.. SEC TION A —PAGE 2 THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1962 DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA THE D A I LAS POST Established 1889 PARR RRIHRLLIRIR HHH RRR H%S PR EN NN NNN NN NNN v ; ; .. “More Than A Newspuer, ” Community Institution Only Rambling Around Better Leighton Never || From — ~ h ow In Its (3r ear” : , ° 7] Noi A nonpartisan, liberal progressive newspaper pub- Yesterda By The Oldtimer—D. A. Walters by Leighton Scott P illar Fr O P ost XR) ; ~ lished every Thursday morning at the Dallas Post plant, y A 3 I EE A A HH HHH KUHN NNN? FALL IN! 7 By Hix Lehman Avenue, Dallas, Pennsylvania. rye ehh, Member Audit Bureau of Circulations ~ Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association | Member National Editorial Association by Member Greater Weeklies Associates, Inc. year; $2.50 six months. six months, scripts, photographs and hi Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Dallas, .. Pa. under the Act of March 3, 1879. 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RISEEY : Associate Publisher—ROBERT F. BACHMAN Associate Editors—MYRA ZEISER RISLEY, MRS. T. M. B. HICKS Sports—JAMES LOHMAN Advertising—LOUISE C. MARKS Acecounting—DORIS MALLIN Circulation—MRS. VELMA DAVIS Photographs—JAMES KOZEMCHAK Fede A EE YELLE wf ody Editorially Speaking... Will They, Too, Disappear Will train whistles disappear as part of the Back Mountain picture? ‘Will the freight station: at Dallas be demolished, and trucks roaring down the highway take the place of the locomotive? These are questions which the Back Mountain is ask- ing itself, as plans for the new highway take © shape on the planning board. ' Can the Lehigh Valley Railroad survive a change in its roadbed and its route? Will it prove too costly a construction job to be feasible? Is the imminence of change a welcome thing to the railroad or will this added burden deliver the final blow to a fading industry? The sound of the lonesome whistle late at night is something that has been part of the American picture ever since rails were first laid in this country and the continent spanned. People wake briefly, glance at the illuminated dial of the bedside clock, and fall asleep again, secure in the knowledge that it is nowhere near time to Fo ESE ISE 4 ¥ FAH EAE SER ERS REE SIF SS FE ERY $0 ER TTB SY FLARL 5 around the lake. PRE get up, and treasuring those few more hours of darkness. The horse and buggy have all but vanished. The lake steamboats are gone forever, with the com- ~ ing of the automobile and the construction of a road clear The streetcars have gone, yielding to gasoline buses. And now it looks as if the railroad is endangered too. Highway construction entails either bridging Toby's . Creek to make a level spot for the highway, or cutting " back the mountain in the bottleneck south of Trucksville. we * crete retaining wall. _ pen to the railroad? . Cutting back the mountain looks like a colossal task. Lehigh Valley tracks run high above the present roadbed. There are already ominous signs of cracking in the con- - If the mountain must be pared away, what will hap- Looking At T-V With GEORGE A. and EDITH ANN BURKE . GRACE KELLY has agreed to lead a TV tour of Monaco and its royal palace along the same lines of Jacqueline Kennedy's now-famous White House telecast. Planned as an hour-long CBS-TV special, the Prin- cess Grace tour will be taped next month for showing later in the sea- son, probably the end of this year. Since earlier plans to appear in an Alfred Hitchcock movie have fallen through, this will be her first public appearance on an entertainment medium gince her marriage to Prince Ranier. DENNIS WEAVER has been limp- ing for real on the Gunsmoke set. He tore a ligament in his left leg while playing temnis—Ilucky for him it is the same leg with which he limps as “Chester.” BETTY WHITE — Betty's success ean be attributed to a happy com- bination of talent, personality and hard work. ; Born in Osk Park 1, Jan. 17, 1926, Betty end her family moved to California when she was two years old. After graduation from Beverly Hills High School she set her sights on a career in radio. She enrolled at the Bliss-Hayden Little Theatre and after some months de- cided to seek employment. Pave ment pounding and countless inter- views later she had received a few “#tray jobs of bit acting and singing. 2 | So few were these jobs and so low the pay that Betty was grateful that she was living at home where gro- ceries and rent were provided by her dad. / Betty began to do television spots and, in time, took her first steady job acting a Girl Friday to a disc jockey on one of the local stations. She made arrangements for guest stars, pushed props around, kept the commercials straight and did odd jobs. One day her boss decided to move on to bigger and better things and until he could be re- placed she was moved into his spot. Her breezy manner and easy conversation began to attract adver- tisers and viewers alike, Before long her show achieved a very good rating. On the air five hours a day, Betty not only took care of all the ‘show details but played benefits, drove to and from work and even had an occasional date. Not satis- fied that she was busy enough Betty got together with station manager Don Fedderson and writer-producer George Tibbles to work up a pro- gram called “Life With Elizabeth.” The show had tremendous success and on its strength Betty White was awarded the Academy of Tele- vision Arts and Sciences’ 1952 “Emmy” for being voted the most outstanding feminine personality on television. CAROL BURNETT ~~ CBS - TV pulled quite a coup in signing much- sought-after Carol to am exclusive, long-term contract calling for her to star in occasional specials and to make guest appearances on some of the metwork’s shows, including the Garry Moore program, ; Ona Burnett special for the season Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years Ago In The Dallas Post It Happened 30 Years Ago: Dallas Borough Council elected Leonard O'Kane chief of police, and took over two new streets, Laing and Terrace. The question of permitting sewage to flow into Toby's Creek was again raised and discussed. Nelson Ace, father-in-law of Ira Frantz, trained a 74 year old marks- man’s eye on a wild police dog which had eluded bullets, and got him smack in the middle. The dog had robbed the Frantz thenhouse of eighty chickens over a two-month period. Dallas school board voted to pay teachers their back salaries. A rash of anonymous letters on the bus systems had Dallas Town- ship directors scratching. Wyoming County Fair at Tunkhan- nock was looking for a big turnout. Andrew VanCampen celebrated his 82nd birthday. Beaumont cinched first place in Rural League. Kingston Township playing-field was being graded for football and baseball. An editorial called attention to the polio season, said sewage prob- lems along Toby’s Creek might well start an epidemic, Elberta peaches were 79 cents a bushel]. It Happened 20 Years Ago Borough ICouncil entertained a sug- gestion that waters of Toby's Creek be dammed up during the night at the foot of Machell Avenue, and be re- leased with a whoosh the next morn- ing, to sweep accumulated filth down stream. Job of closing the floodgates at night was to be given Chief Walter Covert; of opening the gates in the morning, to the street department wearing a clothespin on its nose. Firemen were collecting metal scrap for the war effort. Lt. John P. McNeill, Dallas, was assigned to active duty with the Marines. ‘A 200 pound black bear was keep- ing Ruggles Hollow stirred up. Tire thieves were active at Harveys Lake. : Joe MacVeigh was named head of the area Red Cross. Farmers up Tunkhannock way were selling off their livestock be- cause it was impossible to get help. Dallas area businessmen and rep- resentatives of service clubs met to outline a campaign to get an in- dustry for the Back Mountain. Pvt. Bertram Hayner, Ketcham Cor- ners, was taking boot training es a Marine. Edith Blez, javie aiche, were still on the editorial page. ‘Whole page devoted to War Bonds. Tn the Outpost: Robert Somerville, Fort Jackson; Earl Williams, Georgia; Stewart York, California. Married: Alice Newman to Fred Stevens. Elaine Miller to Rev. Clark W. Hunt. Esther Ruth Culp to An- fith to George Vernoy. Wilma A. Brace to Sgt. Edgar Atkinson. Died: Corey Allen, 86, Sweet Valley. Ralph Lindemuth, Wilkes-Barre. Reunions: Frantz; Casterline; Baer. Liquid stockings were growing in favor, as women were unable to buy hosiery. Housewives were asked to save drippings for use in making ex- plosives. Frank Kaymor was at officers training school after a year in Puerto Rico. It Happened [0 Years Ago Dallas Township supervisors vot- ed to continue rent control. Miss Frances Dorrance resigned as librarian of Hoyt Library. Gate of Heaven opened with 233 pupils, and added a seventh grade. ,Lou Banta was under fire by Kings- ton Township supervisors for not making proper report of arrests and accidents, but he retained his job as chief. Rev. Frederick Eidam was install- ed as pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran. William Kern, Idetown, on thirty- day leave from Korea, died when his car catapulated into the pond at Natona Mills. A survey was made to determine need of a kindergarten in Dallas Township. General Eisenhower started his campaign for the presidency by say- campaign, and that's the mess in Washington.” Myrtle Martin, teacher for 35 years, tax collector for 26, died at her home in Beaumont. Insurance against polio was ad- vertised. No Salk vaccine yet. Humane Society opened tempors ary quarters in the Parks barn. will be a 90-minute video version of “Calamity Jane.” Another may be a telecast of the one-woman show which she has been doing on tour this summer. Everyone seems to feel that Carol was smart in re- fusing all offers for a weekly TV show. EVEN BEFORE THE SHOW -— The new season hasn’t even started, and already there's talk that Ruth Roman’s performance in the Sept. 15 premiere of “The Defenders” is of Emmy-award talents. Ruth plays It is slanted to a dramatic argument against capital punishment, : Just over the State line in Dela- ware on Route 52 is a magnificent | estate owned by the duPontsFamily for over a century. In 1839, James Antoine Bidermann, husband of one of the daughters of the original du- Pont in the country, built a mansion and named it Winterthur, from a city in Switzerland, his homeland. Suc- cessive additions have made it a house of nine floors and over a hun- dred rooms, resembling a grand European Chateau. Mr. Henry duPont, who had been collecting furniture, eeramics, metal- work, textiles, paintings, and prints for decades, inherited the property and made it his home until 1951. His own family had the place furnished, including a large library. Gradually he moved out family items and re- built the property to make a place for everything he had collecteed and then began to assemble the greatest collection in the country. Entire rooms were moved and installed, side walls being pushed out, or other building ¢hanges made to accomm- date them in their original condit- ions. False floors were put in to make the low ceilings needed for the New England Exhibits. The earliest one is the loft room from the 1640 Hart House in Ipswich, Mass., which we saw last summer. Other rooms cover a period of two hundred years, and the entire eastern part of the country. Every room is complete in itself. Wall covering is of the period which the room represents, sometimes hay- ing’ been taken off the wall and moved. When original furniture is not shown, other pieces authentic to the period are installed, together with rugs, draperies, clocks, paint- ings, china and silverware, glassware, fireplaces, books, pottery, chandel- iers, etc. The whole is lighted with electric candles designed to resemble real candles. Special alcoves were installed, one in the form of an arc to show a single settee. A free-standing spiral stair case from the Montmorenci Estate in North Carolina, 1822, was moved and built in a special place for it. Other southern plantation rooms have the high ceilings and elaborate furnishings then in use. Some of the pieces. Rooms from homes of the wealthy in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore are shown, and ex- planation made by the guide of the distinctive furniture made by local craftsmen in the different areas and periods. But emphasis is not placed on wealth alone. One of the finest displays is from a Pennsylvania Dutch farmhouse built in 1783 mear Kutztown, in Berks Co. It features the old German books printed at Ephrata Cloisters, the “fractur writ- ing” on the walls, mottled blue paint on the paneling, carpet locally made similar to the old rag carpets. Fireplaces are numerous and all kinds, many ornamented with tiles and authentic decorations of other kinds. Some rooms have enclosed stoves, which were fed from the ad- joining room. Floors are mostly of wood, in random width boards. Special windows and doors have been built in to harmonize with the rooms. In putting in the special rooms, alcoves, etc., in the words of the guide, “There is a lot 'of wasted space.” Corridors are marrow and many small flights of steps are en- countered, practically all of which are used going down. At the beginning of the tour, elevators take visitors to the top floors and then the move- ment is downward. One interesting exhibit is Shop Lane, a narrow colonial-type street paved in brick with the gutter in the center, surrounded by authentic store fronts from various places ex- hibiting pottery, books, china, etc. The Library, including a model of the whole house with special light- ing, is maintained by Mr. Dupont as a memorial to his father, Lt. Henry Algernon du Pont, who received the Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery in the Civil War. Col. du Pont was a son of Major General Henry duPont, assigned to guard the duPont Powder Mills in the same War. Gen duPont was a son of the first duPont who originally built the powder mills. Mr. Henry Francis duPont, who was born at Winterthur, turned the property over to the Winterthur Corporation, an educational and charitible foundation in 1951. thony P. Mauro. Edith Coleman Grif-. ing, “There is only one issue in this) an accused murderess in this show. | rugs are as old as 1550 and one of the few restrictions is that you walk on the special runners and not on the old rugs. Other restrictions forbid smoking and touching or handling anything. Even purses carried by ladies have to be checked in lockers to prevent theft of valuable small Besides being an expert on furni- ture and accessories, Mr. du Pont is a horticulturist and has developed gardens of over a hundred acres, all so skillfully planted as to appear matural. Advance registration is aad to visit the museum. . « « Safety PROMISE FULFILLED Dear Editor: Several weeks ago, Dorothy and Jerry Gable, Debby Carruthers, Rita Nafus and Sandy Dunham promised the “little children” at the lower end of Davenport Street, Dallas, a wiener roast. This promise became a reality. Without any adult assistance, fin- ancially or othrwise, a crude brick fireplace was set up on the “baseball field” adjoining the Ed Makowski- Wilbur Davis properties. A card table laden with food, coolade, cand- ies and even favors was the center of attraction. The girls, prepared wieners, marsh- mallows and drinks for each little tot. ‘When several older neighborhood boys came on the scene, they were made welcome and fed generously. The roast, although scheduled for 7 PM. was now well under way at 4:30. A near-neighbor, Mrs. Joseph Hudak prepared a tray of buttered corn-on-the-cob which was devoured in minutes. The “little” guests were Garey (Buddy) Cooper, Janet, Chuckie and Debbie Gable, Dianne Fiske, Becky and Jackie Bestwick, Peggy and Billie Nafus. The older boys who were asked to stay around were Vincent Hudak, Paul and Chuck Fiske, Jim and Ric Davis, George Layou and Bob Tins- ley of Philadelphia. The little tots were taken home about 7, apparently pleased and hap- PY, as no tears fell while they walked beside their guardians. At 9 PM. it was decided that since th girls had ample food left from the afternoon, another fire would be started and the older kids would now have their “fling”. Games such as ball tag, touch foot- ball, pull the peg and a few others unknown to the older generation were played while the fire flickered. Parents of two of the bovs left their home to call on the latters parents and on retuming home found a bag of sugar well used. a box of fresh fire- wood emptied and corn which they had pulled to steam for the kids as a treat. was already steamed and eaten. These kids were having a “ball” and a dav to be remembered. Joe (Butch) Hudak joined the group about 8 P.M, unon returning from work and he with his horn and Ric Davie with his steel guitar furnished music for sineing and twisting. Sev- eral parents dropped in on the groun during the afternoon and evening and marvelled at the way these young folks conducted themselves and how well the affair was hand- led without any adult sunervision. NOT ALL PLAY Fach of the five girls who served as hostesses came from homes with younger children. Bach has the re- sponsibilty of these children much of the time and each has work she must do. The boys also work. Paul Valve . . . and Chuch Fiske have morning paper route and assist their father at his garage; Jim Davis cuts lawn for his grandparents at Beaumont each week and he and his brother, Ric, keep their own yard in shape. Saturday morning, Ric left his friends to go to Valley Crest Home with his steel guitar to entertain the guests there. Jim is a member of the Rifle Drill Team of Dallas Senior High School. Vince Hudak is a Little Leaguer and is expected to keep his yard trimmed. These kids represent different religious faiths and attend their churches each week, most of them with their parents. GOOD TIMES NOT RARE Though the wiener roast triggered this article, good times are mot a rarity in this neighborhood. Recently the boys along with Dave Elston, Dave Williams, Sumner Bachman & Bobby Long, slept in the woods. Going to Key Club Drill Practice the next day they were dragging be- cause they had been chasing a bear all night. So they said. Another night, they had prepared their beds when, Dave Williams rested his on a skunk. His reaction caused Chuck Fiske to move quickly and hit the animal. It ran away without inci- dent. Last week, Paul and Chuck Fiske, Bobby Long, Ric and Jim Davis, and Jimmy LaBar ‘took their lunch and three power lawn mowers, in LaBar’s Station Wagon, driven by a devoted mother and cut a couple acres of grass for Jim LaBar at his private pond to show their appreciation for being allowed to swim and ice-skate there. These young folks range from ten to seventeen years. They're not all “A” students but a good bunch of kids who are learning to share and enjoy living. If there's another neighborhood where the parents and kids have such good times, why not put it in print. If we young people get into trouble we're the talk of the town. Why not give us a headline when we keep ourselves straight? Carol Williams FORGOT THE TEACHERS ; Sept. 9, 1962 Dear Editor: Having been present to listen to the Rotary Exchange Students’ Pro- gram reported in last week’s issue I wondered how I missed so many of the seemingly important. points the writer stressed in that article. Then, too, I wondered how some other very important points could have been omitted. In all fairness to the teachers present why wasn’t the entire meet- ing covered? { One of your “long lasting” reporters, Qce Beryl Charge it up to a Cub’s interest in youth rather than you know |i what , . , Editos There comes a time in every boy’s life when the opportunity presents itself to him to become a member of the world’s proudest fighting organ- ization. Yesiree. All my readers will be happy to know that I was called for my physi- cal examination Monday. I’ve decided to take my service in the form of straight draft, having always been a hard-guy. Every time one of my buddies volunteers for one of the army’s 3-year educational oppor- tunities, he finds that his papers made a wrong turn in the Pentagon, and he winds up learning some use- Tester” or ‘“‘Tank-Driver.” Joe Volunteer then runs back to his Recruiting Sergeant, who pre- tends that he never saw him before in his life. If Joe registers emphatic distaste for his job of having sole charge of the candy-bar supply for Company A, the Sergeant will say: “Son, the first thing you gotta learn is, you don’t bargain. with the US Army.” So I think I'll take what I get. Red-tape in the service is such that it's better to wait till you're in the middle of the operation before you decide to volunteer for some school. By that time the mew recruit has learned an even more famous maxim than the one about bargaining with the army: “Don’t volunteer for any- thing.” ; TALK IT UP Recently a Wyoming Valley news- paper got a flaming letter from a veteran of World War I because one of its syndicated columnists, Robert Ruark, landed a few punches .on veteran's pensions. Ruark, in case you don’t read him, is one of the nation’s leading “every- man-for-himself”’ thinkers -big on self-reliance. He isn’t too deep, but he likes to be plenty tough. This veteran praised Jack Pritch- ard, RD 1 Dallas, for his rebuttal of Ruark’s opposition to boosting vet- eran’s pensions through a new bil] in Congress. Pritchard said what he certain terms, and wondered if he had ever been in the service. The paper replied that Ruark serv- ed on a munitions ship during the Becond World War. Now the writer of this recent let- ter warns that he is going to organ- ize veterans to put up a united op- position to papers “that are bold enough to unjustly defame veterans of all ages.” The way I see it, Pritchard is to be praised for speaking his mind, even to the point of calling names, muffle his opinion. A man should be able to say what he thinks. At the same time, to pretend that Ruark has no other motives for what he says than that he is a consummate rat, is to ignore reality. Sure, every body knows two things about vet- eran’s pensions: They are an added burden on our mation’s budget and the tax-payer. And they are a just and uninflated reward to the men who fought for the tax-payers. War is no picnic, and lots got hurt. The pensions are the least we can do. I say, both Ruark and Pritchard are to be defended to the end, for if neither said what he felt, in plain, certain terms, no reader could get both sides of the question. ‘What is not to be defended, is for someone to get insulted that a paper for him to get mad at. We're suppos- ed to have controversary in this country. What with government reg- don’t get much anymore. But we're |. supposed to. Pravda, the Russian news-organ of “Truth”, restricts its “Letters To The Editor” column to readers’ opin- ions about shabby street-car service and juvenile delinquents. Try to write a letter to Pravda about government ‘bills, and you'll be writing letters from the middle of Nowherestan. S.S.R. in between shifts at the salt- mine. I am going into the army myself fairly soon. I assume that if T ever have to do any fighting. it will be for the American principle that a nation’s success arises out of the right of all people to say somewhere. someplace what they think, even if they have to wait out government moratoriums. If I'm wrong about that, correct me. IN REPLY Dear Editor velled to defend myself. I'd like to know, first of all, what voints of that teachers’ meeting I missed. I called em as I saw em, but t~ be sporting about it. I'll give you fifty cents for every misquote you can find. I did not intend to make our schools look inferior. Rather. I men~ tioned that Marilyn Fck and Mary- alice Knecht found real deficiencies in foreign schooling. = I left two things out of the report: the teachers’ technical observations on new methods they learned in summer school. That material was summed up in the interest of public understanding. 1 alse left out Mr. Dolbear’s thoughts about the pro- posed iAsgociation so as to allow teachers time to think it over with- out public pressure. The idea which seems to gripe teachers is that which they chose to ignore at the assembly: namely, that many European countries are racing their kids through courses ful trade like “Associate Gas-Mask thought of the columnist in no un-. It does seem as if the first light frost came a little earlier than usual this year, but maybe not. Qut at the Pump House thirteen years ago, a frost wiped out a very promising array of cucumbers one night, reducing the wines to lace work and the long slender cucumbers to pulp. Any time you have to grope around in the middle of the night for an extra blanket, the summer is over, any way you want to slice it. Maybe it will be hot in the daytime for a little longer, but there will not be any more breathless nights (there were only two such nights all summer out here in the hills) and it’s only a month until we find the first ice on the windshield. #* El & What do you know? The old fashioned curling iron has been brought up to date. Your great-greatgrandmother likely heated a curling iron in the kerosene lamp chimney, and your greatgrand- mother used an electric job before cold waves and chemical waves superseded the complicated web of electric wires that used to go with an old fashioned permanent wave. Probably very few of the present generation ever saw the octo- pus that used to hang over the beauty operator's chair. A permanent wave was something to approach with fasting and prayer. Once you were hooked up to the works, you couldn't get out again without up- ' rooting the entire apparatus, and victims held their fingers crossed that the beauty shop would not burn down while they were still at- tached and helpless. At the turn of the centaTy it was not considered sinful to frizz bangs with a curling iron, but bleaching and tinting of the hair, as well as rouge and lipstick, were reserved for ladies of easy virtue. But then, so were silk stockings. When peek-a-boo shirtwaists came in Sra about 1910, the whole civilization started going to the dogs, and the sky was the limit. \ These days, you don’t know from one day to the next, what color hair your best friend is going to model. Folks don't take hair so seriously. It used to be considered a woman's “crowning glory” and it was a sin to monkey with it. Women thought long thoughts before they had it scissored off, even with the example of a very popular dancer to encourage them. Bobbed hair was viewed askance. If you could sit on your hair, your stock went up, and the Seven Sutherland Sisters were greatly admired. j Nowadays, if you're tired of being a brunette, you can be a blonde after a few hours in the Beauty Parlor. A The reverse in prob- ably true, but who ever heard of a blonde preferring to be brunette? From fairy-tale days, it has always been the beautiful blonde princess who galloped off on the white charger with the handsome prince. No justice. Some of us brunettes who were born thirty years’ too soon, have had to wait Rati] nature converted us into platinum blondes. And then the beauty operator comes along, clucks over the white thatch, suggests that it is getting a little yellow, and suggests a bit of bluing in the rinse. without fear of libel law trying to * # * It's the time of year when you have to decide whether to be five minutes early or five minutes late to work, to avoid getting hung up by the high school bus at the corner of Franklin Street and Hunteville Road. It backs ponderously into Franklin Street, and long before it has applied its brakes and groaned to a stop, the corner is filled with high school kids. You may as well turn off the ignition, instead of wearing our your clutch and your disposition. But start five minutes early? Come now, that second op © of coffee never tasted so good on a chilly morning. “Got held up by the school bun with an apologetic glance ab the office clock. presents an unadulterated opinion | ulation, and anti-everything laws, we | . Now wait a minute! I feel com-. 4 le eld oly io lind fi dod dildo dion loli lili don di diode Boo ie bon i i non din One of the most welcome personages on the television screen during the Atlantic City Beauty Pageant Saturday night was Michael Ellis, manager of the Bucks County Play House, producer of Broad- way shows. Michael was one of the judges. A native of Wyoming Valley he was born Meyer Abrahamson, son of a Wilkes-Barre businesswoman, Mollie Abrahamson, 32 West South Street. ; While he was a Senior at Wyoming Seminary he was editor of the Opinator and a weekly visitor to The Dallas Post. ! Later he attended my Alma Mater, Darthmouth, which is probably one reason why he is considered a capable judge of beauty. Michael has frequently contributed to the Library Auction, and one year gave a fine collection of books, including a Dior illustrated leather-bound Rabelais. | * * H* x A local couple who eagerly watched television and were anxious to have Miss Ohio win, was Shel and Almenia Evans. When they were on vacation in Ohio this summer they had been advised by Shel’s brother, William, former secretary of Kingston School Boad, now of ‘Sandusky, that Miss Ohio is a girl to watch and an almost certain runner-up, His daughter, Nancy, and Miss Ohio had been in several Little Theatre productions together and the families were acquainted. * #* * \ i No one has done more to encourage the young people of this community through good times and thin than Don Clark. We regret that he and Pauline, after 16 years in Dallas, have sold their home on Sterling Avenue and will return to Bethlehem to make their home at 925 North Seventh Avenue, after September 25. A graduate of Hargrave Military Academy and Temple Univer sity, Don and his wife, Pauline, a graduate of Cornell University, have always encourged young people to go on through college. Many local boys have entered Hargrave because of Don's prodding and many others are in college because Don helped them get there. Although his duties as Northeastern Pennsylvania representative of Universal Atlas Cement Company, frequently kept him away from home, Don was an ardent follower of Little League, and High! School baseball, football and basketball teams. While he was a member of Dallas Rotary Club he suggested the establishment of the Old Shoe Football Trophy which is annually awarded to one of the Back Mountain High School football teams. He was one of the original members of Prince of Peace Parish and first Treasurer of the Vestry. His enthusiasm as program chairman helped to swell and hold the membership of the Church Men's Club. His hobby has been young people and getting them through school. We can’t think of a finer one. * * ® How lovely common things must seem to you Who have such lovely eyes to see them through. Sherry King in technology and advanced foreign languages, while ours are coddled| ‘students. . on a diet of binomial equations and Willa Cather. This is no reflection on Back Mountain schools, but on all American high schools. And 1 didn’t dream it up. Tt came! Kunkle Silver Leaf Mrs, Virgie Elston will be hostess to Kunkle Silver Leaf Club Tuesday evening, Members are asked to out in the reports of those exchange | bring a 25 cent gift for the White costes envo o WElephang Tables Leighton Boott E ; Y Ee emetic Zima,
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