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CITIZENS
For Decent Literature
FIVE O'CLOCK SHADOW
Dear Editor,
We don't know whether you are
shook up or not, but I suspect that
‘| Editor Charlie Deal of the KEY-
NOTER, down in the Florida Keys
at Marathon, was speaking for "a
lot of us when he wrote the fol-
lowing open letter to the White
House and printed it in his ‘Five
O'Clock Shadow Column” on April
19:
“Dear Mr. President:
“After seeing what happened to
US Steel for failure to confer with
you before raising prices, I thought
it best to write immediately.
“I have no desire to adversely
affect 18 million people by raising
morning at’ the following newstands: Dallas — - Bert’s.Drug Store. Bera
Artal’ Sy rs , 3
Colonial Restaurant, Daring’s ~~ Mark_;, Gosart’s Market, “Your post office department
Towne House Restaurant; Shavertown — Evans Drug Store, Hall's raises our mailing fees every year.
~ Drug Store; Trucksville — Gregory's Store, Trucksville Drugs; |And there are still more increases
Idetown — Cave’s Maket; Harveys Lake — Javers Store, Kockers’s'
Store; Sweet Valley — Adams Grocery; Lehman — Moore's Store;
Noxen — Scouten’s Store; Shawnese — Puterbaugh’s Store; Fern-
brook — Bogdon’s Store, Bunney’s Store, Orchard Farm Restaurant;
Luzerne — Novak's Confectionary.
ahead. As such, it appears this news-
paper may have to raise its sub-
scription around fall by about fifty
cents a year.
“Certainly, I don’t want you to
grab up our records for a grand
jury investigation or have your
brother (Attorney General Bobby)
levy anti-trust action against us.
And this outfit is too small to be
busted up into smaller companies.
“So, I'm taking no chances.
‘Td like to confer with you on
this proposed fifty cents increase,
but for the life of me, can’t see
how I can get to Washington.
“All of my spare time is taken
up working for the government.
Preparing and signing a continuous
flow of withholding forms, social
security deductions and other bur-
eaucratic red tape keeps my feet
to the fire. 3
“At the same time I don’t want
the government to tear us apart,
or single us out as being unAmer-
ican.
“I realize you od have the
time to come down to the Florida
Keys. And Bobby is probably too
busy squeezing the life out of US
{Steel to get away. Teddy has a full
schedule politicking and explaining
away his college cribbing.
“But just maybe someone else
could get away, maybe Ethel or...”
Charlie has not yet advised us on
the reply—or who is coming. But
Editor and Publisher—HOWARD W. RISLEY
: Associate Publisher—ROBERT F. BACHMAN
> Associate Editors—MYRA ZEISER RISLEY, MRS. T. M. B. HICKS
4 Sports—JAMES LOHMAN
2 Advertising—LOUISE C. MARKS
Accounting—DORIS MALLIN
Circulation—MRS. VELMA DAVIS
Photographs—JAMES KOZEMCHAK
Editorially Speaking:
Country Editors Speak
3 “Keep government out of education . . .
] dential power to a minimum .
tion!
That sums up the view of an overwhelming majority
of the editors of the nation’s smaller newspapers, as re-
~ vealed in a survey recently conducted by The American
Press. Typical of the general antipathy of editors toward
the whole idea of “welfarism” is perhaps best exemplified
in the matter of proposals to increase social security pay-
ments to help provide for the hospital needs of people over
5 65 years of age. Seventy-eight per cent of the editors
were opposed to further government intervention. By con-
trast, 84 per cent of the editors expressed preference for
a voluntary non-governmental plan to meet the medical
needs of the aged — such as is now being completed by
. Keep presi-
. Get out of socializa-
lovely picture setting.
4 the Blue Shield, Blue Cross and the American Medical As- Sincerely,
sociation. Bob Taylor
Ls Judging by the comments of many of the editors as McLean, - Va.
quoted by American Press, expansion of government ir
the tmedical care field was opposed for the same reason
that editors oppose government interference in other
fields — a deep and abiding fear of big government and
socialism. is
Editors are a highly individualistic lot. The fact that
they are near-unanimous in opposition to government
medicine, is reason enough to taking another look at this
particular bureaucratic pill before swallowing it.
MORE ON RECREATION
| Dear Editor:
Lately in the Dallas Post I have
read letters written to you by stud-
ents of our local school system. I
as a former student would like to
give my views on Recreation, as it
is and was in Kingston Township.
Ony a few years ago the little
league field was in Shavertown. Now
it is in Dallas and children of the
lower Back Mt. have to be driven
Yes, its queer the way the political mind works.
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Life is not so short but that there is always time for to all the games, The Westmoreland
i courtesy.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson, teenage team used the field at the
po in int Wns : Westmoreland building. Now the
: field is filled with playground equip-
ment, leaving no place for the team
to practice. The high school has
been moved to Dallas and its a must
for the students to have a car to
take part or attend the school
events. I believe in exercise but
walking or riding a bike back and
forth to Dallas is going just a little
too far.
Yes there are Boy Scouts and
Girl Scouts here in Trucksville and
because I'm a scout myself, I know
they are not getting proper sup-
port. The YMCA at Shavertown
needs the support of all. It serves
a large area and the building is
completely too small to offer act-
ivities that it should.
I feel the people of Kingston
| Township should support what rec-
reation is left and attempt to find
replacement for what we lost. The
old Shavertown theater would make
a good Gym.
i - “A government bureau is where the taxpayer’s shirt
~ is kept.” — Anonymous
/
A a
Wins American Spirit Honor Medal
Sincerely yours,
| ! Charles D. Repotski
Class of 1961
Westmoreland High
School
APPRECIATES PUBLICITY
Florida (especially the Keys) is a |
In his Air Force Blues, Kirk Lan-
nan marches to receive his medal at
Lowry Air Force Base, Colorado.
Special Order from Headquarters,
3415th Technical School,
(ATC) Lowry AFB, Colorado:
A/C3 Kirk A. Lannan, (pipeline
USAF,
- student) this headquarters, this sta-
tion, is awarded the American Spirit
Honor Medal for his display of
~ honor initiative, loyalty, and high
example to comrades in arms, ef-
fective 20 April 1962. Authority:
ATC regulation 34-3. Home of re-
cord, Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Lan-
nan, Church Street, Dallas, Pa.
Signed, ¥. A. Waernlein, Colonel
USAF, Commander.
This was the official order re-
ceived by Kirk’s parents, Mr. Lan-
nan added information about ‘his
son. Kirk, a 1959 Westmoreland
graduate, spent a year at Wilkes
College, working at Sears Roebuck
and Birth’s Esso Station while at-
tending college. January 10, 1962,
he enlisted in the Air Corps study-
ing electronics, which he hopes to
make hig profession. He expects to
complete his college education.
He took basic training at Black-
man Air Force Base in San Antonio,
Texas:
Dear Editor:
I am happy to report that our
“Open House” at Retreat State Hos-
pital was a tremendous success.
We feel the excellent publicity
your paper gave us stimulated much
interest in the community as 1933
visitors attended during the after-
noon.
Dr, Claude H. Butler, Superin-
tendent, and the entire staff wish
to thank you for your cooperation
in making our day a success.
Sincerely yours,
THOMAS KANYUCK,
Chairman ‘Open House’ 1962,
THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1962
Rambling Around
By The Oldtimer—D. A. Waters
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SUCH
To secure the right of eminent
domain, available to steam railroads
in Pennsylvania under certain con-
ditions, the local trolley road was
incorporated as a steam railroad,
The Wilkes-Barre and Northern.
Everyone knew that the steam part
of it was only a subterfuge as the
grades and curves laid out were
not_good for efficient steam opera-
tion. However the first cars into
Dallas were actually pulled by steam
engine, and such an engine was
stored for ‘many years in the car
barn at the lower end of town near
the present motel. Electric power
was soon substituted.
After a few years the controlling
interest was sold and the new own-
ers changed the name to Wilkes-
Barre Dallas and Harveys Lake Rail-
way Co. Under neither management
was any attempt made to build
the road into Wilkes-Barre. Connec-
tion was made with the tracks of
the Wilkes-Barre and Luzerne Street
Railway where the turn was made
at Courtdale Avenue. About oppos-
ite the present Luzerne Lumber Co.
the track swung to the left and
followed the side of the mountaip
to. Hillside, whence it ran fairly
sraight to the lower end of Trucks-
ville hill. Here it swung across the
road and the creek and followed
the hill on the opposite side of the
creek nearly to Mt. Greenwood,
where it crossed to the opposite
side and followed the side of the
hill to Shavertown.
Passing about where the main
intersection is now, it followed the
line where the highway cut off to
Fernbrook as recently built, then
ran roughly parallel with the Le-
high Valley to the center of Dal-
las and on. to the Lake, to the left
of the Lehigh Valley and not close
to it beyond Dallas.
On Nov. 7, 1899, as reported at
the time in THE DALLAS POST, the
first fatal accident under electric
operation . occurred. Frank XKniffen,
age about forty, who shortly before
had purchased a farm near Ketc-
ham, was returning home from the
valley. Near the stone crusher just
below Ice Cave, now Hillside, he
apparently lay down on the track
to rest and was struck in the
darkness by the car which had left
Wilkes-Barre at 8:20 p.m.. Josiah
Rood of Dallas was motorman and
A. L. Snyder, the conductor. This
was entirely ‘away from the usual
path of travel and his presence
was unexplained. His skull was
crushed, one arm torn off, and both
legs nearly severed. The crew put
the body on the car and continued
on to Dallas and turned it over
to Undertaker. B. W. Brickel. The
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coroner authorized Esq. C. H. Cooke
to select a jury and hold an in-
quest. They rendered a verdict of
accidental death. The man had been
addicted to occasional use of lig-
uor, A funeral was conducted in
Dallas Church.
About the same time the same
Mr, Snyder, acting as motorman,
struck a colt that jumped in front
of the car. The brake having been
applied, the blow was not too sev-
ere and the colt was not seriously
hurt.
' Car No. 2, the unlucky car of
the road, ran away from Fernbrook
to Luzerne one time, knocking an-
other car into the side of a house
and smashing a milk wagon.
About . a week before Christmas
in 1900, the same car No. 2, motor-
man Josiah Rood, Conductor M.D.
Thomas, was completely demolished
at the iron bridge in Luzerne. The
trolley was coming toward Dallas
and tried to stop at the grade cros-
sing with a ‘Lehigh Valley mine
branch which runs up through Lu-
zerne along the creek, The rail was
car did not stop quickly enough to
clear the railroad. A Lehigh Valley
mine crew was pushing a train of
coal up the creek and the leading
car struck the trolley. Dr. C. A.
Spencer, as passenger, was bruised
in the head and shoulders and one
side of his body was partly para-
lyzed. E. J. Newman, of Beaumont,
fell through one of the car wind-
ows, sustaining a wrenched back
and bruises and was taken to
Wilkes-Barre Hospital. Mrs. C. B.
Barker and Mrs. Thomas Oldershaw
of Dallas were slightly bruised and
cut by flying glass. Other passen-
gers, all more or less shaken up
and scared, were Mr. and Mrs.
James Ely of Hillside, Leslie Bert-
ram of Huntsville, Mr. and Mrs.
A. T. Gandloff of Luzerne, later of
Dallas, Joseph Hagen, A. L. Snyd-
er and John Hildebrant of Dallas.
With the coming of automobiles,
minor crossing accidents were com-
mon for a while. In our own time
the most common cause of difficulty
was falling ice and trees in the
winter season.
Lowest-numbered car remember-
ed by the writer was “Old No. 4", a
combination baggage and passenger
car that was used sometimes on
night trips. No. 3 may have been
around. For summer service to
Harveys Lake, cars open at the
sides were used with seats across
the cars and a running board along
both sides for the conductor to pass
along and also serve as a step ent-
ering or leaving the cars.
THE BATTLE OF THE BUDGET
Dear Editor:
The night was hot and the hour
tense. It was the second time the
school board had met to adopt a
tentative budget. The increase in
per capita tax which had drawn
the board to a common agreement
at the first meeting had to be re-
scinded. One township in the union
district had reached its per capita
limit.
The public was filled with indig-
nation over the constant increases
in taxes and also filled with mis-
conception from inaccurate public
reports. People were led to believe
that any vote in favor of spending
regardless of the reasoning was
irresponsible,
The superintendent in one year
had improved the schools almost
beyond belief but was being watched
with critical eyes by local politi-
cians. Citizens groups interested in
schools, while delighted with im-
provements in the academic pro-
gram, were skeptical ‘about the en-
larged scope of extended activities.
They had acted accordingly by the
election of two women to the board.
Already the overwhelming re-
spongibility of being both conserv-
ative and progressive had taken
its toll on nerves. The original
budget had been slashed by the ad-
ministrator in an honest effort to
keep within the present tax limit
without ill effects to the educa-
tional progrem, Yet a truly con-
servative person could find other
areas in which to cut.
Arguments in previous executive
sessions had pinpointed three over-
lapping schools of thought: Those
who felt there was no alternative
to providing the means to meet the
proposed budget; those who felt we
must maintain the present tax limit
and try to live within it, cutting
when necessary as the year pro-
gressed. And a third group in favor
of making the necessary cuts at
once in extended programs and
thus maintain ‘the present millage.
Faced with a stalemate, the ad-
ministrator suggested the only
alternative was to concentrate on
a higher percentage of tax collec-
tion at the risk of falling short and
having to cut in areas he felt would
be detrimental to his proposed
program.
The vote was in favor of not in-
creasing the millage. Now those
who heeded inaccurate reports
would crown their heroes and con-
demn their enemies. . But at least
one director felt her crown was
full of thorns. For though there is
some merit in this particular vote
it was not a permanent answer to
better schools, and over a period
of years could be seriously damag-
ing.
Who ~ then should wear the
crown? Those who believe in a
progressive program and are willing
to withstand the criticism in order
to see it through? Those who favor
more conservative spending in the
extended programs when faced with
a financial dilemma? Or those who
would hold taxes but not assume
i responsibility for the program cut-
ting which necessarily results?
The schools number one enemy
is indifference, but interest can be
dangerous, too, if it is uninformed.
Perhaps a better understanding
could be reached if the public would
refuse to condemn or approve the
direction of our educational pro-
gram without knowing the facts.
The board must also share this re-
sponsibility by its willingness to
provide the facts.
ANNE VERNON.
Editorial Note:
School board members take a
terrific. beating. It beats us why
anybody ever runs for the office.
|A school board member can’t hope
to please his constituents. They
elected him to hold down the taxes,
and holding down the taxes is as
impossible as holding down the
rising cost of food and clothing. We
have a very good school board
serving the Dallas Union School
District. It honestly disagrees; it
picks up the pieces and reaches
a compromise; it wrestles with
knotty financial and educational
problems. It is in no sense a ‘“Rub-
ber Stamp” group, and more power
to it. It is doing a good job, and
with precious little praise.—HIX.
Jerome R. Gardner, Jr.
Takes Masters Degree
Jerome R. Gardner Jr, son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Gardner, Shrine
Acres Dallas, received a Masters de-
gree in Social Work from the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, Monday
May 21st.
A graduate of Kingston High
School, young Gardner received his
B.S. degree in Music Education from
Wilkes College in 1960. He is mar-
ried to the former Merle McKeown,
and they have two sons, J. R. Gard-
ner II, and James R. Gardner.
Mr. Gardner will begin his duties
with the Bellevue Community Cen-
ter in Scranton on July 1st.
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“Never have so many people
lived so well so far behind before,”
The Ol prooe
“A beatedis idea of a lovely
bride is when her sneakers
match her sweater.”
‘
Only -
Yesterday
Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years
Ago In The Dallas Post
IT HAPPENED 30) YEARS AGO:
Dallas Borough Council for the
second = consecutive year lowered
tax millage. In 1961, millage was
lowered from 21 to 19. Further
reduction of 1, cutting 1 mill
from the light fund, half a mill
from the sinking fund, caused tax-
payers to rejoice.
Contract was let for the new
Kingston Township high school,
Herman Maillander’s bid of $46,076
being low for general construction.
J. L. Turner got the heating and
plumbing at $10,859; plumbing
went to Redington, $3,260; sump,
to D. W. Davis, $202; sewage $1,-
410; electrical work, Jacob Laux,
$2,729; total, $64,526.
John Downing, 65, frequent con-
tributor to the Dallas Post, died fol-
lowing a stroke.
Rev. Clinton Brooks Henry, re-
| tired Methodist minister, died at 67 j
frosty and somewhat greasy and the |
in Shavertown. '
A special offer in advance of
graduation:Prep suits for $13.75..
Michigan ' russet seed potatoes
were 25 cents a hushel.
Another four-page issue, contain
ing very little news.
IT HAPPENED 20 YEARS AGO:
Seven year old Jimmie Ayre, a
Dallas boy until he moved to York,
was stricken with encephalitis and
hospitalized at Johns Hopkins.
Louis Kelly ranked first in'a class
of 24 Dallas Borough seniors.
A yoke of oxen and a span of
mules ‘were promised for the Me-
morial Day Parade in Lehman.
Floyd Chamberlain was the first
man ever to head Dallas Township
PTA.
General Edward Martin swept the
polls in the republican primaries
for Governor, repudiating. the Fine-
sponsored candidate in Sixth Legis-
lative District.
School teachers completed sugar
rationing work and started on gas
rationing. Most residents asked for
B cards.
Service men heard from in Safety
Valve: Bill Dierolf, Camp Gordon;
Robert Dierolf,
William Swartwood, Camp Wheeler;
Bill Rhoads, School of Communica-
tions; Clarence Montross, Chanute
Field. : :
‘Married: Lois Williams to Douglas
W. Ridell; Jean Zimmerman to Don-
ald Deans; Elsie Sisco to Andrew
Kozemchak.
Fire destroyed the Kenneth Tra-
ver home at Evans Falls.
A full page was devoted to des-
truction dome by the war in Hol-
land.
A new course to train men for
civilian defense jobs was started at:
the old Goss School.
ir HAPPENED | () YEARS Aco:
Mrs.’ Richard - Lengel, Maplewood ||
Heights, stood helplessly holding
the phone while flames engulfed her |”
Reason? ‘A neighbor on the |
home.
same line would not.relinquish the
phone so that she could call the fire
department. :
Advertisers were ballyhooing soap
products which, they claimed, re-
quired no rinsing. . Wonder ‘what
happened to those miracle deter-
gents ?
Back Mountain Little League
opened its second season.
A story by Mrs. Hicks in the Dal-
las Post won the top State award,
and rated a two-week scholarship at
the School of Journalism at Colum-
bia.
Morris Lloyd, car dealer, was in-
terviewed for a Know Your Neigh-
bor.
Married: Madeline Ruth Transue
to Clair LaBarre. Serine Culp to
Albert (Ashton.
Alta Lou Hall savuved a medal
for life-saving from Commissioner
Mrs. George Fry,
Died: Mrs. Eleanor Prutzman, 85.
Wesley Hilbert, 82, Beaumont.
Michael J. Kocher, 81, Harveys
Lake. Charles H. Knight, 70, Jack-
son Township;
Charles VanBuskirk, Fernbrook,
completed rabies shots. His pet dog
snapped at him, subsequently died
of rabies.
Cub Pack 233 Visits
The Dallas Post Plant
Cub Scout Pack 233 with their
Den Mother Mrs. F. Klaboe, Mrs.
Vincent Roman and ‘Mrs. John Por-
ter visited The Dallas Post Monday
afternoon and had an opportunity
to learn about the various printing
processes uder the guidance of
James Lohman.
In the group were Vincent Ro-
man, Steven Klaboe, Charles Waite,
Robert Youngblood, James Brown,
John Harowig, Paul Wade, James
Roman, John Porter, and Billy
Youngblood.
Committee For New Goods
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To Meet Friday At Kern's
For the ninth successive year, the
Library Auction New Goods Com-
mittee will meet for its first official
session at Herman Kern's Friday
at 7:45, for cold cuts and refresh-
ments, chairman James Alexander
following tradition established by
Mitchell Jenkins,
The meeting at Kern's is always
one of the high spots of the Auction
preparations, New Goods bring in
a sizeable portion of moneys rea-
lized at the Auction, more than any
other single committee.
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DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA
§ Barnyard Notes
~ May 100 Years Ago
One hundred years in May the Union armies under Generel :
George McClellan held the Virginia peninsula and the James River
approaches to Richmond,
The Norfolk Naval base had been evacuated on the eleventh
and the ironclad Merrimac destroyed by the Northern Monitor.
McClellan spread his massive army along the swampy Chicka-
hominy and got a good look at the enemy by sending up captive bal-
loons with officers riding in small baskets to peer across the con-
federate lines strung about Richmond.
It was the second year of the (Civil War and the first big
Northern offensive—an amphibious operation—had carried the
blue army down the Potomac and Chesapeake to the mouth of the
James.
On May 31 would come the battle of Fair Oaks or Seven Pines
and the wounding of the Confederate leader Joe Johnson. Then
Robert E, Lee would take over the Confederates army, soon to be
given its immortal name, the Army of Northern Virginia.
Union forces on' the Peninsula numbered 44,944 with 790 dead;
3,594 wounded and 647 missing. Confederates had 41,816 effectives,
980 were killed, 4,749 wounded and 405 missing.
Richmond was under seige.
Before 1862 ended two of the bloodiest battles of the war would
be fought at Second Bull Run and Antietam in Maryland.
i Earlier in the’ west, on April 7, amid the peach blossoms iat
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Pittsburg Landing, the Battle of Shiloh had been fought by Generals i
U. S. Grant and Albert Sidney Johnston.
The battle of Shiloh made it necessary for both western armies
to move thousands of their wounded men to Columbus Mississippi
where many died. ;
About fifteen hundred of them were buried in the
ground known as “Friendship Cemetery”.
It was appropriately named for there on April 25, 1866 “Decor
ation Day” was first observed.
Early in the spring of that year, four Yours after the battles on
the Virginia Peninsula and at Shiloh, three young women, accom-
panied by a young Confederate widow, filled their arms with flowers
each day and tended the graves of the Southern dead. Forty Union
soldiers were also buried there and soon their graves began to look
bare and forgotten.
The young widow then suggested that all the graves be decor-
‘ated. A few days later a strange procession made its way to ‘‘Friend-
ship Cemetery” [It was led by young women in white followed by
older ladies who wore black, all carrying large bouquets of - spring
flowers.
When they reached the cemetery they proceeded to decorate
all the graves regardless of army differences.
Today, 96 years later, “Decoration Day’ or ‘Memorial Day”, is
observed throughout the land as one of our most solemn occasions.
Though originally planned to commemorate the Civil War
dead, It now embraces the fallen of all wars in which the United
States has participated. AiR
‘hallowed
Camp Livingston;"
From
Pillar To Post...
by Hix
It would have paid big dividends to have done a little map
studying before starting for Souderton last Thursday, but it looked
so simple. Just down the Northeast Extension of the Turnpike, off
at Landsdale, and a mile or so over a country road. Not far at all,
according to recollection of a similar trip last fall.
Must be some way of getting on the Turnpike, from the road
leading up the mountains toward Hazleton, and this dodge would
save going up East End Boulevard. Memory insisted that there was
an exit marked for Hazleton justebefore reaching the Wilkes-Barre
exit.
So, if there was an exit, there had to be an entrance.
Only there wasn’t.
The filling station attendant at Hazleton disclaimed all knowl
edge of any method of getting to the Turnpike, though probably if
I'd stay right on Route 309 as far as Tamaqua, I might see a sign.
With that, he turned on the gas pump, and high test gas spurted all
over the place from a leaking hose.
“Wash it off, quick, I don’t dare start the motor.”
The attendant washed it off, and the car moved to a pump on :
the far side of the station, one not bandaged with adhesive plaster.
Tom exercised patience, ‘Lots of time, take it easy, ‘he soothed,
taking a surreptitious peep at his watch.
And at Tamaqua, sure enough, there was a sign. It pointed
toward Lehighton, and it was garnished with a green Turnpike i
emblem.
On the Turnpike at last,
the English Austin were tied to a post. Maybe
checked by Radar, but the Radar was off duty.
“Get off at the Quakertown interchange instead of Lansdale,
advised the toll-taker.
We got off at the Quakertown interchange. ‘Where was that
short country road? ‘The road that turned sharp to the right after
a mile or so and led straight into Souderton ?
one car after another passed as if
speed was
“This road led through a whole flock of towns including Sellers-""
ville, and finally came into Souderton by the back door, debouching
upon the railroad station, with the main drag far below. It hadn’t
been that way last time we went to Souderton. Why were the
city fathers monkeying with the scenery ?
Tt was hotter than the hinges of Hades, but mercifully there
was a spot in the shade where we could park. And we were only
an hour late for the appointment. Everybody had gone to lunch,
so we had a sandwich at a doggery. = }
On the way back, we started toward Quakertown interchange,
and lo and behold, we were on the country road heading toward
Landale. Only it was a lot longer than we had remembered. Where
on earth was that right angle turnoff and the short stretch of road
leading to the interchange?
Must be we've passed the interchange. Nope, there it is, up
ahead. Back on the Turnpike . . . “If you pass a likely looking place
to get a cold coke, don't pass it, just turn in.”
“Be your age, there aren't any coke stands on the Turnpike.”
“I'm bone dry.”
“What makes you think you're the only one who is bone dry?”
“I feel‘it worse.”
‘Oh, baloney.” 3
“Goingto try to get off at the Hazleton exit?”
“You kidding? I'm going straight to the Wilkes-Barre exit and
down that long grade where thirty-nine casualties have occurred on
account of truckers failing to believe in signs. «+ I KNOW that route.”
Tom made one last try. “How about stopping for some ice
cream?”
“Ah, go soak your head.”
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