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lished every Thursday morning at the Dallas Post plant,
__Lehman Avenue, Dallas, Pennsylvania.
Editorially Speaking:..
Kunkle Falls Behind
. _ The single community Back of the Mountain that
is failing to meet its responsibility for Community Ambu-
lange service is Kunkle.
There the drive for funds will start on July 8 and if
We are to anticipate public response on the basis of past
campaigns less than $100 can be expected. Total contri-
butions year before last were $274. Last year’s contribu-
tions were slightly over $100.
The Community Ambulance is available FREE for
service to every family in the Kunkle community and
there is no record yet that Kunkle people have refused to
take advantage of that service in times of emergency.
Harriet Thompson, chairman of this year’s ambulance
drive, has announced that coin cards will be distributed
July 8 by a group of eight workers: Mrs. Esther Haas,
Mrs. Ellen Dietz, Linda Condon, Mrs. Jack Hiller, Mrs.
Vergie Elston, Allen Brace, John Jerista and Elwood
Condon. : :
While the cards have spaces for only $3, all that is
being asked of public-spirited Kunkle people is a contri-
bution of $2.50. The cards will be collected later this
summer,
Mrs. Thompson has asked us to write this editorial
because she is sure that Kunkle will meet its responsibility
88 s0On as it is aware that free ambulance service is de-
pendent upon the contributions of every family.
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TO OUTLAW TREASON
It has become apparent, after.322 major work stop-
pages strikes and boycotts at 22 sites that have cost the
US missile program 162,000 man-days of time and ex-
torted uncountable millions of dollars from US tax-
payers, that new, clear-cut legislation is needed to put the
national defense program back on the track. Only the
most forthright and specific legal restraints can put an
end to the wholesale sabotage that has even so, for the
most part, violated existing law.
It should. be recalled incidentally that the builders
of our missiles, rockets and guidance systems were among
those who foresaw a year ago — in the agitation for
legislation to legalize “common situs” picketing — what
could happen to orderly defense progress, and urged that
n.issile sites be exempted.
Since that time a parade of defense witnesses has
appeared before the McClellan Committee testifying to
work stoppages designed to create overtime pay — as
high as four times the base rate — that ran up one
electrician’s wages to $748 in a single week, and gave 90
pipefitters and electricians at Vandenberg Air Force Base
more pay than the commanding general. They testified
to demands of construction unions that equipment fabri-
cated in their plants by members of other unions must
be dismantled for removal to the launching bases and re-
assembled by members of the construction unions at ex-
tortionate cost and perilous delay.
Most celebrated, perhaps, is the case of “blessing the
manifold” as related by Senator McClellan on the Senate
floor. “We have all heard of manifold blessings,” he
| Dave will return to take over the
il said, “. .but I never heard of blessing a manifold until
"this incident occurred.”
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The manifold, fabricated of stainless steel pipe by
union men in a missile plant, must be torn down and re-
assembled at ‘the launching site by their men, said the
construction union., It was protested that this procedure
might damage this intricate device so'it would not func-
The construction union ‘then devised the scheme
of giving the thing a blessing and sitting down ... to
draw their pay during that period of time, and then let
_ the blessed manifold go on into place.”
Today, the missile builders are pressing for revision
of the Davis-Bacon Act which has been twisted and tor-
tured out of original concepts to serve urion greed. It
should now be amended, the industry insists, to establish
equipment that may be placed in it or attached to it.
- Superfluous as this might seem to any repsonable or pas
_ triotic person, the industry firmly endckses the senti-
ments of Senator McClellan, who sai:
“I do not care what executivs, is issued and
what no-sigie’ pledge is giver.” I hope] both of those
things wg done ... but'l say to Sehators that we
itt by th2 country or by the people if we
i situation to occur again yout it being a
he law of the lund"! =
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EDITH ANN BURKE
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Durward Kirby, who wasn’t even
mentioned in the running, has been
picked to succeed Arthur Godfrey
next fall as host of Candid Camera,
with Allen Funt still coming on for
weekly explanations. Couldn’t be
a better selection.
As anyone who: has watched the
Garry Moore show knows Kirby is |
a very clever and amusing fellow. |
He will still continue as Garry's |
sidekick on his weekly variety show.
Carol Burnett is another very
clever member of the Garry Moore
team. She is content to go on be-
ing featured on the Moore show
despite the honors which keep com-
ing to her. Her part on the Moore
show will be expanded next season.
Man-In-Space.—The second Pro-
ject Mercury launching from Cape
Canaveral is due some time around
July 18. All three networks are
preparing for the pooled telecast.
The networks learned so much from
the first flight that this time the
viewers will be able to “see” almost
everything the astronaut does.
There’ll be no chance of missing
the “recovery” this time either.
A silent automatic film camera
lashed to the underside of the main
recovery heliocopter and triggered
by the co-pilot, will record the as-
tronaut as he is picked out of the
water. ;
Let's say a prayer that this will
be as successful as the first flight.
Dave Garroway is being replaced
by two men, John Chancellor and
Frank Blair.
The reason that John Daley was
. not chosen was because he insist-
ed on the same arrangement that
Garroway had, complete control of
the show, and the network would
not agree to this.
Chancellor, who is only 33, is
considered one of the network's
most brilliant newsmen. He joined
NBC in Chicago in 1950, and moved
to the central European bureau in
Vienna in 1958. He was assigned
to head the Moscow bureau in 1960.
Robert Northshield, who left the
show because of disputes with
duties as producer. The present
producer, Fred Freed, will move
back to the news operation.
Smiling Jack Lescoulie will re-
tain the same position. He cer-
tainly adds a great deal of light-
ness to the show which might tend
to get too serious without Dave.
Adlai Stevenson will have a tele-
vision show of his own come next
fall. ABC-TV won such praise for
its Winston (Churchill documen-
taries = that it would like to con-
tinue in that vein. Not only is
it planning shows to be titled “The
Eisenhower Years” and “The Roose-
velt years,” but now it has arranged
to run a special series of alternate-
week half-hour programs will take
U N Ambassador Adlai Stevenson.
The Stevenson sessions, which are
expected to be televised from the
UN building every other Sunday
afternoon, will comprise discussion
in which the Ambassador will take
part with diverse guests.
Producer Albert McCleery in his
testimony before the FCC describ-
ed Dick Clark’s American Bandstand
ag the “sexiest” show on television.
American Bandstand may be cut
way down next fall. ABC-TV is
thinking about creating a news-
and-feature series for youngsters
from 8 to 14, to be titled Periscope
and scheduled during a half hour
of what is now part of the Clark
inanities.
No Wrestling Shows—A number
of viewers have wondered about
the sharp decrease in TV wrestling
shows. Many stations have looked
askance at wrestling bouts as
video fare since those quiz-show
hearings of a few years back. In
other words, they're taking no
chances .
Edmund J. Yudiski
On Mediterranean
NORFOLK (FHTNC) — Today,
with anti-submarine warfare be-
coming increasingly important,
many new types of submarines are
being developed. An important
unit of the crack anti-submarine
task force Group Bravo, is the es-
cort task destroyer USS Robert A.
Dons operating out of Norfolk,
B.S
Serving aboard the Owens is Ed.
mund J. Yudiski, draftsman sea-
man, USN, son of Mr, and Mrs. Ed-
mund T. Yudiski Dallas, R.D. 4.
The Owens, flagship of Destroyer
Squadron 36, along with four other
destroyers from this squadron and
the anti-submarine warfare support
aircraft carrier USS Wasp make up
Task Group Bravo, specializing in
development of anti - submarine
tactics.
The task group departed, June 8,
from Norfolk for an extended
three-month midshipmen training
cruise in the Mediterranean Sea as
a unit of the Navy’s powerful Sixth
Addy Gets Road Job
The State Highways Department
has assigned a $47,921 contract to
Addy Asphalt Company to widen
10.85 miles of ‘Legislative Route
40115 between Alderson and Rug-
gles. The contract includes a new
surface.
AN oR
THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1961
From
Pillar To Post . 1
by HIX
They looked like blowgun missiles, tipped with a lethal smear
of quick-acting South American poison, but it turns out that the
little bottle contained nothing more deadly than porcupine quills |
hot off the porcupine.
Seems the original owner left them behind when he escaped
through Mrs. Paul Dugan’s cellar window, and Mrs. Dugan felt it
would be a pleasant thought to send them to the Dallas Post.
And now let me tell you something about porcupine quills.
I cautiously opened the bottle and spilled them out on my desk
blotter, after being reassured about the possibility of their being
blowgun ammunition.
One of the slender little arrows fell on my lap, and so help
me, it burrowed instantly, slipping silently right through the skirt
“and the slip, and was just upending itself for a quick slither under
the skin when caught in the act, and its war-head throttled.
What did Mrs. Nelson Shaver do with that sixty-pound plus
bunch of bananas she won from Charlie Gosart’s
night? Being smothered to death in banana cream pie would be
one of those accidents I would prefer to have happen to somebody
else, given my druthers.
The only personal relationship I have ever had with an entire
stalk of bananas was way down in the heart of Texas about thirty-
three years ago. Or was it thirty-five? Time has a way of telescoping
itself.
Anyhow, it had seemed impossible to keep abreast of the
bananas, and my father, always a man of
youthful demand for
action, acted.
He brought
Papa "got the army
home a stalk of bananas and hung them in the
tool-room. The children were invited to for heaven’s sake get in
there and fill up on bananas, and for once in a lifetime cease their
clamor. Papa metaphorically washed his hands. :
The bananas, under the red tin roof separating the tool-room
from the Texas sun, ripened astonishingly.
The kids did their best, but it was a losing battle
start. They took aboard bananas morning, noon and night, eating
faster and faster as the bananas turned from canary yellow to deep
yellow, from deep yellow to brown, and from brown to black.
striker to shovel the remains into the
ash can and nobody asked for bananas for a long time.
store Saturday
from the
“Could you give me an inkling of what it. is?” I inquired of
Mrs. Dwight Fisher, after I had found an odd but attractive whatsit
propped against my screen door.
“I looked it up in the dictionary,” replied Mrs. Fisher, “and
it was the very first word on the page. It's an abacus.”
“Doesn’t it seem just a mite outsize?”
“It’s probably for a game room, to hang on the wall and keep
score with. Those big wooden balls, you just push them along the
wooden rods. The dictionary says you can add and subtract and
multiply on an abacus. It's the oldest counting device there is.”
“This one, you could use to figure the national debt, Mrs. Fisher.
How come you're willing to give it up for the Auction?”
“Somebody gave it to me.”
SUI 1]
Rambling Around
By The Oldtimer — D. A. Waters
AIT cpa.
In most
Pennsylvania and the larger creeks
were navigable for Indian canoes.
Along these and also cross-country
the Indians made a network of well
defined paths over which runners
passed silently and swiftly.
The white men used trails and
bridle paths and rough roads which
were mostly narrow passages where
trees had been cut down and brush
cleared. Herds of cattle were driven
lorg distances for a cash crop. Pub-
lic financing of through roads was
not an accepted routine. Then
someone hit on the plan of a road
built by private capital and paid for
by tolls, The first turnpike in the
U.S. was chartered in 1792 between
Philadelphia and Lancaster. At in-
tervals, long poles with sharp
spikes were lowered across the
road to force the traveler to stop
and pay tolls — hence the name
“turnpike” which has endured to
this day. This was so successful
that it was imitated all over the
country,
We had a local turnpike. The
Dallas and Kingston Tunrpike Road
Company was incorporated by the
legislature in . 1870, the incorpor-
ators being Charles Dorrance, Payne
Pettebone, James Garrahan, Isaac
Tripp, Albert H. Holcomb, Joseph
Frantz, Abram Ryman, Z. B. Rice,
Joseph Harter, Henry Coon, Samuel
Hoyt, Samual Raub, Jacob Rice,
and John Keller. This began at the
old white mill in Luzerne, now Lu-
zerne Lumber Company, and fol-
lowed the old crooked lower road
along the creek some years later
taken over by the county. The toll
was collected at a house near the
present Continental Inn at the en-
trance to the gap in the mountain.
That location was called “The Toll
Gate” in ordinary conversation. The
new ‘Pennsylvania Turnpike” was
the first of its kind, also.
Pennsylvania also had the first
National Road, or part of it,
fathered by Albert Gallatin, a Penn-
sylvanian. It was built from Cum-
berland, Md. to Wheeling, W. Va.
requiring seven years in building.
The Pa. part was operated as a Pa.
toll road for seventy years begin-
ning in 1835. There was a hard
struggle in Congress over this and
suksequent national roads. Many
liberal men honestly thought they
places the rivers of freight carrier in colonial times and
the original of the “Prarie Scho-
oner” was developed in the Cones-
toga Valley before the Revolution.
Its boat-shaped body prevented
freight falling out the tail gate
| going up hills and some were
caulked to ford rivers.
While the very first train run by
railroad was not in Pennsylvania,
it soon became the leader in rail-
roading. The first American rail-
road actually surveyed was built in
1809-10 by Thomas Leiper near
Chester. Early railroads used wood
rails and horsepower. First steel
rails made commercially were made
in Cambria works. The Stourbridge
Lion, built in England, was first
used at ‘Honesdale on the Gravity
Railroad Aug. 8, 1829. The first
coal-burning locomotive steam
engine was built by Phineas Davis
in 1831 at York. He also built the
steam engine for the boat “Codor-
us” mentioned above.
The first railroad tunnel in the
U.S. was built near Johnstown as
a p art of the Portage Railroad. The
first air brakes were invented by
George Westinghouse of Allegheny
County. The first sleeping car in the
1 U.S., the “Chambersburg” was in-
vented by Philip Berlin and placed
in use between Harrisburg and
Chambersburg in 1838 or before.
The first commercial telegraph line
was built along a railroad right-of-
way between Lancaster and Harris:
burg in 1845. It is said the first
message read, ‘Why don’t you
write, you rascals ?”. The first elec-
tric street car in the U.S. was run
in ‘Scranton in 1886.
The long gone gravity railroads
were interesting. The first in the
western hemisphere was started at
Carbondale in 1828. It ran 'to
Honesdale to get coal to the D & H
Canal. The Historical Society in
Honesdale is in one of the last re-
maining buildings. Another one
was in operation from the lower
Pittston Area to Hawley 1850-1884.
The switchback at Mauch Chunk
was a tourist attraction.
Today all railroading in Penn-
sylvania is a shrinking industry,
autos, trucks, and planes having
taken away much of the traffic. It
is only a hundred years, or a little
more, since we had an elaborate
system of canals in Pennsylvania.
~~ ONLY
YESTERDAY
ir HAPPENED 3) YEARS Aco:
Noxen had a real old-fashioned
Fourth of July, starting with fire-
crackers and scorched fingers at
sun-rise, ending with watermelons
and fireworks in the evening,
taking in a parade at noon and
picnics along the way.
Luzerne County had a heavy ac-
cident. list, with twice as many
as in 1930. Lackawanna, where
fireworks were banned, had only
four such accidents. Two youngs-
ters who got tetanus shots were
Harry Derr, 9, of Dallas, burned
when a skyrocket exploded; and a
small visitor . from Long Island,
visiting Dallas friends. Robert
Pickett, 9, spent several days at
Nesbitt, ‘recovering from injuries
to his right eye when a torpedo ex-
ploded. :
Thieves broke into a Shaver-
town store owned by F. C. Mal-
kemes, ripping off a window screen
and getting $6.50 from the cash
register. 3
Shavertown took East Dallas 11
to 1 on the Fourth of July.
Marjorie E. Schoonover became
the bride of Fred (C. Dixon.
YWCA Blue Triangle Lodge at
Harveys Lake opened with a capa-
city registration.
Russell Case, Shavertown, was
promoted to assistant manager of
Spaulding’s Wilkes-Barre district.
John Keating, 6 year old Pittston
child, was seriously injured when
struck near Wardan place by a car
driven by Mrs. A. J. Sordoni. Both
Segs were broken.
Anna Miller and Lesley Lamore-
aux, both of Dallas, were married
in Tunkhannock by Rev. E. A. Ben-
son.
Service station located at Raub’s
Hotel changed hands, when James
Besecker sold his interest to James
Coolbaugh.»
Lucy Hoover, Ruggles, became
the bride of Robert Traver, Noxen.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gosart,
Shavertown, observed their Golden
Wedding anniversary.
IT HAPPENED 20 YEARS AGO:
Noxen Tannery employees organ-
ized a union.
Col. Dorrance Reynolds posed
with his horse “Lark” for a Know-
Your Neighbor column about Good-
leigh Farm.
Dallas school teachers got an
increase of $50 per year .. . . but
this bonus came a long way from
equalling what they are getting to-
day in salary.
Mrs. A. R. Holcomb of Dallas
heard that her 10-year old grand-
son Norman Keesler had plunged
into a deep quarry near his home
at Hastings-on-Hudson, and had
been seriously hurt. The boy was
a cousin of Glen Ide, a Dallas Post
employee.
In the Dallas area, 33 young men
registered for selective service.
Squire William M. Major, 78,
suffered a fatal heart attack at his
home in Lehman,
Lake [Police were putting on a
safety program against hit -run
drivers. Speeding, said chief Ira C.
Stevenson, was going to stop, or
else. :
Allan Kistler, stationed at Fort
Sill, Oklahoma, dropped around to
help mail the Dallas Post. He was
formerly on the staff.
Fireworks and a boat parade
were highlights of a Fourth of July
celebration at Harveys Lake.
Robert Steinrock of Noxen,
whose arm had been amputated in
an industrial accident in New
Jersey two. weeks earlier, injured
the same arm again in an auto ac-
cident.
Ann Peterson and her mother
flew to Canada to have tea with
grandpa on Prince Edward Island.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Davis, Al-
derson, were painfully injured
when their car was struck by an-
other in a rear-end collision on the
new highway.
Announcement was made of the
marriage of Helen Grant of Trucks-
ville, to Sgt. Terry Roche of Kings-
ton.
William Kishbaugh Jr. and Mary
Alice Johnson became man and
wife,
Claudia Jones became the bride
of Norton F. Montross.
Helen Anthony was wed to Wil~
liam Carr.
Admiral Harold Stark rated a
units of anti-tetanus administered |
$ Barnyard Notes
Jared, as you probably don't know, lived to be 962 years old},
this constitutes a pretty considerable life time and you'd think the...
man should be famous. But he never made the Hall of Fame. Why 2s
Because his grandson lived to be 969 years old! Those seven extra: i.
years made Methusaleh a legendary figure; he was tops in his line
Noah, who lived 950 years, is remembered only because of his. 1,
sailing adventure. His longevity never made the headlines!
»
The lesson is this spot of history that to achieve remembered. i
greatness you have to be FIRST! Bis
. . and every season when July rolls around again, the -
Library Auction is FIRST in the hearts and minds of Back Mountain
countrymen. dca 2
After fifteen years, it has lost none of its appeal for the young; |;
at heart of all ages. x 3
What this appeal is, I have never been quite ‘able to fathom! “
For some it means hard grueling work—for others a holiday and; J}
family reunion—and for still others—something nice to gripe about!
But deep underneath everything, I believe, the appeal of the...
auction is the opportunity to make new friendships and to work. 3
with others toward achieving a common goal. vi iin
Without the funds raised at the Auction, the Library could not...
exist. The ‘Auction is practically its only source of income. But there
are many who work very hard to make the Auction a success,
who don't give a hang for the Library.. . . in fact have never -
entered it doors!
But come the first week in July, the Auction
hearts and minds of all of us . . . .
And like the awakening miracle of spring—sprouts new workers’
and new enthusiasm—to replace the old. LE
There is an immortality to the Auction never dreamed of by
those who founded it fifteen years ago. So long as it continues, there"
need be no fear of the future of the Library nor the worth of the
community in which it exists.
The Auction is bigger than any individual—any single worker —
any single contributor. The Auction is the spirit of this community
—of Christmas——of brotherhood—all rolled into one. >
This year that spirit pervades an all new group of workers who.
will make this Auction one of the finest on record, carrying on a“
‘community tradition that gives immortality to some I remembers
over the past fifteen years. ’ Ti
I have compiled a list of some who were outstanding in adding +
humor, color, sweat, brawn, brain and just good fun to make the
Library Auction unique among fund raising events in the country.”
Here once a year may their memories be ever green—may their
spirit add to the Back Mountain community.
Harry Ohlman, auctioneer without peer; Charles Wheaton Lee, £3)
Library Director and spirited bidder. x
Prof. Charles James, sweating chairman of the Barn; Norti Berti,
good neighbor if there was one.
Dr. Sherman R. Schooley, native son in a fur coat. 2
Mrs. Lewis LeGrand, Library Director and dreamer of dreams.:
Murray Scureman, on a ladder untangling the loud speaker.
system; my mother, who tolerated the encroachment of the Auction’
on her beloved flower beds. :
Mrs. Albert Parrish, always in a front row seat buying toys for
her grandaughter, Sharon.
Herman Garinger, nearby, buying a pig.
Mrs. William Bertels, of a summer evening saving the auc
tioneer’s face with her cheerful last minute bid on the pony. :
Mrs. Gale with her tantalizingly slow bids on a set
of dishes that brought down the house. 43
Em Blackman, at the side of the auction block—shading her
eyes from the sun—buying back her own dishes, given to the Auction
by her daughter. pis
Al Misson giving a hand every Sunday morning to the grounds
committee.
Ralph Rood, schoolmaster, gathering up all the broken bottles.
Herbert Hill, florist, a clown in sheep's clothing. -
Earl H. Monk, cigar in one hand and a load of stuff for. the
auction in the other. £
George Schallenberger, bidding on antiques from the shade of Bh
the tree. :
Dyke Brown in his colorful jackets and vests, cigar in mouth x
and riding whip in hand. \
Elizabeth Edwards, fair beauty flushed with excitement as she/
handles the old goods solicitation. A
is first in the’
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Dorrance Reynolds, arms folded watching the sale of the bull
calf he gave to the auction.
C. A. Boston, my brother-in-law, chatting with a group of
friends he brought from Nicholson. ! bt
Raymond Kuhnert, schoolmaster and Library Director, bidding
for the joy of it. L
Gus Condaras, panting and hurried, finding a grill for the ham-' i
burgers and hot dogs. my
Burgess H. A. Smith, greeting old friends and he had hundreds. ‘
Billy Wilson, grandson beside him, offering old tools to the }
auctioneer. f
Nelson Shaver, Justice-of-the-Peace, enjoying the fun. i
Mrs. Weir, Mary’s mother, receiving an ovation for her Mexican
barbecue sauce. :
Big Jim Robinson contributing all the coffee. &
William Evans, Shel’s dad, greeting friends from near and far. ¢
}
Gordon Hadsal and Mrs. Hadsal, never missing an auction and
inviting friends to take part.
My brother-in-law, Atty Leighton Scott of Easton, shelling out
more funds for his boy to bid on a gun.
Judge J. Harold Flannery, having the time of his life as Satur-
day night auctioneer. :
Sev. Newberry, painting his big oil cloth sign festooned across oA
the barn. &
And there were others—many others—whose
contributions added to each Auction’s success.
Others, long moved from the community, have played their
part, Paul Warriner, first president of the Library; Charles Rinehimer,
head of new goods, Fritz Hendricks, auction clerk with rain soaking
down his coat collar; Al Gibbs, robust auctioneer; Ralph Davis,
indefatigable new goods dealer; David Jenkins, always to be
counted on; Sara Schmerer, Library Director and refreshments
chairman; Dan and Ollie Robinhold, one sweating in the barn—the |
other always making new and greeting old friends. :
‘And certainly never to be forgotten, Dr. Lanyon and the late @
Atty. Peter Jurchak who long before the first Auction provided the
inspiration and the energy to form a Memorial Library in the Back
Mountain eountry! E
These have made the Library Auction first in the hearts of
Back Mountain Countrymen! ik
July State Parks Month
Governor David Lawrence has
proclaimed July Pennsylvania
Parks Month.
The Governor, in a statement re-
leased last week, asked all organ-
interest and
Lake Jean Is New
Angler's Paradise
Lake Jean in Ricketts Glen State
Park is one of the ‘hot spots” i=
fishing in Pennsylvania, says Gor-
were unconstitutional. Two presi-
The Schuylkill
dents of the United [States vetoed | srg. oonuy.
Canal extending
private line to his summer home
at Lake Carey, the first ever in-
izations and municipalities in the
State to encourage tourists to visit
don Trembley, chief aquatic biolo-
gist for the Pennsylvania Fish
road bills, one with a message sixty
or seventy pages long. And he
claimed he was personally in favor :
of it.
And whichever of the several
claimants is accepted as the inven-
tor of the steamboat, the honor
goes to Pennsylvania. In 1785 John
Fitch tested a steamboat and sub-
sequently built four that were me-
chanically successful but they were
failures financially. Robert Fulton
of Lancaster (County built the
“Clermont” which he tested on the
Hudson and acquired financial
backing making it a success. He
also invented diving boats, tor-
pedoes, a power shovel, and canal
machinery. Another Lancaster
County man, William Henry, ran a
stern - wheel steamboat on the
Conestoga before 1765. The first
iron steamboat the “Codorus” was
launched on the Susquehanna near
York by John Elgar in 1825.
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The Conestoga Wagon, principal
northwest from [Philadelphia con-
nected with the Union Canal at
Reading; The Union Canal formed
a waterway to the Susquehanna at
Middletown just below Harrisburg.
At Amity Hall a short distance
above, canals joined from up and
down the Susquehanna and the
Juniata Canal was the waterway to
the mountains. From Hollidays-
burg to Johnstown boats were
handled over the mountains by the
“Portage Railroad”, thence by canal
to Pittsburg, Erie, Youngstown and
Cleveland, and via the Ohio River
to a wide area. There were canals
along the Lehigh and Delaware and
at other places.
Most dramatic and saddest mo-
ment at any Auction was the after-
noon when it was announced to the
Auction crowd that Dr. Sherman
Schooley had suffered a heart at-
tack while attending a patient
within sight of the Auction
stalled at that resort by Common-
wealth Telephone Co.
Gerald Frantz, owner-operator of
a store at Huntsville, opened a new
summer market at the Lake.
rr uarpeNED 1() YEARs aco:
Dallas was preparing for its fifth
Library Auction, with a list of new
goods that occupied half of the
front page of the Dallas Post.
Roy Eliott was beginning work at
Hall’s Drugstore.
Dallas Borough-Kingston Town-
ship Schools were preparing to open
kindergarten rooms, and were ask-
ing PTA organizations for equip-
ment.
Charles Roberts, Yeager Awenue,
was the subject of a Know-Your-
Neighbor,
Robert Evans, his arm in a sling,
his head in bandages, returned to
Fort Dix after a motorcycle crash.
The accident delayed his wedding
grounds,
to Betty Johnson. Evans hit a rut,
Commission.
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their public parks. He noted that
a year ago 23,000,000 travelers
visited Pennsylvania's parks.
and turned over four times.
David E. Ace, 69, former resident
of Dallas, died in Buffalo.
Geraldine Shirley Fischer became
the bride of James E. Regan.
Eleanor Tremayne was wed to S.
Russell Maddox.
Roberts and Schooley were out
for Dallas Township school board
in July primaries.
Back Mountain Citizens Com-
mittee for Better Schools proposed
a platform of improvement.
Mrs. E. B. Snyder, 94, died of old
age at the Huntsville Nursing
Home.
Trucksville,
Herbert Olver Sr., of
died at 78. i
Trucksville Mill Poultry Shop was
doing big business. ¥
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; Wednesday.
Lake Jean was opened for fishing
on June 17 for the first time sinoe
1958. The lake was originally de-
clared off limits for fishermen bes
cause it had too many undersized
fish. Most of these fish were
killed by chemical control, how-
ever, and the lake has been com-
pletely restocked with walleye,
muskie, and bass. }
Trembley said that walleyes
measuring 13 to 14 inches an
muskies up to 25 inches have al-
ready been reeled in. “With more
than 600 anglers at the lake
opening day, and with most
them catching fish,” he concluded
“it is certain that the reclamation
of Lake Jean has been successful.”
Doris Sims In Hospital
Doris P. Sims of Dallas was ad-
mitted to Geisinger ~~ Hespital
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