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Editorially Speaking:
WE NEED 12 MONTHS OF SPRING
We don’t suppose there ever was a time since the
dawn of Creation when man failed to respond to the
miracle of spring—nor for that matter, the cats and the
dogs and even the beasts of the field w; who doubtless look
forward to a new céntentment in their 'greehing, flower-
dctted meadows.
- But there’s nothing like the break-up of a hard win-
ter plus the national and global tensions of these critical
and dangerous times to add to the glamor of this enchant-
ing season—and to make us aware of the hunger of our
souls for the beauty and inspiration of flowers—from
dandelions to roses and forget-me-nots to sun-flowers.
With a better understanding of this need than most
of us are conscious of, the Society of American Florists
- decided three years ago to help people get from flowers
- the comfort and glory that could, conceivably, extend the
springtime around the calendar.
~~ The society instituted a youth education program,
and followed it up with a public informaton program, to
bring classrooms, homes ‘and businesses a better knowl-
ege and understanding of flowers and plants, their use
and care. A booklet “Flowers and You” and other infor-
mation being widely disseminated advise Americans how
to use flowers and plants in their everyday living—even
how to make them last longer.
Implicit in these programs is the thought that flowers
and plants can do more for us than we either realize or
admit, and that it makes little sense to limit their help-
fulness to a brief season or to special occasions—Easter,
birthdays, sickness, new babies and death.
That the campaign is having its effect begins to be
apparent ‘as we look around us on our business and so-
cial] errands. More and more, we are seeing greenery and
flowers i in business establishments—not just to mark. an-
niversaries, but as a daily lift to the spirits of workers and
visitors. And certainly flowers are brightening more
homes more often
There is nothing new in the universal “language of
the flowers,” but it’s being heard more frequently—and
at a time when we most need the encouragement and
hope in which it speaks.
Poet's Corner
Safety Valve
THE WAR OF THE POSTERS
Dear Sir,
I have noticed a strange phenom-
enon over the past several days.
Campaign posters of Dave Blight,
Republican candidate from Luzerne
for the office of State Representa-
tive for the Sixth Legislative Dis-
trict, which had been prominently
displayed on the telephone poles on
the Luzerne-Dallas Highway for
several weeks, suddently disap-
peared last Saturday, with the ex-
ception of two or three posters, and
were replaced by campaign posters
of the endorsed county organization
candidate. By Monday morning most
of the latter's posters between
Trucksville and Luzerne had in turn
been torn down, apparently in an
understandable retaliation for what
had occurred the preceding Satur-
day.
This tearing down of the posters
of a rival candidate is interesting,
from my point of view, because of
my own candidacy on the Repub-
lican - ticket for the office of State
Representative from the Sixth Dis-
trict, but it certainly is not a very
impressive way in which to con-
duct a primary campaign.
I myself do not intend to use
posters, because of the cost, but
will rely entirely upon bumper
stickers for that sort of ppen camp-
aign publicity in the period follow-
ing Easter. Thus I personally am
not affected by this ‘war of the
posters, except insofar as I could
tend to profit indirectly by the
destruction of a rival candidate's
campaign material. I would prefer
not to profit in such a manner.
I have asked the registered Repub-
lican voters of the [Sixth Legisla-
tive District to vote for me on May
15th. I have visited many in their
homes. I will be visiting as many
more as'I can. If they wish to vote
for me, they will. If they wish to
vote for another candidate, they
will do that. This is fair enough. I
naturally would hope to carry my
native Back Mountain Area by as
large a margin as possible. If I do
well enough here, I fully expect to
win the primary. But, if I win, I
want to win fairly and squarely. The
wilful destruction of the campaign
posters of another candidate is not
fair to that candidate, whether the
posters be my posters or someone
else's posters, and I hope this type
of thing will cease, before somebody
starts blaming me for it.
Very truly yours,
Bob Fleming
DEFENDS HER OWN TOWN
To the Editor:
I am not going to start my let-
ter by telling you or anyone else
who they should vote for. Neither
am I going to call the Back Moun-
tain parents idiots if they don’t
fight the water company [for fluori-
dation. I like to give the fine peop-
le of the Back Mountain credit for
having as much intelligence as any
other community.
By now, you probably realize I
am referring to Jerry Lancio’s let-
ter in last week's Post which is
so fittingly titled “One Man’s Opin-
ion.” If I'm not mistaken, that
young man received a sizable chumk
of his own education in the Dallas
School District. What I want to
know is, if the system is so far
behind, how in the world did he
get so ‘smart’?
I graduated from the Dallas School
and for some reason I don’t feel any
less educated than anyone else tak-
ing the same course of study in
ANY school. The education is there.
All that is required of a student
is that he or she listen and study
a little. Of course, maybe smoking
in class improves your power of
concentration. I wouldn't know, I
never wanted to smoke in or out
of class, and I'm glad I wouldn't
have been allowed to even had I
‘wanted to. If is my belief that a
little restraint never hurt (or made
delinquents- of) anyone. If they are
allowed to smoke in class—what
1 Recipe For A Library Ruction
Take a good old fashioned picnic,
Add a touch of county fair,
Spice with sweet, mostalgic mem’ries
Of some old time minstrel rare.
Mix the golden, sunlit fragrance
Of a perfect summer day
And, when put, with zest, together
You've The Auction out our way.
Count the workers, note the donors,
Add devotion’s steady flame.
Mark the legend ever growing .
OQ’er the years to widespread fame,
Set the mood with fun and laughter,
Bammer bright and festive gay.
Roll the drums and start the bidding
That’s The Auction out our way.
Thus a dream achieves fulfilment
All the books await the day
When eager minds will claim them
’Carse The Auction came our way.
Williard G. Seaman
~ Some of our jug-headed officials
_ in Washington—particularly in the
executive branch—seem to think
_ profits are unimportant to people
- in business. They shoyld realize
that the Federal ‘Givernment’s’ own
~ income depends on the profits
g everybody makes.
Our first grader brough home her
first five weeks’ report last week.
Highly satisfactory in the tradition-
al 3 R’s, her ‘Personality Traits’
chart was labeled ‘slightly imma-
ture.” When did it suddenly be-
come a sin for a six year old to act
like a child.
next? I can just see them stagger-
ing from class to class! I hope my
son doesn’t end up in such a school.
If students can’t get through one
class without a “smoke”, what's
going to happen to them when they
run into places of employment where
it is dangerous or forbidden? TI am
not condemning smoking, but there
is a time and place for everything.
The classroom is NOT the place.
Self control has to be learned some-
time even if it is a little inconveni-
ent.
As for the school being ‘new
only in name and building” —Well,
I've read the letters from and the
comments of the exchange students.
I also read the news of all the
area schools. It seems to me that
those kids have heads on their
shoulders—complete with brains—
even though they aren’t allowed
to do everything they want in class!
They seem like normal, happy
teens!
There, 1 said it and I'm glad!
That was his opinion, and he is
entitled to it. I'm glad to live in a
country fwhere I don’t have to agree
with him! I'm not writing this let-
ter so it will be published—I don’t
really mrant it to be. I just wanted
someone in the area to know that
not all the young people who leave
the Back Mountain condemn it to
death. After all, that's where I
was born and raised—That's my
home town—and {I think it’s a pret-
ty nice place.
I now live near Philadelphia and
the news reports make you sick
with all the gang wars and killing.
Thank God, and the Back Moun-
tain people, that Dallas is as jt is—
THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1962
CECE C33
Rambling Around
By The Oldtimer—D. A. Waters
STE EE TARE SOLO ARRAE TRENT
SUIHCHIHICH
“Handsome Lake (Skaniadariyo). |ed Economy,
A Seneca chief of the Turtle Clan,
half brother of Cornplanter, In
1799 and 1800 on the Cornplanter
Grant in Warren County, during the |
course of a long illness, he had a
series of visions. In these,
sengers from the Creator appeared
to him. They led him up the Sky
Path, showed him the punishment
of the wicked and the rewards of
the righteous. They transmitted to
him GAIWIIO, the Good Word from
the Creator, and told him how to |
save his people from the evils that |
threatened their national existence.
“The movement he initiated,
known as the ‘New Religion’, and
the practical solutions he proposed |
for his people’s problems contri-
buted much to the Iroquois re-
naissance in the nineteenth cen-
tury. [Today his sayings, ‘The Code |
of Handsome Lake’, are devoutly |
who |
preserved by his followers, ~
constitute a large part of the Iro-
quois in the United States and
Canada”, (Paul A. W. Wallace: In-
dians in Pennsylvania).
New religions in Pennsylvania
were not confined to the red men.
It was a paradise for dissenters from
the very first and several new
religions, split-off sects, and small
new churches were organized in the
state. Joseph Smith, founder of
the Mormons, lived and started his
work in the morthern part of the
state. Dr. George De Benneville,
founder of Universalism, was a
preacher in Berks County. In 1853
Peter Armstrong founded the Celes-
tia Community of Adventists near |
Eagles Mere. After a few years the
members abandoned the communal
living project. Armstrong and his
wife in 1864 deeded about 600 acres
to “Almighty God and his Heirs in
Jesus Messiah, for their proper use
and behoof forever”. Two years
later the property reverted to the
county for delinquent taxes. Arm-
strong died in 1892.
Charles Taze Russell, owner of a
chain of haberdashery shops in the
Pittsburgh area, got reading some
religious books about 1870 and be-
gan a group of publishing corpor-
ations promoting what others called,
‘“Russellism”, The organizations he
founded are ‘now world-wide in
activities, represented locally by
Jehovah’s Witnesses.
In 1804-5, George Rapp and a
group of German immigrants found-
mes- |
SARIS
Pa. organizing the
Harmony Society. They moved to
New Harmony, Ind. in 1814, and
back to their old site in 1824. it)
| was a thriving society with highly
| skilled craftsmen and farmers. Rapp
died in 1847 and since celibacy was
|'the religious custom all the old
| settlers died off. Newer members
dissolved the society in 1905. The
state maintains part of the proper-
| ties at Ambridge, Pa. as a memorial.
| In 1732, a group of German
Seventh Day Baptists under Rev.
John Conrad Beisel established a
| semi-monastic order at Ephrata
| They approved celibacy and com-
munistic holding of property, but
did not forbid marriage and owner-
ship privately. At one time they had
about 300 members, and main-
tained a hospital for the wounded
after the Battle of the Brandywine.
The Society was disbanded in 1875.
Their original cloister is maintained
by the state.
“The Disciples™ of Christ”, In-
ternational Convention of Christian
Churches, was founded in 1809 by
Thomas Campbell ' and" his son,
Alexander. An [Association was
founded at Washington, Pa. with
the first church at Brush Run in
1811. This church had a couple
of million members in the U. S.
alone, and some abroad.
Although they did not originate
in this state, the most conspicuous
religious groups are the ‘Plain Peo-
ple”, the Amish and others, spread
{to over a large part of the state,
| and some elsewhere. These, like
the Quakers, avoid elaborate
churches, bishops and regularly as-
signed pastors, and some of them
known as “House Amish” do not
| have church buildings. They avoid
adornment and modern inventions,
most of them living in the horse-
and buggy days like their grand-
fathers. Outside of brushes with the
law regarding public school atten-
dance, mostly they are good people,
though sometimes shrewd in busi-
ness dealing. Bankruptcy, immoral-
ity, juvenile delinquency, unem-
ployment, public relief, and various
other modern conditions are not
prominent among them.
A more recently arrived dissent-
ing group was a Russian colony of
“Old Believers”, about as old as the
Moravians, about two thousand of
whdm settled in the Erie area about
1890.
detract from the recent publicity
year since the battle.
In fact, many descendants of
exercise of rededication.
At 1:30 a.m. today,
church bells rang,
great grandniece.
Coming”.
salute was fired,
Independent Battery,
ganizations. This was a signal,
all lights in the town were lit, and the
to herald the arrival of Dr. Samuel Prescott
The reen-
who made it to Concord after Paul Revere’'s capture.
actment this year is played by Gertrude Prescott, Dr. Prescott’s great
An accomplished horsewoman,
the role of her ancestor in warning Concord that “The Redcoats are
At the crack of dawn today,
as it has been for 187 years,
one of the nation’s
militia from all the surrounding villages to assemble in Concord.
A colorful parade will follow, with a blending of the old and
new, including the fifes and drums of Revolutionary War days.
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CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS
Not to be outdone by, or
for New Concord, Ohio, birthplace
of astronaut Colonel John Glenn, the citizens of historic Concord,
Massachusetts, remind fellow Americans that the torch of liberty
is still blazing there after 187 years of independence.
It was on ‘April 19, 1775, that the first battle of the American
Revolution was fought'in this small Bay State town. The townspeople
are prepared for its annual observance as they have been every
the original patriots, great great
grandchildren of the Minutemen, take prominent parts in the annual
The Patriots’ Eve Military Ball, in Concord’s huge State Armory,
is the social event of the year, attended by local citizens and guests
in Colonial period dress, with tri-cornered hats, muskets and all.
she restaged
about 5:30 am., a cannon
by the Concord
oldest continuing or-
as it was in 1775, for units of
The
parade will terminate at the Old North Bridge, preserved through
the years as the scene of the historic battle. This is also the site
of the famed Minuteman Monument, and since last year, part of the
Minuteman Natonal Park, Here, the history of that fateful day will
be recounted by eloquent historians of today, themselves descen-
dants of the Minutemen. Here too will be fired a musket salute by
the Whitcomb Rangers, a unit of the Sixth Massachusetts Continenals
This ceremony annually attracts prominent national and inter-
national figures.
Always a patriotic holiday in Concord, the town’s 12,000 popu-
lation is often swelled to 50,000 or more during the celebration.
Fven now, a committee is hard at work planning for the 200th
anniversary of the battle, to take place April 19, 1975. President
U S. Grant was guest of honor at the 100th anniversary in 1875.
An invitation is already in the White House archives for the man
who is then President to attend the 1975 celebration.
The Minuteman statue, which appears on every U.S. Savings
Bond, was the creation of Daniel Chester French, a resident of Con~
cord and sculptor of the famed statues of President Abraham Lin-
-coln in the Lincoln Memorial at Washington.
At the base of the monument
Hymn by another native, Ralph Waldo Emerson, which says in part:
“Here the embattled farmer stood and fired the shot heard round
the world.”
a little behind times? ? Maybe so—
but certainly not STAGNANT
Sincerely,
(Mrs.) Thais Gries
DEPLORES INACCURACIES
Because of the many inaccuracies
in the controversial discussions in
print and through interested groups
concerning the increase in salary of
the Dallas School District Superin-
tendent, I feel the following explan-
ation might be helpful.
Realizing that school directors
are responsible for the sound spend-
ing of the community's tax dollar,
these were some of the considera-
tions that had to be weighed.
The job of superintendent of
schools is one of the biggest ad-
ministrative jobg in our community,
not only in size but in importance
in terms of investment in the educa-
tion of our future citizens, It is
vig
is reprinted the immortal Concord
the responsibility of the citizens and
Only
Yesterday
Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years
Ago In The Dallas Post
IT HAPPENED 30) YEARS AGO:
Tanners’ Bank, Noxen, consoli-
dated with Tunkhannock’s Wyom-
ing Natioonal Bank, first consolida-
tion to take place in Wyoming
County. Clarence E. Boston, Noxen,
was elected cashier of the merged
banks. He was cashier of the Tan-
ners’ Bank for ten years, since its
founding. °
Horace Crawford, Dallas, died at
53 of pneumonia.
State Forests supplied over 9,000
cords of wood for needy families,
lessening fire hazards, and clean-
ing up the woods.
Fire of undetermined origin des-
troyed the home of Peter Traver at
Evans Falls, ;
Mrs. Chauncey E. Smith, 63, died
at her home in Trucksville of apo-
plexy.
las ‘Methodist Church featured Vir-
LeGrand and
attendants Richard
Marion Wagner.
rr uappeneD 2() YEARS Aco:
Parents of Keats Poad, missing
in action, received a reassuring
telegram from the War Department,
“We entertain great hopes for his
safety.” Two letters written by
Keats before he was reported miss-
ing, were also delivered, one from
Egypt.
Poor fishing weather for the first
day ‘of trout season.
Fred Kiefer succeeded George
Gregson as Dallas: Township school
director. Mr. Gregson, president of
Hazard Wire Rope, resigned because
of heightened Defense operations in
his plant.
Robert Fleming was among the
cadets at the Naval Air Station,
Jacksonville.
The Ernest Fritz family in Ide-
town had a big stake in national
defense. Lawrence was a radio oper-
ator with the Army Signal Corp.;
John was in Panama with the Air
Corps; Edna was registered for nurs-
ing service; and James was with
the Glenn Martin bomber plant.
Anastasia Kozemchak was mar
ried to Edward Dunn.
Anita Faye Angel, Texas, became
the bride of Sgt. Walter E. Thomp:
son.
Charlotte Mintzer was wed to Rev.
Daniel Davis.
Miss Glerndola Hice, Dallas Town-
ship, died after a brief illness.
Miss Hazel B. Allen, former teach-
er at Laketon, died.
IT HAPPENED 10 YEARS AGO:
Howard Clark, 63, died instantly
when a highway truck loaded with
rock tipped on him near his home
in. Center Moreland.
Mrs.
Weir were named chairman of the
annual Library Auction dinner.
Har] Booth was in fair condition
at Nesbitt after accidental infliction
of a gunshot wound in his chest.
Capacity crowd at Harveys Lake
welcomed first day of trout season.
Arthur Gay was subject of a Know.
Your-Neighbor.
Bert Cross and Melvin Chispell,
Beaumont graduates, turned down
offers to go into professional base-
ball.
Arthur and Ernest Gay, Sutton
Creek Road, dispatched a mad fox
in their barnyard.
Bertha Reynolds, 80, former resi-
dent of Dallas, Trucksville, died in
Florida.
Outdoor T ips
from the Ancient Age Sportsman’s
Idea Exchange
When starting out on a deer hunt,
don’t just grab hold of your shoot-
ing iron and head for the hills. A
little planning will pay off in a big
way. Try to secure a map of the
area you are planning to hunt.
Then you can familiarize yourself
with all the roads and trails and
streams where deer may be located.
take a trip afield and relate what is
on the map to the actual area.
There are definite ways to find
out if deer are in the area. Deer
are hungry critters in addition to
everything else and a check on the
many deer are in the neighborhood.
Of course, you have to look for
fresh sign also. A combination of
school board to find the best ad-
ministrator whose educational back-
ground, previous experience, and
personal capabilities enable him to
provide this kind of leadership.
Because other areas recognize the
importance of administrative quali-
fication and are willing to pay for
these, we must meet this competi-
tion, if we are truly interested in
continuing a progressive school sys-
tem.
Ome thing the publi has apparent-
ly not been aware is the salary
available in the field the present
administrator left in order to meet
our challenge.
It should also be pointed out that
this is not a yearly increase but a
fixed yearly salary for a four year
contract period.
The benefits to the edtsational
program which result from keeping
a qualified, well adjusted, growing
fresh sign and high browse line is
a sure bet that the buck you're
after is hiding somewhere not far
away.
superintendent can never. be fully
calculated. The risk of a change in
Superintendents to economize would
be “penny wise and pound foolish”,
costly, wasteful, and disrupting to
the whole system.
On the other hand a qualified
and able superintendent, thoroughly
familiar with today’s educational re-
quirements can justify his compen-
sation.
It was the feeling of many mem-
bers of the board that though we
must economize and attempt to
stay within the most reasonable
tax structure, it should be in areas
that are less destructive to the
present school program.
Ann Vernon
A Tom Thumb wedding at Dal- |
ginia Besecker and John Davis, with |
top three students in a class of 200°
A. D. Hutchison and Mary
DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA
From
Pillar To Post...
‘by Hix
DEATH IN THE ATLANTIC
There was no radio in those days, no television, and the wireless
was in its infancy. Ships at sea had wireless operators, but they
customarily turned off their sputtering sets and went to bed while
the night was young. The frantic signal S.0.S. was new born,
It was April 14, fifty years ago, an eternity away from the
crowded airwaves of the present.
When the Titanic, the unsinkable ship, struck the iceberg four
days out from England on her maiden voyage, the news was slow
to come.. The mighty ship had reared into the frigid night, and had
taken its final plunge before newspapers on both sides of the
Atlantic had the news by wireless.
The rockets, launched hopelessly into the sky, had fizzled out:
Passengers struggled briefly in the icy water before their numbed
fingers slipped from the wreckage, long before the news of the
catastrophe was common knowledge. r
Confident that the ship was unsinkable, city paper extras,
recounting the disaster, carried the news, but with a note to the
effect that the ship could be turned stern-on, and towed into port.
Early morning extras were less confident. An hour later, the tragedy
was shouted up and down the land by brazen throated newsboys,
“Read all ABOUT it, Titanic lost at sea.”
At college that night, the dormitories slept, roused briefly by
the raucous chant of ws newsboys, The full moon poured: out: its
light.
The Titanic! Oh ‘yes, that was the ‘new ship sailing from’ South- :
hampton. But. you know how it is. The newspaper extras always
exaggerate. Chances are it chipped an: iceberg, tilted a trifle, and
was now on'its way to New York at reduced speed. Drowsy stu-
dents, bathrobes clutched about them, stumbled back to bed.
No conception that the most dreadful tragedy of 1912 was even
then a matter of history.
No ‘idea that the empty sea surrounded the few survivors in
their lifeboats, and that the iceberg looked down upon them through
the brilliant night. its awesome pinnacle reflecting the moon.
No knowledge that the Titanic had plunged to its’ death with
a sound like the end of the world, indescribable in its awfulness.
Hastily activated television stations in these days of world-wide
communications, would have shrieked the dread tidings. Radio
disc jockeys would have leaped from their chairs as newsmen came
hurtling into the studios, and the records ground to -a halt.
But the drowned women and the drowned men, and the drowned
babies would have been just as dead as they were fifty years ago,
just as dead if on-the-spot news coverage were still a dream, far in
the future. : 3
Death in the cold Atlantic.
100 Years Ago This Weeli...in
THE CIVILWAR
(Events exactly 100 years ago this week in the Civil War—
told in the language and style of today.)
Signal Hub
A typical signal tower as constructed during the Civil War.
On clear days, flag messages could be seen—by both sides—from
as far as 20 miles away.
Northern Spies Hijack
Georgia Locomotive
Daring Stunt Triggers Chase,
20 Operatives Finally Seized
MARIETTA, Ga.—April 12—About 20 Union spies stole a loco-
motive near here today, setting off a chase that led to their cap-
ture several hours later.
The daring theft occurred at
Big Shanty, some eight miles
northwest of this Georgia city.
Object of the operation was
“The General,” a handsome
new locomotive of the Georgia
State railroad.
The 20 northerners were
among passengers on the mail
train when it stopped at Big
Shanty early in the morning to
allow crew and riders to eat
breakfast.
of the locomotive, Murphy com-
mandeered a handcar and set
off in pursuit of the chugging
locomotive.
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AFTER 20 miles of this,
the rail official came upon a
steamed-up locomotive near
Etowah, assumed control of it,
and continued the chase.
Frequently, the Union
raiders stopped to tear up
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While the others piled into a
railroad cafe, the 20 men, in
civilian clothes, seemed to loiter
around the locomotive, wit-
nesses reported.
Suddenly, and with obviously
elaborate planning, they un-
hitched the front end of the
train — the locomotive, tender
and three box cars—and headed
north toward Chattanooga,
some 100 miles to the north.
An astounded Southern sentry
witnessed the larceny but did
nothing to prevent it.
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tucky led the jeiding party, act-
ing under orders of Maj. Gen.
Ormsby Mitchel.
The dramatic chase was
Ied by the train’s conductor,
W. A. Fuller; other crew-
men and a road superin-
tendent, Anthony Murphy.
After witnesses burst into the
restaurant to report the seizure
JAMES J. ANDREWS of Ken-
rails and destroy telephone
lines—their original pur-
pose. In each case, the pur-
suing Southerners hastily
re-laid the rails and con-
tinued with the chase.
About 18 miles short of Chat-
tanooga, the chase came to an
end after the Union raiders ran
out of fuel and took to the woods.
Militiamen soon tracked them
down and they were hauled oft
to Ringgold, Ga., and later to
Chattanooga, where they were
held for trial.
Kernstown Losses
KERNSTOWN, Va.—April 14
—Official losses in the recent
battle between North and South
here have been pegged at 718
Confederates killed and 590 Un-
ion fatalities.
(Copyright, 1962, Hegewisch News
Syndicate, Chicago 83, Ill. Photo: Lib-
rary of Congress.)
United Presbyterian Fellowship,
recently activated in the Back Moun-
tain, will adopt tthe name “Trinity
United Presbyterian Church.” Deci-
vote last Sunday morning, LeRoy
Roberts, chairman of Committee on
Recommendations, presiding.
The favored name, along with
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| petition for
‘will be submitted to the
sion was made by congregational
Presbyterians Select Name For New Church
church organization,
Presby-
tery of Lackawanna on Saturday,
April 28. Rev. Andrew [Pillarella,
organizing minister of the new
church since March, will preside as
moderator of the Presbytery at
First Presbyterian Church in Pitts-
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