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Editorially Speaking: ..
You've A Treat In Store
Those who
have never
heard Lake-Lehman High
School's prize winning Band under the direction of
Johnny Miliauskas, will have an opportunity to see that
organization at its colorful best tomorrow night at the
Lehman-Forty Fort game in Forty Fort.
The Band will present the full routine of music and
formations that it will use Sunday afternoon in Philadel-
phia when it appears at half-time during the nationally
televised Eagles-Browns game.
If you have heard the band before, you know what to
expect and will be at Forty Fort to cheer these young
musicians on. If you have never heard the Band before,
you have a rare treat in store!
As you listen to their music and watch their murdiing,
please remember that this precision is accomplished fol-
lowing the loss of thirty-five members from the big band
last spring by graduation.
night!
We think you'll be broud to be in Forty Fort tomorrow
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Troop 200 Uses Buddy Per
Useful During Nuclear Attack
Troop 200, Dallas, spent a rainy
week camping at Onawandah. This
was a semi-primitive camping ex-
perience which meant gathering
wood for fires to cook all meals.
Buddy burners were made to use
for cooking breakfast. These burn-
ers are handy to have in case of
failure of electric power or even
in case of nuclear attack when
one might have to use own: resour-
ses to boil water ete.
They are made out of Tunafish
cans or any can that size, Paper
is rolled tightly, and coiled inside
and hot wax from old candles poured
over and left to cool. These will
burn for approximately 3 hours. A
large Crisco can is used as the
burner over the fire. A door is cut
in bottom and holes made around
top for air circulation.
Mrs. Clayton Evans accompanied
worked with ,the girls on Rambler
Adventurer and Conservation bad-
ges.
. Kaper charts were made before
going to camp to assign the duties
of keeping camp clean, cooking,
gathering of wood and cleaning
of latrines. The girls planned menus
and several helped do the shopping
on Monday, August 21st. We left for
camp 1 pm. from XKuehn’s Drug
Store and arrived at campsite in
pouring rain,
Probably the most exciting inei-
dent was having a skunk in one of
the tents.
The following girls participated:
Ann Barnes, Susan Allabaugh, Pat
Bauman, Joyce Hughes, Peggy Rood,
Betty Rome, Nancy Davis, Mary
Daley, Sharon Piekanski, Rose Marie
Gabel.
Parents visited camp on Tuesday
Mrs, Jack Barnes, the leader. She evening.
Outdoor Tips
FISHING
In case you never noticed, fishing
boat captains like to make things
easy for their clients. One way to
catch fish is to get chummy with
them; that is, spread an area with
goodies that delight a fish's appe-
tite. Well, you can work the same
scheme on a smaller scale and be
one up on the big boys. Fill a gun-
ny sack with clams or mussels,
weigh it down, and then sink it at
your favorite fishing hole. Just
don’t tell your best friends about it,
and you'll find that your favorite
hole has become a fisherman's hot-
spot, with you as the sole fisher-
man.
For many fisherman nightime is
the time to fish, But fishing at
vight also brings its headaches—
it’s usually a chore to find things in
the dark. If you tie a knot in
your line so it reaches your hand
when the plug is at your red tip,
there'll be no more cussing and
searching in the dark for your plug
end you can spend your saved
energy on a more worth-while pro-
ject—fishing.
Here's still another way to end
second-guessing. When you have
pulled in a big one that's been
~ feeding deep, your next question is:
How deep was he? You can answer
this puzzler with no strain if you
have marked your fishing line every
five feet you do with colored nail
polish (the Little Woman won't
mind, it’s a good cause).
DOGS
Don’t throw away your old cloth.
ing—well some of it anyway. Old
clothing—a glove, a coat sleeve—
can be used effectively in training
a young pup to retrieve, Re cloth-
ing holds his master’s scent ana
makes it much easier for the dog to
locate the quarry. Little by little
you can graduate the pup to other
objects before setting him after
game.
Here’s an idea that should ring
the bell with dog owners house-
breaking pups. Place a small bell
that is rung by tapping its top near
the door. When you've trained your
pup to go to the door when he
wants out, go one step further and
teach him to ring the bell with his
paw. This way Fido can tell what's
up and you can come a running and
let him outside before any serious
accident results.
HUNTING
The ways to attract Mr. Bushy-
tail are almost endless. The
squirrel’s curiosity usually proves
to be his undoing. For instance, if
Mr. B. has taken to a tree and
won’t show, try scraping the bark
lightly, starting a few feet below the
hole and working upward. The
noise outside his home will send the
squirrel investigating—and you get
a chance for a quick shot.
(Try for a $50 prize. Send your A.A.
tip to AJA. Contest, Sports Afield,
959 8th Ave., New York 19, N.Y.)
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In Siam, houses are constructed
with odd numbers of floors and
steps to insure good luck.
Only
Yesterday
Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years
Ago In The Dallas Post
ir HAPPENED J{) YEARS Aco:
Primaries showed Earl Newhart of
Trucksville defeating Edwin Hay of
Carverton for the Republican nomin-
ation for school director in Kingston
Township. Edward Avery was de-
feated by Francis McCarthy for con-
stable. In Dallas Borough, Wardan
Kunkle again was high man for
Borough Council. Adam Kiefer and
Arthur Newman, appearing on both
tickets, were candidates for school
director in Dallas Township.
Coach Wormley was expecting a
good football team in Dallas Borough,
with Earl VanCampen, Bob Rogers,
Dick Coolbaugh, Kenneth Besteder,
Harry Rook, Kenneth Disque and
Clarence LaBar in the line-up.
Trolleys gave way to buses on the
Dallas to Harveys Lake run, con-
necting in Dallas with the Wilkes-
Barre trolleys. Service offered a
twenty-minute schedule from 5 until
8 a.m. a forty minute schedule from
8 until .mid-afternoon, then a re-
sumption of the tweny-minute sched-
ule for the’ rush hours. An owl car
left at midnight.
Berkely Lyman, 78, senior partner
in the publishing company in Tunk-
hannock, died after a long illness.
P. 0. Zillig, construction foreman
for the Dallas Bank Building, was
badly burned when his Hudson sedan
caught fire in the garage back of
Fred Welsh’s home.
One thousand women were asked to
can a dozen jars of fruit apiece for
relief of needy families.
The John Fine political machine
swept the county. Judge William
S. McLean was the only independ-
ent to win a nomination.
Brick-laying was started on the
new Dallas Bank building.
A movement toward establishment
of a local hospital drew support,
and financing was said to be as-
sured.
An editorial urged residents to
pay their bills. A very small pay-
ment on account, it said, would
help restore confidence and keep
money in circulation in the depths
of the depression.
Another editorial squib said that
while farmers might not have much
cash income, they would at least eat
during the coming winter, while
laborers out of work in the cities
would have trouble buying food.
Tt was a small issue thirty years
ago, only four pages. Maybe to save
paper ,depression years being what
they were.
rr uapPENED 2) YEARS Aco:
Local Option was defeated by a
large majority in Lake Township.
Thirty-one taverns pay to the Town-
ship a total of $3, 900 in license
fees.
Only half of the area’s registered
voters turned out for the Primaries.
Judge Harold Flannery made a
strong bid for election, polling only
371 votes less than strongly in-
trenched Republican candidate Judge
Ben Jones of the Court of Common
Pleas.
Wilson Ryman defeated Herbert
Lundy in the Dallas Township tax
collector race.
‘Actual construction of the Harv-
eys Lake Highway began with pour-
ing of concrete on the Machell Ave-
nue bridge span.
Robert M. ‘Scott sat for a pen
portrait n a Know-Your-Neghbor
column.
Teddy Frantz, Harveys Lake real
estate dealer, was killed in a motor-
boat! accident and three others were
injured, when the Frantz boat, trav-
elling at high speed, struck a sea-
plane moored without running
lights.
Arthur Ehret 3 won out over Bruce
Williams in the Lehman school board
contest.
Leslie Lewis, a former Carverton
man, was killed in a farm accident
near Tunkhannock. :
Seven-year-old Charles Venetz Jr.
or Orange, died under the wheels
of a truck.
Elsie Garinger became the bride
of Joseph Rauch.
iGertude Leah Smith became the
bride of Sgt. John Shupp.
Bundles for Britain
gathered momentum.
rr nappened 1() vEARs Aco:
Odus ‘Moore, coming from North
Carolina, succeeded John D. Griffith
as manager of the Bloomsburg Mill
at Fernbrook. Mr. Griffith stepped
up to management of the parent
movement
‘plant in Bloomsburg:
Supervising principals were dis-
couraging efforts of parents to beat
the age law and enroll children in
the first grade who missed by a
few days the deadline of January
31, though Harrisburg grudgingly
consented, if children could pass
readiness tests.
Dallas Bank changed its hours,
opening at 8 instead of 9, and tack-
ing on an evening opening for Fri-
days, 5 to 8. No ‘Saturday hours.
The 1951 Green Pastures contest
was won by Frank Brown of Wyom-
ing County, who supportepd 27 cat-
tle on his 23 lush acres.
Rev. Frederick Reinfurt, pastor
of Dallas Methodist Church, was the
subject of a Know-Your-Neighbor
column.
Kathryn Malta, Ashley, a former
area resident, became the bride of
Frederick Shouldice 11.
Charlotte Hoyt and John Engler
were married.
Thomas F. Krivak and Irene T.
Stofilo became man and wife.
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THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1961
EEE SCE
5
On the same day that we were
reading a statement from the Coun-
ty Superintendent of Schools, E. S.
Teter, that six of the super-dist-
ricts have been organized in the
county with ten more to be com- |.
pleted, the State House passed a
new plan upsetting the whole thing.
The new districts as announced
show enrollment in Unit No. 5, Moun-
tain, Top Area, from 1,236, the smal-
lest, to our own Dallas District, the
largest of 2,413. The House plan
gives a desirable minimum of 4,000
public school pupils with an abso-
lute minimum of 2,500. This looks
bad for Lake-Lehman, Unit No. 4,
which has 1,573, where a life and
death struggle is under way to get
a new building even for the new
district as now organized.
In our own case, we ought to
squeeze by. If the State Depart-
ments gets unduly arbitrary about
the 2,500 all we have to do is to get
some of our Catholic residents to
lend us a hundred pupils from the
Gate of Heaven School until the
trouble blows over. Rather than see
our new school system torn apart,
faulty though it may be,’and taxes
increased some more, they would
probably do it. Certainly no worth-
while education can be given in a
system under perpetual reorgani-
zation. Someday they will have to
get settled down andi do some work.
The boys and girls going through
the schools are expending the best
years of their lives and it is unfair
to them to have the years wasted
in whole or in part. ~
And now may we change
subject.
A certain conspicioug Démocrat
Politician, and we do not mean
President Kennedy, is well known
locally. Perhaps naming names is
inexpedient, so we will follow a good
Democrat practice and substitute
alphabetical equivalents, viz: Demo-
crat Politician becomes D. P. And
this means just Democrat Politician
and should not be played upon to
indirate names or initials. Any re
semblance is purely coincidental.
And this does not assume the
meaning of displaced person. The
man. has one of the best jobs in, the
gift of his party, and, for all prac-
tical. purposes, cannot be displaced.
Like all D. P's he is excellent at
promising pie in the sky, offering
aid for the needy and anyone else
who asks for it, cultivating all heavy
the
Rambling Around
By The Oldtimer—D. A. Waters
HICH ETE CSE EA EES
(for a matter with which he had noth-
ZHCHIHREHCIHIH
voting and minority groups, and |
is, in fact, better at all these activ- |
ities than most D. Pls. Therefore |
any displacement is out of the ques-
tion. |
He is conspicuous for several |
reasons, not the least of which is
that he shows remarkable talent for
being right out in front at any af-
fair when a picture is being taken
for the press or TV. Likewise his
well trained voice is raised at pub-
lic gatherings and rolls out of the
loud speakers at the slighest pretext.
Some in public life have publicity
thrust upon them, even when they,
try to avoid it, but not so this D. P.
He gets the kind which is achieved
by going right after it, hour after
hour, day after day, week after
week, and year after year. No one
should be disturbed if he gets plenty
of publicity. He works for it.
Aid for his constituents is his
principal stock in trade, and he goes
out of his way to secure it. Al
though this writer has personal
knowledge where he assumed credit
ing whatever to do, that is only an
isolated case, and he probably des-
erves most of the credit he gets.
He is outstanding in a physical
sense because -bf certain individual
characteristics. We do not infer any
deformities, he is as sleek and well
fed and groomed as the best of the
D. P's. And we do not refer to
Soapy Williams’ bow ties, or to Lyn-
don Johnson's ten-gallon hats, or
Speaker Rayburn’s bald head. Our
D. P., for sheer eccentricity, ‘excells
them all: .
Now Premier Castro is well known
because of his beard, his personal
trademark. But our D, P. is noted
in that he does not wear a beard, not
even what half a century ago would
have been called a “handlebar”. No
resemblance to Charlie Chaplin or
Adolph Hitler is intended. In fact,
in certain things, there is only one,
and no comparison is possible. If one
is looking for only a glimpse, or a |
phantom, or a shadow, or maybe a |
wisp, comparison is out: of the ques-
tion.
Our D- P. is noted on the banquet
circle, but prefers to be a speaker,
when possible the main speaker,
rather than act as master of cere-
monies. He is said to have little
liking for the coined word ‘emcee’,
but looks with: favor on M. C.
Safety
Valve . . .
NOT SURE OF HIMSELF
Sirs:
I have boon reading your articles
concerning the school. I also have
heard so much pro and con as to
its merit that I decided to go over
and take a look at it.
T honestly was shocked at what
I saw. I never dreamed that it took
a place like that to assure a ‘good
education. 1 sort of got the feeling
that if the student didn’t get an
education at least he'd enjoy his
school years and the playground
facilities.
By the way, most of the people I
heard talking seemed more inter-
ested in these facilities than any-
thing else.
Gosh! when are we going to wake
up in this country and realize that
money can't buy everything and
especially a REAL education ? Whom
are we trying to impress---each
other ?
This type of extravagence is
exactly why Americans are so badly
treated in the rest of the world.
We're just one big Texas I guess,
I was also shockd at the fact that
the word teacher was not even ment-
ioned in all the chatter I heard.
I'm afraid this materialistic world
of ours has gobbled us up without
our even realizing it.
[Can’t your newspaper do some-
thing about opening our eyes to
the fact that all that glitters is not
gold ?
[Another thing that amazed me,
was the cute way in which the
school designers arranged the build-
ing so that nothing could be built
on top (naturally it's cheaper that
way)
All I can say is----what next?
P.S. Not trying to pick a fight with
anyone, but, my gosh, we'd better
start waking up around here.
Editor's Note: If your feeling is
really sincere, why not have the
courage to sign your letter? A tim-
id heart and weak voice will awaken
no one.
Misericordia Guild
Plans Antique Auction
McAuley Guild of College Miseri-
cordia met on Sunday in the Regina
Lounge on the campus when plans
for the coming Antique Auction
Sale and Art Exhibit were discussed.
The affair will be held at the col-
lege on October 6 and 7.
/ Mrs. Francis McManaman Gen-
eral Chairman, reported that many
interesting and valuable antiques
have been donated for the auction.
|An Art Exhibit under the super-
vision of Niccolo Cortiglia will be a
feature of the affair.
Dallas-Borough-Kingston Town-
ship joint schools enrolled 86 child-
ren in the newly established kind-
ergarten. Mrs. IChares James and
Miss Helen Mills were the teachers.
David Parsons, midshipman, was
serving on a destroyer somewhere
in the Atlantic, and William B. Rus-
sell took part in an Arctic mane-
uver. 2 "
GOOD GUESSERS
Sept. 9, 1961
63 Sheridan Pkside
: : Tonawanda, N. Y.
Dear Editor:
My son, Robert, and I are enjoy~
ing the “Whatsit” pictures in the |
Post. We guessed the first picture |
correctly but failed to write and tell
you. The picture in last week’s Post
looks like a bee’s eyes. We got our
Post today and have looked it over
from the front to back looking for
the answer. We haven't found it
yet. We have decided that this
week’s picture is a head of cabbage
cut in half. How are we doing?
We enjoy our Post very much
and like to see what our old friends,
neighbors and family are doing.
Mrs. Leland Case
Sincerely,
Editor's note: If you got the
1st “Whatsit,” you're good. Very
few people guessed it. The picture
of the moth wings, when turned
upside down, baffled a number of
people. But the cabbage, which we
thought would stump almost every-
body, was guessed almost at once,
and correct answers have been com-
ing ever since.
4-H CLUB
Last meeting of Cloverleaf 4-H
Club will be held on the 25th of
September. This. will be the “Round
Up” and everyone interested in 4-
H Clubs and finding out what a 4-
H Club member is to do, to com-
plete a project, is invited. The
meeting will begin at 8 p.m. Mem-
bers will attempt to show the visi-
tors. the model 4-H Club meeting.
There will be a program by mem-
bers.
Present. at the meeting and
Wiener Roast at the last meeting
were: Helen Cummings, President;
Ruth Ann Scott, secretary; Chester
Rusiloski; treasurer; Will Conyng-
ham, song leader; Jessie Conyng-
ham, game leader; Erma Sutton,
news reporter; Brian Beard, Sheryl
Beard, Allan Cooper, John Cum-
mings, Patrick Holdredge, Daniel
Mathers, Evelyn Scott, and Marvin
Scott. The visitors present were:
Mr. Ralph Beard, Assistant Luzerne
County Agent: Mr. W. Conyngham,
Parky Conyngham, Warren Sutton.
Also in attendance were the local
leaders of the Cloverleaf 4-H Club
Mr. and Mrs. M Scott.
WAY OUT
Daddy: out of town
Dishwasher: out of order
Clothes Dryer: out of commission
Garbage disposer: out of whack
Budget: out of control
Children: out of hand
Mother: out of sorts
DAUGHTER’S DREAM
If she had a bathroom of her own,
Complete with a mirror and private
phone,
We'd never know we had a daughter
Except for the sound of running
water.
Looking at
T-V
With GEORGE A. and
EDITH ANN BURKE
THE NEW TELEVISION SEASON
is finally on its way., There are 46
brand new shows. How many of
these new shows will finish the
season is anyone's guess. If 50 per
cent of them survive it will be a
good average.
Several shows have changed from
one network to another. Among these
are the “Dick Powell Show,? which
moved from the CBS network,
where it was a half hour program
to NBC and became an hour show.
“Robert Taylor In “Detectives” is
anothed. It moved from the ABC
network to NBC and become an-
other hour-long show.
“Gunsmoke”, “Tales of Wells Far-
go” and Alcoa Premiere’ remained
with own networks but lengthened
into hour shows.
COMEDY is making a comeback
this year. Red Skelton and Jack
Benny will return to their own prog-
rams. Added will be Bob Newhart,
Joey Bishop, “Car 54, Where Are
You?” and Steve Allen and Garry
Moore with their varety-comedy
shows.
STEVE ALLEN will be-competing
against “Wagon Train” which has
had a strong rating in the past.
Some feel it will be easy for him
because “Wagon Train’ has become
repetitious and is without the serv-
ices of Ward Bond, who died in
the past mid-season.
ROBERT YOUNG will be back
with a new program, “Window on
Main Street.” None of his “Father
Knows Best” cast will appear in
this.
DUPONT SHOW OF THE WEEK,
which moved over tc NBC from CBS,
should prove a strong entry against
its opponents in the same period,
particularly ABC's ‘Adventure in
Paradise.”
NETWORK MOVIES - NBC will
show a movie starting at 9 p.m. on
Saturday night. Local stations that
show a movie of their own will be
making Saturday a double feature
| night.
Early this year NBC obtained
from Twentieth Century-Fox a pack-
age of 120 movies, all made in the
1950's.
“How to Marry a Millionaire”
starring Marilyn Monroe, Lauren
Bacall and Betty Grable is set for
TV viewing on Sept. 23.
Tf these movies click, the other
two metworks are in real trouble.
Medics - After a lapse of several
years medical soap operas will get
back on the screens when ‘Dr. Kil-
dare” is revived with a new cast
on NBC and ABC introduces ‘Ben
Casey.”
All in all it looks like an inter-
esting season.
SHELLY FABARES is one person
who is very happy about the Donna
Reed Show being renewed for an- |’
other season. Shelly will be begin-
ning her fourth year in the role
of Mary, the teen-age daughter.
Shelly made her debut into the
professional world as a child model
and became one of the west coast’s
most-in-demand- models for child-
ren's wear.
She started dancing at the age"
of four. Her first dramatic break
came in 1953. She took part in a
Frank Sihatra spectacular. After
this she received dramatic parts on
“The Loretta Young Show”, “Play-
house 90” and ‘Matinee Theater.”
[She lives with her parents and a
sister, who is also an actress, in
Hollywood. Her aunt is Nanette Fab-
ares.
She graduated from the Studio
High School in June, 1961. She re-
ceived top grades in English and
History. She plans on entering a
theater arts school soon.
She had brown hair and brown
eyes. She loves swimming, cooking,
and music. When she dates, she
usually makes it a double date. Her
mail, whichis very heavy, comes
from high school students in every
state. ;
HONG KONG - Too bad, inspite
of all the letters of protest, and there
were thousands, ‘Hong Kong” is
definately not returning toi the net-
work. :
Bird Club Meeting
Tonight In Annex
Frank Jackson will speak to mem-
bers of the Back Mountain Bird
Club tonight, when they meet at 8
in the Library Annex for the first
time this season.
Newcomers to the area are espec-
ially invited to attend, to learn
about the wide-spread bird-feeding
program which is a feature of the
Back Mountain, and tobecome ac-
quainted with ~other bird-lovers.
Mr. Jackson is the best-loved
birder. in these parts. He knows
all the answers. He can tell you
where to hang a blue-bird nest to
be sure of a tenant next March, and
what. foods are guaranteed to bring
visitors to the feeder during the
winter. Frank also makes bird-
houses and bird<feeders, annually
contributing some of his hand-
crafted wares to the Library Auc-
tion.
Rev. George Dysher will preside.
Plans are already being laid for
a field trip to Hawk Mountain dur-
ing the migration season.
Sponsors Card Party
Mt. Grange 567 will sponsor a
card party in Carverton Grange
Hall Saturday, September 23 at
8 pm. Mrs. Almon Altemus is
| chairman of the affair. Sib
From
= Pillar To Post...
by Hix
The assembled residents of New Goss Manor, who confidently
expected me to stumble out of the helicopter Monday night, holding
valiantly to my cookies, but tinted a pale pea-green, were cheated.
No pea-green complection, no cookies tossed.
Senator Flack waved congratulations as I made like a chipmunk
and out of the cow pasture where George
over the stone wall
Horwatt parks his helicopter.
The small boys of the neighborhood, present at take-off half
an hour earlier, and again as the buzz-buggy appeared over
treetops, vanished into thin air.
For years I've been dreaming about a helicopter ride. Two weeks
the
ago it almost came to pass, but was cancelled out by circumstances.
Monday evening at dusk, Mr. Horwatt called up: “You took a
raincheck on that helicopter ride. Howzabout cashing it in tonight ?”
“I'll be right up,” I said in a dither of excitement.
The thing hovers. It sends out sky-hooks by ‘which it suspends
itself over a green hillside, while astonished cows look up, momen-
tarily pausing in their cud-chewing.
It takes a gentle nose-dive and wafts itself around the curving
Small urchins on the docks wave en-
coastline of Harveys Lake.
thusiastically, and folks fishing down below in rowboats abandon
their lines for a moment.
It picks up speed, ninety miles an hour,
though it feels like
standing stock-still, and whirrs over the trees toward Trucksville.
It heads down Pioneer Avenue after buzzing the Dallas Post and
Parrish Heights.
It hovers for a minute over the house behind the picket fence
and it now appears that from the air,
roof is two tones of red, while next door the
on Pioneer,
Bruce house is a
gleaming white, highly effective in warding off the rays of the sun.
(Must do something about that roof.)
The Dwight Fisher place shows up admirably, with its ring for
horses and its hurdles for jumping.
The Shavertown shopping center is practically deserted. Acme
closed for Monday night.
The new educational building at the White Church on the Hill
looks enormously modern in its stark simplicity of line.
The hilly pastures tip up on
toward Huntsville dam.
their side, and here we go, off
Astonishing how many people have farm ponds or swimming
pools.
Back again to the other end of town, and up and over Herman
Thomas’ place. His sheep look like small bugs far below.
The sun, glowing red, starts to disappear in the gathering mists.
A detour over the country club; Shrine Acres, where George
Ruckno’s house is a focus for the new community;
High School; the open air theatre.
Dallas Junior
A quick pass over the new high school building and’its newly
seeded athletic field. Three cars in the parking lot. The Custodians?
The cow pasture again, its tall weeds bending and swaying in
the wash of the rotors.
A final spin around the circle, a brisk backing up in mid-air
(just to show what the thing is capable of) and a belly-flop on the
grass.
Getting out of the plastic bubble poses as much of a problem
as getting in. It's like stepping up onto the mantelpiece and down
again.
After riding in a helicopter,
I keep wondering why anybody
messes around with highway traffic when he could be flying high
above it, sailing off into the blue,
crossing the Poconos in a beeline.
Mr. Horwatt has a map that shows parking places for Helicop-
ters, not far from urban centers.
plane,
way necessary.
There is, of course, the question of expense.
my baby Austin.)
A helicopter isn’t as fast as a
but it is able to rise vertically, from any field, with no run-
(I think I'll keep
But Mr. Horwatt is in the leasing business, and helicopters,
like cars, trucks, and baby-pens, can be rented. He has all the ans-
wers.
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100 Years Ago This Week...in v
THE CIVIL WAR
| (Events exactly 100 years ago this week in the Civil War—
told in the language and style of today.)
Full Speed Ahead in #
Gunboat Construction
Crash Program
Rocks St. Louis
ST. LOUIS, —Sept. 17—Con-
struction of a fleet of armored
river gunboats for Union troops
is proceeding at an astonishing
pace, a tour of facilities here
indicates.
At least 4,000 workers in ship-
yards, machine shops, foundries
and sawmills—all under the direc-
tion of master boat-builder James
B. Eads—are going full blast 24
hours a day on the top-priority
projects.
. First products of the crash pro-
gram are pegged for the use of
soldiers under Maj. Gen. John
Charles Fremont, Union com-
mander of forces in the West,
Fremont is awaiting delivery of
38 mortar boats and eight steam
tugs to move them. Also under
way is the conversion of two sturdy
river craft, the New Era, a ferry,
md the Submarine, a snag-boat,
which are to be commissioned and
re-christened the Essex and Benton,
: respesitvely,
* &
EADS, one of the nation’s lead-
ing experts on river traffic and
steamboat construction, said that
final plans have been made for
the building of seven massive guns
boats for early delivery to the Un-
ion’s fast-growing river fleet,
Specifications call for these
craft to be 175 feet long, 5114
feet wide and to draw no more
than 6 feet of water.
The boats will carry 13 heavy
guns each, be plated with 21% inch
tron, and have a minimum speed
of nine miles an hour, the nautical
engineer said.
Tentatively, they have been
named St. Louis, Carondolet, Cin-
cinnati, Louisville, Mound City,
Cairo and Pittsburgh,
» ® ®
SIDES OF the craft are to be
sloped at an angle of about 35 de-
grees and front and rear case-
ments also will slant,
Stern-wheels will be entirely
protected by the rear casement
and front casements will shield
three bow guns,
Also in the works are plans
to convert the snag-boat BEN-
TON into a unique twin-hulled
vessel some 200 feet long and
seventy-five feet of beam, to
carry 16 guns, including seven
32-pounders and seven army
42-pounders.
Acquisition of the Benton was
mrp by Fremont and its w-
Switches
RIC OND, Va.—Sept. 17—
Judah P. Benjamin (above) to-
day succeeded Leroy P. Walker
as secretary of war for the
South. Thomas Bragg replaced
Benjamin as attorney general.
Walker resigned the secretary-
ship, which he had held for
seven months,
timate destination is thought te
be Cairo,
Eads was called by Washington
shortly after Fort Sumter to cone
fer with’ Navy Secretary Gideon
Welles and his chief aide, Capt. -
Gustavus Fox, about the possi
bility of fast construction of a river
fleet that would give the North
command of the West's vital
navigable waters, ,
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HIS WHIRLWIND approach ta
the problem “brought a sharp
change in the economy of St. Louis,
where rolling-mills and forges had
lain idle as men enlisted or leff
the state in search of employment.
The 4,000-man work force was
assembled—and on the job—within
two weeks after Eads and the
Navy department agreed on cons
‘tracts for the challenging project,
As of today, the contracts call
for delivery of the gun-boats not
later than Oct. 10. If Eads meéts
the deadline, he will have launched
a fleet including eight steam boats
aggregating 5,000 ‘tons—within 100
days of laying the first keel,
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