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Editorially Speaking:..
Wolf, Wolt
? Boy Scout leaders deplore the so-called “prank”
which caused New Jersey State Police, Civil Air Patrol,
counselors of a Lutheran camp, and alarmed residents, to
spend a sleepless night answering an S. O. S. signal from
a mountain top last week.
It was a complete hoax.
Would-be rescuers paddled across the river, forged
their way up Kittatinny Mountain through dense brush,
Prepared to rescue a flyer trapped in the wreckage of a
plane.
Fourteen Boy Scouts, greeting the panting rescuers
at midnight, thought it was a huge joke.
Boy Scout leaders and executives, realizing that an
organization is known by its members, are disturbed
that fourteen bpys should have let down an international
movement dedicated to commuity service; aid to those
standing in need of help; self reliance, personal courage,
growing manhood, standards of self discipline.
- Once there was a little boy who cried “Wolf, Wolf.”
Plastic Bags Are Still Dangerous
Suffocation of children by plastic bags is not as
common as it was for a time, but it is still a constant
hazard.
What many people do not realize is that a very small
plastic bag can cause the death of a child. The extremely
thin membrane, covering a child’s face by accident, as he
plays in his crib, can be held tightly against the nostrils
and mouth by the frantic attempt to inhale air. The baby’s
hands, beating against the covering, tend to fix it ever
more securely, and suffocation results.
Many mothers fail to destroy thin plastic sacks that
~ are commonly used to contain fresh vegetables, feeling
that it is only the full length plastic garment bags which
are lethal. :
Plastic sacks are extremely dangerous toys.
HOW TO BE SECOND CLASS
“Only second-class people’ make a second-class
nation.”
That arresting statement forms the headline for an
advertisement recently published in national magazines
by an American business firm, Warner & Swasey. The ad-
vertisement itself goes on to say:
“People who want to be paid without working
enough to earn it are second-class people . .. . People who
want to be protected without having the courage to fight
and earn their own protection are second-class citizens.
People more anxious for security than self-respect, com-
fort above accomplishment, for ‘peace in our time’ above
integrity—all these shallow, self-seeking people are drag-
ging America down to the second-class nation status.
For a hundred years of hard-working self-support
America was respected, prosperous, unselfish without
being made a fool.
“Run this nation once more by hard work—and for
those Americans with self-respect, not for whiners—and
we'd sweep that scornful ‘second-class’ sneer and all
excuses for it down the rat hole where it belongs.”
SAFETY VALVE...
DO YOU KNOW HIM?
Dear: Editor:
In connection with the sale at the
Library Auction of the two. prints
“Asleep” and “Awake”. Mrs. Walker,
the new Hoyt Librarian, bid on them
successfully and joyously for as a
child she had known them in her
Mother's house. Some kind man
spoke to her, saying the prints had
been in his family for over a hund-
red years. Mrs. Walker would appre-
ciate knowing who had prized them
for 3p long.
My biggest and most heartfelt
remark is an expression of my joy
in owning the beautiful old rocker.
Some kind fairy must have guided.
the drawing for it is a most wonder-
oh a rifili en Doty
joy the Library Auction (and the
Library Friends) have given me over
all my happy years in Dallas.
Best wishes to every one.
Frances Dorrance
Double duty: the 15-year-old twin
batboys of the Minnesota Twins——
Pete and Dick King—get up at 5:45
am. to help with the chores on
their parents’ farm.To commemor-
ate the Kansas Statehood Centennial,
the USS. Post Office Dept. is print-
ing 100,000,000 stamps..Some 45
years ago, labor leader Samuel Gom-
pers wrote: Compulsory social insur-
ance is in its essence undemocratic
and it cannot remove or prevent
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Yesterday
Ten and Twenty Years Ago
In The Dallas Post
iT HAPPENED 3{) YEARS Aco:
Former residents of the once-
thriving lumber town of Stull
gathered to renew old friendships,
at the first formal reunion. Present
were the Stulls, the Beahms, the
Shooks, the Keipers, and the Stouts,
all closely associated in the past
with the lumber company that for
twenty years operated in that now
abandoned community. Adam (Stull,
for whom the town was named, was
there in memory, along with Bill
Keiper, Tom Thompson, and Dad
Beahm. An organization was
formed, with Gerdon Shook presi-
dent, Beulah Stitzer VanCampen,
secretary-treasurer.
County Commissioner McGuffie
said that, contrary to rumors, all of
Luzerne County will have voting
machines.
Charles B. Allen replaced William
LaBar as road caretaker for Sweet
Valley. At the Lehman-Outlet sec-
tion of Harveys Lake, Ray Rogers
replaced Joseph Selanski.
Mrs. John (C. Harris of Cemetery
Street died at 52.
Sacred Heart Monastery at Har-
veys {Lake; unused for several years,
passed into the hands of the Lithu-
anian Men's Club of Wyoming
Valley.
Hunlock Creek power plant,
closed for its week of annual over-
hauling, resumed work again. The
gap was filled by the Plymouth
plant.
Residents were warned of the
danger of using an unknown water
supply. In years of drought, said
the authorities, the incidence of
typhoid fever skyrockets.
Dallas Borough and Dallas Town-
ship school directors made a tenta-
tive move toward getting together,
when they discussed hiring jointly a
music and a Latin teacher, to serve
both high schools.
Mrs. Ella Brown Newberry, aged
50, died at Noxen.
rr uappENED 2) YEARS Aco:
Raymond E. Kuhnert, supervising
principal of Meshoppen schools, was
made supervisor of Dallas Township
schools at a salary of $2,400, a
considerable increase over the pre-
vious salary set for the post. Mr.
Kuhnert held the post at Meshoppen
for thirteen years. Dallas Township
had been without a head for some
months.
At the Kingston Horse-Show,
Harry Williams, employed by Oli-
ver's Garage, saved a boy from
being trampled when the jumper
vaulted the refreshment stand that
Williams was operating. Sawing ‘at
the bridle, Williams gave time
enough for Jack Thomas of Kingston
to escape the lashing hooves.
Mothers of “drafted men formed
an organization.
A water main on Machell Avenue
made a geyser when gashed by a
grader working on the new Lake
Highway.
‘With Peter D. Clark and Morgan
Wilson practically sure of reelection
in Dallas Borough, the only candi-
date in doubt was Wardan Kunkle,
who was running for the office on
Borough Council about to be
vacated by James Franklin. Herbert
A. Smith was unopposed for Bur:
gess. It looked like a shoo-in in
the Borough. Fireworks were pre-
dicted in the Township, where
Herbert Lundy, incumbent, and
Wilson Ryman, retiring auditor,
were candidates for tax collector.
George Hunt, Jr., of Dallas RD 3,
was second on the draft list as
determined by the National Lottery.
Four local people were injured in
an East-End Boulevard crash: Mr.
and Mrs. Stanley E. Henning and
son Stanley, Jr., with Betty Jane
Fink. The car was demolished when
struck head-on. :
Rev. Thomas Smith, 81, slew a
rattlesnake with his cane. The
rattlesnake, he claimed, could have
stayed where it belonged instead of
slithering up onto his front porch
at Red Rock.
Harold Shiber, of an old house-
moving family, moved a dwelling in
Idetown so smoothly that the R. B.
Shaver family never knew it was in
motion. Shiber also moved the Odd
Fellows Hall in Dallas. It's an ill
wind, etc., etc. When the Harveys
Lake highway was taped out, house-
movers surged to the fore. Shiber’s
grandfather moved houses in the
area.
Helen * Grace Lewis became the
bride of Ralph Warrell.
A radio-photo from Moscow
showed German prisoners captured
by their former allies.
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rr narpened 1() YEARS Aco:
Umpire Irwin Coolbaugh got hit
in the face with a baseball, resulting
in a broken nose and an injured eye. |
Tt was at the Little League game
in Shavertown between Carverton
and Dallas.
[Charles Nuss, school director at
Lehman for twelve years, was de-
feated by Ornan Lamb. Nuss had
been president of the board for
years.
Three rooms neared completion at
the new Lehman School addition.
To keep abreast of the increasing
demand for water, Dallas-Shaver-
town Walter Company started dril-
ling a new well on the Frank Brown
property mnear the Lehigh Valley
station in Dallas.
Harveys Lake Lions were making
THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1961
From
Pilar To Post...
by Hix
Selling a car that has been part of the family for four years, is
like selling one of the children.
The faithful little Chevvie that has carried me through blizzard
and flood in Pennsylvania, blazing sands in South Carolina, tor-
rential downpour at the Cornplanter Indian Reservation
in New
York State, along the Ocean Highway in Virginia, and every back
road in the Back Mountain, is about to find itself a new owner.
There are places that we two must find again before we part.
There is the icy swimming hole at Noxen,
where boulders
crash along the stony bottom when the stream is in spate.
There are the falls at Ricketts Glen, where uprooted trees come
thundering over the precipice during the spring thaws. :
, There is the lookout at Wyalusing, with its marvelous view of
the horseshoe bend in the river.
There is the steep descent as the road drops away to the valley
on the road to a certain summer camp.
There is the high white span of the new bridge at Amity Hall.
There are the Blue Ridge Mountains,
closing in comfortably
about us as we take the winding road through the gathering dark,
and the stream chuckles far below.
There are the lights of a little lost town,
sweetly and takes the curves like
Will the next owner love it, or will he think of
transportation ?
as the car hums
a homing swallow.
it only as
Will he crowd it on the straightaways, or will he take time to
look about him and remember forever a morning in June, with the
laurel pink in the pasture, and cobwebs gemmed with dew ?
Will he turn the little car into the wayside rest at Pine Creek
Canyon and breathe the crisp autumn air as he marvels at the flam-
ing sunset hills?
Will he remember to go into second gear before starting down
that steep hill in Beaumont, where you can see in both directions,
hill on folded blue hill,
shadows to the east?
evening
glow to the west, darkening
Will he know that this is The Jumping Off Place, where you
must stop and make a wish, or will he go heedlessly up the hill and
down the hill, screeching his brakes, with gravel spurting from be-
neath his tires?
Will he see the eager little faces peering from the back seat,
panting to burst from the car and race barefoot across the wide
beach, where waves break on the shore and cream up the sunny
sands ?
He will see none of these things.
He will build up memories of his own . .
should be.
But I hope that he will treat the little car kindly. It is
its age a little.
. . And this is as it
feeling
It needs a steady hand at the wheel, and a pat on its blunt
nose as it comes to rest at the end of the line.
To keep it completely happy, let the new owner take it upon
occasion to a country auction.
It loves country auctions.
It never
feels quite so comfortable as when it has a pair of chair frames in
the back seat, and blue china clattering in a nest of newspapers.
(And whoever you are, sit quietly for a moment after you have
turned off the ignition, and think how good it is to be at home,
with, the lights coming on down the street, and another journey
safely behind you.)
Goodbye, little car.
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SCC 3003 CCE CES CS
After several years of political
independence, the Connecticut Sus-
quehanna Company settlements in
Wyoming Valley were taken over by
the Colony of Connecticut about
1774, named the Town of West-
moreland, and attached to the
existing County of Litchfield. The
county control did not amount to
much. Defendants charged with the
more serious crimes were sent to
Litchfield, Conn. for trial and wills
had to be probated there. This did
not last long. On Oct. 10, 1776 it
was enacted, ‘That the Town of
Westmoreland, lying on the west
side of the river Delaware in this
Colony, shall be a distinct County
and be called the County of West-
moreland.”
The temporary gain and later loss
of the Wyoming settlements prob-
ably did not cause a ripple in the
life of busy Litchfield. It was settled
about 1720¢as a frontier trading
town in the then wilderness. Most
of the settlers came in three distinct
church [congregations from ‘three
separate towns, at least one in
Massachusetts. And some of them
in a generation or so again moved
to unsettled lands elsewhere in the
western part of the state. It was a
busy farming, trading, and indus-
trial center, ‘soon becoming the
county seat and the residence of
many state and national leaders,
physicians, lawyers, etc. They were
forward looking men, kept the
streets of ample width, and planted
the sycamores and elms now one of
the beautiful features of the place.
The First Congregational Church,
“Gathered 1721,” has occupied sev-
eral buildings and had twenty
pastors in its 240 years. The best
known of them was Lyman Beecher
1810-1826. His illustrious children,
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and Har-
riet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle
Toms Cabin, were born in Litchfield.
In Beecher’s time the then church
was located near the center of the
Village Green, where an older build-
ing had stood. The present building
facing the green was erected in
1829. Tt was abandoned in 1873 to
make way for a more modern and
ambitious Gothic building. The old
church was moved around the c¢or-
ner and became an armory, dance
hall, and moving picture house.
Then the congregation awakened to
the fact that they had made a mis-
take. They scrapped the new church,
moved back the old church to its
plans for their second annual Lady
of the {Lake beauty contest.
Know-Your-Neighbor interviewed
Miss Miriam Lathrop, librarian of
Back Mountain Memorial Library.
Trucksville Firemen’s Fair was
the usual huge success, featuring a
baking contest, a pet parade, and a
painting contest for the kids.
Pauline Kozemchak became the
bride of Paul Selingo at a nuptial
mass in St. John’s Russian Orthodox
Church.
{Lois Carolyn Baumbach was wed
to Corporal Durwood A. Kocher at
the post chapel at Fort Amador,
Canal Zone. ;
Beaumont considered jointure
with either Tunkhannock or the
Take, depending on where it could
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original location and carefully re-
stored it. Today it is considered
one of the most charming of New
England Churches. "As shown on
the current bulletin their service is
not much different than in local
churches.
Today Litchfield glories in its past
and “restorations” can be seen all
over town. One is the Law School
of Tapping Reeve now back in
its original location and condition.
Tapping Reeve, a lawyer, built a
residence in 1773 and occupied it
with his frail wife, who was a sister
of Aaron Burr. Reeve took in young
men to read law and so many came
that he finally opened a school in a
separate building. He had some
assistants and one of them James
Gould, continued the school after
Reeve became a Superior Court
judge. No record exists for the
early years, but from those available
it is shown that two vice presidents,
three members of the U.S. Supreme
‘Court, six cabinet members, over a
hundred members of Congress,
twenty-eight senators, fourteen
state governors, and sixXteen state
chief justices or state chancellors
studied there. Several former stu-
dents started law schools in univer-
sities. This is considered the first
law school in America and had all
together over a thousand pupils,
‘some (from: every state in the union,
including seventy from far away
Georgia. Princeton, Yale, and Har-
vard authorities or™alumni have
contributed to the restoration, with
other individual lawyers.
In 1792, Miss Sarah Pierce, native
of Litchfield, started a school for
girls, which later became Litchifield
Female Seminary, a! very popular
place. It was not hindered by the
presence of the Reeve School and
Mrs. Reeve is quoted, “The young
ladies all marry law students.”
Litchfield was the birthplace of
Ethan Allen and numerous promi-
nent men. It was the residence of
three generations of state governors
in one family Roger, Oliver, Senior,
and Oliver, Junior, ‘Wolcott. Some
residents held posts in presidential
cabinets. Tt boasts about fifteen
buildings built before 1800. These
are shown to the public in an annual
open house, and some may be seen
at stated hours all through the year.
The most beautiful part of the
town is the Village Green, a long
expanse of grass shaded by beautiful
elms. It is bordered by parallel
streets which come together at the
east and west ends. On each side
the sidewalks are back along the
house lots with another wide and
long rectangle of grass and trees
along the streets. The whole is
carefully maintained so that it looks
as if the trimming is done with
manicure Scissors. 3
Alcoholism is California's No. 1
health problem, says Governor Pat
Brown...From 1961-1965, the state
of Virginia will spend nearly $1 mil-
lion on Civil War Commemoration...
There are 39 covered bridges (reno-
vated) in Parke County, Indiana...
Health insurance benefit payments
by insurance companies during 1960
amounted to more than $3.1 bil-
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With GEORGE A. and
EDITH ANN BURKE
RONALD REAGAN is the proud
owner of a 305-acre ranch in the |
Malibu Canyon area of California's |
San Fernando Valley and it’s his
favorite off-camera retreat.
Reagan's ranch is the realization
of a lifelong dream. He spends most
of his free time as a working hand
at the ranch which raises champion
equine stock for exhibition and rac-
ing. He digs postholes, mends fences
alongside his resident foreman.
Each year, Reagan presents his
prize yearlings at the auctions, but |
the ranch has not yet grown into a |
profitable venture beyond his in-
vestment,
Reagan’s interest in horseflesh be-
gan at, 17 when he joined a unit of |
the 14th Cavalry in Iowa just to have
a horse of his own. He never quite
recovered from the experience and
looked for the day when he could
enjoy his own string of horses.
The dream materialized in 1947
when he put his actor’s earnings
into the spread and called it “Year-
ling Row” - aptly named for both
the ranch’s equine produce and
“King’s Row,” the movie that put
his income in the star bracket.
[Sometimes he admits he feels a
little guilty about the amount of
money and time he spends on the
ranch.
But he says, “I want to enjoy it
actively while I can before I have to
enjoy it meditatively from a rocker
on the ranch house porch.
“Sometimes I resent dressing up
and getting back on camera at the
studios after a day out on the ranch.
That is, until I remember that’s what
made it all possible.”
‘CAROL BURNETT will have a
radio show of her own come the
Fall. She and Richard Hayes will
team up on the Columbia Broad-
casting System- radio next Sept-
ember.
Their musical variety will run from
7:10 to 7:30 p.m. Monday through
Friday with Norman Paris conduct-
ing the orchestra. Carol is perhaps
best known to TV viewers for her
work on “The Gary Moore Show.”
Mr. Hayes, a featured vocalist on
“Arthur Godfrey Time” filled in for
the host of the radio series recently
during vacation.
VIEWER’S REQUESTS - The ave-
rage viewer doesn’t watch a TV show
and then sit down and write ask-
ing for something he or she saw on
the show. But thousands do, ac-
cording to the presonnel of most
programs. Loretta Young received
requests for the dresses she wore,
so did Dinah Shore. Jack Paar re-
ceives letters asking that he send
the usual gifts he displays.
Stanley Andrews reported that his
mail contains a high percentage of
requests. ‘The Old Ranger” of Death
Valley Days tries to fill the simple
requests.
For instance, a Chicago mother
wanted a box of sand from Death
Valley. She sent a dollar to cover
the charges. The Old Ranger returned
the money but sent the sand.
A man up North wanted some of
the “horns from your cattle so I
can use them in making canes.” He
got them. But when the same request
came at regular intervals, the Old
Ranger put an end to the corres-
pondence.
A woman from the Midwest asked
for a dozen pictures. “You are the
image of my father who passed on.”
Her request was fulfilled pronto.
Some of the letters are absurd.
One man, after an opening paragraph
of flattery asked $15,000 with which
to open an amusement park.
Some are from widows who like
the Ranger’s looks, usually his wife
answers these letters and their in-
terest seems to die.
The show will never run out of
material. There's a backlog of 1000
authenic scripts as yet untouched by
TV. Andrews has been playing the
Old Ranger for mine years.
“The two words, Federal Aid, have
| that the Republicans,
become misleading by-words of the
American vocabulary and Gig id
and as silent and effective {Pied Pip-
ers, have led us down a one-way |
street fof false philisophy. Let's abol- |
ish, bury and forever abahdon the
term Federal Aid!’ :
~ DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA
“CHAFF” from the Barnyard
The political situation in Luzerne
County has rarely been so up in the
air as it is these days. With a gen-
eral election for three places in the
judiciary slated for November the
announcement by Commissioner
Jarrett W. Jennings that he will no
longer vote as a Democrat on the
County Board has threatened the
Democrats’ control of the County.
In a statement released Wednes-
day Jennings, who was elected to
his post in 1959, said that he was
unable to cooperate any longer
with, what he termed, the arbitrary
policies of Democratic County Chair-
man Dr. John Dorris. He an-
nounced that he was forming an
alliance with J. Bowden Northrup,
the lone Republican on the Board,
| which would make Democrat Ed-
mund J. McCullough the minority
member ; \
Speculation immediately arose!
that the Jennings defection meant
who = were
voted out of office in November,
1959, were about to return to power
in the County Courthouse. Dis-
gruntled Democrats charged that
Jennings decided on the switch only
after failing to receive the Demo-
cratic nomination for one of the
three available judgeships.
More fuel was added to the po-
litical fire Friday when the County
| Republican Executive Committee
| announced that it had selected Jen-
‘nings’ long time law partner, Vin-
| cent M. Quinn to be its candidate
| for judge of ‘the Common Pleas
Court. Meanwhile County employees
are nervously waiting to see if, with
Jermings' switch, the two-edged axe
of patronage is about to swing
again.
One of the legendary figures of
Wyoming Valley's early history may
soon return to the area from which
she was kidnapped by Indians near-
ly two hundred years ago.
[Congressman Daniel J. Flood has
requested the Department of th
Interior to transfer the remains o
Frances Slocum, the “Lost Sister
of Wyoming,” back to this region.
Miss Slocum whose grave in Peru,
| Indiana, is threatened by a proposed
new reservoir, was kidnapped from
the valley by Delaware Indians on
Novembmer 2, 1778, when she was
four years old.
Miss Slocum was not located until
1831 when her two brothers, hear-
ing of a remarkable white woman
(Continued on Page 4 B)
100 Years Ago
This Weel: : in
THE CIVILWAR |
(Events exactly 100 years ago this week in the Civil War—
told in the language and style of today.)
“Boy Wonder McClellan
Takes Potomac Reins 7
Gen. Me Dowell
Loses Command
WASHINGTON, D.C.—July 26
—Maj. Gen. George B. McClel-
lan, the brashly competent,
oung and colorful hero of
estern Virginia, arrived here to-
day to take command of what's
left of the Army of the Potomac.
He succeeds Brig. Gen. Irwin
McDowell, target for most of the
blame in last week’s crushing de-
feat of Union forces at Bull Run.
$s =% *
McCLELLAN, at 34, assumes
his new key position flushed with
the success of campaigns at Phil-
ippi and Rich Mountain, in West-
ern Virginia.
His rousing battlefield dis-
patches have breathed life
into a North bogged in apathy
and confusion.
President Lincoln has given’
McClellan and Chief of the Army
Gen. Winfield Scott a clear, but
tough, road for the immediate
future.
After the Bull Run disaster, Mr.
Lincoln outlined this program for
the defense of the Union:
—An immediate blockade
Southern ports.
—Holding of Baltimore, which has
been on a see-saw of loyalty be-
tween South and North.
~FEarly seizure of Manassas June-
tion, scene of the Bull Run rout,
and establishment of an open
rail line from Harper's Ferry,
Va., to Manassas and Strasburg.
~—Capture of Memphis by troops
from Cairo, Ill., and of East
Tennessee by troops moving out
of Cincinnati.
But McClellan’s most urgent
duty, obviously, is the repair of
the demoralized Army of the Po-
tomac.
of
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MANY of the troops at Bull Run
simply went home after the de-
feat. Other units regrouped around
Washington minus the equipment
they had scattered to the winds
in their chaotic retreat.
And the moral gangrene
that can be fatal to any army
—distrust by the men of their
officers—has taken a firm grip
on the forces that are mow
McClellan’s. i ”
In many cases, officers turned
tail at Bull Run before their
troops did,
GRANDSTAND experts, mean-
while, were having a field day
pinpointing the reasons for the
Union's disgrace at Bull Run.
One thing became obvious—the
North was outclassed, military-
wise, by the South. Of the three
division commanders of the
Union army, only one had ever
seen a battle. Of nine brigadiers,
six had never been near combat.
)
MCLELLAN
McDOWELL
But the nine leading Confeder-
ate officers at Bull Run, were all
seasoned veterans of Mexican War
action or of Indian fights.
Rep. Ely Freed
By Confederates
RICHMOND, Va. — July 29 —
Release from Libby Prison of
U.S. Rep. Alfred Ely was assured
today by Confederate leaders.
Rep. Ely was seized during th
battle of Bull Run, one of hun-
dreds of civilians who went to the
scene of combat to see what they
were sure ‘would be a Northexs
victory. g
Since his incarceration here,
Ely has sparked much curiosity.
Libby guards have received sev-
eral offers of $10 bribes from Rich-
mond citizens who wanted to take
a look at the captive congress-
man. T
When seized, Ely carried a pair
of dancing pumps—apparently in
anticipation of a victory ball in
this Southern capital.
Copyright 1961, Hegewisch News
Syndicate, Chicago 33, Ill. Photos:
Library of Congress.
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