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TEditorially Speaking: .,
The Long Summer
. JON GREENWALD
Once upon a time, back in a Viennese June, the ‘sum-
mer seemed long. It’s not yet over, but it’s beginning to
appear that there may not be enough days left to effect
at least partially satisfying solutions to some very press-
ing world problems.
In the day immediately after the Summit confrontation
the Kennedy Administration looked forward to a stretch
of months. which would enable it to sort out ideas and
form a framework for action in the controversy rising
again over Berlin. Last Tuesday the President revealed
this framéwork and some of the ideas with which he
plans to faee what has become a full blown. crisis.
At the beginning of June Prime Minister MacMillan of
Great Britain, in the midst of gentlemanly bargaining for
a position-in the European Common Market, was saying
that his countrymen “on the whole never had it so good.”
On Friday, England, with belt buckle drawn a notch,
sued for Common Market membership — this after a
grim warning from the Chancellor of the Exchequer that
unless she joined her economy with her continental
neighbors the country would be broke in five years.
Six weeks ago France seemed about to conclude as.
amicable a settlement as could ever be hoped for the
Algerian War. President De Gaulle, it was said, needed
a solution to the seven year old tragedy by summer’s end
or a new assault from right wing extremists might topple
his government. Then success appeared ‘almost sure.
Today France is isolated in the United Nations and under
military attack on the Sahara because of a dispute with
Tunisia which developed with the speed of a July storm
to make the prospects of an Algerian peace treaty as re-
mote as in the pre-De Gaulle days of 1958.
Thus the pace of world crisis has accelerated greatly
since the start of the summer. Back a few weeks the
Western Allies had what looked like an abundance of
time to devise answers, for important problems. Those
problems have rapidly taken on'a far graver aspect.
England’s peculiar problem is relatively simple: her
economic policy must be tailored to the Common Market
of European nations if she is to remain solvent. But
this is complicated by the problems the Americans and
the French face.
The United States has assumed leadership of the West
in the Berlin question, and the test of nerves and expira-
tion of the Russian ultimatum fall due in the autumn
and early winter. But Secretary of State Rusk and, we
hope, Premier Khrushchev, are still searching for a ne-
gotiable position, which Hoge can prevent a military
decision,
If negotiations fail, the Western Allies will be faced
with the prospect of maintaining greatly increased de-
fense establishments. A sudden spurt of military spend-
ing could well neutralize whatever beneficial effects Com-
mon Market membership is to have on the British
economy. And a Western position of strength without a
powerful England is still an impossibility.
Again, if the Tunisian tangle causes’ an impasse in the
Algerian negotiations, De Gaulle’s Fifth Republic might
well be succeeded by a junta of generals. Such an event
would throw France into chaos and perhaps civil war,
A France ruled by anarchy would render untenable the
American position in Western Europe as effectively as
an impoverished Britain.
The problems the Western Allies are grappling with
this summer are thus exceedingly serious and almost un-
believably. complex. ‘For example, if a political solution
is reached over Berlin, and England takes up a place in
the Common Market, extremists could still topple De
Gaulle. This, as mentioned, would throw France into
agony. But France is a leading member of, the Common
Market, and her relapse into political chaos would
mortally wound that organization.
Great Britain would then be back at the beginning of
her problem: how to avoid going broke. And the United
States would be without the effective aid of her two most
important allies when Khrushchev decides to play his
next gambit. |
It’s a long summer and a crucial one, But the leaves
will begin to fall soon.
For Wedding Tuvitations, Try The Posi
Ty
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Only
Yesterday
Ten and Twenty Years Ago
In The Dallas Post
ir HAPPENED J) YEARS Aco:
Governor Pinchot signed a meas-
ure designating the hemlock as the
State Tree.
Twelfth annual reunion of the Dy- |
mond family was held at Fernbrook
Park. President Melvin Dymond |
presided over the meeting.
Rose Cordick, 23, Plymouth, was
rescued from drowning ‘at Harveys
Lake by George Lutz lifeguard at
the picnic grounds. Other bathers
heard her cries for help but thought
it was a prank.
Herbert Wright, 26, Idetown, was
electricuted when he contacted a
heavily charged ‘wire outside the
East Boston Coal Co., Luzerne.
Mrs. Harriet MM. Calhoun, 71,
mother of Mrs. A. L. Parks Dallas,
died at her summer cottage at
Wyoming campground. :
There was no official motor ve-
hicle inspection that year. An
amendment to the vehicle code re-
placed official headlight adjustment
stations and official brake stations
with ‘Official Inspection Stations”.
The amendment went into effect the
following year.
Mrs. N. P. Koup, 58, Hunlock
Creek died in Kingston.
Jessie Pempleton, Trucksville, mar-
ried Norman Bevan, Pittsburg.
A barn owned by W. G. Laidler
in Huntsville was leveled by fire set
off when it was struck by lightning.
The Frank Bulford farmhouse also
caught fire during the same storm.
Judge Foster Heller Judge Ben R.
Jones, ‘Stanley M. Yetter, George
G. William, Thomas Lewis, George
M. Wall and John McLuskie were
pictured on a full page spread as
prominent figures in Luzerne County
politics, all seeking re-election.
[Pea coal, $7 a ton, Nut, $9, Buck-
wheat, $5 and Stove, 9.40.
rr uappeNED 2) YEARS Aco:
Construction was under way for
the Dallas - Lake Highway.
Frederick Frantz Honeywell died
at Kunkle at 57 following an ap-
pendectomy.
Honeywell lived in Dallas 26 years
and sold his farm to the Irem Tem-
ple Country Club several years be-
fore his death.
$254,785 was spent for new coal
machinery in Luzerne County plants
in an attempt to pick up lagging
markets.
Dr. Clarence L. Boston, Noxen, cel-
ebrated his 82nd birthday. He prac-
ticed medicine for 60 years.
Mrs.” Alice. Anderson, 77, * died.
She was sister of Mrs. James Treb-
ileox, Trucksville.
Cows belonging to Corey Major,
Lehman; Willard Cornell, Meeker;
and Arthur Gay, Sutton Creek, were
county leaders in butterfat produc-
tion.
Mrs. Rachel Wyckoff celebrated
her 93rd birthday.
Mrs. Alan Kistler, Harveys Lake,
was elected president of . Draftee
Mothers’ Club.
Jessie. Ritchie married Willard
C. Lauderbaugh at a garden wed-
ding. Rev. Francis Freeman per-
formed the ceremony.
rr uappenED 1() YEARS AGO:
Verus Weaver, music director of
Kingston Township Schools for six
years, resigned.
Caddi LaBar and Donald Bulford
had a narrow escape when their
fishing boat upset in the Some.
hanna River.
Eight-year-old Donald Hartman,
Wyoming, rescued a four-year old
boy from drowning when he stepped
off a Harveys Lake dock in water
over his head.
Herbert Smith, Burgess of Dallas, was
laid up with a chipped knee cap as
a result of an accident on Church
Street.
Vivian Cooper wed Jack Gonick
of New York City.
Vera I. Rogers married Paul Hoov-
er in Lehman Methodist Church.
Rev. Abbott Officiated.
Beaumont Community ‘Cannery
was full steam ahead to take care
of early corn and pea crops.
The 45th annual reunion of the
Montross - Kitchen family was held
at Wolfe's Grove. Walter Kitchen
presided and Mrs. Emma Himmler
was elected president.
Descendents of Jonathan Williams
held their 48th reunion at Loyal-
ville Methodist Church.
The 38th reunion of the Crispell
family was held at Noxen and gen-
ealogy books were distributed.
Ryman Reunion was held at Trav-
er’s. Park. Paul Ryman was elected
president and Mrs. Addis Ryman,
88, was oldest member present.
Earl M. King, Shavertown, was
awarded the Standard First Aid
Certificate upon completion of an
Army-sponsored course in accident
prevention and first aid.
New Game Land Secured
Pennsylvania Game Commission
purchased 206.6 acres of public
hunting grounds in Bradford Coun-
ty in May. This new holding, known
as State Game Lands No 239, .is
located between Buck Run and Wol-
cott Creek in Athens Township,
near the town of Athens and about
20 miles northwest of Towanda.
The property was acquired as one
of a number of waterfowl hunting
areas the Game Commission will
develop in the northeast part of the
; state gs funds | become availble.
? THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1961
SEMEL
By The Oldtime
HIE
My paternal grandfather, for whom
I was named, owned two canal boats |
and personally operated one of them |
on the Susquehanna Canal between |
Wyoming Valley and Chesapeake Bay |
up to about 1862. Many stories about
canal days were told to me in my
childhood, not by my grandfather,
who was already dead. One of them |
related how my father’s brother
nearly drowned when he fell into the |
canal near Plymouth.
William Penn suggested a canal
between the Schuylkill and Susque-
hanna, which was eventually surv- |
eyed in 1762 and built in 1828, |
from Reading to Middletown, called
the Union Canal. It was used til 1884.
This canal had some unusual features.
Water wheels and steam pumps
were used to raise water and a
feeder branch brought in water from
Swatara Creek. In 1823 the first
canal tunnel in America was dug
to get through a ridge. .
The Delaware and Hudson Canal
from the Lackawaxen to the Hud-
son River at Kingston, N. Y., was
completed in 1828 by a private com-
pany to move coal from the Carbon-
dale area. Philip Hone was president
of the company, hence the name
“Honesdale”. A gravity railroad
moved the coal from Carbondale to
Honesdale.
The big building project of canals
to cross the state east and west and
extensions north and south was in-
spired by the Erie Canal in New
York (State. Pennsylvania had no
natural valleys to follow as in New
York. The routes cut directly across
mountains a. good share of the dis-
tance. Dams, basins, locks, aque-
ducts, bridges, and of course the tow
path had to be built, besides the
actual water canal of float boats.
These all cost money. Up to 1829,
430 miles of canal had been built,
costing six and a half million dol-
lars and the state was nearly bank- |
rupt as a result- Eventually the can-
als were sold to railroad and other
private companies.
The Delaware Canal fed by the
Lehigh River extended 60 miles,
Easton to Bristol, with 23 locks
and 9 aqueducts. It was begun in
1827, operated by the State 1831-
58 and by private owners to 1931.
Part of it is now a state park. It
is a sightseeing attraction at New
Hope and other points.
The cross state canal to connect
Philadelphia via Harrisburg with
Rambling Around
r—D. A. Waters '
SHEER EE ET EC CHC Ee
{Amity Hall. The Eastern
|was operated to 1901. The North
| Branch, our own division, built 1828-
ss
SCIMIMHITIITIRG
| Pittsburg and Erie, also Ohio Points,
was built 1826-34, most of it event-
ually sold to the Pennsylvania Rail-
road in 1857. It had six divisions,
three of which joined in a basin at
D'vision
34 had two dams, fourteen locks and
seven aqueducts and joined the West
Branch division at Northumberland.
The Lehigh Valley R. R. follows this
at Wilkes-Barre and west. The West
Branch to Lock Haven was operated
to 1889 and to Muncy Dam to 1901.
There was a cross cut known as the
Bald Eagle at Lock Haven and a
small one at Lewisburg.
The Juniata Division ran from
Amity Hall to Hollidaysburg where
the real mountain trouble began.
“The Portage Railroad’ was built
to move the canal boats over the
mountains in 1834, thirty-six miles
by ten inclined planes, to Johnstown.
The Erie Extension to move traffic
from Pittsburg to Erie connected at
New Castle with the Beaver Divi-
sion which ran to the Ohio west of
Pittsburg. Six ' hundred acres of
swamp was flooded to make Pyma-
tuning Reservoir/for water. The high
point was near Conneaut Lake. Ad-
ditional water was brought in: from
French Creek at Meadville, This was
mostly completed by a private comp-
any.
A joint canal chartered by Pa. and
Ohio was built 1839 connecting be-
low New Castle, along Mahoning
River, to Youngstown and Cleve-
land.
The main stem of the canal system
from Northumberland to Tidewater
was no easy sailing down the river
either. In forty-one miles thirteen
locks, seven aqueducts, one dam,
and one bridge for tow path had
to be built with various basins. The
lower portion about 34 miles was
mostly built by a private company
1840-72 and sold to the Reading
Railroad in 1894.
We seem to have missed the Le-
high Canal which ram from the
vicinity of White Haven down to
the Delaware at Easton, mostly
moving coal from tthe Mauch Chunk
area, now Jim Thorpe.
Numerous places in the State bear
names including “Haven”, ‘Lock”,
“Port”, etc from Canal days. Actual
evidence of the canals such as old
locks, dams, canal bed, tow path,
can be seen at maybe forty or fifty
places.
Safety Valve
BENEFICIAL SNAKE
Dear Sir:
On the front page of the latest
issue of The Dallas Post you show
a man holding a six-foot black
snake which he killed.
The black snake is one of our
most beneficial forms of wildlife,
and I hope that you will not'con-
tinue to give favorable publicity
to those who ‘meedlessly destroy
this valuable specie.
Sincerely yours,
William Reid,
Carverton Methodist Charge,
Carverton, Pa.
REGRETS
Dear Editor:
KILLING
The Dallas Post featured a snake
killing story on page one of your
August 3 issue.
I can understand the desire to
kill a rattlesnake because of the
dangerous bite or strike of that rep-
tile, but I can see no reason for
the wanton killing of the black-
snake. A six-foot blacksnake is
very rare today and the snake was
a beautiful specimen.
All creatures have a place in
Nature and the blacksnake has been
given credit for doing much more
good for man than is commonly
known. 1 know where three of
them were located for the past sev-
eral years. One was killed by a
hunter near Overbrook Road. The
other two are still alive as far as
I know. They are located near my
home. I hope they are around
for a long time.
We have many harmless snakes
in this vicinity and only two that
are dangerous to man (rattlesnakes
and copperheads). I hope more
thought is given to this matter be-
fore more snakes are killed.
I repeat, that blacksnake was a
beautiful specimen, and I for one,
Tagres that it was killed.
Very truly yours,
" Leo B. Stout,
49 West Center Street,
Shavertown, Pa.
Marc Davies Invites
Classmates To Party
Marc Davies, son of Dr. and Mrs.
Carlton Davies, Machell Avenue,
entertained classmates Thursday
afternoon at the family cabin on
Mehoopany Creek, the occasion of
his twelfth birthday. Gathering at
the Davies home at 2 p.m., guests
were conveyed up over the moun-
tain in three cars. They spent the
afternoon swimming and eating.
In charge of transportation were
Mrs. Davies, Mrs. Harold Elston,
Barbara Tag, and Billy Weidner.
Guests were Bobby Kelly, Billy
Rowett, David Kozemchak, Bobby
Elston, Bobby Anatanaitis, Dick
Sutton, Donald Dennis, Joe Wilson,
Kerry Roberts, Linda Farrar, Karen
Tag, Myra Berti, Pamela Baker,
Guided Tours
Of 6 Colonial
Phila. Homes
Some of America’s most beauti-
ful Colonial homes are the least
known.
Six of the mation’s most elegant
and charming 18th century man-
sions are open to the public in
Philadelphia’s picturesque Fair
mount Park. They rank among the
finest surviving examples of Colon-
ial architecture.
One who enters any of the six
will feel that he is visiting the house
while the occupants are away.
Furniture, periodicals of the day,
even spectacles, are arranged as the
occupants would have left them.
Fine porcelain, fascinating man-
telpieces and priceless original fur-
niture (much of it made in Colonial
Philadelphia) of Hepplewhite, Sher-
aton and Chippendale grace these
delightful old homes.
They stand among old shade
trees, along paths and drives in an
area that was once rural Philadel-
phia. Famous men in history —
Ben Franklin, George Washington,
Lafayette — knew the comfort of
these old homes.
Adding to the charm are the
names of the mansions — Mount
Pleasant, Cedar Grove, Strawberry,
Woodford, Sweetbrier and Lemon
Hill.
Responsible for the restoration
and refurnishing of the homes is
the Philadelphia Museum of ‘Art,
also in Fairmount Park and one of
the world’s finest art museums.
Guided tours of the mansions
start in downtown Philadelphia each
Tuesday and Thursday morning and
Sunday afternoon. For detailed in-
formation phone Philadelphia Mu-
seum of Art, POplar 5-0500.
Dutch Days
Bug. 23-27
Pennsylvania’s chocolate town,
Hershey, will celebrate one of the
nation’s largest folk festivals in late
August.
Pennsylvania Dutch Days, an
authentic portrayal of the early
American way of living in central
Pennsylvania, will be held at Her-
shey Park August 23 through 27.
Formerly a 4-day festival, Dutch
Days will be expanded this year to
five days. Arts, crafts and customs
of the ennsylvania Germans
(known widely as Pennsylvania
Dutch, Amish or Mennonites) are
the festival features.
Focal point of the fair are the
quilting parties conducted by cos-
tumed ladies of local churches of
the Brethren. Craftsmen at work in
pottery, spinning and weaving, tole-
ware painting, carpet weaving, bas-
ket making, candle dipping. pretzel
bending, barn decorating are a few
Toons Long, Candy and Carol Mohr, |
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With GEORGE A. and
EDITH ANN BURKE
JACK LESCOULIE has a new
television show. He will play a
“kind of a Dutch Uncle” to a 10-
year-old boy on “1, 2; -3-Go,” which
will debut Oct. 8, 6:30 to 7 p.m. on
NBC.
He and Richard Thomas will ex-
plore many ‘real places around the
world, from the bottom of the ocean
to outer space. A trip is planned
to Point Barrow, Alaska and anoth-
er is to see the astronauts in Cape
Canaveral, Fla.
On the Alaskan trip, they will be
accompanied on, a hiking expedition
by Supreme Court Justice William
0. Douglas.
The show is under the direction
Take a Trip,” an outstanding chil-
dren's program on which Sonny
Fox visited various places. At that
time Irving Gitlin was connected
with the Columbia Broadcasting
System.
NEW KOOKIE—Television’s most
famous detective agency, “77 Sunset
Strip,” is adding a new associate.
It’s none other than Gerald Lloyd
TV fans.
Officials have announced at the
Warnér Bros. lot that Edward
Byrnes will graduate to the fulltime
sleuthing slot this Fall. His vacancy
at Dino's Lodge parking lot will be
filled by a newcomer, Robert Logan.
Byrnes, who made Kookie a
household word across two conti-
nents, will be given his own office
and lettered door, along with Stu
Bailey (Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.) and
Jeff Spencer (Roger Smith).
Byrnes’ replacement previously
appeared in the series. He is six-
foot, three-inch; and just celebrated
his 20th birthday. He made his
motion picture debut in ‘“‘Claudelle
Inglish,” just released.
With his new job, Kookie”
Byrnes has pocketed his comb for-
ever and has dropped his jive talk.
He won't be known as ‘Kookie’
any more.
And Logan won't use a comb in
front of the camera either.
Byrnes, who is 27, is glad to be
promoted from the parking lot. It
will give him a chance to play some
serious scenes, more adult roles.
Byrnes was born in New York and
attended school there, machine and
metal trade schools. At one time
he considered being a mechanic.
An avid movie-goer, he imitated
actors in the privacy of his room—
too shy to try out for bit parts.
‘When he did get his courage up, he
was offered little but he did play
Summer stock and had a few parts
in off-Broadway plays.
In 1956 he went to Hollywood.
He made the rounds with no suc-
cess. Then one day he was success-
ful . + . he walked right into ‘77
Sunset Strip.”
signed amother seven-year contract
with Warners, so he'll be in the
Sunset Strip series as long as it
lasts. His contract allows him to
make an outside. picture whenever
possible. His first big movie was
MGM’s “By Love Possessed,” with
Lana Turner. By his own decision
he prefers television and intends to
concentrate on this field.
It would be a surprise to most of
his TV fans to meet him on his way
to work. He usually wears a woolen
shirt and dungarees and looks more
like an aircraft worker than an ac-
tor: ‘Under his arm is a big lunch
pail. He eats lunch quickly and
then takes a nap in his dressing
room. About the only showy thing
about him is his 1934 Packard
touring car. He explains he simply
likes the looks and feel of the car
and doesn’t drive it to be conspic-
uous. :
[Away from the set Efrem isl more
like an average businessman than
a movie star. He would rather
putter around his ranch-style home
than go to a nightclub. ' He! and his
wife like to play tennis. He is a
do-it-yourselfer and recently
installed a sprinkler system on his
property.
ERNIE FORD, though out of ‘a
weekly series, will still be seen on
your TV screen next season. He's
scheduled for quite a few guest
appearances in the nighttime vari-
ety shows, along with an eventual
ABC daytime series.
| Kunkle Silver Leaf
Kunkle Silver Leaf will meet
Tuesday evening, ‘August 15 at
8:00. Lillian Kunkle will host the
group at her home on School Street,
Shavertown.
“Remember this: The government
or anyone else, cannot give anything
to anybody without taking it from
someone. For every give-away, there
must be a takeaway no matter how
it’s disquised or to what extent
the giveaway is played up and the
takeaway is played down.”
will be featured along with flax
breaking, and spinning the fiber
into thread, an almost forgotten
art. ‘A village smithy will be busy
making horse-shoe rings and other
trinklets of a vanished era. A hay
‘show, a hog sale, and aquatic barn-
yard fowl are all a part of the 5- day
fair.
If this is not entertaining enough,
there are “sitting” and “strolling”
bands, Dutch dialect comedians,
games, square dancing, movies and
Pennsylvania Dutch folklife lectures.
And there’s Dutch food a’plenty.
event. Parking is free.
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of Irving Gitlin, who produced “Let's |
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by Hix
The population ‘explosion has just plain gone too far. Staying
home with a new child, or a new grandchild, that's normal and a
visitation of Providence. But staying home with a batch of new
kittens, that's for the birds.
Especially if the kittens are the third litter in less than a year.
Add to this that Grey Lady has no’ maternal instincts, only a yen
for a Hot Tin Roof, with no regard for the consequences of her rash
lack of inhibitions.
It’s completely exasperating, that's what
No sooner do we find homes for one bateh of kittens,
another set is imminent.
than
DALLAS. PENNSYLVANIA
How can anybody take off for a vacation with new Gib
down in the basement?
Alone, a cat can fend for itself for a week, reducing the popu-
lation of field mice, 'young rabbits, and an occasional chipmunk
from the piney woods across the road.
But with kittens to consider, she needs milk and a certain
amount of coddling. She also has to have free access to the kittens,
a complication in locking up a house.
It was quite a hassle Wednesday night.
Grey Lady came plunging through the screen door, leaving a
wet kitten on the wet stone doorstep. Hastily conveyed to the base-
ment and bedded in a basket, she refused to have anything to
do with the kitten. She hadn't produced it in her nest, so it was
clearly not her kitten, and the hell with it.
And in addition to that, anybody, even a stupid human, ought
to know that the optimum place to produce kittens is the kindling
wood box, or the basket filled with bark Grey Lady has been
reading up on the advantages of sleeping on a hard mattress as a
measure to ease an aching back.
Grey Lady rose out of the basket as if shot from a gun, climbed
to the top of the furnace, and resisted capture. Apprehended, and
returned forcibly to the basket, she added another kitten to the
confusion. She licked it with nervous haste, and was off again.
It seemed like a good time to turn off the light and leave hq :
situation to the animal which best understands kittens, pamely the
mamma cat.
Came the dawn. Came also a :solicitous Missy, benring a bowl
of warm milk.
Grey Lady was curled comfortably in the kindling wood box
with one kitten by her side.
Three other kittens were mewing plaintively, but with vanish- |
ing hope, in the basket.
Business of clearing out the top layer of kindling to make a
more noticeable depression. Business of working in a little ex-
celsior around the kitten. Business of transferring the other three
kittens to the kindling box.
Grey Lady yawned widely, accepting the orphans.
“It's about time you got onto your job,” she murmured, “you
must have realized that their feeding was way overdue. Haven't
you ever heard of the new Demand Feeding idea? And now just
go away and leave them in the kindling box. They LIKE the nubbles.
They just can’t endure a soft bed.”
Then inspecting the first kitten a little more closely, she added,
“Well, I see you cleaned it up at last. You could have avoided all
this trouble if you had used the scissors last night. Now just leave
the milk on the mat, and when I feel like getting up, I'll have my
breakkfast. And Close the door softly as you go out.”
EFREM ZIMBALIST, JR- has|
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100 Years Ago This Week...in
THE CIVIL WAR
(Events exactly 100 years ago this week in the Civil War—itold in
the language and style of today.)
Gen.Nathaniel Lyon
Dies in Fierce Battle
Clash at Wilson’s Creek, Mo.,
Produces Alarming Casualties
SPRINGFIELD, Mo.—Aug. 10—Brig. Gen. Nathaniel Lyon
was killed and his Union force of almost 6,000 men was de-
feated early today in bloody fighting in the woods near Wil-
son’s Creek, 10 miles from here.
First casualty reports from the field were AN Observ-
ers estimated that of the 6,000 Northern soldiers involved, 220
were killed, more than 700 wounded and about 300 listed as -
missing.
Estimates of the strength of .
Southern forces, commanded by
Brig. Gen. Ben Mc Culloch, ranged
upwards to 12,000—roughly twice
that of the Union units. Of these,
at least 260 were reported killed,
800 wounded and about 30 missing.
If these figures hold up, casual-
ties would include onaout of every
six men on the Union side’ and
about one out of every ten Con-
federates—a proportion histori-
cally high in modern warfare.
* * *
LYON, a terrier-like officer
whose impact on Missouri has
been great, died a hero's death at
10:30 a.m. while leading two com-
panies of the 1st Iowas over a hill
near the tree-lined creek.
He was at the head of his
troops, yelling encouragement
and waving his hat wildly,
when a musket ball ripped
into his breast.
Lyon dismounted, fell into the
arms of his aide, and gasped:
“Lehmann, I am killed.”
A staff officer, William M.
Wherry, reported that Lyon had
been wounded earlier in the day
in the head and leg and had had
his horse shot out from under him,
but had continued in combat.
* * *
UPON LYON’S death, command
was assumed by Maj. Samuel D.
Sturgis. He ordered a withdrawal
and McCulloch’s fighters failed to
follow up their victory.
Confederate first-aid teams
recovered the body of Gen.
Lyon.
His corpse Hed been left in a
field hospital by Union stretcher
bearers who were hurrying to
rescue their wounded in the face
of the advancing rebels.. They
were driven from the scene before
they could recover the remains.
SOUTHERN officers, however,
delivered the body during a brief
truce and arrangements were
made for its removal to the house
of Gov. John S. Phelps here to
await shipment to the East.
* * *
LYON, 43, was a graduate of
West Point—class of ’4l—who
served in many capacities as a
Regular army officer. He was the
son of an Ashford, Conn., farmer.
He had brought his force,
ipcinding uding 16 guns, to Spring-
field last month in, the wake of
GEN. NATHANIEL LYON
A Hero’s Death
a step-up of Confederate troop
movements in the area.
As the Southern units converged
on the scene of today’s battle,
Lyon sent Col. Franz Sigel wit
1,100 men and a six-gun batter
into a wide encircling movement
to a position from which he could
attack from the South.
Then Lyon led the remaining
force into the drive from the north
—the drive that led him to his
death.
Kanawha Valley
Action Heats Up
FAYETTE, Va. — Aug. 13 — A
marked upturn in Northern troop
activity in the Kanawha River
Valley is under way, with the 7th
Ohio, commanded by Col. E. B.
Tyler, pouring into nearby Cross
Lanes today.
Reports indicated Maj. Gen. W.
S. Rosecrans, ranking Union offi-
cer in Western Virginia, had ore
dered Tyler into the area to
protect Carnifex Ferry, on the
Gauley River.
Strength of Confederate troops
in the area, meanwhile, has been
estimated by intelligence sources
at some 2,000, They are in com-
mand of Brig. Gen. August Wise,
former governor of Virginia.
3 dicate, Ouicase 33, nL
Copyright 1961, Hegewisch News Syn-
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