wR Re) SECTION A PAGE? _ THE DALLAS POST Established 1889 “More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution Now In Its (lst Year” Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association National Editorial Association A nom.partisan, liberal progressive mewspaper pub- lished every Thursday morning at the Dallas Post plant Lehman Awenue, Dallas, Pennsylvania. 3 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 t six months. Qut-of-State subscriptions: $4.50 a year; $2.75 six mondhs or less. Back issues, more than one week old, 15¢. When requesting a chunge of address subscribers are asked to give their old as well as new address. 2 Allow two weeks for changes of address or new subscription to be placed on mailing list. Bingle coples 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—Marie’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. : The Post is sent free to all Back Mountain patients in local Hospitals. If you are a patient ask your nurse for it. 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. Advertisirtg copy received after Monday 5 P.M. will be charged at 88¢ per column inch. Classified rates 5c 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—ROBERT F. BACHMAN Associate Editors—MYRA ZEISER RISLEY,MRS T. M. B. HICKS Sports—JAMES LOHMAN Advertising—LOUISE C. MARKS Photographs—JAMES KOZEMCHAK Circulation—DORIS MATLLIN ‘Editorially Speaking: THEY COULD COME DOWN Automobile insurance rates are sky-high, people are saying. But, unless some unforeseeable miracle of com- mon sense occurs, they are going to keep on going up! Thus the question arises, who makes these rates? And the simplest possible answer is we do—you and I and the hot-rodder over the way; the neighbors, includ- ing the old couple who only drive to church on Sunday morning and around the countryside in the afternoon, and the teen-agers who drag on the turnpike in the small- hours of the morning. Rates are made by everyone who drives—including the drivers who serve on juries and award outlandish sums in damage suits on the theory that the money comes from the bottomless vaults of rich insurance companies, instead of the pockets of people like themselves who are paying insurance premiums; including the ambulance- chasing lawyers who specialize in such cases, the shady doctors who collaborate and build huge fees for them- selves and unscrupulous but highly cooperative service garages. Nor should we, in all honesty, exclude the rank “and file of those insured who suffer an accident and are persuaded they have a liability claim. On the strength of the record—which shows that in only three of the years since World War II have the in- surance companies made money on auto coverage and in the last decade for which figures are complete (ending with 1959), went in the hole by $750 million—insurance people have reason to suspect that there is some larceny in the soul of every one of us! If so, it is a stupid sort of larceny since, along with reckless and inept driving, it is hiking those liability rates up and up. One fact of rate-making, however, which is not too well understood, provides some hope for reform by locali- ties, if not nationally. This is that insurance rates are geared directly to the driving performance of the various communities. Losses are charged to the accident record of the territory in which the car is kept. Thus, motorists in each area pay only the rates they have helped to create by their collective behavior at the wheel. ~~ This is something everyone should remember, and something no one can run away from. Even if the sight of blood on the highway (including your own) doesn’t bother you; even if police blankets shield you from the horror of mangled and lifeless traffic victims; any driving accident you may have and any damage you may collect anywhere in America, is charged right back on the record of your home town! Holding the line and even reducing liability rates in this area is a do-it-yourself operation. But don’t ever for- get, it works both ways! Trucksville Flower Show Announces Prize Winners Prizes for outstanding exhibits at the Trucksville Flower Show, spon- sored by the W.S.C.S. of the Metho- dist Church, were won by Mrs. J. B. Schooley, Roy Webb, Eugene Misson, Mrs. Grant Ashburner, Mrs. guerite Huey, Mrs. N. J. Sorbello, Mrs. Harold Breed, Mrs. Walter Boehme, Mrs. Lester Squier, Mrs. S. R. Henning, Mrs. Earl Eustice, Irma Lipfert, Gertrude Lipfert, Mrs. Ann Parris, Mrs. Lola Lamereaux, Henry Shonk, Mrs. Harold Van- Tuyle and James Adamchick. Door ize winners were Renard Huey, rs. C., Bartikowski, Mrs. Roy Webb, Clifford Johnson, Wm. Hontz, Ruth Adamchick, Wm. Sut- ton and Holly Phillips, Blue Ribbon winners were Mrs. Grant Ashburner, Mrs. Harold Breed, Mrs. Harold VanTuyle, Jesse Lipfert, Mrs. M. Dykman, Mrs. S. D. Finney, Mrs. Helen Parris, Mrs. Ira Hoover, Mrs. Alice Davis, Mrs. Earl Eustice, Eugene Misson, Jackie Van- Tuyle, Wm. Sutton, Kenneth Ells- worth, Mrs. Walter Boehme, Mrs. Cedric Griffith, Henry Knowles, R. W. Webb, Holly Phillips, Mrs. H. H. Rymer, Mrs. S. R. Henning, Mrs. James Hutchison, Bert Sutton, E. V. Chadwick and Bette Davis. Red Ribbons (2nd) were won by Mrs. Walter Phillips, Georgeina Weidner, Mrs. H. H. Rymer, David Lipfert, Mrs. Joy B. Schooley, Mrs. Helen Parris, Irene Weidner, Mar- Mrs. Margaret Dykman, Mrs. Alice Davis, Earl Eustice, Bert Sutton, E. V. Chadwick, Mr. and Mrs, Wm. Sutton, Jesse Lipfert, R. W. Webb, Marlon Frantz, Mrs. Grant Ash- burner, Henry Knowles, Mrs. James Hutchison, Marian Landon. White Ribbons, (3rd) by Bertha M. Huey, Alma Cotton, Mrs. S. R. Henning, Irene Weidner, Jackie VanTuyle, David Lipfert, Mrs. Don Finney, Mrs. E. V. Chadwick, Mrs. Lola Lamereaux, Mrs. Walter Boehme, Mrs. Earl Eustice, Mr. and Mrs. William Sutton, R. 'W, Webb, Eugene Misson, Mrs. Harold Breed, Miss Billie Grall. Judges were Mrs. Frank Detrick, Howard Ide, Mrs. Harold Phillips, Mrs, Lester Squier, Jesse Lipfert, Roy Webb, Mrs. Helen Parris, Mrs. Henry Shonk, Mrs. Arnot Jones, Alma Cotton, Mrs. Leonard Adam- chick, Mrs. Albert Ide, Miss Helen Crane and Mrs. Leonard Mollahan. SUCCESSFUL INVESTING... by ROGER E. SPEAR Investment Adviser and Analyst Nurse Planning To Retire Advised Stock Switch Q. ‘I am a nurse, 60 years old and plan to retire in eight or ten years, I own 60 shares of Lone Star Steel which I paid 35 for (now 19) and also 60 shares of Felmont Pet- roleum which I paid 10 for (now 41%), Should I sell and reinvest? If so, what? I have $4,000 in a savings account paying 4 per cent. T would like to invest in something that will produce a better profit in the next few years.” F. Z. A. T can sympathize with you because your problem—when to sell —is a common one in investing. But your sensible approach to paper losses makes me confident that the situation is not a serious one. Lone Star Steel, which serves the oil and natural gas industries with steel pipe, is suffering from a lack of demand for its products. Sales and earnings are down sharply, and the price is too; but I would be in- clined to hold these shares for the short term at least. Felmont Petro- leum is a well-managed crude pro- ducer with heavy interests in Venezuela. Since oil production in that area is declining, I would ex- pect the company to show only slow improvement. You would be better off to switch to Producing Properties, whose oil and gas hold- ings are being expanded at a very rapid rate. Q. “My holdings consist of Balti- more Gas and Electric, Boston Edison, and New England Electric. I am considering selling New Eng- land Electric and buying American Cable and Radio. Do you think this is a wise move?” F. P. y A. I go along with you provided you. don’t mind substituting the stability and higher income of New England Electric for the speculative appreciation potential of American Cable. The latter operates a growing telegraph service to all parts of the world. American Cable has some appeal but I think that International Tel. & Tel. would provide better growth in the long run. Growth, Good Income Suit Retired Couple Q. ‘My wife and I are both re- tired and living on a small pension, plus Social ‘Security. A friend of ours thinks we should invest in tax-exempt bonds. What is their function? Deo you advise us to buy some?” A. L. A. Our United States Constitu- tion stipulates that interest paid on bonds issued by town, city, and state governments, by highway, bridge, and port authorities, by public school districts, and by municipal water systems shall be exempt from Federal Taxation. This means that these obligations, or “municipals” as they are commonly refered to by brokers, are tailor-made for wealthy investors in the 40, 50, or higher per cent income brackets. Since municipals are usually quite safe, a high-bracket investor could do just as well holding tax-exempts yielding 3 per cent as he would holding common stocks, with less safety, which yield 6 per cent. But considering today’s exemptions and substantial medical benefits, you, and older persons like yourself, should not be too concerned with taxable income. Considerably higher income than is offered in munici- pals can be obtained from good, stable common stocks. And, of course, no bond offers you any growth at all. Why not invest in some of the better electric utilities or food processing stocks, which offer growth plus good income, and leave the tax-exempts to someone else. Q. “I am thinking of buying 200 shares of Signal Oil and Gas. What is your! opinion of this stock now ?”’ J.B. A. 1 think rather highly of it. Signal, along with practically all other, members of the oil group, have fallen into extreme investor disfavor. The stock is mow selling at its lowest level in several years. However, the company is the lead- ing independent West Coast oil pro- ducer and its position in the U. 8S. and Middle Eastern oil picture is being strengthened. Once the world oil glut subsides, I look for Signal to make rapid strides. (Copyright 1960, General Features Corp.) Center Moreland Rev. and Mrs. James Thomas, Parsons, Kansas have moved into the Races’ apartment, Mrs. Newell Weed, Wyoming spent Labor Day with her daughter, Mrs. Varian Felter. Mr. and Mrs. Neil Saunderson and Thomas, Washington D.C., are spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Guy Cooper. Sally and Marie Matusavige spent last week in Great Bend, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Statnick spent the weekend with their son, Joe, and family in Alexandria, Va. Mrs. Ethel Jackson flew up to Connecticut to spend a few days with Mr, and Mrs. Henry Miller. Mr. and Mrs. George Schoonover spent the holiday weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Larry Merrill in Pittsburgh. Mr. and Mrs. Ivor Bonsall of Buffalo, N. Y., spent Sunday with Mr, and Mrs. Robert Schoonover. Dian and Gerald Kresge and Joe Ott, Tonawanda, N. Y., were guests of Mrs. Edith Schoonover during the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lameroux and Mrs. Ruby Besteder motored to Wilmington, Del., for the weekend. THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. 1960 AIMEE HET Rambling Around By The Oldtimer — D. A. Waters ALIN RD {Certainly there is something wrong with our civilization. Hundreds of teenagers parade through juvenile court every year and probably thousands are never brought to justice, Scores hang around the highways whose only work is waving a thumb. They are too lazy even to walk. Single speci- mens walk through the checker at the supermarket making a single purchase, a pack of cigarettes. Some local youngsters appear in each of these circumstances and some in more than one. The underlying cause of most of their trouble is idleness, not for the one day or hour, but as a habit of life, day after day, week after week, ‘and apparently year after year. Coupled to this habit and maybe not far less in importance, is the concept that plenty is to be had for nothing, the world owes us a living and will some how provide it, all we have to do is to reach out a hand and pull it in. If what we grab has been earned by another by hard work, it is his hard luck. ‘We have stringent child labor laws, probably too stringent. We have high wage rates, prohibitive to some industries. Much of the work which would improve and beautify the area has to be left undone. Recently we have had the sorry spectacle of sixty-five migrant workers, all ages, invading the area, trying to live under conditions suitable for ten per cent of that number. They received no sympathy or assistance but were put upon like vermin, which in a sense, to some do gooders, they may be. But at any rate they were not lazy. They were looking for work. If the police who ejected them from pro- perty after property would put their time for a week on the higways rounding up hitchhikers and making them get to work, the problems of the tomato growers, importers of the migrant workers, would be ‘solved. One of the growers is alleged to have said that local residents could not do the work. It may be true. Many of our youngsters can play all day, even work up a sweat, but they cannot work. They are not hardened to it. The greatest com- pliment my sons ever received was a comment by Ray Shiber, “The sun does not melt them.” Of course some youngsters do work regularly. They are not all lazy and delinquent. Not all parents are too indulgent, or neglectful of their offspring. But .if there is any change in conditions year after year, apparently it is not for the better. Probably many teenagers are not purposely idlers. They drift into it when school closes. Some even say they would like to have a job. But they display no real hard effort try- ing to find something to do, work, that is. Plain work offers nothing to them. You can bet that all these radio broadcasts and newspaper clippings about, the local migrant worker in- vasion, and similar conditions else- where in some other states, are promptly relayed to Russia. They will be played up to show how workers suffer in this country. And all we can do is hang our heads. In this election year, politicians from top-level down are crying cro- codile tears about the terrible un- employment in this area, when it seems that some actually préfer un- employment to work. It is even alleged that it pays better for large families. And at the same time a hardworking farmer who has spent a lot getting a growing crop stands to lose heavily. And we, who have paid for two or three schoolhouses during over forty years of hard work, are now faced with such heavy school taxes for the new school that our proper- ties may have to be sacrificed. And what makes it so expensive? Is it preparation of facilities for the study books? Is it laboratories for the study of scientific materials and experiments ? Look at the plans and watch the construction. You will be ‘surprised if most of the money is not spent for everything else than work, much of it for just having fun. : And, after going through the school will pupils come out fired with desire to work hard or secure advanced training and equipped to do so, or will they be looking for a lifetime of ease and enjoyment at the expense of someone else? Few present taxpayers will be here to finish the job when the last payment is made in the year 2000. ST ONLY YESTERDAY Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years Ago In The Dallas Post IT HAPPENED 30 YEARS AGO: . Citizens here abouts think it was Col. Lindbergh and his wife who winged over Dallas last week in a monoplane answering the descrip- tion of the plane owned by the country’s ace pilot, which according to reports, tried to land in Forty Fort. Point Breeze were destroyed by fire early Thursday morning, and the Schmaltz and Reilley cottages were badly scorched. i A typhoid epidemic in Tunkhan- nock has caused the death of one man, Raw milk is suspected as the cause of six cases, the first in many years. /The old Raub Hotel in Dallas is eing remodelled to house several stores. Reunions abound: Shaver, White- sell, Bulford families meet. In the Post subscription campaign, winner of the Dodge was Mrs. Chevrolet, Mrs. Alfred Bronson, Sweet Valley; Ford, Marie Woolbert, Dallas. The Post garnered more than 3,000 new subscribers. Roaring Brook, Maple Grove, Noxen, Trucksville, Kitchen Heights, Loyalville, Sweet Valley, West Nan- ticoke, Jackson, Hunlock Creek cor- respondents fill the pages. IT HAPPENED 20 YEARS AGO: + Willkie Clubs of America’ are on the march, a unique amateur poli- tical device to elect the people’s choice. Oren Root, national chair- man, wants 25,000 clubs formed. [School enrollment at Dallas Bor- ough is 331, an increase of 12 over last year. No drownings this summer at Harveys Lake breaks a twenty-year record. The average is three drown- ings a year. Borough Council passes a bill to forbid billboards within the Bor- ough limits. Sara Kent starts a series which will appeal to area gardeners. Jim Hutchison recommends the new hormone spray, designed to keep apples from falling before they are ripe. : : lA year ago last Sunday Europe went to war. David Jenkins, Dallas, died last Friday. Alfred A. Tucker, 62, Trucksville resident, had a fatal heart attack. Local people ask for an extra registration day in this area. Edna and Fred Kiefer are off to the Rockies. Fay Mazur became the bride of Ignatz Kozemchak in St. John’s Russian Orthodox Church. Marie Baer and Lawrence Wolfe married in Meshoppen Methodist Church. 3 IA nuptial mass at St. Therese's was celebrated Saturday morning for Madeleine Sullivan and Joseph Sheridan, Jr. : AND TEN YEARS AGO THESE NAMES MADE HEADLINES: More reunions: Scovells, Richards, Woolbert, Baer. Elizabeth Jane Smith is married Thalheimer and Davis cottages at | Amelia Anderson, Alderson district; |- to Clinton Smith. .Daris Sadie Rossman and Arnold Swan become man and wife. Elizabeth Jane Lohman marries Frank Wallace. {/ Dallas will have a parochial school. Gate of Heaven will build a nine room structure on Machell Avenue. / David Robertson, 13, lost the sight of one eye when a carelessly flung apple hit it. : o Herbert Lohman, fire warden at the fire tower on Chestnut Ridge, died aged 74. Three bathing beauties were win- ners in the Lions Club Beauty Con- test at Harveys Lake, none local. Program Theme Is Americanism Gavenonis To Speak At Legion Thursday Last official meeting of Command- er William Moran and Auxiliary president Mrs. Thomas Reese of Daddow Isaacs Post American Legion will be the annual Americanism Night, Thursday, September 15, when the local Post goes all out to present a program on the evils of Communism. The principal speaker will be Dr. Joseph Gavenonis, Director of pri- vate school and veteran education with the State Department of Public Instruction. His topic will be “A Comparative Study of Communism and Democ- racy. Dr. Gavenonis, a Past Depart- ment Commander of the American Legion, presented this subject to the Department of Education and it was added to the public school cur- riculum. Another highlight of the program will be presentation of books on Communism to Dr. Robert Mellman, superintendent of Dallas schools, Miss Miriam Lathrop, librarian of Back Mountain Memorial Library; Rev. Francis Kane, director of Gate of Heaven School, and to a repre- sentative of College Misericordia. Final plans for the program will be completed this week. Commander Moran and President Reese invite the public to partici- pate in this fine program which is a highpoint in the Post's many pro- grams. Dallas At Home ~ Dallas Dairy, winners of the Wyo- ming League and semi-finals against Swoyerville will play Pringle Sun- day in the finals. Pringle advanced to the finals by winning two straight from Mocanaqua. Dorish with a (6-0) record will try to hurl Dallas to its eighth straight win, Koches will probably get the starting mod for Pringle AC with Malak in relief. Koches hurled the | AC to both wins in the semi-finals. T Noxen Rev. and Mrs. John R. Albright, Reamstown, Pa. made a few brief calls here on Wednesday. He is a ? | former pastor of St. Lukes Luther- an Church. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Coole and son, Billy, spent the week end at Watrous, Pa. 3 Peggy Coole, Connie Smith and Nancy Bean will be home on Tues- day after being employed in Atlan- tic City all summer. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Bellas spent several days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hodgson, at Culley, Pa. ‘Affie Blizard and nephew Ward Vanderhoff, Metuchin, N. J., spent the week end at the home of Chris- tine and Delbert Blizzard. Ray Hubbell left on Sunday night for a fishing trip to Aaden, Ontario. Miles Kibbler spent Friday and Saturday with his friend, Dick ‘Weber, at Gettysburg. Mr: and Mrs. Warren’ Beahm, Loren, Martin, Pamela and Kevin spent the week end with relatives here and attended the wedding of Jeamette Wandal and Jerry Tallent ‘at the Methodist Church, Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sorber visited Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wolf at Conklin, N. Y., on Saturday. 3 Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Boone, Eyers- ville, Pa. called on Mr. and Mrs. William Engelman, during the week. Please do not forget the rummage sale to be held in the Fire Building, Luzerne on September 8, 9, 10. Con- tact Mrs. Oscar Fish or Mrs. Ray Gunton if you have any donations before that date. There will be a church picnic supper at the Methodist Church basement on Saturday 6 p.m. hon- oring Rev. John Gordon's sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Peter An- derson and son Gordon, from Edin- burgh, Scotland. Lt. and Mrs. Harold Harding, Levittown, N. J. are visiting his father, Wilson Harding. Mr. and Mrs. Jack McGinley and family, are spending the week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Loren Case. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Hopfer visited Moses Cartwright at the General hospital on Sunday night. He is a former resident of Noxen. Mrs. Walter Galka, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Urban Womer and family re- cently spent several days with the Walter Galka Jrs. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Race re- turned home after a two week visit with their daughters Mrs. Charles Van Campen and Mrs, Nelson Car- gill, at Binghamton. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Schwartz and family, Philadelphia went home after spending the summer with her’ mother, Mrs. Dorothy French. Mrs. Evelyn Nalbone, Plainfield, N. J. is spending a few days with her son, Joseph and family. Mr. and Mrs, ‘William Macintosh, Avenel, N. J. spent the week end with Mrs. Dorothy French. Raymond Black, Port Orange, Fla., spent a night with the Fred Schencks this week. Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Cahill and family were Sunday guests. Mr. and Mrs. Florence ‘Ann, Shavertown, called on her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Hess, on Sunday. Mr, and Mrs. Albert Ruff Jr. Baltimore, Md. spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ruff Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Daubert, Sheila and Sherry of Trexlertown, spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Robert May. Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Bean; Mrs. Ora Bean, Mr. and Mrs. James Gillis, Jimmy Pat spent several days at Atlantic City recently. ‘Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Hinkey, Binghamton, spent some time with her sister, Mrs. Osmand Casterline and family over the week end. Week end guests at the Albert Jones home were Mary Birtch of Johnson City, and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hobbs and family, Tona- wanda. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Payne and Patricia, Georgia spent several days with Mr. and Mrs. Chester Keiper and attended the funeral of Mrs. William Race. Mrs. Harry Wells, Michael, Cindy Bryantville, Massachusetts are spending two weeks with her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Patton. Sunday visitors at the home of the William Munketchys were her parents Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel Kal- mar and Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Kish, Scranton. . Margaret Sorber left on Monday night to resume her work at the Overbrook School for the Blind in Philadelphia, after spending the summer at her home on Sorber Mountain. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Keller and family have purchased a new trailer and located on Calvin Strohs property. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Womer and son, Robert, Newington, Connecticut spent the past week with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Womer and family. Mrs. Harry Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Brobst Martin, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Moyer, Gary and Gregory, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. David Brobst and family at Lynn, Pa. where they all enjoyed a picnic dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mead and family, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Mr. and Mrs. Howard Leibenguth and family, Endicott, spent the week end ‘with the Ray Leibenguths. The following visited at the William Crossman home on Sunday afternoon: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jones and family, Newark, N. J., Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Baker, Trucks- ville, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Moore, Courtdale, Mrs. Shirley’ Layaou and family, Mehoopany, Mrs. Kenneth Jackson and daughter, Beaumont, Mr. and Mrs. William Jones, \ § Barnyard Notes Ross | Williams. DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA VOICE ASSURANCE My respect for Commonwealth Telephone Company is increased every time I have occasion to call the District Office. The reason is evident in the first cheerful voice that greets me: “Good Morning, Commonwealth Telephone Company, Mrs. Shaver speaking.” For more than thirty years I have heard that voice responding, first as operator and then as chief operator at the old Dallas Exchange —and always in an emergency, the calm, assuring words: ‘Mrs. Shaver speaking.” I have come to rely on her. She handles my questions with dispatch. She sees to it that the messages get through. I have con- fidence in her replies—for they are intelligent—and she will go to any length to grant a courtesy. » I have never heard her when she was excited or flustered. I never received a curt or short answer, no matter how busy she might be nor how ridiculous the request. I have long wanted to pay this tribute to her—for the assurance of her voice over the years in times of personal and community em- ergencies has meant much to all of us—the child, the aged and the apprehensive. : : : They have brains at Commonwealth Telephone Company and a reputation for putting the right person in the right job. Mrs. Shaver is a classic example. Hers is the vioce of assurance that a job will be well done! : A TIME FOR LIVING My revered mother frequently quoted from the most beautiful " passages of scripture: “There is a time for living, and there is a time for dying.” ; I am sure there is a time for sadness, and a time for courage and hope—and a time for beauty’s sake. In this connection I am prone to believe that there is too sad music in the air about Dallas. I would not advocate substituting rock and roll or jazz, but I am sure that the continual sound of doleful hymns both at noon and at vespers was not what God intended when He created music. I would not be so certain in this opinon, were it not that a number who have recently lost loved ones have confirmed it. For many of us, there is a religious experience in any fine music, —and that goss for Rogers & Hammerstein as well as Chopin. » There is a time for living and a time for dying. If we can’t’ have some melody for the living, let the music die—except, perhaps, at vespers. Ralph DeWitt has forwarded a copy of the Vermont Standard, published in Woodstock, Vermont, since 1853 containing these per- tinent remarks by the editor Benton Dryden. : Publishers are always seeking ways to make more money on their newspapers. : We're like all the rest of them — and we now are working on an idea which really ought to be a big thing. That is, when we get it perfected. Then, we can sell royalties on the patent to weeklies throughout the country — and retire. Our project is to design a paper with all front pages. Inspiration for this project came from a book we have just read. , Written by a weekly publisher in Duxbury, Mass., it is entitled “Put It On The Front PagePlease.” That is a familiar phrase to all publishers of small newspapers. We receive many requests every week throughout the year to “put it on the front page, please.” - : Only trouble is that, until we can work out the details for a paper with all front pages, the Standard has only one. 3 That means tnat while a 12-page Standard has 96 columns of space for ads and news, there are only eight columns available for news on: the front page. - Thus, all we can do for the present is use our best judgment as to what is most important and most news- worthy for the front page. : : Of course, there also is'the matter of fitting tn the stories. Put- ting type into the forms for printing is like putting together a jig saw puzzle. page, there are “holes” to fill. : These remaining ‘‘holes” must be filled by stories of the correct length to fit.’ So — we hope our many friends will realize why we can’t guar- » antee to place their favorite: news stories on the front page. Space is up — see you later. After ‘the main stories have been placed on the ry From Pillar To Post... By MRS. T. M. B. HICKS After reading accounts of bathers mangled by sharks in Atlantic coastal waters, the letter from Charleston, South Carolina, stating that Howie had been “playfully nudged by a porpoise” while floating on an inner tube in shallow water off the Isle of Palms, takes on sinister coloring. shark ? A porpoise, leaping through the waves, shows a large fin. Faced with a fin, I'd abandon the inner tube and make what speed I could toward the safety of the sands, just as Howie did. Sharks are getting entirely too inquisitive these 'days; and nc ¥ amount of deep-sea diving T-V show is ever going to convince me that sharks have good intentions . Not after reading that two people have been badly mangled this summer, within sight of the -life-guard stations. What goes on here? Aren't the sharks getting enough to eat in their native habitat? Getting shark-bit is ohe of those things you don’t think about taking out insurance ior. y Getting shark-bit could be dreadfully final, and no amount of insurance would compensate the victim, though it might ease the blow for his family. - : [Porpoises are sportive creatures, playing tag through the waves, but I suspect them of having teeth. : Appearing suddenly alongside a bather, floating half asleep in an inner tube, a porpoise could be depended on to scare the living . daylights out of a small boy, or even a fairly large boy. It would be just as upsetting as the sudden emergence of a seal, large eyes staring from a sleek brown head, whiskers dripping sea water, ‘teeth bared in a smile. 3 According to the account of a man I once knew on the Pacific coast, an unexpected meeting with a seal is one of the most harrowing experiences of a misspent life. The creature reared its head, stretched its mouth in a silly grin, and started swimming round and round, bobbing up to port and starboard, fore, aft and amidships. Completely disorgainzed, the re- cipient of these unwelcome attentions did his best Australian crawl toward the small cove on Puget Sound where he had left his raiment. ‘How could anybody be positive that it was a porpoise and not “$Y picnic party. It was the wrong cove. Clutching gratefully at the sand, with the last of his strength he staggered up the beach and fell flat on his face in the midst of a R. F. D. #3, Tunkhannock, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Patton and Mrs. Henry Lane of Noxen. Guests at the Paul Spaces on Labor Day were Mr. and Mrs. Mar- vin Sickler, New Jersey and Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Sickler and grand- son, of Falls. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Casterline, New Jersey spent the week end with Mrs Russell Casterline. Mr. and Mrs, Stanley Denmon, Larry and Lynn, spent a day at Hershey last week. Mr, and Mrs. Edward Lasecki, W. Nanticoke spent Labor Day with Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Blizzard. Mrs. Howard Mullin returned from the General hospital this week, somewhat improved. A family picnic was enjoyed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Crossmans on Labor Day. These present: Mrs. Ethel Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Jackson, and daugh- ter Mrs. Henry Lane, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jones and sons of Newark, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Patton and family. Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Patton and son, Baltimore, Md. spent the week end with the Franklin Pattons. Tri Hi-Y To Meet There will be a meeting of all Tri- Hi-Y memebrs, including those who graduate in June, at Grace Bach- man's home, Saturday, 1 p. m, Following election of officers re- freshments will be served. —»
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