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Editorially Speaking:..
It is a common thing to hear a local booster declare
of any town that it is the greatest little city in the state
or the nation or even the world. But it’s mighty un-
common to find one who can tell you why.
Thus, without prejudice to our community—which
needs to take no back seat—we can applaud the recent
address of Vinson K. Shannon to a Kingsport Business-
Education Day audience in that bustling Tennessee town.
Ag division manager of The Mead Corporation, re-
sponsible for the production of about 325 tons of fine
printing papers every day of the year, Mr. Shannon pro-
ceeded to check off in rapid-fire order the things he knew
about the city that are impressive to him.
ingsport was planned,” he said, ‘as an industrial
city . . . intelligently imaginatively and purposefully.”
The result is a great deal of industry for its size, diversi-
fied industry that protects the town against recession
in any one and against the ‘growing pains and conges-
tion” that plague most other cities. Careful selection of
industries has assured a high level of employment at
above-average wages.
Mr. Shannon likes Kingsport’s non-partisan council-
manager form of government, the first in the state. The
city manager is a professional and the aldermen are
“able, intelligent, conscientious men who are successful
in their business or professional endeavor”. Which are
Democrats and which are Republicans means little at the
town level, since: “There is no Democratic way of clean-
ng the streets and no Republican way of putting out
ires.
Civic spirit is such that Kingsport raised a million
dollars in ten days of a hospital drive in which the quota
was only $750,000. And the school system is so good,
he says, that a number of Mead officials, promoted and
transferréd to other cities, were so reluctant to take their
kids out of these schools as to think twice about their
advancement. And the youngsters, he thinks, must like
the system, too, since they've had to find additional duties
for the truant officer to keep her busy.
Like the Mead mill, which spends about a million and
a quarter dollars a year with area farmers for some 32,000
truckloads of pulpwood, all of Kingsport’s industries
strive to buy as much of their materials and supplies
locally as they can. Thus, the Kingsport love-feast is one
of mutual admiration, community harmony and economic
progress.
We bring this up because there are communities all
over the US (such as our own, for instance) whose natural
endowments are comparable with those of Kingsport. On
the record, as revealed by Mr. Shannon, the additional
personal ingredients for an expanding community are
imagination, enthusiasm, ‘planning—and. pride!
CAN pmr
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Yesterday
Tent, Twenty and Thirty Years
Ago In The Dallas Post
rr aAPPENED J{) YEARS AGO:
The world’s fastest aviator, who
set a speed of 404 miles per hour
in a sea-plane, was Lt. George
Stainforth., ;
John Jeter and Jack Roberts were
being actively supported by a fac-
tion desirous of seeing George T.
Bowen removed from the Dallas
Borough School Board.
Wesley D. Morton, 64, died at
his home in Fernbrook.
Work on Meridian Hall, to ready
it for basketball games for the
winter season, was completed.
Noxen Tannery went on an eight-
hour work schedule, thus spreading
employment and relieving distress.
Thomas A. Edison, world famous
inventor, died.
IT HAPPENED 20 YEARS AGO:
Only six places showed lights
throughout the entire area during
a practice blackout, according to
warden Charles Stookey. One man, |
told 'to put out his car lights; com-
plied, then turned them on again
within a block and went on his
way. Another well known Dallas
resident refused to turn out his ear
lights, A tavern remained lighted:
The bank vault light was on, and
could not be reached. Two resi
dences were lighted.
With these exceptions, residents
took the alert seriously. Blackout
lasted practically one-half hour.
Members of Shavertown Method-
ist congregation were asked to bring
any existing certificates of births
and marriages for entry on church
records on Home-Coming Anniver-
sary week. All church records were
destroyed in the parsonage fire.
Dr. George K. Swartz gave up pri=
vate practice to enter the Public
Health service.
B. Frank Bulford, only surviving
member of the group which signed
the original Dallas Borough Charter,
observed his 86th birthday.
Jackie Yaple, four years old, came
down with Infantile Paralysis.
Charles ‘ Mattingly and Nancy
Hagny became man and wife.
Florence Miller became the bride
of John Gaughan Jr.
Charlotte Cease was wed to Dr.
Hamilton Young.
Mrs, Amanda Johnson of Beau-
mont, born in a log cabin of pioneer
ancestors who cleared the land on
the present Sordoni farm, died aged
84. Her parents were Peter H. and
Emeline McCarty Johnson.
rr uappenep 1() Years aco:
Meadowecrest Housing Develop-
ment was nearly completed. An
aerial photograph showed houses
dotted about on raw earth, enough
dwellings for 100 families.
St. Paul's Lutheran Church was
planning rededication by its first
pastor, Rev. G. Elson Ruff. Rev.
Frederick Moock was the incumbent.
Under his pastorate, many improve-
ments and extensive remodeling had
been done.
Four grades in elementary school
at Tiake-Noxen were found to be
seriously overcrowded.
Mrs. Calvin Hall was appointed
to head Girl Scout training.
Herman Sands suffered a dislo-
cated hip in a car crash in Kansas.
Earl H. Monk, 57, died of a heart
attack, collapsing at his home on
Pinecrest Avenue, [For 37 years
he had been a plumbing contractor
in Dallas.
Faye Joan Smith became the
bride of Luther T. Hummel Jr.
Helen Jane Grey was wed to
Harry Post Jr.
Dr. Aaron S. Lisses opened an
office in Dallas.
Mrs. Ethel Ritts, 43, died at the
home of her mother, Mrs. Daisy
Still, Shavertown.
Arthur Beahm of Noxen died at
1.
Avgustus W. Denmon, lifelong
resident of Beaumont, died aged 71.
All three Back Mountain high
school teams lost to opponents.
Westmoreland bowed to Forty-Fort;
Dallas Township to Wilkes-Barre
Township: Lehman to Tunkhannock.
Amos Kitchen, 83, died at Harveys
Lake. The grand old man, with the
head built like that of a Roman
senator, was of pioneer ancestry,
son of Mr. and Mrs. John Kitchen.
Captain Alfred M. Camp left for
Korea.
Democrats elected Don Clark,
chairman of Dallas Borough Demo-
cratic party.
Running on the Democratic ticket
were: Don Clark and Richard Ash,
for school director; John E. Roberts
and William Watchulonis, for Bor-
ough Council; Robert Brown, Frank
McGarry Jr. Council.
Frederick Renard, founding father
of Prince of Peace Episcopal Church,
died at 80.
Walter C. Blizzard died in Noxen
after a long illness.
John Engler, Davenport Street,
died of a heart attack.
George Washington Spencer ob-
served his 88th birthday.
Diane Allen, fifteen months old,
died of diphtheria. .
Lisses Attends Seminar
Dr. Aaron S, Lisses, Dallas, at-
tended the seminar on Optometric
ed Sunday at the Penn Harris Hotel,
Harrisburg. The seminar stressed re-
cent advances in design of sub-
rehabilitation of the Partially Sight-’
THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1961
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The old Shaver Cemetery on Over-
brook Avenue, set aside by pioneer
Philip Shaver, enclosed on three
sides by a stone wall with an iron
fence in front, is overrun by brush
and weeds and has some nice trees.
However, it shows no desecration
like the old Rice Cemetery on
Huntsville St.
[Since this cemetery is a family
plot, apparently restricted from the
earliest days to members of the
Shaver family and connections; it
contains relatively few of the earl-
iest settlers, Fayette Allen, who
died in 1880 at the age of 88, and
his wife Sally Conklin, who died
the same year at the same age, are
apparently included because Jane
Allen married one of the Shaver
sons. Elizabeth Munson (1798-1832)
was a daughter of Betsey Shaver
and David Munson. There are some
Frantz graves, due to marriage with
members of the Shaver family, and
perhaps a few others.
Although the first Philip Shaver
and his wife, Mary Ann Workizer,
had seven children and seventy=
seven grandchildren, neither lived to
old age. Philip, born in Austria in
1762, came to New Jersey, then
to Forty Fort in 1804, and to the
Back Mountain in 1813. He owned
about a4 thousand acres, including,
for a shoft time, lot three of old
Bedford Township upon which the
center of Dallas is built. He sold
the upper end about the same year
and settled in the area of the pres-
ent Pioneer Avenue. His son John
P. was apparently grown up and
bought a farm at the same time.
from their father’s estate after his
death in 1826. His wife died in
1828, age 57.
The large Shaver family descend-
ed from the first Philip and wife,
Mary Ann, was more fully covered
in this column a couple of years
ago. Most of their children lived
until after the Civil War, some to
considerable age. Their eldest son,
John P. born in 1789 died in 1871.
His wife Sarah Montanye died in
1862, age 65.
Any listing of graves without a
family genealogy at hand would
be confusing and somewhat tiring,
but a few markers have particular
interest. For Example, William and
Rachael ‘Shaver lost small children,
Lusinda in 1823 at age four, and
Jerusha in 1836, age one year and
six days. Neither name is common
in the same spelling now. The first
Philip, is sometimes spelled Philip.
Daniel Shaver, born Oct. 30, 1835
died Aug. 2, 1864 from a wound
received at the second battle of
SENESCENCE CTC
Rambling Around
By The Oldtimer—D. A. Waters
SEES ES ECS CE ET ES Rb
His other children bought their lands
HITHER
Tikal
| Minnassee on Aug. 29, 1862 while
serving with the First Pa. Rifles.
(This is the date of, and probably
refers to, the Second Battle of Bull
Run).
Jared R. Shaver, born Jan. 25,
1833 died Nov. 5, 1857 after serv-
ing seven years as an American
Seaman. Since he was only twenty-
four when he died, he must have
gone to sea at the age of about
seventeen.
Other Shaver names not in com-
mon use now included: Maggie,
Polly, Lovisa, Erastus, Filinda,
Sharps, Almira, While not uncom-
mon elsewhere a favorite with the
Shaver family seems to have been
“Asa” scattered through probably
every generation somewhere.
Unlike the old Rice Cemetery, the
Shaver Cemetery has been contin-
ued in use as a burial place until
fairly recent years. Markers were
noted as late as 1923 and there
may be later ones.
Today America is noted as a na-
tion with people moving about more
than ever before. @A permanent
homestead through several genera-
tions, which the pioneers seemed
to think about the most desirable
thing obtainable, is not so well
thought of now.Land, principal cause
of many wars and most emigration,
is in America no longer coveted.
However the present generation,
comparatively speaking, moves eas-
ily, even over great distances. With
planes, trains, and long distance
vans and autos moving is easy com-
pared to pioneer days.
While no information is at hand
about the particular circumstances
of the first Philip Shaver, consider
an Austrian, most likely having no
knowledge of the language, travel-
ng across several hostile European
countries, then for weeks across
the ocean in a sailing ship to New
Jersey, later to this area which was
then a wilderness, to found the
town of = Shavertown and rear a
large family. .
The pioneers had what was re-
quired in their time. We are getting
soft. And this softness is not: limited
to physical strength either. The news
from day to day and particularly
our crime statistics prove that our
moral and political fibres are decid-
edly flabby. The churches have amp-
le facilities, big budgets; multiple
organizations, with hgh member-
ship and, maybe, relatively high
attendance, but no one shows the
crusading religious zeal common in
earlier days.
In the words of Saint Paul to
Timothy, we need to ‘endure Hard-
ness’.
Poet's Corner
attachment.
ago.
New York.
survive somehow.
Insurance is no concern:
TO AN EARTHWORM
(Corrected Version)
Earthworm, I salute you.
Your make-up is simple—a long intestine with a sex
Living on humus you are humble.
Your wanderings through dirt create fertility.
Your looks — coming or going you are the same.
Probably you don’t know the past from the future for you
extend both ways. You have no poses.
Hamlet's graveyard; you knew the glory of Greece, the
grandeur of Rome, and thelr predecessors a billion years
You were around
You have no dental oll nor arthritis.
You eat your way through life
bothered by menus, alcohol or hot-spots.
Your love-life is plain and clean; you are no pervert;
you write no books about scandals in provincial places.
Your position in society is secure; you need no autobi-
ography telling of evolution from 8th to 5th Avenue,
continually not
if you are cut in two, you
You hear no jungle instruments or idiotic singing.
Benefactor of man, you serve him in catching fish,
but in the long run you consume both of them.
So, friend, hail and farewell.
Ralph A. Weatherly
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Quick Quiz 2 ium |
OF THE
COMES FROM THE
- SEA?
WHAT PERCENTAGE
FOOD we gAT
“A Year Hs
A Lifetime”
By John Kupstas
As if by instinct Mother Nature
never forgets spring and autumn,
the shortest most beautiful seasons
of the year. Spring awakens the
earth with a fresh, new start by
giving birth to a new year. While
autumn bursts forth with an all out
effort for beauty before succumbing
to its long dormant sleep.
With the appearance of the
flowering arbutus nestled in its soft
bed of moss, spring Las finally
arrived, The early spring flowers
hold their heads high to let the
warmth of the sun spread back
their petals and give them the privi-
lege of being the first life of the
new year. These same flowers in
autumn will be in seed or have
their life stored in a bulb or root
deep within the earth, prepared for
whatever they will encounter until
their next tour of duty arrives.
Despite the flourishing beauty of
these two seasons, there is present
a distinct difference in emotional
feeling, Spring brings a light-
hearted, relieved attitude that in-
jects life into every living thing. Au-
tumn brings a depressing feeling
for slowly the sharp colors fade to
the bleak colors of winter and soon
the land will be desolate and bar-
ren, and all of nature’s beautiful ac-
cessories will be dead and decay-
ing.
Spring is not endowed with such an
extremely wide variety of loud
colors as Autumn but the pre-
dominant color green which exists
means life. Even in the tiniest seed
if life has been maintained, it will
be given a chance to grow, Each
day the flimsy, almost transparent
shoots gain strength and color until
they reach maturity and fulfill
their obligation to insure continued
life for the coming year. In autumn
this foliage will be a flaming pic-
ture of blending crimson, green and
yellow that appears to be painted
by some master’s brush. The crim-
son patches on the mountain-side,
where the frost has hit hardest, ap-
pears as if a giant wound was
opened and the lifes blood was ooz-
ing out to meet its inevitable death.
The coniferous trees, like the Hem-
lock, Pine and Spruce seem to be
the mightiest, holding their original
green color and refusing to give up
despite what lies ahead.
Fruit trees are adorned with in-
mumerable pastel shades of color
each spring. The light red tinted
cherry blossoms, the snowwhite
with pink tipped apple blossoms and
the ivory white pear blossoms add
the soft, light touch to Spring. Au-
tumn will see these blossoms trans-
formed into luscious fruit hanging so
heavily that the limbs will touch
the ground, The various kinds of
apples and pears, each sporting a
different color and taste, are the
result of a fruitful year.
Spring nights are so peaceful, es-
pecially in the country where the
sounds of the peepers and hullfrogs
seem to be in competition to see
which can make the biggest distur-
bance. This peaceful atmosphere is
enhanced by the clear, white moon
high in the heavens surrounded by
a star studded sky, with a gentle,
warm breeze calmly rolling through
the night's sky. On a typical | au-
tumn night the bright, harvest
moon hangs over the horizon light-
ing the stage for the familiar
sounds of an Indian Summer night.
From far off in the distance a Great
Horned Owl issues its spine-chilling
hoots and high in the clear. sky the
lonesome calls of Canadian Geese
can be heard. These eerie autumn
night sounds bring to life the old
legend of Indian summer. You can
almost see the ‘“Injuns” dancing
around the hazy yellow moon,
In the Spring the warmth from
the new life melts the 'encasing
crust of ice and snow, swelling the
mountain brooks far beyond their
banks. By early autumn the brooks
will be nearly dry as if nature con-
sumed this miracle drug to nourish
the surrounding jungle of vegeta-
tion. As autumn comes to an end
pre-winter snows will again replen-
ish its supply.
Mother Nature seems to beautify
spring and autumn to her fullest
capacity by getting spring started
with a generous portion of her
colors and exhausting her entire
color supply to make Autumn the
most colorful season of all.
Robert Nicely Upped
To Birman lst Class
Busy October for Robert Nicely,
Pharmacist at United States Air
Force Base Hospital in Tachikawa,
Japan. On'the first day of the month
he is upped to AirmanFirst Class.
On October 24, he celebrates his
twenty-first birthday.
He had been in Japan for two
months when he first met his fut-
ure bride, Kuniko Hahakabe, a reg-
Stered nurse at the base hospital.
Captain Klewin performed the wed-
ding ceremony August 3 at the
| Lutheran chapel on the base. The
couple expect to be in Japan for
another year before coming to the
United ‘States.
A/1C Robert is son of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Nicely, Shavertown. A
graduate of Westmoreland, he has
been in Japan since December 1959.
Interests in this area centered about
St, Paul’s Luthran Church, and Boy
Scout work.
State Grange Oct. 23
Pennsylvania State Grange will
meet October 23 to 26 in Washing-
ton Pa., when 12,000 delegates and
SR representing 685 subordin-
|ate and 56 Pomona Granges will |}
5 Jgedies: for 40 SB ano conclave. ]
DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA
From
Pillar To Post...
by Hix
I had been sounding off (as usual) on the subject of what I con-
sidered the barbarism of shooting game with g bow and arrow. I
enlarged upon, the fright of the deer as it wernt leaping off into the
brush, transfixed with an arrow.
I drew a piteous picture of the wounded creature becoming
weaker and weaker with loss of blood, moving more and more slowly,
stumbling now and again, leaving behind it a trail of blood, sinking
to its knees, forcing itself again to its feet, falling on its side, its eyes
glazing, |
That, in the face of the fact that deer ‘and I have a long standing
feud, ever since one of the animals climbed the hood of my car in
the Poconos, bent on committing suicide, and succeeding.
Johnnie, coming through the door to the composing room, a
large ham sandwich in his hand, paused to listen.
Johnnie is the soul of courtesy, but he has his convictions,
“Honest, Mrs. Hicks,” he remonstrated, ‘you've got it all wrong.
It doesn’t hurt a deer as much to get shot with an arrow as it does
with a bullet.”
“Sez you!”
“I'll prove it. Which would you rather get hit with, a razor blade
or a hammer?”
The answer to that was neither, but I was ‘open to conviction.
Johnnie laid down his sandwich and ran out to his car. He came
back, carrying a bow taller than his head and three arrows.
“Now lookit,” he invited, “just feel of that arrow tip.”
“Ouch.”
“It didn’t really hurt at ‘all, did it?”
‘Don’t bother to bring out the hammer for demonstration.”
Johnnie expatiated. “When a bullet hits a deer, it not only
penetrates, it tears the flesh, and it does tremendous damage.
When an arrow penetrates, it’s a clean wound, and the deer hardly
feels it. He dies easy.’
“Johnnie, I still don’t like the idea. ‘All the hunter has to do,
I'm told, is to sit down on'a stump and after about an hour, follow
the trail of blood and finish off the deer. It’s completely cold-blooded.”
“And what do you suppose happens when you shoot a deer with
a gun? You follow the trail of blood and you finish off the deer.”
“I still think it’s barbarous. Give me the quick and easy method
all over with in one swell foop.”
hn as running over one in the road?”
I'm beginning to come around to Johnnie's point of view. Maybe
it doesn’t hurt a deer as much to get hit with an arrow as with a
bullet.
“How you getting along with your bow and arrow Yenitg
Johnnie?” I inquired as I paused by the linotype machine.
“Well, to tell you the truth, Mrs. Hicks, I don’t enjoy it too much
anymore. I keep thinking about that deer dropping to his knees . ...”
“Oh shoot, Johnnie, I was going to ask you to let me tag along
on a bow and arrow hunt. Wanted to see if I could draw that bow.”
“Thought you said if I shot one with an arrow; you didn’t want
to even look at it?”
“That was last week. How about we settle for a small steak?”
\
“
100 Years Ago This Week...in
THE CIVIL WAR
(Events exactly 100 years ago this week in the Civil War—
told in the language and style of today.)
Who Goofed—Stone or McClellan?
Union Losses Heavy
In Ball's Bluff Fiasco?
LEESBURG, Va.—Oct. 21—
Confederate Brig. Gen. Nathan
G. Evans directed a successful
repulse of invading Union forces
today at Ball’s Bluff, a sheer
70-foot cliff rising out of the
Potomac near here.
An estimated 50 Union soldiers
were killed, 150 wounded and 700
missing of captured in the abor-
tive foray. The Southern defenders
counted some 30 dead and more
than 100 wounded. |
One of the Union casualties was
the leader of the raid, Col. Edward
D. Baker, former senator from
Oregon and a close personal friend
of President Lincoln. He was
killed.
* * *
THE OPERATION was ordered
by Maj. Gen. George B. McClel-
lan, commander of the Army of
the Potomac, reportedly after Mr.
Lincoln became angered over gen-
eral inactivity of the north’s
troops.
McClellan sent Brig. Gen. Char-
les F. Stone, former commander:
of Washington forces, toward
Leesburg with orders to feel out
enemy strength and, if possible,
to dislodge them from the wood-
lands along the Virginia side of
the Potomac.
Stone led his men to the
scene and dispatched a party
of raiders under Col. Baker
to the Virginia side.
Baker led men of the 1st Cali-
fornia, the ‘15th and 20th Massa-
chusetts and the 42d New York
over the water in small boats,
landing in the deceptive shadow
of Ball’s Bluff.
With only two pieces of artillery,
the few Union companies pushed
to within a mile of Leesburg with-
out encountering trouble.
Then Evans, who had won a
limited fame during the Bull Run,
or Manassas battle, unleashed his
troops and forced the Union in-
vaders back onto the Bluff.
The high rate of capture of the
Northerners reflected their inabil-
ity to retreat across the river.
They had their choice of trying to
make the leap and swim it back
to Maryland, or be taken prisoner.
Most chose the latter.
McCLELLAN
Another blunder; does he really
know what he’s doing? That's the
’61 question in Washington these
days.
* x *
Baker’s Death
Stuns Lincoln
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Oct. 21—
Aides of President Lincoln re-
ported he was stunned by the
death in combat today of one of
his closest friends, Col. Edward
D. Baker.
Baker fell to Confederate gun-
fire while leading an unsuccessful
raid on Ball’s Bluff, in Virginia
some 30 miles upriver from here.
Mr. Lincoln and Baker had
been close since early manhood in
Illinois and one of the Lincoln
children, now dead, was named
after Baker.
Word of Baker’s death reached
Mr. Lincoln at the War depart-
ment telegraph department. He
was reported to have wept silently
and to have groped his way from
that bustling office.
Copyright 1961, Hegewisch News Syn-
dicate, Chicago 33, Ill. Photo: Library
of Congress.
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