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Editorially Speaking:..
Problem Must Be Faced
Judgement and good sense are needed in the present
controversy over the construction of a new high school
and the repair of old buildings in the five-way Lake-.
Lehman Jointure.
Nothing can be accomplished by uninformed argument
or by an attempt to bury the school problem under a
batch of petitions signed by taxpayers who do not know
what they are talking about.
All any enlightened citizen needs to do is travel over
the area served by the Lake-Lehman School District, ob-
serve the new homes, note the automobiles in the drive-
ways, count the number of young families and the num-
ber of children in those families. He will conclude that
something has to be done now or in the very near fu-
ture to expand school facilities.
There seems to be little sense in bedeviling
school board members — local men who likewise pay
taxes—and school administrators who should know their
jobs better than the average uninformed citizen.
Enlightened citizens, parents who really take the edu-
cation of their children seriously, can be of real service®
in helping the school board to solve its problem; but no
amount of heat and misguided obstruction is going to
help the situation.
It would be useless to say that we are not going to
have to pay the fiddler in increased taxes. And it would
also be useless to say the school directors and architects
are infallible.
The best approach is to admit that there is a problem.
It has to be solved — it cannot be evaded. It is going
to cost money!
Now let’s get down to business to see how it can be
worked out to the best interest of all. :
Some of those who are now crying the loudest are
the very ones who have been willing to accept every
handout of a Federal government and to advocate still
further handouts, without seriously considering that there
really is no Santa Claus.
When it comes to local government and local schools—
. there ain't no Santa Claus. Maybe that’s what hurts!
The Non-Floating Space Capsule
A space capsule that lets in- the sea water as soon as
the hatch flies open, obviously needs re-designing. Three
gallons of water can lower the center of gravity danger-
ously, and from there on, it’s curtains for a luckless’as-
tronaut if the helicopter is not close and the crew com-
pletely capable.
us Grissom would have been a casualty if rescue had
not come immediately. Any man who rockets off into
space is literally taking his life in his hands, from the
time he lies down horizontally atop a tall tower of des-
truction, to the moment when he emerges from the hatch.
Any capsule which cannot ride the waves with the
hatch open until rescuers come, carries with it into space
its own death sentence as well as that of its pilot.
WORDS OF A GREAT AMERICAN
Theodore Roosevelt, who died forty-two years ago,
had much to say to Americans—not lonly to those of his
own time but to us today as well. Here are some exam-
ples of his philosophy of life:
“America will cease to be a great mation whenever
her young men cease to possess energy, daring, and en-
durance, as well as the wish and power to fight the na-
tion’s foes.”
“Peace, like freedom, is not a gift that tarries long
in the hands of cowards, or of those too feeble or too
short-sighted to deserve it, and we ask to be given the
means to insure that ‘honorable peace’ which alone is
worth having.”
“No piled-up wealth, no splendor of material growth,
no brilliance of artistic development, will permanently
avail any people unless its home life is healthy, unless the
average man possesses honesty, courage, common sense,
and decency.” $a
“I wonder if you recall one verse of Micah that I am
very fond of—'to do justly and to love mercy and to walk
humbly with thy God. That, to me, is the essence of
~ religion. .To be just with all men, to be merciful to those
to whom mercy should be shown, to realize that there are
some things that must always remain a mystery to us,
and when the time comes for us to enter the great black-
‘mess, to go smiling and unafraid? SE : i
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Only
Yesterday
Ten and Twenty Years Ago
In The Dallas Post
ir HAPPENED 3{) YEARS Aco:
Dallas Township School Board re-
jected an offer to hire certain teach-
ers on a part time basis in co-opera-
tion with Dallas Borough School
District. :
Judge William McLean, speaking
to the Dallas Rotary Club on ‘The
United States and Its Relation to
the World Court” said the recent
Hoover plan and moritorium showed
clearly that the United States could
not remain isolated from world af-
fairs. The depression was but another
example of the complexity of inter-
national economies, he said.
Mrs. Gertrude Thomas and Mrs.
Carl Auvil were in the race for
Noxen Township school directors.
Mrs. William Gregory, aged 49,
died at the family home at Kitchen
Heights.
Theodore N. Major, 78, died at
Tunkhannock.
Sister Harriet Vincent, formerly
Harriet Stoker Fisk, head of the
"| Junior English {Department at Wyo-
ming Seminary for 18 years, died
at Bay Side, L. I. She was the author
of the Wyoming Hymn.
The State Highway Department
put six high-speed boats in the Dela~-
ware River in a effort to stop smug-
gling of gasoline into Pennsylvania.
William A. Austin received a
Bachelor of Arts degree at Susque-
hanna University.
The twenty-first. reunion of the
Crispell family was held at Kitchen’s
Grove, Idetown. John Crispell was
elected president.
Dr. Kemp advertised a super spec-
ial plate of nature-tinted porcelain
teeth for $12.50.
[Former residents of Ricketts, once
a prospering lumber town, held their
annual reunion.
Robert Eck was seriously injured
when he fell asleep’ driving home
from work at the Woodlawn Farm
Dairy plant, Wilkes-Barre.
[Excavations were started for the
First National Bank building.
Beverly Besecker fell off a swing
and broke her arm ‘for the third
time. . .
rr HAPPENED 2() YEARS Aco:
The Post printed its first brown
issue which included 40 pages of
community promotion. The issue ad-
vocated progress, prosperity, and
specific improvements such’ as cen-
tralization of police protection in ‘the
Dallas area, the installation of fire
plugs, emphasis locally an activities
which would train men and women
in national defense measures, and
permanent and legible street mark-
ings and numerals on all homes.
Howard J. Hallock resigned after
five years as music supervisor at
Dallas High School. ;
Margaret Holdredge married Ted
Nieczkowski.
Mrs. Mae Townsend directed Red
Cross canteen classes to prepare for
war emergencies. [Ninety women
were enrolled.
Margaret Barnard wed Sergt. And-
rew J. Sordoni, Jr.
The Noxen tannery handled 90,000
steer hides ‘a year.
A bill was introduced before the
state senate to keep billboards off
open highways.
Dallas Post Office netted $10,000,
the required mumber of receipts
needed for approval of a new build-
ing.
- [Noted for their Ayrshire herds
were George Rice, Dr. G. L. Howell,
the Shoemaker brothers and Wald-
ron Frederick, all members of the
Luzerne County Aryshire Bull Assoc-
iation. :
Coad-O-Matic stoker plant was
established in Hillside and employed
15 skilled workers.
James R. Oliver was dean of
Back Mountain = businessmen. and
owner of the second oldest automo-
bile agency in Luzerne County.
Many pages were devoted to Sor-
i doni Enterprises and their contrib-
ution to the community.
IT HAPPENED 10 YEARS AGO:
Raymond Hedden twas awarded a
$266,000 contract for construction
of an addition to Soldiers and Sail-
ors Memorial Hospital at Wellsboro.
Susie Lamoreaux and Carol Sut-
ton, polio victims, were reported
making good progress at the Wilkes-
Barre Contagious Hospital.
Betsy B. Platt, Wallingford, Md.,
who frequently visited her aunt and
uncle Mr. and Mrs. Joseph McVeigh,
was killed instantly in an automobile
crash.
William F. Cairl, Sr., was reported
holding his own after a serious oper-
ation.
Clara M. Warden and Franklin E.
Brenner were married by Rev. F. W.
Reinfurt in the Dallas Methodist
Church.
Mrs. Wilbur Lutes celebrated her
80th birthday.
Margaret Batesman married Step-
hen Hartman, Jr. at Elkton, Md.
The ninth annual reunion of the
Coolbaugh family was held at Traver
Park, Tunkhannock.
“So far this lack of rainfall is re-
markable for two things. Agriculture
Secretary Freeman doesn’t have a
remedy for it and it hasn’t been
blamed on the Eisenhower admin-
istration.”
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| “Heard anything lately on how
‘ ivories softly, and Papa adding his bass voice to
__THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1061 _
From }
Pillar To Post...
by Hix
The current poll of favorite hymns brings to mind foreibly an
earlier day when families gathered around the piano Sunday eve-
nings and went. through the hymn-book as a matter of course, the
children asking for their favorites, Mamma pressing the yellowed
the childish
trebles. :
Nowadays, it is apt to be the T-V that the families gather
round.
But offhand, has anybody ever heard a more beautiful rendi-
tion of the “Ave Maria” than Perry Como can produce, or a more
soul-shaking performance of a negro spiritual than Tennessee Ernie
Ford can launch toward millions of listeners?
Ernie sings with his entire body, and he gives an impression
of earnestness which few can equal.
Perry looks completely dedicated when he sings the “Ave
Maria” or the beautiful and timeless words of the ‘“Lord’s Prayer.”
But for many of us oldsters, hymns mean a little white church;
Christmas carols; an untrained choir battling its way through the
intricacies of an unfamiliar hymn, breathing a long sigh of relief
as the organist swung into “Old Hundred” or ‘Faith of our Fathers.”
Something which everybody in the congregation knew, and
. could sing right lustily, mercifully drowning out the choir, but feel-
ing mightily uplifted in the exuberance of song.
“Lead on, Oh King Eternal;” “The Church's One Foundation;”
“Onward, Christian’ Soldiers;” “Rock of Ages;” “Away in a Manger;”
And always, “Lead Kindly Light,” my mother’s favorite hymn.
The last night of the reunion, when the family was already
packed, ready to scatter to the four corners of the earth. The
gathering around the piano, for an hour with the old Treasury of
Song, ending always, by tradition, with “God be With You Till We
Meet Again.” :
Miss Mary, eons ago, in the infant class in Sunday School,
singing her heart out in “Bright Gems for His Crown,” as small
children gathered round her knee to learn the words.
Adeste Fidelis, in the original Latin, learned during high school
days. “Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht,” in the German class.
“My Ain Countree,” a Scotch hymn, which, played softly as the
voluntary before a church service by a much loved daughter, can
bring tears unbidden. Papa used to sing it in his beautiful bass, and
before him, my grandfather. ;
“Cym Rhonda,” the grand old Welsh hymn that brings spontane-
ously to their feet all of Welsh descent at a Library Auction dinner.
How can anybody pick a favorite hymn ? 2
Poet's Corner
COALTOWN
+ The city, set on dwindling piers,
Pursues its daily round;
Too busy to remaric the few
Alarmists of a prudent view : \
Wha've moved to higher ground.
What matter if a street or two
May show a cavity?
They'll bypass portions that subside
And with their neighbors still reside
(In loyalty and civic pride)
Defying gravity.
CARRIE ATYDD
our prestige stands abroad?”
'100Years Ago ThisWeek...in
THE CIVIL WAR
(Events exactly 100 years ago this week in the Civil War—
told in the language and style of today.)
A. S. JOHNSTON
Rebel Brass Stewing
Over Cooper’s Clout
Ricavo, Va.—Aug. 5—Top Confederate Army brass is in a col-
lective tizzy over appointment by President Jefferson Davis of
his old friend, Samuel Cooper, as highest-ranking general in the
military. . r :
Cooper is adjutant and inspector general with the title of full gen-
eral, outranking all other officers in seniority.
He is a Northerner by birth—his home is Hackensack, N.J.—
but married a Virginia woman and for years has had numerous
friends in the South.
He resigned from the Union army, in which he had served since
graduation from West Point in 1815, and immediately volunteered for
duty with the South. His appointment to the key adjutant’s post by
Davis was seen as a reflection of his service with the Federal army
as adjutant general, a job he assumed in 1852.
* *
AS RANKING general, Cooper—who has seen little actual warfare
—is ahead of several combat-hardened general officers. He is followed
in seniority by Generals Albert S. Johnston, Robert E. Lee, Joseph
E. Johnston and Pierre G.T. Beauregard, all of whom were fighting
men before the outbreak of the current hostilities. :
It is within this quartet of outranked generals that the resentment
over Cooper’s exalted status is said to be sharpest.
Congress OKs Harsh Law
Authorizing Confiscation
WASHINGTON, D C.—Aug. 6—Congress today passed an act author-
{zing seizure by the Union of all property used for “insurrectionary
purposes’ against the federal government.
The measure also voided own- Debate on the subject
ership of any slave who, with his brought forth red-hot oratory
owner’s consent, joins the Con-] from proponents and eoppos
federate armed forces or works| nents alike.
for the South’s war effort in any| Rep. Thaddeus Stevens of Penne
other capacity. sylvania, most articulate of the
Under the controversial new [so-called Radicals who pushed
law, all property confiscated |the confiscation measures, de-
would be the subject of condem- | clared that if the South “must be
nation proceedings in a U.S. Dis- | laid waste, and made a desert, in
trict court. order to save this union from de-
struction, so let it be.
“I would rather, sir, reduce
them to a condition where their
whole country is to be repeopled
by a band of freemen than to see
them perpetrate the destruction
of this people through our agen-
cy,” Stevens thundered eon the
House floor. :
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PORTIONS of "the legislation
were considered retaliatory to
the confiscation proviso adopted
by the Confederate government
last May 21. Under these laws,
any funds owed to Northern firms
or individuals—with a few excep-
tions in the border states—be- St Tata RN
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T-V
With GEORGE A. and
EDITH ANN BURKE
LEAVE IT TO BEAVER will soon be |
entering its fifth season on televis-
ion. The outstanding characteris-
tic of this show is its reasonably
realistic and naturally whimsical
family relationships involving Hugh |
Beaumont and Barbara Billingsley as
parents and Jerry Mathers and Tony
Dow as their sons. Another reason
is that the supporting cast rings true.
During the past. season the Beav-
| er program has been using as reg-
ular cast members the only teen-age
villains on television. %
The villains in the eBaver gang -
and they certainly add spice to the
weekly happenings - are Eddie Has-
kell, a thin, blond, wisecracking
type, and Lumpy, a slovenly fatty
who enjoys picking on kids smaller
than himself. The two poles are play-
ed by Ken Osmond Gand Frank
Bank, who seem to have picked up
where chubby Larry Mondello, a
pre-teen = villain of earlier Beaver
episodes, left off in his role of Rusty
Stevens.
KEN OSMOND, who plays Eddie,
first turned up on the show as a
pal of Tony ‘“Wally”dow. His first
line to little hero Beaver was “Get
off me, squirt,” and he has remained
obnoxious ever since. Although he
feigns ‘politeness to Beaver’s parents,
who can’t stand it, his attitude to the
youngster invariably is one of utter
disdain.
“I always call Beaver ‘squirt,
‘creep’ or plain ‘kid’ ” says actor
Osmond who interprets his role of
“wise guy” Eddie thusly:
‘“Eddie’s father is always kicking
him in the seat of the pants, and the
kid figures the whole world is just
this way. You've got to pull angles to
get ahead. You're looking for a catch
in everything.”
Eddie doesn’t hesitate to lie to
wiggle out of a tight spot,- and he
can be depended upon to keep his
mouth shut if he pulls a stunt for
which Wally is blamed. Since the
girls can’t stand him, it's Wally’s
mission in life to get him blind dates.
‘I'm too mean to have a girl,”
Ken pointed out with a grin. “There
isn’t a girl in our tenth grade who.
likes me. =
‘When not making like Eddie Has-
kell, Ken Osmund attends North
Hollywood High School where he
earns above-average grades and is
treated as just one of the gang. |
FRANK BANK or Lumpy is actually
a UCLA theater arts major with a
high 1Q.
REASONABLE FACSIMILE - While
they're not to be emulated, there's
seems to be an Eddie or a Lumpy |
in just about every crowd. This
explains to some extent why ‘Leave
It To Beaver” continues to bé a show
which stands apart. \
SPIKE JONES has returned as a
summer replacement on CBS-TV.
But if you tuned in hoping to hear
music with horns, bells, buzzers,
sound effect and screams you were
disappointed. Spike
straight this summer.
The reason for abandoning ‘the
City Slickers idea on television is
because it's so difficult to shoot a
band show on TV, particulaly when
there are gimmicks. It requires a
tremendous amount of practice and
timing and rehearsal time is an im-
portant factor on TV, especially with
a summer replacement show, where
the sponsor naturally expects that
he'll be able to trim the budget to
the bone.
Instead of washboards and whis-
tles the program will have more
guests than last year which will add
more variety to the show.
BETSY PALMER met her husband
because of a bad case of laryngitis.
Betsy visited her own doctor. He,
not only cured her, but tossed in a
surprise by telling his friend, Dr.
Merendino, a very successful doctor,
about his lovely blond patfent. Sev-
eral days later he phoned her for a
date.
They were married four months
later on May 8, 1954.
Irem Women Golfers
Held Tournament July 28
Irem Women Golfers held a Mem-
ber-Member, Better Ball of Partners
Tournament on Friday, July 28th.
The winning team, captained by
Mrs. Gordon Guyler, with a net
score of 70, was, Mrs. Gordon Guy-
ler, Mrs. Warren Unger, Mrs. Wil-
liam Wicks and Mrs. William Pack.
The second team captained by
Mrs. Russel Havey, with a net score
of 73, was Mrs. Russel Havey, Mrs.
Charles Phillips, Mrs. George Dean
and Mrs. Howard ‘S. Jones. There
were two teams tied for third place
with a score 6f 75. Mrs. Tom Weich-
el, Captain, Mrs. Henry Davis, Mrs.
Mrs. Earl Hungerford, Mrs. A. G.
Rutherford and Mrs. Robert Spencer.
Irem Women will not play Friday,
because of the Dr. Jerome B. Marsh-
all Sr. Better Ball of Partners Invi-
tation Tournament.
On the following Friday, August
11th, the first round of the Irem
Women Golfers Championship con-
test will be played. The second round
will be played on August, the 18th.
“At last the American people know
what information the National Sec-
urity Agency collects. After disap-
pearing from his post in the secur-
ity department, William H. Covington
did not run to the enemy with his
. ‘Pete Dawkins!
is playing it |:
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For about seven miles this side
of Tunkhannock the foliage on the
west side of route 309 looks as if
it has been gone over with a flame
thrower.
phone Company, which caused such
devastation along the back roads
last year with a chemical killer, has
brought it out this year along the
main highways. It has been sprayed
upward along a solid wall of trees
in places making a seared finish
which will probably kill the entire
trees
evidently what they want.
And at other points even a single
harmless
doused causing it to wither and die,
notwithstanding the fact that much
of the
never reach a height of more than
six or eight feet in a hundred years.
There is evidence of applications
along other roads in the vicinity of
Tunkhannock. Someplaces,
there is
cable along on poles, which ought
to be- impervious to any outside
matter of all kinds, the killer has
been used anyway, just out of pure
cussedness.
Down the river and out in the
central part of the state the Bell
Telephone has gone along the road-
sides
which takes an entire bush or small
tree and cuts it up
shavings leaving only a bushel or
so of small pieces which will event-
ually decompose and mingle with
ordinary roadside refuse.
also done in places where its use is
With a billboard creeping in here
and there, our beautiful scenery to
the
enough, without this planned des-
truction of the foliage.
Just how silly can teenagers get?
As a matter of practice we deli-
berately
these
change and there is mo .use trying
to bring back the days that were.
However once
serve something that is downright
silly, and cannot be passed over as
a harmless prank. :
Not long ago a young man was
observed walking ‘across from’ the
Heights section of Wilkes-Barre to-
ward South Main iS {
of the feace on the o tg =
DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA
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If you want to get ahead in the world—try school teaching!
That would be my advice to any gal who isn't yet ready to be-
come a housewife and isn’t quite sure what career she'd like to
follow.
A demure little school ma’am just knocked off one of the real
catches of the country — top man in the Class of 1959 at West
Point, all-American halfback — Peter Dawkins.
The rain was pouring down our necks and all the world had
a doleful look Saturday afternoon when we pulled up to the U.S.
Hotel Thayer at West Point. There wasn’t a spot on the big park-
ing lot or along the street where a couple of historians — one of
them an unwilling historian — could have parked a kiddie car—
let alone an automobile. 2 3
The MP at the door, a boy from Tamaqua, gave us the reasonif
when he asked “Are you part of the wedding®party?”? Of course
we weren't!
“What wedding?” we asked as he directed us to a temporary
unloading zone. .
This is his wedding day. And the reception
is being held here.’ ”
“Who got him?” Myra inquired, more interested than she had
been in anything since we left home.
“I don’t know,” was his glum reply, “but she sure got a good
man. Half the Army is here, most of his class—and from the looks
of the license plates — half the State of Maryland.”
For the first. time since we've been travelling places together
Myra needed no urging to ge in and ask the prices of rooms, sign
the register, and make arrangements for a night's lodging.
Under other circumstances, she always complains that register-
ing is a man’s job, though I have observed over the years, that
where the man is really head of the household, the wife performs
this irksome chore.
Well, here we were right in the middle of the biggest wedding
that has hit West Point in a generation, and Myra comes up with a
dandy room overlooking both the Hudson and the reception — and
it seems for once we are both satisfied. She has a beautiful wedding
party to watch and I get a chance to learn why Benedict Arnold |
wanted to give the place to the British.
Myra, you see is, interested in current history — while I like
mine a little more ancient.
Peter Dawkins, the son of a Royal Oak, Michigan dentist had
the distinction of being the only West Pointer of this generation to
be first captain and brigade commander of the Corps and at the
same time captain of the football team and all-American halfback.
A happy combination of brains and brawn! After graduation in
1959 he studied two years as Rhodes Scholar at Brasehose College,
Oxford University, and expects to return there for another year,
A fellow of his proportions could have most any girl in the
country, and many of them were presented to him during his
undergraduate days; but Pete is hard to come by while he is in the
United States.
But in England, there is a little girl from Maryland, Judith
Wright, a graduate of the class of 1960, College of Home Economics
at the University of Maryland, teaching kindergarten at the Brize-
Norton United States Air Force Base near Oxford.
Well, maybe Pete is homesick and maybe he likes American girls
better than British. Anyway, this little school ma'am throws the
all-American halfback for a fifty yard loss and all bets are settled
Saturday afternoon at the big stone chapel overlooking the Hudson.
While Myra is engrossed in the extra-curricular activities, I~
have a chance to visit the Soldier's Monument where are engraved
the names of all the West Pointers who lost their lives on the side
of the North during the Civil War.
But as I read the lists, I can’t get that fellow Peter Dawkins
out of my mind. He let a little school teacher throw him!
Those who would like to visit West Point might he inter-
ested to know that it is just four easy-driving hours from
Dallas. Take Route 6 from Tunkhannock and stay on it to Bear
Mountain Bridge, a short distance south of the Point. U.S.
Hotel Thayer, on the Reservation and operated by the U.S.
Government, is good." Rates for two, double bed and bath $8;
Tower rooms, two exposures, double or twin beds, bath $10.
Overlooks Hudson River. Points of interest along the way.
Trotter Museum at Goshen, N. Y., home of the famous Hamble-
tonian; Museum Village, just off Route 6 at Monroe, N. Y.;
West Point Museum, Campus, and Cadet Parades; Hudson River
Valley and Storm King Highway one of most spectacular
mountain drives in America; Bear Mountain State Park; Wash-
ington’s headquarters at Newburg. Two days and a night are
good but two nights are better.
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Rambling Around
By The Oldtimer—D. A. Waters
EITC
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sidewalk, on the lower side of the
South Street Bridge. Just how high
this is above the railroad tracks
below is not at the moment avail-
able, but it is high.
Several other young men fol-
lowed along on the sidewalk a few
steps behind, and when questioned
said, “He is half loaded and we 1
Apparently the Tele-
across.” As far as we know he
made it, but this exploit is certain-
ly about as bad as going over Nj
agara Falls in a barrel. Nothidg
can be gained, especially when one
is partly drunk. Aad the danger to
the walker of serious injury or
sooner or later. This is
little bush has been
too great for such recklessness. And
this is not the first time for this ex-
ploit either.
roadside shrubbery would
we have around that would allow
such ‘a youngster to get ‘half
loaded” might be of interest.
And it is almost a daily occur-
rance to see youngsters on bicycles
going through red lights in the
wrong direction on one way streets.
Apparently we have made ‘free-
dom” too common. .
where
a single heavy covered
with a shredding machine
Safety Valve
about like
APPRECIATES SUPPORT
Dear Editor:
The Wyoming Valley Crippled
Children’s Association is deeply ap-
preciative of your interest and assis-
This is
Jack Roddy and Mrs. Mitchell Jenk- | questionable, but at any rate it|tance during the Association's 1961 )
ins. The other team tied for third | leaves a much better looking fin- | Easter ‘Seal Campaign. The articles i
place was Mrs. Lloyd Kear, Captain, | ished job. which were published in the Dallas
Post helped immeasurably in further
ing the Association’s educational
program.
Your cooperation and understand-
ing is at all times most deeply
appreciated.
northward is ‘threatened
overlook many things
feeling that times
Rltar Rosary To Receive
Sunday Morning At 9
Gate of Heaven Altar and Rosary
days,
in a while we ob-
at a Missa Recitata Mass. Formal
meetings, suspended for the sum-
mer, will start again immediately
on the
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v
him a dollar he could not war *
death, and sorrow to his family, is
What kind of parents and others
will receive Sunday morning at 9,
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