¥ THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1962 CEE EEE Jd SECTION A— PAGE 2 ro —- THE DALLAS POST Established 1889 ky “More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution Now In Its 73rd Year” Looking at Rambling Around Only ELT HID FACING § Barnyard Notes LI T By The Oldtimer—D. A. Waters Y e st er d a : — Se, 2 Y : J ESTES ea y Meco ar uit Buresy oF Cyreulations tn * % EOE ESSE AES EO Ea INET ES NENEENEEESENENEENSEEENEENENNENNNEEEOAENE NEA Member National Editorial Association i vo With GEORGE A. and Up to about fifty-five years ago, |due to mud and dust and accumu- | §Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years I shall never forget Ray Shiber and the many happy hours we 2 Zoe A ay en te =~ NE AEE RR TEES SEPTATE ey Rr COE EEN TORO Lg hot EYE ® CARER ETE pores EEE EAR DE Wb SE LE Member Greater Weeklies Associates, Inc. The Post is sent free to all Back Mountain patients in local “hospitals. 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MARKS Photographs—JAMES KOZEMCHAK Circulation—DORIS MALLIN A nowmpartisan, liberal progressive mewspaper pub- lished every Thursday morning at the Dallas Post plant, Lehman Avenue, Dallas, Pennsylvania. an + CCC C00 3 Editorially Speaking: BECAUSE IT IS RIGHT “To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the world struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, ~ we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves for whatever period is required—not because the Com- munists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right.” In no better words than “because it is right” ‘could Prosident Kennedy, in his Inaugural Ass, have reaf- rmed the reaction of Alois to he needs of the hungry, homeléss and destitute millions throughout Le world. i Nor could he have expressed better the basic war ditional motivation of our people to relieve suffering among their neighbors either at home or abroad. The great voluntary overseas relief organizations of our religious faiths—Protestant, Catholic and Jewish— are currently engaged in their annual appeals for funds with which to carry on their ministries among those stricken by disasters, by malnutrition, by political dis- placement and impoverishment, by flood, famine, disease, poverty. and ignorance. ! Because it is right, millions of Americans will re- spond to these appeals on Sunday, April 1—Protestants through “One Great Hour of Sharing” observances in Protestant churches, and Catholics through “The Bishops’ Relief Fund” appeal in Catholic churches, while our na- tional community will be emphasizing the United Jewish Appeal for funds to aid refugees and others in need abroad. Through these efforts, the traditional compassion of Americans for those less fortunate than themselves will live in deeds throughout the year. Through them, hundreds of millions of pounds of food, clothing and medicines, including U.S. Government- donated surplus commodities, will be distributed free to the hungry, homeless and destitute. Orphanages, schools and hospitals, tuberculosis and other health projects will be supported, programs of re- settlement and constructive development maintained, agricultural, vocational and other educational projects— giving knowledge and new skills—will be carried on, guiding hundreds of thousands to self-sufficiency. All this; because it is right. ” ; Keeping faith with those in need—each through his own faith—Americans will share generously and gladly. NOV is the time to Plant Fruit Trees TTI Fresh Dug, Balled In Burlap Apples - Pears - Peachs - Plumbs Sweet and Sour Cherries In Dwarf and Standard Sizes $2. to $3.15 Blue, White = Red Grapes 85¢ Bg Ag Ean NEA AEE Lene esis ene eli I THT T1112 hy EDITH ANN BURKE Loretta Young’s new Fall show promises to be even better than her former series. She is planning on retaining two features of the old—the dramatic door entrance and the closing quotation. In “Christine’s Children” the double decor is an exact copy of the door to the livingroom in her beautiful mansion. Loretta must love a large house because she can count ten bedrooms in her home. In the series Loretta will marry her editor—who is James Philbray recently of “The Investigators.” So far Loretta and her writers haven’t decided how many weeks will pass before the marriage will take place. There will be the uscal problems of the children getting used to the idea of their mother remarrying. Among the seven children will be a pair of twins, played by two ors. In fact, they've never acted but Loretta believes all they have to do is be themselves and they will be perfect for the part. The children will range from 18 to 6. Among the children is one vet- eran, Beverly Washburn, She has been in movies since she was five. She played with Loretta in her sec- ond movie, when ske was only five. Now she is 18 and will play the oldest daughter in the series. Although working with so many children will be a new eéxperience to Loretta, she doesn’t expect any difficulty. Lorretta comes from a large family, Her mother has 18 grandchildren and the family Christ. mas "dinners usually mean a fam- ily gathering of 35 or. so. Loretta has a system for remem- bering the children’s’ names. She isn’'t—that way she will never slip up and call them by their real names. “Christine’s Children” will mean a more confining schedule for Lor- etta. On her former series she often used a guest star and she didn’t appear in that week’s story. But this" series calls for her appearance every week. ; But according to Loretta she could- n't be. happier about the series and being back on television. Pearl Bailey, who is always kid- ding about how her feet hurt and how she hates to stand is really having a hard time with a pain. ful knee injury. The doctor thinks surgery may be necessary. Pantomine Quiz which made its appearance summertimes, will fin- ally become a Fall show. The series, which presents com- petition by two teams of celebrities, will be televised on Mondays from 10:30 to 11 p.m. Mike Stokey, who originated the program in 1947, and in the past was master of ceremon- ies hopes he will continue in that role but so far hasn’t been decid- ed. Hopalong Cassidy - Now that’s one that. hasn’t been seen for four or five years is making a comeback. NBC will re-issue “Hopalong Cass- idy.” It will be the same old series with William Boyd, in the title role, per- sonifying clean living and fair play. According to William Breen, nat- ional sales manager of NBC, “These qualities are more than welcome on the current television scene.” Lawrence Welk’s Show _ Tt seems to us that the dancer on the Welk Show is getting less appealing every week, She cranes her neck so she can smile into the camera and last week she seemed actually awkward as a dancer. Eastern Star's Annual Banquet To Be Held April 6 At Irem Country Club Mrs. Mildred H. Garinger, Worthy Matron of Dallas Chanter Order of the Eastern Star, will be the guest of honor at its thirty-seventh annual banquet at the Irem Temple Country Club Friday evening, Ap- ril 6, at 6:30. Past Matrons will serve as the Reception Committee to welcome members and their , guests. Rev. David Morgan; pastor of Wyoming Methodist Church, will be the speaker and Rev. John H. Gor- don, pastor of Alderson—Kunkle— Noxen Methodist Churches, will give the benediction. The musical program will feat- ure Diane Mvers as soloist; a trom. bone trio: Timothy Swanson, Joan Fielding, and Eunice Oney accomp- anied by Marv Ann Laskowski; and the OES. Choir. Cards. door prizes, and dancing (to which the Charles James Mem- orial Assembly of Rainbow Girls and their escorts are invited) will add to the banquet festivities. The committees are: banquet: Betty Meeker, Evelyn Smith, Gert- rude Davies, Elma Price, and = Oce Beryl Austin: reservations: Myrtle Rineman, Mildred Lutes, ' Medeline Fue ESE EEE EE TC BEE EE TAO CSS CI ESE UAE LoBorre. and Elma Price. boys who are not professional act- or thereabouts, Dallas was a nice quiet country village, a half hour by train or trolley or two or three hours drive from Wilkes-Barre. There were some enterprising busi- ness men, most of their activities being in establishments in a single block on Main Street between the foot of Huntsville Street and the Raub Hotel, which stood in the angle now occupied by the Acme Market and Atlantic gas station. Other businessmen were almost all within a block of the business center. B. W. Brickel operated a furniture and undertaking estab- lishment on the top of Main Street hill and a little further east Jos- eph Finch had a harness shop on the opposite side. About halfway up the first hill on Huntsville Street James Baird had a shoe repair shop and THE DALLAS POST was located at the corner of Huntsville | Street and Norton Avenue. Barton Mott had a livery stable on .Lake Street and William Bulford- another one back of the Lehigh Valley Stat- ion. Along the creek on that side of town Charles Cooke had a saw- mill and millwork shop and {Charles D. Gregory a feed mill. About that time the new First National Bank was opened on Church Street across from the Hotel. Excepting a sawmill run by Ry- man and Shaver at the lower end cf the Borough, just above where the road to Orchard Farm crosses the highway, the balance of the town consisted of homes surround- ed by farms. Most of the houses were occupied by owners and lots were large. Almost everyone plant- ed a garden, nearly as many kept chickens, and many of the lots contained a small barn in which the owner kept a cow or two and some kept horses. Dallas had physicians in Dr. James G. Laing and his son, Dr. Henry M. Laing, both then located in the same house on Lake Street. There was usually about one more doctor in the place; one of whom, Dr. J. C. Fleming, came as a young man and spent the balance of his life here. Most of the land was surveyed by Charles H. Cooke. There were several contractors and carpenters, several painters, and usually one or two plumbers. There was not a single pived road in town and few sidewalks outside of flagstone walks in the business section, extending to the Church, and a board walk on Lake Street, There ‘was some discomfort a famous team of | lated snow which fell early in the season and usually remained all winter, But there was one distinct advantage over present conditions. It 'was perfectly safe for any man, woman, or even child, to go any- where, at any hour of the day or night, provided he or she kept off the tracks when a train or trolley car was approaching. And even the tracks were the safe and accepted route to walk to the baseball field on Center Hill Road, to The Old Meadows, popular swimming hole along the Lehigh Valley back of Fernbrook Park, or to the park itself. Surrounding and reaching into the fringes of the town were farms, each with a homestead, home or- chard, livestock, fields, and some had woods. Best known of the lat- ter was the Billy Goss woods which stretched in a big backdrop across the edge of town from Orchard Farm to the northwest end of Ceme- tery street. Tn the open, it was pos- sible to stop almost anywhere and look up at the sky without dang- er. The biggest asset of the place, which in the end proved its un. doing in that respect, was its quiet- ness, Tranquillity of mind was the accepted and normal state. There were no crackpots running around and around the block with cut- outs open on their motorcycles, trying to show off. Lawnmowers: were hand operated and not run into late hours of the evening. And motor vehicles were not dart. ing around, disturbing the peace and endangering ' life and limb. Such things as wailing fire sirens and loud speakers broadcasting canned music were unknown. There were no loud radios and television noises heard around the neighbor- hood and even in your own house. To live now, even for a few hours, like our fathers did all the time, we have to leave town. Since we cannot do that too, frequently, if you have good power of concen- tration from long reading habits, it ‘helps to dig out some of the stuff we used to read in by-gone days in the old “Youth’s Compan- ion” and in the early issues of “The American Magazine” - Grace Richmond, Gene Stratton-Porter, George Barr McCutcheon, and David Grayson. Or Rex Beach and Zane Grey if you liked their style. If you were foolish enough to discard these old friends, they usu- ally have a table full of them at the Library Auction at ten cents a piece. From Pillar To Post... by Hix We thought that spring would never come again, but it is here. For many weary nights, the stars blazed in the firmament, but to eyes still fixed desolately upon the bleakness of winter, were invisible. they Green. shoots pushed their way through the quickening earth, but they brought no message of hope or cheer. But now, it is spring. |A delicately striped purple and white crocus has opened its petals to the sunshine, and a robin sings his evening song from the topmost branch of the maple tree. There is a stir of renewed life and faith in everything about. The stars were never more beautiful through the leafless branches , of the trees. ‘ Implemented by the best in modern medicine in the hands of a dedicated doctor who would not acknowledge defeat, and by the constant care of nurses who spared no effort, the miracle of life in the face of almost certain death has come to pass. SWEET VALLEY Mr. and Mrs. Paul Farver and daughters, Paula and Sharron, and Johnny Davis spent a week-end re- cently with Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Bowman, Wilmington, Del. Mrs. Bowman is the former Jean Farver. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cragle, Mooretown, spent Sunday at War. rior Run, where they attended a family dinner given by Mrs. Cragle’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Gomb. , Mrs. Earl Kittle, Jr. reports see- ing four flocks of wild geese. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith spent last week-end with the latter's par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Whitesell, Fades. The Smiths are attending Bible Institue at Jersey Shore. Recent visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William George were Sgt. and Mrs. Ronald Grabowski and Mark Allan who recently re- turned from French Morocco and Mr. and Mrs. Merlin ‘Specht, North- umberland, Mrs. Charles H, Long, and daugh- ter, Gloria, attended the Teacher's Junior Grade graduation in (Child Evangelism on Saturday at Calvary Bible Church. Wilkes-Barre. Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Long, Jan, Wanda Darlene and Miralee Beth, Mr. and Mrs. McKinley Long mo- tored to Bloomsburg Sunday to visit Dean, Mrs. Floyd Hoover, Patsy Hoover, Tdetown,. and Gloria and Wilma Long, were the guests of Dean Long, student at Bloomsburg Teacher's College, Sunday, March 18. Sgt. and Mrs, Ronald Grabowski and som, Mark Allan, are spending | a thirty day leave with their par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Grabow- ski, Nanticoke, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Whitesell, Fades. Mrs. Gra- bowski is the former Carol White. sell. The Grabowski family recent- ly returned from French Morocco where they were stationed last year. Friends and relatives are en- joying Mark Allan, who was born there last September. The Grabow- ski family will move to Bunker Hill Airforce Base, Indiana, when the present leave is over. Items of interest for this column will be greatly appreciated. I wish to thank all those who have called their news in. The phone number is 7-3271, Guests on Sunday at the home of Mr. ‘and Mrs. Albert Wallace were Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Maurur, Wilkes-Barre and Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Hontz, Plymouth. Mr. and Mrs. Hontz . also visited with his uncle and aunt. Mr. and Mrs. Cletus Holcomb Sr. Pikes Creek. Mr. and Mrs, Paul Crockett, Jean and Bill, Broadway. spent ‘Sunday evening with the Richard Strouds, Mooretown. West Luzerne Deanery Quarterly meeting of West Lu- zerne Deanery of Scranton Diocese, Catholic Daughters of America, is scheduled for Sunday at 2:30 p.m. in St. Hedwig’s Church, Zerbey Ave. nue, Knigston. Plans will be laid for the DCCW convention in May. Ago In The Dallas Post ir napPENED J} YEARS AGO: A. P. Kiefer received 120 pairs of New Zealand white rabbits for establishment of a rabbit ranch at Shrine View. The expected yearly output of thousands was to go to a packing company. Robert Hooper was in charge of the rabbit ranch. Residents were still smarting und- er the term Back Mountain, equat- ing it with Back Woods, considered as a slap at tke intelligence of residents. Mrs. Albert Chapman, 56, wife of a former Trucksville Methodist pastor, died from a particle of food lodged in her throat. Dallas Township school was sen. ning to beautify its grounds, with men of the community to assist in planting. Marie Hansen Sutliff, 26, Trucks- ville, died ‘of pleurisy. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde showing at the Himmler. Spring Primaries indicated that nobody was interested in anything except being a committeeman, and that, Republican. A community card party for bene- fit of the unemployed was given at College Misericordia by Dallas Com- munity Club. Dallas Borough and Dallas Town- ship were tied for championship of the Bi-County League: Circulation of the Dallas Post was 4,079. ‘ i You could get a hearty table d’hote dinner at Hotel Fort Dur- kee for $1. ! : The Kidnapped Lindbergh baby was still missing. _ Shavertown Lumber Company called attention to all-time low building costs, advised remodelling. rr HAPPENED 2() YEARS Aco: Pals of Stan Evans, Shavertown; died at Pearl Harbor, which Stan had left some months before the surprise attack. Iva Stevenson, Harveys Lake Pol- ice Chief, regretted that he was no longer in the Marines, with whom he had served in the Philip. pines during the Spanish Amer- ican War, “If I could get just one crack at those Japs. . .” -Tire stortages brought some transportation changes. Noxen work- was ers took to bikes, and two defense: buses: plied between here and Ber. wick. Among local bee-men attending the annual banquet were W. C. Rou- shey, George Still, Archie Baker, A. C. Eddinger, W. F. Newberry, and Will Elston. was organized, chairman Mrs, Wes- ley Himmler. Scarlet fever affected eight child- ren in the area. Dozens of letters from homesick boys in the service. Residents were lending field glass for use in the Navy. Drake. Ruth. Mrs. Amanda Fiske, 72, died at Alderson. Doris LaBar to Woodrow rr uappenep 1() vEARs Aco: Little Teague drew 203 registra- tions to date. Kingston Township Vets elected William Guyette president. Sherman Kunkle, Sweet Valley said it would be a two-day affair. Carverton Rod and Gun Club of- fered a $5 bonus for dead foxes. Rev. Frederick Moock, former pas. tor of (St. Paul’s, suffered a heart attack, and was on leave of absence from his church in Phoenixville. Ralph Brickel, veteran funeral dir- ector, 71, died after a lingering illness. Married: Janet Oliver to William Wyda. Edward B. Kraft, Noxen, enlisted in the Air Force. Rachel E. Searfoss, 51, was buried in Kocher Cemetery. John Zlaine, truck driver for Charles Long, dashed into a house at Meeker, borrowed a shotgun, and killed a fox crossing the yard. OUT OF ISOLATION Thomas M. B. Hicks, Pioneer Ave., has been taken from the critical list at Nesbitt Hospital, is out of isolation, and is making steady im- provement. EXPERT TAILORING ® Trouser Alterations e Skirts & Dresses Hemmed ® Coat Alterations ADAMS Back Mt. Shopping Center Shavertown Open Til 9 Every Night spent on long Thursday evenings discussing incidents of the Civil War while he made the Chauncey Wing mailing machine hum as he stamped the yellow address on The Dallas Post. Ray Shiber knew the Civil War as few learned college profes- sors did, and he didn’t get it all out of books. During his boyhood he got, at first hand, much of his information from the men who had dodged the minie balls and who had stopped some of them. Then he checked their stories by spending hours on the battlefields himself. He knew Gettysburgh, Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg ‘and Antietam as intimately as some of the generals who fought there, for he spent more time walking over the fields, seeking out Union and Confederate veterans alike to discuss with them some little known incident of the conflict. Then this self-taught student, with little formal education, but with a zest for facts that is common to all scholars, would turn to the Napoleonic Wars and the campaigns of Napoleon and his marshals in order to better understand the strategy : and tactics used by Southern and Union Generals. “ “Lee was a fool”, I have heard him say. “to send massed in= fantry (Pickett’s Charge) across open fields against massed artillery. Napoleon had learned that it couldn’t be done!” . and he would cite the battle and the action and the Marshal who had learned it. At such times he would turn from his work, ‘mailing machine held aloft, and sputter out incident after incident, date, hour, corps, division, brigade and regiments where Union generals had led their men to useless slaughter. : As the words came tumbling out, he might not pronounce the general's name correctly or use college English but there was no doubt in anyone’s mind about the facts. He had them. I have often dropped downstairs to chat with him after pouring over some little known incident in Freeman's four-volume .“R. E. Lee” or the three-volume “Lee and His Lieutenants” or Williams “Lincoln. [Finds 'A General”, facts fresh in mind, to catch Ray on some controversial point. i never caught him off guard. He would take up the issue, embellish it, give me the opinions of two or three authorities and his own conclusions and leave me standing there amazed at his knowledge and memory. No I shall never forget this kindly, gentle man; his enthusiasm and zest for whatever he undertook. Any Rebel who had the temerity to place the responsibility for the War Between the States at a session of the Civil War Round Table also felt the flashes of fire that sparked from his bright eyes. “You know who was to blame” he would say. ‘It was those Southerners who were too lazy to work, and ‘too willing to ‘fight. It was slavery. That's what it was.” And they all loved him, Yankee and Rebel alike. \ & Dallas Red "Cross Canteen unit Married: Alma Nelson to Fred’ Parade chairman far Memorial Day, - the five gun emplacements on 100Years Ago This Weeki in E se THE CIVIT, WA (Events exactly years azffis week in the Civil War— told in the language¥and style of today.) SETA Pinkerton on Pan WASHINGTON, D.C.—April 1—Criticism is mounting over detective Allan Pinkerton’s operations of the North’s in- telligence service. Latest grumbles followed disclosure that defenses by which the South has held Bull Run, or Manassas, scene of the first battle of the conflict, were vastly overesti- mated. After the recent southern withdrawal, Union scouts discovered that most of the “guns” ringing Manassas actually were shaved logs, painted black. In photo above, Pinkerton is seen seated at rear. (Library of Congress). ® * * “It’s Operation Saw” At New Madrid, Mo. NEW MADRID, Mo.—April 2—Union military and naval leaders today expressed confidence that Island No. 10, strategic Mississippi River stronghold of the Confederates, would fall within 48 hours. ; A fleet of riverboats headed by the Carondolet, under com- mand of Flag Capt. Henry Wal- ke, aided by troops of the battle- hardened 42d Illinois regiment under Col. George W. Roberts, is poised for an assault on the island. The Carondolet has been out- fitted to withstand the fire of warfare, Union army engi- neers under Col, J. W. Bis- sell are engaged in sawing out trees blocking the chan- nel above the island. Some 600 men are involved in this tricky work, according to Col. Bissell. It involves cutting a canal through two miles of. swampy marshland studded with trees, thus providing a safer method of approach to the island. MEN ON RAFTS are using saw-rigs to cut the trees at a : minimum depth of four and a half feet below the surface. Working in advance of them are other crews who ‘‘top’” the trees to leave a minimum of eight feet above the surface; other crews are removing the Island No. 10 and the four op- posite the island on the main- land. * * * HAWSERS and chain cables’ have been placed around the pilot house; a coal barge laden with coal "and hay has been lashed to the craft’s port side, as a rare type of floating armor; a variety of protective material has been lashed to the ship’s decks. timber as it falls. 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