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THE DALLAS POST Established 1889
Editorially Speaking:
. Crime’s Strongest Deterrent
Shocking increases in crimes of violence have been
accepted in many communities with equally shocking com-
placency. That such erimes can be curbed by all-out
cooperation between police authorities, the courts and
private citizens, has been abundantly demonstrated in
Philadelphia. For thirteen years, American Stores, with
headquarters in that city, has cooperated aggressively
with all law enforcement agencies in combatting crimes
of murder and violence, particularly those involving ban-
ditry. The results of this cooperation are impressive. For
the past two years and eight months there have been no
armed holdups of this company’s properties in the Phila-
delphia area.
100Years Ago ThisWeek...in
THE CIVILWAR
(Events exactly 100 years ago this week that led to the Civil War—
told in the language and style of today.)
Jefferson Davis Sworn In
As President of South
MONTGOMERY, Ala.—Feb. 18—Mississippi’s 52-year old Jefferson
° Davis, the South’s prime example of “benevolent slaveholder,”” was
sworn in today as president pro tem of the Confederate States.
Inauguration of the tall, sharp-
faced Davis came as high point of
. so far in the 14-day old eonvention
of the provincial Confederate
Congress.
Davis defined his frame of mind
on taking office in a speech earli-
er this week
at Stevenson,
Tenn., in which
: he predicted the
border states
would “‘join the
iConfederacy
within 60 days”
and threatened
: the Union with
“Southern pow-
der :. > and
Southern steel.”
But the con-
- vention itself has been peaceful so
far—to the disgust of many critics
who charge from the sidelines that
delegates are strangling them-
selves in red tape when they
should be readying for war with
the North.
a - degree self- government
among his Negroes and urges
STEPHENS
a
JEFFERSON DAVIS
them toward education,
forces assert.
Lincoln Shocks
Capital with
Secret Arrival
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Feb. 23—
Abraham Lincoln of Illinois ar-
rived unexpectedly in this jittery
capital today, target of the most
savage invective hurled at a presi-
dent-elect in the nation’s 84-year
history.
High government circles
were abuzz with reports that
Lincoln was “smuggled”
through Baltimore after dis-
covery of a well-organized as-
sassination plot there.
Anti-Lincoln orators and publi-
cations have been yammering for
days at the Illinoisan’s failure ta
say anything of import in his doz-
ens of speeches on the way here
from Springfield. His bizarre ar-
these
® Ld ®
NAMED vice-president with
Davis was Alexander H. Stephens
of Georgia, 49-year old member of
Congress until the South pulled
out of Washington. 3
Davis is an arresting-looking
man—more than six feet tall,
with finely-chiseled features
and eyes the color of pine cone
smoke. He served as seore-
tary of war under President
Franklin Pierce from 1853 to
1857 and was twice a U.S. Sen-
ator. . :
+ Born June 3, 1808, in Kentucky—
ironically, about 100 miles from
the birthplace of the Union’s presi-
dent-elect, Abraham Lincoln—he
was the 10th child of Samuel Da-
vis, a tobaceo planter who served
in Georgia during the Revolution-
Bry war. 3 = rival here provided me fuel for
the blaze of criticism. Aides say
DAVIS attended Transylvania |p: ool is saving major policy
" University in Lexington, Ky,, and
later the U.8. Military Academy
at West Point, graduating in 1833,
23rd in a class of 83. He served in
the Blackhawk war and with dis-
tinction in the Mexican conflict,
being wounded at Buena Vista.
Personal tragedy blighted
his young adulthood.
His first wife Sarah, daughter
of former president Zachary Tay-
lor, died three months after their
marriage. The present Mrs. Davis,
the former Anne Howell, ig the
daughter of a rich Mississippi
planter.
The Davis plantation, ‘Brier-
field,” on the lush banks of the
Mississippi, is a shewplace of pro-
slavery forees Davis eusourages
announcements for his inaugural
speech March 4. ;
Hello, Kansas!
TOPEKA, Kansas—Feb. 22—It's
official. /
Citizens of this wheat-rich prai-
rie land basked today in the
warmth of press reports that Pres-
ident-elect Lincoln, stopping in
Philadelphia en route to inaugura-
tion ceremonies in Washington,
had unfurled a new 384-star flag
marking entry of Kansas into the
Union. ;
COPYRIGHT 1961, HEGEWISCH
NEWS SYNDICATE. PICTURES:
NATIONAL ARCHIVES
BRE IYS
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Williams Gains
Executive Post
Pencil Co. Advances
Resident Of Dallas
Eberhard Faber Pen & Pencil Co.,
Inc. has appointed Russell H. Wil-
liams, Jr., of Dallas, Advertising and
Bales Promotion Manager, succeed-
ing Harry E. Fischer, who has been
appointed Sales Manager of the
newly-formed Eberhard Faber Pre-
mium Sales Co., Inc.
Williams, 39, jcined Eberhard
Faber approximately five years ago.
Prior to the Company's move to
Wilkes-Barre four years ago from
New York, he went through a period
of training in preparation for his
job as Assistant Advertising Man-
ager. Before joining Eberhard Faber,
he was with Gutendorf Advertising
Agency in Wilkes-Barre.
A native of Kingston, Williams
attended Wyoming Seminary Dean
School of Business, and graduated
from Wilkes College in 1950 with a
BA in English; He is a World War
II veteran, having served with the
U. S. Army in Okinawa and Korea.
His wife is the former Peggy
Davies of Wilkes-Barre. Two sons,
Russell, 12, and Gary, 10, attend
Dallas Township school. The family
lives on Terrace Street, Fernbrook.
The new appointment took effect
January 1.
Eastern Star To Serve
Annual Turkey Dinner
Dallas Chapter No. 396, Order of
Eastern Star, will serve a Turkey
Supper at the Kunkle Community
{Hall Wednesday, March 22.
Mrs. Oce Beryl Austin, Worthy
Matron, cordially invites the public
to attend.
Mrs. Dorothy Dodson inyggoncral
chairlady with Mrs. Betty Meeker in
charge of the dining room.
Register March 6,
Noon To Nine P.M.
Registration date at Dallas Bor-
ough Building, for convenience of
anybody in the area or in Luzerne
| County, is March 6, noon to 9 p. m.
Young men and women who will
attain their majority before the
Primaries, or have become twenty-
one recently, are advised that regis-
tration for voting is required, in
order that tax collectors may enter
names on their rolls for per capita
assessment. ;
Voters who have recently changed
their location will lose their right
to vote if the new address is not on
the rolls.
Services Friday At 11
For Albert M. Clifford
Albert M. Clifford, Staub Road,
will be buried tomorrow in Oaklawn
Cemetery. Services will be con-
ducted by Rev. Robert D. Yost at
11 a. m. at the Blight Funeral Home,
Wyoming Avenue. Interment will be
in Hanover Township.
Mr. Clifford, 63, died Tuesday
morning at Nesbitt Hospital, where
he had been a patient for five weeks.
He was taken seriously ill in
October.
Thirty-one years a resident of
Trucksville, he served thirty-seven
years as a letter carrier in Kingston,
retiring four years ago.
He was a native of Nanticoke, son
of the late Albert H. and Elizabeth
Morgan Clifford, and was educated
in local schools.
During World War I he went to
France with the 109th Artiliery,
serving in the headquarters com-
pany in the Meuse-Argonne, Ypres,
and Verdun.
He was a member of Shavertown
Methodist Church; American Feder-
ation of Letter-Carriers; Nanticoke
Council Jr. OUAM; Kingston Ameri-
can Legion Post and its Last Man's
Club.
He and his wife, the former Elvira
Powell of Nanticoke, observed their
fortieth wedding anniversary last
May.
In addition to his widow, he is
survived by a daughter, Mrs. Gwen
Guzzone, New York City; a brother,
Atherton, Riegelsville; a sister, Mrs.
Ida Vivian, Nanticoke; a number of
nieces and nephews: ,
William Alan Lewis
Myr. and Mrs. George Lewis, Dav-
enport Street, Dallas, announce the
birth of a seven pound son, Willism
Alan, on February 10. They also
have a little daughter, Shirley, aged
three and a half years.
Mrs. Lewis is the former Eula
Dymond of Dallas. :
_ Mr, Lewis is assoclated with the
d Coach Co. of Nanticoke.
‘| frontier
THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1961
ca
Bu The Oldtimer
Rambling Around
—D. A. Waters
Cs ET
John Durkee, for whom Fort |
Durkee on the river common at |
Wilkes-Barre was named, was born
December 11, 1728 in the then
village of Windham, in
eastern Connecticut.
twenty-two he bought a farm in
what later became Norwich, Con-
necticut, and opened a tavern there.
He began to engage in trading on
the river and later, with partners,
entered the trading with the West
Indies. He married Martha Wood in
1753 and three years later went to
the French and Indian War as second
lieutenant in Captain Joshua Abell’s
Company, Second Regiment of Con-
necticut. They formed a part of
Lord Loudoun’s force against Canada
which accomplished little.
The next year he was assigned as
a captain of the 9th Company, Third
Regiment, and participated .in the
Battle of Lake George. A year later
he was assigned to the regiment
under Eliphalet Dyer of which the
quartermaster was Zebulon Butler,
the same who years later command- |
ed at the Battle of Wyoming. In |
1762, by this time ranked as major,
he participated with the expedition
of the First Regiment against Havana
under the general command of the |
Earl of Albemarle. Most of the
troops died of yellow fever.
His tavern at Norwich became a |
rendevous of those opposed to the |
British rule and restrictions. The
“Sons of Liberty” were organized
there. The province sent Jared
Ingersoll to London to protest the
Stamp Act, but he turned and’
accepted the job as stamp agent in
Connecticut, where Durkee and
friends had aroused the people
against using the stamps. Durkee
organized a force in several parts to
and by force compelled him to resign
the stamp job.
In the meantime, Durkee had
bought a half-share in the Susque-
hanna Company which had sent
forty men to take over the Wyoming
Valley with protests and military
resistance from Pennsylvania au-
thorities and claimants in prospect.
Durkee was sent with a relief
expedition in two sections; but
before their arrival the Pennamites
had arrested some of the First Forty
and dispersed the rest. Durkee built
fort on the river common, on the
»
intercept Ingersoll upon his return |’
\
Wilkes-Barre side, which was named
Fort Durkee. Shortly thereafter a
strong Pennsylvania force took the |
fort and sent Durkee and others in |
| chains to Philadelphia (or Easton). ! Atty. Louis G.
At the age ois
The Company then sent Zebulon
Butler with reinforcements and |
tinued for several years.
Major Durkee returned to Con- |
necticut, broken in health, after his
imprisonment. ~The dispute with
England now getting very hot, he
organized ‘Committees of Corre-
spondence” to keep in touch with
the situation and the other colonies.
After Lexington and Concord his
regiment was hurried to Boston and
participated in the Battle of Bunker
Hill. General George Washington
personally signed his commission as
Colonel of the 20th infantry.
With Washington, his regiment
took part in the campaign for New
York and covered the retreat across
New Jersey after the Battle of Long
Island. They fought at Trenton and
Princeton and wintered at Morris-
town, said to have been more
hardship than the better known
Winter at Valley Forge. They con-
tinued through the battles for
Philadelphia, fought at Germantown,
wintered at Valley Forge, and were
in the Battle of Monmouth. By this
time Durkee was in command of the
Fourth Brigade of the Continental
Army and was stationed along or
near the Hudson for a couple of
years at White Plains, Morristown,
and other points.
Near the end.of the War, Durkee
had to resign his commission due to
ill health. He returned to Connecti-
cut and died shortly thereafter. He
was buried with splendid military
honors.
The above is condensed from OUR
YANKEE HERITAGE by Carleton
Beals.
Correction
In an appreciative note, following
mention of her family in this column,
Miss Frances Dorrance includes the
following comment “It is all correct
except that Anne an I had only one
sister who died at 16 years old and
no brothers. There were not ‘several
other children'—a small matter,
however”.
We are glad to set the record
straight, also glad that Miss Dorrance
was pleased.
© TRH EE HT
ONLY YESTERDAY
Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years Ago In The Dallas Fost
IT HAPPENED 30 YEARS AGO:
Senator A. J. Sordoni is a strong
supporter of the highway program.
He is in #avor of a new road which
would reach Harveys Lake from
Plymouth and Larksville, touching
Lehman, and joining the lake high-
way at Outlet.
Mrs. Sarah: Woolbert of Trucks-
ville observed her 87th birthday at
a surprise birthday party.
Mrs. Joseph Finch, Dallas, was
buried following services held at the
Free Methodist Church.
Robert Whitehead, former resident
of Dallas, and formerly employed in
the broom factory on Lake Street,
died at 61 in Easton.
VY United States Navy is equipping a
laboratory at Penn State for further
study of the revolutionary new
Diesel engines.
¥ Sides and roof of the old covered
bridge spanning Bowmans Creek
have been torn away, and timbers
will soon be replaced by steel gir-
ders, foundation for a modern
bridge.
w*Himmler Theatre is advertising
“Mim and Bill,” starring Marie
Dressler. Jackie Coogan will star
in “Tom Sawyer.”
Mrs. Julia Roushey, 72, died of
complications.
IT HAPPENED 20 YEARS AGO
“JHarveys Lake highway from Dal-
las will use none of the old road bed,
according to present plans | for
a direct cross-country run, eliminat-
ing curves and hills, and shortening
the distance.
“A survey is being conducted in
Luzerne County to determine how
much acreage is available for grow-
ing crops to supply raw material for
a possible cannery. A cannery in
the Back Mountain, says farm agent
James Hutchison, would go a long
way toward elimination of surplus
crops, and bring prosperity to the
farmer.
Inducted into the 109th, and ready
to leave for training at Indiantown
Gap, are 23 local men.
Rev. Charles Frick will leave for
Indiantown Gap with the 109th.
Gertrude Belinski, Goss Manor,
becomes the bride of Theodore
Tas of Edwardsville.
Glenn T. Smith, former Shaver-
twon merchant, died at his home
near Laceyville 'from injuries re-
ceived last summer when he was
thrown from a loaded hay wagon.
AND 10 YEARS AGO:
Mountain roads are clear for the
first time since December. Tulip
spears are three inches tall in shel-
tered spots.
WMrs. Kenneth Bath, Carverton
Road, Trucksville, was hit over the
head while sleeping, and the desk
ranshaked by a prowler.
/ Mrs. Frances Still, alert at 92,
though blind, is Dallas’ oldest resi-
dent.
\/Pleasant Valley Methodist Church
was damaged by a chimney fire Sun-
day afternoon.
The beautiful red Irish setter be-
longing to Eugene Hindricks, was
killed by a hit-run driver. :
Fennell’s service station was
Nobbed Tucsday night. Only cindy
was taken,
Betty Ella Lewis of Lehman be-
comes the bride of John Linger,
Colorado.
Joan Phillips, Kingston, is wed to
Alan Wood, Dallas. :
Charles Whitesell, 87, Sweet Val-
ley native, Wilkes-Barre coal dealer,
died.
" T'ehman Scotties took Harter 62
to 58. :
Safety V alve
Dear Dallas Post Friends,
Dallas was well represented in
Deland, Fla., this week. First three
motorcyclists, Severn Newberry, Jr.,
Dana Ide and Art Major made a
cross country hop and arrived at the
i | State’s (dairy industry during June
' {Dairy Month, 1961, and at other
Dallas Kiwanis
Speaker March 1
Will Be Dr. Butler
Dallas
Hears Feldman
members heard |
Feldman last Wednes- |
day evening at the regular dinner
meeting ‘at Irem Country Club, who |
Kiwanis
intermittent war in the valley con-|spoke on his work in veterans
affairs and national defense, which |
has taken him to every state in the
A
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From
Pillar To
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DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA |
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If It's On Us, It's A Mean Trick
On The Other Fellow, It's Funny
by Harry Allen
Who is there among us, who at
| to fat and not overly endowed with
| ambition. When I arrived with a
union and twenty-two foreign coun-| one time or another has not pulled loed of feed, he would pull out a big
tries, and brought him into contact |
with top brass everywhere.
Atty.
Feldman, ‘a member of
| Hazleton Kiwanis, past District At- |
| other
torney of Luzerne County, immedi-
ate past national commander of
VFW, talked on world conditions, |
taking the view that” Holy Land is
prcbably the tinder box of world
tensions. Mr. Feldman, at the VFW |
convention in Miami last fall, intro- |
duced former vice president Nixon |
and Senator John F. Kennedy as |
candidates for the presidency.
Robert S. Maturi presided, intro- |
ducing these guests: Thomas Tito, |
Lieutenant. governor of District 14, |
members of Hazleton Kiwanis; John |
Gould, past. president of Hazleton
Kiwanis; and John Krieger, Harris- |
burg Kiwanis.
John Blase had as his guest Ira
Smith; Edwin Thompson presented
Ken Doan; president Maturi’s per-
sonal guests were Kenneth Bayliss
and Edwin Roth.
Al Ackerson installed Leo Jacobs
as a Dallas member. Mr. Jacobs has
for years been a Nanticoke Kiwanis |
Club member. Secretary Ackerson |
read a letter of strong commendd- |
tion from the Nanticoke club.
Dr. Claude H. Butler, superinten- |
dent of Retreat Mental Hospital, will
be the speaker March 1.
Milkmaid Contest
Starts For 1961
Local Dairy Daughters
Eligible Age 17 To 23
Candidates for Miss Milkmaid of
1961 must be daughters of dairy
farmers producing milk commercially
in Pennsylvania; be at least 17 years
old, and not reach 23 before June 30;
be a high school graduate before
June 30, 1961; have parents’ or
guardian's consent if under 21; be
single; appear at local contest and at
State finals if selected; represent the
times until June 1962, if selected as
Miss Milkmaid.
The first step is entering a semi-
final contest in each of Pennsyl-
vania’s major milk markets. Winners
then compete in the state event.
Miss Milkmaid will receive a $700
wardrobe, a mink stole, hair ‘styling
and other beautiful gifts; may try
for a $1,000 scholarship; may take
part in a National American Dairy
Princess contest. 7
Names should be sent to Luzerne
County Agriculture Extension office,
or to “Milkmaid,” 303 Telegraph
Building, Harrisburg.
One hitch: candidate must be
able to milk a cow by hand as well
as with a modern milking machine.
Completes Basic
senior Newberrys in Deland on Wed
nesday. Mr. T. M. B. Hicks dropped
in for a visit. The next morning
Roy Tryon, Ernest Dendler’s son-in-
law from Noxen, dropped in. They
moved to Orlando from Dallas. He's
working with Florida Power Corp.
He said he enjoys Hilda's articles in
the Post. 3 ;
The three boys were enchanted
with the Myriad of singing birds
here and plan to make a complete
tour of Florida. They will stop in
at Mr. Himmler’s in Hollywood.
They have covered 1180 miles with-
out incident so far and felt like
pioneers when they shed sweaters
and coats as the weather warmed
up. :
Oh yes, Saturn and Jupiter are up
together and very close to one an-
other in. the eastern sky before the
rising sun. The boys have taken
turns at viewing the very auspicious
“rings” and the phases. (Saturn and
Venus respectively. Weather is
warm—up to 80 during days and 70-
75 at night.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Severn Newberry
(Hilda)
Dear Dallag Post:
We are writing to tell you how
much we enjoy the Dallas Post, even
though we do live in Kingston.
Whenever we visited our sister, Mrs.
Mary Hudak, at Dallas, we read her
Post. So she decided to give it to
us as a birthday present. We have
a lot of fun reading it now every
Thursday morning right in our own
housa. :
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Rubiscak
Entertains For Brother
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Kaschenbach,
Yeager Avenue, recently entertained
at a family dinner in the honor of
her brother, Lieutenant Colonel
Robert Hangen. He was stationed
at Newfoundland and retired after
twenty years of service from the
Army Air Force. He was enroute to
his home in Texas. Other guests
present: Mr. and Mrs. Alfred John-
son and sons, Randall, Robert and
Richard, Mrs. Bessie Hangen, host
and hostess and children, Carl,
| at Chanute AFB, Ill.
Airman Richard Gibson
LACKLAND AFB, Tex. — Airman
Richard A. Gibson, son of Mrs.
K. Gibson of Harveys Lake has
completed. Air Force basic military
training, and has been selected to
attend the technical training course
for Aircraft and Missile Maintenance
Airman Gibson is a graduate of
Lake Lehman High School.
Upon completion of special techni-
cal training he will be assigned to
an operational unit of the USAF
Aerospace Force.
Vets To Get Dividends
An estimated 367,010 veterans in
Pennsylvania will receive a total of
$18,661,250 in GI insurance divi-
dends under the speeded-up payment
program ordered by the President to
assist the economy.
A. G. Palmer, Manager of the
Veterans Administration Regional
Office in Wilkes-Barre says dividends
will go to Pennsylvania veterans who
currently hold participating VA life
insurance policies. Dividends are
not a gratuity but are made because
the death rate among GI policy-
holders is lower than the mortality
rate upon - which their premiums
were established by law.
The Manager assured veterans
they will receive their dividends as
soon as possible under the expedited
timetable, and urged them not to
write.
SE
Steve, Karen and John Kascheénbach.
Subseribe To The Post
| to
in the fwelve local contests will |
* formed with the lips,
a practical joke on some one or had
one pulled on himself ?
There are two kinds of practical
jokes: first, the ones we pull on the |
fellow, which are always
hilarious, and those which are pulled
on us, which are nothing but dirty
mean tricks. Then too, sometimes
you will run into a fellow who has |
a sense of humor and can laugh
just as heartily as the rest of the
crowd. It seems to me that no one
who can’t take joke should ever
| pull one on some one else. The story,
| that I am about to relate, was in a
different catagory from the average
practical joke, in that there was
no crowd to laugh nor did the vic-
tim ever know that he had been
taken for a “patsy.”
The time of this story dates “Way
back when” it was generally con-
ceded that the automobile was here
stay; however, some of the
| “oldsters” still clung to their horses
| and carriages as a means of getting
: from one place to another with more
| assurance that they would get there
| without being stranded along the
way. Consequently many summer
cottagers had horses and they
needed feed and we, being in the
feed business, supplied this need.
My father, being of a forward
looking nature, bought a two ton
Mack truck equipped with solid tires
and a governor which limited the
speed to twelve miles an hour and
I, having learned to drive in 1910,
drove the truck.
~~ We had, as a customer, a well
known Wilkes-Barre Attorney who
owned two matched black horses
and two Guernsey cows. He always
ordered a ton and a half of assorted
feed, 50 bushels of oats, 500 of
number 1 chop and 500 of bran.
This had to be carried up a steep,
winding stair to the top floor, thence
across the barn and emptied into:
bins which were spouted so that
the feed ran down to the first floor.
He had a hostler who tended to
the live stock, drove him down to
the trolley in the morning and met
him in the late afternoon. The
hostler was a big fellow much given
| rocking chair which he kept on the
| barn floor, light his big corn-cob
| pipe and enjoy a good rest while I
| carried the fead up the winding.
| stairs and emptied it. ,
One hot day, in the fore part ?
| August, I started out with the usudfl
| load of feed for this paticular custo-
{ mer-and as I drove along at twelve
| miles an hour, I began to ask my-
| self a question—"How in the world
lam I going to get that lazy such-
and-such to help me unload this
‘feed?” A happy thought came to
I me, and 1 said to myself, ‘Maybe
it will work and maybe it won't; but
it’s worth a try.” Ge
So when I arrived at my destina-
tion I backed up in front of the barn
und instead of getting out, I put my.
| arms on the steering wheel and laid
'my head on my arms. The hostler
came out, walked to the side of the
cab and said, “How are you Harry?”
I didn’t even raise my head, just
turned it to one side and said to him,
“Have you ever had Lumbago ?’*
He said, “Yes I have, you sit right 3
still, I'll unload this feed.” And he
did, ‘every single sack of it, up those
steep winding stairs, across the bag :
and into the bins under that barn
roof with the burning sun on it and
a temperature which must have
| approximated a steam tank in a
Turkish Bath. SWEAT? Man alive,
did he sweat! His face was as red as,
a turkey gobbler’s wattles, and i
must’ say that I had some qualms,
but since heart attacks were not so
frequent in those days I let him go
to the bitter end, and he even
cranked the truck for me. E31
I drove home at twelve miles an
hour with a perfectly clear con’
science—I did not lie to the man—
I simply asked him a question, and
in retrospect, I believe that I really
did him a favor—he was much too
fat. :
My dear Hixy,
The above is my good deed for
the week, hope you will soon have
room to print it.
Yours for bigger and better prac-
tical jokes,
Harry B. Allen,
Norman Patton Uses Bell Telephone :
Magic Voice For The Speechless
Ts Norman Patton, learning “to
speak without vocal cords has been
tion of the Bell Telephone Company.
moval of the larynx, the ‘voice-
box”, esophogeal speaking has been
up until now, the only answer to
spoken communication. (It can be
mastered, but it takes a great deal of
time to learn to swallow air and
expell it in understandable syllables.
The new invention, on the market
for the first time this past fall, is
a' small apparatus containing ‘two
mercuroid cells and a. transistor.
Held against the throat, it gives off
a low hum when positioned correctly
to pick up speech. It is controlled
by a button, and can be held easily
in the hand or slipped into a shirt
pocket. V s
When turned on, and adjusted to
the correct position alongside the
throat, it picks up speech syllables
teeth and
tongue, and speaks in a concise
voice. With it, a man can carry
on normal business and social life.
The invention came on the mar-
ket just before Norman Patton, of
Overbrook Road, was operated upon
last fall for a malignancy, with com-
plete removal of the larynx.
for some weeks, able to carry on
normal conversation and not handi-
capped in his occupation at the
Anthracite Institute.
He finds that esophogeal speak-
ing, a necessary adjunct to the
speaking apparatus in case of loss or
| breakage, has so far been almos
impossible, but it was explained
hood, a different technique has’ to
| be applied. It can be learned, and -
though the effect is somewhat, gut-:
tural, with practice it can become. , .
There |
| completely understandable.
| are cases on record where a lawyer
| has been able to carry on his pro-
| fession, arguing cases in court by.
| use of esophogeal speaking.
| Each week Mr. Patton takes a
| lesson from a speech therapist con- .
| nected with the Cancer Society, so
| far without much success, but the
| effort continues.
Mrs. Patton, with kobert Eyer-
| man, architect on Public Square,
| says that spoken communications by.
| means , of the apparatus is com-
| pletely satisfactory. Short sentences
(are best. Enunciation is crisp and
| pleasant. It has become a commorg
| place, like adjusting the glasses for
| close reading. %
It is for the benefit of others who
may dread facing the same oper
| tion, with loss of normal oy 3
| that this interview is printed.
Loss of the larynx does not need
~ | to doom a man to silence.
Mr. Patton has been back at work |
| Hearing aids, bifocals, artificial
‘limbs, plastic surgery, have now
| become commonplace.
| An artificial voice mechanism: is.
| rapidly becoming standard equip-
| ment for those who have submitted
| to radical throat surgery.
Shavertown Scouts Presented
With Awards At Smorgasbord
The annual Blue and Gold Dinner
of Cub Scout Pack 233, Shavertown,
was held in Shavertown Methodist
Church ' Friday evening with Rev.
Frederick Eidam offering the invo-
cation and Rev. Robert D. ¥ost ex-
tending a welcome,
Cub Scout Master Milton Evans
introduced Jarrett Miller of the Boy
Scout Council who awarded badges:
Garry Kleppinger, year pin, denner;
Mike Evans, denner; Arthur Davis,
year pin; Mark Rogers, year pin;
Matt Gillis, year pin; Donnie Berleu,
assistant denner; Bobcat pins: Bobby
Daubert, Malcolm Kitchen, Ronnie
Mahler, Jeffery Gillis, Larry Spa-
ciano, David Neuhart; Wolf: John
Wolverton; Bear: William Daubert;
Silver Arrow Pointi on Wolfe Badge:
Lance Wills; gold shoulder braids:
Frank Wadas, Jr., Robert Voelker,
Robin Bayer, Richard Ash, Loren
'Crispell, Wayne Casterline.
Thomas Hobbs presented scouts
prizes of tooth brush and comb sets
for selling most fruit cakes: James
Smith, Lance Wills, Tommy Shaver,
Wendell Jones, David Wade, Paul
‘Wade, Albert Williams, Charles
Wolverton; second prize, cub scout
cup, Steve Klaboe, Jimmy Elliogg
Garry Kleppinger, John Lewis, Don
ald Voelker, Michael Peecone and
Brian Wadas.
Master Evans was presented a
gift by the pack. Hume Daron:
showed films of hunting in Alaska.
Mrs. George Shaver and the other
den mothers did a’ splendid job of
decorating party tables and serving
a smorgasbord with pirate details.
Calls Mother From Japan
The day after Mrs. Fred Nicely
returned home in Shavertown after
spending a few days at Nesbitt Hos-
pital as a surgical patient, her son,
Robert, called her from Japan, get-
daylight. Robert placed his call ‘on
Wednesday, but was fortunately not
able to complete it before Thursday
was at home, and delighted to talk
to him in person. ) ¥
two, years, one of them in Japan.
He is stationed at the air force
hospital in Tachikawa.
made far easier by a recent inven- him that speaking is something
€ | which has to be learned in infancy
For those people who must submit overcoming obstacles and if it ha®®.
to operation on the throat with re- | to be learned over again in adult-
ting the family out of bed before °
morning. By that time, his mother
Robert has been in the service for
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