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Editorially Speaking:
Help The Blind
Luzerne County Federation of the Blind is making
its annual appeal for funds
the sightless.
wl
to support its work among
Frank Lugiano, executive secretary, says; “It is a
terrific job to buck the scores of campaigns, all led by
prominent people. Add to this the worst winter in history,
and many people out of work, and you can readily guess
‘that we are having a rugged time, with contributions far
below last year’s modest sum.” :
Mr. Lugiano is State president and national delegate
to Federation of the
~ ... exploitation of the blind.
Blind people do not wish to
Blind, in the forefront of the
program to stamp out ignorance,
discrimination, and
Reoognition that the blind can do many things even
better than those blessed with sight, is badly lagging.
be a burden to the tax-pay-
ers or wards of the State. They need opportunity.
All officers of the Federation are blind. They are
serve without pay. They all say, “We know from our
own experience that blindness need not mean dependence.
- With your help, we can help other blind people.”
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Valve . . .
- MANY ATTENDED
Dear Editor:
Our “Open House” at Retreat
State Hospital on May 7 was a
tremendous success,
_ ~ The event attracted 2529 visitors
and we feel the publicity with the
accompanying photograph stimu~
% » lated much interest in your com-
3 # munity as we had quite a number
¥ of Dallas visitors.
, Miss Mabel Jones, publicity in-
formed me of the courteous service
. she received when she visited your
office.
; Dr. Butler, Superintendent. and
the entire staff wish to thank you
for your cooperation.
Ir Sincerely yours,
Mrs. Harvey A. Sherman
Chairman
Dear Sir: A
I am sending you a poem which
I feel is most appropriate -as our
country enters ‘the “Space Age” The
author, 19, was an American volun-
teer with the Royal Canadian Air
Force. He was killed in action on
= 3 Dec, 11, 1941. The New York Herald
4 Tribune printed his poem:
gat High Flight
by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds
of earth,
Br And danced the skies on laughter-
nd gilvered wings;
me Sunward I've climbed and joined
~ the tumbling mirth.
Of sun-split clouds and done a
4. hundred things
You have not dreamed of-wheeled
and hoared and swung
High in the sunlit silence, Hov'ring
wn there;
I've chased the shouting wind
along ithe flung
7 My eager craft through footless
halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning
lue 4
.. I've topped the wind-swept heights
‘with easy grace,
Where never lark, or even eagle,
flew;
And while with silent, lifting mind
I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of
space,
Put out my hand, end touched the
seis face of God.
hy Sincerely yours
With flags flying,
Helen R, Conrad.
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APPRECIATION PUBLICITY
|. 77 Dear Editor:
Hae” I want to thank you and your
staff for the excellent publicity you
, gave us during the filing period.
"Your continued publicity enabled
== “us to reach many taxpayers, making
them aware of the filing require-
ments and helping us to dissem-
_.... inate tax information of interest and
~ value to the public,
hos Your cooperation has contributed
immeasurably to the success of this
year's taxpayer essistance progr
| Amstérdam,Netherlands.
and I hope it will prevail in our
future relations.
Sincerely yours,
£ John H. Rauen, Jr.
Acting District Director
LOUSY SPORTS
The 1Idetown boy who shoots
orioles is not even a good sport. He
should try hitting crows, English
sparrows or starlings, That would be
better proof of his marksmanship
as a native American song bird is so
trusting and sits so quiet that any
baby could kill one, Come on, let
the song birds alone!
Be a good sport!
Dallas nature lover
Rotary Exchange Student
Coming From Netherlands
Dallas Rotary Club has been as-
signed an exchange student for
next year by the District commit-
tee.
She will be Elsbeth Gerrits from
She is 18
and will attend the new Dallas High
School.
Elsbeth has been an outstanding
student in her school and has many
hobbies. She is a member of the
Remonstrant Church of Holland.
Her father is a physician and a
member of the Rotary Club of
Amsterdam, South. She hag tra-
velled in Belgium, France, Ger-
many, Switzerland, Italy, and Aus-
tria, but this will be her first visit
to the United States.
Your Health
“I wish I was me again!”
Psychiatrists have heard this
plaintive plea.
Plastic surgeons and psychiatrists
share a joint bodily appearance with
personal identification.
There is an interdependence be-
tween mind and body.
Persons with facial or bodily dis-
figurement have a deep and ‘some-
times desperate need for reconstruc-
tion through surgery.
Even though surgery may attain
the objective sought, there is often
an emotional aftermath in the per-
son who has had plastic surgery.
The new features are somewhat
strange to the individual and he may
feel a sense of confusion or uncer-
tainty about his new appearance.
There are those who regret the
alteration and w undo that
which they so definitely desire
before.
Plastic surgery widely varies from
the popular rhinoplasty which is the
formation of a new nose, to birth-
mark removal.
Breast surgery includes proced-
ures aimed at reducing ponderous
breasts or improving nature's deficit.
Dermabrasion is the removal of
scars by the use of e rapidly revolv-
Cl Gatos Lic ie
ONLY
YESTERDAY
Ten and Twenty Years Ago
In The Dallas Post
1m HAPPENED 3() | YEARS AGO:
Dallas Borough Council elected El-
wood Elston to serve as Chief of
Police until October, leaving Wesley
Daddow to devote his entire time
to duties of Street Commissioner.
Workmen were refurbishing the
pavilion of Fernbrook Park, gett-
ing ready for Memorial Day opening.
Excellent street-car service added to
the appeal of ' the best dancing
pavilion in the area.
Shavertown baseball team won
the bi-county pennant for the sec-
ond consecutive time when it de-
feated Beaumont.
for laying of a new sidewalk in
front of ‘the Payne property on
Lake Street.
East Dallas was setting a fast
pace in the Rural League.
Dallas Borough and Dallas Town-
ship were planning for their first
graduating class exercises, with
fourteen and sixteen graduates.
Kingston Township had a senior
class of thirty-two; Lehman, six-
teen; Monroe Township, seven;
Noxen, seven; Lake, fifteen.
Adijah Baird, 77, died at his home
in West Dallas,
Michael Sisco, 60, died at his
home in Ruggles.
A high mass of requiem was
celebrated by Rev. J.J. O'Leary at
St. Therese’s for Mrs. Charles Kern
of Alderson.
Bessie Carle Peterson, formerly of
Dallas, died in California,
IT HAPPENED 20 YEARS AGO:
Plans for Memorial Day obser-
vance at Lehman outdistanced all
expectations with parade sched-
uled for morning, dinner at noon,
William B. Jeter sat for a Know-
Your-Neighbor pen portrait.
Residents hoped for opening of
the new Dallas-Trucksville high
way by Memorial Day, regretted
postponement of construction on
the Lake highway.
: ‘Mrs. George Bronson, badly in-
jured in an automobile accident sev-
eral weeks earlier, was making
good progress.
Dallas Borough was expecting to
graduate 23 seniors. Professor T A.
Willliamee was supervising prin-
cipal.
Ruth Stevenson, daughter of
Chief of Police and Mrs. Ira Stev-
enson at Harveys Lake was named
valedictorian at Lake School, George
Kuchta salutatorian.
Aliens smspected of bein fifth
columnists were rounded up in an
internment camp at Missoula, Mon-
tana, confined in country club
surroundings and scenery, a con-
trast to internment and refugee
camps abroad.
A.J. Sordoni was named regional
head of Defense Contract Service.
College ' Misericordia’s May Day
attracted a huge throng.
Willard Newberry, native
Beaumont, died at 74 in Iowa.
John C. Harris, 81, Dallas, was
buried at Warden Cenetery.
Chuck roast was 17 cents per
pound; fancy seedless raisins,
cents a box: bread, two loaves
15 cents.
Rev. CH, Frick, for the first
time since he went to Indiantown
Gap as chaplain with the 109th,
visited Huntsville.
Mrs. Harvey; Kitchen, after thir-
teen years as Sunday School super-
intendent of the primary depart-
ment at Alderson, resigned.
ano 1() vears aco:
Little League opened the season
at Shavertown Little League Ball
of
out all six teams. Bands from Dal-
las Borough, Dallas Township, and
Kingston Township, participated.
Ann Peterson, Norton Avenue,
was selected president of the Nat-
jonal Committee of the National
Students Association at Pembroke
College.
A crash at intersection of Harveys
Lake Highway and 42nd Street sent
four injured passengers to Nesbitt
Hospital, None of them were local
residents, The accident happened
within a stone’s throw of the place
where young Earl Lamoreux was
killed in 1950.
Stephen J. ‘Tkach, Goss Manor,
Time-light.
Wedding bells for Gloria Sickler
and George Parrish.
Mrs. Cora Rust, stepdaughter of
Mrs, Jane Stroud, Dallas's oldest
resident, died at 85 in Seattle. Mrs.
Rust was half sister to Mrs. AH.
Van Nortwick.
Albert C. Groblewski, 53, Trucks-
ville, died after surgery.
Five teams were tied in the Bi-
‘Orange, and Vernon,
ing wire brush, and the face lift
operation is designed to reduce
wringling by removing excessive
skin.
Baggy eyelids are n
operated on to remove excessive
skin.
Cleft lip and cleft palate, as well
as protruding ears, can be corrected
by surgery.
One of the truly vital plastic sur-
gical benefits is in the treatment of
burns.
Plastic surgery really came into
its own during World War II when
many service men disfigured in
| battle were amazingly restored in
appearance and function. g
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highways, :
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Excavations were going forward tas
top of the hill are not good. The
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THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1961
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Flirting with death or, at the
least, serious injury, a couple of
hundred school children are comp-
elled to run the gauntlet at the top
of Huntsville Street hill every elec-
tion day, which is twice a year.
Some of them pass four times a day.
Only the protection of Divine Prov-
idence, or miraculous good luck, has
averted a tragedy so far. And with
more children, more autos, and more
election activity, the danger has
built up ‘about to the breaking
point.
It may be next November that
the whole town will be thrown into
a state of shock as ambulances rush
half a dozen of our little ones to
hospitals or maybe to the under-
taker. It will be too late to do any-
( thing then, Something must be done
now. :
Under the most favorable circum-
traffic conditions at the
pavement is wide enough for two
carefully operated autos to pass. If
one of them is a wide truck hoggish
of the road, the clearance is close,
If both happen to be trucks, the
extreme edge with perhaps some
overhang is required.
And ‘twenty-four hours a day,
three hundred and sixty-five days
a year, speeding is practiced. In
ascending the grades up the hill on
both sides, drivers naturally accel-
erate. They have to. But when the
flat is reached at the summit of
the hill, they do not reduce the
fuel enough, With the grade passed,
the cars jump like a jack rabbit and
practically fly across the flat,
which is only a few hundred feet
long.
There are no side walks south
of the schoolhouse corner. Mrs.
Nellie Ritter and Mrs. Josephine
Norton have fairly adequate walk-
ing space along the east side of
the road along their properties,
which space is continuous to Par-
rish Street. They maintain the
hill section in passable condition,
and the flat portion on top of the
hill is not too bad. South of Par-
rish there is no safe place for
anyone to walk, anytime, day or
night.
At present the small building
on the Cenetery property is in use
Rambling Around
By The Oldtimer —D. A. Waters
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as a polling place, It has been
for years, but not continuously.
For many years the former Block-
sage barber and printing build-
| ing was used, and for a few years
(part of the Harry Smith store
| building. Both are vacant now.
The election activity greatly
increases the traffic problem and
“danger to the school children. Of
course the election board members
must get to the polls but they
are not to blame for traffic con-
gestion, = Few, if any of them,
park a car there. Most of them walk.
{ Voters driving up must park their
{ cars while voting, but this takes
only a few minutes, and perhaps
not too many are actually on hand
in the few minutes required for
"the children to pass, four times
daily.
The real culprits are the so-
called “workers”. Half of them
stand around handing out cards,
which activity is probably utterly
useless anyway. And they all seem
to have cars parked in front of
the polling place, in the only
space along the actual pavement
on both sides, where pedestrians
must walk, including the school
children. And if the election is
controversial, = there are several
additional people in and around the
polling place classed as watchers,
checking lists and observing the
procedure. These probably serve a
useful purpose.
And then in a contested elec-
tion there are a lot of additional
“workers” assigned to drive back
and forth, hauling voters to the
polls sometimes, but other times
only stopping to see if the vote
is heavy, if their friends are rep-
resented and being taken care of,
if their “workers” are on the job,
duly obstructing traffic and bother-
ing the voters, etc.
stop absolutely long time parking,
by officials, “Workers”, or any-
one else; secondly, stop the speed-
ing; thirdly, keep away from the
polls all those simply messing
around and doing nothing of any
real benefit.
polling place, and do it now.
Notice
Smorgasbord will be sponsored
by Maple Grove W.S.C.S. Satur-
day, May 27, in the Church Hall,
Pikes Creek.
Serving begins at 5 P.M.
Rotary Dinner Tonight
Dallas Rotary Clufgwill hold its
annual Father-Son-Daughter Din-
ner this evening at Prince of Peace
Church.
Relief Checks Are
Less Than Living Costs
Public Assistance payments are
meeting only two-thirds of minimum
standard costs of living for most of
the needy, the Department of Public
Welfare reported today.
Secretary of Public Welfare Mrs,
Ruth Grigg Horting said this means
that 384,000 needy persons are
and healthful standard of living”
mandated by the legislature in the
public assistance law. The 384,000
include 131,000 on general assist-
ance, the 234,000 on aid to depen-
dent children, and the 19,000 on aid
to the disabled. For the 50,000
dependent aged on assistance rolls
the grants nearly balance, with
minimum standards, having been
increased in 1958. More than 17,000
blind persons receive pensions of $70
a month as fixed by law and are
allowed other income of up to $2,040
Park, with a parade, which brought | a year.
A typical family of four can get
an average assistance maximum of
$156 a month, compared to the $240
needed to maintain a minimum
standard of health and decency.
The same family, with the wage
earner working, has a living cost of
1 $420 a month.
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The Governor's Budget, now before
the legislature, would provide funds
for a $2 monthly increase for food
per person for those in the 18-65
age bracket on assistance.
Only old age assistance, which
pays a maximum of $145 a month
to a dependent couple, comes near
the minimum standard of $147 a
month costs for two old people
living together. This compares with
$240 a month spent by the typical
self-supporting elderly couple.
The average maximum monthly
allowance for a typical family of
four, (with the “minimum standard”
cost in parenthesis) is: Food, $84.00
($106.76) ; clothing, $20.00, ($36.20);
incidentals, $8.00 ($29.70); fuel and
utilities, $14.60 ($16.00); shelter
$29.80 ($51.00). Incidentals include
such items as personal care, house-
hold supplies, recreation and miscel-
laneous. Total: $156.40 ($239.65).
For a man and wife, both over 65,
on old age assistance, the comparable
amounts are: Food, $58.00 ($55.95);
clothing $12.00 ($13.15); incidentals
$16.00 ($17.50); fuel and utilities
$14.00 ($13.80); shelter, $4450
($47.00). Totals: $144.50 ($147.40).
Tn 1781 Duncan Phyfe, one of the
most famous of American furniture
makers, set up shop in New York.
Furniture and furnishings manufac-
turing today~is big business — as
shown by the fact that over $11%
million. worth of national advertising
was placed in newspapers in 1958.
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GROUCHO MARX hasn't a show
lined up for next season. “You
Bet Your Life” has been dropped
because ratings showed the nov-
elty had worn off.
Groucho made a pilot film for a
new series at NBC. It was titled
“What Do You Want?” and was
very similar to his present show.
The network wasn’t able to sell the
show to a sponsor and its option
dropped on Groucho’s services.
Groucho says George Axelrod
wanted him for a play which he
wouldn't consider because he didn’t
want to live in New York,
Groucho is unable to explain why
his rating dropped. It could be that
viéwers didn’t care to watch week
after week contestants who stood a
great deal of ribbing to make a
small sum of money and then didn’t
make it because the questions asked
were too difficult for their ability.
It added up to a frustrating show.
And the faithful fans of years knew
them!
One rumor has it that Groucho
will replace Jack Paar one night a
week next year. Groucho denies this
rumor.
There - would seem to be a place
in television for Groucho and we
hope the network finds it. Replac-
ing Jack Paar seems like a good idea
to us, should make for an interesting
program considering some of Paar’s
guests, 5
STEVE ALLEN, who took a year’s
vacation from television will be
back next Fall with a one-hour show
on Wednesday from 7:30 to 8:30
p.m.
The sponsors have already signed
on dotted line. (
JAMES HAGERTY announced
plans for a mew program aimed at
young people. It will be a regular
weekday feature of the American
Broadcasting Company Television
network in the Fall. It will be on
the air every evening about 5 p.m.
Students will work in the produc-
tion of shows as well as on camera.
Occasionally, student heads of col-
lege radio stations or newspapers
will be invited to give commentary.
NBC recently announced plans
to televise weekly news programs
for youngsters from 8 to 18, Their’s
would be a once a week program
of longer duration and would be pre-
sented n Saturday.
JACK WARDEN, who stars in
“The Asphalt Jungle” is a graduate
of the popular Mr. Peepers series
which ran for 3% years in earlier
TV days. You may recall him as the
humorously stuffy gym teacher.
A native of Newark, N. J. Jack
‘reached theatrical stardom the hard
way, During World War 11, he was
an Army platoon sergeant in the
101st Airborne Division. Prior to
that, he had fought a few profess-
ional fights as a middleweight boxer
under the name of Johnny Costello;
he worked tugboats as a deckhand
"duty.
Several steps are required: first, 1
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Vet's Questions
Q. I am on active duty in the
Army with a part time job when off
If I am disabled or killed on
that job, am I or my dependents
eligible for compensation from the
| Veterans Administration ?
A. Yes. If you should be killed
accidentally, through no fault of
your own, your dependents would
be eligible for death compensation
under the pregent law. If you should
be disabled, you would become eligi-
ble for compensation after your
separation from the service.
Q. President Kennedy recently
asked the VA to pay 1961 GI insur-
| ance dividends as soon as possible.
When will this be completed ?
A. Payment of the 1961 dividend
was completed by March 17, 1961,
with the exception of some veterans
not reached because of address
changes, etc.
Q. 1 have found an error in my
World War II service record. When
can I get it corrected ?
A. Submit proof that your record
is incorrect to the service involved—
Army, Navy, Air Force or Coast
Guard — immediately. Generally,
application must be made within 3
years after discovery of the error or
before October 26, 1961 whichever
is later.
Q. Is there a simple way to
determine whether a veteran or
dependent is . eligible to receive
pension under the old or new
pension laws?
A. Yes. The magic date is June
30, 1960. A veteran or dependent
receiving and entitled to receive a
pension from the VA on June 30,
1960, is eligible to receive pension
under the old law but can elect
under the new law. Those who be-
came entitled after June 30, 1960,
must come under the new law.
Q. I am the widow of a World
War II veteran who had six months
of overseas service. Will I get a
pension under the new pension law
that went into effect last July 17?
A. [It appears that you may be
eligible for a pension, but you will
not receive one unless you apply for
it. Contact the nearest VA -office.
The contact representative will help
you make out your application.
Q. Can I apply to the Veterans
Administration for a headstone for
my husband’s’ grave? He was a
World War II veteran,
A. Yes, Headstones are available
for eligible deceased veterans of
World War II. Although applications
to The Quartermaster
General of the Army, any VA office
will provide information and other
assistance in filing the application. |
Q. Which VA domiciliaries have
accommodations for women veterans
to live there as members?
A. The domiciliaries at Bay
Pines, Fla.; Dayton, Ohio; Los An-
geles, Calif.; and Martinsburg, West
Va.
. Why are some veterans’
“children” receiving pension even
though they are elderly persons?
A. [Pensions to veterans’ children
usually stop at age 18 or 21 if
attending school or when the child
marries, In the case of children who
become mentally or physically un-
able to provide for themselves before
they reach age 18, and who remain
single, the pension is continued as
long as this condition lasts.
Q. Iam a 62-year-old World War
I veteran Can I enter a VA domi-
ciliary when I'm 657?
‘A. There is no age ‘limit. A
veteran must have a disability that
incapacitates him from earning a
living and must meet certain other
medical and legal criteria, to be
admitted for VA domiciliary care.
Q. Has the War Orphans Educa-
tion program now been extended to
include children of some deceased
peacetime veterans?
A. Yes, «Children who have lost
a veteran-parent through death that
resulted from a service-connected
injury “or illness may benefit from
the Orphans Education Program,
even though the parent concerned
served only in peacetime.
Q. What deadlines have been
established for the expiration of GI
Loan rights for veterans?
A. Applications by World War II
veterans for GI loans must be re-
ceived by the VA from lenders before
July 26, 1962. Veterans with service
during the Korean Conflict period
have until January 31, 1965, to
obtain GI loans.
Q. Where should a veteran write
regarding mustering out pay?
A. Queries should be directed for
the branch of the Armed Services in
which the veteran served.
on New York's East River; he was a
bartender in San Francisco and a
bouncer in a Manhattan dancehall,
and he served for a while in the
Merchant Marine. After the war he
studied acting for five years. :
“Peepers gave me my first big
break,” he recalled. “Up to that
| point, I was playing strictly heavies
and I hadn’t done any movies.”
Now: he lives in a lovely Malibu
Beach, Cal. home but he still pays
the rent on a small $76-a-month
apartment in New York’s Greenwich
Village, the site of his early strug-
gles.
LORETTE YOUNG who wouldnt
be on television next year since her
series wasn’t renewed plans on mak-
ing a movie, It is something that
she has been hoping to do for the
last couple of years. Now ‘it is just
the matter of finding the right story.
BOXING FANS According to a
recent survey, women
make up 40% of the television aud-
ience of ABC*TV’s ‘Fight of the
Week.”
This came as no great surprise
to Harry Markson, boxing promoter
of Madison Square Garden, home of
the weekly televised fight. He says
that women write a goodly portion
of the mail received each week.
§ Barnyard Notes
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This will be the spring to be remembered as having awakened
without the blessed warmth of sunshine in
er eyes and yet the
orioles arrived on schedule and sing as beautifully as ever in the
apple blossoms where bumble bees rape every flower. i
The cat bird has returned to her nest in the tangled thicket
beyond the unfolding grape arbor and scolds in alarm as Black
Killer crouches through the brush pile in search of a nest of baby... ”
rabbits.
There has been much argument that the tangle of blackberry
canes and dried Burdock should be rooted out to make way for ®
more civilized cover of lawn, but so long as the cat bird returns to
her nest and baby rabbits cuddle there, I think this part of the
property shall remain uncultivated. 5
While I have unwillingly been home the past three weeks re-
charging the batteries, I have had opportunity to observe the ST
things about me and I have found, as I long suspected, that th
are in reality the things most worth while—that have eternal vale
when the chips are down—that cost the least and afford the greatest
rewards.
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It is so with the sunshine that could make this a glorious
spring but has withheld its warm grace from all of us, denying
fragile May Queens and their colorful courts the brilliant warmth
that would make their reigns one of splendor. / 4
How can spring stir hot young blood or agitate the sleeping
energy of the tiny prisoners caught in a classroom while the sul
plays hide and seek. Only for a moment does it show its tantalizing
face, then heavy clouds blot out its smile, the air is chilled and
the moment when the May Queen’s crown sparkles, passes.
Robert Frost has a verse for it. He speaks the lines (from
Tramps in Mud Time”)
“The sun was warm but the wind was chill:
You know how it is with an April day
When the sun is out and the wind is still,
You're one month on in the middle of May.
But if you so much as dare to speak,
The cloud comes over the sunlit arch,
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Never have the lilacs been so beautiful for Memorial Day.
Ancient bushes, planted when the country was young, and men,
the Blue and the Grey, marched away to fight for their convictions
in the War Between the States, still send forth their vigorous young
shoots, stemming from the gnarled roots, and still scent the breeze
with their young blossoms.
The Civil War veterans are all at rest.
The Spanish war veterans falter in their footsteps.
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The world is ever young and ever old. Generations come, gens
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erations vanish.
And each year comes the grass, covering
and the lilacs blooming in the dooryard.
Your great-great-great grandfather
the scars of winter—
fought in the Civil War
His thoughts turned to his far away home as spring advanc
along the Potomac.
Lilacs there, and wisteria.
Would the late frost cancel oul
the promise of the lilac buds at home, along the Susquehanna, or
in the blue hills?
Would he ever see the lilacs bloom again?
Would he be shattered in body, limping painfully home through
the gate in the picket fence under the guarding lilac bushes?
Would he languish in prison, dreaming
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hopelessly about the
child whom he had never seen, picturing his son playing under the
lilacs ?
The fragrance of spring in the northern hills . . .
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been almost unbearable to these men, that the spring was returning
to the hills, and that they were not there to sense the miracle. {
That the acreage along the creek was not planted, that the
furrows remained unturned, their promise hidden under the gree A %
ing sod.
That it would be many a weary month
conflict was over.
before the dreadful
Would they ever see the lilacs bloom again? ;
Little League Will Open 12th
Season Saturday At 3 At Field
Little League will open Saturday
at 3 p.m. at Little League field in
Dallas Township, the tweneth sea-
son of organized ball for young-
sters in the Back Mountain Area.
Opening ceremonies will be fol-
lowed by three two-inning ball
games, with each of the six teams
playing, Duke Isaacs vs. Daddow
Isaacs Legion post; Lazarus Depart-
ment Store (Dallas Boys) vs. Hart-
ers Dairy, and Back Mt. Lumber
Co. vs. Gosarts of Dallas.
Music will be provided by the
Dallas Junior High School Band
under direction of Alfred Camp. The
band will lead off with the National
Anthem and then play several other
numbers during the opening.
The Westmoreland Key Club
drill team and the Westmoreland
Keyettes ‘will perform. These high
school boys and girls have won fame
throughout the state and local com-
munities for their fine performances
under direction of George McCut-
chen.
Back Mountain baseball for boys
is made up of teams from Trucks-
ville, Shavertown, Fernbrook, Dallas,
Lehman-Jackson and Westmore-
land. The Trucksville team is spon-
sored by Duke Isaacs and managed
by Don Hinkle and Ed. Teifer,
‘Shavertown is sponsored by the
Back Mountain Lumber Company
and managed by Hank Leibald and
Cecil Sutton.
Fernbrook is sponsored by Char-
ley Gosart and managed by ‘Panky’
Martin and Stanley Dorrance.
Dallas is sponsored by Lazarus
Department Store and managed by
Bob Brown and Art Dennis. =
Lehman-Jackson is sponsored by
Harter’'s Dairy of Trucksville and
managed by Bob Disque and Bill
Sponsellor, Harters Dairy ‘was last
years Champions. ;
Daddow Isaacs Legion Post is
managed by Keith Yeisley and Jack
Bestwick and B. Petroski.
These teams make up the Major
League of ninety boys in uniform,
They play twice a week at 6:30 at
the Little League field.
The minor league is sponsored by
the Miners National Bank, consists
of six teams. Supervising the boys
are: for Dallas—Bill Baker, Wilbur
Davis, Bob James; Lehman Jack-
son—L. Yascar, Russ Bertram; Fern-
brook—Art Bellas and Tex Wilson;
Shavertown—Elwood Swingle and
‘Bob Wade; Trucksville—Ed Teifer
Leo Corbett and George Parks.
These minor teams play every
Saturday 10 a.m. to 12 noon and
2 pm, at the Little League field.
Over 120 boys participated in this
league. : :
At the start of the season the
league officials announce everything
in readiness. The field has been
regraded, dug-outs painted, and
other items improved. 1
We are in need of umpires. ANY
person willing to give one night a
week should contact Bob Parry by
phone OR 47206. Umpires are Bili
Roberts, Harry Peiffer, Dale Zi&Z%
merman and Dan Bellas.
Officers of Baseball for Boys in
the Back Mountain are Bob Parry
President; Leonard Dorrance Vice-
President; Paul Steinhower Secre-
tary; and Elmer Evenson Treasurer,
The baseball program includes Teen-
age and also Senior Teeners. The
Teen-age league will open in Mon-
day June 5th at the Junior High
School field. The Senior Teeners
will play all their games Saturday
nights at the Junior High School
field.
SPRINGTIME
By Eric Mayer,
This is the time of year I Tike, anf 1
do wish it would stay,
Winter is behind and summer on
the way.
The woodland creatures are out onoe
more,
Above the forest birds now soar,
They perch on every bow and branch
of every woodland tree, :
And each and all do sing their
joyful melody. /
The moss is springy underfoot
To cover the woodland it was put,
Tall ferns away in the breeze and
green leaves rustle in all the
trees. ;
Flowers blooming along the brook,
And in each and every forest nook.
This is the time of year I like and I
do wish it would stay,
Winter is behind and summer on
the way.
Editorial Note: ‘
Eric, son of Mr. and Mrs. Graydon
Mayer, is graduating from Miss
Louise Colwell’s fourth grade at
Dallas Borough School. He had help
in typing, but not in composition of
the poem. \
and Don Hinkle; Westmoreland ( : Ey
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