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There was a great to-do in thebird feeder the other night. It rocked
violently, and a long straggly-haired tail suddenly swung into sight.
“That tail,” I mused to myselfas Islipped another diagonal strand
of cane through the chair seat I was weaving, ‘that tail doubtless be-
longs to a squirrel, but if it does belong to a squirrel, it is a squirrel
which has dipped his tail in the rainbarrel.”
The tail twitched, and a solid looking rump bustled out of the bird
feeder. The rump was far too large for any squirrel. It was followed
in slow motion by a pair of pink and naked feet, a well upholstered
middle, and another pair of pink feet, clinging to the edge of the
feeder as the first pair of feet and a prehensile tail groped for sup-
port on a slender twig of the pink dogwood tree.
The feet made connections, the tail wrapped itself around a branch,
and a pair of shoulders emerged. A head with a pair of beady black
eyes and a long pointed pink-tipped nose peered cautiously from the
bird-feeder.
The eyes spotted another pair of eyes, and all motion ceased.
Completely immobile, we stared each other down.
Then the opossum started to ripple again, andthe dogwood branch
swayed and rustled as it took the weight.
Backing into a comfortable crotch between trunk and branch, the
opossum settled down, his eyes still fixed on the brightly lighted
* kitchen porch and the canning job.
We held a one-sided conversation.
“So YOU are the thing I thoughtwasa big rat the other day when
you slid under the lattice? And are you planning to spend the winter
here, raiding the bird-feeder every night?’
Herman shifted his paws and settled himself more comfortably.
_ We continued. “Don’t you know that opossums are supposed to
curl themselves up and go to sleep when threatened?’
I tried again. “Don’t you know that you are a marsupial? Go and
marsupe somewhere else. I do not want to have you producing your
young from your pocketbook. It would give me pause to see ten
small opossums frisking out and up over your back. They tell me
that baby opossums frequently cling to the parent’s back, hitching a
ride before returning to the pouch.”
Herman looked interested, but not perturbed. “Wrong sex.”
“Well, go on home to your wife.”
Herman meditated. He shifted cautiously on the branch.
“Why don’t you hang by your tail? All opossums know how to
hang by their tails.”
I strung another diagonal cane, pulling it gently until it was tight
but not taut.
Herman’s unwinking gaze was beginning to get me down. “Beat it,
can’t you?”
We struck a bargain. I would turn off the light and go inside the
kitchen, thus affording him the privacy he needed to let himself down
in easy stages out of the dogwood tree.
I snapped off the light and closed the door.
Five minutes later I snapped it on again, and lo, Herman was still
with us.
“Give you justhalfanhourto getdown out of there,” I said firmly,
“and then I will get the broom.”
Half an hour later, the dogwood tree was untenanted.
The next night I turned on the porch light hopefully, and started
another caning job for Mr. Gilbert. No Herman.
The next night. No Herman.
No Herman anywhere, any night.
“Herman, where ARE YOU?”
C. BURTON DANA ESTATE
DAIRY DISPERSAL
NORTH EATON, EATON TOWNSHIP
WYOMING COUNTY
Two Miles from Tunkhannock River Bridge
(Watch for Arrows)
Due to the recent accidental death of my husband,
I will sell, regardless of price, rain or shine, on
Thursday, October 18, 1962
At 10:30 A.M., Sharp
76 HEAD OF PUREBRED (Not Registered)
HOLSTEIN CATTLE
18 are fresh, or will be by sale day; 19 due Oct. 15 to Dec. 1,
Balance later; 17 bred Heifers, 10 of breeding age, 13 Year-
gs.
Bang’s Certificate No. 12833 T. B. Certificate 38322
. One of Wyoming County’s oldest established, high producing
.herds. All from the famous NEPA Sires and bred back to the
sume. Large majority are calfhood vaccinated. Examined for
pregnancy. Treated for shipping fever. HEALTH CHARTS ON
DAY OF SALE. All were born and raised on the farm.
These cattle have size, type, are in good condition and show a
lot of production. They will be sold at your price, exactly as
represented, without reservation of any kind.
Your personal inspection is invited. Come see . . . . . buy these
profitable year-round cattle, as they are bound to please the most
critical buyer.
SURGE MILKING MACHINE
Complete with Two Units
8can IHC Milk Cooler, new 50-gal. Electric Hot Water Heater,
approximately 85 tons of first and second cutting Timothy and
Alfalfa - Hay, in square bales; 30 tons of Baled Straw, around
500 bushels Oats, 20 acres of Standing Corn, unless sold prior
to the sale.
: . Terms: Cash on day of sale.
HOWARD SANDS / SON, MRS. ELFRIEDE DANA, Exrx.
(Auctioneers) C. Burton Dana Estate
Tunkhannock,. Pa. Tunkhannock, Pa., R. D. 5
Phone TE 6-4375 Phone TE 6-3789
DON WILLIAMS, Sale Mgr.
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Only Yesterday
It Happened 30 Years Ago
A 27 year old Noxen man was
crushed to death beneath a cement
hopper while assisting the operator
in construction of the new bridge
across Bowmans Creek at the
Noxen Methodist Church. Charles
Wright, an employee of the tannery,
had finished his work for the day,
and was watching operations atthe
bridge. He stepped forward to help
by holding an electric extension
lamp, the release mechanism onthe
hopper was accidentally tripped,
and the victim died instantly.
Dr. C. L. Boston, passing at the
time, pronounced him dead of a
broken neck and ghastly crushing
injuries.
Dr. Frank B. Schooley was the
new doctor in Dallas, moving to
Church Street from Scranton.
Construction of the new highway
from Lutes Corners to Ruggles was
well under way. Two bridges, one
near Noxen and one at Orcutt’s
Grove, were being builtby Spooner
Bridge Company.
Wyoming Seminary Opinator
was added to thelist of publications
printed by the Dallas Post. Other
school publications already being
published included the Tatler, of
Wilkes-Barre Day School, and the
Kingstonian, of Kingston High
School.
Barney Oldfield was racing at
Bloomsburg Fair.
Enrollment increased at Dallas
Borough schools made necessary
purchase of 52 additional seats.
The Kirkendall Railway system,
all 1195 feet of it, was dedicated
in the presence of notables from
Wilkes-Barre. Mayor Daniel Hart
drove the golden spike, officials of
Lehigh Valley Railway supervised.
The locomotive bore the name
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Local farmers, deprived of their
location for selling produce on
Pennsylvania Avenue, were invited
by Kingston to use a market space
available between Pierce and Mar-
ket Streets, near the Market Street
Bridge.
Died: Mrs. Wallace Traver, 67,
Monroe Township. Mrs. Hattie
Shupp, 47,0neonta, N. Y.; James
Wrislar, 67, Orange. Mrs. Rebecca
Mekeel, 78, Lehman.
It Happened 20 Years Ago
Sixteen tons of junk were collected
by Dallas firemen. It overflowed
the pen. Itincluded cast-iron stoves,
bathtubs, chicken brooders, frying
pans, side-cars, steel porch swings,
and hundreds of iron toys.
Bob Hislop bought the Tally-Ho
Grill from Phil Cheney. Phil plan-
ned to enter the service.
Soldiers swamped Martha’s
Script Club with requests for letters.
Not only Back Mountain soldiers
and sailors responded, but home-
sick boys from all over the country,
Little Rock to California, lads who
seized upon any hometown paper
in the barracks and practically
wore it to shreds.
Frank Matukitis, Dallas Town-
ship football star, was selected for
pilot training.
Ralph Rood lost a big shade tree
during a heavy blow.
Most of Wyoming Valley’s
racing pigeons were lostin a storm, _
but one pigeon from the loft of
A. N. Garinger finished the 314
mile flight from Virginia in second
place.
Plans were laid for erection of an
Honor Roll in central Dallas. Paul
Shaver donated a flagpole, Richard
Disque a flag.
Heard from in the Outpost: Tho-
mas. Templin, Fort Knox; Bob
Dierolf, Louisiana; Olin Weber,
Richmond; Harry Beck, San Fran-
cisco APO; Walter DeRemer, Fort
Monroe; Richard Williams, Nash-
ville; George Ray, Utah; Howell
Rees, St. Petersburg; Alexander Mc-
Culloch, New York APO; Allen
Ockenhouse, Fort Sam Houston;
Albert Mekeel, Louisiana APO.
Fifth Avenue was showing flan-
nel hoods and firemen’slong-johns,
along with stoves of every vintage.
With houses at war temperatures,
fuel scarce, folks piled on the warm
winter woollies after the first heavy
frost.
Everybody hung black-out
shades, and everybody had a
black-out room for longer air raid
drills, or the real thing. It was a
point of honor not to show a gleam
of light when the siren wailed.
Bruce R. Zeiser, son of Mrs.
H. H. Zeiser of Dallas, was named
foreign sales manager for Nichol-
THE DALLAS POST SBTHURSDAY, OCFOBER 4, 1962
NATIONAL EMPLOY THE
PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED
WEEK OCTOBER 7-13.
“ THEY'VE
GOT SO MUCH
TO GIVE THAT
> WE CAN
HIRE THE HANDICAPPED
We take a dim view of special ‘“‘weeks’’—such
as National Pickle Week and International Girl
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Watching Week. But we do give total respect to
one observance—National Employ the Physically
Handicapped Week. We hope you’ll mark it on
your calendar. It runs from October 7th through
the 13th.
Purpose of the week is to promote job oppor-
tunities for the handicapped. A notable start has
been made in this vital area. More than 7,000,000
such workers are now gainfully employed in
American industry. Of their on-the-job perform-
ance, Donald J. Hardenbrook, president of the
National Association of Manufacturers, says:
“Disabled employees in industry have written
a record of accomplishment which more than
justifies the confidence management has placed in
them.”
Just what can the handicapped do? Name any
job—there’s a disabled person to do it. No job
requires all of an individual’s physical abilities.
There are handicapped secretaries, typists, ac-
countants, office managers, engineers, editors, in-
ventors—as well as factory workers, mail stuffers
and floor sweepers.
And from Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges
come surprising facts. He cites national figures
to show that the handicapped are more productive,
have better safety records, lose less time from the
job, and, generally, are more pleasant than the
able-bodied.
During the special week, NAM’s president
Hardenbrook is asking the Association’s 17,000
members to review their job openings with the dis-
abled in mind. It is gratifying that the millions of
handicapped now working are holding their own
with non-disabled employees.
But the millions not yet employed cost the tax-
payers $800 million annually in public assistance
payments. Rehabilitated and employed, these
same individuals would no longer drain the tax till.
They would not only become taxpayers themselves
but they would regain their place in the sun.
son File and American Screw.
James Ritchie, manager for
two weeks in the Latrobe hospital,
his hip in a cast.
Orchard Farms, and an expert
hand with Dorset sheep, died of a
heart attack at 53.
It Happened 10 Years Ago
Miss Frances Dorrance was
tapped for the honor of ‘Distin-
guished Daughter of Pennsyl-
vania.”
The late Dr. Sherman Schooley
was awarded the Hemelright
plaque posthumously. Residents
who desired to help perpetuate the
memory of the beloved family phy-
sician contributed a sum for each
baby he had brought, and each life
that he had saved, toward a fitting
memorial at General Hospital, and
at the library.
Harry Stuhlmuller, Davis Street,
narrowly escaped death when a
careening car, far over the center
line, caused .a head-on collision
near Latrobe. He came home after
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Two Red Rock boys wrecked
their car on Main Street, escaped
unscratched.
Brothers Bob and Jerry Scott
met briefly in North Korea.
Married: Elizabeth Ann Kramer
to James Thomas Glenn. Helen
Kalish to Richard Wallace. Berna-
dine Lennon to John J. Martin.
Thelma Troy to John W. Hette-
sheimer. Ethel Hettsheimer to John
Jones. Jane Schultheis to D. A.
Thompson.
Elizabeth Kunkle, 89,
quietly in her sleep.
Richard Nixon was campaigning
for vice president. ; :
died
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days, 8 am. to 5 pm.; Satur-
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