SECTION A— PAGE 2 THE DALLAS POST Established 1889 “More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution Now In Its 73rd Year” ¥ > 8, Member Audit Bureau of Circulations < ° Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association © z Member National Editorial Association Teint Member Greater Weeklies Associates, Inc. . The Post is sent free to all Back Mountain patients in local hospitals. If you are a patient ask your nurse for it. We will not be responsible for the return of unsolicited manu-~ scripts, photographs and editorial matter unless self-addressed, stamped envelope is enclosed, and in no case will this material be held for more than 30 days. National display advertising rates 84c per column ‘inch. " Transient rates 80c. \ Political advertising $1.10 per inch. Preferred position additional 10c per inch. Advertising deadline Monday 5 P.M. Advertising copy received after Monday 5 P.M. will be charged ut 85¢ per column inch. Classified rates 5c per word. Minimum if charged $1.00. 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MARKS Photographs—JAMES KOZEMCHAK Circulation—DORIS MALLIN A nonpartisan, liberal progressive mewspaper pub- lished every Thursday morning at the Dallas Post plant, Lehman Avenue, Dallas, Pennsylvania. Editorially Speaking: WAIT AND SEE By Rev. Charles Gilbert For weeks you hear someone practicing bits of song. You mever could guess what it was all about. Like the way things are. Ome day has fun in it. Another day is nothing but a question mark. Somebody finds fault with you, or gives you a raw deal. Some big international blow-hard defies the Almighty and everybody else. Nobody dares slap him down. Hoped-for plans fail to come through. Your house caves in. A good man you depended on dies suddenly. A plane crashes. Your world loses its meaning. . . . Then comes the day for the big concert. Your re- hearsing singer dashes out, reminds you mot to be late. It’s a great oratorio you've heard about. Chorus, orches- tra, organ, soloists, famous conductor. You detect some parts you've heard being rehearsed. But mow you hear the whole thing altogether in one piece with something like eternal meaning, making sense. Now aren't you glad you didn't judge the oratorio by the trial and error snatches you heard? : Someday you will hear and discover you have been a part of the whole symphony of this thing we call Life. You'll discover what the great Conductor is driving at. Meanwhile let's go along with the piecework rehearsals. If you can believe it will all fit together when the time comes, that is what some folks call faith. Need A Loan For Home Improvmenis? You can get it at The Friendly / “Miners in Dallas” Come in and see us about the home improvement loan you need. We'll arrange a monthly repay- ment plan that you can handle easily . . . and you'll like our fast, friendly service. 20 MINERS NATIONAL BANK Main Street, Dallas, Pa. Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | remember, Safety Valve MEMORIES Dear Howard, I have just read a whole envelope full people thought about Maggie Hilde- brant, one of our old neighbors, And it set me to thinking that it has been almost forty years since I came to Dallas on the stork’s ex- press, and how things have changed. One of the first things I can re- member is visiting at Maggie's and [ got there to visit by riding piggy back on ‘Uncle Jim” Hildebrant’s shoulder, Maggie's house and the Gordon houses and the old house where Maizie Cooke lived were the only places on that end of Norton Avenue those days. h As a matter of fact, Norton Aven- ue was a dirt street and one of the big events of every summer was to watch Wes Daddow run the steam roller to smooth up the street after the frost had heaved it. The kids used to like to wave to Wes Dad- dow and see him grin. He had a mouthful of gold teeth, and when he grinned it was just like being in California on the gold rush. We used to play baseball in the old lot where Vitale’s house is now, and climb the apple trees that were the remains of an old orchard on that corner. And we used to trap skunks under Maizie Cook’s shop, and when one got indignant about it the stink would hang over the town like a pall. There used to be quite a brisk fur trade in the block between Nor- ton and Lehman Avenues, and I col- lected some of the pelts and some of the smell. Not many people knew that one of the finest fishing holes in the United States was in that block be- tween Norton and Lehman Avenues, too. I wouldn't have known it except Floyd Harris let me in on the secret. There used to be a big spring right in back of the Dallas Post Building with a spring house over it. Tom Machell and some of his fish- ing cronies used to bring their left- over bait fish and dump them in the spring for future reference. When these old fellows went on over where the fishermen don’t have to work so hard for their bait, the chubs in the spring continued to wait for them, and in the meantime they seemed to follow the Lord’s command to be fruitful and multi- ply. When I found out about them a fellow could have a pretty decent Saturday afternoon’s sport sitting in the cool shade of the spring house and catching the original stock, which were lovely fish for a boy to catch. A good deal of the stuff that passed for ordinary fun in those days is now juvenile delinquency, and I feel more than a little sorry for the current crop of tykes. I sup- pose a lot of the fun we had would cause arrests, trials, and maybe a body can be shot at sunrise for some of it. The old spring is gone. Toby’s Creek is a sewer, the vacant lots are all built up,—why, Howard, if boys were to swim the way we used to swim in a hole over back of Brooklyn a lot of housewives would be most awful surprised! ‘Well, sir; Dallas is a good town to and once in a while {| when somebody like Maggie goes, it | poisoned himself far greater. pulls the stopper out of a fellow’s jug of memories and they come running out. A lot of old neighbors there loaned me a lot and most of them are gone Maggie and Mr. Gor- dan, Maidie Cook, and Ralph Rood, and Mert Coolbaugh. I'm kind of glad I grew up there when I did. The neighbors would probably have me up in court nowadays. Maggie use to holler, “Hey, You, cut that out or I'll put tin ears on you.” That wasn’t near as bad. Sincerely, Joe Fiske Pastor Elm Park Methodist Church Oneonta, N. Y. BLACK HEART Dear Editor: This message is for the cruel and sadistic person who takes pleasure in poisoning dogs. To me, and I'm sure to all decent people, he is the lowest type of individual to be found. He obviously does not like dogs, and that is his privilege. We all know that they can be a nuisance at times. (so can peo- ple). But it is not his privilege to inflict cruel suffering on a dog, and to the family he belongs to. This poisoner causes extreme pain to the poor dog, but his sadism does not end there. After long agonizing hours, the dog has found relief in welcome death, but the family he belonged to are the sub- sequent victims of the murderer. I would like t4 punish this per- son by forcing him to stand by and watch the violent convulsions and torture his poison has inflicted on these animals, and the accompany. ing emotion of those who have to watch this scene. I would like him to watch the faces of three children when you tell them their beloved pet" has been poisoned. I would like him to listen to their sobbing and their cries of “How could anyone do such an awful | thing 2” I would like him to watch while they dug his grave—and made a cross—and painted a tombstone. I would like to know if he feels any remorse. It is my belief that this man has not only poisoned dogs, but he has And the pain and unhappiness he has | brought to the animals, the chil- | dren, and the owners, are indeed small in comparison to the punish- i LL. eS ment he himself will receive from of: clippings of the nice things THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1962 Harveys Lake comes a very in- teresting letter. He was born on the present Orchard Farm and later lived on Main Street adjoining the Prince of Peace Church. He writes, in part: “I started to school at Dallas and had for my teacher Suzanna Wardan, who taught first grade. One day she brought to the school a number of pewter plates, about the size of pie plates, and they were fastened together in a column with a hole that went clear through them all. This is the story as I remember it. “These plates were owned by a family of Wardans who had settled at what was called Three Cornered Pond, afterwards known as Tri- angular Pond, and now called Nuangola Lake. The Shawnese In- dians had a trail that went by the house and was used by the Indians in going from Wyoming Valley to the Conyngham Valley and places farther south. And these Indians i were unfriendly and often stopped and were always hungry. One day Mr. Wardan had gone with Ox team to Wilkes-Barre and, while he was away, a band of indians stopped and Mrs. Wardan with the children gave them food but noticed that they were ugly. After a while in later afternoon they took their journey on south, but just before dark, one of the Indian girls in her early teens came running back and said to Mrs. Wardan that she was risking her life to tell Mrs. be that some of the Wardan’s or ing to kill them and take their stock and burn them out soon. “So when Mr. Wardan returned after dark and hearing the hews, they packed their furniture and kitchen utensils, but these dishes he buried in the ground near the house, They took their live stock and everything that they could and moved to safety. After some days Mr. Wardan returned and found the buildings in ruins, so he dug up the plates and it would seem that while the ground was hot that some Indians with a rod of iron had pushed it through the. center of the plates and left them cemented together with this hole clear through them all. It might a 333 CCG g Rambling Around g By The Oldtimer—D. A. Waters g E 8 SCT ESE ES EIS CSA EOE AE ECS From Mr. Garfield Jackson at Wardan that the Indians were go- their descendants know where these plates are. “This unusual act of kindness shown by this Indian girl in giving warning was contrary to Indian nature, I have often thought that this girl was a Christian and had heard the divine message by the Moravian Missionaries,” who came over from Europe between 1700 and 1800 and established head- quarters at Bethlehem, Penna, and from there had a chain of missions reaching up the Susquehanna River as far as Towanda or farther. On Main Street in Plymouth, Pa., in front of a church, there is a bronze plate in the church wall andi t reads that near this spot in the year 1742 Count Nicholas Zinzerdorf preached to the Shawnese Indians. This leads me to think’ that this unknown Indian maiden was a Christian convert.” Numerous writers in various colonies write of the traveling bands of Indians asking for food from the whites, which is explained as due to two causes. Among themselves, Indians were naturally hospitable. They gave food to travelers, some- times even to white men, and ex- pected the same. This was part of the manner of life under which they were brought up. Secondly, in some cases the Indians felt that they had not received enough for their lands and they adopted this practice as a means of making ad- ditional collections year after year, sort of collecting on the install- ment plan. ‘And kindness by Indians to whites were not unknown either. The Pilgrims would not have survived if they had not had help from Squanto. There are various in- stances recorded where friendly Indians informed whites of expected trouble. Mr. William Brewster, in his THE PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW YORK FRONTIER, gives sev- whites were advised by a friendly eral. In one of these a group of Indian or half breed to travel down the east side of the Susquehanna as the safest route, but suspected a trap and took the other side where they were ambushed. However, in the Warden case, Mr. Jackson's idea may be correct. his own conscience and self image. He is a small and contemptible man, and will reap what he has sown. and he well deserves it. Mrs. Carlton Davies SPRING IN ARIZONA Dear Howard and Myra: Today is the 50th Anniversary of the statehood of Arizona. I intended to write ‘before and ask you for a bill. I have enjoyed reading the Dallas news and the Post has come regularly since the month I missed. I seem to be. busy all the time and never get half the things done that I want to do. I guess days are just too short. I got a darling cat from the Humane Society. It is a black and white Chinchilla Angora. It can’t be pure bred or it woudn't have been given away but it must be almost or it wouldn't be so per- fectly marked. I think I'll enter her in the Cat Show next year, there her good points will be classified. Everybody is out working their yards since the cold weather is over. A good many lost plants in the freeze in January. It was 22 de- grees one day and very cold three days in succession, the coldest in 12 years and there was a little snow, first in 11 years. My bongain- villa froze but after I replaced them the frozen ones have new leaves. I have set out 17 rose bushes, 6 camellias, 1 azalia, 1 gardenia, jas- mine, Pyracauttia, Bongauivilla, pas- sion vines, and a palo verde bush. Yesterday I set out a miniosa tree so big I could hardly drag it to the hole I had dug. I planted a lot of flower seed all together to see what will come up and set out sweet alyssium, carnations and shasta dais- ies in case my seeds haven’t come up. Other people are picking sweet peas but I didn’t sow mine until December and they are only about five inches high, My poinsettia blos- soms are still nice. I took 35 iris bulbs with me and they all came up. I have an olive tree and two low palms, small but they will grow. I am getting three citrus trees and I told them I want to pick fruit before I am too old. The people who have been here a year have lovely things. It is such fun to have the time to work outdoors with- out feeling I am neglecting my duties. Clara wrote that the Ruther- fords have come out to Scottsdale. I am afraid they will call when I am out and I don’t know where they are staying. I go to Scottsdale | about once a week. I was so glad to be home when Ray and Dot came, Last week a couple from [South Montrose spent two days with us and I am expecting some people from Dalton in March. Best wishes to everybody. Miriam Commonwealth Of ! Pennsylvania RECEIPTS: Total .. AUDITORS REPORT 1961 Taxes Collected in Cash During Year «oi Taxes Collected on Old Duplicates During Year - Amount Received from County on Unpaid Taxes or Liens [Filed Amount Received from Other Sources (A) to (P) Form 905 Jackson Township Luzerne County From First Monday in January 1961 to First Monday in January 1962 CASH BALANCE AT BEGINNING OF YEAR: : Cash in Bank, Securities and Reserves ; 1,232.39 6,932.06 000.00 345.61 9,115.86 $16,393.53 Total Amount Received from Loans or Certificates of Indebtedness 300.00 16,693.53 EXPENDITURES: General Government © 1,495.95 Protection to Persons and Property 1,516.37 Highways 1,316.17 Miscellaneous 1,272.88 Total 5,601.37 CASH BALANce AT END OF YEAR RESOURCES: Cash, Securities and Reserves Balance of 1961 Duplicate Due from County on Taxes Returned and Liens Filed . Value of Township Machinery Total 2,737,99 2,737.99 2,070.06 407.39 7,685.00 LIABILITIES: Outstanding Bank Notes and Certificates of Indebtedness Total 12,900.44 3,706.25 3,706.25 ASSESSED VALUATION OF THE TOWNSHIP: JULY 10, 194%, P.L. 1481 SIGNED Real Estate 470,260.00 Per Capita 1,962.00 Total .. 472,222.00 PUBLISHED OR POSTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 547, ACT 567, APPROVED, Carl Aston Paul Snyder Walter Mickno Only Yesterday Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years Ago In The Dallas Post IT HAPPENED 30 YEARS AGO: Peter Culp, sole surviving memb- er of the Dallas G.A.R. Post, was observing his ninetieth birthday at Huntsville. He was present at Gen- eral Robert E. Lee's surrender. He was present at the dedication of Huntsville Christian Church in 1844, having been carried there as an infant in his mother’s arms. Carl Kocher and Ada Bartlett, both of Alderson, escaped death when their car ' plunged through the ice at Harveys Lake. | James R. Oliver was doing a rush- ing business, unloading his fifth car- load of Year's. The Dallas Post installed a fast automobiles since New facilitate its job-printing work. C. |S. Hildebrant was elected care- taker of Wardan Cemetery. The State of Pennsylvania Game Commission approved purchase of 26,867 acres in 22 counties for hunt- ing and game conservation areas. Senator J. Hamilton Lewis, Illi- nois Democrat, forecast an alliance between Japan and Russia, directed at the United States. rr HAPPENED 2{) YEARS AGO: Sugar rationing was still a myst- ery. Ration books were ready for distribution. Consumers were to reg- ister at the school building nearest their homes. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Brickel doused the blaze rising from a burning refrigeratir motor. Jim Besecker an- swered the fire alarm at 1:30 am. helped get things under control. An involuntary manslaughter case against: Richard Williams, 19, was dismissed. The victim James Stag- an, Harveys Lake, walked in front of the Williams’ car December ' 21, 1931. Borough millage was in danger of being increased. Rental of four fireplugs and installation and oper- ation of highway intersection light- ing was responsible for increasing costs. Laketon girls defeated Dallas girls for the Back Mountain crown, 20 to 16. Dallas-Tunkhannock Highway had the promise of being designated as a U.S. route, replacing the former route from Tunkhannock to Wilkes- Barre by way of Falls, on the far side of the Susquehanna. members were tapped for the North- east District band. Mrs. Sherman Schooley located an old issue of “The Child’s Paper,” published in 1860, which termed the Japanese: strange but kindly little people and hoped that open- ing hitherto closed doors would result in spreading of the gospel among 40 million Japanese. The Duke and Duchess of Wind- sor were planning a big garden par- ty in the Bahamas for the aid of the Red Cross. Dallas Borough high school team took top honors in Back Mountain Basketball League, their third straight championship. Residents were advised to get ready for possible bombing. Safest place, the basement. Bucknell was speeding up its com- mencement program, curtailing act- ivities. Married: Iris Kitchen and Garvin Smith. Pennsylvania’s production of map- le sugar was expected to help ease the expected shortage of cane sug- ar. Lonesome soldiers started to flood Safety-Valve with letters, thanking the editor for sending them the home-town paper in camp. Five local boys, George E. Golden, David L. Williams, Edward A. Long, Harry Smith and George Heinbach joined the awmed forces. Mrs. Emma Hazeltine died at 90. Mrs. Byron Sickler died at her home in Center Moreland. rr uappenep 1() YEARS aco: Jackson firemen planned to build a $30,000 fire house and commun- ity center at Chase. Dallas Woman's Club donated a spinet piano to the Library. Foxes, dead and alive, sane and mad, were still reported in the area, but the worst of the rabies epid- emic was over, Dallas-Franklin schools advanced lunch price from 15 to 20 cents. Mrs, Harry Haycox and Mrs. Harry Ohman were co-chairman of the Red Cross drive. John Gordon Hadsel, Franklin Street, was buried ‘in the family plot at Beaumont. Married: Claire Marie Bauer to Adrian DeMarco. Beverly Jones to Ralph Swan. Frances Layaou to C. A. Blizzard. Edward Kent had a column in the Dallas Post. Mrs, Elizabeth Loveland, Orchard Knob Farm, died at 84. Levi Brown, 84, died at North Moreland. A little boy stared, wide-eyed, at the stars; “Gee, "if heaven is that beautiful on the bottom, think how it would be on the other side.” One of those things that is hard to figure out is why walls are so thin when you want to sleep and so thick when you want to listen. hamburger ? automatic press, a Kelly model, to |, From Pillar To Post... by Hix All night long they came at me in formation battalions of out- size insects, snapping their jaws, rigidly extending their fore-feet, and looking over their shoulder as they passed in review. There is something grisly about the idea of a large insect glar- ing over its shoulder. of turning to gloat. One praying mantis I can accept, after the first shock, with. reasonable fortitude. Even when a small boy offers a praying: mantis as a gift, standing back in admiration as it rustles dryly in my palm, T can summon up sufficient str ength to accept the stranger in the spirit in which it was offered. But given my druthers, I druther not make a pet of the phenomenon. They tell me that a praying mantis will become tame enough to welcome a bit of hamburger extended toward those voracious jaws. After typing out the story of the Boy Scouts who plan to employ an army of praying mantis to rid their garden of insects, I went home and cogitated upon the matter. Suppose wholesale introduction of praying mantis results in overthrowing the ‘balance of nature? Will we be exchanging small insects incapable of looking over their shoulders, for whopping big insects that can stare us down after they have plodded past? Will the things’ eat Japanese beetles? The describing the advantages of importing the mantis, state that the creatures will tackle anything but ants. Ants are too acid. Cases ‘are on record where a mantis has ‘engulfed a lizard three times its own size. I like lizards, especially the blue-tailed skink variety, and | shudder at the idea of a cerulean blue lizard tail disappearing inexorably down the gullet of a steadily, swallowing and swelling praying mantis. “How ‘do you feel about praying mantis?” I asked Johnny. Johnny paused thoughtfully as he beat out a couple more lines in slow motion and hot lead on the linotype machine. “I step on them,” he said conclusively. “Every once in awhile, early in the fall, I see one crossing the path, and I get him.” “It probably i isn’t a him, it’s a her, and she’s on her way to lay a whole flock of eggs.” Johnny blenched at the idea. And now I come to think of it, I'm doing a little blenching of my own. The pamphlet says blithely that praying mantis will Sation themselves on the window screen and devour any mosquitoes or flies. ‘Half a dozen praying mantis in five-inch lengths, parked on a win- dow screen, would lead the average householder to slam down the window and embark upon a rare case of the screaming meemies. And that casual sentence, “The mantis will soon become the most. conspicuous wild life} in the garden . . .” If that means what I think it means, I'm against it. Tn spades.’ A praying mantis swallowing a lizard, blown up full screen size on television, would make a horror picture to end horror pictures. Years ago, on the movie screen, I saw a picture of a spider battling it out with a centipede, a thousand times life size, and I still break | out in a cold perspiration at the recollection. And there was a cartoon showing a giant insect tracking down a panic stricken little human being, vainly trying to find refuge from the armor-plated monster advancing over the brow of the hill. Come to think of it, .the giant looked a lot like a praying mantis, fore-legs extended, jaws chomping in anticipation. Leave us face it. | don’t like bugs. Not any kind of bugs. And more especially, large bugs with lots of legs, capable of turning ftheir heads and looking back over their shoulders, as they eat me out of house and hashes, pamphlets Insects should look straight ahead instead But who wants to support a large insect on i Eight Lehman Township band, [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.) Monitor and Merrimac v ~ Wage Historic Battle THE U.S. S. “MONITOR” NORFOLK, Va. Moreh 9—The world’s first battle between ironclad ships was fought for a furious six hours near here today, ending in what appears to be a draw. Participants were the Monitor of the Federal navy, a 172-footer carrying two 11-inch guns in revolving turrets; and the Confed- erate Navy's squat, box-like Virginia, or Merrimac as she is known to the North. The Virginia—similar in size to the Monitor, but carrying an armored gunshed instead of turrets—was built by Confederate naval architects on the hull of the Union frigate Merrimac, seized by the rebels after it was Soatiled in Norfolk harbor. * Both ships bombarded each other erctisly during the epic battle, but the armor of each made most of the direct hits bounce off harmlessly. Although the MERRIMAC was the first to withdraw, ob- servers were unable to credit either ship with a clear victory. Unofficial reports were that casualties on both sides were rela- tively few—most of them gunners who suffered concussion as the huge shells splattered on their steel housing with deafening noise. TODAY’S BATTLE was 24 hours too late to save the Union fleet here from a crippling attack by the Merrimac. Yesterday, the plucky little ship sailed fearlessly into a nest of men-of-war and handed the Union the worst dh defeat in its history. In that one-sided encounter, the Confederate ironclad rammed and sank the Cumberland, a 24- -gun wooden vessel; set fire to the 50-gun Congress, and severly damaged the 47-gun Minnesota. The Merrimac took cover in the James river at dusk, and re- turned this morning to finish off the Minnesota only to be met by the Monitor, which had steamed in during the night. * * Tok LT. J. L. WORDEN, commander of the Monitor, took his ship i directly alongside the Merrimac. The point-blank firing began at once. Lt. Worden was among the casualties, being blinded by a hot that sailed right through the narrow pilot house view- ing slit Commanding the Merrimae was Lt. C. R. Jones, who super- vised her construction. He *ook over only yesterday after Comdr. Franklin Buchanan was severely wounded in the attack on the Union vessels. ; (Copyright, 1962, Hegewisch News » Symsteate, Chicago 83, III, aning from National Archives.) Rei AE “d ESE law, | Bingh and 0 Mr, family Street Truck ian w any, Mr. family into Road. Gener Alfr Dallas for Un pital, delphi ery f mont} surger in ro Mr. forme built at Ar . Mr, of Mrs. Crory Wil of Fla ‘las, h eral & ie hospit mobil nicely Mr. Meadc nounc