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Editorially Speaking...
Where Does The Tax Dollar Go?
We all groan at paying taxes. Most of us have not
_ the remotest idea why so much of our tax dollar goes
toward smpport of our schools.
We all want good schools, and we all realize that
they do not come for free. f
But like most people, we want somebody else to do
the necessary brain work:
Advertise a panel on “A Quality Program of Educa-
tion, What it Costs” and people stay away in droves.
But these same people will keep right on complaining.
The real fact is they don’t WANT to know why it costs
money to run the schools. If they found out, chances are
that they would realize that they didn’t have anything
left to complain about.
Okay, here’s a challenge.
On October 10, at 8 p.m. in the Dallas Senior High
School auditorium there will be a program on “A Quality
Program of Education, What it Costs.”
A panel of four will answer written questions from
the floor.
Are we getting our money’s worth?
cost of our program compare with the cost in other dis-
tricts of comparable size? Is our program expensive in
view of what we have to offer?
How does a high class school system benefit the com-
munity? Is it true that people planning to move to a
new community will frequently be swayed in their decision
by the quality of education offered to their children?
Are schools growing too large? How about that
old one-room school-house that turned out such solid
How does the
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citizens?
Chilly Weather Fails To Discourage |
Antique-Hunters At Haymarket Sale
In spite of a chill wind ,attend-
ance was good at Haymarket out-
door Antiques Show and Sale at
Evans Falls Saturday. Rain clouds
scudded across the sky, to be suc-
ceeded by bright sunshine. Toward
the closing hour of six, a brief
drizzle dampened the scene. An-
tiques fans who last year protected
themselves against a blazing sun
with shade hats, and sought the
welcome shade of the trees border-
ing the field, this year wrapped
themselves more tightly and stam-
peded Myers restaurant for hot
coffee.
Ollie Schallenberger, looking half
frozen, turned his collar up around
his neck and trotted for shelter,
after displaying his lamp shades
with frozen fingers. A dealer from
New York Btate wrapped himself in
a hand-made quilt.
It was a ooloroful scene. An early
frost had reddened many leaves
slong the highway leading to the
field, and turned the mountain inte
a fall tapestry. Last year only one
flaming branch kept the show hon-
est . . . it had been advertised as
a chance to see a riot of fall color-
ing, and the coloring held off until
the week after the show.
The Silver Sleigh had a high chair,
plank bottom with bowed eaptain’s
shair back. A New York State out-
fit that registered too late for ad-
vertising, had a plank bottom rock-
ing bench, end e rigidly upright
Sunday School bench, designed to
keen tots awake through the lesson
and the superintendent’s remarks.
The Olde Pine Shop, newcomer to
the show, had some interesting
‘things.
Paul Coolbaugh had his unique
wooden shovels, The Red Door
showed a display of
jars.
Local color was heightened by
corn shocks and yellow pumpkins.
At the Foote and Varner trestle
table, a bushel of polished MacIn-
tosh apples invited customers to
munch while making a selection of
polished copper and silver.
Carrie Caperoon was helping out
behind the table devoted to Dale
Myers furniture and fixings.
Mrs. Mae Townend, Mrs. Ralph
Smith, Mrs. Floyd Sanders, and
Mrs. Sanders’ mother Mrs. Vennema
from Michigan, on the way to a
luncheon engagement, made the
rounds. Mrs. Herman Thomas was
on hand. Mrs. Joseph Schooley
and Mrs. Margaret Dyckman took
refuge from the cold in the restau-
rant, which was doing a land office
business in ham sandwiches with
plenty of ham, and scalding coffee.
Thirty-two dealers showed their
wares from station wagons, trucks,
and tables. Some displays were
arranged on blankets spread on the
grass, customers threading their way
in and out, with care not to step
on china moustache cups or into
a mid-Victorian chamber-pot.
The entire center mall was left
free and clear for easy rambling
and visiting. But the chairs which
last year held grateful patrons,
were untenanted this year. Too
cold to sit down. Brisk motion was
the only answer to a temperature
of fifty-six degrees and sun that
refused to shine except for brief
moments.
And on Sunday it warmed up.
apothecary’s
Mrs. Wilson Cease, East Dallas,
was admitted on Friday to Nesbitt
Hospital.
Only
Yesterday
Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years
Ago In The Dallas Post
It Happened
30 Years Ago:
Eli Parrish, nearing ninety, and
the oldest resident of Dallas, died.
Burial was at Carverton.
The Dallas Post was among news-
papers selected by University of
Southern California for study in
its journalism course.
Prohibition and government econ-
omy were two major issues in the
political campaign.
Asa Holcomb, 77, fell into a bon-
fire on his grounds at Huntsville,
and was badly burned about the
legs and body. He was improving
at home under care of Dr. G. K.
Swartz.
Proposal for a joint sewage sys-
tem, for Dallas, Trucksville and
Shavertown found favor in the eyes
of the .State.
Ads in the paper reflected the
annua] upsurge of housecleaning:
brooms, 33 cents; mops, 29 cents;
clothline, 50 feet, 23 cents; scrub
brushes, 10; yellow laundry soap,
unwrapped, 6 for 25. :
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Fisher, died.
Her husband Oliver, a veteran of
the Civil War, died in 1927.
It Happened
20 Years Ago
Rationing was clamped down on
purchase of farm machinery, if
equipment could possibly be re-
paired. A board of three, headed
by Nelson Lewis, determined need.
All farm machinery at dealers was
frozen..
Stickers with a large V were
issued to home owmers who com-
plied with war regulations: air raid
observance; conservation of food;
salvage; refusal to spread rumors;
purchase of bonds and saving
stamps.
Sheldon Mosier, instructor at
Laceyville for four years, replaced
Gerald Snyder as instructor in agri-
culture at Dallas Township Schools.
Chaplain Donald Warmouth, sta-
tioned in the north of Ireland,
wrote “The American spirit can’t
be sunk.” Didn’t see a sign of a sub-
marine all the way across the At-
lantic.
Top of the front page, a picture
of British mounted guns on the
prowl for Nazis in the African
desert.
First frost of the season was
spotty, heavy in some places, absent
in others§
Dallas Township announced a cur-
tailed football schedule, taking into
account rationing of gas and tires.
A Junior Army of boys and girls
was organized to gather scrap for
defense.
In the Outpost: Ward: Yorks,
Portsmouth, Va.; Herbert Updyke,
Connecticut; George Race, New
Mexico; Foster Sutton, Fort McClel-
lan; H. B. Roberts, US Navy, an
interloper, but welcome to Outpost.
Cecil Sutton and Cecil Ross left
for the armyi
Velma Haring became the bride
of Wilbur Davis.
Charles Kunkle, clarinet player in
Dallas High School band, died in his
sleep.
In Martha’s column for service-
men: Robert Anderson at Gulfport;
Walter Lewin, Maxwell Field; Robert
Davis, South Pacific; Herbert Wil-
liams, Nashville; Frank Kamor, San
Antonio; Kenneth Brace, Atlantic
Fleet; Fred Westerman, Quebec,
RAF; Bruce W. Crispell, Fort Sheri-
dan; Palmer Lewis, home on leave;
Robert Tryon, Camp Kearns, Utah;
Georga Salansky, Fort Kilmer,
It Happened
[0 Years Ago
A mother and two smal] children
in Fernbrook were near-fatalities,
due to coal gas escaping from the
kitchen stove. Mrs, Sophie Stofila
and 2% year old George, with
baby Mary Ann, were discovered
by Mrs. Stofila’s sister after having
been unconscious all day..
Post Office Department approved
Dallas Dairy building as quarters
for the mew Post Office. Double
the floorspace of the building on
Main Street was available.
|0ld River Church of Wapwallopen
was restored and ready for services.
Built in 1833, it was restored by
efforts of the Historical Society.
Burgess Herbert A Smith was re-
covering from an opettion, on his
eye.
Rev. William Williams was leav-
ing Prince of Peace Episcopal Church
to teach in the seminary at
Rochester.
Married: Mrs. Sarah Cole to Rev.
Pat Loftus. Geraldine Reckue to
Robert B. Titus. i
Died: George Shaver, 49, former-
ly of Shavertown, Blanche Chester,
51, Trucksville, William Morey, 72,
Birch Grove, effects of an auto ac-
cident. Arthur J. Pruett, two weeks
‘after moving back to Dallas.
Jailed By Police
For Rough Conduct
Howard Redman, 30, RD 2 Hun-
locks Creek, pleaded guilty before
Lake Township Justice of the Peace
Helen Sgarlat Saturday, September
15, and was fined $23 and costs for
disorderly conduct.
He was jailed by Lake Township
Police ‘Chief Edgar Hughes that Fri-
day night, after the Chief received
a call to the home of Janet Clark,
on a complaint that Redman was
becoming hoisterous,
THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1962
If those far
strange sounding names are of in-
terest to you, how about some of
these ?
Mountains, Ridges and Hills: Airy,
away places with
Avery, Blue, Brace, Bunker, Bald,
Beechnut, “Brier, Briskey, Cedar,
Coolbaugh, Chestnut, Cedar Lodge,
Cherry, Dutch, Davis, Doll, Elk, Ells-
worth, Florey, Flat Top, Forkston,
German, Greenwood, Grassy, Griffin,
Huckleberry, High Cobble, Hickory,
Indian, Jackson, Kramer, Knob, Kint.
ner, Kocher, Kellogg, Little Round-
top, Lookout, Miller, Maynard, Nich-
ols, O'Brien, Osterhout, Oak, Peter-
son, Prospect, Round Top, Red Rock,
Rob Wood, Sickler, Shaver, Summer,
Shoupp, Post, Sorber, South, School-
ey, Stone, Vargo, Varentine, Wah-
mer.
Hollows, Valleys, Flats, and
Passes: Bee (Sellers, Black, Benson,
Bear, Bowmans, Carney, Davis, Deep,
Dry, Dymond, Fox, Greenwood, Grist,
Geisinger, Kline, Karnes, Oppermans,
Ruggles, Roote, Rickards, Rogers,
Sugar, Schultz, Sporting Buck, Thurs-
ton, Whipporwill, York. |
Lakes, Ponds, Dams, and Swamps:
Bartron, Bryant, Burkett, Beckers,
Bear, Balletts, Blair, Beech, Cream-
ery, Cummings, Cranberry, Connell,
Crane, Coalbed, Dorn Blazer, Elston,
Ford, Falling Springs, Green, Galla-
ger, Grassy, Galkas, Hutton, Harris,
Jayne, Loomis, Jenkins, Louise, Mud,
Manjo, Mokoma, Meadows, Moon,
North, Narconk, Oxbow, Perrins,
Posten, Painter Den, Racavitch,
Round, Rymans, Rouse, Sgarlat,
Simms, Splash Dam, South, Silk-
worth,” Sylvan, Schmitthenner,
Smith, Tamarack, Places, Wildfowl].
Streams, and Waterfalls: Abraham,
Arnold, Brisk, Bloody, Big, Birch,
Block, Browns, Billings Mill, Beaver,
Broad Hollow, Baker, Buttermilk
Falls, Butternut, Beth, Bear, Black
Walnut, Chimney Stack, Cherry, Cab-
in, ‘Crooked, Cider, Coal, Dutchman,
Durrell, Dymond, Drakes, Devilhole,
Elk Lick, Ellis, Floodwood, Foster,
Fades, Fitch,
Fishing, Gallows, Glass, Gardner,
Green, Hog, Hunt, Huntsville, Hor-
ton, Harveys, Hunlock, Hettesheimer,
Henry Lott, Huntington, Kitchen.
Kern Glen, Keeler, Kasson, Laurel,
Lewis, Lead, Long, Loyalsock, Lick,
Leonard, Muncy, Meeker, Maple
Spring, Mill, Marsh, Moneypenny,
Martin, Meade, Mitchler, Lyman,
Noon, Newton, Oxhorn, Ore, Ox-
bow, Obendoffers, Opossum, Pine,
Painter, Peterman, Pigeon, Panther
Licks, Pikes, Paint Spring, Phillips,
Quinn, Rock, Rocky, Roaring, Red,
Single Mill, Shanty, Shingle Cabin,
Sand, Santee, Staffords, Sugar Sut-
Rambling Around
By The Oldtimer — D. A. Waters
ton, Swale, Sorbor, Stone, Scout-
on, Spring Brook Den, Somers, Stony,
Shingle, Spencer, Twin, Trout, Tub-
lick, Tagues, Wasp, West, Wolf,
White Rock, Windfall, White, York.
All the above are in the rural area
within a short drive from Dallas. The
better known features were purpose-
ly omitted above. These include
North, Kingston, and Larksville
Mountains, Harveys, Ganoga, and
Lake Carey, Huntsville and Cease-
town Dams, Tobys, Bowmans, Tunk-
hannock, Mehoopany, and Wyalus-
ing Creeks. Also all the features in
Ricketts Glen Park are not listed.
Like the Editor who saw nothing
when he crossed the State of Mass-
achusetts on the Turnpike, too often
we travel our main routes over and
over again and miss the best scenery,
available only on the less traveled
roads, where you can slow up enough
to see something without danger of
a rear-end collision. A nice ride is
possible by going via Christ Eipper’s
to Demunds and Centermoreland,
then straight through and down the
valley of Martins Creek to the River
at Keelersburg, turning left up along
the River and swinging around Mil-
ler Mountain until you come out on
Rt. 309 at Eatonville.
Or leave Route 29 just west of the
corner near Loyalville and turn west
up about three hundred feet on the
edge of Kocher Mountain, part of
North Mountain, then along a branch
of the headwaters of Huntington
Creek and follow down the narrow
winding valley to the Mooretown
road. It is a narrow, crooked, dirt
road but unspoiled woods on both
sides makes it worth while.
Or turn left off Rt. 309 at the Auto
graveyard at Rosencrans and drive
west up Sugar Hollow and follow the
creek. When it opens up a little, slow
up and enjoy one of the most beauti-
ful valleys in the area between Forks-
ton and Doll Mountain. Continuing up
Doll Mountain, slow up and stop at
the pull off part way down and look
at the “Big Neck” bend in the river
above Vosburg. If you happen to
have had ancestors at Mehoopany
turn off and take a look at the old
Union Church and Union Cemetery
just beyond Place’s Pond.
Among other pioneers in the area,
the cemetery has grave of Ebenezer
Gay, Jr. (1770-1829), who moved to
Mehoopany, then called Windham,
about 1810. In 1812 he bought 179
acres for $588.00 adjoining the pre-
sent Cemetery. As far as I know,
Mrs. Eleanor Gay Northrup, who
taught school in Dallas about 1906,
before her marriage still lives on
the old place.
oe oo o Safety
IT’S NAUSEATING
We complain about indecent and
obscene literature. We wage lusty
battles about the effect of reading
suggestive material upon our boys
and girls.
But our city papers come out
with about the rawest reports and
most intimate details of a sordid
crime that even the most prurient
minded could possibly imagine,
| There it is on the front page, ripe
for the plucking.
Not only that . . . names of young
The very papers that make a fetish
of NOT publishing names of juven-
iles when the charge is something
comparatively minor, on the grounds
that it will perhaps carry over into
adult life, embarrass their parents,
or shock the community are now
having themselves a Roman holiday.
Aren’t these boys and girls just
as much juveniles as they would be
if they were caught getting liquor
in a tavern?
Aren’t the girls being smirched
a great deal more in a public in-
dictment of this sort than they
would be if they had been caught
shop-lifting with all the hush-hush
boys and girls are published freely. |
Valve . . .
atmosphere surrounding their ap-
pearance in Juvenile court?
The reports from the courtroom
where an AWOL Marine is being
tried for murder, are nauseating.
Nine-year-olds are reading this
stuff.
“Mother, just what do they mean
by rape?’ inquires one little girl.
And day after tomorrow, there
will be a solemn conclave on the
transmitting of indecent and ob-
scene literature through the mails.
“Where are the young folks get-
ting this poison?” will be the wail.
Educators, ministers, parents will,
launch an investigation}
‘Where are they getting it? They
are getting it from the radio and
the television and the newspapers
. and all in the name of frank-
ness.
Frankness ?
Or licking the chops over an un-
savory mess which by some golden
chance is now in the public domain
and can therefore be blazoned
forth without fear of reprisal? °
This case is not being tried in the
court.
It is being tried in the
papers.
news-
Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks
Lady Toby Reberah
Talent Show, Friday
Pre-School and School Age Talent
Show sponsored by Lady Toby Re-
bekah Lodge, Friday, in the Educat-
ional Building of Little White Church
on the Hill had as winners; Group
A; First; Candy Wismer, Song and
Tap Dance; Second; Albert Farris,
Ac cordian; Group B; Robert Timko,
Accordian; Second Nancy Covert,
Piano; Group C; First Stewart John
Girlock, Ukelele; Second, Kim Roddy,
Tap Dancer, Group D, (Multiple)
First, Melanie Bytheway and Rich-
ard Prutzman, twist, Second, Donna
Loomis and Charles Honeywell, Tap
dance.
Between group entertainment was
provided by Frank and Marion Cas-
ey; and Robert Weidler; the master
of ceremonies was Fred Niemeyer.
Mrs. William Robbins, represent-
ative of the lodge presented the win-
:mers with their prizes.
Judges of the contest were: Don
Stevens; WARM; Tom Tyler, WBAX;
and Joseph Schwigen, assistant or-
ganist of St. Nick’s Church of Wilkes-
Barre.
Eastern Star Fashion
Show And Card Party
Public is invited to the Dallas
Chapter No. 396 Order of Eastern
Star’s “FASHION SHOW and CARD
PARTY” Wednesday, October 24, at
Dallas Junior High School Building,
eight o'clock, when Past Matrons
will serve as hostesses and donate
the door prizes.
One Past Matron, Mrs. Thelma
Lamoreux, volunteered, ‘Do you
f
.
Jack Kupstas Is
Inducted Today
Today, Jack Kupstas will be in-
ducted into the Air Corps. Up until
press time yesterday, Jack turned
hot lead .into print at the Intertype
machine, in preparation for this
issue.
This morning at 8, he is due to
appear at the Veterans Building for
instructions. At 1:30 he will be form-
ally sworn in. And at 6:30 he will
board a plane at Avoca, en route to
‘Washington, where he will transfer
to ia jet for the flight to Texas and
Lackland Air Force Base.
Jack, son of Mr. and Mrs. John
Kupstas, and a resident of Jackson-
Huntsville road for the past 11 years,
has an uncle, William Gates, a major
in the Air Corps, who helped with the
Berlin Air-Lift, and flew Korean
orphang out of that desolated coun-
try. And he has a sister Mary Ann,
waiting to take her State Boards
after finishing a five year course in
nursing at College Misericordia and
Mercy Hospital, who also expects to
join the Air Force.
Jack’s brother Tom, a former lino-
type operator is now with Graphic
Arts.
Goodbye, Jack, and horny land-
ings.
think one of my homemade afghans
would do for a door prize?”
Mrs. Betty Meeker, the Worthy
Matron, Mrs. Mildred Lutes, and
Mrs. Oce Beryl Austin, cochairmen,
have many other interesting plans
Better Leighton Never
by Leighton Scott
DANCE MARATHON
It was good to see all you farmers
recover neatly from the Farmer
Dance at Kunkle Saturday, and
sashay down to the big square dance
jamboree at Sans Souci Sunday:
Combining the two affairs, we did
thirty-nine dances in two days, and
weren't accomplishing anything
great. My friend Jerry started
dancing at the jamboree at 2, and
finished up the evening with a total
of 36 straight dances.
The Anthracite Valley Caller's
Association, sponsor of the jam-
boree, fixed it so there were four
dances in each set, instead of the
usual three. You can bet everybody
was good and tired after a set.
Some people, smarter than our
gang, made an all-day affair out of
it, taking food and other necessary
supplies, and spacing out their
dances. Next year I'm going to take
three extra shirts, a towel, and
dinner.
I wouldn't try to estimate total
attendance. But I know there were
friends of mine from the Back Moun-
tain that I didn’t even see.
In my limited opinion as a judge,
I would say that Red Jones was
among the three or four best callers.
There were twenty or more, not in-
cluding some unscheduled amateurs
who were given a chance to show
-| their skill.
I bought my tickets for the jam-
boree the night before at Kunkle.
Carl Hanks called that night. He
got a tremendous round of applause
for his second time up at bat Sun-
day.
If you made it to Sans Souci for
the jamboree, or if you didn't, be
sure to go next year. Plan to spend
the whole day, taking my pre-
scribed equipment.
And you're not a man if your
joints aren’t stiff from the Kunkle
dance the night before.
GOODBYE, OLD JOHN
Today John Kupstas begins his
winged way to some remote Texas
fly-boy factory. He signed on the
dotted line for four years --for which,
I might add, the Air ‘Force offers
some educational reimbursement.
Most of my readers know John as
a long-time resident of ‘the Back
Mountain, and graduate of Lehman
High. Or maybe you went with him
hunting or fishing. That's what he
loves to do in his spare time, if he’s
not figuring out some new reclamat-
ion project for water and land on the
Kupstas farm in Huntsville.
But we know him at the Post as a
good linotype-operator, columnist,
and back-room man. Also, I ‘might
add, he has been my good friend and
constant companion in my embryonic
stages as a Back Mountain citizen.
He was a motive force in showing
Leighton the local scene, upon which
that beloved column of approximate-
ly the same name was written.
I know John is nervous right now,
awaiting his first plane-ride. (He
ain’t seen the half of it. Wait'll they
get him in uniform) TI also know that
he’s feeling a certain thrill in getting
sent out to the far corners of the
earth with a highly respected mili-
tary organization.
Goodbye, old John.
Looking At
T-V
With GEORGE A. and
EDITH ANN BURKE
8TH PRECINCT is one TV pro-
gram that the viewers think should
not be dropped. The complaints have
been flooding NBC. Quality-wise it
was a better than average show. It
could be because its owner-producer,
Hubbell Robinson, has become CBS-
TV’s programming chief, Could be!
JACKIE GLEASON has cut off his
mustache, which he wears during
the serious actor periods of his
multi-faceted career. His television
wife in the “Honeymooners” will
be blonde, 26-year-old Sue Ann
Langdon, who appeared quite reg-
ularly in Bachelor Father as John
Forsythe’s secretary, Kitty
THE ANDY WILLIAMS SHOW,
which will be a weekly musical-
variety hour on Thursday nights
season, has lined up such diverse
guests as Milton Berle, Bob Newhart,
Tammy Grimes, Martha Raye,
Mickey Rooney, Sammy Davis, Jr.,
Myoski Umeki, Lawrence Welk, the
Lennon Sisters, Rita Moreno and
Paul Lyne. Andy will bring on two
guests a week.
RECORD BONANZA — [Loren
Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker
and Michael Landon have joined the
current trend. They made a Ip record-
ing titled Bonanza.
THE VIRGINIAN which premiered
Sept. 19, is television’s first 90-min-
ute weekly filmed series with con-
tinuing characters, the first 90-
minute color series, and the first
90-minute Western. -
Back in 1957 when ann
Train” premiered as the full-hour
Western series, sceptics said it would
not last because casting, producing
and writing required too much. They
were wrong, it became one of TV's
top alltime hits.
Now NBC is trying it again with
the same man why pioneered
“Wagon Train.” Again there are
the warnings over the 90-minute
format, which in effect amounts to
a full-length feature motion picture
produced especially for TV each
week. Warnings are substantially
the same es in 1057.
DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA
From—
Pillar To Post...
By Hix
It is astonishing what preconceived ideas you get, especially
about things mechanical. [Until I saw the remains I had never
realized what a clutch looked like.
Maybe it was association of ideas. That compound called Clutch
that the advertisers claim will cement your teeth in place (nothing
will accomplish this, so just be careful not to sneeze suddenly; pass
up the chewing gum, go easy on carmels, and look coldly upon pea-
nut butter).
That Clutch . . . . the very name suggests teeth, intermeshing
teeth, doing their job capably and without friction.
And until I gazed upon the battered clutch of the immobilized
Austin down there in Richmond, interred neatly in a cardboard
carton (doubtless waiting to be taken back to the factory and re-
conditioned) I hadn’t the remotest idea what a clutch looked like.
A casual reference to the clutch plate simply suggested an upper
denture, bristling with teeth.
There had been no horrific grinding noise when the teeth broke
off, but probably the teeth had disintegrated. The teeth would be
rattling around in the gear-box or something, maybe attacking the
differential, whatever THAT is, and maybe would drop out ; Song
the road lying in wait to bite somebody’s tire. 3
Maybe it was a couple of loose teeth that had made the
peculiar rattle under the hood on several occasions.
It was completely disillusioning to see a large round plate, with
no teeth at all. If there aren’t any teeth, to mesh, how does the
car go into gear?
I inquired, “Where are the teeth?” and the mechanic looked
pityingly upon me.
“You wouldn't understand,”
patting my head.
This was the time to look dumb, and if possible beautiful.
last named used to be more easily managed.
But nobody, but NOBODY, can look any dumber than I can,
It is a valuable trait, especially on a country road when you have
a flat tire,
I can change-a flat tire like nobody’s business, but it is never
advisable to admit it. Same principle as never learning to milk a
cow.. If you don’t know how, nobody expects you to do it.
A lot of people complain about truck) drivers, but I am not
among the number. Truck drivers, for my money, are true knights
of the road. f
Stand alongside your car, hold a wrench in your hand and
look helpless, and there is a screaming of brakes, a. heavy truck
eases itself off the road and the driver comes to the rescue of the
helpless little old lady:
The helpless little old lady, making like a nitwit, regards the
truck driver with a “Oh you big strong man how wonderful that
you came along at this exact moment”. expression, and in ten min-
utes the wheel has been rplaced, the car is down off the jack, and
the truck is barrelling down the highway.
The helpless little old lady leaps nimbly into the car,
smoking clutch lurches into gear.
Joe Hoeg says it isn’t likely I'll lose another clutch. Lots of
asbestos on it, he says, and if it didn’t give out until the car had
travelled 40,000 miles, it isn't likely to stage a repeat performance
in the next 20,000.
But I'd feel safer if the clutch had teeth.
he suggested gently, not quite
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This is National Dog Week (Sept. 23-29), an appropriate time
for Pennsylvania’s 1,010,500 canine residents to lick the kindly
hands that feed them. -
Because Pennsylvania’s 990,000 dog-owning families spent about
$9,504,000 each year for the purchase, care, feeding of pet dogs (in-
cluding more than $663,000 on medical care alone), according to
estimates made by the NCG division of Chemetron Corp., a leading
producer of veterinary medical equipment. And the state's animal
hospitals approach human clinics in many of the facilities and ser-
vices offered.
Increased concern for pet health, a growng phenomenon in re-
cent years, follows a national pattern which has led U. S. owners to
spend about $40 million yearly on medicines and veterinary services.
Pet food outsells baby food two to one, and the country’s
5,000 pet dealers do a brisk trade in accessories, shampoos, cosmetics,
hearing aids, plush kennels electric blankets and even battery-
powered lighted collars for night wear.
Pet tranquilizers are obtainable by prescription. These “happy
pills” curb excessive whining and barking, prevent air and car
sickness and keep a high-strung pooch from chasing his tail or nip-
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ping the postman.
Though only 22 per cent of the nation’s 21,000 veterinariang
have exclusively pet practices,
these specialists earn 45 per cent
($60 million) of the entire income in the field.
Why are Americans spending at a record rate for their pets?
Says an official of the American Veterinary Medical Association:
“People are more knowledgeable about their pets today. They
know about medical care available and want to take advantage of it.
When people drove Model T's, they made repairs themselves; not
It's the same with pet owners.
so today.
They tend not to try to
doctor a pet’s illness, but go to a veterinarian.”
The array of redical equipment and services available for
Rover is impressive.
Of course if his problem jis more psychological
than physical, a bracing ocean voyage might be the thing. One-way
New York-to-London fare on the new luxury liner “France” is $50—:
for dogs.
Charles Marquis Warren shares
none of their fears. He says:
“We've got everything in our
favor except tradition. We have a
sure-fire property; an all-star cast
of six including one of the most
distinguished actors in America to-
day and a brilliant young new-
comer; very capable directors, a top-
name guest star policy, and per-
haps most importantly, we have
the best writers in the business.
Leo J. Cobb is cast in the role
of Judge Henry Garth. James Drury,
a 29-year-old newcomer, has been
given the title role which made Gary
Cooper a star more than thirty
years ago.
Co-stars include Doug McClure
(“Checkmate” - “Overland Trail”)
as Trampas, Gary Clarge (“Michael
Shayne”) as Steve, and Pippa Scott,
who has been in 150 TV plays as
Molly Wood. Roberta Shore, who
has often appeared on the Lawrence
Welk show will play Judge Garth's
daughter, Betsy.
Bach “Virginian” segment, in ad-
dition, will have one or more top
name guest stars. These include
Hugh O’Brian, Coleen Dewhurst,
Betty Davis, Robert Horton, Henry
Fonda, Geraldine Page, Alan Ladd,
Van Heflin, Dina Derrill, Steve Al-
lem and Clair Bloom,
Owen Wister's “The Virginian”
is the best known Western novel
in American literary history. More
than two million copies have been
sold since the book was first pub-
lished with an introduction by Theo-
dore Roosevelt over 60 years ago.
There have been two stage versions
and four motion picture adaptations.
SOAP OPERAS are really going
down the drain. Two more have
been cancelled. “Brighter Day’ and
“5 Daughters” have received their.
notices. The morning hours are
work hours with most housewives
and they find it hard to follow a
day-to-day series.
Thelma Sue Engelman
Has. Sixth Birthday
A birthday party was held for
Thelma Sue Engelman, Noxen, at
the home of Mrs. Carl Siglin on her
sixth birthday, September 3rd.
Present were: Millie, Janet, Ricky,
Kathy Traver, Sherry Strohl, Rox-
anne Siglin, Billy and Gary Siglin,
Teresa, Dawn and David Mulligan,
Pearl Louise Murphy, Donna Scout-
en, Allan, Charlie, Doris, Carl Siglin,
Jr., Richard and Gary Engelman,
Janice Hopfer Larraine Hopfer, Carl
Leroy Weaver, (Susie and Joseph
Nalbone, Linda and Brenda Kelly,
Cheryl Edwards, Donna and Vonnie
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