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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
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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.
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* 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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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. |
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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.
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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.
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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 ;
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