b % ¥ 7 "RECTION A — PAGE 2 HE DALLAS POST Established 1889 “More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution Now In Its 70th Year” 140, <° * Member Audit Bureau of Circulations v o Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association ° x National Editorial Association fern A mon-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, Fa., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rates: $4.00 a sear; $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. Single copies at a rate of 10c each, can be obtained every Thursday morning at following newsstands: Dallas—Berts Drug Store, Dixon’s Restaurant, Helen's Restaurant, Gosart’s Market; Shavertown—Evans Drug Store, Hall's Drug Store; Trucksville— Gregory's Store, Trucksville Drugs; Idetown—Cave’s Store; Har- veys Lake—Garinger’s Store; Sweet Valley—Adams Grocery; Lehman—Moore’s Store; Noxen—Scouten’s Store; Shawanese— Puterbaugh’s Store; Fernbrook—Bogdon’s Store, Bunney's Store, Orchard Farm Restaurant. We will not be responsible for the return of unsolicited manu- scripts, photographs and editorial matter unless self - addressed, stamped envelope is enclosed, and in no case will this material be held for more than 30 days. National display advertising rates 84c¢ per column inch. Transient rates 80c. Political advertising $1.10 per inch. Preferred position additional 10c per inch. Advertising deadline Monday 5 P.M. Advertising copy received after Monday 5 P.M. will be charged at 85c 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 . Associate Publisher—7.OBERT 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 SAFETY VALVE... Don’t Be An Ostrich Good health is the nation’s greatest natural resource —and “if more people would spend as much time an- alyzing their personal and family health responsibilities as they do their weekly budgets, we could raise the status of our nation’s health by 50 per cent; extend the length of life by several years, and reduce considerably the amount of pain, suffering illness, an injury to each and every American.” That impelling statement comes from a man who knows — Dr. E. Vincent Askey, president-elect of the elect of the American Medical Association. He goes on to make specific, down-to-earth remarks as to what we, as individuals and members of families, can do to protect health! 3 : AS he puts it, ‘It is foolish for anyone to hide illness, neglagk injury, conceal suspicions about his health, ignore medical advice, or tear up a prescription.” "It's a rare person who hasn't done one or more of those things. Sometimes, of course, we get away with it, and no great harm is done. But these are acts that, under other and common circumstances, can lead to prolonged sickness, to invalidism, or to an unnecessarily early death. Dr. Askey cited four goals that are reachable. We can assure ourselves of many years of freedom from acute or chronic illness; we can make ourselves less susceptible to most diseases by keeping in optimum condition; we can - have more rapid convalescence from injury if we are in good health nrior to an accident, and we can prolong earning power. The key to such dramatic progress lies largely in individual responsibility. for personal health— and avoidance of the ostrich-with-its-head-in-the-sand at- titude when something goes awry with our mental or or physical equipment, Let's Call Off Memorial Day! Prior to last Memorial Day, a county government in an Eastern state appropriated $250 and sent it to the Memorial Day Committee for the purpose of hiring a band. But a proviso was attached — that it had to be a union band, and not a school or other volunteer band. . ~~ The Committee, it is pleasant to record, sent the check back. It said that it wouldn’t pay men “to take part in a patriotic celebration.” The incident drew this ironic comment from the Flemington, N. J., Democrat: ‘Let’s call off Memorial Day until we get everybody in this country into a union. Let’s bury no more veterans without the services of union pallbearers, union gravediggers, union embalmers, union chauffeurs driving the mourners to the cemeteries, union- made and set grave markers, union-grown flowers ‘and union made-up floral pieces, union-made American flags over the graves, placed, not by volunteers like the Legion- naires and the Sons of Veterans but by card-bearing union grave decorators to the exclusion of comrades in service, neighbors, friends, relatives. And let no word of scripture ‘be uttered, no prayer be said except by a AFL-CIO licensed and dues-paying pastor.” The grim fact is that this isn’t just sheer fantasy. , It’s precisely what some of the labor leaders would dearly love, judging by their drives for more and more monopoly power. THE LISTENING POST AS OVERHEARD BY Miss Carrie Atydd “My dear, you can depend on me. I'll be discreet as I can be. I sha’nt repeat a single word. You really mean to say that she . . . But let me tell you what I heard!” TEN TIPS ON WRITING YOUR CONGRESSMAN 1. Keep your letters as brief as possible. 2. Tell the essentials about your- self or your business. : 3. Be forthright: If you're for comething, say so. Don’t beat around the bush. 4. Avoid emotion: Prove your case with facts and figures. 5. Be reasonable: Seek only pos- sible things. 6. Speak for yourself: Use your own stationery and letter style. . "7. Be courteous: Compliment him on a good speech, thank him for a good vote, and recognize his staff, too. 8. Request action: Your man is elected to do something. 9. Ask for an answer: You've told him where you stand. Ask him where he stands. 10. Don’t stop with one letter. Keep your Congressman informed of your views on all important legislation. SUCCESSFUL INVESTING... by ROGER E. SPEAR Iarostiornt Adviser and Anslyst SWITCH SUGGESTED FOR BURIAL FUND Q. “Several years ago I bought United Fruit at 48. It is now 24. Would you. advise me to sell, take my loss, and re-invest in another stock? I am an old man (82) and I bought this stock for a burial fund.” C. D. F. A. United Fruit was for years better-than-average yield because of the nature of its operations. The company is well managed and is strong financially, but it operates in an area and in a business which are subject to violent fluctuations. A series of unusual calamities brought it down to its present low estate, and I think it's going to be slow to recover. What you must have for your burial fund is security of principal, and I can’t give you any assurance that United Fruit's trou- bles are all over and that no further decline is possible. In your particular circumstances, I advise you to sell your stock ‘and put the proceeds into a utility which should be safe from wide fluctuation. I suggest California Electric Power, selling re- cently around 18, and I sincerely hope that it will not have to be sold, for your particular purpose, for a great many years to come. Q. “I am a young and inexper- ienced investor who thinks the electronics and space stocks are a pretty fair field. What do you think of Sperry Rand and Hoffman Elec- tronics?” E. M. A. As to your first statement, I couldn’t agree more. But I'm no! quite so enthusiastic ‘about your choice of stocks. Sperrry has virtus ally stood still since the 1959 mer- ger, and I think growth here is pretty distant. Hoffman is an old: line radio and TV company which has become important in the semi: conductor field. I think the stock i: a fairly good buy if you are pre- pared to be patient. Better than either of these stocks; I like Clevite! growing very fast in semiconductors. (Copyright 1960, General Features Corp.) /| (a safer community through cooperation) Summer is about on us. Soon we will be spending our evenings on picnics, outdoor movies or riding the highways. But then darkness will fall. We decide it is time to get home. The boy suddenly remembers the girls father has said “In by b11 o'clock.” They head for home, they tramp on the gas pedal, - per- haps for a few: minutes they can make the clock run backwards on the long straight stretch. “Whoops! was that a police whistle? It was. We just ran through an electrically timed speed check.” How does this check work? First it is one eighth of a mile of wire stretched along the highway. Each end is connected to a bell, buzzer or phone. There are officers on each end. As you cross the entry point, the’ bell or buzzer sounds on the other end. Stop watches start, When you cross the other end, the watches stop. The time it took you to pass over the one eighth mile is checked against a chart furnished by the State. Every second and half ‘second is mathematically computed. In. other words, if it took you 10 seconds to travel this distance you were travel- ing 46 miles per hour, or in a-35 MPH Zone, 11 miles over the allowed speed. Don’t give these officers an argument that you were not doing the speed you are told you were arrested for. He knows he is right. You can not rely* on your speedo- meter, unless you have it checked at least once a month. Every police car is checked every thirty days for accuracy. ; We find the speedometers to be out one to three miles every month and we must have them made accurate. A certificate, signed by the mechanic and the owner of the station is given each police car. How many of the public have ever had their speedometers checked? If ours are out one to three miles ‘n one month, what must yours be ifter being unchecked for years. I know of one case where the speedo- neter was out 15 miles. Those officers are not out there lor pleasure. They do not enjoy spending 4 hours in the late eve- ning on those highways and going cut again tomorrow. They are. there because the citizens who live on those highways are in an uproar. The desk is filled with complaints. The papers are filled with accidents. The graveyards are filling. KNOW YOUR POLICE OFFICER: POLICE OFFICER OF THE WEEK Irwin Coolbaugh/— Chief of Police Dallas Twp. Police Dept. Here is probably one of the best liked police officers in the Back Mountain. Chief Coolbaugh took over shis department two years ago, suc- ceeding Chief James Gansel. In that time, Irv has striven to (Continued on Section A, Page 6) rated as a solid blue chip, with a. THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1960 Sr ONLY YESTERDAY Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years Ago In The Dallas Post From The Issue Of April 28, 1950 Bus service for Parrish Heights will be started on curning around. will American Legion Home. Lewis LeGrand is heading up the Back Mountain Town and Country YMCA, which will begin its services to the community as soon as suit- able quarters can be found. Gail Woolbert will receive Nation- al Honorable Mention for Life-Sav- ing at a Girl Scout Camp Promotion meeting. Gail did a bit of quick thinking last summer when she applied a tourniquet to shut off the flow of blood containing rattlesnake venom after Mrs." Bob Hislop had been struck and poisoned at Mehoo- pany. Prince of Peace vestry is gratified with a 75 percent increase in pled- ges. Boy Scouts have finished painting 180 street signs for Kingston Town- ship. William Evans, Sr. is celebrating his 81st birthday. The main gate at Dallas Township Field bears on a bronze plaque the names of fourteen Dallas Township boys who gave their lives in World War II: Burton Bonell, Harold Kep- her, Michael O’Boyle Joseph Pola- chek, Robert A. Girvan, Howard E. Lynn, William Phillips, Ressiguie, John Gleason, Nulton, Keats Poad, Francis A. Sidorek, Harry Smithe, and William x be at the Monday. The ‘man: ga 2.8 inch stretch of double #. Stritzinger. Harry Ohlman announces 41 more names for the Blood Donor list, in-! cluding sixteen students from Col- | lege Misericordia. Lois Ann Klein is chosen Queen of the May for Dallas Township. © | Virginia Shields, Fernbrook, is wed to Nile Clark of Beaumont. } Married’ in Dallas Methodist | Church were Ruth Stookey and Carl- | ;on S. Rogers. Thelma Collean Cundiff and Stephen Stolarick, Jr. were married | ‘n Baltimore. : Betty’ Jean Mahler, formerly of | East Dallas, has been chosen May Queen by the student body at Nescopeck. : Fred Renard celebrated his 79th birthday at a family dinner in Ben- ton. ¢ Shavertown Bible Church will observe its fifth anniversary on Sunday. Mrs.. Christine Malkemes was guest of honor at a dinner given on her 80th birthday at the Kings- ton House. From The Issue of April 26, 1940 “Three major road building jobs in the Dallas area seem likely this summer. With one contract already let for the stretch between Lutes comer and Kunk.e, two more re- colngcre.e tion a po.nt above Dalia. to the old car-barn station southeas of Dailas, and a scretch from Truck sviuie to a point just below Dalias. nclud.ing the spur leading inte Dallas. Peter D. Clark's forces have cap {ured 62 voles in the Republica: Committee race. Jacob Fulmer. Hefft, 68, descen- dant of one of the first forty pioneers from Connecticut, a life- long resident of Carverton, died on Tuesday. Harold Wagner, former Burgess ol Dallas, is Democratic nominee foi State Treasurer. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Shepherd, Dallas, are celebrating their Golden Jedding. Cold weather is delaying plowing. Farmers are three behind schedule. Don Wilkinson has won by a large majority his nomination for reelection to the legislature on the Republican ticket. Cliff Ide is taking a new greens job at Abington Hills Country Club. Jean Weaver, Huntsville, became the bride of Gordon Johnson of spring weeks Robert: Lehman at a ceremony conducted Clifford | by Rev. Russell May at Shavertown Methodist Church. The Susquehanna threatened to flood again after a two inch rain, but subsided after reaching its fourth crest this month. Area merchants have agreed to a | Wednesday afternoon closing. From The Issue Of April 28, 1930 Dallas defeated Beaumont in the . opening game of the Rural League last Sunday. Scarlet fever is lowering attend- ance records at Laketon. William Bulford, - once a black- sraith in Dallas and a leading citizen, was buried from his home in Wilkes-Barre ‘on Wednesday. Dallas is not so hard hit econo- mically as some other sections of the State, according to Jack Gordon. In McKeesport, he says, the un- employed are offering their services for fifteen to twenty cents an hour. Dr. C. Murray Turpin’s candidacy for Congress is coming along nicely. His opponent, John Kmetz, has strong labor support. Kingston Township baseball team defeated Dallas 6 to 4. Swingle pitched for KTS, and Joe Piatt received. Marvin Elston has a fine young colt. z On the basis of several old pat- ents and grants from the English King to various grantees, Connecti- cut’ Colony claimed a strip of land roughly bounded : by the forty-sec- ond and. forty-first degrees of latitude extending across the contin- ent to the ‘South Sea on the West part,” The forty-first parallel crosses near the present Stroudsburg, Free- land; Bloomsburg, Milton, Clearfield, and New Castle. The forty-second is the northen boundary of Pennsyl- vania. This claim was not unusual. Of the original thirteen colonies, seven claimed western lands. All were compelled to cut off their claims at the Mississippi instead -of the Pacific as. the English never owned land west of the Mississippi and of course could not grant what another owned. Approximately the northern half of Pennsylvania was included in the Connecticut claim. Following simultaineous p.ur- chases from the Indians in 1754, both the Pennsylvania and Conn- ecticut claimants did little to settle ‘n this immediate vicinity except talk, makng plans, write letters and petitions, and chase each other out, for a period of about fifteen years. Officially the vast forest in the northeastern part of the state was mart of the County of Northampton with headquarters at Easton. In 1752 it was included in the County of Northumberland with headquar- ters at Sunbury. Luzerne County which extended up to the New York State line was established in 1786. Eight days before the Albany Purchases, Penn heirs laid out the Manor of Stoke and the Manor of. Sunbury on opposite sides of the river in Wyoming Valley. In this im- mediate vicinity the Penn patents covered rectangles about four hun- dred acres each, each tract being surveyed after separate survey war- rent and subsequently patented, all before 1800. The various tracts were named. Connecticut claimants laid out about a hundred townships and actually settled seventeen of them before the Degree of Trenton, Dec. 30, 1782, issued by a commission set up under the Articles of Confedera- tion, stated that the Connecticut claims were not good. Few settle ments had been made in the sume area by Pennsylvania claimants. Three wars were fought in the Wy- oming Valley, called the Pennamite- Yankee Wars, in an effort to dis- lodge the Connecticut men. At first that colony kept out of the disnate officially, but later created the Town of Westmoreland, organized Revolu- tionary Troops in the area under Connecticut designations, admitted representatives to the assembly, etc. In this area the present Kingston * Rambling Around By The Oldtimer — D. A. Waters Township is a remnant of the old Connecticut Township which exten- & ded to the River and reached from Plymouth to Exeter. It was the first settled. All of Lehman, excepting the small triangle extending up to {ar- veys Lake, Dallas Borough, and the adjoining part of Dallas Township were included in the Connecticut Township of Bedford, one of the last settled. There was much buying aad selling of lands before any scttle- ment was made. After much litiga- tion and legislative activity it. was finally arranged to confirm the Connecticut claimants in their pos- essions. Pennsylvania Claimants were required to turn in their re- leases for which they were paid in stated amounts, for various classifi- cations of land. Connecticut lands were resurveyed and actual holders required to pay the Commonwealth for them, likewise in stated amounts for the various classes. In the im- mediate vicinity most claims were resurveyed in July and August, 1810, and patents issued in 1812, most of them on August 27, 1812. We have these old Connecticut lines all around us. The back line of Kingston Township is one. The division between Lehman and Dallas is another. The late Charles H. Cooke, who spent a long lifetime surveying in this area, once told this writer that the line between lots 49 and 50, the Garinger and Warden farms, which crosses Center Hill at a hickory tree at the upper corner of the Machell farm, con- tinues between lots 5 and 4, the Space and Wallo farms, to the end of Dallas Township beyond Over- brook Avenue, from which point it was the boundary between old King- ston and Plymouth Townships to the Susquehanna at Northampton Street, where today it is the boun- dary between Kingston and Edward- sville. Upper Plymouth Township is now Jackson. : No doubt the conspicuous angle of the fence at the Paul Shaver property goes to old Bedford. If you stand at the former Johnson farm on Center Hill you can see the hedgerow marking the old Center line of Bedford running for miles. On top of the hill the road roughly follows the center line. However if you stand at Machell’s corner and look toward Goss Corners you will see a pronounced bend in the road toward the center of town which will be explained later. Ham And Egg Supper Men’s Class of Lehman Methodist Church will hold their annual Ham and Egg Supper Saturday night starting at 5 at Lehman Methbdist Church. The menu, entirely prepared by the men, will include pickled beets, parsley potatoes, apple sauce, pié and coffee. Looking at 1-V With GEORGK A. and EDITH ANN BURKE Art Carney starts in another one f his special shows this Friday. IL. /ill be a comedy, adapted from an nfinished manuscript by the late /elcott Gibbs, titled “Full Moon Jver Brooklyn” with Elaine Stritch, ;arbara Ann Barrie and Ronald Teyand in supporting roles. Ronald Weyand, last seen on Art carney’s presentation of Joseph Sonrad’s “Victory” as the moronic ’redre, is a professor of drama and ‘he history of dramatic art at Mary- mount College, Tarrytown, N.Y. Barbara Ann Barrie will be fam- liar to the women viewers since she plays a running role in the CBS :erial drama, “The Love of Life.” Groucho and Mikado—Groucho, |. playing his first Gilbert and Sulli- van role, stars in the comic operetta 1s Ke-Ke, the Lord High Executioner on the “Bell Telephone Hour” Friday (8:30-9:30 p.m. EDT) Helen Traubel plays Katiska, over- sowering spinster who yearns to marry Nanki-Pooh but settles for KLe-Ke. Jack Parr got his first job be- cause he had a lot of ideas and took iis time expressing them. As a teen- ager, Parr was stopped by a man- >n-the-street-interviewer. He asked Jack a question on the state's penal system. Before the interviewer could recover the microphone Parr had cambled on for 10 minutes. His im- promtu audience resulted in a three- dollar-a-week nighttime job at the Michigan radio station. A few months later he quit high school to take a full-time job as announcer with the assignment of -broadcasting station breaks. Baseball’s Changing Profile—The many changes that have occurred in our national pastime during recent years—including shifts of franchises, ‘the decline of the minor leagues and the formation of ‘a third major league—will be examined on “World Wide 60” series Saturday = (9:30- 10:30 p. m: EDT) This program is certainly doing an excellent job of keeping the viewer well informed of timely topics. Pointing out that 168 cities have lost organized baseball teams since 1955, the program will present the opinions of authorities on what has caused this trend and whether it can be halted. In contrast with this de- crease in minor league interest, the telecast will show that major league clubs this year expect the highest gate receipts in history and that about two million boys, a record aumber, are playing in Little League, American Legion or other organized teams. The Frances Langford Show star- ring of course Frances Langford has a good supporting cast in Hermiene Gingolf, John Mathis, Don Ameche and the Three Stooges on the Sun- day Showcase. Den Ameche’s lucky break came when he was standing in line wait- ing to buy a ticket to a play. He was studying to be a lawyer at the time. The leading man of the touring stock company was injured in an automobile accident: The theatrc manager began a frantic search for a replacement: He saw Don in line at the ticket window, recognized kim as a student actor from the uni- versity and called him into service. This unexpected professional debut turned out so well that Don gave up his plans to be a lawyer and be- came an actor . Don Ameche is one of showbusi- ness’ best advertisements for a hap- py marriage and family life: He and his wife have had a very happy marriage, they have four sons—Don- nie (24), Ronne (21), Tommy (18), and Lonnie (17) and two adopted daughters, Bonnie and Connie (both 13, but not twins). Don is 52-years- old. Marion Marlowe, formerly of the Arthur Godfrey show will be one of the guest stars on “The Ford Fun Fair” Tuesday (8:30-9:30 p. m. EDT) Celeste Holm will serve as hostess in this musical salute to the Ameri- Mildred Darnell Heads Loyalville WSCS Loyalville WSCS elected Mrs. Mildred Darnell president April 19, and Cora Dougal vice president; Mary Ann Swire secretary, Martha Steinruck assistant; Peal Ide, treas- urer; Joseph A. Hummell, devotional secretary; Bess Klinetob historian. Welcomed as new members were Sharon Dougal and Della Steinruck. An auction was decided upon as a fund-raising project, to take place May 20 at the church. Those having items are asked to call Mrs. Ivan Steinruck. Other than those already men- tioned, there were present Nancy Harris and Emily Lord. Outlook For Elm Trees In This Area Not Good Bucky Edwards, Huntsville Nur- sery, reminds that the best time to spray elms for the Dutch Elm di- sease is during the last two weeks of May. The adult beetle then comes out before laying her eggs underneath the bark where they are hard to reach with spray. Mr. Edwards is not optimistic about the future of the elm, be- cause the only time there can be any effective control, and then only to the adult beetles, is during May. A | From Pillar To Post . By MRS. T. M. B. HICKS I never see her except in arbutus time. She calls on the phone aleng about five-thirty. “This is Miss Jones,” she says. “Yes, Miss Jones, what can I do for you?” (In the news-gather- ing tone of voice.) “You remember . . . .arbutus.” Mental shards and fragments start milling around as in a kalei- doscope. Of course, arbutus. There was that trek along the railroad track one year, a climb up over a bank, and there were the leathery leaves and the fragile pink blossoms. And other treks, other places, in late April. . Don’t tell me you've found another patch?” ecstasy.) “Yes, I've located one, and this time I picked a bunch for you. It's brambly in there, fit to tear your stockings. Can you drive around and get it 7” Could I drive around and get it? Foolish question. I turned off the gas under the teakettle and was on my way, panting with excite- ment. There she was, waiting at the end of the bouquet. “I took scissors along, of course,” she explained. “I ‘spotted this place last fall, and I knew that today would be a perfect time to cut a few sprigs.” “How did you happen to think of calling me up?” “I wanted somebody who loves arbutus as much as I do, to know where it could be found in case I'm not around next year.” (My guess is that Miss Jones will be around permanently in arbutus season, a kindly wraith who will guide a chosen few to the lovely secret.) : : “Come on along in the car, and let's get as close as we can.” We drove up a steep hill where Miss Jones had plodded on foot earlier in the day. The car panted up the last stretch of unimproved road and came out on the hilltop. “Right there,” Miss Jones pointed. (in a yelp of lane, with the precious “And how did you happen to discover the patch in the first place? ; “T¢ was a lovely sunny day last fall, and I felt like climbing a hill and sitting on a rock in the sunshine. I' poked around with a stick, and there were the leaves.” Thank you, Miss Jones. I buried the arbutus up to its neck in cool water, and it.lasted over the weekend. I thought you'd like. to know. People used to pull it up in long vines, destroying it forever. It doesn’t last long after it is plucked. Only a token bouquet should ever be taken, for it is vanishing from the American scene. YOUR GARDEN - by Dr. Peter Asgrow = ps YEGETABLES FOR: EARLY SPRING For sowing in the open, alyssum, bachelors buttons, calen- dula and poppies can be planted as soon as the ground can be worked. A little later plant balsam, coreopsis and four o'clocks. But wait until the soil is warm before you sow mari- golds and zinnias. These are but a few of the popular flowers that can be grown from seed. Cultural directions for each will be found on the back of the seed packets. Follow these direc- tions and you can’t go wrong. Actually, most flowers are very adaptable, and often tolerate rather poor conditions. the attractively frilled and curled leaves often found in resiaurant salads. In the vegetable garden lettuces are the most popular of cool sea- son plants. The secret of growing them to perfection is to give them rich ‘soil, with plenty. of nitrogen and moisture. ‘Their root systems are light compared with their heads, and so they must feed heavily and rapidly. Ordinarily you don't have to worry about moisture in spring, but:this year before cultivating, run a few handfuls of fertilizer along od pene k Jou BIS ron the row and then .hoe it lightly ig ints the soil : your garden or farm supply store ..|for a small packet of inoculant, Home gardeners usually. avoid A Se the tight, ia lettuce sold So salied; 2 Black Sus comaining in the supermarket, preferring one so! as 45 m2 ded bv. thal. or two ‘of the looseleaf varieties, peas. op y tiwell, tik Lb like Simpson's Curled and Grandi 8 8¢T\ i h ontather: ; Rapids, or a soft-headed variety Jaror smnan con * like White Boston, with tender suc-| Here is a table of useful infor- culent leaves. To add a little zest{mation to help you plan your vege- to your salads this spring, try one|table garden this year. The quanti- of the endive varieties, like Full|ties are approximate. You may Heart, with broad, creamy inner|need more if you want some for leaves, or Ruffec, which produces|canning or freezing. REFERENCE TABLE FOR VEGETABLE GARDENS We hope you aren’t among those who never grow garden peas be- cause it’s “too much trouble.” There are modern varieties that produce good yields of sweet, tender peas on short vines that do not require sup- port, for example Progress No. 9 Set Row . plants * Length , or thin: TH For Seed for Rows _- in the Planting Days family ” 100 ft. apart row to Depth to of 5. VEGETABLE (ounces) (feet) (inches) = (inches) yield « (feet) Snapbeans, bush 6 3 33:0 0 50-70 100 Snapbeans, pole 4 4 /'5-6* Pa 1165-80 50 Lima beans, bush = 6 3 dire: GI 1165-75 100 Beet as $2 2 pte ts 60-75 50 Broccoli’ .......5. FS 3 18 Va 70-80 50 Carrot’... uss. T/8 2 2 La 60-75 50 Collard ....gw 1/8 3 18 Ly 90 50 Corn! ion 3 2 6-12 1 70-80 100 Cucumber ..... 1/8 4 24x» a 60-70 50 Endive 1/8 2 9 ia 70-80 30 Lettuce, leaf.» 1/32 .:2 4-6 Va 45-50 SO Lettuce, head “ .. 71/32 v.02. «5 7f2 7 50-70 50 Mustard . .....» 1/8 2 3-4 ba 60-75 50 Onion wn RAG A) 4 Ly 90-120 50 Parsley we 218 2 3-6 Til 85-100 30 Peas, garden 4-6 3 2 1 60-80 100 Pepper wii wo W163 10-16 2 65-80 20 Radish mn 1/4 2 I- V2 25-60 25 Spinach ...-.;; 1/4 2 4 Ya 40-50 50 Squash, bush ... 1/4 4 24 1 55-65 30 Tomato La 16d) «ad 24-36 Ys 75-90 75 Turnip rn 1/8 2 3-4 Va 50-80 50 Watermelon 1/4 6-8 | 24-36 1 85-100 50 * ow x fr Hills ** __ or 3-4 ft. Hills NEXT WEEK: Plan Your Flower Garden Tou get more enjoyment from your garden send for Gifts from Your Garden, a free booklet of vegetable recipes. Address postcard to ASgrow, P.O. Box 406H. New Haven 2, Conn. Franklin Township Firemen Open * DALLAS, PENNSYLVANTA ¢ Coin Card Campa Franklin Township Volunteer Fire Company will begin its 1960 Coin Card Drive tonight at 6 p. m. The siren will blow at five min- utes to six to start 34 members of the Fire Company and Auxiliary on a complete one evening distribution of cards to the entire Franklin Township and Centermoreland area. The cards will be picked up in Aug- ust. All workers will then return tc the Fire House to turn in their re ports. Refreshments will be served by Mrs. Theodore McHenry, assisted by Mrs. Arthur Gay and Mrs. Pauls Horan. ‘Workers are: Edward ‘Dorrance Nina Wysocki, Hilda Coon, Mrs Willard Smith ,Tom Schollenberger Mac Baird, Herman Coon, Georgc ign This Evening ta Gardner, Janet Zarno, Don Rob- erts, Lou Bedford, Frank Zarno, Mary Emanuel, Harold Brace, Byron Kester, Ray Kuderka, Marie Duffy, Mrs. B. Kester, Mrs. H. Phillips, Helen - Dorrance Louise James, Maude Armstrong, Jennie Kuderka, Anne Petchkis, Elmer Evans, Mrs. Draper Schoonover, Mrs. Clarence Schoonover, Stanley Dorrance, Joe Perry, Agnes Blackwell, Lois Lon- lon, Fred Risch, Robert Jones. Cancer will strike in approxi- nately two of three American ‘amilies. The American : Cancer Society says that the best protection igainst possible death from cancer ‘s an annual health checkup. an Funny that when a girl's old Schollenberger, Bob Morgan, Rober- énough to go out alone, she doesn't. - SR GS TT. RR
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