8 SECTION A — PAGE 2 » THE DALLAS POST Established 1889 E Editorially Speaking: \ “More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution Now In Its 70th Year” Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association i National Editorial Association : A non-partisan, liberal progressive mewspaper pub- lished every Thursday 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: $4.00 a year; $2.50 six months. No subscriptions accepted for less than six. months. Out-of-State subscriptions: $4.50 a year; $2.75 six months or less. Back issues, more than one week old, 15c. 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 Monday 5 P.M. will be charged at 85¢ per column .inch. Classified rates 4c per word. Minimum if charged $1.00. 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 i Associate Publisher—ROBERT F. BACHMAN Associate Editors—MYRA ZEISER RISLEY, MRS. T. M. B. HICKS : : Sports—JAMES LOHMAN : Advertising—LOUISE C. MARKS Photographs—JAMES KOZEMCHAK Circulation—MRS. DORIS MALLIN Reaching Into The Past Life magazine recently ran a lavishly illustrated arti- .cle on the boom in the antique business. Apparently the dealers have never seen anything like it before, The prob- lem is to find enough supply to meet the surging demand. All manner of old Wares are eagerly bought, from knick- knacks that go for a few dollars to great rarities valued far into the thousands. Also, in late years, the book publishers have found an extraordinarily large audience for works of history. Books dealing with some historical periods—mnotably the Civil War—have appeared in torrents and have been enthus- iastically received. Many have become runaway best sellers. et Its hot hard to understand the reasons for this reaching back into the past. For one thing, we live in a disordered, violent, unpredictable world. The past provides a measure of assurance. And the past does much more than that. It is the source of a nation’s strength and principle. In yesterday, we may find the guides to tomorrow. The character of those who live is in large measure molded by those long dead—by their deeds, their thoughts, their arts and crafts, their victories and defeats. The past is pride, and it is hope for the future too. Price of Liberty Has Not Changed FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover observes that the / nation faces a dual menace — ‘the communist conspiracy attacking from within and from abroad, and a criminal conspiracy made up of the lowest dregs of the lawless who are attacking our statutory and constitutional safeguards.” He adds this all-important observation: “Our fore- fathers fought to gain liberty;our struggle in this, the nuclear age, is to maintain and perpetuate it.” Many Americans, perhaps even most, seem to think liberty is a fixed and eternal principle which can be taken for granted. SUCCESSFUL INVESTING... by ROGER E. SPEAR lavestment Advices and Asslyst Q. From Pennsylvania, “Would you kindly advise me on Curtiss- Wright stock ? We are an aged cou- ple, retired, with no income except from what dividends we get. Al- though Curtiss-Wright pays a pretty good dividend, our stock has dropp- ed $1500 in value. We would like to know whether we should keep it or not. We also own Bethlehem Steel. What is your opinion of this stock 7 If possible, recommend some rood dividend payng orowth stocks, not too high in price.” A, I don’t consider Curtiss- Wright a suitable holding for any- one who is not able to assume con- siderable speculative risk. The com- pany is an aircraft engine maker. Right through 1957 they made a great deal of money with their turbo compound engines but failed to get into jet engines in time to snare the big orders that the airlines were giving out in succeeding years. Chairman Hurley is a very able chap and he is making tremendous efforts to diversify the company’s business. Meanwhile, Curtiss-Wright is not sarning its dividend and it wouldn’t surprise me at all to see payments ~educed to $2 annually. It is very hard to advise you what to do about your holdines and the big loss you have. Even ‘f the dividend is cut back to $2 vour yield at the present price of 30 would be over 6.6%. I can’t sug- gest anv sound stock that will even approach that for yield. The quest- ion really comes down to how well wou sleén. Tf thie holding is worry- ing you, I think I would dispose of ‘t and attempt +o make up my loss in a better and stronger situation. Perhans you would be wise to sell half of vour holdings and keep some for the large income the stock af- fords. I don’t think the comvanv is going to collapse. but I can’t ree it doine much good for vou. either. ~ver the next year or two. Beth- lehem Steel in a strone stock and 1 wiuld certainly retain it. Twice-Tested Growth Stock You asked for a list of growth stocks, not too high in price, and I'm going to give you one. T recently had a study made in my office of about a thousand industrials to try and come up with a list that would satisfy some rugged requirements. First, T wanted growth stocks that showed increased- earnings in 1956, 1957, 1958 and 1959 and that seem- ed likely to do well next year. This was a very severe test and not too many companies passed it. The recession started in 1957 and low- ered earnings in many industries. 1958 was even tougher. I felt that stocks that passed this earnings test should do well even if the economy stumbles in the next year or two. I came up with about 50 stocks that passed the earnings test. From this group I eliminated all issues a : \ THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1959 Rambling Around By The Oldtimer — D. A. Waters (I) Amos: Brown, Sr. (1775 1847) and his wife Levinna (1785 '870) came from Connecticut and ‘ettled in Connecticut, Township o 3edford, later part of Dallas Town: ship and now Lehman. Their land adjoined that of Nehemiah Ide who came about the same time. Brown had over 91 acres, part of lots 45 and 46, resurveyed in 1810 ind covered by Pennsylvania pat- nt in Aug. 27, 1812. On the samc day he received a patent for ove 170 acres more, formerly held by Daniel Davidson. These properties were in the section bordering shat was left in Dallas Township. The ancestral home of the family was what is now the Hewitt farm adjoining the Ide Burying Ground Neighbors lived two or three miles away in the forest. They had two sons, Jeremiah and Amos, Jr., and three daugh- ters, Rachel, Annis, and Sybil Rashel and Jeremiah, always called Jerry, or Big Uncle Jerry, lived on the homestead to very old age without marrying. Annis died young. Amds, Jr. (1816- 1855) married Eleanor Baldwin (1815-1893) daughter of Jude Baldwin, pioneer settler at Hunts- ville. Sybil! married William Major, con of another pioneer, Thomas Major. : In 1818 Amos, Sr., was assessed with 87 acres, 2 houses, 2' oxen. and 3 cows, total $498. In 1821 he held the office of freeholder. There was at least one other Brown family in the vicinity, one member of which, Clinton Brown, was assessed - as a taxpayer in 1829. ° The Ide Burying Ground contains markers of several “Brown’”’ men and their wives, born in the middle 1800's, some before. Some members of other families still reside in the vicinity. (II) Amos, Jr.” and his’ wife Eleanor Baldwin had three Sons: Henry, who married Emma Nes- bitt, lived at Chase and later at Kingston, and had three daugh- ters, Elizabeth, May, and Carrie; Jeremiah A., known as Little Uncle Jerry; and Timothy, men- tioned more fully below. They also had two daughters: Leafie, unmarried, and Elizabeth, who married Fred Ruggles, a brother of Mary Jane Ruggles. (III) ~ Timothy Brown (1846- 16815), who was a farmer and carpenter, married Mary Jane Ruggles (1844-1937), daughter of Josiah Ruggles, member of another pioneer family. They lived near Lehman Center, adjoining the Baptist. Church. Their children were: Frank and. Lily, who died in infancy; George M. who died in 1935; Herbert, died 1937; Wil- liam Arthur who died this year at Kingston at the advanced age of 84; Eleanor J. Brown still living at age 87 in Philadelphia; and the best ‘known of all the family, selling for more than 15 times earnings. Of the dozen or so left, I threw out a few for reasons of my own and then found myself with just 5. These were Colgate, selling at 12 ARE, ONLY YESTERDAY Ten and Twenty Ycars Ago In The Dailas Post he late . Dr. "Harry .A. Brown 877-1957). (IV) Dr. Brown grew, up at ,ehman, attended Bloomsburg State Jormal School, taught school a inskill School, then attended the Jniversity of Vermont and Med’ o-Chirurgical College at Philadel- hia from which he was graduated sith M.D. ‘degree in 1903. He erved his internship ‘at Wilkes- Jarre City (now General) Hos- ital and practiced in Lehman wer half a century. In 1953 he vas awarded a plaque for fifty rears service by the Medical Soci- ty of Pennsylvania. For many ‘ears he was a staff member at Nesbitt Memorial Hospital. He married Kathleen Major, daughter of Isaac Benscoter Major and Em- ma Jane Beck. Isaac B. Major was a grandson of Pioneer Thomas Iajor, his father being David Ma- whose second wife was Eliza- or yeth Benscoter. Mrs. Brown also was a teacher, graduated from Bloomsburg, and once a teacher at Linskill School. ' Dr. Brown and wife had three children all of whom are living. Emerson, born 1912, is an aer- onautical engineér, a civil em- ploye of the navy at Washington, residing at’ Arlington, Va. He is married to the former Helen Gor- ham, a nurse. They, have three children. Eleanor Louise, born 1914, is a medical technologist at New Rochelle, N.Y. Her husband is Juan Ferre, a native of South America. They have no children. Harold A. born 1920, is an elec- trical engineer, residing at San Diego, Cal. His wife is the former Ruth Hackett of Long Beach, Cal. They have three children. Answer to Inquiry How do we get the information for family articles? Principally from the following local histories: Dallas Township, W. P. Ryman; Certified Township of Kingston, William Brewster; Luzerne County, Bradsby; Luzerne, Lackawanna, and Wyoming Cos., Munsell; Old Luzerne County . Families, H. E. Hayden; and various records of Wyoming Historical and Geological Society. We also receive help from old- er residents and some former residents, sometimes from present resident members of the families. In other cases present residents were surprised to learn about their own families. For my own family, much in- formation has been learned from property titles, deeds, wills, ceme- teries, and military records. There are always local and family’ his- torians willing to lend assistance. We are not going to accept the hint that we undertake the job of working up ‘a free genealogy for anyone who happens to speak to us on the street. These things are a lot of work. g times earnings, to yield 3.2%; Co- Jumbia Broadcasting, at 12 times earnings to yield 3%; Lehn & Fink, at 13 times earnings to yield 4%: James Talcott, at 13 times earnings From Thé Issue Of November: 18, 1949 ; Dallas and Kingston = Township high schools are preparing to lock All through history that att destruction of liberty by its enemies. The price of liberty, now ag ever, is eternal vigilance. Christ's Scars Conquered The World by Bishop Ful SCARS are never pleasant things to look upon, but the scars worn by the risen Christ on Easter Sun- day paint a vivid portrait of His battle against sin. They tell a story which every Christian must try to understand if he sincerely wishes to call himself a follower of Christ. First, the scars of Christ prove the law of Christian life that no one shall be crowned unless he has struggled; that no crowns of merit rest sus- pended on those who do not fight; that unless there is a Good Friday in our lives there will never be an Easter Sunday. Secondly, His scars prove His love for us. True love seeks not its own good, but the good of the other. True love is proven not by words but by offering something to the one loved, and the greatest offering one can give is not what one has, but one’s very life. Every scar of Christ tells the story: “Greater love than this no man hath.” Thirdly, His scars solicit our love. Christ rose from the dead not with wounds which would betoken weak- ness, but with scars, glorious medals of victory on hands, and feet, and side. Our Lord shows us His scars to tell us: “I did this all for you!” But there are some who would have an unscarred Christ; the cowardly Christ Who shuns sacri- fice; a Christ Who would have a Sheen : | courage to the Poles, Hungarians itude has made possible the! ton J. Sheen er mentions hell, the devil or di- vorce. TAKE your cheap, soft image of Christ from our midst! We need the Risen Jesus of the Scars for our times. In this hour of longing, when men are broken in heart, alone, and impotent — to us no soft Christ can speak! Who can speak to those behind the Iron Curtain except Him Who once suffered un- der Pontius Pilate! Who can give and the other dwellers in the cata- combs of Eastern Europe, except Him Who was once in the under- ground to give to this earth its greatest wound —AN EMPTY TOMB! THIS is not an age of wars, but an age of scars! We all have scars! ‘Everybody! Scars on bodies; scars on souls! Scars of hate, fear, an- xiety, melancholy, bitterness! Who can give us hope but Him Who can match our wounds with His scars? Where shall we find cour- age except in Him Whose life re- veals that though the devil has his hour, it is God Who wins the day. To all who in their agony shout: “Does God know what it is /to suf- fer? Was He ever abandoned? Was His body ever racked with pain?” Christ can answer softly, “Yes, I know what pain is. My agony on the Cross was for you.” IF He Who is God took pain upon Himself it must be that pain fits into His plans. That is why He could promise us our sorrow shall be turned into joy. Well may the nail-torn Christ cry out: “Through my death and resurrection I have victory without a battle; Who nev- conquered the world!” i has been growing like the dickens Misericordia Is A T Paulist Feature Service, Washington IY, D. © to yield 3%; Drackett Co., at 13.5 times earnings to return 3% %. I think that these stocks can be bought for safe yield and continued growth and that they are relatively cheap under present market con- ditions. Colgate is a big soap maker and is developing new income from foreign sales. Lehn&Fink puts out cosmetics aid proprietary drugs. Tal- cott is a financing company which in recent years. Drackett makes household chemical snecialties, such as Drano and Windex. All of these are on the Big Board except Drackett, which is unlisted but has a good market. (Send vour investment questions to Mr. Roger E. Spear, c/o this paper). Community Institution Misericordia’s pattern is Ameri- can: it is of the nation and of the world, but it is also of the local community. Dallas is in every part of it. Misericordia is Dallas just as strongly and loyally as every other organization and citizen of the Dal- las community. Each year College Misericordia spends approximately $150,000 in the area of Dallas. The majority of its employees live in the community. Thirteen faculty members reside there: Miss Marie Louise Baumlin, Dr. Claude Cirtautas, Miss Mary Gildea, Miss Helen Lipinski, Miss Agnes Loughlin, Mrs. Dorothy Mal- loy, Dr. Carla Peirone, Miss Kath- leen Piazzi; Mrs. Elizabeth Titus, Dr. J. Alfred Young, Mr. John Filar, Mr. Clifford Balshaw, Mrs. Eileen Mec- Dowell. Eight Dallas area residents serve on the Advisory Board of College | Misericordia. This Board is com- | posed of civic and business leaders | from Northeastern Pennsylvania. The local Advisory Board members are: the Honorable Harold E. Flack, | Goss Manor; Dr. Harry Gallagher, | Lake Street; Lake Street; Willard Jeter, Mrs. Garey, Lehman; Dr. A. A. Mascali, | vical vertebra in a football scrim- Stephen J.| mage October 4, and Tkach, Hilldonia Avenue; Mr. George | that time has been wearing a plas- Iter collar. Machell Avenue; Mr. Ruckno, Shrine Acres. Dr. William J. Ken-| Anna Mae Pagniotti home econo- nedy, Machell Avenue; Mr. W. B.|mics teacher, will direct. horns in the annual Thanksgiving’ Day classic. Stung by recent defeat, both teams are out for blood. Red- skins bowed to Forty Fort last week, 35 to 18, and Kingston Township to Wyoming, a crushing defeat of 27 to 7. Zoning in Dallas Township is get- ting nowhere. A committee com- posed of residents Clarence Laidler, Paul Warriner, Walter Elston, Char- les Lee, and Archbald Brooks has been superseded by a committee formed of residents and nonresi- dents, Harry Goringer, L.A. McHen- ry, [Clarence Myers, Harry Martin, and Ted Wilson. Action followed a town meeting at which Governor Arthur James and Harry Goringer spoke. All work done by the former committee has been tabled, and Charles Cella, representative of Lo- cal and State Government of Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, found | nothing to do when he arrived | with his team to make a survey. Lee Ohlman, Machell Avenue, lost his grip while reaching for a stirrup and when he fell off his horse, the horse stepped on his ear. Laceration required eight stiches to close. : Dallas Legion’s License is still held up, likewise the exercise of the option on [Castle Inn. Action awaits outcome of State Superior Court, in spite of approval of Judge Aponick. In the meantime, John Panco is still serving food and! liquor. The new cafeteria at Kingston Township will start serving meals next week for 15 cents for students, 25 for faculty. Plans are to extend service to Shavertown and Trucks- ville grade schools eventually. The cafeteria kitchen was planned with this in mind. The dining room seats 150. Senior high school students will be served at one sitting, junior high school students at a second. Cafeteria staff is headed by Morris King, assisted by Mrs. Elizabeth Billings, Mrs. Dorothy Culver, and substitute Mrs. Bess Grant. Mrs. Al Gould cracked his third cer- ever since ‘Al and several other young men were playing in a vacant lot on Machell Avenue. Al has played a lot of football in the five years of his Army servicebut this is the first time he has ever been injured. William J. Martin, father of coach Robert Martin of Lehman, was killed in a mine accident at Wood- ward Colliery Wednesday afternoon, when he stepped into a mine cham- ber just as six charges of dynamite were touched off. Prince of Peace Auxilliary has given a check for $300 to the build- ing fund. A turkey dinner with all the trimmings will be served next Wed- nesday in Lehman cafeteria for 15 cents apiece. Margaret Laity, Harveys Lake, will become the bride of George May also of Harveys Lake, at a simple ceremony in the Lehman parsonage next Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. George Learn, Huntsville, are celebrating their Golden Wedding at an open house in Huntsville Methodist Church No- vember 23. Frank Edwards, Sweet Valley, observed his eightieth birthday on Tuesday at an open house. Mr. Ed- wards is a fruit grower. Mrs. Forest Kunkle was elected president of the Kunkle Silver Leaf Club, Mrs. Clyde Hoyt vice pre- sident. Pennsylvania turkey largest in years. Second prize for prettiest “baby, chosen from pictures taken at Dal- las 5 and 10 cent Store, went to Rita. Ruth Rice, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Rice of Orchard Farms. Local hunters report plenty of rabbits and pheasants. Mrs. Catherine Stoeckel, Hunts- ville, observed her 88th birthday ‘Wednesday. From The Issue Of . November 17, 1939 crop is the Residents will pay a price boost of one cent a quart for milk. Go- vernor James signed an order to give dairy farmers $2.96 per hun- dred-weight for 4% butterfat grade A milk. Elwood Ide won the spelling bee staged at Dallas PRorough High School Alumni Association meeting, by beating everybody on the spell- ing of “catechist,” which has floor- ed many an excellent speller. "Life Begins _ at Forty By Robert Peterson MARY PICKFORD. 66. PROUD OF HER .YEARS Beverly Hills, Cal. — The stately white gates swung open and I drove ‘nto the driveway of Pickfair. This | ‘abled forty room home of Georgian and modern design sits in quiet splendor on a hilltop overlooking the city. ! Mary Pickford, small and graceful | in a trim black suit, greeted me in | the drawing room with its exquisite | French paneling and handsome ob- jets d’art. One warm smile from her | and I sensed the competence and | down-to-earth charm of this Can- | adian-born woman who has become a legend as an actress, business- woman, and humanitarian. Our conversation’ drifted ,to ger- iatrics. “Ever since I was a child | I've held a deep respect and affec- | tion for older people,” said Miss | Pickford who, with her fluffy blonde hair, dark eyes, and meticulous grooming was a vision of mature loveliness. “I’m touched by the lone- liness and insecurity which afflict many of them and I wish we could rouse the nation to take a greater interest in the aged. “I'd also like to see people take greater pride in their years,” con- tinued Miss Pickford who has no qualms about saying she's 66. “Age is. a perfectly natural phenomenon and we shouldn't be ashamed of it. We may lose some of our physical | attractiveness but that’s a small price to pay for the privilege of a long life. : “One of my pet interests is the American Society for the Aged which I serve as honorary chair- man. We operate Emeritus Hall in Palm Beach, Fla. where professors and scientists who have been forced to retire elsewhere because of age can continue their research. We feel that with all the ills and needs in this world no competent scientist should be deprived of research facil- ities because of age.” As we talked I became aware that Miss Pickford is considerably more complex than I had anticipated. One facet is amusing and gay. Another is vitally concerned with furthering scientific research. Still another dis- plays a deep religious conviction in which God plays a very important and meaningful role. Since retiring from pictures a quarter of a century ago she has kept busy managing varied business interests and serving on many char- itable and scientific boards. She and her husband Buddy Rogers have an adopted daughter of 17 and a son of 23, and have financed the care of half a dozen foster children. “IM A GREAT believer in the life begins at 40 philosophy,” she said thoughtfully. “I think most of us forget how emotionally trying it is to be young. As I've grown older I've become much more contented and increasingly aware how pre- cious life really is.” N If you would like a free list of “Tips on Increasing Your Attractive- ness in Later Years” write to this column c/o The Dallas Post enclos- mg a stamped, self-addressed enve- lope. Pr DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA From Pillar To Post . By MRS. T. M. B. HICKS, JR. Not many women of ninety would face up with eauanimity to travelling 250 miles and taking over a household of children while the parents went on a vacation, especially after having lived for many years in a small apartment with few household obligations; but three years ago Grandma did it. ! Grandma died last Sunday, and her grandchildren and great- grandchildren, who considered her indestructible, were appalled. They knew that she had been ill, but she had been ill before, and ; had made phenonomenal recovery. This time it was final. Alice Cheston Hicks, nearing 94, died quietly in her sleep, and was laid to rest in the cemetery in Williamsport where her one li*t'e daughter is buried, and her husband Thomas M. B. Hicks Sr., and her son Cheston, and a tiny daughter of the T. M. B. Hicks family in Dallas, who died at Grandma's home forty-one years ago. \. Grandma loved the babies. Each time one was expected, up until the last years of her life, Grandma visited the gift shop and bought skeins of feathery wool for booties and matching sweaters and little caps. : For her first grandchild forty-two years ago, she made a com- plete outfit of the most enchanting little things, the shell pink sweat- ers trimmed with white angora, and the more masculine blue sweaters trimmed with contrasting bands of white. The booties were shapedt cunningly to accommodate a plump little calf and cover the knee. Each of her twenty-nine great grandchildren until the very last (born October 31 of this year) wore the same pattern in booties, lovingly blocked ‘and pressed by the ‘veined hands before being sent to the family. ; BLE sess i It was Grandma who hungered so yearningly. for children about her, that when her own grands and greatgrands were far away, she offered to baby sit for her young friends, so that they could have time off, knowing that their babies were in experienced hands. Grandma, who for over fifty years held the position of Pine Street Methodist Church Sunday School's Children’s Superintendent Grandma who never relinquished ‘her interest in people, so that when her own contemporaries passed on, she was still well endowed with friends of the younger generation. She was a remarkable woman.. She was charter member of so many organizations in Williamsport, that it would be difficult to list them. And up until a year ago, she was active in all of them. It is a poignant thought that her final illness stemmed from her love for the great grandchildren. -Oblivious of subzero temperature, she went downtown on the bus to select Valentines for their de- light. Waiting for the bus on a windy corner on her way back, she was thoroughly chilled. : ; A neighbor would have taken her to the store to buy the Val- And Grandma liked to do things for herself. She did not regain her strength after a bout with pneumonia, but was able in time to re- turn to her apartment. y Lycoming College faculty hoped that she would be present as usual for graduation and alumni festivities in June 1958, something which she had never missed since she graduated from Dickinson Seminary in 1884. A member of the Board of Directors was on the way to her apartment with a spray of orchids and a photographer, a few days in advance of Commencement, to get the annual picture for the Williamsport Sun, when she suffered the stroke that was to leave. her shorn of her strength and no longer her accustomed self. Grandma walked in twilight for the ensuing year and a half. Nobody could have wished her to linger. Her sons, speaking quietly together on the day of the funeral, recollected that when they were children; Mother used to repeat the Twenty-Third Psalm as part of their bedtime ritual. The solemn and comforting words, “Yea, though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death I shall fear no evil,” were pro-. nounced by the officiating minister as she entered into her long sleep. x Et This was a woman who had an abiding faith, and a Spiritual endurance beyond comprehension. Wz A entines, but Grandma feared that they might be delayed in the mail. ... Safety Valve . . . FROM A LOYAL FRIEND act upon it. J 1 ber of your readers will want to Miami Beach November 3, 1959. Dear Editor: Hd 2 I just don’t know if I am going about this in a businness way, however, you no doubt can assist me. I will greatly appreciate it. As you know my son sends ime the Post, has since I came from | Dallas, aside from my mail from home the Post is my one joy, In all the fuss over the budget, | we hope the legislators in Harris- I'burg don’t lose sight of another | problem. Legislation is urgently i needed to close loopholes that cost the state more than $40 million a year ‘in unemployment compensa- | tion. > |. Two bills are now in the Senate | Rules Committee. the Lawrence administration, would One, backed by when | Luzerne County's bumper crop of | apples is estimated . at 2,500,000 | bushels. i 3 | Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Com- pany’s pumper can throw 455 gal- | lons per minute, according to re- joo tests. The test was carried out | under difficult conditions, using a ' have?” get the Post.” ‘single hose and drawing from a | pond. ; | Mrs. Royal Lyne, Trucksville, is way out in front with 62,000 points in the current suscription contest sponsored by The Dallas Post. Run- ner-up is Don McDermott, Dallas RD, with 61,000. | An American flag was stolen in broad daylight on Armistice Day | from in front of the Dallas Post’ Office by two youths in a green car. | It was found later, tossed along the | roadside near Kunkle. | Mrs. John Blackman, who heads the Back Mountain drive. for Com- munity Welfare Drive, says that the goal is, $1,745. A Chase farmer was bamboozled into parting with sixty cents for a ride home from Wilkes-Barre to Chase, and ended up in the police- | station. Seems a chance acquain- | tance offered to run him home for sixty cents, collected the money, pointed out the car, and then duck- ed - with the sixty cents - just as the real owner of the car appeared | on the scene. The real owner thought Ignatz Drapinski was mak- ing off with his property. Police pursued the fleeing acquaintance. A pleasant time was had by all. Mrs. J.B. Schooley, Harris Hill Road, has made thirty gallons of apple butter out of doors in a huge copper kettle, starting with the boiling down of gallons of cider to get the foundation for the preserve. The region has had its first real snowfall. AW. Cooks. 80, insurance agent [in Wyoming County died in Tunk- | hannock. He was a native of Beau- | mont. . | Alderson Methodist Church gave | a reception for its new minister and his wife, Rev. and Mrs. David Mor- gan. ' Bertha M. Jones of Trucksville was married to Robert Isaacs, Dal- las in Dallas Methodist Church. Rev. Francis Freeman performed the ceremony. : to home as I go over its pages: give me heartaches but that’s life. | All When what can we send that you don’t so far away. I feel close things 1 read | ! { save more than $40 million. + Harney: bill Naturally, some ini all it’s very wonderful. ever they inquire “Mom; ; pensation I always say, ‘‘don’t for- This may interest you, four claim to U.C. ‘save an estimated $10 million. The | other, sponsored by Sen. Thomas P. Harney, of Chester County, would ¢ The would eliminate or greatly reduce unemployment com- benefits to pensioners, seasonal workers, pregnant women and others who have no legitimate generations in the Smith family “of which I am one” seem to feel it belongs in a big way to us all Could I get a form for donation of eyes, from Dallas Lions? I'd rather donate through my home town. be interested - in another “old school house picture. I have one of Cease-town School I can tell you definitely when I look it up but I believe it dates 1905. Thanks in advance. Emma Smith 235 N. Shore Drive Miami Beach, Fla. WAS IT SHAVER’S POND? Dear Editor: ; I may be mistaken but the pic- ture you have in the Post of November 12th looks like the pond owned by Isaac Bhaver of Fern- brook and where we all used to go to skate in the winter. He and his wife lived in home to the left by the road to the cemetary. We used to walk the railroad tracks together. Looks like Toby’s Creek to me. If 1 am mistaken, there is only one other pond similar to that which would be near Stull, Pa. The car barn for the trolley cars used to be near it and Mr. Al Pres- ton who lived next to Dolls was caretaker for years. The place had many blacksnakes near it. Looks like the poles in the Woods to the right were on the Main Road to Dallas. Caroline Caperoon Franklin Street Dallas SUPPORT THE HARNEY BILL Dear Editor: Will you kindly republish the following which is taken from the Lancaster New Era. I think a num- 1 wonder also if you may ‘There. has been considerable law this year, both from employers and from the public. Yet, we understand, chances are at least 50-50 that the Lawrence bill, which raises benefit rates and makes only be reported out of the Rules Com- mittee instead of the Harney bill. And the legislators, after ham- mering out a budget, may be in such a hurry to get home that un- employraent compensation will be let go until 1961. : Sen. James S. Berger, Republican floor leader, is chairman of the Rules Committee. We urge you to write him in support of the Harney bill. Your letters may tip the scales toward genuine U. C. reform. Berger may be addressed c-o the Senate Post Office, Senate Building, Harrisburg, Pa. Respectfully, L.N.E. GOOD TO BE HOME Dear Editor: ? ; on, Thanks very much for your very kind consideration. 1 really en- in the hospital. ©: I'm back to normal. ! Thanks again. 3 Andrew P. Fischer BACK HOME AGAIN Thank you very kindly for send- ing your most welcome paper to the hospital. We all enjoyed it very much. Mrs. Bessie D. Thomas With all sincerity 2 Dallas R. D. 3 ® Mrs. Thomas, who wunder- went eye surgery at Mercy Hos- pital has returned to her home. She adds the operation was a success — Editor. gia clamor to reform the state's U. cP . a token gesture toward reform will R joyed reading The Post while I was : Dear Editor: 4 gs NL 5 » fe Uh He Ne 3h Cy [Sama «Ps oh ° I
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