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Presbyterians
Obtain Minister
For Ist Service
Dr. Peter K. Emmons
President Of Trustees
At Princeton Seminary
Final arrangements have been
completed for the first service of the
United Presbyterian Fellowship of
the Back Mountain to be held Sun-
day, September 24, at 11:00 a.m.,
in the Dallas Junior High School.
Guest minister will be Reverend
Peter K. Emmons, D. D. pastor
emeritus of Westminster Presbyter-
REV. PETER K. EMMONS, D. D.
ian Church of Scranton and Presi
dent of Board of Trustees of Prince:
ton Theological Seminary. Dr. Em-
mons, resident of Stroudsburg has
held pastorates in Stroudsburg. and |
Trenton, New Jersey.
A nursery for pre-school children |
and junior church for children 10 |
years and under will be held dur-
ing the regular service.
Services are being conducted
under auspices of the Presbytery
Lackawanna of the United
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
In recent months a group of inter-
ested residents of the area petition-
ed the Presbytery to start a church,
with ass’stnice of Reverend Robert |
R. Smyrl, Bxecutive Secretary of the
Lackawanna Presbytery.
Northeastern Regional Committee |
of the Pennsylvannia Council of |
Churches and the Board of National |
Missions of the United Church have
approved.
Dr. Emmons, a graduate of Prince:
ton University and Princeton Theo- |
logical Seminary, is a former Presi-
dent of the Commission on Ecu
menical Relations of the United
Presbyterian Church and has served |
as Moderator of the Presbytery of
Lackawanna and the Synod of
Pennsylvania. He holds honorary
degrees from Grove City College
and Princeton University.
The Lackawanna Presbytery is
providing hymnals to the new
fellowship. All interested persons
are invited to attend.
Reservations For
Dinner Due Wed.
Community To Express
Regard For Librarian
Mrs. Harry Oblman asks that
reservations for the smorgasbord
honoring Miss Miriam Lathrop
October 3 at Irem Country Club,
be made by Wednesday of next
week.
Residents visiting the Wbrary may
make their reservations there, with
Mrs. Albert Jones or Mrs. Robert
Bachman. Mrs. Ohlman, dinner
chairman will take reservations,
also Mrs. Fred Howell, Mrs. Her-
man Thomas, Mrs. W. H. Smith,
Mrs. Thomas Heffernan.
Members of the Book Club and
of the Library Board are being
reached | by telephone. No special
invitations are being issued. Every-
body is welcome, a spontaneous ex-
pression of the regard in which the
community holds its retiring li-
brarian.
Brisk Demand For Land
Plans for the construction of the
new Luzerne-Dallas Highway. with
subsequent razing of a number of
business properties, has created a
brisk demand for the few suitable
locations along the highway that
will be available after the road is
built. Offers for prime locations are |
as high as $75 per front foot for
average depth-
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
Key Club Rifle Team On The March And At Attention
Key Club Rifle Drill Team, shown | tween Lycoming and Susquehanna | Williams and Sally Moyer. In ad- | Colorettes $10.
here as it appered in the parade |
preceding the Library Auction, is
scheduled to perform in pre-game
ceremonies in Sunbury on Saturday,
opening festivities of the Annual
Charity Night football game be-
College teams, in the Kiwanis Club |
| parade to the stadium. Barry Slo-
cum will’ lead.
Marching also will be the Key |
Club Color Guard, directed by Don |
Anderson; Colorettes, with the huge !
flag; Keyettes, directed by Glenda |
vance of the game, all units
perform on the field.
will
George McCutcheon ‘and Mrs. Wil-
| liam Wright accompany the units.
Last Saturday, the Rifle Team | Members of the teams will go. to
took top honors in the Mummers |
Parade at Hazleton, winning an
award of $100. Keyettes were given
$25 for «their participation,
and
Sunbury by bus and private cars,
arriving at 6:30.
Photo By Kozemchak
Dr. Jay Young Captivates Civil Defense
Audience as He Shows How to Stay Alive
Dr. Jay Young was the hit of the
Civil “Defense meeting Thursday |
night at Dallas Senior High School,
demonstrating how layer after lay-
er of material gives greater and
greater protection from fall-out, and
how to vanish under a table if no
greater protection offers in a base-
ment.
Holding a flashlight and a Ses
book, Dr. Young permitted one leaf
to fall over the light. . Two leaves;
three leaves; a sheaf of leaves,
until the light was completely
blanked out.
Radioactivity, he explained, goes
in a straight line, just as light does.
Which is why you need plenty of
protection overhead, but can still
obtain fresh air in your basement
| shelter by locating vents near the
floor, utilizing air which will enter
the shelter with a minimum of con-
tamination.
A number of the questions posed
be the andierce, written on slips of
| puper and wullected by Boy Scouts
of Troop, 281, were concerned with
necessary air supply.
Seated on the rostrum in the new
| High School auditorium were Dr.
Young, Russell Honeywell, Burgess
Thomas Morgan, Nick Souchick
Col. Leon Beisel, Stefan Hellersperk,
Dr. Robert Bodycomb, William
Krimmell, Jack Stanley, Joseph
Harris, and Francis Ambrose.
Committee For
Better Schools
Upholds Board
Group Of Parents
Seeks Legal Aid
To Circumvent Law
Richard Demmy, chairman of Citi-
zens Committee for Better Schools,
states that his organization’s exec-
utive board, including Rev. Robert
D. Yost, pastor of Shavertown Meth-
odist Church; Pauk Rodda, architect;
and Mrs: Morris Slater, Pioneer Ave-
nue, solidly supports the Dallas
iSchool Board and superintendent Dr.
Robert A. Mellman in their decision
to adhere to the school code in the
matter of transportation of school
children.
Any other decision, said Mr.
Demmy, would mean drastic cut
in appropriation by the State, and
corresponding upward revision of
the budget, which draws its funds
from the tax-payers.
The law clearly states. that elem-
entary children will not be picked up
under a mile and a half.- The school
board has no recourse but to obey
the law.
A number of parents of small
children sought legal advice last
week, to get around the law, after
making protest at the school board
meeting September 12. At this board
meeting, it was stated that the
board understood the problem, but
that the law was clear.
The law can be changed, says Mr.
Demmy, whose own children must
cross a dangerous highway intersec-
tion on their way to school. There
are clearly defined ways of chang-
ing laws: 'See your congressman.
Lines, he said, must be drawn
somewhere, Children born January
31 are in one category, those born
at one minute past midnight in an-
other, The same applies to transpor-
tation lines.
Drive, Trucksville, has retired after
being in service with the D & H Rail-
Toad as an Engineer for 49 years.
He married Grace Williams of Car-
bondale, and has three children,
Mrs. Botege Bentisy, iikey Birney
William Dimmick, Engineer, Ends
43 Years With D & H Railroad
William H. Dimmick, 207 Skyline W. Herbert Dimmick,
Trucksville,
and Mrs, Harold Williams, Trucks-
ville. There are six grand children.
He is a member of
Methodist Church, and all Masonic
Organizations. ‘His hobby. is travel-
ing J
Trucksville
Mr. Hellersperk welcomed the
group. Mr. Ambrose recalled the
surprise visitation of hundreds of
elementary school children from
Kingston, who were evacuated from
Kingston by army truck and ac-
commodated at Dallas Methodist
Church for registration and feeding
i| several years ago in a Civil Defense
drill. :
Mr. ‘Souchick, representing Lu-
zerne County, explained the scope
of Civil Defense throughout the
United States, and its key part in
a program following natural or war
disaster.
Wilkes-Barre, he said, is a target
area, but not ‘a prime target area.
| It is likely, he said, that in case of
,atomic attack, there would be a
considerable time in which, after
the alert, residents could find
shelter. Radio-active fall-out norm-
ally follows air currents from west
to east. It is the bombing of large
cities to the west which would
cause: the ‘fall-out in the Bast, while
New York, Boston, or Philadelphia
fall-out would continue out to sea.
Col. Beisel said that upon prepar-
ation in advance, depends survival.
Preparation now, with stock-piling
of food, first-aid supplies, battery
powered radio, and construction of
a shelter, could save the lives of
millions of people.
Each family, as in pioneer days,
must be self-sufficient, depending
upon nobody else for help. Living
a life-boat, will be cramped and un-
comfortable.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
People asked questions. These
are samples: !
How do you get fresh air?
blower type vent can be installed.
not around corners. It can be di-
verted by baffles.
What about school children ? De-
pends on type of alert signal. Those |
living near at hand could usually
go home. Others would go to the
basement. There could be five |
hours warning, or none.
Water ? Will it be safe to drink?
It is dirt particles that carry radia- |
tion. Filters take it out.
from underground wells is safe-
Will we have power? Through |
fall-out period, yes. In direct atomic
attack, no.
Sanitation ? Primitive.
Food? If it is airtight, it is safe.
Wash container.
destroy radiation.
Medical care?
able to reach us? No.
will be designated as hospitals.
If my elderly grandmother should
die in the shelter? This sounds |
‘grim, but you would have to get
the body out of the shelter and go |
back in yourself.
Is radiation sickness contagious?
No, but radiation can be carried on
clothing from one to another vic-
tim.
How do you doonteiitasts the |
area afterwards? High pressure |
hoses could wash down roofs and |
buildings, with water not allowed to
stand, but drain off quickly. In the '
home, vacuum cleaner, hose.
Alfred M. Camp played selections
on the organ before and after the
meeting, leading in “God Bless |
America” at the conclusion of the |
program.
Irwin Coolbaugh, Dallas Township
chief of Police, ‘directed parking, in
one-way Loner marked out by the
Acme that morning.
Leaflets on construction of shel- !
ters were distributed.
Col. Beisel called attention to the |
tremendous amount of coverage
given Civil Defense on both radio |
and television, as well as in publi-
cations.
“They just turn the dial,” said
Col. Beisel, “and you can’t make !
people pay attention if they don’t’
want to pay attention. It bores
them to think about safety. Even
their own safety, and the safety of
their children,”
in fall-out quarters, like existing in |
A |
Radiation travels in a straight line, |
Water |
Heat does not |
Will a doctor be |
Schools !
Honored At Buifet
David Schooley, Comptroller of
The Boston Store, and Mrs. Charles
Frantz, Jackson Township, were
elected directors of Back Mountain
Memorial Library Association Tues-
day night to fill the unexpired
terms of Mrs. Gerald Stout, Vice
President, and Charles Frantz who
have resigned.
Mrs. Stout has moved to Forty
Fort and Mr. Frantz has resigned
because of a press of business. The
two directors will serve until the
January Annual Meeting. Mrs. Tho-
mas Heffernan was elected vice
president.
Library Board preceded ‘a farewell
buffet for Miss Miriam Lathrop,
librarian who will retire October 1,
after sixteen years of service: She
received a beautiful wrist watch,
the gift of the individuals on the
Library Board. The presentation was
made by Robert Bachman, presi-
dent. Miss Lathrop will make her
future home in Sun City, Arizona.
It was also announced that her
salary at the Library will continue
| until January 1. This terminal pay
is in appreciation of her devoted
| service through the formative years
of the Library to the present.
Miss Lathrop spoke with feeling
of the associations and the cooper-
| ation she has received since coming
here from Rutgers University. She
| told how her first interest in library
work was whetted by Miss Nellie
| Betterly of the Osterhout Library
| staff while she was a student at the
| old Wilkes-Barre Institute and then
| how it was increased when in 1921
| a Community Building was estab-
| lisher in her own community,
| Springville, Susquehanna County.
| When quarters in the Community
, | Building grew too small for the
| library she had volunteered to
| establish and manage, her father
the late Dr. Homer Lathrop, then
dying of cancer, offered his office
attached to his home for a town
| library. The library was so success-
ful that it attracted the attention
| of Penn State University and Miss
| Lathrop then began library work in
earnest, first for two years at Penn
| State; then for 17 years at Rutgers.
Concluding she stated: 1 have
enjoyed every minute of my as-
sociation with Back Mountain Li-
| brary. When the snow next winter
Two Rattlesnakes
| . Killed At Loyalville
Lumbering operations on Loyal-
| ville Mountain have stirred up rat-
[Hesnakes Two were recently killed
on the Raymon Hedden property
within a week of each other. A
| 14-year old youngster reported to
| his unbelieving father that he had
| heard one in a back field. When
Mr, Hedden came home he and the
youngster rode a tractor up in the
| field in search of it- They found the
| rattler near a compost pile and dis-
| patched it. The snake had a girth
| of seven inches. For proof, the skin
| is now suspended against the ceil-
| ing of the Hedden Barn,
Temporary Quarters
| Bring Increased Business
Back Mountain Branch of Wyom-
{ing National Bank has experienced
a tremendous increase in business
since its opening in temporary
quarters in the former Frantz Card
Gift Shoppe opposite its old
i which were destroyed when
Back Mountain Lumber and Coal
Company burned two weeks ago.
| Apparently customers like to do
business in the morning without
crossing the highway,
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The brief business session of he subrice. bail collided, too high.
Retiring Librarian Given
Watch by Board Members
blocks the path between the main
Library and the Annex, I shall write
you and tell you how many roses I
have in bloom.
At the business meeting earlier,
Robert Bachman, president, an-
nounced the receipt of $35 from
Luzerne County, part of the re-
ceipts from confiscated gambling
devices which were ordered given
to: the Library by Judge Thomas
Lewis of Elmcrest.
There was also some consideration
given by the Directors to the pur-
| chase of a lot adjacent to the Li-
lary Annex but this was tabled,
Treasurer Homer Moyer reported
that net receipts for the 1961 Auc-
tion will be slightly above $14,000
about $2,500 less than receipts in
1960.
Rirmen Leave
Saturday For
Active Duty
Three Officers
And Enlisted Man
Go To Dover Base
Three Back Mountain officers and
one enlisted man are among the
more than 100 airmen of the 92nd
Air Terminal Squadron who will
leave this week for a fifteen-day
tour of active duty at Dover, Dela-
ware, Air Force Base.
They are Major Carl Shriner,
commanding officers, and Captain
Thomas Garrity, Vice Commander,
Harveys Lake, and Captain Robert
Hughes, Information Service officer,
Norton Avenue, Dallas. Another
Back Mountain man who will leave
with them is Airman, first class,
Donald Gross of Sweet Valley.
Captain Garrity recently received
the Air Force Commendation Medal
for his work in activating the
Squadron and has been notified that
his promotion has been approved
and he wil become a Major in
January. During World War II he
served three years with the Eighth
Air Force in England.
Captain Hughes was with the
eighteen months in the European
Theatre during World War II. His
outfit dropped the 17th Airborne
across the Rhine. He is presently
Parts Department Manager _for
pany in Kingston.
Major Shriner was nn Instructor
Pilot for Multiple engines at Tyndall
Field, Florida, during the war. Later
he was Engineering Officer at Mid-
dletown Air Base, near Harrisburg.
He is presently Transportation Su-
perintendent for Stegmaier Brew-
ing Co.
Airman Gross was one of the
first six-months trainees in the
92nd Squadron. He is now one of
. its top instructors.
‘The «fyuadron now has several
openings for prior service men and
also for non prior service men who
would like to take six months of
active duty and then remain in the
i Reserves for six years.
Famous Fox Hounds and Hunters
For generations the Back Moun-
tain country, especially the Sorber
Mountain and Loyalville areas, has
been the happy hunting grounds for
fox hounds and their trainers.
Pictured here more than sixty
years ago are some of the best,
Ernest Wesley, 14, and Andrew
Steltz, now deceased. The dogs
equally renowned, were: Bulford,
Walco, Ranger and Ring.
Mr. Wesley, now past 80, still
hunts. His ‘home is at Pike's Creek.
Mr. Steltz was the father of Burton
Steltz, Pike's Creek, now one of the
regions best known woodsmen and
fox hunters. His son Bob is also
a fox and coon hunter.
Others of an earlier generation
who were famous fox hunters were
the late John Wilson and Prof.
Frank Morris, at' one time principal
of Dallas Schools. Both men were
crack shots and avid fox hunters.
Even after they were long past
eighty, there were few mornings
when they went out that they did
not come back with a fox,
Among present day hunters are |
such men as George Wesley, Sweet]
Valley, brother of Avis Kocher, Leh-
man teacher, and Eva Wesley, Nes-
bitt Hospital technician; Ronald
Thomas and Chester Roberts, pain-
ter, Sweet Valley, Elmer Fraley,
Probation Oficer, Wilkes-Barre, Arch
Gross, retired tractor Company
man, Kingston, Sheldon Evans, Sha-
vertown druggist, and Kurt Edwards,
DeMunds produce man. Bobby Fra-
ley, son of Elmer, and grandson of
Judge W.A. Valentine got his first
fox a few weeks ago.
One of the best fox hounds now
running is 15-year old “Colonel”
owned by Farley, Edwards and
Gross although Sheldon Evans ad-
mits to three; Crook, Ginger and
Rip that are among the best. Evans
is suspected of having three other
fox hounds on the way up. He has
three tame red foxes in pens back
of his Shavertown store along with
a varied assortment of Beagle
hounds. :
| No sound is so dear to the heart
of a sportsmen as the baying of a
good hound, and no one loves a
‘good hound more than the Wesleys
and Steltzes. It. was bred in them,
440th Troop Carrier Squadron for |
Wyoming Valley Equipment Com- |
VOL. 73, NO. 38, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1961
New Luzerne-Dallas Highway Will
Completely Change Face Of Area
More Than 100 Property Owners Being
Asked To Vacate Before January 15th
Construction next year of the new Luzerne-Dallas High-
way will bring with it deep seated and far reaching ck
in communities of the Back Mountain Region and »
completely change the social, economic and civil life!
residents of Kingston Township, Dallas Borough and parts
of Dallas Township.
COMMONWEALTH MAILING
6000 NEW DIRECTORIES
TO LOCAL SUBSCRIBERS
Within the week, Common-
wealth Telephone Company’s
new Dallas directories will be
received by 6000 subscribers,
J. N- Landis, district manager,
stated today.
Manager Landis noted that
new directories contain the sev-
en digit numbers of the Comp-
any’s new Dallas South Office
in Trucksville. “These new seven
digit numbers are not to be used
until November 5th when Dal-
las South will be cut into serv-
ice. Until that time, the present
numbers in the old directories
must be used,” he cautioned.
Approximately 950 subscrib-
ers in the Trucksville general
area will be served by the new
Dallas South officer The new
numbering - system will be ef-
fective on its conversion.
A red sticker affixed to the
new directories advises custom-
ers encountering a seven digit
number, beginning with 696, to
refer to their old directory or in-
formation until the November
5th conversion date.
Lake Legion To
Install Officers
Strohl To Head Legion,
Mrs. Strohl Auxiliary
Harveys Lake American Legion
Post 967 and Auxiliary will hold
joint’ installation of officers Satur-
day evening at 6:45, at the Herman
Kern Restaurant.
Nello S. Carozzoni Jr. will offici-
ate, with assistance of the Han-
over Legion Post Installation’ Team.
Calvin Strohl will be installed
Commander; Herbert Goodwin,
Senior Vice Commander; Howard
Engleman, Junior Vice Commander;
Leo Wodaski, finance officer; Bill
Jones, service (officer; Kenneth
Jackson, chaplain; Herman Brislin,
historian; Leo Wodoski, adjutant;
Isemm Pennington, sergeant-at-arms.
Installation officer for the Auxili-
ary will be Mrs. Frank Goeckel,
director of the Central District.
These women will take office:
President, Shirley Strohl; first
vice president, Louella iGosart; sec-
ond vice president, Betty Caster-
line; secretary, Ethel Engleman;
treasurer, Frances Yankoski; his-
torian, Margaret Yankoski; chaplain,
Mildred Jackson; sergeant-at-arms,
Frances Desiderio. :
Mundy In Hospital
Popular Joe Mundy, Pioneer Ave-
nue, is a patient at Mercy Hospital
where he underwent serious sur-
| gery on Tuesday morning. He has
a wide circle of friends who are plug-
ging for his rapid recovery.
Governor Is Coming
Dallas Rotary Club will entertain
District Governor Elmer Daniels at
its dinner meeting at Irem Temple
Country Clug on September 21.
ps
any
appraisers began talking with home
owners and businessmen whose
properties will have to be evacuated
for the new highway right of way.
These appraisers are: Thomas Gar-
rity, Hanveys Lake Realtor; Robert
Hoffman, Wilkes-Barre Realtor and
John Sammon, Pittston Realtor,
appraisals for the State Department
of Highways.
Most of the property owners have
previously been visited, by Thomas
Ratchford, of the Scranton Office of
the Highway Dapartment, who has
informed them that they must va-
cate by January 15 so that con-
struction of the four-lane highway
can start without delay-
Most property owners have ac-
cepted his visit as inevitable and
vent of the highway will make great
changes in their lives. They know
that the State will pay them well for
their properties--but there is some-
‘thing about a location after you
have been in it for a lifetime that
makes you hesitate to want to
change.
The amounts offered for proper-
ties and land vary according to loca-
real estate.
Here ars some that will be af-
fected starting from Dallas toward
Luzerne: (left side)
Orchard Farm Restaurant, some
land will be taken here; Dallas Shop-
ping Center, some land; Kibbler's
Fruit Stand, Betty Cease Treasure
Gift. ‘Shop buildings and some land;
Dr. Kern's office will remain but a
Perrego property, intersection lower
Main street and new highway, the
property goes; Elston & Gould, right
of way takes out gasoline pumps;
overpass, it is wide enough to ac-
commodate the new highway);
Back = Mountain Sporting Goods
building goes.
The right-of-way will skirt close
to Back Mountain Lumber Company,
Wyoming National Bank, and new
Drug Store but will not affect the
buildings. Bolton's Diner will remain
Roan’s Beverage (owned by Fred
Eck) and the Jacobs Estate build-
ing on Center Street will be razed.
Fifteen feet will be taken from the
front of Hall's Drug Store parking
lot, the building remaining intact.
All of Rave’s Nursery will go as
will the Leek Home, the last prop-
erty in Holcomb’s Grove. The old
Traction Company right of way in
new highway. The right of way will
come close to Woodlawn Inn taking
Esso station,
ance office and everything else, ex-
cept Cities Service [Station (owned
by Howard Isaacs) to Harris Hill
Road will go.
Beyond Harris Hill, Davis Clean-
ers Building, Dr. Crompton’s office
and all buildings to Gavy's Market
will be razed. The Mathers Block
of stores including Gavy's Market
will remain but the Amoco Gaso-
line Station at the intersection twith
Carverton Road will go. So will the
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BY MRS WILLIAM HUGHES
We have just returned from a
week in the Southland, visiting
Bryan College, Tennessee, where
our son, Wayne, is a Sophomore
and spending sometime in the
“Great Smoky Mountains bordering
Tennessee and North Carolina.
‘We had heard about bears roam-
ing the mountains. We can verify
from personal experience, that
“Thar are Bear in them Moun-
tains.”
My husband and I love to camp
! outdoors, sleeping on air filled mat-
tresses in our station wagon. The
first night out we came to Gatlin-
burg, at the foot of the “Smokies”
in Tennessee and were directed to
la National Park Camp ten miles
out. We registered, picked out a
camp site and then returned to the
resort town of Gatlinburg, which
abounds with stores selling all kind
of knick-knacks. Artists were doing
free-lance painting along the streets.
We returned to our camp site
and made preparations for a night
of peaceful rest, we thought. We
usually put the suitcases and other
articles on the front seat in order
to make more sleeping room.
My husband put the ice-food con-
tainer beside the car.
During the night he was awaken-
ik
Bears Make Mountain Vacation
Exciting For Bill And Missus
ed by a noise near the container,
but couldn’t find the flashlight so
rapped on the car window to
frighten whatever was out there.
> This was revealed this week as
who have been appointed to handle
tion and to present worth of the
strip of land will be taken; Milton
Shavertown [Postoffice and Evans
but the Bessie Brace Home, Andy
with good nature although the ad- 40)
further land will be appropriated
to the Overbrook“ Avenue overpass
(there will be no change in the
Aah,
this area will become a part of the
some of the parking area: Johnson's
Ernest Gay's Insur-
The noise woke me up. When I
flashed the light, we saw that the
ice container was on its side. There
|| sitting under a tree in the flash-
light’s beam was a bear and I mean
a big bear (as big as Smokey-the-
Bear) eating our butter and bacon.
The light did not faze him. When
he finished off the butter and
bacon, he sauntered back to the ice
container, and dragged it several
feet from the car, reached in,
plucked out a quart of milk, bit
off the cardboard cap, being care-
ful not to swallow any paper,
squeezed all the milk out with his
paw then licked it up after which
he plucked out another quart of
chocolate milk and drank that.
My husband slid back one of the
windows slightly (ever so slightly)
but open wide enough to thrust an
umbrella through and swing it at
the bear, but Mr. Bear stayed just
out of reach putting his ears back.
We thought it was time to pull in
the umbrella and close the window
tight.
After devouring the milk, he got
up and pawed out some ice: Findnig
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