SECTION A— PAGE 2 THE DALLAS POST Established 1889) — “More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution Now In Its Tlst Year” ONLY m= YESTERDAY " Member Audit Bureau of Circulations 5 VS Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association © =z Member National Editorial Association TATE Ten and Twenty Years Age Member Greater Weeklies Associates, Inc. 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. ! 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MARKS Photographs—JAMES KOZEMCHAK Circulation—DORIS MALLIN A non.partisan, liberal progressive mewspaper pub- lished every Thursday morning at the Dallas Post plant, In The Dallas Post IT HAPPENED 30 YEARS AGO: General Pershing’s own story started in the Dallas Post, giving reminiscences of World War I. | Speaking of the Expeditionary Force 1 THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1961 LILI arr 1 7 | crease in school taxes. While he did not seem to know of any source of about thirty mills additional taxes, | over and above the previous heavy increases, is in prospect. Our reply, “Not much.” Rambling Around By The Oldtimer — D. A. Waters One of our newer residents comes | tax already levied will be:the same, [around to inquire what can be done | to ward off a rumored heavy in- | | such ‘information, he had heard that | | Yatesville Borough 104.1, | make a cent The taxes levied of 101.1 mills. make ten cents plus. This It requires no special knowledge | means a tax of over .ten per cent AHN but the borough has a new capita tax of $3. Highest in total millage in the county were Slocum Township 107.1, Dallas | Borough 101.1. These figures mean more in dollars and cents. Ten mills per in France, he said, “No commander was ever privileged to lead a finer force.” Peynton Teo cut fingers severely when he fell with a five-gallon bottle. An anonymous visitor to the Dal- las Post recollected that in 1900 he staked Henry Ford to a meal in Philadelphia, “and Hengy was glad to get it.” He went on to say that | Mr. Ford, now many times a million- aire, had just” enough money for transportation back to Detroit. Kingston Township School District appealed from an award of $5,882 to Mrs. Ziba Howell, in the death of her husband while going to Har- risburg on school business. Mr. Ho- | well, supervisor of schools, was | fatally injured in a traffic accident. Abe Morris, Shavertown’s newest barber, said business was so good Lehman Avenue, Dallas, Pennsylvania. Editorially Speaking: he was thinking of hiring an assis- tant. Walter Hoover of Pittston moved to Dallas, planning to open a music /studio Let's Use Imagination On names for new developments and new estates, we are getting into a rut in the Back Mountain. This is a beautiful country. Suitable names for de- velopments and clusters of homes might well be built upon. the natural aspects of some of ‘the loveliest land in the United States. The scenery is easy to live with . . . not too large, not too overpowering, not breathtaking as snow- capped Rocky Mountain peaks or rugged Maine coastline. A home-like country, pink with laurel in June, blaz- ing with color in October . . . a land dotted with white farmhouses, sleek cattle grazing on the hills, forests rising gently to the sky, clear brooks and placid ponds. Some of the names reflect the charm of the Back Mountain. Birch Lane . . . Oak Hill . . . Just for fun, here is a list of names that typify the area, names which would enrich the character of the com- munity, names which sing. And all for free . . . plenty more where those came from! Robin-Wood. High Orchard. Folded Hills. Pleasant Pastures. Singing Pines. Clear Brook. Land and Sky. Rocky Ledge. Crocus Lane. Laurel Walk. Blooming Valley. Sunny Point. * There are so many delightful combinations, beginning with natural resources. How can you go wrong? Hills, lakes ledges, brooks, valleys, green forests, blue sky, spotted fawns, grey boulders, chuckling streams, clean winds . . . Completely tify the grounds of the new high limitless. school with shrubbery under direc- EDM | tion of Jim Hutchison, Luzerne Barnyard Notes Back from the South along with the robins and blue birds are . and Mrs. Adolph Eddinger who returned from Lake Worth over weekend. i Our congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. William Davis of Dallas, and Mr, and Mrs. Claude Cooke of Fernbrook who have just observed their fiftieth wedding anniversaries and to Mr; and Mrs. Ray Shiber Lo will observe their fifty-fifth next Tuesday. There are many interesting stories they can relate. Only yesterday Ray, who is my constant Civil War companion, recalled how Mrs. Shiber’s father, the late Jake Gillman who was born in a log cabin at East Dallas, owned a canal boat which he operated between Wilkes-Barre and Chesapeake Bay. When the old gentleman was 88 years old, Ray recalls, he asked Ray if he would take him to Danville to see the old locks. Ray re- members that they made the trip to Berwick by train and then took tthe trolley to Bloomsburg and on to Danville. Tears came in the old man’s eyes as he saw the locks and recalled the incidents of a day ‘in 1959 during Buchanan's Panic when he arrived at the locks with two other canalboat men on their way upstream to Nanticoke. The lockkeeper refused to fill the lock with water because among the three they could not raise $2.50 in silver to pay the fee. Mr. Gillman recalled that he had $123. in paper money 'in his purse at the time. but that it was worthless because of the panic. The three men left their ‘boats, put their mules to pasture and walked the 61 miles up river to home. It was six months before the paper money regained its value and they could return for their boats. Now that the New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Ford Times and many other periodicals have joined with the Dallas Post in recognizing the Civil War I am again in good graces with my mother- in-law, who had remarked to Myra a few days before she saw last Sunday’s newspapers, “I think Howard is a little queer.” The Inquirer's two-page color map and its special magazine section devoted to the 100th Anniversary raised my stock and her eyebrows. If you haven't received tthe March and April issues of Ford Times or last Sunday Inquirer, by all means get them. Youll be glad you did. . Up until last Monday when I gave two talks on the Civil War at Dallas Junior High School and before Wyoming Valley Torch Club, Myra thought she was one of the few women of her generation to have lost her husband in the Civil War. [ But after the speeches she learned that there are many other Civil War Widows who can sympathize with her. Not the least of the casualties is Dr. Charles E. Myers of Kingston who leaves his wife fuming in the hot Virginia sunshine while he explores old battle- fields and cemetaries. Dr. Myers’ specialty, naturally, is Civil War medicine and surgery. Nothing nicer could have happened yesterday than a telephone call from Atty. William Brewster of Kingston, dean of Wyoming Valley historians and author of the History of The Certified Town- ship of Kingston and a number of other local historical works. Atty. Brewster, now well along in his eighties, hard of hearing, and partially incapacitated by a stroke, is still a giant of a man. His contributions toward the preservation of local history, his athletic thinking on the destruction of personal freedom by over- powering government and his sage observations on life make him a man at whose feet we are proud to sit. Atty. Brewster called, only because he is unable to write, “You knew them?” he asked, “those old veterans. I knew them, too, _ many of them. You gave a fine talk.” those who paw Jia, & The bigger men are, I find, the more generous they are with Wild ducks were plentiful, settling in ‘huge flocks on Huntsville Reser- voir, Trucksville purchased a fire- truck chassis, on which equipment would be installed later. Down pay- ment was $200, with $420 remaining to be raised. Accidentally in possession of a car- exactly like his own, Harry Scoutowicz of Harveys Lake hot- '| footed it back to Pittston to ex- change. Both cars had been parked in front of a garage. You could buy soap for five cents a cake; potatoes 35 cents a peck; eight candy bars for a quarter, big ones; and cQcoa, a two pound can to see at a glance that there will be | per dollar assessed. . a heavy increase. All prior facilities | If the school authorities are are being continued, duction in maintenance or'operation. | age ‘is probably pretty well worked Therefore all the expense of getting : pupils to the new ‘school, service, power, telephones, unkeep, etc. will be added to the outlay heretofore experienced. There may be and probably will be, added expenses | due to the reorganization of the system. Additional teachers may be required, although this may be post- poned for a year or two to spread out the shock, as it were. Since the State Auditors decreed that accounts, ments, budget items, more attention will be paid to ac- counting hereafter Mellman would have got around _to getting this done, which is really not his responsibility, but that of the secretary. This is nothing new. It was the law as far back as 1927 when this writer became a school director, years, The school laws contain limitations in millage, but they do not mean a thing. Every one contains a loop- hole. According to a compilation in | the RECORD ALMANAC millages | run from 26 in Wilkes-Barre City to 68 in ‘Slocum Township. School millage must be uniform in all the parts of the new district, but separately as before. listing in the Record Almanac shows | that were assessed by all taxing author- | to intrude where he is not wanted, ities a total of 101_1 mills, plus $10. ! per capita school tax. The borough | portunity to examine it_ with no re-| abreast of their work, the new mill- Foes as of now. The County Asses- sors are required to furnish the assessment figures by April 1. Teachers are ‘entitled to certain auto- matic increases, and other expenses such as books and supplies can be estimated reasonably close. Action has been taken to cut the tax col- lector’s commissions, but this will be only a small drop in the big bucket. The reorganization has been run- janitor light and | heat, water, now it is probably pretty = well understood According to law, the board must prepare a ‘proposed budget” at least thirty days before the final adop- tion of the budget. The budget must include prospective receipts as well as expenses, which means that tax levies must be estimated at the time the proposed budget is pre- pared. The “proposed Budget’ must be made available to the public for twenty days. When the budget law was first passed, the school board adopted the plan of posting the budget in public places. On the very first posting, the school directors and some of their agents and employers were taken into court, petitioners demanding a budget reduction. The posting practice was continued dur- ing the term of the same secretary, but immediately thereafter it was discontinued. Legally, the budget is open to mspection in a specified residents of Dallas Borough | district office. In fact, no one wants have disburse- etc. shall show the proper it is probable that | Probably Dr. and had been then for other will be levied That same taxes and no one has any adequate op- for 19 cents. IT HAPPENED 20 YEARS AGO: Returning from a trip to war-time | Europe, Dr. H A. Spencer, in a talk to C. A. Frantz and Mrs. Harold Titman after disembarking in New York, said that the Germans were thin and pale, due to vitamin defici- ency. Back Mountain's belowed ‘Doc’ Schooley was the subject of a “Know Your Neighbor” column. “Construction of the new Dallas- Harveys Lake Highway seemed’ as- sured, with bids to be let right away and construction started in June Lehman citizens planned to beau- County farm agent. A stroke was fatal to John D. Williams of Fernbrook. The road near the Still apartment in Shavertown was in very bad shape, with cars bogging down in the mud. George Greggson, Shrine View, honored oldsters. of the Hazard Wire Rope Co among them Hugh Murray of Pioneer Avenue, sixth oldest in point of service. Buck shad was 15 cents a pound; turkeys 27; prime rib roast 25. Violet Sink was wed to Samuel W. Keast. AND 10 YEARS AGO: Harry Sweezy, Fernbrook, drop- ped dead while trying to excavate his car from a road bog on Dutch Mountain, in a locality where few travellers ever passed. Mrs. Sweezy, with nightfall upon her, made a futile attempt to get help, but found only boarded-up hunting cabins Twenty hours later, after spending the night in the car with her’ hus- band, she found help after seeking for aid almost all day. As night ap- proached for the second day, she found a mailbox with Bernard O’Leary’s name on it, and ‘a path leading to his house. The Sweezey’s lived with “Aunt Frank” Still, 92 and blind, who was never left alone. When they did not return on schedule, the alarm was given, and search parties alerted. Kingston Township chief Francis Mc- Carty was Mr. Sweezey’s brother- in-law. The fourth Annual Back Moun- tain Concert featured local talent in group singing, piano and violin solos, and dance offerings Samuel Davis was one of the stars. Treva Traver, Eleanor Butler, and Fay Smith were candidates for May Queen at Lake. Hislop’s new cocktail lounge drew a big crowd on opening day. “Uncle” Boyd Atherholt, 72, enor- mously popular with the children he helped across the street in Trucksville, dropped dead while working in this garden. Edward Blake, new . superinten- dent of Craftsmen Engravers, pur- chased the Bonham place in New Goss Manor. Announcement was made of the marriage of Shirley Winter, Sha- vertown, to Carlton Kohl of Kings- ton. Phil Cheney opened the Dallas Service ‘Station in his own name, purchasing the interest of James Besecker Classified Ads Get Ei Results ‘guns booming as their tattered flag was lowered. bor. of the Shicts. of he { 100 Years Ago This Week...in THE CIVIL WAR (Events exactly 100 years ago this week in the Civil War— told in the language and style of today.) Confederate soldiers inside Ft. Suniter Ft. Sumter Falls Anderson's Force Surrenders After 33-Hour Hammering CHARLESTON, S.C.—April 14—Ft. Sumter fell today. . The handful of men commanded by Maj. Robert Anderson left their island fortress proudly, a Yankee Doodle roll on their drums and 50 They had endured a relentless 83-hour bombardment. Some 3,000 Doubleday ing the final hours, rounds of Confederate shot and |said. 3 shell had reduced Sumter to smoking rubble. GEN. BEAUREGARD demande ed Sumter’s surrender only three ‘days. ago in a note carried by boat to Anderson, who had been Beauregard’s artillery instructor at West Point. Anderson told Beauregard’s envoys -he would surrender at neon tomorrow—unless he re- ceived supplies, With the Union ships approach- ing, the Confederate officers told Anderson they would open fire within the hour. And they did. - The first shot, from the Morris Island emplacements, was dead on target. With them, the defenders carried the effects of the only soldier on either side killed in the intense exchange of fire. Pvt. Daniel Hough died when one of his own guns exploded. Five gunmates were wounded in the blast. The Sumter soldiers—65 men and a brass band of seven, form- ing two skeleton companies of the First Artil- lery regiment— were taken by launch to the U.S. transport Sumter soldiers watched its. Baltic anchored burning fuse as it screamed beyond the sand- through the pre-dawn sky to land - bars guarding in the center of the parade Charleston har- grounds. * * * ~ THE FIRST Southern gun re- portedly was fired by a 67-year-old civilian, Edmund Ruffin of Wir ginia, a farmer and rabid pro slavery editor. Anderson, a ZXentuckian who married a Georgia girl—he once owned slaves there, but sold them as the abolition question grew hot- ter—took command at Charleston last Nov. 21, relieving aged Col, John L. Gardner, His father commanded the same harbor defenses during the Revolutionary War. Anderson’s men are fiercely loyal to him. Only one—ILt. R.K. Meade of Virginia—stayed behind to join the Confederate forces. Aides said Anderson carried with him a memento of the Sum- ter bombardment. It was the flag he had so gallantly defended. Union Call WASHINGTON, D.C.—April 15— The government today issued a call for 75,000 volunteers for army and navy service. The Baltic ANDERSON sailed. at once for New York. Surrender of Sumter was or- dered by Anderson yesterday as a relief naval expedition from New York wallowed helplessly at sea beyond the range of busy Southern guns. Food supplies were gone. The soldiers had existed on fat, rotting pork for days. Ammunition was nearly ex- pended. The fort was a smoke-filled mass of wreckage. The few DOW- der kegs left were wrapped in dampened blankets. * CONFEDERATE gunners under: Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard had lobbed almost 100 rounds an hour —day and night—at Sumter, which sits three miles out in the bay. But Anderson’s guns answered throughout the attack, even while his men were choking on the smoke of the burning fort. Several times Sumter’s flag was shot down, Each thie, it was raised. Capt. Abner Doubleday, execu- tive officer at Sumter, said a shortage of cartridge bags ham- pered operations of the guns. New bags were being made out COPYRIGHT 101. HEGEWISCH Mb ih i CHICAGO 83 BRADY SoLLECTION Pres: . aaNaL ARC ning along such a long period that by |" | Company made plans at a recent Rotary at dinner on April 20. Com- | Glenn Jchnson, OBITUARY Mrs. Josephine Felter Victim Of Sudden Stroke Mrs. {| Beaumont and former resident of Noxen, died Sunday morning in Sus- quehanna. Funeral services are scheduled today at 2'p. m. from the home of her sister, Mrs. Ralph Lutes, of Lutes Corners. Officiating will be Rev. Ruth Underwood, former pas- ter of Alderson Methodist Charge. Burial will be in Beaumont Ceme- tery. Nephews will be pallbearers. Mrs. Felter, only 54, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage at her home in | Susquehanna, and lived for only a few minutes after being admitted to Susquehanna General Hospital. The former Josephine Marilla Richards - was born in Beaumont, daughter of Mrs. Anna Richards of Noxen and the late Kiler Richards. A graduate of Beaumont High School, she later took beauty culture at the Bradford Beauty School in Wilkes-Barre. She owned and oper- ated a beauty salon in Windsor, N. Y. Besides her mother she is survived by her husband, William: daughter, Mrs. Harry Zachrias, Harveys Lake; sisters, Mrs. Ralph Lutes, Noxen; Mrs. Palmer Updyke, Kunkle; broth- ers, John, Green, N. Y., William, Bestal, N. Y., and seven grandehi- dren. Arrangements by Nulton. Mrs. Tressa Race, 70, Dies After Long Illness Mrs. Tressa Race, 70, died Wed- nesday night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Harold Rought of Center Moreland, following a long illness. She was buried Sunday afternoon in Fitch Cemetery, Lockville. The. body lay in state at Center More- land Baptist fdhurch. Conducting services were Rev. Truman Reeves and Rev. Lyle Peterson. Miller Stocker, belonged to there. Y.; her daughter, Mrs. Harold Rough, Center Moreland; six grand- children and one great-grandchild; two sisters: Mrs. Edna Loomis, Cen- termoreland, and Mrs. Edward Rich- ards, Baltimore, Md.; a brother, Charles, West Pittston. Arrangements by Nulton. Clyde Stevens Suffers Coronary Thrombosis str: icken with a coronary thrombosis. He had not been in robust health for several years. He was buried at Hanover Green Tuesday afternoon, Dr. Alfred L. ist Church, conducting services from the Luther Kniffen Funeral Home. Josephine Felter, native of | From Pillar To Post by HIX When the pizza, piping hot and dripping with melted cheese . and tomato sauce, was handed round on huge cookie sheets at the YWCA luncheon last Thursday, the sight was a welcome one. But also it posed a pretty problem. The last time I tangled with a large slab of pizza, it was in the composing room at the Dallas Post, where everybody was gathered for a quick snack in between reading of page proofs. Tangled is the correct term. The pizza was hot and Savory. It had been a long time since lunch. I took a large bite, and immediately become completely im- mobilized, the same way a dog is immobilized when some youth hands it a ball of maple sugar wax. (You don’t know. what maple sugar wax is? the world coming to?) Mumbling, and with a hand over my rabulh, I made for the powder room. This was before the horrrid day when Howard came up out of the basement wearing a peculiar expression, and bearing a peculiar bit of news. Seems he'd seen a rat swimming around, a rat which in- spected him with beady eyes before diving beneath the surface and vanishing. In the powder room I disentangled myself and returned to the composing room, completely composed, and xondy to approach the remaining pizza with more discretion. ‘And the moral of that is, when you are Wreaking ina new set: of uppers and lowers, don’t try to bite anything. Just cut it up into very small pieces and hope for the best. Everybody else at the table at the YWCA attacked the pizza boldly, biting it off with relish. But not ‘Hix. Hix took it aboard in dainty bites, ignoring the - furtive glances of table-mates who concluded that Hix was putting on airs. _ J The pizza disappeared sliver by sliver. “Now, if you're about ready,” whispered the hostess, get ahead with the speech.” That speech . . . It was a last minute arrangement Somebody scraped the bottom of the program barrel, and there was Hix, floundering around and snapping at the bait. “Talk for about twenty minutes,” advised the chairman. So Hix talked for about twenty minutes, noting with concern that a number of Back Mountain residents were present, and praning her remarks to fit the situation. As a lecture on the art of writing, it was a complete washout, but it did touch upon a number of widely related subjects, most of them frothy. \ “we can DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA Dear me. What is hh A native of Plymouth, daughter | of ‘the late Adam P. and ‘Catherine | she spent most of | her life in Center Moreland, and | the Baptist Church | She is survived by her husband, William; a son, Clark, Endicott, N. | Clyde S. Stevens, 54, died at his | home in Loyalville Saturday after- | Wash and Dry While You Shop LAUNDERGENTER Shavertown Shopping Center OPEN 24 HOURS DAILY WATER SOFTENER to Save You Soap! ~ Phileo-Bendix Washers and Dryers noon., passing away suddenly when | Crayton, pastor of Kingston Method- | Mr. Stevens, Wilkes-Barre native | and former plumbing contractor of Courdale, moved ito this area: three | years ago. He belonged to First | was a member of Conyngham Post, Camp 169, Sons of Union Veterans ! of the (Civil War, and a trustee of | GAR Memorial Hall, | His parents were the late Robert and Elizabeth Shiffer Stevens. was a graduate of Coughlin High School. : He leaves his widow, the former Flore ‘| Wilmington, Del.; Mrs. Walter Wes- || ley, TLoyalville; James, Greenwood, Indiana; Clyde, Shoemakersville; Mrs. Earl King, Shavertown; Mrs. Glenmore Richards, Kingston; four- teen grandchildren. Pallbearers Elmer Scovell, Hewell Henderson, Steve Lec, James Coulter, and Ron- ald Scovell. Lehman Auxiliary To Serve Rotary Anns Ladies Auxiliary of Lehman Fire meeting to serve Women of Dallas Mesdames Ethel Jonhson, Russell Ide, Joe Stolarick, Ellen Lamoreau, Charles Ely. Others attending the meeting; Mesdames Anna Beisel, H. A. Brown, Clara Mekeel, Joe Ellsworth, Dor- rance Mekeel, Margaret Sponseller, Myron Baker, Garwin Tough, Russell Coolbaugh. mittee: Safety Valve ORCHID FOR THE BOYS Dear Sir: The orchid mentioned on page 2 of last week’s Post goes to; troop No. 155 Boy Scouts of America at Trucks- ville. The Troop is in charge of Mr. Lee Philo. The name signs are now being redone, and when the weather breaks the station will be painted. This is one of the Service Projects of Troop 155. Very Truly Yours Donald H. Smith The City of "Chester, Delaware St IBRARY 5 Con ORES Methodist Church, Wilkes-Barre, and - He |. e Hess; six children: Robert, | were Charles Higgs, | Secretary Troop Committee | 192 Hill Street, Trucksville | County, the second oldest settlement || in Pennsylvania, was: founded by the ‘ Swedes who gave it the name of 7 Upland. Leonard’s Open‘Every Brings Nite in the ¥ Gateway You An Shopping i Co Unusual Value in a Full TRANSISTOR 'RADIO {84 Hurry in. 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