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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
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Sweet and Sour Cherries
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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
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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.
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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
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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).
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“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.
In an operation thought (Copyright, 1962, Hegewisch News
unprecedented in ‘modern Syndicate, Chicago 83, IIL)
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