nd ae : DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA Monkeys, Parakeets, Find Refuge Not Only Dogs And Cats. But Ducks . “You just drive down the dirt | ager Ruth M. Jones took the roving road, take a turn to the left onto | reporter on a personally guided tour an improved road, and in about | of the facilities. three miles turn to the right on f Muted mewing and muffled bark- another dirt road. Maybe four miles. | ing seeped through the doors to the You can’t miss it. It's the last | service section. A driver appeared house on the left.” | with two cats in carrying cages, This was a client arranging to headed for the isolation ward where have a stray dog picked up at the | animals spend the first few days. Luzerne County SPCA on Veterans In the cat room, a small and Day. g | friendly cinnamon monkey, released The client left, and general man- ' from his cage, leaped in a series of ~ THE DALLAS POST, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1960 hop-skip and jumps for the kitten cages along the side wall. Three kittens surged furrily up against the wire mesh, purring their pleasure, and the small monkey reached ex- pert hands through the openings, settling down to a fifteen minute hair-grooming operation. “He looks over the cats every day,’ Miss Jones explained, “he’s a good hunter.” “Where did the monkey come from ?”’ “The folks were leaving, and they couldn’t take him. We're going to keep him for awhile.” Miss Jones indicated three striped pussies, half grown kittens. Something New Has Been “CHUCK” SNYDER 2 dr. Hardtop Black. Radio, Heater, Auto. Trans. White Walls EXTRA SHARP ___ $305. '57 PLYMOUTH 6 cyl, Auto. Transmission, Radio, Heater, 2 Tone Grey $795. ’56 PLYMOUTH V8, 4 dr, Auto. Transmission, Radio, Heater, Green & White $495. TO THE BACK MOUNTAIN AREA! LARGE SELECTION A-f USED CARS TRIANGLE MOTORS MAIN HIGHWAY, DALLAS OR 5-12017 Fairlane, Auto. Trans. Radio, Heater, Power Steering, 24,000 original miles, - 2 tone green, 4 dr., V8 ‘© 4-dr,, V8, Auto. 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In the dog-runs, a worried look- ing collie pricked his ears. : “He’s a nice looking dog, didn't his owner want him?” 3 “You'll never believe this... . but he won't cateh rats, and his owner rat poison.” ) An enthusiastic puppy wagged a looking mongrel, obviously in heat, yelped at confinement. "A boxer, turning grey around the muzzle ‘from advancing age, asked mutely for a good home, wrinkling his nose at the visitors, but without much | hope. PA dog of indeterminate ancestry, | but with a strain of German police, wondered why he had been smug- gled- into this country from Korea, and then. turned out to fend for himself. “Can’t afford to keep the dog; t00 many. puppies every year; Featuring The Famous SO SURE TO PLEASE JOHN J. FEDOCK OPEN DAILY and MAIN HIGHWAY HALL'S PHARMACY Registered Pharmacists on Duty E. W. OPEN Thanksgiving Day 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. SHAVERTOWN Say “Thank You” To Your Hostess With A Box Of HALL ROY J. 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They ate out of the | housebroken; Moving away.” These same dish, and as long as the dog |are some of the standard reasons | was there, it was impossible to use | for sending a dog to the SPCA. ! | The SPCA gets some odd requests. f There was the family in Wilkes- | | and were scraping the bottom of the | | bin when the truck appeared. The | | truck driver started to adjust the | coal chute, and a pregnant skunk, | | loaded “for bear, emerged from un- | der the steps, The truck driver went | away fast, and mamma called SPCA. | Then there was another skunk, | caught in a steel trap under a porch. | He had just about chewed off his leg by the time the SPCA released him with a special apparatus. This is the same type of gadget that is used to lift a cat down from a tree, a series of hollow metal rods equipped with a padded belly-band and capable ‘of being extended to a | great height. f It used to be the fire department | that got the calls when a cat was | up a tree. Now it’s the SPCA. | Miss Jones exhibited the catch- | em-alive traps in varying sizes, | which when appropriately baited, attract a frightened cat or a hun- suit. Pointing out a large model, she said, -“That’s ‘the kind of a trap we caught a little boy on a trike in, up in Scranton a few years ago.” Seems the little boy, ears down between his shoulders, pedalling his trike like crazy, knees pumping, hair flying, ran right into the trap along with the raw hamburg, and his mother-didn’t know how to get him out. She had a mental picture of little Joe ending up at the SPCA, until a neighbor released the door and backed the trike out of its prison. : Dogs and cats and monkeys aren’t the only things that come to anchor at the SPCA. There was that small screech owl, found in a second floor bedroom of an abandoned house, reduced to bones and feathers, but still able to give a wicked nip with its bill, And the pet duck. The little boy wept bitterly, but his mother said she simply could not keep it. The neighbors were complaining. And a whole series of lost para- keets, post-Easter chickens in pastel fuzz, rabbits, raccoons. No snakes to date. Kennel supervisor Walter E. Rug- gles (he’s Frank Ruggles’ nephew) sees to it that everything is kept Only Yesterday (Continued from Page 2 A) small tail in the end pen. A sad Barre who expected a load of coal, | was guest speaker, tracing the his- tory of the church at-a meeting Wednesday night. Charter members were Evi Wilson, Valentine DeWitt, Edward Holmes, Levi C, Lewis, and Robert Lewis. And 10 Years Ago: Richard Stine, 19, Alderson, was accidentally shot up at Renovo while hunting with Coon Honeywell and Bob Mitchell. In shock from loss of blood, he was admitted to Renovo Hospital after being transported 2% | miles through the woods and 25 by car. Pre fourth accident at intersec- tion with Harveys Lake Highway and the new Lehman road, saw Fred MacCullough, Jackson Street, plunging over the dead end bank in his ear, taking with him danger. sign and three guard posts. Nobody hurt, and the car ‘only slightly damaged. w/ Excavation has started for the parochial school. A grove of blue spruce was felled to clear the ground. Robert Kemmerer, badly wounded in Korea, is home again in the USA, at Oakland Naval Hospital, Cali- fornia. Reserves are being called up. Reporting recently for active duty are Richard Staub, reassigned to a chemieal warfare outfit; Robert Lyons, to Fort Meade; Ernest Reese, with the Navy. Dallas’ Township and Kingston Township football teams will lock horns Thanksgiving morning, Dallas attempting to break an eight-year Jinx. he Mrs. L. E. Beisel has found a patch of violets in bloom at Meeker, in spite of two mornings of near-zero temperature. Fay Turner of Noxen was wed to Robert Ellis Clark of Beaumont at a quiet wedding. Three Thanksgiving weddings are scheduled: Patricia Patsey to Robert Youngblood; Ona Yurchokonis to James Dougher; Phyllis. Harvey to Floyd Wolfe. Mrs. William Cairl celebrated her 82 birthday with two old friends, once brides in Larksville: Mrs. An- nie Avery, Shavertown, and Mrs. Chid Keller, Shavertown. Subscribe To The Post SECTION A—PAGE 5 [Dalia Junior Women (Plan Yuletide Party | Executive Board of Dallas Junior { Woman's Club recently completed | plans for the annual Christmas tea at the home of Mrs. Bernard Rogers, . Franklin Street, Shavertown. Mrs. Joseph Borton of Trucksville assist- ed as co-hostess. The board an- ynounced that each member will {bring a fifty cent gift to be ex- changed. The tea will take place on De- | cember 6, Prince of Peace Church. Dallas Woman's Club Chorale will entertain with musical presentations and a few more surprises are in store. Members may invite guests. | Mrs. Leo L. Lucksavage, Jr., will be chairman of the hostess committee. Assisting her will be Mesdames Carl Goeringer, James Huston, Jr., Stan- ley Hozempa, Alice Shortz, A. Dun- can Whitebread, Janice Rice. the | Luther League Hayride Members of Luther League will enjoy a hayride next Thursday evening, meeting at St. Paul’s Lu- theran Church at 6 p.m. to go to Mohawk Riding Academy. Mem- bers may bring guests to enjoy hay- (ride and refreshments. Final plans will be made at the recreational meeting Sunday evening in the church parlors. PUZZLE The Pilgrims put a fish in each hill’ of corn, and the only explan- ation of it the modern gardener can think of is that they must have been rich. —Boston Globe Did You Read THE TRADING POST ’56 FORD Ranch Wagon Radio, Heater Fordomatie spotless. The runs are hosed out with antiseptic every day. Carrying cages are sterilized. The long sink in the isolation room, used for dip- ping and bathing, fairly shines. For painless disposal of sick ani- mals there is a cylinder which eases them out of their misery, put- ting them to sleep almost instantly. Many of the animals are adopted. The SPCA investigates thoroughly before placing an animal in a family. Miss Jones wishes that people who drive up furtively at night and dump unwanted animals in front of the building on Fox Hill Road would read the sign which clearly service.” Scarcely a day passes that she doesn’t find some miserable little pet shivering on the doorstep. [ Since the opening on April 11, up until September 30, the shelter has | handled 4,196 animals, and the load | of a shelter for animals, backing the is increasing day by day. Mrs. Z. Platt Bennett, whose name appears in memoriam on a bronze | plaque in the lobby, had as one of | her goals in life the establishment | project with tireless energy and Famous Brands New Merchandise New All Leather Genuine Army SHOES Val. to $7.98 $3.98 MEN’S 1st. Qual. Beacon BATHROBES Reg. $3. 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The shelter is an attractive little building, low-lying, spic and span in appearance, located well Back on a landscaped plot, with plenty of parking space, In addition to the dog wing with its individual out- door runs, and the other rooms listed, there is a kitchen for prepa- ration of pet chow. Each day, including Sundays and holidays, over 100 visitors come to see the puppies and kittens. More and more people have dis- covered the SPCA. The truck driver answered a call to pick up two dogs recently, and when he came back to headquarterss he had eleven dogs aboard. Said people stuck their heads out of windows and hailed him as he went past. The SPCA is a growing concern. You Can 1 This is a “dismond that Visit it some afternoon. And support it. It costs money to provide humane handling for poor little unwanted animals. Best way to get in the swim is to stay out of the dives. ’57 FORD Fairlane “500” 4 dr. Hardtop, R & H, Power Steering, Fordomatie LUZERNE MOTOR CO. 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