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THE DALLAS POST Established 1889
“More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution
Now In Its 73rd Year”
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Editor and Publisher— HOWARD W. RISIEY
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Editorially Speaking...
One Hundred Years After
The Maryland State Police won the second Battle of Antietam.
There were more of them in the hedgerows, among the fence rails,
and along the highways than there were Pennsylvania Bucktails ini
the skirmish lines 100 years ago.
The State Police of Maryland Free State did everything within
their power, to discourage the invasion of humble Civil War scholars,
patriotic” American parents and their childeen than General Robert
E. Lee did a century ago to resist the Northern tide—and with far
less courtesy.
This spirit of antagonism toward visitors on he part of the
State of Maryland, as exemplified by its unlettered and sullen
Gestapo, was evident on every country road leading into Sharps-
burg and sickening to anyone with a real sense of history or vener-
ation for those who died in the great Battle that was the prelude
to the Emancipation Proclamation. Here where men died to make
men free, 2 men of darker skin might have been “run in¥ by the
constabulary—if he paused in veneration at the marker where
Mansfield fell!
No one—white or black—was permitted to “stop or stand” to
read an inscription within a mile of Sharpsburg on any of the hun-
dreds of markers that dot the field where 20,000 Americans died
for an ideal. Or did they die to give the arrogant Maryland State
police and their plain clothes dullards an opportunity to shove meek
school teachers, little children and old folk off the Free Soil of Mary-
land ?
Hundreds of +0 people must have come many miles to ath
tend this observance. There were cars with the licenses of every
Southern State.
There were thoughtful boys and girls from New Hampshire and
Vermont; from the great abolitionist State of Massachusetts as well
es grey-haired members of Skirmish Associations from Michigan,
Ohio, and Alabama; come to see where their ancestors had died in
that carnage of the Sunken Road and Cornfield.
The reception they got compared for insolence but not for
violence with that accorded the Sixth Massachusetts on the streets
of Baltimore in 1861. :
Neither were they permitted to read the markers, walk over
the fields, nor to remain quietly seated in their automobiles where
they paid $1 to park. Admission to the field was $4; to the press
box $10. And these rates went for children, too. The public
reacted. The stands were only half filled. Financially the re-
enactment was a flop!
The Maryland Gestapo had things well in hand.
A hulking plain clothes detective, flashed his badge and card
at innocent visitors to the press box who asked to be directed to
‘the Public Relations Director. Instead of inquiring courteously what
he might do for them this stalwart offered to “throw out” anybody
who appeared at the gate without a pass or ticket. He didn’t “know
no Public Relations Director”. He was consumed by a slow burn
when any one displayed a press pags.
All of this might have been excusable had the crowd been a
rabble, or larger than that at a high school football game. It wasn’t.
It was composed of respectable, reverant Americans and their chil=
dren come to see where their ancestors died..
The only loud-mouths present, the only ones who had drunk
too much were native Marylanders and some members of the com-
mittee. :
Those who visited Antietam last weckend will long remember
the hospitality and the ignorance of the Maryland State Police who
knew nothing of what happened there 100 years ago; but who had
been brainwashed with its reputed significance and their own im-
portance in following orders to the exclusion of common courtesy.
They can leam a lot from an outfit that is tougher, cold as ice, :
but composed of gentlemen, The Pennsylvania State Police, Maybe
one of them will have cracked a history book and be present at
Gettysburg next July where he can observe—even if he can’t learn—
that there is more to traffic regulation than browbeating children!
Enough Reward
A singer's song may never reaeh
A single listening ear,
A poet’s dream may mever teach
A heart to cast out fear.
But though the song may never ring,
And though dreams can’t come true;
God knows it’s joy enough to sing
And dream a dream or two
so ations F. W.
J
Only
Yesterday
Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years
Ago In The Dallas Post
It Happened
30 Years Ago:
The Dallas Post disclaimed any
part in the hiring of men for State
road jobs, stating that it thought
road jobs should be hndled through
poor boards, welfare agencies, and
the road contractors rather than be-
ing used as a political football. “We
like to visit with these men”, said
the Post, “but we have no jobs, and
no influence.”
Prolonged drought caused great
erop loss and extreme danger of for-
est fire.
Sewage disposal and the condition
of Toby’s Creek during the dry spell
again made headlines. “Something’s
gotta be done.” (Something’s still
gotta be done.)
Louis Zorzi said bass bite best dur-
ing an eclipse. He caught the limit
during the strange hour of dusk.
Coach Walter Hicks announced
opening of the 1932 Kingston Town-
ship grid season.
Assassin of former French presi-
dent Paul Doumer, left his head in
a basket at the guillotine. Forty sec-
onds after he stepped from the pris-
on van in Paris, Paul Gorguloff was
dead.
[Shavertown defeated Orange to
take second place in the League.
Butter was 25 cents a pound, veal
chops 14 cents, sliced bread 5 cents.
It Happened
20 Years Ago
Commuters from Harveys Lake
asked for an earlier bus to Wilkes-
Barre. Alan Kistler, said 6:50 a. m.
schedule did not get people to work
early enough.
Dallas marines were in the first
action on ‘Guadalcanal, Willard Shav-
er, Elwood and Howard Whitesell.
Gerald Snyder, who coached the
champion basketball team at Dallas
Township in 1939, resigned to teach
in Hallam high school near York.
Gerald Frantz was. appointed as
third member of the rationing board,
Mrs. Clarence Laidler clerk.
Lehman high school cancelled its
football schedule, adopted an intra-
mural program, to save gas and
rubber tires during the war emer-
gency.
Elmer Deater, Carl Swanson, and
Mel Arnold were setting records for
areonautical engineering.
Heard from in the Outpost: Andy
Kozemchak, aboard a battle-wagon
in the Pacific; Joseph James Elias,
Colorado; Warren Hicks, Americus,
Georgia; William Stritzinger, Camp
Blandings, Fla.
Married: Velma Haring to William
Davis. Elizabeth Pell to Harry Deck-
er. Doris Hess to Charles Wardan.
Mrs. Jane Stroud, Dallas, was 90.
Willard Garey was in the Solo-
mons.
Rev. Ernest Kratzer replaced Rev.
Albert Reining as pastor at Dallas
Free Methodist Church. Rev. Her-
bert Olver was succeeeded at Trucks-
ville by Rev. Elwood Brant.
Hayfield - Farms graded 4,000
pounds of wool.
Retreat farm was advertising for
milkers.
It Happened
0 Years Ago
John Kirkendall was promoted to
brigadier general at Keesler Field.
Dr. Henry Laing Auxiliary contri-
buted $500 toward mew truck.
Louis Banta resigned as police of-
ficer.
No polio that summer, though
there were five cases in 1951. :
There were 100 children in kinder-
garten.
Mrs. Dwight Fisher showed her
minature rooms to the Book Club.
A woman who abandoned two
baby puppies at Woodlawn Ceme-
tery was forced to put them back
in her car, by quick thinking of 'Wil-
liam “Cairl Jr.
Married: Evelyn Ruth Whipp to Don-
ald D. Root. Jane Louise Dodson to
Thomas Phipps.
Miriam Lathrop made the rounds
of ten one-room schools, distributing
books from Back Mountain Memrial
Library.
Foss Supplies
Police Machines
Harley-Davidson Dealer, Clifford
Foss has sold five T4-cubic inch ma-
chines to Wilkes-Barre Police Force.
Three were “service-cars’, three-
wheelers used for parking meter col-
lections, and two were ‘“‘solos”, traf-
fic motorcycles.
Harley-Davidson, Inc., commend-
ed Cliff for good salesmanship.
In addition to selling and repair-
ing bikes, he works at construction,
and is very active in Dr. Henry M.
Laing Fire Company and police work.
Mary Foss moved from the back
seat of Cliff's bike to the driver's
seat of her own in 1955. She and her
husband are avid motorcycling fans,
and travel from one racing and en-
duro event ‘to another,
Sunday Clift will go to Cayuta,
N.Y., to enter in the enduro race
there. In enduro, a number of riders
put their bikes through a course
which involves everything except
roads.
Cliff took four old service-cars in
trade, one of which has already been
resold. They are handy for deliveries,
and short assignments for garage
mechanics,
THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1962
By The Oldtimer
It pleases us, sometimes, to hear
these youngsters now about forty
years old, whom we knew as babies,
start to tell about Dallas in the
“Good Old Days” when they were
young. We remember when gray
haired people talked in the same
terms when the parents of these
youngsters were still unmarried.
Now some do not have to be gray
to realize that the present pace is
too fast, particularly for the children.
The following items of doings re-
ported in the POST around the
turn of the century will show the
differences.
B. B. Stone and Ben Thompson
spent the last week building a house
boat to float on the Susquehanna.
It is in sections and when assembled
will be 24 ft. long and 8 ft. wide,
with a houge 8x12 equipped with
refrigerator, oil stove and oven, ice
box, etc. They shipped the boat
to Towanda and assembled it. They
will float down and expect to catch
all the fish in the river. Their wives
will join them at Mehoopany.
B. F. Mott has added to his livery
equipment a little saddle pony, a
great favorite with the young ladies
who ride it.
Albert Lewis has agreed to build
a sidewalk along the old mill pro-
perty in Lake Street. This will be
good news to those who have to
travel up to the broom factory in
muddy weather.
A good sized eagle was captured
near Huntsville reservoir on Wed-
nesday. A young man saw it fly-
ing from tree to tree and shot it
in the wing, bringing it to the
ground. It was not hurt much and
he took it to Wilkes-Barre alive.
An itinerant orchestra composed
of six Hungarians struck town Tues-
day afternoon and made merry
music at Raubs Hotel. They were
respectably dressed and their play-
ing so far above the average that
Mr. Raub invited them into the ball-
room, where for several hours they
played while guests danced and
residents of the neighborhood en-
joyed the music.
Miss Maude Major entertained a
number of her friends on Saturday
evening. Those present were: Mr.
and Mrs. Dora Snyder and daugh-
SI I NN NE NN NN NNN NRX NNN
Rambling Around
— D. A. Waters
ters Lulu and Leola, Misses Louise
Lamoreaux, Alice Elston, Lizzie
Fuller, Phoebe Moss, Emma Wilcox,
Jennie Fuller, Ada Pembleton, Ger-
trude Bertram, Lizzie Culp, Alice
Holcomb, Gertrude Mekeel, Nellie
Major, Lillian Pembleton, (Chrissie
Bertram, Addie Elston, Maude
Hoover, Rebecca Stevens, Chrissie
Henderson, Messrs. Arthur Lamor-
eaux, Charles Bertram, Robert How-
ley, Leslie Bertram, Arthur Harris,
Bruce Shaver, George Major, Joseph
Fuller, Joseph Bertram, Harry
Culp, Milton Henderson, Ira Hoover,
Dora Bertram, Lewis Shaver, Her-
bert Major, George Lamoreaux,
Archie and John Wilcox.
Esquire Cooke has nearly re-
covered from his recent illness, and
for two or three days this week,
the merry hum of the saw at his
mill was quite noticeable]
Wm. J. Honeywell, Esq., never
had the reputation of being a
pugilist but last week he looked
like one. His hired man loosened a
binding pole from a load of hay and
the end flew around striking Mr.
Honeywell on the cheek bone and
blacking his eye terribly.
The Misses Edith and Edna Ryman
of Dallas gave an informal dance
at The Highland House last even-
ing which was a delightful affair.
A large number of guests are listed
by towns. From Dallas, Anna Rich-
ards, Helen Cooke, Mrs. Hallock,
Harry Albertson, Hattie Albertson,
Leland Pierson, Maud Raub, Lou
Raub, Inez Stemple, and the Ryman
family were present.
Lawson Prudhoe and Ike Mon-
tanye of Orange were before ‘Squire
Perrego last Saturday, charged with
having stolen a number of articles
from the wagon of Al Booth. While
the ’Squire was filling out the
papers the boys, out on the porch
with the prosecutor, took French
leave. Although chased by the con-
stable they have not been seen
since.
Mrs. Olive Manville died at the
residence of Samuel Bulford on
Oct. 26, aged 82. She was a half
sister of the late John J. Bulford
and Hon. C. D. Foster of Wilkes-
Barre.
Officers and choir are requestedwta
be present at 7,
thy Associate Advisor, J. Carol Birn-
Evans; recorder, Margie Davis; treas-
urer, Gail Rumbaugh; chaplaain,
Donna Smith; drill leader, Charlyn
Oatridge; Love, Betty Oatridge; re-
Charles James Memorial Assembly ligion,
No. 144, will hold public installation MaryAnn Johnson;
tonight at 7:30 at Trucksville Meth- Myra Berti; fidelity, Kathy Maury;
odist Church Educational building. patriotism, Barbara Browm; service,
Officers to be installed are: Wor-Parrar; musician,
thy Advisor, Barbara. Hopkins; Wor- choir director, Miriam Mohr; pages,
Charles James Rainbow Newombly
Installaton Saturday Evening At 7:30
Marguerite Daily; nature,
immortality,
Susan Davis; confidential observer,
Verna Miers; outer observer, Linda
Donna (Friebe;
Linda Wimmer and Sandra Tait;
stock; Charity, Penny Farrar; Hope, flag bearers, American, Karen Tag;
Colleen Connagan; Faith, SharonRainbow, Dorothy Philo.
Highlights of Barbara's term in-
clude a candy sale, Christmas party,
and a bake sale.
Butler Emphasizes
Responsibility Of Youth
(Continued from 1—A)
it exemplifies the whole life of a
man who has dedicated his life to
serving young people, and in so do-
ing has made himself g living legend
among Boy Scout leaders.
The goal of a clean mind in a
strong body is the foundation of a
strong country, able to meet what
comes, impatient of sham, feet plan-
ted firmly upon the ground of in-
dividual responsibility and integ-
rity.
This goal, Mr. Butler has been
able to implant in his Scouts. He
is not easy with them. They have
to measure up to standards. There
is no slagkening of requirements.
Mr. Butler feels that most boys and
girls welcome discipline, and derive
great satisfaction from doing a task
as well as possible.
When he entered the Boy Scout
program eighteen years ago, he had
never been a Boy Scout himself, had
no intention of entering the field.
He was asked to go up to St.
Therese’s one night, and walked. out
a Boy Scout leader.
He brought with him an impres-
sive background of seventeen years
of volunteer evening work in the
Wilkes-Barre YMCA, where he
taught bar work, maneuvers on the
flying rings, and tumbling. During
the years of the Second World War,
he licked pre-inductees into phy-
sical shape. While in YMCA work,
he won championship trophies in
competition in 1939 and 1940, miss-
ing out narrowly on world _competi-
tion.
In 1937, he received the Annual
Outstanding Laymen’s Award, pre-
sented by Professor Walter Bishop
of Wyoming Seminary, for services
to young people.
The Silver Beaver award, for ser-
vices to Youth in YMCA, Scouting,
Little League, the highest award the
National Council of Boy Scouts of
America has to offer, was given
Mr. Butler in 1958.
Boy Scouting at St. Therese’s was
complicated for a time by his also
holding the presidency of Shaver-
town Fire Association. When Mr.
Butler found himself stretched too
thin, he resigned this post. I
Troop 232 started out as a reason-
able sized package, but it mush-
roomed. “How can I turn them
down?” said Mr. Butler when 125
boys signed up last year.
It was necessary to delegate some
of the responsibility. If an Explorer
Scout expected to go on the annual
summer canoe trip down the Sus-
quehanna, he had to help out with
the younger groups as well as pass
his own rigid pre-trip requirements.
Nothing like helping somebody else
to lean a craft or procedure, to
learn it properly yourself, is Mr.
Butler's belief.
Hundreds of boys have gone
though Mr. Butler's hands. Scouts
learn now to handle themselves
against challenges of the outdoors,
sometimes in sub-zero weather. A
winter camp-out usually ushers in a
cold spell, or a week of chilly rain,
but this does not stop the program.
Many boys who have entered the
armed services write back to their
former Scout leader that if it hadn't
been for the training in “making do”
they'd haves been behind the eight-
ball.
The vast majority of 'fathers do
not or cannot by force of circum-
stances, spend enough time with
their sons. The Scout program is
designéd to lay a foundation for
mutual understanding between men
and their about-to-be men sons. Mr.
Butler emphasizes the responsibility
of growing up, from every con-
ceivable angle, stressing the goal of
physical fitness and self reliance,
coupled with personal integrity and
the welfare of the community.
It takes a husband and wife team
to get results. Mrs. Butler cheer-
fully gives up part of the cherished
vacation time each summer so that
John can take Explorer Scouts on
the annual canoe trip down the
Susquehanna.
Next summer, however, for the
first time in five years, the Butlers
are going to do something different
. they are planning a trip to
Germany, to see their daughter
Sharon, and it is Jim McCoog, as-
sistant Scout leader, who will man-
age the canoe trip.
Mr. Butler, with the Smith-Co-
rona-Marchand Co. Inc., in Wilkes-
Barre for 22 years, is arranging for
four weeks of vacation instead of
three, which will give the family
enough time together to make it
pay off. Sharon expects to be in
Germany for three years. Her hus-
band, Peter [Lukasavage, with the
General Electric Co. was one of
John’s Explorer Scouts. Both Sharon
and Peter sang in the choir 2 St.
Therese’,
John Butler Jr., now 14, is a di
dent at Dallas Junior High School.
On the living room wall is a por-
trait of John, an extremely alive pic-
ture with vibrantly erect crew cut,
painted by Mrs. Butler during the
year she spent under instruction
of Mrs. Thomas Longmore at Dallas
Better Leighton Never
by Leighton Scott
GETTING: THERE IS
HALF THE FUN
Ya really move around when
you're in the service. I thought this
stuff only happened in war stories.
Ordered to report to my draft
board in Easton for transportation
to my physical examination, I
sadly bid good-bye to all the Post
staff. I packed my razor and tooth-
brush, jumped on my motorcycle,
and rode to Easton.
I reported to the Board at 5:45
a.m. to embark on the bus. They
brought us to Wilkes-Barre,
‘Well, there was still this motor-
cycle in Easton, so I had to take
the bus back there after the ex-
amination. Next morning I rode to
Dallas again.
The sheer waste of time and
gasoline staggers the imagination.
Conceive of the extra expenditure,
however, which would be involved
in mentioning on the government
order where the examination would
take place. So, you can see the
rationale of mot saying anything
about it.
LET'S GET THIS STRAIGHT
I have found out why so many
sightseers are swarming around the
Lake-Lehman High Schoo] Building.
They are responding to a rumor
which was circulating popularly
about three weeks i i and still
hangs on.
No, my friends, the roof is not
caving in. Contractor Raymon Hed-
den indicated to me that he would
like this uncomfortable idea dis-
spelled, when I mentioned it several
weeks back.
I also talked about it to a, per-
son who knows building materials
and is out at the school quite often.
He says the rumor is nonsense, and
he is completely impartial.
“To give you an idea how things
can start, though”, he said, ‘there
was a part of the roof which wasn’t
on yet. Every time it rained, they
had to use pumps to get the water
out. People who saw the pumps
going started a rumor that under-
ground water was coming up
through the concrete floor. Well, the
floor hadn’t been laid at that time.”
WINTER WATCH
No township police department
sees more variety of jobs in a year
than Lake Township... It has a
rural area stretching well back into
the mountains toward Route 29.
And it has a summer resort to
patrol.
But, toughest of all, the police
have to keep full security on a
ghost-town in the winter, watching
over the few remaining permanent
residents, and guarding empty cot-
tages against trembling little hands.
There are 1482 cottages to watch
during the winter. After each visit,
the police leave a calling card.
helps the temporary residents get
better insurance rates.
Lake police use a staggered sygs-
tem of visits, and modify it con-
stantly. “Can’t be too careful’, notes
Chief Hughes. “The crook will be
watching us more than we will
him, since we're a little easier to
spot.” :
Then, if there’s nothing else to
do, the ice-skating traffic always
demands a little attention.
Idetown Firemen
Plan Game Party
Plans for a Merchandise Party to
be held Monday, September 24, 1962
at 8 o'clock in the Jonathan Davis
Hose House, Idetown by the Harveys
Lake Women’s Service Club were
completed at the regular monthly
meeting of the Clubs. Mrs. Albert
Gulitis, General Chairman, with
Mrs. Rowland Ritts, Mrs. Charles
Casterline and Mrs. Lee Bicking as-
sisting. Beautiful gifts and prizes
have already been donated and we're
looking forward to a good time.
Everyone is welcome and urged to
attend.
The next event will be the Rum-
mage Sale October 1, 2, and 3rd at
the Lare Building in Luzerne. Mrs.
Harvey Kitchen is (Chairman of this
and tells us many beautiful things
have been prepared for sale. Her
Committee has been working hard to
make this a success.
Mr. ‘Stephen Kish of the Pennsyl-
vania Game Commission gave an in-
formative talk and showed an inter-
esting movie, as the program of the
evening.
At Geisinger
Admitted to Geisinger Medical Cen-
ter, Danville, last week were Carole
J. Ide, Mrucksville, and Mrs. Lida
Weber, Sweet Valley.
Adult Evening School.
Mr. Butler has a basement work-
shop where he turns out nice cab-
inet work, a low coffee table and a
radio cabinet for living room, a
desk with filing drawers for Boy
Scout records, and cabinets with
sliding doors above it, fitted into
a niche in the basement.
Mr: Butler's Explorers stand well
in the community. At Library
Auction time, they contribute their
services as runners, easily identi-
fied by their white helmets. Dick
Demmy, auction chairman, and Ziba
Smith, chairman of grounds,
thanked the Scoutmaster by person-
al letter for services of the Explor-
ers. !
Scoutmaster Butler's boys are re-
liable.
How could they be anything
else?
Sell Quickly Through
The Trading Post
Among other benefits, such security |-
From—
DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA
Pillar To Post...
By
What has happened to the hurricanes this year?
Hix
Usually,
about this date, we are following hurricane after hurricane up the
coast, congratulating ourselves when the Big Blow misses this area
and expends its violence far out in the Atlantic Ocean.
Nineteen years ago this part of Pennsylvania escaped the blow,
but Norfolk was right in the path of the tropical storm.” The Nor-
folk ferry and the Little Creek ferry pinned roses on themselves for
making the trip to Cape Charles, no matter what the weather.
But this was different.
The ferry came wallowing into the
slip at 10 p.m., decanting one hundred and sixty-nine pea green
sailors from its slippery decks.
They rolled off toward their base,
carrying large sausages of belongings:
Passengers waiting to take the ferry in order to make connec-
tions with the night train to Philadelphia from Cape Charles, viewed
the sailors with foreboding.
a mere civilian?
The civilians stormed the ticket office.
Would the boat make the trip?
The word was, “Sure the ferry’s going to run.
If sailors couldn't stand it, how could
Was it safe to run?
The ferry AL-
WAYS runs.” And about then the captain, also pea-green, staggered
off the ferry. |
The captain legged it in the direction of the Men's Room. Five
minutes later he emerged,
Gathering his dignity about him,
looking shaken,
but no longer sunk.
he made an announcement, Due
to conditions beyond the control of the company, the ferry had made
its last trip for the night.
After all, he stated coldly,
looking about him at the nervous
passengers, there weren't too many of them, and they could spend
the night at a hotel in Norfolk.
between sorrow and relief.
The passengers scattered, torn
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One passenger bundled a five months old infant under her arm
and hailed a taxi.
ing the contents of her wallet.
streaming road.
“Virginia Beach,”
The taxi-driver took off, down the
she directed, mentally count-
Arrived in Virginia Beach, Barbara Placed a telephone call to
Kingston.
“Don’t worry, Mamma,” she explained, ‘I'm held up for over
night on account of: the hurricane. I'll be in tommorrow when the
ferries start running again.
Chuck is 0. K.”
\" “Hurricane? What hurrioane?” a sleep-sodden voice at
other end of the line inquired.
I'm here at Auntie Mamma’s again, and
the
/
Hurricanes didn’t get the national coverage accorded them these
days.
moan in September.
Nobody knew when a hurricane would strike,
always a good idea to batten down the hatches, just in case, when |
the sky developed that odd brazen look and the wind started to
but it wag
Nowadays, you follow a hurricane from the time Betty or Edna
/ or Gladys is a mere speck in the ocean. If Harriet) passes you by,
there'll be a Jennifer along in a few more days, and you keep abreast
of the times by tuning in on the nationak news over radiojor tele- ¢
/
vision.
And how do I know it was nineteen years ago? |
On account of Chuck is now nineteen, over six feet tall, and
would be taller yet if he did not have so much folded under him
for feet.
There aren’t any more five-month old infants in the family .
until it starts outening with the greatgrands; heaven help us
Safety Valve
BETTER NEVER
Dear Editor:
After having read the original col-
umn by your cub reporter about the
Rotary Exchange Student Program
and the teacher's meeting and then
after having read the same cub re-
porter’s reply, engendered by the
storm of protest which the articles
aroused, I would like to suggest in
the interest of the future of the free-
dom of the press: better NEVER--
than Leighton.
Sincerely,
Annabelle Ambrose
It was only a matter of time be-
fore that one wormed its way out
of Fancy’s apple. Ya got me, Ambros-
jal Annabelle, but no cigar. Fifty
cents still awaits whoever sends me
that misquote I asked for. In the
meantime, what are you doing Satur-
day night?
Leighton
GRASS GROWS HIGH
I personally inspected the school
playgrounds at Dallas Elementary,
Shavertown, Trucksville, and West-
moreland Elementary, and the Dallas
Junior High School where I found
that the grass had not been mowed.
Spanish needles hid the concrete
steps at Westmoreland school.
This is the first time in 30 years
that the grass had not been mowed
at these five schools.
Is this part of the new program?
Educator
Library Circulation
Up A Third In August
(Cont. from Page 1)
Richard Demmy who has served on
the Board for the past year but whose
term- expired. Mr. Demmy’s name
had been considered, the committee
said, but it was felt that there should
be more geographic representation
since there are already a number of
Directors from Dallas Borough. Also
the committee said there is a need
for younger members on the Board.
Mr. Patterson was elected.
The consideration of the appoint-
ment of a new librarian was post-
poned to a latter date when a Special
meeting will be held to discuss ap-
plicants’ qualifications, possibly with
personal intervews.
On motion of D.T. Scott it was vot-
ed to close ‘the library on the Satur-
day before Christmas and New Year.
Attending were: David Schooley,
president; Mrs. Fred Howell, secre-
tary; Homer Moyer, treasurer; Miss
Frances Dorrance, Mrs. Albert Jones,
librarian; Mrs. Mitchell Jenkins, pre-
sident Book Club; Mrs. Paul Gross,
Mrs. Harold Titman, Mrs. Helen Hef-
fernan, Mrs. Louise Steinhauer, D. T.
Scott, Ralph. Hazeltine, Frederick
Eck, Stefan Hellersperk, Robert
Bachman, Henry Peterson, guest,
and Howard Risley
Rubber Stamps
Made To Your Design
THE DALLAS POST
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Robert Parry
Gets Legion Award
(Continued from 1—A)’
Teeners from 13 to 15; and the
Senior-Teeners from 16 to 18, a
a valuable pool for high school
coaches to draw upon. : :
Service to the community mn-
cludes membership in Dallas Bor-
ough Council; in the directorate of,
Back Mountain YMCA; and o
course in the PTA. Both children
are now in Junior 'High School,
Linda in the ninth grade, Robert
in seventh.
Bob’s Magonic affiliations are with™
Lodge 332 in Plymouth. His par-
ents still live in Plymouth. They
are Robert L. and Bertha Parry. His
wife, the former Betty Jenkins, was
a schoolmate. It was her father who
built the Parry home on Monroe
Avenue tor the young Parrys when
they moved here mine years ago.
Bob belongs to Dallas Methodist
Church, and to Shavertown Business
Association. Some day, he hopes
to bowl in a league again.
He and Betty were married when
he was discharged from the service
in January, 1946. For three years
he had been with the 775 Engineers
as Sgt./T2, engaged in laying a
four-inch pipe line alongside the
Burma Road for supplying gas to
planes and equipment.
His business career started in
1941 when he graduated from Ply-
mouth High School. He had beer
bundle-hopping afternoons and =
urdays at the Acme, and was there-
fore in line for a promotion. For
a year he learned about manag- ,
ment, then worked up in the or-
ganization by a series of steps.
Manager of the Market Street store,
the Wyoming Avenue Store, the
old Acme in Shavertown for seven
years, the new Acme in Shavertown
for the past four years, even gince
the Back Mountain Shopping Center
opened. :
.Hours are rugged. Opening at 8
a.m. for the early shoppers, women
who take their children to school
or their husbands to work, does not
mean getting to the store at eight,
but well in advance. Mr. Parry has
trusted lieutenants who can be left
in charge during the evenings, and
Mrs. Marie Ritts relieves him of
a great part of the paper work.
The strain hasn’t done anything
to injure Bob’s disposition, which
is golden, or deprive him of that,
well-fed appearance (with a dimple) w
which should be the hallmark of
every food store manager and sel-
dom is.
He's a good guy, one of the best
liked businessmen in the Back
Mountain, and a definite asset to the
community. And he knows that you
can always leamm more about your
job . . . which is why he signed
up for a course at Wilkes College
in advertising and merchandising.
Says he got a lot of pointers from
the instructions.
But he has something that you
cannot learn from books, only from
people . . . the human touch.
As Bob says, he just likes folks.
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