Season high Dallas B, series: 2859; Dallas B, 2851; Trucksville A, 2776. High single game: Dallas B, 1006; Trucksville A, 982; Shaver- town A, 978. Individual series: Willard Lozo, 672; Al Sheckler, 627; Rambling Around y THE OLDTIMER First motion picture this writer attended in Dallas, which was the first local one he ever heard of, was shown about fifty years ago in the Grange Hall on Lake Street across from the Wardan Cemetery. For better exclusion of light the shaded windows were . covered with news- papers. Light for the projector was provided by a white-hot arc sup- plied by two tanks of some kind of gas. The machine was hand operated and after each reel there was a short intermission while the film was rewound. There were plenty of sputtering sounds from the light and some scraping from the machine running but no sound track or color. The writer recalls little of the program which had travel scenes and slap-stick comedy excepting that one picture’ of a battleship, probably the Oregon, or maybe the cruiser Olympia, was very effective. At the time the writer had never seen the ocean or a warship and the picture made a lasting impres- sion, For some years thereafter all such entertainment had to be enjoyed in the city, or in everyday language going to town. Wilkes-Barre offered much better theatrical amusement than now. The top ranking house was the Grand Opera House in the first block of South Franklin Street although the writer never heard any opera there. The program included trial runs of plays headed for Broad- way, one night stands of touring companies playing Shakespeare and other well known dramas, and sim- ilar = offerings. Wilkes-Barre was ranked as a good show town. There was always a theatre play- ing a full time stock company, sometimes more than one. Players would have other plays in rehearsal while one was playing so that the program could be changed about once a week, more or less, depend- ing on audience reaction. The Poli on South Main Street was the top theatre with this kind of shows. Some houses offered full bill of vaudeville with orchestra. Part of the time there was a live burlesque show running on South Main Street which' by ordinary movie standards today would prob- ably be very tame. = Since paying street car fare of thirty or forty cents a person plus the price of theatre tickets would run into a couple of dollars many local young people patronized the movies. Top movie house, then con- sidered very elaborate, was the Savoy on the Square, adjoining the location of the present Paramount. Another on the same side toward South Main Street was called Dreamland. There was another call- ed the Bijou. Additional houses opened from time to time. Theatres were supplied with films from a film exchange which rented films in round cans like library books are rented. The first Dallas show was put on by one of the employees of the ex- change trying to make a dollar on the side. Leaving Dallas on the 7:20 p.m. car, enjoying a show, having a snack to eat, returning on the 11:20 p.m. and arriving home at midnight was then as satisfactory as now making a trip to New York to see My Fair Lady or The Music Man. For a whole generation of Dallas youngsters, movies means Himmler. Not long before .the depression struck us, Wes Himmler built the first movie house in the vicinity still in use on Lake Street and called by his name. He showed good pic- tures with the program changing about three times a week. He had wide patronage from surrounding areas especially on Friday and Sat- urday nights, even running two shows a night. He therefore moved back the stage and screen end with a substantial addition. _ In recent years the house has been owned and operated by A. C. Devens. Patronage having dropped in the early days of the week, shows are offered now on Friday and Sat- urday nights only. Before the days of sound tracks most movie houses had pianists who vlayed background music as the picture developed. It is said that one of our local ladies, residing not very far from the Post, who can sit down at any piano, anywhere, any- time, and play anything, usually without any music, acquired her skill playing in the movies some forty years ago. Old Band The Oldtimer is glad to print the ‘ollowing correction regarding the old” Dallas Band. It was the out- srowth of an earlier band organized 1bout 1880 under the leadership of Charles H. Cooke and Fred M. Gor- lon. Members at the time included Zlmer D. Shaver, John Gordon, Hen- 'y Shaver, Joe Johnson, Irwin Rum- mage, William Neely, Charles Hall, Frank Schoonover, Robert Perrego, John F. Garrahan, Charles H. Cooke, and Fred M. Gordon. Ambulance Will Sponsor First-Aid Crew members of Dallas Ambu- lance Association will have a chance to take a First Aid course, beginning some time this month, time and place to be announced. Many drivers are available, but graduates of a recognized First Aid course are sometimes hard to find in an emer- gency. Residents who want to serve as members of a crew will increase their value to the association enor- mously if they have had first-aid. Roy Stair, 625. Individual game: Al Bellas, 246; Roy Stair, 245; Wil- lard Lozo, 245. ONLY YESTERDAY Ten and Twenty Years Ago = In The Dallas Post From the Issue of January 7, 1949 Harry Smith was elected presi- dent of Dallas Businessmen at its annual meeting Monday in the Lib- rary. Uniform store closing hours were urged. Natona Mills is now doing the fin- ishing processes for six plants of the parent Native Laces and Textiles. John McCusker, with many years of experience behind him, will be in complete charge of this booming project, and another man will be employed to manage the manufac- turing end. The new dress plant at Sweet Valley will open next month. Earl It tal tax doll supporte to § Barnyard Notes Four ducks and a guinea hen are weathering the zero weathe although it keeps me busy hauling water to keep their drinking pans thawed and the ducks happy. creature loves water in zero weather more than ducks! exceptions to the rule that man is the o beautifully with our chickens, it isn’t thirsty. I wonder why the hens la probably to embarass me wi trips to the coop. I miss Gr 1 go to close the coo of straw to Ba—the lamb. Sporting a thick cold, he gambols along his fence and offers rubbing. | of their appeal — now that man i Monk has the contract for heating, and started installation on Monday. Dallas Bank will expand. It has purchased the Ritter property from A. C. Devens, according to W. B. Jeter. The bank has grown to a size where present facilities will not handle the volume of business. The building was opened in 1932, and four employees handled the entire business: Mr. Jeter, then cashier; Fred Eck, teller; Harry Garrahan, now deceased; and Rosa Bennett, bookkeeper. It now takes nine peo- ple to operate. Senator Newell T. Wood’s walking horse Honey Gold is one of the top ranking show animals, according to American Horse Show Association. Donald M. Harris was inducted as président of Dallas Kiwanis at the annual meeting by Rev. Howard Harrison. John Maculis, 29, resident of the Dallas Fairground section of Dallas Township, was badly burned Tues- day morning in a mine explosion which killed two companions in South Wilkes-Barre Colliery. He is on the danger list at General Hos- pital. k Daniel Robinhold and David Jen- kins are dickering for purchase of Bloomsburg Airport, property of Senator Wood. Bruce Long has resigned from Kingston Township board of super- visors, and Arthur E. Smith, Trucks- ville Gardens, elected to fill his place. Lillian Oliver, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Rood, has been appoin- ted to supervise music at Bingham- ton Methodist Church. She will con- tinue giving music lessons at 40 Leh- man Avenue, spending four days in Binghamton each week. The Dallas Junior Woman’s Club marked its fifth birthday with a dinner for charter members at Lundy's. John Elias Evans, 56, Shavertown plumber, died at the office of Dr. Perkins when’ taken suddenly ill with a heart attack 'while.en route to see his son, T. Emerson Evans, in Trucksville. State reports indicate that home construction has passed its peak, but cold weather is not stopping local builders, who are keeping on with construction of many homes, includ- ing that of D. L. Edwards at Hunts- ville. F. Gordon Mathers is adding another unit to his business block on Main Road, Trucksville. From the Issue of January 6, 1939 Revision of the four rural routes based in Dallas may be made short- ly with one carrier reallocated to the Hunlock Creek RD. This would mean only three expanded routes starting from Dallas Post Office. Action is expected shortly. Lehman school district has broken ground for its new $100,000 high school building a PWA project. Con- tracts were awarded December 15. A bond issue of $55,000 was voted by the electorate, to supplement $45,000 offered by the PWA. Super- vising Principal Austin Snyder thinks the building may be ready by fall. George Shupp, owner-operator. of a Lehman school district bus, is dead at 62 after a lingering illness. The first fatality in ten years of operation of the Wyoming Valley Airport occurred Sunday afternoon when a small plane crashed from 3,000 feet, breaking every bone in a Plymouth man’s body. John Reg- alis, 42, apparently froze his con- trols. Mountain Grange expects to in- stall new officers at its Winter Pic- nic in Carverton Wednesday night. followed by a business meeting, at which Sheldon Gay will take office as Master. Grover Stock, Carverton, was re- elected chairman of Luzerne County Agricultural Conservation Commit- tee. Miss Mary H. Leach, Trucksville, died at her home following a short illness. She was a retired Wilkes- Barre school teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Otis Allen, Sweet Valley, are celebrating their 55th wedding anniversary. Mr. Allen, now retired, operated a general store in Sweet Valley for over forty years, was Postmaster for over thirty. Aunt Becky Monk, Mill Street, eighty years old on Christmas Eve, says New Year's Eve isn’t what it used to be. It used to be a watch- night service that kept folks up until midnight, she deplores. A special train for the James in- lauguration will leave D. L. & W. Station January 17 at 6:30 a.m. Plenty of rock-ribbed Republican boosters from this area will be aboard. 3 ‘ Mary E. Heltzel, Kingston, is we to Richard Mathers, formerly of Trucksville, now of Washington, D.C. The covered dish supper will be |- rockets—usurping God’s job of setting out the stars and hauling in the moon! When I catch the Big Dipper of a forty-ninth star in our flag. The Dipper, with its eight gold stars on a field of blue, made up Alaska’s territorial flag and will remain as that new State's flag. have given me this poem: The great North Star with vet no other name. just long enough so that the place made those ‘other days’ a long, to a high school student. Automobiles sank to their hubs Hayes ‘Corners! still make them? popper—Ilater to be covered with filled at dusk after school . . a country road? rise and fall of the stock market. Those were the nights when a 100 feet back of the house. Those were the days when studied briskly in the glow of an in Susquehanna County. Former Resident of Area Dies In Jersey @ity John Scovish, former“fesident of Sylvan Lake before moving five years ago to Jersey City, will be laid to rest this morning in the Parish cemetery, following funeral services from the home of his father Adam at Sylvan Lake, and a re- quiem mass at 9:30 in Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church at Lake Silk- worth, conducted by Rev. S. F. Banas. Pallbearers will be Stanley Rock, John Sikora, Fred Nichols, Charles Lesinski, Peter Gayeski, and Alex Rasinovicz. Mr. Scovish, 52, died Monday in Jersey City, a third heart attack proving fatal. He was born at Hudson, son of Adam and the late Sophie Scovish. Local survivors are his father, Adam; and a brother Frank, Hun- lock Creek RD. Seven brothers and sisters live in Jersey City, one sister in Wilkes-Barre, one in Nanticoke, and one in Newark. Arrangements by Bronson. Ambulance Meeting The Dallas Ambulance Association ‘board of directors will meet Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Dallas Borough Building. y more eggs when the temperatures drop to two above zero than they do when they hover around 50— ] ¢ th frozen eggs when I fail to make hourly | 3 anny—she has the hens metered! ] I miss my friend the skunk who no longer crosses my path when J ; p on winter nights or to toss an extra pitchfork = # Lo The stars are beautiful on crisp nights; but they have lost some Mr. and Mrs. Harry Post who spent a summer in the far north ALASKA'S FLAG Eight stars of gold on a field of blue— Alaska’s flag. May it mean to you The blue of the sea, the evening sky, The mountain lakes, and the flowers nearby; The gold of the early sour- The precious gold of the hills and streams; The brilliant stars in the northern sky, : 5 The ‘Bear’ — the “Dipper” — and shining high, Over land and sea a beacon bright, Alaska’s flag — to Alaskans dear, The simple flag of a last frontier. The poem was written by Marie Drake, an Alaskan school g Latest addition to our household is “The Little One.” She has She is a beagle hound, fat as butter, who has a taken over our place and captured the heart of Myra—even though - we already have two canine mouths to feed. Vo a There has been a terrible mixup in the Back Mountain's Beagle population this winter.- Hardly a day passes that we do not learn o - some Beagle that has strayed from home, or of some owner, who is Lm searching for his lost one. We never seem quite able to match the ™ right Beagle up with the right owner! = Why is it that every time I kindle a new fire in t 4 I am interrupted by the telephone and a long winded conversation— before I can get back to open the damper—that is always closed! Mi Do you remember the brisk nights when the shrill whistle of long ice trains shattered the winter stillness along the Bowmans Creek Branch? Thousands of car loads of ice were harvested every season at Ricketts and shipped to distant ice houses while other millions of pounds were stored for summer use in the big icehouses up Bowmans > Creek. That was only the “other day”’—but electric refrigeration has . = .. Those were the days when only the natives spent the winter © northwest of Dallas or at Harveys Lake—and only e hardy adventurer . would try to drive from Dallas to the Lake at breakup time in spring. . How long has it been since you have met a man wearing a hea overcoat—a top coat, yes—but I mean a bulky thick coat? Do the perfection of splitting kindling wood cr the wood box that had te = . or the singing of telephone wires along «= = I wouldn’t want to turn back the clock—but there was a lot of - Peace during winters at the turn of the century—when the biggest Co problems were how to keep warm, rather than preoccupation with - economic strife, the Russians, rockets, juvenile delinquency and the -~ - would have to crawl from under the warm covers that hid a feather- « bed—over a prickly straw tick—rub the beautiful frost pattern off the = window of an unheated bedroom to see if the moon was up, and 4 kerosene lantern in hand, run down the snow-filled path to the privy [gE we stood guard shivering just outside the crescent slit door. —And no- body needed Sominex or Nytol to put him to sleep winter nights when he crawled back in the welcome bed in his grandmother's farm home Black stockings, Knickerbocker pants, castor oil and the Youth’ Companion were symbols of an era that is past. : ie A KELLERGRAM : Where do mosquitos go in the winter? I wonder, and wonder, and wish that I knew, : For if they find some place that’s better than this Why don’t they go there in summer, too. = They are nly animal that drinks when wool coat, Ba fears no his warm nose for a quic is up there messing around with in the northern sky, I'm reminded dough’s dreams, its steady light, - Ro 4 h 17 « Nn fills with a thick blanket of smoke, long time ago I find, when I talk = 7 w; Re in the muddy roads just beyond Vy How long has.it been since yau tasted a steal broiled in a og BA ol handled wire toaster over glowing anthracite coal or gingerly 1ibbled cheese toasted on the end of a fork over.the coals of a kitchen range— or poured glistening wax candy to harden over a pan of pure clean snow. It was a treat that delighted the hearts of kids, and drov: dog to distraction when his jaws locked over a mouthful. Ra How long has it been since you heard the soft puff of popcorn = cooked in fat or: the sharp snap of kernels popped in a wire mesh m a stream of golden butter. =~ % Or when did you last taste an honest-to-God pancake, made with - genuine buckwheat flour ground between millsftones and mixed with buttermilk, to rise overnight in an earthenware batter jug? There was none of that bitter aftertaste of the synthetic variety. Does anybody remember the sweet clean smell and the smooth - coh a Fd bon we w a kid’s biggest worry was that fe = we we. GEE Sears Roebuck was a paradise of = 1] dreams and not a reality in a shopping center. Many a catalogue was, = oil lantern, while a faithful houn } a we Lo 8 we Dallas Women Lose Brother In Accident 7 { : ak The community extends its symps=. x an sister Mrs. Mildred Strittmatter on the loss of their brother Edward F.. Johnson, 71, of Albert's Corners; " who died last Saturday at Mercy. Hospital, Wilkes-Barre, of injuries suffered when his car struck. gs bridge early Thursday evening W& Blythburn. : fe. War 1, was unmarried. Beside Mrs. Ohlman and Mrs, Strittmatter he. leaves sisters, Mrs. Herman Mail- George Fogg, also a brother all of Wilkes-Barre. Dallas Couples Club Ham Supper Jan. 24 Dallas Methodist Couples Club will stage the fourth annual ham supper January 24, with serving from 5 to 7 in the church basement dining room. Mrs. Fred 1s is general chairman, Rob ‘and Donald Bulford Harry Lefko is ticket c! a: Bud Nelson handles publicity. Paul M., Ld jo os pad wl wrod - gr he Post fireplace,” = A “ i w To [oe athy to Mrs. Harry Ohlman and her i Wo Mr. Johnson, a veteran of World: ander, Mrs. Harold Young, and Mrs,
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