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Speaking:
INGINE CHARLIES”
o well, the nation does well, “President
bers of the National Association of
other day.
ange similarity to a sentiment once at-
Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson,
beneral Motors is good for the country.”
’s remark will not, we are sure, create
vse over ‘Engine Charlie’s” comment.
lon to any such statement depends on
gortion which is put upon it.
hs always seemed perfectly logical to us that the
y of the country, of industry and of labor is all
ther. If industry is in depression, so is the
and labor suffers. Any business firm or in-
hd its employes have a common stake in seeing
employer is able to make a profit.
oo long the idea has persisted that the em-
a natural enemy of the working man who must
for a rightful share of the take, even if it means
im to the wall. Too little attention has been
he truth that the take is flexible; it can be larger
r, depending on the opportunities and freedom
‘he employer, and if he prospers the share avail-
pl, ,the employer, the worker—and the govern-~
la hh :
2A / ‘ Yh,
D—AND CADILLACS
ditionally a charitable people. They
Llp, the needy amongst us, To take
government’s project of distri-
in want—which has, as a corol-
cultural surpluses—undoubtedly
prt.
d intentions can be abused.
lhagazine reported: “For the
receiving free groceries, the
’s first half is nearly quadruple
same period last year. It has also
bpularity of free groceries. Since
f people getting them has risen
. . Recipients have included a
rried: his bags in a taxicab and
punty, Texas who took them
adillac . ...”
gher administration of plans
prate the genuine needy from
ct is that any welfare state
r foolish, essential or just
he worst in a great many
morney, and resumed her profes-
ional career—this time as an edu-
| cation reporter for Life magazine.
| In 1953, when the radio fore-
| runner of College Bowl appeared
| Lon the NBC network, Mrs. Forbes
got the job as the person prepar-
y02 the questions for the program
end continued to do so for varying
"| periods during the next three years.
best | Alison, a baby daughter arrived
ay | in 1956, and the new mother set-
it | tled back for awhile in the primary
{role of housewife,
When College Bowl had its prem-
j lere on the CBS network as a TV
series, producer John Cleary, who
had Been connected with the radio
version of NBC, asked Mrs. Forbes
a! | to again decide on the questions.
The Forbes family lives in Dar-
gonn. In addition to Aliso, Mrs.
also has two stepchildren:
Forbes, 22, a senior at Yale,
therin, 18, a freshman at the
of Wisconsin,
[ DYKE is in the un-
pon of being too good.
son the network
present time slot
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COL. FRANK TOWNEND
Salute To Nurses
By Auxiliary
Col. Townend To MC
50th Anniversary
Col. Frank Townend, member of
Board of Directors and chairman
of Nursing Service Committee at
Nesbitt Hospital, will MC the Gold-
en Anniversary celebration January
16, 8 p.m., when the Ladies Aux-
iliary will honor all graduates and
student nurses of the Hospital in
the Pettebone-Dickson Student Cen-
ter of Wyoming Seminary. A pro- |
gram, “Salute to the Nurses”, will |
be presented honoring also those |
who have dedicated their lives to
the progress of the Nesbitt Mem-
orial Hospital and its School
quested to wear full uniform and
all
and pins.
Miss Esther Tinsley, Administrator
of Pittston Hospital, was the sec-
ond Administrator of Nesbitt (known
then as West Side Hospital).
will speak, recalling events during
her stay at Nesbitt. Miss Tinsley,
who is celebrating her 50th year
of continuous nursing service, was
recently honored with her selection
as Pennsylvania Nurse of the Year.
There will be selections from the
student nurses Glee Club, directed
by Miss Patricia Lutz, a student
at Wilkes College. Miss Judith Wi-
nans, student nurse, will be solo-
ist. A skit entitled “History of
Nesbitt ‘School of Nursing”, written
by Miss Thelma DeWitt, Director
of Nursing, and directed by Miss
Lucy Liggett, Assistant Director of
Nursing Education, will be present-
ed by the student nurses.
Dr. Ruth Jesse, head of the: De-
partment of Nursing Education of
Wilkes College, will be the guest
speaker.
Following the program, refresh-
ments will be served. A family re-
union of Nesbitt Memorial Hospital
Nurses, Staff, Auxiliary and friends
will be held.
All friends of the Hospital are
cordially invited, and there will be
no admission fee.
This event will kick off the cele-
bration during 1962 of the 50 years
of continuous service te the pub-
lic of the Nesbitt Memorial Hos-
pital.
Joint Coin Card
Drive Brings In
Over $6180.00
Dallas Community Ambulance
Association and Dr. Henry M. Laing
Fire Company report a successful
conclusion of their recent coin card
campaign. In this joint effort a
total of $6,180.00 was realized plus
a pleasing additional amount of
$300.25 for the Ambulance Associ-
ation in the Kunkle area.
This annual campaign enables
these organizations to pay their
operating expenses plus setting a-
side money for purchase of new
apparatus, For the ambulance as-
sociation in 1961 this meant the
acquisition of a new ambulance,
fully paid for.
(Ambulance and Fire Company
members appreciate the support of
the public.
Edwin Johnson Promoted
Edwin I. Johnson, 34 Midland
Drive, has been commissioned a
Lieutenant Junior Grade in the
Coast Guard Reserve.
Mr. Johnson was sworn in by
Lt. Comdr. Charles F. Correll, com-
manding officer in the Kingston
Coast Guard Reserve Unit.
The son of Mrs. E. M. Johnson,
Dunmore, Mr. Johnson is guidance
counselor and English instructor at
LakeLehman High School.
During 1945-46 he served in the
Pacific with th U.S. Navy He re-
ceived the Victory and American
Theater medals.
A graduate of Cranford High
School, N.J., Mr. Johnson attended
Union Junior College, Cranford, and
received a bachelor of arts degree
from Wilkes College and a master’s
degree from Bucknell University,
Lewisburg,
He is married to the former Lee
Ann Jakes. They have two child-
| ren, Mark and Eric. He shortly will
an | be assigned as training officer of the
noston/ Unit;
rem rtp
ccond apartment house
of !
Nursing. All active nurses are re- |
inactive graduates their caps |
She |
“All work and no play makes
Jack a dull boy”.
This old copy-book maxim was
probably considered all right when
first written and accepted as mean-
ing exactly what it says. In colonial
days, and even later, hard work
was necessary for survival, and was
the accepted routine for men,
women and children. It was so im-
portant that. it was made into a
virtue.
But times have changed. Now
no one works as hard as almost
everyone did in earlier days, and
work in itself is no longer respected
and considered a virtue. And with
the changing times, a new interpre-
tation is being placed on the old
maxim which seems to be in a fair
| this country. Ignoring the signifi-
cant words “all” and “no”, some
law makers, labor leaders, social
workers, school administrators and
teachers, writers, speakers, and
even some parents, have taken the
view that it is “work” that pro-
motes dullness, which must be
avoided at all costs, and conversely
“play” promotes keenness or bright-
ness, which must be encouraged.
And carrying it a little farther, by
decreasing the work and increasing
the play, dullness will disappear
and brilliance ‘will result. This view
seems to be spreading rapidy.
It takes no special training to see
that this is untrue. As ome exam-
ple, among many, take Thomas A.
Edison. Probably no one in this age
has shown greater brilliance of
mind and done more for, the com-
| mon advancement, yet this man so
| concetrated on his work that some-
| times he slept in his laboratory.
| And no one can show any example
where idleness and play has pro-
duced such a man in our day. In
| ancient Greece and Rome where
slaves did all the work it may have
been different,
This column casts no reflection
on any local boys. We have plenty
of young men who have always
been workers, especially in some of
the father and son teams and
where there are several brothers in
a family. Likewise we are not aim-
ing criticism. at the local schools, in
particular. They are too new for
any proven results. In some high
schools, special schools, and col-
leges which have acquired a reputa-
tion for “pouring it eon”, pupils
have thrived and asked for more.
The line between work and play
is not always right, either in defini-
tion or activity. Boys in a vacant
| way to disrupt bringing up boys in |
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By ‘The Oldtimer—D. A. Waters
EES EEA THEE TERESI nS
on
lot, with a football or baseball, with
appropriate equipment, will play
for hours; but when they get into
the pro leagues or a bowl game
such activity becomes strenuous
work. Playing regularly in a
theatre orchestra or on the stage is
work, Conversely, employees or
others assigned to perform a
definite task, through inattention or
deliberate neglect, can fail complete-
ly. They are only playing around.
And the line between play and idle-
ness is even less definite.
In Europe, while our forefathers
were working so hard here, they
had reached a point where play and
idleness were problems. ' Tuberville
wrote,
“Eschewe the ydle life,
Flee, flee, from doing nought:
For never was there ydle braine
But bred an ydle thought’.
We sing in church an old hymn
of Isaac Watts:
“In works of labor, or of skill,
I would be busy too,
For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.”
In 1598 Shakespeare saw, the
situation in King Henry IV: “If all
the year were playing holidays, To
sport would be as tedious as to
work”,
In 1748 James ‘Thomson com-
pleted fifteen years of work on a
poem which ran to about fifteen
hundred words entitled, “The
Castle of Indolence”., One stanza
reads:
“Their only labor was to kill the
time
(And labor dire it is and weary
woe.)
They sit, they loll, turn o'er some |
idle rhyme,
Then, rising sudden, to the
glass they go
Or saunter
step and slow.”
forth with tottering |
In his day the idle drunks did |
not have high powered cars to slay
all and sundry.
In our own time we heard a lot |
about the “idle rich”. There were
some, maybe a few yet. But Gover-
nor Rockefeller, Secretary Dillon,
President Kennedy and others show
that it is not common among them.
Today most of the idleness is among
those who are not rich. The rich
are compelled to keep busy to pro-
tect what they have. And their
fortunes were not acquired by play-
ing and idleness in the first place.
And while there are also some
rich playboys, most of the playboys |
would like to be very rich and are
not.
of Churches to provide such serv-
I got a call from the Council office
asking if I would be available. I
wes glad to go.
Mrs. Gilbert and dawghter Cath-
erine went with me. Catherine was
to play for the meeting. We bor-
rowed a dozen hymnals from the
Orange Church in case we needed
them. The Rev. Guy Leinthal of
Dorranceton Methodist Church had
brought his two daughters, Sally
and Mary Elizabeth, to sing.
The large auditorium was well
fitted for religious services of all
three faiths. The revolving altar had
one segment fitted with a small
slab of stone which is for the use
of the Roman (Catholic services.
Each of the other two segments
with whatever religious symbols the
other two faiths care to provide.
The organ is electric with an elec-
tronic chime keyboard.
of affairs we ‘decided to hold an
informal service in the solarium in-
stead of in the auditorium. The
ers and other comfortable seats at
well-prepared dinner,
‘While the patients finished their
trays we began the service by ask-
ing the two Leinthal girls to sing
which they did without accompani-
ment,
It was beautifully done and the
group in one voice said ‘Thank
You.” We didn’t bother to pass
out hymnals but with the help of
the visitors present I led them in
singing a stanza of a well-known
hymn. Rev. Mr. Leinthal offered a
prayer and we all repeated the 23rd
Psalm. The girls sang another dust
which delighted the people as be-
fore.
In my brief talk I spoke of ‘the
newness of the Valley Crest Home,
and the newness of the year 1962,
and finally the newness of each day.
The fact that many new experiences
are plain and can be fitted out |
Due to the still unsettled state!
patients sat in wheel chairs, rock- |
small tables with their dinner trays. |
The meal looked like a tasty and |
Some help- |
ers were feeding those who could |
not manage with their own hands. |
Charles Gilbert Carries Message
To Guests At Valley Crest Home
Fifty new residents last week | would be coming to them would
came into Valley Crest Home, Their | call for following God in each situ-
first Sunday was coming up and | ation ‘for they have not passed
religious services were needed. Dr. this way before.”
Craft, superintendent of the Home |
asked the Wyoming Valley Council | in the midst of this group than we
More new events are happening
| at first discovered. For instance,
ices. That is how it happened that | | somebody told me that one of the
women who obviously had some
severe handicap had said “hello”,
which was the first she had spoken
in‘ 20 years! I couldn't get her to
say “hello” to me but she smiled
volumes. T knew. one of the pat-
ients for I had seen her every week
showed manifest pleasure at see-
ing me at Valley Crest.
had stopped with each one and |
them,
ning to walk again. Still another
had not been using table imple-
ments for eating but had fed her-
self with her fingers. Now she is
learning to use silverware like other
| people and enjoys it.
The doctor had caught up the
idea of newness that I had been
talking about in my brief address.
‘This is a new life to these people
and it is a problem to them”, said
the doctor. He also said that he
was seeing a new human interest
side to his work which he just be-
gan last Tuesday with the first
admissions to the Home.
He expressed the wish that he
were a writer so that he could
interest the public in the opportuni-
ties for helping these who need
common friendship often expressed.
None should be allowed to become
forgotten people. I was personally
thrilled by the spiritual vision this
professional man was getting of his
task.
Immediately following our chapel
services the Womens Club of Wilkes-
Barre was putting on a party, yes,
a Christmas party for the patients.
People were gathering for this when
we left.
|
Tommy Traver Has
First Birthday Party
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Snyder,
Claude St., entertained at a birthday
supper in honor of their grandson,
Tommy Traver, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Clayton Traver of Idetown, who was
a year old on December 2nd. Pres-
ent: Jimmy Snyder, Mrs. George
Shaver, Jr., George, Tommy and
Alan, Mrs. Clayton Traver, and
Pamela, the guest of honor and
the host and hostess.
Dog License Due
Purpose of the Pennsylvania Dog
Law is for the protection of the
public and their property through
the proper control of dogs.
Your 1961 dog license expires
January 15, 1962 regardless of when
you purchased it. 1962 dog license
are now on sale at County Treas-
urer’s Office or may be ordered
through any notary public, justice
of the peace or alderman, -
eC nly
Yesterday
| Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years
Ago In The Dallas POst
ir uapPENED 3{) YEARS Aco:
Appeal of Kingston . Township
School Board, seeking to evade pay-
ment of damages of $4,832.67 to
Mrs. Z. R. Howell in the death of
her husband who suffered a fatal
accident near Harrisburg while on
school business, was denied for the
second time. Trouble stemmed from
a lapsed insurance policy.
Dallas Borough was hopeful that
$822.40 could be raised through
overdue taxes |efore it became
necessary to hold up teachers’ sala-
ries, A ten mill hike was pre-
dicted.
Warm weather during the Janu-
ary Thaw brought out leaf buds
on the trees.
iGay-Murray, Tunkhannock, open-
ed a harness department.
Mrs. G. Harold Magnnr won a
radio as prize for a hastily written
slogan,
Elwood Elston’s salary as Bor-
ough police officer was cut from
$100 to $50 a month for the winter
period. Wardan Kunkle, Elmer Par-
rish, Clyde Veitch, and William
Schmoll, were sworn in by Burgess
Harry Anderson. Street Commission-
er W. T. Daddow was reappointed,
at sixty cents an hour. Borough
expenses were pared to the bone.
A. M. Shoemaker, former main-
tenance man for Dallas-Shavertown
Water Company, died in Tunkhan-
| nock.
Cheese was 17 cents a pound,
prunes 4 pounds for 19 cents, rye
bread 7 cents a loaf, hot dogs 2
pounds for a quarter.
And at Rooney’s, you could get
a full course Sunday dinner for
75 cents.
rr uappeneD 2() YEARS Aco:
(Air-raid observation post in Lake
Township was manned by 58 vol-
unteers working in two-man de-
tails for 24 hour coverage.
Exposed when they attended a
Christmas program at Idetown, 22
children contracted measles.
Dr. H. A. Brown of Lehman missed
out on the New Years baby by half
an hour Mrs. Anthony Stefanowitz
| of Loyalville was the mother. In
11941, Dr.
Brown delivered babies
right and left on New Years Day,
earning the title Dr. Stork of 1941.
College Misericordia started clas-
ses in First Aid. Red Cross asked
for six times the usual collection of
money.
Borough Council elected William
Baker street commissioner at $100
per month, succeeding William
Schmoll, James Besecker succeeded
William Neimeyer as secretary.
Tire rationing board swung into
action.
Stores curtailed deliveries to save
tires and gas.
Steak was 35 cents a pound, pork
chops 29.
Married: Alice Ertley to Ernest
Lomax. Theresa Belles to Albert
Stolarick. Doris Schoonover to Keith
Kresge.
Mrs. Adda Garinger was 84 years
old; Mrs. Emma Hazeltine, ninety.
Dorrie C. Smith, 76, suffered a
fatal heart attack, collapsing in the
since she first came to the Pittston | snow after leaving services at Shav-
Hospital with a broken leg. She | ertown Methodist Church.
Mrs. Samuel Williams, Shaver-
| town, died at 34, leaving four small
Along the corridor I stopped at | children.
the desk to visit with Dr. Joseph |
Shedlawski of Forty Fort who had | Township supervisors.
{ been busy checking charts He was |
eager to share his enthusiasm for |
this new work. He told how he | pound tank every 45 minutes.
Philip Pascoe headed Kingston
American Car and Foundry at
Berwick was producing one 24,000
Townsend Clubs were still in oper-
| heard parts of the life stories and | ation.
was amazed at the mew life that |
was already beginning for some of | las RD 3, was instantly killed at
Marshall L. Lamoreaux, 29, Dal-
| Harry E. Colliery, electrocuted by
One patient, he said, had not|a live wire
been walking but now was begin- |
rr uappeNen 1() YEARS Aco:
Rev. Francis A. Kane was made
pastor of Gate of Heaven Parish,
a tribute to his outstanding serv-
ices as administrator of ‘the new
parochial school Heretofore, the par-
ish had been part of St. Therese’s.
Harold Payne was made a direc-
tor of First National Bank of Dal-
las at its 46th annual stockholders
meeting.
Peynton Lee, Dallas, passed army
qualification tests with a perfect
score, a phenomenal achievement.
Married: Dorothy Davis to Ken-
neth Cosgrove; Mary Geraldine Koz-
ick to Donald Kitchen: Florabelle
Brown to John W. Smith; Betty
Buglehall to Robert Shone.
Steven Wolfe, Meeker was 96.
Died: Leland Sickler, 25, native
of Vernon. Charles DeWees, 57,
Shrine View.
All dogs over six (6) months of
age must be licensed. Male dog
license costs $1.10 and female dog
license $2.10. Spayed female dog
license costs $1.10 if a veterinar-
ian’s certificate or an affidavit is
produced.
License tags must be affixed to
a substantial collar and worn by the
dog at all times. If your dog does
not wear a current license tag it
is considered a stray and may be
disposed of by any officer on sight.
Violators of the Pennsylvania Dog
Law are liable to a fine of not less
than $5.00 and costs, or not more
than $100.00 and costs, or impris-
onment not exceeding 30 days, or
both.
The first power-producing public
utility was built in New York City
in 1882.
DALLAS,y PENNSYLVANIA
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“Want some suet for your bird feeder 2 i 2 { -
It was Frances Dress on the phone last Saturday, with a strictly
spontaneous offer of suet. Suet, as all bird; lovers know, is what S
keeps small brightly feathered bodies warm Cou to twitter, even ! 1
in zero weather. Good and fat, and loaded with heat units. ! a
“How on earth do you happen to be” glvine out suet, and do I
you throw in green trading stamps?” h
Frances explained, after denying the. ‘trading stamps, “We e
bought a side of beef for the deep freeze: and it s loaded. How much
suet can you use?” i
I laid down the phone for a minute to inspect the oven, where
one of the mince pies was boiling over and creating charcoal.
“I've got an extra mince pie,” I annouhaed, fanning away the
charcoal smoke, “and T'll trade it for some suet. OK ? Or would you
rather just have the mincemeat, and make Tp your own crust when
you get ready for it?” wg
“You kidding?” id
“Well, Tll be along with the pie tomotrow, probably at a very
inconvenient time, but thass life.”
Sunday, at the very inconvenient as “1 delivered the pie.
I held it out in one hand and extended: the other for the suet.
“Come on in and eat,” invited Frances hospitably.
Frances will never know what self
well-bred denial, “We had a very late jeakiast, and though we'd
just love to stay, we can’t. Lots of paper ork.” "Give with the suet.”
“Wait a minute Hillman will go downstairs and get it”
Hillman came puffing up the stairs.! He was stacked to the
chin with boxes.
“Good heavens, is all that SUET %
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Hillman staggered out to the car With the suet.
“Estimated in terms of mince piesy pound for pound, just how f
many pies do I owe you, and are you Jvilling to take a promissory +
note ?” 5 Je |
Hillman and Frances waved away any idea of long term payment. | iS
“We're stuck with the suet,” they explained, “and the birds |
may as well have it. There's lots nore in, ithe basement. Sure you | E
can't use a little more?” ; |
‘We now have enough suet on Hida to fill all the bird feeders | a
in the Back Mountain. Rev. Williams Reid of Carverton, dropping \ 1
by with his church notice on Mond looked dazed, but he said, i e
when pressed, that yes, he could, pro ably use some suet in his bird i t]
feeder. 1 | n
Tom, sitting out in the car fn Sunday awaiting the suet, |
claimed that it didn’t smell like suefiiit smelled like roast beef. lA
“What you're smelling,” I enlig htened him, “is the aroma of h
roast beef I picked up on my way. jj hough the kitchen, and it has 3
nothing to do with the suet.” | p
“Roast beef,” yearned Tom, | licking his chops and looking { A
hopeful. bp HN
“Cut it out. I've already saidfwe couldn't possibly stay. You | Ss
KNOW you just finished a large! weakfast. Corned beef hash with { v
a dropped egg, and two slices of crécked wheat toasted, and an order | €
of wild grape jelly, and three cups ‘of coffee. What on earth are :
you working up digestive juices afi ‘this hour for?” a
“That,” said Tom, preparing to open the door and alight, “was | P
a whole hour ago.” 4 ® | i
‘Hold everything, here we of 2 |
Tom settled back. “What are Hie going to have for dinner?” | N
“Fried suet, 1 think, » He
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One hundred years ago this week—on Jan. 3, 1861— f
Confederate Navy vessels inflicted moderate damage when a
they bombarded Federal Forts Mc Rae and Barrancas in $ 4
Florida. As land forces grew in strength early in the Civil ;
War, so did the Navies, with their offers of high bounties I
and pay. Above: A typfea Union crew. i
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Furlough, Bounty Act — ;
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Menace To Army Strength? :
RICHMOND, Va.—Janii6—Gen. Joseph E. Johnston has asked >
Confederate War Secretary Judah P. Benjamin for help in ad- 1
ministering the controversial ‘‘Furlough and Bounty Act,” which
went into effect last week! r
Aides of Benjamin indicated
the secretary tossed the 'prob-
lem right into the lap of Se :
Johnston, who comman
Confederate forces in/Noiu
Virginia.
Under terms of the legis)
—originally intended to: Sl
enlistments and areas)
federate Army strength
ties of $50 would be aw
soldiers extending theif
duty for three years or
ration of the war.
More enticing yet,
federate Congress a
60-day furloughs for the
and said they would
mitted to switch their
or even their branches,
ice, if they wished.
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JOHNSTON is said to pointed out in strong language that
the majority of the 60
en in his command were nearing
the end of their origing onth hitch.
If he granted furlg nder terms of the new act, his
ranks would be strippf his already shaky position made
critically weaker, Jo advised.
But Benjamin, whol ist Sept. 17 was the Confederate
attorney general, declf issue formal instructions, telling
Johnston only to use prudence’ in granting furloughs.
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