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THE DALLAS POST Established 1889
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Editorially Speaking:
THEY DO IT WITH MIRRORS
Hurray for the folks who have belatedly discovered
that a charge for parking at Avoca Airport is a very poor
financial investment. Why didn’t they discover it two
years ago, when the fiasco first started.
The operator of this concession gives you a ticket.
If you can dash into the grounds, find a parking = spot
within walking distance, scramble into the terminal, get
your passenger delivered to the proper counter, watch him
get his baggage weighed in, wait for the plane to land,
escort him to the plane, and wave him goodbye in the
space of fifteen minutes, you don’t have to pay a quarter.
They do it with mirrors.
Airplane travel requires a passenger to appear half
an hour before plane time.
The complaint of most airport customers is that not
only is it impossible to park without paying a fee, but
that the parking facilities are stupidly arranged, involv-
ing a long walk across a wide field which is banked with -
snow in winter. Swimming with water in a summer
shower.
If the travelling public is to be held up for a parking
fee when dropping a passenger, it has a right to expect
a run for its money.
Maybe that wide open space with a fringe of parking
is handsome from the air, but it is not efficient.
So, while the matter is up for discussion, why not
switch the positions of the fringe and the space, allo-
cating the central and easily reached portion to parking
of cars, and the outside areas for pretty grass and drive-
ways? .
Who wants to waste ten minutes while the plane
warms up and the parking ticket does likewise?
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A SERIES OF EYE-SORES
The sight of closed and boarded-up dwellings and
business places along the highway in Kingston Township
does nothing to improve the scenery for summer visitors.
It gives the impression that the community is down at
the heels.
+ Lagging in plans for reconstruction of Highway 309
is a blow to residents who felt that they could put up
with inconvenience and a series of eye-sores if something
could be expected to come of it within a reasonable time.
It appears now that nothing will be done on the high-
way until next year, doubtless just in time to interfere
with normal traffic to and from Harveys Lake.
| pouring in to Carol.
SCHEDULE FOR RECEIVING NEW GOODS
AT BARN
RALPH POSTERIVE Saturday June 16 Noon to 5 PM
SYLVIA HUGHES Friday June 22 10 AM to 8 PM
BOWDEN NORTHRUP &
LOUISE MARKS Saturday June 28 10 AM to 8 PM
TOM HILLYER Thursday June 28 Noon to 8 PM
JIM ALEXANDER Friday June 29 10 AM to 8 PM
EVERY
LIPFER BIT
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[ Don’t be a litterbug! Drop every litter bit in the nearest
| trash container or your car litterbag. That's how T0 prover
the pile-up of trash that costs $50 million a year to pick
up from major highways alone. Remember, every 8 AMEp
litter bit that lands in the litter basket helps KEEP =:
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AMERICA CLEAN AND BEAUTIFUL! ® e=
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Looking at
With GEORGE A. and
EDITH ANN BURKE
Carol Burnett has been offered
the lead role in a Broadway musical
about the late comedienne Fanny
Brice.
Carol has been hesitating because
she thought she would have to do
a lot of the old Fanny Brice songs.
But after she read the script she
found it was a straight love story
about Fanny and Nick Arnstein.
The show's songs are written by
Jule Styne who did the music for
“Gypsy” and many other Broad-
way hits.
Offers for appearances have been
She's been
asked to do a Jack Lemmon movie
and she hasnt yet made her de-
cision on this.
Danny Kaye wanted her to do a
movie this summer but her upcom-
ing stock tour to Pittsburgh, Kan-
sas City, Dallas, Indianapolis, De-
troit and Las Vegas made it im-
possible.
She will do a Kaye TV special this
Fall. Red Skelton asked her: to
do his opening show but she had to
say “No” again because of the tour.
‘NBC is planning to do a big one-
night program around her.
Busy as: Carol is she still found
time to attend her young sister’s
graduation from high school in
Mendham, N. J. She flew her
grandmother there for the occasion.
Christine goes on to Moravian
College in Bethlehem next Fall.
Walter Cronkite, at 46, is quite
happy about his New York TV job-
reporting the day’s headline news
for 15 minutes, five times a week.
For twenty years he has been tell-
ing the news from all over the
world.
His reason for taking the job was
not fatigue but a desire to spend
more time with his growing family.
He is married to a Kansas City girl
and they have three children, rang-
ing in age from 14 to 5, and live
in midtown Manhattan.
Classroom TV—South Carolina
has the most complete commitment
to classroom TV in the U. S.
‘Started four years ago in a con-
verted Columbia supermarket, South
Carolina’s classroom TV now
reaches 65 high schools (20( Negro)
in 27 of the state’s 46 counties. An-
other 65 schools(35 Negro) will
join up next fall, and the goal in
six years is six courses daily
throughout the state's 413 high
schools, plus other courses in the
1,200 grade schools.
Education-wise [South . Carolina
has a terrible record. 54.4 per cent
of all state registrants fail the Selec-
tive Service mental test, and no
other state has fewer median years
(8.7) of schooling completed by
adults. More than 20 per cent of
South Carolinians are ‘functional
illiterates,” for one out of five has
less than five years of schooling.
In an effort to correct this situa-
tion, South Carolina is putting 50
per cent of its present tax dollar
into its schools. Since teacher's
salary in South Carolina is below
the average the state lacks able
teachers.
So to be able to present their
best teachers by means of TV is a
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THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1962
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Rambling Around
By The Oldtimer—D. A. Waters
ZEEE RS CX AR TE EE CEE ET
AGC
For over a hundred and forty
years, the Warden Family has
owned property along the north-
west side of the present Center Hill
Road, but the ownership has not
been continuous that long for the
present (holdings. Much land for-
merly owned by the family is now
owned by others. Like the central
part of Dallas, it was originally
covered by two land surveys, one
authorized by the Province of Penn-
sylvania and the other by the Con-
necticut Susquehanna Company.
Thomas Mifflin, Governor, issued
a patent to William Coates June 21,
1798 for a tract named “Trim”
which included over 407 acres, now
in the main part of the town. The
Connecticut Susquehanna Company
laid out the Township of Bedford
‘with lots laid off abutting on a
Center Line, approximately the pre-
sent road. [Prior to 1810, Abraham
or Absalom Roberts, or one of his
predecessors, had been clever
enough to foresee the dispute in
titles and had secured title from
both sides for the land now in-
cluded in the present College Farm.
This was deeded Apr. 2, 1810 to
Daniel Smith, who later sold it to
John McCauley, a coppersmit of
Philadelphia.
On Jan. 14, 1818 McCauley sold
it to Nathaniel ‘Worden and John
Lines, apparently under a mortgage
as McCauley got it back through
the sheriff on Jan. 3, 1925. About
a year later three sons of Nathaniel,
named Abraham, Samuel, and John
Worden again bought the property
from McCauley, which was held
undivided. When Abraham died,
his brothers Samuel and John, and
their wives, signed over their
shares to Hannah, the widow of
Abraham, who had mine children.
Some other deeds were issued to
others at the same time.
By 1875,
were sixty-three parts to the un-
divided inheritance and the Wor-
dans ‘then living got together, ex-
changed some money, and trans-
ferred lands and interests to each
other by deeds. William Hunter
and his wife Mahala Wordan, Spen-
cer Wordan and his wife Jane, Levi
Reed and his wife Ura Worden, and
Perry N. Worden, all signed deeds
to their Brother Sidney. The
others likewise deeded lands to
George and to Perry, who in the
meantime, for the family but in his
own name, had ‘acquired - another
it was estimated there |
‘CRUSADERS.
THINNING
property bordering the original
lands on the west and extending up
the hill to the lands formerly owned
by John Worden. Three of his
chidren now live on this farm.
In the meantime, John Worden
bought other lands, including one
farm from Gideon Burritt on Aug.
7, 1851, which he subsequently sold
to his son-in-law Jacob Atherholt,
Apr. 3, 1874. Atherholt built the
house on top of the hill now owned
by Jos. MacVeigh. John Warden
moved later to the house on Hunts-
ville iSt., owned by his spinster
daughter Susanna for decades, and
now owned by Durrell Scott.
The Warden Cemetery is a part
of the farm owned by the first
Nathaniel. In a deed made in Sept.
1886, signed by Sidney and Mar-
garet, his wife, and by George Wor-
dan, it was turned over to the offi-
cers of the Cemetery Association,
described as, ‘Beginning at the most
southeastern corner of the old
cemetery”. :
Other members of the Worden
Family bought lands at other places
in the back mountain area. While
common spelling today is mostly
Wardan, most early records show
Worden. Other spellings were War-
ton and Wharton, probably being
written as the mame was spoken
by some local people. :
The Wardans were pioneers while
the area was forest land. In this
column recently was quoted a
letter from Garfield Jackson of
Harveys Lake, stating that the War-
dan family once, in Indian days,
lived near the present Lake Nuan-
gola.
They were not always well to
do land owmers either, like they
have been in recent times. In 1818,
the brothers Samuel and John
owned 5 acres improved land 3rd.
class, 10 acres unimproved 2nd
class, and 145 acres unimproved 3rd
class, the ‘whole valued at $195.
Exact location of this land is not
known now. 1
In 1823-24 the chidren of Nathan
Worden, with others, were returned
to be educated by the county, be-
cause the parents were too poor,
as related in History of ‘Dallas
Township, Pa. by 'W. P. Ryman.
Correct spelling of the title of
the book reviewed last week: THE
It comes from the
French. word meaning ‘Cross’,
worn as an emblem by the warrior.
closed-circuit TV can eventually
cover the state at a yearly cost of
only $14.00 per pupil
The teachers spend six to eight
hours developing each lesson. Su-
pervised by one teacher and two
assistants, a group of 230 students
in a large high school watch the
TV lesson, plane geometry, on the
half dozen TV sets suspended from
the ceiling, The lesson lasts for
thirty minutes. Then 15 minutes
is spent discussing it.
are amazing. The bottom two-thirds
of this year’s students recently test-
ed higher than the median of last
year’s separate classes. Even more
impressive, the statewide median
scores of TV algebra students have
precisely matched the median of
such top prep schools as Andover
and Exeter.
real blessing. The state figures that
The results
IMPRESSED WITH TALENT
Dear Mrs. Hicks,
You no doubt know that I have
resigned my position as art teacher
at Junior High and have joined the
art staff at Wilkes College. This
is just a mote to thank you for the
kindnesses that you have extended
to me while here at Dallas. I really
enjoyed the experience and am
very pleased with the unusual
creative talents: these children
possess and the amazing work they
have done for me. Thank you again.
Sincerely
\ Phil Richards
We'll miss you, Phil. You were
tremendously popular with the
kids, and with the adult classes you
taught in the evenings.
to be liked as well as to know that
you're doing an outstanding job of
teaching.
of Circulatio
and count.
Guessing the circulation of a
newspaper was once quite
a game for advertisers, too.
But the Audit Bureau
ns took all the
chance out of this game. A.B.C.
auditors don’
and estimate—they come
inside the publisher’s office
t stand outside
. SCcocco
How Many Beans...
Perhaps you, too, stood outside a store
window in your youth and tried to estimate
the number of beans in a display.
AR
.
SOCCOS
When the auditor is finished and his
precise findings published, well there’s just
no room for guessing.
It’s all there in his report—how much
circulation, where copies were circulated, how
much people paid, and some of the reasons
why the people bought our paper.
There’s no reason to guess about the circulation
audience you get when you advertise in our
paper. The facts are down in black and
white for you to see.
Ask for a copy of our latest A.B.C. report.
It’s. mice,
Only
Yesterday
Ten, Twenty and Thirty Yeni
Ago In The Dallas Post
IT HAPPENED J(} YEARS AGO:
Honor students at Dallas Borough
High School commencement were
Margaret Oliver and Foster Sutton.
Awards were presented by J. F.
Besecker, school board.
Elsie, Warren and Calvin Culp,
Walter Potter, Bobbie Moore, Mari-
on Eipper and Rhoda Thomas,
were rehearsing a play, ‘The
Naughty Boy” written by Elsie
Culp, who also was leading lady and
coach Tickets retailed for a penny
apiece.
Stull Brothers, up and coming
young hardware dealers, enlarged
their quarters on Union Street,
Kingston.
Claude 8iglin, 27, formerly of
Noxen, died after surgery.
Closer cooperation between local
Kiwanis and Rotary Clubs was
urged at a joint meeting.
Eleanor Staub; Dorothy Hay, and
June Palmer won awards at Kings-
ton Township commencement, Ed-
win Hay, president of board of edu-
cation, made the presentations.
Spencer Tracy and Ralph Bellamy
were starring in "Young America”
at the Himmler.
Dr. Charles Lealem, the first phy-
sician to reach President Lincoln’s
side when he had been assassinated,
died aged 90 in New York.
Fishermen were asked by Gover-
nor Gifford Pinchot to preserve the
bass. ;
It was another four-page issue.
rr HAPPENED 2() YEARS Aco:
Two local soldiers serving on Cor-
regidor at the fall of Bataan were
still unheard from, their fate un-
known. They were Sgt. Donald
Freeman of Jackson Township and
Corp. Clarence H. Morgan of De-
munds Road. Freeman was an
anti-aircraft gunner, Morgan an
anti-aircraft specialist. They en-
listed together, and both travelled
in the same troopship to the Phil-
ippines in October, two months be-
fore the Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor. The Army listed them as
missing in action, not being able to
ascertain whether they had been
killed or taken prisoner.
Chief Walter Covert was awarded
a gold badge for dependability,
Joseph MacVeigh making the pre-
sentation. |
Frank E. Wesley, the hermit of
Fernbrook, died at 73. Living in a
small house in the middle of a den-
sely. wooded tract, he had one of
the most beautiful gardens in the
community, but did not welcome
visitors.
Rice Cemetery, at the crest of the
hill on Huntsville Road, was chosen
for an observation site for air raid
observers.
Big doings were planned to mark
the opening of the new Harveys
Lake highway July 4.
Dan and Chet Rusiloski,
school athletics, enlisted.
Wesley Baer home on Center
Hill road was damaged by fire.
Private George Swan was in
Ireland with the AEF.
Heard from in The
high
Outpost:
: Robert Sommerville, Fort Benning;
Alan Kistler, Texas; Tommy Evans,
Lakeland, Fla.; Joe Hudak; Georgia;
Capt. Larry Lee, Fredericksburg,
Va.; Don Dunn, Mineola, L. I;
Lawrence K. Ide, APO, New York;
Herbert H. Updyke, Virginia; Em-
mett Hoover, Fredericksburg; M. W.
Krieger, Fort Knox, Ky-
Lt. Hillman Dress, Beaumont, was
instructthg at Fort Benning, [Geor-
gia.
A former Dallas Post employee,
Pvt. William E. Helmbold was mar-
ried in Florida to Neola E. Wood of
Kingston.
Fred Osborne, Noxen Tannery
employee for forty years, died at
his home after a long illness.
Byron Carpenter, father of Mrs.
Stanley Doll, died at 91 in Factory-
Barbed wire and guns were re-
ville. f
leased for sale at Gay Murray's.
Visitors to New York were being
hustled along the waterfront as
they slowed down to observe the
Normandie, lying on its side in the
water.
Robert S. Watkins, 20 Shaver-
town, enlisted. \
[Enrollment for canning sugar was
continuing.
rr uapPENED |() YEARS Aco:
Walter was the last of Rose Ko-
zemchak’s ten children to get mar-
ried. His bride was Nancy Smith.
Mrs. Margaret Jennings, 55, was
critically injured when struck by a
car in Idetown.
Sgt. Herb Dreher, formerly with
the Dallas Post, was stationed in
Omésha, Neb. \
William Higgins, manager of
Stone Acres, died suddenly of a
-| heart attack aged 68.
Bruce Zeiser, nephew of Mrs.
Howard Risley, was college director
of Youth For Eisenhower, travelling
widely in support of the Republican
candidate for president. -
Back Mountain students graduat-
C. Crispell Jr. Walter E. Elston,
William E. Evans, Charlotte A.
Gregory, William G. Hart, Mary I.
Lamoreaux, Robert. V, McFadden,
and William G. Nelson.
Poultry was twice as expensive as
it is today in local markets, turkeys
73 cents a pound, fryers 65 cents.
From
Pillar To Post...
by Hix
to get on the Northeastern Extension of the Turnpike!
I DO know how to get on the Turnpike, and off it, too.
1:30 a.m., when barrelling along over Effort Mountain,
fast asleep.
hour of the might. [It's the best possible time to travel in hot i
weather, with nq traffic over the lonely hills. §
The only drawback, as in paragraph 2, is the lack of gas.
getting allergic to running out of gas.
even with an Austin that has to be filled only once in so often,
and each time takes so small a amount that you feel sensitive about :
asking for acouple of quarts.
that it will keep on running on hot air,
the gauge. .
When this gauge says Empty, it means business. No three gal-
lons of grace such asithere used to be in the Chevvy and the Olds,
and, away back when, in the Buick or the Packard. There was
one ancient Buick that had a trick gauge. If the needle began to
dip dangerously toward the bottom of the indicator,
possible to give a thingummy a twist and there you were with half
a tank of gas, a very soothing development when climbing those
high ‘spots in Yellowstone Park fifty miles from nowhere.
I'm
and you forget to inspect
half block of home, and the other time down in Kingston within
half a block of “a filling station, a ‘piecef of gheer luck, and jnuch
better than deserved.
The luck couldn’t be expected to last.
And then, all of a sudden,
This was surely IT.
the welcome sight. !
of the tank for my own service station.
the shoulder of the road, with doors locked, widows rolled within
an inch of the top, and a pillow comfortably arranged in the back :
seat.
Just-think . . . another hour, and I'd be. in bed. §
It's always a mistake to fill the bottom of the tank. Filling the
top of the tank is something that was ingrained into me by a
father who ran out of gas just exactly once in the course of fifty
years of driving. Papa never waited for gas to run up to him. He
not only kept his tank filled, he carried an emergency five gallon
can, along with water for the radiator and two quarts of oil.
caught Papa napping more than once. Other less provident souls
service station, but not Papa.
“Oh sure, T've got lots of gas,” I reassured a daughter,
bidding her goodby at the turnoff to Route 11 in West Nanticoke.
“That gauge is showing almost empty,” she said sternly. ‘You
stop at the first filling station.”
“I can't,” I acknowleged, “I forgot my handbag.”
“Charlie will stake you to a dollar, and you STOP AT THE |
FIRST FILLING STATION.”
enough in
1 could
in an envelope and send it back. There's always
an Austin to get you to where you're going.”
y Persis sniffed. As she waved from the car window,
see her making the words Filling Station.
Stuff and nonsense, I reassured myself.
And then, half a block from home, the engine made a half-
hearted attempt to run, gave up,
dering why I parked in front of her house, This is the lowdown.
4 And Persis will be glad to know that J DID run out of gas, just
as ‘predicted. be
But not, praises be, on top of Effort Mountain in the middle
of the might, surrounded by man-eating herds of deer.
Aw, come on, folks, quit getting me out of bed to tell me how
Honest,
What I really need to know at this |point, is how to get gas at.
with the .. ~~
gas gauge showing emptier and emptier, and the filling stations all. .
There's mo excuse for it, I”
You develop a feeeling after awhile
it was always
The Austin has run out of gas twice this year—once within a :
a bright light, an attendant in. a:
white coverall, and half a dozen thankful motorists converging upon 2
Usually, on the road, I buy only what I need, saving the filling 2 :
But this time, I sat back
in a happy daze, listening to the guggling of the gasoline into the "
tank, and revamping my ideas of how to spend the night alongside
and I coasted to a stop by the 7v¢
side of the road. And in case my mext door neighbor is still won-
By Edward Collier
Pride of the Bluegrass
country is Lexington, horse cap-
ital of the world, noted for its
showplace mansions, the hand-
some University of Kentucky
campus, tobacco auction ware-
houses and Ashland, home of
Henry Clay, noted statesman of
pre-Civil War times.
The Magic Cirele auto tour of
the countryside continues with
the plush horse farms, miles of
white board fences holding
frolicking thoroughbreds, pil-
lared mansions and barns fit
for the equine turf kings and
Keeneland race track. Near Ver-
sailles fancy dogs are raised for
coon and possum hunting and
visitors are welcome at the bour-
bon distilleries.
Curving south, there is the
quaint old village of Shaker-
town; fine fishing at Herrington
Lake; Harrodsburg, where some
57 tablets have been erected to
its historic past—this first per-
manent. white settlement in the
state was laid out two years be-
fore the Declaration of Inde-
pendence; Perryfield Battlefield
Monument to commemorate a
bloody Civil War
Danville and its Constitution
S¢uare—called the birthplace of
Kentucky; Stanford’s lovely old
homes; then back to Lexington
via Lancaster and Nicholasville,
each with its proud dante-bellum
showplace houses.
Invite Your Guests’ Now !
for the
SIXTEENTH LIBRARY AUCTION
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