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Editorially Speaking:
Four Good Ones
We think this community should be mighty proud of
its four candidates for Director-At-Large on Dallas School
Board.
Three of them are seeking the nomination on the Re-
publican ticket and one is seeking it on the Democratic
ticket.
3 Only one of the four can be elected next fall.
But after a week of interviewing each of them, we've
come to the conclusion that it must be a good community
that can produce four candidates of their calibre.
This year for the first time all four municipalities in
the Union District will have an opportunity to vote for
the same candidates at large, Franklin Township in addi-
tion will elect a director pb represent that township on tHe
Board. None of the other municipalities will be electing
their own representatives this year.
It is good to know that win, draw or lose we can’’t
go very far wrong in electing any one of the four candi-
dates who are coming for the first time before the elec-
torate to represent all of us on the Union School Board.
TRY THIS ON YOUR CAT
by Ralph Dewitt
After years of research, a London doctor has discovered why
cats always land on their feet.
The discovery was announced by Dr. Donald McDonald of St.
Bartholomew’s Hospital who, on the basis of this report, must be :
considered a leading authority on falling cats.
~The problem he set out to solve was why cats, when dropped
upside down, crossways, or any other way, always manage to hit the
ground on all fours. To find out he used a high-speed camera, capable
of. taking 1.500 frames a minute.
. It was none too fast. He discovered that cats can spin through
their acrobatics in one eighth of a second.
This, says Dr. McDonald, is how they do it:
Cats have the unique ability to twist the forward section of their
body without twisting the tail section, and when dropped upside
down they use the rear area as fixed weight on which the front unit
can turn. Then while the front is stationary, the back section is
spun around.
When the rear assembly tends to overspin, the tail is used as an
airbrake.
However, the doctor's report says a blindfolded cat always lands
in a heap.
Dr. , McDonald used a rubber mattress for his experiments so
his cats wouldn't get hurt.
According to Citizens Public Expenditures Survey,
spending programs of a strictly non-defense nature now
proposed in Congress would add $2 billion to the federal
budget for this fiscal year. These programs include fed-
eral aid to education, public housing, benefits for peace-
time servicemen, federal aid for depressed areas, and a
depression type make-work project called the Youth Con-
servation Corps.
Fortune reports that sortie 3,000 U. S. companies
now have substantial investments overseas. Since 1950,
it adds, the total of private U. S. investments abroad has
risen from about $12 billion to nearly $30 billion.
From England’s Manchester Guardian: “Anglo-Amer-
ican friendship and American participation in the defense
of Western Europe are the cornerstones of the defense
policy of the British Government—and so far, of the
Labour Party also. Long may it be so. While it is, the
American bases are here to stay, and the British Govern-
ment, and the British people, will rightly ignore Mr. Khru-
ghohev's threats to retaliate with rockets against bases
from which American aircraft start on what he may de-
clare to be espionage flights. If we give ground now, many
other countries in which the United States maintains
bases, not necessarily for reconnaissance purposes will be
tempted to run for cover. If we stand firm, they will. . .”
“The history of liberty is the history of limitations
of governmental power, not the increase of it.’ '— Woodrow
Wilson.
J. H., Carmical of The New York Times says that, as
a result of federal price support purchases, the govern-
ment now has something like & billion invested in
wheat. The figure includes storage and other charges.
AEE : ‘ 4 PH 3 re lA ee et tan nts
SUCCESSFUL
INVESTING...
Investment Advisor and Analyst
Q. The price tags on stocks
bother us when we get together for
a family pow-wow on investments.
My wife says that, within limits,
she knows what eggs and butter
and spinach ought to cost when she
goes marketing, but who can tell
what a stock ought to cost ?—IL.
D. A
A. Profitability, past, present
and future, determines the price of
a stock, but there are other in-
fluences as well, like the vogues
for certain types of stocks—elec-
tronics, boating, etec., as in recent
years. One yardstick used in the
market to measure stock values is
to divide the market price by an-
nual earnings. The result is the
familiar price-times-earnings figure.
But you will get no such uniformity
as you do with the prices of butter
and eggs, because there is an addi-
tional factor. The grocer is not dis-
counting the price of eggs one year
or two years from now, as some
buyers of glamor stocks are doing.
Q. Why are some companies
not listed on the New York Stock
Exchange ? Is there some advantage
to this for the company and for
those who hold stock in it?
A. There are many good com-
panies with stock sold in the un-
listed or over-the-counter market.
Each of these companies may have
a different set of reasons for not
wishing to be listed on the New
York or other stock éxchanges. The
New York Stock Exchange is simply
the biggest of security markets,
with the greatest amount of trader
and investor interest. For these
reasons it is likely to provide the
closest and most liquid market for
a given stock.
Q. [I've heard that a good system
for buying securities is dollar cost
averaging. How does it work? Is it
always successful 2—J. P.
A. To answer your last question
first, dollar cost averaging is never
successful unless it’s carried out
regularly over a long period. The
plan calls simply for the investment
of the same number of dollars—say
$500 or $1,000—at regular inter-
vals—say once a month or once in
six months—in the same stock. By
following this system you buy fewer
shares of stock when the price is
high and more when the price is
|low, always investing the same num-
| ber of dollars.
Work it out for
yourself, on the basis of investing
$100 a month in a stock that sells
successively for 20, 10, 5, 10, 20;
you will find that you have bought
fifty shares at an average cost of
$10 a share, whereas the average
price of the stock for the 5-month
period was $13 a share.
Q. Every now and then you read
about’ a phony stock. I thought the
Securities and Exchange Commis-
sion protected the investor. M. H. L.
A. It does, so far as possible.
But as recent news stories have
shown, there are areas that the
S. E. C. can’t reach. Investors should
consider the protection provided by
S. E. C as a plus, reinforcing the
protection given by their own pru-
dence Don’t buy something you
don’t know anything about on the
unsupported word of a stranger.
Make your own investigations and
inquiries. Some frauds are so bla-
tant that it takes only a little check-
ing to expose them.
Q. A friend has advised me to
buy government bonds. He says they
can be bought by putting up only
5 per cent cash and then sold
quickly for a profit. Is this true or is
there some catch to it 7—L. W.
A. Government bonds do offer
speculative opportunities from time
to time, but certainly the average
is well advised to think of govern-
ment bonds as investments. When
there are speculative opportunities
in government bonds, it requires
close knowledge of the bond market
and precise timing to take advan-
tage of the opportunities. Changes in
monetary policy can affect the
prices of government bonds, to the
disadvantage of an investor not in
a position to be familiar with mone-
tary policies.
Q. Is there any advantage in to-
day’s economy in buying bonds and
preferred stocks instead of common
stocks ?2—D. IL.
A. The mutual funds, which re-
present the consensus of profes-
sional opinion, show how varied
current thinking is, or perhaps how
investment managers cater to a
variety of thinking. There are bal-
anced funds, with portfolios made
up of bonds, preferred stocks and
common. stocks. There are bond
funds and there are common stock
funds. Bonds and preferred stocks
are fixed-income investments; they
have less of an element of risk, but
provide less protection against in-
flation. Common stocks have a high-
er degree of risk, but provide more
protection against inflation. Many
investors work out a rough com-
promise between the two extremes
and put some of their funds in
fixed-income investments with a
high degree of security of principal,
the rest in common stocks of good
quality.
Editor’s note: Questions on invest-
ment may be addressed to the
author of this column in care of this
newspaper. Those of general inter-
est will be answered in this column.
It will be understood that no ques-
tions can be answered by mail.
Sir winston Churchill, former Prime
Minister:
“ The three great forces which
sustain the Free World—the British
Commonwealth and empire, the
United States of America, and wes-
‘tern Europe-must combine | ever
closer.”
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In recent years Dallas has been
THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1961
Rambling Around
By The Oldtimer — D. A. Waters
on the sport pages, even in the head- |
lines, with some good baseball teams,
but with so much activity of all
kinds to compete for attention, it
scarcely makes a ripple in public
interest.
Not so some fifty or
years ago when the old Dallas base-
ball team sponsored by George R.
Wright, president of the local bank,
was in business. Dallas was a small
town without much recreation or
amusement and the baseball team
was the biggest attraction in town.
Baseball was also the prime attrac-
tion in East Dallas, Noxen, Lehman
and other surrounding towns.
The team started with local boys,
but as vacant positions opened up,
Mr. Wright got a couple of players
from outside, giving them a good
dinner at Raubs Hotel and sup-
posedly a dollar a game besides.
Since the death of Ralph Rood,
the only surviving player still living
here is former pitcher Claude Cooke,
then residing on Machell Avenue,
now of Fernbrook. He pitched for
the Luzerne Reds, and perhaps other
teams also. For an inning or so
ending one game he worked as
hand torn and bleeding, his only
experience in that position.
First catcher in my recollection
was Ralph Sorber, then living on
Franklin Street. During Cooke's in-
jury and sometimes later’ he also
pitched. Later he was succeeded
as catcher by ‘I'om Holleran, still
living in Kingston, a business agent
for one of the unions. Sorber went
to the midwest and was killed in an
accident.
The early first baseman was one
of the local druggists named Roberts.
His first name is not recalled. He
was a clever left-handed batter, not
too common on the team. He was
succeeded by Albert: Smith, not a
local resident as I recall.
fifty-five |
Second baseman was Harry Major, |
AIR
between Dallas and Centermoreland,
if my recollection is correct. His
family lived somewhere in the
Keelersburg area.
Henry Lee, the father, always
called “Harry”, father of Peynton
Lee and Mrs. Lettie Culver, played
third base. Later we had
paperman in New York.
The only short stop recalled is
Herb Hardy, deceased, although
there were others.
Outfielders were Ralph Rood, also
left handed in batting and Nial Still,
son of G. D. Still the meat man, and
brother of Mary Still. I believe he
was drowned out in Illinois. Third
outfielder was Lynde Ryman, son of
John J. Ryman, a civil engineer who
never lived in Dallas very much
after his playing days.
Claude Isaacs and Harold Shaver
were with the team but I‘do not
recall their steady positions. They
may have substituted.
Umpire was Frank Leavenworth,
then first cashier of The First
National Bank of Dallas, which had
opened in 1906.
J. Harry Anderson was manager
and coach, one of the most inter-
ested men in town. The Dallas Post,
which he published, came out on
Friday, and’ Saturday was for him
baseball day as far as his interest
was concerned.
W. B. Jeter, “Doc”, younger than
the players, was around the field,
seemingly mostly occupied in keep-
ing the team in baseballs as.some
were fouled off and had to be re-
covered.
Business was practically at a
standstill in Dallas on! Saturday
afternoons when the team played
here. Stores left only a skeleton
force of one or two persons.
The pasture field now the College
Farm across from Ray Shiber’s pre-
sent home was leveled off, a small
grandstand built, a poultry-wire
| backstop erected, and some bleach-
who carried mail on the star route ers.
ORM ET TET EP,
ONLY YESTERDAY
Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years Ago In The Dallas Fost
IT HAPPENED 30 YEARS AGO:
‘A large road maintenance machine
for Dallas Township was unloaded at
the Lehigh Freight Station in Dallas
this week.
Demolition of the old paint shop
back of Stanley's garage on Main
Street was begun, a move to reduce
fire hazards in central Dallas, and
provide space for erection of a new
building.
A Little Theatre group for this
area was formed. Charter mem)
were Lettie Culver, Marie Woolbert,
Barbara Hoffmeister, Walter and
William Rau, Art Culver, Clarence
Adams and Phillip Anderson.
Lehman High School girls won the
basketball championship taking |
Beaumont 39 to 19, the eleventh
victory this season, with only one
defeat.
Advertisements showed boys in
knickerbockers, ladies in modestly
long dresses with no perceptible
waist line and mo scissors silhouette. |
Men's two-pants suits could be had |
for $15.95, boys’ suits for $3.98.
Cigarettes were $1.17 per carton.
Pink salmon was 10 cents per tall
can, dried peaches 15 cents per
pound, corn three cans for a quarter.
All-Bi-County League team choices
showed on the first team: Kuchta of
Laketon and Holmgren, Trucksville,
as forwards; Traver, Laketon, center;
Rowlands of Trucksville, and E.
Coolbaugh, Dallas Borough, guards;
Carey, Dallas Township; Holowitch,
Laketon, and Matakaitis, Dallas
Township, substitutes.
On the second team: Woolbert,
Trucksville, and Morris, Dallas Town-
ship, forwards; Kromelbein, Trucks-
ville, center; Grey, Laketon, and
Rosoloski, Lehman, guards; Rogers,
Lehman, Sickler, Trucksville, and |
Disque, Dallas Borough, substitutes.
News was so scarce for the issue of
March 27, 1931, that church notices
occupied space on the front page,
and a notice of General Pershing’s
story, soon to be published, dominat-
ed the issue.
IT HAPPENED 20 YEARS AGO:
Work picked up at the Noxen
Tannery, with schedules almost up
to mormal, after a long period of
part-time work. Exports of leather
were at a low ebb, due to blockading
of European ports. The most active
time in history at the tannery was
during World War I, when demand
was greater than supply.
Civilian Conservation Corps,
known as the CCC, was enlisting
recruits for camps throughout ‘the
United States, to fill a quota of 450.
Six out of fourteen young men in |
the draft in this area were turned
down for physical disability. Thirteen
young men called for induction April
4 included two from this area, among
them Timothy Gallagher Jr., John
Richards Jr. (Alternates included
Howard C. Tinsley, Sheldon E. Nich-
ols, Robert W. Appleton.
Kathryn Finnen, 33, died at her
home in ‘Shaverttown after a long
illness.
Harry Ohlman was the subject of
a Know Your Neighbor column.
Ditching and curbing on Lehman
Avenue, a drainage project sponsored
by the NYA, was making good’
progress. figs
‘Warrior Run and Dallas Township
girls basketball teams slugged it out,
one win and one loss for each.
Jeremiah Kester, 74, died of a
heart attack at his home at Hillside.
Mrs. Evelyn Montross, Mrs. Wesley
Fashion dictated knee-length
skirts again after a considerable
period of skirts reaching the shin.
Shoulders were broadened and
squared, vee necks accented with
wide collars.
: Javie -Aich, Edith Blez, Emmons
Blake, Joe Serra, Bob Sutton, were
prominent on the editorial page.
Himmler’s mother, celbrated her
73rd birthday.
Tei es i
Charlotte Parsons of Trucksville
became the bride of Robert M.
Prideaux of Kingston, Rev. Harry
Savacool performing the ceremony
at Trucksville Methodist Church.
AND 10 YEARS AGO:
Robert Bachman joined the staff |
of the Dallas Post as advertising
manager, leaving a lucrative position
| with the Lynn-Fieldhouse Advertis-
Agency.
The 97th was. alerted for duty at |
Fort Sill. Back Mountain men af-
fected by this order included Lt/Col.
Leon Beisel, Lt. Colonel Frank Town-
end, Captain Alfred M. Camp,
Captain Harry B. Williams, Lt. Harry |
I. Stoughton, Lt. William Zigenfuss,
Sgt. ‘William H. Simms, Sgt. Thomas
Batey, Cpl. Harold L. Swank, Cpl.
Willard R. Siley, Cpl. W. Frank
Trimble, Cpl. Ira G. Kresge, Pfc.
John Murray, Fred C. Brown, James
E. Morgan, Robert Wildoner; Pvt.
Robert Broody and Richard F. Dy-
mond. Training had been going
on since September 11 at Camp
Atterbury.
Robert Hislop and his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Hislop Sr., opened
a cocktail lounge on Main Street.
Dr. Raymond Robinson, from
Harrisburg, urged local schools to
make a large, jointure, pointing out
advantages of union. Citizens Com-
mittee for Better Schools sponsored
the meeting, was disappointed at the
small turnout.
Local doctors, for the first time in
a generation, raised their fees for
house and office calls, following the
lead taken some years earlier by
Valley physicians.
The area fund of $992 guaranteed
Little League teams for the summer,
but the committee asked for more,
to cover insurance and incidentals.
Uniforms and equipment for six
teams were purchased, using nearly
all the money. Boys between six
and twelve registered with team
managers: James Sands, Carverton;
Amos Oney, at Fernbrook; Merle
Coolbaugh, Shavertown; Steve Rad-
anovitch, Jackson Township; Thomas
Evans, Trucksville; Al Gibbs, Dallas.
Dallas Post’s all-star team included
Jack [Pesavento, Shawn Richards,
Jerry Hunlock, Stanley Pincofski,
and Robert Bonning.
lA brisk blaze starting in the
Abram Nesbitt greenhouse did
$3,000 damage before being extin-
guished.
Harry N. Major, 72, formerly of
Dallas, died in Florida.
Bruce Martin, 20, Pikes Creek, died
of a heart attack.
Cecil L. Smith, 56, of Vernon, died
of heart trouble complicated by
asthma.
Helen Ann Bartholomew, Moun-
tain Top, became the bride of G.
Charles Carey of Trucksville at a
ceremony performed by Rev. David
‘| Morgan and Rev. Clarence Andrews.
, Betty Jane Goldsworthy, West
Pittston, was wed to Reese Finn of
Dallas at a candle-light double ring
service in West Pittston Methodist
Church.
! Stanley Elston, 49, ill since Feb-
ruary, dropped dead at his home in
Tle from a heart attach.
RL
“Little |
Joe” Walsh, in recent years a news-
Safety Valve
A DESERVED TRIBUTE
‘March 28, 1960
Dear Howard:
| You published an account of the
incident which occurred at our
home during the small hours of
Wednesday morning last week and I
would like to express my thoughts
following this incident.
First I want to give a big salute
to Dr. Mascali who was on hand
very shortly after an urgent phone
call. He immediately called the
| ambulance, made necessary ar-
rangements at the hospital and fol-
lowed through in a manner greatly
to his credit. The ambulance re-
sponded with amazing speed ‘and
our daughter was in competent
hands at the hospital in slightly
over one-half hour. The speed and
efficiency with which Dr. Mascali
and the ambulance crew worked
could easily spell the difference
between life and death. As though
that were not enough, one of the
ambulance crew later called to in-
quire about our daughter and even
offered blood.
Too often we take for granted the
services that are rendered by volun-
teer workers and perhaps we don’t
fully realize their importance until
the need for aid is imperative. Pos-
sibly I have been guilty of this but
now I would like to shout from the
housetop my praise for these fine
young men who manned that
vehicle of Mercy: Jack Berti, Ray
Titus and Leslie Tinsley. I hold
them in highest esteem, . these de-
voted men from all walks of life who
have within them such great com-
munity spirit that they are willing
to leave ‘their comfortable beds and
rush to the aid of those who have
misfortune — and without compen-
sation. It is indeed unfortunate
that we hear and read so much
about young men who run afoul of
the law than we do about these
wonderful public servants. Cer-
tainly no one should hesitate to
support anything of this kind which
is such an asset to a community,
and their only request is for a suf-
ficient amount to purchase and
maintain the necessary equipment.
Sometimes it takes an experience
like this to wake us up and bring
to our attention the fine services
that are available to us at all
times through so many unselfish
volunteers.
Sincerely,
Ornan K. Lamb
Machell Avenue
Dallas, Pa.
SOMEONE GETS AN ORCHID
Dear Editor:
Going into town on the bus this
morning, 1 noticed that someone
had REPAIRED the “Station” in
Trucksville, and I nearly fell out of |
my seat.
Someone had hit it with a car and
| it had begun to look as though it
were going to be allowed to decay
right there in a heap. Since I am
demented about anything construc-
tive vs versus destructive, I thought
you might like to append a com- |
ment in the Post.
I have no idea who did it, but it
simply made my day.
An orchid for ‘the good citizen
whoever he was.
Your
Roving Reporter.
EVERYBODY PITCHED IN
Dear Editor:
We thank you sincerely for help-
ing to make the 1961 GREATER
WILKES-BARRE INDUSTRIAL
FUND CAMPAIGN the success that
it was. y
The cooperation extended this
department was a most heartening
and pleasant experience.
Very truly yours,
Richard J. Cronin
Public Relations Director,
1961 Industrial Fund
Campaign
V. A. Benefits
Unmarried minor children of
deceased veterans may be eligible
for pension payments even when
their mother, the veteran’s widow,
is not eligible, says A. G. Palmer,
Manager of the Veterans Adminis-
tration Regional Office. in Wilkes-
Barre.
‘Where the widow is ineligible due
to having remarried or having in-
come in excess of established limits
! this does not affect eligibility of
minor children.
When a widow and children are
already on the pension rolls, the sub-
sequent ineligibility of the widow
poses no problem. Pension payments
to the children are continued after
the mother’s name is removed from
the rolls.
Where the widow .has never
applied for a pension, or pension was
not allowed, due to remarriags or
excessive income, the VA may have
no record of any minor children to
which payment should be made.
Unmarried minor children of
deceased veterans may be eligible
for pension until they are 18, or 21
if attending school, provided their
own personal incomes would not
bar them.
Full details may be obtained at the
VA Regional Office at 19 North Main
Street, Wilkes-Barre, or at VA
Offices located in Scranton, Harris-
burg, York, Willamsport, Shamokin
or Pottsville.
U. S. families spend an average of
$19 a week for food. Last year re-
tail grocery stores invested nearly
$5.00 per family in newspaper adver-
tising to help move their products’
from their shelves into the family L
| larder.
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§ Barnyard Notes
Bo
OF BREAD AND SALT
on
We are indebted for the following measured commentary on the
Lenten season to a correspondent from the stern and rockbound
coast of the Pine Tree State, obviously an austere if not downright
pious type, albeit with local pride and a proper respect for fishermen
and the tin can. : ;
If you listen carefully as you read, you may hear the seiners
foghorns:
We often wonder why, in Lent,
So many housewives are intent
On thinking up disguises for
Viands that meet the bans of yore.
It always is the same in Lent
When so much intellect is spent
In making foods seem what they ain’t
That one may eat without restraint.
In all the forty days of Lent
More feasts, than fasts do represent
Evasions (as with income tax)
Or Vestal Virgins wearing slacks.
So bless the simple soul who sups
On bread and cheese and fishes’ pups;
One who would think it quite obscene
To camouflage the Maine sardine!
From
Pillar To Post
by HIX
Spring is a time for remembering . . . oA
The pioneer women who sifted seeds into the soil, warming
under the strengthening sun, filching precious time from the myriad
household duties, looking hopefully toward blossoming asters and
marigolds and sweet william and pansies, looking back at the old
homesteads in Connecticut, wondering if the slip of yellow rose would
take kindly to the new soil and the mountain climate.
Their great-great granddaughters, raking carefully among the
crocus blossoms, discovering with ever-new delight the crimson
shoots of the peony, the strengthening green of lusty spears of tulip
and daffodil.
Old women now themselves, guarding the heritage of their pion-
eer ancestors, passing on to their own grandchildren the love of every
growing’ thing, patiently freeing the clumps of green from drifted
leaves.
Remembering how Granny loved the sunshine, straightening
her aching back, showing the little children how to rake away the
leaves without injuring the purple and yellow crocuses, and those
fragile little cups of white delicately striped with lavendar.
Working around the roots with gentle fingers, crumbling the
quickening earth.
Abounding life on every side.
A promise of life to come, renewed after the winter's snows.
Spring, the eternal miracle.
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100Years Ago ThisWeek...in
THE CIVILWAR
(Events exactly 100 years ago this weer: that led to the Civil War—
told in the lang guage and style of today.)
Contellersie. gun battery on shore at Pensacola Harbor-+ ng
toward Fort I boil current hot spot in the news.
Cabinet Votes Aid For Pickens,
Strengthens Stand On Ft. Sumter
Supports Blair’s
“Let’s Move” Pitch
WASHINGTON, D.C.—March 29
—Defense of Fort Pickens at
Pensacola, Fla., was unanimously
urged by President Abraham Lin-
coln’s cabinet in an emergency
meeting here today.
The six members attending the
session—Simon Cameron, secre-
tary of war, was absent—also
strengthened their stand on de-
fense of Fort Sumter at Charles-
ton, S.C.
| band of some 20 rebels was fired
upon by Union soldiers in an abor-
tive attempt to seize Barrancas.
On Jan. 15 Lt. Adam J. Slemner,
acting Pickens commander, re-
fused the first of several formal
demands for surrender.
General Scott Is
No Stranger To
Army F works
WASHINGTON, D.C.—March 31
— General Winfield Scott’s key
role in the raging Fort Sumter
controversey comes as the color-
ful old warrior enters the twilight
of a long and valorous Army
career.
Born in Virginia 75 years ago—
a scant few years after the birth
of the Republic
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PRESIDENT Lincoln was said
to have electrified the cabinet
members with revelations that
Gen. Winfield Scott, Army chief,
had advised that both Pickens
and Sumter might have to be
abandoned.
Each of the six quickly re-
jected this possibility as it
applied to Fort Pickens.
And the stand taken at a cabi-
net’ meeting March 15 by Post-
master General Montgomery
Blair, who flatly urged immediate
reinforcement of Sumter, was
strengthened by the qualified con-
currence of Attorney General Ed-
ward Bates and Navy Secretary
Gideon Welles.
at Chapultepec,
Vera Cruz and
Cerro Gordo in the Mexican War.
A huge man—six feet five, some
300 pounds in weight—Scott built
a reputation during his military
career as a stern disciplinarian
and a stickler for books. He was
dubbed ‘Old Fuss and Feathers”
years ago. He is author of'several
training’ manuals.
He was the Whig candidate
for president in 1852. :
Now, as one of the biggest chal-
lenges in all military history ap-
proaches, Scott appears even to
his staunchest admirers not to
be up to it. Aging and ill, he
spends most of his hours in hig
Winder’s Building headquarters.
opposite the War Department rest-
ing on a couch—waiting for the
war that he’s too old to fight.
COPYRIGHT 1961, HEGEWISCH
NEWS SYNDICATE,
CHICAGO 33, ULL. PICTURES:
BRADY COLLECTION IN
NATIONAL, ARCHIVE
UBRARY OF CONGR: NA
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As of ad, Fort Sumter,
Fort Pickens and two other
Florida forts—Taylor and Jef-
ferson—are the only installa-
tions in the South still in
Federal hands.
Pickens, major of the three
Florida outposts, is on sunny
Santa Rosa Island in Pensacola
Bay. It is manned by two artillery
companies, one of which arrived
just seven weeks ago. 7
ITS MEN have remained on
station while all other Federal
installations around them fell into
Confederate hands.
The big’ Navy Yard at Pen-
sacola struck its flag Jan. 12,
two days after Florida voted
to leave the Union.
The initial force of 81 men, in-
cluding 30 seamen, was moved
to Pickens from another harbor
installation, Fort Barrancas, on
the day of secession.
Two days earlier, on Jan, 8, a
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