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SECTION A — PAGE 7
Some Of The Residents Who Registered For Adult Flueation:
& Over 300 registrations have been
received by Alfred M. Camp, prin-
cipal of the Adult School sponsored
by Dallas Schools.
A number of registrants
up the class enrollment, with more
expected. Prospective Students may
register until October 11, one week
after classes start on Wednesday,
October 4.
have |
signed up for two courses, bringing |
Residents who have been disap-
| pointed because certain courses did
| not draw enough enrollment to be
| practical, may switch to other
courses by telephone or letter to
Mr. Camp.
| Among the courses which did not
' have sufficient drawing power to
be offered are: consumer economics,
contemporary political science, dra-
| matics, German 10, symphonic band,
Back Mountain Residents Feared
An Air Raid As Si
By MRS. T.
At daylight Thursday morning, Back Mountain Lumber
Company was a shambles, neighboring fire companies
assisting Shavertown volunteers in doggedly pumping water
tion of a regulator and meter station near Natona Mills and
store, one of the finest hardware stores in Northeastern Penn-
sylvania.
For Back Mountain residents who did not know what
happened until daylight, the night had been a test of nerves.
It was a horrifying sound, that
prolonged wailing of the siren at
three o'clock in the morning.
Jolted from their sleep, and with the
in the news,
many Back Mountain residents
thought that it might be an air-
raid alert. The issue was confused
becduse there was no tell-tale glow
in the sky until much later.
It was impossible to get news.
Rock-and-roll disc jockey programs
predominated.
The siren had an urgency about
is lacking in most fire
alarms, when the siren sounds a
few blasts and then dies away. It
was the prolonged warning of dis- |
aster that had so many residents |
pacing the floor, wondering what
was coming next, tuning to Conel-
rad, and then reassuring themselves |
that light and power were both |
. still available.
Heard at the A&P . .. ‘Well, I
was sure it was an air raid. It kept
up so long. And you know, with
the Berlin situation, it could be al-
most anything.” That was a very
cute little blonde checker-out who
_ lives in East Dallas.
Customers compared notes. Mr.
Kitchen, chatting with Steve Glova,
~ said he’d heard too many fire
alarms to be confused. Steve, situ-
vted between Harveys Lake and
Runkle, didn’t hear a thing.
At the Shavertown Acme, it was
the same story. Everybody had
"been frightened out of their wits
except the folks who lived near
enough to the Lumber Company to
see activity.
Mrs. Wilbur Davis, on the
Heights, thought the terrific clamor
was heralding an enemy attack, and
that Civil Defense, in transmitting
the news, might have abandoned
prearranged signals of alert and
warning, using as much noise as
possible to get citizens out of their
beds.
Miss Miriam Lathrop, at the li-
@ bray, thought in terms of terrible
disaster, with an air raid well to
the fore. True to form, Miss Lath-
rop reached for a book. When she
W heard heavy trucks rumbling past
on Main Street, she concluded that
there was great trouble somewhere
on. the hichway, perhaps a fatal
crash involving several cars, which
had made necessary diversion of
traffic, She put a marker in her
book and went back to sleev.
Heard on the streets: “Well, it
sounded like something down in
the Valley, maybe a mine disaster.
It didn’t sound like anything close
at hand. = We couldn't get a thing
on the radio.”
“Oh, you're mistaken. WBAX
had a blow by blow account of the
fire.”
“At 3 a.m. when the whole thing
started ?
“Not that early, of course. May-
be around 4 am.”
Mrs. Irene Monk, Pinecrest Aven-
ue, Dallas, thought it was a signal
of attack. Her daughter, Mrs. Doris
Mallin, was equally sure that it was
“Lights are on, and the siren
isn’t wavering the way it would be
if it were blowing for an expected
_ attack. The sound is too steadv.”
~veys Lake,
Mrs. William Pierce Jr. at Har-
heard the sirens, an-
swered by Harvevs Lake sirens, and
thought only that there was an-
other accident at the Lake. “Right
2 wear.
in front of our house last week
around midnight.” she said. “a car
upsets into the lake and two men
for
They keep saying. where's
the other man? and nobody knows
where he is. That hitchiker crawled
out some wav. and ran down the
road. Probably thought the men
who nicked him up were dead. and
the didn't want to be blamed.”
Rev. Russell Lawry thought of
erawl out. much the worse
"the sional In termg of another es:
cave. from the prison, -
Mrs.
Sarah : Supuaon;.. Suny
rens Sounded
M. B. HICKS
still
directly overlooking the back door
of Back Mountain Lumber Com-
pany, was hoisted out of bed by the
siren. Her first thought was an air
raid, her second that the signal was
wrong for an air-raid, too sus-
tained. Two heavy explosions she
took to be a far-away bomb blast.
Noting that the Shavertown fire
apparatus was not moving from its
position ‘in front of the door, she
realized that the trouble was closer
at hand. Then she saw flames
through the rear windows.
Mrs. Paul Rodda, Pioneer Aven-
ue: “We thought it was a bomb,
and that the red alert was sound-
ing. Then, when we heard through
| the open kitchen windows, siren
| afer siren, from all around us, we
thought ‘of a prison break. Then
‘the big trucks began coming over
Pioneer Avenue and that meant
traffic was being diverted from the
highway. That added up to some-
thing local, a fire or a dreadful ac-
cident.
‘The worst of it was, not being
able to get any information. No
local radio stations on the air.
Detroit had a rock and roll pro-
gram, which was after all quite re-
assuring, except that it was too far
off.”
Mrs. Willard Garey, Lehman,
recognized the special emergency
signal recently installed at the Leh-
man Fire Hall, and knew that it
was blown only when help is des--
perately needed.
Joe Harris, 40 Yeager Avenue,
heard five explosions. He thought
physical education for both men and
women, algebra, geometry, biology,
chemistry, and advanced mathe-
matics.
Standing in the background in the
new Dallas Senior High School
cafeteria are: Dr. Robert A. Mell-
man, Superintendent of Dallas
Schools, and Alfred M. Camp, head
of the evening school. :
Photo by Kozemchak
Civil Defense To
Discuss Fall-Out
Shelter Tonight
Sirens Point Up
Unpreparedness
Of Entire Region
Unpreparedness of the “entire
Back Mountain will be discussed
scheduled for
High- School.
“What would we have done ‘if
8 p.m. at the New
question which sober Back Moun-
tain residents asked each other
Thursday morning, after
roused from sleep by the prolonged
shrieking of the fire sirens.
Is anybody in the Back Mountain
prepared to survive radio-active fall-
out ?
Residents who scurried for the
| radio Thursday at 3 a.m. tuned in
that |
on Conelrad, and found
warning station silent, Realized how
completely exposed they were.
How many people in the Back
Mountain know how to protect
themselves against fall-out which
can result in slow death?
How many people realize that
a fall-out shelter, to be effective for
any but the briefest stay, must
have a purifed air system?
That in case of a genuine atomic
bomb explosion, there would be a
completely absent?
That on power depends modern
sanitation, as well as heat,
and refrigeration ?
That our civilization is not as
well equipped to survive as it would
have been when pioneers erected
log cabins, dug root-cellars, built a
small but useful structure at the
end of the vegetable garden, cut
their. own wood for heat and cook-
ing, and carried water from a
spring ?
The penalty we pay for progress
the constant wailing of the fire
siren might herald approach of
enemy planes. Seeing no glow in
the sky, he could not believe that
there was a blaze near at hand |
and translated the explosions into
far louder detonations many miles
away. 3
‘At’ Smith Pond. Barbara Rivera
heard no sirens. “We always keep
an ear out for an escape signal
‘from the Institution.” she said, “but |
we didn’t hear a thing.
market man for the Acme,
in central Shavertown, heard]
several explosions,
sirens to be a warning of an im- |
minent atom bomb explosion. Then |
he saw the flames, got dressed, and
hurried out.
Mrs. Helen Elston, Center Street, |
heard the prolonged wailing. looked |
out her window, saw nothing, went
back to bed, and half an hour |
later looked asain. “Flames were |
showing by that time, so. 1 got |
dressed and went over to McCrory’s. |
There was a big crowd, and cars |
lining the streets. Traffic was
coming uv Center Street. No. I
didn’t think about a warning of
atomic attack.”
Alice. on the office staff of Back
Mountain Lumber Co: said she
heard the sirens, but had no news
of the disaster until half past six.
When she called the Dallas Post to
order letter-heads at 9 a.m. need-
ine emergency supplies to use in
temporary quarters in the lumber
yard office. she said that she had
not considered that it might be an
attack warning,
Pomona Granae
Pomono Grance No. 44, met at
T,ehman Fire Hall Saturday, Pomona
Master Raymond Searfoss presid-
ed at the morning meeting. A
chicken dinner was served. An
afternoon oven session with a movie
entitled ‘Five Miles West” on Ger-
manv was followed with a reading
by Mrs. Arthur Seeley, Scranton.
Mrs. . Clyde Sampson, lecturer,
Muhlenburg Grange. presented a
musical pageant, ‘The Foundation
of the Grange.” Another movie de-
picting the dedication of the Nation-
al Grange building in Washington,
Gordon Wolverton, popular meat |
living |
and took the |
| earth,
is almost complete vulnerability to
| any situuation which threatens our
| supply lines.
We are no longer a self-suf-
ficient nation.
| What the world does, is of life
| and death importance to us.
Has anybody in the Back Moun-
| tain taken the threat of fall-out
seriously enough to actually prepare
a shelter, properly stocked, properly
insulated, easily accessible, and with
| some sort of arrangement for puri-
fying the air?
Nobody can safeguard against an
| atomic blast. Speaking in terms of
megatons, bombs are now available
| which can kill millions of people in
one blazing instant, and render the
| earth scorched and uninhabitable.
Fall-Out is different.
Radio-active particleg can be car-
ried by currents high above the
sifting down from the site
of the explosion. They can burn,
| they can cripple, they can kill.
Granville Sowden, owner of the
| Back Mountain Lumber Company
which was destroyed by fire Thurs-
' day morning, put it in a nutshell:
“When the sirens blew, I thought |
immediately of an air raid. I went
downstairs and turned on Conelrad,
and there was nothing. Then Wil-
lard called me to say the store was
on fire, and I was enormously re-
lieved. It was my store, and pro-
bably it would be a total loss, but
it wasn’t an air raid. We know
what to do about fires. But how
does anybody really know what to
do in an air raid?”
HUMMELL REUNION
Annual Hummell Reunion was
held Sunday, September 3, at Lake
Jean. Present were Mr. and Mrs,
William Rittenhouse, Shery, Mr.
and Mrs.
Hally, Mr. and Mrs, Mike Bielecki,
Billy, Mary Scouten, Harveys Lake;
Joan, Carol Andreas, Harry Hum-
‘Wayne, Indiana.
Mrs. Raymond Scott and family,
Noxen; Mr, and Mrs. Cleveland
Hummell and family, Old Bridge, N,
J.; Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Frantz, South
Amboy, N. J.
New officers of - the family are
Flora Parrish, president; Earle Hum-
mell, vice president; Carol Bielecki,
treasurer; Charlotte Scott, histor
D. ©, was shown. About iii
nine Pn arene. :
ian; Hannah ae secretary, |
tonight at the Civil Defense meeting
it had been an air raid?” was the |
being !
mell, Scranton; Earl Hummell, Fort
long period when power would be :
light,
Robert Parrish, Bobby, |
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