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Editorially Speaking:..
Through Me The Dumb Shall Speak
I am the voice of the voiceless
Through me, the dumb shall speak;
Till the deaf world’s ear be made to hear
The cry of the wordless weak.
From street, from cage, and from kennel,
From jungle and stall, the wail
Of my tortured kin proclaims the sin
Of thie mighty against the frail.
The same force formed the sparrow
That fashioned Man, the King;
The God of the Whole gave a spark of soul
To each furred and feathered thing.
AND I AM MY BROTHER'S KEEPER
AND I WILL FIGHT HIS FIGHT
And speak the word for beast and bird,
Till the world shall set things right.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
We hope you had an opportunity to read the August
Report of the Society For the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, edited by Ruth Schooley for the Luzerne County
Society.
If you haven't received it, you should write to the
SPCA Fox Hill Road, Wilkes-Barre RD 2, for a copy which
will tell you graphically what a few dedicated people are
doing for the unwanted and neglected creatures of this
county . .'. and we might add with a minimum of public
appreciation and support. ¢
- Quoting from the Reports “Since its opening
April 10, 1960, the SPCA Animal Shelter has given
refuge to more than 15,000 animals. Many have been
starving, others have been suffering — several have
been tortured by so-called human beings. Thousands
have been abandoned while others have been un-
wanted. All have found good food, loving care and
alleviation from suffering while at the shelter. Thou-
sands have found new families to love them”.
We in the Back Mountain Region should be especially
proud of this great institution and its humanitarian work,
for it was largely through the love, dedication and finan-
cial support of the late Mrs. Z. Platt Bennett that the
SPCA came into being. ~
Today a very few dedicated people at considerable
personal sacrifice and inconvenience are carrying on the
work which she started. Without them the Animal Shel-
ter would fold.
Although there is not a municipality in Luzerne
County that has not benefited through the Society’s work
of picking up lost, strayed, sick and injured dogs, the
financial response of the governing bodies has been
apathetic.
If you personally feel that this endeavor is worth-
while, you should appoint yourself a committee of one to
see to it that your township officials are acquainted with
the work the Society is doing, with its need and that your
municipality contributes annually to its support.
If you are not yourself a member, send in a contri-
bution of $2 or more today. You will never regret it and
you will never miss it.
Quoting again from The Report: “Although we
have shocked you with true stories about children
setting cats on fire and children throwing kittens
into the river, our belief that children love animals
is borne out by the following:
“Four ten-year-old boys recently came trudging
up to the shelter with a little blind kitten. They had
been hiking in the woods when they found it about
two miles away. They walked all the way to the shel-
ter to bring us the kitten”.
The SPCA has movies and slides available for Scout
kotings, Sunday Schools, and other organizations who
h to show them. Not many people know about this,
it would be of benefit both to your child and his or
organizations leaders if you would let them know of
» availability. Youth leaders are always looking for
| material to make up their programs. All they need
call the Animal Shelter VA 5-4111 and ask for Mise
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Only
Yesterday
Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years
Ago In The Dallas Post
IT HAPPENED 30 YEARS AGO:
Dallas Postmaster Ruth Waters
recommended changes in the mail
schedule to speed mail from the
area. :
Frank Lauderbach, manager of
Orchard Farms, died at 45 following
an operation.
Burglar alarm on First National
Bank, sounded off at 4 am. fol-
lowed in close timing by the Dallas
fire siren. Police, officials, and
| alarmed citizenry gathered in pa-
jamag veiled by raincoats. . False
alarm. Everybody went back to
bed after the burglar alarm had
been throttled. 5
Jane Herdman, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Cragg Herdman, was bad-
ly shocked when she tried to turn
off the electric meter after it had
been broken by a falling limb dur-
ing a severe thunder storm.
A big barn on St. Nicholas Ceme-
tery property was completely des-
troyed by fire, but custodian
Metzger was able to save all the
livestock.
The condition of Toby's Creek was
the subject of an editorial. Deplor-
able. Just like now. Still deplor-
able. Why don’t the State fathers
roof it over, confine it to a con-
‘| duit, and forget it, is what every-
body wants to know. Make a fine
level stretch for a new highway,
with all the smells buried deep. It
hasn’t changed a bit in thirty years
except to smell a little higher as
more sewage is added.
John A. McSparran, secretary of
agriculture, urged farm families to
take in urban dwellers who were
on the lookout for a quiet rural
vacation.
Dallas Water Company moved
from quarters in the Dallas Dairy to
the Himmler Theatre.
Sliced bread ‘was 5 cents a loaf,
ham 14 cents a pound; potatoes 17
cents a peck; veal chops 15 cents
a pound.
IT HAPPENED 20 YEARS AGO:
Third set of twins in the Alder-
son area within a month. Mr. and
Mrs. John Denman followed the
example get by Mr. and Mrs. Russell
Newell and Mr. and Mrs. Elvin
Beam.
Dr. Charles A. Perkins of Trucks-
ville was the first local medical
man to join the service. He left
on Labor Day for training at Car-
lisle Barracks.
William Moran, - Latin instructor
in Dallas, got his call to the serv-
ice, the second faculty member to
be inducted. Clarence LaBar was’
the first,
A. N. Garinger's racing pigeons
came in first in a 100 mile race
from Harrisburg.
John Snyder, while working on
the Nesbitt Farm, broke his back in
fall from a hay wagon.
Leo George broke a stranglehold
and saved a frantic swimmer from
certain drowning in Harveys Lake.
The other swimmer in difficulty was
also saved.
Jack Roberts spotted 89 aban-
doned auditorium chairs outside a
school building in Arcade, N. Y.,
and arranged through Dallas schools
to have them purchased and de-
livered for extra seats at basket-
ball games.
Elwood Ide
marines, i
Olivers garage was new head-
quarters for the ration board. Fred
Kiefer, Gordon Mathers, and James
R. Oliver comprised the board.
Heard from in the Qutpost: Glenn
Kitchen, Camp Wheeler; Joseph Hu-
dak, Fort Benning; Henry Miller,
Camp Livingstone;
Paul Mainwaring, formerly of
Dallas, died in Philadelphia.
Ruth Gould joined the Army
Nursing Corps,
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hoover were
treated to an old fashioned skimel-
ton,
rr HAPPENED ]() YEARS Aco:
Kingston Township supervisors
condemned the frame bungalow
where a family of a mother and two
children stepped off the porch into
a raging torrent during a flash flood
along Trout Run.
Rev. William McClelland was
elected rector of Prince of Peace,
succeeding Rev. William Williams.
Married: Virginia . Stroud to
Daniel Steadle. Rosalie Hoyt to Leo
Anthony. Barbara Peters to Donald
MacGowan.
Rev. and Mrs. David Morgan were
enlisted in the
given a farewell party, on leaving
Alderson Charge.
Died: Fred Boote, 96, Trucksville.
Mrs. Catherine Wilson, 67, East
Dallas, Mrs. Elizabeth Miller, 82,
Noxen. Mrs. Emmeline Bodle, 93,
Franklin Township. Emory Klieg-
leng, 49, Trucksville,
Big Labor Day storm.
Dallas Five and Ten changed
hands, from Eugene (Sick to his
cousin James Sick.
Fall Festival
(Continued from 1—A)
ficers to explain the set-up.
Mary Lou Casterline was chosen
Queen of the festival for selling the
most tickets. Runners-up were
.| Elaine Boyce, Donna Parrish, Donna
Cole, and Ann Moehn.
The officers of the Jonathan R.
Davis Fire Company cordially thank
everyone who helped make the
event the great success that it was.
THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1962
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Rambling Around
By The Oldtimer—D. A. Waters
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Now is the time for all good tax- of the courthouse offices was upset
payers to come to the aid of the
school district. And if the said
taxpayers have not already faced
up to the collector for borough,
township, county, and institution
district taxes, they will find the
collector in the on deck circle
ready to go to bat against them.
It is a very one-sided and frus-
trating baseball game that the tax-
payer has to play annually with the
tax collectors. He knows in ad-
vance there is no such thing as a
called strike retiring the side. His
side can never get at bat. It
makes no difference whether the
balls he has provided , entirely at
his own expense, are soft or hard,
small, average, or oversize. [Like-
wise the result is the same whether
he throws with the right or left
hand, with an overhand, under-
hand, or sidewinder delivery. The
batter will latch on to the ball on
the first pitch and with one wallop
drive it completely out of the park,
so that to all practical purposes it
is a lost ball.
Taxing authorities prefer that the
taxpayer appear in ‘the mood of
the Light Brigade in the charge at
Balaklava, as described by Tennyson,
one word being changed: !
“Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and PAY”.
Reading of the preceding lines in
the same stanza is not recommended
“Was there a man dismayed ?
Not though the soldiers knew
Someone had blundered’”.
No politician will admit a blunder
in levying a tax.
As youngsters, we were taught
that you cannot escape death and
taxes. This is as old in this country
as Benjamin Franklin, who wrote in
1789, “In ‘this world nothing is cer-
tain but death and taxes’. He
probably copied it from the ancients.
But. as we grew up, we found this
is not literally true as to taxes. In
this country only, property taxes
were allowed to accumulate, inter-
mittently, for thirty or forty years.
It was a lucrative racket for lawyers,
filing the endless liens, and gearch-
ing and clearing titles. And the pro-
ceedings in courts, as reported in
the daily press, covering delinquent
taxes in astronomical sums, make
us wonder why the little fellow is
pursued so relentlessly.
Every politician out of office
criticizes those in office for the
taxes levied. He makes a loud
outcry about the existing taxes, or
larger taxes he claims are threat-
ened by those presently in office.
Only a few years ago the control
by a campaign against the new as-
sessment. Now various municipali-
ties, and others, are actually re-
questing the county authorities to
go ahead and put out the new as-
sessment. A
In 1884, the Democratic Platform
carried the resounding battlecry,
“Unnecessary taxation is unjust tax-
ation”.
velt campaigned on a platform of
reducing government expenses 25%:
Then he proceeded to inaugurate the
greatest spending spree in all his-
tory, which is still going with in-
creased momentum after nearly
thirty years. One of his advisors
openly said, “We will spend and
spend, tax and tax and elect and
elect” (some of the words may be
interchanged, but this is the sense
of it).
A great politician issue about
the same time was “The Forgotten
Man” a title stolen or borrowed
from William = Graham = Sumner
(1840-1910. What Sumner said was
not. the same as that used in, the
campaign. “The Forgotten Man is
delving away in patient industry,
supporting his family, paying his
taxes, casting his vote, supporting
the church and school, reading his
newspaper, and cheering for the
politician of his admiration, but he
is the only one for whom there is
no provision in the great scramble
and the big divide. Such is the
Forgotten Man. He works, he votes,
generally he prays—but he always
pays —yes, above all, he pays”.
Ever since, the Forgotten Man has
looked for something for nothing.
The late Henry L. Mencken sum-
marized the situation:
“Unquestionably, there is pro-
gress. The average American now
pays out twice as much in taxes as
he formerly got in wages”. {
State politicians, being a little far-
ther off, display the most brass in
handling taxes with the most in-
nocent explanations to be swallowed
by the gemeral public. They make
us pay two years auto drivers license
fees at once, supposedly to save a
few pennies. The real object was
to get a whole additional years
license revenue to spend in advance.
Then, the present summer, the sales
tax normally remitted in the month
following the end of a quarter was
stepped up so that a remittance had
to be made during the last part of
the quarter, which gave them a
nice balance to campaign on, noth-
ing being said that the next admin-
istration would automatically lose
about three months revenue.
Safety Valve
TROUBLE ON POWDER HORN
September 3, 1962.
Dear Editor:
As a resident and taxpayer in
Dallas Borough, I would like through
your reader’s column, to express my
feelings and those of my neighbors,
to the disgusting job that our Bor-
ough is doing on Powder Horn
Drive.
This street has been torn up all
summer and now is in a deplorable
state. With our children going to
and from school, they must walk
through fields of high grass and
weeds to get to and from home. *
Early this summer they put in a
drain pipe to carry off the surface
water from the hill above us, this
trench was open for at least five
weeks, due to the tractor shovel
breaking down. Then along comes
the gas company and opened the
other side of the road and laid gas
lines, this’ was a one-day job, they
filled their trench and were gone.
Now along comes the Borough
truck with loads and loads of field
stone and dump it all over the
street. Now comes two or three
or four Borough men with sledge
hammers to crack up this stone.
this kind of labour was done away
with over fifty years ago.
Does our Council know that
crushed stone can be obtained at
a quarry less than five miles from
Powder Horn Drive? Does our
Council know that the Borough
trucks could haul this tone from the
quarry cheaper than they can haul
in an old stone wall?
Now when this street is paved and
our driveways are a foot or more
below grade, what do we do about
that?
We were given no grade at the
time we put our driveways in. I
am wondering how many of our
Council have seen this job going on
and what steps they are taking to
correct it.
Something has got to be done
without delay. It would mot be
possible for an ambulance or fire
truck to get to us in case of an
emergency. This would be of inter-
est to fire insurance companies.
I am not frying to knock any
man out of a job, but for the sake
of the people of Powder Horn Drive
get rid of the sledge hammers and
get this street finished.
Respectfully submitted,
Elmer Daley,
48 Powder Horn Drive.
“This month, a miracle kitchen
knife that cuts frozen foods is being
advertised. We'd prefer one that
cuts frozen prices.”
“This is the season when anglers
of all weight categories are trying
to land a hook to the jaw.”
“Vacations aren’t so hard ta plan.
Your boss tells you when and your
wife tells you where.”
Looking at
T-V
With GEORGE A. and
EDITH ANN BURKE
THE AUDIENCE — The
important part of any television
show is the audience. The new
season opens and the metworks are
all ready with their greatest shows
balanced against each other, each
hoping to win the largest viewing
audience for their advisers. In some
cases it will be western, comedy
against comedy. Within a month
the viewers will have decided the
success and failure of most shows.
The biggest battle will take place
on Wednesday night. It will be
between the ABC network and NBC.
ABC this season will be carrying
the highly prized ‘Wagon Train,”
a former NBC property. Last sea-
son this show was No. 1 throughout
the country. 4
Opposite this NBC will present
“The Virginians.” - This will be a
90-minute series and will go on the
air the same time (7:30) as “Wagon
Train.” NBC is hoping that “The
Virginians’ will be good and that
the audience will be tired of “Wagon
Train,” which is five years old.
Programmers believe that if they
can capture an audience early in
the evening, for the 8 or 8:30 p.m.
shows that they will continue watch-
most
ing that channel for the rest of the |
evening. Ratings seems to prove
this theory true.
CBS is not competing on Wed-
nesday. “CBS Reports” will be their
program for 7:30 p.m. ;
CBS is putting more hopes on
Monday night when Lucille Ball
returns with a new show at 8:30
pm. If Lucy can win back her old
audience CBS will be very happy.
Her competition is the tired old
program “Rifleman on ABC and
a new NBC program called “Saint
and Sinners.” This wil] star Nick
Adams in a series of newspaper
stories.
Following Lucy will be Danny
Thomas, who did all right rating-
wise last season; Andy Griffith and
the new Loretta Young show.
Loretta Young may run into
trouble on the second half of her
show when ‘Ben Casey’ comes on
at 10 pm. On NBC at the same
hour will be “The Eleventh Hour,”
which deals with a psychiatrist.
Saturday night Jackie Gleason
returns at 7:30 p.m. with a number
of beautiful ginls, a new singer and
Frank Fontaine. His opposition will
be “Sam Benedict,” a new hour
long series about a lawyer and “The
Roy Rodgers variety show. Seems
logical that Jackie will be the
winner on that night. |
Following Jackie Gleason will be
“The Defenders,” which successfully |
took on all comers last season;
‘Have Gun, Will Travel’ and finally
In 1932, Franklin D. Roose-
Better Leighton Never
by Leighton ‘Scott
I was sitting in a local cabaret
the other night, waiting for the
band, to arrive. The place is packed
with dancers on certain nights. It
seemed funny, the place deserted,
the waitresses sitting around gos-
siping, and the house record player
grinding out the old songs from the
thirties and forties while the help
sang along.
Generally, the walls of this place
rattle with live rock 'n roll, but I
was early. ‘They don’t make songs
like that any more”, murmured one
of the women to the bartender.
“You said it”, he returned dole-
fully.
The owner finished putting some
checks .in order, and joined me at
the bar, “It's go shame”, he reflected,
“when a few kids mess it up for
others who have a right to a good
time. Young people have it tougher
and tougher, trying to enjoy them-
selves.” :
“Oh, I don’t know”,
seems to me that with increased
wages, less demanding school work,
and all that, kids have more time
to enjoy life, such as it is.”
“I mean. young people over 21”,
he explained. “I presume you know
we had a raid here not too far back,
and several under-age kids were
caught. :
“Well, I take every precaution for
checking age-cards that the State
inspectors require, In fact, my
standards of checking are the same
as theirs.
“Unfortunately, you’re not
elected.”
“Exactly”, he nodded. “Another
thing. The State inspector told one
of the kids who was caught that I,
as bar-owmer, was responsible, and
that it wasn’t the kid's fault at all,
even though he lied about his age
and signed an affidavit saying that
he was 21.”
About these affidavits: I know the
state inspectors permit the use of
them, if, in the bar-owner’s discre-
tion, the person in question looks
old enough to drink, but doesn’t
have an age-card. This invites the
owner to take chances, because I'm
pretty sure they're not, strictly
speaking, legal.
If, according to old Common Law,
the kid can tell “right from wrong”,
and signs an untrue gtatement —
then the kid assumes responsibility
for his misrepresentation over and
above the innkeeper’s illegal act of
serving a minor.
On the other hand, there is a
statute which says: ‘““An innkeeper
cannot serve alcoholic beverages to
somebody under 21”.
Now which is law — the plain
meaning of the statute or this age-
old ‘right and wrong” business.
‘Well, every time two lawyers fight
out a case the same question comes
up. And the judge decides which
law is more important, i.e. which
| one he happens to like.
But it seems stupid to expect a
kid to respect the law, if he doesn’t
know what it is. And it seems
equally stupid to expect the bar-
owner to know better than to serve
minors, when he is not perfectly
certain just when his responsibility
ends, and the perjuring minor's re-
sponsibility begins. All business in-
volves taking some chances. :
About the only thing that doesn’t
seem stupid about such a deal is
being a lawyer for either the inn-
keeper or the lying minor, since the
more confusion, the more money
he'll get paid in fees. 4
Well, the only solution I can see
is to forget about those affidavits,
and accept age-cards or nothing.
Let's face it: There isn't a kid in
the state who knows he looks
younger than 21, or might be
border-line in looks, and still for-
gets his age-card when he steps out
at night. He'd rather forget his
shoes than his card.
So, if you accept such an ex-
planation as “I left it in my other
pants”, you're asking for whatever
trouble you get when you serve a
minor.
the hour long “Gunsmoke.”
MEDIC BLOUSES have been sell-
ing like mad in variety stores which
only proves that Ben Casey can
sell the shirt off his back.
THE VERDICT IS YOURS received
the death sentence. This has been
a good daytime television series for
five years. It did very well in the
afternoon time slot but moving it
up to the morning didn't suit the
housewives. Replacing it will be
reruns of ‘The Real McCoys.” To
avoid confusion with first runs on
the evening show the daytime re-
runs will just be called “The McCoy.”
Jack BENNY. who is now 68 years
old has no idea of quitting working.
He will return for another television
season on Sept. 25. Formerly pre-
sented on. Sunday evenings, his
show will be scheduled on Tuesdays
from 9:30 to 10 p.m.
Jack, who has been working
without a network contract for
several years, has made a new
two-year pact with CBS.
NEW TREND — Television studio
lots which formerly were jammed
with cowboys now are teeming with
actors in military uniforms This is
because of the new trend to mili-
tary shows, both serious and comic,
among which are “The Gallant
Men,” “Combat” and ‘McHale's
Navy”, “McKeever and, the Colonel,”
“Ensign O'Toole” and ‘Don't Call
Me Charlie.”
THIS OLD HOUSE ~— One of the
most watched programs in England
these last few weeks is the reno-
nation of an old house’
The program, “Bucknell’s House”
is an/ enormously popular do-it
| yourself series, Farly this Bpring
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said I. “It.
___ DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA
OPENER RR ENE ANNE AEE
Barnyard Notes
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Blan King ‘Defends’ Suburban Living
Exposes on suburban living, describing wild orgies, nude swim-
ming parties and mad drinking sprees, annoy comedian Alan King.
The sage of suburbia says he’d “like to know where this wicked,
immoral community is supposed to be. I want to move there.”
In “defending” suburbia in the current (September) issue of
McCall's magazine, King insists “middle-class suburbanites are just
as moral as the folks who live in big cities. Get involved with lawn
mulch, Cub Scouts, storm windows, fund drives, car pools and the
PTA, and see how much orgy time you have left.”
King also makes the following points about the advantages of
suburbiat Ha
1. HEALTH: “No chalky complexions or city pallor here, From
May through September, the kids are brown as berries. Sunburn?
No, it’s charcoal. There's so much smoke in the-air that if my wife
wants to make a clear soup, she has to cook it in the fallout shelter.”
2. MODERN CONVENIENCES: “There are radios that turn on .
the radio, and remote-control windows that open and shut no mat-
ter whose head is sticking out of them.”
3. ECONOMY: “In 35 years, Tll own my house free and clear.
When I'm 75 years old, it won't cost me a penny — with a few
exceptions. Like $10 a month for insurance, $30 a month for main-
tenance, and $650 a month for taxes.”
King invites doubters to see the wonders of suburbia for them-
selves, before they start criticizing. “Come in the fall,” he suggests,
“after the hay fever plague.”
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Picking up the pieces after the vacation was about like picking
up the pieces after a .hurricane. It involved cadging taxi service
from the kids around the plant, borrowing the decrepit station
wagon on occasion, and finally an overnight jaunt to Richmond,
Virginia, by bus, followed by a trip up over the road after picking up
the car from the car hospital in Richmond. - »
“You been riding that clutch,” announced the mechanic sternly.
“I have NOT been riding that clutch. I don’t ride clutches.”
“Then you've been going into gear too slowly instead of all in
a ump.” Y : 3
“Come on, now, the thing leaps like a jackrabbit unless I ease it
into gear.”
“Well, you better cut it out, unless
clutch.”
. With the receipted bill for one clutch, installed in one English
Austin in my hand, I reflected that an English Austin ig a lovely
thing to drive, stick shift and all, but that there are drawbacks.
Buy a Chevvie, or a Plymouth, or a Ford, and you can find re-
placements in any garage, and a mechanic who can install the stuff.
Drive an English Austin, and you're apt to get stuck somewhere
out in the sticks. Hereabouts, it’s simple enough. Danny Meeker is
at the other end of the line, and he can diagnose the situation . . , .
and do something about it.
Unfortunately there was no Danny Meeker down below Rich-
mond.
‘Back in Dallas, I consulted John Kupstas. “Johnnie,” I inquired,
“How do you get a car with a stick shift into gear without wear and
tear on the clutch? [Isn't that what a clutch is for?”
“What procedure are you using?”
“Depress the clutch all the way, shift the lever, and let up on
the clutch, slowly enough not to jerk.”
“Sounds all right,” says Johnnie. : :
“Well, something happened to that clutch. The mechanic showed
And that didn’t just
happen overnight. Could be I better switch to another car with an
automatic transmission.”
It was quite a clambake Wednesday night. Richmond by bus,
engulfed in a black tidal wave at five a.m., a soldier boy and I and
one other, the only white folks on the bus. And I was ashamed of
the one other. He became very vocal along about Fredericksburg,
announcing how he would change the world if he had his druthers,
and wondering how soon the bars opened in Richmond.
y The colored woman three seats back, hushed her wailing child.
The other dark men and women sat quietly, resting their heads on
their hands, paying no attention to the vocal one.
The bus driver looked around briefly and hissed, “Let it rest
now, huh? You can't get anything in ‘a bar in Richmond anyhow,
nothing but beer.”
The wounded one moaned and subsided.
Came the dawn, and a stirring of the passengers.
Fifty minutes later, I was in the Austin and on my way back
you want to pay for another
to Dallas after the longest week on record. The fresh morning
breeze ‘turned to a breath from a furnace.
Never has Dallas looked quite so beautiful.
It was cool that night, coo! erough for a small fire in the Frank-
lin stove.
And that bed. After a night sitting up in a bus, and a broiling
day of driving north over route 301 and route 111 and route 11 and
route something or other through Benton, and through Ricketts
Glen, and Lehman, and finally Dallas, it was heaven to peel off the
sodden clothing, plunge briefly into the tub, and fall into bed.
Nothing like sitting up all night and driving all day to make
you appreciate small comforts.
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the
ation searched for a house in the
my
tached structure.
British Broadcasting Corpor-
Exchange Students
Meet With Teachers
(Continued from 1—A)
ost miserable cordition.
It found an eleven-room, semi de-
The house had
enough problems to satisfy everyone.
The roof and floors sagged, the
walls were cracked, it needed work
in the gutters, door frames, floors,
staircases, ceilings, bathrooms and
entrances. The wiring and plumb-
ing was bad. The outside paint
was only a memory. And to top it
all off it had dry rot. It was a real
“you name it and we have it” place.
The response has been as tre-
mendous as the rebuilding job. In
the first three weeks 30,000 viewers
asked for information.
Barry Bucknell, the handy-man
broadcaster who is responsible for
the show provides the explanations
by writing a weekly leaflet and a
column in the widely-read Radio
Times. /
BBC Expects to sell the house in
the winter. Already at legst six
offers are received daily.
It would be impossible to do all
the work on television time so Mr.
Busknell rebuilds all week, some-
times with out-side help, and saves
the critical moments for the viewers.
The series is intended for people
who want to improve or rebuild
their homes without professional
help.
} Sounds like a very good program.
Would enjoy seeing a similar show
on one of our metworks. ©
other people thought of Americans.
The standard answer was: Once
they got to know me @s an in-
dividual, we got along fine. But
they tend to believe Americans are
crass and materialistic. A four-
year-old asked Lynn Jordan if all
Americans have color TV in their
cars. America as a general image
is not good, even in the eyes of
our “friends”. :
All told, the meeting and the
panel discussion served to illus-
trate Dr. Robert Mellman’s opening
remarks as being very true. ‘Tt
would be a good thing”, he thought,
“if such an exchange program oy
open to our teachers, as well as our
students.” The audience was in
favor of the idea
Chief Updyke Has
Busman’s Holiday
Kingston Township Chief of Police
Herbert Updyke had a busman’s
holiday in ‘Chicago Police Head-
quarters to get a look at the newly
installed IBM machine, a multi-’
million dollar job for sorting out
criminals by means of their cards.
Chicago headquarters, says Herb,
has 7,000 calls a day, and the IBM
machine saves a tremendous amount
of work, .
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